The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 26, 1903, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1908. NATION'S GHIEF ~ RIDES EASTWARD President Travels in Ya- kima and Walla Walla Valleys. RAILROAD DEAL GETS A SETBACK exas Commissioners Refuse to Sanction Contracts. | | | i T spected Solialist Arrested Because of Alleged | Decision Completely Upsecs | Plans of Rock Island Threat. Company. May 25 ial Dispatch to The Call. i Roosevelt started eastward to-| AUSTIN, Texas, May Phe Railroad € Commission to-day issued an order refus- | ~ ng to sanction the contracts submitted g on May 14 by the Rock Island Company r the the tracks of | . Houston, oint operation of Houston and Te the East 2 > Texas and New O of the Galveston, Houston and Northern by the Houston and Texas The commission decides that the hip of the stock of the Houston Texas Central, Houston, East and West Texas and the Dallas-Sabine branch of the Texas and New Orleans Railroad, in equal amounts, by the SBouthern Pacific Company and by the Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railway Company, upon an agreed basis of control and management, nt to a comsolidation of these under one management and said separate Texas railroad corporations to common control, contrary o the provision of the State constitution. It is not knrown what effect the decision will have on the plans of the Rock Island € to its affairs in Texas. It is stated the order is to be strictly enforced hat there will not be permitted any | evasion on the part of the companies con- cerned. The only way in w ined by erned is an assem- | bine , & monu- who was ¢ ries to the N Centra owne and h relief can be ob- the railroad companies con- | to appear before the Legislature cure the necessary sanction or au- 10 carry out the deal. The Legis- | e will not meet for nearly two years. ————— & i he elephant has a trunk. Have you?| 10t, buy one from Leibold Harness Co., | 211 Larkin st. Ten per cent off for the next : weeks. All goods marked in plain figures. . . ————————— OFFICIAL OF RAILROAD | TAKES HIS OWN LIFE Health Causes Prolonged Ill the Suicide of Louis H. Dick- inson. LOS ANGELES, May %.—Louis H.| kinson, traveling passenger agent for s Fe Railroad, committed sui- e at his home In this city to-day by woting himself through the head. Death was almost instantaneous. Mrs. Dickinson, who was dewnstairs prepar- ‘ ing a meal, heard the shot and rushed up- £ stairs. ound her hu band lying on He was clad h or of his nightdr b > bedroom . of Walla and it was clear that es ~olored | UP ing he had seated himself upon - fiela ar- | the edge of the bed, placed the revolver at his head and fired the fatal shot Dickinson was 45 years old, and was {well and favorably known among rail- men of the coast. Prolonged ill and melancholy resulting there- from are the causes ascribed for the sui- A Coroner’s jury returned a verdict of death by suicide. — VACAVILLE, May 25.—Ladies of Vacaville /vrxu.v’td to-day an improvement club, which | will devote its e to the betterment of the town and its vicimity. A large number |°t gathered in Masonic Hall. Mre. Orpha Long | | (president) and Miss Clara Alger (secrstary) | will begin an active campalgn for local im- | wheelers. Tuesday, 26 May, 1903. Cream and brass, $12.75 's a splendid bed for a child—because of its 1 the comfort it affords. Enameled a rich cream c ith brass vases at corner posts and brass | top rods at head and foot. Equipped with drop sides, durable woven wire mattress and casters. Measures inches .urg 29 inches wide and 41 inches high. Pr ce $127 lor a xmunb the many bachelor comforts we show are a number of cellarettes, or bachelors’ cabinets. A new one just added to the sample line is in weathered oak and conveniently equipped. The top lifts up and exposes to view a set cf imitation cut glass pieces composed of decanter, tobacco bowl and wine glasses. Below is a cabinet with door opening in front. The piece meas- ures 22 inches square and 31 inches high. Price $22.50. RPN O I R o S We show a greater variety of patterns in Bigelow Axminsters than any other carpet store in San Fran- cisco. And every pattern is charmingly magmficent You’ll enjoy seeing them even though you do not in- tend to purchase. Visitors are always welcome here without a thought of buying. ot Gteuner 3 (Successors to California Furniture Co.) 957 to 977 Market Street, Opp. Golden Gate Avenge. | | |17 | so dense with CREDITORS OF PORTER BROTHERS WILL SOON KNOW EXACT STATUS Receivers Are Conferring With Officials and Comprehensive Statement of the Con- ditions Is to Be Issued Within Few Days * HICAGO, May 2%.—The recelvers are gradually getting the affairs of the big fruit firm of Porter Bros. into shape. James §. Wat- son, president of the company, who was asked to-day as to the outlook, ~%e | { | ONE OF THE RECEIVERS IN CHARGE OF THE PORTER BROS. COMPANTY. o+ o tailed said he was confident the company's debts would be paid dollar for dollar. | He said: “I am unable to see how, with proper handling, the assets will not more than pay the liabilitles.” When asked to give an estimate of the | assets and liabilitles Watson replied that | in his opinion the assets were worth fully | $1,750,000, while the liabilities would not | exceed $1,250,000. Watson said a more de- statement would be given out in few days. The receivers are busy conferring with | officials of the company In the effort to get the business into running order again. | it was expected a meeting of stockholders | would be held last week, but this has | been postponed until such time as Presi- | dent Watson can gather figures and data | in order to make a comprehensive report. \ a L e i o e e e ) | BRING TALES FROM ANTARCTIC ICE FIELDS Contln\xod From Pnga 1, Column 5. | which the Discovery salled, making cor- rections wherever they were found nec- essary. Early in TFebruary, after recovering from encounters with serious gales which had delayed her considerably, the explorers found themselves in longitude 174, with their vessel floating evenly on the surface of a pacific inlet. It was | there that a balloon ascent was made for the purpose of reconnoiter, which re- sulted in winter quarters being found near the base of Mount Erebus, where a temperature was recorded by the party of 62 degrees below zero. After quarters had been arranged the real exploration began. MAKE LONG TRIP. Several parties were sent out in sleds, the longest journey being made by Dr. Wilson, Captain Scott and = Lieutenant Shackelton, who were absent from their ship = full days. They left the Dis- covery November 2 and returned Febru- ary 3, after traveling southward ninety five miles. The extreme latitude reached was 82 degrees 17 minutes south. Hardly had their journey begun before the rigo ous climate began to have serious effect upon their dogs, which began dying. The three men were compelled to drag their sleds, onc at a time, five miles, and then return for the others. This performance had to be repeated again and agal, and proved a most discouraging experience, but by no means deterred the adventurers in their plans. Eventually they reached a range of mountains extending north and south as far as the vision could deter- | mine and having a number of peaks vary- ing from 13,000 to 15,000 feet In height. At 8) degrees 30 minutes south Captain Scott and his two companions established a cache, and then realizing that their pro- visions were getting short they struck out due south, finally reaching 82 degrees minutes after enduring the bitterest cold and the flercest of land gales. At times the weather was so bad that they could barely make their way, and for five days during the return trip the hir was falling snow that it was impossible to get the most meager bear- ings from elevated points of land which they had selected to guide them back to their vessel. Twenty days before the party reached the ship Lieutenant Shackelton collapsed | from the effects of the terrible strain at- gging of the sleds, and h hemorrhages. When within five days' travel of the ship the provisions gave out, but just as the ex- plorers were seriously believing that their end was near at hand they discovered a cache of provigsions which the members of the ship, anticipating the returning of the captain and his companions, had | taken out and placed in the expected ltne | of their march. PARTY FINDS RELIEF. On Februar fatigued to a degree where they were barely able to stand, the trio were joyfully surprised by the dis- covery of a vessel lying a few miles ahead of them, and hurrying on as fast as their tired limbs could carry them they soon found themselves in the arms of able- bidied British seamen, members of the re- lief ship The Morning, which they learned had been lying in her position for a fort- night awaiting for news from the absent tending the dr was attacked w | captain, doctor and leutenant of the Dis- covery. The latter vessel was lying on the other side of the ice, and later in the day the three men were carried over in sleds to their ship. While Captain Scott and his party were exploring the new lands other parties were sent out on separate missions, one under command of Lieutenant Armitage ascending a peak on Victorian land a dis- tance of 5000 feet and one under Lieuten- ant Royds crossing the ice barriers with difficulties that would have discouraged most of men. The new land discovered to the east it was de¢ided to name King Edward land, and a special request to that effect was drafted and forwarded to the British ruler. Some of the ice bar- riers over which the explorers journeyed were 280 feet in height. Nearly every journey undertaken by the explorers was fraught with the severest | of hardships and frequently with miracu- | lous escapes. On one occasion twelve men | while out on a trip lost their footing and | slid over a cliff into the sea. Four of the party made their escape and hurried back to the ship for assistance and the bal- ance, with one exception, were afterward found. The one man fell asleep in the snow, where he remained from Tuesday to Thursday, and then digging himselt out returned alone to the Discovery with- out showing any great effect from his ex- perience rther than being very stiff | from the cold and exceedingly hungry. | On another trip, while the party was held together with a rope and making its | way along a precipice, one man slipped | over the edge, but a second later was found bounding up and down at the end | of the rope and dangling safely in space %00 feet from the ground. He promptly rescued and continued on perilous trip. HARDSHIPS ENCOUNTERED. Blizzards proved a serious obstacle to the explorers, and it was in one of the severest of these that the only loss of a | life recorded up to the time of Shackel- ton's departure occurred. Of the results | of the exploits of the party Lieutenant | Shackelton last night refused to enter into detail When asked if the Discovery party’s re- searches had furnished any material evi- dence to support the theory that the Ant- arctic is a continent or an archipelago, he | seemingly evaded the question, but re- marked later that the question was one that the public would be able to decide | for itself after carefully considering the results of the explorations of the Dis- covery party. It is known, however, that the records of the expedition will show many inter- esting facts, among them being these: That Sir James Ross mistook water for | land, and that material changes will have to be made in the maps prepared by him. was | the That the results of the experiments made |, by the Discovery party at the various stations built for the purpose of record- ing magnetism in the different latitudes will furnish valuable new knowledge for the people of England, Germany, Russia, France and the United States who are deeply interested in the subject. That interesting developments have also been made in the marine biol- ogY of the Antarctic circle, and additional knowledge gained of the physical and ADVERTISEMENTS. YOU'LL LOOK WELL And feel well, too, if you will only take a dose of Hostetter’s Stom- ach Bitters before each meal. It will aid digestion, prevent the bowels from becoming consti- pated and the blood impure, steady the nerves and stimulate the Liver and Kidneys. These are the secrets of good health and must be observed. Hundreds of sickly men and women have been made strong and healthy by the Bitters. Be sure to try it. HOSTETTER’S STOMACH. BITTERS. | gard it by any means a certainty. { am supported by Mr. Fife, who, as you | @ sheiesioferferferiomioriomnfomfofieeffofes | could not find evidence of them. The geo- | fact that much of the food became de- ] ,,,q | chest or under shoulder-blades, | new, LIPTON 15 NOT OVER GONFIDENT Sportsmanlike Talk by the Challenger’s Owner. Prefers Racing in America to ' Competition in British Waters. Special Cable to The Call and New York | Heralgf. Copyright, 1803, by the New York | Herald Publishing Company. GOUROCK, May 25.—While Sir Thomas | Lipton is very confident—in fact says that he is more confident than ever—of winning the America cup, he ne\'er(heles!: wants it understood that he does not re- | “The sport of ‘the thing,” says the Baro- net, “lies fn the very uncertainty of it. 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I may say there is no ques- tion that the Shamrock IIT is faster than the Shamdock II by a good deal. I feel that when going to Amerlca I am going among the best friends I have in the world. I shall be delighted to see | them .and I know they will be pleased to | see me. It I had my choice of racing in | England or America 1 should prefer rac- | ing in America were it not for the trouble | of going across.” chemical analyses of different substances | found there. Of botany the party has had little op- portunity to study, for Lieutenant Sha elton states that few if any plants e: that far south, st or at least the explorers graphical discoveries will also prove in-| teresting matter in the reports to the | Royal Geographical Association. PROVISIONS DEPLETED. After victualizing the Discovery the re- | lef ship, with Shackelton, who was sor- | dered home for treatment, and eight men | of the former vessel, left for Lyttleton, | where it arrived on March 2. Shackelton was commissioned to buy new provis ions for the Discovery, for its supply had been greatly depleted by reason of the | | composed. It is the opinion of the lieutenant that the Discovery will be unable to get out of the fce until late next winter. During | that time the vessel will have several | months of darkness, for the sun disap- | pears in that reglon about April 2 and does not show itself until August 23. " Lieutenant Shackelton will remain here a few days, to rest and will {hen proceed | to Englanc. He hopes to obtain permis- | sion to return to the Discovery, and, if | it is granted him, he expects to be back | in San Francisco, on his way to New | Zealand, in a very few months. | Of the achievements accomplished by | the members of the Discovery party none stands out more prominently than that | of Captain :Scott, Dr. Wilson and Lieu- tenant Shackelton in their difficult trip | into the new lands of the south, where | they traveled 270 miles farther south than the previous explorers of that reglon. i ADVERTISEMENTS. IT IS WELL TO FEAR CONSUMPTION | | | | | | | | | IF YOU HAVE THE least suspicion that | you may have it, you ought to know it as =oon as 5 cause n a curable taki I Fact " e E | Chemic X-Ray and Oxygen Treatment cures cases that are far advanced. To be on the safe side. however, trea:ment should be taken as eariy as possible. 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Union Pacific Railroad SUGGESTS Speed 2 Comfort ‘Three trains daily. Through cars first and second class to all points. Reduced rates take effect soom. Write to-day. §. F. BOOTH, General Agent, 1 Montgomery st. RAILWAY TRAVEL. California Limited.. 7o CHICAGO pary . An Ideal Train| «‘ SANTA FE TRAINS. Leave Market-street Ferry Depot. | Local | Lim'd | Local [Ov'rid | | Dally [ Daily | Daily | Datly responding trafn arrives at 7:50 a. m. dally :30 a. m. Daily is the CALIFO! !KITED. carrying Palace g Oars | and Dining Cars through to Chicago. Chair ” to Bakersfleld for accommodation of -class passengers. No tickets are honored on this train ing train arrives at 11:10 p. 4:00 p. m. is Stockton Local. trnin arrives at 11:10 a. m. dai 8:00 p. m. is the Overland Express, with | through Palace and Tourist Sleepers and Free | Reclining Chair Cars to Chicago; Sleeper, which cuts ing train arrives at Personally conducted parties Kansas Chicago and East leave San Francisco Monday, Thursday and Saturday second-class Correspond- | |CALIFORNIA NORTHWESTERN RY. C0 LESSER i SAN FRANCISCO AND NORTH PACIFIC | RAILWAY COMPANY. Tiburon Ferry, Foot of Market St. | SAN rnucuco 1‘0 SAN RAFAEL. 7 00, 11:00 a. m 50 6:30 and 11:30 m, aturdays—Extra lnD at 1:30 p. m. DAY . 8:00. 9:30, 11:00 a. m. 11:30 p. m. 1:30, p. m. SUNDAYS—6:060, 7: 3:40, 4:50, 5:00, 5:20, cept Saturdays. Arrive |San Franct ‘Sun- | Week | days. | Days. Destina- tion. Novato. 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Saturday (o Monday round-trip tickets at re duvced rat | On Sundays—Round trip tickets to all polnts beyond San Rafael at half rates Ticket office, G50 Market street, TO SAN RAFAEL, SAN QUENTIN, e MiLL VALLEY, s [g{@]=da8 CAZADERO,ETC. via Sausalito Ferry (Holidays _excepted)— : 120, *1:45, Chronicie DAYS _ Frains marked (*) rin to San quenun marked (1) to Fairfax, except 5:15 p. m. Sat urdays. O Saturda¥s the 3: 18 5w tata | runs to Fairf EROM EAN rg\r,u-%u TO SAN FRANCISCO | X 8:15, lhuwnAYS :35, 12:06, 1:05, 2: ». m. THROUGH TRAINS. | a. m., week days—Cazadero and way 5 p. m., week days (Saturdays excepted)— Tomales and way stations. 3:15 p. m., Saturdays—Cazadero and way | stations. Sundays and Legal Holidays—S a. m., Caza- dero and way station Sundays and unl H«lm-y-—lo & m., Point Reyes and way station: TICRET OFFICHK- 628 Market st. FERRY—Foot of Market st. Burlington Route v /v Popnlar Excursions To the East. There is just one reason why our Per- sonally Conducted Excursion parties are so popular—the character of our special conductor service. Our conductors are picked men. They must be thoroughly competent and well informed, of course, but besides that their manner and way of taking care of things must be accept- able to our patrons. Many a competent man is unfit for this particular work. A cheery, good- natured, willing, well-informed con- ductor can add greatly to the comfort and pleasure of the party. Qur conductors are of that sort. You can rely upon them. Kindly inquire about our Personally Conducted parties before you make up our mind how to go east. 36 for a double sleeping berth Los les or San Francisco to Chicago or 5t. Louis. W. D. SANBORN, Gen’} Agent Burlington Rpu! 831 Market St., San Francisco, Cal. 631 Phene, Main 1188. =24 as are d (Matn fr Foot of gnkn smy TEAVE — From AFRiL 5, 1903 AmaTve T7.00a Beaicia, Suisun, Elmirs aad T onto % 8.004 Port f‘osr-. !mlnel. Antioch, 7, Blockion, Sacramenta, oo Hanow Mendota, Hantord: Viasiis, Porterville _.. to, Red Bluft, Portiand 8.304 xueg Sea Jose, Livermore, n.lone, Sacramento, Placerville, er’l‘fll' Chico, Red Blu o 8.30a Oskdale. Chinese, Jamestown, Bo- nors, Tuolumne and Angels ..... o Martinez and Way Stations......... 004 Vallejo 000 Cmcellclty Express, Eastbound. Port Costa, Tracy, Lathro tockton, Merced, Fresuo, Bakerst and ew Orleans. (Wesi s Pacific Coast Express, arriv; via Comst Line).. 1.300 10.004 The Overiand Lmlud o.u-. Denver, Omahs, > ‘ x Hayward, Niles -ng w-y ‘Seaitons. » 1 > vu.gg. 3 4007 Martinez. nnl‘hmon v-u-xo.xh‘ alistogs, San 400 Martinca: Tracy. Lathrop.Siockton. 18 2 4.00® Niles. Livermore, Stockton. 4.30¢ Hayward, Niles. Irvingto ose, Livermor 6.007 'rn« Owl Limited- Bakeradeld. Los Angeies us for Santa Barbara. olden Bu? 'l;unluc Lodt.. . i 7.56 8.55x . 11158 Port Cos - Illlfl. lere.d. ond. Presnan Hantord, Visai, Bakerstold.r (Narrow “-" 5:.- Street.) . Excursion (Sui TcoAST.LIN = S16a .I:llll. g:’l:‘amll-. Han'Joss, 12.18» Newar Prineipal 418 Newark. Sea rday IM Sunday nu mmfl(i to Sants Crus, connects ot Felton for Boulder T3 Monday only from Sants Cruz).. $8.80 In-ngrn*xms’c'o‘ IRooBt?rnlu’;-E:lL Siip® s e os s i A S Yo :05_10:00 A3 12.m 2 ». (Broad Gange) o ‘Alm n% ‘lov-md d Streets.) s sion (Sunday only) Coasc Line Limtved—Stops oniy San o enrvy. Hollister, Pajaro, Castroville, Saituas, San Arda, Lompoc, Santas Barbars, 8an Bucaaveniura. Santa Paala, les. (Connec uz and Mon- 980, San Hfl. Tre '1 SantaCruz, Pacific Grove,Salinas, l‘I '.Ill Obll o vt ¥ Way Stations.. Sen Jose, Los Gatos and Wey 8ia 8 Ban Jou. Gliroy, Hollister, Santa Crus, Dei Monte, Monterey, Pa eific Grove, Salinasand Principal Hento Park, Falo A1ee, Marors: Mountain View. Lawrence, Santa s &‘l’ San. lllm Bclnonn Bere-ford,!nl Oaks, Redwood, llujo ‘Park. Fais Altor, Ban J Suaset Lats Ob! Angeles, nmm E] Paso, New lfiluu.l“- ‘or] estbound Arrive San Fran. Sun- | Week | days. | Days. ,...».............m‘u_ii.-.# A s amivingta e ey 23 | 1250 fur. 4., Week Dagsenly. “TAVERN OF TANALPAIS™ i:i Open ol 1the your round. arrn 930 . arrive San Fransives (1303 626 MARKET ST.. wmh Shore Railroad) and SAusaro Fraay, Foot Market St Via Sausalito Ferry | Foot of Market St. TheS:157. . tratu siopaever ~ Wiekly Gl $L.00 e Yo