The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 30, 1903, Page 1

wer | not 8 e taken from the Library +se, et VOLUME XCIII-NO. 181. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. RIDER WATERS POUR INTO THE STREETS OF KANSAS CITIES AND THOUSANDS ARE MADE HOMELESS BY RUINING FLOOD FINANCIAL CRASH FINALLY OVERTAKES COPPER KING COMPANY AND THREATENS A LOCAL BANK AND TITLED BRITISHER WITH SERIOUS LOSSES | | | | “(LEVELAND | NEEDS ONLY NOMINATION" Cockran Predicts. the Democrat’s S}lccess. ‘ -— Epecta petch to The Call. BERLIN 20.—Bourke Cockran bas arrived here from Egypt, said d be elected States 1f nom- v obvious with nd third-term agement of hostile - to gly ‘rom these two perfectly ocbvious con- | Cleveland's ong enough ! the Demo- popular de- ugh to insure ie opposition to him own party. Any powerful to over- come the greatest obstacle is not likely be arrested by a lesser.” ———————— General Reyes Vindicated. CITY OF MEXICO, May 2.—The Cham. ber of Deputies after hearing of the im- peachment proceedings against General Bernard Reyes, Governor of the state of Nuevo Leone, by a unanimous vote dis- missed the proceedings, and General Reves was fully vindicated i jon upon ntion that s be strong er election, because t gest in his ement sufficiently 1 = { MISSING MANAGER OF THE COPPER KING MINE AND THE BRITISH — s 2 -+ | RESIDENT'S DAUGHTER IN PERILS PATH Exciting Ride of ‘Miss Roosevelt in an Auto. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, » May 20.—Miss Alice Roosevelt had an exciting experfence in her new “red devil” automobile, which | arrived at the White House this morning | just as she was about to take a train for | New York. Instead of taking the ordi- nary White House carriage for the Penn- | sylvania station. Miss Roosevelt insisted | on having her first try in the new ma- chine. The result was that she made her way down Pennsylvania avenus through a swirling array of fire engines and many other vehicles, with frightened horses on each side and in front and behind. Never once did she lose her nerve, although she | was in great peril, and she finally landed at the station safe and sound. In accordance with Miss Roosevelt's or- Kder, the automobile was brought to the | White House at 9:20 by a chauffeur. The latter relinquished to Miss Roosevelt the driver's position on the left side of the } machine and took his place on the right. | Captain Cowles stepped into the rear cir- CAPITALIST WHO MAY SUFFER HEAVY LOSS THROUGH THE i i g a=n o i s i cular seat, where th £ | FORMER’'S PECULIAR BUSINESS METHODS. persons when the d‘:,r:rxlm:f;::;r t;r,m 5 s sed. 88 : > | Roosevelt's mald also got in and the trip Mine's Affairs Into Court of Bankruptcy. HE first steps toward concluding the meteoric career of W. H. Daly, late general manager of the Copper, King mine, and bringing to a crisis the affairs of the mining concerh, were taken yvesterday when a num- ber of creditors petitioned the United States courts to throw the Engiish corporation into a state of bankruptcy. The petitioners are designated ae “sundry creditors,” whose credits to the Copper King Mining Company are stated to amount to “$600 or more,” but in reality they stand to lose the greater part of $§5,600 due them, for the fact is that the mining company’s liabilities, as far as is known, amount to more than $614,000, against which there stands in the way of assets property valued very liberally at $275,000. the creditors, not scheduled in the bankruptcy proceedings, but who largely in the attempt to effect some kind of adjustment of the com- financial mixup, are the Crocker-Woolworth National Bank, the Best Manufacturing Company and a local electrical concern, who have reuson for regretting the day they rirst had business contact with the erratic manager of the mining property, W. fi. Daly. The latter, after three years of fighting and quarreling with the empioyes of the mine, the local supply people, the banks and finally with the London stockholders, among them Frank Gardner and Sir Christopher Furness, the great ship magnate, quietly skipped out of town, for- getting to settle his big bill at the Palace. Departure Alarms Company’s Creditors. His sudden departure has now culminated In the bankruptey proceedings end the prospects are that the mine will pass into other hands. A week ago Alan C. Mcllvaline, an attorney from Chicago; arrived in the city and registered at the Palace. A few hours later J. C. Hately of London affixed his signature on the hotel register. It soon developed that these gentlemen wera here in a common cause, namely, as representatives of Sir Christopher Furness, with full authority to act in his interest. They had been on-the ground but a few hours when they clearly realized the jeopardy into which their client’s interests had been thrown by Manager Daly. Creditors were assuming a threat- ening eir and foreseeing the possibility of losing everything they quietly pro- ceeded to have the Copper King Company declared bankrupt in order to antici- pate any move on the part of any creditor to secure preferment through the legal process of an attachment. That the proceedings inaugurated yesterday will eventually reveal a gigantic swindle, in which the Crocker-Woolworth National Bank and a host of Eng- lish stockholders are made to suffer financially, is generally expected, as ::u as some sensational revelations concerning the peculiar business methods of Continued on Page 2, Columns 4 and 5. Among ‘W.H.Daly’s Mismanagement Carries down Pennsylvania avenue to the station was begun. Just after Miss Roosevelt had wheeled into Pennsylvania avenue an alarm of fire was rung in from a box further down the avenue. Miss Roosevelt continued on her way and was going at a rather mod- erate pace when she found herself in the midst of fire engines, hook and ladder and water tower truck and vehicles of all sorts. Even the sight of an assistant en- gineer of the fire department dashing by at a furious gallop did not disconcert her, however, and she guided the machine skillfully past all teams and obstacles in the way. In front of the city postofica Miss Roosevelt made a slight detour as she heard the clanging bells directly back of her, and in a moment a huge truck dashed by within a few Inches of her auto. “As she swung ker machine back into the center of the street a water tower truck from the same station came dashing along and again Miss Roosevelt ran her automobile out of the gburse of the plunging horses. She guided her ma- chine during the’entire trip and showed ment. RECISTERED LETTERS STOLEN FROM THE MATL Detectives of the Postal Service Are Investigating Several Mysteri- ous Thefts in Oregon, BAKER CITY, Or, May 2§ g Whitney and Thomas J. Clark, special postal detectives, are in the vieinity of Baker City trying to ferret out the mys- tery surrounding tie theft of registereq letters between this city and Cornucopia, fifty miles distant on a star route. One of the stolen letters was from the First National Bank in this city and containeq $300. other.” registered letter and g public document are also missing from the same pouch. Many letters con: money have been missed in this vicinity racently. great skill and coolness In its manage- | KITES Gt NEW SEGRETS | PUTS POIGON 10 SCIENGE Results Achieved in Experiments Made Known. Notable Work Recoxrd- ed on the Nova Sco- tia Coast. Professor Bell Sheds Light on Aerial Navigation Methods. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, May 29. — Professor Alexander Graham Bell has given to the world the results of the first stage of his experiments with kites entered upon for the purpose of aiding, if possible, the so- lution of the problem of aerial navigation without the lifting power of hydrogen gas. Professor Bell is not yet prepared to answer the question, “Shall we fly, after all?” in the affirmative, but he does answer in the affirmative the question, “If we are to fly, m& we be able to fly when the air is calm as well as when a breeze is blowing?"” Professor Bell conducted his investiga- tions, which extended over several years, at his summer laboratory at Badeck, Cape Breton Island, off the coast of Nova Scotia, where he was comparatively free from interruption, and he guarded his se- crets well. There, every summer since 1598, he has been at work flying kites of all sorts and sizes, carefully noting the work of different kites in all conditions of weather and bringing to his aid a trained scientific equipment of mind. He made many wonderful kites of dif- ferent shapes and all flew well. He started with a box kite invented by Har- grave of Australia, which can now be bought in any toy store. He soon passed from box formation to triangular forma- tion and from triangular formation to the tetrahedal formation, all the time holding to the main idea of getting a kite which would be capable of lifting a weight equivalent to a man and small engine, which would fly steadily in a strong breeze and which would combine lightness with strength. The importance of this achievement may be gathered from the statement that it will compel the revision of opinion by all scientists who accepted the conclusion of Professor Samuel Newcomb, made pub- lic in 1%1, that the construction of an aerial vehicle large enough to fly a man would have to be deferred until the dis- covery of a new metal or a new-force, {fnasmuch as the weight of a kite made large enough for the purpdpe increased more rapldly than the supporting surface and that a kite large and strong enough to support a man would be too heavy to fly. AMERICANS EXPELLED FROM KAISER'S DOMAIN Authorities Order Men From the Country “in the Public Interest.” LONDON, May 30.—A’ dispatch to the Express from Berlin says that Willlam Stevens and John Meyers, Americans, have been arrested at Muelhausen and expelled from Germany “in the public in- terest.”” No details are given, but this phrase usually means that the persons expelled have committed some political offense. It is understood that the New York Herald's_ correspondent, Mr. Lucknow, has also been expelled for sending his paper reports of which the German Gov- ernment disapproved. The Neueste Nach- richten suggests that the expulsion of the Berlin correspondent of the London Times would be a public benefit. —_———— ELEANOR GALLAGHER WILL BECOME A CHORUS GIRL Divorced Wife of Former Hawaiian Attorney General to Go on the Stage. NEW YORK, May 20.—FEleanor Gal- lagher, the divorced wife of Edmund P. Dole, the former Attorney General of Ha- waii, and well known in San Francisco, where she was formerly a schoolteacher, will make her stage debut Monday night in the chorus of “The Runaways” at the Casino Theater. “ Mrs. Dole, or Miss-Gallagher, as she preters to call herself, is of statuesque figure and is a graceful dancer. She pos- sesses, too, an excellent volce, and Mr. Shubert is confident that her rise will be rapid. She will have the part of one of the *““widows” soon and also a chance to understudy one of the principals. —————— BRITISH EMBASSADOR 4 AT ROME IN A WRECK ROME, May 20.—The automobile acci- dent that happened to Mr. Meyer, the American Embassador, yesterday, was followed to-day by a similar accident to Sir Francis Bertie, the British Embassa- dor. While he was returning to Rome from Albano the tank of his automobile exploded and he and his chauffeur were hurled several yards. They were only aken and scratched, but the machine as rendered useless. YOUNG GIRL IN THE FO00 Los Angeles Family Has a Narrow Escape. Seven Persons Taken Jd1l, but They Are Regovering. Poisoner Admits Her Guilt and Claims She Was Experimenting, LOS ANGELES, May 29.—Frank F. Ward, a contractor and wife and five vis- itcrs at the Ward home at 141 West Twenty-third street, ate strawberries and asparagus at dinner a few days ago and subsequently became violently ill. It de- velcped to-day that Gladys Mallard, an 11-year-old girl whogt the Wards had taken into their home out of sympathy for her homeless condition, had put pois- oa in thé food. Seven persons who ate the poisoned food were seriously ill for | several days, but are now out of danger. The Mallard girl to-day confessed to hav- ing put pdison in the food. She said: o, I did it. I wanted to see how peo- ple when they take poison.” She said she had found a box of rat polson in the pantry and the thougint came to her to experiment with it on her benefactors and their guests. She put a portion of it in the icecream that was used on the strawberr! in the aspara- gus and in the tea. She did chis two days in succession, and said she enfoyed the effects upon the victims so mucn after the first experiment that she repeated it the next day. —_—— FILIPINO POLITICAL LEADER IS ARRESTED Numerous Charges Placed Against Dominadnor Gomez, President of Democratic Labor Union. MANILA, May 29.—Following the seiz- ure and examination of the books of the Democratic Union, the Government to- day arrested President Dominadnor Go- mez on charges of misappropriation of funds, brigandage, fraudulent sales of stock and organizing an illegal associa- tion. Over 100,000 pesos were collected in dues and contributions. The books show a deficit of 20,000 pesos. that part of the amount was stolen be fore Gomez was selected as president. The Government charges that part of the fund wag used to furnish arms and food to the inSurgents of Rizal province. This, with corgespondence with Guillermo and other leaders in the field, forms the basis of the briganadge charge. The union has a membership of 15,000 is closely affiliated with the Nationalist party and is strongly in sympathy with the insurgents. The arrest of Gomez has excited the natives and will Increase the feeling of unrest in Manila, which has been disturbed lately by reports cf the landing of arms. The situation, however, is not serious. —_—e————— HORSE LIVES ON WATER IN DEPTHS OF A MINE Animal Is Found Alive Far Below the Rockslide Wreckage at Frank. ANACONDA, Mont., May 20.—Word was recelved from Frank, Adberta, N. W. T. that a horse buried in the mine at the time of the great rockslide was found to- day alfve and in such-condition that it may live. It was 5000 feet below the sur- face, with no food, but plenty of water. It had lved thus more than a month. —_————— INJURIES IN A FIGHT CAUSE PUGILIST'S DEATH | George Feeley, Who Was Roughly Handled by Jim Jeffords, Passes Away. SAVANNAH, Ga, May 20.—George Feeley, the pugilist, who was Injured in a contest with Jim Jeffords Thursday night, died at St. Joseph’s Hospital at 1:45 o’clock this morning. ———————— Heyhal Planned Wholesale Murder. REDDING, May 20.—John Heyhal, who shot from ambush and killed Willlam Morgan, a neighbor, Wednesday morning and escaped lynching for the crime only by the bravery of two young farmers who captured him, had evidently intend- ed to kill six other men. Secreted in his cabin has been found & notebook in which he had recorded that seven men, all neighbors, were enemies of his and that he intended to “fix them.” Morgan, his victim, was among the seven. —— Opposition Carries the Day. YOKOHAMA, May 20.—The combined opposition parties defeated the Govern- ment's followers in the Diet to-day. Two resclutions were passed demanding the fixing of the Ministerial responsibility in connection with the official scandals. ————— State Senator Indicted. ST. LOUIS, May 20.—An indictment charging State Senator Frank H. Harris with bribery was returned by the St. Louls Grand Jury to-dav. ° = It is believed | + HE floods now ruin- ing property and men- | acing the lives of thousands of persons in Kansas and over a consid- erable area near that State are of such extraordinary volume that every effort made to protect cities and towns has proved futile. A number of lives have been lost and the damage is tre- | | mendous. North Topeka is | | suffering most severely, The city is surrounded by water and it has flooded all | | the streets. The people are departing hastily to save their hves. | Families Escape the Rushing Torrent. Cyclones Menace With Cloud- bursts' OPEKA, Kans, May 20— The high water at 11 o’clock to-night has surrounded the whole of North Topeka, and Lundreds of hotses are inundatel. People are moving out 7 = tk-: part | of the town as fast as possible and great distress prevails. At this time 5000 people are homeless. It necessary for every inhabitant North Side to leave there by morning, and this will leave over 10,000 people without homes. The people, south of the river are | trying hard to take care of the flood refugees. The Courthouse, State- house and other buildings have been opened for their reception and a fund | started for their relief. The water |plant is being worked under great :r!ir'ficuhy. and it is feared that by to- this will have to be aban- If this is the case the entira city will be without fire protection. Reports from Wamego and other points at the river report a great vol- ume of water coming down t way. | Wamego reports a rise of two feet in the Blue and three feet in the Repub- lican rivers. This will .cach Topeka by morning, ~and the large Melan arch bridge will have great difficulty in holding its own. RIVER THROUGH ABILENE. For six hours to-day the flood | plowed like a river through Abilene, filling 200 cellars and driving 100 families to places of refuge. The Rock Island, Union Pacific and Santa Fe tracks are y, two lumber- yards burned from the contact of lime | with water, and several buildings col- lapsed. Nearly all the business | houses are flooded. Scores of people in boats to-day after the moving nearly will be | of the morrow doned. washed aw: were rescued | having spent a whole night in trees. aterchants are all | their stock to higher places, but it is generally believed that the worst is over. Salina is is.lated and canuot this time be reached by wire. The Western Union Telegraph in Salina has collapsed < > news can be sent out from there. At Lawrence the Kansas Piver has continued to rise rapidly all day. - ! in the last three hours las come up ‘\near!y three feet. The wate stands thirteen feet deep on the dam there and has caused the water works, elec- tric light plant and brick factory to close down. At Marysville the water is the highest ever know= and is geling higher. One hundrec p. .ie at Wamego are homeless and had to be moved out of “thc hou in boats. In many places the water is up t~ the second-story windows. DROWNING OF CATTLE. Word was received there to-night that a rise of two feet wa. coming down the Republican River, and a rise of three feet down the Blue River. The river at Wamego is rising two inches an hour. Over 500 head of cattle have been drowned and washed down the river. From Marion comes the report that the Rock Island depot is flood- ed and had to be abandoned late to- night. Many square miles of country near Emporia are under water. s Americus the river is four “zet higher * Continued on Page 2, Columna 1.