The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 7, 1903, Page 17

Pages PR e ] \xu.lt‘lq ~ *e @ + . es 1710 30 VOLUME XCIV—=NO SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JUNE 7 1903—F ORTY-EIGHT PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS SANTOS-DUMONT APPEARS TO HAUE PERFECT CONTROL OF HIS FLYING MACHINE | | | | | | | 8] | | { i | | | ¥ 1 e — 3 | | i Woman Accepts an' ! . | | Offer to Sail on || i | | - - { | Airshi ‘ : p- , I Epecia able The ( New York | ‘| erald pyFight New York { ARIS J:T antos-Dumont | now seems to be able to control 1 airship at will. He again paid |-| | polo grounds a visit in ‘ | No. 8 to-day. | | i © off ¥ present back | - T The offer ga\cl'v' i e = e O 'l‘: s u ement. Mme. de Gui- | SUCCESSFUL INVENTOR OF AIRSHIPS AND FLYING MACHINE | | wife vne of the players in the ’ WHICH WILL BE'THE MODEL FOR THE ONE WITH WHICH HE | | s him . andi(| WILL COMPETE AT THE ST. LOUIS EXPOSITIO} | t was not pleased. The | 4~ £ " two all right, but he to do this; let me hang rope and you can take ckened and the fair T the was danced in the Guiroye was glad to set foot and the aeronaut saiied o8 P8 DOWN A HILL | T0 DISASTER Passenger Killed and . ‘umber Injured. | M ! 4 \ ; property | to proceed - withgut” the | Union Pecific officials. POSTAL TELEGRAPH LINE ALONG . UNION PACIFIC Officials in Consultation Regarding tne Paralleling: of the West- ern Union Wire. OMAMHA, Nebr., June 6.—High "officials of the Bostal Telegfaph Company have been in Omaba several days in consulta- tion - with. officials of tle Union Pacific Rallway relative to gonstructing a line of wire from Omeka to Sap Francisco along the right of way of the Union Pa- cific road. 1t Is’'understood from Union Paclfic sources that while no definite -ar- rangements have been made for secur- ing tne right of way to the Postal Tele- graph Company negotiations are still on and probeb!vy will result in the Postal Company securing a concession that will enable it to string its wires parallel and competing with the Western Union. The Postal Telegraph Company several on of a months ago began the construc part of this line as a test case and t awaited the outcome of the efforts the Pennsylvania road to oust the We ern Union from its right of way. eeing that road gain i and destroy - $1,000,000 the : Postal officials decl consent e ———e—— ROBBERS IN SALT LAKE MURDER FORMER SOLDIER Special Dispatch to The Call SAN JOSE, June 6.—Going at a velocity of forty miles an hour, a runaway car on the Alum Rock Electric Railway jumped the track about 5 o'clock. this afternoon. Bdwin B. Goodrich of this city was killed and four persons were injured.” The car to kindling ‘wood and that a miracle. was reduced more “were not killed seems The injured are: Emma Meyers, 19 vears old, daughter of | B. Meyers, 234 North Fourth street, t over the right eye and badly bruised about the body. Mrs. Bdward Bonar of ‘Martin avenue, | wife of E. Bonar, carpet cleaner,’right leg ken | Willie Baker, 12-year-old son of Profes- sor Baker of the State Normal School, | skuM fractured; probably fatal. | Robert Grant, conductor, cut over the | left eye. | J. W. Drake, slight scratches On the car and who escaped injury oth- | er than a severe shaking up were Danfel Chapman, Mrs. Thurber, Mrs. Drake, Mary Baker and one or two others. The giving of the brake was the cause the accident. A trailer on the siding s to be attached to the car leaving at ¢'clock. Conductor Grant had just re- nwved a Jocked block from in front of the car and the crowding of the people onto | car started it, as there is a grade at | switch, Grant jumped on the car to | v the brake, but this broke and would hold. He then jumped from the car ran a few feet ahead to the heavy ¢k that is used for holding the car. ut tried to swing this under the heels, but the car was upon him and hoved him to one side. alizing the hopelessness of stopping runaway car, he, however, caught the ar platform as it passed. The conduc- told the passengers the brake was Jken and danger was imminent., He he could not help them and asked «m to remain cool. T car gained speed with each second | # mad race with apparent death star- & them in the face was on. The Alum Hullway runs along the banks of the Pevetencia Creek, around curves, over trestles and through a tunnel. There is tecp grade and the car was soon going the rate of forty miles an hour. At first the passengers laughed and joked and scemed to enjoy the ride. This n changed, however. Conductor Grant rt | States robbed in the rear of a restaurant in this | | notification: by cable of -the appo | the car to-the other tv keep it Victim Carries Card Showing Mem- bership in'a Vallejo Secret Society. SALT LAKE, Utah, June 6.—George H Littlefield, a former soldier in the United army, was found drugged and hour this morning. He consciousness city at an'early died without ’; regaining From papers found ‘on his:person it was Jearned th: | Philippines and that he was. a4 member | Vallejo, Cal., tent of the Mac of “the becs. ——e—— ST. LOUIS PRIEST TO BE THE BISHOP OF MANILA | Pope 'Appoints Father Hatty of St. Leo’s Church to the Philip- pine Post. WASHINGTON, June 6.—The Papal delegation in.this city to-day received ‘ntment of the'Rev. T. T. Harty of St. Leo’s Church, ., 8t.- Louis, as Bishop of Man.la. The appointment was made by the Pop: and has been accepted by Father Harty. - had the passengers step from one side of on the track. For a mile the car held the track. | 1t safely crossed the trestles and through | the tunnel. At a point about 0 feet be- low the tunnel it jumped the track, crash- ing into the embankment and aftrolley pole. There is a curve at this point, and this probably caused the car to jump. The car lay across the track. The crash of the car could be heard nearly a mile. The entire car, which was a light one, entifely collapsed, the roof falling in and the sides breaking. Those who were not injured crawled out and as- sisted the injured. Goodrich’s skull was fractured. He lived about an hour and died on his way to this city. Word was at once sent to this city and Manager Center of the road took physi- claps to the scene of the wreck. The in- jured were at once brought to this city and taken to their homes or hospitals. Edwin Goodrich, - who was killed, was one of the best known men in town.. He was 46 years of age and a native of this city. resided at 380 East Sanfa Clara street. was_ interested in the Goodrich stone quarry and was also a deputy County Assessor. -An Inquest will be held to- morrow morning. Littlefield had served in the | —e | ‘With his wife and two children he | He | FLOODGATES OF THE SKIES- ~ IRE OPENED Fifty Drowned in| ' South Carolina | 3 Storm. . SPARTANBURG, 8. C., June 6.—A tor- | rential ;rainstorm visited thig region be- n last midnight and dawn to-day, re- sulting in general devesadon and de- | of life and ;property. All the | and trestles on thé main line of the Southern Railway were'washed away. | struction bridge: |Ten Persons Accused The greatest destruction of life and prop- erty occurred at the Pacolet and Clifton | and Glendale cotton milis | S0 many wires'are down and communi- | tlon of all sorts is so thoroughly de- | | mcralized that it is impossible to form | ary definite caleulation ‘of theloss of | life. The mortality list may. go to 150,/ but the.more conservative éstimates place ! it somewhere arotnd forty or fifty. The property loss in the entire section | laid waste by the storm is likely to aggre- total | gatc. $2.000,000. The ‘loss at Pacolet is' placed at $1,000,000. ol More than 500 people are homeless ahd | 4000 out of employment. There was no wind and no damage by lightning, the loss all being by water. ! fell in veritable torrents, converting | the surface of the carth into a sheer lake | | of raging waters; rivers overflowed thelr banks to heid®s never before known; crecks beeame rivers and small rivulets ruaring torrents, wiping out everything their course. Railroad bridges were | torn from stone and iron plers, cotton | | mills were crushed like straw before the oC :and grist mills and innumerable maller industries and cottages were | 'washed away by the angry waters. To-night scores of people were clinging | | to, the branches of trees at Clifton and | cculd not be reachéd. Unless help comes | | to them soon it is feared that many will | | fall into the water and drown. | | The following is a partial list of those who lost their lives by the inundation at Clifton: 5‘ | AUGUSTUS CALVERT AND WIFE. MISS LIZZIE CALVERT. K. FELIX. MRS. W. B. TINSLEY. MORTAY SIMS. MRS. B. F. JOHNSON AND FOUR CHILDRE! MRS. MAGGIE KIRBY. MRS. JOHN OWENS. ROY OWENS. GARLAND LONG. MRS. LONG. MISS FLETA GOSA. The heaviest property loss was at the ill-fated Pacolet Mills, where President Victor Montgomery estimates the damage at $1,250,000. About 1200 operatives in these mills are ghrown out of employment and within a few days will be in need of daily bread. . Soon after the mill began operations this morning the water pressure at mill No. 1 became dangerous, the boller rooms were submerged and the workmen were | ordéred back. A little later the fury of the raging river struck mill No.'1, sweep- ing the plant entirely away.. The strong | \ i Ing on several weeks, and as a result of | cans having been induced to present them- HUNTINGTON A VICTIM OF CONSPIRAGY Electric Company Is Robbed by Employes. of Crime in Los Angeles. Corporation’s Coin Is Found in the Pockets of Suspected Men. Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, June 6.—V. R. H. Gary | and T. J. Gary, brothers employed in the paymaster's office of the Pacific Electric | Company, the Huntington corporation; F. W. Cornwall, a time keeper for that com- pany, and-seven Mexican laborers Were arrested this evening on charges of ob- taining money by false pretenses as a re- sult of weeks of work on the part.of the | company’s detectives, who have discov- | ered- wholesale stuffing of the payrolls. | It is. charged that Cornwall and other | time keepers who have not been appre- | hended issued scores of fraudulent time checks, which were properly entered on | the payrolls by persons in the office who | were parties to the steal. The conspira- | tors, it is alleged, would then select a number of Mexlcan laborers not employed by the company and pay them to take positions in line on paydays. These Mex- icans were simply tools-and were paid a few dollars each to bring the money they, collected to the person, who gave them thelr time checks. g During a recent strike of laborérs em- | ployed by the company a large number of | men were employed witho even HiF nagmes eing takens sy Riea tucr| given~a number @nd dréw thelt pay by presenting. a small metal tag bearing a | corresponding numbey. These tagy were | issued only by a clerk in the paymaster's office’ and’ payments were made 'to per- sons bearing theém only when proper cer-| tification #4i€ made that such persons had | been employed a given number of days. The discovery was made some time ago | that the number of names thus on the | payrolls was much Jarger than the num- ber of laborers actually employed, but ! the books appeared to be regular ‘and for a time it was impossible to discover why this difference existed. Finally, on one of the paydays, a detective saw a notorious | MexicAn, who was known not to be em- | ployed by the compayy, take a4 position in line ahd, on presénting a number, draw his pay. He was watched and seen to pay the money to a timekeeper. ! Qs caused a careful investigation and it” was discovered that between twenty and thirty employes of the company, | some of them laborers and some trusted employes In positions of- responsibility, were engaged in a conspiracy to defraud | tue company. A trap was set for them and to-day detectives were .stationed at the company’s offices while the laborers were being paid off. In three ingtances laborers were seen to | draw their money and then pay it over to a timekeeper who, after he had recefved a number of such collections and patd from £2 to $ for them divided the money with a clerk in the paymaster's office, When placed under arrest the Mexi- |« cans admitted having secured the money without having been employed by the company but asserted that they had been paid to make the collections. The Gary brothers and Cornwall were then arrest- ed, and on their persons was found more than $200 in half-dollar pieces, some of the coin bearing identification marks which had been placed there before the money was paid out. The officers are logking for four other employves in the timekeep- er’s department and pay department, but they disappeared as soon as the other arrests were made. At the general offices of the company to-night it was stated that the losses | which the company has sustained will amount to several thousand dollars, It is knawn that the stealing has been gg- less than an hour's work to-day more | than $200 was secured, some of the Mexi- | selves twice at the pay window. g current then swept against No. 2, demol- fshing that mill and leaving only the cloth room standing. The big bridge over the Pacolet River, a steel structure, was then carried away by the flood, which had burst through the dams. The wareroom, containing nearly 4000 bales of cotton and 4000 bales of domestic cloth, followed, all | the cotton being carried down stream. At Pacolet Mill No. 3 one-half of the picker room and five stories on the left | side of the main building were washed away. The main buflding, supported by a thick wall, is still standing, but may collapse at any time. The boiler-room has gone, but the smokestack {s yet standing. ‘The dam at No. 3 is intact. Al | the machinery in this mill is ruined. At Glendale four warehouses filled with cotton and cotton productd were swept away, along with the dam across Law- sons Fork and the trestle of the City Electric Railway. The mill at Glendale was pot materially damaged. At Converse the main ‘bullding of the Clifton_ factory collapsed and the flood rose ‘until'the second floor of the mill was under four. fept of water, forty or fifty feet'abave the ordinary stage. -The Con- verse mill'is Jtterly demolished, nothing ; standing except the picker-foom bullding, | which' is badly wrecked. Clifton Mill No. | 37also - lest«its « boiler-rgom, engine-room and smokestack. DISCUSSES | aroused in this country over the cruel | Kishenev. troubles, FLAMES SWEEP RANDSBURG AND CONUDERT INTO ASHES NEARLY THE ENTIRE TOWN SCENE IN THE MINING TOWN OF RANDSBURG PART OF KERN COUNTY. WHICH SUFFERE ERTY IN FLAMES THAT SWEPT OVER THE Bl N R THE EASTERN LOSS OF PROP- TION > i AT MASSAGRE OF JEWS President Regards Problem as a Grave One. Special Dispatch to The Call, CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, June 6.—President Roosevelt made it plain to his Cahinet to- day, when it met for the first time in two months, that he considered the sentiment | to Hebrews in Russia as a serious prob- ) lem confronting = the administration. | Equally serlous does he regard the out- rages on Christians ~ in Turkey, which have been less the subject of popular mass meetings and resolutions than the but have resuited in much influence being exerted o the Gov- ernment to make formal protest in the name of humanity. The way s not now clear for the United States to take any formal action in efther instance. A protest to either Russia or Turkey would be resented and probably would avalil nothing. The Cabinet officlals discussed the situation. at considerable length. The President realizes that the skirts of the United States are not en- tirely clear, because atrocities upon ne- groes in the shape of hanging and burn- ing at the stake are not uncommon here. Thus for the United States to interfere in what is a matter of internal administra- tion in Russia or Turkey would, from an international political viewpoint, put this Government in a ridiculous . pesition. President Roosevelt, however, will spare no effert to glve the problem thorough consideration. especially as the -anti-Rus- sian sentiment engendered can do no good to the relations between the two coun- tries. o Count Cassini, the Russian Embassador, | will see 'the President probably. en Mon- day to discuss the Kishenev disturbances, Russia’s handling of the situdtion since the outbreak and the agitation which has veached such great proportions in the United States. The Russian Government, which has made an official statement that the guilty will not be spared,.is much perturbed at the continuation of the agi- tation in the United States. It‘ is evident- and Cuts Off Communication Special Dispatch to The Call AKERSFIELD, June | | ]Fire Drives Out Telegraph Operator | 6.—A. most disastrous fire starting from somz unknown camse in the Orpheum | Variety Théater destroyed nearly the wholé of theé business portion |-} of the mining town of ‘Randsburg, in the | avenue and Rand street | brick building southeastern portion of Kern County. That the only about $100,000 is due solely to the flimsy character of loss was the greater portfon of the camp. town has no firé protection beyond that afforded a volunteer . hose company, and ‘that was powerless to control the flames. A high wind was blowing and the fire sprcad almost instantly from the the- by Roberts on the.one side and a restaurant on the other. From here the flames swept down’ in both ‘directions on Butte avenue, { destroying five siloohs, two restaurants the Justice of - the Peace office gnd .the large department ‘store of Asher !I os, ™ |: Driven by the fierce wind, the flimes |leaped across the_ stréet and Plerson’s jewelry store, directly posite the theater, from~ which flames spread lightning - in side of the op- the with the . rapidity both: directions. On one jewelry 1store :was the White ~ Fawn saloon, conducted J.'R. Price, and on the other the tele- | phone and Western Union Telegraph of- fice. Both- these were inflames in a min- ute or two after the flames had leaped }:wr(-.s Butte avenue. OPERATOR TAKES FLIGHT. .Tn the telegraph office Operator Harry Wilson remained at his post keeping open communication up to the last minute, giv- ing the news to.the outside world of the destruction beong wrought in the mining camp. - He “abandoned the office when fairly driven gut by the flames and smoke. With the destruction of the telegraph of- fice communication ceased for several hours until late.this evening, when a tele- phone was found uninjured in a residence RESTAURANT GUESTS ARE LEFT UNSERVED Chicago Waitresses and Cooks Strike ‘While Patrons Are Awaiting “Their Dinner. CHICAGO, June 6.—While scores of per- sons were at dinner, at the sound of a whistle blown by a woman leader the waitresses, cooks and dishwashers In Sie- gel, Cooper & Co.'s department store res- taurant ctopped work %u-day.” The place was soon a scene of- confusion. Dishes the waltresses. Clerks were sent into the dining-room to put the place in order. This done, the restayrant was. closed. At almost the same time employes of Buykey & Milliken's restaurant on Clark street, the Edelwels on Madison street and the Fair and the cooks at the Chi- {"cago ‘Athletie Club walked out. Three of the smaller .restaurants are said to have granted the demands of tne unions. — 2 e Iy believed .in . St. Petersburg that the |'stimulation of ant!-Russian sentiment is | being prolonged by Influences not so much !'in sympathy.with the oppressed Hebrews as desjrous of weakening Russian pres- Vtige here. ater to the saloon owned by Marguerite | seized | of | by | the wooden shacks that comprised by far | The | and communication was restored. From spread street the telegraph office the flamer along Butte avenue to Rang destroying several residences an The Wells-Fargo expres: pos stood in a p angle formed by the ju unc is was i ind the on two sides it to catel drug store c fire did not cause Beyond the and the store of Asher Bros., on B avenue, was a break in the chain buildings, and this doubtless saved th beyond from destruction. These were the Rand s of large departme store of P. J. Kennedy located in a large lding owned by County Auditer W w n; the liv- ery stable of Houser Bros., a saloon ar | bakery and an imm brick buildin one of the finest in the camp, used as a hall by the M rs' Unior VAST AREA BURNED. In the opposite ~direetion - the. flames 1 from .the jewelry store.and the | 4 dian Lake. lat 10 a. m. At 3 p. m. the mercury 1 and food were left where the call found | | the sunshine penetrated. | cording_to advices received to-day s barber store and Dr. stopped fo te Fawn saloon to e skop, McCarthy's stationer Renshaw'§ office. Here lack of fuel, thus-sfving from destruction the Houser Hotel, which stocd some dis- tance beyond The burned district comprises an three-quarters of in length ccusiderable over two-thirds of the A!l efforts to check the ravages of tfhie flames were in vain. The blowing up with pewder of several buildings failed of ef- fect, as did the hose work of the volun- tecr firemen on they area, town. a mile Oi_the loss fully one-half falls upon Asher Bros., who carried a stock of goods reaching probably $10,000 in value. his was partly covered by insurance. amount of insurarmce in the burned dis- triet cannot now be ascertainea, but ow- ing to the character of the town the rates charged were enormously high and it is prébable that many of the buildings and stceks destroyed were entirely uninsured and are a total loss. @ et @ SAN RAFAEL'S CITY CLERK IS PROSTRATED BY HEAT Temperature Reaches 106 Degrees, the Highest Known in Town in Twenty Years. SAN RAFAEL, June 6.—City Clerk Eu- gene Smith was prostrated with heat this afternoen, remaining unconsclous over two hours. He is still in a precarious condition as a result. The weather wa intensely warm in San Rafael all day, the thermometer registering 9 degrees ran up to 106 in the shade, the highest known in this town for twenty years. Smith was engaged at work indoors, but where The ventilation was bad and the extreme heat completely overcame him. He swooned apd was found in an unconscious conditién. Phy- sicians wre summoned, but were unable for several hours to revive him. - Adirondack Fires Under Control. GLENNS FALLS, N. Y., June Ac- the Adirondack fires are under control, but should there be another hard wind, the fires would start un and would be as dis- astrous as these of Wednesday. Great de struction is reported in the vicinity of In- [