The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 9, 1903, Page 2

o NOTED ENEMY OF SMUGGLERS'GAHH]HN'A passes AwAY - pRINESFO} | THE FRENCH |Coast Benefits by Fail- [ | ure of European ‘ Crop. | |Early Reports of Blight by | Frost Receive Full Confirmation, { by oy | | New York Dealers Say Demand for | | Golden State Fruit for Shipment | | Abroad Grows Con- “ | stantly. | | o e M LU atch to The Call. I NEW YORK June 8.~Advices received to-day from France confirm the reports | heretofore published concerning the great damage done to the prune crop and many other crops in the southern departments of France. The reports published by The Call on May of France and probably also of Austria, been very s in the latter part of April and the part of May, destroying blossoms that had developed earlier than usual by at reason of unprecedentedly warm weather that time of the year. reports from France received to- are the result of an investigation n the southern departments of fc which district Bordeaux e the commercial depots ports. In the Gironde Bordeaux 1is the trees suffered heavily , as did those in other g the Atlantic coast. Ad- Arles say that the Bouches du Rhone Mime come re- done in the de- Aveyron, Lozere, Dordogne, Haute- “orreze and Cantal om the capital of ¥ that damage was of + of which ur the 1 fre rtments ala Aix and n the From UM t cannot be said that the crops destroyed, there vield will fall far ew York dealers say steadily increasing lifornia E demand for i prunes for export recently and that this demand may be owing he damage in France. J. K. Armsby & Co. of San Francisco, with a N hou y that they have eived or t carloads for EASTERN CONTRACTORS shipment in June to France. —_—————————— Ay BIC. LINE | Franchise Grant Is Revoked. Project Said to Include Trolley Cars | "0, June 8.—The Trustees of From San Jose to Al- to-night to grant a fran- Some time ago at the last the r lighting the city. vertised for and were presented, viso bids ond 4 ~ ctric Company for ¥ k ¥ € ost, $7%, and Clinton P 1 ’ for many years has ' - El for a | furnished the light and was given s w 50, 80 they ar franchise again. To-night, however, Attorney Pistolesi informéa the the advertising had not been rding to law and therefore all i be rejected and new proposals This was ordered done. y Invite President to Encampment. 1, « | WASHINGTON, June S.—Commander- Office re- | iIn-Chief Urell and Adjutant General Dyeér | of anish War Veterans to-day in- vited President Roosevelt to attend the encampment of the veterans to next_September in New The President indicated that pt the invitation if possible. he Always the same Delicate Aroma Always the same Rich, Mellow Taste BairimoRe VOR) RYe 5 SoN Hunter Baltimore Rye America’s Best Whiskey HILBERT MERCANTILE CO., 513.215 Market st., San Francisco, Cal Telephone Exchange 313. stated that the prune crop | seriously damaged by | Haven, | THE SAN FRA C1SCO CALL, T SALESWOMAN TO BE BRIDE OF GOVERNOR o ! Loa sz T oaxdane more - OFFICIAL WHOSE MARRIAGE WILL REDEEM A PLEDGE MADE TO VOTERS. o i | i i3 ANSAS CITY, ernor W. J. Balley of Kansas came to Kankas City to-night. To-morrow hight in the First Congregational Church he will wed Mrs. Ida Weed. It was the Gover- nor's intention to take a wedding trip, but the flood and the cattlemen’'s war in | Cheyenne County will cause a delay. Mrs. Weed, the bride-to-be, iz a fascl- nating widow of about 35 years. She has two sons, the eldest 11 years of age. is a native of Bailey town of the Kansas executive. Since Oc: tober, 1902, she has lived in Kansas City, where until shortly before Governor Bai ley's inauguration she was a clerk in the Parisian Company’s store. | Since Mrs. Weed has lived Ci its to the city. He never failed to call on Mrs. Weed. He took her to the theater several times and showed her attentions which caused the gossips to talk and smile wisely. Mrs. Weed and her two sons have lived in the st-floor flat at 1011 Harrison street. Yesterday the last of her furni- ture was moved out and she told the neighbors that she was going to Kansas | Clty, Kans., to live for a while, | The marriage of Governor Bailey be the fulfillment of a promise he m before his election as Governor. that if he were elected he would find a | wife. As soon as news of this promise got out the then Governor-elect became | the recipient of thousands of letters from women who were willing to become the | first lady of Kansas. The Governor de- nied the story again and again. It was of no use: the letters continued to pour in from all parts of Kansas and other States of the Union. $ At last the Governor was obliged to in Kansas will ade He said | have 4 printed form of declination, which he sdlt in reply to all of the letters. L J B S R RO COMMITTEE WILL INVESTIGATE, Continued From Page 1, Column/7. day was received here with a deal of sur- prise. have made a practice of depositing their with the firm and the disastrous of the firm of Blum & Co. here a number of years since being fresh in the memory of many, the news of the failure of the Eppingers naturally caused much uneasiness among the people who had de- Pposits with the Dixon house, Friends of the firm, on being advised Mo., June 8.—Gov- | She | ville, Kans., the hume' Governor Balley has paid many vis- | Many farmers, laborers and others | VT EXTENT 0F TERRITOR UNDER WATER Twenty-Five Thousand People Homeless in ; Missouri. River Thieves Loot Vacated Dwellings in Venice and Granite City. LT Twenty Lives Are Known to Have Been Lost and $3,000,000 Worth i of Property Is De- stroyed. S PN ST. LOUIS, Mo., June S.—The flood has probably reached the zenith of its de\'u—i tation and the situation is appalling. The; climax came last night, when, by the breaking of a levee near Granite City, a | wall of water six feet high rushed down | upon Madison and deeper engulfed the al- ready stricken city, sweeping houses from | their foundations and drowning many | people who were fleeing for their lives. A | report. was current that fifteen workmen | in the St. Louis Car and Foundry Works had been drowned. Later it was learned that only seven employes had lost their | lives, but that thirteen others—men, Wo- men ' and children—had perished. Hun-) dreds of persons were forced to the mofs; of their' floating houses, and an appeal was sent to St. Louis for assistance. Every effort was made to force steamers against the heavy current four miles north of the stricken town, but it was noon before the steamers Mark Twain | and Annie Russell, lashed together and their engines working under every ounce | of steam, were able to reach Madison. For the balance of the day and into the | night the work of resculng refugees from floating or flooded houses, tree tops and | | various high places proceeded, and there | being no place to take them nearer than; 8t. Louis, they are to-night pouring into the city by hundreds, weak, hungry and despairing. RIVER THIEVES LOOT HOMES. | River thieves are looting the various va- cant houses in Venice, Madison and Gran- | ite City and carrying away everything of | value thev can find. | “Throughout the entire flooded district men with riot guns are patrolling the levees to, prevent pillaging and anxious to try their marksmanship upon some possi- | ble river thieves caught in the act, but| | the thieves pillaged houses situated far from the levees, where they are gsafe from detection. The situation at East St. Louls is des- perate. Mayor Cook has issued a proc- lamation ordering all business suspended and calling upon every male citizen to lay aside his employment and render service in preventing the inundation of the city. Mayor Cook went about to-day seeing that signs were posted offering men 31 cents an hour to help bufld the es, but the offers of employment were ig- | nored by the majority of the throngs of | unemployed negroes and white workmen, | | who stood 1dly about. The situation was | getting so desperate that for a time it | | seemed possible that men might be forced | | to work at the point of the rifle. The wa- [ ter was steadily creeping up, inch by | | inch, to the tops of the hurriedly erected | 1 sandbag levees, and the level of the wa- | ter was two feet above the higher por- | tlons of the city. A break in a dike meant vast destruction to property and possibly loss of life, as the swift curcent | would have turned into East 8t. Louis like a torrent™ ; | THREE CITIES UNDER WATER. But citizens hurried to the work of eav- ing the city and the inspiration spread | until idle workmen joined the throngs on | theg levees and the sandbags were piled | higher ana higher as fast as freight cars | { could bring them, and to-night the city is | still dry, but still menaced by the flood. | Several amateur photographers came to | | grief to-day. Their cameras were ferked | away and thrown into the water and they were told that trouble would follow if they persisted in- taking pictures of the { city’s inundation which might get into | public prints. | From Cahoka Creck bridge, north, the | raliroad yards are still out of water by reaséh of levees, and are lined with freight cars contgining refugees. Fach | car contained two or three families. In St. Louis the rising water has not caused any material increase in damage. Buildings along the steamboat levee are | more deeply flooded, but preparation has been made for such a condition, and a rise ! of several feet would cause little addi- tional damage. that the Dixon house was a separate and distinct concern and in no way connected with the 8an Franeisco house, at once of- fered Manager Schulze any financial as- | sistance he might require. | Mr. Schulze says th % : =a) ¢ Eppingers have withdrawn about all the interest they ever | had in the house here. the amount due | them not exceeding $10,000, h ) while Mr Schulze's own account has a credit of | more than $43.000. The firm at Dixon has made a practice of discounting ft& hills and owes the wholesalers of San Fran. | cisco and Sacramento less than $400m, Which it is prepared to pay when due. The house holds mortgages aggregating more than $40.000 against some af the best | | holdings in Northern Bolano, and thers § no distrust prevalent among thos (! whom it is under obligations. meie MARTINEZ, June 5.—As a resuit of replevin suit commenced in San Fragolon Saturday by the Nevada Natlonal Bang :x‘gnln!l .'hfi P:fl'ifi(' Coast “']rflh':ll“!(! | gompany and Eppinger & Co., to recover L loaned on wheat represented b, warehouse receipts, Bheriff Veale hoy taken possession of all the barley Q:; ] wheat now in the wareho v use Costa. He has installed Joe de !("enpo" keeper. Ahead oral of the Nevada National is the Banl | and the London and San pr".x?fu'ff"a‘;;'ie" | They have In as keeper a Mr. Grove. chief grain Inspector of the Merchante Exchange. There is not near enough grain to satisfy what the warehouse re. ‘ceipu call for and many stacks of sacks | have been stamped by three different | banks, who claim title. Mr. Gross came |up Sunday and took possession of the { warehouse in the name of the Pacific | Const Warehouse Company. Matters are |in such a tangle that ownerghip of the | grain will not be determined until the | courts pass upon the question. WOODLAND. June 8.—~When the first ! information concersilng the Eppinger & Co. failure reached here, the Yolo County . Bank and the Bank of Woodland, with { which the firm had dealings in - Yolo County, made statements to the effect | Bank, however, | Dubuque, which came down the river from | bugue wag carried down under Merchants’ ! ot life and proverty cannot be obtained, | from apparently the most reliable sou | ghowed the situation to be as follows: Below Eads bridge is moored the steamer St. Paul. So swift was the current and so high the stage of the river that the Du- bridge at high speed and both smoke- stacks were wept to the deck. A substantiated summary of the losses but up to § o'clock to-night informatjon es River stage, 3 feet, stationary, Twenty lives known to have be More than 200,000 acres of rich farming lands under water, All of Venice and the greater parts of Madison and Granite City under water. Twenty-five thousand people rendered homeless. Freight traffic completely paralyzed and passenger traffic practically stopped. Hundreds and probably thousands of head of stock drowned. East 8t. Louis threatened with complete inundation. St. Louls flooded only along the water front. Entire property loss estimated at $3,000,000, PRGN o S DROWNED BODIES RECOVERED. South Carolina Reports Long Death Roll of Flood Victims. SPARTANBURG, 8. C. Juné 8.-The interruption of all means of (raffic and communication caused by the high wa- ter in Pacolet Valley. made it impossible until to-night to secure anything lks an accurate death roll of the flood victims, The following purports to be a complete list of the drowned: Joscph B. Hall, his | wife, mother and six children, Bud Ed- mery, Eaver Johnson, E. Robbs, wife and two chiidren, Jullus Biggerstaff, Augue- tus Calvert, wife and two children, Mrs. Hinson and child, Mrs. Williams, eleven members of Lowering family, Mrs. Mas- sey and four children, Grenoble Sims, Robert Finley and wife, Mrs. Owens and two children, Doc Willlams, Rosie John- son, Maggle KirbysGarland Long and that both held securities which were am- ple to protect them against overdrafts made by the firm. This collateral is in i the form of grain receipts for wheat sup- posed to be stored in warehouses at Port | Costa. As a result of an Investigation since made it has been ascertained that no such amount of wheat as represented 1s In storage. It is estimated that about 10,000 tons of wheat were offered as col- lateral to interfor banks and accepted on the evidence of warehouse receipts, Of this amount not more than 1000 toni are now. in sight. The Bank of Yolo s a creditor of the defunct firm for about $57.000. The amount due the Bank of Woodland is nearly $25000, . % wife, John Swearingen and wife, Miss Lelia Gosa and Mrs. William Kirby. . The bodles of the foregoing have been recovered and {dentified. Three unidentified bodies taken from the river. The relief subscriptions to date amount to $7000. The relief committee has also secured a great quantity of provisions. The Mary Louise mill on Island Creek, operating 2000 spindles and owned by B. E. and J. 8. Wilkins, was destroyed. s L7 8y Five Lives Lost in Des Moines River: FRASER, lowa, June 8,—Five persons lost their lives here to-day in the Des have been JESDAY, JUNE 9, | farmers in the Kaw Valley. 1903. KITCHEN REQUISITES. Jim Dumps received a note one day From one who loves a joke to play. It read : “1 send by freight a ton Of concentrated life and fun!” One box of “ Force” was sent by him. “ That fills the bill,” laughed “Sunny Jim.” brings health; good nature follows. Sweet, crisp flakes of wheat and malt. Editorial Force. “ The proprietor of the Press does not care to sit down to breakfast, and in fact does not do so, without a good-sized dish of ¢ Force,’ and regards it the best cereal food that has yet been put on the market. “J. W. MERCER, Publisher, Iowa State Fress, Iowa City, Iowa.” 64 MISSISSIPPT NEGROES ARE KILLED BY A MOB Shooting From Ambush of a White | Citizen Leads to Serious Trou- i ble at Forest. FOREST, Miss., June 9.—Four negroes and one negress were killed, elght or ten badly beaten and most of the other ne- groes in the community ordered to leave as the result of shooting from ambush making daily relief trips between Topeka and Kansas City. Four bodies were recovered to-day. They were those of John Piper, aged 5, wagon driver; William Brooks, aged 60; Patrick Missouri Pacific shop employe, gnd an unknown man. The verified total of the dead list is ncw] sixteen. A SR Rockefeller Gives a Check. NEW YORK, June 8.—Mayor Low has| received a check for $5000 from John D. Moines River. The victims are Thomas Collman, Andrew Marchona, Steve (‘or-l madine, Carrle McCara and Nicholas | Groneting. All but two are Itallans and were employed in the Fraser coal mines. | — LEGISLATURE TO GIVE AID. Governor of Kansas Intends Calling a Special Session. TOPEKA, Kan., Juhe 8.—It is regarded a8 practically certain that there-will be Stockton’s Mayor Takes Office. STOCKTON, June 8—Mayor-elect C. E. Willlams and a new Council of five mem- | bers took office to-day. The Mayor ap- pointed R. L. Beardslee City Attorney and Max Grimm Prosecuting Attorney. | Street Commissioner Eli Confer appointed his Democratic predecessor, James Gian- elll, as his chief deputy, but the Councll | to-night by a vote of 4 to 1 refused to confirm the appointment, creating some- thing of a political sensation. The claim is made that the appointee is not thor- oughly qualified for the dutles. ————— ECZEMA, NO CURE, NO PAY: Your druggist will refund your morey if PAZO OLNTMENT fails to cure Ringworm, Tetter, O1d Ulcers and Sores, Pimples and Blackheads on the face, and all skin diseases. 50 cen‘s. * —_—e———— a special session of the Kansas Legisla- Rockefeiler for the fi l . e fund for the relief of | ot Mr. Craft and the wounding of Mr. ture in two weeks to relieve some of the | wufterers from the floods in the West. | po oy et ool he T - o€ suffering caused by the flood of last week. — e ———— & ’ > > curred in the northern part of Smith 1f a special session s called it will be for the purpose of building bridges washed away by the flood. Kansas City {s especially interested in the session be- cause there were thirteen Kansas river | bridges washed out in that city. Eight bridges were washed out in Shawnee County besides the street railway bridges. 'he Governor is said to be opposed to calling a epecial session for the purpose of making a general flood relief appro- priation for the reason that such action | would effectually prevent further con- tributigns toward the relief of the suf- ferers. It has heen suggested that the session should provide seeds for the These farm- ers, it given potatoes immediately, can raise a good crop yet this year. The first rallroad line to get direct com- munication between Topeka and the Bast County and the excitement there last week was intense. Reports from there now are that everything is quiet and per- haps will remain so if the negroes or- dered to leave will do so at once. sald that the killing and flogging of the negroes was done by men from the part of the county where Craft lived. o b e haisasni o King Edward Congratulates Actors. LONDON, June. 8.—A theatrical per- formance for the benefit of Guy's Hospi- tal was given at His Majesty's Theater to-night, in the presence of a fashionable audience, headed by the King and Queen and the Prince and Princess of Wales. Al- fred Austin and Mr. Tree, who had lead- ing roles, were afterwards presented to was the Santa Fe. To-night the Santa Fe | NEW YORK, June 8.—Arbuckle Bros. have | their Majesties, who congratulated them got its St. Joseph line open. Beginning an advance of § centy hundred pounds | on the success of the performance, which it will commence netted more than $10,000. to-morrow morning A MASTERPIECE Free with the SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL 14, 1903 June LN RAOSMS™ Z = “THE PILOTS,” by Haquette. NEXT SUNDAY The next in the Series of Oil Printings, in colors, on ¢anvas paper, which will be distributed with next Sunday's Call is Haquette's painting, “The Pilots.” This . picture \depicts a scene of thrilling human interest. It shows men struggling against two of thegreat forces of nature and imperiling their lives in the performance of their duty. . That Haquette is thoroughly acquainted with the sea and~the men who toil upon it is evident to any one who studies this picture carefully. It is so vividly truthful in every detail that one feels that he has passed through similar experiences himself. He has, in fact, a studio on the cliffs at Pol- let, a suburb at Dieppe, and a boat in which he makes frequent excursions on the sea. In order that he may come in closer sympathy with the simple sea-faring people among whom he lives he has adapted himself to their manners, wears the same costumes, and in every way tries to look at life through their eves. S RN Haquette was born in Paris, if the Salon catalogue is not in error. According to Eugene Montrosier he came when quite young to Paris from some small French provincial town. ik He first studied sculpture ander Aime Millet, who saw that he had a greater aptitude for painting, him to Cabanel, with whom he underwent six years of strict academic training. E He first exhibited in 1875 a portrait of the mother of Got, the actor. In 1876 and 1877 he exhibited genre subjects. The next year he showed his first picture of sailors, “A Quarrel at Pollet,” and since that date he has followed his strong predilection for.-this class of subjects. Order Your Sunday Call in Advance ALL NEWSDEALERS SELL THE CALL and sent