The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 16, 1903, Page 5

PACIFIC CONGRESS SPRINGS ' HOTEL BURNS TO GROUND ire Starts in the Kitchen and Rapidly Envelops the Whole Structure, but the Guests, the Majority of Whom Were From San Francisco, Manage to Save a Portion of Their Effects —of . Saratoga, N. Y. The hotel building had been recently enlarged and a number of cottages erected on the grounds. 1 When it was seen that the fire was be- | yond control teams were telephoned for ! | | | Kitc h Eir from . the her from Los Gatos, four miles distant, and | k© wind was blow the guests and their effects were con- | water veyed to this place for the night. It is| considered fortunate that no one was in- | jured and that much of the personal | property of both the managers and guests | aved. The building insured which will not nearly ‘cover s. The following is a list of the guests who were at the hotel: Mr. and Mrs. C. Robinson, M. L. Levy, wife and son; E. H. Mozart, wife 1 mald, and Captain and Mrs. J. Bruce | | of neisco; Mrs. John Boggs, Miss | | Alice Boggs and J. Ghirardelli, wife and | | two children of Oakland; Mrs. Goodwin | and son, the lessees of the hotel, and four'| ts who had just arrived, but who had | "MMER RESORT "LARA O BY FIRE. IN SANTA ST « 'Y DESTROYED A. G. Good- a e made the place short distance to that Lewi the water registered MOTHER KIDNAPS HER | and tr s SEVEN-YEAR-OLD SON | Tk g A b, F[AH .”.IE TuHcH e Child From the Home of s e | Divorced Husband a year in Denver printer OF THE FEDDISTS Residents of Jackson Dwell in Hourly Terror. The Belgian steam- for_ Piltau, E: JACKSON, K June 15.—Interest in| the trial of Curtis Jett and Thomas White for the alleged murder of J. B.| Marcum was secondary to-day to the preliminary hearing of the teamsters of | Hargis Bros., arrested by the soldiers on | the charge of having set fire to the hotel | of B. L. Ewen, the principal witness of the commonwealth against Jettr and White. Many residents spent a sleepless night, expecting the torch to be applied to their houses next. Fourteen residences | and stores, owned by those known as Cardwell-Cockerill sympathizers, have been burned in Jackson since 1900 and the number of lives lost greatly exceeds that number. The Ewen family, including seven chil- | dren, presented a pitiable spectacle to- day. Ewen tried to console his heart- broken wife and daughters, but their dis- tress was great. Kind-hearted citizens, although feeling that in doing so they are risking their lives and property, have sent them clothing and bedding. They were breakfasted by the soldiers. The jail last night under a heavy | guard.” The prisoners suspected of the burning of Ewen's house were kept| manacled in the camp guardhouse. They were greatly frightened during the night, fearing that a mob would come to release them and that the soldiers would shoot them. Crawford cried during the night and repeated, ““What a fool! What a fool believed that these men will be because the grand jurors are of Breathitt Lounty and will fear vengeance similar to that wreaked | upon Ewen if they indict the men. Important to carpet buyers ] vece ope daer S e b ||| prousnt before Judge Redwine this morn- e i ||| ing and testimony was heard on the writ Don’t buy carpets has Remember, you want ||| ;¢ papeas corpus sued out for their re- them to wear 2 long time. If you are not familiar with lease by the .Hargis faction yesterday. t ey > E e || Gray Haddicks and Jerry Lunsford iden- carpet qualities place your confidence in a reputable |}| oo o wford as one of the men seen store—but be careful in choosing the store. Our policy coming from the Ewen Hotel just before A T E this business has been “strictly ||| the fire was discovered, and A. P. Schort since the opening of y £ald he saw Crawford and Tharpe cross- one price”—a fair price. Not one price to the buyer |/|;,."the bridge before the fire. The pris- who makes his “own price” and another to the pur- { oners told conflicting stories of thelr chaserto whom price is of secondary consideration. | whereabouts yesterday. Judg: Hargis and the attorneys he employed to defend And strange as it may seem, we are the ONLY ONE- ||| jett and White represented the prisoners. || Judge Redwine decided to hold them to o 3 i n Francisco. PRICE carpet store in Sa ||| the Grand Jury. Come iz and let us show you the largest variety Of. 1|1 Tnen the trial of Jett ang White was n Bigelow Axminsters ever shown in a local resumed. The prisoners were brought - : 2 TR ||| into court by the militia and turned over Unsurpassed in quality and beauti- ||| [Tt U8CTt 708 2® oy ' n o thiers oF ‘the ot Many of the patterns are ex- |||jeged assassins were in court, as was || Miss Sarah Hargis, the young daughter of Judge Hargis. STATE MILITIA GUARDS THREE NEGRO PRISONERS Kentucky Sheriff Calls for Troops, Fearing That a Lynching May Be Attempted. CINCINNATI, O., June 15.—Sheriff Robertson of Maysville, Ky., arrived in Covington to-day to take three negroes, Mann, Morris and Sanders, back to that city to answer to the charge of having robbed and shot with intent to kill John B. Farrow, an aged farmer of Maysville. Farrow has been a physical wreck since the affair, while his wife is Very little better. The peon{e in Maysville are high- ly enraged and lynching is feared. On this account and to prevent a repetition of the Coleman affair two companies of Kentucky militia have "been ordered to Maysville. One company from Frankfort is now encamped there and a company from Louisville will accompany Sheriff Robertson to Maysville, patterns i retail carpet store. ful beyond description. clusive to us, too. A complete gain window. entirely different transformation in the furniture bar- Still full of marked-down articles, but ones from those you were looking at 2 few days ago. A weathered oak buffet has been re- duced from £40.00 to §21.50; a mahoganized birch music cabinet from $12.00 to $6.50; a Flemish oak corner china closet from $26.50 to $15.00; a gilt divan from $25.00 to $16.50. These are merely examples—many more similar redactions. - Need we urge you further to take advantage of these offers? (Successors to California Furniture Co.) FRANCISCO CALL, | sions as to facts not affecting the jurisdic- ‘ure as this board passes the ordinance TUESDAY, DWNERS OF LAND IN LEGAL: STRIFE [] Litigation Affecting Re- clamation Districts in Yolo. Court Refuses to Dissolve an Injunction Against Supervisors. ARG Special Dispatch to The Call. WOODLAND, June 17.—Litigation -af- fecting the disintegration of reclamation districts in Yolo County is now on in three counties—San Francisco, Sacramen- to and Yolo. Vast interests are arrayed on each side and the war promises to be extremely bitter. On the one hand is J. H. Glide, a Sacramento capitalist, and on the other Millionaire Henry Cowell and a number of other smaller land owners. Glide owns about 800 acres in reclama- tion district No. 207. Recently he peti- tioned the Board of Supervisors to set apart his land for the formation of a new district on the ground that the land of the district had not been reclaimed and that the system proposed would not protect the land of the district. The beard set a day for the hearing of the petition. Millionaire Cowell petitioned for a writ of injunction in the Superior Court of San Francisco, alleging that the board had been corruptly influenced. This case, on application of the board, was transfer- red to Sacramento, where it is now pend- | irg. In the meantifne Ellen Dwyer of Sac- ramento oblalned' writ of injunction in the Superior Cour? of Yolo County, stay- | ing the proceedings of the board. The answer of the board indicated in unmis- takable terms that it would grant the pe- tition of Glide. To-day Judge Gaddis filed a decision | denying the motion to dissolve the injunc- tion, on the ground' that the board ex- ceeded its jurisdiction. The court holds that in the formation of a new district | the board cannot disturb vested rights | and enter the domain of jurisdiction al- ready established. In answer to the claim of the defendant's counsel that where a board of supervisors has juris- | diction of a proceeding and acts upon it, | any error it may oommit in its conclu- tion cannot be reviewed by the court, the court says these principles do not apply in this case because the law does not give jurisdiction to the Board of Super- visors to dissolve reclamation districts; that power is expressly given to the| courts upon the suit of the Attorney Gen- eral. Again, counsel for defendants say that | an injunction will not lie to restrain the | formation of municipal corporations. This | is true, says the court, but the power to give does not necessarily imply the power | to take away. When the corporation is | once organized, whether it be public or | private, it is a creature of the law, having certain duties of a natural person. When | the corporation has acquired rights and | property it holds them in the same man- ner as does a private person, and regard- | less of the source from which it originat- | ed. It assumes an existence independent | of the source creating it, and its property can no more be taken from it tnan could | property be taken from a private individ- | ual, withdut due process of law. | | | The decision is far reaching and if it be sustained by the Supreme Court it will affect four districts now in course of for- mation in this county and invelving mil- lions of dollars. } —————— OF INTEREST TC PEOPLE H OX THE PACIFIC COAST Captain Dickins Goes From Training | Ship Independence to Pensa- | cola Naval Station. WASHINGTON, June 15.—Postoffices es- tablished: Californfa—Conlin, Tuolumne County, George F. Conlin Postmaster. Washington—Firwood, Klickitat County, ! George W. Ramey Postmaster; Guler, Klickitat County, Christian Guler Post- master. Postoffice to be discontinued June 30 California—Moores Flat, Nevada Count mall to North Columbia. Postmasters commissioned: Oregon— | Charles E. Powers, Tangent; Charles D. Price, Bancroft. $ Fourth-class Postmasters appointed: Washington—Malinda ~ Slater, Geneva, | Whatcom County, vice F. G. Peronteau, | resigned; John E. Youngblood, Holly, Kit- sap County, vice Ellen Wyatt, resigned; Watkin W. Parry, Tonasket, Okanogan ' County, vice J. B. Riste, resigned. i Navy order—Captain F. W. Dickins is | detached from the command of the Inde- pendence and goes to Washington, D, ( thence to Pensacola, Fla., as commandan of the naval station and gulf naval dis- | trict. Army orders—The leave of absence | granted First Lieutenant Irvin L. Hunt, | Nineteenth Infantry, Department of Cali- fornia, is extended one month. First Lieu- tenant Edmund D. Shortlidge, assistant | surgeon, from Washington, D. C., goes to | the general hospital at the Presidio of | San Francisco. i ———— MARIN COUNTY WATER COMPANY MAKES PROTEST Threatens to Appeal to the Courts if the Existing Rates Are Cut. SAN RAFAEL, June 15.—The city of San Rafael, through its Board of Trys.- | teeg, to-night virtually threw down the | gauntlet to the Marin County Water Company. An ordinance was presented | which makes a material cut in the pres- ent water rates. President A. W. Foster of the corporation and Attorney Lilien- thal of San Francisco vehemently assert- ed that if the Trustees passed the ordi- nance as read or cut the water rates the company would take the whole matter into the courts. “Just by the board’s action last year and one of its member's demeanor this year,” sald President Foster, “our com- pany has held back $300,000 which it would have otherwise expended in increasing the water facilities in Marin County, And just let me tell you to-night that as heard read to-night our company in self- defense will have this whole matter thrashed out in court.” The ordinance makes an average cut of about 10 per cent on last year’s rates. After a lengthy discussion the further | hearing of the matter was continued until next Friday nigh ———————— Condemns Dancing at Picnics. LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 15.—Bishop McCloskey of the Catholic diocese of Louisville has issued an order against dancing and the use of intoxicants at pic- nics. The letter refers to the “shockingly indecent form of the modern dance” and commands observance of the instructions of the third plenary council of Baltimore. As a result of the ruling the picnic of the Catholic Knights of America, set for June 20, has been called off. —_——————— ‘Woman Dies on a Train. SAN DIEGO, June 15.—~Mrs. Ada Mec- Wethy, a passenger on the southbound train from Los Angeles, died on board the train to-day near Capistrano. Her home was near Battle Creek, Mich., and she-was accompanied by a son and a brother at the time of her death. . {Election at Marysville | delegates at the convention of Druids and { bership during the last year being | ance on hand to the amount of $24,269 93. | to be turned over to the Senate. JUNE 16, 1903. by~ N & 4, <9 7, W - ’ ‘ha refriger vice, carrying ’ghg chorcest procluct to millions of sati IN 18442 yolce of oxen hauled the output of Pabst Beer TO'clay a lmndred tyains of moclem ator cars are 1n constant ser- Milwaukee shed pa- trons, a recorcl worthy of the fame of Pal)st. Pal)st Beer 1S a/way.f pure. Orders filled by Thomas W. Collins & Co., Telephone Grant 149. CITIZENS FAVOR THE BOND 1550E Insures New Sewer System. Special Dispatch to The Call. MARYSVILLE, June 15.—A special elec- tion was held here to-day, when voters registered their ballots for and against the proposed bond fssue of $64,000 to put in and maintain a complete sanitary | sewer system and establish a pumping | plant and sewer farm. The polls opened at 6 o'clock and closed at 5 and the con- test was carried on with considerable vigor by the supporters of the cause and those who were with the opposition. | A two-thirds vote was necessary to carry the issue and the total vote shows it to have carried by a good majorit Seven hundred and forty votes were cas of which 552 were for and 157 against, showing a majority of sixty over the nec- | essary two-thirds. Active work was done by a commnu‘ei of citizens, who were appointed to have plans and specifications drawn up and to inspect different systems throughout the | State. It was largely due to their work that the vote to-day was so strongly in favor of the bonding of Marysvillgfor = sewer system. e GATHERING OF DRUIDS IN THE CAPITAL CITY Annual Convention Will Open With | Five Hundred Delegates in | Attendance. SACRAMENTO, June 15.—The annual | convention of the Ancient Order of Druids will open to-morrow morning in the State Capitol, the men of the order meeting in | the Assembly chamber and the women in the Senate chamber. There will be 400 100 delegates at the s n of the Druid- esses. Many members arrived during this afternoon and to-night and were hospit- ably received by the local members of the order. To-morrow evening there will be a re- ception and a demonstration of the initia- tory work by the grand officers in Gran- gers’ Hall; on Wednesday evening there will be a ball in Turner Hall, for which elaborate preparations have been made, and on Thursday evening a banquet will be provided in Foresters’ Hall. The members are enthusiastic over the growth of their order, the gain in mem- al- most 30 per cent. During the year the order has expended in sick benefits, bur- ial, etc., $50,604 83 and it has a cash bal- —————— HAWAIIAN LEGISLATURE RUNS SHORT OF FUNDS Proposition Is Made to Dispense With Services of Chaplain in Or- der to Reduce Expenses. HONOLULU, June 9.—The Senate branch of the Legislature has run short of funds and Senator Dickey has moved that the services of the chaplain be dis- pensed with for the sake of economy and that Senators do their own praying. Some of the statesmen confessed to having for- gotten the Lord’s prayer, which, it was proposed, should be recited daily. The resolution has been referred to the Com- mittee on Accounts. Another suggestion originating in the House of i.epresent- atives for the relief of the Senators is that a baseball game be played between teams chosen from members of the two houses of the Legislature, the gate money The At- torpey General and Judges of the Su- preme Court are to act as umpires. Su- perintendent of Public Works Cooper is to keep the grounds in order, and High Sheriff Brown 'must guarantee to make no arrests on the day set apart for the ball game. e ————e——————— MANY LEPERS AT MOLOKAI BRING SUITS FOR DIVORCE' Seek Freedom From Persons Outside Settlement in Order to ¢ Marry Again. HONOLULU, June 9.—There are about five dozen divorces in sight at the leper settlement on- Molokal,: that number of patients desiring matrimonial freedom from persons -outside the settlement in order that they may marry other lepers. The idea is to have the Attorney General institute the suits so as to save expense for the lepers. If leprosy is to be made the ground for divorce then the person outside the settlement, whose husband or wife contracted the disease, is the injured party and must Institute the suit and a commission will probably have to be ap- pointed to take wholesale testimony on Molokai. The Catholic church here is strongly opposed to the wholesale divorce olan, S e et SAN JOSE, June 15.—The Board of Super- visors to-day fixed July 7 as the date for an “lection In Mayfield to enable the Inhabitants fo decide the auestion of whether or not they will incorporate as a town, | to BANDITS HURRY - 10 THE GOAST Trinity County Trailers Close to the Stage Robbers. Special Dispatch to The Call REDDING, June 15 waymen ~who ~ robbed Weaverville stage traveling through Trinity County and Deputy Sheriff Wiley and the Indian trailers, Frank Marsh and Dick Zedecker, are near them. Ever since the finding of the cay- enne pepper the trailers have been fol- lowing closely the tracks of the fugitives and it is now known that they have started for the coast. It is believed that the two highwaymen started west as soon as they had finished their job of Tuesday nignt, and it Is fur- ther believed by Sheriff Richardson that they had crossed the Trinity line before Wednesday morning. If this is so, the men who shot at Sam Conant were not the highwaymen. Who they were is hard conjecture. Wiley, Zedecker and Marsh found several more rifle cartridges Saturday evening along the trail they are following, and one of the cartridges had not been used: All indications show that the men being followed by the trailers were in a hurry to get away. Two men answering the description of the highwaymen broke into a prospector’s cabin in Trinity Saturday night and stole provisions. The owner of the cabin, who approached as the men emerged. was threatened with being shot and scurried back into the woods. —_——.——— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, June following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—W. D. Geary the Gilsey; Miss Ainsworth, W. F. Brown and wife, Miss M. Griffith and W. C. Griffith, at the New Amsterdam; M. J. Lowenstein, H. D. Dietrich, W. A. Hewltt and A. G. Nason, at the Imperial; N. B. Blaisdell and wife and J. C. Hayes, at the Holland; A. T. Chute, at the Grand Union; B. J. Clinch, at the Kensington: A. Jallie, a¢ the Ral- eigh; J. E. McCulloch, at the Astor; Mrs. Stafford and S. Thall and wife, at The two high- the Redding- last Tuesday are the wilds of arre; J. T. Valentine, at the Broadway Central. From Los Angeles—W. Harris and wife and Rev. B. W. R. Taylor, at the St. Denis; M. Lansberg ane wife, at the Grand Union: A. M. Lysle and wife, at the Earlington; Mrs. C. R. Shatto, at the ‘Westminster; C. Timmons, at the Hoff- man; E. K. Wilson Mrs. F. W. Wood and W. D. Wood, at'the Herald Square. From San Diego—Mrs. Edwards, at the Holland. From San Leandro—W. A. Clark, at the Herald Square. ‘ | | RAILWAYS ENJOY PROSPERDUS YEAR Gross Earnings of Roads Far Exceed Their Expenditures. WASHINGTON, June 15.—The Inter- state Commerce Commission has prepared a summary of its report on the railroads of the United States for the fiscal year which closed June 30, 1902. It shows that the total single track rallway mileage on June 30 in the United States was 202, miles, having increased during the year 5234 miles. This increase was greater than for any year since 190 The amount of railway anding on June 30, 1902, 94, or $53,201 per mile of line. The funded debt was 36 9,669, or 69 per cent. The amount of capital stock having no divi- dends was $2,686,556,614, or 44.60 per cent of the total amount outstanding. Omitting equipment trust obligations, the amount of the funded debt which paid no interest was $204,175,243. e number of passengers carried was 649,787,506 and the number of toms of freight 111,089,347. The gross earnings of all the roads for the year was $1,726,3%0,267 and the gros expenses $1,116,248,747. The total dividends declared for the year were $155,421,29. The total number of casuaities to per- sons on account of rallway accidents as shown for the year was 73,250, including 8588 killed and 64,662 injured. Of railway employ 9 were killed and 50,524 were injured The number of passengers killed was 349 and the number injured was 6683. Ome out of every 401 employes was killed and one out of every twenty-four employes was injured. One passenger was killed for every 1,883,706 carried and one mjured for every 97,244 carried. Ratios based upon the number of miles traveled, however, show that 57,072,253 passenger miles were accomplished for each passenger killed and 2,946,272 passen- ger miles accomplished for eacn passen- ger injured. ———— ' Dynamite Explosion Kills Engineer. BUTTE, Mont,, June 15.—Resident gineer Graff at White Fish Lake was blown to pieces to-day by a blast which Graff forgot had not exploded. Graff dis- regarded the warning of his foreman and proceeded to examine the effects of the first blast, when he was blown more than two hundred feet in the air by the charge of dynamite. _————————— HAND CUT BY SAW.—Willlam Serch, a carpenter residing at 122 Eighth street, had his right hand cut open from the wrist through the palm by a circular saw while at work yesterday on a new building at Mason and Pine streets. capital out- s was $12,134,152,- yes The Latest Shapes for $1.30 Our $1.30 hats are made up in the styles. shapes and colors identi- fied with the season. will-find it in these $1.30 hats. The assortment is immense. Derbys, Fedoras, Graecos, Alpines, Tourists, and Dunlap Crushers in black, brown, cedar, pearl. It matters not how late a block you want, you There are Pashas, Three-in-ones, elm, steel, otter. etc. Furthermore, you will find these hats at $E30 equal to any $2.00 hats in San Francisco and equal to most_$2:50 hats. . 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