The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 3, 1903, Page 3

THE SAN FR.ANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1903. FIRE AOARS NEAR HOMES 0F FANCHERS Fiameés a Mile in Width | Sweep Up Mount Jackson. | ———— | | f Residences Re-| Be in Grave Danger. 3 ¢ of Men Fight the Blaze Tremendous Dam- se High Ground Near Guérneville. . FLAMES DESTROY GRAIN. the Fields % g 11k win FEARLEY: IN FLAMES Bidaze on Fertile Acres on Union Islan i TISEMENTS. WHE\I/ ! But It’s Hot | Q0 NOW is the time to buy an ALASKA Refrigerator t will keep provisions longer and US= e ICE than any other Refrigerator in the market. L rgcst stock and groatest variety on he Paific Comst. W.w. Mgl?a-gve&Co. 4] in the shade SAN FRANCISCO.. - ba : | »oor “had better buy| ‘s %5 T Sct 's Best than low-pricc| stufl made to hiumor and cheat| them : Your grocer’s; ‘moneyback. ‘ ® . SECAETARY AOUT ORDERS INQUIR Army Glove Contract| Scandal Will Be In* vestigated. Civil Proceedings May Be Instituted to Recover Money. WASHINGTON, July 2.—Secretary Root to-day had a conference with General Humphrey, quartermaster general, and e 1 Patten, who has charge ts for gloves with E. R. Lyon, claimed, obtained his supply of gloves from the firm of which Repre- ive Littauer of New York is a| The Secretary has directed that made into the whole sub- h a view of ascertaining whether cer made contracts in i may be obtained. The papers in-the allegations about the for gloves have been referred Advocate Gencral Davis, who | examine them to ascertain what ac- the War Department shduld take, from & legal and military standpoint Some allegatic have been made that e glove contract was let to Lyon even r a lower bid had been made, but ould not be verified at the depart- While one section or the Revised which will iefit of a member of Con- section excepts a con- » a corporation in which has shares of stock he War Department that, atter what may be the outcome of atter, the statute of limitations wiil nst a al prosecution, but proceedings for the olved in the con- hibits ¢ pr racts he other prevent civi n of money RACUSE - Ludington, retired, to-day ence to the glove contract be- tween the Government and E. R. Lyon, in which the name of Congressman Lit- een mentioned 1 knew reeable gentle one in Wash- ngton further said that 1 upon him concern- , and added: r I have heard or ey ted with any con gioves ng connected in | YVERSVILLE, N. Y., July 2—Con- | man Litta attention was called r which he wrote to v 18, 1888, in which he asked: I should other in call than it advisa untlets red any that that heaviest pc cts he had they were unable Lyon asked n of any simi er Bros. might be able to produce ey could the United In his letter of after detailing his stock 1d be available for such at time es. made the reference to Luding- sted. He said that he offered in regard to seeing Lud might be able to explain general that r.his firm to st iantity of the stand- SR o 2 GOVERNOR ODELL MAY PARDON FRANK WELLER If Prisoner Is Released District At- torney Will Prosecute Him on Another Charge. YORK, NEW Jul, An interesting v ng cn between Di Jerome and Governor Odeli er the announcement that the Governor is now tri t Attorney said he would pardon Frank S. Wel- r of Brooklyn, who was convicted of. d larcény in the first degree last week in connection with the Horsesnoe Company scandal. Weller was ed to serve a year in prison. It ut during the trial that Weller's nd Governor QOdeil's father, Ben- Odell Sr., who now lives in New- . were formerly in business togé:her mer Judge Brown and Attorney H. Harding called on Jerome to-day and w asked him, in the event of Weller's being rdoned by Governor Odell, to proceed against Weller on other indictments found against him, ‘I told them,” said District Attorney Jerome to-day, “that if 1T was consulted in the regular way about the pardon and if the Judge whé sentencéd him was con- sulted by the Governor, as was the cus- tom for many years, I would have no objection to the pardon; but if Governor Odell pardons Weller without consult- ing me I will put the man on trial again and will work up as many cases against him as I can until I make the Governor k of granting pardons.” ———— OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST Lieutenant Colonel Greer Becomes Ordnance Officer of the Depart- ment of the East. SHINGTON, July 2.—Postoffices hed: California—Viento, San “ounty, Oliver Hawes, postm: Portage, King County, inda, postmaster. sters appointed: California—Elton W, sic WA tabli Charles i uyamaca; Louls Everding, Korbel: Andrew Hally, Orick. Oregon—silaz Leroy, Maine, Alma County. P -clags postmasters appointed: Califor- nia—Alden S. Bayley, Likely, Modoc County, | Arthur_Lauer, resigned! Cyrus P. Gil- Erie, Yuba County, vice Hattic A. Hed- resizned y order—Ensign C. . Foteman goes to July 24. Lieutenant Commander S, | has been assigned to the command n. er—Major Ramsey D, Potts, artili- s from the Philippines to £an Fran- inspector gemeral of the Department nia. Lieutenant Colonel John E. dnance, goes from mBenicia arsenal 1, to Governor's Island, N. Y. e officer of the Department of the East mmandant of the New York arsenal. McNutt of New York goes to take com- { the Benicla arsenal ———— Physician Cleared of a Charge. SANTA ROSA, July %—The indictment st County Physician M. M, Shearer ing him with embezzlement was cked out by Judge Burnett in an opin- ion handed down late this afternoon. His Honor sustained a demurrer to the in- dictment, holding that the Grand Jury's findings were fatally defective In two par- ticulars. Shearer was indicted for the | fraudulent appropriation of $105 received him as county physician. The first de- fect in the indictment is that there is no such office as county physician under the law and the second is the allegation that the money alleged to have been embez- zled came into his possession as such of- | ficer. of the | 1g supplies for the army, regarding | violation | and for such other infor- | Bernar- | { | were $134,268,609 and the expenditures $135,- [ { | | SEVERE FIGHTING IS IN PROGRESS | ON THE TURKO-BULGARIAN FRONTIER Sultan’s Embassador to Vienna Presents a Note Contradicting the Charges Preferred by the Sofia- Government and Attrib- uting All of the Recent Disturbances to the Revolutionists | disorders there and to keep the populace | in check in case the Governor finds it necessary to suppress any revolutionary movement. VIENNA, July 2.—The Turkish Emba: sador has presented to the Austrian For- | eign Office a note contradicting all the contentions contained in the Bulgarian -4 < SKUB, European Turkey, July 2. attack. On the contrary, we will fight —Severe fighting is reported to be for her against a common enemy, War o n; at Oskin, between would endanger us and leave the German R b e coldnists and other vultures who Glevgyaltand OtV 310 N waiting for our end to take our place. tails have been received here. Should a palace rebellion remove CONSTANTINOPLE, July 2—The pal- Sultan, we would march on Constanti- e g 1 nople, set his son on the throne | ace authorities have lelegr}:l)ph;d to the e i e on e ) Tev. e | Governor of Salonica to take the utmost Sultal's brother™ | precautions to prevent a recurrence of » || e — ) IA' or ones | note regarding the troops on the frontier and blaming the Bulgarian revolutionaries for everything | that has occurred. LONDON, July he Vienna corre- spondent of the Daily Telegraph says that in well-informed circles in the Aus- trian capital the view is gaining ground that the outbreak of a war between Tur- | key and Bulgaria is nearer than is gener- ally supposed. A dispatch received there from Constantinople asserts that the pos- sibility hostilities is being canvasaed in lomatic circles at Pera, and it is feared that an encounter may at any | momoment occur. A newspaper in Sofia quotes the Bulgarian War Minjster as saying - “We will never attack, nor will Tutkey. SUSPENDS RURKL ' TREE DELIVERY {Full Meaning of the | Recent Ruling by [ Bristow. —— Special Dispatch to The Call P Dispatch = OMAHA, Neb., July 2—Rural free de- livery of mail throughout the West has been practically ended by the recent rul- ing of Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen eral Bristow, who has ruled that no free delivery route shall be continued unless 100 families are served and 3000 pleces of mail matter handied monthly.~ This ryl- ing is the result of Bristow's recently an- nounced position on the rural delivery in which he declared that rural has been making too rapid strides and must go slower. Superintendent Rathbone of the West- ern division sald to-day: Enforcement of that order will wipe out 90 nt of the routes in this district, com- ota, both Dakotas, Nebraska and will affect other Western States , especially Colorado, Montana, & Ttah. On examining the routes in this ¢ 1 find that few routes serve ! more than seventy-five families. We will make | no atte: ter car be taken up with Bristow. | All fleld men have been called in for consuitation ,and a modification will be asked for. Farmers throughout the States affected are preparing petitions, which | will be forwarded to Washington, asking | that the rule not apply to thinly settled | Western States. | "WASHINGTON, July 2—Captain Car- | tle, the Auditor of the Treasury for the Postoffice Department, to-day made the | official estimate that the postal deficiency for the fiscal year just closed will be $4.617,203. The deficit for the previous fis- | cal year was $2,91,170. This big increase ! is attributed to the enormous increase in expenditures for the rural free delivery service during the past vear. The re- ceipts of the postal service for the year 5,512, The deficiency in the free delivery service is not definitely known, beyond the estimate made weeks ago by the Postmaster General that it would reach | $227,000 by the close of the fiscal year. The deficiency, however, may prove consider- ably larger than that figure. —_———— | DAMAGE NEAR DIXON. ‘Wheat and Barley Shelled Out by the Breeze. DIXON, July 2—A violent north wind began blowing here last night and in- creased to a gale toward morning. The blow has done an immense amount of | damage in this and other sections in which grain and frult are produced. Farmers who were cutting twenty sacks of wheat to the acre yesterday arg to-day getting but six and eight, the wind having shelled out fully two-thirds of the crop. The ground is covered with wheat and I'barley that has been shelled out. On the | Clark ranch, seferal miles northwest of here, the pear crop is a total loss, the fruit having been blown to the ground by the gale. Pyrography ~ outfits, cameras, photo albums and books on. photography in Artists’ Material Department of Sanborn, . Vail & Co., 74l Market street. —————— The range in weight of the jewels in watches is from 1-150,000 to 1-256,000 of & | pound. ‘ massing of Turkish | bt to enforce the order until the mat- | IrREEN o) S are the and — / | | I e TURKISH RULER, WHO IS ACCUSED OF ATTEMPTING TO FORCE WAR UPO} ES IN CITY WHICH IS THE { k3 JAPAN TO AKE WARLIKE MOVE |Proposed Naval Dem- onstration in Chi- nese Waters. e YOKOHAMA, 2.1t July i rumored island of Masanpo, south of will be followed by in Chinese waters. 2.—A dispatch to the off the | Korea, { demonstration BERLIN, July Cologne Gazette from St. Petershurg says | Russian sources in China report that the | | Japanese are gaining more and more in- | | fluence with the Chinese Government in | consequence of the Chinese belief that Russia Is intentionally hampering China’s development. It is added that, notwithstanding the prohibitian; there have been large impor- tations of arms into China from the Phil- ippines and from Japan. SANTIAGO DE CHILE, July 2.—A re- port is current here that Japan intends to acquire the Chilean warships now in course of construction. Srinds ho e A S EDWARD’S NOTE TO PETER HITS AT THE REGICIDES British Sovereign Hopes Servian - Ruler Will Restore Country’s i Good - Name. BELGRADE, July 2.—The King of Eng- land has replied in courtcous terms to King Peter's notification of his accession to the throne, wishing him a prosperous | reign and hoping it will bring peace, or- der and justice to the country. Edward's reply has caused great satls- faction here. » Kind Edward also expressed the hope that King Peter would be able to re-es- tablish the good name and renown of the people of Servia, compromised by the recent tragic events. LONDON, July 2.—1It is officially stated in London that King Edward’s telegram to King Peter of Servia does not change Great Britain's attitude toward. Servia, j.and it is added that diplomatic relations between the two countries will be not immediately resumed. o e SRR R Naval Lieutenants Retired. WASHINGTON, July 2—Lieutenant V. B. Whittlesey and Samuel B. Strite of the navy today were retired under the naval personnel act, which provides that whenever a sufficient number of vacan- cles do mot occur in the grades below lleutenant in any year two lieutenants shall be selected for retirement. ——— Yellowstone Park Not Crowded. It has been erroneously Teported that the Yellowstone Park is overcrowded this season. Such reports are false, as 1 am in receipt of a telegram from park management advising that they are now and will be during the season amply able to take first-class care of all that may visit the park. T. K. STATELER, Gen. eran Agent, Northern Pacific Raflway. & '\ | here that the Japanese naval maneuvers | a Japanese | King | OUTLINES PN~ " FOR NEW CAEED Dr. Margolis Speaks at | the Conference of Rabbis. DETROIT, Mich., July 2—The feature | of to-day’s session of the conference of | | American rabbis was the paper by Dr. | | M. L. Margolis, the professor of Semitic | languages at the University of Califor- | nia, who submitted outlines of a reformed | Jewish creed, and ‘said: \ If, as neformed Jews, we want to have a | creed, we must and shall have a proper | ecclestas‘ical organization. Let us have the | synod as the keystone of our church, | a committee be appointed to draw up a | reformed Judaism creed and submit it at the conference, with the idea of submit- ting it in 1905 to some body of the Jewish church to be organized by that time, with legislative power. The motion was sec- | onded, but was laid over until the dis- | cussion of Dr. Margolis' paper was fin- ished. When the conference adjourned for the day the paper was still under dis- cussion and the Californian’s motion will not be voted upon until to-morrow. | This afternoon the rabbls were given a ' carriage ride about the city. —_———— NEGRO ROBBER ESCAPES FROM POSSE OF OFFICERS Gets Away Six Times and His Pur- suers Vainly Try to | | Wing Him. | BUTTE, Mont., July 2.—A special to the ! Miner from Athol, Idaho, says that the negro wanted by the Butte authorities for highway robbery made his sixth sen- | sational escape to-day from the officers under a heavy fire of his pursuers. After his escape in Spokane on Monday | while a policeman was emptying his re- volver at him, the negro, it appears, boarded the train and beat his way to Athol. Idaho. He was discovered by the | engineer and the officers notified. While the deputy sheriffs were,surrounding the train the fugitive made his way to the timber and again succeeded in getting away while his pursuers exhausted their | ammunition trying to hit him. The negro | was arrested in Butte last Friday night, | but broke away and escaped. In each | escape_ officers have emptied their re- | volvers at him. In all more than sixty | shots have been fired at the negro. 1 | —_——— | | Barrington Is Held for Murder. ST. LOUIS, July 2.—The inquest into the supposed murder of James McCann was reopened to-day by Coroner Koch | and many witnesses were examined. The Coroner’s jury returned a verdict of = homicide, holding F. Seymour Barring- ton for the crime. 1he jury laid the death of the man identifiled as McCann to knife ' and gunshot wounds. The evidence se- cured wil' be presented to the Grand Jury. | days later. | his raid. WIFE OF SEELEY WANTS DIVORCE Suit Recalls Raid on New York Dinner Party. ° Supreme Court Justice Ap- points Referee to Hear the Case. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, July Justice Truax, in the Supreme Court, to-day appointed War- ren S. Burt referee in a suit brought by Luela Seeley against Herbert B. Seeley. The papers on file did not disclose the nature of the suit, as the pleadings were not attached to Justice Truax's order, but it is generally believed to be an ac- tion for divorce. Mrs. Herbert Barnum Seeley was Miss Lucia Mitchell, daughter of the late Ar- chibald Paul Mitchell of this city, Seeley is a grandson of the late P. T. Barnum and inherited from the showman an estate of about $400,000. The notorious Seeley dinner, referred to in reports at the time as a Pompelan feast, was given by Herbert B. Seeley at Sherry’s on the night of December 19, 1896, in honor of his brother, Clinton Bar- num Seeley, who was to be married ten It became a celebrated occa- sion because of the raid which Captain Chapman made on the banquet because he had heard that the vaudeville enter- tainment provided was to be an improper | exhibition. H. B. Seeley made arrangements for the vaudeville show with a theatrical agent named Linan and among the en- tertainers Linan provided was Cora Routt. The statements which Seeley himself made as to what occurred were much milder than the description given by Captain Chapman, who was subse- quently tried at police headquarters for women, scantily clad, danced on a table. Linan, at Chapman's trial, testified that he told the performers to make their | songs “spicy.” He admitted that one of the dancers had some innocently worded signs on her, but denied that they were attached in such way as to be suggestive. | —_———————— GOVERNOR AND HIS WIFE ENTERTAINED AT A DINNER SAN JOSE, July 2.—Governor and Mrs. Pardee were given a dinner and reception | this evening by Dr. and Mrs. L A. Frazier at their home at 330 South Tenth street. The Governor and wife are the | guests of the Fraziers during their stay | here. Besides the guests of honor those at the dinner were: Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Wayland, Mrs. S. 1. Shaw of Honolulu and Miss Gertrude Topham. The Frazier home was handsomely decorated with flowers and plants for the reception and a fine musical programme was rendered. Mrs. Frazier was assisted in receiving by Mrs. C. A. Wayland and Mrs. Henry Booksin Jr. About 100 of San Jose's elite called and pald their respects to the Governor and his wife. Politics were not discussed and a de- lightful time was enjoyed by those pres- ent. Governor and Mrs. home to-morrow. Pardee will return ".'i-l-i-H—H—H—i-i-H—H-H-H—H-H-.‘ LORD ROSEBERY allLL SKEPTICAL Ridicules Chamberlain’s Preferential Tariff Programme, LONDON, July 2.—Lord Rosebery in the House of Lords this afternoon renew- ed the debate on the preferential tariff propositions, making a further request for information regarding the Cabinet’s plans. In the course of a long speech he ridiculed Colonial Secretary Chamber- lain’s programme and sald he did not beligye the Government intended to prose- cute an inquiry into the matter. The allegations that such an inquiry was being made were, said Lord Rosebery, merely a cloak to screen the irreconcilable dif- ferences between the Colonial Secretary and the other members of the Cabinet, and he demanded to know whether the inquiry would be individual or collective and whether the results would be pub- lished. The Duke of Devonshire, the Lord President of the Council, said it was impossible now to give the exact scope of the inquiry. Several heads had been suggested by Chamberlain and Balfour. Dr. Margolis then offered a motion that | The Government had determined that the | inquiry should be full and satisfactory. His Lordship declined to enter further upon the subject without a more explicit and longer notice than Lord Rosebery had seen fit to give in precipitating to- | day’'s discussion. He could say that the position of the Government at present was somewhat different from that of Chamberlain, but they did not conflict. The whole Cabinet had agreed that the time was ripe for an investigation of the possibilities of a closer fiscal union with the colonies. —_———— ‘Woman Killed by Locomotive. LOS ANGELES, July 2.—Mrs. Rosario Cigaran, wife of a clerk in a grocery, was run down and instantly killed this afternoon by a Southern Pacific switch engine at Commercial and Alameda streets. Mrs. Cigaran was driving on Ala- meda street in a carriage and became con- fused in attempting to cross the tracks at that point. ———— Glaze Begins His Term. Robert E. Glaze, who shot and killed his partner, Wiliam Trewhella, at the Windsor Hotel on December 21, 191, and was convicted of murder in the second degrez and sentenced to life imprison- ment, was taken from the county jail to San Quentin on Wednesday. He appealed to the Supreme Court, but that tribunal ruled against him some weeks ago. H. B. | Chapman sald that one of the | TWO DOZEN HOUSES FEED - THE FLAMES | Many Homes Destroyed in Angels Camp by Fierce Blaze. ;Citizens Strive Desperately | to Check the Con- flagration. Contents of Dwellings Are Carried Beneath Burning Timbers and Heaped for Safety at the Waters of a Creek. | Special Dispatch to The Call. ANGELS CAMP, July 2.—The largest ° fire that Angels Camp has experienced for years started here at 12 o'clock to-day and in an hour and a half had burned twenty-four dwellings to the ground. The fire started at the residence of | Wolf Davis, a tailor, just s the noon | whistles were blowing. The family had just finished dinner when a crackling noise between the ceiling and roof attract- ed their attention ‘and it was then discov- ered that the fire had already gained such headway that it was beyond control. Soon | after the alarm was given a large crowd of men congregated and carried the most valuable things from the buflding. A strong breeze was blowing and as the | water in the pipes was out just at this time it was only a few minutes until the | house next door was afire and soon up | the street. The flames quickly consumed | fi\e buildings. including the grocery store and dwelling rooms of N: Mogolinsky and family. Then the flames caught the. houses | across the street and with a strong wind they advanced so rapidly that the fire | department had no control over them and the throng went to work renoving ble from the burning house: ery description -were ° car- ried down to Angels Creek for safety. It looked for a time as it the whole | town would barn, but by the very hard ‘and heroic fighting of a large body of | men the blaze was stopped at an alley where the flames had often leaped across . and caught to a row of houses on the oth- er side. The following Is a.list of those | who suffered: 2 Wolf Davis, Tom Miller, Johri Hawke, Jeff Wilds. N. Mogolinsky, C. R. Hawley: William Kerr, Mrs. G. Rolleri | houses), Mrs. Paul Deiren, Mrs. Ceok, H. M. Sevenman (two houses), Mrs. J. Harris | two o R. Gibson, Mrs. Jane | srank Lyons (two houses), Jack 3 . Frank Gorich, and V. Vegletti. 3 | 'The loss is estimated at $60.008, with in- surance altogether amounting .to about $10,000. Several people were overcome by the intense heat and had to be-carried from the sceme. Louis Dorroh. while fighting the fire and carrying valuables from a burning dwelling; fell uiiconscibus _ from the effects of the heat and fiad- he not heen found as soon as he was_would | have been burned (o death. was serfous but at a late hour -to-night he is reported to be improving: | Cinders fiying from the burning: build- | ings set fire to grass a quarter:of a_mile |away and caused a small forest’ fir | which has been almost extinguishad. to-night by the neighbors and the hotels. A mass meeting of citizens was held in Dolling's Hall this cvening. Wazren. Rose, Walter Tryon and C. H. Wood were aj pointed to make collections for the needy, The subscriotion list was headed by the Utica Mining Company with $00. - At the close of the | tectea ‘BBOKEB IN COMBAT - P WITH' A COACHMAN | David Lamar, Wall-Street Operator, | Is Twice Knocked Down | by a Servant. | NEW YORK, July 2.—David Lamar, the | Wall street operator, has had a. severe- | personal encounter with his coachman, James McCann, at his summer home, Seabright, N. J. Lamar was knocked down twice and was badly bruised. His face was lacerated and swollen from the coachman’s blows. The trouble arose over Mrs. Lamiar's lapdog. While she was driving the dog leaped from the trap and she ordered the driver to. catch it. He refused, assuring Mrs. Lamar he was not a dog catcher. Finally she jumped to the ground and with the aid of a gardener captured her pet. Learning of the cffair, Lamar visited the stable. Broker and servant quickly came to blows. The coachman declares Lamar struck first. The broker denies this. At least he was felled twice in rap- | 1d succession and the coachman fled. He | was arrested soon afterward and held to | the Grand Jury g P * | BIG DEAL IN TIMBER LANDS IS FINALLY CONSUMMATED Syndicate Pays One Million Dollars for Fifty Thousand Acres on | Vancouver Island. | SEATTLE, Wash., July Z—The Intelligencer to-morrow will say:, Post-- The biggest deal in timber lands since * the Weyerhauser syndicate came to the State of Washington was consumthated, yesterday when C. H. Cobb, James Camp- bell and Rufus H. Smith of Seattle and Frank Brownell of Everett paid $1,000,000 acres of timber lands on Vancouver Is- land. This deal has been on for more | than a vear. + . : | The purchasers a | of any 50,000 acres of the 2000000 acres - | owned by the Dunsmuir estate. .These | lands were secured by Robert Dunsmuir under a crown grant in 1550 and have beén in the. family ever since. Robert Duns- | muir made a fortune in' coal mines on .. | Vancouver Istand and when. he died he was the wealthiest man in the northwest | section of the country. 4 ———————— . ST. PETERSBURG, July 2.—The Czar has bandoned his proposed visit to Rome. provis- nally fixed for the autumgh. The Czar and | Czarina will spend the autimn in the Crimea. Established 1823. WILSON WHISKEY. m wngcy pergpave o That's Al His condition - The homeless ones were provided: Por . meeting $140 had been col- - in cash to the Dunsmuir estate for 50,000 . (three. | Albert Leclait” re to have the choice® -