The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 6, 1903, Page 3

THE FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 6 FLAMES SWEEP SANTA ROSA BLOCKS AND PROPERTY IS LEFT IN ASHES Fire Starts in the California Northwestern Railway Freight Depot and|r.os Angeles Offfcers Tu- Spreads Disastrously Until It Reaches the Waters of a Creek. Conflagration Leaves Many Persons in Town of Wheatland Homeless — g 2 TOWN OF WHEAT:; TH OF PROPERTY, L. RESIDENTS WE LAND, WHE! RE AB IN YUBA COTU ENT. TY, WHICH WAS DAMAGED TO THE EXTENT OF A TERRIFIC FIRE STARTED ON THE FOURTH OF JULY WHEN =) Brotk e _dire brs Brewing Com- t loser is the Ca western Railway Comp: whose freight depot the fire wtarted pas- was eoon In and £ orth wind, it Hotel, | ion continued un- blocks the brick ware- ux was saved Rosa Creek Only Dever at to and In ten minutes t ablaze. Much freigh merchants was de- ight cars whick ding alongside the g the flames esnger depot and eft of that in a few ¥ of water retarded d it was not nt that the Wes The next build- flames was the W., Devereaux. all over this| ing their wor was evic med path of the rehouse of E fireproof w The t ng embers fe BACK EAST EXCURSIONS BY THE (Santa Fe JULY 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th. AUGUST 18th and 19th, 25th and 286th. | THERE AND BACK ONE FARE. | STOP-OVERS ©0-DAY LIMIT. | Ask Agents | SANTA FE | For Particulars : 641 MARKET STREET You think you know ginger. Unless Schilling’s Best, you ‘bave perhaps never tasted it ais- | o ng and many landed through the kylights, but with hard work this was all hed warehouse of s Third Lnopius & De Geus street from the Devereaux as not so fortunate, for the burning. ilding lost was a small barn Lee Brothers & Co., truckmen, ge of hay. Five dwellings were el for the flames next. THe tan- bark, with 500 cords belonging to the ery company, were in the path of the mes and were lost. The stables of the tanning company were so destroyed. Then Santa Rosa Creek stopped the fire. Across a narrow street to the east of the Cnopius & De Geus warehouse, which burned, were the foundry and machine shops of F. J. Yandle. When the flames reached that warehouse the wind, which had been blowing a terrible gale from the northwest, ch: ed to a more herly course. This was the means of saving these buildings, together with many residences in the block. The Santa Rosa Tanning Company’'s plant was thought by all to be doomed, and if it had gone the Grace Brothers' brewery build- ings would also have gone, as the two ants are very close together, but the hange of the wind was a help in the sav- ing of these The C loss wil e $90,000 and consists of the two buildi freight and cars. stood that no.insurance was carried by the rafiroad company. Station Agent Will Spridgens, who lived with his family in the second story of the passenger depot, lost all of his household furniture and wearing apparel, only escaping in the nick of time. His loss will be about $1500, He had small insurance. The Western Ho- tel was the property of John Doda of Fort Ross and the valuation is placed af about $8000. It was occupled by B. Cot- tinl. It was insured. for $3000. The loss at the Devereaux warehouse was only about $100 and is covered by insurance. The loss Cnopius & De Geus' warebouse | is estimated at more than $20,000, inciud- | ing the goods In storage. The Bruner and Redmond dwellings were insured for small amounts. The dwellings belonging to the tanning com- pany were {nsured for about $60). The sta- ble is a loss of about $00, together with $100 worth of hay. Tanbark is worth about $2 a cord an. the 50 cords destroyed makes a loss of about $10,000. All of the tannery property was insured for about | one-half of its value. —_————— STRIKING SMELTERMEN CONFIDENT OF VICTORY | President Moyer Says it Will Not Be Necessary to Call Out the \ Miners. DENVER, July 6—James B. Grant, chairman of the executive committee of the American Smelting and Refining Com- | pany, estimates the damage at the Grant | and Globe smeiters caused by the unex- pected strike of the employes at $25,000 to $20,000. All but fwo of the eleven furnaces in use were “frozen,” and the ore will have to be cut out before the furnaces can again be used. President Charles F. Moyer of the Western Federation of Miners says that he does not think it will be necessary to call out the miners of the State in sup- port of the smeltermen. The fallure of the Legislature to pass an eight-hour law is given by the strikers as the cause of the trouble, and the company is accused of using improper means to defeat legls- lation. A large force of police is guard- ing the smelters in this city, and no se- rious disturbance has occurred, though twelve men have been arrested for dis- orderly conduct and making threats. —_————— Collision on Electric Line. TACOMA, Wash., July 5.—A head-on h fell on the roof soon started | fornia Northwestern Railway’s | It is under- | collision occurred on the Puyallup elec- tric line to-night near Larchment. Twelve or fifteen passengers were slightly cut by broken glass, but no one was seriously injurcd, At yow grecer's; moneybuch, 3 HEATLAND, July 5.<The dls- astrous blaze that began here vesterday afternoon was un- doubtedy caused by firecrack- ers in the hands of small s. The scene this morning was one of ruin and desolation. Where stood block | after block of substantial brick business houses and costly homes nothing re- mains but ashes and smoldering debris. | On account of the celebrations held in this city and at Lincoln nearly all the res- idents were absent and few men were avallable to fight the flames. Almost at the start the water supply, which is fur- nished from large tanks and by pumps driven by electric power forcing water into inch mains, became by reason of the power line burning and the tanks not being filled. Handicapped as they were, the volunteer firemen put up a strong fight, but to no availl. A heavy wind was blowing from the southwest and burning brands were carried over the town that was doomed and soon in flames in many sections. The | entire block, of brick, fronting along the | raflroad tracks, was destroyed with the exception of the I. O. O. F. Hall and a portion of the Farmers' Bank building. The following are the losses as near as can be ascertained at this time: M. V. Sparks, six buildings, $12,000, insur- | ance $3000; E. E. Roddan, lumber yards, $5000, insurance $3000; residence, $500, fully {nsured: | Willlam Careny, American Hotel, loss $5000, | insurance $3000, M. Gardner, llvery stable, $5000, insurance $1500; residence, $3000, insur- ance $1000; 1. O. O. F. bullding damaged $300, insured fully; C. W. Mahon, damage to dry goods, $200; F. W. Anderson, damaged $250. ers’ Bank, $2000, fully insured; Four " printing plant, $2500, insurance $500; Sowell, grocery, '$6500, insurance $4500: Dr. R. 8. Brown, drug stock, $7500, insurance $3000; Dr. Melton, drug stock, $300, no Insur- ance:'A. C. Stagner, hardware stock, $350, in- | sured; J. F. Baun, residence and’ contents, §5000, fully insured; Mrs. J. Muck, residence $2000, insured; A. Riechers, residence, $4000; John Stineman, three buildings, $5000, insured: W. H. Stone, two residences,~barn and out- in- buildings and contents, loss $5000, small surance; Mrs. C. Justice, two bulldings, $1 Baptist church, $3000, insurance $1500; J. L. Wallis, two bulldings' and__ household’ goods, $3000, insurance $1250; J. M. Johnson, post- office fixtures, $250, no insurance; B. F. Mon- son, household goods, $200; F. G. Dowane, household goods, $500, fully insured: Pursell & Riechers, barn and contents, $1000. :nr:)vkrord, household goods, $1000, 1 600. rance Besides these enumerated, a great many suffered damage to household goods by removal and breakage. Many people are homeless, but are being cared for by the more fortunate neigh- bors. The town to-day was thronged with people from nearby towns viewing the ruine. The burned district will probably all be rebuilt and some are waiting only for losses to be adjusted, when building operations will begin. ———— DEATH RELIEVES HIM OF EFFORT AT SUICIDE Shasta County Settler Passes Away While Arranging to Hang Himself. REDDING, July 5.—Near Ono yesterday Samuel Lockhart was found dead in an orchard with a rope suspended over him as though he had planned to hang him- self. He lay stretched upon the ground beneath the hangman’s noose, which he had not used. Heart disease had prob- ably prevented his making use of it. He was 70 years old, an old settler, and des- pondent because of the infirmities of age. - —————ee— Lodger as a Narrow Escape. TRUCKEE, July 5.—The lodging-house of Mrs. 8. E. Varney was almost entirely destroyed by fire last night and but lit- tle of the contents were saved. The fire was discovered about midnight, it having started in the room of a man who was intoxicated and who was barely rescued from death by burning. By heroic work the firemen held the flames in the build- ing where they started and extinguished them, leaving the charred frame standing. The loss will exceed $1000. e e BANTA CRUZ, July 5.—To-day was a record- breaker for crowds on the beach. Two bands gave concerts. To-morrow the Stockton boys band will begin a week's engagement. exhausted | STRANGE DEATH PUZZLES POLIGE vestigate Myster- ious Case. Young Man Thought to Have Been Given Poison in Candy. el Nt LOS ANGELES, July 5.—Joe Montijo, aged 26 years, of Riverside died last night in the Receiving Hospital from strychnia poisoning under circumstances which puz- zled the police. At first they considered it a plain case of suicide, but not being satisfied they made a searching investi- gation, and now announce it as their opinion that the man was murdered, but by whom and for what motive they admit they have not even the remotest idea: He was seen on Alameda street by policeman, and as the officer approached him he was suddenly seized with convul- stons. He said he had just taken a glass | of beer in a near-by saloon, but had no | other drinks. He was eating candy which | he said a frlend had given him, but did | not say who the friend was. He was hur- | rled to the hospital and every effort made |to get a connected story of his move- | ments, but before he could tell more he | a suffered another spasm and died. It has been established that his death | was due to strychnia, and it is believed the poison was contained in the candy, a | partly filled box of which was found in his po: ion. It is now in the hands of a chemist for analysis, and several (‘\ tives are trying to 2 ain where Mon- to-day that he had a tijo got 1t. | It was learned number of relatives in this city, and all of them as! t that the deceased was not a drinking man, that he had a good posi- tion In Riverside and that no known rea- gon for suicide existed. If the dead man had enemies who desired his death his relatives do not know it. He money, and one theory of the police is | that some person put poison in his beer, hoping to render him unconscious and then rob him, the strength of the poison, used too much. — Child Suffers Fatal Burns. TRUCKEE, July 5—While the little 6-year-old daughter of James Schwobble | was trying to light a firecracker this nson her clothes became ignited. Her screams brought her mother from the house and she endeavored to smother the flames with her clothes, but could not. Plus von i.ume, a neighbor, ran to her assistance, and, seizing the child, ran to the river, which was but a few feet away, and ex tinguished the burning clothing. T child’s legs, arms and the front part of her body were horribiy burned and there is no hope for °T Teco’ it YOKOHAMA, July 5.—The report is cur- rent that the Premier has resigned on ac- count of the difficulties of adjusting the next budget. | had some | | and knowing nothing of | Reported Resignation of a Premier. | BRIDE TELLS THE POLIGE OF HER FEAR Young Husband of a San Francisco Girl Disappears. Elopement Has a Sudden and Melancholy Ending in Portland. € E) A Wife of a Former Railroad Clerk Be- lieves Missing Spouse Met With Foul Play in the Oregon Metropolis. ke el Sl G Special Dispatch to The Call. PORTLAND, Ore., July 5—Dorothy Manning, nee Bloom, who eloped from San Francisco a week ago with Frank fanning, a young clerk who was em- | ployed in the office of the Southern Pa- cific Company there, is now left alone and fears that her husband has met with foul play. She has reported the myster- ious dissappearance of her husband to the police and they are of the opinion that he has deserted her. Mrs. Manning’s experiences during the past week are of the truly romantic or- der. She lived at 1204 Golden Gate ave- nue, San Francisco, and was studying music in a convent. Between practicing hours she met the young clerk and fell desperately in love with him. The par- ents objected to the marriage, but this | 4ia not change them from their purpose. Manning found that he could get a good position in Portland and they arranged for an immediate marriage. Mrs. Bloom was very angry with both her daughter and son-in-law and they Last she visited them in their Port- home and the mother’'s love over- She accepted Manning decided to make the best of the r. Saturday morning she went to eattle to join her husband who is the traveling agent for the Diebold Safe and Lock Company. Young Manning left the offices where he was employed at 9 o’clock the same morning and tne tearful wife is now un- able to find a trace of him. Since Man- ning’s arrival in the city he has told several friends that he had over $100 in his pocket. His wife fears that some one as harmed him with the hope of getting money. She will not listen to the cgestions of the police that he may have deserted her and insists that he loved her too much. “1 am sure that he would communicate with me if he is alive and well,” she said t night. The young bride is alone and penniless left without her motherly blessing. Friday land came her anger. and BEST DEGLARES IT WS CRIME Son of the Colonel Who Died in Marin Makes Charges. District Attorney Seeks the Whereabouts of Dr. Woods. —_— Epecial Dispatch to The Call. | SAN RAFAEL, July 5.—District Attor- ney Thomas P. Boyd Is In receipt of an | affidavit from Charles Sumner Best of New York. son of the late Colonel Wil- | liam J. Best, who died on April 6 last at | the residence of Dr. J. D. Woods on Fifth street, charging Woods with murder and | robbery. It is alleged that Dr. Woods and | his sister, Mrs. Alice Cloy Woods, robbed Colonel Best of $500 and that Woods ad- ministered poison to the sick man by means of a hypodermic syringe and by tablets. The affidavit states that on the day that Colonel Best was taken ill he received $600 from the East, sent him by relatives. | This money mysteriously disappeared and it 1s'alleged that Woods has accounted for only $10 of it. It is further stated that Woods was seen by servants to admin- | ister a hypodermic injection to Best three | days before he died. District Attorney Boyd has made in- quiries at the Rush Medical College in Chicago, from which College Woods stat- ed he was a graduate, Boyd was told that Woods never was a student there. All of these circumstances have made the District Attorney determined to locate the Woods people and have them brought to San Rafael under arrest. They disap- | peared shortly after Woods' engagement to Miss Georgla Hickmott of Ross Valley was broken off by Mrs. Hickmott. It is | believed that at present they are in Chi- cago. —_———— Texas Boy Kills His Father. DALLAS, Texas, July 5.—L. A. Moore, Secretary of the city of Dallas, was shot and killed this evening by his son. Moore, it is alleged, had been drinking and had | attacked his younger son. The other son, | Ernest, was remonstrating with the | father, who turned on him, when the son fired the fatal shot. —_———— | Quiet Is Restored at Norway. COLUMBIA, S. C., July 5.—The military | company sent to Norway last night re- turned to-day. They had no clash with the negroes and report the town qulet, al- though some of the citizens there are still | apprehensive. @it in a strange city but is worrving about that less than about the fate of her hu band. She telegraphed to her parents of her trouble last night and says that if she does not hear from Manning within a few days she will return to her home with them. | permanent VANDERBILT HURT UNDER AUTOMOBILE William K. Jr. Essays to Repair Broken Machine. Explosion Occurs and He Is Dragged Forth Badly Scorched. Accident Confines Young Millionaire to His Bed and Attempt Is Made to Suppress the News. _— Special Cable to The Call and New York Herald, Copyright, 1908, by the New York Herald' Publishing Comp PARIS, July 5—W. K. Vanderbilt Jr. is confined to his bed in Hotel Ritz as the resu't of a serious automobile accident, which occurred Friday while he was tour- ing near Paris. It appears that something went wrong with his machine and Vanderbilt himself got down to investigate. W he was lying on the road, partly under the ma- chine, there was a sudden flash and an explosion. The chauffeur assisted Van- derblilt from his position and it was seen that he was badly scorched. Another vehicle was secured and Vanderbilt was brought immediately to Paris. At the hotel the greatest secrecy is be- ing maintained. Other guests of the ho- tel where Vanderbilt has apartments are | aware of the accident, naturally, but they have been let the news get no further. The accident is all the more unfortunate at present, as Mrs. Vanderbilt is looking forward to the arrival of an heir very soon. Although physiclans have made no statement concerning Vanderbilt's in- juries, it is generally undérstood that no ill will re®ult from the mis- enjoined to hap. a5 e DASH THROUGH FLAMES. Two San Francisco Automobilists Have a Perilous Ride. SANTA CRUZ, July 5.—Friday Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Levy of San Francisco had an exciting experience In an automobile trip from San Francisco. They rode through a forest fire near the Hotel de Redwood for several hundred yards. The fire was on all sides of them, so they had to make a dash through it for safety. Mrs. Levy had the hair on one side of hes head singed and the wheels of the ma- chine were scorched. ADVERTISEMENTS. S Oluriok; SEETHAT JERICORKS BAINCED Is Ideal. - mBudweiser It is the standard of quality by which all other beers are judged. Commanding the highest price, yet leading in sales, proves that its superiority is recognized through- out the world. 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