The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 1, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCIV-—-NO. 62 SAN FRANCISCO, SATURD. AUGUST 1 1903 PRICE FIVE CEN CARDINALS OF THE SACRED COLLEGE RETIRE INTO SECLUSION TO BALLOT UNTIL THE SUCCESSOR OF POPE LEO XIII IS CHOJ'EN EVOLUTION o SHOWN BY FOSSILS Rare Exhibits in the Whitney Collection. ——— Development of North || American Animals Traced. Wyoming Produces a Speci- | men of the Four-Toed Horse. Epecial Dispatch to The Cali NEW YORK, J paris striking com- s animals of a on with the monst: collection of fossil mammals placed on exhibition to-day at the .American Museum of Natural History, is a clumsy le skeleton of the pantolamoda. It is oldest complete mounted mammal in The curator says it is 3,000,000 It was found in New Mexico ts an impressive example of progressive increase in to-day, three years of explora- ure of $250,000. a group of ani- row the evolution r the ele- the mastodon and the rhinoceros. of the new and important speci- s were obtained by the recent expedi- tion seut out at the «<ipemse of William C. Whitne In the of the I ny of the Whitney Nebraska and n. Bes the an- horse, ing the there are shown The at repres; Its PORTUGUESE HOLIDAY OCCASION:L AMENITY American V Dress Ship in Honor of Anniversary Celebra- sels tion at Lisbon. J To-day being the an- n f the granting of the Portu guese co the anniver- sary of the birth of t ke of Oporto, Ministers sen castie at Cin- tra and congratulated the royal family. The United States ¥ ean squadron and he Port n those waters alute g . ervance of thjs holid v ar Admiral & oard the Brook- the ter of Public v finitely. The day on wi € et is to be givend on board the Brook Portyguese ers and local a has not yet been determined s officials co e to t the American ships and are cordi received The attention of r here has been calied to the th here are large numbers of Portuguese, formerly belonging to the Azores Islands, serving @s saflors on board the American -ships generally and as musiclane on board the a1l undergo ex- flagship Brookiyn. It is reported t United States cruiser Chicago for New York to-morrow to tensive repairs there —_———— LOYAL IRISH GREETING TO KING AND QUEEN Scenes of mfl:u!fiunc Welcome Are Repeated at Each Stop- ping Place. GALWAY, Ireland, July 31—King Ea- ward, Queen Alexandra and their par left Galway by train this morning for where they arrived at 3 p. m They will mare, i met an enthusiastic reception. ted motor to Deeren House, the residence of Lord La where they were enter- tained b ordship. The King and Queen afterward proceeded to Bremer- haven and embarked on board the royal t Victoria and Albert, bound for Queenstown The weather to-d the peated at all ants and lan v was beautiful and scenes witnessed e stopping places, the peas- turning out in full numbers and giving every evidence of This was especially noticeable at Limerick, which ssed by the royal party on thelr way to Kenmare. A great crowd of people Limerick gave their Majesties 8 most cordial greeting. e —— = ee— Fire Dstroys Oregon Town. PORTLAND, Or., July 31.—A special to the Oregoulan from Halsey says the town ©of Alsea, in Benton County, was destroyed fire this afternoon. No particulars bave been received. diords was at of evolution, as fllustrat- | represents the | ted to the evolution | vesterday were re- | 1 will enter upon the solemn duty of choosing the new Pope by ballot. §-08 | | | | ) { | GOLD SHINES IN 3AND OF ~ THE GREEKS Alaska Dlscovery Reported to Be Marvelous. Epecial Dispatch to The Call SEATTLE, Wash., July Ruby creeks, Horse, will probably prove to be one of the richest ever made in the morth. K Henderson, an old miner, has returned to White Horse from the district. He was | through the Dawson Creek stampédes and says the'country is the richest he bas | ever been in. He says he balieves it will produce more gold than any of the creeks | in the Klondike. Henderson has staked claims on both creeks, refused large sums of roney for his property. On the way out Henderson met one woman stampeder. He says the ai w diggings, as all have falth in “Daw- son Char * the discoverer of the new fields. Henderson made the trip from Ruby Creek to White Horse in six days, s the trail 4s now in excellent and s shape The White 10ad of § loading soon leave Horse for Tahkeena River with a pectors. The Vidette is also a supply: of provisions, for the gold fields. tampeders came down to White se on the last trip of the Yukoner and are making for the creeks. Thirteen prospectors returned to White Horse July according to the officers of the steamer Humboldt, znd all brought storles of the wealth of the new country. | It 1s =aid that gold is found on the sur- face the fu'l length of Ruby and Fourth of July creeks. The former creek has all | been. staked. The men returning came for tools and provisions. Mone of ‘the | prospectors had reached bedrock. e — | Entire Family Is Poisoned. BURWELL, Nebr., July 3L.—The entire family of D. W. Ward, a merchant, was | poisoned by eating sardines. Mr. Ward and two children are dead and a third sluld is dying. Mrs. Ward will recover, 31.—The recent | gold strike made on Fourth of July and |. about 120 miles from White | and has already | s in the country are making for the | steamer Clossett has sailed from | and will | About a | FOUR TAILS JWISH AFTER THE GOMET Yale Obserirers Get/: ' Negative of the . Appendages. Epecial Dispateh to The Call, NEW HAVEN, Conn. July 3l.—That Borelli's comet has devéloped four tails from its forked appendage Is the state- ment made by observers in the Yale University observatory. As the comet ap- proaches the sun in it§ precipitate at- traction it may develop even more talls. Comets have beer. known to ‘have as many as this, and one had six; tails. Pro- fessor W. L. Elkins, director of the obs | servatory, and Professor F. W. Chase are nightly observers. A camera has | been trained upon the track of the comet every night for ‘weeks past whenever the | sky conditions were favorable. In a re- cent exposure of four hours’ duration a | negative was obtained, which by develop- ment shows very plainly three tails and | more faintly a fourth. * The comet is gmow northeast of the Great Dipper constellation. e Starnes Is Captured. KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 31.—Ben W. | Btarnes, the one-armed life prisoner, who | escaped in a daring manner on Saturday last from the Federal prison atFort Leavenworth, Kans., was captured early to-day mear Richmond, Mo., after being | shot in the leg by one of a posse that had been chastug -him for several days. Starnes was serving sentence for robbing | la train in Indian. Territory. He had escaped from the State penitentiaries of { Colorado and Tennessee. . —_———— Man Who Started Riot' Dies. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., ! Robert Lee, the negro who shot Police- man Louis Massey at Evansville, July-3, and started the riot that resulted in the death and injury of many citizens, died here in prison to-day from the effects of | a wound in the lungs, caused by a bullet fired by Massey. Lee's wife was killed by a train a few days after the riot. OME, July 31.—The largest conclave in the history. of the Catholic church has nowmmbled in the Si. istine C hapel for the purpose of electing a successor to Leo XIII. Sizty-two Cardinals, with more than 200 clerical and lay attendants, are to all intents and purposes prisoners within the Vatican. Herrara y Espinosa, Archbishop of Valencia, was prostrated immediately after entering the conclave and lies ill in ht: cell. To-morrow morning the Cardinals One of them, Cardinal *| ':_8) & D CARDINALS IN CONCLAVE. PREPARATORY. TO BALLOT- ING FOR A POPE. .j.V '.flll Extts of the Udt: ‘ican Seturely J'ealed 4o OME, July 3L—The general: fm- pression .exiSts that within two or three days—possibly, though not probably, to-morrow—a. Pope will have been.chosen. But no matter how long a time may be required, the church from the outer world must, according to the church law, continue until a cholce. is made. " Prognostications as to who will wear the tlara as Leo’s successor have iittle ‘value, as even the Cardinals, who this evening entered their cells, seeméd to be without definite ideas as to the issue. Cardinals Rampdlla, Serafino Vannutell, Di Pletro, Gottl and Oreglia continue to be most frequently mentioned as the like- ly candidates, but the moment the name of one of them is mentioned 'a hundred reasons are supplied to show that he could not possibly be elpcted. - So seldom have the majority of the Cardinals here met one another and s6 widely do they differ in nationality and personality, that no organized movement in support of any one Cardinal has thus far been practicable, nof, in fact, seri- ously attempted. This does not caply to the Itallan Cardinals, who nearly aj) are well acquainted with one another, With their numerical strength the Ital- July ' 31— ian Cardinals, if united, practically insure the election of & Pontiff of their own choice. It is the disunion and rivairy among the Italian Cardinals which, in fact, leaves the question of the successor- ship so open as to make one guess al- most as good as another. The rival claims ‘of the leading Italian Cardlpals, so freely ventilated in the lo- -cal press, are matters which are all im- Qanumud on Page 2, Column 3, = the absolute seclusion of the princes of IRDERER MAY BEBAN HS LIBERTY No Record of Com- mitment of Fook =Yook —_— - Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN RAFAEL, July 38L—After belng inéarcerated in the State prison for nearly twenty years/Fook Yook, a Chi- nese, will pprobably be liberated. - The man is serving a life sentence for mur- der, but by a technicality his attorneys éxpec( to have him a lree man in a short time. _Fook Yook was sent to San Quentin in - January, 1882, to serve twenty vears for robbery committed in San Francisco. In November of the same year the Chinese killed a fellow convict in San Quentin. He was tried before Judge Bowers, then “Superior Judge of Marin County. He was convicted and on April 17, 1883, was sen- tenced to life imprisonment. On January 23, 1902, he became mentally deranged and was sent to the Stockton Insane Asylum, where he is at present domiciled. Fook Yook had no friends or money, but ‘recently some relatives in China caused an investigation to be made. At- torney C. T. Hughes of San Francisco was retained to try to procure a pardon for the prisoner. Upon investigation Hughes found flaws in the commitment and insteafl of asking for a pardon will petition for a writ of habeas$ corpus. The records of the County Clerk's office | has helped to substantiate the ground for release. George 'W. Davis was County Clerk of Marin at the time Fook Yook was sent to prison for life, but a careful scrutiny of the records of his regime fail to show that any commitment was ever entered or in fact that the judgment roll was ever filled or that there were any min- utes kept of the trial. In fact the only record of the case at all are the filing of Justice Court vroceedings and the filing of the information for murder in the Superior Court. - These errors, it is claimed by attorneys here, are sufficient to liberate the prisoner. Fook Yook is 67 years old. and until the !]ast August, was examined to-day. ROCKEFELLER 0BJECTS T0 HOTEL BAR \Will Have Cleve- land Hostelry Torn Down. Special Dispatch to The Call. CLEVELAND, July 3L.—The imperative order of John D. Rockefeller closes the ‘Weddell House at midnight to-night. This hotel is the leading hosteiry of the city lazst few years ranked among the first. Last fall it was sold at public auction on foreclosure proceedings and-was bid in by J. G. W. Cowles, Rock- efeller's agent. The lease of the present proprietors expires to-night and Rocke- feller is determined that the- hotel shall be closed on account of the bar which is run in connection with the house, Since’ he acquired the property last fall he placed it in the name of the Clevelx ... Trust Company until the lease had ex- pired. He has made plans to erect on the hotel site a large office building of ten stories. In the present building there are a number of stores, and the leases for all of these will not expire until the first of | the year. Swan, the present proprietor, was in hopes that he might be able to ex- tend - his lease unt!l that time, but word was recelved to-day from the Standard Oil magnate positively refusing to allow the hotel to continue with a bar attached. Swan pleaded for another week, but this also was refused. ———— TESTIFIES THAT FAIR OUTLIVED HIS WIFE Woman Who Witnessed Automobile Accident Is Positive in Her Statement. PARIS, July 3L.—Mme. Tremblay, who alleges that she witnessed the automobile accident by which Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Fair lost their lives at Passy sur Eure She positively declared that Mrs. Fair was killed on the spot, and that her hus- band's legs continued to twitch for some seconds. Mme. Tremblay further assert- ed that she saw two cyclists in the vij- cinity, but she was unable to identify the photos.of Mas and Maurane and asked to I be confronted with them in person. COLLISION - ENDG LIVES OF TRAMPS Tra,ms Grash on a Grade in the ; South. |Three Victims Found | in Debris After the Wreck. ;Misreading of Important " Orders the Cause of the Disaster. P R Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN BERNARDINO, July 3L—The | Santa Fe limited trains, Nos. 3 and 4, met in a head-on colMsion eleven miles east of Needles at 4:45 o'clock this morning The engines wero wrecked, several cars | were telescoped and three tramps, who were riding between the ofl tank and | the baggage car of the westbound train, were killed. The eastbound limited was In charge | of Conductor E. Gibson and aboard were | Engineer L. H. Fitch and Fireman F. T. | Moore. The fireman jumped and escaped | injury, while Fitch sustained a bad shak- | ing up. No. 3 was in charge of Condu~tor | Guy Carpenter, with Engineer Charles Ireland and Fireman P. O. Beacham. All three unloaded a moment befors the | crash came and Ireland and his fireman [ were considerably injured, but not seri- ously. One of the victims wreck has been identified as Albert D. | Shepler of San Francisco. who was on | his way to Los Angeles to meet his sister, { who resides at 601 Temple street, Los An- {zelu. The other two wers pinned under taken from the the wreckage and incinerated by the burning oil. I The crew of No. 3 admit that they mis- { read their orders. The order, which was | received at Kingman, Ariz., was that the two trains should meet at Mellen, a siding | just over the line in California. No. ¥'s | crew unfortunately read it Needles, with the terrible collision as a result. | The accident took place while No. 4 was | making good time down the grade from the river with its two puffing engines, when No. 3 was sighted. After the crash the oil from the burlt tanks spread io\er the wreck and it immediately took fire. The trainmen succeeded in saving the cars. On No. 4 they cut loose the couplings and let the cars run far enough down the grade to get them out of dan- ger. A freight engine on the other end of the wreck drew away the cars of No 5. The passengers on the trains received a_severe shaking up, but no one was in- jlrea. | _—— ' | CCMEZ IS SENTENCED | TO SIX MONTHS IN JAIL Sympathizer of the Insurgent Cause Is Found Guilty of Con- tempt of Court. MANILA, July 31.—Dominadnor Gomes, | president of the Democratic Labor Union, | has been found guilty of contempt of | court and sentenced to imprisonment for | six months. When the union was de- | clared bankrupt some time ago upon 1 | vestigation of its affairs by the Govern- | ment, a newspaper connected with it was suspended and placed in the hands of a recelver. Gomez took it upon himseif to republish the paper and was promptly ar- | rested upon the charge of contempt for which he has just been sentenced. Gomez was arrested in May last upon a charge of embezzlement of funds from the labor union, the Government charging that the money stolen was used to fur- nish arms and food to the insurgents of Rizal Province. The union, which has a membership of 15,000, has always been closely allied with the National perty, and is strongly in sympathy with the in- surgents. is the first press the Paciflo The above dispatch | aispatch transmitted over cable. | —— e | CONEY ISLAND ELEPHANT WILL SHOOT THE CHUTES !Big Betty Is Being Taught a New Stunt That Will Give Her Renown. NEW YORK, July 3L.—When an ele- phant weighing a’ton and a half $hoots the chutes from a height of something like seventy feet, that elephant is earn- ing her fodder with a vengeance. Show people say that no elephant has performed the task, but Chlef Organizer Thompson of the Luna Park show at Coney Island has come pretty near staking his repu- tation as a schemer that the elephant Betty will do this stunt at the island next Wednesday. The trainer to-day brought the elephant out and., with hardly a protest, Betty walked right up the incline to the top of the chutes. The German “boy” who had charge of the sagacious beast then got on her back and she walked down with him in that position. The plan Is to get Betty perfectly ac- customed to every piece of the structure and to plunge into the lake. The “boat™ that they will build for Betty in which to do the act will be especially heavy.