The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 26, 1903, Page 4

FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26 VIGILANT QFFICERS AT CARSON CITY CAPTURE SUSPECT N OF CONVICT ELDRIDGE WHO ANS Take Him on Geiger Grade Without Struggle. His Companion Gets Away From the Pursuers. SN G0 IRGINIA, Nev., Aug. 25— Officers to-day received no- tice from Reno that two men, thought to be escaped cbnvicts, were © g over Geiger Grade, 1d a posse started out to inter- cept them. About o'clock a man resembling Eldridge and an- the description sent from Isom prison, was arrested about 5 The officers and at once s i for the grade again. They have the other t PROMINENT PHYSICIAN OF LODI PASSES AWAY Body W: Be Cremated and Ashes Scattered on Waters of the Ocean e pes ITOW mo: te )dd Fellows' crematory The ashes wi scattered on the waters ‘ es H was borm in graduated Civil War he ar 3 was com. of Company E, Third of the California at ted his medical »hysician part in 3 the most prom- ratic party leaders, s a delegate to and In 1580 he was fford of San Fr who & m. He was a mem er of the Ma fraternity, the For- esters of America and the Ancient Order United Workmen. Members of tk ers will accompany the Francisco Of Dr. Gordon it ean be truly said that he was a friend to the needy, and many & poor family will have occasion to mourn his den CONFERS WITH GOVERNOR ON A FORESTRY POLICY Gifford Pinchot Comes From Wash- ington to Supervise Work in California. SACRAM ), Aug. .—Gifford Pin- chot, United States Forester, head of the | Bureau of Forestry of the United and His nd A. F. Pot- with Governor other members of the ¥ is morning b State assistants have been in the this State since last June. act of the appropriated operate with the n devising a proper California, and al- t an efficlent corps in who will be at work for two mes to direct the work of his in this State n he will go for JNO. J. FULTON CoO. Bright’s Disease ahd¥ Diabet@si News. San Francisco, Aug. 24, 1003 Among the late reports is one from a very interesting case, viz, F. F. Ames of 1611 Devisadero street,in this city. His was one of the most stub- born cases of Bright's Disease yet en- countered. He was tapped twenty- five times in one of our large hospi- tals, and was given up by his physi- cians. He is now up and around again, and enjoyed the recent festivities as much as anybody. See Mr. Ames and get his statement. Ask him what did it Another late report is from a Chi- cago physiciah, W. H. Wolford, M. D., who writes that a patient whose name he gives, viz,, a Mr. Newberry, formerly Chief of the Fire Depart- ment of Lincoln, Nebraska, had been examined by a number of prominent ysicians and pronounced incurable —a case of Diabetes. The doctor adds: “I myself deemed the case a hopeless one. Patient was reduced 55 pounds. Fulton’s Diabetic Compound was pre- scribed and in six weeks the progress made was very remarkable, patient gaining in strength, flesh and color, and all indications point to complete recovery in a few months.” Wish we bad room here for a half dozen more similar reports of the past week. (Two of them from physi- cians.) The curability of Bright’s Dis- ease and Diabetes is being admitted and many physicians and several hos- pitals are now using the Fulton Com- pounds. Send for pamphlet. John J. Fulton Co., 409 Washington strect, San Francisco, Sole compounders, the | ttend the National Irrigation | WERS THE DESCRIPTIO o | R —_—— i from POV SRS, row morning to take charge | 15 more cheerful for he realizes that he N {Convict Murphy Tells of ENO, Nev.,, Aug. Murphy and Woods, who were captured will not better his condition hy acting | recelved a telephone message by local officers. Woods still maintains ugly. | Having Planned to Folsom prison to-night announcing a sullen silence because the jailers refuse Murphy that guards will arrive here to-mor- to supply him with opium, but Murphy d when was in a rather confidential visited by The Call repre- nd he talked freely con- m | d capture. He sald followed Miller evada, narro by them ohy's story Craig caught at Steamboat, a station on a and Truckee Railroad about twelve miles from Reno, Craig was riding and had his riffie =:~ipped on When he recogniz d the con- stopped within a fow feet of 1 asked .the proprietor of the hotel if he could get a meal there. Upon being told that he could not he rode on | about two hundred feet back of a small knoll, Just out of sight of-the escapes, | and hurriedly unstrapped his ritie and re | turned by a circular route to near whe | he had seen them AGREE TO XILL SCOUT. Just before he returned the Virginia L @ EMENTED WAYNE McCLOUD a bicycle . the wheel | victs he | them » to face the folks Miss Matthew, however, arranged to meet him at 10 o'clock last night at her | home. He carried out phe arrangement and stopped over night at the Matthew Home. This morning he acted strangely and often complained of a “clutching” in his brain. McCloud and Miss Matthew went to San Francisco this afternoon to do some shopping, expecting to be home early. But they lingered until late and @id not leave the city untll § o'clock. Several times during the afternoon M- Cloud complained of that “clutching” in his brain. FORGOT HIS MOTHER. McCloud had an appointment to meet his mother, Mrs. B. F. Thomas of Hol- ister this morning at 11 o'clock. But he aid not keep it, evidently having forgot- | ten all about it. Knowing his condition and fearing for his safety Mrs. Thomas sent telegrams to the Matthew fiome in- quiring about her son. These telegrams | were unanswered through some mistake, and the alarmed mother came to/Berke- ley to-night on the 8 o'clock train from San Francisco, arriving while her son’s body lay where it had fallen. On the journey across the bay to-night with Miss Matthew, MecCloud exhibited ally, though he still complained of dis: tress in his brain. McCloud and Miss Matthew became ac- quainted during their college days and had been engaged since their graduation together in 18%9. After his graduation McCloud entered the newspaper fleld, in which he was successful from the first. He began his work on the Examiner. Besides his mother, he leaves a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Coleston of San Fran- cisco. He was born in Hollister and was 26 years old. Miss Matthew is two years younger. The Coroner has not yet set a date for the inquest. —_—————— On Trial for Murder. A jury was impaneled in Judge Law- lor's court yesterday to try the case of Joseph Majetti on a charge of murder. He is accused of having shot and killed E. W. Schorf, a waiter, in the Baltimore House, on April 2. They quarreled over an oplum pipe and Majetti claims that Schorf tried to hit Hm with the pipe, whereupon he shot in self defense. Ma. Jettl is an ex-convict, - Reno Scout Shoots at Stranger in the Depot. - Thinks Man Who Got 'Off' Brakebeam Is Howard. PECURE GR ENO, Nev., Aug. 25—Excite- | ment is running high here to- night. Several shots have been fired at a supposed convict. The man came ‘in on the brakebeam of a freight train. He resembled Howard. When he got from under the car| Scout Hicks ordered him to halt and throw up his hands. Instead of doing s0 he ran and the officer fired at him, but failed to stop him. Reno officers were called to a ranch three miles south of town to-night on a report having been received that a supposed convict was surrounded. The officers rushed to the scene, but discovered that a mistake had been made. The suspect proved to be the owner of the place, who had taken to his cellar from fear of the armed men he had seen about the ranch. He thoyght they were convicts. Ifa conversation Convict Woods to-day stated that Case was left dead in the mountains aiter the battle at Pilot Hill. He said they were forced to leave him there dying. 3 e oyiey LOCAL SLEUTHS ENVIOUS : OF RENO CONSTABLES Detectives Reynolds and Bell Get a ~ Secret Tip Which Proves > Delusive. The arrest of two of the escaped con- viets from Folsom penitentiary in Remo, Nev., has excited in the minds of some of the local sleuths a desire to emulate the example of the constables there. Great | excitement prevailed at police headquar- | carefully planned. —Sherift Hayes | of Convicts | | no unusual excitement, and acted ration-' i | | | AN [ J DEAD CONVICT AND ASSO- CIATES FOR WHOM OFFI- 8 ARE SEARCHING. @Confirms the Story That | Allison Died by His | : ; Own Hand. |+ e 1 Truckee passenger train passed by d Murphy and his companion jumped | a aboard the blind-baggage. When Cralg they got a good view of » in sight nding with a rifle in his hand and w that he was after them. “Miller suggested getting off the train and going °k and killing Craig,” con- tinued Murphy, “‘but I thought it a better plan to go on to the next station, get off there and lie in wait for ‘him. When the train arrived at Huffaker, a small | station six miles from Reno, we got off | to await the coming of Craig. Our plan | was to kill him and get rid of the body, | then head for Reno, break open a box car and get East. We walted in the | brush alongside of the road for a long | time, but Craig did nat arrive.” | ‘»'U'm‘l you think he went by and you failed to see him as it was getting dark |and a wheel makes little noise?’ was | asked him ““That must have been the case,” replied Murphy. ““We walted long enough to al- low him to reach where we were hiding. We thought he had given us the slip, but hoped to reach Reno and get aboard a train bound eastward before he could give the alarm. He was too smart for us, how- ever, The alarm had been given and we were surprised on the river bridge within 500 yards of the railroad where we | hoped to make our escape. I realie it is | all up with me now. They will welcome me at Folsom with a new hemp rope.” ALLISON COMMITTED SUICIDE. “I do not want you to think that I am bloodthirsty and would kill any man on sight,” continued Murphy, “for I am not. We were making a break for our lives and we realized that Cralg was tracking us and sooner or later would get the drop on us if we did not kill or elude him. We caught sight of him once before on the other side of Steamboat, but at that time aid not think he was following us. If we had known then what we know now we would surely have killed him." Were you at the fight at Pilot Hill?" was asked. “Yes, 1 guess I was,” replled the con- vict, laughingly. “Can you state positively if Allison was killed by the posse or died by his own hand?" “‘Allison, poor fellow, died by his own hand. He asked us boys to kill him and put him out of his misery, as he had been badly wounded. We refused. Then he sald, ‘Good-by pals,’ shot himself and dled.” ters for a few minutes yesterday after- noon, when Detectives Reynolds and Bell hurried out, saying they had received a secret tip that on the escapes was promenading aroun tsmouth square. In a few minut returned with a lanky young man between them who did not bear the slightest resemblance to any of the escaped convicts. He protested | that he was not of the escapes, and displayed a disct paper from the Warden at Fol showing that his name was Joseph West and that he had; been released on Monday last after serv- |ing a two years sentence for burglary | | from Los Angeles County. Apologles were in order from the chagrined sleuths, and | West went a saying he would give | this city a wide berth in future, as he| might be arrested again. | | JOHNSON WINS OUT BEFOE THE CONVENTION | Democrats of Ohio"iegin Their Battle | for Nominations for State ; | 2y | | Offices. COLUMBUS, Ohlo, Aug. 25.—The pre- liminary meeting this afternoon and even- | ing of the Democratic State Convention | resulted in favor of Mayor Tom L. John- | son of Cleveland in his contest with John L. Zimmerman of Springfield for the gu- bernatorial nomination. Mayor Johnson | had uncontested control of the Democrat- ic State Committee last year at San- dusky, and the committee selected then in its call for this convention provided that the credentials from all the counties were to be first submitted to “the State | Central Committee. | The new State Central Committee or- | | ganized to-night with W. L. Finley, of | Kenton, as chairman, and E. C. Madigan, | | of Cleveland, as secretary, both Johnson | men. The Johnson men controlled all the committec meetings to-night as firmly as | the afternoon meetings, but the Zimmer- | | man men fought at every point and will | | present minority reports to the conven- | tion to-morrow on everything. — Carries Pine Ties for New Road. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2%.—The sailing vessel Chehalis arrived at Hueneme to- day with 10,000 Oregon pine ties for the bullding, sald, of an electric railroad | from th. to Bakersfield. This is the | | e, according to the Times,’| that the Huntington interests are arran| | ing to push their line north from Los An- | geles to Santa Barbara and San Fran- cisco, and will prove to those who have doubted the building of the projected line of the Bakersfield and Ventura Railway | Company that something is doing after all. ———————— Submit Wage Dispute to Arbitration. STOCKTON, Aug. 2.—The Loard of arbitration appointed to settle the dispute | between the Liverymen's Association and ! the Stablemen's Union met this evening ! and organized. Each side was represented | by an attorney and it was agreed that | both sides should abide by the decision | handed down by the board and that the | new agreement should go into "effect on | September 1 and continue for one year. It is expected that it will be the end of the ‘week before the case is cloged. —————————— PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 25.—The steamship Indravelll, from Hongkong and Yokohama, brings news of the seal catch off the Japanes coast. The floet operating in those waters numbered twenty-one vessels and the total catch for the seascn was 5528 skins. TR EE weeks, before the Fall trade begins. Charles Lyons ADVERTISEMENTS. If you want a Business Suit for Fall, now is a splendid opportunity to get a bargain. put of a large cloth mill, much u well known in this city that when C! makes such statements, it is true business, and he means it. To conclude, you can have a SUIT to ORDER for FIFTEEN wOLLARS, from extra fine English cloth, made in first-c'ass style, and cut by proper rienced cutters. | ean only sell goods at THESE PRIC urchased the out. r pricc—and it is HARLES LYONS | have for the next TWO or LONDON TAILOR... § e 721 Market SL 122 Kearny SL 1903, FIVE PRISONERS GUT OUT OF JAIL Tucson Boy Murderer Is » Among the Fugitive Criminals. Section of Prison Wall Is Removed While Jailer Slumbers. e Special Dispatch to The Call. TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 2%5.—Five prisoners | confined in the second story of the county jall at Tucson made their escape Mon- day morning between 2 and 3 o'clock by digging & hole through a fourteen-inch | brick wall just under the climbing down a ladder made of blankets to the street, forty feet below. H. Or- | quides, the Mexican jailer, was asleep at of the escape, whichshad been The prisoners had made knives out of an old lard pail and used them to dig out the mortar and pry out the bricks. All of the brick were lifted out on the Inside and placed in a blanket without making the least noise. The side of the county jail from which the men escaped faced the city jail, where the night jaller was on wateh, but the prisoners succeeded in working without attracting his attention. The jailer now remembers having heard his dogs bark at the time the escape is reported to havi been made. The break was not discov- ered until 5 o'clock in the morning, when a passer by noticed a hole In the wall and inquired the meaning of it. The county Sheriff believed that the prisoners the time were in their cells, but on investigation | it was found that they had flown. Al- though officers are in pursuit, it is be- lieved that the men will succeed in cross- ing the Mexican Mlne. ‘The escapes are Charles McCormick, a [ boy of 15, who murdered Tony Soto at Tucson a year ago, and was serving a five-year sentence, a Mexican Government prisoner, two smugglers and a negro charged with assault. Strange to say, Biily Stiles, the famous border bad man, was brought to Tucson to-day from Tombstome for safekeeping. At G o'clock to-night four United States officers stepped from the train at Tucson with Stiles and his.pal, Alvord, both in chains. Two officers walked at their side and another behind with his finger con- stantly on the trigger of a which he carried. Alvord was taken on to Phoenix on the midnight train, while Stiles was locked up in a steel cage in the Tucson jail. ‘uae order for their transfer was made at Tombstgne Mon- day morning, on motion of the United States Attorney, who took cognizance of the boasts made by both desperadoes that they would some night repeat their feat of two years ago and again escape from the clutches of the Sheriff at Tombstone. Both Tucson and Phoenix are farther from the Mexican line and the United States officials believe the desperadoes caves and | shotgun, | FINDS ANIMAL LIFE IN OIL Bakersfleld Man Locates Insects That Thrive on Petroleum. e——— Gathers Specimens and Seeks Scientific Light on Dis- life could not exist in the oll of Kern | County has long been a popular bellef, it being said that the fluid kijled all ani- mal or insect life with which it came in | | contact. This theory, however, has been | exploded by Edward N. Moor, an oil oper- | ator of the Kern River fleld, who has dis- covered insect life a plenty in the heavy fluld and is Investigating it thoroughly, sending accounts of his discovery and | specimens to scientists for study. | The story of his discovery is related by | him as follows: In the early part of the summer of 1801, while examining closely the surface of a stak nant pool of waste ofl, I became cognizant | the presence of countiess inhabitants crawling and squirming over the surface of the ol in all directions. At first I believed their pres- | ence accidental,” but later found this theory | erroneous. | Since then I have | widely separated localitie | creek bottom ~wherever drainage exists from adjoining ofl pr cumulations of { waste ofl stand and become stagnant. In some | of these abodes stagnant water underlies the ail, mud and mols! ; In others there was | not & vestige of water: In size these insect | e-quarter of an inch in length and xty-fourths of the same in width. In shape they are mot unilke a diminutive tent caterpiliar without the obtuseness of head and tall, tapeting rather to a point at the extremi- and in action moving the body much as tent caterpfllar does, at no time raising | the body from the surface, and when im the | ot hitching along with contraction and expan | sion of the body as th€ larva of the mosquite | propels itself through water. In order to obtain a clearer view of this in- sect I immersed two or them in a porcelain evaporating dish filled with coal ofl, expecting | immediate death to both. Much to my sur- | prise, one fellow startea in to investigate his bath, and upon encountering some stray parti- cles of foreign matter, proceeded to eat themt. similar insects in in almost every old | two hours these insects lived in the coal oil @ i i @ 1 ing removed and - threatened to create trouble, but they found their guard so strong and vigilant that an attempt to escape would have been folly. They were old Edward Roberts, gular acecident with two other boys he was riding the Feather The boy's wheel struck ed an iInch or two from the side of one ¢ CLAIMS WATER FOR IRRIGATION Notice of Appropriation Is Filed by Federal Government. W ill Take Supply From Colo- rado River for Use in Yuma Valley. covery. —— e BAKERSFIELD, Aug. %5.—That animal | SAN DIEGO, Aug. %.—An important step was taken this afterncon by the United States Government vancement of its great in the southwest. A n tion of water in the Colorado filed with the County Record T. Perkins for the Secreta terior, appropriating 4,000,000 m T inches of water twenty-two miles no of Yuma and less than two miles beyond the Poth so-called. In California the standard pressure for measuring water four inches, but in this case six inches is to be the pressure, thus affording much greater volume of wajer. L this notice the Government claim: unappropriated water of the River, both surface flow and under f 000,000 miners’ inches under & six-tnch pressure. The location is described as being the bank of the Colorado River abo twenty-two and a half miles above Yuma Ariz., and is In or near section 4, town- ship 15 south, range 42 east, eighth B. M The Government claims the water for frrigation, manufacturing purposes, wa- ter power, domestic use and other bene ficlal uses and the terminus and place of intended use is at Yuma Valley and to the Mexican boundary line and along tha line of proposed conduit. —_—— Marysville Boy's Good Luck. MARYSVILLE, Aug. %.—Twelve-year- son of Supervisor met with a In company over River bridge’ on & bicycle the street Fred Roberts of this eity, last night. praens Ly e e e e et ) | Groal he was thrown through a small rapldly working maw into his stomach througk . he side of the brids e hi% semi-transparent body. When he encoun- | 9PeRIng in the side of the bridge. He sh tered his companion he grabbed and pulled him | down to the water, twenty feet below around apparently in a spirit of fight. For | His cries brought assistance, and he was ound clinging to a small rafl that project £ vas to-day th v of could be more easily captured in case of | the Blers. e Was to-day tfe virem of b A sl ‘gb”t‘fl" ey x‘h‘“:r‘:; filled with fruit cans fell upon him and ii’i‘.f.{fy"n.g:'fl”' e . e break | ynocked him down, but the lad’s injuries Stfico and Alvesd protested agningt be- | ™7 found to be culy superfictal. sotmiiio s Return of General Sumner. VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. %.—The steam- er Empress of China brought among h or passengers General S. 8. Sumner, U. S A., who has been directing the opevations against the Moros in Mindanao and who. accompanied by Mrs, Sumner, is bound for Omaha, where he will be given charge of the Department of the Missouri. warned that If they tried to get away they would be shot. The officers meant to take no chances and would have car- ried out their threat. A great erowd had assembled at the station to cateh a glimpse of the celebrated outlaws. “JUST life paintings. A Swell Fruit Study FOR YOUR DINING ROO Frec Call Art Supplement Next Sunday. C. P. Ream has won a reputation surpassing that of any other artist in this country as a painter of fruit. his best style, which does not depend upon imitative ability alone for its excellence, but combines qualities of effect, composition and color har- mony, which give his works a pictorial interest not usually found in still. In this picture the plums lie in the grass as if they had been freshly plucked from the tree, with the bloom still on them, while a ray of sun- light fulling on some of them and on a portion of the grass gives effect and variety of color to the composition. more pleasing in this suggestion of a natural environment than to the conventional arrangement of a still life with a meaningless background, which is so common in most representations of fruit and flowers. “Just Gathered” was formerly owned by Catherine M. White of Il- GATHERED” JUST GATHERED. “Just Gathered” is characteristic of There is something infinitely linois, who bequeathed it to the Chicago Art Imstitute, in whose perma- nent collection it now is. It was selected by a committee appointed by the art ingtitute, along with a ricture by William Hart, from a number of- SACRAMENTO—Hevener, Mier Co., 615 J street; C. N. Davis, store, 817 K street. - PETALUMA—H. 8. M. Wyckoft. SAN JOSE—George Denne, M. Len- . zen & Son. STOCKTON—Morris _ Bros.' book store, 20 No El Dorado street; Stockton Racket store, 711 East Main Gutermute, J. fered in the bequest. Ask your news agent for the SUNDAY CALL. TRAIN NEWS AGENTS AND ALL NEWSDEALERS SELL THE CALL Price 5 Cents. Price 5 Cents. THEY ARE FRAMING THE CALL ART SUPPLEMENTS The Following Art Dealers Are Making a Specialty of Framing Call Art Supplements: Price 5 Cents. street; Gage's art store, 509 East Main SAN DIEGO—W. P. Fuller & Co., T street; Weber's art store, 425 Bast F_street Main street. FRESNO—Sronce & Dick. MARYSVILLE—G. W. Hall REDDING—~W. H. Bergh, OAKLAND—E. J. Saake, 13 Tele- Furniture Company”; T. graph avenue; A. A. Barlow, 39 Houston Furniture Company. REDWOOD CITY—-W. L. SANTA CRUZ—H. E. Irish, Cooke Bros., F. R. Hew, George Hoban. JACKSON—E. G. Freeman Co. Twelfth street, ALAMEDA—C. P. Park street. CHICO—Fetters & Willlams.