The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 3, 1903, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO = ) WANT DAMAGES [WHEEL BREAKS C 0D BIADS MUST (BULLET CRISHES [FATE OF NEGHD CALL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. 1903. CLAIMS PISTOL MISS JORNSON s _-Attorney de Golia De- - fends Working Line- man’s Action. Scathing Speech on Labor Situation Is Made in the Police Oourt. Pl tie Ozakland Omce San Frencisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Sept 2. In Gefending the action of Henry Oakes, & -telephone compeny employe, arrested : for carrying a p! without & permit, | Attorney George E. de Golia in the Police | , Court to:day deliveréd a scorching blast, - .. barticularly eimed against the conditions | ‘which, he declared, compelled workmen -whio desired to work to carry weapons for Seif-defense. The attorney, during his . Epeech, said: my mind occurrences that have who have obtained the d tions of this city, of | witnesses, I take it, are | ered in consequence of em quite seriously, but and repre- | s metter, that my posi- bar of this court will warrant me in the court & few peaceable re. | No cne more than I| ? the American cit otect himsel? along the lines law, and no one I teke it for the law than I o, hav- up in it, and in the practice g over twenty odd years. It that the law of the land should will of a few strikers, or NO RIGHT TO ATTACK. But it has to any memb 5 1 say, | to im | labor | man_should may be true right to pass | at it has & right | tend to keep izens and their » pass an ordinance | t myself DEFEN T OoFr RIGH August 1 San Pablo Palice 1 Qakes $1f - GHT ON REOPENS FI RATILROAD FRANCHISES Algmeda Board of Trade Calls a| Meeting Simultaneously With the Trustees’ Conference. Two meetings at to the local | scussed are | scheduled for to-morrow evening. One | be & -conference 2t the City Hall of | the Board of City Trus- advisory committee | vs -Fragk Shay and | tatives of the South- | . which corporation : two franchises by | lators on certain con- other meeting is one that ed by President Henry | the Board of Trade to take y the Methodist Church It 15 expected that the Board of Trade will take action to induce the municipal legislators to submit the matter of the | digposition of the rallroad franchises to :'a 'vote of the people. It is generally un- defstood that four members of the Board ot " City Trustees are opposed to resorting ‘to- the. referendum, as they believe that | the mafter of the franchises has been thoroughly threshed out and as the re- : gult would only be advisory with them - they do not- feel that it would aulter their present attitude on. the question. ——————— NEVADA CITY, Sept. 2—Arrangements are | being - perfected for the erection of a commo- | @ios two-story brick and stone structure | which will embrage under one roof a modern eater and large lodge rooms. The bullding be located in the heart of the city and have a seating capacity of 1000, _ADVERTISEMENTS. i ~SICK HEADACHE, .. Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Constipa- . tion, Biliousness, Heartburn or Nausea can be quickly cured if you will only take Hostetter’s Stom- " ach Bitters at the first symptom. There can be no disappointment because it contains only those in- gredients that will strengthen the stomach and cure these ailments. We urge you to try it the next time your stomach gets out of or- der. The genuine must have our Private Stamp on neck of bottle. ~ HOSTETTER’S ' STOMACH BITTERS. WS MGHT WANTS $25.000 | tain C. A. Bennett in | in | by 100 feet deep. | the Consular Agent of the United States Beginning of Trial in a Suit Against the Rail- road. e Attorneys Delmas and Moore Are Opposed in Defense of Olient’s Claims. SRR Ozkiand Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Sept. 2. The trial of the suit of Gertrude John- son for $25,515 damages against the South- ern Paclfic Rallway was begun before Judge Ogden and a jury to-day. Attorney | D. M. Delmas and Clarke & Clarke are | counsel for the plaintiff and Attorney A. A. Moore end his sons, A. A. Moore Jr, and Stanley Moore, are looking out for the railroad company. Gertrude Johnson is 16 years of age, and on October 22, 1%2, she from the steps of a Southern near Niles and her skull was fractured one of her arms was broken and her sys- tem was injured. According to the complaint, 1t is al- leged that she was returning to her home | from a trip to Mount Tamalpais. Shortly ( before the train reached Niles a brake- man called out that the next station was The train slowed down and stop- rith a basket in her hand the | girl was alighting from the train, | suddenly started and she was| The train had stonped be-| the station. The girl's head | le of railroad ties. i n was the first witness and the afternoon in the witness was thrown ! Pacific train } ng v Moore attempted to con- tradict statement in regard to the brak: calling out that the next sta- tion was Niles. To maintain his point | he referred to a former complaint in the | case. As the former suit was brought | by the plaintiff's stepfather, S. C. Man- son, and this statement made by him to | the attorneys the court ruled she could not be bound by it. | The jurors trying the case are: W. D.‘ Waterman, Minford Y. . A. Cole, Carl Berlin, 3 son, H. Tum Suden, A. A. Demars, E. Atchison, Dixon, E. J. landing and C. o GENERAL MACARTHUR GOES ON TOUR OF INSPECTION Surgeon General B. M. O'Reilly Ar-| rives From Washington With | Assistant, Major Borden. Major General Arthur MacArthur, com- | mander of the Department of California, left last night for Southern California on | 2 general tour of inspection of the fortifi- | cations and barracks in that part of the! State. He will be present at the quar- terly season target practice at San Diego and will probably be away from his post about two weeks. General MacArthur is accompanied on is aid, Captain Parker W. MacArthur and his son, O'Reilly, Major William C. Bor- it of the ancisco last Surgeon O'Reilly came on to in- spect the general hospital at the Pre- jo and to look into the many improve- nts that are taking place in that in- stitution -at the present time. Three batteries of field artillery, Cap- mmand, left yes- target practice at morning for Sarge: this State. Besides the com- g officer there were In the party 3 .- Birkhimer, artillery in- spector; Captain Ira Haynes, Captain J L. Hayden, Lieuten K. Brice, Mec- Intyre don and H Landers. Colonel Palmer H. Ray, Fourth Infan- I, A will sail on the transport 1 the 5th inst. to join his com- which went to the Philippines on Lewis B. W . Seventh In- will go to S J., to shoot for the national hich competi- tion will take p| tember & —_————— Alarmed by Burglars. The police at the Hall of Justice re- ceived a telephone call from 1000 Mason street last night, telling of the appear- P ‘re of burglars. Patrolmen Ring, and Skelly were dispatched to the but on their arrival could find er burglars nor a trace of them. During the excitement and while waiting the arrival of the patrolmen, Professor | A. O. Leuschner fired two shots from his revolver to attract the police on the beat, | and womge left thefr beds hurriedly and | rushed to the streets in their night | robes. A sharp lookout is being kept in | the vicinity, as it is surmissed that some | of the footpads who have been recently much in evidence are ready with more surprises. | —_———— Roofer Injured by a Fall. | While Herbert Sterlling was working on the roof of the new building of the Little Sisters of the Poor yesterday he | missed his footing and was precipitated | to the ground below. He struck with terrific force and sustained injuries of a | most serious character. He was removed | to the Park Emergency Hospital, where | Dr. J. V. Leonard found that the un-| fortunate man had broken his right wrist | and his right ankle, his face and head were badly lacerated and there were evi- | dences of severe internal injuries. Sterll- ing is a roofer by trade and resides at 212 Lexington avenue, —————— Big Transfer of Real Estate. A deed was placed on record yesterday the Redorder's office covering the transfer of a lot of land beginnifig 2% feet from the southwesterly line of Third street on the southeasterly line of Mis- sion street and running 275 feet in width The scller of the prop- erty is Henry Frederick Teschemacher of Territet, canton of Vaud, Switzerland, and the buyer is the Shiels Estate Com- pany. The acknowledgment is made by at Vevey, Switzerland. —_————— Grand Army Encampment. The executive committee of the Thirty- seventh National Encampment, Grand Army of the Republic, held a business session last night. General George Stone, chairman, reported that there woull be a neat little surplus of money after all obligations had been liquidated. The last installment of money due the contractors for the double arch will be paid as soon as they receive clearance 'papers from the Board of Public Works. —_——— PERSONAL. Judge M. M. Estee of Hawail will be the guest of honor at a luncheon in the Union League Club to-day. He will sall for his post of duty in Honolulu next Saturday. A. P. Williams, former United States Senator and now president of the United Republican League, #gturned yesterday from his summer ng in Plumas County. —_———— Lecture on Yosemite Valley. The Rev. Dr. Francis M. Larkin will a stereopticon lecture on the Yo- semite Valley at Grace Methodist Epls- copal Church, corner of Twenty-first and Capo streets. Friday night, September 4 { of Portland, now 6 | failure. FOR DEFAMATION| WRECKING TRAIN| LEAVE ALMEDA! THROUGH WINDOW| [N JURY'S HANDS Arnolds Institute Suit Against Mrs. M. C. Robinson. i Were Charged With Stealing Diamonds and Want $28,000. —— Osakland Office Ban Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Sept. 2. As an outcome of charges made by Mrs. M. C. Robinson eccusing Elolse Arnold and her husband, Charles E. Arnold, with stealing her dlamonds the Arnolds this afternoon, through thelr attorney, M. C. Chapmen, instituted a sult for §25,000 dam- eges for the humiliation and disgrace caused them by tHeir arrest for the of- fense. i On May 27 last Mrs. Robinson went be- | fore Justice of the Peace Mortimer Smith | nd Prosecuting Attorney Abe Leach and | swore to a complaint charging the Arn- olds with stealing $1000 worth of diamonds from her. They were arrested and taken before the committing’ magistrate, and | after their preliminary examinations the | charges were dlsmissed. As & result of the notorlety caused by the publication of the charges and the reports of the proceedings they claim they are entitled to damages and ask for $25,000 and $500 attorney fees. The Arnolds roomed with Mrs. Robin- son in e lodging-house she conducts at 1108% Broadway. The gems were stolen and Mrs. Robinson put the matter into the hands of private detectives. At the examinations no proof to substantiate the | charges was produced and the cases were | dismissed. The Arnolds allege that the | complaint was sworn to without probable | cause. | | ROMANTIC WEDDING TAKES PLACE IN IDAHO, Portland Man Remarries Wife From | Whom He Separated Thirty Years Ago. TACOMA, 2—A romantic_ mar- riage has just taken place at Efmett, Jdaho, near Boise. Thomas J. Hamilton ears of age, has just | married the wife of his youth, Mrs. Vlc-I toria Witt of Emmett, who is now 56| old, after a separation of thirty | Sept vears years. Hamilton came across the plains when he was 11 years of age. One year later | Mre, Hamilton came across the plains in | an ox wagon. She was then 7 years of age. The children soon became acquaint- ed and after growing up together mar- ried. They lived together five years, dur- ing which time two sons were born. They bad no real quarrel, but agreed to dis- agree and separate. A few years later | Hamiiton married in San Francisco, but | his second wife is now dead. Mrs. Hamilton was married in, 1580 to | J. V. R. Witt, a pioneer of Boise Basin. | Mr. and Mrs, Hamilton were separated for thir rs, during which time they each other and not a word ver saw issed between them. Both say, how- | cver, that they never gave each other entirely. Their son, who arrived at ett some time ago on a Visit to his r, was instrumental in effecting the reunion and is well pleased at the re-| sult. ———e——————— STATE EQUALIZERS HEAR " PROTESTS OF ASSESSORS Arguments Made to Show That As- sessments of Interior Counties Should Not Be Increased. SACRAMENTO, Sept. 2.—The return of the Assessor of Tulare County was con- sidered by the State Board of Equaliza- tion this morning. The total assessment in 1%02 was $14,031479. This year it is $15,002,489. Assessor Arthur Crowley re- ferred to the boom in his county and to inflated and fictitious values from 1884 to 18%. Some of the villages, he said, have been depopulated since 18%. There are three irrigation districts in the coun- ty. The wheat crop las almost been a The banks seil the lands they foreclose on for less than they are mort- gaged for. By a divided vote the board allowed the claim of L. G. Rhodes of San Francisco for $279 for services as expert. At the afternoon session Kern County was represented by J, M. Jameson, As- | sessor J. W. Ahern, District Attorney H. | A. Jaster, C. A. Canfield and W. S. Por- | ter, Supervisors. It was shown that there | has been an increase in values in the last few years from the oil industry. Farm | lands have suffered’ because of lack of | water. LOSES HER HUSBAND AND SON IN ONE DAY | Mrs. Mary Jones of Woodland Is Overwhelmed With the Weight of | a Double Bereavement. ! WOODLAND, Sept. 2—The oid pro\‘erb‘\ that “misfortunes never come singly” | has again been verified in the sad -be- | reavement of Mrs. Mary Jones. At 3| o'clock this morning her husband, Wital | Jones, % years of age, breathed his last. | About 10 o'clock a telegram was received from Keswick containing the shocking announcem: that her son, Mark E.| Jones, a Western Union lineman, had been run over by a train and kilied. Mrs. | Jones is overwhelmed with the weight of the sorrow of this double bereavement. There will be a double funeral, but the arrangements are not vet completed. —_— e Wood Famine on the Yukon. TACOMA, Wash,, Sept. 2—A serious wood famine exists on the lower Yukon. Steamers arriving at Dawson last week reported the shortage so great that the steamers leaving Eagle for down the river must tow barges of wood. The utilization of ofl by the Northern Com- mercial Company caused many choppers to stop cutting wood. At a mass meet- ing last week Dawson miners passed a resolution unanimously requesting For- mer Governor Ross to resign his seat in the Canadian Parllament on account of his alleged repudiation of election pledges. e Will Extend Grand Trunk Line. TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 2—H. T. Wills, manager of the Canadian Bank of Com- merce at Dawson, who is en route home from Montreal and other Canadian cities, brings the news that the Canadian offi- cials and projectors of the Grand 'J;nmk Pacific Rallway intend to follow its com- pletion to the coast with an extension from Port Simpson, its tidewater termi- nus, to Dawson and other Yukon points. Wills has no doubt that with Govern- ment aid such a line will be built. —_———— Raisin Growers Fix Prices. WOODLAND, Sept. 2.—At a meeting of the Woodland Sultana Raisin Growers’ Association, held Tuesday night, prices were fixed as follows: Two-crown, 6 cents; 3-crgwn, 6% cents; 4-crown, 6% cents per pound. These are for raisins in 50-pound boxes, f. o. b., to-any common shipping point. The local asso- ciation and the Fresno association now control 90 per cent of the crop of Cali- fornia. | resides. | his trail | afternoon Smith charged Freight Cars Jump Rails and Roll Down an Embankment,. Brakeman Is fiis}ng and it Is Feared That He Lost His Life. —— . PHOENIX, Ariz., Sept. 2—a south- bound freight train on the Santa Fe, Phoenix and Prescott Rallroad was wrecked' this afternoon near Ram's Gate section, between Iron Springs and Skull Valley, by the breaking of a car wheel. A car of machinery, & car of ofl and a car of rails went down &n embankment and other cars were deralled. Brakeman George McGrath, brother of Passenger Conductor McGrath, of the same road, was last seen on one of the ditched cars a moment before the wreck. He could not be found after the disaster and it is feared he is under the wreckage. No advices have been received since the wrecking train wes ordered to the scene. McGrath is a cousin of the McGrath who was a member of the engine crew in the collision at- Vail's Station on the South- ern Pacific last spring and who was killed in that disaster. PR SR MINING MAN OF NOTE IS DYING IN MILWAUKEE James Wardner, Well Throughout Pacific Northwest, Is Victim of Blood Poisoning. PORTLAND, Or., Sept. 2.—A Vancouver, | B. C., special says: The call has come for Jim Wardner to cross the Great Divide | and in the hills there is profound sorrow. The most popular mining promoter and raconteur of the Pacific Northwest is dy- ing from blood poisoning in a Milwaukee hospital. Several months ago Wardner | traveled through the mining districts of Nevada and in the course of the trip drank from a stream by the roadside. A cyanide mill discharged into the stream close above and he inadvertently swal- | lowed a chemical solution used in the pro- | cess. The poison entered his system and he was {ll for several weeks, but finally it was thought he had recovered. A re- lapse occurred and he was sent to the hos- | pital at Milwaukee, where his daughter The latest telegraphic reports are to the effect that the physicians have given up all hopes and this intelligence has been broken to the sufferer. —_——— GRAVE CHARGES AGAINST SANTA FE RAILROAD CLERK He Is Accused of Defrauding the Company by Means of Dum- mies on the Payroll. NEEDLES, Sept. 2—A. E. Eidridge, chief clerk in the bridge and bullding de- partment of the Santa Fe company, was captured at Hackberry yesterday and brought here last night. He 1s accused of carrying straw men on the company's payrolls. He had his preliminary hear- ing before Justice Root to-day and of- fered no defense. Eldridge left Needle learned that his crim He drew his pay, borrowed money from his friends and then issued a pass to himself for Albuquerque. conductor recelved a message asking for his arrest. Eldridge read over his shoulder and escaped from the train at Yucea before he could be placed | under arrest. Deplity Sheriff Lane struck later and made the arrest at Hackberry. ————— Secures Warrant Against Attorney. SAN JOSE, Sept. 2—Ex-District Attor- ney B. A. Herrington, one of the best lawyers in this city, was charged with carrylng a concealed weapon this evening by Al Bernal, A warrant was issued by Justice Davison, but up to midnight Her- rington had not been arrested. The trou- ble grows out of litigation between J. S. Smith and his wife, Cora B. Smith, for possession of the 'California house on West Santa Clara street. Her- rington is Smith's attorney. Late this Al Bernal and three others with disturbing his peace, and Bernal retallated by swearing to the | warrant against Herrington. —_——— Changes Among Railroad Officials. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2.—The directors of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad held a meeting in this city to-day. . The_ following. changes in the executive department of the company were made: Ferdinand K. Rule, auditor, appointed treasurer; H. I Bettis, assist- ant auditor, promoted to the position of auditor; W. H..Leete, acting treasurer, appointed paymaster of the company. All the officers mentioned have their offices in Los Angeles. . —_———— Body of a Suicide Is Found. LOS ANGELES, Sept. —The body of an unidentified man was found near San Gabriel this afternoon. He had shot him- self through the head with a 38 caliber revolver. The man had laid down upon the ground and put his valise under his head before firing the bullet through his brain. There were no papers of identi- fication except a slip upon which was written “Luella Helene West, Covington, Ky.” The body is that of a man of six feet two inches and 30 years of age. ——————— Japar. Is Ready for War. VICTORIA, B. C., Sept. the steamer Hyades from an interview with Count Katsura, Pre- mier of Japan, in which he said he did not advocate war, but was prepared to protect Japan's interests in Korea and would not shrink from precipitating war if these interests were infringed. —_——————— Shortage in the Wheat Crop. PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 2—The annual estimate of the Oregonian of the wheat crop of Oregon, Washington and Idaho places the total yield in the three States for 1003 at 34,750,000 bushels, divided as follow: ‘Washington, 19,100,000; Oregon, 11,400,000; Idaho, 4,250,000 The crop is nearly twenty per cent below that of last year. ' Grand Army Veteran Disappears. SALINAS, Sept. 2—Fred Farwell, a veteran of the Civil War, who served un- der General Miles, went to San Francisco to attend the Grand Army encampment and since then has not been heard from. His friends fear that he alther met with an accldent or is the victim of foul play. THE CALL’S "GREAT ATLAS OFFER Will close on September 24, 1903, and all holders o:' Atlas Coupons are uested pre- sent them inmfl::-ly, as this of these splendid Atlases at ;:: Call’s premium rates will be brought to a close on Septem- ber 24. < Known | Monday, having | was discovered. | At Yucca the| the dispatch ' lodging- | Officials After Squawk Herons That Disturb the Peace. Feathered Bipeds Scream at Night and Awaken the Residents. ALAMEDA, Sept. 2—Hundreds of night herons that equawk are causing more ex- citement and disturbance in the fashion- able residence neighborhood of Paru street and San Antonlo avenue than ever did the arrival of a stork in that vicinity. Officlals of the health, police and electric light departments have been called upon to suppress or capture, dead or alive, the nolsy feathered bipeds that go on a “bird” of a time every night and inter- rupt the slumbers and snores of law- ablding cltizens and taxpayers living In! that section of the city. Several groves of trees in the afllicted district afford the loud-mouthed herons first-class lodgings, and when great flocks of the squawkers come home to roost at late nocturnal hours, when even sober people are com- pelled to locate the keyhole with a match, everybody in the nelghborhood, whether asleep or awake, is apprised of the ar-| rival of the blustering birds. Herons that cannot roost in Alameda without annoying its resldents will have to leave town or suffer the consequences. | Dr. Kate P. Van Orden has complained to | the Board of Health and informed its members of the bacchanalian revels of the peace-breaking squawkers that take up | their abode nightly in the vicinity of Paru | street and San Antonio avenue. | “These birds are a nuisance,” said Dr. Van Orden. “They congregate in flocks in the trees and make night hideous with thelr screams. They are a menace to | the neighborhood and especially annoying | and alarming to ladles and children after | dark. Something shoujd be done to drive | the herons away.” | As Dr. Van Orden is herself a mem- ber of the Board of ‘Health it has been decided to Instruct Sanitary Inspector Eu- gene C. Malllott to confer with Chief of | Police John Conrad and arrange for a | war of extermination against the birds that squawk. Maillott belleves that the hercns can be driven from the trees with a fumigating apparatus. Conrad favors shooting the bipeds and City Electrician | G. A, Wiese asserts that he can string a number of live wires through the trees that will end the squawking of any heron that essays to roost upon them. CHOATE GIVES BANQUET TO THE COMMISSIONERS Addresses on Alaskan Boundary Will Be Made by Three Counsel on Each Side. LONDON, Sept. 2—Embassador Choate to-night gave a dinner to Chief Justice Alverstone and all the Alaskan boundary | commissioners, Judge John M. Dickson, | Sir Robert Finlay and Sir Edward Car- son representing the British counsel. Chief Justice Alverstone to-morrow will be chosen chairman of the commission, which will be assembled in the cabinet room of the Foreign Office. An adjourn- | ment for a fortnight will then be taken to allow counsel to prepare their oral ar- | guments. Three counsel on each side will address the commission. There s a disposition on the part of the commissioners to hasten the conclu- sion of the case and it is now believed | that the award will be rendered In the middle of October. ————————— |BANA.H’A PLANTERS VISIT GOVERNOR OF JAMAICA ['Regard Relief Measures for Hurri-| cane Sufferers as Temporary and Unsatisfactory. KINGSTON, Jamaica, Sept. 2.—The | representing_the American counsel, and | | Governor announced this afternoon to a delegation of banana planters that Co- lonial Secretary Chamberlain had ap- proved the proposal that theé Colonial Bank should issue a loan of $50,000 on Government security in aid of the estates which suffered the greatest devastation by the recent cyclone. The Governor | also foreshadowed extensive relief works to be established by the Government to provide labor for the unemployed and! destitute. The colonists are dissatisfled | with the attitude of the imperial authori- | tles, but regard the measures adopted as simply temporary. —_——— Veterans Meet at Long Beach. LONG BEACH, Sept. 2.—Camp Roose- velt, the temporary home of the Southern Callfornia Veterans' Assoclation, was | thronged to-day with visitors and old soldfers. A large number of Eastern vet- erans who have been in attendance upon the National Encampment at San Fran- { cisco visited the camp, many of them finding old comrades, whom they had not | seen for years, among the California | members. > — Aguinaldo Condemns Gambling. MANILA, Sept. 2—Aguinaldo, the ex- revolutionary leader, but now a pronounc- ed supporter of the policy maintained by the United States in the.jsland depend- ency, has just addressed a létter of advice to his countrymen. In this he urges them to forsake their besetting sin—gambling; to improve their methods of agriculture and to attend the public schools so gene- rously provided to afford them education- al facilities. - —_————— American Case Strong. LONDON, Sept. 2.—Arguments of the United States and Great Britain, based on the cases and counter-cases in the Alaskan boundary arbitration already filed, were submitted to-day to the Alas- kan Boundary Commissidners. One of the Canadian counsel said after reading the American brief that it was a strong doc- ument, but he thought that Great Britain had a fighting chance. ———p—— Succumbs to Her Injuries. MONTEREY, Sept. 2.—Miss Brown, who was run over by the Del Monte Express near Pacific Grove depot yesterday evening and had beth féet cut oft, died from her injuries. The deceased, who had been spending the summer at Pacific Grove, was a resident of Stockton. —_———————— ‘Colima Continues Active. CITY OF MEXICO, Sept. 2—Colima volcano continues interfhittently more ac- —_————— Steal for Agent of France. BERLIN, Sept. 2—The sergeant and six privates who were recently arrested for treason at Metz, havesconfessed that they stole two bombs with the new secret fuses-attached for an agent of Fran s 8 Reckless Shooter Fires Into the Hicks Home. \ Town Marshal Kerns Finds Footprints of Armed Miscreant. e Berkeley Office San Francisco Call, 2148 Center Street, Sept. 2. ‘With a reckless disregard of the conse- quences, some miscreants fired a volley of | pistol shots shortly after midnight this | morning on Benvenue avenue. One of | the bullets crashed through a plate glass | window in the front of the residence of Lewis Hicks of 2631 Benvenue avenue, and that no one was killed was no fault of the shooter, for he kept on firing shot after shot. After going through the glass the | bullet dropped to the floor, having been nearly spent. The noise aroused members of the family, who went downstalirs and later found the bullet-on the carpet in the parlor. “I don’t believe there was any motive back of the shooting,” sald Mr. Hicks to- day. "It was simply some drunken mis- creant, But whoever he was the reckless fellow might have killed some of us with his promiscous shooting.” Marshal Kerns i{s trying to trace the shooter and believes he has a clew In a footprint found in front of the Hicks home, ———el . RAILROADS PLANNING TRANSCONTINENTAL TRAIN Expected to Lessen Time From San Francisco to New York Ten Hours. OMAHA, Nebr., Sept. 2—Backed by the Union and Southern Pacific, Northwest- ern, New York Central anc Lake Shore, a plan is now on foot to run a trai from | coast to coast and for this purpose a | company is being organized with a cap- | ital of $1,000,000 to furnish the equipment | and handle the train. It is understood that all of the stock in the new company will be held by the roads mentioned, over whose tracks the train will run. The train will not only be a through | train from New York City to San Fran- cisco, but will, it is calculated, make the journey from ocean to ocean in from ten to twelve hours less than it can be done with the best connections at present. For several years the Harriman Interests have been working toward this end.and have spent millions of dollars in straight- ening their tracks and reducing the grades, so that better time and service might be given. —_—e—— PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS NAME A STATE TICKET Platform Adopted Is Very Brief and | Deals With Local Issues | Solely. HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 2—The| Democratic State Convention nominated the following ticket to-day by acclama- | tion: | Auditor General—Senator A. G. Dewalt, | Lehigh County. : State Treasurer—Senator Joel G. Hill, ‘Wayne County. Judges of the Supreme Court—Ex-Judge Calvin Reyburn, Armstrong County, and | John A. Ward, Philadelphia. he platform adopted is briefer than | the usual Democratic declaration of prin- ciples, and is devoted entirely to State issues. The greater part of it deals with the last Legislature and its work and the | conduct of the State government. —————— GUNBOAT AND STEAMER IN BOW-ON COLLISION Scorpion Drives Holes in the Metro- politan Liner H. M. Whitney in East River. | NEW YORK, Sept. 2—The Metropoli- tan Line steamer H. M. Whitney, bound | for Boston, was in collision in the East | River to-day with the gunboat Scorpion. The Scorpion struck the Whitney on the | starboard bow and drove two holes in| the vessel, one about seven feet above | the water-line and the other about two | feet above. The Whitney put back to | her pier, where she discharged her freight | | and passengers. The Scorpion had a large hole stove in her bow. She progeeded to | the navy yard, where she was pumped out and laid up for repairs. —e——————— EIGHT THOUSAND MEN MAY CEASE THEIR WORK Every Coal Mine in Missouri Is in Danger of Being Closed. KANSAS CITY, Sept. 2.—All the 8000 coal miners in Missouri may become in- volved unless the 500 men in the Novinger district return to work promptly. They went out against the orders of President John Mitchell and in violation of -the Chicago conference, and the operators may refuse to enter the conference scheduled to be held here September 10. If the operators should decline to con- fer further, it is predicted that it will re- sult in the closing of all the mines in the State, ————————— MRS. MOLINEUX LEAVES DAKOTA WITH DIVORCE Former Wife of the Man Who Was Tried for Murder Goes East. SIOUX FALLS, Sept. 2.—It has been discovered that Mrs. Roland B. Molineux s departed from Sioux Falls and she is believed to be in New York. A divorce decree is supposed to have been granted to her In some interior county. The testi- mony in her case was taken last July before a referée at Castlewood, - Hamlin County, and the decree was granted a few days a —_——————— Alaska Mines Are Short of Help. TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 2.—The shortage of workmen continues so great that the large mines of Southeastern Alaska are unable to secure sufficient labor, though they pay high wages. The Treadwell mines announce their inability to employ 50 men on Douglas Island and in open- ing the Berners Bay mines which the company has just purchased. The clos- ing of many Klondike mines last month because of a water shortage has led Su- perintendent McDonald of the Treadwell mines to announce in the Skagway pa- pers that his company will employ out- coming miners to the number of 500, guar- anteeing them steady work. —_——e——————— Trial Board Figures Speed. PORTLAND, Me., Sept. 2—The trial board which witnessed the offictal run of the cruiser Cleveland yesterday was in session to-day figuring up the tidal ques- tions and its report on the trip. There was one accident, the breaking of the port air pump and one slow-down of something over a minute to let a schooner go by in safety. She reached a speed above the contract Nmit for a portion of the run, but failed to average the sixteen and a half knots re- quired. Victor Walkirez Cééér Is, Now on Trial at Oakland. Confessed Murderer of Aged. Woman Confronted by Her Skull : Oakland Offce San Francisco Call; 1118 Broadway, Sept. 2 After consuming nearly thiee days in an effort to obtain a jury to sit in trial om - Victor Walkirez, the self-confessed mur- deérer of aged Elizabeth Leroy, the panel was completed this afternoon and the fol- lowing men have the fate of the young negro in their hands: William Berry, Pat- rick Carroll, J.-A. F. Schnoor, William H. Rouse, Reuben Wiand, Joiin H. Troy,.S. L. Potter, Emil Kirchoff, Charles M. Cor- nell, Nelson ‘Provost, W. Thornally an Thomas E. McGuire. s s The trial was begun by District At- torney Allen, who made a short opening statement of the crime for ‘which Wallk Tez is now being tried. He then intro- duced drawings and diagrams of the Le- roy house, made by the County Surveyor, for the purpose of showing where the ° :’nurder was committed and the body hid- en. fs. Dr. O. D. Hamlin was the next witness called and he brought with him the skull of Mrs. Leroy to show that the skull had not been fractured by a blow, but that’ ° tion. the woman had been killed by strangula-. ' A petition was filed by Public Adminis- trator George Gray to-day. to sell the af- fects of Mrs. Leroy in order to pay fu- neral expenses and thode of the Adminis- trator. The estate consists of a small quantity of personal property and a small house and lot valued at $500 located-at Halleck avenue and Green. street. R Other witnesses examined for the .pros— ecution were Dr. J. M. Kane, who assist- ed at the Leroy autopsy; Deputy Coroner Henry Quellen and Detective Denny Hol-_ land. Unless there shall be a fight over the admission of the confession made.by . Walkirez, District Attorney Allen expects to complete his case to-morrow. nesses will be Chief of Police Hodgkins, Captain of Police Petersen, Detéctive - George Kyte and Mrs. Anna Ross, the" negro strangler’s consort. SR — e BELIEVES THE BURGLAR His wit-- ROBBED OTHER PLACES BERKELEY, Sept. 2—Town Marshal Kerns believes that Charles Gaylor,- the burglar caught in a linen closet yesterday by Mrs. Leon J. Richardson, alded by her husband and father, Warring Wilkinson, . is the thief who committed a number: of burglaries during last month. Chief of these crimes was the plundering of A.- H. Handle’s jewelry store of $250 worth of watches and spectacles, and it is through these watches Kerns hopes to identify the captured burglar. Nothing was found in the man’s room when it was searched but a note telling of his fruitiess attempts to rob Miss Head's school, which was ad-~ dressed to a supposed confederate, . Kerns is keeping the name to himself in .the hope of catching ‘him, in. which case he will probably find the place used by, the burglars for the disposal of the stolen goods, . 5 Gaylor's preliminary examination will be held to-morrow morning at 10 o’clock in Justice Edgar’s court. - He has sum- moned as witnesses Kerns, Constable | Pickett and the bartender of the saloon at Adelide and Felton streets, by whom he, expects to prove that he was intoxicated at the time of the Richardson episode.” ——————n p Explosion Injures Workmen.- - RIVERSIDE, Sept. 2.—Three men -were hurt this morning by _the premature ex; plosion of some powder at Pachapha Hill, where the Salt Lake Railroad is pleseing the ledge for its road into Riverside. John Schreiver, foreman for Grant Bros., the | contractors, was badly burned about the face and may lose his eyesight. C. H. Lohr and a Mexican, both laborers, weré less seriously injured. . e r—— Marriage Licenses. OAKLAND, Sept. 2.—The following marriage licenses were. issued by ° the County Clerk to-day: John Edmund Me- Elroy, aged over 21 years, Oakland, and Anna Elizabeth Haas, over 18, Haywards; Charles Burns, 28, ‘and Mamie Ball, 27, both of Oakland: Albert J. Oliver, 31, and Edna Boeusch, 2; both of Ban Franeisco; Guy W. Smith, 21, and Marle A. J. Heincke, 18, both of Oakland- ADVERTISEMENTS. ‘A Mrs. Danforth, Mich., telis how of falling of the accompanying pains. “Life looks dark woman feels '%“.:?fm away an: ];lvzg beinyg restored. feeli: a few months was advised that my p;)or caused rolapsus or fa/ knell to me, I felt that my sun but I%dln E. Phkhlllld a .';l table Compound cameé restored elixir of life; it forces and built me up until