The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 1, 1903, Page 3

THE €AN GLACIER POINT RISES GUARD-LIKE OVER LE CONTE MEMORIAL BUILDING Costly Tribute Erected by the Sierra Club of San Francisco to the Beloved Educator Will Prove of Much Interest®to the Hundreds of Tourists Who Will Visit the Yosemite During the Wint er -+ A Marriage of a2 Stockton Belle. Only those who use it know the luxury of it. Pears’ is the purest and best toilet soap in all the world. Established over 100 years. Cheap? Schilling’s Best are worth double, if risk and troublc The extracts and spice are worth from two to thirty- fold, BELOVED INSTRUCTOR AND VIEW SIERRA C. UB OF S o5 WHO DIED IN OF BUILDING ERECTED TO HIS MEMORY N FRANCISCO. THE YOSEMITE VALLEY BY THE DEATH SUMMONS J0KN MCCIRTHY Former Democratic Poli- tician Passes Away at San Jose. Special Dispatch to The Call John McCarthy, a politician SAN JOSE former prominent and sp! Sept Democratic his hom illness. an in this eity last evening He had a few weeks ago which caused his tmas set death McCa was a native of County Cueif, Ireland, and was 5) years old. He cane to California fromi Ireland in 1868 with his | parents avd brothers. They settled in San Francisco, and John McCarthy, with brothers, Edward and Thomas Mc- rthy, estabiished large coffee and spice s at 113 Front street, and for years mi | the firm bas been tie largest of its kind in the 8 Jokn McCarthy was prominent in the politics of San Francisco for more than | twenty years, aad for fifteen years was | among the leading Democrats of the State. He had been a member of the State Central Committee for the last two years. McCarthy Was president of the Manhattan Club in 8an Francisco and was regarded as a great political organ- | izer. In 1898 he retired from active work | and removed to San Jose, where he had since resided. He still retained an irter- {est in the firm of MecCarthy Bros. and | was the chief owner of the Hollister Wa- | ter Works. He also owned much property | et A widow survives him. Police Com- missioner Willlam McCarthy of this city | 1s a brother of the deceased. The funeral | services will be held to-morrow at 11 a. m. from St. Joseph's Catholic Church in this city, with interment at Santa Clara. —_—— ‘Woman Swallows Carbolic Acid. REDDING, Sept. 30.—Ro.e Carroll of Keswick, who carried three bullets as the result of having been made a target for the revolvers of enraged men on different occasions, tried to end her life to-day at heswick by swallowing carbolic acid. Bbe is not expected to recover l manufacturer-6f San Francisco, | been ill | |in Hollister, San Francisco and in this | NES B STBLE HER HOME PLACE | Eccentric Arrested on Charge | of Vagrancy. Young Miss Special Dispatch to The Call. | SAUSALITO, Sept. 20.—Because she ate | v.'Ar.u' lept in a stable, roamed about in the woods at all hours of the day and | night and performed other eccentric acts, | | Hattie Eaton, £ald ‘to be the daughter of | | a San Francisco business man, was tried | Pefore Justice Pryor this afternoon on a charge of vagrancy preferred by Joseph [ Landgraff Sr.. a Mill Valley stable keep- | er. Landgraff alleged that the girl ren- dered herself a nuisance about his place |and by her conduct made her presence | undesirable. He declared that she has | been sleeping n a stall in his stable, to | which place she brought her food. { The girl, who is pretty and well dressed, | told Judge Pryor that she was employed | at the stable by Joseph Landgraff Jr. to | keep books. Pryor subpenaed the young‘ man to be present and produce the books, | but the boy falled to appear and the girl 1 was discharged. —_———— Dust Causes Death of Horses. READING, Sept. 3).—Horse owners have been puzzled at the cause of the deaths of many horses at McCloud, a big lumber camp near Sisson. They have now reached the conclusion that the great amount of dust on the roads lead- ing into the camp is the cause. The ani- mals plodding through It, dragging heavy | loads, kick up great clouds of the dust and it is inhaled by them, causing a dis- | ease similar to quick consumption. { —_———— Plumbers’ Strike Is Declared Off. | PORTLAND, Or., Sept. 3.—The plumb- ers’ strike, which has been on here for six weeks, was declared off to-day. The men returned to work at the old wages, | $4 50 per day. They demanded $ per day. —_————— Railroad Officers Are Re-elected. PORTLAND, Or., Sept. 30.—At the an- nual meeting of the board of directors of the Oregon Rallroad and Navigation Com- pany to-day all of the officers were re- elected 1 | creted money that the murder was com- | mitted. | without avail. | ing to and from these diggings. Dunlap; was a veteran of the Civil War. He had | no relatives in the West. ° L[] | but this long period made the t: | presented Henry F. | mandments, the sermon on the mount MINER 15 KILLED FOR HI MONEY Slayer Searches Cabin of Victim for Gold and Valuables. William Dunlap Meets Death in the Mountain Forests of Louse Creek. GRANTS PASS, Or., Sept. 30.—The body | of William Dunlap, an aged miner, was found yesterday near his cabin on the mountain forests of Louse Creek. Dun- lap had a bullet hole in his side and an investigation proved that he had been murdered. His cabin had been looted and | the contents strewn about in confusion, | as if the murderer, after committing the | crime, had made a hurried search for coin and valuables. Dunlap had lived alone on Louse Creek for many years, mining a rich placer claim. He was eccentric and miser-like | in his habits, and this led many to be- | lieve that he had a fortune buried in or | near his cabin. It was to find this se- An inquest was held over the body and it was found that Dunlap had been dead | for several days. The murderer had ample | time to make good his escape. The offi- cers are making a diligent search, but | Dunlap’s cabin stood near | the main road to the Granite Hill mines and was much frequented by miners go- NSUBINCE AN MAY £0 T0 JAL Solicitor for an Eastern Company Accused of Forgery. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, Sept. 30.—J. D. Chandler, a solicitor for the Metropolitan Life In-| surance Company of New York, was | charged with forgery in Justice Benson's | court this afternoon. R The complainant is lly, district manager of - the Chandler was employed to so- urance in the town of Hollister. | given a form of forty-eight year | policy to get subscribers, | hard one. In order to do a good business Chandler, it is clalmed, told the citizens he would make .the endowment twenty years. Under this pretense -he insured a number of perso After making out a policy he would send it to the company made out on the original forty-eight year blank. When the policy would be return- ed Chandler, it is ciaimed, would scratch out the words forty-eight and make the policy read for a twenty-year endowment. He is charged with forging the policies and increasing his commission. A war- rant for the arrest of Chandler has been | given to Sheriff Langford. 1 ——e ASSISTANT SECRETARY 3 ! TALKS WITH PRESIDENT Armstrong Declares That Business Conditions Show the Country’s Wonderful Prosperity. WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—Among the callers on the President to-day was James R. Garfleld, acting Secretary of the De- partment of Commerce and Labor, who Green, the recently appointed Civil Service Commissioner, Assistant Becretary Armstrong of the Treasury Department had a chat with the President concerning business and politi- cal conditions in the West, through which section he has just made an extended trip. He told the President that the won- derful prosperity of the country never was better exemplified than it is just now by the business conditions which prevail in practically every State. | Lieutfnant General Young, chief of staff; Paymaster General Harris, Briga- dier General Humphreys and Colonel El- | liott, all in full uniform, called on the | President to pay their respects. | —_——— DEPLORES THE LACK | OF CHURCH TRAINING Chancellor McCracken of New York University Favors a New En- trance Requirement. NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—Chancellor Mc- Cracken of the New York University de- plored the lack of church training shown J W compan licit in endowment | by the average student in his annual ad- dress to the student body to-day. He said: I wish we cou!d require from every fresh- man s Sunday-school diploma that would o tify that he knew by heart the ten o a church catechism of some kind, a score of the Serip- ture psalms and best classic s. This university will join 2ny association of uni- versities and colleges that will demand this as an entrance requirement. So much as in us lies we will make the college a place for preserving and strengthening reverence for things divine. —_—— Stock Yards on Exhibition. | CHICAGO, Sept. 30.—The packing- houses were the chief entertainers of Chicago’s Centennial visiters to-day, and over 100,000 persons, most of them stran- gers in the city, visited the “yards” dur- ing the-day. In addition to the stock- vards show, a carnival of amateur swim- ming and rowing championship races at the Lineoln Park lagoon was begun. Owing to inclement weather the firewcrks display scheduled for to-night on the lake front was postponed until Friday night. ——— Brothers Calmly Await Death. DANNEMORA, N. Y. Sept. 30.—Not one sensational feature marks the prep- | aration for the execution at noon to- | morrow of the three Van Wormer broth- ers, condemned to die for the murder of their uncle, P. A. Hallenbeck. | The three young men, fully aware that no human power will now avail to save them from their fate, await the end with the calmness they have displayed ever since they arrived at the prison. ——————— Heavy Fall of Rain in Shasta County. | REDDING, Sept. 30.—The first rain of the season was accompanied this evening | by thunder and lightning. The downpeur, which was heavy, was welcomed by all except the prune growers in Southern Shasta, who had their crop out drying. The prunes were taken ir, but the drying is thus delayed and expenses increased. ——————— Fire at Agricultural Park. SAN JOSE, Sept. 30.—A fire at Agricul- ! tural Park this afternoon destroyed a line of sheds, 100 tons of hay and a hay press. The hay was the property of the assocla- tion and the press was owned by a Mr. Bradshaw. Loss about $3000, partly in- sured. ! be filed against Allen. | and Deputy Sherift Baker. | Missing Woman Is Found Drowned. | FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1903. STATE POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL DRAWS STUDENTS FROM ALL OVER COAST First Exercises of the N.ew'/Educational Institution in San Luis Obispo County Will Be Conducted To-Day, but the Formal Dedica- tion and Opening Will Not Take Place Until a Later Date — E3 MOB SEEKS LIFE - OF A MINISTER Prisoner Is Accused of Committing Serious Crimes. VENTURA, Sept. 30.—. F. Allen, a wealthy Free Methodist minister of Santa Paula, is.in the County Jail at Ventura under $15,000 bonds, charged by Mrs. Lar- sen with assault. It is alleged that Allen attacked Drusilla Larsen, aged 11 years. His preliminary examination has been set for Saturday. Allen was arrested late last night on a warrant charging attempted assault on May Richardson, aged 9 years. Mrs. Richardson, the complaint. Upon Allen's arraignment this afternoon Judge Tutus dismissed the charge, but held Allen on the Larsen war- rant. Allen owns about twenty dwelling houses in Santa Paula. He built the Free Methodist Church at that place. It iIs alleged there are other charges to All of his alleged | victims live in the neighborhood of the | church, where it is reported the crimes | were committed. : At midnight last night a mob attempted to lynch Allen. A rope was secured and the mob marched to the City Jail and de- manded the prisoner from Guard Sawyer Dr. Mott beg- ged the crowd to preserve order and let the law take its course. The determined stand of the officers prevented the mob from breaking in the jall door. Santa Paula citizens were highly inflamed over Allen's alleged. crimes. The mob was not dispersed until 4 o'clock this morning. Sheriff McMartin was summoned to the scene this morning. Allen is 60 years old and married. ————— U. S. GRANT LOSES SUIT AGAINST FRANK QUEREAU Court Decides That Lessee of Horton House Is Still Entitled to Possession. SAN DIEGO, Sept. 30.—The case of U. | S. Grant Jr. against Frank Quereau for possession of the Horton House, of which the plaintiff is-the owner and the defend- ant tke tenant, was decided to-day by Judge Torrance in favor of the latter, who, under the decision, is entitled to holé possession until November 1. The court held that the acceptance of rent after the first of last March by Grant's agent was equivalent to a renewal of the lease for another year. It is also held that he verbal agreement | set up in the complaint that the lease was to be from month to month had not been proved. Grant leased the house to C. W. Robinson, formerly of the Hotlll Coronado, and desired to give him possession. T D T R SAN DIEGO, Sept. 20.—The body of Mrs. A. J. Morris, who has been missing since Monday night, was found in the bay to- | day near National City, where it had drifted from the Santa Fe wharf, a dis- tance of three miles from were she was last seen. She had evidently carried her | oft repeated thregt of suicide, while la- | boring under temporary mental derange- | ment, as there were no ‘visible evidences | of foul play. — e May Receive Call to Pastorate. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30.—It is expect- ed that Rev. Frank de Witt Talmage, D. D., son of T. de Witt Talmage, will be called to the pastorate of the First Pres- byterian Church of this city to succeed the Rev. Aquilla Webb, whose resignation was recently accepted. Dr. Talmage is at present in Los Angeles. It Is sald that he has expressed a willingness to accept the pastorate of the church. Murderer of Policeman Dies. SEATTLE, Sépt. 30.—Willlam Thomas, the man shot and capturgd by the police at the time of the killin€ of Policeman Albert Schwan on the night of Septem- ber 13, died at the County Jail to-day. Thomas was one of the gang encountered by Schwan and it was while the officer was attempting to make an arrest that he was shot. ——— Sail for Honolulu With 0il Cargoes. VENTURA, Sept. 30.—The steamer ‘Whittier, towing the barkentine Fuller- | the child’s mother, swore to | | recefved from others. | State, and is designed to draw students {in the U | culture, A 11 - -I-“ TWO TRUSTEES OF STATE POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL AND HEAD INSTRUCTOR. k { + | Special Dispatch to The Call. AN LUIS OBISPO, Sept. 30.—The fizet exercises of the California State Polytechnic School will be conducted to-morrow. The formal opening and dedication of the school will not occur until a later date. A postponement has been occasioned by the Incomplete condition of the buildings. The school will open under most aus-| plcious circurstances and the prospects for a large attendance are very satisfac- tory, for, aside from the number of pupiis | that have signified their intention of at- tending, inquiries are constantly being Nearly all of the puplls that have been registered are from out of this city and will live at the dormi- tory during their school life. The California State Polytechnic School a free institution, supported by the is from all over the coast—being the only | school of its character west of the Rocky | Mountains and one of the few of its kind A States. It occuples a place by its self in the California school sys. tem and proposes to furnish to both sexes ental and manual training in the arts sciences and was designed solely for those who immediately expect to take up the battle of life as soon as their schoo! days are over. The branches to which particular attention will be given are agri- mechanies, engineering, business methods, domestic economy and such other studies as will fit the student for the non-professional occupations. The course of study appeals more particulariy | to young pecple who reside in rural com- | munities. Nothing will be neglecte: which will develop and broaden the mind and mate the eye and hand more skillful. SCHOOL IS WELL SITUATED. The course of study will include all in-| dustrial trades requiring manual skill, | such as carpentry and cabinet work, brick | and masonry work, forge work and gen- | eral blacksmithing. Higker mechanics, en- | gineering, architecture and other trades will be added as soon as possible. In the academic studies special stress will be placed upon chemistry, physics, botany, entomology, physiology, zoology and pay- sical geography. Agriculture, both in classroom and field demonstration, will receive a large degree of attention; the study of soils, culture of fruits, vines and fleld crops and animal and dairy studies will be treated exhaustively. It is pro- posed to establish a dairy school and give practical instruction in dairy work. The school is situated upon a tract of 250 acres adjoining this city on the north, and as the tract consists of a number of different soils it is admirably adapted for its purpose. Two buildings are now erected and others are to follow as soon as they are needed. The head of the Cezlifornia State Poly- technic School is Dr. Leroy Anderson, a specialist in agriculture and an educator of high and broad aims. He iIs a native of Magee, Seneca County, N. Y. He was raised on a farm, on which he passed most of his life until he entered Cernell University, from' which he graduated with the degree of bachelor of science. In ton and barge Santa Paula, sailed to-day for Honolulu via San Francisco with 35,- 000 barrels of Ventura County crude oil. —_——— STOCKTON, Sept. 30.—The jury in the case of Thomas D. Gardenhire, charged with wrong- ing Estella Dewey, a twelve-year-old girl, re- turned a verdict of guilty this morning, Sen- tence will be next Mondav. 18%-97 he was fellow in agriculture, in 18971200 he was assistant in deiry hus- bandry at Corpell. In 1900-1%2 Dr. Ander- son was instructor in animai and dairy industry in the University of California and also received the appointment of as- sistant professor. In 1%2 he was selected as the director of the California State Polytechnic School. He has received the | in, | able semi-annually, | Hospital from a complication of diseases. Court Places Receiver in Charge of the Property. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30.—Application | tor a receiver was made to-day before Judge Olin Wellborn for the Fresno Wa- ter Company, and as a result T. E. New- vice president of the American Na- tional Bank, is in charge of the property. The litigation is stated by attorneys for the several Interests involved to be in the nature of a friendly proceeding. The company is sald to be sound financially; but In order to untie certain legal knots the bonds outstanding will be retired and new securities will be floated in their stead. In the bill that has been filed the Illi- nois Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago is plaintiff and alleges that on April 1, 18%0, a trust was made, by the terms of which the Fresno corporation was per= mitted to issue bonds In the sum of $500,~ | 000, bearing interest at & per cent, pay- April and October 1 of each year. The company's entire plant was given as security in the obligation. Only 3$350,000 of bonds found their way into the hands of purchasers, who are scattered throughout the United States and England. Of the securities sent into the market 315,000 worth have been redeemed and canceled. There is outstanding bonds in the amount of 3310000, on which interest is due and unpald, in the sum of nearly 330,000 for eighteen months. The | semi-annual payment at 6 per cent, from | April 1, 1902, s $5300. It is charged in the bill filed to-day that 15 per cent of the company’s gross re- ceipts. which was to have been applied annually to a sinking fund, has not been used for the purpose and the foreclosurs of the property is desired for the reasons set forth. § ——— Work on Inter-Urban Railway. SAN JOSE, Sept. 3.—The construction of the San Jose-Los Gatos Interurbam Electric Railway is being rushed in the city. Ties and rafls are now lald from the city limits up San Carlos street to Market and along that street to San Fer- nando. The road will be entirely com- pleted to the depot in another week. The road is built from San Jose to Saratoga and the work of erecting the brapeh to Los Gatos is nearly completed. There are about 200 feet yet to be built at the narrow sgauge crossing near this city. Wires are being strung along the line and the power-house near Saratoga is nearing completion. The cars are expected here about the middle of October, and it is said the road will be in vperation by No- vember 1 ———— Exposure to Cold May Kill Veteran. SAN JOSE, Sept. 30.—Hiram Wilson, an aged soldler, is dying at the Recelving Up to a few days ago he was an inmate of the County Infirmary. Last Monday afternoon he left the institution and the next day the police founl him in a help- less and almost senseless condition from exposure. Wilson is nearly 7 years of age. He has a son living in Seattle. It is believed the old man can live but a few days. —_———— s of Being Mail Robbers. SALINAS, Sept. 0.—Officers this after- noon arrested two men at Monterey om suspicion of being the perpetrators of the mail robbery at that place yesterday. They expect to have the others in jall be- fore many hours. It is stated that strong incriminating evidence was found upoa the persons of the suspects. @ il @ following degrees, all from Cornell Uni- versity: 139, bachelor of sclence, 1397, master of sclence In agriculture; 192, doc- tor of philosophy. BILL PASSES BOTH HOUSES. The bill creating the school was intro- duced Into the Legislature by Hon. 8. C. Smith of Bakersfield, then State Senator from this Senatorial district during the session of 190l Senator Smith was ably seconded in the Assembly by Assemb'y- man Warren M. John of this county. The bill passed beth houses with hardly a dis- senting vote and was signed by Goiverror Gage. It carried with it an eppropriation of 350,000, available Januar; 1, 192 The Legislature of 198 appropriated $31,000 for buildings aud $34.000 for the expenses of the school for the suceeeding two years. The trustees of the school are 8. C. Smith, Bakersfield, chairman; Warren M. John, San Luis Obispo; E. J* Wickson, Berkeley; F. A. Hihn. Santa Crus; R. M. Shackelford, Paso Robles.