The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 17, 1903, Page 2

FRE I ABERDEEN CHLSES FOUR DEATHS AND $1000000 105 Continued From Page 1, Columns 2 and 8. %+ The flames, which bad jumped across H street to Patterson & Locke’s office, continued through every block to the Pacific Hotel, and this newly constructed bullding was soon destroyed. The fire then jumped from the block bounded by Heron, Wishkah, I and H streets to the splendid residence of Edward Hulbert, on ‘Wishksh and I streets. The opera-house, all the material and bulldings of the new hospital association and the residence of T. B. Dudley went next. DYNAMITE IS USED TO STOP PROGRESS OF THE FIRE. In order to stop the further progress of the flames dynamite was used in several buildings on which the flames were advancing. As the wind blew directly from the cast, the fire was carried In a dlagonal way from Heron up to I street, destroying the residence of W. B. Mack. - Telephone messages brought the fire departments of Hoquiam and Montesano to the scene and they Jid effective work. All sorts of reports concerning the death or ry of well-known busitess men were current. While four deaths have resulted from the fire, the accidents were comparatively few. At 2 o'clock fire was under control. of about 700 and the chief industry is lumbering. Several large sawmilis are located near the town, but the fire did not reach them. When the fire had reached the Pullman saloon several men were hurt by a wall giving way. Among the injured w Chief Koehler, who was rendercd un- later os. J. D. Hansen and Colin McKinzie Eugle dance ball. MecKinzie was caught broken. He was taken to the hospital, conscious, but where he The otk legged fiding the es were at the Mack bullding, where Charies Rolfs, a one- sated. When the flames had completely enveloped the pectators were norrified by seeing Daniel Webster, a wel:-known , appear at one of tis windows. Before a ladder couli be raised to his ed. Almost every bone in his body was broken and hé died soon moved to the hospital. An unknown man was killed by a falling was cre after being wall PRINCIPAL SUFFERERS ARE THE BUSINESS MEN. It is § ssibie to give detalled figures, but the following are the names of liquor dealer, building and stock; J. G. Lewis, building occupied ompson, liquor dealer D. Dabney, building occupied by Bos- n Oyster House and M. Kaufman, liguor dealer; Mrs. A. J. Anderson, building occupied by Evans Drug Company; George Fisher's clothing store; Olympus g owned by Le & Lewis; Restaurant Mitchell Franciscovitch; building occupied D. J. Hoffron and L. W. Walker; Grant oceupied by Fogel's clothing store; N. G. Kaufman, bullding Cross, attorney; R. J. Hitz, M. R. Sherwood, Eugene France, C. . Bush, Aberdeen Lumber and Shingle Company, Colonel J. W. A. Hood; building occupied by the Pullman saloon, owned by Tacoma; Samuel Benn, bullding occupied by Salvation Army tionery store; Aberdeen Brewing Company, building occupied by Union s. Mason, San Fra ), bullding occupied by Gem saloon; O. L. Crain, ding known as the Mack block, where the fire originated; city of Aberdeen fire hall and jail building; F. K. Drake, building occupied by Jacobs’ liquor store; Smith Drug Company, stock, building owned by R. T. Dabney; D. E. Lane, dental office; J. C. Hogan, attorney, office furniture and library; Dabney block, occu- restaurant, Drake’s barber shop and two second-hand stores; A. occupled by Ole Vanmen; M. Katurich, restaurant; R. R. handise; Dabney & Pearson, building occupled by Hudson's store; the Bodega bullding. owned by Devonshire & Lowrie; R. T. three bulldings, one occupied by Lars Shaker, one by Shaw's station- nt; Mrs. Willey, building occupied by Mrs. A. H. Marsh, [heater, bui Ole Pet al Dabney store and one Va« fllinery; Gabrielson & Holmer, building and stock of groceries, and others. | GAINS FAVORG FOR TERMIND3 Ballaine Succeeds in His Mission to Wash- ington. LEGAGY VESTS Surrogate Benton De- livers Important Decision. INGTON, Oct. 16.—J. E. Bal finance committee of the | Railway, who has been |court concerning a matter of Roman Cath- last week | olic belief since it was held In this State truction | years ago that a priest cannot be com- ROCHESTER, N. Y., Oct. 16.—The most sweeping ruling work ¢ road, has been succ The road will southern coast of e Tanna River, 420 n when completed all | projected fessional, was handed down to-day by Surrogate George A, Benton. The case is that of John 8. Keenan, as administrator of the estate of Rev. James on the daily communication | H. Kiernan. Keenan put in a claim for thre o year. It is being built at | $0 willed to Father Klernan for masses Ses & yar. by Daniel Lane. Lane died July 3, 1897, personally recom- of departments the ess Ballaine had with public dependence on the development of re- Alaska. The Postoffice De- a postoffice and Father Kiernanm May 13, 190. Judge Benton says: “It is not natural to suppose that the testator making a bequest for such a pur- pose would so distrust his legatee as to insist that the service should be performed before the money was paid.” . The substance of the decision is that the performance of the masses by the priest in such & case is a duty laid upon the conscience of the clergyman alone, and that the legacy vests in the priests and passes to his legal representativé, who is in a position to claim its payment. The case has no exact parallel in the history of United States courts. —_———— Towa Postoffice Robbed. SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Oct. 16.—Robbers blew open the safe in the Lynn Grove, nclude in its esti- jon of the Government mg the southern coast of Alaska ropriation sufficient to make of the cable's objective r Department gave al approval to the surveys of the road The Department of Commerce and Labor has requested the Lighthouse Board to provide a lighthouse at the entrance to Seward Warbor. cable a money and stamps and escaped. ADVERTISEMENTS. is worthy of every confidence because it meets every test. In short it is a brilliant production. It has tone qualities that place it in the front rank as a musical instrument. Every year adds to its pop- ularity. The Hardman invariably takes satisfaction with it into every home it enters, It is beautiful architecturally, durable in construction and its touch and action are marvelous in delicacy and responsiveness. They will make it easy for you Call and get our liberal terms. to own 2 Hardman piano. The Wiley B. Allen Co. 931-983 Market Street SAN FRANCISCO Other Stores: Oakiand, San Jose and Sacramento IN THE PRIEST made in an America.n( pelied to testify to the secrets of the con- | Towa, postoffice last night, secured $2500 in | THE 8 ENGYGLIGAL INTENSE WITH POPES ZEAL Text of the Document Is Received at ‘Washington. Reaction From Leo’s Scien- tific Policies Is In- dicated. P RS T Pius X Declares His Sole Pro- gramme Is That of Restoring All Things in Christ. RS T e Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Oct. the first encyclical of Pope Plus X | reached Washington to-day. It is dated Rome, October 4. The document will be read by Catholics and non-Catholics | alike with intense interest, as leading Catholics here say it reveals the person- ality of the new Pope as a written com- | position seldom pictures the mind of its author. It breathes in every line an in-| tense religious zeal and indicates that the new Pontiff is reactionary from the | scientific policies of Leo XIIL The Pope devotes several paragraphs to exhortations and then comes to prac- | tical remedies, intimating that priests must he apostles first and scholars after- ward. He exhorts Bishops to regard their minaries for the training of their priests { as the “delight of their hearts and to be careful in the selecting of candidates.” | | He then specifies generally his theories, !and in this he reacts strongly from poli- cies of Pope Leo XIIL. The encyclical indicates, in the opinion of leading Cath- | olics, that Bishops créated by Pope Pius X will be known more for their evangeli- cal work than for their learning or sci- | | ence. | | The encyclical is more than 6000 words | long in translation. After detailing his sense of grief and | | reluctance to take the ‘papacy, Pope Pius | | X pays an eloquent tribute to his prede- cessor and then proclaims his own policy. He says: “Since, however, it has been | pleasing to the divine will to raise our lowliness to such sublimity of power, we | take courage in him who strengthens us, and setting ourself to the work, relying jon the power of God, we proclaim that we have no other programme in the supreme Pontificate but that of restoring all things in Christ, so that Christ may | be ‘all in all.’ “Some will certainly be found who, | measuring divine things by human stand- arcs, will seek to discover secret aims of ours, distorting them to an earthly scope and to partisan design, “To eliminate all vain derusion for such | | we say to them with emphasis that we do not wish to be, and with divine as- sistance never shall be, aught before hu- man socletv but the minister of God, of | whose authority we are the depository. Hence should any one ask.of us a sym- Dol as the expression of our will, we will give this and no other, to renew all things in Christ.” Continuing the Pontiff says: *“The de- sire for peace is certainly harbored in every breast and there is no one who does not ardently invoke it. But to want peace without God is an absurdity, seeing that when God is absent thence, too, jus- tice flees, and when justice is taken away | it is vain to cherish hope of peace, for peace is the work of justice. “There are many, we are well aware, who in their yearning for peace, that is. | for tranquillity of order, band themselves | Into societies and parties, which they | style ‘parties of order.” Hope and labor | | lost, for there is but one party of nrde:“ capable of restoring peace fn the midst | of_all this turmoil and that is the party of God.” A feature of the encyclical is that it | is not sealed with the fisherman’s sign, | | from which it is argued that this relic | | of the papacy has not yet been found since the death of Pope Leo XIIT. —_————————— OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST Several Fourth - Class Postmasters | Are Appointed and Other Changes in Service Made. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—Postoffices es- tablished: ‘Washington—Brief, Chelan County, Libbie Mitchell postmaster; Ca- mano, Island County, May K. Esary post- | master. Fourth-class postmasters appointed: California—Belle Shiell, Tuttletown, Tu- olumne County, vice Elizabeth Sweaer, | resigned. Oregon—Simon L. McKenzie, | Lostine, Wallowa County, vice R. C. Po- ley, resigned. Washington—Joseph V. Prosser, McCain, King County, vice Isaac | G. McCain, resigned; V. B. Nelson, Pat- eros, Okanogan County, vice Jessie E. Nosler, resigned; Charles W. Moore, Troutlake, vice Willlam F. Stadelman, re- signed. Army orders: Major Adrian S. Polhe- | mus, surgeon, from San Francisco to Fort Crook, Neb.; Charles M. Mandy, surgeon and first lieutenant, and George Crabtree, assistant surgeon, from San Francisco to Fort Wayne, Ind., and Fort Columbus, N. Y., respectively. Naval orders: Passed Assistant Surgeon D. H. Morgan, when discharged from treatment at Naval Hospital, Mare Isl- and, granted three months’ sick leave. ——————— APPEALS TO ELLERY FOR USE OF ALHAMBRA Mayor Schmitz Finds It Difficult to Get Hall for Eve of Election. PORTLAND, Or, Oct. 16.—Channing Pllery, manager of the Royal Itallan Band, now staying here, is in receipt of a letter from Eugene Schmitz, Mayor of San Francisco, asking him to allow the Union Labor pug the use of the Alham- bra Theater on Monday night, November 2. The Italian Band'is booked to show in the Alhambra on that date, but Mayor Schniitz points out the imperative need of himself and his party for a hall on the eve of the election and asks Ellery to cancel his'#ate. ““All the other halls, pa- 16.—The text of | | | i GENERAL CHASE MUST ANSWER . PERJURY CHARGE < o + GENERAL JOHN CHASE OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OF COLORADO. b & EX Military Court - Will Hear Case of a Colorado Officer. DENVER, Oct. 16.—Tt was definitely | €7l evidence that point toward the pol- | legarned to-day that the charges on which Brigadier General John Chase of the Colo- FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1908. BITTER FIGHT FOR THE COIN OF DEAD MAN Disappointed Relatives Attempt to Break Rogers’ Will. * Charge Among Other Things That the Decsased Was Poisoned. Widow Claimss Being Made and She Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16.—An effort to- day by the slighted heirs of the late Ben- Jamin C. Rogers of Pasadena to break his will reveals a situation possessing all the sensational' features of a sizzling poisoning, alleged blackmail, intimidation and proffers of marriage having in view a division of the Rogers estate are the features of the case. The estate is worth C. 8. Harrison of this city has called upon the Sheriff and District Attorney to investigate the death of Rogers. Harri- son’s attorney is G. A. Gibbs and he rep- resents a brother and two sisters in the son alleges that Rogers was killed by the administration of arsenic forced into grapes. He asseverates that during a residence at the Rogers home he became | possessed of verbal, written and collat- | soning of Rogers, He exhibited a bottle | of strychnine, grapes containing pojson |and a sworn statement by “Dr.” J. W. melodrama. Death, cremation, charges of | LABOR QUESTIONG FREELY DEBATED “Open Shop” Discussed by the National Civic Federation. President Gompers Checks Tendency to Wander to Socialism. P P CHICAGO, Oct. 16.—Although questions of dispute and of great interest to the wage earner and the employer, such as the ‘“open shop,” methods of paying wages, plecework and bonus, came up be- fore the conference of the Natlomal Civic | Federation to-day, no action has been de- cided upon that will improve the rela- tions of the principals in the controversy. However, it is not considered improbable that before the session is brought to a close some action toward bringing labor and capital coser together may be taken, A number of the speakers at the session to-day favored this, saying the occasion was opportune. | Among those in attendance were Henry | €. Hunter, commissioner of the Metal | Trades Association of New York; Marcus M. Marks, president of the National Clothing Manufacturers’ Assoclation of New York; M. Gunn of New York; James N. O’'Connell, president of the Interna- tional Association of Machinists; W. P. Phalder of Philadelphia; Frank Buchan- an, head of the Structural Iron Workers; John Phillips of Brooklyn; John P. Arch- {ibald of New York; Former Lieutenant Governor Coates of Colorado and Dr. Jo- siah Strong of New York. Labor men predominated in the procesd- |ings and at one time, when the discus- | East, heirs who were overlooked. Harri- | 5107 Was becoming general, several in the | | audience arose and talked on questions | which at times tended toward socialism. Samuel Gompers, president of the con- | ference, however, checked the debate and | compelled the speakers to limit the dis- cussion to topics at Issue. | James McConnell, president of the In- | ternational Assoclation of Machinists, | talked on the question of the restriction rado Nauonal Guard has been summoned | Dinsdale of Los Angeles, in which the lat. | Of Output and the methods of paying for before a military court next Monday are | ter sets forth that he was approached by.|labor performed. perjury and disobedience of orders. The | Mrs. Rogers with an offer of $100 if he | Henry White, general secretary of the perjury is in connection with the fmpris-| Would lend his assistance to her getting | United Mine Workers, spoke against the onment of Davis, one of the strike lead~ ers at Cripple Creek. General Chase signed court ria of her husband. | Mrs. Rogers, through her attorney, A. | R. Metcalfe, declares Harrison is bent on papers | blackmall and that he has made every | Workers' Assoclation, spoks on restriction of output. Frank Buchanan, president of the In- | ternational Bridge and Structural Iron “What which stated that Davis had been re-|effort to induce Mrs. Rogers to marry Can Be Done to Establish Better Rela- leased. His friends say he did not read |him, that he might get her property. | tlons Between Employer and Employe.” he papers carefully and committed the act inadvertently. His enemies say that is no excuse for the act. Charges against Colonel Frederick Gross | Harrison, says Mrs. Rogers, “discovered” that he was a I | cousin of hers and thus worked !into her home. suddenly Tg lost is way formulated by Major Arthur H. Williams ' pheen eremated. Then he wooed and wooed and General Chase. They allege that! her though Mrs. Rogers is nearly 70 and loaded weapons were drawn by Gross and | Harrison but 3). Mrs. Rogers declares Kimball on Major Williams and two or-| Harrison has an agreement' with the derlies. General Chase will file charges with the Governor against Adjutant Gen- eral Sherman Bell, but the Governor, it is intimated, will not hand them to the judge advocate unless Chase should de- mand a special court-martial. ROYAL GUESTS VISIT THE MAINT Medals Struck Off in Honor of King and Queen. PARIS, Oct. 16.—King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena of Italy, escorted by President and Madame Loubet, to-day visited the mint, where medals in their honor were struck off. The President pre- sented their Majesties with the first med- als, and Finance Minister Rouvier offered the royal visitors two caskets containing unique specimens of counters used by members of the royal house of France. Subsequently the party proceeded to the Hotel de Ville through dense crowds, who loudly acclaimed the Italian King. At the Hotel de Ville a reception was held by the | municipality, at which notabilities of com- merce, industry and the arts were pres- ent. The President of the Council and the Prefect of the Department of the Seine delivered addresses of welcome, to which the King briefly responded. The city of Paris presented to King Vie- tor Emmanuel, who is a distinguished nu- mismatist, a beautiful cabinet containing specimens of medals struck off for sover- eigns, and two ideal figures in ivory and bronze. The General Councl of the Seine | gave the Queen a reproduction in gold, enriched with brilliants and pearls, of its insignia, and a cordon of pearls. e — TAKES VESSEL BEYOND REACH OF THE COURTS Captain of the Scottish Moors Goes Out to Sea to Avoid Possible Service of a Writ. SAN DIEGO, Oct. 16.—In order to escaps possible service of a writ of habeas corpus from the Federal court at Los Angeles, Captain Todford took his ship, Scottish Moors, out of the harbor and dropped anchor beyond the three-mile limit, where he is waiting to-night for the coming of the State of California from San Fran- cisco with sailors to take the places of the deserters. He had three of his sallors arrested and taken before United States Commissioner Knoles, wno ordered them into the custody of the British Consul, and by whom they were kept in jail pending the departure of the vessel. Last evening the captain heard that some of the friends of the sailors had employed an attorney to go to Los Angeles to get out a writ and to avold its service he got his men aboard and with several others he had picked up was towed to sea early this morning. He is beyond reach of courts and proposed to remain beyond reach until he gets to Feattle. —_——————————— ‘When a British Embassador is appoint- ed to France he is allowed $20,000 for out- fit. . —_— COOK BOOK OFFER TO vilions and theaters in the city are en- gaged,” reads the letter, “and as Mayor of San Francisco and a candidate for re- | election I ask you to allow us the use of the Alhambra to hold a mass meeting l‘ on Monday night.” The letter refers to the inadvisability of performing in San Francisco on tne eve of a municipal election, and adds: “I would also point out that ‘Ben Hur, a great spectacular production, opens on the same night.”” The letter concludes with a hope that as the Italian Band has been unionized it will help out on this oc- CLOSE OCTOBER 30. The Call’s Cook Book prem- jum offer will close on October 380, 1803, and all readers of this paper who desire a copy of this | Eastern heirs that he is to recelve a | quarter of the estate If he can break the will. At the time of Rogers’ death Rose Kearns was employed In the house as domestic. Miss Kearns says she was ap- proached repeatedly by Harrison with of- fers of money if she would consent to repeat upon the witness stand whatever he would dictate. Dr. A. B. Royal, who attended Rogers in the sickness culminating in his death February 25 last, says there were no un- usual- symptoms. The case promises to be one of the bitterest ever fought in the courts of Southern California, and sensa- tional developments are expected. —_—————————— TOO YOUNG TO MARRY, BOY LOVER CONCLUDES ‘Wakens License Clerk at 2 0’Clock in Morning and Then Changes Mind. SAN JOSE, Oct. 16.—A young man giv- ing the name of Joseph Groom and a pre- possessing young miss, both of whom were well under the age limit, made an attempt to secure a marriage license shortly after 2 o’clock this morning. Two of the clerks of the County Clerk’s office were called up about that hour this morning over the telephone and asked to come down to the Courthouse and issue a marriage license. Clerk Shilue dressed and went down, and found the couple standing on the steps of the Courthouse. There was a wet fog at the time and the couple were nearly chilled through. Clerk Shilue had just got the name of the young man and began swearing him as to his age, when the would-be groom was attacked by a case of “cold feet,” and said he had concluded he was too young to get married. The girl urged her lover to get the license, but he was obstinate. The couple refused to tell who they were or where they came from. Groom is believed to be a resident of this city, but the young woman is said to come from either San Francisco, or Oakland. It is believed they came to this city last night on the theater train from San Fran- cisco and at once went to the Courthouse. No application was made for a license by them to-day and it is thought they have left the city. e — RETURNS FROM MEXICO AND IS PROMPTLY JAILED James M. Laren Wanted in Los An- geles for Perjury Is Caught at San Diego. SAN DIEGO, Oct. 16.—James M. Laren, who is wanted in Los Angeles on a charge of perjury, was arrested here this afternoon. Detective Phillip Palamontes was down here from Los Angeles looking for him several weeks ago, but he got wind of the search and skipped across the line at Tia Juana, where he remained until to-day. He left Tla Juana for San Diego at noon to-day and the officers at the line, who knew he was wanted, promptly notified the police. ‘While it is not positively known, it is belleved that the perjury is connected ‘with. the stuffing of the Santa Fe pay roll, the expose of which occurred about a month ago. Laren denies all knowledge of the perjury accusation and explains his hiding out by saying that he desired to avold being subpoenaed on a civil suit in which he was wanted as a witness. He ‘was locked up and Detective Palamontes is expected down to-morrow to get him. ————— Steamer Farallon Breaks Down. Sound October 1l. She was ‘Wrangel Narrows by the United States coast steamer Gedney, where she remains disabled. A tug has been dispatched to tow her to Seattle. ik * i Bz EE ™ | President Buchanam sald as long as the | | “open shop” remained relations between | labor and capital would be inharmonious n ! She met Harrison by | and it would be better for capital {f dis- | and Colonel Frank Kimball have been|chance just after her husband’'s body had | honest representatives of each were elim- | inated. Josiah Strong of New York and David | Coates, former Lieutenant Governor of | Colorado, were among the speakers at the afternoon session. The labor leaders declared, that those who advocated the “‘open shop” were in- sinecere. ———————— COMPANY EASILY FILLS PLACES OF THE STRIKERS Express imeng_or—a— in Rocky Moun- tain District Have Not Been Called Out. here last night by the Pacific Express with the transactiom of business to any considerable extent, according to a state- ment made by General Superintendent G. F. Gentsch to-night. Superintendent Gentsch said that business was running along almost as usual and there is an overplus of men applying for the vacan- cies, which are now practically all iiled. Gentsch further stated tnat he had re- ceived word to-day that no strikes have been called among the employes in the Rocky Mountain district, and that the strikes which were called last night are of smalil importance. ——— Shoots Himself in Mouth With Rifle. RED BLUFF, Oct. 16.—Word reached here to-day from Vina, twenty miles south, of the suicide of Stmon TFreeze, a well-known butcher, at his slaughter- house, two_miles from Vina. He used a rifle to accomplish his purpose, shooting himself in the mouth. Freeze leaves a wife. No cause for the suictde is as- signed. s ‘Waterboy May Be Sent West.' LEXINGTON, Ky., Oct. 16.—The report is current here that Waterboy, the famous race horse, will be sent to J. B. Haggin's Réncho del Paso, near Sacramento, Cal. ———— Bismarck’s Statue. Bismarck’s monument for the new Ber- lin Cathedral has at last attained its final shape. The Iron Chancellor is to be rep- resented as a German knight of the Mid- dle Ages. At first the Kaiser was in- clined toward a cuirassier uniform, and considered also the suggestion of a sculp- tor that Bismarck should appear as a Roman Senator, but only to reject it. ‘When the Kaiser was inspecting the model the architect of the cathedral ven- tured to remark that Bismarck looked rather llke a protector (huter) of the Hohenzollerns. - The Kaiser at once re- plied: ‘“Nonsense; we Hohenzollerns re- quire no protector. We protect our- selves.”—New York Times. —— PARIS, Oct. 16.—M. Boeuve, chancellor of the French embassy at Washington. has besn appointed representative of the Forelgn Of. fice at the St L.ouis Exposition. He safis for !:IIO Unl;:'d mlu.;:fl;r‘m' and will go directly to Louis in installing French exhibits, s ST. LOUIS, Oct. 16.—The strike begun | Company messengers has not interfered | MILLER PROVES STRONG WITNESS Evidence Concluded and Arguments Are Begun. PO S WSABIET Defendant Denies Making Al- leged Statements to Two Inspectors. i Calighohs BT CINCINNATI, Oct. 16—The evidence was concluded and arguments were be- gun to-day in the trial of Miller and Johns for alleged conspiracy to extort a bribe. As six hours were allowed for arguments and only half an hour was consumed before court adjourned to-night it: is evident that, with five and a half hours for arguments to-morrow and ad- ditional time for the charge of the jury and motions, the case will not go to the jury before to-morrow evening. The fea- ture to-day was the testimony of the two defendants. For the first time during the week John' J. Ryan was not on the s but Chief Inspector Cochran appeayed for the third time. After being on the w iness stand three hours yesterday Johns | was cross-examined for over amn hour to- day. He denled that he had told Inspec- tors Vickery and Fulton when they were investigating him at Rockville that he would talk If he thought nothing would come of it except the dismissal of a clerk in Washington. Most of his evidence to- day consisted of such denials. Miller was on the witness stand from 11:30 a. m. and left at 3 p. m. and was generally considered to be an exception- ally strong witness for himself both in direct and cross-examination. He was cool and deliberate and the court fre- quently stopped him from arguing his own case while answering questions. His examination by Attorney Rulison was considered an exceptionally stromg pro- ceeding, while Miller afterward was con- | fronted with the most severe cross-exami- | nation without being disturbed, even in trying to explain contradictions in his own statements. SEIGER AND BRITT AT REQUIRED WEIGHT Go Through the Farcical Operation of Weighing In Although Not Intending to Fight. | Jimmy Britt and Charley Seiger. the | boxers, weighed In yesterday at & o'clock |and saved their forfeits. The fact that | Britt spent the day in a hammam bath to get down to weight and that he s on crutches did not seem incongruous to t Californian. Britt had lived up to the letter of | contract with the San Francisco Athle Club even if he had not fulfilled its spirit It served to show how loosely drawn | articles were when a disabled boxer could | 8o through the hollow mockery of weigh- |ing in for a fight in which he could not take part. Britt was particularly unfortunate in getting Injured, as his friends beifeve he would have found Seiger an easy mark. | This did not justify him, however, in | the course he pursued. The more sports- manlike plan would have been to ac- knowledge his inability to fulfill his con- | tract and then to make the best possible | arrangement. Britt weighed at the baths while Seiger stepped on the scales at Corbett's. Each weighed about 132 pounds. If Britt's foot continues to fmprove the fight will be held on the 29th fnst. Rufe Turner will be here to-morrow ready to take the place of either man if neces- sary. —————— VETERAN BADLY WOUNDS TWO OF HIS OLD COMRADES Slashes Them With a Knife and | Cuts One of Them in Seven- - teen Places. VALLEJO, Oct. 16.—Richard Dunphy, | an armiess veteran of the Clvil War, who {is well known throughout the Pacific Coast, was stabbed seventeen times this evening by Daniel O'Sullivan, another veteran. Michael Dorsey, still another veteran, was cut above the heart by O'Sullivan, but his Wound is not deemed serious. Dunphy was badly slashed on the face, neck and body and weak from loss of blood. The physicians at- tending him belleve, however, that he recover. The three men had been drinking to- gether at the O'Sullivan home and were all considerably under the influence of liquor when the affray oceurred. It is not known what caused the quarrel, but it is believed that the men disagreed over | some incident of the Civil War. After the cutting O’Sullivan tried to get away, but was held at bay by a neighbor, who covered him with a shotgun until an officer arrived and took him Into custody. e r——— Pauline Vander Suit Dismissed. SAN JOSE, Oct. 16.—Pauline Vander's suit against the estate of the late Wil- lam Matthews, a pioneer attorney of this city and State, for an alleged endowment for a home for friendless boys, was dis- missed to-day by Judge Leib. The woman claimed that some years ago Matthews promised her $20,00 to aid in the estab- lishment of a boys’ home in Fresno Coun- ty, and that under the belief that she would get the money at his death she ex- pended over $10,000 in the work. When Matthews' will was admitted to probate no mention of the money it is alleged he | promised for the home was mentioned. In granting the dismissal of the casé the court held that the suit was barred by | the statute of limitation. i Richard The Best Novel =in Years == 'BREWSTER’S MILLIONS By BUY IT ADVERTISEMENTS. Greaves