The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 25, 1903, Page 21

-— Pages o o34 — "ME XCIV-—NO. 147, SAN FKFRANCISCO, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1903—FIFTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WILCOX DIES IN MIDST OF HIS CAMPAIGN - COX, FORME. R Former Delegate to Con- gress a Dictim of Consumption. and indefatigable end led two principal , 1889, and pri uokalani to however, d in both foresight for was sentence was rs’ imprison- ne of $10,000 %, he was given a condi- and in 1900, he Dole, was elected t . jent ps as the fir the Con- gress of the United States from Hawali, defeating 1 Parker, the Republican, ce Da the Democratic noml. nee e election was for the unexpired of Fifty-sixth Congress, and at d that for the full th. The same both, and ed 4108 votes, d 1656 for Prince ——— ABYSSINIAN RULERS TO VISIT JERUSALEM Consul General Skinner Ready to Start on Journey to Emperor Menelik’s Capital. Oct. 25.—According to the Cairo ndent of the Figaro the Emperor Empress of Abyssinia will Jerusalem, where the spend the winter, while it Europe Skinner, American &t Marseilles, who is to push his a for the purpose of ne- ng & con ercial treaty and estab- diplomatic relations with that S0 empowered to in- ik to visit the St d to provide for an there, will begin his s to-morrow. He that Meneltk wi arrives ————— mbian Liberals Arrested. Oct. 24—Many Lib- t Carthagena Octo- d thut the Govern- sters in other parts the authorities are evidence that which is causing mperor conclusive d, e Pove to Proclaim a Jubilee. ME ¥ ) Pios X has ex- proclaim a jubilee of the fiftieth gnnj- amat ©of the dogma of the Consu! | | for $50 was composition metal by Pius IX | dfcw the moncy from the bank. To-day MEN GHAGE KINAPER OF TINY GHILD Crime in Martinez River and Harbor Bill May Pass Despite Him. Special Dispatch to The Call. ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Oct. 2.— Nearly Causes Lynching. Stranger in a Buggy! Bears Away Four- Year-0ld Tot. Scores of Infuriated People Make Threats Against the Prisoner. to The Cail Oct. 24—That Andrew a stranger in this locality, 1= not to-night swinging by a bit of hemp from 4 telegraph pole near the city jail is due chiefly tc Special Dispa MARTINEZ, tro with which the local officers put him be- hind bars after his arrest this evening for an attempt to kidnap the pretty Iittle hild of D. W. Cha n Nearly 130 m raged almost beyond the limit of respect fc tude law by the magni- f the crime and the audacity of its pe followed the terror-stricken prisoner for a mile and a half from the point where he was cay denouncing his abominable conduct and suggesting in no uncertain words that ing should the immediate pen- be PRISONER IS GUARDED. horities for a time were appre- but the jail was reached without d Castro rd. During a larg crowd of men stood about t no effort was made to hensive incident s was the the der strong gu 1d Adelaide Chatam, daugh- smith who has lived here for many rs, was playing near her ome at about 5 o'clock this afternoon. sently Castro drove up in a buggy, which, it was afterward learned, he ob- tained in Concord,” an@ Herten the 1ttle girl to ride with him. PURSUIT FOR CHILD. Buggy T bas its charm for even so 3 Adelaide, and she readil consented, Castro jumped from the bugg: lifted her into it, and soon the ill-assorted alr was spee toward the town limits. neighbor had noticed the departure of er and after a considerable time the facts to persons who assisting the parents to find the were child. A thorough search of the town was made, but no trace of Castro and the girl was discovered. Then the firebell was sou and the populace assembled to n what the trouble was all about. The story of the kidnaping was quickly told and a couple of hundred men were divided into posses to continue the search. CAPTURE OF FUGITIVE. At 8 o'clock to-night the fugitive's buggy was seen a mile and a f from town. The pursuing parties were nearly all together at the time and closed in on the kidnaper Citizens snatcked the rse’s bridle, while officers piled over the wheels of the vehicle and quickly bound Castro. Little Adelaide was by his side and seemed much alarmed at such an extraordinary proceeding. A fast trip was made to Martinez and the child wes returned to the much-com- forted parents. Castro was scen in his cell later, but would not talk of his at- tempt to steal the infant. He appears not to be able to converse in English. Wrapped about him under his ccat were a number of pillow slips and portions of a woman's garments. “He asked me to take a ride and 1 (')Ok‘ t,” is little Adelaide’s explanation of how the affair happened. ————— | UKIAH HIGH SCHOOL | A FIELD-DAY WINNER The Students in i?ndoclno Tflumph} Over Oaklanders in Some Close ] | Contests. UKIAH, Oct. 24—The field day contesat | between the Ukiah and Oakland High | schools athletic teams for a $ cup | put up by A. H. Ewert of Ukiah, two In | three, was pulled off at the Ukiah track to-day. Oakland was the winner in the | series of league contests recently closed | at Berkeley, and Ukiah chalienged the | winner. | Thirteen events were contested to-day and some good work was done. Ukiah won by & score of 6 to 38 points. In the | mile relay race Oakland broke the High | School record, running it in 3:21. Oakiana also took all in the broad jump. Ukiah took everything in the shot-put. In the | mile run Brynes, U. H. 8., was first. | Time, 5:013-5. Cunningham, U. H. 8, was | first in the hammer-throw, Dozier, 0. H. | €., sccond. The weather was perfect ang the Oakland boys were delighted with | the treatment they received. Ukiah wii} now hold the Ewert cup for one year at least. —_———— $5000 for 50-Cent Gold Brick. TOPEKA, Kans, Oct. 2 _Robert Forbes, a wealthy citizen of Carbondale, | found to-day that a *“gold brick” he had purchased three weeks ago in this clty | worth | probably 5 cents. A faker induced him 1o believe he was a long lost nephew from New Mexico, -and mine owner, with a prick to sell. A Topeka “chemist” as. sisted and Forbes came to this city ang rorbes received a letter from “nephew”” exposing the scheme. the the coolness and promptitude | ed to the jail, | use | | Notwithstanding the announce- ment that Representative Cannon | is opposed to the passage of a | Beneral river and harbor appropriation | bill during the coming Congress, there is a strong probabllity that many Repre- entatives will urge such a bill and it is by no means hopeless. Representative | Burton of Ohlo was chairman of the | Committee on Rivers and Harbors dur- ing the last two Congresses. He in all | probability will be reappointed to that position by his old friend and companion, Representative Cannon, when the latter | is formally installed in the Speaker's chair. | During the summer Burton and his as- | sociates on the committee have been busi- ly employed gathering data and making personal inspections of various projects which wiil be brought to the attention of Congress this winter. Associated with Burton on that com- mittee are Representatives Rufus Lester | of Savannah, the senior Democratic mem- ber of the minority: D. S. Alexander of Buffalo, B. B. Dovener of West Virginla, SPEAKER CANNON MAY FIND OPPOJSITION TO HIS PLANS - } I | | e JOSERH G\ CANNON % ‘ EXPEDITION, AND FUTURE SPEAKER, AT WHOSE PROGRAMME REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS MAY BALK. | DARING EXPLORER WHO APPEALS FOR FUNDS FOR HIS ARCTIC | 3. H. Bankhead of Alabama, S. M. Spark- | man of F ida and James McLachlan of California. All of these gentlemen and the other members of the committee, with one or two exceptions have been re- | elected to the Forty-eighth Congress. | Nearly all of them probably will be re- assigned to the River and Harbor Com- | mittee because of their familiarity with the varions questions involved in river and harbor legislation. They wield con- siderable influencé in the House and they bave on previous occasions mustered suf- ficient strength tagforce the passage of a river and harl bill in spite of the opposition of the Speaker and other econo- mists who do not represent commercial constituencies. There has been no river and harbor bill for two years and one is due, accoiding to precedent, during the coming Con- gress. —————————— | KAISER WILHELM URGES OBEDIENCE TO HIMSELF Says Respect for the Crown Is What Is Needed in These Days. BERLIN, Oct, 24—Emperor Willlam | was present to-day at the unveiling of monuments at Kuestrin, Prussia, to mark the grave of Johann, who built the fortress at Kuestrin, and another in memory of Frederick, the Great Elector. Replying to a toast the Emperor, after reviewing the life and works of the Great - Elector, sald: “We must learn from such lives re- ! spect for our superiors and obedience to the crown and parental influences. From these qualities spring patriotism subordination of the personal ‘ego’ to the well-being of the community, which is what is needed in these days.” —————————— COTAPAXI'S RUMBLINGS ALARM THE VILLAGERS Volcano Is Again Active, and Dis- astrous Eruption of 1877 Is Recalled. GUAYAQUIL, Oct. 24.—The Cotapaxi volcano has been active for the last few days. The Nacion of this city to-day pub- lished a dispatch from Quito, dated yes- terday, as follows: - “Since Thursday electric discharges have been noticed on the eastern side of the Andes. Rumblings were heard near the towns this morning and ashes fell for three-quarters of an hour. “Cotapaxl has been active for some time past. It is not believed that there is any danger, although it is recalled that in 1877 the volcano was active some days before it made its formidable eruption.” HUNTINGTON {5 PARTNER N HARRINIAN Railroad Magnates - Enter Vast Com- | bination. Special -Dispatch to The cai. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24.—In his stupen- dous task of gridironing Southern‘Cali- | fornia with electric raiways H. E. Hunt- ington is to be assoclated with President Harriman of the Southern Pacific. It was announced.to-day that Harrtman has pur- chased at least one-third of the stock of the Paclfic Electric Raflway Company and other corporations of which Huntington is the head. Only recently Huntington’s corporations increased their capital stock from $10,- 000,000 to $20,000,000, and the actual cash in- | vestment of Harriman in the electric roads of this part of the State will amount to more than $7,000,000. This does not mean that Harriman personally has put any such sum of money into electric lines, but it means that he and his friends, the exact number of whom is not known, have interested themselves in the Hunt- | ington properties. | That there was an understanding be- tween Huntington and Harriman as to the electric rallway business in this end of the State has been known ‘for a iong time, but it was not known.until to-day that this understanding carried with it a personal interest of Harrlman in the Huntington properties. During the recent contest for franchises in Los Angeles Harriman opposed Hunt- ington to the extent of buying certain franchises at extremely high prices and | for & time there was a prospect of a seri- | ous clash between the two, but this was settled at a conference between them held | Peary Appeals for | years at a cost of $150,000. The only ex- in San Francisco when Harriman was last in that city. . £ Huntington’s plans include the building of electric lines. paralleling the ‘Southern Pacific to varlous points contiguous to Los Angeles, the system ext to | 1t be steam or electric, i | | Aid to “Lift” the Pole. Special Dispatch to The Call. ALL BUREAU, 1408 G STREET, | N. W., WABHINGTON, Oct. 24.— Lieutenant Robert E. Peary, in an address to-the members of the National Geographical Soclety to- night, put forward his polar expedition in the shape of a national sporting prop- | osition. He hopes to organize smong: loyal and patriotic American citizens a | syndicate to “lift” the north pole. This | is the way he appealed to his hearers to- night: “On my plan and with my methods an| expedition which would in all probability | reach the pole can be fitted out for two pensive item In that outfit will be a| powerful. ship which shaii carry me to| the northern shores of Grant Land. We have spent and are spending hundreds | of thousands of doliars for an idea or a | principle. Take. a single example, the | national yacht races. A rellabie New | York paper said recently thai the cost of the last yacht racss to the American | side alone was in the neighborhood of | $900,000, and that it has cost us to defend | the cup in the last five years about §2,- | 200,000. “For less than one-fourth of the former | sum and less than one-tenth of the lat- ter, we can get the pole. The syndicate | that ‘lifts the pole’ will have no successor | and can never be beaten. The winning | of a vacht race is a matter of to-day; | the winnink of the pole s for all time.| As a matter of valuable additions to | geography and science it Is worth while. The head of the Smith Sound route is the | one point from which can be reached and | welded the links still lacking to make of the Arctic exploration a finished Job.” ——— VATICAN DISCOURAGES VISIT FROM: ALFONSO Answer to Inquiry Concerning Pro- posed Trip to Rome Is Most Unfavorable. ROME, Oct. 24.—King Alfonso of Spain has caused jnquiries to be made as to the attitude the Vatican would adopt should he declde to visi: the King of Italy. s The answer received has been most un- favorable and. consequently the idea of the visit {s considered to have been abandoned, owing to a fear of the im- pression which would be made on the Catholics of Spain’if the Pope refused to receive their sovereign. D e o Santa Barbara, Riverside, Santa Ana and other points, even including a4 line to Ba- | kersfleld and thence north -through the San Joaquin Valley. The purchase by Harriman of an interest in the Huntington companies means the withdrawal of the opposition by the Southern Pacific to the construction of these competing lines. * §everal months ago, when the franchise fight was on in earnest here, Huntington gent to- New York his resignation as a member of the directorate and as one of the ‘vice presidents of the Southern Pa- cific. To-day it was announced that the resignation has been withdrawn, which means in the light of the Harriman pur- chase of interest in the Huntington prop- erties that the two magnates will work | together in the railroad business, whether | the application. TR e OF A NOTED ATTORNEY Accused of Embez- zling a Half Million. James L, Blair of St. Louis an Alleged Forger. Suspected Man Until Re- cently Counsel General | | | of World’s Fair. " Special Dispatch to The Call. ST. LOUIS, Oct. -James Lawrence Blair, until a few days ago counsel gon- | eral of the World's Fair, is charged by | James L. Roberts, an attorney and former | stenographer in Blair's office, with having | embezzled $400,000 from Dick Bros. & Co. of New York and Philadelphia. and with having diverted to his own use $63,000 be- longing to the Blow estate. Roberts told his story to the Grand Jury yesterda According to Roberts Blair has been lead- ing a dual life for a decade—a veritable Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. | Roberts' accusations agalnst the man | who had befriended him are astopishing. | His knowledge of the facts, he f:laims.i were obtained through long business ln-; tercourse with Blair. He entered the lat- ter's office in 1588 as general clerk, re- maining there nine months. Roberts claims that he discoverea discrepanties in Blair's accounts, which led him to make an investigation, disclosing a start- ling serles of forgerles and the dissipa- tion of funds entrusted to the keeping of the accused lawyer. | Roberts is authority for the statement that Hlair, by means of forged deeds of | trust, obtained enormous loans from Dick Bros. & Co.. Philadelphia bankers, to whom he was related, and whose agent | he was in St. Louls. It is sald that Blalr made applications | for loans in the name of-some-fietitious | person, on speclfied pieces of propert; and that he would afterward change the abstract of title to make it conform to A deed of trust would | then be forged and likewise principal and | interest notes; then a notarial certificate attesting the deed, and (nally the certifi- cate of the Recorder of Deeds, showing that the deed was recorded in a certain book and on a certain pege. Blair was interviewed as to the truth of the charges this afternoon. He was found at his home, 8tancote, Kirkwood. a fashionable suburb/ and emphatically de- | nfed the charges. While conversing with reporters Blair fell to the floor of the ve- randa of his home in a faint, writhing | and twisting and frothing-at the mouth. | He was quickly conveyed to a couch and | physiclans summoned. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 24—Ex-District | Attorney George S. Graham to-night re- fused to make any statement upon the Blair case, giving as his reasons his con- fidential relations as counsel for Dick Bros. He stromgly intimated that Blair Was the victim of a plot to blackmail. LANGLEY WILL SUBMIT REPORT OF EXPERIMENT Army Board to Consider Further Al- lotment of Money for Fly- ing Machine. WASHINGTON, Oct, 24—A meeting of the army board of fortification and ord- nance, of which General Gillespie is pre jdent, will be held in this city on vember 5 and it is expected that a report will be submiitted by Professor Langley on the subject of the recent experiments with his flying machine near Widewater, Va. A report on the same subject also is expected from Major M. M. McComb, ar- tillery corps, who made observations of the tests of the machine by direction of the board, whose interest in the matter was due to the fact that it had made an allotment of $50,000 to defray the costs of the experiments. It is understood that the matter is to be again considered by the board with a view to making a further allotment for another test. — L0SS OF LIFE FEARED IN A WISCONSIN FIRE il } Shores Block in Ashland Destroyed | and All Inmates May Not Have Escaped. ASHLAND, Wis., Oct. %.—The Shores | block caught fire at 12:30 o'clock this | morning and at 1 o'clock the flames had gained such headway that the buflding | was practically destroyed. The Northwestern road telegraph ope- rators were driven out of the building by | the smoke shortly after the fire was dis- covered. The loss will be $150,000, Several sensational .reseues were made | the third-story windows. One through woman and a half dozen men were car- | rled by the firemen down ladders. Others | may be in the building. The intense smoke makes further work of rescue im- possible and loss of life is feared. —_———— Judge Hook to Succeed Caldwell. WASHINGTON, Oct. 2—Soon after Congress convenes the President will send | to the Senate the nomination of Judge William €. Hook as Circult Judge for the Eighth Circuit to succeed Judge Heory Caldwell. Judge Hook ‘s now District Judge of Kansas City. FKis successor on the district bench has not been agreed upon, but probably will be at a meeting of the Kansas delegation in Congress to be held soon after the extraordinary ses- sion convenes. fcarred from the time IN HONOLULU —& o JUDGE MORRIS M. ESTEE, | WHO IS SERIOUSLY ILL IN HONOLULU | | - ~ - Dangerous Operation Is Performed on Noted Jurist. H Estee, formerly of San Francis- co, is seriously 1l A critical operation was performed on him this aft- ernoon. ONOLULU Oct. 24. — United States District Judge Morris M one of the most dis- hed of Californians, and the peopis El of the record he Morris M. Estee is tingut of te are prot has made as United States District Judge for Hawail. He came to California in 1853, and, after several years of mining and study of law, he was admitted to | practice in 159. His rise was rapid, and during his residence in San Franelsco in from Sacramento and 1865, to his ap- | pointment to the Judgeship by President McKinley in 190, he held numerous el tive and appointive offices of honor and trust. He was high in the councils of the Republican party, and in 1388 was chair- man of the convention that nominated Harrison. He was twice the candidate of his party for Governor. In Hawail he is in high esteem for the record he has SANITY IS RESTORED TO DEMENTED PHYSICIAN Dr. Henry H. Cate Suddenly Recovers + Memory After Months of Mental Darkness. SOUTHWOOD, - N. J., Oct. 24—As suddenly as he disappeared last April, wandering, demented, his mind a blank. all over the country, Dr. Henry H. Cate, the proprietor of a sanitarium here, has recovered his memory. It all came back to him while he was reading a medical book in a sanitarium in Goshen, N. Y., where he had been sent several weeks ago. Dropping the book he started up and exclaimed, “I have been a physician and had a sanitarium at Lakewood.” Dr. Cate then described what had oe- he left Lakewood on a visit to New York, where he regis tered at the Hotel Albert. The day after his arrival he went out for =& walk and did not return His empty pocket-book was found early the next morning under a pile of lumber. It was said that the pocket-book had contained $2000. There was notaing but the phy- sician's cards and the T ticket to Lakewood in the pock Although his friends had a general alarm sent out for him all over the country word of his whereabouts was received until he was discovered by brother in-law in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. It was sald he had visited Norfolk, St. Louis the course of y in and Kansas ( his wanderings. OREGON CITY’'S IRON AN OLD-TIME METEOR Lump of Metal Found on a Farm Came From the Sky. 3 OREGON CITY, Or., Oct. 24—The huge lump of iron found on a farm near this city recently is a meteor., An assay has been made and it is found to be almost pure iron with traces of nickel. It is ex- cessively tough and broke several hack- saw blades in efforts to -cut. off - small pleces. The weight is estimated at about twenty-five tons. It was found nearly buried in ths ground and had apparentiy been thevs for years. When struck with a metaliic sub- | stance it rings like a bell —_— Losses to Grape Growers. SAN BERNARDINO, Oct. 2#4.—It s es- timated that the loss to grape growers in | the tiwanda district as the result of the recent rains will amount te fully $10.000. Reports from there are to the effect that the growers will lose on an average of one and a half cents a pound. Notwithstand- ing this loss the growers declare” that they will make a large profit on this year's crop and that the future of the in- dustry is so enPouraging tHat several thousand acres will be set out to vines in March. Other sections in this county re- port Josses. Charged With Robbing Employers. NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—John Walsh, J. P. Flanigan and William Gould, all em- ployed in the factory of the Hartford Carpet Corporation Company in this city, were arrested to-day, charged with rot bing the company of wool to the valu_ « $5.000 during the past two months. The prisoners are supposed to have disposed of their plunder to a junk dealer in whose shop several bales of stolen wool were found