The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 3, 1903, Page 2

(&} THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1903. 7Y FEARS DISRUPTION BY POVERTY Financial Prospect in regon’s Metropolis Alarming: Taxes Capnot Be Levied Without a Legislative tession i Sl Governor Chamberlain Is Reluctant to Call Lawmakers Together, but May Be Obliged to Take Such Action. tax i £ xis to s fayor Wiill ay Kes egal for the city to go into the treasury n vote to con- . R e existing g in € w which to January 1 x oniy a drop in the st but two months.” County is .already thirteen ats and would ir rate of uary tax levy Sche SURVEYORS ARE MAKING A KERN COUNTY MAP Elaborate Chart for the Benefit of Mining and Oil Men Promised. erested corps of sur- —_————————— BOY ACCIDENTALLY KILLS HIMSELF WITH A PISTOL Twelve-Year-0ld Lad Obtains Fath- er's Weapon and Is Fatally Wounded. xander, Alexande! about s where it was It is presume muzzle first way, ot from — ————— PROPERTY OF RAILWAY IS READY FOR TRANSFER Western racific-Will Take Over the San Francisco Terminal’s Possessions. SAN JOSE, Nov. 2.—An agreement in- Iving the transfer of, all the pi the San Francisco Teérminal Rail Trensfer Comp: to the Western fic Railroad Company was filed for » to-day. terms the San Erancisco. Com- I fts"re tate in 1its I and personal property g 5 and 120,000 shares of fully up capital stock. rs to-day a petition was presented asking that an election be called to vote on the question of incor- irfield, the county seat of this > petition . Decem- were nominated as flicers for the sed municipality and will be voted on at above date: N. A. Shorey, J¢ Wing, C. Sheldon, H. M. Brown and F. 8. Gurnette, Trustees; W Hammc Clerk; R. D. Smith, .enahan, Marshal. The ity has a population at 1000 —_———— An administration rotten with extor- tion and treasury looting is all that the people of San Francisco can hope for if they allow the Ruef-Schmitz regime to be continued. None who have dealings with the municipality will be exempt. Crocker is the harbinger of a clean, up- right administration, with equal justice to rich and poor. —_——— Land Fraud Cases Are Set. PORTLAND, Or., Nov. 2—The prelim- inary hearing of Miss Mariel Ware, Hor- ace G. MeKinley and 8. A. D. Puter, who have been indicted by the Federal Grand Jury on charges of forgery and conspiracy to defraud the Government out of lands, n connection with the Southern Oregon land frauds, has been set for mext Satur- day afternoon. The trio will appear before Judge Bellinger in thé Federal Court ——— A Guaranteed Cure for Piles. _ltching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles. Your druggist will refund money if Pazo Qiptment falls to cure you in 6 to 13 days. 50¢* g“uuw ROLLERS” FEAR CITZENS | Apostles of the Strange Oregon Sect Make Escape. - Prospect of Riotous Demon- stration Hastens the Departiure. sy il CORVALLIS, Or., Noy. 2.—The flight of Apostles Crefield and Brooks from town is the latest development in the sensation caused here by the sect known as the “Holy Rollers.” They went without cer- emony, Creffield, in a swiftly driven bug- gy, golng south, and Brooks, it is sup- , departing on foot. Fear of bodily it is said, was the incentive for their flight successfully establishing their before the County Board on Sat- returned to As they left the jall they trong public sentiment 1d they were advised to town. They laughed at the idea, & the Lord would protect his own. terday about moon Mr. Hurt, the owner of the Hurt House, and a new vert to the sect, accompanied by his visited the Sheriff and demanded rotection, adding that ff the county authorities would not- protect the Holy Rollers from ou he would appeal to the Governor. The ce and spent most Hurt House. Althoug around the house o demonst Brook: e Hurt House early in the after- , but a crowd hung around the place d neither cared to attempt ominous conditions. however, the 1, choosing a tunity, Brooks left the the so-called stle f the night in ail day until a on was made. to the e! of the four or s families in whole Rollers,” but the contrary, hour later. A cor of the Hurt the apostic »dly entered it nveyance driven swiftly ing south. Its destination is have been an E rain could be boar ained in town it : would have 1ppeared d Brooks were leading into delusions and conditions yduce insan The destrue- it has been confined to the Hurt House, but converts localities have burned sions. The apostles seir members to withdraw wholly the world and have nothing to do those who remained outside the f the “Holy Rolle e BUSY FIREBUES ALARM THE TOWN Riverside Citizens Ex- cited by Attempts at Incendiarism. RIVERSIDE, Nov. 2—This city has used to @ pitch of unusual excite- number of attempts at incen- 1 particularly maliclous ‘na- to extinguish a fire r car belonging to the 4 ad. There were unmis- akable evidenc of incendiarism, a sec- tion of the car having been packed with lock this morning the depart- m called to extinguish a fire of exactly similar nature in refrigerator car on the Santa Fe trac To-day the North-street station of the Santa Fe was set on fire and this afternoon oily waste and combustible materials were found under the big Salt Lake trestle over Terquesquite Arroyo, placed there ‘with a Fe Railr the evident intention of being fired to- | night The theory of officers is that the incen- diary acts are the work of tramps who have been put off trains and are seeking revenge against the railroad. ——e—————— CREW FEARS THE SHIP IS NOT SEAWORTHY Vessel Two Brothers Will Have to Be Towed to San Francisco. ASTORIA, Or., Nov. 2.—Owing to the refusal of her crew to work the vessel to San Francisco, arrangements have been made by the-owners of the Ameri- can ship Two Brothers to have the steam schooner Nelson tow the vessel to her destination. The crew of the Two Broth- ers assert that the vessel is unseaworthy owing to the fact that her cargo of lum- ber is improperly stowed and that she carried an insufficient quantity of ballast, which makes her cranky and unsafe in heavy weather. The Two Brothers carries 200,000 feet of lumber in her hold and 530,000 feet of lumber between decks, made that the topheavy. Yk o wp e ANl it Object to the Smelter Fumes. SUISUN, Nov. 2.—Fpr many vears there has been much complaint from residents of Benicia and lower Soiano County re- garding the fumes from the smelter at Selby. Last month a large petiticn signed by Benicia residents was presented to the of Supervisors asking that the nuisance be abated. District Attorney was asked for an opinion. At a meeting of the Supervisors to-day he told the board that the nuisance could be abated by a legal process and was in- structed to immediately institute neces- sary proceedings for the abatement of the smelter fumes. ——— ey =y & Prominent San Jose Merchant Dead. SAN JOSE, Nov. 2—Fred W. Moore, who succeeded the T. W. Spring Com- pany as proprietor of one of the largest mercantile nouses in this city, dled this aftérnoon of pneumonia. His illness was the effect of a hunting trip several weeks | @go. He was 46 years of age and a native of Santa Cruz. He leaves a wife and four children. ——————— Lane’s defeat is conceded. Ruef and Schmitz are making a desperate strug- gle to keep the strings of municipal government in their grasp that they may load themselves with spoils. The | citizens of San Francisco should strive | to pile up a great majority for Henry | J. Crocker, not only for safety but to | deal a crushing blow to those who would fatten off the money of the people. heriff promised as- | a large crowd | were anxious to | st Side town, | trations. The public | the claim being | ARMED RIDER STUDENTS ROUT FIRES UPON | OIY OFFICERS Colleges ——— Alleged Horse Thief marshal ana His Depaties Pursued Through Sal- Suffer in a Furious inas Streets, Fight. Tl 0 Special Dispatch to The Call. | L Bullets Exchanged as He ; TACOMA, Wash.,, Nov. #—A riot DC-(‘ [ | Gallops Furiously and | curred Saturday night at Pullman, Wash., E:capes. and 250 students of the Statd Agricultural o g College gave City Marshal Baymiller and | his three deputies an unwelcome shower | Fugitive Is Reported to Have AbAn- path because of their interférence in the | doned His Mount and Taken to annual contest for supremacy between 1 sophomores and freshmen. thie ARINN 40 the OlIg The freshmen had decided to select Region. Halloween night to take the sophomores . in hand to demonstrate thein superiority. | SALINAS, Nov. 2.—Sherift Nesbitt was | The sophomores were greatly outnum- notified from Coral de Tierra this even- bered, but put up a plucky fight. The | freshmen had succeeded in tieing three of their opponents when the officers arrived. Securing a fire hose they turned a full stream of cold water on the struggling S ing to watch for a man who is accused of horse stealing and burglary and who, it is alleged, took a horse from his em- ployer, A. Braemer. The man has given ' mags of students. ¥ the various names of Delman, Belman- | Full of resentment the sfullents turned Steln and Siegfried von Berkenfeld. One | in a body on the officers. Ih a few mo- identification makes him a former Ger- | ments the marshal and his deputies were soaked to the skin. A struggle for pos- man student who left his home in the [ ¥ . ruse O e aesanitiof soma trotnl: " | oMlon b jtHs ose follawpede aus i il - g | the melee the hose was ruined with Sheriff Nesbitt was. warned that. the| ymeea=t6 L% (MBS ) T carried to. ths | man armed with’ a rifle, two revol-{ wiver's édse, but released upon his proni- | vers and a belt of cartridges. When the | ise to go home. | man arrived at Riverbank an effort was | The students then hustled jevery mov- ade to app. 3 him and, although | abie vehicle to a common point on the made to apprehend him Sl © scoped. | meln street, despolled the city watering Blie. W exchanged, e escabed | wagon of wheels and wound up the night Through the streets of this city -he sal- | xe®alling "the vehicle shed - with cord | loped wildly, returning shot for shot with | wonq 3 a posse, and escaping unhurt. Along the . s ty road, in respunse to telephone | county r0ad, In reepures ses atiompted | TBIES TO END HIS LIFE ) WHILE AWAITING TRIAL to head him off, but he eluded them. Well-Known Kern County Rancher, The latest news of the fugitive came from Sargents, where it was said the Accused of Crime, Cuts an Arter; man, had left his horse and taken to the hills, being pursued by parties from BAKERSFIELD, Nov well-known rancher of t Gilroy. B. F. Hoy, a is county, who | — e STORMY SEAS DRIVE is now in jall awaiting trial, for grand | VE CK TO PORT | , SSEL BA | larceny, made an attempt to commit sui- | Barkentine Katie Flickinger Returns | cide early this morning by sévering the main artery in the left wrist with a T-| to Port Townsend With | shaped plece of tin sharpened to a fine | Water in Hold. | edge. Hoy was discovered by his fellow POHT TOWNSEND, Wash., Nov. 2.— ! prisoners and help arrived just in time | Owing to adverse weather encountered off | to save his life. : the Washington coast last Saturday the | ~The wounded man made several subse- barkentine Katle Flickinger returned to | gxsnf_?:;:fi':dfigs ;:k::"fl;":f; lgt:lenbfi)n%:pr:: this harbor this morning with several | yne job A guard was placed ‘over him. feet of water in her hold. The Flickinger | Hoy is accused of stealing a lirge quan- cafled from Tacoma the latter part of the | tity of honey and other farm’ products. st week with a cargo of lumber con- He was to have been arraigned this signed to San Pedro. The master of the ' this morning in the Superior Court, to- Flickinger reports that the schooner | gether with his nephew, Leonard West- Philippine also encountered the same | ley, who is alsp held on the g;upe charge. gale. The Flickinger will be compelled to discharge her cargo and calk before con- | @ si=fmjrfofelefefufrferfoferiuiofininforfeiofeinl- @ | tinuing on her present voyage. The Brit- 2 ish steamer Tottenham arrived this morns : | ing from San Francisco and reports hav- I- [lus ; ing experienced heavy southeasterly | gales., She will load lumber - at Port | < | Blakeley. i Railway Reverses the Lever s R 2 Ad g Remains of Prehistoric ENGINE OF A TRAIN DASHES INTO A DITCH| Engineer on the Canadian Pacific | | VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov. 2.—No. 2! Animalsin Southern east-bound passenger train of the Cana- | et dian Pacific Railway met with an acci-‘ Oregon. - dent late last night at Keifer, B. C. A bridge had been carried away by a fresh- et. The engineer saw in time to reverse | GRANTS PASS, Or.,, Nov. 2.-Six mas- | his lever and jump. The locomotive went | todon tusks and a monster elephant's | fnto the ditch and the express car was | tusk have been uncovered from the depths derailed. No one was injured. L | of an old channel in the placer diggings The steamship Empress of India, bound | o¢ 5 hygraulic mine near Grants Pass. rz;(fizsfl:‘};e“ari;‘zil‘,‘,rh;;?,,:’“‘il to-night | "0 ot the mastodon tusks is eleven | > i TN R feet In length and is quite well preserved. | COURT BOTHERS NOT Mortars, pestles, crude weapops and im- | N plements have also been brought to light, ABOUT A !ETE N’S PLEA and the bones of many birds and beasts Napa Judge Sendsgoxd Man to Fol-| that are not known to modern man and som for Using Forged cannot be classified. { Check. The relics were not uncovered in the | NAPA, Nov. 2—H. N. Morrell, an old | veteran who recently tried to pass a check | to which J. C. Fawyer's name was signed, | whose remains pleaded guilty to forgery this afternoon. isted w vastly different from what it He was arraigned at 2 o'clock and threw | is to-day. The presence of thé elephant’s hipself on the mercy of the ceurt. tusk would indicate that in ghat prehis. | The District Attorney made a plea for toric time this part of the world was a | leniency and the prisoner spoke in his tropical country. own behalf, stating that he had served ——e———————— during the Civil War and had committed |k a shile Gk 3rwe Gstonn D ALIONE ARE THNIIRD sentenced him to three years in Folsom | TO LEWIS AND CLARK FAIR iR P, SN State Departmex;t_Will Send Out the FIRE NEARLY DESTROYS Formal Requests for Par- | IMMENSE NEW WAREHOUSE ticipation. | — | PORTLAND, Or., Nov. 2.—Formalinvi- | Blaze at Eureka Ruins One Building tations to foreign governments to p:rllcl- and Steamship Company ! pate in the Lewis and Clark fair have | Is Lucky. | been prepared and will be forwarded to EUREKA, Nov. 2—The old warehouse | the State Department, and’from there ]01’ the North Pacific Coast Steamship | sent through the diplomatic corps to the | Company, on the water front, under lease | various powers. The invitations are ex- [ ]‘::xrz!::rd ."l:;:ltl\f(ttr)‘rir’llrnis::lf;vx Company, was| pected to pave the way for'a future an- | tatnen 130 tons of hay. Thoifrenena efif Mcement fram he GO on 15 i 2 finance committee of the exposition is [fpr\s aved the immense new warehouse preparing a petition waich is to be pre- {of the steamship company, which Was | gonted at tne coming extra session of | once on fire with the prospect of being | congress, asking for an ‘appropriation of { el jsz:.«xv,mo for the expostion. —ee————— | | upper strata, but deep down near the bedrock proving that the contour of the country at the time the strange‘creatures | ve been uncovered ex- i | Camper Narrowly Escapes Death. REDDING, Nov. 2.—While\mpacking a | §pOKANE, Wash., Nov.:2—Commenc- | camping outfit at Tnwood, in this county, | 1z to-day the Northern Padlfic cut hours Northern Pacific Reduces Expenses. | Saturday afternoon a rifle being handled | o¢ japhor In the shops in fhis city rom by Mrg. Theodore Davidson was acclden- | (welve to elght hours per, day and the tally discharged, the ball striking her hus- | men will hereafter work hut five days band and passing almost through his|a week. This plan is in keeping with the | body. The wound was considered dan- | policy of the Northwester roads to re- | gerous until a physician called from this | duce expenses. Similar réductions have city found that thé leaden missile had not | been made at the Hill yard on the Great struck s vital part. Northern. All the roads operating in this AR T o AT section are reducing the pumber of em- 0il Expert on a Tour. ployes. BAKERSFIELD, Nov. 2—Frank Dra- den, general manager of one of the larg- est oil companies In Austria, is here to GILROY, Nov. 2.—Effle Smith, lately day on a tour of the oil fields with a view | from Monterey, took potson last night to studying American methods of drilling | after a quarrel with her lover, whom she and handling products. Draden has vis- | had met after a separation of several |ited a number of districts in the East | months. Doctors have uséd everr means and will make a complete tour of the Cal- | to save her life, but she is in a pre- ifornia fields before returning to Europe. | carlous condition. e — b e e 1 S \ Non-Union Man Wins Fight. New 0il Well at Sargents. NAPA, Nov. 2.—A union man named GILROY, Nov. 2.—The twelfth well at Weaver and a non-union man named Sargents of the WatsonviJle Oil Company Skinner, shoemakers, became engaged in | was perfected at a depth of 1200 feet and a fist fight yesterday on Main street. the oil and gas were forged about eight Skinner was the smallest man, but he | feet high. It will average 150 barrels pe battered Weaver's face terribly. Both | day and is the second ing well they men were arrested but were finally al-| have struck.. Another wgll will be drilled lowed to go. Weaver is under a physi- | immediately. clan's care. e b ———— Woman Tries to Kill Herself. 5 B S § Strike of Longshoremen Settled.- Miners Strike a Treasure Field. PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 2—The strike VICTORIA, B. C., Nov. 2.—The steamer | of the longshoremen Inaugurated here Amur, which arrived to-day from Skag- yesterday has beeh gmicably settled. The way, reports a new strike sixty miles men struck for 5 cents #n hour for load- north of the Alsek diggings, northwest of | ing mixed cargoes andi.the steamship White Horse, where the /discoverer took ~owners and contracting sgevedores at this out $700 in ten days in nuggets and coarse port have agreed to in se the stipend gold from the surface. A stampede was of the men, but the terfns are not given on from White Horse. | 1 out. » Only Live Fish Swim up Stream Which way you going? With a clear head to steer a strong body you can do things and win can be built by proper food. In Both Grape-Nuts . 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