The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 25, 1903, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 25, 1903, 11 SIYS THE WILL i FORGERY 4] i A Witness Testifying As ert Discredits a Document. ing Developments in McDermott Es- tate Oase. Dispatch to The Call vOOD mel, CITY, in Nov. 24.—Carl the McDermott will testifying as an expert on dis- iandwriting, to-day pronounced cument produced as the will of et McDermott to be a bold, crude aw forgery. t is claimed by those uphoiding the t it is signed by Mrs. McDer- by her marking her cross in the presence of two witnesses, C. Michener d James Kerwin. The handwriting xpert stated positively that the man wrote the Michener is person who 1 the cross be- tween the w dget McDermott.” A large n exemplars of Mrs. McDermott’'s crosses signed to various ame ( ittedly genuine, of which bore that upon Ei chimel. who found the was subjected to | the part her t fraud was prac- of the will Mrs. lly innocent in d that she was house on the night that on that Burns, who, with the sole 1 It ns brought s house with Foye testant with dow his testin y € f the will e OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST P Changes, Army Orders and Latest Pate Issued to Wilson | Free 4. in | he f two lonel Henry P. able grate heel and elevator 4, carbureter. H. Boyd, Charles A s ylene gas ge Dol Sumner King, Waitsbu A. Wars lac- and electric e Tree Crushes Woodchopper’s Body. | TA ROSA, Nov. 24.—Max Drink- A chopper, was brought to-day trom Clo- f a splintered leg, caused by half a the member and press- round. The portion of as too heavy to non and George w tree e moved by John H nions of Drink- were compelled to dig earth from bencath it in order to| liberate their friend —————— San Diego Belle to Marry. DIEGO, Nov. 24.—The an- nee nt of the engagement of Miss a Sefton of this city to Franklin er kefield of San Francisco made this afternoon at an infor- 1 givy by Mrs. Hugo Klauber, ate friend of the bride-to-be. fton is the daughter of Mr. and W. Sefton and is a leader the soclety people of the city. ding to take place at the byterian Church on the 29th nth. e sps for the Philippines. i WID IT"CCA, Nov. 24.—A detach- | ment Twentieth United States Infentr ommand of Major J. 8. Rogers passed through here to-day at noon troops will arrive at the Presidic morrow morning. The de- tachment. including officers, numbers 205 men, ard is on its way to the Phil- ippines elieve the Twenty-seventh Infantry. { | ——————— wen the stove smokes look out for | A gas stove mever smokes, so = no to look out for if you » range from San Francisco Gas and Electric Company, 415 Post street. * w ARTIST JULIAN W. RIX IS SUMMONED BY DEATH Famous Painter of Landscapes of This State Passes Away in New York City, His|Portland Man Has Dis- Demise Following a Surgical Operation VERDICI OF SUICIDE IN ROSE KING CASE She Is Taken From Home for Feeble Minded at Glen Ellen to Work. was the verdict of a Cor- yesterday in the case of ho suffocated herself with “Suicide oner’s ju Rose Kir illuminating gas on October 21 at the residence Charles W. Gould, 1713 Green street Miss King was 24 years old and had been an inmate for the Home for Fee- ble-Minded Children at Glen Ellen, but was taken out about a year and a half ago to be employed as a house servant in Mr. Gould's family. Her dead body | was found the laundry in the base- ment, with one end of a piece of rub- ber tubing in her mouth and the other end affixed to the gas burner. A doctor was summoned and prondunced her beyond the reach of resuscitation. Gould was one of the directors of the ed a prominent part in ¢ jinvestigation ‘Into the affairs of the home last spring. It was alléged that he took the girl from that institution without authority of the board of directors to work as a servant for him. Coroner Leland avoided this phase of the case and asked no ques- tions concerning it. —— S The Scottish Clans. The silver anniversary of the found- ing of the Order of Scottish Clans in this city will be celebrated in Scottish Hall on the evening of Friday next by a'grand literary entertainment and dance under the auspices of Clan Fraser No. 78. The entertainment will commence at 8 o'clock and continue un- il 10, when dancing will be in crder. e —— g WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—Representa- tive Mondell of Wyoming introduced a bill to-day prohibiting the selection of timber land in licu of lands within a for- est reservation. R B Y Y | and checks amounting t. AGED MRS. HOPKINS TAKES CARBOLIC ACID er Mind Had Become Weakened by a Long and Severe Spell of Sickness. Enfeebled in mind and body by sick- ness and the Inroads of years, Mrs, Margaret Hopkins of 2709 McAllister street stole out of her bed at 4 o’clock yesterday morning, swallowed the con- tents of a vial of carbolic acid and was found a half-hour later by her husband dead in the back yard. She had been | released recently from the St. Helena Sanitarium, and her mind seemed ‘to have become unsettled, but her rela- tives did not suspect that she contem- plated suicide. Her husband, R. H. Hopkins, a con- ductor on the McAllister street line, awoke at 4:50 a. m., and finding that his wife was not in her bed went in search of her and found her body lying in the yard. A vial that had contatned carbolic acid was near by. Mrs. Hopkins was 54 years old and the mother of three grown children. P O S i s Accuses Boarder of Larceny. Isaac Berkman, 188 Alblon avenue, secured a warrant yesterday for the arrest of “John Doe” Klass on a charge of petty larceny. Klass was a boarder at the Berkman home and it is alleged that he disappeared on Monday, taking with him Berkman’'s gold watch and chain and $15, besides owing three weeks' board. 2 WHO FINALLY WINS PRETTY MADGE STAIR? SEE THE NEXT SUNDAY CALL. R 3 — 3 DROWNED BOY Hls BROTHER tressing Experience | and the money taken. Money orders 0 $10,000 were | left. Nearly all the letters were torn or mutilated in such a manner that it will be impossible to forward them to their destinations. The sack was last | seen intact at St. Joseph, Mo. e — Death Calls Follower of Fremont. LEADVILLE, Col., Nov. 24.—Charles Runyon, aged 79 years, died to-day of general debility. Runyon came to Col- orado in the 40s with General John C. Fremont and was one of the original party of fifteen that accompanied Fre- mont to the San Juan country. He was | a dispatch bearer for Generals Fremont | and Kearny during the Mexican war and afterward accompanied General Fremont to California, where he re- mained for several years. Runyon had resided in Leadville ever since the dis- covery of carbonates here. X ————— S Bank Robbers Score Failure. MOUNT VERNON, I, Nov. 24. The bank at Ewing, a small town six- teen miles south of this city, was en- tered by robbers early this morning and an attempt made to loot the safe. Six charges of dynamite were used, but the robbers succeeded in blowing only the outer door off. The robbers, three in number, left their tools in the bank In their haste to escape. ———— HALF RATES ! FOR THANKSGIVING On the California Northwestern Rail- way. On Thanksgiving 43y, Thursday, November | 26, the California Nérthwestern Railway will « Sell tickets from San Francisco <o all points mentioned below at half rates or cne fare fop the round trip, With limit of return Friday, November 27: ; St. Vincent, m-;{m Novato, Petaluma, Co. . ta ton, Windsor, Healds- w.';.s‘flmfl' Geyserville, Astl, . Clovestas Preston, Hopland, Guerneville, _Shellville: Vineburg, Sonoma, Agua Oaliente, Glen Ellen’ bastopdl, Ukiah, Calpella, Redwaod t Eenita, “willits. P Wolie: Tickets will be on sale at Tiburon ferry on i Thanksgiving day. . THE POPULARITY OF OUTDOOR SPORTS WAS NEVER MORE IN EVIDENCE THAN TO-DAY AT WORK™ Free Sunday, Nov. 29, 1903 The publisher of The Call, in anticipating the tendency of the times in giving more time to recreation, hunting and fishing, has acquired for their exclusive use a series of art pictures which will serve as reminders during the busy months of those delightful days passed in the field. “At Work,” the title of the next Sunday Call’s offering, is a reproduc- tion from an oil painting by J. M. Tracy, an artist whose paintings of dogs have never been surpassed. o Mr. Tracy had for the subject of this study the celebrated Llewellyn getter, “RUDERIGO,” who became famous in this country by his clean sweep of bench and field events. This picture, while it appeals strongly to those who know every point in a dog, is perhaps just as interesting to the many who love the faithful In handling, color and action, “At Work” is a most life-like study; a picture that, when framed, could with difficulty be distinguished from To overlook this is to miss one of the best of the Sportsmen’s Series. ORDER THE CALL TO-DAY. ;—m~ Farm and the County Hospital, aileg- ing that patients were carried on the | roll months after bemng discharged. The jury estimates that the county has been swindled out of thousands of dol- lars in this way. The report created a sensation and instead of discharging the jury for the term the court ordered them to recon- vene December 21, when the alleged ir- regularities will be fully investigated. —.— g - Throws Himsedf From Train. CHICAGO, Nov. 24.—John Templeton of Humboldt, Neh., a passenger on the fast Burlington train from Kansas City, due in Chicago to-day, commit- ted suicide by jumping from the steps cf one of the coaches while the train was going at full spedd near Chilli- cothe, Mo. Templeton's sister and daughter were on the train. He was in ill health, largely the result of worry over business troubles, and was much depressed, imagining that he was about to be arrested. _e—— Texas Banker Drowns Himself. KANSAS CITY, Nov. 24—The body of J. W. Rhodes, a banker of Navasota, Tex., aged 47, ‘who escaped yesterday from a private sanitarium, was found to-day in the lake at Troost Park. Previously Rhodes had tried to commit sulcide by throwing himself under a street car. Rhodes had entered the sanitarium voluntarily to be treated for depression. —_——————————— Dies After Eating a Pie. AUBURN, Nov. 24—E. L. Flint, a well known contractor of this city, died suddepiy at Lincoln last night, | Flint had been up to Chico looking af- ter some comtracts. While at Gazelle he ate some beefstegk pie and it is be- lieved that ne died of ptomaine poison- ing. e i e SPRINGER. N. Mex. Nov. 24.—Fire to-day destoyed the Floersheim Mercan- tile Compang’s store and several other buildings i1 the business district, caus- ing a total loss of $60.000. . STATEMENT ——OF THE— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS ——OF THE— AssuranceCompany OF AMERICA F NEW YORK. IN THE STATE OF New ¥ork, on the 31st day of December, A. D. 1902, and for the vear ending on that | day, as made to the Insurance Commissioner of the State of California, pursuant to the provisions of sections 610 and 611 of the Polit- jcal Code, condensed as per blank furnished by the Commissioner. CAPITAL. Amount of Capital Siock, paid up in Cash $200,000 00 ASSETS. Cash Market Value of all Stocks and Bonds owned by Company 454,277 30 Cash in Bapnks .. 76,524 47 | Interest due and Stocks and Loans . 1,629 82 | Premiums in due C tion Total Assets LIABILITIES. Losses in process of Adjustment or o 4l on a Wharf. ; Volunteers to Hoist Body and Discovers Dead Relative. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. PORTLAND, Or., Nov. 24.—Frank Walters dislikes to look upon the dead, but when volunteers were needed to lift the body of a drowned boy from | the river, he took hold of the rope and | pulled. When the corpse was hoisted | to the wharf, Walters turned his head and walked away. A minute later his curiosity mastered him. He returned | | and found that the dead boy was his brother Robert, a 17-year-old youth. Saflors on a French bark at the Ore- | gon Railroad and Navigation dock! | saw a lad fall into the water from the | | pier and sink immediately. The report /| | that a man had been drowned spread | | rapidly and a searching party set out in a skiff. When they found the body they tied a rope around it and started | | for shore. Frank Waters, who had been watch- ing them, went to the house to tell his younger brother of the accident. His mother said Robert had gone up tc..n. Frank returned and, not wishing to see the corpse, stood at a distance. Only two men were on the wharf, however, when the body arrived and they asked Frank to help pull the body up. | Bl il i SOLDIER AT HONOLULU CONVICTED OF LARCENY Member of Sitxty-Seventh Coast Ar- 4 tillery Sentenced by Civil Court - to Pay Fine. Jullan ‘Walbridge Rix, the famous | HONOLULU, Nov. 18.—J. Nurney of landscape painter, died in New Yflfki | the Sixty-seventh Coast Artillery, sta- City yesterday from the resuit of an tioned here, was found guilty of petty | operation, and the news of his demise larceny by 2 jury in Judge Gear's was recelved with deep regret in San court and sentenced to pay a fine of ¥ cisco, where he lived for many $60. Nurney is one of three soldiers . who were arrested for burglary and re- Rix was born in Peacham, Vt., in | arrested against the protest of the mil- 1851, and came to California with hlS“ | | iilar)' authorities on charges of larceny | father, Judge Alfred Rix, when he was | | | when the burglary indictment was a child.” At the age of § years Rix was | | | | found to be defective. The action of et it e ative Btate Bl wan sae- | Jaemron | the civil authorities in pressing the cated there, and returned to Ssn Fran- S cases after one release caused some cisco when he was 15 years of age. snimatec corrspusnianca beiRaen M e R Mas 1 VR AN, | jor McClellan and Governor Dole, and ;2 b el DoNEn g e +|it is understood that the major made d to his son’s selection of a ca- PAINTER OF CALIFORNIAN | {5 D0kt to the War Department o animal and apprenticed him to a firm of | SCENERY, WHO DIED 1N, || iDe sround that tha foen Ware t&ied W : » and sign painters, hoping to cure | NEW YORK. flic polios stter (RS Dad heen meentsd 8 of wits Qestre 2l Thaoing an on a military warrant. Nurney's two i ¥ % | companions were acquitted. the original oil painting. ang Rix, however, did not take| For the last fifteen years Rix spent ) 5y wdly to house painting and was soon | most of his time in New York, though Bennett Will Again in Court. ; % engaged in the work of getting up deco- | he returned to Califarnia last year and | HAVEN, Conn., Nov. 24— DON’T DO IT. rative signs. This whetted his appetite [ spent one month at Santa Barbara |Counsel for the widow of Philo S. ing, and be astonished his| painting landscapes. He was a mem- | Bennett to-day filed an appeal to the friends by his work. He attracted the | ber of the Lambs’ and Lotus Clubs of { Superior court from the decision of attention of Jules Tavernier, Tom Hill | New York. Probate | Judge Cleaveland regarding and Virgll Williams, and was enrolled| WAS SINCERE IN HIS ART. certain portions of the will of Mr. Ben- as one of the first pupfls of the Ban| wwnne Rix nevar attatned a standing| oo Te 10" WRogLis taken from section Francisco Art Assoclation. Willlam | ¢pa¢ might be called “great” he was| o>, Of, the Will, which refers ' to the Morris, the art dealer, also lent his | baountonry cae ot ono rent he | sealed letter providing for a gift of counsel and &id to young Rix, and the | Lo ouptedly oF the best landscape | g50,000 to William J. Bryan and family; painters in America. He had a wonder- 1 result as that it was not long ere|g¢. Enisity: 4F Teamclliootin &F e also from the sections providing for e e as'd | I scenery funds of $10,000 each to be ad- Rix was in demand. [and was a superb colorist. His work | oo > i 1 T - ministered by Mr. and Mrs. Bryan for WEALTHY MEN HIS PATRONS.| was sincere and honest, and he Was| cenoiaranips and prises o con 5 Rix rapidly came to the front as a |loval to his profession and did not al| from the section nominating Beyan as painter of California scenery, and his | low fame to interfere with his artistic | executor of the will works were purchased by the late C.|productions. il S e NN T P. Huntington, Irving M. Scott, William | Rix never married. His father, ® Morris, the Crockers and Louls Sloss, | Judge Alfred Rix, is still alive and re-| . cL-known Missionary Dead. | Startling Report Sub- The Bohemian Club also encouraged | sides in San Francisco, and this city is| HONOLULU, Nov. 18.—Mrs. Hiram : ial Rix, and many of his paintings were | also the home of two half-brothers and | BIngham, wife of one of the oldest sur- mitted to Officials secured by the club and are among its | one full brother of the dead artist. Ed- | V1Y\18 missionaries in Hawali, died yes- A S most valued belongings. He was made | ward A. Rix, an electrical engineer, js | {742y after an illness of ten days fol- in Arizona. an honorary life member of the Bohe- | a full brother of the dead man, and his | ;‘;“}"e":rs“of‘;;ffe ,‘\’I'r"“}r;.‘"":s' Shed“}‘;“ jan Club, and wealthy pat half-brothers are William Rix, o8 Bty Bantrs: OILEHEEE St Ay = a o o B R e mflnagc'rheot“a husband began missionary work in| PRESCOTT, Ariz, Nov. 24—The Rix showad gréat ability Su palutins |cemmeroial A, 1856, being members of the party on | Territorial Grand Jury, which has California scenery, and some of his| One of the best paintings of Rix is | the famous brig Morning Star. The de-|been in session here two weeks, to- works cted considerable attention | now in possession of the Bohemian |Ce38eéd Was known throughout Micro-(day submitted its final report. The re- in the Last. Through the efforts of | Club and represents the Christmas|DeSia. She assisted her husband in|port contains a severe arraignment of William Morris, the art dealer. Rix was | greeting sent by the painter to the|!ranslating the Bible into the language | ; number of county officials. introduced to prominent men in New [club in 1881 It is a blending of winter | °f the Gilbert Islanders, and translated| ;1o committee appointed to investi- York City when the painter went East | scenery in the East and glorlous sun- |2 number of works into that language.| " "o Recorder P. J. Farley's at the of 33 years, and in a brief | shine effect of California, typical of the | ReV: Hiram Bingham is still living. » # fie' hoge. #i sehich period the California artist had made | artist’s greeting from the snowbound Y e i AEice Srparied (a5 the booe tn auvoh his mark in the’Atlantic metropolis. | coast of the Atlantic to the summery Thieves Loot Mail Pouch. QECKEICITREE OF “fe e, Svery SN Klackner, Harpers and other prom- | skies of the Golden State. ST. LOUIB, Mo., Nov. 84.—A -ma] |Prlor to July 1, 1903, 18 missing and ny inent publishers took the paintings of| One of the last works of Rix is now | pouch that was rified near Oelwein, |€Xplanation is offered by the Recorder. | Losses ' FEoce=® B 7 .. $48,745 00 Rix, and the “Four Hundred” showed | In possession of William Morris, the art | Iowa, has been received at the office of | AS & result of the examination the | posses resisted including expenses. S50 00 eagerness to secure the canvases of | dealer, of this city. It depicts a winter | Chief Postoffice Inspector Dice. The|Ccommittee estimated that 33000 in fees | Gross preminms o0, e oy $ogTol the successful artist. He secured entree | scene near Harlem, N. Y., and its glow- | pouch had contained several hundred|Was collected and not accounted for. Teinsurance 50 ver_cent. .. ... 190,082 9T to prominnt clubs and his rise to fame | ing sunset effect is soméwhat Turner- | letters from different points i the| The Jury also charges criminal negli- | Gross premiuma on F® JUoks S was rap esque. 2 | West. Every letter had been opened |&ence in the management of the Poor | 547%;: reinsurance pro rata 44,967 89 Ccmmluclnnn and Brokerage due and 15,006 83 to become due.. All other Liabiliti Tcral Liabilities, INCOME. 75.663 12 | ——OF THE— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS —OF THE— National Standard | INSURANCE COMPANY | STATEMENT | F NEW YORK, IN THE STATE OF NEW York, on the 3ist day of December. A D 1902 and for the year on that day, as made to the Insur | Stats of California, the provistons of sections 610 and 611 of the Political Cod condensed as per blank furnished by the Com- missioner of the missioner: CAPITAL. | Amount of Capital Stock | inCash..... . o ASSETS. Cash Market Value of all Stocks and Bonds owned by Company.. -$442,077 50 Cash in Banks 2 104927 28 Interest due and accrued on all Stocks and Loans Premiums in due Co tion g Total Assets .. LIABILITIE! Losses In process of Adjustment or in Suspense ceeieeeie.. $49,085 00 Losses re: ing expenses. 78 w0 on Fire ning one year or less relnsurance 50 per cent... Gross premiums on Fire Risks ru ning more than one yewr. $76,- z ; reinsurance prowata...., Commissions ard Brokerage due and to become due All other Habilities . Total Liabilities 11 eceived f Fi o« Net cash actual by for re 0t . i iy | Wok o mlty svstent for P Net cash a Net cash actually receb rine premiums ... . 74 - & Received for interest and dividen: | nm’f f.;‘#“,‘,“i'h.,;,;,'..m'aw';d.', 7 on Bonds, Stocks, Loa ootived fov_mntovest 1 s Received for profit o nds._13.204 91 | pecetved for profit on sale of Honds. 10,117 18 FEBE A e ,205 58 Total Incom 436, e EXPENDITURES. 2 Net amount pald for Fire Losses EXPENDITURES. (ncluding ¥ . losses of pre- Net amount pald for Fire Losses g T AR ......... 267,400 03 | @ncluding $——. losses of previ- et amount paid for Marine Losses OUS YOArS) «.iioiiiiiieiion..... $268,278 T0 (including ¥ . losses of pre- Net amount paid for Marine Losses vious years] bt 29 18 (including + losses of previ- Dividends 10,000 00 | ous years) ....... 20 | Dividends to Stockhoiders 10,000 00 X 118,316 50 | Paid or allowed for Commission, or BrOKETage -....... .ececee....... 116,687 13 for State. 1.485 W0 | paid for Selarice. Feen and“other Paid for Sta |~ charges for officers clerks, ete. 1, taxes . .- 12,002 51 | paid for State, . All other payments and expendi- taxes . 14,281 14 (A s iy o ez - BB | an othe tures . 4,903 43 Total Expenditures ..... Losses Incurred during the year. Total Expenditures $415.579 21 =y Pro- | Losses incurred during the ye $252.500 90 Risks and Premiumy. Risks. miums. Risks and Premium: fire Risks.| Premiums. Net amount of Risks| Net amount of Risks| . Written during the| written during the, YEAT reenineessrorses [$02.800,148(8600.016 24 | year -....... ....|§55,664,020 | $746,347 8 Net amount of risk Net amount of Risks expire o expired during the| T 54,642,080( 645,050 97 | year ............. 56,354,413 | esa,301 39 et amot Ny a 1 1 Cember 31, 1902 36.665,190] 461,478 25 | N Pocember 31, 1002 | | Pre Risks and Premiums. | miums. Risks and Premiyms.| Risks. | Premiums. Net amount of Net amount of Risks| F written during written during the YEAT ..iiiiiisiee T year ....... : 49 Net amount of 11 Net amount of Risks| expiree durir expired during thej LI 474| year . LR cember 31, 1902 Nove. | M pearmuee 3 1902] December 31 1902. ROBERT C. RATHBONE, Prest. R. B RATHEONE, Secy. Subscribed and sWorn to before me this 21st | day of February, 1 CHRIS. BAMBACH. Notary Publie. R_B. RATHRONE, Prest. JOHN B. COONEY, Secy. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of February, 1905. CHRIS. BAMBACH. Notary Publie C. A. HENRY & CO. 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