The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 7, 1903, Page 1

wind. Local TEE WEATEER. Forecast made at San Fran- cisco for thirty hours emding midnight, December 7: San Francisco and vicinity— Fair Monday; light northerly G. M. WILLSON, \ Torecaster. | L \[T VOLU SAN Fischer's—"I. Columbia—“Way Down East.” Grand—“For Mother's Sake.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. ‘The Chutes—Vaudeville. 0. o.” RANCISCO, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1903. PRICE FIVE CE.\'T:Q. WOMAN ACTS TRAINING STATION N AOLE OF | POLICEMAN Kills Ex-Husband for Resisting | Arrest. SRS | Fires When He Offers Battle on Way to Prison. Dying Man Forgives His Blayer, but She Has No Regrets. Special Dispatch to The Call DES MOINES, Ia., Dec. 6.—George Klinken died early to-day as the result of trying to escape from a determined wife who had placed him under arrest and was conducting him of a revolver. of forgiveness for sed to express regret for her act, and declared she d have to do it again under sim- tel at wo the wife, but rces vorced from Klinkenbiel ago because of his He subsequently was the for She was several hospital in- stead of remaining to liquor habit' he es- ed to this city. He ed to effect a recon- protested un- for his ex-wife. and warmiy ving She swears that on Thurs- night, shortly after 1 o'clock, he nd declared he was prepared food and m through a window. then sprang into the sHe ‘was forced to weapon in self-defense. She . but informed him that der arrest and a false move ult in his death. was eighteen blocks to the po- and after 2 o'clock in the , but the woman set out on to march her ex-husband to the When almost at the end of the mpted to wrest the om her, and she shot him. red his abdomen. e at Klinker Mrs iel tenderly assisted the wounded n to a hotel and sum- moned a physici She sald she was the shot been fatal. PN 1 GIRL SHOOTS AN INTRUDER. Outlaw Atftacks a Lonely Young Woman and Is Killed. THACKER, W. Va.,, Dec -Alone in railway tower here night, while performing her duties as tele- graph operator for the Norfolk and Western Rallroad, Miss Kate Rou- burg, 20 years old, shot and mortally wounded William Howardson, an al- leged outlaw. Howardson had entered the tower mnd attempted to embrace Miss Rouburg. Breaking away from him | she secured her revolver and fired four shots at the intruder. One shot took effect, penetrating Howardson's chest, and he fell to the floor with a | clal meeting here -to protect itself, groan. Then after deliberately re- leting her experience to the telegragh eperator &t the next station, she walked a quarter of & mile in the derk to the magistrate’s house and surrendered. She was released on her own recognizance. L ee—— TAMMANY VIOTORY STIMULATES OPPONENTS ©Ohio Bepublicans Are Planning Oon- ference to Consider the Caim- paign Questions. CINCINNATI, Dec. 6.—President Moore of the National Republican League has requested Scott Bonham, president of the Ohio State League of Cincinnati, to visit Washington Decem- ber 11 and 12 to participate in 2 con- ference with the National Republican ittee. Arrangements have also “ made for a talk with President | Roosevelt. After these conferences the national league committee will meet in Philadelphia for a ther con. ference on the Presidential campaign. President Bonham says: recent Tammany victory in ew York has given fresh inspiration Republican league workers through- | t the States. As & Consequence of | Democratic victory steps have 1 teken to reorganize the State league of New York. The national league president has also been in con- | ference with other States and is pre- | paring for the reorganization of State Jeagues in the South and Western States and 1n New England.” { The committee to go to Washington will include, beside President Moore and Mr. Bonham, Senators Hanna and : Foraker. —_———————— H Libertad the Fastest Battleship. GLASGOW, Dec. 6.—Speed trials of | the Libertad, which with her sister ship, the Constitution, has been goid to Great Britain by the Chilean ern- his attentions were an- | ;m::mr COMPINIR, JLEX . SEERE, TR F S Naval Men Favor} l | Establishment , of School. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 14§ G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Com- mander Alexander Sharpe of the Bu- reau of Navigation of the Navy Depart- ment is working out the details of a | plan for the establishment of & train- ing school for naval apprentices at the Mare Island navy-yari. Cflicers of the Marine Corps declare that if their | branch of the national military service is to adequately answer the demands made upon .it, the enlisted personnel should be increased by 1000 men and the commissioned personnel propor- tionately enlarged. The demands on the | corps have grown much faster than it | has numerically. W 1L DEAL XY DIRECT WITH -DRCHARDISTS Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Dec.6.—The Western Fruit Jobbers’ Association decided yesterday | Just before the adjournment of its spe- egainst the wholesalers of Chicago, Milwaukee, Omaha and Des Moines by | making arrangéments to deal direct with the fruit growers of California and Bouthern Oregon. To that end Secre- tary A. N. Cheney was authorized to communicate with the fruit growers of the Pacific slope in the interests of the Western Fruit Jobbers’ Association. | C. F. Francis of Davenport is presi- | dent of the assoclation, and the treas- urer is H. G. Straight of Omaha. ‘“We did not come to Chicago to form & trust, but to get from under the in- fluence of one,” said President Francis. “There is to be no merger of our inter- ests. I denied that'in a New York newspaper some time ago. “Our object in meeting at this time is three-fold. In the first place, here- tofore we have not been very well ac- quainted. We considered it would be | well for us to organize for our own protection. Then it was decided we should get cur fruit direct from .the growers, if they have not been entirely gewed up by the big wholesalers of Chi- | cago and other Western metropolitan cities.” | GONDOLAS IN ALL STREETS OF VENICE Heavy Rains Cause Floods and Ob- struct General Business of City. § VENICE, Dec. 6.—As a result of the extremely bad weather, with a violent wind which has prevailed for some days, Venice was almost entirely under water for a few hours to-day. At the piazza of the Cathedral of St. Marks the flood rose to a height of four feet, while inside the cathedral the water was so high as to threaten serious damage. Gondolas had to be used from shop door to shop door@until bridges were improvised by the firemen, the ordinary bridges having disappeared. The water gradually subsided. There ment, have resulted in an average of she is the fastest battleship afioat. ing the night.- FOR MARE ISLAND L 4 NAVAL - OPFICER WHO IS PLANNING MARE ISLAND=, TRAINING SCHOOL. 1 ORNEBIES MO0EL Y S PLARNE Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—~With a $2,- | 500,000 gift by, Andrew Carnegie to sup- | port it, an experiment in sociology is | about to be tried that will be watched | wigh the liveliest interest by those who believe, or doubt, that it is possible to build Utopian cities, or to establish an Altruri In an official statement issued to- day by the American Institute of So- cial Servick there were shown the plans which the institute has outlined, for the carrying out of the new Carnegle Dunfermline trust. Dunfermline is An- | drew QGarnegie's native town, to which he recently transferred by trust deed Pittencrieff Park and Glen and $2,- 500,000 to be used in making life more pleasant for the toiling masses of the vicinity. Professor Patrick Geddis, the trust’s representative in Scotland, ask- ed for the co-operation of the institute and a plan has just been formulated. It goes into minute details and is based on personal studies of Dunfermline's needs made by Dr. W. H. Tolman, di- rector of the institute, who made a journey to Scotland for the purpose. “The plan includes,” to quote the statement, “a regional museum dis- trict for the city, a beautiful social center, a department of civics, boys’ and girls’ flower gardens, a children’s playground and outdoor gymnasium, holiday tours and historic pilgrimages, get-together clubs and a system of awards and prizes. “The general outline for the city beautifully suggests that somewhere on the confines of the park land should be set aside on which can be bulilt model dwellings of diversified architec- ture, with due regard = to , individual needs. One such house is to e as a model that others may see how best to combine art and economy, cheapness and decoration. Flower gardens are to be about the houses and no fences will be allowed to divide the yards. “The soclal center is to be a large building for common uge as a recrea- tion ground and hall for general en- tertainments and as a meeting place. . “The details for the regional mu- seum have been given at great length. In this museum shall be’collected vari- ous processes of local industries, in order that the individual workman may get an idea of how his part is related to the great industry as a whole. In this museum there shall be interpreta- tion by means of photographic models, charts and diagrams, with expla.ut}gnl suited to the average mind.” ——— rt Spencer Is Sinking. LONDON, Dec. 6.—The condition of is a fear. that unless the weather | Herbert Spencer, the famous writer, 20.2 knots per hour, thus showing that |changes there will be another flood dur- | who has been {ll for some « | worse to-day. s WOMEN RUN FROM PERIL OF FLAMES 'Fire Makes Ruin, of Santa Paula Houses. Hotel Guests Escape in Secant Raiment at Night. Newly Incorporated Town Suffers Loss of Many Documents. ban R0 2l Special Dispatch to The Call. VENTURA, Dec. 6.—The principal part of the business section of Santa Paula was destroyed by fire early this | morning. It is estimated that the loss | will be fully $75,000, with less than $25,- 000 insurance. Nine large hplldlngfl and | their contents were destroyed and | many other buildings were damaged. | Men and women rushed from the flam- ing structures and it is a marvel that | the conflagration was not attended by | appalling fatalities. Night Watchman Sawyer discovered | the fire about 3 o'clock. It started in | the rear of T. L. Cerf's saloon, which occupied ,the Hobson frame bullding. | Sawyer gave the alarm by firing his revolver. Then the church bell was rung. There was a terrific southeast wind blowing and it fanned the flames, which spread to the west. INVALID NARROWLY ESCAPES. ‘The office of Justice of the Peace J. B. Titus was soon ablaze and then Odd Fellows' Hall took fire. These frame buildings were consumed within a very few minutes. Two hours after the fire was. discovered the destruction was 7 . The large Petrolia Hotel was bi 1 twenty minutes. The guests of the hotel were barely able to escape with their clothes on. J. G. Woolley, a department store merchant of Lafay- ette, Ind.,, was carried out on a mat- tress. He is an invalid who had just arrived in Santa Paula. His family es- caped with difficulty. The waitresses and servants were the last ones out, and they did not stop for complete at- tire. Mrs. C. P. Russell, whose hus- band manéged the hotel, rushed out of the building in her night dress. C. E. King had $5000 worth of surplus | furniture stored in the Odd Fellows' | | building which was all lost. Of the Mec- Millian livery stable the brick walls re- | main. The building was completely | gutted, McMillian saved nothing but | his horses. The boarding and lodging | house of Mrs. L. §. Kiser was burned | to the ground. The lodgers did not have time to save anything except a few personal belongings. The Mrs. C. | N. Baker House, occupied by Mrs. Car- | ter, a dressmaker, was destroyed. | CITY HALL IN FLAMES. | Flying cinders set fire to the City | Hall, on the opposite side of the street. This building was owned and was for- merly occupied by the Santa Paula Na- tional Bank. City Marshal A. J. Baker opened the vault and removed some of the city records. He did not close the vault door and many papers were de- stroyed. ‘A large hay barn adjoining the Cify Hall contalning fifty tons.of hay was burned. Dr. Hutchinson’s res- idence, located within thirty feet of the barn, was badly scorched. The bucket brigade saved this building and the Crowley residence from destruction. In doing so several men were singed about the hands and face. The doors and win- dows of Atmore's blacksmith shop were burned off. Harry Sexton, the village butcher, lost his lard and sausage sheds and kettles. Several side rooms in the upper story of the Goldstone brick block caught fire and were par- tially burned. The wind blew large cinders as far west as the Blanchard orange and lemon packing-houses. These houses are a mile west of town. | PRINCESS SHOOTS ACTRESS IN HER HUSBAND'S PALACE | 2 PRINCESS ELIZABETH MARIE, | WHO 1S CENTRAL FIGURE IN | A SENSATIONAL EPISODE. | | +* Elizabeth of Aus- tria Attempts Murder. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YROK, Dec. 7.—A cable dis- patch to the World from Vienna says: Prince Otto of Windisch-Graetz, his youthful and immensely wealthy wife, Princess Elizabeth Marie, whom he married only a year ago, and a pretty actress of thre opera at Prague are cen- tral figures in an extraordinary scandal that is at this moment rending a half- dozen European courts. ‘The Princess, who is a granddaughter on her father's side of the Emperor of Austria, and on her mother's side of the King of the Belgians, is only 20 years old. The royal personage, who renounced her rights to the throne of Austria in order to marry as her heart dictated, has had a narrow escape from the stigma of a murderess, for she did nothing less than shoot and seriously wound an actress with whom the Prince was having a rendezvous. The remarkable affalr took place in the palace of the estate of the Prince's to the highest circles of Bohemia, where it was supposed that the ‘home life of the young . couple was ideal. News of it has just reached here, where 1t stirred the court and society general- ly in Austria, Hungary and the smaller states of the dual monarchy. It was an especially startling piece of infor- mation In Brussels, the court of the King of the Belgians. It appears that Prince Otto has been secretly paying assiduous attentions to the actress, a slender, ‘beautiful girl, at The Youngling barn, one-half mile west, took fire twice and the roof was charred. cept the Masons. The Odd Fellows' Hall was rented to the various organi- zations for meeting purposes. All of | | their records and paraphernalia were | destroyed. Several poles belonging to pany were burned. There has been no telephone service in Santa Paula to-| day. County Manager Browne fiad sev- eral linemen repairing the damage. Lineman Ware was accompanied by his bride, who assisted in the work. the Santa Paula Electric Light Com- |- whose feet were half of - the gilded youth of Prague. The Princess was blisstully ignorant of the intrigue until on a certain night she was informed, Every local lodge lost by the fire ex- | presumably through some disappointed suitor of the actress, that the Prince was then entertaining in his in the palace her lovely rival. FIRES UPON A VALET. The Princess Is, or was, at least, deep- 1y in love with the prince, and it is Imfi Grasping a gold-mounted revolver of small caliber, presented to her by her '| Emperor’s Doctors Are Uneasy at the | Faithless Pri‘nce’s; }down and was led weeping from the family at Prague. It came as a shock ! Style after the Archduchess ‘Hunting Lodge, Meyerling, the suppo- train. on Friday from Marylebone to ‘Manchester, a distance of 206 miles, | fn 219 minutes. Nottingham was the | o+ | Tryst Ends in | Bloodshed. | <+ + dor, whereupon the Princess proceeded to the Prince’s apartment, to which had not penetrated the noise of the thrilling scene in the corridor. H BULLET FOR THE ACTRESS. | Frenzied by rage and humiliation, the | Princess stood before the guilty pair, | revolver in hand. The Prince paled as | he realized that a tragedy was contem- | plated. He sprang toward his angered Princess, but as he did so, the latter cried “Beast!” and shot the actress in the breast. The woman uttered a | shriek and fell inanimate to the floor. | The Prince seized his wife, who would | have made her revenge complete with another shot had not her intention been thwarted. The Princess, now overcome by the enormity of her deed, broke apartment. Medical aid was summoned and it was found that the actress had a se- rious but not necessarily mortal wound. She was quickly removed to her own apartments in the city. | Prince Otto is 30 years old. Before | his marriage to the Archduchess Eliza- | beth Marie of Austria he was a simple 1 lieutenant in the First Regiment of Uhlans. He and the Archduchess met at a grand ball here and fell in love. The Austrian Emperor, whose favorite granddaughter she was, opposed the | match, but the determined Princess told him she would either marry the man she loved or retire to a convent. | The Emperor gave way and the mar- riage was celebrated in magnificent had re- nounced her right of succession to th® dual throne of Austria and Hungary. In consideration of her remunciation, necessary because the lleutenant, though of ancient family, was poor and without royal title, the Emperor gave to the bride securities valued at $1,600.- | 000, yearly allowance of $250,000, jewels worth $1,000,000, a gold dinner service and several residences. The Princess is a daughter of the un- fortunate Crown Prince Rudolf, whose tragic death stirred the whole world. The Crown Prince and Countess Marie | Vetsera were found dead . together at | sition being that the Prince had killed | the Countess and then committed sui- — | Great Central Train Makes Almost 200 Miles. | Special Cablegram to The Call and‘ New York | Herald. 1008, by the New York LONDON, Dec. 6.—The Times says place. The distance HEALTH Probable Recurrence of Throat ‘Trouble. 7~The Daily Mail | Dearborn street. | cide was placed | prehended Ganka. |and frightened young man was later | for divorce, alleging cruelty. POISON ENDS ROMANCE OF AN HEIRESS Pathetic Sequel to an Elopement in Chicago. Cab Conveys Lifeless Girl Back to Her Relatives, Rosa Bemis' Sensational Marriage Has a Tragic Finale. The Call. Special Dispatch to CHICAGO, Dec. 6.—With the shroud- | ed, lifeless form of his wife beside him in a Frederick Ganka, whose elopement three years ago with Miss Rose A. Bemis, heiress and niece of Henry V. Bemis, president of the Be- mis-Richelieu Importing Company and former proprietor of the Hotel Riche- cab, lieu, stunned West Side society early this morning as he drove from the Saratoga Hotel to the home of Mrs. Katheryn Woodruff, 418 Washington boulevard, the grandmother of Mrs. Ganka. This was the homecoming of the beautiful 18-year-old girl, who is be- lieved to have adopted suicide as the happlest solution of a shatteved ro- mance. Wrapped in blankets and borne by the young husband and two hotel employes, the body of the young wom- an was carried from a pazior in the Saratoga Hotel to a waiting cab in The body of the sul- in the vehicle in & sitting posture_ Ganka climbed in after it, and the weird ride to Washington boulevard was begun. On arrival at the former home of his wife Ganka, aided by the driver of the cab, carried the body into the residence of Mrs Woodruff. HUSBAND IS ARRESTED. Peculiar circumstances in connection with the death of the girl prompted the arrest of Ganka early in the forenoon. Criticism was aroused by the late noti- fication to the €oroner and the police. Detectives from the central station ap- The disheartened released at the instance of Bemis. Ganka at the time of his marriage was a shoe clerk in a local department store. When 15 years of age Miss Bemis eloped with Ganka to St. Joseph, Mich. Ganka himself was only 20 years old, and the affair caused a stir among Mrs. Ganka's relatives and friends. There is little doubt that the resuft- " ing unhappiness caused the girl to take the poison which caused her death this morning. Letters left by Mrs. Ganka bear out this theory. Last July Ganka and his wife sepa- rated, and later Mrs. Ganka filed a bill After a visit to her grandmother last evening Mrs. Ganka called her husband from his place of employment on the pretext that their baby was jll. Then she told him that nothing was the matter with | the baby, but that she had filed suit for divorce and wanted to know if he would contest the case. Ganka said that he would not. Then he asked his wife to go to a theater. She agreed. PREPARES FOR HER DEATH. Both went to Ganka's home, at 354 Jackson boulevard, and while he was changing his clothes it is believed Mrs. Oanka purchased the peison at a near- by drug store. ) Later they went to the theater and then to the Saratoga Hotel. Mrs. Ganka left the parior which her husband had engaged and went to the ladies’ dress- ing-room. Alarmed by her failure to | return, Ganka went to seék his wife. | He found her lying on the floor suffer- ing agonies from the poison which she | had swallowed. A physician was called, but he arrived too late to save Mrs. Ganka's life. She died at 5 o'clock this morning. and soon afterward the body was wrapped in blankets by Ganka. and taken to the home of Mrs. Woodruff. —————— COUNT TISZA PLACATES THE OBSTRUCTIONISTS Hungarian Premier Grants Conces- sions to Independence Party and Avoids a Crisis. VIENNA, Dee. 6.—It is believed that the struggle against obstruction in the ‘Hungarian Parliament has at last been terminated. Count Tisza, the Premier, announced yesterday that in considera- tion of the renuneiation by the inde- pendence party of itg policy of obstruc- tion, the plan to Whd two sittings daily wauld not be carried into effect. Some other concessions were also made to the opposition. In some quarters it {s feared that Count Tisza paid tvo high a priee for his victory, but never- theless there are many expressions of satisfaction that one of the severest crises in the Parliament since 1367 has ‘been brought to a close. \ A