The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 8, 1903, Page 2

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E their value, therefore, is not dependent on the character of the management of the company. reserves guaranteeing Conservative Life policies are equal in amount to those of all old-line and in addition These Funds Are Placed With the Government Without Recall. 2 the following guaranty of the State of California appears on Conservative Life policies: Compare the following indorsement with that on a United States National Bank note. INSURANCE DEPARTMENT,, STATE OF CALIFORNIA. POLICY IS REGISTERED WITH THIS DEPARTMENT, AND A IS SECURED BY APPROVED SECURITIES -A California Company... OFFICES—230 Montgomery street and 110 Geary street, Ochsner Sacr amento. Cen06000000000000000000600000000000000000000 €000006000000000000000. San Francisco; ECTION 634 OF THE POLITICAL i INSURANCE GOMMISSIONER. | @ H i .l | | STATE OF CALIFOR- " CODE OF Abrahamson building, Oakland, BULLETS END THEIR COMBAT Watsonville Policeman Has a Battle With Alleged Horse- thief and Uses His Revolver WATSONVILLE, Dec. 7.—Policeman Bandberg of this city, on being in- formed that a horse thief from San Jose was making this way, immediate- Iy started in pursuit in company with Chief of Police Rassette and Consta- ble Corr. The officers encountered the man in a slcizh near this city. When com- manded to surrender he rushed tow- ard Sandberg, throwing him to the ground. The assailant, H. Aradshaho, @& Calabasas Indian, being on top of the officer, attempted to gouge his eye out. The officer suffered a number of se- vere bruises and scratches about his face. While Aradshaho was inflicting these injuries the officer obtained his weapon and fired three shots, two of which took effect in the man’s back. It is not known if they are fatal, as the doctors at the sanitarium have mot completed their examination. ———————— Railroad Man Comes to California. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 7.—John M. Hall, generai counsel and formerly president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, left to-day for Pasadena, Cal, where he will remain | Sanborn, Vail & Co. . | until May, when he will be retired from | the presidency of the road. The direct- | ors voted Hall six months’ vacation in the hope that a rest may restore his heealth. —_——— GIRLS TAKE MONEY IN BURGLAR FASHION Jewelry and a Bank Lost in Fresno, but Young Perpetrators of the Crime Are Arrested. FRESNO, Dec. 7.—Hester Foster and Carrie Swafford, each 14 years of age, last Friday entered the house of Mrs. J. Kaledara of Kearny avenue in this city during her absence and carried off a small bank containing several dol- lars, a few pieces of jewelry and some wearing apparel. The same night they crawled from the windows of their respective homes, | secreted themselves at the house of a friend and on Saturday morning hired a rig at a livery stable and started out to drive to Stockton. At Herndon they were obliged to ford the San Joaquin River because of the recent burning of the bridge there, and got so cold and wet that when they reached Borden, two miles from Madera, they had about given up their intention of going on to Stockton. At Borden they met a man named Kémp and 4 youth named Va- lencia and the four started back: to Fresno. A watch was being kept for them along the road, and just as they entered the city limits they were ar- rested. The men were released, but the girls were taken to jail, where they confessed to entering the Kaledara house. —_—— ‘We have all the new pictures and frames for the holiday trade now on ex- hibition and sale: cznu and see them. more so than at any previous time The FEAR CEASES AT STANFORD One New C(ase of Diphtheria Shows Itself, but the Author- ities See No Need for Alarm ———— Special Dispatch to The Call. STANFORD UNIYERSITY, Deé, 7.— During the last twénty-four hours but one actual case of diphtheria and three suspected s have been discovered in the college community, and Health Officer W. F. Snow feels confident that in a few days the spread of the dis- ease will be absolutely checked. James C. Ray, 1907, a student in geology from Duluth, Minn., was taken to the Detention Hospital last night, and his.case is pronounced a mild form of diphtheria. The three suspects are Charles T. Paine of Redlands, an en- tomology major; James S. Giles of Oakland, a law major, and Miss O, C. Godfrey, a student in the Eng - partment. Teu d"e Dr. W. F. Snow, the university health officer, when asked situation to-r:l:ht uld:t oo “The outlook is very encouraging; since the epidemic seri- ous cases have all been treated with antihaxtoxine and are responding very well to that treatment. None nsflu patients are y ill, and all | NURPHY'S HOPE(ARMOUR SILENT [SHAREHOLDERS ABGUT WATSON| ~ CHARGE FRAUID 1S MCLELLAN Tammany Leader Is Grooming Mayor Elect for Democrat- ic Presidential Nomination HILL BACK OF PARKER Tdvely Fight in Prospect for Control of the Delegation From the Empire Speclal Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—Charles F. Murphy is aimipg high for his friend, Mayor-elect McClellan of New York. If statements made to-day by members of the House from New York and by other friends of the Mayor- elebt are to be relied upon, the leader of Tammany desires to present the name of McClellan to the Democrats of the country as a candidate for Presi- dent, and he would like to do it in the next national convention instead of walting until 1908. That, in the opinion of Representatives from whom the in- formation comes, is the reason Murphy is fighting shy of making any agree- ment with David B. Hill to have the New York delegation to the next na- tional convention vote solidly for Judge Parker. . No one has dreamed that the Tam- many leader would take the man he made Mayor and seek to make Presi- dential timber out of him, all within one year. But that is the only construc- tion given by members of Tammany who have been asked to explain the denial by Murphy of any agreement with Hill, It iz admitted that there is a very strong feeling in New York in favor of | Parker. It is said that if Judge Park- er's only support was Hill's strength, then a close fight might be looked for in the State convention. ‘Whether there will be a contest de-| pends largely on the strength McClel- | lan can“give himself during the first four or five months of his administra- | tion as Mayor. £ DEATH ENDS A PIONEER’S EVENTFUL LIFE el S Special Dispatch to The Call. SANTA ROSA, Dec. 7.—Levi Sam- uel Bacon Slusser, one of the noted ploneers of California, died last night. | Slusser reached this State in the | spring of 1847 and returned to the East in 1851 to bring cattle to Califor- nia| He was one of the first men to bring American cattle here and in so doing laid the foundation for a large fortune. He came to Sonoma County in 1847, but later went to the mines on the Feather, American and Yuba | rivers, where he remained for many months. In 1855 he retfrned to his native State of Pennsylvania and there | was married to Miss Sarah Bowring, who passed away at the /old home place, on Mark West Creek in 1883, Slusser was 84 years and 9 months of age at the time of his death and had been a resident of this vicinity continuously for over fifty years. He was one of the most prominent men of Sonoma County and was ever in the vanguard of progress. After coming from the mines he left a trunk here in possession of Thomas Hopper, with whom he had crossed the plains. He did not call for it for over two years and in the interim made a trip East with an ox team. The trunk con- tained $9000 in gold dust and nug- gets and hall lain under a bed in Hop- per's cabin. Slusser was a member of the California Pioneers and took great interest in that organization. His death removes an Interesting figure from this city and vicinity. One son, ‘Willlam P. Slusser, of Mount Olivet survives him. Aged Man’s Life Is Over. ~AN JOSE, Dec. 7.—George W. Par- tee, who would have been 100 years old on the 10th day of next May, died in this city to-day at the home of his granddaughter, Mrs. Fred H. Figel One son, Ben F. Partee of Palo Alto, and a grandson, George B. Roop, are the only other near relatives in this State. Partee came from Ohio to this | county in 1850 and had since resided here. Death Claims a Story Writer. WESTCHESTER, Pa., Dec. 7.—Al- fred Sharpless, a well known writer on reforms and agricultural topics and who gained a national reputation for his “John Plowshare Letters,” pub- lished many years ago, dled to-day, aged 82 years. He was a prominent | mineralogist and had a rare collection of relics relating to the aborigines. Apoplexy Fatal to Comedian. CHARLESTON, W. Va...Dec. T7.— John Blackford, comedian, with A. G. ields’ Minstrels, dled here to-day of apoplexy. He was known as “the coon from Arkansa; His home is at St. Joseph Mo. ° _ Famous Veterinarian Dies. 8T. 'LOUIS, Dec. 7.—Dr. R. E. Clark, a veterinary surgeon, well known throughout the country, died here to- day of apoplexy. —_ee—————— Laborers Find Employer Dead. MODESTO, Dec. 7.-~Workingmen on the ranch of Julius Coffee, near Turlock, found the body of their em- ployer hanging from a beam in his granary at noon to-day. He had com- mitted suicide. He left no word as to the cquse of the deed. He was suc- cessful as a farmer. It is believed melancholy was the cause, as he had been more or less morose since his wife died two years ago. Herbert 8 Barely Alive. LONDON, Dec. 7.—A bulletin is- sued late to-night says Herbert Spen- cer is still alive, but that he is very feeble and that his condition is most serious. @ il el @ are in good spirits and as comfortable as possible.” From the registrar’s office it was learned to-night that fiftéen students had taken out leaves of absence dur- ing the day, and probably as many more have left for home without tak- ing out leaves. It is probable that about sixty students in all have left the university since the first case of diphtheria was reported. The majority of these have left in response to urgent telegrams from home. The panic that seemed likely to develop a few ago has disappeared and work in university is continuing as as usual. ——————— A Guaranteed Cure for Piles. TR E days, 50c* / ] State | Chief Owner of Fruit Growers’ Express Company Says Little About - the Porter Concern REBATES A LIVELY THEME New York Lawyer Seeks Infor- counts but Is Disappointed CHICAGO, Dec. 7.—Protesting that he has no personal knowledge of the accounts of the Fruit Growers' Ex- |press Company or any agreement ;Whlch that concern may have had | | with the Porter Bros. Company, J.| | Ogden Armour, when placed on the | |stand- before Bankruptcy Referee | Wean, to-day declared that he could |not help the creditors of the latter . company to discover how much maney | President James 8. Watson received as i rebates. Armour, who is the prin- cipal owner of the Fruit Growers’' Ex- press Company, was on the stand for two hours, all of which time he was mation About Rates and Dis-| Some Sensational Allegations DONIE MAKES (00D SHOVINC In ‘His Statement Liabilities Are Made Against Managers] Are Mere Mite Compared to of the National Salt Company SAY STOCKS WERE JUGGLED | Claim Made That Dividends Were Paid Out of Borrowed Money to Enhance Property R SRS NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—Sensational charges agaifist the old management | of the National Salt Company and its! present receivers were made to-day, when the matter of the sale of the the Assets of Zion City —_— TANGLE MAY BE SETTLED Creditors Will Investigate the Claims and If Correet the Receivers Will Be Removed CHICAGO, Dec. 7.—In a statement which places his assets at more than four times as much as his liabilities John Alexander Dowle to-day, at meeting attended by a majority of his property of the company in this State by the recelver to Samuel D. Halliday | came up in the Supreme Court. 1 Halliday and the receivers, Nathan| | S. Beardslee and Frank P. McDermott, | asked Justice Leventritt to confirm the | sale. | This was opposed by a number of stockholders, who claimed that the former management had mismanaged | the affairs of the company and had | Settlement, and he agreed to take up paid $800,000 unearned dividends out of | busy answering or refusing to answer questions put to him by Attorney Bach | of New York. The lawyer, who was | acting for New York creditors of the Porter Bros. Company, had previously ! |learned from General Manager Rob- | |bins of the Fruit Growers' Express | | Company that Watson had received about $700,000 as rebates from the | express company in six years. Bach | | thought Armour would be able to| give more information on this sub- | Ject and also tell how much Watson | recelved from the railroad companies | | which used cars of the Fruif Growers’ | Express Company in transporting | goods for”the Porter Bros. concern, | | but in this the New York lawyer was | i disappointed. The witness said that Armour & Co. had made large loans to Watson and | the Porter Bros. Company, though | he did not know how much or for what purpose. Armour declared that the company’s only claim against the Porter Bros.’ esfate to-day is for $60,- 000, which is secured by Mr. Watson's life insurance policy and stock of the bankrupt company. —_————— SOUTHERN PACIFIC MAY DECLARE DIVIDEND In Such an Event Union Pacific, One of Largest Stockholders, Would Be Biggest Gainer. NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—Rumors have | been revived concerning an early decla- | | ration of dividens on the Southern | Pacific stock. They do not appear to | have any official authority to rest upon. Should they prove to be correct the la;gest gainer would be the Union Pa- cific. The largest single investment owned ! by the Union Pacific is $90,000,000 of | ! Southern Pacific stock, on which no revenue was received last year. None | will be received this year, but it is fair | | to reckon upon a dividend of 3 per cent | !on this stock in 1904-5 and thereafter, | | which will increase the income from | securities by $2,700,000 annually, bring- | ing it to praetically $7,000,000. CONVICTS GIVE CUARDS POISON Officers at the Salem Peniten- tiary in Oregon Partake of a Meal and Are Taken Very Ill e —— Special Dispatch to The Call. SALEM, Or.,, Dec. 7.—Last night an attempt was made to polson the two guards on duty inside the walls of the Salem penitentiary with the presumed | object of making a wholesale escape possible. Taylor Smith and W. H. Fisher are | ! the night guards in the prison, and | | their midnight lunch is prepared by convict cooks. After eating this meal | yesterday they both became violently ill. Suspecting that the food had been poisoned, they gave the alarm and all | the day guards patrolled the prison till daylight. Physicians say the two men were suffering from some strong corrosive, but as it might haver been adminis- | persons, the investigation by the au- thorities has not enabled a definite charge to be laid against any one. —_———— DOCTORS SAY DEATH NEARS JESSE D. CARR ‘Well-Known Pioneer Stricken Wtih Paralysis at His Country Home and Not to Live. SALINAS, Dec. 7.—Jesse D. Carr, the well-known pioneer, who celebrated his eighty-ninth birthday last June, sud- denly collapsed last evening and is re- ported to be near death. He is semi- conscious and is aroused with difficulty. The physicians in attendance on Mr. Carr state that their patient is par- alyzed from the waist down. He is unconscious, except when roused. They have given up all hope of saving his life. ———— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—The following Californians are registered here: From San Francisco—Winson 8. Allen and wife, at the Grand Union; S T. Allen, at the Grand Union; E. D. Baker, at the Hotel York; M. A. Bley, at the Broadway Central; W. A. Doyle, at the Hotel Imperial; F. C. Dutam, at the Hoffman; P. E.Goslinsky, at the Herald Square; A. Gonzales and wife, Miss W. Gonzales and S. M. Haslett, at the Im- at the Grand . McChesney, at the Criterion; H. Ratner, at the Herald %uue: J. _B. Ward, at the Grand jon; Dr. W. G. Wilber, at the Cri- terion; W. J. Richter, at the Union Square; Miss F. Anger, at the Marl- borough; Miss E. O'Neill and G. Rose and wife, at the Cadillac. From San Jose—H. L. Miller, at the Herald From Square. Los Angeles—W. R. Buel and wife, at the Marlborough; C. Condon, at the Cosmopolitan. ety e S " Mascagni H‘,lkhu New Opera. ROME, Dec. 7.—Signor Mascagni in a speech which he delivered at a din- ner given him in Turin said that his new opera, “Vestila,” was finished. Corporations and the public sometimes have interests in is the case gfi and Electric Co., 415 g‘“‘“lt...‘l = tered to them by any of a number O‘IaNrmy IR Mowal Nort borrowed money to enhance the value ganization of the National Salt Com-| pany, with a capital of $30,000,000 to| take over the National Salt Company’s property, there was a conspiracy on the part of Milo M. Belding, Edward L. Fuller and Joy Morton to “freeze out’ minority stockholders of the National Salt Company, and in pursuance of this policy an application for a receivership and the sale of the property was made in the New Jersey courts. Recelver Beardslee, it is charged, discouraged intending bidders on the New York property, telling them that the prop- | erty would be sold to the International Salt Company, and it is further charged | that Halllday in buying the property | acted as an agent for the company and that the property sold for $337,500 was really worth $1,250,000, lnd;_fiven: at forced sale, had a value of $750,000. | — ADJUSTERS AIDED BY | MANY CONFEDERATES | | Recent Developments Show That Many | Prominent Persons Have Been Engaged in Swindling. NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—Startling dis- closures, based upon information ob- tained through a confession made by Max Karnfield, a public fire adjuster, who has been convicted of fraud in connection with a claim of loss he had himself put in and who will be sen- tenced on Friday, were made to-night by Assistant District Attorney Garvan. The cases of twelve persons who are| suspected of having defrauded insur-| ance companies in a similar manner will ‘be presented to the Grand Jury within a few days. Among them are three lawyers, several merchants, sev- eral public fire adjusters and two or three adjusters employed by fire in- surance companies. Garvan declared that fire insurance companies have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars through paying false claims of loss. One of these persons is a merchant worth $500,000 and another is president of a corporation which employs 400 men. Fire patrolmen, men employed by the board of fire underwriters to take charge of properties after fires have been extinguished and save as much property as possible, Garvan alleges, have been in league with the fire ad- ! justers. Instead of doing their duty, | he says, he knows that in many in- stances they have purposely damaged goods by water for a fee pald by fire adjusters. —_———— OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST | Departments in Washington Issue Or- | ~ders for Postal and Navy Changes in California and Washington. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—The follow- ing orders were issued to-day: Postmasters commissioned: Califor- nia—Grace E. Pedigo, Daunt. Fourth-class postmasters appointed: | Californfa—Murdock A. McKinnof, | China Flat, Humboldt County, vice | | | Willlam Doherty, resigned; Patrick E. Carkland, Dyerville, Humboldt County, vice E. S. Townsend, resigned; Annie ‘W. Ludwig, Gwinmin, Calaveras Coun- ty, vice Hiram A. Messenger, resigned. | ‘Washington—Thomas D. Jones, Clal- lam, Clallam-County, vice M. F. Cohen- our, resigned: Addison O. Lee, Cun- ningham, Adams County, vice Poland L. Hedrick, resigned. Navy orders—Midshipman H. B. Childs from Mare Island Hospital to Bayard, —_————— MURDERS WOMAN WHO RESISTS HIS ADVANCES Glass Manufacturer Shoots His Com- panion When She Ignores His Attentions. NEW YORK/ Dec. 7.—Lester C. Fitzgerald, member of a glass manu- facturing firm of this city, shot and killed Mrs. Matilda Wood at a hotel in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn | to-day and then committed suicide with the same weapon. Mrs. Wood | was the wife of a newspaper composi- | tor, who said he belleves that Fitz- gerald committed the crime because Mrs. Wood repelled his advances. Fitzgerald was married, but his wife had secured a divorce from him and had since remarried. i piga i IRATE HUSBAND KILLS HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW Angered by the Rejection of His Di- vorced Wife, Oscar Letheredge Commits Murder. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Dec. 7. Six miles south of here Oscar Lether- edge killed Oscar Smith, his brother- in-law, crushing his skull with a i of stovewood and probably fatally wounded the latter’s brother, J. E. Smith, both boys. Letheredge’s wife, who had secured a divorce from him, had gone to her father's home. He went there to see them and when the elder Smith refused him admittance Letheredge forced the door. The boys tried to eject him and the fatal fight followed. Shasta County Disappears REDDING, Dec. 7. — Thomas ‘Whalen, a storekeeper at White House, in this county, is missing. It is feared that he either met with foul play or committed suicide. He was in Red- ding Saturday evening, drinking heav- ily, something unusual for him. He | been given. was put to bed by friends at 2:30 o’clock Sunday morning and has not been seen since. His business ac- counts are straight and his family re- lations were pleasant. BERLIN, Déc. 7.—The growth of the popu- lation of Germany in 1902, regarding creditors, submitted a proposal 'by | which it is belleved that the financial tangle at Zion City will be straightened out in a satisfactory manner. In Dowie’'s communication his assets are declared to be $18,845,210 and his lia- bilities only $4,058,349. Of the liabilities- $452,267 is merchan- dise indebtedness. Notes bearing 5 per cent interest were offered by Dowie Ilr‘l) per cent of his indebtedness in three months, 25 per cent in six months. 3§ < | of their stock holdings; that in the or- | per cent in nine months and the re- maining 40 per cent in one year. The creditors who were represented at the meeting thought the proposal reascnable and a commitiee was ap- pointed to seek further details. If this committee finds that Dowie’s statement of debts and resources is correct, it I8 said, they will accept the propusal at once and then seek to have the bank- ruptcy proceedings dismissed. Dowie's statement of his resources included land, buildings, stock in Zion's lace in- dustry, bills receivable and other items not named. Of his total indebtedness that due for bank deposits and shares of stock in the various Zion industries was placed at $3,193,679, maturing In 1919 and 1923. Bills payable on account of land were placed at $313,403, due In 1905 and 1908. The judgment due Samuel Stevenson is $100,000. for which secured notes have This leaves only $452,267 due to outside creditors on merchan- dise accounts. It is to the holders of these outside claims that Dowie made the offer of settlement. —_—————————— Cashier Goes to Prison. COLUMBUS~Ohlo, Dec. 7.—Harry J. Hoover pleaded gullty to making false entries and fraudulent issue of a cer- tificate as cashier of the People's Na- tional Bank of Newark, Ohio, to-day and was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. ———— Defaulting Teller Arrested. NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—J. M. Edge, for- mer note teller of the First National Bank of Paterson, N. 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