The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 12, 1903, Page 3

THE SAN RANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1903. MARTINEL DIES FOR HIS CRl\lE of Murderer nmsmh]e Casey of San Andreas Is Executed | at San Quentin Penitentiary | > WEAKENS ON SCAFFOLD P Just Before Trap Is Sprung Prisoner Totters and Has to Be Supported by Guards S SIS QUENTIN PRISON, Dec. 11— est number of witnesses at ging at San Quentin saw Julius nez expiate his crime to-day. Ac- eording to law twelve witnesses must be present at every execution. There were exactly twenty-nine people the scaf- fold room this morning, including prison officials, physicians, clergymen and newspaper representatives. It was the first execution under Warden Tompkins’ regime, and was neatly conducted. The prisoner left the death chamber at 10:29 o'clock, and at 10:30 the trap was sprung. [Eleven minutes thereafter Martinez was declared dead. His neck had been broken by the fall, but his heart did not cease beating for eleven minutes. Just about the time the noose was adjusted the prisoner became weak and had to be sunported while the cap was being put on. Rev. Fathers Phillips and Wailsh of Drahms, the prison chapiain, attended | the condemned man. Dr. W. F. Jones f San Rafael, O. C. Hyde, the prison | and Dr. J. M. Flint of San gned the death certificate. a resident Count and wes arrested for disturb- aken to jail, red the cell ncealed sed the out a word u! and fired tw was averas 902 Japar oining room. woman Body Found in Surf. Charles Lof- crew, and »ved from the wa- not been in the The man b bearing by Wood & Co. standing collar about 30 was ocke! n of A s g accounts s )» races, a the X ;”.—v. e de man had d a gold crown on Grabs Watch and Is Caught d L living at d a watch and pocket of Oscar street last McMahon vest on Pacific George Robert Silver captured the jor. tive charged him with SR S 1S Half of life's sorrow is but weeping AD V‘EBTISEIEHTS. SHREVE & C0. Gem Merchants. Gold and Silversmiths. Manufacturers. POST & MARKET| STREETS Open Evenings Dec. 12th to 24th. Flavoring extracts and spices are apt to be coarse or weak; Schilling’s Best arc as fine and strong as naturc Rafael and RevV 4, 0¢i0n emploved in States not em- CITIES REPORT STEADY CROWTH Delegates to the League of Munieipalities Discuss Many Matters of Public Interest | | OFFICERS ARE ELECTED JESSE D. CARR QU IETLY PASSES AWAY AT HIS HOME IN SALINAS Land Otner an able to Rally From Sudden Collapse' | Well-Known Pioneer, Politician, Millionaire d Stock Raiser Un- Mayor Sv):mitz Promises to; Spend the $17.000,000 Bond Issue to the Best Advantage STOCKTON, Dec. 11.—At the morn- ing ses: of the convention of the League of Municipalities Santa Ana was ch as the place for the next m ng. ramentc was a candida but the vote was made unanimous be | fore the roll call was completed. The of meeting was left to the execu- tive committee. Officers for the ensuing year elected as follows, without opposi President, Mayor Frank P. Frary of | San Diego; first vice president. Mayor Stephens of Fresno; second vice presi- dent, City Attorney Coburn of Eureka: secretary, H. A. Mason of San Fran- cisco. H Standing committees were appointed as follows: Engineering—Pearson of Sacramento, Piper of San Jcse, Teil- man of Fresno, McCabe of Visalia, ' D’Hemescourt of San Diego. The following special committee was appointed to investigate the system of ; e were | ploying a general property tax for State revenue and report at the next i convention if they thought a more equitable system could be devised ror‘ California: Dodge of San Franeisco, | Toubhy of Tulare, Kirkbride of San Ma- ! teo, Baker of Long Beach and Canfleld | ¢f Chico. { The roll call of cities brought out re- | of improvements of municipal ! itions in all the cities represented. convention took a determined The stand against the suits now pending wherein certain cities are sued because ! leged infringements cf patents cov- ring road and streét improvement by means of © The patent was declared | invalid o face, as the use of oil | urposes is not mew. Similar antedate the one in contro- and both oil and the dust sought laid are natural products and 1ot subjects of letters of pat- | ere directed to in-! respective Supervisors and | was instructed to mail cop- rt on the subject to the hmitz of San Francisco was peaker and taiked at some He approved of municipal con- s and said he knew that any- thing that benefits California helps San that the $17,- wcisco. He promised 000 bond issue would be spent to best advantage. He sald during the jast rine months San Francisco had 2 buildings started, s have decreased. d the xmpnn.mce of making ex- hibits at St. Louis and said that the Supervisors upon his recommendation were considering a municipal exhibit there for San Francisco. | —————————— CEMETERY WORKERS' UNION OPPOSE THE UNORGANIZED Gas Workers’ Union Demands In- crease—Fort Bragg Strikers Are Assured Continued Aid. <> A question arose at a meeting of the delegates of the San Francisco La- bor Council last night out of the dis- on of the Fort Bragg strike as to whether a delegate should be sent from here to aid the unions in the north, or leave it to the State Federa- tion of Labor o act in the matter. As there was a difference of opinion about the propesals the subject was referred to the executive committee for action. Substantial financial as- nce will be sent to the striking Cemetery Workers’ Union No. 10,- 634 sent a complaint regarding the of Laurel Hill Cemetery Asso- on in discharging the union men substituting non-union men in The union workers con- tend that, although the cemetery is | closed so far as interments are con- cerned, there is a big income to be de rived from taking care of the graves, a service which the union says should | be done by its members | Gas Workers' on No. San Francisco submitted to bor Council for its approval a nowj schedule demanding 10 per cent in-| crease, with eight hours to constitute a da\ 5 uork The schedule ranges 0 $2 50 a day, according 10 (he Kr'Ad- 0{ labor. A resolution was presented by the | | 1aw and legislative committee protest- | ing against the arrest of John Turner | | by the English authoriti Turner’s | mission to England was in the char- acter of chief organizer of the Retail, Clerks. Turner has been arrested and | eteps are being taken to return him to | | the United States. President Roose- | velt is to be sent the resolution, with | | the request that he look into the mat- | | ter, as Turner is an American citizen, |and, they claim, s wrongfully de- | prived of his liberty. A donation of $10 was voted to his defense fund, which amount will be {added to other moneys donated for the purpose of his defense. Picture Frame Workers’ Union No. 147 elected the following officers last | evening: President, H. Gabel; vice | president, Daniel Walsh; financial sec- | retary, O. Schulz; recording secretary A. Haine; treasurer, Willlam Geert: warden, James Hughes; trustees— George Hauser, F. Gallagher; dele- gate to Labor Council, O. Schulz. e S v o LR LS, Funeral of Young Composer. BERKELEY, Dec. 11.—The funeral of Miss Henrietta Welcker, the young composer, whose promising career was cut short by death, took place from St. Mark’s Church at 2 o'clock this afternoon. A large number of friends were present and many beautiful floral pieces were contributed. “To Rubin- stein,”” one of Miss Welcker's compo- sitions, was rendered on the organ during the services. ——————— actior and their stead. 9840 of | the La- affords. At your grox e’s; moneybacks PEORIA, I, Dec. 1L.—John McCrea, col- ered, who kiiled Detsctive Willlam Murphy last June while the officer was trying to arrest him for stealing coal, was hangei here to- gnlyd. He protested his innocence on the -al-l o] P | Jackson | ment cost. e DAY, SALINAS, Dec. 11.—Jesse D. Carr, the well-known pioneer, politician and millionaire land owner, died this morn- ing at home here, aged 89 vears. He suddenly -collapsed last Sunday evening and had been unconscious since Mond He passed away while apparently cep. The funeral train will leave Salinas at 11:25 a. m. Sun-| day and ve at Cypress Lawn Ceme- | { tery at 2:45 p. m., where interment will | take place. Jesse D. Carr, himself a pioneer of California, was born of pioneer stock in Sumner County, Tennessee, June 14, 1814. His people were among those | who crossed the Alleghanies in colonial | days and helped to build up and or- ganize that commonwealth. At the| time of his birth his father, with most | {of the able-bodied men of the State,| was engaged with Generzl Andrew in warring with the Creeks and Seminoles in the mumry to the | south. J on a farm and attending the country school. At the age of 16 he left home and spent two years at Cairo, Ill., and then six years at Nashville, Tenn., clerking in stores. married and with his savings, amount- ing to $1000, went into business with a former employer, as a partner, in Mem- phis. They did well who had lost his r d, involved the firm to the extent of $20,000. This in- debtedness Carr paid off in two years | and four years later closed out the busi- ness with $40,000 in hand. He is said to have built, in 1840, the house ever erected in Memphis. In 1843 he went to New Orleans and en- | gaged in the cotton commission busi- ness, in which, after a time, he lost all that he had made. The Mexican War hreaking out soon after, though con- tinuing his business in New Orleans, | he went with General Taylor's army as He | a sutler and supply contractor. had many adventures in that capacity ! and on February 24, 1847, lost all of his | goods, vaiued at $40,000. He barely es- | caped.with his own life, 180 men with the train being killed or captured. It turned out that the capture of this train kept General Urea, with 3000 Mex- icans, from taking part in the battle of Buena Vista and so probably lost the day for the Mexicans. The inci- dent brought Carr into relations with | General Taylor, which later became very friendly. Carr recouped his losses in Mexico to the extent of $15,000, and in Janu- | ary, 1849, returned to New Orleans. | There he had a second attack of chol- era (the first in 1834), and after a hard siege recovered and went to Washing- ton to attend Taylor's inauguration. ‘While there he was offered the posi- tion of postal agent of California and arranged to start for this coast. Con- gress had just passed a law authoriz- ing the War Department to furnish, upon registration, persons going to California with firearms at Govern- General William M. Gwin was the first man and Jesse D. Carr the second to register under this law. Carr gave up the appointment as postal agent and finally came on out here to take a position as deputy Col- lector of the Port of San Francisco, un- der Colonel James Coliier, then just appointed® He arrived here August 18, 1849, preceding Collier by four months. Immediately upon his arrival Carr ac- cepted a position as deputy under the military Collector, Mr. Harrison, and on Colonel Collier's arrival assisted in organizing the office on a civil basis, He remained in the position about a year. After retiring he was elected. to the Assembly and was made chairman of the Committee on Commerce and Navigation and a member of the Ways and Means Committee. He introduced and secured the passage of the first funding bill for San Francisco, provid- ing for funding the debt at 10 per cent. ‘Warrants were drawing interest at the rate of 3 -per cent a month. Subsequent to this Carr had some ex- WELL-KNOWN PIONEER AND MILLIONAIRE LAND OWNER, WHO QUIETLY PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME IN AFTER AN ILLNESS OF A FEW DAYS. e D. Carr's early days were spent | At the age of 23 he | until his partner, | first brick | |WITNESS TALKS [N FAIR CASE Perriquit for the Defense Testifies Concerning Details of the Automobile Accident 1 —_——— ATEMENT IS POSITIVE Pl S AR § Says She Saw Wife Move Af- ter Husband’s Body Was Rigid (R e PARIS, Dec. 11.—Dr. Perriquet, con- sidered the leading witness in the Fair i Will case, testified to-day before Com- | | || 1] | H i\ | I H | I | i i 11 { | | | | SALINAS YESTER- real estate and this latter business and stockralsing he came in time to devote almost his whole attention. In 1852 he became interested in the Pulgas ranch {and in the fall of 1853 moved to the | Pajaro Valley. He later ased a { part of the Salsupuedes In 1859 | he moved to the Salinas Valley, where he made his home. In 1866 he engaged in staging lnd carried the first mails between Virginia City, Nev., and Boise, ldaho, through a country infested by hostile Indians. From 1866 to 1870 he was the largest ‘“star routé” mail eontractor on the 1 Pacific Coast, his contracts amounting to as much as $300,000 a year. For four | years he carried the mails between 1 ik Oroville, Cal, and Portland, Or. This | took him through the northern of the State, and, liking the count he later acquired 20,000 acres of land in Modoc County and stocked the ranch with horses and cattle. He also ac- | quired large holdings in Monterey County, but of late years had been re- | ducing these by sales. By one of these sales he parted with 10,000 acres of the | richest land to be found in the section, | but immediately bought an equal { amount in Northern California. Carr was a public-spirited citizen and | identified with nearly every enterprise | of Monterey County. He was for many years president of the Bank of Monte- rey and president of the Monterey Dis- trict Agricultural Assoclation. He was a member of the Board of Freeholders | which, in 1900, framed a charter for Sa- linas City. Though a close trader, he was quite liberal with his means. He gave $5000 to the Odd Fellows for a | public library in Salinas and $4000 to | the South Methodist College in Santa | Rosa. He was a good friend to those | he liked and helped many a boy and | #irl to obtain an education. Though for some years entirely blind and deaf in one ear he exercised al- | most to the very last a personal super- vision over his many business inter- | ests, and when at home was to be | found at his office every morning by 8 | o’clock. Carr was a Democrat in politics and | for many years was one of the most influential men of his party in Cali- | fornia. Rev. Father O’Neil Dies. Rey. Father Thomas O'Neil died Thurgday night at the Dominican monastery on Steiner street, after an illness of several years' duration. Father O'Neil was one of the oldest Dominicans in the State, having come to Monterey in 1854. He served his church in Benicia and later came to San Francisco, being placed in charge of St. Francis Church by Archbishop Alemany. .. The dead priest was one of the men that raised money for the building of the Dominican Church in this city in 1879. He had been an invalid for the last four years, a victim of rheuma- tism. He was born in Dungannon, Ireland, and was 71 years of age. The body lay in St. Dominic's Church all day yesterday. This morn- ing at 10 o'clock a solemn high mass will be said for the repose of the dead priest’s soul. This afternoon the body will be taken to Benicia and interred in the Dominican Cemetery there, Death Summons’ a Clergyman, CARSON, Nev., Dec. 11.—Rev. George R, Davis, who has been for twenty-five years an Episcopal cler- gyman in Nevada, died last night. He was 77 years of age. He leaves a wife and four children, Mrs. H. G. Shaw of San Francisco, William Davis of the Stockton Mail, Robert Davis of the New York World and Samuel Davis, State Controller of Nevada. Rev. Mr. Davis was a thirty-second degree Mason. ‘Well-Known Musician Dies. BALTIMORE, Dec. 11.—Georgs G. Nachman, a noted musician and well known throughout the country for his long identification with union labor, perience in mining and in dealing m died m&' from acute bronchitis. | stantaneous. { woman who was murdered near i scene of the accident. missioner Eiser of New York. He sald he arrived on the scene an hour after the automobile accident and found both Charles L. Fair and his wife dead. The {body of Fair was already rigid, but that cf his wife was not rigid, indicat- | ing that the former died first. From | the condition of Fair’s body the wit-, ness believed his death had been in-| The condition of Mrs. Fair’s body indicated that her death was not instantaneous. Dr. . Perriquet recited the case of a | the Her wounds, which were in the head, were almost identical with thcse of Mrs. Fair, the | victim living for many hours. The witness further testified that while he was unable to swear positive- | Iy whether Fair or Mrs. Fair died first, yet his positive opinion was that Mrs. Fair must have survived her husband. The court has received a letter signed *“Lescour,” an official of the local May- | or's office near the scene of the acci- dent, saying that the porter's wife, who | found the bcdies, ‘told him she saw Mrs. Fair's hand move after Fair was dead. The cross-examination of Dr. Perri- quet will take place Monday. —_—————————— Building Is Increasing. CHICAGO, Pec. 11.—The Constrac- tion News to-morrow will say: Build- ing statistics for November, much to the surprise of the seers, show an in- crease of 25 per cent over the corre- sponding month a year ago. Permits were taken out in twenty-one of the principal cities of the country for 6282 building improvements, $24,619,447, against 5486 building im- provements, involving a cost of $19,- 689,789, last November. —_————————— New Mining Company Formed. DOVER, Del., Dec. 11.—The New York and Montana Copper Mining Company of New York, capital $1,000,000, filed a certificate of incor- poration to-day. I ors: Mark Myman, A. R. Campbell and Aifred L. Curtis of New York and Graham Summer and Dwight W. Morrow of Englewood, N, J. Neidermeier Stole Pistols. DENVER, Dec. 11.—Two revolvers, which were stolen from the Chicago carbarns the night Francis W. Stew- ‘art and James B. Johnson were mur- dered, have been recovered in Denver pawnshops and two pawnbrokers have jdentified a picture of Peter Neider- mefer as that of the man who sold the weapons. ——————————— Daniel C. Gilman Is Re-elected. BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. 11.—At to- day’s session of the twenty-third an- nual meeting of the National Civil Re- form Association Daniel C. Gilman was re-elected president. Woman Who Appeared First| aggregating | CHAMBERLAIN INEW CRUISERS MAY BE RIGHT| ARE POWERFUL ——— Sir Riehard Cartwright of Can- | Design Is Finished on the ada Gives His Views Con-| TFirst of Germany's New cerning Englishman’s Poliey! Fleet of Light War Vessels —_— H _— YS WHIP IS BRITAIN'S|BUILT LIKE BATTLESHIPS Bt BESC, WA Speaker Advoeates Alhan(‘t‘lTvchmcal Writers Urge Con- of English Speaking Peoples| struetion on Plan of the Before Young Liberals’ Club| English and Ameriean Ships | —_— i TORONTO, Ont., Dec. 11.—In a speech Im the Young Liberal Club Sir Richard | crulsers that yet remain to be b | Cartwright, Minister of Trade and |under the naval programme will | Commerce in the Dominion Govern-|Proach battieships in tonnage, with cor- ment, to-day said: ‘,res‘frondan:gi u:(-rna‘ses !3‘ am”r‘:' ri\m b ¢ 5 ore | POWer and steaming radius. e first th:n ::;n:‘mi“::’:’:‘“ ':;;;"”:n:“:: of these has already been designed by W AANE . - o ¢ the Navy Department and will be laid sees the extraordinary power the selfish | 5, immediately. The largest German policy of the United States has placed | .ryjeer in course of construction is the :»|n Great Brltaén's l[\alr;d's‘, iThre;hroursfl Roon, which was launched at Kiel in ot S A o i g €y Can|jype last. She is under 10,000 tons. j use their power to force reciprocity on T-‘(-l:niral writers, flp\;“ml'v I;ls-umxnanr;z the States, they can use it to stimulate | General Count von Revenslow, have | emigration and food production in|jeen yrging the Government to build | countries other than the States, or they | . uicers as large as those of Great | might use it to pave the way for a! pritain the United States and France, |trade alliance between the English-| wup considerable coal capacity, the | speaking peoples. Such an alliance | grmored cruisers of the German navy | would mean a world-wide dominion of | paving a limited field of action and in- | the English-speaking peoples. We may | (ermr‘x\_rmaments. The vessels of the {live to see two great world emplires—| noy cryjserype will somewhat impair | the Russian and ‘h“_E“gl‘sh‘sl’“}“‘ff‘gi the homogeneity of the squadron, and |1 would guard against the United | sor this reason the Navy Department States. They have good qualities, al-| ojuctantly adopted them. | though they have sometimes descended . |to sharp practice. Long and often I| Apeeey Swindlers Are in Jail. SAN JOSE, Dec. 11.—Walter Lewin BERLIN, Dec. 11.—The eight armored ap | have advocated a friendly alliance | between Great Britain, Canada and the | « and B. Osborne are in the custody [ Uplted States. and that 1o w0y otorey, | Of the police. The men came here e e e Buttioh zoflvereln as & |3Dout @ week ago and visited many j and ESEe She T Rreaam Sesye physicians, claiming they were about | step in that direction to establish a colle on agency. Dr. s 2 | J. F. Burns and Dr. Ulrich gave them Faculty Members as Editors. bills to collect. Lewin posed as man- STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Dec. 11. —A novel issue of the Chaparral, Stanford’s comic journal, to be got | up entirely by members of the faculty, | | will appear some time during next ager of the concern and Osborne as collector: A few days later the men returned to the physicians and stated that in order to get the money on the bills suits would have to be com- | semester. “Chappie,” as the cover de- | menced. Drs. Burns and Ulrich each sign of the comic sheet shows, is|gave Lewin $7 50 for costs of the suit given to “knocking” and not infre- No actions were brought on the b quently its wrath and indignation |and the medicos came to the belief falls on the faculty. Whether the |they had been swigdled. They re- faculty will or will not try to even |ported the matter to the police and up old scores is the question that | makes this anouncement of a faculty edition of the Chaparral of particular interest. President Jordan will be editor in chief of the facuity issue and among those who will assist him at the arrests followe Lewin to-day was charged with obtaining money under false pretenses and Osborne was charged h vagranc e . Goes to the "Penitentiary for Forgery. the editorial desk are Professor, J. M.| SAN JOSE, Dee. 11.—J. D. Chand- Stiliman, head of the chemistry de- | ler of Hollister was convicted of for- partment; Registrar O. L. Elliott, on | gery in Judge Tuttle’s court to-d: whom not a few of the blows from | The jury recommended him to “Chappie’'s” hammer have fallen, and | mercy of the court. Professor A. W. Smith, head of the |3 man of family, department of ‘mechanical engineer- | ing. Other members of the faculty will be added to the staff next sem- | ester. the Chandler, who is was employed as a solicitor for the Metropolitan Life In- y. The form of pol- icy given Chandler was a fort endowment plan. This did net prove the farmers and Chand- ler agreed to make the policies for a twenty-year term. He drew the peli- ment was created among the guests of | cles for forty years and' after they the Hotel St. James early this morn- | were- received back from the office in ing because of a fire in Hoover’s livery | this city changed them to read for stable, next door. A small blaze was ! twenty years. Chandler waived time discovered in the roof of the stable, | for sentence and was sent to San which is an old wooden building. | Quentin for one year. There is a great deal of hay kept in e @ the place, and had the fire got a good Fire in Santa Fe Shops. start much damage might have re- LA JUNTA, Dec. 11.—The Santa Fe sulted. An alarm was turned in and | Railroad shops here were destroyed by the fire was soon extinguished. Many | fire to-day. Seven locomotives were of the guests at the hotel got up and | badly damaged. 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