The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 29, 1903, Page 9

‘THE SA\I FR/\NCISCO CALL, TUESDAY N DECEMBER 29, 1903. CAMBLES COIN AND JOB AWAY! —_— Col. Evans, Chief of Secret Ser- vice, Loses Money at Roulette Game and Is Suspended P FORMER REPUTATION GOOD < Lo Official Has Performed Im- rtant Duties, but Has Made emies Who Caused Trouble s , H I 1 duty pending mel Bvans and th charges are based rvice thirty r Ba ching in- ramen. affairs f caused SHOPMEN WILL VISIT THE GENERAL MANAGER Railroad Employes on Strike at Ba- kersfield to Send a Delegation to San Francisco. : |\~n1|. Dec. 28. - on the Southe mmittee General This morr ult and would to San general numbe with the y stated that no overtures ers, and that are virtually are drawing mber preparatory s stated that all neces- rk will be done at Los iculty is settled. —_—— 1" INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST s ostoflice Chanzes Have Been Orered for California and Washington. Examination to Be Held. WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—The post- Hice at King County, Wash ued January 14; pointed t Ban- vice DREYFTS LOOKS 10\ TELEGRAM e Y Friends of the Officer Present | : Proof That He Was the Vietim of a Conspiraey | it R 28.—The grounds upon nds for vindication Assc ted Pres: rgram from »ppen, the late che here, to Colonel formerjy Italian military at Paris, resented te the artial at Rennes, bore the date April, 1594, he was occupied with the details of mobilization of troops of which the telegram treated, hereas the actual date of the tele am was the last of March, 183, aft- he (Dreyfus) had been tried. "A copy has been found and has estab- lished the correctness of Dreyfus’ claim, { the commission which mmended revision of the case. statement of the case against containing the tele Dreyfu m ttache rt-m when in the opinion of «d at the Ministry of War, wa April 1, 18 which Dreyf shows the telegram was writ- n the latter part of March of that car. With a pair of s s the late nel Henry clipped off a corner of the telegr and thus the actual date am > Then Colonel Henry in he colonel, however, neg- nber that the thir days, for in the h The unauthenticity of the telegram could have been established had the | court at Rennes appreciated the im- portance of the error. Finally it de- veloped that in the tel m where the words “Ce canaille de D—" appear “D" had been substitutcd the letter “P.” The original copy, written by M. Oribelin, the keeper of | ; s of ®he War Office. carried | let “P.” The scratching upon paper was apparent, but M. Ber- the handwriting expert, testified he letter “D” was correc v claimed that he was in error. e e Our frame department new line of frames in gilt, oak and art nouvesu finishes. Good for New Year's. | Sznborn, Vail & Co. It is —_—— “You put me off the car four blu(‘ks‘ from my corner, the other day.” said the lady to the trolley conductor. , “Yes: I was very sorry, but I couldn't well help it,” said the conductor. You see I made a bet with a man on the platform that a woman never gets | off a car proverly, and I just det you off when I did to decide the bet.”— / Bacon—What's his business? bert—Why, ¥ nobiles, ¢ “Oh, they have drummers for those things, do they? Well. it's 2 good idea. I think it would be much safer if they had a drummer and a fifer go in front of cach of the mchlnel. "—Yonkers Statesman preferred | i Superintend- | the army have been | Ger- | gram when | hand annotated the wl--gmm' month of | | nention of the 31st | is showing a| | e’s a drummer for au- GOLD CLEAMS [N RIVER'S BED Big Strike of Precious Metal Reported to Have Been Made { | i | | in the American Yukon |STAMPEDE IS PROBABLE| \ |Gravel Along the Course of{ an Ancient Stream Shows! | an Abundance of Treasure s A0 Special Dispatch to The Call. VANCOUVER, B. C, Dec. 28.—An | enormously rich strike of gold has just! been made in the American Yukon, ten les from the Canadian boundary line. The discovery was made by Louls Car- dinal. Tt consists of the gravel of the | ancient bed of the White River. ‘t The strike is regarded as of great im- | ! portance, in view of the belief prospect- ors have that the old river extends! right through from the Alzek country, | distance of.300 miles, and is gold bearing all the way. Prospect pans | from eighty ‘cents three dollars and as high as ten dollars have been taken from the new du:mnzs Cardinal to-d purchased a $10,000 outfit in Dawson. It is probable that a stampede will occur, although Car- dinal made every effort to keep the matter quiet. Dozens of men are get- ting ready sleds and other portions of winter outfits and will hit the trail for a | the new diggings, to be on hand with the earliest spring. Cardinal and his friends have secured a great number of twenty-acre claims | | and have taken out United States! pers to be certain of holding their ground Two years ago Cardinal worked for the Canadian Gevernment, locating the hnund:\r_\' line . between Yukon and Alask: 'DEATH CALLS WELL KNOWN AUTHOR TO REST RETE R, CHICAGO, Dec. 28.—Mrs. Alexander : Sullivan, well known on both sides of the Atlantic as an author and edito- al writer; died to-day after one week’ following a stroke of paralysis. Sullivan, formerly Miss Marga- Buchanan, was 58 years of age. | ret F. | She was born in Ireland, but her family moved to Detroit, Mich., an infant. She was a proficient Greek, Latin and_ French scholar. During | | Charles A. Dana’s time she was a fre- | quent contributor to the New Sun and was an editorial writer on the Chicago Times in the days of Wilbur Up to the time of her last when she was illne Sullivan was an editorial writer on the Chicago Chronicle. In | 1596 she suffered a stroke of paralysis, m which she recovered completely, b e was stricken again Sunday aft- | ernoon. D — | Passing of Frederick Noy. | ALAMEDA, Dec 28.—Frederick third son of William H. Noy of died to- ation, v after an ill- s of nearly iwo vears from tuber- sis of the Jungs. He was a ive of this city, aged 21 & side d in Alameda all of his life. brother and M De- of Richard ss Lavina will be held from residence Thursday after- be conducted of the noon and sery fdmvl\ s will by the Rev. William N. Christ Episcopal Church. Coal Operator Dead. Guthrie Dec. 28.—Captain James ' | Campbell, father of John A., William and James Campbell, former heavy owners in Port Blakeley mills, died at his home in this city to-day, aged 88 years. Much of his early life was spent in Canada, where he was prom- inently conected with the Albion Mines Company | est coal oper: About two y at one time rs in N ars ago he fell down- stairs, sustaining injuries from which he never fully recovered. ol Pionecer Clergyman Dies. SAN LEANDRO, Dgc. 28.—The Rev. | J. M. Woodman, a pidneer clergyman of Alameda County, who came to Cali- fornia in 1863, died yesterday morn- ihg at his home in San Leandro at the age of 79 years. Deceased was a 11 known minister of the Methodist church, but retired from active work in the church three years ago. He leaves a wife and one son. The funeral {will be held to-morrow morning |2t 11 o'clock and the remains will be | hipped to Chico, Mr. Woodman’s for- l mer home, for burial J s Famous Engineer. . | LONDON, Dec. 28.—8Sir William Al- | len, the well known marine engineer, 1 ship owner and member of Parliament for Gales Head since 1893, is dead, | aged 66 years. He was formerl§ a | working engineer, an engineer in the British navy and later chief engineer | of a blockade runner during the Civil | War in the United States. He was captured and lodged in the old Cap-! itol prison and was eventually pa- | roled. | e Colonel Andrews Passes Away. i WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—Colonel J. | N. Andrew A., retired, is dead | at Orange, Va. He was graduated from | West Point in 1860. He_came out of the Civil War in 1866 as major of the !T\\ nty-first Infantry; - in October, 1895, was promoted to the rank of col- onel; served for a short time in the Spanish War as brigadier genéral of | volunteers and was retired in 1899 at | ! his own ‘request. Death CI: ; Shipwright Passes Away. | | _OAKLAXND, Dec. 28.—Nathaniel G. | Hilton, a former foreman of ship. wrights at the Mare Island Navy Yard .md a past master of Naval Lodge No. nd A. M., of Vallejo, died yes- | his home in Fruitvale leav- a wife and three children. The fun- leral will be held to-morrow, and the | remains will be sent to Vallejo for in- terment. BNV SV 1 | Death of Famous Linguist. WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—Colonel Henry L. Thomas, for thirty-four | { vears translator in the State Depart- | ment, died to-day of pnewnonia, ! aged 68 years. He spoke and trans- | {lated French, Spanish, ItaHan, Ger- | man, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Por- | tuguese, Hebrew, Arabic and Greek, | besides having a general knowledge of | other tongues. N P BITT Well Known Woman Dies. Mrs. Emma Joseph, well known in former yeors as one of San Francis- co's belles and latterly through num- erous benevolences, died Sunday night of heart trouble at her home, 2235 ‘Washington street. leaves four | children, Albert, Nellle Byaney and | | with the familfar result. | stick. PLAYFUL BOY KILLS INFANT Mendocino County Youngster Points a Rifle and Life of . a Babe Is Ended B AT TWO ACCIDENTS IN SHASTA L e B Stillwater Youth Celebrates the Yuletide by Striking Giant Powder Cap With Stick —— s of UKIAH, Dec. 28.—Near Novo a few |@ays ago Angie Roudier, a 19-months- | old boy, was shot and killed by Willie Smith, also a lad of tender 'years. The Smith boy was playing with a small rifle and pointed it at the little fellow This is the third child accidentally shot in Mendo- cino County in the past few months. REDDING, Dec. 28.—George Diestle- | horst, the 12-year-old son of John Diestlehorst of this ecity, started to| pass a rifle over a fence, butt end first, to-day, when the trigger struck a hog trough and the weapon was discharged. The bullet struck the boy's right wrist and ranged upward. He is not ! yet out of danger. John Basch, the 7-year-old son of Chris Basch of Stillwater, celebrated Christmas by placing a giant powder cap on a rock and striking it with a When the youngster came (o himself the local physicians were try- ing to locate a brass cap, it having >n- tered his left cheek and ranged up- ward. The cap has not yet been lo- ;cated and it is feared that blood poi- soning will cause death. —————— Dunsmuir Books Cannot Be Seen. VICTORIA, B. C., Dec. 28.—Judge Drake refused the application made by Mrs. John Dunsmuir, intervenor in the Hopper-Dunsmuir will case, for | an examination of the books of the Nanaimo Dunsmuir, and of R. Esquimalt Company, Co. time enough to ask for tion of the books when the will case had been won. edeemo oL Orders Drink and Cuts His Throat. UKIAH. Dec. son walked into John Dahl’s saloon in Noyo last Weédnesday and ordered a drink. While was turned he drew a r: Railway Sons & or and cut his throat. Johnson had made sev- “ Lyle during Ursher's brief absence is | several years ago in the pursuit and eral attempts to hang himself pre-|not known. Lyle refuses to make a| capture of a burglar. viously. | statement. ume City Marshal of Gilroy. : o o The Judge said that it would be | an examina- | .—Hermann John- | the bartender’'s back | i | OFFICER MAKES 7CUTTER FINDS ! HASTE TO JAIL| LOST STEAMER| EXCITES ALARM| AMAZING CRIME Quick Work of a Deputy Sheriff in Trinity County Leaves No Chance for Lynching O POPULAR MINER KILLED — s Details Are Obtained of the Shooting Which Occurred on the \d Near, Carrville ——— REDDING, Dec. 28.—John C. Lyle, a miner, who has gone under the name of Quinn, shot and killed Frank Sav- age, a popular miner, near Carrville, in Trinity County, Saturday afrernoon in a quarrel over a trade. A few minutes before he had threatened to shoot Jim | Wright, a miner, because Wright at first declined a proffered drink. To escape certain lynching Lyle, who has always been unpopular, was rushed by officers to the Trinity County Jall at Weaverville, where he is now either insane or acting the part of a maniac. Savage, the man kiiled, and James Ursher were traveling in a buggy be- hind two horses over the road from Trinity Center to Carrville when they met Lyle on foot. This distance from where Lyle had threat- ened to shoot Wright for declining the drink of whisky offered from Lyle's flask. Lyle carried a roll of blankets on his back and a shotgun on his shoulder. A trade was struck®in which Savage was to give a watch and a small sum of money for Lyle’s shotgun. The dis- cussion of the. trade was friendly when rsher drove on to the home of James Gillette, distant one hundred yards, to borrow the money for Savage. When Ursher returned Lyle was in the act of raising his shotgun to his shoulder. He fired, sending a charge of large: shot through Savage’s body and caus- ing instant death. Lyle then swung the weapon on her, threatening to kill' him, too. her jumped behind a tree and Lyle d on. He was captured two hours without a show of resistance by Deputy Sheriff Bert Bassham. On ac- count of high feeling over the tragedy, caused jointly by its cold bloodedness and the -popularity. of the dead man and the uppopularity of the slayer, the officer hurried him to Weaverviile. Just what occurred between Savage and Revenue Vessel Rush Locates a Wreck Believed to Be That of the Ill-Fated Discovery BALID Y AR NAME OF CRAFT MISSING e Search Is Continued in an Effort to Ascertain the Fate of Her Thirty Passengers —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, Dec. 28.—A dispatch from Juneau says that the reventie cutter Rush has found what is believed to be the wreck of the lost steamer Discov- ery. Near Indlan Island the hull was located with the bow out of the water, i but no name was found which would | indicate positively that the Wreck was that of the Discovery. The vessel found is about 100 {eel in| length, with a winch visible, but pos!- | tive marks of jdentification are want- | Ing. So sure is Agent Butterfield of | | the Chlopeck Fish Company. however, | FREIGHT RAISE Proposed Advance by Transeon- tinental Lines and Western Roads Not Relished in Oregon TEN PER CENT INCREASE‘ e Portland - Merchants Consider | Seriously th\? Change to Be - Made by Traffic Companies Special Dispatch to The Call. PORTLAND, Or, Dec. 28.—The ‘ transcontinental lines and Western | roads have prepared the schedule for | the advance in freight rates to the ex- tent of more than 10 per cent. The | announcement has caused some con- sternation here. The advance will af-| fect almost every commodity shipped | from the East and the whole coast | from British Columbia to Southern Cal- | ‘ ifornia will be affected by the raise. The change in rates will take eflect‘ on January 18. The agreement to this effect was made some weeks ago and | the various freight agents were noti- | fied of the contemplated change. The BOYS COMMIT Tiny Youngsters of Salinas Rob Stationer’s Store and Depart on a Railroad Train CONFESSION TO MR RS When Arrested by the Pursu- ing Officer, Barefoot Lads Tell of Other Burglaries e R S e SALINAS, Dec. 238.—A surprising burglary took place here last evening and when the perpetrators were cap- tured they proved to be two boys, Sid- ! ney Ross, aged 12 years, and Harold Ross, aged 8. H. H. Mason, a stationer and fancy ! goods dealer, does not keep his estab- | lishment open on Sundays. This fact was known to the boys, who some time | during the afternoon went down the alley in the rear of the store and brgpke a window in a small addition. H: id crawled in and opened the back doer, allowing Sidney to enter. They then broke a window in the store and en- tered. - SHERIFF was a shorts | that the Discovery was found that he . | _From the cash register they obtained e e e trom!llnes'ln the combine to advance rates | FTOT the cash tegisier PRy Q000 AeC t n are.the O. R. and N., Union Pacific, R g b Juneau to complete proof. The officers | Southern Pacific, Northern Pacific, 1 Pog ';l D:r::;-nge:‘r:“; Badt citeied un: of the cutter consider it possible that' Great Northern and Santa Fe. Thedin- :""“w’ed . the wreck discovered is that of the creased rates will be charged on all‘ The mi)ther missed the boys and re- steamer Rainier, which was lost qn|shipments from New York and com- | ported to Sheriff Nesbitt, who had just Saeskaig Island, seventy .miles distant' mon points, Chicago and common been informed of the robbery. He found from the hulk now found. Photo-| points, Omaha and Missouri River .. "y, gsters on a passenger train graphs of the wreck brought to Sitka | points and from the St. Louis terri-} i w ickets indicate that the hull Is that of the| In fact, everything brought to | about 10 o'clock at night with ¢ Discovery, | When the finding of the Discovery was reported by an Indian. from the Cross Sound country, the Rushi steamed there and made a hurried in- spection of the region. Last week she | returned to Sitka where her officers desired to spend Christmas.~ John| Grimes, who was a passenger on the Discovery as far as Unga, has arrived at Juneau, He says fully thirty pas-| sengerss were aboard when she left i Unga. The Rush left Sitka Saturday to continue her search. ° ———————— Former Marshal Sent to Asylum. SAN JOSE, Dec. 28.—Charles E.| Gardiner, ex-deputy Sheriff of this | county, was commif ed to Agnews | asylum to-day. His insanity is due to | a gunshot wound in the head received | - “He was at one | SAVE MOTIER AND CHILDREN Vallejo Citizens Display Hero- ism and Rescue a Family From a Burning Building | . A e, Spacial Dispatehi to The Call. VALLEJO, Dec. 28.—A fire in a wood- en building on Georgia street early this morning can death of Mrs. children. It Meagher and her four| was largely due to the | heroism of Peter McCoy and a com- | panion that the mother and little ones { { 1 H i } very near causing the | were enabled to Jeave the burning | structure before the flames closed all | exit. | Mrs. Meagher rented the upper floor of the building as a rooming-house. She sleep with the four children in a ¢ over the fire. Me- y ard of the Elks' Club, was one of the first men at the scene. When he heard of the peril of the fam- ily he called for a volunteer and the two rushed up the stairs, undaunted by smoke and blaze, and . aroused the | sleeping inmates. McCoy and his as- and M were cared for at the Renquin House. The fire did damage estimated at| §5000. The blaze originated in the bar- | ber shop of Dan Taylor, and about a | third of the lower porticn of the build- ing was destroved. Taylor's barber shop and cigar store were burned, en- iiling an estimated loss of $2000, with | insurance of $1500. ——————— GIVE CITY'S POOR A CHANCE TO WORK WILL Plan on Foot to Operate Chain of Cotton Mills by New York Tene- ment Dwellers. NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—A plan to operate a chain of cotton mills in North Carolina by tenement dwellers of this city, taken there and trained by a few skilled workmen, is. being evolved by men here interested in the cotton business. If their scheme is rried out jt will result in the estab- ment of a self-sustaining charity, women and children from the dirty, over- crowded slums of the city into a healthy country life, with and schools. Work on the first mill at Marshall, lis which will take hundreds of | near thes Biltmore estate, is to begin in a week or two, and the mill of fif- teert thousand spindles is expected to be ready early in July. It is plapned to establish on the near-by hil model village of five-room cottages, which may be,purchased at the rate of $1 a month. A company store.sell- ing all the necessities at an increase of 5 per cent over cost, together with hools and churches, will be estab- lished. . ———————— Retired Army Officer Dies. WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—Captain tobert Catlin, U. S. A.. retired, died the home of Bishop Henry Y. Satter- lee, where hé had -been a guest at din- ner on Christmas day, and siffered a , double attack of paralysis that even- ing. i A Rich Lumberman Dies. DETROIT, Mich.. Dec. 28.—James | A. Remick, a capitalist and lumber- man, who owned large tracts of lum- ber along the Pacific Coast, died at his home here to-day, aged 60 years. e iy s Novelist Gissing Passcs Away. LONDON, Dec. 28.—George Gis- sing, the noveligg, died of cansump- tion to-day at St Juan de Luz, in the Pyrences. He was born at Wakelleld. England, November 2, 1857. i A Noted Breeder of Ou‘le Dies. CHILLICOTHE, Mo, Deéc. 28.— John Morris, an extensive breeder of shorthorn cattle, is dead at hln home, aged 74 years. T Robert Maniiheimer. ST. PAUL, Dec. 28.—Robert Mann- heimer, aged 64 years, a prominent business man in St. Paul for twenty- five years, dled to-day. cottages | al | { sistant carried the children downstairs, | Meagher and her little ones ! ¥ i STONE MARKS NOTED PARISH Ceremony H:*ld at Site Of New St. Paul's Episeopal Chureh in City of Sacramento SACRAMENTO, Dec. 28.—The corner- | £tone for the new building of St. Paul's Fp opal Church, to berof granite and to cost $45,000, was laid to-day, Bishop W. H. Moreland conducting the reli; | fov rvices and Grand Master C. W. Nutting of the Masonic Grand Lodge ! conducting the formal ceremonies of piacing the cornerstone. The parish here was organized in 1849 by the Rew. Flavel Scott Mines, first rector of Xrinity Chyrch of San Fran- 0, and the Right Rev. W, Ingraham Kip, missionary Bishop of California, administered the es of confirmation to the first class confirmed in the Epis. i copal Church in this city. Among the early rectors of the parish was the Rev. Orlando Harriman, father E. H. Harriman, r puthern Pacific Comna ecarly 1 hioners were Leland Stan~ ford, C. P. Huntington, P. B. Cornwall, A. D. Wilder, Colonel C. F. Crocker, J. B. Harmon, James L. English, William (‘ English and Dr. W, R. Cluness. The <]<nl rector is the Rev. Charles L. Mx( TIRKEY FEARS AN INVASION coctb TR Authorities Report That 4000 Macedonians Are. Prepared to\Enter the Sultan’s Domain el B SALONICA, Dec. 28.—The authori- ties are informed that 4000 Macedonian revolutionists, under the leadership of | eighty Bulgarian officers, are ready to |invade Turkish territory. An order was issued here to-day requesting the Turkish officers to exercise extreme vigilance. It is rumered that the.sec- ond army reserve will again be calied ut. ROME, Dec. 28.—The Italia says that General Sismondo, the commander of the Ttalian gendarmes, is likely to be chosen to organize and command the international gendarmerie in Macedo- nia under the Austro-Russian reform scheme. General Sismondo is one of the pest officers in the !tnlian service. He is 68 years of age. SEL S State Senator Held for Bribery. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Dec. 28.— When the examination of ex-Senators Nichols and McKnight on the charge of subornation of perjury at the trial of Lant K. Salsbury was resumed to-, day the testimony of Arthur Stowe, who testified as to the alleged attempt to bribe Witness Garman while he (Stowe) was watching him. for the prosecuting attorney, was read. The examination was then adjourned un- | til Wednesday. State Senator David | T “Burns was held to the present term of the Superior Court to-day on the charge of accepting a bribe in the water deal. San Frapcisco will be an important supply point during the coming Oriental war and will ship large quantities of meat to the contending armies. How- ever, will meat left to be cookm on the gas ranges sold by me 80 . Gas and Electric Co, 415 Post. WASHINGTON, Dec. u—m\c«matmlkr of the Curremcy has ap) L. Sandt_of Fort Worth, , ) nc-lver e the Farmers’ National Bank of Henrletta, Tex., Wlllch closed. its doors on November 19, 1003, and has since*been in the hands of bank examiner. e PHILADW 28 —The directors of &l more and Ohlo Rll mm will In New York !n- and 1 -eunq the resigna - President T, ¥, At the same flm his successor lw“l e chosen. ident of the | . Among the | ————— *FLAMES ROIR IN A CAPITOL Costly Execeutive Building of Arizona in Phoenix Is Badly | Damaged by Fire at Night g Special Dispatch to The Call. PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 28.—Because | Secretary Horace Harrison of the Li stock Sanitary Board chose to db a e hours of extra work this evening in his office in the Territorial Capitol build- | | ing is the only reason the offices of that | structure were not gutted by fire de- | | fore midnight. As it is, the furnace | room is charred and the building has | | been damaged by smoke to the extent | | of several hundred dollars. | | It could not have burned to the pmm' |.of a structural ruin, as it is practicaily | a fireproof building, with the exception | |of finishings and furnishings, the | frame being of steel and the walls of | granite and tufa. But had the fire not | been discovered till ten minutes later | | it is likely that many valuable ducu-< Imems would have been deunoyed 1 Harrison detected the odor of smoke | as he left the building and thougnt al flue from the furnace room was leak- ing. He summoned the engineer, lhl)-’ tain Stark, who lives a few blocks | away. Mr. and Mrs. Stark ran to the | building and as they entered beheld | smoke and flames issuing from the fur- | nace room. Mrs. Stark sought the u; per” floor, where William Teasely, As sistant Secretary of Arizona, was work. He stmmoned the Fire Depart- | ment by telephone, but the engine- house is neéafly two miles from the | Capitol. The department résponded | | quickly, but found it did not have hose | enough to reach within a block of the neatest plug. ! Meantime Captain Stark had secured a couple of small streams from the hy- | drants in the building ang with early | comers, was fighting the flames. On th2 | arrival of the firemen the chemical ap- | paratus was employed and the fire was | extinguished. The loss will not excred | $2500. The building cost over $150,000 | and is insured for at least a third of | that sum., —————— Alleged Lynchers Discharged. - CAIRO, ML, Dec. 28.—James Raines, | C. C. Bailey, James Kuster, Brant Davis and Lieutenant J. F. Parker of Thebes, who are charged with the lynching of William Johnson, colored, last spring, had a hearing to-day be- fore J. M. Jackson, a colored Justice; of the Peace, and all were.discharged, as the evidence secmed insufficient to hold them —_—— HMusband Shoots His Rival. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Dec. 28.—H. G. Edmunson, a real estate dealer, was | found in a room in a hotel to-da¥ with Mrs. G. W. Grote, and was fatally shot by the woman's husband, who is a building contractor. Grote used a shotgun and fired through the panel of the door. Mrs. Grote accompanied the wounded man to the hospital.. LT Y N R Want Information About Cigars. WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—In view of the fact that many thousands of people in all parts of the country are interested in the result of a guessing contest as to the number of cigar' taxes paid in November, the Internal | Revenue Bureau asks that public an- | nouncement be made of the number | of cigar taxes paid at $3 per tousand | during November, 1903. The numbey | is officially stated to have been’ 578,157,470, * ————————— Strange Death of a Railway Man. CAIRO, Il., Dec. 28.—C. F. Drow, general, manager of the Coal Belt | points is 10 cents; jars and glasses, old |and then. | ders in the ! statement. | eity of Bellingham ieral Payne is suffering with a severe cold, tory. the Pacific coast from the district be-| tween the Missouri Rivér and the At-| lantic coast will cost about 10 cents more per hundred pounds. On some | articles the advance amounts to as much as 25 cents. The new rate covers carload-lots in | most instances and mixed shipments cannot be made even at the gdvanced rate. A comparison of the old and new rates on some of the principal articles shows something of what the extra ex- pense is going to be. The increase of agricultural implements per 100 pounds from all Missouri River and Eastern rate 85 cents, new rate $1 10; drugs, carload lots, old rate $1 25, mew rate $1 40: plate glass, old rate $1 25, new rate $1 50; building material and steel and iron structural ‘material, old rate 75 cents, new rate 85 cents. ) The announcement that the 10 per | cent raise will go into effect January 18 will no doubt cause a great activity in shipping from the East between now Those who have large or- | Eastern markets will en- deavor to get their material delivered | before the rate goes into effect. —e———— SACRAMENTO TO HAVE A NEW WATER SUPPLY | Trustees Accept an Option on the Rights of North Fork Ditch | Company. I SACRAMENTO, Dec. 28.—The City | Trustees of Sacramento to-night ac-! | cepted an -option offered by C. N. | Clark, on the water rights of the North Fork Ditch Company, wm_ch takes water from the American Riv- er, to purchase said water rights for $330,000, the option to be in force for | eight months and guaranteeing not | less than 2600 inches from the North Fork of the American River. City Trustee Devine says this would afford a perpetual gravity system of clear water for Sacramento, would furnish power for city lighting plant and would pay for itself in six and a half years. Timekeeper Traced to a Train. CHICO, Dec. 28.—Leonard McNab, the timekeeper, who mysteriously dis- appeared after leaving Magalia on horseback for a railroad grading camp near Lovelock last Thursday after- noon, has been traced to Chieo. Mc- ab turned his horse loose and board- ed a train for Chico Thursday even- ling. It is supposed that he had be- come homesick and suddenly deter- mined to return to his relatives in Nova Scotia. — e Despondent Man Commits Suicide. SAN DIEGO, Dec. 28.—P. A. Ed- wards, a carpenter, was found dead in his room in a lodging-house here to- day. The body, fully clothed. was | Iving on the bed. In the right hand ywas a revolver from which a bullet had been fired into the left temple. It is believed the man committed sui- cide through despondency. — e Governor Honors a Requisition. SACRAMENTO, Dec:i 28.—The Governor's office to-day honored the | i requisition of the Governor of Ilnnois\ for the return to that State of Ar-! thur Dunton. wanted in Chicago for | grand larceny. Dunton is in custody at Pasadena, whither Jobn J. Duffy, the Illinols State agent, went to-day to get his prisoner. — e —— Police Arrest Saloon Man's Slayer. PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 28.—The po- lice this morning captured David Van Houten, who last night killed Al Young, a saloon-keeper, for the alleg- ed alienation of his wife's affections. Van Houten refuses to make an; Mrs. Van Houten deni her husband’s story of her alleged in- | fidelity. Cities Combine as Bellingham. BELLINGHAM, Wash., Dec. 28.—The cities of Whatcom and Falrhaven to- night passed out of existence and the took their among the municipalities of the State. | A. L. Black was sworn in as the first Mayor and named C. M. Logsdon as Chief of Police. WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 —Postmaster Gen- and did not leave his At one time dandruff was attributed to the result of x!e\'erllh condition of the | scalp, which threw "off the dried cuticle | r in scales. i+ Professor Unna. Hamburg. Germmany, noted authority on skin diseases. ex- plodes this theory and says that dandruff is u f"m disease. rm is really r ‘cpon'ible for the dandr and for so mahy bald heads. It can be cured if it is gone about in the right way. The right way, of course, and the only way. is to Kill the germ. - Electric Railway, with headquarters at Chicago, was found dead to-day in bed nt the Exceisior Hotel at Harrisburg with'a bullet in his left temple. ' A re- volver was lying near the body. ,,ff wag first supposed that,Drew had co: mitted suicide,. but the police belleu he may have been murdered. HEDIA Pn Dec. -Judge J¢ @" refused the ap wenhn of the lnve-unom mnnlny of Iphia for a ucelvu idewater .KNI ‘ompany sof lhr s hat "‘c“":.“;',"‘.... Frrd water - Comi e To be solvent. and company e did loll consider it wise to interfere, : Newbro's Herpicide does this, and mits the hair to grow luxuriantly, as pature intended it should. Sald by leading druggists. Send 10c in stamps for sampie to The Herpicide Co., | Detroit, Mich. - esEsy 6 Hdornr ust | onevery | 4 oo place | g for San Jose. The stolen property was found on them and they confessed. They were barefoot at the time they were caught. They confessed also to having committed two other burglaries ! during the past fortnight. They will | probably be sent to the Whittier Re- form School. ——e———— DIVIDEND IS DECLARED BY A SEALING COMPANY Victoria Corporation Proposes to nd Out Twenty Schooners for Valuable Skins in Spring. VICTORIA, B. C., Dec. 28.—The Vie= toria Sealing Company, which prac- tically controls the pelagic sealing in- dustry; declared a dividend of 50 cents a share to-day on last season’s work, when the company's schooners took 17;509 skins, 11,714 off the Rritish Co- lumbia Coast and in Bering Sea and 5709 off Cape Horn. The wage bill amounted to $140,000 for the segson. The profits were $28,000. It was decided to send out about twenty schooners in the springloff the British Columbia Coast and two ves- sels will be sent within ten days to | Japan. —_—— THE HAGUE. Dec. 28.—Baron Gevers. the Minister of the Netherlands at Washington, has teen selected to succeed Dr. Westenbute, deceased, the former Netherlands Minister at Rome. ADV n‘l‘nmxr 'TS. It's worth much more than my Frice This fa A special value Is made of the finest tempered steel, hollow ground, with velvet edge. Makes shaving one's self a real pleasure. You have a large varlety of styles to select from, I carry all the highest class of cutlery, h as Henckel's Stiletto, Wostenholm's, Pocket knives_from 25c up. Scissors, 28c and upwards. Razor strops. anything you to pay between 25c_and $2.50. THAT MAN PITTS (F. W. PITTS.) THE STATIONER 1008 MARKET ST. Above Powell SAN FRANCISCO. BIENNIAL STATEMENT —_—F—— The San Francisco Savings Union AT SAN FRANCISCO, CAL 14th DECEMSBER. 1903 SHOWING UNCLAIMED DEPOSITS. - Tn accordance with Chapter CLIV of an act to compel savings banks to publish a sworn statemient of all unclaimed deposits (approved March 23, 1908), the following statement is submitted from our books at close of business on the abave date, viz.: = Name and Last Known Residence or Pastof! Daxter, Eure ge “Address— nlmm H., Humbolde Bay, uglielm pStockton St. Mrs. - Bolein S0 & 4 0% Hatrick, Miss M ; o 2 T K 52 98 Kenpedy, William, Alameda Co.. Cal.. 313 2 Little, Mrs, Sara C.. Seaside. Cal 7 McPhersen. Jehn R. New Washington ¥ 129 38 0 72 Char! 2.3 o4 Syiller, “Mrs, Annie M.. No. 32 Sixtn 180 12 01 85 ETATE OF CALIFC 'Rmh City and County of San Francisco—ss. 1 do solemnly swear (bat I have a al knowledge of the matters contained in ths forsgoing statement and that every allegation. statement. mattes and thing therein contafned 15 true to the best of my knowledge and LOVELL . _Cashier and Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to bafore me this. 14th day of December, 1903 > HAMILTON A. BAUER. Notary Public in and for the City and County of San Francisco, State of California. 200 Weak Men and Women HQULD USE WA h*'mum