The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 30, 1903, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 30, 1903. CANADA DEFIES |TWO RAILWAYS NAVAL TREATY| MAY COMBINE Building Armored Cruiser for Reported Service on Great Lakes De-| Attorney Bartnett to Be Dickering With Yard for Butte and Plumas Road \ | spite Anglo-American Puct} —_— | eemnnitiiai | 2 TR - N REOPE OLD QUESTION OVERTURES ALREADY MADE United States Government Not| Western Pacific Anxious to Advised That New Vessel| Secure Route of Its Rival, Would Be Other Than Cutter| Along the Feather River SLE R | it OTTAWA, Ontario, Dee. 2)—The| Rumors of a consolidation of the two | vanadian armored crujser | 2ilroad imterests which have for over s has caused com- ¢ | ville v supposed to réstri along the Feather River and over i Ol tary of toward the eastern line of the State | State Pope points out that nmo treaty | Are Interesting local = railroad circles, ts between Great Britain and the | In connection with this rumor comes a g iiing the ber and Teport that Attorney W. J. Bartnett, | amesit of vessels to be maint i | Tepresenting one, the Western Pacific, e o Biphhes da o |@nd H. H. Yard, the other, known as t the Butte and Plumas Railroad, are the Great s. There is an agree- fquictly dickering toward that end ment to cease pl m there after 1, behind whom is said to be a six s T by either country. heavily capitalized Philadelphia syn- Pope ibts if ate, was the first to begin opera- WASHINGTON Stats s at Oroville and along the Feather B it ormed up | River and had made much progress in e & nadian Gov. | 218 sterfous railroad project when | ey e iy ier equally mysterious enterprise e daition its surveyors at work to find a for a - outl line of tracks by the riv Both corporations n spending money liberally in > pursuit of their respective objects, few smali and insign intained t it has been conceded by practical than | Tailroad builders that the Yard outfit this | Was making _ better headway up B was not re- | through the State and gaining a route | garded b treaty. Tt | Superior to that of the company that apy ates n: of- | has been operating parailel with it. fice place where the vessels HURRIED EASTERN TRIPS, wer 3 examined the | It was announced e time ago that the Western P road would e the § of the Beckwith this news been dly had before the su Susanville, out of that at has Yard admitted art of a transcon- n being that locs ad, with the Northern California as tion. It is.appar- uitimate Governmer howeve the Western Pac protest T nelined to be a bit dubious 3 se cerning his stated plans, for they n leavored in every possible man- . o anticips his ments. . ea he first intimati that tho: who réceived of any e Bartnett rtl Ya in the same di- iether the two men -met in r elsewhere in the East is R ARG wn, but this that Police Commissioner Greene lesigns. urned three wes 29.—Police Com- he left. Two NEW YORK -day se his r were north go Low t 1 of the t A perty of stern l"'f|flr' n were bound north and would need accommodations for about twelve. Commiss ‘CONFERENCE FOLLOWS. vis. A esol - When this party arrived at the va- akned & i rious towns the people who had learned t Western Pacific as rivals were H. Yard at the ymas road: rty that was supposed = tively a Bartnett repre- ‘“o 5. DUIROR % n. Yard and Chlef Engineer an of the Western Pacific made a te f the entire length of the Feather ng S Sease ANQ River throueh which the two lines are held a long extend where and finally arri expected tc t S they Diabetes News. d been after this trip i of the i parties suddenly rrangements or- ade at Chico, € 2NV and other points for providing the men with pro- visions for the balance of the winter. g along Deer hich is accepted in the has t a change stern Pacific made in so an ou State is conce Now it is reported that the agents of the W Pacific, acting for Bart- nett have been making , the basis of which, it is said, yposition for a trans- fer of his int ts along the Feather to a point near Oroville or a the Western miles of the y in order to nt whe: se about si make connectio co, Marys- ville and other points on the proposed route of the road to San Franc Partnett is expected back in this city b in about two weeks and it is said that only mu fef at night by sleeping with < he will then mkw up these propositions nis of his back | with Yard and definitely decide what | g . cen told there couree will be taken by his -road in | Northern California. This is not yet all medica —_—————————— ey rf,, wisat COPPER-LADEN SHIP \l\ will tell ;w u— MAKES HASTE TO P()RT here are only tw termin Ons in o ER V»M»,uu 2. Schooner Volante Puts Into Kn\nk and Is There Found Unfit to Go to Sea. SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 29.—Found in a leaking condition, the schooner | Volante has been forced to put into | ol Kayzk in distress. This word was r Robles. Janny eived yesterday in a telegram to the Petalume. M \nunj ' ets at this city and druggists Upon reaching Kayak, Captain Mc- Fee called for a survey and it was dis- uea, Robinson San Andreas, Peters Crockett, Crockett DECO San Bernardino, Towne Davisvilie, Campbell an Diego. Strahiman i ey~ i {local office from Captain McFee. Ac- Bakerafield. Haer Redding. Red's Dg Co | cording to the information received autz cdlands, Abbe: - Pond Hans bbey en | the Volante had a cargo of 200 tons of " « Armstrong Riverside, Gardner {r‘oppl‘r ore from the Gladaugh mine Dinuba. Mc e covered that it would not be safe to Eagievilie San Jose, Fisher & P | put to sea’ again until repairs were K San Mateo, Colpe San Pablo. Solomon made to the vessel. Grass Vy, Loutzenhei- San Rafael, Wolfe | ——— ser Santa Ana, Halsel | 3 4 Gilwey. Johmeon - santa Tachara S, | Scott Denies Chairmanship Story. Golden Gate, KlinknerSanta Cl Rob: FASHING . G Hanford, Cousins & H Santa Cruz. Palmer o ASHINCTON, Dec. 29-—fenator Havwards. Sporndll | Smtia. Monics” Hamage | SCOtt of West Virginia to-night denied g R Stma Ross, Newman | as absolutely without basis reports Honcut, Horton . T | that the chairmanship of the executive Kern, Kern Drug Co Livermore, Beck Bonora, Eddy committee of the National R 8t. Helena, Brownlee epublican e B Sevw | Committee had been Tendered to him Low Gutos, Johns &3 Rutier Craek, Morrigh | bY_the President and had been’ de- poc, Dean uckee, Thom. 2 Madera. Luttreil Tulare, Lasch gl s Merced. Dixon Tuclumne. Curley RG22 Mill Valley. M V Dg Co U'kiah. Gibson bassador Durand Gives Reception. Mogesto. Hushand & T Valteso, Topley | :omm)“ Moore Ventura, Cerf | WASHINGTON,, Dec. 29.—The Brit- 0 1l. M H D Co Visall y is g L i N u‘nfl;".fl'gl)ur:l'on ish Embassy was thrown open for the o, Loviday Watsonville. Krough first time in many months to-day, evada City, Vinto Wheatland, Brown when Embassador Durand gave his Oskiand, Owl Oroville. Ekman Pacific Grove, Tuttle Williams, Fouch ‘Winters, ¥ formal reception to the diplomatic WoolMand. Shelton corps. a year been surveying routes from Oro- | OF FIVE RAILROADS IN MIDDLE WEST 10 BE RAISED Formation of a Committee to Receive the Chicago and Alton|_ ; 3 : . Southern Pacifie and Santa Fe Stock Is the First Movement in a General Plan for the| win Inerease Schedule on H i H ) i Shipments From California Merging of the Minor Lines Into One ‘Great System 1 & R R |JANUARY 1, THE DATE | CHICAGO, Dec. 29.—The Daily News : - S Ty to-day published the following: “The 5 ? I formation of a committee to receive de- ‘ Tarifts on Deciduous Fruits posits of Chicago and Alton stock and ” | | Destined to Chieago and New the selection of T. P. Shonts for the , > 3 / K )is e( ‘presxdency of the -Clover Leaf are York Not to Be Disturbed | merely the initial steps toward the con- —_— | solidation of five Western rallways. A Spectal DI to The Call | big system is in process of organiza- ehonat 2 : | tion. The trunk line will consist of the CHICAGO, Dec. 20.—The Southern { Kansas City Southern, the Chicago and Pacific and its connections and the | | Alton, the Towa Central, the Clover Santa Fe are to advance eastbound | | Leaf and the Minneapolis and St. freight rates on January 1 next from Louis. H. Harriman, John W. } California points. The rate on green Gates and Edwin Hawley are the in- e fow # per lustued nouds, fluential forces in the scheme. Bt dedepidntn i e | “Gates and Hawley, by the purchase g r R of General Hubbard's holdings, have '}\i_vazn and $1 50 to New York on de- come into complete control of the Clo- cidio not be disturbed. i y also are prominent in B liay rates of 75 cents per hundred the Kansas City Southern and they | | pounds to Chicago and $§1 to New York | have a large interest in the Alton, Towa | | are to be increased: also the ma- Central and the Minneapolis and St. | | chinery rate of $1 25, the $1 rate on | Louis, which are virtually in the con- | cattle hdrns. the §1 20 rate on nuts trol of Harriman. and the 77 cent rate on dried and Harriman, Gates and Hawley, as pickled fisha well as John J. Mitchell, have depos- There ie also to be an advance in ited their Alton holdings with Kuhn; | | the rates on green and tanned hides, Loeb & Co., the banking house which honey, seashells, whalebone. wool in will receive all of these securities, as | | gre a ured wool. Tt is stiil S { undecided whether there will be an . | | increase rates on quicksilver, canmed | | and® dried fruits, lumber, wine ana| | | matting. coffes and hops. Lo e T | KANSAS CITY. SCHOOLS | INVOLVED IN A SCANDAL | Testimony Given Before Geand Jury ! Shewing That Member of Educa- 2 ‘ tional Board Solicited Bribe THREE RAILROAD MEN WHO ARE FORMING A MERGER OF FIVE | KANSAS CITY, Dec. 29.—Before WESTERN LINES. FROM LEFT TO RIGHT THE PORTRAITS ARE the Grand Jury, sitting at Kansas THOSE OF EDWIN HAWLEY, JOHN W. GATES AND E. H. HARRIMAN. | Frank Colvin, principal £ £ pin' 2N - E P ton Heights School, is said to have testified that money was e v g demanded from him for his reap- I | 1 ointment. It is said that he told the | ni | J P ! i ¥ jury that'a membet of the Board of | Education solicited-a bribe from him. £ 1 2 7 | He had, he #aid, refused to be held up | 4 i i | nd told a member of the board that i L M {'he would give up his position before he would have it said that he had P | D White Missionary and Eigh-| Frank White Is lmirm*lnv(l‘ John Schaich, an i 1 5. 2 attorney, sister is a teacher, | teen of His Foilowers Are| at Auburn Penitentiary for|isia the jury that throush a third Massacred by Band of Doos| the Murder of His Employer | Person a member of the board had de- = * manded a sum of money for (e re- e T e appoir WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Minister| AUBURN, N. Y., Dec Frank PR R P e TS d E Ut naniath snt Al e White, a negro, was put to death in| Militia Colonel Frees Glove the preliminary to further negotia- |'ment from Monrovia, Liberia, under |the electric air at the State Prison CRIPPLE tfl(‘I'Ir K. "'-Itv.. De ; tior | date of November 4 last, the details|here to-day for the murder of George | igressman John M. Glover, who | “It is understood that General Hub- | of the ‘massacre in the pthe of an|Clare, a farmer of Seriba, by shooting. *‘ was wounded in the arm and after- bard's Clover Leaf shares were sold at.| Afriean forest ‘of a white missionary | Six contacts, each of 1740 volts Tl am- | ward placed in jail the milit 30 for the preferred and common | named John T. Tate and all of his fol- | peres, were applied before White was | Yesterday. was to-day released by oo~ tivel The: general ~stipulated | 1o wers. eighte Tl s S i 5 " | der of Colonel Verdeekberg. His | that ou e holders who wished to sell 5 i SIERtaEn I pumbser., It aup BisnonRceq: dead,. ALSgE . the.s o) hi wound is not a serious one, no bones e e same. price from | that the massacre took place March|contact a strange gurgling in his throat | yo oy ity St R 5, 1901, yet this. the first detailed ac- | nage the physicians step back and B * mt, s just come to h"\nd in an | porpifiéd the spectators. The f'omuvt[""' e - - lavit by Mrs. Mary L. Allen, & white | a5 quickly reeated, but still thejand the fifth contact was turned on, 5 | missionary. at Nouna Kroo, Liberia.|gtethoscope recorded cardiac action, |Stein suddenly pitched forward and Succeeds, Him As | She had the :""-" from. scme of :h“ and two more contects were given. | fell to the floor in a swoon. i OBl President. TEiesipenl it usw of the I}urllng] rm’- slm-uln:. ;l»;mlan m: lhnv-nd State E rn'(rician‘Da\':. " (‘haryze; of ) ; ) 9 N electrodes flashed brillian an ere | the execution, explained-the urgling Smibaiiae l;“f-’ drain ]fon": rge mission and farm, | was an odor of burning hair. The exe-|in White's throat by faying s “;" SHgi “.'“‘""';’ §'5¢ | and besides he maintained a consider- | cutioner said it was the sponge be-|held his breath for a few momen [5) s to-day elected ide al school § R e 9 . = . s e D e Jeo | able school in the jungle. Altogether | neaih the electrode. - He adjusted it|after the first contact and it was sim- B B e o O ontrolling | Cfeteen people were In the missin |more tightly before the next shock. | ply the air escgping from his lungs. e’ varlous rallitiadd1n he RAGE Tal- when it was surrounded in the night| Among those who made a test with| He declared that White was practically and syst Frue siéction took pimbe | hs e peamen,, The Orst man, who the giethosope eas Dus 1. B Stein | dead after the first contact. &t & hoepial mbeting O s eice | anawered a knock at the door was shot. | of Buffalo, and he reported that the| White was about 25 years of age. He o et PR S, | The interpreter next was shct and as | peart had not ceased to beat. When he | had worked for Clare and murdered at which W. B. Leeds presented his| Tate appeared and tried to protect the | haq resumed his seat in the front row | him for his money resignation and was chosen chairman | pody of the interpreter he, too, was o 3 3 of the board of directors, a position | ¢hot and-cut to pieces. The Doos then = hitherto unfilled, < Kkilled all the remaining inmates of the _ADVERTISEMENTS. Leeds also was continued as head | pouse, cut off their hands and, placing eeAanes of the operating company, being re-|the bloody members tn a coffin, sent elected president by the board of di-| them back to their people as trophies. ¢ the Chicago, Rock Island In explanaticn of their action the Doos said: ““We have no fight with the white man. But'if we do not kill him now he will bring his country to make war upon us. Railroad Company earlier in the . All the old officers of the Chicago, Rock lIsland and Pacific were re- elected except third vice president, in which position B. L. Winchell suc-| Minister Lyon, on the strength of ceeds J. M. Johnson. this affidavit, communicated with the The complete list follows: W. B.| Ljberian Secretary of State with a view Leeds, president; D. G. Reid, ch to securing fuller information and per- man board; Charles H. Warren, first| haps the punishment of the perpetra- vice president: Robert Mather, second | torg of the massacre. vice president; B. L. Winchell, third prddiione s I e vice president; John F. Stevens, | op INTEREST TO PEOPLE fourth vice president; George H. Cros- OF THE PACIFIO COAST by, etary-tr urer. Osc of the Company, dent of the company, G. Murray, first vide president 3altimore and Ohio Rallroad was to-day elected presi- to succeed L. F. Several Minor Changes Are Made in the Postal Service and More Pat- ents Issued to Inventors. , Dec. Lorée. who resigned” to m‘(‘Prfl.‘lhe California—Poplar, Tu- presidency of the Rock Island Com- VI M T pany. At the special meeting .of the ounty, H. C. Witt, 3altimore and Ohio directors here, at which Loree’'s resignation was ac- cepted and Murray elected president, the selection of successor to Mur- ray first vice president was de- ferred to a later date. —_— Stmasters commissioned: eorge Murtscher; Oregon s, Willis M. Powell. rame of the pestoffice at Walters, Riv- County, Cal., hxn been changed to Mecea, The rirst National “Bank of San Francisco Lap been mace reserve agent for the First Na- tional Hank of San Pedro. - - < H. 5 n ppointes car- | CHIEF DRUG CLERK MILLER | o mnd Jonm W Watking subearrior, at bor- MUST GO WITHOUT SALARY | tervilie, Cal The following patents were issued to-day: — Callfornia—John H. " Byers, San Francisco, v ushing apparatus: Oscar E. Cheesebrpugh, Comptrolicr of Treasury Decides He Is Anaheim, wood splitting machine: Winfield | Not Entitled to Compensation Dur- ing Term of Suspension. assignor one-half to F. F, windmill; John H. Davis, Herbert J. Doli, | WASHINGTON, Dec.. 89, =~ Tha| 8en Francwco, satety gas _cock; | Double, Los Angeles, under reamer: Comptroller of the Treasury has ren-'| Eqwards, assignor two-thirds to R. H. | dered an adverse decision on the claim {i‘ {*“nzn. L;;: A?!fle«. ofl burner; George o o verti |of W. H. Miller, chief clerk, Medical hm',‘,wk‘“m i ot o e 8 S | Supply Department, San Francisco, for | more, Los Angeles, bi his salary during the investigation of | Shampeoing; Dav | charges against him for collusion with Oakiand, b head rest for G.” McClay, Santa Ana, Mighels, land, and C. niusical top; Samuel B. Mon- mail bag: Phillip V. Zellls, Berkeley, (o3 e e Eoon, ' San Francisco, assignor one-third to J. firms in that city, altering figures in | y%¢o00gan, Oakland, indoor game: Thomas proposed bids, etc. Miller was sus-|J. Moorish, San Francisco, harness saddle: Frederick Naumann, Los Angeles, shade and curtain holder; Herbert C. Parker, assignor to Hipolite Screen and Sash Company, Los An- geles, device for measuring openings: Fred P. Rabin, Colma, display holder for ladles' hats; Willlam Rickards, Loo Angeles, electric heat: ing pad; Elfego Riveroll, Los Angeles, =melt- ing furnace; Ferd A. Smith, Los Angeles, pended from duty during the investi- gation, which is still in progress. The Comptroller holds that as an employe of the Government he is not entitled to compensation during suspension. st S : atomizer; Paul 3. Stuparich, assignor o Sta: Leprosy Scare Proves Groundless. parich M:m-:'ll;hlrlnfi tI'amxwuw San Francis- 4 co, manufacturing otographic m ts; LINCOLN, Neb., Dec. 20.—A’ re- | G Waterman, Santa Basharn eloctrie switcn ‘Waskingten—John P. Knuehmann, Sumas, paint brush port circulated in Lincoln this after- noon that cases of leprosy had been discovered in the Russian colony of the city is declared by the authorities to be without foundation. Officers Spirit Their Prisoners Away. COUNCIL BLUFFS, lowa, Dec. 29, ~-Neely Zimmerman and George Burk, the negroes who last night nar- rowly escaped lynching at the hands of an infuriated mob, were taken to- night to the State penitentiary at Fort Madison, Iowa, for safe keeping. Dur- ing the afternoon the men were taken before Judge Wheeler and waived preliminary examinafion. ELL PR LA Four Filininos to Be Hanged. MANILA, Dec. 28.—The Supreme Court has confirmed the sentence of death imposed upon four natives who killed three marines in September, 1902. : letter .and Pocketbooks, wrist bags. The, Judse it cades - Siil Bignks: ok r o Sid thén signed an order for their remeval manicure sets. Fine things for New |and “the men were hastily spirited Year's. Sanborn, Vail & Co. -+ laway to Fort Madison. SPIKE DRIVEN - INTO A SWITCH | Wreekers Derail a Pittsburg and Lake Erie Express, but | Those on Board Escape Injury PO ’ BAGGAGEMAN KILLED RO TS Passengers on the Westbound Limited of the Pennsylvania | Road Barely Escape Death | PRt il Ve ST NEWCASTLE, Pa., Dec. 29.—The Pittsburg and Lake Erie westbound | midnight passenger train leaving Pitts- | burg at 11:30 o'clock last night was derailed at Newcastle Junction. It is said the disaster was the work of i wrech The train consisted of five | day coaches and two Pullmans and | nearly all left the track. but no one | was seriously injured. A spike had been driven into a switch. FORT WAYNE, Ind., Dec. 29.—Lim- | ited train No. 5, westbound, on the Pennsylvania~ Railroad was partly | wrecked to-day in.a rear-end collision with a freight train near Larwill, west of here. Baggageman Raisnider was killed. Engineer Herbert of the lm- ited was pinned under the wreckage of | his engine and badly injured. Fireman | Elmer Stafford of the limited was also serfously injured. Three porters and | H. €. Suttler of Norfolk, Neb., and L G. Betts of Chicago, passengers, were hurt slightly. The wreck was due to a mistake by Engineer Crowell of the freight in read- ing orde On account of a bad stretch of track near where the wreck oceur- | red the limited was running at a very moderate rate. Otherwise it would .n running at a terrific speed, behind time. e Rapid Reporting by a tenographer. CINCINNATI, Dec. 29.—At the Na- tional shorthand teachers’ convention here to-day an exhibition of rapid re- porting upon a biackboard was given by Fred Ireland, official stenographer of the House of Representatives at Washington. Ireland wrote from dic- tation at the rate of 233 words per minute and read the matier without an error in less than fifty seconds. —————— Highwayman Kills a Physician. W YORK. Dec. 29.—Dr. J. M. Otto Wwas found unconscious early to- day om the sidewalk at Fifth avenue The back of nd Thirty-sixth street. his -skull had blen-crushed and he | died syon afterward. To all appear- | ances the doctor was the yictim of a whaq had been frighten had time highwayman, 24 off before he the dying man's poeckets. —————————— Must. Hang for Murder of Husband. CENNINGTON, Vt., Dec. 20.—Mrs. | Mary A. Rogers. convicted of the mur- der of her husband, Marcus H. Rog- ers, wa snced to-day to be har od the first Friday in February, 1905. Leon Perham, the self-confessed ac- complice of Mrs. Rogers, was sen- tenced.to life “mprisonment. e eereseytne Submits to Surgical Operation. CANTON, Ohioe, Dec. 29.—Mrs. Day, | wife of Justice of the Supreme Co! { William R. Day, submitted to an op- eration for tumor at her home to-day. she came out of the anesthetic in ex- cellent condition and with every pros- pect of complete recovery. —_———————— WHEATON, Minn., Dec. 20.—A large part of this town was destroyed by fire to-day. Loss, $100,000. #SEARCHING WIS SOUL FOR SOUNDS TO TELL HOW SCART WE WAS." “RED SAUNDERS”— his three strange pets and the fresh bulldog. The funniest story Henry Wallace Phillips has written. by A. B. Frost. Other features of the January Pictures number of MCCLURE/ MAGAZIN Can the SOUTH sole the NEGRO PROBLEM? An \importaht discussion fii_}h|s great national question by Carl Schurz who, of all Americans, in public life to-day, is . best quahfled from pmonal etgcnem:c to wr"- on it. 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