The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 6, 1904, Page 6

CITIZENS TAR | TWO FANATICS | **Holy Rollers” Venture Into| an Oregon Town and Meet | With a Warm Reception | ONE DEPARTS AND WEDS ——— | | Irate Father of the Girl Who | Eloped Threatens Vengeance on the Queer ‘‘Apostle” | gl Soiinns | pecial T The Call Or.. Jam F. E. Cref- Brooks, leaders of a band fanatics that have been creating a furor at and near Corvallis, a town ten 28 west of this eity, hered by about Twenty residents of that Creffield and Brooks first made their &ppearance in Corvallis about nine months ago as bers of the Salva- tion Army, but after a few weeks in the ks they claimed to have re- oeived a divine message to form a new organization. The new sect was termed | the “Holy rs” on account of the peculiar antics of members who cried laughed, prayed and sang while rolling @hd throwing their bodies over the floor and ground The membership increased, and last October the family of O, V. Hurt joined Hurt was”chief clerk in a dise store and has occu prominent p: n in Benton and State politics. He is at Rep County chairman and himself reputations the head- and Hurt n and entered into comic perform- e worshipers ent back to work in »stles took up their hut just across a little ette Ri unty the the er from Corvallis, on ELinn Hére they con- womer field they ¢ > meas- » the s to an old saw- from town, where warm tar and an 1 s. They two re r be loose and the night in relieving is not Creffield and an- remainine jn received from Corvaliis O. V. Hurt, th v ce on not be a surprise harm father-in-law g lady of g cated and 1 D —— ADVERTISEMENTS. Cref s a ye well ed PILES. Cured Quickly and Without Pain. There are pile remedies without number, but there is only one curz, | #nd that is the ramid Pile Cure, x s the form of a suppository P plied diréetly totthe seat of abi v physician will tell you that for the proper treatment of Piles nothing with « compare a suppository, whereas the greater number of prep- arations that are'offered to you for the treatme f this disease are lo- t salves Why they not so expensive as hich is bound to ¢ tain more cos! ingredients which requires specidl machinery to make it: moreover, a suppository inserted up the rectum comes in direct contact with the cause of the com- plaint, and no other form of treat- ment does so. Wallace Cookr Canada, w an, Hallerton, P. Q., I have had two sur- gical operations for piles and they were not a sugceess; after using three | boxes of Py mid Pile Cure I feel as though I never had piles, and they | have afflicted me for twenty-five| years.” B. H. Palther, Windsor, Cal.: “After suffering from piles for fifteen years &nd trying different salves and oint- s in vain I was completely cured | by the use of two fifty-cent packages | of Pyramid Pile Cur | These and thousands of similar let- | ters go to show that piles can be| cured, are cured. Cured to stay cured. Cured 8o they won't come back. Cured | without cutting. Cured without dan- | ger. Cyred withodt pain. Cured with- | out detention from work. Cured with- | out indelicate examinations. Cured in | privacy of home, Cured by self-ap- plied treatment. Cured with very lit- tle expense. Cured without the dread and publicity of “waiting your turn at the surgeon’s office. Cured with- out a dangerous surgical operatjon, its period of enforced invalidism, te- | | ex- | dious convalescence and heav pense. ¥ou simply buy and appl i cheap and convenient remedy; it does | the rest. All druggists sell Pyramid Pile Cure at fifty cents a package, and we urge all sufferers to write the Pyramid Drug Co., Marshall, Mich., for their little ‘book on ““The Causes and Cure of Piles,” which is sent free for the seking. ! forty years, ,of the Socialist party or of the Social- | source of water supply. FRANCISCO CAL! WEDNESDAY EMPLOY POISON, LEAD AND GAS Peddler Swallows CarbolicAcid, Tailor Shoots Himself, and a Lodger Suffocates in His Bed MORGUE OFFICIALS ~BUSY | —_— Sickness, Despondency and In-| temperance Cause Death of | the Three Unfortunate Men PRI L s ““Teofile Alatorre. 1 do this because | 1 have no means of support.” These | words hastily scrawled with lead pen- | cil in badly spelled Spanish upon a | plece of wrapping paper composed the last message of a suicide whose body found at 3:16 o'clock yester- day morping on the sidewalk at the in- | tersection of Powell street and Broad- | way. Beside the dead man lay a vial in which remained a few drops of car- bolic acid. The body was later identi- fied as that of T. Alatorre, a peddler. was The autopsy showed carbolic acid poi- soning i Per C. Bilsteen, a tallor, 62 years old, placed the muzzle of a cheap bulldog | revolver in his mouth yesterday | morning and sent a bullet through his | brain. The deed was committed in the | tailor's room at 1010% Clay street. He | had been out of work and sick and de- | spondent for a long time. He was a native of Sweden and had no relatives | here | Thomas Faile Sharp, an Englishman, owning real estate in this city and Los was suffocated with jlluminat- ing gas last Monday night in a lodg- ing-house at 314B O'Farrell street. The body was found about noon yes- terday. He came to the house between 11 o'clock and midnight and asked for a reom, tendering 50 cents, which he saild was all the money he had. He was very drunk and asked the land- | lady to take care of some papers, deeds, etc., which she declined to do. The door and the window of the room | were found tightly closed, and the | key of the gas burner was fully open. Among the papers was a memoran- dum purporting to give the estimated | value of the estate of William Sharp, deceased, as $81,216 including 1\'3'4 Gatos, Sunset Another docu- the gift Thomas Faile e ) of $10,000 to wife, Mary M. | Sharp, dated July 15, 1903, the money being secured by a deed of trust to | the California Déposit and Trust | Company, ¢ in real estate and improver n Hayes street, near Steiner, and leased to a family named Corbett Sharp resided ip Los Gatos. — ————— MAN IS KILLED IN RUNAWAY ACCIDE Lane by h AGED Sonoma County Rancher Hurled From | a Buggy and His Neck Broken by the Fall SANTA ROSA; Jan. 5.—Stephen | McReynolds, an aged, rancher of Pleasant Hill, near Sebastopol, met u“ violent death to-day He was hurled from his buggy as if shot from a catapuit and struck on his head on the road. His neck was broken by the contact and death was instanta- neous. McReynolds had been noon. to Sebasto- | pol on business. At noon he started on the return trip for home and when | short distance from Sebastopol a | n of the harness broke. The animal he was driving became fright- | ened and ran away. After a short run the h e. fell and slid along the | ground. One of the shafts struck in the road and stopped the vehicle ab- rup hurling McReynolds over the dashboard. Parties pruning in an or- chard alongside the road saw the ac- cident and hastened to the aid of the unfortunate man. When they reached his side McReynolds was beyond hu- man aid. He leaves a wife and seven children. He has resided in the vicin- ity where he death for more than ving settled in v, { onoma | County in days. He was more than 70 years of age. | | S YR | SOCIALIST FEDERATION | EXPELS FRENCH DEPUTY Metes Ount Punishment to Him for Voting Against Proposal to Re- ]‘ duce the Military Expenditure. | PARIS, Jan. The Socialist Fed- | eration of the Seine, a branch of the Socialist party of France, to-day voted the expulsion of M. Millerand, the So- cialist Deputy, from the organization because of his vote at a recent session | of the Chamber of Deputies against the proposal to reduce the military ex- penditure and thus eventually comipel the disarmament of France. It is be- lieved that the action of the federation will produce a new schism in the So- cialist ranks. Millerand says he and his friends will* remain Socialist, | though they are no longer members ist parliamentary group. MAY RESUME DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH MEXICO | Pope Signs a Brief Appointing Mon- signor. Serafino Apostolic Dele- gate to That Country. ROME, Jan. 5.—The Pope to-day signed }he brief appointing Mon- signor Serafino apostolic delegate to Mexico, instead of apostolic visitor to Mexico, as expected. This is consid- ered by the Vatican authorities the first step toward the resumption of diplomatic relations between Mexico | and the Holy See. The Rev. Father Cerretti, now at- tached to the secretaryship extraor- dinary of ecclesiastical affairs, has been appointed secretary of the new delegation in Mexico. P L A B Officials Capture Splendid Deer. VALLEJO, Jan. 5.—Sunday after- noon a splendid buck, pursued by five hounds, sought safety in the lake in Wild Horse Valley, which is Vallejo's Superintend- ents Minahan and Edgcombe and City Engineer Noyes secured a boat, drove off the dogs, which had jumped into the water after the deer, and then las- soed the antlered beauty and landed him. He is still the prize of his cap- tors. ¢ | existence during the last two months | lows: | to telephone to my brother, | ity of the gas. JANUA 1901, DESCRIBES HIS SENSATIONS WHILE AWAITING SLOW APPROACH OF DEATH Dr. F. H. Stahle, Ex-Superintendéfit of City and County Hospital, Commits Suicide by Inhaling llluminating Gas and Before L = Dr. F. H. Stahle, ex-Superintendent of the City and County Hospital and for the last three years a deputy in the Tax Collector’s office, committed sui- cide early yesterday morning by in- baling flluminating gas in & room in a lodging-house at 148 Sixth street. Discouraged by poor health and financial troubles, Dr. Stahle carried cut his intention of the last two months. He deliberately killed him- self and in his last moments made a record of his dying experiences as to Demise Writes of Effects of the Deadly Carbon Monoxide 3 - e — | DR. F. H. STAHLE, FORMER HEAD OF THE COUNTY HOSPITAL, WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE BY GAS PHYXIATION IN A SIXTH-STREET LODGING-HOUSE WHILE DESPONDENT. the effects of the deadly illuminating fluid that be utilized to make his exit from the world. Dr. Stahle hired a room in the Bruns- wick House on Sixth street on Monday afternoc at 4:30 o'clock. He was not seen again until his body was found vesterday morning at 8:30 o'clock by the porter of the hotel. The norter discovered the odor of gas and traced it to the room occupied by Dr. Stahle. The porter broke in the door and found the occupant lying dead on the floor dressed in his underclothes. Beside the corpse were a few sheets of common wrapping paper, upon which | the suicide told of his experiences as he passed from consciousness to the ever- lasting sleep of death. HIS FRIENDS NOT SURPRISED. That Dr. Stahle ended his life was no surprise to a few of his intimate friends. He had threatened to end his and before his death Stahle wrote let- ters telling his friends of his Intention to seek the mysterious beyond. The letters written by Dr. Stahle after he had turned on the illuminating gas and awaited death were as fol- “Plain Suicide. Excuse me for the presumption and inconvenience caused you. Please ask Dr. Bacigalupi for me Charles, California Street R. R. Co. “The gas has been escaping over an hour and I cannot find any difference except a fullness in the head; pulsation one hour after no material difference, only about 85. “They must have improved the qual- Can’t see to write. I must be tough or the gas is improved. 3 o'clock.” " Before hiring the room in the lodg- ing-house Dr. Stahle wrote two let- ters announcing his intention to seek death. One letter was sent to George Bowman, a saloon-keeper, 231 Larkin street, with whom the deceased was well acquainted. WRITES OF HIS INTENTION. In the letter received by Bowman yesterday morning Dr. Stahle wrote that he was tired of life and that he had been compelled to borrow money which he could not repay. He declared that his wife was not to blame in .any way and that he regretted bringing any trouble upon her. He asked for- giveness from his relatives and his friends. A second letter was written by Dr. Stahle before his death, addressed to his wife in care of Bowman. Mrs. Stahle was too shocked yesterday to, read the letter when Bowman present- ed it to her after she had learned of her husband’s suicide. Stahle was a native of California and was prominent in political circles. He was about 40 years old and was a grad- uate of the Annapolis Naval Academy. He. served for a time as an ensign in the navy and resigned in Alaska. Then he came to this city and studied medicine and took his degree and fol- lowed the practice of his profession. About eight years ago he was ap- pointed Superintendent of the City and County Hospital. Three years he resigned that position and was given e CRANTS KNAPP A NEW TRIAL e Ohio Judge, Because of Techni- cal Errors, Gives Quintuple Murderer Another Chance el HAMILTON, Ohio, Jan. 5.—Alfred A. Knapp, self-confessed murderer of five persons, who is now in the penitentiary at Columbus, awaiting execution for the murder of his wife, was granted a new trial to-day. The principal ground on which the new trial was,granted was the alleged errer in allowing Knapp's written con- fession of five murders to be read to the jury. : The court said: “The confession of so many cold- blooded crimes could be the work of only a flend or a maniac and it could not fail to prejudice any person who heard it read.” The court held that the State had failed to prove the allegation in the in- dictment that Knapp had killed his wife by choking and strangling apd that it had not been shown how she came by her death. R — Peasants Kill Hungarian Lawmaker. BUDAPEST, Jan. 5.—Paul Eremitz, a Liberal member of the Hungarian Diet, was murdered at Nagy Kikinda to-day by two peasants. The motive was revenge for the loss of a lawsuit brought by the father of the murder- ers agdinst Eremitz. i the appointment of a deputy in Tax Collector’s office. Stahle was severely arraigned while in charge of the City and County Hos- pital and was accused of lax methods and gross extravagance. MARRIED PIONEER'S DAUGHTER Dr. Stahle was married to a daughter of the late G. W, Clark, the wall paper manufacturer. They had two children, but both are dead. The youngest, a liftle girl, died about six months ago, and from that time Stahle grew very despondent. He was stricken with [ paralysis about six years ago, and this also left him handicapped in life’s bat- tle. His widow stated yesterday that she knew of no reason why her hus- band should have killed himself except that he was very despondent and did not enjoy good health. -~ The deceased served for a time of the staff of ex-Governor Markham. He is survived by a brother, who is a con- ductor for the California Street Rail- road Company. His widow’s brothers are Dr. Waverly Clark, a physician in this eity, and Harry Clark, formerly swimming instructor at the Olympic Club. ; ‘The news of the suicide of Dr. Stahle was received with deep grief at the City Hall yesterday, where the .de- cs-ud was very populat ~4 the 7 A = STUDENTS FAIL N INIVERSITY Half a Hundred Collegians Dropped From Stanford Roll for Deficieney in Scholarship e Special Dispatch to The Csi STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Jjan. 5.— The figures given out by Registrar El- liott show that a large number of Stan- ford -students have failed to reach the standard of scholarship set by the faculty. Fifty-two have been dropped from college for deficiency in scholar- ship and pinety-three have been warned that if their work does not im- prove they will meet a similar fate. By departments the “flunks” are as foliows: Romanie languages, 1; Eng- lish, 2; history, 1; economi 3: law, 10; mathematics, 1; chemistry physiol- ogy. 1. geology. 8; civil engineering, 6; mechanical engineering, 3; e«lectrical engineering, 9. Of the warnings 2 were given in the Latin department, 6 in German. 4 in Romanic languages, Eng- lish 11, psychology 1, history 3, educa- tion 1, economics 6, law 15, 1thematies 2, chemistry 4, physiology 2, zoology 2, geology 6, civil engineering 15, me- chanical engineering 8, electrical en- gineering 5. The slaughter was larger than usual this year and includes many prominent collegians. In addition to those who have been “flunked” twenty-four stu- dents have been given leave of absence witheut the privilege of returning to college before next August, which would indicate that their standard of scholarship was so low that they were in danger of being dropped from the university had they remained in col- lege for the midyear examinations. DOCTOR TELLS OF DEBATCHES San Francisco Physiecian Tes- tifies at Vietoria of Alexander PRESENT WITH A STRING AR Conversations of the Capitalist’s Wife About San Leandro Prop- VICTORIA, B. C., Jan. 5.—Dr. Walter Thorne of San Francisco, Alexander Durismuir's physician for y gave evidence to-day in the suit brought by Edna Wallace Hopper to break the dead millionaife’s will. He had first attended Dunsmuir when the dead mil- lonaire was suffering from the effects of a debauch. Dr. Thorne testified to an operation in 1897 and said Dunsmulr did not drink anything for eeveral months then, but the majority of oc- casions when witness attended were for illness from drinking. Mrs. Wallace desired the wit attend oftener than he did to keep Dunsmuir in check He had accom- panied Dunsmuir to British Columbia as physician on the fishing trip and Dr. Thorne told of conversations with Mrs. Wallace, then Mrs. Dunsmuir, regard- ing the San Leandro property, of how Dunsmuir wanted to give It to her with a string on it and she would not have it that way. IS, ness to sel for plaintiff Dr. Thorne of Francisco sald he had never noticed any mumbling by Alexander Du muir, except when intexicated. ness did not consider that Dunsmuir had alcoholic dementia nor meningi- tis. San Mrs. Dunsmuir had come to witness’ offices at San Francisco to ask advice regarding settlement with James Dunsmuir. Witness had advised her tion. She was not in fit physical con- dition to enter a contest. She seemed well pleased with the terms of the agreement, which was signed. Mrs, Dunsmuir was in normal mental con- dition then and to her death. Wit- ness had seen her an hour before she died. Dr. Thorne told of conversations with Alexander Dunsmuir, in which Dunsmuir had stated that on Mrs. erty to go to James Dunsmuir’'s chil- dren, as he did not want Edna, re- ferring to Mrs. Hopper, to have a dol- lar of his money. Law witness ver Bodwell cross-examined the rigidly and more than once the witness appealed to Judge Duke to protect him from what he consid- ered insulting questions and infer- | ences. The court cautioned the law- yer to be more courteou. CAPTURE A CRIMINAL THOUGHT TO BE DEAD Modoc Sheriff Reports That a Fugi- tive From Shasta Is in Custody ! in Oregon. REDDING, Jan. 5.—Edward 1I- lingsworth, who -escaped from the Shasta County jail in 1901 with Ben Dorland, and who was supposed to have perished or been killed by Indians in the lava fields of Modoc County, af- ter Dorland was killed in a battle of the fugitives with officers in Modoc, has been captured in Oregon. This information reached here this morn- ing from Modoc, Sheriff Street of that county having gone after the pris- oner. In the battle in' which Dorland was killed Deputy Sheriff Walker of Ma- doc also met death, so Illingsworth, if the man arrested be he, will have to answer for murder. Injured Mincr Sues Corporation. REDDING, Jan. 5.—John M. Cates, a young miner, has brought suit here against the Bully Hill Copper Mining and Smelting Company for $30,000 damages for injuries received March 8 last, the result, it is alleged, of the company's carelessness. Cates and three others had a contraet with Cap- tain Delemar’s corporation to sink a shaft, the company to care for the earth excavated. A hoisting bucket fell on Cates, breaking a hip and rib and injuring his spine. Dunsmuir and His Drinking | erty Are Repeated in Court| In the cross-examination by coun- | Wit- | to accept James Dunsmuir's proposi- | Dunsmuir’s death he wished the prop- | PORTLIND GETS ORIENT SERVICE Four Steamers of the China | Commercial Company Will | Not Toueh at San Franciseo i | . | SETTLEMENT OF RATE WAR Flouring Mills in the Oregon | Metropolis Promise Harri- | man Capaeity Will Be Doubled | —— | Special Dispatch to The Call. | PORTLAND, Jan —The Fortland | and Asiatic Steamship Company, which is owned by the Harriman interests, | has made arrangements whereby the | four steamers of the China Commercial Company will come direct to Portland from Salina Cruz, which is their first | port of caill after leaving the Orient. | As their business with the Mexican ports wiil require the greater part of their inward space they will bring no | inward cargo for Portland, for the pres- | ent at least. This schedule will not permit the | China Co 1 Company to call at | San Francisco. The announcement was | made to-day by A Mohler, president | of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation | Company, who has just returned from the East. It in effect the carrying out of the pro e by Harriman on his recent visit here. The | service goes into effect next month. | In securing this big addition to their fleet the Portland and Asiatic Steam- reased | ship Company have settled the rate war | which has been making such inroads | upon the profits of the trans-Pacific business and infused such an element | of uncertainty into the flour trade The principal reason.for Harriman’s action in obtaining the Chinese com- pany's ships is the promise of the Port land flouring mills to doubla their ca pacity if a larger steamship line were established. The differential created by | the rate war in faver of San Francisco | was very bad for the Oregon and Wash | ington millers, and the amalgamation | of the disturbing line and the Portland | line will again place all Pacific Coast ports on even terms in the trade. Ori- ental exporters here who have suffered | from the lack of shipping facilities in the past are much gratified at the an- nouncement. e r—— TACOMA HAS UNIQUE METHODIST CHURCH Edifice. Has Equipments for Cooking and a Gymnasium for Boys and Girls. TACOMA, Jan. Inder the lead- ership of Rev. J. W. Miller, its pastor, the Methodist church of Centralia has built a unique church edifice, will be dedicated next | Bishop Hamilton of San The pastor has arranged building will be dedicated pr free from debt. Its special features are the result of a belief of Pastor Miller that churches can be made to serve their members in many ways betweer. Sabbaths. One special ou- ject sought to he obtained is to ‘pro- vide comforts for farmers and their wives when in town shopping. Cen- tralia is the shipping center for a large stretch of tributary country which explains the desirability of this feature. The basement of the edifice which Sunday by tica contains a resting room for the use of farmers, with a fully equipped kitchen adjoining, where they can warm lunches brought from home or cook meals. Bathrooms are provided on the same floor, with separate read- ing and reception rooms and a gym- nasium for boys and girls. This part of the church will be kept open every day, committees of ladies alternating in welcoming and taking care of friends and visitors. . ——— Explosion Hurls Four Men to Death. PENZANCE: England, Jan. Four men were killed and several were injured by an explosion to-day at the nitro-glycerin department of the Na- tional Explosive Works, eight miles from here. The whole district was enveloped in a cloud of black smoke and nearly every window at St. Ives, three miles from the scene of the ex- plosion, was shattered by the terrific force. Many windows were alse smashed at Penzance. $44455 none took effect so promptly 4444324440434 44 DOAN’S KIDNEY PILLS. A Danger Spot In the small of the back, is the danger spot—a dangerous spot for pain— and most aches of the back start there. There is a reason for this, and it lies in the kidneys, which are located near the small of the back. Such pains should be called kidney pains—backache should be called kidney-ache. The secret of why Doan’s Kidney Pills cure backache quickly is that they reach the cause—the kidneys. earlier symptoms of kidney ills and serious com- plications follow—urinary pains, diabetes, dropsy, Bright’s disease. Joseph P. Jackson of 2 Rose avenue, now retired, says: “Of all the remedies I ever used for my back and kidneys or acted so thoroughly as Doan’s Kidney Pills. For years I had trouble with my back, and latterly it ached all the time. count of the acute twinges which shot across my loins when I attempted to straighten, and many a time I was compelled to place my hands on the small of my back and press them " into my loins for the slight assistance that makeshift afforded. Two. boxes of Doan’s Kidney Pills stopped the backache and positively removed other symptoms of sluggish or over-ex- cited kidneys.. I am only too pleased to recommend a prep- aration upon which the public can rely.” I dreaded to stoop on ac- just above the hips, Neglect the disorders, rheumatic A Trial Free T0 SAN FRANCISCO CALL READERS.