The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 9, 1904, Page 5

THE /BA FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY,« JANUARY 9, 1904. \mm S 1S J0B, I)wlmaw Man is Not walship MINING ME ARE LOSE R%. | Plumas | Smrlml in After Expenditure Thousands of Dollars o PLANT IS FORFEITED Make Payments Terms of an Option Cause of SELE LT GREENVILLE, Jan. & he Plumas Gold M urated here by W of Sacramento, just reached a disastrous climax i Lawton secured an option on the mine of Standart & McGill, and backed by the banking firm of Douglas, Lacey & Co. of New York City spent last s son erecting a complete milling plant | of an estimated 100-ton daily capacity. Upward of $6€3,000 actually was spent n the plant, and it was not completed. The company recently defaulted a $6000 payment on the mine, which un- der the terms of the option forfeits the Enterprise Fai of MeKinney Mar an TAKE and | Inability to Has I'horonghly Solved Theft ots Under Is the Collapse The min r terprise of Company Lawton, D. has ina forme the e all the bal- r found | entire plant and prior payments of the s where | $13.000 to Standart & McGill, who have 5 again assumed possession. The ma- norning | ! not in 5l | property has creditors f nd other personal atta »d by local ggregating $80,000. cause of the fail- mismanagement ere not has never tituted n the oral and | ed bal- kard evidence that wife. Guila Ferr clock vs that his They were married kffi:dllflflli.‘a‘&:’#h?li‘ltl.idl!.ilfifl’lflfl‘l’ll [} cenmevrREITRE SESERNNANGREROERNNEAYRET RN A ] a a = - = ] 3 ] B | 2 = ] B = - ] A View of the Great St. Louis Exposition From Your Armchair ST. LOUIS. | World's Fair Portfolio Series IN BEAUTIFUL COLORS PRESERVE THIS SERIES TO BE BOUND IN PORTFOLIO FORM Greater San Francisco's Greatest Daily scores again with an entirely new Sunday feature. By an exclusive arrangement, secured at an enor- cost, THE SUNDAY CALL will be the first io the WORLD'S FATR OFFICIAL ART SERIES, reproductions in color of the grounds and buildings of Louisiana Purchase Exposition. mous issue MACHINERY HALL. | | 1 THE FIRST OF THIS SERIES WILL BE ISSUED | SUNDAY, JANUARY: 3lst The original of that Sunday’s Art Supplement is the first artistic reproduction showing the architec- tural beauty of the Ivory City, and is selected as one of the best of the many views submitted, it being the t to combine in a limited series the most import- ant and interesting features of the St. Louis World's Fair. The Palace of Machinery, representing power, force, in reality the pivot on which this immense ex- hibition revoives. is the inaugural issue of what will doubtless prove the most interesting series that was ever given free by a publication. The main entrance to this building shows a triple arcade, with large pavilion in the center. The north front. which is thirteen hundred feet in length, has an arcade of nine arches as a center feature. Following the classical in architectural effect, there are found several beautiful examples of the Ital- fan and Spanish Renaissance styles. The brilliancy of color, the realistic scene, with the moving crowds of sightseers, give variety and animation to the picture. Nothing is so universally attractive as power. Men, animals and natnre are most fascinated when, by its exercise, they demonstrate possession of extraor- dinary power. Admiration fpr might and the desire to see it in evidence, to feel it and sense it, to remem- ber it and to tell of it, are instinctive factors with men, women and children. This is the keynote to the collection and arrangement of the exhibits in thie Ma. chinery Department—Power. Here are shown the methods and means for creating every variety of ma- chinery for the generation, transmission and use of power. Forty thousand horses harnessed together and pulling with one mighty concentrated effort convey the idea of the total power which makes the wheels of this World’s Fair go round. The engines, con- densers, pumps, moving machinery and accessories making up the power plant, which is the largest ever shown at an exhibit. are installed on the main floor of Machinery Hal!l and occupy the entire westerly half of that Imlldlnr—ln area of something over 200,000 or about the size of an ordinary ecity There will doubtless be an unprecedented demand for this SERITES. Nearly every one will want to pre- serve them to be bound in PORTFOLIO FORM. Maie certain of your getting the full set by giving an advance order. | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL GREATER SAN FRANCISCO'S GREATEST, PAPER s ALI: TRAIN NEWSBOYS AND ALL NEWS DEALERS SELL THE CALL. |ed down a decision sustaining the de- | the oath at the bar of the His Defense the Same as Dietrich’s, ISENATOR DIETRICH'S TRIAL COMES TO SUDDEN ENDING S Bl it United States Judge HO‘d\ Th Be Prosecuted, as Alleged Bribery Occurred Before Hel \\’ s Sworn Inasa Mflmbfl of Upper House of Congre:m at Nebraska Statesman Cannot £ 2 OMAHA, Nebr., Jan. 8.—United tates Senator Charles H. Dietrich and Jacob Fisher, postmaster at Hastings, Nebr., were released from custody to- day. Judge Vandeventer, in ghe Circuit Court, instructed the jury to bring in a verdict of not guilty of the charges of bribery, etc, and the District At- torney entered a nolle in the Indict- | ments recently returned against them. Immediately after convening court this forenoon Judge Vandeventer hand- murrer interposed by counsel for Sena- | tor Dietrich, which had been made on the ground that Dietrich was not act- ually a member of the Senate when the alleged bribery took place. The ef- fect of the decision is that a man is not an actual member of Congress after his election until he shall have taken House to which he is elected, and that he is not amenable to the law as a member of Congress and an officer of the United | States Government. ! FISHER INDICTMENT NOLLED. Immeciately after the verdict was | | ordered for the defendant, District At- | torney Summers announced that he | | wished to enter a nolle in the case of | | Jacob Fisher, postmaster at Hastings, | explaining his motion by saying: | “If Charles H. Dietrich was not a | member of Congress until after Decem- ber 2, 1901—and the court held that he was not—then Jacob Fisher cannot be put upon trial for or on account of agreeing to pay or paying certain sums | of money to him or performing con- tracts for him during the months from July to October, 1901, under a contract made with him as a member of Con- gress whereby Jacob Fisher was to be appointed postmaster.” The court made the order and then | called up the case against Senator Dietrich in which he is charged with holding and enjoying a lease with the Government while he was a United States Senator. CLEARS THE DOCKET. The District Attorney stated to the court that the Government had not, wjthin his knowledge, ever placed a man on trial on what might be termed a technical violation of the law. He said that under the construction placed upon section 1781 Dietrich had enjoyed the lease but a short time after he had become a United States Senator—that is, after taking the oath. He said that, although he had received rentals from April 24 to December 2, under the court’s construction of the section there had been no violation of the law. The property was deeded to Senator Diet- rich’s daughter shortly after December, 1901. “I would not,” said the District At- torney, “ask a jury to return a verdict of guilty against a man under any cir- cumstances unless I believed such a verdict to be in the interest of justice.” The court, therefore, on motion of the District Attorney, entered a nolle, which cleared the docket of cases-| against Dietrich and Fisher, District Attorney Summers said after court adjourned: “Offictally this affice has nothing to say—the court has set- tled the 'matter. If Senator Dietrich wished to secure a vindication through a trial of the case on its merits he had an oportunity to do o by not raising the technical point of whether or not he was a member of Congress from the time of his election to his taking of the oath of office.” i DRIGGS IN HARD LUOCK. but He Must Serve Time. NEW YORK, Jan. 8.—Former Con- gressman Driggs, who was convicted here yesterday of receiving compensa- tion for aiding in the procuring of a contract with the Government, in his defense said that although he had g et ey ST T —p | ACCUSED MEN WHO SET UP SAME DEFENSE WITH OP- POSITE RESULTS. RETAIL TRADE [ RECOVERING Demand for Seasonable Goods Improves and Small Dealers Reduee Their Surplus Stoeks Sk RS e NEW YORK, Jan. 8.—R. G. Dun & | Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade to-mor- row will say: Retail trade hag been somewhat slow to recover from holiday | dullness, partly because of the bad weather, which also retarded collections to some extent. Traffic was impeded and shipments of merchandise delayed. On the other hand low temperatures stimulated the demand for seasonable goods and burdensome stocks in the hands of dealers were reduced. Jobbers and manufacturers in those lines received supplementary orders and the wool market became firmer in crease materiaily. Mills and factories report irregular conditions, some in- dustries opening the new year under very favorable auspices, while other Jbranches are extremely quiet. In the leading manufacturing indus- try the year opens with quiet conditions as to demand, but much irregularity in the matter of wages. Numerous reduc- tions went Into effect and several oth- ers are contemplated. During the last quarter net earnings for the leading producers were less than half those of the corresponding months of 1902 and similarly unsatisfactory exhibits were ‘made by other concerns. These officlal returns indicate the heavy contraction in this industry and there was a very large decrease in orders on hand at the opening of the year. Failures this week in the United States are 200, against 232 last week, 284 the preceding week and 350 in the corresponding week last year. Failures in Canada number 37, agalinst 17 last week, 22 the preceding week and 24 in the corresponding week last year. ——— Ballantine and Miller Acquitted. MANILA, Jan. 8.—Ballantine and Miller, charged with conspiracy to de- fraud the customs by furthering the illegal entry of a non-exempt class of Chinese, have been acquitted in the Customs Court of Appeals before Judges Crossfield and Roxas. W. D. Ballantine was an inspector of customs at the time of his arrest for the issu- ande of alleged fraudulent Chinese certificates and John T. Miller, impli- cated with him, was a former inspec- tor of immigration. L e R I Ty ey e his client was not a Congressman un- til he had actually taken the oath of office, but the prosecuting attorney maintained that he was a Co; been elected a Congressman, he had not taken his seat at the time of the alleged Improper transaction. Driggs’ attorney contended throughout thae ngress- man. Judge Thomas left it to the jury to decide whether the term as Con- gressman had actually begun at the time in question and the jury brought in a verdict of guilty. 4 tone although actual sales did not in-| 10SS T0 BANK GROWS HEAVIER | Latest' Revelations of Defal-| cations of Cashier Mareell | Show an Enormous Shortage | g | WORTHLESS NOTES RS B ST Deposits Made by Farmers and | Stock Raisers Arve Gone and There Is No Hope of Recovery | e ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Jan. 8.—The latest revelations of the defalcations in the | Bank of Highland, Kansas, by Cashier | J. E. Marcell show an aggregate loss of | more than $160,000. Of this $67,000 is on account of deposits made for the most part by the farmers und stock| raisers of Doniphan County, Kansas. In the hands of State Bank Examiner | S. C. Crummer is less than $2000, this | sum being the amount of money in the | bank at the time it was taken in charge. There are notes of the face value of $57,000, one-half of which are pro- nounced worthless. It is also stated | that a new note for $50,000 has’ turned | up in the hands of the Pionfer Trust | Company of Kansas City. Cashier Marcell has been removed | from his home in Highland to the coun- | | ty jail in Troy, where he is under heavy | guard to prevent possible injury. When | Marcell was arraigned before a Justice | | of the Peace he entered a plea of not| | guilty to the numerous charges of for- FOUND | | ' gery, and bail was fixed at $5000 in pa(‘h‘ |(uunl He said that he still had faith : i in his ability to restore order if he were | purmll\ed to exercise his own judgment. ‘ . WHOLESALE BU VESS QUIET. War Talk Sflmuln!m the Markets lur‘ Cereals and Provisions. NEW YORK, Jan. S8.—Bradstreet’s to-morrow will say: The new year opens quietly, but with satisfactory | features predominating. Cold and| stormy weather has retarded business | and transportation, but in some sect- fons has stimulated sales of heavy goods, shoes and rubbers at retail. Wholesale business is seasonably quiet | at leading Eastern and Central West- ern markets, but it is worth noting that the spring demand and shipments | have been good at the Southwest. In- dications show a slight improvement. Preparations for spring are going for- | ward actively and with a good show of conservative confidence. ‘War talk has been a stimulus to many markets, notably those for ce- reals and provisions, but securities and | cotton have been depressed thereby. Iron and steel in the cruder forms | have shown steadiness and are in bet- ter demand in the more finished forms in the West. Lumber, while affected by climatic conditions upon bullding, is in active export demand. The industrial situa- tion looks rather better, employes | showing a disposition to accept lower} wages. Wool is steady as a whole, based on conservative buying by manufacturers | who have opened new lines of goods, | but nothing definite is yet to be seen as to future trade tendencies. The final returns of 1903 are fully as good as those foreshadowed in eariier weeks. December, 1903, railway earn- ings indicate a 7 per cent increase over the excellent returns of 1902. Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ending January 7, aggregate 3,369,323 bushels, against 2,915,236 bush- els last week and 5,058,951 bushels this | week last year. Business failures for the week ending January 7 number 262, against 209 last week and 336 in the like week in 1902 —_————————— ' AND CORPS INSTALL OFFICERS Those Who Bear the Name of Lincoln Receive Their New Superiors. Lincoln Post and Linceln Corps of the Woman's Relief Corps, Grand Army of the Republic, were installed jointly in public in the Pioneer build- ing Thursday night in the presence of nearly 800 people. With that gallantry which has always characterized the old soldiers of the Pioneer Post of this State, it gave way to the ladies, that they might be the first to install their officers. The installing officer was Past National President Mrs. E. d’A. Kinne, assisted by Laura Hirsch & conductress. The new officers ar Mary E. Howe, president; Catherine Barnstead, senior, and Helen L. Han- cock, junior vice president; Mary E. Ferguson, treasurer; Jennie Koon, chaplain; Belle Donnovan, conduc- tress; Johanna T. Clark, guard; Edith Eason, assistant conductress; Mary M. Smith, assistant guard; Ella Cor- bett, Mary Wilsey, Annie O'Connor and Cora A. Fennon, color bearers; Mary M. Plum, musician; Cora M. Dibble, secretary; Mary E. Keating, patriotic instructor; Mrs. K. L. Byrne, press correspondent. At the close of the ceremony Mary A. Parolini, on be- half of the corps, presented Mrs. Em- ma B. Leeds with a handsome pin as a token of sisterly love and apprecia- tion. Then followed the induction into of- fice of the officers of the post by Col- onel C. Mason Kinne, S. V. C. of the Grand Army, assisted by D. P. Soner, These officers are William E. Estees, commander; John S.”Marshall, senior, and Albert Hancock, junior vice com- mander; J. C. Bolles, quariermaster J. G. Crawford, M. D., surgeon; M. Murphy, chaplain (nineteenth term); D. P. Soner, officer of the day; John Eichner, officer of the guard; C. J. Hanley, adjutant. After the ceremony Charles W. Edelman, the retiring commander, was presented with a dia- mond shirt stud in token of apprecia- tion of his services. During the evening there was a short programme of music and song. —_——————— Four Applications on File. | enough | Bornefeld had | virens Club of California whl GUARD FIRES ON PLOTTERS Attempt Made at Night to Cast a Bundle Over a Wall of the Oregom Penitentiary BULLETS FOR INTRUDER . Officials Believe That the Con- viets at Salem Have. Planned an Escape From the Prison PRESIAG-SOT Special Dispatch to The Call SALEM, Or., Jan. 8.—Through | alertness of Guard Lute Savage, who watches the south wall of the State penitentiary at night, two unknown | men were baffled last night in an at- | | tempt to scale the stone ramparts of the prison and place a bundle in the yvard. Savage fired at the men, but they escaped in the darkness. About 2e. m. the moon “vas down far to cast a deep shadow along the east wall. -In making his regular patrol along the top Savage diseerned two men lurking in the shadow. He watched them carefully and saw that they were carrying a bundle about the size which two or three rifles make if wrapped up together. the Savage ¢hallenged and instantly the | men broke out of the shadow and ran away, 1g their bundle with them. Before vanished Savage fired twice at them with no visible effect. The shots aroused the other guards and an investigation disclosed nothing but the tracks of two men sunk deep across | the field to the county road. In connection with the recent attempt to poison the night guards at the pris- on, the visit of the two men last night | 1s taken as proof that some of the con- victs contemplate a daring escape med- eled along the lines of the Tracey and Merrill disaster. The city police have | found that two strangers hired a buggy | late last night and were seen at mid- | night near the penitentiary. Police S€arch for Feld. Chief Wittman received a letter a few days ago from Albert Bornefeld | Tex., to the effect that received word from Verheyen of Kempen, of Houston, Mrs. Clara Rhenish Prussia, that her mother had | died leaving some property and ask- ing him to notify her brother, John Feld. Bornefeld wrote that Feld left Houston for San Francisco on Decem- ber 19 and requested the Chief to lo- | cate him. Detective Anthony has been making inquiry for Feld without suc- cess. Feld is a baker, 55 years of age. ——e————— ‘Will Discuss the Forests. The annual meeting of the Semper- take place this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the conservatory of the Palace Hotel: The reports of the various officers will be read, the constitution will be sub- mitted for approval and adoption and the election of officers will follow. An address, “The Protection of the For- ests,” will be delivered by John Mc- Naught, after which there will be a discussion. e e— SAN JOS . 8.—Slavich's restaurant, one of the in town, to-day applied to the Superior Court for an injunction to restrain the Waiters' and Cooks' Unfon from placing in front of the place of business warn- omers to keep away. would | SPACE GRANTED THE UNIVERSITY All Obstacles to Having In- stitution at Berkeley Rep- resented Are Now Removed i ALLOWANCE IS GENEROUS | Exceeds All That Has Been | Alletted to the General Edu- eational Display of California g Seemingly all the obstacles in the way of having at the St. Louis exposition a display representative on a large scale of the University of California have been overcome. Commissioner Filcher has telegraphed from St. Louis to Professor Robert Furlong. chief of the department of the educational show for Californla, that he has se- cured a space of 1600 square feet in total in a very advantageous place for what the University of California has ito show. Professor Furlong has con- sulted with certain of the committes of the faculty of the University of California that was appointed to take up the matter of making a St. Louis display and a telegram has been sent to St. Louls notifying the management of the exposition that the space will be accepted. Professor Furlong went to Berkeley Friday afternoon to consult with the university committee. Some of the mem- bers of the committee were absent and a final meeting has been arranged to take place at the university to-day. The vosition that has been offered for the use of the University of Cali- fornia is in an alcove and is near the neral educational display of this ate in the education building. The dimensions of the floor room are 40x40 | feet, with the aisles deducted. | The alcove is at a corner of the edu- cation building. It is not near the space occupied by other universities. | but has the advantage of giving | California practically a collective exhi- bition in the same buillding. Visitors will see nct only what sort of educa- tional facilities are afforded by the pub- | lic schools and other educational in- stitutions of the State in the grammar | and high school grades and the tech- nical schools like the Lick and the Wil- merding and the Cogswell and Poiy- technic High schools in this city, but will also be given an idea of the Uni- versity of California by walking only a few steps. 3 All questions connected with the uni- versitys exhibit at St. Louis probably will be discussed to-day. The space secured for the university is larger than that given to the general display of the schools. ———————— Officers Are Installed. The newly elected officers of the Widows’' and Orphans’ Aid Association of the Police Department were in- stalled yesterday afternoon in Police Judge Mogan's courtroom. The in- stalling officer was John Rainsbury. The officers are: President, Sergeant A. A. Perrin; vice president, Corporal Harry ; treasurer, Sergeant Daniel A. Sylvester; recording secretary, Corporal J. J. O'Meara; financial sec- retary, Samuel H. Rankin; trustees— T. C. Murphy, R. Kerrison, T. J. Lar- kin, George M. Geimann and Sergeant H. J. Wright. REGAL little ? officers in the American wearing Regals. The new Public Administzator, M. J. Hynes, yesterday came into court with an application for letters of ad- ministration upon the estate of the late Moses G. Cobb, the attorney. There were already three such appli- cations on file, one by Attorney A. Ruef, another by Rosa Barry, sole devisee under Cobb’s will, and one by the attorney of Mrs. Sophia Cobb, widow of the deceased. ——e———— THE HAGUE, Jan. 8.—The First Chamber Netherlands Pullumnl. following the example of thé Second Chamber, to-day voted about $1.750,000 for the purchase of quick-fir- after w..‘.m..,h...g i considered the Keope serigivate. The new styles are on n the New York stores. There are 60 Regal stores, 20 of the: sale at our San Francisco store at the same SHOES. any a man would like to wear Regals but he is ashamed to pay so little as $3.50 for a pair of shoes. Ashamed to take so much for so Bless you, no. He's got a sort ofsem: notion that he can’t be really “swell” unless he pays from $5 to $14 for his shoes. Now, if he would ask the sleep- ing car porters, he‘would discover that a large proportion of those who ride in Pullmans, walk in Regals. And he . may be astonished to learn that a clear majority of the Army and Navy are now The trouble is that people get the idea that because the Regal sells at $3.50 it is a “$3.50 shoe.” 'Tisn't. In everything but price it is a $6 shoe—a fact which we are prepared to demonstrate by a comparison of style, fit, in Greater New York, where the REGAL THE SHOE THAT PROVES San Francisco Store, Cor. Geary and Stockton Sts.