The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 19, 1904, Page 1

TEE WEATHEEER. Forecast made et San Pran- | cisco fer 30 hours ending mid- night January 19, 1904: San Prancisco and vicinity— | Cloudy Tuesday, probably show- fresh southerly wind. G. X. WILLSOX, Local Forecaster. ers; O ‘A Bowery Fischer's—“The Beauty Shop. Grand—"One Night in Jume.” ” XCV—NO. 50. PRICE . FIVE. CENTS. 'li } ’I) t‘g\m DML Moy TF Fi S ACCUSED Shooting Causes a Death in Santa Barbara. ioneer Passes Away After Sutfering From a Bul- let Wound. Prisoner Refuses to Make a Statement | About the Tragic Incident in Southern California, SEaF ot Jan. 18.—After life and death om a bullet harged was in- Downey, Charles usiness man of this had been expected for Downey has been con- charge of as-| n with intent The District Attor- formally charge urder. Wilson and ver a suit brought possession of se- al thousand —— Mres. Dow- = E X Mrs T rught suit for the f sum of money to have placed in While the litigation n was shot when at «s. There were no v charged Mrs. deed, which charge dmitt or denied. —_— e “EMPEROR OF SARAH! WANTS ROUGH RIDERS | ing Wilso: tison Wil Ask President Roosevelt Recommend Officers for the “Impe Guards.” —The develof to PHATICALLY THAT DATE FOR THE PRESID! TOR HAM NCY. o . o ’“"i‘h‘:h“ | SENATOR THOMAS C. PLATT OF NEW YORK. WHO ASSERTS EM- J s decided t A WILL NOT BE A CANDI- >mmissioned « New York Senator Declares Roose- velt Is the Party’s Choice. 1 to The Call. Special Dispat STREET Do you think there will be opposi- n to the President from New York U, GTOX 1406 G J 18.—Sen- | Platt returned from State?’ ; red in public to-day | ., The last time there was a gathering 1 pu ~ | of New York Republicans to talk poli- ential politics. He had a conference he floor of the-Sen- -| ate with Hanna and was so earnest and lasted so long that it attracted much attention. Senator Hanna talked with great vigor, making mapy ges- | tures, and now and then Sen\tor Platt | i approval or shake his was when they gave me a dinner That was just after New Year's. Every Representative in_ Congress in | our party in the State was there and all agreed that the President was the choice of the party. Now if all such Republicans are for Roosevelt, how can there be opposition to him?"” Aty Stories continue“to be circulated that b Platt separated from | When the New York State convention Senator Hanna he went to his commit- | meets there will be formidable opposi- tee room and there he was asked /to | tion to the passing of resolutions of in- discuss the somewhat confusing situa- | structions for President Roosevelt. tion in the Republican party in the S e e e st Tk BRYAN SOUNDS WAR NOTE. “Are the stories true that the New York State Convention is likely not to pass instructions for the President?” STOCK MUST BE SOLD BY STOCKHOLDERS VOTE Disposal of Shares by Directors om | Rl ¢ Ty Risinaion of Reaffirms His Advocacy of Bimetal- 50 Cents Not Legal. he was asked. 3 lism at the “Dollar WA STON, Jan. 18. — The| ~“Who says we are not going to in- Dinner.” B Se Platt. 4 . me Court rendered | StTlct? (mn_odm .:a:;;em eirculation | LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 18.—A formal © the effect that| o¢ the ‘“p-ual‘ It is believed by | Welcome to W. J. Bryan on his return not the directors ~cide whether an stock shall be made mptrolier of the Curren ice that the capital stock is |from Europe, in the form of a “dollar |dinner,” was given to-night and was jattended by nearly 700 Democrats, principally men in full sympathy and cord with Bryan's political policies. | Bryan in a speech declared that the many members of Congress outside the State.” “Well,” replied Senator Platt. “I can- not say whether we will instruct or If there is anv necessity for in- | I ex- not. structions they will be passed. se grew out of the proceed- | pect that story is eirculated by Demo-| g= Weinhard and George | crats. | Kansas City platform was sound in . the Commercial Na- | “Is it not generally understood that | every vlank and must be reiterated, Bank of Portland, Or., a large number of Republicans in New | ang that the nomMees of the St, York desire the nomination of Senator | Hanna, and is it not a fact that there is pressure to prevent instructions for the President?” g “I will answer that by saying that s sold for failure to p t of 50 per cent levied by the demand of Comptroller Justice Day said the not the directors | | Louis convention must be in accord | with that platform. Said he: “Shall | we abandon our advocacy of bimetal- | lism in order to conciliate those who | defeated the party in other cam- and s whether a bank shall | Hanna is nota cnndid;u:’for ‘he Pres‘t paighs? Nevert e e increase demanded or sus- | dency. I have just Wad a long talk|" “The Kansas City platform is sound pend ope | with h He wiil nét allow the use |y every plank, and the first act ‘:)f v * he concluded, “the | of his na In addition to that, he is | ths convention should be to reaffirm it | for the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt. |in its entirety, Tuere need be no doubt on that score.” ntirety, and its next act should was made by the directors by the shareholders, b R | be the addition of new planks in v and. not being within the statute, was | “Is it the intentic: - -\"“I"‘;"‘ Re- | mony with it and covering such ';.:';» void publicans, now that the call for the|gyestions as demand consideration. | National Convention has been issued, | to call an early State convention in or- der to forestall any attempt to organize | the State for Hanma? : sresume the State convention will be held after the adjournment of the | Legislature.” | ““But will not that make a very late | vention in view of what the Gover- | convention in vie’ ver- | o SR oo nor has said, that there is need of | much legisiation and that he is in favor $3,445.000 to Congress to Pro- vide for Armaments, |of a long pmian & ke “] don’t think there wil a long o q | session of the Legislature, nor do I| WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—A supple- think there is much need of legislation, | Mental estimate for an appropriation and I do not think the Governor was | Of $3.445.000 for “armament for forti- quoted accurately when he was made | ficktions” was transmitted to the to say that he wanted a long session.” | House to-day by Secretary Root. “Have you seen or communicated ‘With this appropriation it is. pro- posed to procure thirteen automatic machine guns for use in sea coast forts 2 ith Cpvernor Odell lately?” Rear Admiral Philip H. Cooper, “No, T have not. When I went South and 160 “one-pounder automatic pom- pom guns”; also 200 guns of a caliber command of the cruiser squadron, | I cut off my mail and know nothing of expected 10 arrive here with his | what has been going on. I will go to £hipe to-morrow. When the entire | New York in about a week and then |large enough to fire effective shrapnel; 700 “high velocity six-pounder guns.” It is also proposed to 95,000 fleet in atic waters is assembled [ probably will see the Governor.” - ilable vessel will be ordered ~Are you taking any personal inter- procure rounds of ammunition for the “pom- pom” guns; 2000 rounds for the fleld to Olongapo for maneuvers. Captain | est in the snap caucuses called by Lit- guns and 50,000 rounds for the six- pounders. i ——————————— AMERICAN WAR VESSELS GATHERING AT MANILA { Then the convention should nominate { candidates who believe in the plat- form.” ——— . MANY NEW GUNS FOR i THE COAST DEFENSE Al Available Ships of the Asiatic Fieet Wil Be Ordered to Olonga- Po for Maneuvers. 15.—Rear Admiral » In command of the Asia fleet, arrived Honolulu with the The speed main- trip averaged ur. - Rear Admiral inz. in command he Philippine squadron, has ar. ed from Hongkong on the Rainbow MAN oy |w iswhardso;\ Clover relieved Captain |tauver in Fulton County?” I'riel Sebree of the command of the| “No, but I presume Knox has as good . Wisconsin. & pair of snowshoes as Littauer has.” THE NOMINATION | of His Gold. | |tire bank account to his bride. Last | | O’Neiil, aged 20, a chambermaid of a | TRANSFERS FORTUNE T0 - HIS BRIDE Aged Millionaire Jon' - Oldham Wearies {Riches for Former Chamber- maid Whom He Married | i Eceentric Mining Man and His Twenty- | Year-Old Wife Now Enjoying Honeymoon in California. Special Dispatch to The Call. SALT LAKE, Utah, Jan. 18.—Friends | |and former cronies of John Oldham, | | | the Utah mining miillionaire, received | another shock to-day when it became | | known that he had turned over his en- | | week Oldham, who is 72 years old, cre- | | ated a sensation by marrying Miss Jean local hotel, whom he had known only | ten days. The couple are now supposed | | to be somewhere in California on their | honeymoon tour, which is later to in- | clude Scotland, where the parents of | | the bride reside. | It was known that John Oldham had | presented Miss O'Neill with $5000 on | the da¥ she promised to become his | bride; that he had given her an addi- | | tional $10,000 6n the wedding day; but | his friends were scgreely prepared to | {learn that he had turned over to the | Scotch-Irish lassie all the available | ! cash which he had in bank. Yet this is| | exaetly what he did. The day before he left here with Miss O'Neill to be married, a journey that is to be prolonged into & year's wi ng tour, John Old! signed checks which made_his wife of his en- tire bank account. This | cont ed, although the exact amount | of the transfer is not known. It is'said | te be in the neighborhood of $300,000. | Oldham by no means beggared him- | self by this act of generosity, however. | He is possessed of mines and stocks in | other enterprises which bring him a| | magnificent income and which are esti- | | mated in value at several millions. Old chums of the man, who was a | poor prospector ten years ago, decline i | to believe that Oldham is sane. They | declare that he has always manifested an aversion of the fair sex and fre- quently declared that he “would not marry the best woman on earth.” That he should suddenly wed a girl of 20 whom he had known but ten days and then turn over his money to her is to his friends of the Comstock and Park | City almost beyond belief. An old prospecting friend of Oldham voiced | the general opinion of the miners by | | remarking: “The next thing we will hear is that | | Oldham has throwed his old pipe away | and is smoking cigarets.” : | —_——— i | TORPEDO FLOTILLA | | REACHES CANARIES | | Naval Officers Are Gratified at lhe; | Run of 2800 Miles in Twelve Days. WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—The Navy | Department is informed of the safe | arrival at the Canary Islands of the | first torpedo-boat flotilla, with its con- | voy, the Buffalo. The fleet consists of the torpedo-boat destroyers Decatur, | Chauncey, Dalé, Barry and Bain- | bridge. The run of about 2800 miles from San Juan was made in twelve days. Naval officers are exceedingly gratified |at the performance. ! e AND DISASTER :» { i | DEATH | BY RESERVOIR BREAK | Thirty Persons Are Drowned and | Much Property Is Wrecked in | Orange River Colony. | BLOEMFONTEIN, * Orange River Colony, Jan. 18.—About thirty persons | were drowned and three hotels and 176 houses destroyed as the result of a bursting reservoir here vesterday. | Hundreds of persons have been ren- dered homeless and destitute by the disaster. e e—e——— | APPOINTMENTS ARE MADE BY PRESIDENT | Nominations for Receiver of Moneys | and Postmasters Are Sent to | the Senate. | WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—The Presi- | @ent to-day sent the following nomi- nations to the Senate: Receiver of public Toneys—Albert | A. Roberts, at La Grande, Or. | Postmast lifornia—John W. Wood, Pasa E. T. Ketcham, | Santa Maria. ——————————— MOTHER AND DAUGHTER PASS AWAY SUDDENLY i Burke and her. ll’-yeg-old daughter, mile from the. town ‘of Shasta. attending physician ease as tonsil Esteva of Jalapa, in the state of Cruz. the n Emperor dead, aged 50 years. "y in Salt Lake, U | acceptable to the United States had | not the American Minister to Bogota | repeatedly declared in the most positive | REDDING, Jan. 18.—Mrs. William | PROTEST OF REYES AND REPLY OF HAY ARE MADE PUBLIC | | SCENE IN COLON BEFORE THE DEPARTURE OF THE COLOMBIAN ‘ TROOPS AFTER THE REVOLUTION, AND AN OFFICER OF THE | ARMY OF THE PANAMA REPUBLIC. | President Gives Out the Correspond- ence Relating to Panama. WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—President|at Colon. “at the very thne when its ; Roosevelt transmitted to the Senate to- |arrival in that eity would have im- day additional correspondence touching | Peded or suppressed any revolution- the relations of the United States with a’:;:x:;?";mkey" S R Colombia and, Panama, covering (he g pecome fndependent because the period from December 23, 1903, to Jan-| Government of the:United States de- uary 6 last. | sired it; because with its incomparably A'statement of grievances on the part | superior force the United States pre- of Colombia was presented to the State vented the | Department by General Reyes on De- | ('00DS; because even before the sepa- = - ratist movement was known in Begota cember 23. General Reyes said that the, }, "1;) 1009 States had its war vessels = < } course of the United States had worked ! 3¢ the entrance to Colombian ports, deep injury to Colombia and he. cited | preventing the departure of Colom- the treaty of 1846 as showing that the | bian battalions: “‘because, without re- | |gard to the. precédent established by { statesmen who have dealt with the imuter. the United States has not re- Gene said with refes to ! Specte@ our rights in that strip of the H:;!HR:Y’,:: treaty that the same !and which Colombia considers as a course was followed in Bogota as was | divine "bequest for the innocent use pursued in Washington. If the treaty, ©f the American family of states, and. he said, had been rejected in Washing- finally, because the Government of the ton the disapproval would have in-!United States, invoking and putting volved no grievance for Colombia and | Into practice the right of might, has the Colombian C in its disap- | taken from us by bloodless conquest, proval of the tru!y'mkl! ised a | but by conquest nevertheless, the most Vested right. This actiom, he main- | important part of the natiomal terri- tained, did mot di: the Colom- tory.” bian Government for the conclusion of| REPLY OF SECRETARY HAY. another treaty. 3 ;. | Secretary Hay answered this note BLAMES MINISTLR BEAUPRE. | under date of January 5. He says the In speaking of the action of the Co- | Government has carefully considered lombian Congress in its efforts to|the grave complaints made and assures amend the treaty General Reyes says: | General Reyes of our most friendly “I firmly believe that it would haveiSentiments for the Government and approved the convention with amend- | Peoble of Colombia. The question sub- ments that would probably have been | Mmitted, he says, can be considered only {in the light of accomplished facts, of | which one is that the republic of Pan- ama has become a member of the fam- ily of nations. independence and sovereignty of Co- lombia was to be maintained intact be- tween the two Governmenfs. manner that his Government would re- ject any amendments that might be of- fered.” As to the recognition of the republic of Panama General Reyes says it is & matter of public knowledge that the mother country commands sufficient forces to subdue a revolution. General Reyes continues: “Before the coup de main, which proclaimed the independence of the isthmus took place at Panama, there were in this very city g&nn of the authors of that coup conference with high personages clothed with of- ficial character, as is asserted by re- putable American newspapers. I have received information to the effect that Maud, died to-day within five minutes of each other gt the Burke 457 g el | ONATRAI} | | preparing to Tanding of Colombian | CALIFORNIA - GIRL WEDS Wealthy Englishman Wins a Fair San ' Franciscan. |Miss Pearl More Reynclds Heroine of a Romantic Marriage, | | Goes to Bid Lover Good-by at Oakland Mole and Is Prevailed Upon to | Join Him in Life Journey. Special Dispatch to The | oGDEN, 18. —Wedding Utah, Jan. | |rites on a train this afternmoon united | | €. P. Westrope, a wealthy resident of England Miss Pearl Mors | Reynolds of 1 rancisco. The two | boarded the overland limited train at | San Francisco little expecting they | would be married before the journey's |end. They are now speeding eastward, spend their honeymoon | Hull, { abroad. | Westrope became acquainted with | Miss Reynolds in San Francisco. He | lost his heart to the American girl and |ere he ‘left on a trip to his old home to look after some affairs in connection with his estate he obtained her comn- sent to become his bride. The wedding was to have taken place on his return | in about six months. Miss Reynolds and her sister went to I(he train to bid Westrope “Good-by” at Oakland. Westrope and a friend, & Butte man, persuaded the two to board the train and ride a short distance | with them, meefing the next train at | Sacramento. The lovers were in no hurry to part and the two women boarded the train. At Sacramento it was learned the west-bound train was four houwss late | and they decided to go vn to Colfax. There again would be a long wait and the two women were induced to go on { to_Reno. | While on the way to Reno the com- | versation turned to the large number | |of Californians who cross the State line | to that city and get married. After | joking about being fashionable and do- | ing likewise the lovers discussed it | seriously. Finally they agreed to get married in Reno. Then they recalled the fact that it was Sunday and they could get ne license there. A Utah man with whom | they had become acquainted suggested | that it they would come on to Ogden | he would arrange in advance, through | friends, to have the license ready and some person on hand qualified to marry them. They decided to avail themselves | of his services. The two women had with them only the clothing they wore, so it was ar- ranged that the sister should get off at Reno, pack the bride’s trousseaw and forward it by express. This she did. A message was sent on to Daniel | Hamer in Ogden to have the County | Clerk issue a license as directed and to | have somebody at the rallroad station to perform the ceremony. ‘When the train reached Ogden at 2:30 | o’clock this afternoon the license was ready and Municipal Judge Howell was on hand. The final words of the mar- riage ceremony were spoken as the | train was moving out of the station. | —_——————— | FRUIT GROWERS SCORE A VICTORY IN COURT Directors of San Jose Association Must Turn Over the Control to the Trustees. | SAN JOSE. Jan. 18.—The organized | fruit growers who have been trying to | dissolve the Cured Fruit Association |scored a victory in Judge Hyland's | court this afternocon. About a year | ago C. W. Childs, W. P. Lyon and E. | T. Pettitt were appointed trustees by | the growers to bring action to dissolve %the defunct organization of the grow- |ers. Over nine-tenths of the prune | men’s signatures were obtained to the | petition, but President Wood and the officers of the organization refused to turn over the books to the liquidators. The decision this afternoon is a com- plete victory ‘for the growers. Judge | Hyland in his decision sustains the | growers in their action and orders the | directors to turn affairs over to the | trustees. —_————— RUSSIA'S INSURANCE LAW IS EFFECTIVE ployers Combine. MOSCOW, Jan. 18.—The law provid- ing compulsory compensation for face tory employes and miners in case of ail aceidents, one of the most important measures of the present reign, has be. come effective. In the event of death an anmmity is payable, not only te widows and legitimate children, but te € e children. and to mothers of such children and also to adopted chil- dren, the annuity to equal the S of days.per annum, whereas the aver- .. of w_:r"nng days only numbers 220. As reliable statistics are not available the insurance companies refuse to is- sue, accident policies except at enor- mous. premiums, so the employers com- bined for mutual insurance. ——— Tung Fuh Siang’s Death Reported. PEKING. Jan. 18.—The command- ant of the Russian Legation guard here has heen ordered to join Viceroy @taff. A report of the death Siang has been brought a Belgian missionary.,