The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 23, 1904, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1904 MURDERER DIES | FOR HIS CRIME: Killed Minnie Ensminger, Is I in Baker City Jail! s culed DINPLAYS IRON NERVE b \ 3S om Seaffold ! Naying He Was Sorry for Faking Life of His Vietim SHI RIFF ¥ MAKES HARD FIGHT FOR LIFE. ¥ t A 2 drew app for execution by | peal to the the g that as at the place i been changed s of the con- v been “ourt, on cision to the | ant was valid 1 uld take its course. ——— POSSESSES AN ABNORMAL THIRST FOR RAW ALCOHOL T'resno Resident Daily Drinks Large Quantities of the Liquid and His | Wife Secures a Divorce, FRES) 22.—Dora B. Antrim s divorce . Antrim worth of the ¥ day and it made him n e influence of a perfect bed- 11d be no food in ¥S managed to his a L. Once was sick Mrs. An- m with money to buy stead he bought aleo- ana ory was corroborated | relatives familiar was brought out husband's constant ! 4 frequently to go to | relatives to get enough It < she —————— Gas formeriy $4.50. now $2.59 2 Gas and Electric Com- same | ¥ CALSES CRASH Southern California Grain and': Stoek Company eof Los An-i geles Goes Into Liquidation ke BRANCHES CLOSE ——— DOORS ! | Manager of Concern Says Col-| lapse Is Due to the Erratic Action of New York Shares| e — | °S, Jan. 22.—The South- Grain and Stock Com- of this city went into voluntary his afternoon as a result action of York stock market f the failure is unknown P. Burch announced that certain stocks The , but nager a the company will pay or the failure ‘he “extraordi- building, this city, but | fourteen branch offices in | that the loss to the pany by reason neighbor- | ounced local tz to al head of the concern, re interested with ted that the com- the bear side of the | for the last forty time the average Lo in which they 22.—The local rn California Grain in this city closed result of the fail- ago and w company and Los Angeles did some busi- 1y until in town. but has ding the fail- al employes admit the of- ted to be reopened and her points shortly — e ————— ARMED CITIZENS PURSUE . TRAMPS WHO BEAT MARSHAL Oregon Officer Is Roughly Handled When He Tries to Arrest Two Hoboes Who Robbed Store. WOODBURN, Or., Jan. 22—While u nd Thursday night in of the men who robbed Austin r's store in this city, Marshal two hoboes ALY 1g, and t asno company came Aacross en- exchanged their old sults, which the Mar- part of the stolen 1 reco At firet the thieves mistook the officer the farmer who owned the place, he attempted to place them est they attacked him, threw took his revolver away and ng him when the app r caused them to desist and The Marshal made a born fight while on his badk, k he of his assailants several tim leaving finger-nail marks on the face of the other, who was on top and chok- ng him. When the news of the as- e sault reached this city an armed p was organized and started in search of | the t es, but they could not be found account of the darkness, and this morning the Marshal, notwithstanding that he was badly used up, started forth | with a new posse, word having been | brought in by children that the robbers had been seen east of here. EIE S S No Trace Found of Missing Boy. VENTURA, Jan. 22.—Harry Radford, the missing boy In the mountains, has not been found. Pine Mountain Reser- vation rangers, under Sheriff Slosson, | started out this morning for Willett's place to make a systematic search of the mountain ridges. Radford is a member of the Oxnard lodge, Fraternal | Brotherhood, and the members are or- ganizing searching parties, one of which will leave Oxnard this afternoon. Mrs. Radford, mother,of the young| man, §s in a serious condition as a re- sult of his disappearance. H. C. Rad- ford, the father, is in the butcher busi- ness at Dawson, Alaska. —_———————— Stanford Senfors Elect President. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Jan. 22, L. P. Brua was to-day elected pre dent of the senior class of Stanford | Universi for the coming semester. | Brua is an engineering major and a| prominent man in university circles. | The defeated candidate was E. A.| Rittenhouse. The presidency of flm" senior class is one of the highest hon- | ors that can be given a man at Stan- | ford. He has charge of senior week. | at which time the college is given over | to the ypper class festivities. —_————————— Fatal Quarrel Between sfexicans. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22.—Two Mexi can laborers engaged in a fight at In- glewood this afternoon, and one of | them was stabbed and killed. A Deputy Sheriff has captured a Cholo whom he believes to be the murderer. The names of the men cannot be learned. | ORDER FOR THE GREAT TWENTIETH CENTURY CODK BOOK- | Mail This Order to The San Prancisco Call Witk 7Sc. —_— 5 Francisco Call, San Francisco, Cal.: er SIGNEI STREET ¢losed herewith please find 75¢, for which send me one The Call's Great Twentieth Century Cook Book. (Fifly Cents is The Call's Premium rate tc all its six-month subscrib- 1 the additional 25cis to prepay shipping charges.) assets will fully equal the Habili- | | Burch assigns as the | | vity of the New York stock | B | had its main offices in | | a1 weavily interested has been | | ace Hotel. | fer with | of the | done much toward aiding the territo- | the agricultural display the Territory | year we enjoyed a splendid crop of RISING MARKET |ALASKA'S GOVERNOR IS PROUD - OF THE TERRITORY'S PROGRESS John G. Brady Is Here in Connection With Plans for Exhibit of Mineral and Agricultural Prod- ucts at the Coming John G. ritory of Brady, ed from the north vesterday and is registered at the Pal- He has come south to con- Mre. Mary E. Hart of Nome, who has been appointed lady. manager Alaskan exhibit at the St. Louis Expos! and who, as secretary of the Alaskan Academy of Sciences, has ion, rial residents in perfecting their plans for a representative display. “I am satisfied that Alaska will make 4 a very creditable display at St. Louis,” | remarked Governor Brady. “We hav a notable mineral collection to exhibit. It is being prepared by J. G. Ravis of | | Juneau, and will include, in addition to a caref selected lot of ores, an | interesting model of 'the famots | Treadwell mine, showing the interior | Exposition at St. Louis - | | i | GOVERNOR OF ALASKA, WHO - IS NOW IN SAN FRANCISCO. | workings of that property, especially its excavations up to the present time. | “Our wonderful copper and tin de- posits and anthracite coals and the products of our rapidly developing oil | turn to the north without making a|Are pressing for an accounting- of | districts will also be represented in|trip to the East. The Territorial build- | funds aggregating $65,000, which | Alaska’s exhibit in a manner that is|ing at St. Louis will be completed about | Wade held as trustee. An illiterate | bound to attract attention. We have| April 1, by which time the Alaskan ex- | Stockman thought he had $50,000 on already shipped a large quantity of | hibit will be ready. to begplaced in, po- | 4ePosit, but finds that the bank’s books ore specimens in boxes to St. Louis, | sition. show him owing the bank $7000 on a | and our agents are now collecting — e L note which he says he never signed. | quartz samples from Prince of Wales | 1sland. he is confident that Congress will time provide for these. Regarding his HUMBLE SERVICE FOR WORN OUT SEA CRAFT “I regret to say that we are some- what behind in our display of furs and | fishes—a fact that may, in a measure, | be attributéd to differences that arose over the question of commissionerships for these particular departments, but | the matter has finally been straight- | ened out and we hope to improve these | displays. While in Seattle I conferred | with a number of the representatives of the concerns that are engaged in fishing in Alaskan waters and received | from them adsurance of assistance in | making the fish exhibit a good one. | Most of last year's furs have already been shipped to London, and it Is pos- | sible that those that are being taken | now may arrive at the exposition a lit- | tle late.” | AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS. ]‘ Governor Brady is enthusiastic 0\'1‘!‘! expects to make at the exposition. He | is an experienced farmer and during | his many years' residence in Alaska has made a close study of the agricul- tural possibilities of that country, and expresses great confidence in its future ability to produce its own hay and| grain and ample quantities of vege- | tables for consumption throughout the | entire Territory. He rejects with a| great deal of earnestness the conten- tions made by the Senatorial Commis- sion, that recently visited the Terri- tory, that its soil is not adaptive to ag- ricultural purposes. “To me nothing in Alaska appears more promising than the agricultural | possibilities,” said the Governor, “‘and I think I have a right to differ with the Senators, for I know more about the country. They did not pay a visit to the valleys of the Copper River, the Tanana and the Kus-Ko-Kwim, nor penetrate the Kenai nor the Seward peninsulas, where agricultural possi- ! bilities have been demonstrated by va- | rious methods of farming. We hope to show our agricultural products to advantage. Our exhibit will include grain, fruits, berries of a native qual- ity, beets, turnips and caulifiowers MORE POPULATION NEEDED. | “] have always contended and have long worked toward proving the claim that Alaska can produce almost any- | thing if the proper farming methods | are applied. At my place in Sitka we raise all kinds of vegetables, and this potatoes, of which I think I gathered nearly 300 bushels. Farther north you find rich lands for grazing purposes, and under proper treatment I am cer- tain that all kKinds of vegetation can! be cultivated. “On the Seward peninsula there are large areas where grass grows in re- markable abundance. Strangely, while | this is yearly going to waste we are jmporting hundreds of tons of meat for consumption among the people of the Territory. “Alaska is a great expanse of land, rich in varied resources but-lacking in population. If we can convince people that we are able to produce necessary commodities for general consumpticn we will have no trouble in populating the Territory and building up a gov- ernment that the United States may be rightfully proud of.” The Governor stated that better “— e 3! toads are needed in the Territory, but West Coast of Africa a Boneyard for Ships That Were Famous in heir Day. If you were to visit some of the ports on the coast of West Africa which are not yet provided with docks and other facllitles for shipping, you would see the hulks of many steam- ers, some of them formerly well known -in New York harbor, that in the day of their decline are playing a very humble role. Worn out and dilapidated, their Vvears of sea service ended, they are moored near the mouths of rivers, in- side the bar, and take the places of warehouses. nels, gloundnuts, rubber, ivory and other commodities which those re- gions have to seli are stored on board these old vessels. iy In the deck-houses are the quarters of the agents of European trading companies which barter goods with the natives for these articles. up to the hulks and load with the ac- cumulated freight. One of the most important of these ports is Bonny, on a branch of the Niger delta. It has long beén devoted to legitimate trade, but was once the most frequented station of the slavers. As many as 320,000 captives were sold in the market of Bonny in the first twenty years of the nineteenth cen- tury. Bonny is to-day one of the greatest markets for palm oil, and 20,- 000 tons are sometimes shipped to Eu- rope in a year, Until quite recently one of the smallest and most woeful of the hulks |- at Bonny was all that was left of a vessel which in her prime was one of the most popular ships sailing from New York in the trans-Atlantic trade. She was the old Adriatic of the Col- lins line, The Adriatic was for years very popular with passengers as one of the best and most comfortable boats on | the line, and many a traveler would bcok no other vessel, preferring to wait until the sailing day of the Adri- atic came around. After the service was withdrawn the Adriatic became one of a new line of vessels, with Gal- way, Ireland, as the home port. This venture was not successful, and after the Adriatic had been laid up at Birkenhead for a number of years and was about to be knocked to pieces for old iron she was finally bought for a song and taken to Bonny as one of the storage hulks for the African Steam- ship Company of London. The day came at last when the old vessel was worthless even for storage purposes. She would scarcely hang to- gether, and the work of pumping her out had become too arduous; so she was towed up the river a little. way, her nose was poked into a swamp and there she was left to fall to pieces at her leisure.—New York Sun. —— . Mother—Willie, you must stop asking your papa questions. Don’t you see they annoy him? Y Willle—No, ma'am; it ain't my ques- tions that annoy him. Mother—Willie! ‘Wilile—No, ma’'am; it's the answers he can’'t give that make him mad.— Philadelphia Press. The palm oil, palm ker- | When | steamers come into the ports they tie | | | | | | in | | stay in this city he stated that it would | be missing from that of Charles Craig, | | be a short one, and that he would re- | deceased. Twenty widows and orphans i | | of Scotia, the headquarters of the Pa- | |of 100 yards. Then the victims were | Under Sheriff Terrill is working on the | i of MASKED THUGS LEVY TRIBUTE Enter a Crowded Saloon Near Seotia, Humboldt County, and ! Rob Twenty-Five Lumbermen —— . —— | WORK “LIKE OLD-TIMERS| ——— e i One of the Desperadoes Covers| Vietims With Pistols While His Companion SearchesThem | 3 —— Special Dispatch to The Call. | EUREKA, Jan. 22.—A daring holdup | occurred at Eugene Emerson's sa- loon, about a quarter of a mile outside cific Lumber Company. Two thugs, | with red handkerchiefs tied over their | faces and each carrying a revolver, | walked into the saloon Wednesday | night and “lined up” twenty-five pa- trons of the resort. While one of the | robbers covered the victims with his | revolver the other went through their pockets. . About §: was secured from them and $26 from the saloon till. To insure their safe retreat, the robbers compelled the men to “bunch up,” as they termed it, and, with hands in the air, precede them out of the saloon and down the railroad track for a distance halted and faced about and told to go quietly up the track toward Scotia, with the threat that if any of them made an outecry or a false move bullets would be sent speeding affer them. “You may go your way and we will go ours,” said one of the robbers, and with | that the desperadoes and their victims separated. The Sheriff’s office was notified and case. . ———— FAILURE OF BANKER WADE IS TAKING A SERIOUS TURN | | Charges Are Made That Estates of | ‘Which He was Administrator Are in a Muddied Condition. PENDLETON, Or., Jan. ‘The | failure of C. B. Wade, formerly cash- | ier of the First National Bank, whose | liabilities are some $500,000, is taking on a sensational form. Creditors have" petitioned the Federal Court at Port- land to declare Wade a bankrupt. On| the arrival of a deputy marshal here to serve the papers Mrs. Wade, for- | merly president of the Federation of | Women’s Clubs, announced that her | husband would leave at once for Eu- rope in search of health. In view of recent disclosures it would seem that this trip may also obviate Wade's ar- rest on serious charges. Wade was administrator of a num- ber of estates and $14,036 is said to | All these things have turned the tide | public feeling strongly against | ‘Wade, who at first was believed to have erred only ip judgment. —_——— Former Senator Johnston Critically Il SACRAMENTO Jan. 22.—Former | State Senator William Johnston, a prominent and wealthy fruit grower, | is critically ill at his country seat on the Sacramento River near Courtland, fifteen miles below this city. He has | suffered three strokes of paralysis. ———— “NAPA, Jan. 22.—Graders at work on m-i Benicia, ' Vallejo and Napa_Valley Railroad | ve reached the Five Mile House, fust below | pa Junction, and within a day or two | will move their' camp from Vallejo to Soscol, €0 as to be ncarer the scene of operations. ‘ | | | from that body. DECISION GOES - AGAINST RIPLEY Harriman, Huntington and Hammond Win an Important Point Over the Santa Fe P A RIGHT . OF -— Southern Pacific Will Now Be Able to Reach Humboldt Bay by Way of the Foster Line gk b Special Dispatch to The Call. EUREKA, Jan. GIVEN WAY —A decision was | handed down to-day by the ‘ocal court awarding to the Eureka and Klam- ath Railway Company’ a verdict "in its suit against the California Northern Rallway and its subsidiary lines. Plain- Iy interpreted the decision is a victory for E. H. Harriman, H. E. Hunting- ton and A. B. Hammond over the Santa Fe Railway with whiél they have been fighting for a right of way into the town of Eureka over a portion of the tracks of what was formerly known as the Eel River and Eureka Railway. The case has been in the courts for several years. Qriginally, according to the claims set up by A. B. Hammond, who owns and operates a big lumber mill at Samoa, sftuated on the spit on the west side of Humboldt Bay, he be- | gan the construction of a railroad around the bay shore with a view of entering Eureka. To effect an en- trance to the town he obtained an agreement from the owners of the Eeil Rivér and Eureka road to use part of tracks. Later when the Santa ompany secured the Eel River and Eureka road and it developed that Harriman and Huntington were inter- ested with Hammond in his northern enterprises, the Santa Fe sought to shut out the apparent attempt of the | Harriman combine to get into Eureka by having the previous agreement de- clared void. Hammond promptly car- ried the matter to the courts, where the question of privileges was thor- oughly argued by aitorneys. It was reported here to-day on good authority that Hammond, acting with Harriman and Huntington, will im- mediately proceed to get a firm foot- hold in Eureka, where Hammond con- trols some valuable water front prop- erty, and that the next step will be to extend the Eureka and Klamath road south from Eureka with a view of con- necting it with the. California North- western to which the Foster people intend to Luild this summer. H.. mond, during a recent visit to this city, is reported to have confided to several friends here that the plans for the extension of his road had been and only waited the expected favor- able decision to be carried out. To-day the opinion exists here that Harriman will be able to connect with Eureka be- fore the Santa Fe. ———— Mrs. Ames Is Unable to Give Bond. PORTLAND, Or,, Jan. United States Marshal Proebstel re- turned. this morning from Marshfield, having in custody Mrs. C. H. Ames, who, failing to give the $500 bond re- quired at her hearing at Marshfileld, will have to .appear before the United States Grand Jury at San Francisco for contempt, having ignored a subpena She will also appear as prosecuting witness in the case of the United States vs. Davis. Mrs. Ames is in a sickly condition. Her case will be brought before Judge Bellinger to- morrow, so that a writ of removal may be issued, in order to take her to San Francisco at once. —————————— Vienna is to have a lupus hospital | which will provide accommodation for the treatment of a hundred patients. at some point above Willits, | designed a year ago | — Deputy | |1W0MAN’S DEATH CAUSES INQUIRY Her Husband and Son Assert That She Hanged Herself, | but Autopsy Disproves Story CAUSE FOR SUICIDE B L R | Case _ Baffles the Efforts of the Detectives Who Are Try- ing to Solve the Mystery | NO . Special Dispatch to The Call | | SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 22.—Three | days of investigation into the mystery | surrounding the death of Mrs. . T. | Muffett in this city have resulted in { Mo clew to support a suicide . theory, | while the Coroner and officers connect- ed with the case talk strongly of foul | play, but are unable to assign a mo- ‘(i\-e for any one killing the woman | Mrs. Muffett was said by her son to have hanged herself, but the Coroner found no congestion such as would be {cnuud by strangulation. Her stomach is now being analyzed by a chemist, while detectives are working hard on a case which so far has baffled their best efforts. - On the day of the alleged | Coroner Smith was called and found | the woman deads with rope marks around her neck, indicating that she | had been stramgled. The family told the Coroner that the body had been found in the cellar by her son, Wil- liam Muffett, suspended in a loop of a rope. But on investigation it was found that there were no signs of congestion such as always accompany strangula- tion. The post mortem revealed all of the organs of the body to be in normat condition. Nobody outside of father | and son reports to have seen the body in the cellar of the house. The son is the only one who says he saw his mother suspended by the rope. He claims to have discovered the body in | the cellar and to have cut the body { down. He then called his father. Cor- oner Smith was unable to find the rope with which it is claimed the woman hanged herself. The husband states he burned it. Mrs. Muffett was of a re- ligious frame of mind and devoted to reading the Bible. She had a happy home, and the family is in moderate circumstances. She left no message | nor gave any signs when bidding good- by to her husband and younger som | that she contemplated such a deed. MR SIS o P Oxnard in the Senatorial Fight. VENTURA, Jan. .—Colonel J. A. Driffll, manager of the American Beet Sugar Company factory at Oxnard, an- nounced to The Call correspondent by telephone this afternoon that he is a | candidate for the Assembly, subject to | the indorsement of the Republican County Convention. Driffil is out in the interest of Henry T. Oxnard, the sugar magnate, who claims the town of Ox- | nard as his place of residence. Drif- fil's candidacy is taken to mean that | Oxnard is a candidate for the United suicide States Senate. H. K. Snow of EI Ric is | also an announced candidate for the | Assembly. | — e . England’s Bub “es. | The British Board of Works report for 1902, which is just out, is a strik- ,ing commentary on the ease with | which bubble ‘companies are floated in that country. During last year 1629 | companies became insolvent, invelving {an aggregate capital of $323,353 ! The figures for the past ten years | amount to $2,803.259,315. The loss on this is placed at $1,912,768,495.—New York Commercial Advertiser. { —_———— Canada’s only arsenal is at Quebee. Her main arteries run close to our fron- tier, and in case of war could easily | be cut by raids, says a British colomel. Broadway. just to see how good q()nvwoma;'s:hoesugmadelndwu lndthmymhowuehflmmpdhhgthcfl:dedfiemwbwcfwflyk. q All Regal Shoes are sold direct from tannery to wearer. There is caly one profit added to the raw leather. 4 They are bigger bargains than the biggest *“ shopworn, bargain counter bargains.” Every day is bargain day in Women's Regals. They are sold at $3.50 every day of the year and never at any other price. They are sold in Regal Stores and by mail and in no other way. q The Women's stores are separate from the Men's. much to have you come in and see the newest ideas for Fall and Winter REGAL SHOES. 4§ Style is the distinguishing feature of Women's Regals. They are made for the fastidious woman whowiflhavenyledmypfice,b\n‘q willing to take three pair of shoes for the money she usually pays for one. Don't compare Woman's Regals with ordinary $3.50 or $5.00 or.$6.00 shoes. » They are the equal of the $9.00 and $10.00 custom made kind. There is no other line of shoes in America designated exclusively for New York City trade. All other lines of shoes are made to please the fancies of the average customer ; that is, they must become as near as possible the ideal of both the Fifth avenue trade and the country general store located 40 miles from the c result is a style that is ultra-swell 2t Jones's cross roads but — TS et on the same Regal Shoes really are. The location of the San Francisco Regal Store for Women adijoins our Men'’s store, at the corner of Geary and Stockton Streets, but the Ladies’ store is entirely séparate, with a distinct corps of salesmen, particularly trained to properly fitting the Re; SAN FRANCISCO STORE: R. GEARY AND STOCKTON STS. 1 line. Post Office. The We would like very - s out of place on = wear— -