The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 9, 1904, Page 13

THE FRANCISCO: CALL, TU SDAY. FEBRUARY 901. 13 ACTIVE WORK BY' CLERCYMEN! Methodlsh Choose Dr. Wi lln for President of Deaconesses’ National Training School | PRAYERS FOR STUDENTS ST S Ministers to Make Supphca.tlon for the College Youth of the Whole Universe Next Sunday i i There was great activity at evangel- | fcal ministerial meetings yesterday. One of the most important of the an- §ouncements was that of the aecept- ance by the Rev. E. R. Willis, D. D., pastor of the Methodist urch, Napa. of the presider of the Dea- conesses’ National Training School in #uccession to the late Dr. Jzumes N. Beard The !mportant position had been ten- @éred to the Rev. John Stephens, Rev. Mr. Bane and Dr. Dennett, as stated in The Call last week, none of gentlemen was inclined I Dr. Willt e those hen invited to become president. The new president of the Deacon- | @sses’ National Training School is well known on this coast. Several years ago he was pastor of Trinity M. B. Church, Ean Francisco. Dr. Wiilis was also at one time presiding elder of the Napa district | He is a man of at force and has traveled the extens throughout world. When ir India he made spe- cia of the work of the Christian elgn b hs eg Willis read a re the Methogist Ministers’ ch he gave facts and ng with the high percent- in wi rning on Ph. D Church, ! nard Burkett . k place last w k. the following resolu- SYMPATHY. s seemed wise in the Father to ett to the MINISTERS he Heavenly he loss of one who has been the adischarge of his dut ster of the Gospel and a co- We express our sym- present were ¥ the T Dr. chair; w Re Rev. Rev Rev. Wikofr, Singer, H H E J W. H. Atkin- Cross, Rev. C. H W. Philips Movement” is to paper to be read the Congregational Assoclation of San Francisco and Marin counties s R. Brown at the Park Church in March. CHURCH IN A NEW TOWN. Rev. E. J. Singer has just seen com- cted a Sunday school and tempdrary church for Cengregetional services at HarMman, a new the A= establishing shops. th here at soon the town will reach a popu- on of 10,000. Charles Stewart is su- t of the Harriman Sunday Mrs. and Mrs. Staut treasurer. g of the Christian Church Association was held scihoo ves- Association building. White, the president, an- :t the Rev. W. F. Stafford , Ky., had been called to| ADVERTISEMENTS. Pears’ was the first maker of sticks of soap for shaving. .Sticks in 3 sizes; shaving cakes in 3 sizes. Pears’ Scap established over 100 years. the | but, | was taken town east of Reno, | Southern Pacific Rallroad | It is anticipated | Mabel Price is secretary | ernoon at the Young Men's N0 GAME LAWS | FOR UNCLE SAM De Haven Decidos That Stale Statutes Are Not Valid on] a Government Reservation CRSET Y, DAVID LINCOLN IS FREED —_— 3 Illegally Comvieted - by a | Justice of the Peace for) Killing Deer Out of Season | B % Sl | According to an opinion handed down yesterday by United States District | Judge de Haven, the State hés no author!ty to enforce the game laws on a Government reservation. The decl- sion was given In the matter of David Lincoln on habeas corpus. Lincoln is an Indian living on the Round Valley | Indian reservation in Mendocino Coun- ty. State game wardens found freshly lled deer meat in his house last No- ember during the closed season for deer and placed him under arrest for violating the State game laws. Lin- coln was taken before a Justice of the Peace at Covelo and convicted. United District Attorney | Woodworth interfered on behaif of the Indian and contended that the State courts had no jurisdiction on Govern- ment reservations. In this contention | he was sustained by Judge de Haven. The foliowing is a synopsis of the opin- | fon: States Indtan ward the aate in the county On Janu of Round V ity of Mendocino, he was convicted his possession on No- conceded that the of- ommitted at the home of nd which has been allotted overnment of the | Government | Indian Res | Mendoctno, in the J Round Valley of t that e Indian or any one else could shoot time of the year on a servation, subject to the s of the superintendent, there any Federal game law in ex- 1y ence, and that a person could not be rosecuted in the Fede P.«l Court for g a State law FIRE DESTROYS NEW STEAMER s‘id_nv(hw‘lrr Tremont of Joy Line Is Burned to Water's Edge in Catherine Slip e o NEW YORK, Feb. 8.—Fire to-day de- stroyed the Joy Line steamer Tremont Catherine slip. One of e Crew is missing. The cargo is a The Tremont was practical- a new, sidewheel steamer and ar- n Providence yvesterday. e firemen were fighting the the upper deck two lions, part veling show, brcke loose and started up the companionw They were driven back with ¢ ream of water, but reappeared and rushed at the firemen, maddened by the smoke ! and flames. Again the animals were fought back and were seen no more. tal loss. Fire Destroys Block in Houston. N, Tex., Feb. §.—Fire de- 1 ire block of buildings, cluding the Central Fir ery two busin | and half a dozen residenc Station, two | s houses | to-day. A | 1 bles, number of horses were burned to| death. Some of the residences accom- | »dated roomers and there are some | ! people unaccounted for. The loss is /| Peitse the Christian Church, this city. 009 | g assistant postorate of the West Side The Rev. Mr. Stafford will assume his duties the beginning of March. Among those present at the meeting were Dr. Thomas A. Boyer, Dr. E. W. Darst, Dr. P. C. Macfaglane and Dr. | Hiram Van Kirk. | Special evangelistic services are being conducted at Simpson Memorial Meth- | odist Episcopal Church every evening this week except Saturday by the Rev. | L. H. Baker, a well-known evangelist of Ohlo. SPECIAL SERVICE HOURS. [ ! The services begin at 7:45 o'clock. At | 2:30 o'clock every afternoon this week services will also be held for those who cannot attend in the evenings. The Rev. M. H. Liebe was installed as pastor of the newly organized German | Evangelical Lutheran Zion's congrega- | | tion of the Richmond district on Sun- ay last. The installation took place in | chmond Hall, which was beautlmlly. |@ecorated. The Rev. G. A. Bernthal was | | assisted by the Revs. J. H. Schroeder, | E. Block and H. Thiede in the installa. The sacred vocal selections were | | rendered by St. Paulls choir under !hel " | direction of Professor J. H. Hargens. | The board of trustees of Zion’s congre- | gation consists of H. Kuhlenkamp, | president; G. Semken, vice president; ! 'R Knepyer, secretary; W. Domrowe, | | treasurer, and B. Kiel. The officers of | the Ladies’ A'd Soclety of Zion's con- | gregation are: Mrs. J. T. Meinert, presi dent: Mrs. G. Petersen, vice presiden Mrs. W. Heick, secretary, and Mrs. W. Manon, treasurer. . [ - R S D | Orders Labor Leader to Leave. { KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 8.—Vice | President Dwyer of the International | Brotherhood of Teamsters, who came here to direct the local strike of car- riage drivers, was ordered from the city to-day by the police. Glassworkers Strike. PITTSBURG, Feb. 8.—The 4000 union workmen employed in the Na- tional Glass Company’s factories were ordered to-day to strike because of an attempt to start two factories non- box. 25¢/ union. | in Baltimore. | walls are intact, the only building il | | with which the fire companies flooded | | Ty | ber of busir | these | plant | W. | Washington in charge of the super- ENTIRE NATION IS PROMPT IN EXTENDING PROFFERS OF e Continued From Page 12, Column 7. Senator Giil lntroduced‘ a bill authorizing Governor Warfield ten successive legal holidu)l; tricken city, so as to aild prop- n the s ! erty owners and other losers by the| fire to get their business affairs into | as good shape as possible. The bill, | which was passe dat once and signed ; by the Governor, also authorizes him | to extend the suspension of buslnels | beyond ten days if necessary. 1 A bill to make a relief appropria- | tion, which was to have been pre-! sented in the House by Wells of Prince Géorge's County, was laid over | until the conditions and amounts; needed can be ascertained. The Legislature adjourned and the Legislators left here at 10 o'clock on a special train for Baltimore. . The relief bill to be offered to-mor- row makes an appropriation of $250,-| 000 for the relief of the destitute, to| be dealt out by the Governor and such | commission as shall be named. THO SOUARE MILES ARE BURNED gt N Continued From Page 11, Column 3. d'agonally across.the street. The In-| terior sustalned damage, but the outer that section whose outer walls were preserved. Westward, = along Pratt| street, there is nothing but debris, from which flames leap and play. Down Pratt street, west from Gay, for several blocks, the oil in the wreck of the Standard Oil buildings ignited there was a succession of explo-| sions with the bursting out of the flames. At times the smoke rolled out | and threw great black clouds into the night. Pratt street féor many squares is almost impassable by reason of the huge plles of masonry and the water that section. The electric wires are a | tangled network and the trolley wires | down in every direction. At O'Donnell’s wharf, where a freight| station of the North Central road is| ted, the flames fed all day on the inflammable trimmings of the annex to the ower-house of the United Street Railway, the main building of which was burned early this morning. | wa of both buxl\lmgfl. however, remain intact. | NOT A WALL STANDING. are loc The large buildings of the Miller | Fertilizer Company, the Bragener Oil | Company, C. M. Robinson, dealer in’| seeds, and the Martin Wagner Com- | pany, canners and packers, opposite | the slip from the power-house, were | destroved ‘and the rufhs burned | throughout the night. Many of the occupants of ill-fated Pratt street were saloon-keepers and dealers in second-hand goods. There is nothing to-day to indicate that these places ever existed, save jumbled piles of brick. All the buildings at Dugan's wharf near by, were destroyed. The Hutchinson feed concern at this poinf also is in rui Stretching from here down East| and West Falls avenues were a num- establishments. Among | the Lime Cement Company's and Cockran's icehouse were | burned. The large four-story build- | ing of the McCormick Drug Company | at East Falls avenue and Pratt street was ruined. The William Tell House, a saloon and hotel at East Falls ave- nue and Pratt street; the Hoffman House, another hotel near by, and the W. Boyer packing plants were de- stroyed. The Commercial bullding, a six- story structure at the corner of Lom- bard and Gay streets, stretching over a half block, is destroyed, but the vaults are safe. | e —— | GREAT TELEGRAPH SERVICE. | Western Union and Postal Companies Manage Business Despite Obstacles. BALTIMORE, Feb. 8.—The service given by the telegraph companies has probably not been equaled and cer- tainly never surpassed in such an| emergency. Within twelve hours after the fire broke out both companles were almost helpless. By davlight there were linemen on the ground from Philadelphia, New York and intendents and managers of these dis- tricts and in less than six hours the Western Union Company had estab- lished three offices. The Postal Company, whose main office was in the Continental Trust building, was forced to vacate its of- fice early last night, but before day- light to-day the company had estab- lished quarters at Orleans and Fort streets, where business was handled almost as smoothly as usual. The volume of business handled was enor- mous. Considering the difficulties encountered by both companies in re- pairing their broken wires the service rendered was little short of marvel- ous. _—— " BANKERS ARE GENEROUS. New York Assoclation Promises Aid to the Baltimore Institutions. NEW YORK, Feb. 8.—"“The crip- pled Baltimore banks can have any- thing within the bounds of reason to help them along,” said the president of the Seaboard National Bank of this city, when asked what action could be expected from the New York associa- ted banks operating through the Clenrlng House. 3 “The association,” he sald, “will take such action as the circumstances of the Baltimore banks seem to re- quire. If the cash and securities can- not be got out the other banks will give such temporary assistance as may be required.” AT CUSTOM-HOUSE RUINED. Examination Reveals That New Fed- eral Building Must Be To.n Down. BALTIMORE, Feb. 8.—As a result of an examination of the half-completed custom-house building, upon. which nearly $350,000 has been expended, it is almost certain that the entire structure must be torn down and rebuilt, so great is the injury found to have been done | the press: | prominent member of the board said: Jall looting would commence. | ana which loss 1= well night irreparable; and, by the fire to the granite and steel walls of the building. The vaults have been found in good condition in several banks where ex- aminatibns were made. This includes the vault of the National Exchange Bank, in which It is understood there 1s $800,000 of Government funds, IRRER S, OFFERS OF AID POUR IN. American Citles Quick to Go to the Relief of Baltimore. BALTIMORE, Md., Feb. 8 — Mayor McLane to-night gave the following to “I wish you to say for me that the fire is now under control. The people throughout the country have been very Kkind to us in our terrible calamity, and I cannot find words to express my ap- preciation. We have had offers of as- sistance from nearly every large city in the East and several offers from the ‘West. Of course, there has as yet been no relief system adopted, as we do not know just how we stand, but by to- morrow we shall know what relief measures it will be necessary to adopt.” The Board of Insurance Commission- ers refuses to estimate the loss. A “It 1s impossible at this time to give an approximate estimate of the loss. I would say from $100,000,000 up. It is safe to say the loss exceeds $100,000,- 000.” To-night the fire district and the ter- ritory immediatelv surrounding it are under the strictest military control. During the confusion of Sunday night detachments of regulars from near-by forts were sent to the fire district and assisted the police in maintaining order and restraining the great crowds from encroaching upon the firemen. The Fourth and Fifth Regiments of Balti- more, sent by Governor Warfield, came on duty pefore daybreak. The men, who numbered 1200, were distributed about the fire district, and no one could get beyond the line established unless he held a military pass. Passes were issued personally by the brigadier gen- eral at his headquarters. In order to be on the safe side, Gov- ernor Warfield and other officials de- cided.early in the day to order out an- other regiment, and accordingly orders were sent to the First Regiment, com- panies of which are scattered over the State, to come to Baltimore at once. They arrived during the night and were distributed around the area of desolation. The Maryland Naval Re- serve was also called out. There was some féar that with night- The lines of troops araund the ruins was so tight- ly drawn, however, that it will be im- | possible for thieves to enter the fire | zone without detection. The auxiliary policemen sent: here, numbering . a 400, have been re- lieved. The men were nearly exhaust- ed, having heen on duty yesterday, all night and most of Whneng:ernor %Vune’l@ and Gen- eral Biggs took direct charge of the fire district, Mayor McLane saw to it that the citizens generally did not get a chance to annoy the soldiers or the police. His first act was to close all saloons and there was little drunken- ness, except among some of the visitors from other points, who brought liquor with them, / < L% SRR P SYMPATHY IS EXTENDED. Board of Supervisors Adopts a Reso- lution Offering Financlal Aid. The Board of Supervisors yesterday adopted the following resolution, in- troduced by Supervisor Hocks, in re- lation to the appalling disaster in Bal- timore: Whereas, The people of the city and county of San Francisco have lefirned with deep re- gret of the terrible catastrophe which has be- failen the eity of Baltimore, through the burn- ing of the business portion of that fair city, Whereas, ~The city and county of San Fran: cisco has at all times when disaster has over. taken her sister cities been ready and wii ADVERTISEMENTS. A prominent club woman, Mrs. Danforth, of St. Joseph, Mich., tells how she was cured of falling of the womb and its accompan d misery byLydia E.yinl’lm :l‘l/egeuble ‘* DEAR Mzs. PINEmAM : — Life looks S et Infaaias hovar g ahehas 51 s awayan. no hopes of ever b:gg restored. Such 'was my feeling a few months ago when I wu advised that nyx}oor health was by mp-u or of the ‘k::ml.ll& I felt that lnl‘iik° t. e me, 1 fel fll! sun set; but dia E. Pinkham’s Vege- came to me as an lost AID TO THE BALTIMOREANS to extend financial lld and to succor the af- flicted; therefo: Resdived, THat the Board of Suporvisers, representing the people of S8an Francisco, does hereby express to the people of the city of Baitimore its earnest sympathy and does here- by declare that th> people of the city and county of San Fiancisco stand ready to extend to them flnanc.al aid and assistance as the cir- cumstances may warrant e sadys Sedfal INSURANCE MEN EXCITED. News of Great Fire Creates Sensation Among Local Agents. The Baitimore conflagration shared with the Ru‘sso-Japnneu clash the at- tention of operators and merchants on the local 'Change yesterday, while it created an immense sensation among the insurance men. The opinion was freely expressed that the great life in- surance companies .would suffer, as they are known to hold large lines of bonds of ‘different descriptions, which | cannot very well avoid being unfavor- ably affected by the vast destruction of property, to say nothing of the real estate and buildings thereon, owned by the different companies. But the effect on the life companies, of course, will be much less than on the fire companies. ST L NEWSPAPERS WILL APPEAR. BALTIMORE, Feb. 8.—The newspa- per situation in Baltimore is tempor- arily arranged as follows: The Sun will use its job printing plant, which was outside the fire line. The Herald i{s being set by hand in the office of the Catholic Mirror and will be printed to-night on the presses of the Evening World, which was also out of the burned district. The American has established tem- porary quarters on Eutaw street. The Evening News has quarters In the offices occupied some years ago by | the Herald at Eutaw and Baltimore | streets and will send its matrices to the Philadelphia Press. SRR Losses of Insurance Companies. NEW YORK, Feb. 8.—Fire insur- | ance brokers in this tity estimate the | minimum loss of Insurance companies | in the Baltimore fire at $30,000,000. Losses of big companies are now placed at from $500,000 to $2,000,000 each. R Proposed Federal Aid. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—A bill was introduced in the House to-day by Representative Emerich of Illinois ap- propriating $1,000,000 for the relief of sufferers by the Baltimore fire. —_————— HISTORIC BUILDINGS FALL. Many of Baltimore’s Oldest Land- marks Razed by the Flames. BALTIMORE, of the fire the News-Union said to-day: To describe in detail the fire, which | will 20 down in the history of the world | as one of its greatest disasters, is sim ply an impossibility, just as it is im: possible at this time to glve an ade quate idea of the loss, the number of | buildings destroyed or the firms that have gone out of business. These are facts that will not develop for days to come. Baltimore's equipment of twenty-five | engines was almost useless. Rein- forced by four companies from Wash- ington, as many more from Philadel- phia, two more from Wilmington and another from Chester, Pa., it was still unable to check in any way during the night the progress of the flames. This | morning a half dozen of New York City's most powerful steamers arrived by special train and their coming gave new impetus to the effort to check the flames by putting fresh men into the the out-of-town men who arrived ear- lier having been exhausted by their all- night struggle against such terrific odds. At midnight the wind, which had been blowing strongly from the south- west with a tendency to switch to the westward, began to come in a gale from the northwest. At that hour the flames were headed directly for the tenement districts, aecross the falls, where frightened foreigners were run- ning like demons to save their house- hold effects. Temporarily the change in the wind ! saved them, for the flames were driven toward the water front, and all build- ings from Baltimore street down to Pratt street soon were a roaring mass of fire. From then on Pratt street became the center of the fire, which burned block after block of business structures on that thoroughfare from Charles street eastward to the falls. Roughly speaking, the fire in |its course described a half circle on f{ts northern and western edges, curving from Lombard and Liberty streets to Fayette and St. Paul strets, and then sweeping around toward Market space and Lombard street. The whole effect of this course of the fire was to describe an immense ques- tion mark. ™ Among the out-of-town fire depart- ments which responded were two com- panies from Wilmington, Del. While fighting the flames in Von Bolden's wharf the Wilmington firemen found retreat cut off by an explosion of the Standard O!l Company’s warehouse. A panic ensued and the flremen yelled for assistance. Several tugs came to their rescue and they were taken off, abandoning thelr engine. A few min- utes later the entire wharf was a mass of flames. Among the principal build- ings which were razed to the ground in this neighborhood were the Standard 0Oil Company, the Patasco Oil Com- pany, the United States Fruit Com- pany, the Baltimore Fruit Company, J. J. Underhill, W. C. Robinson, Bau- ghanes & Son and N. Frank & Sons. Dynamite proved most useless last night, when building after building in the neighborhood of Charles and Bal- timore streets was blown up in order to. stay the flames. It seemed as if the fire fiend laughed at such paltry efforts, for the flames simply jumped these vacant spaces and licked up the buildings on the far side. From a point near the corner of Charles and Fayette streets the scene of utter devastation presented is ab- solutely appalling. Both buildings at the corner—Hall, n & Co. and J. W. Putts & Co.—are in ruins, noth- mmt:fawm:tmmm& being left 1] m the corner of Liberty and Bal- Feb. 8.—In its account | HHSHEIMN N BLASTING Board of Supervisors Extends Limits Within Which All Rock Quarries Are Prohibited e S e EX-FIREMEN SEEK RELIEF St A TS Petition for a Charter Amend- ment Increasing the Amount | Paid to Them as Pensions ———— | maintain rock crushers were passed to print by the Board of Supervisors yes- terday. wnances, include Fowler avenue, Sussex street, Hamburg street, Flood avenue, | the northerly and easterly boundar: of the House of Refuge lot and Have | lock street. ! The ordinances are designed to stop | blasting operations by Gray Bros. at | Thirtieth street, near Castro. business men to extend every few months the limits in which blasting 1 forbidden. Boxton said that the prope: | thing to do would be to prohibit blas | ing and rock crushing within the en- | tire city limits, | R. W. Glllogley, representing the pro- | testing residents, sald the rock crusher | and called attention to the fact that the St. Mary's Help Hospital site is directly opposite to Gray Bros." plant. | A number of residents was heard in | opposition to the maintenance of the lant. tended to conduct its operations so that t would not be a nuisance. Gray said | that he had gone outside of the limits | after they were established and he coun- isidered it unjust to prevent him from | carrying on his business. | The vote on the passage to print of | the ordinances was: Ayes—Booth, Braunhart, Comte, Con- nor, McClellan, Hocks, Payot, Branden- | stein, D'Ancona, Rock, Finn, Lunstedt, Rea, Sanderson (14). Noes—Bent, Boxton, Eggers (3). The petition of Michael Byron and | sixteen others that an amendment to | the charter be submitted to the people providing for an increase in the pen- | sions paid to ex-members of the Fire Department was referred to the Charter | Amendment committee. There are five { firemen and twelve hosemen now-draw- | ing pensions. - + | timore streets the fire apparently made |an oblique cut through to the corner of Lexington and Charles streets, de- | | stroying everything in its path. At "the corner of Lexington and Charles streets O'Neil's big retail dry goods stors, while damaged. was still intact, but Schlessinger’'s shoe store, adjoining, was entirely destroyed. While J. W. Putts & Co. and J. J. Jenkins & Co., on Fayette street, were burned, the large new factory recently Jerected next to Jenkins & Co. by Gens Bros. was spared. The Gas Appliance Company, the | Goodyear Rubber Company, Bryant & Stratton Business College, a cigar store | and J. 8. McDonald's jewelry store, all on the Charles street block between Baltimore and Fayette streets, were destroyed, as was every building on the north side of Baltimore street from Liberty to Charles streets and diagon- streets. The center of Baltimore street is in | some places ten feet deep with brick | fight, the Baltimore firemen as well as | and debris. The buildings on the west side of | North Liberty street, with the excep- Etlon of M. C. Stout & Co., tailors, were ail untouched. Those burned on the | east side of North Liberty street were | Bergunder Bros. and C. Y. Davidson | & Co. C. C. Steiff's piano factory adjoining | Davidson's was damaged by water, but | it was said to-day that no great dam- | age had been done. | Surrounded by fire on all sides, the Merchants’ National Bank, on South | street, was the last building in its neighborhood to succumb to the flames. It was not until the roaring furnace| started by the burning of the woolen house of James A. Garry & Son had swept up Water street, carrying before | it banks, wholesale houses and stores, | that the building caught. It soon was a mass of flames. Until the last mo- ment a group of employes of the bank | were loth to leave. When finally the firemen ordered them to leave each wver and kissed the heavy granite | that form the doorway and then up his stand several blocks below thie lapt of her.” street 2% butlding” From here the blaze spread to Junker’s, on East Fayette street, and quickly enveloped the hotel, Lemmert's tailoring establishment, the Herald and Law building, whence the flames licked about the. courthouse. Although the granite stdod the heat well and did not crack, it was scorched and frightfully disfigured. On the south side of Fayette street the flames destroyed all the bulidings down to and Including the Calvert building, at St. Paul and Fayette streets. The nine-story Central bullding of the Baltimore and Ohio Raflroad Com- ,pany Calvert and Baltimore streets, caught about the same time as the Equitable building, from which it was separated by an alley. The flames made short work of the enormous structure, and all that remains of it are sections of the towering brick walls. Next to the horrible fascination of the flames, the exodus from the burn- ’!n: district was the most impressive sensational feature of the- great fire. Out of all the streets leading to the northern annex a pathetic procession made its way as early as last night, the vanguard of the retreating army reaching North avenue and Charles street. This first detachment consisted of a body of Russians and Poles carry- ing their household goods. To-day the homes of those who fled are in ruins. Between the marching throng were heavy trucks, carriages and carts car- rying valuables to places of safety. During the early stages of the fire It The two ordinances providing for the | extension of the limits within which | it is prohibited to explode blasts or { The boundaries, as fixed by the ordi- | Supervisor Boxton opposed the ordi- | { nancee, saying that it was trifling with | would damage surrounding property | | Harry Gray stated that his firm in- | ally across to Lexington and Charles | HIS CRIMES ARE RECORD | ~ (OF A FIEND Norman Williams, UnderIndiet- ment in Washington for For- { gery and Held for Murder, Is Accused of Many Offenses ] | NOW CHARGED WITH ‘ KILLING TWO WOMEN Prisoner Is Said to Be an Ex- Conviet, and of His Six Wives, Three, It Is Believed, Met Foul Deaths at His Hands — s Special Dispatch to The Call | THE DALLES. Or., Feb. 8.—Federal | and State officers are piling up a record of crime unequaled in the annals of the Northwest against Norman Wii- liams, the man arrested to-day at Bel- lingham, Wash., at the Instance of the authorities here. It is alleged that Wil- liams, who posed here as a timber spec- later, and who is charged with the murder of two defenseless women in | order that he might forge their names | to relinquishments, is an ex-convict, a | polygamist, has had six wives, three of whom are still living, while three are dead. two supposedly by poison. Last night a warrant was wired to Bellingham for the arrest of Williams for the murder of Mrs. L. J. Nesbitt and her daughter, Alma Nesbitt, upon | information filed by George W. Nesbitt of Kirkman, Sheiby County, Iowa. | Nesbitt arrived in Oregon last Satur- day and, with the land office agent who first had Willlams indicted for | forgery, has searched untiringly to solve the mystery of the disappear- ance of his mother and sister, who were induced by Williams to come here three years ago to locate a homestead. An investigation of the land which the two women located and on which they lived resulted in the discovery that the ground under a chicken- | house had been broken. Digging, the searchers found the well-defined walls of a grave two feet wide by six feet long, the ground giving evidence of having been disturbed within a few ! months. At the depth of seven feet several gunny sacks were discovered, | clotted and stiff with blood and two large bunches human hair, aiso bloodstained, one bunch gray and the other black, answering the description of the missing women’s hair. A broken dish with hair clinging to the edges was also in the grave. With these terrible evidences of crime, Nes- | bitt returned and swore out the com- plaint. It is his theory that Williams, fearing that his premises might be searched, moved the bodies within a year to another hiding place. In the criminal history which Nesbitt brings { against Williams is the fact of his being sentenced to eight years in the Nebraska penitentiary for criminal as- sault. Evidence is found of his having had six wives, two of whom died suddenly of poison under suspicious circum- stances, $2000 being realized upon the insurance of one. Williams was ac- { quainted with one Alma Nesbitt in | Omaha and wanted to marry her. Un- der ppersuasion from him that she could | secure land for a home in Oregon she |came West with her mother in May, 12899, When relatives of the Nesbitts wrote from Iowa asking as to their where- abouts Willlams replied by saying that they had gone to North Yakima. When | Federal officfals recently arrested him for forging Alma Nesbitt's name to a homestead, which he sold later, the Odd | Fellows furnished his bond. He now claims that he will produce the two women. A Sheriff left to-day to bring of | him back from Bellingham. + T s, Ty A was reported by the Baltimore Weather Bureau that the wind was blowing from | the southwest at a rate of twenty-four miles an hour. Later the velocity of the wind increased, but when night added its mantle of darkness to the horyor of the fire a strong wind sprang up from the northwest. One of the old landmarks that was | swept away by the flames on Pratt street was the Maltby House. It was founded forty years ago by Edward | Maltby. The Protestant Episcopal Church of | the Messiah, at Fayetts and Fray | streets, was destroyed. The church was | one of the most historic ecclesiastical structures in Baltimore. It was bullt in 1828, Perhaps the most interesting land- mark that went down with the flames was the Maryland Institute. This old bullding was built in 1348 by the Mary- land Institute Association of Mechan- fcal Arts. In 1856 and 1860 it was used as an assembly hall by Democratic con- ventions. Later it was used as a thea- ter, and Sol Smith Russell made his | first appearance In this city thirty years ago In this hall. The bullding was the center of the famous Harrison street flood in 1868.