The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 20, 1904, Page 23

THE SAN FRANC ISCO ' CALL, INDAY, MARCH 29, 1904. ADVERTISEMENTS. ————CHICAGO POLICE | ' FORCE SCORED Former Member of NewYork | Commission Reports on In- efficiency of Department FINDS OPEN GAMBLING | ays Patrolmen Spend Time | in the Saloons Instead of| | | | | | | 1 | | { | i | | Walking Their Districts| —_— . CHICAGO, March 19.—"There is | practically no-discipline and the force | could hardly be in worse state.” With these words to-day Captain Alex- a ander Ross Piper, retired, former Deputy Commissioner of the New York Police Department, who has been in Chicago for seven weeks in- | vestigating the Chicago police force, !electrified the members of the City Club. He was making a report of his ! investigation, which was begun at the instance of the club as the result of the alleged undue prevalence of crime in Chicago. According to Captain in a disgraceful condition of demorali- ,zation and inefficiency. Instead of protecting citizens from criminals the members of the force are drinking in saloons, playing slot machines or gos- siping on the streets. ' Patrolmen | were accused of taking to their ‘holes” ! at every opportunity instead of walk- ing their beats. Old and incapacitated men were found in *‘soft snaps,” rob- ! bing the department of active men, sorely needed. Open gambling was found by Captain Piper and hand- books were running practically over the city. Some police station- houses were asserted to be unfit for | use and a disgrace to the city. The administration of the criminal | laws at the Harrison-street Police | Court was said to be “‘more like mob law than order.” | Captain Piper expresses sympathy | for the head of the Chicago force and | declares that Chief O'Neill is an| honest, overworked man, doing the best he can with the tools at his com- SHETCHED FROM LIFE Business Piper’s report the Chicago police are | all | FACTIONS FIGHT IN CONVENTION Adherents of Foraker and . Followers of Senator Diek Engage in a Fistic Battle POLICE RESTORE ORDER —— Each Set Holds Meeting and Nominates Its Own Ticket and National Delegates f CLEVELAND, Ohio; March 19.—Wild scenes of disorder marked the opening of the Twenty-sixth Congressional Dis- | trict convention here to-day as a result i of a fight between the Dick and Fili- pino factions, The trouble started when the Dick men nominated Charles Leach as chairman, the Filipinos having al- ready selected J. C. Ward of Lake County as the presiding officer. When Leach attempted to take the chair he was assaulted by the Filipinos and a hand-to-hand fight followed, which quickly became general. The police finally arrived in force and } restored order. Each faction, however, nominated its own committees and | ticket. The Filipinos renominated Ja- ! cob A. Beidler for Congress and A. T. Spitzer and F. H. Eggers as delegates to the national convention. The Dick delegates nominated Jacob. A. Beidler for Congress by acclamation and chose | J. B. Serge and A. T. Spitzer as dele« | gates to the national convention. The local adherents of Senator For- | aker are known as “Filipinos.” The former Hanna followers are mnow termed Dick men, being under the lead- ership of Senator Dick. The delegates to the national conven- | tion are unpledged. e WOODEN TRESTLE BRIDGE COLLAPSES FROM DECAY Immense Structure Falls With a Crash at a Time When It Was Not Being Traversed by Pedestrians. PORTLAND, Or.,, March 19.—An immense wooden trestle bridge, cross- mand. Police inspectors and sergeants come in for rough handling in the report. A Police Commissioner to be ap- pointed by the Mayor and to hold of- | fice for at least five years, an increase of 1000 more patrolmen and the weed- ing from the present force of fully 400 men who are characterized as too old or incapacitated by bad habits are | Captain Piper's remedies. —_———— WOOD'S COUNSEL MAKES | MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL Placerville Murderer Delays His S(‘n-,‘ tence by Use of the | SUILS Latest Spring Styles $l 0.00 s $15.00 | Statutes. | PLACERVILLE, March 19.—This Imorning at 10 o'clock, the time set for passing sentence on Convict John H. Wood, who was convicted of mur- der in the first degree by a jury on March 16, the prisoner appeared in court with his counsel. On his being asked whether he had any legal cause to show why judgment should not be pronounced against him, his counsel made a motion in arrest of judgment, which was denied.. Wood's counsel then made a motion for a new trial on statutory grounds and the hearing of the motion was thereupon set for Monday, March 26, at 10 o'clock. ———— | Embezzler Masterson Is Extradited. | | LOS ANGELES, March 19.—The District Attorney’s office is in receipt of a telegram from Governor Pardee stating that he is informed by Secre- tary of State Hay that E. A. Master- son, wholfis wanted here on charges of extensive forgeries, has been extra- dited from Germany, whence he fled, | and is now in his way to this country on the steamship Moltke. The extra- dition of Masterson was accomplished | through United States Embassador Tower. | —_———————— Fined for Carrying Dynamite. | | LIVERPOOL, March 19.—Van L. | Jubanovic, an Austrian, who reached | Liverpool on February 11 on the| White Star Line steamer Majestic | from New York and who was ar-| rested on the charge of being in pos- | session of explosives with felonious in- | tent, was to-day acquitted of felonious intent, but was fined $50 for having | dynamite concealed in his trunk. ! e | Burglars Shoot Bank Cashier. ! PERU, Ind., March 19.—Cashier | Atkinson of the Miama County Bank |at Amber was shot in the head by : burglars and seriously wounded last ! night. The burglars had blown out the front wall of the building when Charles Warren and Atkinson attack- ed them and caused them to flee. The robbers failed to obtain any of the | $4000 in the bank’s vauit. | e e | Carnegie Gives Flve Millions. ; NEW YORK, March 19.—Andrew | Carnegie has given another $5,000,000 purposes, says the few words above and our name below tory in a nutshell. ‘he tell the s The suits are values--made by us and sold direct to vou. No middleman makes a profit-- that’s why our $10 suits are not $14 and our #15 suits not $20. Suits for %10 The suits come in grays, browns, blues and dark effects in single breasted styles--neat, dressy, economical. Suits for 515 The $15 suits come in all the latest spring patterns, including the popular gun metal shades. Good suits for Easter--dressy and stylish. Tuxedos for %15 ~ For $15 we have Tuxedos, made of black thibet--a good wearing cloth--gros grain silk faced. Trousers for $2.75 For_$2.7§ Cassimere and worsted trous- ers---solid colors and stripes--swell patterns-- really.worth $4.00. for educational "Globe. the fact becoming known just | previous to Carnegie's sailing to-day | for Europe. The formal announce- { ment of the gift and its purposes will be made in a few days. It is said the gift is for the Carnegie Institute of | Pittsburg. Instruct Delegates for Parker. NEW YORK, March 19.—Demo- | cratic county conventions held in Or- | Jeans, Chemung and Cortland coun- | ties to-day to choose delegates to the St. Louis convention instructed their delegates to favor Judge Alton B. Parker of this State for the Presi- | dential nomination. H —_——————— Santa Fe Car Department Is Burned. ] ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.,' March 19. { The car department of the Santa Fe | Railroad shops here has been destroy- jed by fire. One hundred men are | thrown out of employment as a con- sequence of the fire. —_—— Robbers Blow Up Bank Building. OMAHA, Nebr., March 19.—Rob- bers blew the First National Bank building at Firth, Nebr,, to pieces in Mail Orders Filled Mai/ order customers are served by us as well as though they bought i person. Write to-day—address Dept. L. SNWO0D i R 2o | tion was that made by the Hamburg ing what is known as Sullivans Gulch in East Portland, collapsed to-day from sheer decay. The bridge, which was more than 300 feet long and near- ly a hundred feet high, was condemned to team traffic a year ago, but had been used as a pedestrian bridge con- tinuously. The Chapman-street bridge, which partly collapsed last night as the re- sult of the flood waters from a broken sewer, is in danger of complete wreck- | age. —_——————— Whitecappers Sent to Penitentiary. HELENA, Ark., March 19.—Federal Judge Trieber to-day passed a peni- tentiary sentence upon three white- cappers, convicted of conspiracy to in- | timidate negro workmen at a sawmill in Poinsette County. The defendants’| attorney took an appeal to the Su- preme Court of the United States, pro- | the cold, wet, ADVERTISEMENTS. e —— GENERAL “Pe-ru-na __SAYS: is an Effective Cure Catarrh.” O’BEIRNE for General James R. O’Beirne, 290 Broadway, Washington, D. C., late Commissioner of Charities of New York City, and Assistant Commissioner of Immigration, writes as follows B & ““As many of my friends and acquaintances have successfully used your Peruna as a catarrh cure, /| feel that it 1s an effective remedy, and | recommend it as such to those suffering from that disease as & most hopeful source of relief.”’— Spring Time the Best Season of the Year to Treat Chronic Catarrh. - | Notwithstanding that a great number of people have heen cured of chronic ca- | tarrh by taking Peruna during the past cold season, yet it cannot be denied that stormy weather has re- tarded many cures, and, in some cases, actually prevented a cure. | posing to test the constitutionality of | the Federal statute enacting into law the fourteenth amendment to the constitution, claiming that under this statute the negro citizen is granted a protection in the Federal courts that is not given to white men. —_——————— Big Cut in Steerage Rates. | to begin a systematic course of treat-| But springtime has come at last, and ow is the time for all catarrh sufferers | ment for this disease. The greatest dif- | ficulty in the way of treating chronic ca- | tarrh is that the patient is so liable to| catch cold during the treatment and thus delay a cure. This liability at this season of the year is, in a great measure, removed and no one should neglect the opport nity to tdke treatment. NEW YORK, March 19.—Another cut in steerage rates from this port | to Mediterranean points has just been | announced. The most radical reduc- | American line, which announced that| on March 22 the fast steamship Prinz | { Adelbert will carry steerage passen- | gers at $17 each. This marks the ! low water mark in the rates for east- bound steerage traffic and is a drop of $14 from the rates which obtained a few months ago before the war be-| gan. TR L Ticket Scalpers Are Enjoined. ST. LOUIS, March 18.—Judge Amos Thayer in the United States Circuit | Court of Appeals to-day overruled the | demurrer of the thirty ticket brokers to the petition of certain railroads which asked the court for an in!unc—% tion to restrain the brokers from | scalping World's Fair tickets. The in- | junction to restrain the scalpers will | therefore be granted. DR. PIERCE’'S EEMFBIEB. LOVE Often leads to pov- erty. No real woman ever sold her heart for the luxuries of life. But many a woman who has gladly faced verty for the ma3 she loved, may well loubt her wisdom when pain becomes the mate of vertfl, If she were rich, she thinks, she find a way of cure. FOR WOMEN WHO CANNOT BE CURED. The pmgr’i‘etm and makers of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite seription now feel fully war- ranted in offering to pay $500 in legal money of the United States for any case of Leucorrhea, Female Weakness, Prolapsus, or Falling of Womb, which they canpot cure. All they ask is a fair and reasonable trial of their means of cure. < You have my heartfelt thanks for your kind advice to me,” writes Mrs. , of 106 Victoria Avenue, Galt, Ontario. “Wi with of uterus for over a year. The Lotion Tablets’ and ‘Antiseptic es.’ Now I am com- o iicines” T amgiog th sy b ool dllhuand:ne-newm.'-, g ‘Weak and sick women are invited to consult Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y., an attempt to loot the safe, but failed to secure the treasure. They were scared away by citizens without secur- ing any booty. 740 Market Street | letter, free. o Fletecs Plessmat Pelets are casy w wntal. A most effective | as well as thousands in Peruna is acknowledged by every one | to be the only reliable and unfailing cure | of catarrh wherever it may be located. When you take Peruna you are not ex- perimenting with an unknown remedy. Men and women of national reputation, | the humbler walks of life, publicly endorse Peruna. | Peruna does all that is claimed for it. It| cures catarrh. Gen. Middleton Benefited by Pe-ru-na. General John Middleton, Colonel of Haneock Regiment, U. V. U, in a letter from 111 E St.. N. W., Washington, D. C., writes: “Your preparation of Peruna as a cure | for catarrh, as well as a tonic, deserves | the gratitude of those afflicted with that disease. as well as physical prostration. 1 have been very much benefited in every respect in various ways, and I feel it a duty to recommend its usefulness to my | fellow citizens.”-—Gen. John Middleton. | Gzneral Payne Writes: Gen. Eugene B. Payne, 407 Fourth St., . W., Washington, D. C., writes: | “I join with my comrades in recom- | mending Peruna to my friends as a re- | markable remedy for coughs, colds and | catarrhal trouble, and to anyone who | needs an Invigorating tonic to build up | the system.” General Erwin’s Recommend. General John B. Erwin, Washington, C., writes: . any of my friends have used Peruna as a dyspepsia remedy with the most | beneficial results.” Hon. Dan A. Grosvenor of the Famous Ohlo Famlly. Hon. Dan. A. Grosvenor, Deputy Audi- tor for the War Department, in a letter JAMES R. 0'BEIRNE. written from Washington, D. C,, says: “Allow me to express my gratitude to you for the benefit derived from one bottle of Peruna. 0One week has brought wonderful changes and | am now as well as ever. Besides being one of the very best spring tonics it 1s an excelient catarrh remedy.”’— DAN. A. GROSVENOR. In a recent letter he says: “J consider Peruna really more meritorious than | did when | wrote you last. | receive numerous letters from acquaintances all over the coun- try asking me if my certificate 13 genumne. | invariably answer, yes.”” —Dan. A. Grosvenor. If you do not receive prompt and satis- factory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable ad- vice gratls. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. ——————————eee e NON-UNION HACKDRIVER RECEIVES MORTAL WOUND Men Supposed to Be Strikers Decoy Him Into Outskirts of Kansas City and Shoot Him. KANSAS CITY, March 19.—Albert Ferguson, a non-union hack driver, was shot and mortally wounded to-day by one of four men, probably strikers, who had decoyed him into the outskirts of the city. The quartet escaped. Fergu- son answered a call from a downtown hotel, where the four men, one dressed as a woman, entered the carriage. When they alighted later they attacked and shot Ferguson. In another part of the city Andrew Meyers, a non-union hack driver, was badly beaten by strikers, and at still another point a hack driven by a strike-breaker was demolished by un- ion men. No arrests were made. —————— Fire Damages a Refining Plant. ELIZABETHPORT, N. J., March 19.—The plant of the Bayway Refin- ing Company in this city was destroy- ed by fire to-day. The flames spread to the plant of the Pennsylvania and Delaware Oil Company and the ware- house and part of the docks were burned. About 200 feet of the dock of the Pennsylvania and Delaware Company was destroyed. Loss $100,- 000. S ——— e Say Success Is in Sight. WASHINGTON, March 19. — Al- though success is in sight, according to his statement to the Fortifications Board, Professor Langley has declined to make any request for a further al- lotment of money to carry on his ex- periments with his ‘aerodrome. The board also has decided ‘that it is not advisable at this time to make further expenditures in that direction. d - & - Brighten up the carpet—make the room look cheerful. Our advertisers will quote you prices. Sec CARPET CLEANING columns. NEW YORK, March 19.—Adminis- trators of the estate of the late George Francis Gilman, the millionaire tea merchant, have finally settled the claims of Helen Potts Hall for $60,- 000. They paid her $20,000 in cash and $40,000 in scurities. The settle- ment was reached after much litiga- tion’ by agreenient among the legal heirs and the administrators now. be- lieve the estate will be settled in two i CONDEMNED PRISONERS MAKE DASH FOR LIBERTY Attack the Guard and Fight Their Way Through Gates of City Jail in Seoul. SEOUL, March 19.—Emboldened by the sight of the execution of criminals in the city prison Wednesday night, thirty condemned prisoners made a| dash for liberty. They attacked the| guard, fought their way through the gates and escaped half-naked. The prisoners had been imprisoned for three years, charged with assist- ing the Korean political refugees who escaped to Japan in 1900. Fearing possible trouble, Japanese military guards have been distributed throughout the city, although so far everything is quiet. —_——— INTERURBAN RAILWAY ESTABLISHES NEW SERVICE Towns of Los Gatos, San Jose and Saratoga Now Connected by Electric Line. SAN JOSE, March 19.—The San Jose-Los Gatos Interurban Railway inaugurated its daily service between San Jose and Saratoga and Los Gatos to-day. A half-hour service between San Jose and Los Gatos by way of Saratoga is given between 6 a. m. and 1 p. m. A mail and expregs car is also run over the road at stated intervals. ‘Work on a short line will shortly com- mence between San Jose and Los Ga- tos by way of Campbell. An observation car service was also put in* operation over all the electric roads of this city to-day. Tourists are taken for a ride_of 104 miles for $1. —————— Escape From Burning Building. NEW YORK, March 19.—During a fire in the seven-story furniture store- house of R. J. Horner & Co. to-day one man was badly burned and an- other was seriously injured by jump- ing from a window. Ten men were forced to jump from the second story | to a roof below. Annie Helwig, who was working alone in the rear of the fourth floor, was cut off from the stairway. Two employes carried her to a window and by forming a living bridge helped her to a near by build- ing. Loss, $50,000. —_——— Russian Exposition Official Departs. ST. LOUIS, March 19.—Following the abandonment by Russia of her plans for participation in the World's Fair, Alfred Gutbur, an architect of St. Petersburg, whom the Russian Government sent here to supervise the construction of the Russian pavilion, departed for St. Petersburg to-day. He was the last of the Russian expo- sition officials to leave St. Louls. Mr. Gutbur called on President Francis to say farewell. There were tears In his eyes as he shook hands. —————————— The deepest gold mine in the world is at Bendigo, Australia. Its shaft is down 3900 feet, or only sixty feet short of three-quarters of a mile. The heat at that depth is 108 degrees. The chance of a lifetime to get a good On <als Monday morning. Best value ever offered in this city for the money, worth twice our price. Soiid selected osk, golden A beveled French piate mirror, carved work on tov and front of base, ele- iratien ahove: cur price $11.00; come in Monday. A. B, SMITE 128-132 ELLIS ST., above Powell, How would it do for yous Masked Men Lynch Negro Murderers. | grocer to sell poor stuff or dear CLEVELAND, Miss., March 19.—A mob of masked men stormed the jail | Stuff as he sells Schilling’s here last night and secured Fayette Sawyer and Burke Parris, negroes, charged with the murder of a negro porter, and hanged them from the railroad ” bridge, Best? - Moneybacky