The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 26, 1904, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1904. ATH CLOSES NAPA LAWYER'S BRIGHT CAREER| MANY KILLED [CHINESE PRINCE (o€ BY A TORNADO| NATION'S GUEST Storm Strikes Indian 'l‘erri-i.\'ephew of Emperor Kwang tory Towns, Leaving Death | Su Is Received by Presi- | and Ruin in Its \\'ake_ dent in the White House| DEAD NUMBERTHIRTEEN BRINGS UNIQUE LETTER | | ! ——e ———— 1 | | | Missive From His Sovereign Cyclone Cuts Path Mile and { Is Written Upon a Strip of | a Half Wide, Demolishing Evervthing in Its Way| Beautifully Woven Silk | FA LAND, L T 5.—Several WASHINGTON, April | | ¥ houses . by Pu Lun, nephew to the Emperor of“ i wdo that sw through here ves- China and his personal representative | at the St. Louis Exposition, was offi- | cially received by President Roosevelt | at the White House to-day. The ceremonies occurred in the blue room and were attended by the mem: bers of the suite attending the Prince, by the Chinese Minister, Sir Gheng- persons outright Three The dead ST Houck POPE FRIEND OF THE NEGRO His Holiness Expresses a Strong Interest in the N\ | | Welfare of Colored Race| EDITOR LETTER TO MORNON SECT IS PROCRESSIVE Judge Powers Says Its Institutions of Learning Rank With Best in Country Sl el b ROBERTS AS A MOSES Kansas Man Makes Ap- peal to Pontiff for Media tion in Behalf of Blacks | | | | TOPEKA, Kans, April 25.—Nick Chiles, proprietor of the Topeka Plain- dealer, a negro paper published in this city, to-day received a letter from Pope Pius X. The Western Negro Press ' Association, of which Chiles is president, at its annual meeting, had | adopted a resolution urging the Pope to use his good offices for the better treatment of the negro race in this | i | WIFE AND i ITLI tung Liang Cheng, the members of country. The Pope’s letter was as fol- | } r miles south of here the tornado | the legation staff and Colonel | lows: en more severe Farmhouses Thomas W. Symonds, who was de- “To Mr. Nick Chiles, president of the and barns were demolished and farm |tailed by the President to attend Western Negro Press Association—Sir: stock kille 3 1 | Prince Pu during his stay in V\ash-i His Eminence, Cardinal Gibbons, Arch- Py R CREEK, 1. T., April ix ington 3 bishop of Baltimore, has transmitted NarScns wer by & tornado which Prince Pu brought to this country | | to me for transmission to his Holiness, . hroug county about four a letter to President Roosevelt from |- - | a copy of the resolution passed by the f € t night. Reports his royal uncle, Emperor Kwang Su, ( PROMI l‘rfl%};:fi\'.;lég. ‘Western Negro Press Association on pumbk s . . =1 THO! y < u . 4 a number of which was written on a strip of beau ot e g B August B, 1903, at Colorado Springs, ed names of two tifully woven silk four feet long and | . . | Colo.,, U. S. A, and which you have two feet wide. It was folded in three folds, with the upper end handsomely embroidered. The letter, which was in a magnificent lacquered box, on lhel top of which was the imperial druxon1 JOHN ABBOTT, WIFE AND TWO REN | Thomas: Hutchinson Passes| Away at Scene of His | al ather), of China, was as follows: 1 S itling, 188 | 7Tne Emveror of China to the President of | uccesses. K the United States of America—Greeting: From | -l o slotn starts ar Choteax, &8 encement of China's friendly inter- = « g gt < urse with the United States the relations| NAPA, April 25.—Thomas B. Hutch- ri, K Texas Rail- between the two countries have been grow- | . e nd swept closer eve: ¥ Now the | inson, one of the most prominent at- | ernational expo- | h a mile me was of | torneys and citizens of Napa, passed |away at his home shortly after noon to-day. He was taken ill about a { month ago, but his death to-day came as a shock to the community. Hutchinson was a native of Buxton, Maine, and thirty-six years of age. | Death was due to diabetes. He moved ! to Napa from Calistoga fourteen years ago and had been prominent in poli- tical circles in this county and State for some vears. He was City Attorney hundredth annivers the object o every coun products and for purpose of tresh we rs Dealy ing the injur- fatally | of your forwarded through your senior Sena- tor, J. R. Burton of Kansas. “I have much pleasure in assuring you that his Holiness has read the resolution with interest and sympathy and I am commissioned to thank you and all your associates. The sovereign Pontiff is well aware that there are many Catholics among the negroes of the United States and this knowledze increases his interest in the welfare race. His Holiness, as the vicar of Christ. extends his loving care to every race without exception and he must necessarily use his good offices to urge all Catholics to befriend the negroes, who are called to share in all | the great benefits of the redemption. “The life and example of St. Peter Claver and of so many other Catholic missionaries are there to show that this is not a new congeption of the apostolate entrusted to the church of YOUTHS HELD ILLEG l)‘ A REI'ORM SCHOOL Decision in Burglary Case in Salt Lake Important ses an Issue. ¢ t Ogden nstitution ed b RS S B TREATY WITH RUSSIA IS COMPLETED NEW Compact Litigation ileges Is Providing rive Too Late for Rati- fication. T. PETERSBURG Was eign ( this ts normal ADVERTISEMENTS. LK CONDENSING C°: "0 pa R A O & e £, e 4k paren F Cut the Can and compare the quality of Pet Brand Evaporated Gream with any of its imitations, Note the difference. See how smooth and appetizing our product is, owing to its heavy consistence, which keeps the butter fat equally distributed, in contrast with the cheap and thin imita- tions which aliow the but- ter fat to rise and form unsightly clods. It pays to do business gener- ously. Best. and the prices only enough ta pay for the quality, _ Meneyback. The propf: Schilling’s Full-strength and pure, POLICE SEARCHING FRAUDUL! T FOR PROMOTER Man Who Maintained Expensive Of- fices in Wall Street Suddenly Disappears. April searching for Paul Sheldom; a la i promoter of half a dozen con- rated in New Jersey, who by Mrs a L. Fitch and brother, of this ecity, with having certed his own use $15,000, S of Standar cates placed by them in his core Sheldon and his partner n luxurious offices in Wall stree cording to those conducting the search, ¥ en seen there during the past s not ¥ three weeks. The last clew they have been able to find is t he suddenly ft rarding-house with his w! who s Miss Davis of Kenton, Oh ard he daughter of the for- n that distr aid to be t nee & ying that he wished to place his wife in a private hospital. A thorough search of those institutions as failed to show any trace of her. el S e GERMAN BOOK ATTACKS THE MONROE DOCTRINE Author Declares That Conditions To- Day Do Not Warrant Such a Policy. April 25.—Professor Muen- BERLIN, sterberg has written a twe-volume book, “The Americans,” which a Ber- lin publisher wili bring out next week. The newspapers print extracts from it to-day in hapter on the Monroe doctrine, author says he thinks the time is near when the absurdity of | the doctrine will be seen and the re- jection of it wiil proceed as rapidly as the adoption of imperialism by the | masses of the people proceeded, “for a nation cannot permanently run counter | to its highast interests for the sake of | caprice.” The professor argues that the conditions no longer exist which gave rise to the dcctrine, namely, the con- | trast between Europe as the land of tyranny and America as that of demo- cratic freedom. e WILL CASE MAY GO { TO SUPREME COURT iled to Carry Sullivan Liti- gation to the Highest Tribunal. WASHINGTON, April —In the Supreme Court to-day in the case in- volving the estate of the Seattle | (Wash.) millionaire, the late John Sul- { livan, petition was filed to-day for a writ of certiorari to bring the case to | this court and was prevented by At- torney Frederick McKinnex. A mo- tion also was entered to dismiss the case by Senator Mitchell and W. F. ition 25 Kinney appears for Hannah O. Callahan and Edward Corcoran of Ireland, who claim to be relatives of {Sullivan, while Messrs. Mitchell and Hays represent Mary Carrau, to whom it is alleged Sullivan bequeathed his property while on his deathbed. —————— ¥FIND WRECKAGE OF THE LAST DISCOVERY WASHINGTON, April 25.—A quan- tity of wreckage, including three doors, several life preservers and the top of the after house from the Nome steamer Discovery, which was lost off Yakutat early in November, has been picked up on the beach of Middletown Island, Alaska. Walter Storey, a Kadiak merchant, writes that the wreckage was found November 17. About twenty-five people went down on the Discovery. The first wreckage from the vessel was found November # at the mouth of Seal River, udden disap-| of the town of Calistoga, the Bank of Napa, trustee of the Methodist church, and was a delegate to the Methodist Episcopal General Conference soon to be held at Los An- geles. His wife and four children sur- vive him. In his death the Napa bar loses one of its brightest members and the com- munity one of foremost citizens. His boyhood was spent in Calistoga at the head of the valley. There he re- ceived all the schooling it was his to His native ability was quickly recognized by his fellow townsmen and by the time he reached the voting age he was urged into politics and sent to the county convention which met in this city. BRI VAN BRUNT LAID TO REST. Claims a New Yorker Well Known in California. NEW YORK, April —Rutgers Bergen Van Brunt, whose funeral was Death held to-d Jamaica, Long Island, was at one ne prominent in mining interests and was known to a wide cir- cle, both in the East and on the Pa- cific Slope. He died the Bloomingdale Plains, last Thursday in Asylum at White where he had been for a year. The cause of his death was tuberculo- and 1902, when he had a nervous breakdown, he had been un- able to attend to his business affairs. He was son of Tunis Van Brunt, a descendant of one of the oldest Knick- 8 ty. Most were in Ca sis, since where he was id mining several for several years manager of a Cal- companies. He was ifornia ranch owned by Frederick Gebhard, who was one of his friends. Van Brunt's last business connec- tion was as manager of the Oregon {ining and Water Company, which is controlled by the Belmont interests. He was attacked in June, 1902, with nervous prostration while in San Francisco and was sent to a sanita- rium. Extravagant stories were circu- lated at that time about his hallucin- ation that he was a member of the| British nobility and his demands that he be greeted as “Lord Rexford.” ot "Napa County Pioneer Dead. NAPA, April —Henry Hardin Thomas died at his home near Oak | Knoll, four miles north of Napa, ear- ly this morning. Last night he suf- fered a stroke of apoplexy, the third ensued. He w: | tv's foremost c business circles and prominently iden- tified with politics here for many | years. He came across the plains in 1849 with his parents. He went with i them to reside first in Honoma Coun- | tv, -afterward removing to Yuba | County, where he grew to manhood {and married. He subsequently came ;wim his family to Napa County and | since 1892 had made his home on his |large fruit ranch at Oak Knoll. At {the time of his death he was a mem- |ber of the Democratic County Cen- | tral Committee and a director of the | Napa Agricultural Association. There {survive him a widow, six sons and | three daughters, all residing here ex | cept B. F. Thomas of Kelseyville and | Monroe Thomas, an attorney of Palo | Alto. Deceased was 62 years of age and a native of Missouri. e Taps Sound for War Hero. LOS ANGELES, April 25.—The Rev. William Pittenger, known the country over as $n eloquent preacher, orator and writer, and the first man who re- ceived a medal of honor from Congress for distinguished service in the Civil ‘War, is dead. He was buried to-day at | Fallbrook. During the second year of the war Pittenger was one of a party of men one of Napa Coun- raid into the enemy’s country. In the heart of the Confederacy they saw a crew leave its train and go into a res- taurant, when the . Andrews party boarded the engine and ran away with the train. When the Confederates se- cured a switch engine they began an exciting chase, which lasted 100 miles director of | ntified with ! in the last month, and death shortly | ens, being active in ! picked to make the thrilling Andrews | Christ “While frankly admitting that crimes may often be committed by members of the negro race, his Holi- ness advocates for them the justice granted to other men by the laws of the land and a treatment in keeping with the terets of Christianity. “I am confident that these senti- ments are shared by the vast majority of the great American people and by those who are responsible for the cus- | tody of the principles underlying the American Constitution. “R. CARD. MERRY DEL VAL.” Chiles had given a copy of the reso- lution to Senator Burton, who sent it to Cardinal Gibbons. He in turn for- wazded" it to Rowne. The letter from the Pope came through Cardinal Gib- | bons. i —_——r——————— VANDALS BREAK STATUES IN FRENCH EXHIBIT ST. LOUIS, April 25.—It was dis- covered to-day that vandals had entered the French pavilion at the World's Fair and destroyed two of the most beautiful of the Parisian marble statues in the sculpture exhibit. The statues were “I'Etoile du Berger” (the shepherd’s star), by Rpesel and “St. Jean,” by Dubois, which had been thrown to the floor and broken into bits. Six rose trees from the French garden were stolen. The French com- missfoners say their loss in the de- struction of the statues is irrecoverable. —_————— Presidential Appointiments. WASHINGTON, April —The President to-day sent the following | nominations to the Senate: Brigadier | general (on the retired Timothy L. Wilcox, assistant surgeon general; United States Marshal, E | ward 8. Wilson, district of Porto Rico. S — » and finally resulted in the capture of the whole party and their imprison- ment at Atlanta as spies. For many months Pittenger was under sentence | of death and confined in a dungeon, but for some reason was not hanged at the time seven of his companions gave up their lives on the scaffold, and before the sentence cculd be executed he and five others overvowered the | guard and made their escape. It was a year before Pittenger was able to make his way back to his regiment. Pittenger was aged 64 and had been in the ministry thirty-nine yvears. He was connected with Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey conferences before coming West. His last South- ern California charge was at Burbank. He had retired last year. Among the books written by Pittenger are ‘‘The Interwoven Gospels,” “Oratory, Sacred and Secular,” “The Extempore Speak- | {er” and “History of the Andrews | Raid.” } —_— WILLIAM DEVERE DEAD. Well Known Actor in Hoyt Plays Passes Away. NEW YORK, Avpril Deveére, an actor who took part in many farces written by the late | Charles Hoyt, is dead at St. Vincent's | Hospital from a complication of dis- eases. | had been ill several months. County, Colo., and achieved consider- able fame as a guardian of the peace among the frontiersmen. He also which gained wide publicity. Lo g Captain C. W. Jackson Dead. ALAMEDA, April 25.—Mrs. C. W. Jackson of 1911 Alameda avenue has received the intelligence of the death | of her husband in Tahiti. He was the captain of the barkentine Tropic Bird, plying between San Francisco and the island of Tahiti. Captain | Jackson leaves besides his wife a daughter, Miss Miriam Jackson. His demise occurred one month ago. —_——— Scenic Treasures of California. Most complete souvenir book ever issued. Pri The. “Mexican Hand Carved Stationery - 50c per box. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 + Market street. ’ § list), Colonel | —William | He was 60 vears of age and | Devere was once Sheriff of Coloragdo ' wrote several poems on Western life, | Supported by the Gentiles in Hope That He Would Check Church Domination WASHINGTON, April 25.—Judge O. ‘W. Powers was on the stand again at the opening of the Smoot investiga- tion before the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections to-day and Attorney Van Cott resumed the cross- examination. He questioned the wit- ness in regard to Mormon interest in educationai affairs. Judge Powers praised the people highly for their ap- plication to trades, professions, arts and the sciences. The that Mormon schools easily ranked with the best institutions of learning in the country. In regard to disinclination of Mor- mons to inform on polygamists, Judge Powers said that no person liked to be called or considered an informer. Ref- erence was made to the attitude of Democrats who were Gentiles in nom- inating Brisham H. Roberts, a Mor- mon, for Congress. “Well,” said Powers, ‘“we thought Roberts was going to be the Moses who would lead us out of our political difficulties. We thought he would take us away from church domination.” Chairman Burrows ascertained from the witness that he knew Apostle He. ber J. Grant, who was now iu Ger- many attending an international kin- dergarten convention,. Chairman Bur- rows desired to ascertain where Gran was now. A subpena has been issued for him, but he has not been reached. “Is there any special reason why Grant left so suddenly?” chairman. “Yes: I understand that a warrant was issued for him and he went to Germany,” replied Powers. Van Cott asked Powers if it was not | well known that Grant was going t Germany before the warrant was is sued. 2 “Oh, yes, was the answer. witness said | asked the | CATARRH DESTROYS THE KIDNEYS. GEORGE KING. — R. GEORGE KING, Deputy Sheriff of Rensselaer Co., N. Y., for years was a well-known merchant of E In a letter from No. 45 King St., Troy, N. Y., he writes: “Peruna cured me from what the doc- tors were afraid would turn into Bright’s writes from 1923 University Ave., St Paul, Minn.: “I contracted a _severe cold several years ago, which from neglect develoned into urinary trouble. and threatened Bright's disease. I used Peruna faith- fully for three and one-half months, when my health was perfect once more. Disease. 2fter 1 had suffered with catarrh of the bladder and kidney trouble. “Peruna is a2 blessing to a sick man. Eight bottles made me a well man and ! were worth more than a thousand dol- | troubled, and I have “I do not | mean that he went to Germany on ac- | count of the warrant, but that he left | town in the night on that account.” _—————— OF ‘;.\'TERI- T TO PEOPLE Ol' THE PACIFIC COAST Washington Departments Make Postal Changes and Issue Army and Navy Orders. WASHINGTON, Anril —The fol- lowing new postoffices have been es- tablished in California Borel, Kern County, Charles E. Timmons, post- master; Gorman, Los Angeles County, James A. McKinzie, postmaster. The following change class postmasters has been announc ed: Palm Springs, Riverside County, D. M. Blanchard, vice Eaton, removed. | | | | i 1 in fourth- Margaret L. | The following orders have been is- sued by the War Department: tain Charles R. Howland, first Infantry, will proceed to San Francisco and report to the command- ing general of the Pacific Division for assignment to temporary duty in charge of the construction of a pro- tected target range at the Presidio; Sergeant Edgar M. Wright, hospital corps, Presidio, transferred to Fort Huachuca, Ariz. The following order has been issued by the Navy Department: Lieutenant M. Stone, detached from the Pen- :olh, at the naval training station, Cap- Concord as navigator. e MUST SEEK COURT AS LAST PROCEDURE started to walk out and was struck in United States Supreme Court Says Chinese Must Exhaust Remedies of Law. WASHINGTON, April United States Supreme Court Twenty- | n Francisco, and assigned to the |the remainder in gold and silver. { i | 25.—In the ' ¢ his former wife and a few papers. an ' His head shows he was beaten. but he opinion was delivered in the case of | was so intoxicated that he cannot give Sing Tuck and thirty-one other Chi- the officers any useful information. He lars to me. of it. I cannot speak too highly It is now four years since I was enjoyed perfect health since.”—George King. {A Prominent Member.of I. 0. 0. F. I have never had any trouble since.”— O. Fred Lindstrom. Catarrhal inflammation of the mucous lining of the kidneys, also 1 “Bright's disease,” may be either acute or chronic. The acute form produces symptoms of such prominence that the serious nature of the disease is at once suspected, but the chronic variety may | come on so gradually and insidiously that its presence is not suspected until after it has fastened itself thoroughly upon its victim. Threatened With Bright’s Disease Pe-ru-na Restored Him to Heaith. At_the appearance of the first symp- tom Peruna should be taken. This rem- edy strikes at once at the_very root of the disease. A book on catarrh sent free by The | Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O. O. Fred Lindstrom, Past Grand Master Independent Order of Odd Fellows, ROBBERS TAKE |0UARREL LEADS HIS CREENBACKS 10 SING SING Eastern Man Drops Into|Life Termer Who Escaped Stockton With a Pocketful| From Prison Sixteen Years of Money and Loses It| Ago Discovered in Nevada ———— STOCKTON, April 25.—John Dost, a large middle-aged man, recently from % 'O, Nev., April 25.—Betrayed by the East, reported to the police t0-day | fepjow prigoners, the famous Colby is to that he was attacked by two men at an | be taken back to Sing Sing prison, in early hour this morning and robbed of | .o York, from Which place e e« his purse containing $28%5. He says he | caped sixteen vears ago. Colby was formerly lived in Columbus, Ohio, | under sentence of life imprisonment for where he owned a saloon. He sold out | murder when he secured his liberty. He several months ago for $3500 and came | made his way west and located in to California. He came to Stockton re- | ;g:d:“:::'l;e;\;ffl;t; rx;lax"z: ‘;e:ln‘lg his money in greenbacks. and kept out of trouble until a few Last night he had $2885 in his pocket ! days ago, when in a drunken fight he in twenty-eight $100 greenbacks and | became involved in a quarrel, was ar- He | rested and sentenced to thirty days in | the County Jail. Constable Golding ar- | rived here to-night with the man, and Special Dispatch to The Call. drank heavily and became intoxicated. Dost played dice with some men in a SGl06H When he had finished he shortly after. placing him in jail Colby | made the admission which will cause ]him to be taken to the prison walls { which he so long sluded. The New | York authorities have been notified. — — of his money. When he changed a $100 ! bill for gold in a iocal bank Saturday | and showed his roll of greenbacks he | was advised to deposit the money, but | said he was able to take care of it. Ha the face by some one. He remembered nothing more until he awoke this morning on the water front. The robbery left him penniless and all he had in his wallet was a picture nese persons held for deportation on |{s very much depressed over the loss ! was then sober. the order of an inspector. The men claimed to be citizens of the United States and sued out writs of habeas corpus, claiming that they were en- titled to a review of their cases before the courts before exhausting the rem- | edies prescribed by the treaty of 1894. The court did not take this view, but held that Chinese must pursue the course outlined in the law, exhausting the remedies there pr vided before applying to the courts. The opinion was by Justice Holmes. Justice Brewer rendered a dissent- ing opinion, in which he characterized the proceedings of the inspectors as a star-chamber process, and said that a Chinese claiming to be a citizen of the United States was entitled to as much protection as an Anglo-Saxon who made that claim. [sAN FRANCISCO GIRL SUCCEEDS IN LONDON, April 5.—Miss Nellie a plucky San Francisco girl, is making fame and fortune here designing book covers and decorations and binding editions de luxe in an ar- tistic way. In her workshop In Bloomsbury square Miss Woolrich has a number of apvrentice giris. who are taught the making of a book from the very beginning. stitching, pasting, lasting and designing. Miss Wool- rich's father acted as Tnited States LONDON 9 | | Woolwich, | Consul in a Mexican city for many yvears. She is well known in San | Francisco. CRUISER IS ORDERED TO PACIFIC STATION WASHINGFON, April 25.—The cruiser Buffalo, which convoyved the torpedo-boat flotilla from Hampton Roads to Cavite, and then started back for Hampton Roads by way of Suez capal and the Mediterranean Sea, has been diverted from that route by a cablegram directed yester- day to Singapore, and ordered to San Francisco by way of the Pacific. 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