The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 7, 1904, Page 3

"HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1904. BOTH FACTIONS IRE PACTFIED Two Wings of (‘olorado Re- publicans Unite and In- dorse the Administration R, HONORS ARE DIVIDED e (onvention Lauds Governor Peabody and Instruets Delegates for Roosevelt | HDENVER 6.—The R—publican‘ Siate nominate a delega- I3 t Convention at Chi- aside all personal and which have div- past and agreed as delegates and equally divided and anti-Woleott P: is a complete resident Rr‘(\;rxfi" and order old h as prot reaffir aw E Peabody, Walsh, jorses the adminis- sevelt and con- HE GOOD - SAYS A BREED SMOOT CITIZEN Senator Is Confident That ill Be Able 10 Retain His Seat in the He Senate. NEW ADVERTISEMENT& HAIR NATURALLY ABUNDANT. When It Is Free of Dandruff It Grows Luxuriantly. SOZ(IDIIHT ~ Tooth Powder S ew Patent Top Can. Compare quantity and guality with others. Sozodont is economy., conviction of or _empioyes rd . _Report promptls i Citizens’ Allianc v Department, Crossiey bullaing. E COMMITTEE, CITIZENS ALLIANCE. Money goes further ir iTRADE SHOWS - MILD ADVANCE |Good Weather Helps Farm- i rs, but Business Fails in | Exceptional Stimulal:ionil | JOBBERS ARE SATISFIED f \ | | Conservatism Is Noticeable! ( in Buying, but Prospects Are Reported Encouraging NEW YORK, May 6.—Bradstreet's | to-morrow will say: “The expected | | good weather has at last materialized and hase helped farmers and retail trade | !in seasonable Crop prepara- | tions and planting has made especial- | | ly good progress, the present outlook | | being that while the winter wheat crop | will be short, the acreage in spring! ! ts and corn will be heavily | goods. increas: Retail and wholesale trade, how- ever, has not experienced the stimula- | tion earlier looked for, there being a d sition so far to regard results as below expectations. The iron trade is quieter, with prices distinctly weaker. | On the other hand, less than the usual | number of May day strikes have oc- | curred, and this year so far makes a | more favorable showing than did 1903. | Failures ure little more than normal | n number. . H Detailed dispatches to Bradstreet's | | show a dispositon to conservatism in | buying both for reorder purposes and | | for fall delivery. Eastern jobbers are | inclined to take a more favorable view | | of trade, now that good weather is| | stimulating the retail demand. “Hides are firm. Labor troubles cur- | { tail activity in lumber and building | | materials in some centers. Copper | | tends downward on enlarged produc- 1 tion and less eager demand | Wheat, including flour, exports for | ! week ending May b agsregate | | 1,192,718 bushels, against 1,101,950 bush- els last week and 3,201,680 bushels this | week last year. From July 1, 1903, to the date, they aggregate 122,89 bush- | | ainst 190,095,165 bushels last year. | | in the United States for |% the week ending May 5 number 17, | LOS ANGELES, May 6.—Very little against 185 last week and 175 last Year. | progress was made by the Methodist | In Canada failures for the week num- | o /0" oo e 10 day. but the ber 18, as against 24 last week and 15 =2 o Ehis Sk i yELE azs® business is being so shaped and sys- R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review of | tematized that with a few more ses- | tr to-morrow will say: | sions to clear away the vast quantity ewhat better retail distribution | of preliminary matters the work will s followed improvement in tempera- | proceed smoothly and rapidly. The but it seems too late to recover yarious important committees held | arge part of the tardy season’s in- : = 5 : On & 1D | their first meetings this afternoon at a in textiles and footwear, and in style has rendered una- church in his fifty-nine years as min- ister and Bishop. change ailable much silk machinery. Struct- | This, in brief, epitomizes the work ural work is incr ing, but dealers | one by the conference and committees wulated large supplies or | to-day. materials, and prices lack | The request of Bishop Merrill to be seasonable firmness. Commodity prices | placed on the superannuated list was 9 ed slightly during April. Rail- not unexpected by the delegates. In nings in April were 5.8 per cent last year. in iron and st indus- again retarded by the unexpect- presenting his request for retirement Bishop Merrill read an interesting pa- per to the delegates reciting his e perfences as minister during the com- of the ore association. | parati history of the church exceptionally | in this country and later as a member ctions it was natural that of the Board of Bishops. vestern hide markets should be- et n e ¥ come iractive. Prices remain firm,| MAKES FEELING ADDRESS. e “I began my official service to the church on Apr 5. 1845, at Greenville, Ohio,” said Bishop Merrill. “I am now in the seventy-ninth Commercial failures this week in the d States are 206, against 202 last 241 the preceding week and 176 e wee i ‘vr:x ;‘“':.‘ e ,",:"fh half-dozen different churches and .. Operations for fu-| made a fair start in the business be- | ts are carried on with | fore them. The resignation of Ser caution, and this dispos! to avoid Bishop Stephen M. Merrill of Chicag? excessive ments will do much | was presented to the conference and » reduce the number of failures. referred to the committee on episc n ements in collections. particu- | pacy, with instructions to report to the outh and ‘West, will General Conference, with resolutions coneerns. The per-| commendatory of the great service | tories has increased, | Bishop Merrill has rendered to the year of my age | | the same week last year. Failures in | and the fifty-ninth in the service -of | Canada number 17, against 16 last | the church. If the General Conference | ear.” should meet a year hence 1 would e have been zble to round out sixty | STRIKERS GIVEN UNTIL { years of active service. But as the MONDAY TO RETURN | conference does not meet as 1 do B not care to face the responsibilities of Santa Fe Officials Will Not Consider |47 active Bishop for the next quad- Any Proposition Machinists | rennium, T deem it wise to ask the | May Offer | General Conference to place me in su- | | S - perannuated relation to the church | TOPEKA, Kans., May 6.—The strik- ing Santa Fe machinids will be given | man to take my place.” until Monday morning 1o resume their Bishop Merrill referred feelingly to places with the company. Notices to | his relations with the ministers of the this effect w be posted at all the | church during his general superintend- shops in the Santa Fe system to-mor- | ency, and declared that he relinquished row, on the order of General Manager | his place as an active worker “free dge. J. D. Buckalew, third vice | from bias or prejudice against a living | dent of the Machinists’ Union, to- | soul.” night offered to submit to the Santa | The aged Bishop was given a warm | when he came forward to its con- gave the ‘‘Blessed Fe adopted by the executive committee of reception read his address, and upon the union in Washington. He was in- | clusion the audience arose, formed that the Santa Fe would have | Chautauqua salute and sang no dealings with the union whatever. | Be the Tle That Binds.” Mudge absolutely refused to consider | The only other any proposition Buckalew had to of- | considered by the General Conference ! fer. .to-day was the resolution offered yes- DENVER, May 6.—Arguments ‘n the | terday by Dr. J. F. Goucher, as fol- | management a new set of rules habeas corpus case of President Moyer | lows: | of the Western Federation of Miners, “Rescved, That a committee of fif- who is held by the military at Telluride, | teen be appointed, to consist of one | were concluded in the Supreme Court | minister and one layman from each | to-day. Attorneys for both sides will | General Conference district and one at | file supplementary briefs early next | large, whose duties shall be to report week and the court will take the case | back to this General Conference not under advisement. In the usual course | later than May 16 a regrouping of the of proceedings a decision can be ex- | annual conferences inthe General Con- | pected in about ten days. | ference districts, so as to secure, as - e ———— | nearly as may be, equal representation, CALIFORNIAN IS HURT ‘ha\'ml: due regard, however, to prox- BY AN AUTOMOBILE | Imity of territory and similarity of in- | terest.” George W. Parker of San Francisco Probably Fatally Injured in BISHOPS TO BE ELECTED. After debate as to what should be Kalamazoo. | done with this resolution had dragged KALAMAZOO, Mich., May 8.— |along for more than an hour, some one George W. Parker of San Francisco, | suddenly discovered that there was a | president of the Pacific Coast Gypsum | specific rule of the General Conference Company, was run down by an auto- | Which provided for its reference to the | mobile amd probably fatally injured | committee on boindaries, and it was to-day. His shoulder and three ribs | S0 ordered. were broke: Opinion on the subject of the number | of bishops that probably will be elected at this conference can scarcely be gauged so early in the session. There are advocates of more missionary bish- ops, which would mean a less number of superintendent bishops. and vice versa. Then, too, there is the question of a negro bishop to be taken into con- FIRE IN A HOTEL One Is Burned to Death and Many Have Close Call at Turret, Colorado. important subject | SALIDA, Colo, May 6—Raymond Zooks, a young miner, was burned to death and six other persons had a nai row escape from being cremated in a fire that destroyed Hotel Turret, a two- story wooden structure at Turret, a lmlnlu camp, twelve miles north of Balida. Schilling’s Best, a great dea further ; besides the comfort ¢ “feeling safe; you know you wre safe. sideration. There are at present three vacancies in the list of active bishops, two by death and one, that of Bishop Merrill, by reason of retirement. The committee on episcopacy, before which the very important subject of additional bishops will be referred, probably will not take it up for several days, at least and elect a younger and more active | | | speakers include half a 'METHODIST GENERAL CONFERENCE IS SYSTEMATIZING ITS BUSINESS Resignation of Senior | Bishop Stephen M. Merrill of Chicago Is Presented and Re- ferred to the Committee on Episcopacy | | half a dozen at Putnam. STORM LEAVES TRAIL OF RUIN Many People Are Killed and Drowned in Fierce Hurri- cane in Northern Texas SR CROPS BADLY DAMAGED Tornado Sweeps Train From Railroad Track apd Two Negroes Lose Their Livesi EEEDO T IR B ST. LOUIS, May 6.—A special to the Republic from Dallas, Texas, says: The tornado in Northwest Texas last night killed Mrs. Mary Wagley, her daughter Anna and Gecrge Anthony, at Moran. A dozen persons were se- verely but not fatally injured. At Putnam one man was killed and one woman was injured. Their names | have mot yet been learned. A negro; cabin was swept into the Brazos River, five miles above the Texas and Pacific Railroad crossing and three negroes | were drowned. I8 A wreck train was blown from the | | railroad track near " Crescent and | | George Sommers and Wiliiam Apple, | | negro laborers, were drowned. Twenty | houses were wreckéd at Moran and Hundreds of | | head of livestock are reported killed in | Shackleford and adjoining counties. Crops were badly injured by the wind, | rain and hail. Wire service is still | badly crippled and reports as to further fatalities to-night are still incomplete, | but it is believed that lives were lost in | isolated places that will swellfthe total number to twenty. Railroad property | has suffered heavily in the northwest Texas storm area. i ST. LOUIS, May 6.—A special to the | Republic from Houston, Tex., says: | Storm news is coming in very slowly, | but it is certainly known that there| | have been many deaths in different | parts of the State. Among the known dead are Will Perry at Harrisburg, | killed by lightning; Mrs. Allen Dennis, G. W. Mason and a child of S. T. Har- per of Goldthwaite. Luther Rudd, Al- len Dennis, Mrs. S. F. Harper and | child and Joe Griffith are also badly | hurt at the latter place. | The damage to cotton and corn crops will be heavy. The damage to property | will run into the hundreds of thousands | of dollars. | At Ruby, John Mullen's house was wrecked. Mr. and Mrs. Mullen were carried nearly 100 yards by the wind and Mrs. Mullen is believed to be fatal- ly hurt. W. Spurlock, 14 years of | age, was Killed. i At Sunset nearly twenty buildings were wrecked, but no person was fatal- | 1y hurt. HAMILTON, Texas, May 6.—A tor-| nado mnear Star Mountain, in Mills | County, destroyed five houses, killing | George Mason and blowing away one of his children. The child not ex- pected to live. Dr. E. Bekooker’s house | & was demolished and one child killed and | other members of his family injured. | The house of a Mr. Rayburn was de- | stroyed, injuring four of the family. WICHITA FALLS, Texas, May | tornado at Holliday station to-night | | demolished the schoolhouse and manv‘ other buildings. Sam Horton, teacher | | of the public school, was fatally injured | and Henry Riggs suffered a broken arm. i — — — —_— 1 s it has had time to digest the | WINNIPEG 1S DAMAGED i nok MpHl L s BY HEAVY FLOODS situation. The proposal to book concerns of the church will claim | much attention as soon as the book committee gets to work. It was said by one of the members of that com- mittee to-day that it appears now that the eommittee will recommend that th= proposal to combine be referred to a special commission. Pentecostal meetings are being held | | daily at the Temple Baptist Church. These meetings are of the revival d, addressed by well known revivalists, | including several Bishops, and attended by great crowds of church people. Bishop C. C. McCabe is one of the leaders of these meetings. COMMITTEES IN SESSION. A series of lectures by visiting church dignitaries are a feature of the evening entertainments at the Pa- vilion and at Simpson Auditorium. The dozen of the Bishops, Dr. J. M. Buckley, Dr. T. B, Neely and others. | The committee on episcopacy held an executive session late in the after- noon, but nothing of an important na- | ture transpired. The committee will meet again next Monday afternoon, when, it is expected, the question of new and additional Bishops will be taken up. The committee on itinerancy vened in its first business session dur- ing the afternoon and listened to the memorials from the various district conferences to the General Conference on the subject of restoring the minis- terial time limit. Ten memorials were read and referred to a sub-committee of fifteen, which will hear all memori- als on this subject and report to the main committee next Friday with their recommendations of action on the sub- ject. The committee then adjourned until next Monday. —_——— POLITICAL BOOM LOST IN A:- STRAY TRUNK “Uncle Joe” Cannon Says His Vice Presidential Prospect Disappeared 2 With His Baggage. CHICAGO, May 6.--The Cannon Vice Presidential boom is lost. “Uncle Joe” himself is authority for this. Two of the Speaker's trunks are also on the missing list. Speaker Cannon, before leaving Chicago this afternoon for his home in Danville, discovered that his two trunks were gone. Search of the Auditorium baggage-room and inquiries at the depot and transfer of- fice failed to give a clew as to their whereabouts. As he was hurrying to the train pression on the political situation. “Not a word,” answered the Speak- er with emphasis. Then he added: “I've lost my two trunks. That Vice Presidential boom is in one of them.” Cannon indulged in a few adjectives, then smiled at the thought of the loss of his Vice Presidential boom and pro- ceeded on his way. ' - combine the three | con- | he was asked for an ex- | Expensive Dam Is Washed Away and Other Property Is in Grave Danger. Manitoba, May 6.—The WINNIPEG, | Company’s | ) i | Grandon Electric Power | $100,000 dam on the Saskatchewan | | River has been washed away. The | | power house is in danger and the | Bighteenth street bridge and the city | water pumping station may also be’ :s\\epl away. The flats are flooded and | several industrial concerns are at a | standstill. e Fire on Thousand Islands. WATERTOWN, N. Y, May 6—At Thousand Island Park, in the St. Law- | rence River, a fire raged to-day for | several hours, destroying nine cottages, | badly damaging six others and threat- | ening large hotel properties. Loss $50,- i i | Valley has been | rescued from their homes, ) who ARE RECEDING Flood thuatlon at Kansas City Is Improved, but the Rain Has Not Ceased TRAFFIC IS RESUMED In Some Places Many Persons Were Imperiled, but No Casualties Occurred ! KANSAS CITY, May 6.—The flood | situation here was greatly improved | to-day, although a steady rain contin- ues to fall. No further damage is ex- pected. The city’s water supply, which had been materially lessened by the| breaking of a big water main and the | damage done to another was practi- cally restored to-day and street cars | are again running. At Rosedale, Kan., a suburb, the several hundred familles who were driven from their homes re- | turned to them to-day, the water hav- ing receded and the bridge connecting the stockyard district with Armour- dale, which was threatened, is now be- | lieved to be safe. The rainfall along the Kansas River comparatively light, and as the fall north of here was not great, it is believed that the Missouri River will carry off the excess water and that no flood damage will result zlong that stream. The rainfall in-this vicinity for the ! gntly | past twelve hours amounted to over four inches. The rainstorm extend- ed from Brunswick, Mo., to Wichita, Kan., but was most severe around Kansas City. At Rosedale many persons had to be but no one was drowned nor was any one hurt. Train service several railroads and one train, Southeastern Limited on the road, southbound, was stalled for eigh- teen hours. e —e———— OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF the Washington Departments Make Postal Changes and Issue Orders for Army and Navy. WASHINGTON, May 6.—Postmas- ters commissioned—California—Henry F. Rock, King River; Viola Beckley, Paradise. New J. Meserve, offices—Washington—Lincoln Globe, Pacific County; William A. Frank, Warwick, Klickitat County. Alaska—A. Charles Williams, Catalla. Changes—Fourth-class postoffices— Spanish RancH, Plumas County, Charles A. Sheldon, vice William M. Cleaveland, resigned. Navy orders—Captain B. D. Pender | is detached from the naval station at | ntinue | Honolulu, H. T., and will e under treatment at the naval hospital, Mare Island, Cal. Edward L. Rogers of California is | appointed a forest ranger. —————— MEMBERS ARE EXPELLED FROM TWO EXCHANGES | Three Men of New York Ousted Be- | cause of Irregularities in Transactions. NEW YORK, May 6.—The expulsion of three members of the Consolidated Stock Exchange and the Petroleum Ex- change was announced to-day. The expelled members are W. Grant Hoage, is said to have been connected with the firm of Longley, Hale & Co.; M. E. Halley and A. H. Page. The expulsions were made on charges that these members had engaged in irregu- lar transactions. —————— Disastrous Forest Fires. NEGAUNEE, Mich, the Upper Peninsula by forest fires. If rain does not come soon the losses will be enormous. Loggers are out day and night trying to save the product | of their winter’s labor. e Californian Killed by a Train. LEXINGTON, Neb., May 6.—Joseph Gibbs, a passenger on a Union Pacific ! train, was killed to-day in attempting to board the train. He was on the way | from his California home to Pitts- | burg. was demoralized on | Frisco | THE PACIFIC COAST | May 6.—Exten- | sive damage is being done throughout | Gl WATERS [MILLER TELLS STRANGE STORY Heir to Share in a Million | Dollar Estate "Still Too ! Weak to Leave Hospital | WILL RETURN TO EAST | Denies That He Left Home After Having Had a Fall- ing Out With His Father Spectal Dispatch to The Call. i SACRAMENTO, May 6.—Seated In a ward in the County Poorhouse, George Miller was kept busy to-night answering telegrams from his lawyers with reference to the affairs of the million-dollar estate in Brooklyn, N. Y., of which he discovered last night he was an heir. Miller was visited to- night at the County Hospital, as the | home for the sick and iIndigent Is called, and to The Call correspondent Tteld his story. | “A month ago to-day,” sald Miller, | “I arrived in Sacramento without a cent of money and stopped at a cheap lpdging-house. I had been ill, but had apparently cured myself with simple remedies. But soon after I came to Sacramento I found I was afflicted | with typhoid fever and that unless I received care I would die. An ac- quaintance told me I should apply to Supervisor Brooke for a permit to en- ter the County Hospital, and I did so. I had a terrible siege, but although I was without a friend or a cent of money the doctors and nurses were good to me and you see I am well | again, though a trifle weak. I learned last night through a telegram received by Superintendent White that my ('harl!s Miller, had died in N. Y. leaving a million- | dollar esra!t of which I as his only son am one of the heirs, with my mother and six sisters. “I have read in the dispatches to- day that I had a falling out with my father. That is not the case. I was an entry clerk and tea taster in my | father’s great wholesale house in | Brooklyn. In Junme, 1900, with my ;{a(her‘s consent, I started for San | Francisco on a steamer by way of | Panama. I landed in San Fran- | cisco with $2250 in my pockets. I | will not tell what I did with the money, but I spent much of it and later in San Luis Obispo I was robbed I was ashamed or rather too proud to write to my folks for help. I went to work as a track- | walker for the Southern Pacific at Santa Barbara at $150 a day. Then | I worked for contractors as a laborer on railroad construction work and afterward as a miner in Mariposa County. I have worked very hard, but I never asked my relatives for a cent. | It always was my intention to return | home, but after I was robbed in San | Luis Obispo I resolved to earn my | money by my own labor, but it was | no easy matter, I tell you. I suppose my folks would not have heard from | me for some time if it had not been that a friend of mine in the East, to | whom I recently wrote, told them of | my presence here. I shall return | East, probably Wednesday night. My | father expected to retire from business | in January, and so until I return East | I cannot tell whether I shall take up his business or what I shall do.” Miller is 31 years old. He shows the effcts of his long siege of fever, but is rapidly regaining his strength. ——————— HEAVY GOLD SHIPMENTS 1 ARE MADE TO FRANCE | of the rest. | 5. P. Morgan Sends Two Millions and Other Firms Almost Double | the Amount. | NEW YORK, May 6.—A shipment of $2.500,000 gold by Saturday's steamer was announced to-day by J. P. 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