The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 26, 1904, Page 1

il R Day. Central—“A Great Temptation.” Columbia—*"0ld Heidelberg.” | Chutes—Vaudevill Grand—“Fedorx. Orpheum—Vaudeville. Matinee To-Day. ' fivoli—:‘ Runaway Girl.” Possible Case.” Were Matines To- SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, MAY ;."6, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. OHIO'S DEMOCRATS A DOPT UNIT RULE AND ELECT AN . Harmon Faction Triumphs in Convention. JState Platform Ig- nores National " Questions. COLUMBUS 25.—The Dem- here to-day ket: Sandles of g P P. J. Renner, Cin- Court—Peter Mahaft- nmissioner—Q. f Public Works— Springfield. John A. McDow- J. Pearson of sy g and A There e three Presidential ele- ments ir - The Hearst men ortg anted instructions, but fiy h opposition to the x ds of Colonel James ho was the for Governor ted indorsement. armon of Cin- eral un- neither indorse- structions, but the unit . n men won. the briefest in the his- State literature, was from Cincinnati of & two-cent-a- nk that was add- convention. The were co-operating with the conserva- two-.cent fare fr the ecities, would be incon- ar to defeat this resolu- a feature of the State vear. The vote, how- close on the two-cent d the majority for nly 65 out of a total of delegates and alternates at med by the conservatives. wh als ned ty of the Ohio iistrict delegates heir poll of the « delegatior Louis is: Con- mon), 36; and that under conservatives gation more plank of the platform of Ohio, while iving Demo- again de- rec- n entions enunciat - GIVYES UP NEBRASKA HEARST ara HA. Neb —“Hearst State,” is by Louis iered the Hearst this an- s sig n were no fight ir iva- simply to boom suc- he Douglas adopt resolu- ambitious can- time the = idoned his fight on of Judge Par- ion made to-day Brocklyn Demo- of Tam- leader save had several talks with Mur- phy,” Shevlir ard has told - that he wou yt instruc- of the convention and - nd work and nomination of Judge TR e A Alabama Is for Parker. SOMERY, Ala., May State Convention wa ntgomery to-day Al uctions were given, the pted recite that at the Judge Parker is the most acceptable candidate for for the Presidency and ntiment of the convention S s for Parker. May The ate convention to-night ntil 16 o’clock to-morrow. Frazer was nominated to as Governor and a ing delegates to the ationzl convention to vote for the -momination of Judge Parker of New York for President and to vote as a unit on all questions was adopted. AR 3 Bryan Scores a Victory. OMAHA, Neb., May 25.—The .con- test in the Democratic primaries of Douglas County to-day resulted in an overwhelming victory for the Bryan forces. The result is an endorsement -‘of Bryan for delegate at large to the Bational convention. in nothing | ANTI-HEARST DELEGATION ] 4 \ Vi @l725) L s ) TOANSON - oo oo - ." RIVAL LEADERS OF THE SUCCESSPUL “'C !\'SERVA‘T:“'E“ FACTIONS. OF THE OHIO DEMOCRA! )TH OF WHOM ARE OPPOSED TO THE PRESI- DENTIAL ASPIRATION W. R. HEARST |+ : -t ' \i | MAal I\ - T by ~OF AN HOUR Issues Order Involy-| ing Readjustment | Special 1 ) The Call teh As the result | H. Harri- | 1tatives in of residents nearly 600 { SALT LAKE. May | of an order just issued by man, through his repre Salt Lake City, thousanc of Nevada, representing | miles of inhabited raiiroad district be- tween Ogden, Utah, and Reno, Nevada, | must readjust their habits and watches to conform with mountain time. Here- tofore Pacific time has succeeded | mountain standard at Ogden, but Har- | riman has shoved the dividing line 590 | miles westward. Now the problem confronting Nevadans is as complex as it is urgent, the order going into ef- | fect on Jume 1 A man who retires on Tuesday, May 31, at midnight, will wake up on Wed- nesday, June 1, to find himself an hour | behind time. Whether or not he is | hungry he must eat, not according to | his stomach’s dictates, but to Harri- | man’s order. He must take time by | | the forelock or he will find himseif late | for work, even though nature tells him | all is not well. ‘Order is general,” is the word Har- | riman sent forthi Chickens, then, must crow by the Harriman schedule, not | by the sun. They must roost, not ac- cording to the laws of nature, but in obedience to those sct by the railroad | man. | Drills on. the part of Ogden-Reno ! | people will be in order for the next | week, so large are the possibilities of | misunderstanding. The “skipping a | day problem of the mid-Pacific prom- ises to be outdone by this puzzle evolv- ed by Harriman for the people of Ni vada to solve. In the future many will tell how they | helped to set the Sagebrush State right in the eyes of the great railway mag- nate. ————— | | Professor Mary Roberts Smith Has Been Appointed Assistant at Washington Institution. WASHINGTON, May 25.—Profes- sor Mary Roberts Smith has been named a research assistant by the Carnegie Institution. She has recent- | ly returned from Honolulu and is now engaged at the University of Califor- nia in an investigation of Chinese im- aigration and its economic effect. DIVORC — Court Grants a De- cree to Francis P._Mc()_oll. to The « Dispa 1 CHICAGO, May 25.—Francis P. McColl, millionaire yachtsman and meniber of prominent clubs in New York, San Francisco and Chicago, has been divorced from his wife on the ground of desertion. McColl, who is president of the American Key Can Company and vice president of the sardine “trust,” filed his suit for di- vorce in the Superior Court on April 19 and Judge Chetlain gave a decree to the millionaire on May 20. The charge was that Mrs. Florence Linden McColi deserted him in April, 1901. She was granted alimony of $3000 a year, or § a month. An effort at secrecy has surrounded the case since it was filed, the suit being started while McColl was at the plant of the Sea Coast Canning Com- pany at Eastport, Maine, by Attorney E. H. Long. The millionaire hurried away from Chicago, it is said, just as soon as the bill was prepared. AL the office of the American Key Can Company, 1043 and 1044 Mar- quette building, all information re- garding , McColl has been guardedly given. All knowledge of the divorce suit is disclaimed, both at the offices of McColl and at the plant of the com- pany on Canal street. rs. McColl is said to be a sister-in- law of Colonel W. J. Pope, president of the Pope Manufacturing Company and a multi-millionaire, and her brother, George Linden, is said to be a partner of the American Embassa- der to Italy, George L. von Meyer. irs. McColl is living at vresent in the McColl mansion in Brooklyn with her four daughters, the oldest of whom is 21 vears of age and the youngest 16 years old. McColl lived at the Wellington and Chicago Beach hotels while in Chi- ago and also at the Union League ub. He entertained lavishly and is an expert player of bridge whist as well as a yachtsman. He is a mem-« ber of the Brooklyn Union League Club and of many other prominent clubs throughout the country. —————— Hotel Woman Burns to Death. GREENWOOD, 8. C., May 25.—Fire that started in the Central Hotel to- day caused the death of Mrs. Anna Hosely, proprietress of ‘the hotel. Eighteen stores and the First Na- tional Bank were burned. Loss, $133,- 000, Russians Regist Advance 0 Japanese. Result of Con- lict IS in Dbk, | CHEFU, May 26, 11 a. m.—A | junk which left Dalny on the nig] of the 23d, and which arrived her army had then reached Sanzuripo, which north of Dalny and southwest of Nangalien. | The Russians offered stubborn resistance to the advance of the | Japanese and a battle was fought | at noon of the 22d at Sanzuripo. The result of the battle was not is The advance of the Japanese indi- cates that they have recovered from the reported reverse at Kin- chou. | The Russians at Talienwan have prepared to destroy the town 1 upon the arrival of the Japanese. lTlle Russian plan is to have the | troops on the Liaotung Peninsula | fall back to P%&:\nhur after hawesing the in g 3 From the best information ob- tainable it is learned that the Jap- | anese have landed near Kinchou and are advancing along the rail- way to Port Arthur. Those that landed at Pitzewo are traveling down the east side of the penin- sula to Dalny, and those that landed at Takushan are going to | reinforce the Fengwangcheng army. { PN LT RAZED WOMAN N OLEER ACTS X3 Vietim of Dementia Per- forms Thrilling Anties on a High Window Ledge Special Dispatch to The Call. | Toe | OMAHA, Neb., May 25.—A woman | racing back and forth on the eight- i inch cornish of a downtown hotel held !a large crowd spellbound for twenty | minutes this afternoon before the po- | lice finally saved her from what had | seemed certain death. | Temporarily crazed by illness, Mrs. | Olivia Boyde iiad swallowed a big dose of chloroform liniment and when friends at the hotel tried to administer | an antidote, she broke away from them and climbed through a window ef her room trying to escape. The crowd which quickly gathered below stjll fur- ther. maddened her and sne kept cry- ing incoherently: “Shadows and cats are seeking to kill me.” After she had been racing back and forth on the narrow landing for twen- ty minutes, she was captured and dragged back into the nouse, but she finally broke loose from her captors and ran out from a window on the other side of the building on to the fire escape. There she hung from an iron bar three stories above the ground for several minutes, while blankets were held below to catch her. Eventually the police arrived and succeeded in quieting the woman, Mrs. Boyde, who is a widow, was to have been married next week. She was unable, after quieting Gown, to give any reasons for her strange actions. ——— RAIL CAUSES A SERIOUS WRECK BROKEN Union Pacific Flyer Turns Over and Several Californians Are Is Injured. RAWLINS, Wyo., May 25.—Union Pacific train No. 1, known as the Over- land Flyer, in charge of Conductor Kerrigan and Engineer Robinson, was wrecked to-day near Hallville. The entire train left the rails, one car turning completely over. " The following were seriously injured: H. C. Rapp of Monterey, Cal.; Mrs. James Scobie, San Francisco; Mrs. Mary B. Frazier, San Francisco; Mrs. E. Conaghy, Salt Lake; E. F. Bennett, Saratoga, Wyo. None of them were injured so badly as to be compelled to go to a hospital. A broken rail caused the wreck. to-day, reports that the Japanese | learned by the bearers of the news. | — C.SIKES RIVAL ARMIES IN BATTLE NEAR DALNY Leaders in Better- ment of San Francisco Speak. A\ \ JosEPM A STULZ PRANK J- SyrMMES + MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION CELEBRATES A DECADE OF GREAT CIDIC USEFULNESS — PROMINENT CITIZENS OF THIS ( VOTER A WHO SPOKE LAST E Y T THE BY THE MERCHANTS' ETARY OF THE CHICAGO CENNIAL DINNER GIVEN ASSOCTATION. AND SEx 1 ! il MILLIONS CTAREN FRoM N CLAI Placers in Lower California Rich Special Dispatch to The Call. AUSTIN, Tex., May 25.—The placer gold fields, which were recently dis- covered near Lapaz, Lower California, exceed in richness the placer flelds of the Klondike, according to the state- ments contained in a letter received here to-day from John Boultell, a well-known mining man, who was at- tracted to the new Eldorado several weeks ago. He says that Juan Men- doza, who discovered the new placer field, has cleared more than 35,000,000 in gold from hishpropertles during the ast four months. N Many Americans are flocking to the district and some. of them have ob- tained title to placer claims whick have vielded them big fortunes in the short time they have been working. Boultell says that he has a good claim, which has yielded nearly $80,- 000 in gold, and that it is still good for several times that amount. He asserts that practically all of the good gold claims have been taken up and advises “tenderfoot” Americans to stay away.- He says that only the most hardy prospectors ¢an stand the experiences incident to the search for gold.” —_———— BUYS FORTUNE AT SALE OF UNCLAIMED BAGGAGE New Jersey )lnn’ l;;lrch-seg an Old Coat and Finds $5000 in Its Pockets. NEW YORK, May 25.—Five $1000 treasury notes have been found in an old moth-eaten coat purchased = by Elmer Eckerson of Bogota, N. J. at an auction sale of unclaimed baggage in a railway station. Neither the trunk nor the coat it contained hore any marks of identification. Eckerson was about to throw the garment away when he discovered the treasure care- fully wrapped in oiled silk. The lucky buyer is 63 years of age and will at once take a vacation in Burope. NEW HAVEN THUG ADDS 70 CRIVES Again Fscapes After Attack Upon a Woman. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW HAVEN (Conn.), May 25.—An- other woman was attacked to-night at 15 minutes after 8 o'clock by a man in the same manner that Miss Richards, daughter of Professor Charles B.| Richards, was attacked last Thursday evening and Miss Peterson three weeks ago. Many Yale students who live in the vicinity gave chase with the police, but after an hour of searching the as- sailant could not be found. It is be- lieved that he is an insane person or | a cunning degenerate. Despite extra police precautions, he strikes women down and escapes by fleetness of foot. The victim of the latest assault is a woman about 35 years old. Despite the | fact that Detective Dunlop reached her a few moments after her cries for help were given, her identity is un- known, because she refused to reveal | it, leaving her coat and hat rather than | claim them. | The attack was made near the corner | of Prospect and Canal streets, a few blocks from where Miss Augusta Pe- terson was attacked a few weeks ago. ‘A negro was arrested on suspicion to- night. - s e gl vl RAILWAY MEN FORM - | PLAN FOR annlos‘ Stockholders of th¢ Mexican Central | Find It in Their Interest to i Organize. NEW YORK, May 25.—Stockhold- | ers of the Mexican Central Railway | Company_ have formed a “protective committee, consisting of William L., Bull as chairman, Robert B. Van | Cortlandt and General L. Hoyt o(‘ this city, Gordon Abbott of Boston and F. G.” Banbury of London. The committee states that because of the large floating debt of the company and the recent efforts to classify the board of directors without previous notice it seems necessary to organize a com- mittee in the interests of stockhold- ers. | State and butla - - I 1 | or.MARTLAND LAW | | | i | | | | i | | | | 1 | — UDGE JOMN M UNT The Merchants’ Association of San Francisco celebrated its tenth anniver- sary last evening in royal style at the Palace Hotel. Three hundred member: gathered around hountifully spread tables In the great dining-room and after doing justice to tne dinner lis- tened to a number of brief, pithy ad- dresses reviewing the work of the or- ganization and pledging its member- ship to still- greater undertakings for the city's future. The spirit of the cel- ebration was in keeping with the as- | sociation’s record for “organized govd citizenship.” The gathering was worthily repre- sentative of San Francisco's great b iness community. Men were the whose names are known from the / lantic to the western coast and far across the Pacific—men of affairs, leaders in the flnancial, mercantile, manufacturing and commercial world Hut the discussions -or. the evening were not shep talk. They dealt with the work done by the association and planned for the future in behalf of a better and greater San Francisco. This civic purpose of the orgamization was kept foremost in all the addresses, and the speakers dwelt with pride upon its achievemen a tion of the B the enforcement of the charter’s civi service provisions and in the spicuous but not less useful Securing cieaner streets, public & and comfort stati free Mower mar- kets and the many other p benefits conferred by it upon all San Franciscans. A VIGOROUS YOUTH. The speaking begun by president of the assoctation, Frank Symmes, who bade the guests ning welcome in a happy calling the association to still greater effort for San Francisco's Improve- ment. Mr. Symmes said in part: was Fellow members and guests: - It is & ploas vre to welcome you here this evening. The Merchants’ Association stands before you s & bappy, hedlthy boy of 10, with a vigorous though brief past and glving great promise . future usefulness to the community. I shall mot enlarge upon its work during the last year because our annual report has been Dluced in printed form by each plate, and I hepe you will take ft home and read it There are greater opportunities for this as- sociation in the future than it has had in the past. We have more reasons calling us to aivic activity than can be found in alme: ary other State or city. Nature has endowed us_ with unparalleled advantages. Man has done but little. There fs need for good work by good men if we are to lop this grea: ing metropolis he Golden Gate. Assoclation 1s that we hope to see The object of the Merchants c help in this work. Its efforts were illus trated at the time San Francisco was th ered with a quarantine by the Bast, whe action deferred the danger and led to th ganization of a public he commission, with municipal, State and national reprasentatives. which is cleaning Chinatown. Let us listen to a bit of the history of this assoclation. It will be relatad by the saintly founder of our order, Frederick W. Dohrmana. THE FOUNDER SPEAKS. Mr. Dohrmann was greeted with great applause when he rose. He mod- estly disclaimed the honers of patern- ity and said that the origin of the as- sociation was really due to Mrs. M fred Kohlberg, who spurred M band to cail the meeting of busin men during the bard times of 1394 that resulted in its establishment. The difi- culties met in forming the new organ ization were pleasantly described and the speaker declared that ome of the strongest elements in its success had been its freedom from “knocking.” Its members had not gone to the City Hall charging municipal officials with cor- rupticn, but endeavoring to make them think they were the best officials that ever existed. “So these public officers have tried to meet us with good ser- vice,” said Dohrmann. The substance of his address fol- lows: - The origin of the Morchants’ Asseciation may be ascribed to an accident. Mr. Koblbers and a number of ot chants doing business on Kearny strests had called & meeting at the Palace Hotel to discuss the most effective methods for making the Midwinter Fair, then just opened, the greatest possible success. Opinfons dif~ Continued on Page 4, Column 1,