The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 26, 1904, Page 2

THE FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1904. FILIBUSTERING \T (ONFERENCE: the \l("hudht Tries to De- Reports Minority in Assemblage lay Acceptance of BUEBEES B S CHAIRMAN FOILS ]’L&\s e 2L Bish« ps Respective Residences for| the Next Quadrennium B ¢ el May 2.—The Meth- Conference to-day as- en bishops of the t epective residences xi wmncnmum adopted the the Epworth League com- the committee on book con- or editor of the E; d held brief memoriai f the memory of the n who have died with- ir years. The day was ering of those who were opposed to the report of the com- nsolidation of others who wished to f the the assignine: soris tried under the ru ends, ports church episcopacy nts possible way »mpa both re were sresided at to- renuous day of , however, and in many i parliamentary tech- There were appeals the majority was and sustained his rul- d natured artee with the conference in a nd and convulsed Fowler, wh rs, had a with him but f the Epworth League some changes in the society. It provides f the T are six candidates for the po- | sit ed th Herald, viz B evner, A. C. ¥ . B. Brommett a It is believed tha will show the elec \\hvn it i wed stian Ad- Ve Buckley is edi- BOOK CONCERNS MERGED. ns of many e on book ect of unification Its rec- | e expectatic Bishops be * one trom ct, and one or the ‘same ' for g departments eir future ad- menagement of sald gen- hall at onoce and shall It is provid- publishing ference shall nntum. copacy made of Bishops to tiee chosen by the con- ference yesterday as episcopal resi- dencek Bishop Fowler; Boston, Bishop adeiphia, Bishop _McCabe: “ranston: Cincinnati, Bishop Hami! Bishop Bashford: .DB P!EICE'S uumu | A Chest that Came in | the Mayfilower ! Is sure to attract the attention of every New Ei land woman and with pride in | she marvels that it is so strong | . — end well preserved. This is due to the fact that it has received prompt attention when any signs of weakening were -mn. So the woman of -to-day may keep her strength and preserve her good looks if she gives immediate attention to the first #ymptoms of any womanly weakness. Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription mpw- cures disease and restores strength to n{l women who are weakened by any womanly disease and are run down by ma and household cares. REWARD! FOR WOMEN $£500 ™ Backed b; ovnnthirdn{aeen o annllarmmmnreewz discases fully warranted in ofiefl 'lq:l money of fluU wa-bfldchu.ey ask is a fair and means of cure. * hm. or Falling of cagnot cure. All bie trial of WORLD'S WOMEN PLAN FOR H FLT[RE Federatwn of Clubs Ad- journs After \doptuw} Anti-Divorce Resolutions | MORMONISM IS OPPOSED Are Assigned to Place of \leetmfr of hwhth Postoffice Convention Will Be Se-| lected by New Directors £ A WORE 2 ST. LOUIS, May biennial convention of Federation of Women's journed to-night. The most important action of the convention was taken to-night when the following resolutions were unanim- sly adopted: We recognize in the arriage relation { | | | % - 25.—The seventh the General Clubs ad- permanence a cach federation inform itsel governing marriage and di- vorce and that concerted and systematic effort be made to secure strict and uniform laws governing these important subjects: our thanks to th solved B stigati adiere “eyst of that body to undermine the Christh an s of marriage and to dominate Stat al legisiation e federation Senators to take such legislative prevent the recognition of a undermines mor; dards snd of practices w nciples of the America each At the closing session Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker, of Colorado, the newly elected president, spoke briefly, thank- ing the delegates and expressing her appreciation of the honor accorded her. The place of meeting and the date for the eighth biennial convention will be determined by the new board of directors. Mrs. Dimmies T. S. Denison, presi- dent, who retires with the closing of the convention, called the last session to order. Following the report of the result of the election the reports of presidents of State federations were presented. The result of the election of officers was as follows. President, Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker of Colorado; first vice president, Mrs. Philip N. Moore of St. Louis; seci vice president, Mrs. May Alden Wz of Boston; recording secretary, M Mary Belle King Sherman of Illino: corresponding secretary, Miss Louis: B. Poppenheim of Charleston, S. C. treasurer, Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacke: of Texas; auditor, Dr. Sarah H. Ken- dall of Washington. Direc tnr Josmh E. Cowles of Orr of Ohio, C y of New Jersey, L)‘Ali;i P. s of Minnesota, Belle Stoutenborough of Ne- braska, Mrs. Charles A. Perkins of Tennessee, Mrs. Mary T. Wood of New Hampshire, Mrs. E. L. Johnson of Rhode and. . It v decided to reapportion the annual dues as follows: Mrs. 'he annual dues of clubs of fewer than twenty-five members shall be $2.50; of clubs of twenty-five or more members the dues shall be ten cents per capita.” rre el ML SR RE 2 B CONVICT KILLS GUARD: AND COMMITS SUICIDE Prisoner in Ohio Penitentiary Lies in Wait and Shoots Down Two Keepers. COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 25.—Frank Green, a convict at the Ohio peniten- tiary, dead; Henry Gebhart, a guard, is dying, and Albert Hubler, another guard, is suffering from se- | vere injuries as the result of a trag- edy at the prison to-day. The shoot- is ing was. all done by Green, who shot the guards and then committed sui- cide. Green was a desperate charac- ter, having been sent up for participa- tion in a bank robbery. No one knows the cause of the trag- edy or where Green procured the re- volver. He laid in wait for the men ! ‘an dwithout a word began to fire. ! e R T University Students Angry. { MADISON, W May 25.—At a| special convocation to-day President Van Hise of the University of Wiscon- | sin announced that there would be ex- aminations during jubilee week. The announcement was hissed by the stu- dents. Placards have been posted on the campus by the students strongly denouncing * President Van Hise's action. ' < = + Zurich, Switzerland, Bithop Burt; Buenos Ayres, Bishop N The report was accepted without de- | bate. | Fearing that the conference will not be able to dispose of all the reports now before it, Dr. Buckley to-day moved to have a special committee ap- | pointed to consider and report the most important of the papers now on | hand, but this did not meet with the | views of a large majority of the dele- | gates and was promptly voted down. | Another large batch of applications | to be excused from further attendance | was reported by the committee on credentials this morning and about half of them were denied by the con- ference because the excuses given were not deemed to be satisfactory. EXCUSES NOT SATISFACTORY. The conference was warned by sev- eral delegates that if many more mem- bers were excused from attendance there would not be a quorum left, and the conference would have to adjourn | because it would not be able to trans- act any business. The conference, after more than two hours’ debate, during which every at- tempt was made by those opposed to | the comsolidation of the church benev- | olences, by means of parliamentary filibustering, to block action and to re- | commit the whole matter to the com- mittee, finally adopted the report as originally recommended. - It consoli- dates the various benevolent societies | under three heads as follows: The board of foreign missions of the Metho- dist Episcopal church; the board of home missions and church extension of the Methodist Episcopal church; the board of educaion of the Methodist Episcopal church, or the board of edu- | cation, freedman's aid and Sunday ! school of the Methodist Episcopal church. The exact title of the last | mentioned section was pot definitely fixed. ———— APPEAL TO SUPERVISORS.—The San Francisco Labor Council petitioned the Board of Supervisors yesterday to give consideration in the letting of contracts for supplies only to {hose_concerns whose attitude toward organ- | ized labor is friendly, | FORTUNE | tisement inserted in a daily paper | the MANT CHANGES IN THE ARMY (wwrnmont, Issues Orders Affecting Service Along the Whole Pacific Coast 25y (‘U\l\[l\‘\’IUN IS Appointment Is Made for Kern and Sev- eral Transfers Are Ordered | i P | ISSUED Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, WASHINGTON, May Postmaster | commissioned: John Le Masters, Kern, cal. | Fourth class postmaster changed: Christopher, King County, Washington, | James A. Schoff, vice E. L. Merrifield, | resigned. ! Bish, San Jaecinto, appointed For- | est Range | Orde; War Department — Major | Thomas W, Griffith of the Twenty- Infantry and First Lieutenant eighth ard wbu\mln of the Twenty- are detailed as mem- respectively, of the Board convened at the Pre- 0 by special order No. 94, Decem- , of the War Department, Albert Todd, assistant ad- j general, and First Lieutenant James S. Young Jr., of the Tenth In- fantry, hereby relieve So much of special orders No. 49 of the War Department as direct Major Guy L. Edie, surgeon (now on duty in th city), to report to commanding general Department of Californja for transportation to the Philippine Islands ked and Major Edie will report to surgeon general of the army for duty in his office. Following named enlisted men in the Signal Corps now on duty in the De- partment of California will be settled, when reporting arrival to Lieutenant Colonel James Allen of the Signal Corps, and take passage on the cable ship Burnside for Sitka, Alaska, where they will take permanent station for special duty in connection with ca- ble operations in Alaskan water: Sergeants Oliver O. McCammon, Hen- ry J. Dornbush and Thomas Brown; orals Charles R. S. Bryant and BEdward Larson, and Privates Elvin D. Foster and Wellington W. Chancey. Sergeant First Class William Babhr, Hospital Corps, Shawnee, O. T., upon expiration of his furlough will report to comman: g officer at Fort 11, 0. , to Sergeant First Cls Frederick acher of the Hos- Al Corps. it Schumacher on ill proceed to Fort McDowell, to commanding officer of company instruction No. Hospital Cor} who will send him to Manila on Government transport sailing from san Francisco about Juiy 1. Major Frederick (. Hodgson, quar- termaster, 11 proceed to Fort Stevens, Ore., and make a thorough inspection and report upon the water system of that post, and upon completion of his duty will return to proper station at i Serg eporti 9 Vancouver Barracks, Washington. Captain Charles E. Humphrey Jr., quartermaster, in addition to his pres- ent duti: i1l relieve Captain George MeK. Willimmson, quartesmaster, of duties as depot and purchasing commissary, Honolulu, Sergeant of First Class Barton on relief will proceed to Fort McDowell, reporting to commanding officer of company {instruction No. Hospital o who will send him to Manila at first opportunity. Sergeant of First Class Ernst A. Barber, Hospital Corps, Fort McDow- ell, will report to commanding officer of company instruction No. 2 Hospital Corps at the post for duty. 2 Order naval officers—Sergeant C. T. Hibbett, detached om_ Franklin Navy Yard, rfolk, Va., June 1, 1904, to duty in charge of naval hospital at Cavite, P. L, sailing from San Fran- cisco June 11; Gunher J. Hill, de- tached from Pensacola training sta- tion at San Francisco, to leave one month and then wait orders for sea. —_—ee—————— TWO BIG COMPANIES TO B CONSOLIDATED Lake Superior and Canadian Improve- ment Concel Are to Be United. NEW YORK, May Final con- ferences have been held here between representatives of the Canadian Im- provement company and the Consoli- dated Lake Superior Company inter- ests with a view to winding up the af- fairs of the latter and transferring the assets to the new company. It is now expected that Speyer & Co. will be paid on Thursday and that the interests which will withdraw from any further participation in the syndicate will receive their mopey. When the Speyer loan is paid the se- | 25 | 25. | curities now held by that firm will be turned over to the Superior Company, incorporated yesterday in | SMIL; ON A HUMBLE LABORER Patrick Hennessey, a Brooklyn Cus- tom-House Weigher, Falls Heir to $400,000. NEW YORK, May 25.—After hav- ing toiled more than thirteen years at $2 a day as a custom-house weigher | in a sugar refinery here, Patrick G.| Hennessey of Brooklyn has suddenly | | found himself to be the heir of $400,- | 000. Hennessey became cognizant of his good fortune through an adver- here by a firm of London solicitors, who have charge of an estate left by Hennessey's uncle. The latter was a wealthy merchant of Melbourne. He went to Australia in his youth and nephew sought his fortunes in America, never having seen his bene- factor since childhood. ——————— MRS WATSON'S BODY UNCLAIMED.— Up to a late hour ™ Frances Watson, cerebral apoplexy, Morgue. The Coroner two daughters of the dead woman named Miller and Mrs. Peters are living in Oakland. wh s informed yesterday Mrs. {liquor was licensed in the hall it was but physicians arc all agrecd about Get the little book, ““The Road to i Wellville,” i each pke. REGAN NOW XED 1N A SCANDAL NG Saloon Man Asserts That the Police Commisioner Uses' Official Position to Ad- vance Personal Interests LUDWIG BRUSSE TO TELL OF THE CASE| comotive in a Tunnel MEDICAL AID USELES Victims Are Overcome While They Are Riding Through the Shaft to Their Work WILKESBARRE, Pa., May 25.—Ten miners were suffocated by gas and sul- phur fumes from a locomotive this af- F Lt in th rkings of the Summit Member of Board Is Em- ;::32;. c‘:loul eCvl:'xgnpm-u,' at Williams- phatic in His Denial of Al- town, Dauphin County. The dead: MICHAEL GOLDEN, general inside legations and Says He 1o | tontan GEORGE RAIDLE, Prepared to Meet Charges chanic. JOHN KURNEY. JOSEPH PUNCH. ENOCH MORGAN. ALBERT NAU. FRED JAMES. ADAM SCOPPENHEIMER. JOHN FREDENCH. SAMUEL FREDENCH. The tunnel in which the disaster oc- curred is one mile in length and is used by the coal company to convey the coal mined in the workings in the Bear Valley to the breaker in the Wil- liams Valley. The men employed in the Bear Val- ley, who reside in Williamstown, have mage a practice for years of riding to and from their work on the trains of cars that are hauled between the two | valleys by small locomotives. Abcut 4 o’clock this afternoon Gen- | eral Inside Foreman Gdlden and about | fifty miners boarded a loaded train, which was about to be hauled from Bear Valley to Willlamstown. Every- master me- The defense prepared by Ludwig Busse, a saloon keeper, who is charged with having permitted minors on prem- ises where liquor is served, will contain allegations that Police Commissioner Thomas Regan attempted to utilize his official capacity in the furthering of his personal business interests. Busse, who stands charged before the Board of Police Commissioners, | will-attempt to show that his refusal 'to place his insurance with the Com- missioner led to the filing of the charges and also to his arrest. Com- missioner Regan denies the insinuation and says that he stands ready to dis- prove any statements his accuser may make. On May 11 Commissioner Regan call- ed Policeman Harry Seguine, who was patrolling his beat on Tenth street, and requested the officer to accompany him to Teutonia Hall at 1322 Howard street, where a dance was being conducted. The bar privileges in wmis hall are in the name of Busse and the latter also conducts a saloon in the basement of the building at the corner of Wash- ington avenue and Howard street. Re- gan states that he had reason to be- lieve that there were minors attending the dance and after a tour of the hall, one Harold Druham, a sixteen-year- old boy residing at 1710 Mission street, was found to be present. The Commis- sioner and the officer then went to the saloon below and arrested Busse, and after some delay, occasioned by a dis- pute as to what violation of the stat- victims. utes the prisoner was guilty of, a charge of allowing a minor to visit a place where liquor is served was placed opposite the saloon keeper's name. The case was disposed of in the & Police Court three days later and 1 charges against Busse were filed with | the Police Commissioners. 1 | o POLICEMAN ACTS FOR REGAN. | 1 ‘When the case was called at last evening's session Regan withdrew from the board because a the of the journey was made, when some of the men-attracted the attention of the engineer, who at once stopped and it was found that nearly every man In the party on the cars had been over- come by the gas and sulphur which emanated from the engine and floated back over them. The engineer at once crowded on all steam possible and the unconscious men were hurried to the ‘Williamstown end of the tunnel. Help was at once summoned here and the men taken to the surfage, where a corps of physicians made every effort to resuscitate them, but aid came t late to Foreman Golden and the athe‘r s | charge. The report of Policeman se- JUmMps From a Rapidly Mov- guine, which is as follows, was first read and its contents afterward sub- stantiated by the policeman on the | witness stand: i At 9:30 D m., May 11, 1904, acting under | I(lml from Police Commissioner Thomas | an, accompanied him.to the Temtonia | dlnu\ hall ‘at 1322 Howard street to Investi- sate a dance that was going on there. Wa | found a minor, who gave the name of Harold 10 Mission street. I arrested the and charged him minor to visit a place where The proprietor a nse for aloon at the corner of Howard street and Washington avenue; also a license for @ bar at the dance hall, Case called to-day (May 1 in Police Court No. 3 and continued until May 14, 1904, HARRY SEGUINE. BUSSE'S ALLEGATIONS. Then the hearing of the case came to a halt, owing to the fact that the boy was not present to testify, and a post- ponement was asked by the prosecu- tion until next Tuesday evening. Dur- ing the cross-examination of the po- liceman Attorney Otto tum Suden, representing Busse, gave the first inti- mation of what his defense would be. He emphasized the fact that Regan took an outside officer with him, while there was an officer detailed specially to the hall; that the boy was in the hall proper, and not in the room con- taining the bar, and that the dance was being conducted by a person other than Busse. He also brought out that Busse had been detained at the City Hall station nearly four hours before he was permitted to secure his release, and the line of cross-examination lay across an area of some malicious per- secution. When the case is recalled at the next meeting Busse says he will testify that Regan entered his saloon some three months ago and requested the insur- ance of the place. Busse replied that he could not give it, and Regan insisted, stating that he was a Police. Commis- sioner and was in a position to do him a favor. Nothing more was heard of the matter until the night of the arrest, ' and in consequence the saloon man alleges persecution. Regan is emphatic in his denial. “I never solicit insur- ance in the first place,” he says. “I have known this man for some time and never approached him on such a ing Express After Terroriz- | ing His Fellow Passengers Special Dispatch to The Call PORTLAND, Ore., May 25.—H. Mid- been employed in Portland for many years, became insane on a Southern Pacific train last night and until day- light this morning, when he jumped from the rapidly moving express in order to escape an imaginary foe, ter- rorized women and children in the chair car and caused the men passen- gers to forget sleep. Middleton, who is a neat appearing fellow, got on at Grants Pass last evening and being unable to get ac- commodation in a Pullman on either section of the train took a seat in the chair car. A short time later he drew a long, keen-bladed knife and forced C. Lockyer of Dayton, Ohio, to stand- guard with him against his im- aginary foes. His leap from the train, which was going at the rate of fifty miles an hour, did not harm him ap- parently, for when last meen he was running across the country. —_————— ALABAMA EXCURSION TRAIN IS FIRED UPON liquors are Conductor Is Killed and Two of the Passengers Receive Serious ‘Wounds. MOBILE, May 25.—An excursion train on the Mobile and Ohio Railway was fired upon to-day near Yellow Pine, Ala. Conductor W. S. Ashe of Birmingham was killed and Joseph Richardson of Meridian and a negro passenger were seriously wounded. —_——————— Supervisors Elect a Coroner. VISALIA, May 25.—At a special meeting of the Board of Supervisors to-day T. M. Dungan was elected Cor- oner of Tulare County to flll the un- expired term of E. ceased. R. Dubruz, de- dleton, a machinist, who said he had | Ten Are Suffocated by fiul-\Rlch phurous Fumes From Lo- | the father of the child. | | clamoring | threat of sending the baby to his wife. | her here claim thing went all right until about half Physlclan Alleges Blackmail \\'hell Annoy ed by Young Woman | DL\ IES HER Hliterate Girl Is } : CL \I\I\‘ EMBASSADO With Having Made False! Prtensions to Motherhood | =i Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, May 25.—An illiter- | ate girl, posing as the mother of a child whose existence is denied, was arrested in this city to-day for an al- leged attempt to blackmail a Butte, Mont., milliofaire, who, she says, is Her name is variously Bessie Driscoll or Mrs. Stone. She has already been paid $10,000 by Dr. O. B. Whitford, the rich old doctor of Butte, as “hush mone; She is for $15,000 more, under Hence her arrest. Detectives who have been shadowing that she is only the tool of a mysterious male biackmailer; that he has greedily taken her $10,000, only giving her a miserable pittance to live on, dribbling it out to her in small amounts. Althcugh she writes to the old millionaire fascinating descriptions of her baby, “playing about my room as I write, etc.,” the detectives claim that she has no baby and never has | had one. On the other hand the girl claims | that she is the victim of this rich old man, who was her physician, and who, she says, tcok advantage of the con- fidential relations of physicians and patient. BUTTE, Mont.,, May 25.—The arrest of Miss Bessie Driscoll to-day at Los Angeles on the charge of attempted | extortion on Dr. O. B. Whitford, a physician of this city, is the result of repeated demands made by the young woman upon Dr. Whitford for $15,000 to provide for herself and baby, the physician being accused by Miss Dris- coll of being the father of her child. Whitford denies the allegation, declar- ing the baby which she claims as her own is bogus and that she is using the child of another in an attempt to blackmail him. To prevent.the press getting hold of the story and to save himself from scandalous gossip inci- | dent to the notoriety attached to such | allegations, Dr. Whitford avers he per- | | mitted himself to be bled for $3000, tak- ing a receipt frem Miss Driscoll, in which she acknowledges having re- ceived the sum mentioned and agrees to never again demand anything from him. time the crime is alleged to have been committed he was absent from the city for 2 number of months. Attorneys for Miss Driscoll attempt- ed to secure a warrant for the arrest of Whitford, but were unsuccessful, Coun- ty Attorney Peter Bren refusing to llhave anything to do_with the case. As a counter move Whitford to-day caused the arrest of Miss Driscoll on | the charge of attempung extortion. Dr. the medical fraternity in Butte. more than 60 years of age. Miss Dris- coll ‘is about 20 years old and at one time was a patient of Dr. Whitford. Whitford declares his determination to fight the case to a finish. —_———— —— COMMERCIAL CONGRESS Whitford is very prominent in | recall of the latter DEADLY GASES lcmfis ARREST [SATS NISARD KILL Ml\’ERS, OF HIS ACCUSER| ACTED I ASTILY of Butte. Vatiean Organ ( ummonh on Events Preceding Rupture Between l'mnm- and Pope —e R IR RITA\BH-L (lnr«‘rml lh-p1<~~1-nt.1t1\v Leaves When He Fails to Get Direct Reply to Verbal Question ROME, May —The Osservatore | Romano, the V organ, publishes an official statement reviewing the re- lations existing between Cardinal Mer- ry Del Val, the papa retary State, and Nisard, French Embassa to the Vatican, immediately before the the result of the President Lou- | papal protest against bet's visit to Rome. Friday last, according to the paper. M. Nisard visited Cardinal Merry Del | published Val and told him he had been instruct- ed by Foreign Minister Delcasse to in- quire as to the authenticity of the text of the note to the Catholic powers as in L'Humanite of Paris, which varfed from that directed to the French Government, and to ask espe- cially if the phrase regarding the recall of the Nuncio, which was omitted from the note addressed to France, really occurred in that sent to the other powers. The Cardinal said he would reply im- mediately if the Embassador’s interro- gations were put in writing. M. Nisard pointed out that there was no time to do this and the Cardinal then said that he would give an answer within an hour or even within haif an hour. M. Nisard, however, insisted on immedi- ate reply and pleaded that the Cardinal should answer “yes" or “ The lat- ter said he was sorry that he was un- able to comply with the Embassador's demands. M. Nisard replied: “Then I shall telegraph Minister Del- casse that you decline to answer.” M. Nisard then withdrew, saying that he would write. Two hours later Car- dinal Merry Del Val, not receiving word from the Embassador, sent a communication to the embassy saying that he was at M. Nisard's disposal | and prepared to give an answer, but no Dr. Whitford declares that at the | reply to this communication was re- ceived. On Saturday morning M. Nisard again visited the Secretary of State and informed him that the in upon a written form of his q had been inter elude the subj he had been instructed to leave I on a vacation. The Osservatore Romane concludes “First, that Cardinal Merry Del Val, not having given an answer, the recall of the Embassador was not justified second, that the answer which the Cardinal would have given within an hour would have been exhaustive and thoroughiy satisfactory, and third, that the request of M. ard to be inform istence | ed as to the contents of the notes sent He is | CROPS IN | | to the other Catholic states was ab- solutely contrary to diplomatic usage and that there was no rule which obliged the papal government to send a collective note.” ———— GERMANY IN GOOD CONDITION Winter Wheat and Rye Are In Sat- isfactory Condition and Others Are Improving. BERLIN, May 2.—The imperial crop report for the middle of May shows an IS TO BE HELD HERE |improvement of one point in winter Committees From Wrsu'm Cities to | at the' same period ir 1903. Meet in Rooms of California Pro- motion Committee. PORTLAND, Or., May 25.—The Portland Commercial Club, California Promotion Committee, Denver Cham ber of Commerce and other com mercial bodies in the West, have de cided to hold a conference at San | | points bette~ than 1903. wheat, which is six points better than Winter rye is unchanged since April 5 and i1s four Summer wheat and rye are rated at the same as in 1903. Other crops have improved since April 15. There has been some delay in sowing the summer grains owing to he unfavorable weather, but their con- dmon 1s reported to be satisfactory. —_———— Francisco June 14, at the rooms of | CALIFORNIA CHERRIES the California Promotion Committee, to arrange for co-operative work on the part of all of the commercial bodies in the West to secure the con- ventions held in St. Louis this year | for Pacific Coast cities next year. The movement is an outgrowth of the trans-Mississippi Commercial Con- gress held at Seattle last year. —_— e———— Special Rates for the Flower Festival at Healdsburg. On Friday, May 27—Parade Day—the California Northwestern Railway will sell tickets at $2 00 for the round trip. Leave Tiburon Ferry 7:30 a. m., and on the return leave Healdsburg at 4:3 p. m. B — Sudden Death of a Widow. SAN JOSE, May 25.—Mrs. Susan M. Shay, for more than twenty-five years a dressmaker in this city, was found dead this morning in a shed at the rear of her home at 83 East San An- tonio street. She was a widow, a na- tive of New York and 65 years of age. Death resulted from heart dis- ease. SELL WELL IN NEW YORK | Prices for the First Carload Are 1 Higher Than of a Year ! NEW YORK, May 23.—The first car- {load of California cryel to arrive here this season has en sold at auc- tion. The car was eleven days In transit from Vacaville. Prices averaged about 50 cents above those received for the first shipment last year. Decoration Day at Del Monte. Special round-trip tickets, $10, include railroad fare and two days’ board at the famed Hotel Del Monte. Leave San Francisco next Saturday or Sunday. Through parlor car to the hotel. Colf links never greener and surf bathing_ is del\gQ(ful P — Coolles Going to Transvaal. HONGKONG, May 25.—The British steamer Tweeddale sailed from here to-day for Durban, Natal, with 1055 coolies. This is the first batch of cool- jes going to South Africa to work in the Transvaal mines. subject. I went to Teutonia Hall in the interest of parents who are raising children in the neighborhood and in re- sponse to many rumors concerning drinking among minors ° that have reached my ears. When the sale of understood that only societies should meet there, but later it turned into a sort of dancing academy, and many young people were brought into a bad atmosphere.” gt A I EXODUS OF LO! N JEWS TO THE UNITED STATES Eight Hundred Will Leave on a Sln‘le Steamship of the Red Star Line. Spectal Cable to The Call and New York Her- ald. Copyright, 1904, by the New York Herald Publishing Company, LONDON, May 25.—According to a London morning paper the East End, or that portion of it which is called Yiddish, is all excitement over the joyful news displayed in the windows of small shipping offices in side streets of the Ghetto, ““£2 to New York.” Far-sighted residents go so far as| to express the opinion that $10 would be well spent to send across the Al- lantio~those of their relatives who do not promise to make headway in this | country. The result is an unusually || | heavy booking of passengers by the E i ) THE POTTER. . IN BEAUTIFUL SANTA BARBARM. Red Star line and one man alone has sold 200 tickets in two days. To-morrow 800 Hebrews will leave | for New York and Canada by the steamship Kroonland of the Red Star Company. ————— Admiral Cooper Seeks Rest. ' WASHINGTON, May 25.—Rear Ad- miral Cooper, commander in chief of i the Asiatic squadron, has requested that he be relieved of that command ;and placed on the retired list in the Learly fall. It Is expected that Reu Admiral Sterling will succeed him. RATES—@merican plan—From May |, 1904, to January |, 1905: One person occuping room, without bath, $2.50 to $3.50; with bath, $3.50 to $5. o0