The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 18, 1904, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE . , PREPARATIONS €all for August Convention| of Each Party Will Be Formally Issued To-Day SANTA CRUZ IN FAVOR Indications of a Hot Fight in Democratic State Camp, Between McNab and Tarpey | The executive committee of the Re- publican State Central Committee met last night at party headquarters, Pal- ace Hotel, and framed a call to be pre- sented on at a meeting of the general committee to-day. It is ded that the deiegates to the | ynvention assemble on Thurs- | 25. The impression pre- | meeting in for recomn State ( August that the committee the Palace Maple room to-day will des- | fgnate Santa Cruz as the piace for | Lolding the convention. The appor- tionment adopted is the same as that which applied to the May convention of the party, or one delegate for each 200 cast for Governor Pardee in 1802 one Qejegate for a majority frac- thereof. This will create a couvention of 734 delegates. Th number accredited to San Francisco §5 121, apportioned as follows to the respective Assembly districts: Twenty -eighth. Twenty-ninth, 5; Thirtieth, 6; Thirty-first, Thirty- second, Thirty-third, 3; Thirty- fourth, 6; Th fifth, 8; Thirty-sixth, 7. Thirty-seventh, 9; Thirty-eighth, 10; Thirty-ninth, 5; Fortieth, 8; Forty- first, 7; Forty-second, 9; Forty-third, §; Forty-fourth, 8; Forty-fifth, 6. In San Francisco, Oakland, Los An- geles, Sacramento, San Diego, Stock- ton, Alameda, Berkeley, Fresno, Pasa- dena, Vallejo and the county of Santa Ciara the delegates are to be chosen under the provisions of the primary tion law on Tuesday, August 9. In or Assembly districts where | rovisions of the primary law are andatory delegates may be ap- ed or elected in such manner as may be determined by the respective county committees. The test'to be re- quired of a voter is a “bona fide pres- ent intention of supporting the nomi- nees of the Republican party at the next ele counties the h reference to Congressional and legislative nominations the call con- 1 these requirements: re no petition shall have been filed | =sional district committee for the | separate delcgates to the Congres- 1 Gistrict convention &t said primary n 1o be held on_Auguet 9, 1904, the dele- lected to £aid State convention from the , counties or city such Congressional the delegates to the Con- | convention to nominate & Representative in Congress from | and to select a Congressional commitice therefor. ! the delegates to sald State convention m each Assembly and odd numbered Sen- 1 district may nominate a candidate for { Assembly and State Senator, pro- Vided there has Dot been a district commit- | the dection of Assem- trict_convention delegates made by the respective mmittees for the selection of legisia- andidates It is believed that separate conven- tions will be petitioned for in the Third, Yourth and Fifth Congressional dis- tricts. The meeting of the executive com- mittee last evening was attended by Ceorge Stone, chairman; E. F. Wood- ward, secretary; James K. Wilson, treasurer; Robert T. Devlin, P. 8. Tel- ler, W. §. Wood, A. H. Ashley, H. W. Lynch, and Jacob Shaen, assistant sec- tary. The convention will nominate Presi- dential Electors to be voted for at the general election, Tuesday, Noyember 8, 1904 The subject of registration engaged the attention of the committee for a considerable length of time last night. According to a decision of the Supreme Court, deputies or clerks employed by County Clerks to register voters can- not be paid from funds of the county, hence party clubs may be urged to assist in bringing about a complete registration of voters. McNAB AND TARPEY. The new Democratic State Central Committee will meet for organization in the Californi Hotel at 1 p. m. to- day. Lively times are expected, as a fight is on between Gavin McNab and M. F. Tarpey for possession of the works. The McNab forces will support William J. McGee of San Francisco for chairman. Tarpey’s followers will line up for M. F. Cochrane of S8an Rafael. A battle for the secretaryship is also foreshadowed. Last night the leaders of each faction were confident of suc- cese. It remains to be seen whether Frank H. Gould, chairman of the late Santa Cruz convention, or Barney Mur- phy, chairman of the old State Central Committee, will call the meeting to or- der, Comments of this kind were made in the “organizgation” camps last night: “MecNab would not be so absolutely sure of winning out if he had not gone over the roll carefully and ascertained beyond doubt that 2 majority will vote for McGee.” In the Hearst camp it was said: “Tarpey would not be so positive of Cochrane’s election if he had not gone down the line and checked every mem- ber of the committee.” The Democrats may resolve to hold — COOK BOOK OFFER TO ! CLOSE AUGUST 30, 1904, The Call's Cook Book prem- fum offer will close on August 30, 1904, and all readers of this Ew who desire a copy of this treasure should not fail to place their order l.n\. H mediately. m will This splendid prensiu be offered to Call subscribers at the exceptionally low rate of 50 cents per copy. Out of town orders 25 cemts additional to cover prepayment of transporta.- tion charges. 1 — district tve DELEGATION ENJOTS TRIP California’s Representatives to Republican Convention Will Reach ChicagoTo-Day PLAY PRACTICAL JOKES Governor Pardee Circulates Story That for a Time Causes Gunst Uneasiness BISHOP. t of The W, Call ON BOARD CALIFORNIA DELE- GATIOD SPECIAL TRAIN, OMAHA, Neb., June 17.—Governor Pardee’s pen- chant for practical jokes and the hon- y of Colonel Kowaisky's colored iet, Bob Jackson, served to enliven r a time to-day the wearying trav- elers. In the first instance the Governor let it be noised about that he was en- {®aged in endeavoring to create an op- position to M. A. Gunst, who seeks to represent California on the committee that will fgrmally notify Roosevelt of his nominatlen. As soon as Gunst's discomfiture was manifested to a de- gree satisfactory to all concerned, an- nouncement was made that the Gov- ernor was only indulging in his desire to joke. Then Gunst opened the wine. The incident in which Kowalsky's valet was the “honest hero” happened this way. Bob was directed by the Col- onel to leave the train during the stop at Cheyenne and file a telegram. ‘When the train was about to puil out it was said that Bob was not on the station platform and it was necessary to delay the start until he could be located. Finally he was found in his em- ployer's drawing-room. “Why didn't you tell me you got back so we could start?” said the con- ductor, angrily. “Because Ah didn't got back. Ah never did \go,” answered Bob. “Ah found diamonds.” In Bob's ebony hand ten diamonds sparkled. He had found them on a car step as he was leaving to file the telegram. The find took his breath, he forgot his mission and returned to the Colonel's compartment to report his luck. An investigation disclosed the fact that the gems were the property of Mrs. Dr. Karsner of Oroville. She had not dis- covered the loss until announcement was made that the sparklers had been found. Then, in her excitement, she rewarded the Pullman porter, but “right will prevail” and a “committee” was appointed to see that the porter disgorged in favor of Bob. For hundreds of miles the train has sped to-day across the rolling prairie land of Wyoming, fresh with the show- | €rs of early summer, and through the green flields and woods of Nebraska. All of the delegates, undisturbed by politics, the only important question, that of national committeeman, having been settled in favor of Knight, settled down and enjoyed to the fullest extent | the refreshing change from the desert of Nevada and the dusty heights of Ttah. The speed of the train has been tre- mendous to-day. Between Green River, Wyo., and Omaha more than sixty miles an hour was maintained, eighty- eight miles an hour being the maximum attained. The train reached Green River two hours and forty-five minutes behind schedule, but arrived here at %:45 o'clock. twenty-five minutes ahead of schedule. This time was made up in a* distance of 825 miles, and every one admits that it was a great feat in rail- roading. To-morrow at 10 a. m. Chicago will be reached. Elaborate preparations for the entry of the delegates into the city have been made. Carriages will be in waiting, a brass band will be ready, and when the Auditorium is reached the East will know without mistake that the Farthest West has come to cast its vote for Roosevelt. The delegations from Hawali, the Philippines and Nevada will join Cali- fornia in the parade, but when the Auditorfum is reached the Nevada delegation will depart for independent and unattached headquarters in the Great Northern Hotel, as befits an in- dependent, sovereign State. < N their convention at Santa Cruz on Mon- day and Tuesday, August 22 and 23. LIVERNASH TALKS. \ The Iroqueis Club gave an informal reception last night to Congressman E. J. Livernash at Pythian Castle. The hall was well filled with the members of the club and many outsiders. After a short Introductory speech by William H. Kline, president of the club, - Mr. Livernash started in by giving a few experiences in Congress. Soon, however, he branched to capital and labor. He scored the monopolies and declared that the workingman's salvation lies in labor unions and the voting of the Democratic ticket. His closing remarks reviewed the work of the Democratic party, which he said was “wrong once in a while, and some- times entirely wrong (being a human institution), but whose maxim is, the greatest good for the greatest num- ber.” —— ALLEGED ALASKAN SCANDALS WILL BE PROBED BY DAY Inability of Young to Accept Appoint- ment Causes Selection of Assist- ant Attormey General. WASHINGTON, June 17.—Attorney General Knox has been informed by United States District Attorney Young. for the Western District of Pennsyl- vania that he is unable to accept his appointment as specinl assistant at- torney general to investigate the al- leged scandals in the judiciary of Alaska and Assistant Attorney General William A. Day has been designated instead. Judge Day will leave ' for Alaska about the 28th inst. —— R — “What's in & name?” Well, William, think of the bother to busy men were “‘Old Giit Edge Whiskey” changed to another game—any other name—well, Willlam? » —— e ES Continued I'rom Page 1, Column 7. known dead wiil be placed there side by side. Many thousands of doliars have been subscribed for the relief of the unfor- tunate “survivors. el i MUDDLE AT THE MORGUE. Identified Bodies Cannot Be Found When Called For by Friends. XEW YORK, June 17.—Forty-eight ter the burning of the steamer ! General Slocum the exact numbel of victims is still unknown. Up to the present time the total number of bodies recovered is 560, and of these £21 have been identified. With no more arrivals at the Morgue for several hours, hope began to be felt that the awful total had been completed, but’it | was soon shattered by a report that divers at work on the hulk of the Slo- | cum had discovered a mass of bodies wedged in one of the paddle boxes. | How many corpses there will prove to | be in this place will not be known for some hours, as they will not be dis- turbed until the Coroner is on the | scene. One hopeful phase of the sit- uation is the steady decrease in the number of missing, though it is still appallingly large, the number being somewhere between 400 and 500. The various officials whose positions brings them into touch with the disaster still adhere to the belief that when all is tld it will be found that between 900 and 1000 persons perished. The sad task of burying the dead began to-day. A meeting of the Ger- man Lutheran ministers of the city was held and a programme of services arranged. While in many instances a joint service will be held over several bodies, nevertheless the clergymen of this denomination have a herculean task before them in administering the last rites over the dead of their faith. BLOW IS CONCENTRATED. The distregsing concentration of the blow of the disaster is shown by the fact that in one apartment house on Eighth street there are thirty-five dead, while in a Rivington-street house sixteen bodies await burial. steps have been taken for three distinct investigations of the disaster. These are being undertaken Ly the Federal authorities through the Department of Commerce, by the Coro- ner's office and by the District Attor- ney. The Coroner's inquest will begin on Monday next and Captain Van Schaick- of the Slocum and six of his crew lie in a hospital with a police- man at the bedside of each. They are at present detained as witnesses, The authorities are rapidly gathering such evidence as will be needed in ascertain- ing whether or not there' was neglect or carelessness in the safety appli- ances of the vessel. First Officer Ed- ward Flanagan of the Slocum is quoted in an interview as saying that the steamer’s fire hose. was rotten and use- less and that it burst in a dozen places when he and his men tried-to use it. The charge is also made that the life preservers on the vessel were old and rotten and in most instances proved in- adequate when used. Several papers to-day print pictures of preservers taken from the Slocum which bear in black letters this inscription: “Passed by United States Steamboat Inspector, June 18, 1891." BOATS FASTENED BY WIRES. William Thembly, a deckhand, cor- roborates Flanagan's statement regard- ing the defective fire hose and it is re- ported that evidence has been secured showing that some of the life boats were made fast by wires, making it | impossible for them to be cast loose and lowered. All the men who have made these statements will be called as witnesses by the Coroner. Police boats and other harbor craft still maintain their patrol of the waters of the East River in the vicinity of the accident in the hope of recovering bodies. Secretary Cortelyou, who had a long conference with Robert S. Rodie, in- spector of the Second District of New York, after his arrival here, said to-day that he would give his per- sonal attention to the Federal investi- gation of the Slocum disaster. Mr. Cortelyou said: “I wish to say that a most thorough investigation will be made into the most awful tragedy and that no stone will be left unturned to lay bare the whole truth with regard to it. “As Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor, I am the head of the Federal inquiry into this af- fair and I propose to give it my per- sonal and in so far as possible my un- divided attention until the matter is finally settled. As soon as practicable the Board of Inspectors will get to- gether and take testimony. This in- quiry will be separate and distinct from any proceedings brought by city, State or county officials. CORTELYOU TO INVESTIGATE. “I want to correct an impression that seems to have gone abroad that this investigation will be left to sub- ordinates in the department. This is absolutely untrue. I will hold the in- quiry myself and will have ample as- sistance from the most prominent and efficient men in the department. Every one who can throw the least light upon the matter will be brought before the board and the taking of testimony will continue so long as any one can be found who can aid us in arriving at a correct estimate of the facts. The sittings of the board will continue until the whole truth is known.” While the divers and others were busy looking for' bodies to-day the steamer Grand Republie, the sister ship of the General Slocum, passed up the river with a party of excursionists on board. Every deck was crowded. As the vessel neared the point where the divers were working on the wreck- BURNING OF THE STEAMER SLOCUM IS TO BE THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATED First Officer of the Destroyed Vessel Says That the Fire Hose Was Rott‘en and Useless and That It Burst in a Dozen Places When He and His Assistants Tried to Handle It, and Deckhands Corroborate His Story jed vessel the police boat Patrol E'-\'histled for the Grand Republic to | slow down so as not to disturb the divers, but, according to the police, no attention was paid to the warning signals. It was only when the Grand { Repubiic was almost upon the divers' begen to make the float rock and sway that the-pllot seemed to realize that he should = obey the signals and slowed down slightly, By the time the Grand Republic was abreast of the however, all steam was put on again and the boat proceeded up the sound. ANOTHER LIVE BABY FOUND. Saved from the wreck of the ill-fated steamer General Slocum there is a lit- | tle unknown boy at Lebanon Hospital. ! Blue eyed, golden haired and plump, the little fellow creeps about the wards, wondering what has caused so much excitement. Nurses of the island hospital, in- specting the dead, found the baby where a policeman had laid him down to be tagged with the other unknown dead. They hurriedly carried him to the reception hospital dormitory. Warm milk and sleep brought the lit- tle one around to laughing, prattling, crying healthiness. Late in the afternoon the baby was sent to the Lebanon Hospital, where it was the only bright spot in the place of sorrow and pain. A man, one of the long line who scanned the faces of the children, anxiously seeking for his own missing ones, saw the baby late at night and said he thought he knew the parents. He went out to eearch for them, but has not returned to the hospital. Nearly all of the bodles recovered vesterday were found in the mud close to the westerly shore of North Brother Isiand, where the Slocum was first beached and where hundreds went to their death. DISCUSSING THE DISASTER. Discussions as to the best means for preventing such disasters have brought out expressions of opinion by several leading shipbuilders and naval archi- tects that it is easily possible to con- struct vessels of the type of the Gen- eral Slocum in such a way as to make them comparatively safe. These ex- perts believe the free use of steel in the construction of the upper works would involve a greater expense than builders of excursion craft.are ready to incur. They believe that a safe boat constructed with bulkheads, corru- gated iron partitions and fireproof ma- terials, might be built for about 20 to 30 per cent more than the cost of a wooden vessel such as the General Slo- cum. One leading constructor expressed the idea that every vessel should have bulkheads of light double plating, filled with asbestos. These should be so fitted that they could be swung or dropped across certain parts of the steamer when necessary without ob- structing free passage at other times. All machinery should be incased metal to the top deck. Decks should be supported by metal framework and fireproof materials wherever possible. Inflammable stuff, he said, swld be barred. Divers had explored the wreck of the steamer yesterday and reported that no more bodies were to be found there, but to-day a diver who was at work on the sunken hull found a large number of bodies packed tightly inside one of the paddle wheels. INJURED ARE IMPROVING. At various hospitals where the in- jured are it was said to-day their con- dition is satisfactory. There are now only 53 victims of the disaster in the hospitals. It developed to-day that a new hor- ror had been added to the terrible con- ditions resulting from the Slocum dis- aster through the over»ofllciouln’n of some person at the Morgue. As'a re- sult some of the bodies probably never will be identified and will go to a last resting place in the humble plat fur- nished by the city’s charity. When the bodies were taken by hundreds from the water and laid in rows on the grass at North Brother Islana each was tag- | ged with a number. That number was carefully recorded and the papers, val- uables and trinkets which would have served to positively identify the bodies were removed and placed in separate packages, each package bearing a number corresponding to the number on the body from which the articles were taken. These packages then were placed in the custody of the Coroner. Scores of the bodies at the Morgue were burned or bruised beyond recog- nition, but it was hoped that all might be claimed by friends by means of the papers and jewelry. ‘When the bodies were taken to the Morgue they were placed In numbered boxes, but in many cases these num- bers did not correspond with the fig- ures the bodies had previously borne. As a result the plans were completely upset and the numbered packages of valuables became practically worthless as a means of identifying the owners. MORGUE RECORDS INCOMPLETE. One case which came to the attention of the officials to-day was that of A. T. Hill of Willlamsburg. Hill called !at the morgue yesterday and identified | the bodies of his brother-in-law, Will- {1am Richter, and the wife of the lat- ter, and they were removed to the of- fice of an undertaker. In the afternoon the bodles of Catherine and Lillian Richter, 3 and 4 years old, respectively, also were identified by hi: . When he called at the morgue to-day with an undertaker who was to attend to the burial of the bodies they could not be found. The bodies were numbered 173 and 176 respectively and the authorities at the morgue have no record of any such bodles having been given to any one, though they had a record of iden- tification made by Hill yesterday. It is thought that some undertaker was given the bodies in place of two others which *\e should have taken, | fioat and the waves made by the vessel | wreck, | 18, 1904, — through a confusion in the numbers. John J. Coakley, a deckhand on the General Slocum, made a statement be- fcre Coroner Berry to-day that the flames were first discovered in hay ‘hich had been used in packing bar- |rels of glassware. Those barrels were p‘nced in a storeroom wherew oil was stored. He also said that the hose was unrolled it kinked -::':HTy that it burst when water was turned on. He‘tesufled, in addition to this that the boat was passing Blackwells | Island, opposite Ninety-sixth street) when the fire was discovered. Others | have variously said that there was no |sign of fire until One Hundred and Thirty-seventh street or One Hundred &nd Thirty-eighth street was reached. (. ADDITIONAL IDENTIFICATIONS. > g Friends Claim the Bodies of Victims of | the Slocum Disaster. NEW YORK, June 17.—Additional identifications of dead made to-day at the Morgue were: Lane, George. Merseles, Matilda. Michaels, Carrie. Marshall, Daniel. Meyers, Elizabeth. Morris, Kate. Ramenelkamp, Stella. Stolz, Bessie. Salkman, Margaret. Stahl, Emanuel. Schmedling, Annie. Timm, George. Timm, Hedwig. Vetter, Frederic! —_—— EJECTING PASSENGER COSTLY TO RAILROAD Los Angeles Man Gets Verdict for $4000 Damages Against the Southern Pacific. SAN JOSE, June 17.—Robert H. Elser of Los Angeles was given a verdict against the Southern Pacific Company by a jury to-night for §40006 damages for violent ejectment from a train in thig city on August 23 last. The tes- timony showed that a relative of Elser purchased three special excursion tick- ets from Los Angeles to the Jeffries- Corbett fight at San Francisco and wrote the rames on the tickets him- self, with the sanction of the selling agent, instead of requiring the users to indorse them. Elser, when request- ed to write his name for identification, explained the circumstances, but was not believed. After his ejectment he was locked up overnight in the city prison under the direction of the railroad conductor. —_———— SEVEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL RESCUES HER PLAYMATE Child Is Drowning When at Great Risk Her Companion Pulls Her From the Water. SAN RAFAEL, June 17.—Little Edna Shaw is the heroine of the hour at San Quentin. Alma Duffy is just 9 years old, and was drowning. The Shaw child, who is younger by two years, saved her life. It seems that the two children, who are daughters of prison officials, were out picking water cress on the bay shore. The little Duffy girl lost her balance and fell in. She could not swim, and was fast becoming ex- hausted. Her companion, at the risk of her own life, went into the water and by the aid of a plank succeeded in reaching her companion. After con- siderable effort both children reached shore. —_————— HEARS DEATH SENTENCE SPOKEN THIRD TIME Supreme Court Passes on Case of Chinese Murderer at San Jose and He Must Hang. SAN JOSE, June 17.—For the third time the death sentence will be pro- nounced upon Lee Look next Friday morning at 10 o’clock. The remittitur has just been received from the Su- preme Court sustaining the death sen- tence imposed by the lower court. On March 14, 1601, Lee Look shot and kill- ed Lee Wing. The first trial resulted in a disagreement and the second gave a verdict- of murder in the first de- gree. The verdict of death sentence was set aside because it was not shown in the complaint that the man mur- dered was a human being. OSSR AR ICE MOVES OUT AND STEAMERS START NORTH First Fleet, Carrying 3000 Passen- gers, Is Probably Safe at Cape Nome. SEATTLE, Wash., June 17.—A Daw- son. special says: Telegraphic advices from St. Michael are that the ice moved out of the bay there to-day. The first fieet of steamers for Nome, carrying 5000 passengers, is probably safe at Nome. A number of vessels have been beating off shore for eleven days waiting for the ice to clear. —— CASE AGAINST HULSE IN HANDS OF THE JURY Evidence Completed in Trial of Man for the Murder of a Deputy Sheriff at Bakersfield. BAKERSFIELD, Cal, June 17.—The case of the people vs. Alfred Hulse, charged with the murder of Deputy Sheriff William E. Tibbett in the fa- mous battle at the josshouse on April 19, 1903, went to the jury late this aft- erncon. District Attorney Taird oceu- pied the greater part of the day with his closing argument. 5 —_———— FEarthquake Shock at Calistoga. CALISTOGA, June 17.—A slight shock of earthquake was felt here this morning at 7:28 o’clock. The vibrations were from east to west. No damage is reported. RIPLEY AFTER SERRY LINE Santa Fe Secures Option on the Railroad Built by Prince Poniatowski THORSEN EFFECTS DEAL Rich Wisconsin Lumberman Acting in the Interest of Transcontinental Line et The report is being persistentiy ecir- culated in local railroad and finanglal circles that the recent incorporation of a company to build a six-mile road from Oakdale, the southern terminus of the Sierra Railway, to Riverbank, a station on the line of the Santa Fe, is the forerunner of a bigger deal, involv- ing the transfer of ownership of the Sierra Rallway. X According to the information now in the possession of men of finance, Wil- liam R. Thorsen of Wisconsin, head of the syndicate which purchased the ‘West Side Lumber Company’s plant in Tuclumne County two years ago and has just incorporated the company which will build the road from Oakdale to Riverbank, has secured an option on the Sierra Rallway property. It is claimed that Thorsen, since he first came to California twq years ago, has been quietly working for the Santa Fe Company with a view of securing for it a foothold in the big timber dis- tricts in Tuolumne and adjacent coun- ties, and while engineering this scheme | he took advantage of an opportunity to purchase the West Side Lumber Company’s interests. RIPLEY STEALS A MARCH. About a year ago a company, in which Thorsen is said to have been the backer, incorporated for the purpose of building a road from a point on the Sierra Railway to Claus, a station of the Santa Fe. The attempts of the company to secure rights of way were thwarted by the Southern Pacific. It was then that Fhorsen, acting under advice of the president and other lead- ing officials of the Santa Fe, under- took another project and before the Southern Pacific Company realized the fact the newly incorporated company, knowa as the Oakdale and Western Rallroad, had obtained the necessary rights of way between Riverbank and Oakdale and let its contract for grad- ing. Before accomplishing this much, however, Thorsen had been dealing with_the stockhclders of the Sierra Railway and obtained an option in his own name, but which, in reality, 1s for the Santa Fe Company. THORSEN HURRIES EAST. The option guarantees Thorsen con- trol of the road as soon as he has made a sufficient financial advance- ment on the major portion of the stock that is bonded to him and to carry out this object he is now in the East con- ferring with the representatives of the Santa Fe. During the progress of the recent deal Thorsen made his head- quarters at the Palace Hotel and was daily 1n.conference with Captain A. DISLIKE PLAY O RalLRos) | Brokers Look With Disfavor . Upon. Southern Pacific’s | Issue of Preferred Stock s hgit IS DISCUSSED | e | Clause Giving the Company | .Right to Redeem at 115 in Five Years Proves Bugbear o . NEW YORK, June 17.—The sentiment | in Wall street to-day was largely influ- | enced by the attitude assumed by the | stockholders of the Southern Pacific and others toward the financial plan recently announced. A further discus- | slon and reflection on the proposals of |the Southern Pacific management | seemed to demonstrate pretty clearly | the fact that the plan to raise $40,000,000 |in cash by the sale of 7 per cent pre- | ferred stock, and the right to authorize an issue of $100,000,000, has not been fa- | vorably received. This sentiment was | evidenced by liquidation in Southern | Pacifie, which affected the entire mar- | ket. | The fact that the Southern Pacific | Company reserved the right to redeem | the preferred stock at 115 within a pe- |riod of five years after July 1, 1905, | brought about a decided change in the estimated status of the new preferred stock, as well as the rights accruing on present stock. It was quite gemer- ally believed that the new stock would sell above 115, but the redemption clause carried with it the conviction that the new stock would sell some- where between that figure and 120. The course of the rights on the curb, where they are now traded in, together with the decline in the stock to 117, con- firmed the general impression. The suggestion was also made that no mat- ter what refunding process was put into operation the new preferred stock would probably be funded into bonds. SHOOTS HIS COMPANION AND SURRENDERS AT ONCE i | | N | | | | Slayer Alleges Self-Defense for a Crime Committed on the North- ern Border of State. ASHLAND, Or., June 17.—News has reached here of a tragedy at Picard, in Butte Creek Valley, California, east of Ashland, in which George Potter, a | young man of Ashland, was shot and | killed, and his companion, named Mec- | Kay, serivusly wounded by a man | named Snyder at a cabin near the Picard postoffice. Snyder went to Keno, Klamath County, and gave himself up to the officers, claiming that the sheoot- ing was dcne in defense of his property. e +* Payson at the local offices of the Santa Fe rcad. The Sierra Railway is a val- uable acquisition to the Santa Fe in that it gives it a rich field in which to operate, and guarantees it a large share of the lumber traffic which orig- inates in the Tuoclumne timber dis- H. | triet. Mutton Chops. MateriaLs :—Chops _ at least one inch thick and neatly trimmed; salt and pepper to taste. 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