The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 29, 1904, Page 3

: THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1904. s / 3 ESTIMATE OF GRUNSKY ' TREBLED BY ENGINEER Claim Is Made That the Panama Ditch Cannot Be! Completed Within Ten Years, the Minimum Timej Set by the Canal Commissioner From California | BY S. W. WALL. HOTEL BARTON, 28.—Isthmian of San on of the Pan- of an old lock This is his con- owing the im- ican people to see gh the cut off, he ly upon h which going ither war interven- invention ground and comes to to start a bear is his 2 em- can years 0,00¢ ESTIMATE. diligent and honest. k accomplished by that 1897, when, with 3600 it removed from the 00 cubic meters, takes this as his to figure upon the llows 40 per cent hods and improved 30,000 men. Wi ves the time 1i y-six years for other es- t he figures t ng to this the view with his retary Hay has for reference to the Explanations de. It is said yartment to epresentatives d ates. s been done, it is declared, e the use of the word which is more euphonious words “United States.” years to designate in the official mail the residences diplomatic offi- cers abroad as “the American Embas- £y,” or “The American Legation.” Mr. vy has extended custom to “The American Ci “The Ameri- Consul * a matter of only, it is said. All these offi- in their commissions, still represert the United States of Ameri- This is my special proposi- tion. There are several dif- styles of handles, in- cluding pearl. All are stan- dard brands, and . tain to be pleased. want A GOOD RAZOR, I am offer- ing an extraordinary value for the specially of . STAR regular " Two bars Williams' 10c Shaving S0P ........ 15¢ Mail orders promptly filled. has™Th fact been the eustom for ! minimum | |1n ot of figuring and | cubic yards to | that as conserv- | and allowing of c ¢ he work that has b . ed. He considers | t e T French company ¥ bee The created a great | on on | tion of the| | cent | most | { | { 1 | | | | ca—so commissioned by the President of the United States. | CONSULAR SERVICE. | In this connection it may be noted again that the United States of Ame can consular service—as you will which sometime was held in very slight estesm at home or elsewgere, is so distinctly on the uplift as to have been responsible—at least this is as close as it may be traced—for having given Mr. Bryan that new idea which he acquired while abroad. He was so impressed that he was going to see to it that the Government legation premises wherever hed and add all that of its repre- t much n this. ed States ow such prem- in but four cities, and these all n the Far East. TWwo years ago prop- erty was purchased at Peking and constructed at a cost alto-| 000. In 1892 a legation 1 Tokio, Japan, by act of Congress appro- v therefor. The Slamese t in 1890 made the United Government a present of a ndsome house at Bangkok for use of its representative to that coun- try. The other, the fourth, was the first establishment of the kind to be got up by Uncle Sam. It was Seoul, Korea, and was pur- chased in 1886. In these several houses reside representatives of this Government amenable no more to the laws of the land in which they are than if they were in Washington City. The houses and the lands upon | which they are situated belong abso- | lutely to the United States, and those who reside there are required | to obey only the laws of the United States. { LAWS ARE IMPOTENT. 1 Similarly in Washington there are| ten of these foreign embassies or le- | gations against which Uncle Sam may assess no taxes and his laws are impotent as against their occupants. A few days ago several lads were rounded up by the police, caught in the act of bathing in the Potomac River within the city limits, contrary to X case, and especially so as t a breech- ere sans even *“Who is your father?” asked the officer of the ringleader, and by way \ding the man word that his boy was in the lock-up. “He's the Minister said the bo; | “Oh!" s the officer, and with a word of advice not to do so again he i the whole party loose. A test, as interesting, as to the ex- on of legation property from xation-is now being made. The le- gation property of Sweden and Nor- assessed for taxation on the that it was owned not by the nment represented, but by the personal or indi- The representative as he went away for to from 3 representative— vidual property. protested, and, the summer, referred the matter the State Department. T! jon from taxation and ol of law extends to all the per- property and effects of the representatives. Children sonal foreign born within the premises are as dis- tinctly alien as if born in the distant land of the flag that flies over them. GERMANY'S PROPERTY. only short a time ago vas the first to establish its legation here. It has since be-| It was so own come that of united Germany. originally located on Fifteenth street, but the property was sold recently be- cause of the encroachment of business houses, and is now established in handsome brick and stone on Massa- etts avenue. It was in this house Prince Henry was entertained £ his stay in Washington. Great Britain owns some 30,000 square feet of the triangle bounded by Connecticut avenue, Nineteenth and N streets. The Embassv building is a mansion containing more than fifty | rooms, cost $125,000 and was built in 1876. The property is surrounded by a high iron fence, and, together with the English ivy that has spread over the building, lends it an air of exclusive- ne: The building is of red brick and its furnishings are elegant and costly. Mexico established itr embassy in 1887, building a handsome establish- ment on I street, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth. Opened with a magnifi- ball, it was occupied for eleven | years by Minister Romero and his American wife. The latter died there in 1898, and her husband, just elevated | to the rank of Embassador, followed | her three months later. | Japan owns an unpretentious three- | story building on N street, between | Thirteenth and Fourteenth, formerly | the residence of General A. B. Capron, | bought in 1887, Korea in 1890 purchased a rather| | handsome building on Iowa circle, at | the junction of Thirteenth street, where have resided the mysterious rep- | resentatives of the hermit kingdom. SUMPTUOUS QUARTERS. ! Austria-Hungary’s embassy, on Con- | necticut avénue, was purchased from | former Senator D. L. Yulee of Florida at a cost of $80,000, and in its furnish- | ings and decorations is rated as the elaborate foreign residence in Washington. | sailor of note has been entertained at BELL DEPORTS Last Shipment of Union| Men From the Cripple| Creek Gold Mining Camps INQUIRY IN WASHINGTON | Government Bureau of La-! bor Will Fully Investigatei the Situation in Colorado S B i Special Dispateh to The Cail. VICTOR, Colo., June 28.—The fourth | and, General Bell says, the last de- portation of union miners from this | city was made at 7 o'clock to-night. In all thirty-four men were shipped out, making a total of 181 to date. | Four Deputy Sheriffs and a squad of | National Guards under command ot: Captain Moore have orders to leave | oners at Colorado Springs. | quiet prevails, but martial | law is still insforce. General Bell says | he will leave for Denver in a day or two. ODLORADO SPRINGS, June 28—| The Reduction Mill at Colorado City, | owned by the Portland Gold Mining | Company, cl down this afternoon | for two wee The necessity of mak- ing repairs and a shortage of ore, ac-" casioned by the recent closing down | of the mine at Victor by the military authorities, are given as the reasons for the action. There is no doubt that | the mill will be non-unionized when it ! resumes operations, since the Miill und' Smeltermen’s Union is affiliated with | the Western Federation of Miners, ! against which the Portland directors | declared themselves ten days ago. It! this action is taken the non-unionizing | of all four of the Colorado City Re- | duction plants will have been com- | pleted. | WASHINGTON, June 28—The Bu- reau of Labor is making an investiga- | tion of the labor difficulties in Colo- | | rado under the organic act of the bu- | reau, which charges the Commissioner of Labor to investigate the cause of | and the facts relating to controversies between employers and employes. The igagion, which is already under ay, may last for some time, as it is the intention of the bureau to go to| the very beginning of the trouble and endeavor to determine exactly what | the difficulties are and the causes lead- | ing to them. | B 0RS L PREDICTS USE OF TORCH. | — x Leader Says Deportation of Denver Miners Means Destruction of Town. | JoLl I, June 28.—"If General ever attempts to deport the union men from Denver, do you know what will happen? I will tell you. The union men will go, but before | they do they will apply the torch to Denver; . they will burn everything that can be burned in that city, and Denver will lie in ashes.” This statement was made to-day by C. Sherman of Chicago, secre- tary of the International Metal Work- | ers’ Union. “Let Bell try to drive | union men from Denver,” he con-| tinued. “If he ever does it Denver | will sink in its ashes. There will not | be left thing that can be burned. | The torch will be applied in every quarter of the city. The miners have stood about all they can. They must | resent further indignities, and they | will.” e COLORED BOY PUBLICLY WHIPPED IN KENTUCKY In Presence of More Than One Thou- sand People Negro Lad Receives Fifty Lashes. LEXINGTON, Ky., June 26.—In| accordance with Police Judge Riley’s | recent whipping-post decision, a 14- year-old colored boy was given fifty lashes in the public square to-day. His coat was removed and the lad was whipped with a buggy whip in the presence of over a thousand citizens. idence of Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, occu- pying the triangle at New Hampshire avenue, O and Twentieth streets. It | is a splendid mansion and the pur- | chase included many works of art! gathered by Mrs. Hearst from many | lands. The legation of Sweden and Nor- way, the ownership of which 1is in question and concerning which the in- teresting dispute as to taxes is raised, was acquired by Minister Girp in 1902 and is located on S street, Connecti- cut Heights, at a cost of $18,000. PORTER RESIDENCE. Speaking of embassles and legations, the historic old Admiral Porter resi- dence property on H street, which was the home at different times of both the British and the French legations when the highest diplomatic representative of those countries was a Minister, has been purchased by some man from Col- orado—the name not being given o as yet. The price was $50,000. The was about to be consummated some time ago, but one of the heirs, a daugh- ter of Admiral Porter, excepted to it and the matter had to go to court, where a ruling was made directing the acceptance of the offer. The elegant quarters of the Army and Navy Club at Connecticut avenue | and I street, where every soldier and | | Hornlck, France designs to eclipse all other | one time or another in their career, has countries in the magnificence with 2t last been sold and will be ultimately which its Embassador is to be housed ' joined to an apartment house now in this country. It has purchased at building near by. The sale has been a cost of $100,000 a tract of land em- | under negotiation for a long time, its bracing in the conclusion being effected with an ex- 70,000 square feet choicest residence section near Con-| T“AT MAN P“Ts | necticut avenye, with frontages on | y | three streets. A staff architect of the F. W. PITTS, The Stationer. French Foreign Office has paid two ' 1008 Market St., Above Powell. visits to the site. He is designing a | BAN FRANCISCO. $300,000 palace, which will represent | the best type of mddern French do- — Preseriptions 34,406 and 7. GUARANTEED CURE FOR MEN. mestic architecture. It will not be completed short of two years and in HARMLESS INJECTION. Cures cases in @ few days. Warranted to cure the meantime the Embassador resides worst cases. NO OTHMER TREATMENT at the home of Hon. Bellamy Storer, present Embassador to Austria-Hun- EEQUIRED. Prevents and Cures Stric- tures. CONTAGION. Harm- gary, on Rhode Island avenue. China has & home recently com- PREVENTS less. $2.00 for both bottles. For sale only x. 5. XELLY'S FEARMACY, 102 Eddy. pleted and costing $100,000, located at Nineteenth street and Vernom ave- nue, Washington Heights. | tensicn of two years time in which the club may provide itself with a new home. The recently organized University Club, of which Secretary of War Taft i president and which has been with- out permanent quarters, has rented the handsome four-story, pressed brick and stone building at the corner of K and Sixteenth streets, formerly the re’l- dence of Major Wheeler. ————— Santa Cruz Landmark Burns. SANTA CRUZ, June 28.—The resi- dence of Mrs. Refugio Buelna in High street, an old landmark, was burned to the ground last night. The loss will amount to nearly $2000, ——— LEAVES STAGE |DEATH COMES MORE MINERS, ~ FOR MANSION| WITH TORNADO Gifted California Actress Forsakes Footlights to Become Bride of Clubman WEDS GOTHAM DENTIST e G S Dr. William Wallace Walker and Miss Ethel Hornick Are Married at Sioux City SIS S Special Dispatch to The Call. SIOUX CITY, June 28.—Miss Ethel a California girl, whose mother, Mrs. Nora Hornick, resides in Oakland, was married here to-night to Dr. William Wallace Walker, a den- tist and clubman of New York City. The nuptials are the culmination of an attachment formed over the foot- lights of the Empire Theater, New York. Miss Hornick has been a member of the Augustin Daly and Charles Froh- man companies for ten years. She is remembered on the coast, where she played with Margaret Anglin and Charles Richman in “Mrs. Dane’s De- fense.” She leaves the stage to be- come mistress of a New York man- slon. The wedding took place at the home of the bride's uncle, John Hornick. Society paid her homage as the most beautiful bride of the year. There was a large and elegant reception after the ceremony. ower, 45 years of age, and the bride is 20. They left to-night for Europe to spend the summer. ———————— CRAZY TRAMP GIVES POISON TO BENEFACTOR | Inflicts an Agonizing Death Upon Kindly Man Who Gave Mim a Meal. HELENA, Mont, June 28.—News was received here to-night of the poisoning of a section man at Portal, on the Great Northern. This morning a hobo stopped at the section-house. He was invited to have something to eat and accepted. Later he said he would go to Wickes for some liquor. He returned shortly with a bottle and “Jack” Gannon was the first to take | a drink. Gannon had no sooner swallowed the supposed ‘liquor than he fell in agony and shortly afterward died. It is believed the bottle contained prus- sic acid. The hobo then saturated the bunk- house with oil and set fire to it. One of the men who had been looking af- ter Gagnon saw him and caught him when he started to run. The hobo is believed to be crazy. - A “census” of the vehicles passing over London bridge was taken recently for seven days. The number of vehi- cles was 125,373. The groom is a wid- | Two Children Killed and Six Persons Injured by a Windstorm in. Nebraska MEMBERS OF ONE FAMILY i RGO B ‘ Storm Works Great Damage | to Crops and Blows Sev-| eral Buildings to Pieces e HOLMESVILLE, Neb., June 28.—A tornado near this place to-day killed two persons, fatally injured a third and caused the severe injury of five| others, The dead: Two children of S. J. Har- | ris, 6 and 9 years old. | Fatally injured: Mrs. R. J. Harrls. Seriously injured: R. J. Harris, badly bruised on head and body; Mrs. Harris’ | mother, an aged lady, leg broken and body mangied; three children of Mr. and Mrs. Harris, not seriously. The tornado followed a sultry after- noon and came in the shape of a fun- nel-shaped- cloud. It struck several buildings before reaching -the Harris | home. At the latter place part of the family reached a cellar in safety, but Mrs. Harris and her son Lewis and a six-year-old daughter were unable to escape. Great damage was done to crops and stock farms, houses were destroyed and the occupants sought safety in cellars. In Holmesville several buildings were blown to pleces and others unroofed, | but no casualties are reported. —— CYCLONE UPROOTS TREES AND BLOWS DOWN HOUSES “Twister” in Wyoming Injuries Per- sons and Cattle and Narrowly Misses Passenger Train. X CHEYENNE, Wyo., June 28.—Word has been received here of considerable | damage wrought by a cyclone in Wes- |ton County. Trees were uprooted, ranchhouses blown down, haystacks | scattered and livestock and several per- | | sons injured. The “twister” narrowly missed a passenger train on the Bur- | lington railway. —_———— Phillips Case Dismissed. SAN RAFAEL, June 28.—On motion | of the District Attorney, the informa- tion filed against James N. Phillips, | charged with escaping from State | prison, was dismissed to-day. 1 |@The District Attorney then stated| that inasmuch as Phillips had been| | formally deprived of twenty-eight | | months’ credits and as his escape was | | unaccompanied by violence he had been | | sufficiently punished for his miscon- | | duct and asked the court to dismiss the | case, which was granted. —_——— | INDIANAPOLIS, June 28 —Walter R. Miles | | of Pactfic College. Newberg, Or., won the first | price of $100 in the Prohibition oratorical ccn-l | test, which was held in the Tomlinson Hall to- night. | journing in Philadelphia, while the de- | journeying frem Pittsburg to Philadel- | { red necktie. | passing strange, but it seems to be sub- | stantiated. |at Harrisburg had wired ahead and | friend Hay LOSES FORTNE IN NIGGETS Robber on a Train Steals $12,000 in Gold From Mine Owner of Death Valley THEFT OCCURS AT NIGHT Misfortune Bothers Vietim Little, but He Dreads Jok- ing Which Must Bé Met * Special Dispatch to The Call. PHILADELPHIA, June 28.—Walter Scott, owner of the Peerless mine in| Death Valley, Cal, is temporarily so- tective department and many raiiroad officials are endeavoring to locate a | sack containing 120 pounds of goid| amalgam, valued at $12,000, from which the miner avers he was separated while phia. | A wedding that was to have taken place in Jersey City has been tempo- rarily postponed and Scott is trying to think up excuses to square himself with “the boys” in Death Valley. “It isn't the loss of the stuff I mind,” says Scott. “I've got a roll left and | there is plenty more where the dust| came from. But what will the boys say when they hear of it? Why, Death Valley will ring with their merry ha ha.” Scott is big and broad-shouldered. He carries a gun and dresses picturesquely, wearing a large hat and loose, flowing He tells a tale of woe Scott, cool and unperturbed, arrived at 7:30 o'clock this morning. Trainmen to whom Scott had confided his loss found Detective Long, of the city force, and others waiting. The mine owner | was accompanied by an old comrade, Eugene Hay of Belleville, Il Scott’s story is that having cleaned up a fine stake out of his mine, he started on a trip East to have a good time, an incidental feature of which was a wedding at Jersey City. When he left San Francisco it was too late to send his precious nuggets by ex- press. So he put them in a trunk and checked the trunk. When his train reached Pittsburg Scott met a lady and spent the afternoon in her com- pany. When he caught the train he found his treasure all right, but the baggageman declined to check such a | valuable piece of property. So Secott| got a canvas sack into which he trans- ferred his treasure and boarded the train. In the Pullman he met his They sat up late drinking. Scott had his own bottle of liquor and his own glass. H€ took his canvas sack for a bedfellow. At Harrisburg he awoke. The sack was gone. He com- plained and then went to sleep again. Scott told his tale to the detectives and then asked to be shown to a res- taurant. “Take me somewhere where DR. KILMER'S SWAMP-ROOT. i e, ; s S ey s <ol KIDNEY AND BLADDER /TROUBLES PROMPTLY CURED. A Sample Bottis Sent FREE by Mail. Dr. Kiimer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy. fulfills every wish in promptly curing kidney, bladder and uric acid troubles, rheumatism and pain in the back. It corrects inability to hold water and.scalding pain in passing it, or bad effects following use of liquor, wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to go often during the day and to get ffip many times during the night. The mild and the ex- traordinary effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases. Swamp-Root Is not recommended for everything, but if you have kidney, liver, bladder or uric acid trouble you will find it just the remedy you need. If you need a med e you should have the best. Sold by druggists in fif- ty-cent and one-dollar sizes. You may have a sample bottle of this great kidney remedy, Swamp-Root, and a book that tells all about it and its great cures, bath sent absolutely free by mail. Address Dr. Kilmer & Co. Binghamton, N. Y. W writing sure to mention that read this generous offer in The Francisco Daily Call mistake, but remember the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the address, Binghamton, N. Y., on every bottle. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the M——:b Signature of I can get mush and milk,” he said, sad- ly. “It’s time for me to get back to soft food: a nursing bottle is about fight for a man from Death Valley who would let it be put all over him by a soft heel in these parts. I've got plenty left. I had wired a girl to meet me iz Jersey City and yas going to get married. I don’t mind the loss of the $12.000 so much, but what will Death Valley say? Oh, for one sweet minute alone with the gentleman who took the sack.” Scott later got his satchel and said he thought he would stay around and enjoy himself. He had about $5000 with him. you San Don't make any —_——— CHAIN GA ILLEGAL, ARES A JURIST Orders the Release of a Negro Sen- tenced for an Infraction of Municipal Law. MACON, Ga., June 238.—United States District Judge Emory Speer of the western division of the Southern District of Georgia to-day rendered an opinion of far-reaching importance, involving the authority of municipal courts throughout the country to sen- tence violators of municipal ordinances to local chain gangs. The case came before Judge Speer on a writ of habeas corpus applied for by a negro for.rel e from the cus- tody of E. A. Wimbesh, superintendent of the Bibb County (Ga.) chain gang. 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