The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 5, 1904, Page 1

Forecast made eisco for thirty midnight, July 5: San Francisco and vicinity— — | I | | at San FPran- hours ending Alcazar—“One Summer’'s Day.” Central—“Wedded and Parted.” Chutes—Vaudeville. Fischer's—" “The Mormons.” Cloudy Tuesday; fresh west Grand—Barbara Frietchie.” wind. G. = v;u.-ox. i Orpheum—Vaudeville. Local Forecaster. Tivoli—“Robin Hood.” et p - < P VOLUME XCVI—NO. 35. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JULY. 5, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FIRE RAGES AT WORLD'S FAIR SITE Great gBHuildmgs 0of] the Exposition in Peril. LS L Lives of the Inhabitants of| Miniature City Are Endangered. - DEVICE OF GRE INVENTED BY VALUE PHYSICIAN and Newly Discovered For- | Revolutionize the of Ansesthetics. i 1f prolonged Science as satis- | | med- f administration of | » the ap- s kee mixing w the -1 2 solution all the e of the pa-| doing givi AIN ATE FABIAN IN NEED OF HEIR Owner of Mysterious San sco Legacy Is Resumed | Chron with an | | in d upon him in ver, he is r before Her be abo g ¢ rtably provi San Francis: rted to have now reports have con past two years irs £ Mor: xnown in this cit r the estate he is said e FIN HIS OWN FOR BREAKING Law | ISLAND, Neb., July ¢.— s son was the 4 should have | Judge Garn to- | mil Garn, an | tice to mem- The others, | . but young| could not ent to jail. anded more from a bride- » AGISTRAT: SON } treat groom, whom they were serenading. and when this w refused the affair became a riot and the bride and groom were roughly handled. The Jice were called to stop the trouble. —_———— Child Dies From Burns. WICHITA, Kans, July 4.—Betty Burr, 2 years old, died at 2 o'clock this morning from the effects of burns. A sky-rocket caused her hair and dress to take fire, |nia and the | California, PENNSYLUANIA LEADS OFF IN A STAMPEDE & NEW ROAD - VILL SO0N BE BUILT Western Pacific’s Plans Are Com- pleted. Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK 4—"George J. Geuld’s straight railroad line from Salt Lake to the Pacific coast is an as- sured fact,” said a Gould director to- day. ““Trust deeds and mortgages have been filed in this city and in various ccunties in Utah, Nevada and Califor- right-of-way practically has been procured all of the id out. 1 a trip to arly route hag been surve “I have just returned frc where this new meeting with On the western end town- ships are offering cash bonuses in ad- dition to lands in order to get the rail- way to run their way. ““The new road, which is to be built by the Western Pacific Railway, is de- signed to give the Gould system the shortest possible outlet to the Pacific coast. The Missouri Pacific now reaches Salt Lake from Pueblo, via the Denver and Rio Grande. An almost straight line drawn on the map from Salt Lake to San Francisco will mark the route of the projected road, about 106 miles south of the Southern Pacific. It will be about one day's travel shorter between Salt Lake and San Francisco than any existing route. “The significant feature of this enter- prise is its harmonious connection with the Denver, Northwestern and Pacific, which David H. Moffat and unknown associates are now bullding from Den- ver to Salt Lake.” —_————— MOTHER IS STRICKEN DEAD BY LIGHTNING SPRAGUE, Wash., July 4.—Mrs. Frank Wade, living sixteen miles west of here, was struck by lightning and killed. Mirs. Wade, with her three small children and hired man, had been down to Crab Creek about a mile from home when the storm came up, and had just reached home. Mrs. Wade got out of ject welcome is an the rig and started to open the wire | gate along the barb wire fence when the lightning struck her. She fell to her knees, got up on her féet again, walked three steps and fell dead. The man then took out the children and let the team go, but when he reached the mother there was not a spark of life Jeft. Wade was away from home at the time, but reached there a few min- ates later. TO THE STANDARD OF PARKER AT ST.LOUIS PATRICK A COLLINS, BOSTON o | LEADING CANDIDATE FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION AND OTHER PROMINENT DEMOCRATS AT ST. LOUIS. | | ST. LOUIS, July 4—The Pennsylva- { Bryan, who is making a heroic fight | There was little in the poli removed th ia delegates to-nigi: | to cast their sixty-eight yvotes for him jon the first ballot. This takes away | the last hope of the friends of Senator | Gorman. Colonel Guffey, head of the | Pennsylvania delegation, declared ! Gorme 1 a quitter yesterday, and to- night he transferred the Pennsylvania vote to Judge Parkc:. The Maryiand and West Virginia delegaticns will fol- |low Pennsylvania into the Parker col- | umn, and the South will line up sol- | idly. | Without a probability of a break | anywhere in the ranks of the conserv- | atives, only the radicals and Tammany |are left to fight Parker and his nom- ‘inauon may be made on the first bal- lot. J There are 270 delegates instructed }m vote for Parker, or less than one- third. There are as many more who |are now counted upon as favorable | to Parker, because he is the candidate {of New York. Former Senator Hill {and Sheehan count upon another like body of delegates coming to their can- | |didate through the desire to get in | with the winner. ENTHUSIASM IS ABSENT. There is absolutely no enthusiasm among the delegates over the probable candidate. The great majority know him only as the choice of the New York convention. They de not know what he represents beyond the claim that he can carry New York and that New York may give the Presidency to the Democratic party. The strongest point in Parker’s favor is the fact that he is the leading can- didate of the conservative wing of the ! party and the only one from a Repub- {lican State which appears doubtful. The conservatives are in control of the convention. They have more than 600 | delegates out of the 994 sent to the i convention. Some of them are con- | tested, but the conservatives will not surrender the advantage they hold. They will continue to control the con- vention, name the candidate and dic- tate the platform. HEARST DELEGATES DESERT. Hearst is the candidate of the radi- cals and he cannot control his own delegates. They have the same weak- ness for grabbing hold of the band wagon that others have and they are likely to go, but for the influence of keystone of the conservative opposition | to Judge Parker by agreeing in caucus | | K’eystone State Delegatio;z in Caucus Decides to Cast Entire Sixty-Eight Dotes for the Jurist. for radicalism, both in candidates and platform. Bryan is the only resisting force in the convention, and this power of lead- ership may be demonstrated anew before the combat is over. It Wwill be remarkable If he does check thé drift to Parker, but Bryan has done un- usual things in the past, and he has aroused the hope of his most ardent followers that he will be able to do the | apparently impossible here. » | A real contest on the platform is as- sured. No vet knows what the | platform will be, but it is known that the majority draft will prove unsatis- factory to Bryan and his followers, and there are enough of them to make an interesting fight on the floor of the convention. The developments to-day before the National Committee also indicate that Bryan will be in evidence when the committee on credentials reports. In this connection considerable interest was expressed to-day in the fact that the candidate for President in the last two campaigns should secure a proxy in the National Committee for the pur- | pose of championing a contested case. BRYAN'S SILENCE A THREAT. Bryan was engaged during the day with callers, many of them represent- ing aspirants for the Presidential nom- ination. He discussed the situation with all of them, but committed him- self to none. Among his visitors were some members of the North Carolina delegation, who insisted that Bryan should state in definite terms whether it was his purpose to bolt the ticket in case it should not be to his liking. | He replied that he would answer the | question only when the ticket was named. The selection By the committee of John Sharp Williams ' for tempordry chairman seems to give general satis- faction. No determination has been reached as to who shall be the perma- nent chairman, but several men have been suggested and possibly all will be considered by the committee on per- manent organization before a selection is made. & The exposition, summer gardens, Fourth of July celebrations and other attractions won out over politics large- ly to-day in the contest for the at- tention of the delegates, Every train brought in hundreds of politicians, who, after possession of their hotel accommodations, purbued their individ- ual tastes in seeking holiday pleasures. o al pro- gramme to hold the visitors. CARMACK FOR SECOND PLACE. That Senator Carmack of Tennessee shall second the nomination of Judge Parker has been decided upon. Tennessee delegation has appointed a special campaign committee to work for the nomination of Senator Carmack for the Vice Presidency, and J. M. Head, National Committeeman from Tennessee, will be asked to place Car- mack in nomination. Sentiment among those of the North Carolina delegation who have arrived on the scene is strongly in favor of a | North | “compromise” platform. The Carolinians say they want a platform on which all Democrats can stand, re- gardless of past alignments. The del- egation is not instructed, but Parker sentiment strongly dominates. “Four-fifths of the Democrats in Ver- mont are for Parker,” said V. Bullard. chairman of the Vermont delegation, “for we have no doubts as to where we stand, nor any reservations.” “From our inquiries among the del- egations,” sald Chairman John P. Hol- land of the Delaware delegation, “we conclude that Judge Parker will fail of nomination on the first, second or third ballots, and that after that his strength will begin to dissolve, much of it com- ing to Gray.” Parker for President and “Tom" Taggart of Indianapolis for chairman of the Democratic National Committee is a concise statement of the ambition of the Indiana delegation. The delega- tion occupies a conspicuous position on the “headquarters floor” of the South- ern, and calls attention to itself by an electrical display of Parker's portrait. Indiana is priding herself c. being the second State to instruct for Parker, following New York, and Parker en- thusiasm is abundant among ‘he dele- ga‘es. it TILLMAN FAVORS GRAY. Says Cleveland’s Name Will Howled Down in Convention. ST. LOUIS, July 4—"Because he is a straight-out Democrat of the open-and- above-board type, a man who stands for the Democracy which has come down to us from the fathers, and in my opinion far and away the strongest man whom the Democrats can put into the fleld, I heartily favor the nomina- tion of Judge Gray of Delaware for the The | i Be | South Carolina delegation gets here to- | morrow and organizes 1 cannot pre- | sume to say what it will decide to do. | Without drawing any comparisons, 1 |am of the opinion that Judge Gray would get all the support and none of | the opposition which Judge Parker has. IJudge Parker is undoubtedly in the | 1ead thus far, but he has not the neces- | sary two-thirds.” | Regarding the platform Senator Till- man said: “I am opposed to putting any of last year's eggs in last year's birdsnest; we | need a new nest and a new set of eggs | The Democrats will not dare sound “leveland's name in the convention, for the howl of rage which would fol- low would drown everything else.” WANT EIGHT-HOUR LAW. DENVER, July 4.—The ways and | means committee of organized labor of Colorado to-day adopted a platform for the fall campaign and pledged sup- port to the Democratic State ticket, it the Democratic platform shall em- brace the provisions of the Labor plat- form. The salient features of this platform are: A definite eight-hour law a definite legislative measure; de- feat of the present State administra- tion; a constitutional amendment tak- ing from the Governor the power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus ex- cept by a three-fourths vote of the General Assembly, and providing that the question of insurrection shall be decided by judicial inquiry; repudia- tion of the military debt contracted by the Peabody administration; exemp- tion of $200 worth of personal prop- erty from taxation. e dibestiiiens Starts a Tillman “Boom.” KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 4—The Carolina delegation to the Democratic { convention passed through here late to- night. The delegdtion is for Parker as !long as he has a chance, while Cleve- illnd is the second choice of a majority of the delegates. The delegation has decided to place the name of Senator Benjamin Tillman before the conven- tion as a candidateé for Vice President. POy T R Political News Continued on Page 3. s e SRR Governor Winthrop in Office. SAN JUAN, P. R, July 4—Judge Beekman Winthrop was inaugurated as Governor of Porto Rico to-day. The ceremonies were opened by the firing of a national salute, followed by an im- W0 KILLED BY BURSTING OF NORTAR Accident Mars the Celebration in Ogden. Explosionmfieces of Steel Info Crowd of Spectators. Five Persons Who FEscape Death Outright Are Maimed or Slightly Hurt, OGDEN, Utah, July 4—By the pre- mature explosion of a fireworks mor- tar to-night at Glenwood Park two persons were killed and five injured in the presence of about 3000 spectators. The dead: DANIEL SHUPE. MISS CHARLOTTE CLARK. The injured: Joseph Gibson, aged 9 years, arm blown off; Dan Moran, aged 12 years, badly cut in forehead; John Funelle, aged 15 years, slight scalp wound; Miss Ida O'Hornett, slight, arm and head; Mrs. Dolly, right arm cut. The display of fireworks was given from a pontoon erected in a small la- goon in one end the park, and the spectators were seated around the banks of the lagoon. A small mortar used for throwing bombs into the air was being used. A bomb became fas- tened in it and exploded and' pieces of the steel were hurled several hundréd feet across the lagoon among the spec- tators. Danfel Shupe, a wcli-known mer- chant of this city, who was standing with his wife watching the display, was struck in the neck by a sharp piece of steel, which almost severad his head. Miss Charlotte Clark, seats, with her-“mother and friends, was | struck in the breast by a large piece of steel and died within a few minutes. —_— DISASTER AT TACOMA. Explosives Are Ignited by Accident and Many Are Injured. TACOMA, Wash., July 4.—The fire- works which were to have been se off here this evening in Enright Park as a finish to the big Fourth of July celebration caught fire from almost the | first rocket that was sent up and in an instant the entire heap of explos was flying in every direction. About four dozen eight-pound rockets flew | through the audience of 30,000 persons, | creating a panic in which many w injured. Others struck by flying explosives and it is estimated that as many as fifty were more or less injured, none fatally. | Van Allen Smith, | with the fireworks, stood his groun | an effort to scatter the fire and | terribly burned. One arm was broken | by an explosive. It is believed that h | will survive. Miss Hattie Braizman was struck in the stomach by a rocket and seriously | injured. One child is reported to have | lost the sight of both eyes. J. H Davis, chairman of the { his right hand s children of E. S intended the figh were burned about th The audience was were who .was assisting " war ommittee had Tw v burned who sv explosives, the slopes of the hill te be set 1.4 le around the men m them. works were | erowded in a work, being only a few (O IR IN FOREIGN CITIES. feet fr: How America’s Natal Day Was Ob- served Beyond the Atlantic. ST. PETERSBURG, July 4—The United States flag floated from the Embassy’s headquarters, the Lieuten- berg Palace, in honor of July 4. Charge Eddy gave a dinner to-night. This was the exteng of the celebration here MARSEILLES, July 4 —The American | colony celebrated the Fourth of July with a banquet, which was presided over by Consul General Skinner. The health of President Roosevelt was pro- posed and warmly honored ROME, §ulv 4—The Fourth of Jul was celébrited at the American ( lege by a banquet, to which Mgr. Ken- nedy, rector, had invited Mgr. Falconl, apostolic delegate to the United States, and several Americans. P SHOOTS GIRL IN FACE. ]l-'mnr-Ym-old Boy Fatally Wounds | Young Woman With Shotgun. GREAT FALLS, Mont, July 4— Miss Margaret Fink, aged 20, of Box Elder, is dying as a result of a wound inflicted by a 4-year-old boy, Arthur Gies, who took up a loaded shotgun during the Fourth of July celebration and discharged the weapon in the girl's face, blowing off part of her head. P Guerneville Boy Hurt. GUERNEVILLE, July 4.—Louis Monticelli, a young lad of this place, will lose two fingers and a thumb as a result of the Fourth of July. Louis ignited a large fire cracker and when it failed to explode he promptly made an examination too hastily. The hand Presidency,” said Senator Tillman of | posing patriotic demonstration. The | was badly lacerated and amputation South Carolina to-night. = “Until the city was profusely decorated. smay be necessary,