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PREFERS DEATH |EMINENT GUESTS OF CONCLAVE WILL BE WELCOMED WITH HONOR Grand Master of British - T0 RECAPTURE ~Eacaped Prisoner, After Ex- changing Shots With His Pursuers, Ends Own Life CORNERED BY DEPUTIES| | Jail Breaker Sends Bullet Into His Brain When Of- ficers Locate His Refuge HELENA, Gravell Mont.,, Aug. I1l—Isaac on trial for robbing a powder house near Helena last September of &iant powder, which used in ecking Northern Pac ped was after probably Korizek, a dep- s and this afternoc shoot Tor riff rnor Joseph K. el took place. hots Gravelle the Govern- shot and killed wounded by bul- pur- of his t 2 o'clock as i fro: th nd Jail n the velie aking effect. breast a to Fifth vas chased by Raab, a Turn- Six e a moment later lley beside T n where ran into th. Governor’s house, PHIPPS WINS FIRST POINT IN HIS DIVORCE CASE Colorado Judge Holds That Sum- mons Scrved on His Wife Was Legal. Aug —Judge John L Court to-day the summons Chandler y in the di- tuted here by C. Phipps, the steel nee Phipps’ was o was sust: d States Steel Cor- Co., and the y are con- n of Mrs. to Mrs. Phipps in her name. Boy Bandit Gets Life Sentence. 11.—David Kel boy bandit” quarter, Ity of complicity in a stage car- heater, by a court and he risonment in Who Care Those est stage health- the ADVERTISEME CASTORIA For Infants and Children. Bears the e P TC YOSEMITE VALLEY BY THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC MEANS SEEING ALLTHE BIG THINGS Roads are oiled and dustles: meals good and at a moder- ate price; you ride through the famous tunneled tree, “Wawona,” and esee the “Grizzly Giant” and other great trees in California’s premier forest, the Mariposa Big Tree Grove; enter the Valley at that breath-taking place, Inspiration Point, and when you leave, go out by way of Yosemite’s most fa- mous feature, Glacier Point. TICKETS AND STAGE RESERVA- TIONS AT SOUTHERN PACIFIC OFFICE, 613 MARKET ST. SAN FRANCISCO. EWEY PA" | the | | manufac- | gramme of The Kind You Have Always Bought | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY “AUGUST 12, 1904 Earl of Euston, Knights Templar, This City---Thousands of Others Coming Starts To-Morrow for END OF STRIKE STILL DISTANT Merchants’ Committee Fails | to Induce the Packers to| Confer With Union Men EMPLOYES TO TRY LAW Will Seek to Have Enforced | Federal Court Injunction Against Trade Combines i ORY OF HO WILL Hospitable San Franc the great army of gates next month \gers at her and their reception will be 1d thorough in its cordiality. During the great Chris- tian Endeavor Convention here it w estimated that 40.000 visitors lodged in s city that week. The twenty-ninth en 1 Conclave of the Knights iplar, which will convene here from September 5 till the 12th, j§ expected to bring quite as large a number. Unlike the conclave held here years ago, this me will be attended by all r the Wworld. of foreign lands are even g toward the great meet- = . Several parties tarted frc ent points in 1 and the first to leave out from London to- Templars from The Knights now traveli the M i Maste of land and Wa Chey will le John take charge of The party also includes ice chancel- past grand nan, wi nment Charles F. lor; C prelate; Phipy Thomas highest deg FROM ALL CIVILIZED LANDS, It that every civ, state on the globe will contribute to this conclave | That no minor detail for the recep- | tion of the visitors might be over- Jooked, a number of prominent citi- zens of San Francisco meet in the | Maple room of the Palace Hotel ye terday afternoon to prepare entertainment. George W. Pippy. as chairman, said | the welcome for the strangers must come also from the people of this city and State and not alone from the Knights Templar. No one could begin to estimate, the chairman con-i tinued, the benefits that would come to San Francisco and to Califoraia with the thirty or forty thousand strangers, not alone in the vast sum of money that would be spent by the visitors on this coast, but in the| greater good that would spring from an exhibition of this State and her re- sources. The local members of the or- der had prepared for the care of the guests while in this city, but there| would be visits to other parts of the | State and arrangements must be made | for these. Mayor Schmitz, called on for a sug- gestion, answered by promising his hearty co-operation in every way In| any preparation the committee might | make. | H. T. Scott said the Union Iron Works would help out by launching the warship Milwaukee and would throw | open the Ohlo, California and South Dakota to the visitors, as well as pro- | vide them with transportation down the bay to the shipyard. Admiral Whiting, commandant of the | Yerba Buena training station, said vis- | itors would be taken to~Goat Island | and shown how the Navy Department | educated its sailors. | General Passenger Agent T. H. Good- man of the Southern Pacific Company mentioned the preparations made by the railroads all over the country to handle the great crowds coming this | way next month. Many who had al- ar ght, braham Woodiwiss, Thomas man Alfred J. Thomas and all Masons of the Db is probable ed o a pro- | Colonel ready engaged transportation would ! extend their visit to the State for| weeks. 1 FOR CONVENIENCE OF VISITORS. Rolla V. Watt suggested that a cir- cular be prepared containing all infor- | mation necessary for ghe assistance of the strangers, as this had been done with advantage when the Christian En- deavorers were here, Jacob Neff promised that an interest- ing mineral exhibit would be made. In reply to a question Colonel Pippy said that arrangements had already been made to lodge 16,000 visitors. % | meet in the | between The following were appointed a com- Mayor H. an, David Starr Watt, Admiral forse, A. G. Mc- C Tie, W. Dohrmann, cott and Frank L. Brown. - was made chairman of the committee, which was directed to re- port at his oflice, City Hall, next Tues- day afternoon at lock. W. de St. Paul Seitz is secretar: The general committee of citizens will aple room of the Palace o'clock next Wednesday aft- L. Lent is secreta e MANAGER AND FIRM . DIFFER AS TO DUES 3 Hotel at 3 ernoon. Two Suits Filed in Which Each Side Claims Lorge Amount of Money Coming. There is a wide difference in the ons of W. F. Clark and Catton, & Co. as to the amounts of money e from each to the other. Clark says that the firm owes him $18,000, and the firm declares that Clark is.in debt to it in the sum of § 1 48. Both filed suits yesterday in the Su- his co: irected against J. E. Bell Harrison, doing an insur: as Catton, Bell & Co. rs that for ten years prior to March 21, 1903, he was em- ployed as cern on a promise of $7500 a year, be- ntage of the proceeds-of He alleges that the firm account for the percent- : 1d_he sues for $18,000 upon the basis of his information as ount of business done. 1it against Clark is brought by h its attorney, Francis on June 30, 1899, at a hat his services ceas- 3. They declare that debt since De- $7681 48 under in 1902, a running open account agreed upon | their for them, loaned him other persons and bought goods for him. When the account was balanced the firm owed him $300 for services and he was indebted for the difference named. Attorney Perry is authority for the whereby the firm | statement that his client, Clark, will immediately sue the insurance firm for $100,000 damages for defamation of character. —————— FISH COMMISSIONERS MAKE THREE ARRESTS | Violators of the Game Laws in This | State Are TFined by Judges. B. E. Coombs, the owner of a butcher shop and market in Alameda, was arrested yesterday by Deputy Fish Commissioner J. I. Sedgly for selling striped bass weighing less than three pound He was fined $20. Deputy Fish Commissioner Pritchard arrested R. ta Monica for having his possession a fresh deer skin. Judge Jenness fined him 5 e L At Dinuba, Tulare County, Deputy ! Fish Commissioner Flam arrested M. E. Hulberton yesterday for having more than fifty dov in his posses- sion. Hulberton h seventy-seven doves in two sacks and was shipping them to L. Scatena in this city. In his defense Hulberton claims that the twenty-seven extra doves belonged to a friend. The case comes before | Judge Fuiton to-day. —_——— Bank Is Incorporated. The Bank of Huntington MBeach, Orange County, has been incorporated with a capital of $25,000, 50 per cent of which has been paid up. The of- |ficers of the bank are S. Townsend, | president; P. H. S. Hazeltine, vice president, and J. F. Heartwell, secre- tary and cashier. rectors includes the officers named and A. M. Goodhue, L. E. Grigsby, W. L. Campbell, F. E. Robinson, D. M, Cate and W. L. Porterfield. —— Chinese Servant in Trouble. E. V. Smith, 2175 Pacific avenue, secured a warrant from Police Judge Conlan yesterday for the arrest of Al Len, a Chinese, on charges of petty larceny and misdemeanor embezzle- ment. Ah Len was_ arrested by De- tective Ed Gibson. He was employed by Smith as a servant. He is accused of stealing two bottles of champagne and a bottle of whisky on August 7 and of embezzling $19 66 on July 28, which he received to pay a bill, is G. H. Perry and | 11 manager of the con- | 1ey recite that they em- | money, paid his debts to | ckles at San- | The board of di- ! CHICAGO, Aug. 1L—The stock | | yards strike to-night seems no nearer | |a settlement than it did the day the | | struggle began. The efforts of a com ! mittee composed of retail butchers and | grocers to bring about a conference | between the packers and strike lead- | lers was of no avail to-day. The re- | | taile committee was in conference ! ! with Edward Tilden, John Maurer, { Thomas Wilson and Thomas J. Con- ners, representing the packers, for | three hours this afternoon and at the ! end of the meeting the following state- given out by the committee men: courteously received by a esenting the packers med that considering all d and present conditions ison existed why any fur- >nce with the strikers would ther confe | be beneficia When the strike leaders were in- formed of the determination of the packers to refuse to enter into further with the unionists they m plans to force the hand department of the United jovernment in an endeavor to about a settlement. This move- was decided upon by the legal kers after they had | received what they considered rcliable information that the Attorney General would not m a move to bring into operation the perpetual injunction now held by the Covernment against com- binations among the packing firms un- |less ordered to do so by President Roosevelt. The plan in effect is this: To-morrow or next day an action | ment ! advisers of the will be started in the Federal Court in the name of a striker who holds stock in one of the biggest of the packing concerns, tion demanding that the injunc- | put into operation, on the that the illegal combination xists and, through it, the share ' holders are suffering loss. This, it is expected by the strike leaders, will in- duce President Roosevelt to take up the fight and force the packers to pro- duce their books, contracts and agree- ments in open court. Such a step, it is believed by the strikers, will bring the packers to terms and end the struggle. | While standing on his doorstep to- night John Schuman, a strike breaker, was attac! by rioters and severely kicked and beaten. be | AGREE SHOP. f | Garment Workers' Strike Declared Off and Men Go to Work. { NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—The strike of the TUnited Garment Workers -ainst the open shop, which began about two months ago, was declared off. It is claimed by the employers that the ranks of the strikers had dwindled from 32,000 to 5000, | The strikers have made individual agreements with the employers, but all on an open shop basis, though in many cases all the men taken back will remain union men. It is esti- mated that the strikers lost between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000 in wages. REFUSE "ERENCE. Ready-Made Clothing Manufacturers Decline to Meet Strikers. CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—A committee | from the Chicago Federation of Labor ! called upon the ready-mady clothing manufacturers this afternoon and ask- ed the employers to meet the striking cutters, bushelmen and trimmers. The firms flatly refused, saying that they hud decided to operate under the open shop policy and had nothing to dis- cuss with their employes. g FORCE MEN TO QUIT. Hartford Builders Lock Out Employes Because of Strike. HARTFORD, Conn., Aug, 11.—All union men employed on buildings in process of construction in Hartford | were locked out to-day as an answer to the unions, which decided to sup-| | port the sympathetic strike against a | | contractor who has had a disagree- { ment with a discharged bricklayer | over a Dbill of 75 cents for overtime. | —_——— RARE WORKS ARE GIVEN i TO STANFORD LIBRARY | . i Timothy Hopkins Presents Large | Number of Books Dealing With | i Ancient Egypt. PALO ALTO, Aug. 11.—Timothy | Hopkins has presented to the Stanford | | library a large number of valuable books dealing with Egyptian history. These volumes are English transla- tions of all available information upon this subject. Perhaps the most valu- able single volume in the collection is a translation and transliteration of “The Papyrus of Ani: The Book of the | Dead.” A O SR R AR Falls From Wagon and Is Killed. SAN JOSE, Aug. 11.—Antonio Can- | chelli, an Ttalian laborer, was thrown ! from his wagon to-day and killed. His | horse shied at a streetcar and the wagon seat fell off, taking Canchelli | with it. He leaves a wife and JChil- | dren. — - $500——————5500 ‘Worth of the i FRESHEST AND BEST COFFEE DISTRIBUTED FREE BY THE TO ITS WANT AD PATRONS. $ A pound can of i J. A. FOLGER'S GOLDEN GATE COFFEE | WILL BE GIVEN FREE TO EVERY WANT | ADVERYISER 1 IN NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. Only one can of this high class coffce will be gziven to a want advertiser, and none but those presenting a bona fide want ad to the business office of | but his attorney interposed a long | ground that the ordinance is uncon- | stitutional. THE EMPORIUM. 1 THE EM-ORIUM. | THE EMPORIUM. RERERREEZRRRE RERERRE RRRRRE RRRRE RERRERR REE RRREEE EREREY. RRRRER RERERY. RRERRRE RRERRY. 0 ! years. Sailor Suils 3s pic- tued, wih extra pants to match, in navy, brown and royalserges and gray and brown mixtures, sizes 6 to 12 vears, Russian Svils— Wih Econ or M1 tary coilar, fin serges in mavy, brown, 1 and red; sizes 234 Nautical gr Peter Thompson Resfers for boys 3 to 12 yeats, fine Me ton, heavy serg= or chevi t — navy, royal brown or Oxtord. BEaRERnne % | val to 7 years suits with extra trousers. Preiiy Hat Drapes ( One of the best bargains our veiling buyer has come across in a long time. the money more than he did the goods closed out to us this large lot of beautiful hat drapes at an extraordinary reduction from regular wholesale prices, which enables us to offer the to-day and Saturday (if quantity fasts),each . . . . 8. « .« « .. e .. o . oice of 20 new Styl YS’Suits and Overcoats Newest Fal! productions—made by reliable specialty tailors for boys—something for all the boys 234 to 16 years, including suits for the extra stout boys 10 t0 16 We picture four of the new styles, two of which you will observe are Don’t overlook this great offer, your choice of 20 or more new styles for boys, all at......ceoeeevueeen Worth to $1.5v Thse drapes are 114 yards long; the colo's black, black and whit=, white and black, royal n, some dctted, some embroidered in tasteful designs, some hemstitched borders, oth=rs with neat silk scrol: edges; they are worth up to §1.50 each. Some GCharming o Miliinery Ready breasts, combined with the new emera'd green velvet, finished with handsome goid ornaments; it is in the new Prices of thes= new hats rang= from. . Shirt anncuncement, f and shirred, $25.00; beginning urday, if quantity i 1914 - inch full jointed dolls, with bisque heads, slegping eves, mobair wig, thoes and stockings (cither light, dark or avburn hair), at the very special price, '/ each Kestner New Be'ts, 50¢ New shape crush Leather Belts—gi! buttons and straps in back and gil in front, colors black, brown, tan, red and cham- pagne—one of half dozen stvles, just feceived from New York 500 AMERICA'S GRANDEST STORE i F 5 blu=, golden brown; some p! Fy 5 Y » §, The first of the new ¢ Gage’” hats for Fall just in; each hat an exclusive pattern. % | of Turbans, Gainsboroughs, Coloni § shades of brown, green, burnt onion, burnt orange, etc., etc. X H turban shape an a most becoming hat to alm st any style of face. x ; s s |Men’s Pieated Bosam o - - i Goff Shiris x Worth 73c H $71.00 :. To secure them at a price we have = closed out a lot of stylish gof 3 shiris that wou'd be large enough 5 for an cntire season’s business for 5 mo:t stores. They are made of ) fine shirtings, in neat stripes and figu-ed effrcts, w.th pleated ns and cuffs a=- Y P x tach=d, and at the sa’e pric: will probab’y = ali be gone by closng lg.: Good Suspenders - Men's sizes, ina largs variety of fincy web ® and buck’es, to-day and Saturday, pair. . .08€ £ | Fine Silk Bows—Men's chicd bows, made fom remmants of sce =_' silks, pretti v figured foulards, fancies and pain colors in 'nsnu weay:s; to-‘ay and Siturday on'y . . i8¢ i3 N % Dainty Wash :| Laces, 5c a Yard 2 [ Cotton Torchon Laces and 5 In:ertions, in great variety of new } patterns; the edges from 174 to 5 414 inches wide, the insertion § from 3{ to 234 inches; some of 5 the prettiest patierns you ever saw H for trimming all kinds of wash % materia's; worth ug to 12%c a yard, beginning tc-day, all g at the one uniform price, )v\1.5c % $1.50 Sandals 98¢ S Ladies’ fine vici H kid 3-strap san- § dals,hand-turn- o 3 ed soles, me- | herness buckie ':i ) dium high H French heels, % | sizes 2% to 7; part & | of a belated shoe % | shipment;theusual % | $1.50 quaiity; commenc- fi ing to-day and while el b q\lll’l(i(y ]ISH, 98 < NIA'S LARGEST- 2 pair i c 155 ATTORNEYS ARGUE ON THE MARRIOTT CASE Constitutionality of Sausalito’s Street Poll Tax Questioned by De- fendants’ Lawyers. SAUSALITO, Aug. 11.—The case of | the people vs. Frederick Marriott, | who was recently arrested by Marshal | Hannon for refusing to pay his an- nual street poll tax of $1, was heard | to-day before Judge Pryor. Marriott was previously nrra{gn;g,‘ -1 murrer to the complaint on the| The interest of the pub- lic in the case was evinced by the large crowd that filled the courtroom to listen to the proceedings. | Judge Pryor, after hearing the ar-| guments on both sides, decided to, withhold his decision for a few days.| —_———————— DIAN KILLED. BUT INQUEST UNNECESSARY Investigation | Officers Waive Formal Shooting and Assume That 4 Was Justified. | TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 11.—“Indian Antoine,” a well-known character of Okanogan County, was shot four times and killed last night in a drunken row ! three miles south of Loomis. A young man named Hill did the shooting. An- teine was known as a bad Indian, be- {ing a terror to all women and children who knew him. Coroner Goggins and Prosecuting Aitorney Pendergast investigated the case. In view of the fact that the dead Indian was so much disliked ana : feared they concluded that an inquest MANY BODIES WILL NEVER BE RECOVERED FROM WRECK Developments Indicate That Remains of Victims Were Engulfed by Quicksands. PUEBLO, Colo., Aug. 11.—Careful revision of the lists of dead and miss- ing confirms the original estimate that not less than 100 lives were lost in the flood which wrecked the Mis- ouri Pacific fast train on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad near Eden Sunday night. Seventy-nine bodies have been recovered, nineteen pasen- gers on the wrecked train are miss- ing and ten other persons are unac- counted for. Developments indicate that the bod- ies of the missing victims have been sucked into the quicksand and will never be recovered. The body of George W. Geppert has teen recovered and identified. up ) for 44c Is and jarge sailor cffects are represented in this coliection, in the new One of these creations is Dresses, $12.50 Worth up to $25 Just in from N=w York in time for this seascn’s latest productions in shi waist dresses for midsummer and ear] il wear; pretty figured and siriped si ksg solid color si'ks, changeable and black taffeta sil whize India silks, beautifully tucked suitab’e wear; aiso shirt waist suits of beauti- ful white si k dotzed br as pictured; each and every one of these suits a creation, a perfect model and the very newest of the new; worth w to un'form price, each . . $82.50 cSs 10 $5.00 Long Ovcrcoats for boys 7 to 16; belt back or plain, with or without velvet collar, extra good vaiues. Double - Breasted Two-Plece Suils— For boys 8 to 16; also suits for extra stout boys 10to 16; all-wool cloths, in blue and new plaids and mixtures. Russian Ovcreoats —A novel coat for jads % to 8 years; all-wool coatings, in faney mix- tures and plain colors. A jobber who wanted ' 44¢ All of the very latest shapes made of peacock - - $5.00 $25.600 Waist £ P a shipment of this v s and aainty for evening antine, style to-day, all at the The Six Best Selling Novels Here for £1.08 The Lure o’ Gold—Bailey Millard. The Light of the Star— Hamlin Gariand. The Cressing — Churehill, In Sczarch of the Unknown—Robert W. Chambers. When Wilderness Was King— Randall Parrish The Silent Places— Stewart Edward White. AR AAAS AARAAR A AARARA LA AR AR AR ALAL B AR Lol e QAT AAANAAARAA A ARA AAA AL AA AR AR R AL AARA R AL ARSI RAARRRE RARR AR AN QAR AR A AN R AR AR R T AAR TR RN S The Butter and Liguor Saies Friday and Saturday Butter— Our best Creamery, the reg- *36c ular 45c squares for the two days Coffee—]Java and Mocha, our highest grade, TR R Soda Crackers—Fresh and crisp, 3§ boxes California Crcam Cheese —New and mild, Port or Sherry—-Good quali 5 and §1.00gal. . . . . . . . . 480 Sweet Wines— Tokay, Angelica, Madeira or Burgundy, regularly s1sogal . . . . $1.05 Amcrican Club Whiskey— Hand rgade sour mash, gal. $7,98 A. V. H. Gin— G:nuine imported, bottie . . . .. .00k30 Budweiser Beer—Qus. $2,25 Pints .. . 31,38 ARAR AL ARQARA ARACRAR A LR Cr PP | | | | | § | | | | § CLEARS UP MYSTERY THAT BAFFLED ST. LOUIS POLICE Nebraska Prisoner Confesses He Killed Officer Reedy in May, 1903. LINCOLN, Nebr.,, Aug. 11.—James Golden, who was arrested by the Lin- coln police after he had tried to kill himself with a knife, confessed to-day that he was the slayer of Officer Reedy of East St. Louis, Ill., who was killed on May 5, 1903. Golden said that he and his brother, John Golden. killed Reedy. The crime has been” a mystery and liberal rewards have been offered. Golden said he was tired of being a tramp and eluding the police and wanted to die. The wounds inflicted upon himself are not fatal. LOSES FOUR FINGERS BY MACHINERY John Cook, a machinist, working at the American Box Factory, had four fingers s his right hand cut off yesterday by machinery and child. was unnecessary, as a verdict of jus- tifiable homicide would be returned. this paper on Thursday, Friday and Saturday for insertion in THE WANT COLUMNS OF NEXT SUNDAY’S CALL ‘Will be entitled to receive this premium, See announcement, classified pages. | Hill has not been arrested. —_—————————— Néw Hotel for Santa Clara. SAN JOSE, Aug. 11.—Aticles of in- corporation of the Hotel Nobili Com- pany were filed to-day. The company will build a modern hotel in the town of Santa Clara. The capital of the | company is $75,000 of which $3500 is subscribed. time of their most critical trial. carry women safely thmg:g: perils coming gently prepares the system sickness,”” and other dis- comforts of this period. ADVERTISEMENTS. 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