The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 24, 1904, Page 2

SPECIAL TRAIN |BROWN MEN NEARING MUKDEN,TRAIN CRASHES ON FAST TRIP Philadelphia - Chicago Rec- ord on the Pennsylvania Cut Nearly Three Hours SPEED MAINTAIN HIGH Locomotive Manufacturer Makes Quick Journey to Close a Big Contract Special Dispatoh to The Call. CHICAGO, Sept. 23.—To save a $250,- 000 contract, F. M. Pease of the Chi- cago Car and Locomotive Works broke all records on the Pennsylvania Rail- road, between Philadelphia and Chi- cago, in a special train that arrived here this morning. With the train drawn by the latest and most powerful of Pennsylvania locomotives and con- sisting of one Pullman sleeping-car and a combination day car, the 822 miles between the cities were traversed in just seventeen hours and fifty-seven minutes — two hours and forty-seven es quicker than the trip is made oad company’s fastest train, ted.” Pease $1664 to make the trip, f meals and tips, but he ac- his purpose and closed a big e a minute was slow for the Harrisburg. The long Jimb west of Duncannon, which did »t end until Altoona was passed, was wardly mnoticed. Pittsburg expected that the train would arrive somewhere 1 o'clock. It passed at two minutes after 12 o'clock. A m easy grades to Out on the level country, with fresh | the speed was increased 1o miles an hour, and even -five miles was made on level angents e e SAYS SOME WIVES DRIVE HUSBANDS TO DRINK Cleveland Jurist Goes on Record as a Friend of the “Henpecked” Legion. IVELAND. Sept. .—Judge placed himself emphatically on v -day for men’s rights in dis- | the charge of negiect to pro- for children brought against iis Memmer. It was the wife of Memmer who brought the charge. M ared that he had loved for his wife and family 2 years, but she refused to him. good many of these cases™ Judge, “1 find that the wife s ume. If her husband comes me peacefully inclined then the begins to nag. The result is he goes i gets drunk—and I don’'t blame him.” S S S—— PREPARING TO R ST STANDARD OIL COMPANY Northwestern ng a combine ndard Oil aggression el trade. California fuel oil shipped here and many g plants are making use of it. market is going down to bed- e formi the see breakers hes less coa estored to favor. Strikes ¢ mines cannot be settled it of reduced wages, ey 1 through the poor mark the product. ADVERTISEMENTS. T O YOSEMITE VALLEY Round trip ticket includes wvisit to California B i g Trees, meals and lodgings at first- class hotels, and carriage: drives to all principal points of interest, such as Vernal Falls, Ne- vada Falls, Glacier Point, Mirror Lake, etc. Reduced rates in force until Oc- tober 13, but you should Ask About It To-Day Office, 613 Market St. SOUTHERN PACIFIC PRINTING AT CUT RATES, Goodl work &nd prompt delivery have ereated & big emand for my kodak de- velopmg and printing. Send me & trial v DEVELOPING. Roll of six, 10e; roll of twelve, 15c. PRINTING u““m LOADING FILMS i all DATLI popular sizes at popular . from $5.00 up. One ‘market. THAT MAN PITTS 3008 MARKET STREDT, opp- Fifth, San Francisco. Russians Use War Bal- loons to Observe the Foe's Advance. Four Armies Are Converg- ing Upon Ancient Capital. —_— MUKDEN, Sept. 23.—The Russians |are using war balloons southeast of | Mukden to observe the movements of | the Japanese. The line of outposts ess | tablished by the Japanese is so effect- |ive that even the Chinese have been unable to penetrate it. It is impossible, therefore, to say definitely how Mar- quis Oyama has disposed his forces. It is Dbelieved General Kuroki's army strétches from Benishu to Bent- siaputze and the armies of Generals ! Oku and Nodzu from Yentai along the high road and railroad to sixteen miles south of Mukden, while a fourth army is moving from Dzian- tchan across the Da Mountains. All these roads converge at Mukden. Of the four armies those of Oku and Nodzu are nearest Mukden and their progress will ve to be slackened in order to permit Kuroki and the flank- M ing columns time to come up. | time Oku and Nodzu have com | of the railroad. Supplies of gra | ammunition are carried from Yentai over heavy roads and exposed to cap- ture by Cossack raiders. There has been an improvement i the weather at Mukden, which ha been a great help to the Japanese. - OBJECT TO WAR SERVICE. n Jewish Reserves at Odessa Ignore the Call to Arms. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 23.—The mobilization at Odessa has been en- | tirely successful, except as regards the Jewish reserve men, 50 per cent of | whom have eluded the call to the | colors by going abroad or transferring their domicile to neighboring prov- |inces where there is no mobilization. {The total number of reserve men | called out in the city district is 17,000, of which 4000 Jews and 800 Christians did not respond. The places of the missing Jews are being filled with Christians. | The reports in the foreign press that Lieutenant General commander of the Rus: forces at Port Arthur, descent, are denied by his niece, resi ing in St. Petersburg. General Stoes- sel's grandfather was a Lutheran, a general in the Russian army, and played a conspicuous part in repelling the Napoleonic invasion. His father was converted to orthodoxy and also served in the army. | —e ATTACHES WELL TREATED. toes 1, th Thus Declares British Officer With the Japanese Army. LONDON, Sept. 24.—The Times’ Tokio correspondent telegraphs as fol- lows: Lieutenant General Sir William | Nicholson, director general of the military intelligence of the British War Office, who was appointed to ob- serve the movements of the Japanese army, has returned to Tokio, owing to sickness. He emphatically denies the { stories of illiberal treatment of for- | eign attaches by the Japanese staff and declares that it would have been impossible to show great courtesy, grant larger facilities or repose fuller confidence. | General Nicholson expresses the | highest appreciation of the skill of the Russian military engineers and re- gards the Japanese capture of the Liaoyang entrenchments as an ex- traordinary feat of arms., it st DRIV BACK. RUSSL! Japanese Capture the Towns of Tie- ling and Sanlungku. TOKIO, Sept. 23.—An official tele- gram reports that fights took place at the towns of Taeling and Sanlungku, sixty miles northeast of Liaoyang, on | September 20. The dispatch says: { “Our detachment advanced through Heiniuchuang on. September 20 and attacked the enemy, consisting of one company of infantry, some cavalry and a machine gun, stationed at Tieling, and a battalion of infantry, 500 cavalry, six rapid-firing and one machine gun, stationed at Sanlungku, which lies eight miles; north of Tae- ling. The Russians, who were driven |ofi to the northward, left nineteen dead behind them. We captured some | spoils. Our losses were very slight.” COAL ABSOLUTELY CONTRABAND. i1 Not as Regard Fuel ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 23.—Ac- cording to the present status of the negotiations of the United States and | Great Britain with Russia on the mat- ter of contraband of war, foodstuffs |alone have been formally conditional contraband. Russia has | notified Great Britain that she has no intention to depart from her original | view that coal is absolutely contra- | band. At the same time, it is under- stood that Forelgn Minister Lamsdorff {has given Sir Charles Hardinge, the | British Embassador, a verbal assur- |ance of Russia’'s desire to apply the rule with the greatest leniency. | + ¥ {HOPE 1S DEFERRED FOR DEFENDERS Russia Wil — i‘comhmed From Page 1, Column 6. | coming year. The largest portion will be used for repairs on the Trans-Si- berian. The utmost preparations are being made for a winter campaign. A prom- fnent furrier tells me that the Japan- | ese, during the last three years, have {bought up vast quantities of fur | “touloups” at the Novgorod fairs, in anticipation of their present needs. —————— H THIS BAIN IS JUST THE THING | For the Excursion to Ukiah Next Sunday. The rain has freshened up everything so that it will be delightful on the excursion to Tkiah mext Sunday. Only $2 for the round trip. Leave Tiburon Ferry 8:30 . m. On the return leave Ukiah 5:00 p, m. Bach ticket sold 4 seat. Train will not stop in traneit. Tickets now on sale at ticket 850 Market t. (Chronicle bullding) and buron Ferry. o il Leading Presbyterian Deads CHICAGO, Sept. 23.—A eablegram received here announces the death in London of Dr. S8amuel L. Cnrté.hl,” sen- jor professor of the Chi log- ical Seminary and a leading Presby- terian churchman of the West. Shahepu, | Alter Her Position | declared | Heavy Guns Hurl Death Into the Port Arthur Fortifications. —_—— Japanese Make Gains During Early Stages of the Attack. SEEIED SRS CHEFU, Sept. 24—A Japanese who has arrived here from Dalny says that the battle which began at Port Arthur on September 19 continued during Sep- tember 20, but he is unable to give any details of the fighting. On Sep- tember 21 and September 22 the Jap- anese bombardment was slight. The Japanese says that there were unveri- | fied rumors at Dalny to the effect { that the Japanese had made some gains. The bombardment of September 19 began at 3 o’clock in the morning and lasted one hour. At dawn the volume of firing increased to an extent hitherto | vnknown. Some of the heavy guns, which had been lately placed, opened fire from a quarter which had previ ously been silent. During the fiercest firing the heav ns were fired at an | ayerage of twice in one minute. Every | window in Dalny shook. The firing continued { the night of September 20. it was inconsequential. heavy during Thereafter Chinese from a village near Port Ar- | thur confirm the foregoing and add | that while off the Miatotao islands | they heard firing from 10 o'clock in the morning until 4 o'clock in the afternoon. | yesterday | | INTO DYNAMITE Two Persons Perish and Nine Are Seriously Injured in a Peculiar Accident —_——— LOCOMOTIVE IS WRECKED Driver and Team Conveying a Load of the Explosive Are Not Greatly Damaged CUMBERLAND, W. Va,, Sept. 23.— A fast freight on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad struck a wagon loaded with 750 pounds of dynamite at a crossing at North Branch to-day. Two trainmen were killed and nine persons seriously injured, three of them seri- ously. James Laing, driver of the wagon, escaped injury, except for a rupture of the eardrums. The horses were un- hurt, although thrown over a fence. Several small buildings, the locomo- tive and several cars were demolished, and windows were shattered a mile | away on a mountain. ——————— | Grape Grower Badly Hurt. HEALDSBURG, Sept.23.—Daniel Mc- | Carthy, a grape grower residing in| xander Valley, was found lying un- | ious in the road this morning. He fell from the wagon in which he was riding, struck on his head and was rendered unconscious. The wagon passed over his body and it is thought he is internally injured. The accident occurred last night. » ERAPE-GROWERS SUFFER HEAVILY BY UNEXPECTED FALL OF RAIN 3 < Continued From Page 1, Column 3. e e e Continued From Page 1, Column 2.| weather has been cool and cloudy here to-day, and the local weather bureau’s prediction is for rain to-day. CLOUDBURST MILL. ANTA CRUZ, Sept —The heav- rain in the history of the town for ptember has been .experienced here | since yesterday. The precipitation | amounts to more than three inches. It caused the streams to rise, and San Lorenzo Creek became quite high. The ripe grape crop is nearly ruined. There was a cloudburst this afternoon at La- guna Creek. It came sweeping down the canyon and flooded Chase’'s mill, badly damaging it. SAN LUIS OBISPO, Sept. 23.—Con- siderable rain fell here last night. The shower was accompanied by a strong southerly wind. WOODLAND, Sept..23.—The rainfall for the twenty-four hours ending at 8 o'clock this morning amounted to 1.40 inches—the heaviest rain in September | for several years. Great damage has already been done to grapes and hay in Yolo County. Prominent local grow- ers said to-day that practically all the grapes unpicked are ruined and fit only for hog feed. The hay may be used for feed, but its market value is seriously impaired. VALLEJO, Sept, 23.—More than an inch of rain fell here during the last twelve hours. Many buildings in Vallejo weré flooded. The showers were the heaviest seen in Vallejo and Mare Isl- and for years. SUISUN, Sept. 23.—The heaviest rain- | storm ever known here at this season of | the year has been raging almost con- tinuously for the last thirty-six hours. More than two and half inches of rain has fallen. Old Settlers who have been here for fifty years say they never sgw such rainfall in the month of Sep- tember. Considerable damage has been done to prunes in the drying yards, and the bean crop in the eastern part of the county has also suffered heav VENTURA, Sept. 23,—Ventura Coun- | ty received a drenching to-day. The| bean crop will not be damaged, though | only 20 per cent of the crop cut and lying out has been threshed. If good weather follows the storm no damage will be done. Beets are not injured. Only a long continued wet spell can hurt the beans and it is considered too | <arly for winter rains. COLUSA IN DARKNESS. Sept. 23.—Colusa is in darkness to-night on account of the terrible rainstorm that commenced at 10 o'clock Thursday night and with the exception of a couple of hours has con- tinued in one steady downpour. It is still raining and a heavy storm is ex- pected to-night. The precipitation is more than two inches. Besides ruining all the dry feed the | ill cause great damage to grain, s and raisins, especially to the grain piled on the river banks awaiting skipment. There are more than sixty thousand bags.of grain on the river banks above Colusa and nearly one- third as riuch more below Colusa. This is the heaviest rainstorm Co- lusa County has had in September since 1879, SANTA ROSA, Sept. 28.—Last night's rainstorm was the most severe ever known here this time of the year. Rain fell in torrents all night. The damage to grapes, tomatoes and late feed is likely to be heavy: AUBURN, Sept. 23.—It began rain- ing here yesterday and up to this morn- ing at 7 o’'clock one inch of rain fell It is still falling. The first rain last year fell on October 10. YUBA CITY, Sept. 23.—A severe storm drenched this city last night. Two and one-quarter inches of rain fell. Damage is reported to fruit and |the late summer crops. The weather FLOODS is still showery. PASO ROBLES, Sept. 23.—Rain com- ) menced to fall here early this morning and at 6 o'clock the precipitation was 250 inches. The damage will not be great as the grain is nearly all in the warehouses. The greatest damage will be to the dry feed, which will be ruined. CALISTOGA, Sept. 23.—The heaviest rainstorm that has ever visited this section in September began yesterday. | The fall amounted to more than three inches. Considerable damage was done to drying prunes, but it is sald the { grape crop will not be l,rloully dam- aged, ST. HELENA, Sept. 23.—The rain which began here yesterday afternocn continued all through the night. thera being at times a heavy downpour. U'p to this morning at 10 o'clock 2% inches of rain had fallen in town. while farther up the valley the pre- cipitation amounted to 3% inches. So far the rain has not injured the grape crop, but should the damp weather continue much damage will result. as but a small portion of the crop has been taken in. CLINTON, Mo., Sept. 23. passenger train, mnorthbound, ‘the mm-mn, Kansas = Texas road switch, Kan., was killed, after having reversed -engine, injured. persons were |lcsses by the storm at about $5000 Sacramento streets and at Twenty- third and Valencia streets: k The average rainfall for September 22 of an inch in San Francisco. The rainiest previous September in the his- tory of the Weather Bureau was in 1868, when the rainfall was 1.06 inches. And yet for twenty-four hours only of | the present storm the depth registered | was nearly three times as great. The previous record for an hour's rainfall was .55 of an inch. Between 12 o'clock Thursday night and 1 o‘clock yester- day morning the rainfail was .88. It is quite possible that the storm may continue for several days yet. If the pressures counteract the disturb- ance will remain stationary. If there is a slight giving way of the pressure in the southwest, the storm will travel down the coast. From a meteorologi- cal standpoint the storm is peculiar in many ways. It appeared suddenly, | spread over an immense area and w extraordinarily severe. At the very e disturbance the rainfall | wa 3 of an inch in twenty-four heurs. At Red Bluff the depth regis- tered in the day was nearly four inches. Shortly after 6 o'clock iast night the rain began to fall rapidly again, while the thunder boomed distantly and an occasional flash of lightning could be seen. AT T HEAVY DAMAGE IN OAKLAND. Lace House Flooded With Water and Street Work Is Injured. | OAKLAND, Sept. 23.—A record- breaking downpour of rain, coming at a time when little or no provision had | been made for a storm, damaged the | stocks of several mercantile firms last | night and played havoc with street work under way by contractors and ; city officials. H. C. Capwell & Co. of the Lace| House estimate their loss at $20,000. They are the principal sufferers from | the flood. Defective and inadequate drain pipes on the roof of the Blake block, occupied by the Lace House, fcrced the water to the center of the rcof, where it flowed into the skylight and from there down to the street flcor and basement. For hours the water percolated through a stock of fine dry goods, carrying ruin in every direction and forcing the firm to lock its doors to-day, suspending business | for twenty-four hours. Goods in the tailoring house of A. S. Cehn at 1071 Broadway were dam- aged by rain, which filtered through a skylight. The loss is about $500. Blankets in the basement of Kahn Bros. were damaged; loss $250. Street contractors estimate thelr and the city has street work damaged in about the same proportion. The rainfall is the heaviest in Sep- tember for thirty years. WIFE PETITIONS COURT FOR TEMPORARY DIVORCE Believes a Brief Separation Will Bring Her Erring Husband to Terms. LAPORTE, Ind., Sept. 23.—Mrs. Mollie Rotzen of this county is plain- tiff in an unusual divorce suit. She has petitioned the court to grant her a temporary divorce, making no de- nial of her affection for her husband, but setting forth in her complaint that existing conditions have caused an estrangement which she believes time will heal. She therefore asks for a_divorce for a determinate period, when the marriage vows may again be assumed. 1In the interim she prays the court that her husband pay her alimony sufficient for her support. The action is said to be the first brought under the recent act of the Legislature providing for determinate periods of divorce and in this action the constitytionality of the law will be tested. ———e————— TRAIN DECAPITATES MAN WHO USES RAIL FOR PILLOW Nap of Tired and Footsore Philadel- phian Proves to Be His Last Sleep. RENO, Sept. 23.—Growing tired while walking along the line of the Los An- geles and San Pedro Railroad, near Moapa, in Lincoln County, W. H. Wil- liamson .lay down beside the track, used the rail for a pillow and went to sleep. Shortly afterward a train came and ran over him. The wheels passed over the unfortunate man's neck and severed the head from the body. ‘Williamson came to Nevada from Philadelphia, where his relatives re- side. He had been employed on the railroad. ————— Special Colonist Rate. ‘TOPEKA, Kans., Sept. 28.—The Santa Fe passenger department an- nounces a special colonist rate to Cal- ornia. . B 1 | the St. Francis last night in the social scientific formula. ~ Druggists physicians’ prescriptions, The better class of druggists, everywhere, ie who devote their lives to the welfare of their fellow men in su purest medicinal agents of known value, always under original or officinal na: They are the men to deal with when all standard remedies and corresponding adjuncts of a first-class pharmacy best of toilet articles and preparations an The edrning of a fair living, with the satis! conferred upon their patrons and ass L reward for long years of study and many hours of daily toil. y Figs is an excellent laxative remedy and that it gives uni_verssl satisfac are selling many millions of bottles annually to the well informed remedies, and they always take pleasure in 1 name of the Company—California Fig Syrup Co.—printed They know that in cases of colds and headaches attended by il of weakness or torpidity of the liver and bowels, arising from i over-eating, that there is no other remedy so pleasant,. prompt an e | Syrup of Figs, and they are glad to sell it because it gives universal satisfaction. Owing to the excellence of Syrup of Figs, immense demand for it, imitations have been made, « ‘ned individual druggists to be found, here and there, who do not maintain the dignit of the profession and whose greed gets the better of their judgment, and who to recommend and try to sell the imitations in order to makeal sometimes have the name—* Syrup of Figs”—or “Fig Syrup’ or fictitious fig syrup company, printed on the package, but they the Company—California Fig Syrup Co.—printed on the front of the should be rejected beciuse they are injurious to the system. they find it necessary to resort to misrepresentation or deception. off on a customer a preparation under the name of “Syrup of Fi does not bear the full name of the California Fig Syrup Co. printe he is attempting to deceive and mislead the patron who has been so establishment, whether it be large or small, for if the dealer resorts I it and deception in one case he will do 8o with other medicinal agents, and in the filling of and should be avoided by every one who values health and happiness. are reliable, we supply the immense m it may be purchased every- ts per bottle, but as exceptions er that all may decline or return it does not bear the full name of the Company— do not hesitate to return the Knowing that the great majority of druggists for our excellent_remedy entirely through the druggists, of who! where, in original packages cnly, at the regular price of fift exist it is necessary to inform the public of the any imitation which may be sold to them. California Fig Syrup Co.—printed on the front of every package, article and to demand the return of your money, a e druggists who will sell you what you wish and the best of everything ADVERTISEMENTS. HicH CLASS DRUGGISTS AND — OTHERS. in accordance wilg tried and ” cen facts, in o If nd in future go are men of scientific attainmen plying the physicinnnil of the better class manufacture many excellent T N and they never sell false brands, or imitation medicines. n need of anything in their line, which usua d many useful accessories and remedial appliances. flctioxy; which arises from a knowledge of the benefit: istance to the medical profession, is usually their greates They all know handing out the genuine article bearin . oge the front of every Package. biliousness and constipation and rregular habits, indigestion, or d beneficial in its effects as the universal satisfaction which it gives and the arger profit. and of some piratical concern, In o tion, and whenever a dealer passes gs” or “Fig Syrup,” which d on the front of the package, in his line at reasonable prices. ts and high integrity, best of remedies and prescriptions and P remedies, but 1y includes and the finest an that Syrup of tion, and therefore they f the choicest purchasers of % the full condemned, but there are and principles o not hesitate Such preparations pever have the full name of ackage. The imitations r to sell the imitations unfortunate as to enter his to misrepresentation and demand to one of the better class of SEQUOIA CLUB IS “AT HOME” AT ST. FRANCIS By Sally Sharp. The Sequoia Club made its debut at life of San Francisco, and with flow- ers and music and good-fellowship was it welcomed, as over the punch—which was distinctly good—came the toast, “Here’s to the Sequoia! May it have the enduring life and the alluring hos- pitality of its namesake.” It wasn't nice of Mr. McAdie to be off visiting on such an auspicous date— and without so much as"leaving orders for decent weather. It rained, and thundered, and shot forked lightning at the hour of 9, but it didn't dampen the congenial spirits who are on the Sequoia’s charter list—for a goodly hundred had checked umbrellas before William Greer Harrison took the floor in the red room to sav things, Among the later was thg delicious announce- ment that “the law of the Sequoia Club is that there shall be no law.” Cheers! Mr. Harrison is a trump! In his own good way, he presented some clever people who do things—and who do them cleverly. Among the latter were George Chase, who gave some ex- quisite Hawafian melodies on the vio- lin; Miss M. McCloskey, Miss Kruger, accompanied by Miss Julia Thorp, and Mr. G. Campbell, some fine vocal num- bers; Miss S. Slater, a piano solo, and John McNaught and Alfred J. Water- house some mighty pretty stories. And meanwhile, were there punch and con- versation. The green room—the real home of the | club—was graced with green things from the canyons over the bay, and on the walls hung four fascinating pic- tures from the willing hands of S. Maynard Dixon, Xavier Martinez, G. F. R. Piazzoni and John M. Gamble. Among those who wandered about the reception rooms chatting and listening were: Etienne L. Lanel, French Consul S, _Bennett, General; British Consul, and n Con- sul: Miss Frances Jolliffe. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Gerstle, Miss Marie Welis, Captain and Mrs, Keating, Miss Kate Beaver, Mr. and Mre. Glascock, Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Hassett, Miss Gleason, Miss Bertha Monroe Rickhoff, the Misses Johnston of Santa Barbara, W. J. Mc- Coy, Mrs. Albert Gerberding, Mrs. 8. 8. Norris, and Mrs, Croudace S Maynard Dison, lows i1 and Mrs. Fremont Older, A. J. Waterhouse, H. Atkins, Miss Ida Lee Spencer, Mrs. Blanch ard, Miss Tobin, 1. D. Ventura Mrs. Mary Bell, John R. Bride and Charles Sedwich Alken. And thus has the Sequoia arrived— and arrived cleverl Sueccess to it! And may its next ight home” be a drier one—without. | STATE i His Company of Woodland Players Soon to Appear at Stanford niversity. NEW YORK, Seot. 23.—Ben Greet | and his woodland players have flown— | not back to Europe, but to San Fran- | cisco, where the air is still balmy and | a welcome from the Leland Stanford | Jr. University awaits them. Greet telegraphed his intentions to | a New York friend to-day, which is the first information of him Broadway has had since his arrival. He is his| own manager, advance man and book- | ing agent. An engagement of the woodland | players in Chicago will be concluded | to-morrow night and on Sunday morn- | ing the company will start for the Pa- | cific Coast. Most all of Greet'’s en-| gagements are played on a guarantee | basi The company flits like a covey of swallows to the warmest climes. It expects to play al fresco till the snow flies, any way. | The Ben Greet season so far is said | t> have been very good. YOSEMITE VALLEY. Southern Pacific Offers Reduced Rates The oiled stage road of the Southern Pacific route had very little dust, but that little has been laid by the recent rains. Travelers who | take advantage of the low round trip rate of £48 50, offered until October 13, will find the Southern Pacific route almost perfect. This | rate doesn't mean just a trip to Yosemite and | back; it includes Pullman accommodations ' both ways, Insuring absolute comfort: meals and lodgings at first-class hotels and carriage | drives to all_principal points of interest In | the valley. But most important is the visit to the California Big Trees. which is also included. These famons trees—'‘Grizzly Giant,” “Wawona” and others—can seen in no other way. Ask about this offer to-day at Southern Pacific office. 613 Market st. - ——————— Tries to End His Life. SANTA ROSA, Sept. 23.—An at- tempt at suicide was made last night by George Moulton, an Oakland man, who for some months has been resid- ing in this vicinity. He had been drinking heavily and this and a love affair caused him to make the attempt SANTA BARBARA MAIDEN WINS “TOM” DRISCOLL At last Thomas A. Driscoll—“Tom™ Driscoll of polo fame, bon vivant and millionaire—has capitulated and the fair maid who has won his heart is pretty Miss Alice Bacom, daughter of | Rear Admiral Bacon (retired) of Santa Barbara. The story dates from last summer when Mr. Driscoll met the maid by the side of the sea and strayed with her during the long summer days through the oid town that has won renown as a hunting ground of Cupid. The Bacons are a well known Kentucky family and are connected with the Riggses of Wash- ington, D. C. The young fiancee has but recently emerged from the schoolroom. never having made a social debut Last year, in company with Major and Mrs. Rathbone, Miss Bacon visited in Washington, where her Western charm won much admiration in diplomatic circles. —_———— NOVEL POINT RAISED BY LAWYERS IN DAMAGE SUIT Attorneys Claim Action Against Ship- ping Firm Should Be Brought Where Vessel Is Chartered. ASTORIA, Ore., Sept. 23.—A case of far-reaching importance is before Cir- cuit Judge McBride for decision. The action is that of Charlotte Grimburg vs. The Columbia River Packers’ As- sociation to recover $5000 damages for the death of her husband, who was killed by falling from the mast of the ship St. Nicholas, under charter of the deferdant corporation, but owned by G. W. Hume & Co. of San Francisco. The defendants’ attorneys raise the point that the vessel was part of the State of California, and that the ac- tion should have been brought there, while the plaintiff’s attorneys centend that the charter of the ship to the local concern made her a part of Ore- gon during the life of the charter —_—— TORONTO, Ont., Sept. J. Davis, Commissioner of Crown Lands and a member of the Ontario Legislature, bas been unseated as a_result of a petition against his return for North York at the bye election In February, 1903 This leaves the Government without a . Bmma Sbatter Howard, George Du the floor. Th otoves s, Bmah Teobiason, Mise’ Ketherine "Hor | on his life. He took a dose of strych- | AR %08 00,000 JoeT, e e “Mies Griswold, Mrs.” Ernest S. Simpson, Mr. | nine. of & tie. ADVERTISEMENTS. Bustlllo Bros. & Dias Makers, Havans and Tampa. Alexander Humboldt Cigars, inichetiticalice Brve, 38 Prmdcioce, SOLD EVERYWHERE—10c UP. Alexander Humboldt are now being made from the new Havana crop which is milder and sweeter than ever. This brand of ci manufactured in nearly change to Tampa, Fla.,seven years ago was made for the mduty on manufac- tured cigars. The tobacco used isstillstrippedin Cuba. Cigars S Was ba for fifty years and the of saving the high