The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 7, 1904, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1901. nn \l ' H x"’l‘{\.NOnce Famous Among UL MUL ML } ¥ Hardware Drummers L — — - - ——————— 3 | | i | E | | | | | | - ~ - — = L HE LOOKED IN MORE PROSPEROUS TIMES, WHEN \~ . HIGHEST ‘\L\l:l\!:ll DRUMMERS IN THE COUN- WITH A POKER Spokane Woman Defies Law- | and Constable With | Houselold Tmplement | ey > The Call ver Oct. 6.—Armed with a big | Mary Eddy, proprie- | ane lodging-house, Salinmar, an express- awyer this afternoon, and d the efforts of the po- her disturbing the 1i for constable and party appeared replevin for a small tored in the lodging- set. Mrs. Bddy tore the writ | d when the party remon- d attempted to take the wood 4 a poker and charged. After blows the constable and party at and called for the po- 8 trol wagon came, but the officers were unable to find Mrs. Eddy. | —_——————— EMPEROR WILLIAM OPENS TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL | £ woc Delivers a Short Speech in Which He Emphasizes His Great Interest | in Teaching. DANTZIG, Oct. 6.—Emperor Wil- liam opened a new technical high school here to-day with considerable ceremony. In a speech the Emperor emphasized his great interest in | teaching “those technical sciences | play such an important part | the economic competition of na- whic | 6.—M. A. Low, the | Rock Island Railroad | f Chicago. He de- | s road is trying to Texas Central from and OUR FAMOUS TRUNK You can’t beat it for the price anywhete. Another carload just arrived and we've several new numbers that will interest you if you are looking for a good trunk, and leather goods that can be found only at A. B. Smith Co. g -7 Tl S CRASS TALLEY HAS 4 FIREBUC Incendiary Applies Torch to Residence and Flames Spread to Adjoining House AL A VALLEY, Oct. 6.—A fire of origin destroyed the home of Bert Stafford and completely gutted the two-story residence of Charles Snyder to-day. The strong wind blow- | ing carried huge pieces of blazing wood over the entire neighborhood, and all that prevented the destruction of the northwestern part of the city was the fact that a heavy rainfall during the day had soaked the dwellings in the threatened section. The windows of the houses in the vicinity of the Snyder home were cracked by the almost unbearable heal. The firemen fought the flames from behind doors taken from the neighbor- ing houses. Many of the firemen were painfully blistered and a number nar- rowly escaped injury from the flying pieces of blazing wood. A man was seen entering the yard of the Stafford place by Mrs. James Par- due, who lives across the street. A minute later he hurried out, and in a | few moments flames burst from the kitchen and ranidly spread, the build- | ing having evidently been soaked with oil. The loss is about $3000, partly cov. | ered by insurance. —_———— FUNDS OF THE IMPERIAL RELIEF SOCIETY ARE SAFE Former President of Bank of Japan Issues Statement Refuting Inti- mations of Fraud. TOKIO, Oct. 6.—Former President Tatsuo of the Yamamoto Bank of Japan to-day issued a statement con- cerning the funds of the Imperial Re- lief Soclety in refutation of intimations of fraud. The aspersions were di- rected agajpst Counts Matsuka and Inouye, the promoters of the society. The statement shows that $400,000 was collected and safely deposited in banks and that the banks were re- quired to furnish security covering the funds. The delay in distributing the funds is due to the fact that the Gov- ernment and local societies are suc- cessfully caring for the destitute. The relief funds are earning interest and pay the management’s expenses. —_———— NATION SENDS CONDOLENCES TO WIDOW OF BARTHOLDI Embassador Porter Conveys Message of American People, Expressing Regret at Sculptor’s Death. PARIS, Oect. 6.—Acting on instruc- tions from Washington, Embassador Porter to-day sent Madame Bartholdi the following letter: great idea or noble aspiration, has profoundly moved the Ameri- i FBALERE. SCE A S ;Former Chum of Mil- lionaires - Accused of Theit. —_— Author of Sensational Stories of Nature’s Oueer Moods. e Ten years ago Joseph Mulhatton was the hardest hardware man to beat in; the southern part of the United States. | {To-day he is the hardest problem in | | human nature to bring to a logical con- | § clusion that has ever presented itself | to the keen scrutiny of the local police ! getectives. Ten years ago Mulhatton was a wealthy, prosperous traveling sales- man for one of the largest hardware houses in the country. His salary was $15,000 a year. He was the author of | stories in the Fort Worth Gazette con- cerning “the largest meteor that ever struck the earth.” They created a sen- sation in all Europe, as well as on the North American continent. He was known as ‘“the father of newspaper | fiction” for his clever literary creations, | which, though made out of whole cloth, | raised the curiosity of the English- speaking world. To-day Joseph Mulhatton is an un- couth prisoner in the Central police sta- tion. Wednesday’s Call told the story of his brief and unfortunate career in San Francisco. He was arrested at the | instigation of a man named Wantz, who is proprietor of a cheap lodging-house on Clay street. Wantz says that Mul- hatton has been a member of the Sal- vation Army, a phrenologist and a roustabout. The charge against the prisoner is burglary. Mulhatton took off his coat while trying to exvlain a mystic chart to a sleepy audience, and when he put it on again the garment had been substituted by another that is said to have contalned “a sum of | money and a bank book.” With this valuable find in a somewhat flyblown | “‘business office,”” he made his way to the street, where the arrest for the des- perate crime was made by Mr, Wantz and a policeman. But Joseph Mulhatton, once a chum | of millionaires, is apparently suffering from a mental collapse. He does not look like a coat thief, nor does he talk like one. The instincts of a gentleman are there, for the wraith of the past has | cast its faint shadow over his muddled | brain. No mental spectroscope can thoroughly define the dark rays that are peculiar to this strange combina- tion of lights and shadows. This morn- ing in the Police Court Judge Mogan will determine whether the man is guilty or innocent. The impression seems to be that some one has blun- dered, for friends of Mulhatton say that he never had the cast of a thief. Two of these gentlemen are prominent business men of this city. “YES, I'M JOE.” “Yes, T am Joe Mulhatton, who for years was a leader among the travelers of the East,” said the prisoner as he | approached an interviewer vesterday | | afternoon. “It has been ten years since I was in Louisville, and I have almost forgotter, about my relations with Belknap & Co. and Hart & Co., the big | hardware men there. I was with Belknap & Co. before leaving for the | West, but I lost my job—well, you know | | why.” Mulhatton then related how he had | wasted his money and become a wan-| derer, a salvationist, a circus follower | and finally a phrenologist. He had suf-i fered from injuries incurred through | the kick of a horse and had not been in good health since that time. He went to Arizona, and for a while was en- gaged in mining, until his trial for in- sanity, brought about because of his mental weakness, evinced during a deal | involving a mining claim. “Why did you write the queer stories of the rival to Mammoth Cave, which | were published in Frank Leslie’s Mag- azine, and the story of the ‘Seven Mon- keys of Joe Parks’ ranch’? was asked. “Just for an advertisement,” was the slow reply. “I was a drummer, and it was my plan to keep myself before the public. The stories that gave me the name of the ‘king of newspaper fiction’ | were harmless, you know—well, harm- less to my business. I just did it in fun, | and yet there was a reason for it. T'll tell you, sir, I really didn't mean any- thing by them.” g Mulhatton, who is small, stout and bewhiskered, sat down on the bench of the jail office and thought a while. It was a good opportunity-to study him in a pensive mood. He has a small, rather expressionless face, with a small | red nose and overhanging eyebrows. His hands talk for him, and while his words roll from his tongue convulsively | they are somewhat incoherent, and the | index fingers are forced to furnish the ; expression that is lacking. “Barnum was publishing a story about the great work of his trained elephants,” continued the prisoner with a sweep of his right hand, “and I con- lceived the idea of having Joe Parks, the great Louisville cotton planter, im- port seven simians to do his cotton picking. The Courier-Journal published the story and Joe Parks had to leave the country for a few weeks, but really I did not inténd to harm the poor fellow. After this I had the big cave story in print, and it was copied all over the world. The yarn was that a cave larger than the Mammoth had been found and that a river existed therein on which a full-sized river steamer could navigate. The meteor story brought me orders for detalls from Paris and London. I wrote that the aerolite was an square and stuck out of the und eighty fee ONCE WELL KNOWN. A gentleman who is a partner in a local business concern, who is well u:-i yquainted with Mulhatton, had this to say of the man: “Mulhatton was one of the best known men in Louisville. He was a crackajack drummer and a member a well-known Southern family. charities were numerous, and duris the big floods and the cold season 1892 he gave away money freel fad was to he news UNDER ARREST FRESNO'S STORM {ILTED YOUTH CAUSES DAMAGE| LOSES REASON Cellars Flooded and Goods of -Merchants Spoiled by Unexpected Heavy Rainfall RAISIN GROWERS LOSE —_— Wind Blows Sheds a Dis- tance of Thirty Feet and Lightning Shatters Trees Special Dispatch to The Call. FRESNO. Oct. 6.—What is considered the most severe storm which has ever swept the San Joaquin Valley passed over this city early this morning. Old timers in this city say they never saw | anything like it and the Weather Bu- reau reports show that for eighteen years there has not been a storm dur- ing which so much warer fell. In six- teen hours 2.36 inches of rain fell. Part of the time it came down in torrents. The merchants were notified early this morning by night watchmen and policemen that their cellars were be- ing flooded and crews of men were kept busy for hours building embankments with sacks of bran and any material obtainable to keep the water from dam- aging their goods. A large excavation by the side of the Odd Fellows' build- ing became filled with water which broke through the foundation. rushed into the cellar, threatening the destruc- tion of the building. Fire engines were kept busy all day pumping the water out. Lightning was frequent and severe, and in several parts of the city trees ‘were shattered. The raisin growers were given little warning and in the districts of Mala- ga and Reedley much damage was done to the drying crops. The wind played havoc In many places, carrying sheds a distance of thirty feet. PR 2 7 Rain and Thunder in Tulare. VISALIA, Oct. 6.—A heavy thun- der storm visited Tulare County this morning. One inch of rain fell. In some places the rainfall was almost like a cloudburst. At the ranch of R. O. Newman, near town, three and an eighth inches of rain fell in four hours. At the Fisher ranch one and a half inches fell in three hours. AR Showers Follow Thunder. SAN LUIS OBISPO, Oct. 6.—The heavy thunder and lightning storm cf yesterday was followed by heavy showers. The wind is southerly and the atmosphere cloudy. The hean crop in many localities will be.dam- aged. New feed is rapidly springing up and stock interests look promising. : —_— Green Feed Is Benefited. MILTON, Oct. 6.—Showers have fallen here intermittently during the day. They will b= of great benefit to the grass, which is at its best at this season of the year. The abundant growth of feed will offset the dam- age caused by the unexpected heavy rains. A Bl Storm Visits San Jose. SAN JOSBE, Oct. 6.—Slight showers have fallen during the last twelve hours, accompanied by some thunder and lightning. Clouds and south wind indicate rain. —_——— L o o called. His career has certainly been a strange one.” The police say they know very little about Mulhatton's case. The court will decide to-day whether the man was not in a fit of mental incompetency when he absent-mindedly placed a stranger’'s coat on his back. Mulhatton seems to be unconscious of having committed a crime. Missourian, Whose Lady Love Deserted Him for a Dawson Miner, Wants to End Life WRITES TO HIS SISTER : — s Arrest on Charge Made by Physician Spoils Plan of Victim of Wiles of Woman 1 —,———t Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN BERNARDINO, Oct. 6.—Der- bin Dally, a youth from Shelbyville, Mo., occupies a cell in the County Hospital, charged with insanity, his mental trouble being due to unrequltf ed love. This morning he wrote the following letter to his sister, Miss Amy Daily, at Shelbyville: “Dear Sister: I am disappointed in love and cannot bear this pain. In- closed find check for my bank ac- count. Am sorry this has come to pass, but cannot help it. Good-by, one and all. Your brother, “DERBIN DAILY.” Daily was jilted by a woman he met at Los Angeles. She was carried away by the Klondike gold craze, but prom- ised to marry him. The shock re- ceived by Daily when he heard of her marriage at Dawson City dethroned kis reason. He would have carried out his design on his life but for a physician, who knew of his intention and had him taken into custody. The check Daily inclosed in the let- ter to his sister was for $2000. —_———————— MODESTO COBBLER FAILS TO SHINE AS A CHEF Uses Gasoline Stove and It Explodes, Destroying Building and Hirsute Adornment of Shoemaker. MODESTO, Oct. 6.—M. Roberts, a shoemaker essayed the task of cook- ing a hasty breakfast on a gasoline stove this morning. The stove ex- ploded with a report that could be heard for blocks, and nearly killed the shoemaker. The fire that followed caused the destruction of the bulld- ing in which Roberts was living. Rob- erts himself lost his eyebrows, his hair, his mustache and the breakfast, and an intended trip to San Francisco, which was the primary cause of his leaving his last for the pot and skillet. —— e VETERAN EDITOR BADLY INJURED IN A RUNAWAY Fractious Steed Bolts While Journal- ist Is Helping Little Daugh- ter Into Buggy. SAN JOSE, Oct. 6.—W. S. Walker, the veteran editor of Los Gatos, was badly injured in a runaway at that place yesterday. While assisting his little daughter into a buggy the horse became frightened. In trying to stop the animal Walker fell between the wheels. He was picked up uncon- scious, with blood streaming from his face. He was severely cut and bruised, but no bones were broken. The in- jured man will be confined to his bed for some days. TRIPLETS BORN TO WIFE OF FARMER NEAR REDDING Two Sons and Daughter Brought by Stork to Prosperous Shasta County Couple. REDDING, Oct. 6.—Triplets, two sons and a daughter, were born Tues- day at Kimball Plains, six miles west of Cottonwood, to the wife of Charles Staser, a successful farmer and stock raiser. The mother of the children is in good health. Mr. and Mrs. Staser previously had three sons, born singly. LIVES OF FOUR * CHILDREN L0ST Drowned in Parsons Bay by Capsizing of Boat Launched From a Wreeked Steamship VICTIMS ARE INDIANS . | | Disaster Overtakes Vessel Carrying Red Men and| . Families From Hop Fields VANCOUVER, B. C. Oct. 6.—The steamer Boscowitz is a wreck at Har- beldown Island, Parsons Bay. She struck a rock in the night and then | broke in two. Four Indian children, who were passengers on the steamer, were drowned by the capsizing of a small boat in which they had been placed. The other passengers, of whom 120 were Indians and six whites, | were landed safely. The steamer was on her way north from this port, taking Indians and their belongings to the Skena River, the Indians having been working in the hop fields. The Boscowitz was owned in Victoria and was worth about $8000. ———— PURE WATER PROMISED THE CITIZENS OF REDDING Shasta Power Company Intends to In- stall System to Be Fed From Wells. REDDING, Oct. 6.—Harry L. Shan- non of San Francisco, president of the Shasta Power Company, which is in- stalling an electric plant at Bear- Creek-Falls, east of Redding, said In this city to-day that as soon as his company completes the plant it will put in a water system at Redding. He says the supply will be taken from a series of wells to be drilled In West Redding. Redding gets its water at present from the Sacramento River. —_——— BONDS WILL BE ISSUED BY NEW SUGAR CONCERN Colusa Company, Despite Lack of Funds, Decide to Proceed With Erection of Factory. COLUSA, Oct. 6.—At a meeting of | large stockholders of the Colusa Su- gar Factory, held this morning, it was decided to proceed to build the factory. There is yet a shortage in the subscription, but arrangements have been made to issue $100,000 worth of bonds. A meeting of all the | subscribers will be held Monday evening, when definite action will be taken. / —_—— Packing-House Is Burned. RIVERSIDE, Oct. 6.—A packing- house, owned by W. A. Hayt and oc- cupled by the Pachappa Orange Growers’ Association, was burned this i afternoon. Crossed wires are sup- posed to have caused the fire. The j loss to the association In machinery and material is $3000, fully covered | by insurance. Hayt's loss is $4000. et Church People Celebrate. SANTA ROSA, Oct. 6.—Elaborate exercises in the First Christian Church to-night celebrated the fiftieth anni- versary of its organization in this city. A’ number of former pastors and out of town members were present. Rev. Peter Colvin is the present pastor of the church. ———— Santa Rosa Merchant Dead. SANTA ROSA, Oct. 6.—John A. Stump, a well-known business man in this city and a member of the firm of Orr & Stump, died at his home here to-day after short illness. CHURCH'S DUTY 10 THE HOME Archbishop of Canterbury Points Out the Decadence of the Religious Life SOUNDS WARNING NOTE English Primate Speaks at the Episcopal Convention in Session in Beston - S ke BOSTON, Oct. 6.—The Archbishop of Canterbury, speaking before a Joint session of the hcuse of bishops and house of deputies of the Episcopal church at Emmanuel Church to-day, delivered a message to the American body in which he urged that the church take steps to guard the religious life of the home. At to-day’'s session of the house of deputies several resclutions to make more stringent the canon on the re- marriage of divorced persons were pre- , sented. The whole question will come ¢ up later. After reporting against a change in the legal name of the church at this time, the committee appointed by the last convention to consider the matter was discharged. When the house of deputies as- sembled to-day there was a large at- tendance of visitors in anticipation of the presence of the Archbishop of Can~- terbury, who yesterday announced that he would deliver a message to the Americgn church. He sald in part: I come to tell you of the absorbing interest with which we in England watch your gath- ering strength, your constantly increasing use of the apparently -boundiess opportunities which are multiplying daily, and of our fellow- ship in_your prayers for the dom and understanding, of strength. Your problems are not all of them our problems. Anyhow this at least is certain, that beneath them all we find underlying ele- ments which are absolutely common to ue both. Among them is the temptation common to ecclestastics, lay and cle in_every clime and in every century, the temptation to give “means” rather than “ends”” the main place in our thoughts, the temptation to lose the true proportion between large matters and small, the temptation to take a petty view of what life's issues really It seems to me the paramount necessity of all is that which concerns the family and the home, the common workday life, that is, of the Christlan people at large. It would be vain to ignore the warning voices which teil us, on either side of the sea, of a certain de- cadence in the religious life of the ordinary home. If that be true it surely behooves every gathering of churchmen to consider well what they can do to safeguard the men and women and above all the children of America and of England from a peril whose gravity it Is im- possible to overestimate, because it affects the very foundation of our Christian life At the afternoon session the Arch- bishop of Canterbury was invited to occupy a seat on the platform during the convention. Dr. J. Houston Eccleston of Balti- more, on behalf of the committee ap- pointed to confer with the various re- ligious bodies regarding conformity as to the marriage of divorced persous, submitted a report. It included a resolution drawn up by the joint church conference on diverce enjoin- ing ministers to refuse to unite in marriage any person or persons whose marriage such minister shall have reason to believe is forbidden by the laws of the church in which either party seeking to be married holds membership. The committee on national legisla- tion revorted that action must first come through a united church move- ment. The Archbishop of Canterbury pronounced the benediction. At the opening service of the woman's auxiliary of the board of missions to-day the sum of $143,117 was contributed to the board. This sum represents the work of the aux- illary organization during the last three years. —_——— DIES AT HOSPITAL—G. T. Crewdson, & rancher who was accidentally asphyxiated by as at 967 Mission street last Wednesday. died at the Central Fmergency Hospital last night, ADVERTISEMENTS. If you want a good, serviceable suit—one that will hold its color and shape and wear to-yéur satisfaction —one that is stylishly cut along the latest fall lines— one that is moderate in price—if you want suit, we have them at $10. When ready for a suit come in and see what ten dollars will purchase in clothing when you buy direct from the makers. Priestley Cravenettes $10 . Weare also selling our own make of Priestley Crav- enettes for $10. Webuy the cloth direct from Priestley & Co., whoown the Cravenette process. The garments are made up'in our own workshops. can sell you a genuine Cravenette for as lm_v as $10. Remember every rain coat is not a Cravenette. Look for Priestley’s stamp when you buy. Long Stylish Overcoats $10 Long overcoats will be fifty-inch garment will be a popular length. We are selling overcoats like these for $10. If we did not make them ourselves we would have to ask you $12 50, the same as other stores do. We sell direct to you, and An Interesting Talk To the Man Who Wants a Good Wearing Suit, at, a Low Price wisegoto themiddlemen you keepinyour own pock: t such a That’s why we supreme this winter. A what -profit would other-