The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 21, 1904, Page 7

THE SAN. FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 21, 1904. Closes His Notorious Career + . Rt g TCharles G. Adams, Former Clergyman, Dies | by Seli-Destruction After a Hopeless Life — | | Unfrocked Minister. Who, Despondent, Tarns 00 a I Expires. (p] 1) ) =" D DEAD IN HIS ROOM. A SUICIDE, M1 R OF HIS FRIEND, WHO —p CKED MINISTER WHO WAS FOU. TION THAT ATE TER OF - SHORT IN HIS When Charles Gustavus Adams, at- ‘ DEMAND MONEY FROM ACCOUNTS ENDS LIFE |tcrney at law and formerly an Epis- | GET-RICH-QUICK CONCERN 1 turned on the gas| 1 his room at 118 OFFICIAL Theft of Only Five Hundred Dollars Leads to a Tragedy in Illinois. Purchasers of tracts” Bring Suit Against Ster- ling Securities Company. | Merchandise Con- | , then a clerg: Berkeley, shot and Adams of de s dav e he was discharged as 0 years ago. » being in the Colum- ilding, 916 Market s His s dbens e ton sxcd s was due to despondency ed by his separation from a yo med Maud Ellson, former on street, with whom F iced that a good talker oo long. n. formed ms Deputy Coroner F said to her come back to | Ad: w etween 9 and 10 o’clock night, the landlady. 1 Tues- last r Is Not Measured by r~.'.rrr She | DOLLARS and CENTS on the & the gas was es at the pouring from it. and warned Then she opened nd left the room. ng the windows were open and bed fully eption of his over- orrespondence was the following WE HAVE JEWEL- .’ RY AT LOW PRICES WHICH IS QUITE AS WELL DESIGN- ED AS THE MORE COSTLY PIECES was oper him to be more win- the i the e Among th n the room undated | Bohm-Bristol Co. ’l Jewelers and il th («i:x‘":t:q" - ¢ 1] Siiversmiths | thing wrong et Meet me at 104-110, Geary Street |\ R e J. Adams of 508 brother and Colonel berg is an uncle of ti ter, Agnes Adam k city. The w. V- YORK, Oct. 20.—The follow- | | ing Californians arrived in New York | to-day: | From San Francisco—S. Arenson, | {at the Grand; A. M. Bremer, at the Martha Washington; J. Cooper, at the | Hoffman; F. M. Greenwood, at the | Martha Washington; P. Hewlett, at| the Navarre; Miss Marshall and*Dr. C. | ! Marshall, at the Marlborough; H. Lo- | {gan and the Misses Logan, at the | Hoffman; R. G. Bonestell, at the Im- perial; A. W. Brown and wife, at the Savoy: H. E. Choynski, at the Herald Square; H. Crotiglia, at the Grego- rian: Miss M. Goetjen and H. Goetjen. : at the Cosmopolitan;: C. H. Green, at | the Navarre; E. Hildebrand, at the Wolcett; E. C. Little, at the Victoria; J. E. Marks, at the Herald Square; R. Wienecke and wife, at the Belvidere; Miss G. Wreden and H. Wreden, at| the Cosmopolitan. i From Los Angeles—J. Cook, ‘at the Imperial; P. J. Keeler, at the Everett; I Weid, at the Kensington; B. wife, at the dainty s:cl\gg will be henored in over 30 storesin the United States | Californians in New York. l E or batch of victims of a get- k scheme have come to the r Court for relief. A suit was day against J. C. Watson Smith doing business as curities Company by Estelle F. Hicks and four “merchandise con- g to pay two dollars complainants allege | e business is illegal and e purpose gf defraud- 1 contract holders. They say that more than 500 contracts have been sold and mo in to the concern, is said more than W than $15,000 paid nd of this sum it $6000 has been con hdrawn and misappropr is said, too, that the Sterling has turned its assets over to States Bonding Company destroying evidence of the Judgment is asked f{or $15,- of the contract holders, an is demanded and an i restraining the compa isposing of its assets is prayed —_—ee————— YOSEMITE VALLEY. Clear Weather Affords Remarkably s Booming. he streams and ry waterfall in has cleared, s> : now had of the en- acier Point being are vractically free traveling. Sime Bix Trees, | y fine and i t valley at its | ter chance will | ser- | and in- ngs to be seen and Pacific office, 6l College Alumni at Banquet. bancuet College v The of St of the alumni held in the Marble hall of the Palace Hotel last | evening. About seventy-five graduates of the colleze attended and Thomas W. Hickey presided. The toasts of the evening were as follows: “The Pope’; e President of the United States”; “The Archdiocese,” Rev. Joseph M. Gleason; James D. Phe- s Rev. John P. | .. “Early Days,” Albert | Our Alma Mater,” John | “Our Association.” Jere- | miah F. Sullivan. { —_————————— No Reduction in Wages. The Poultry Dealers’ Protective As- sociation has acted upon the sugges- | tions of the Citizens’ Alliance and de- | cided not to reduce the pay or length- en the hours of the poultry rs. | At the meeting of the Building Trades Council last night the election of P. H. MeCarthy to the general exec- ' utive board of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America . was heartily indorsed by that body. } ——, e i A New Art Gallery. & , We have converted our picture room into a beautiful art gallery for the exhi- | bition and sale of moderate :mmt— water colors, s, and cordially notoEaphe Toarection fmvitea, * Sanborn, Vail & Co. FE ENDS WHEN Heart Disease During Ex- citement Caused' by Colli- sion of Trains at Yuba Pass |COMPANY PROPERTY | BADLY DAMAGED | Wreckage Catches Fire and '» Flames DestroySnowsheds, | Trackage, Valuable Freight and Four Carloads of Cattle TRUCKEE, Oct. 20—R. J. Laws, su- perintendent of the Sacramento divi- sion, fell dead, presumably from heart disease, at Yuba Pass this morning. His private car was attached to No. 3, the westbound overland, when the train crashed into the rear end of freight train No. 115. The caboose of the freight train was demolished, several freight cars were crushed, portions of the snowshed timbers knocked down | | and the head engine of the passenger was badly injured. Fire broke out al- most instantly, and the flames from the wreckage speedily caught in the shed timbers Four carloads of cattle were burned. The car doors were opened, but the eat- tle would not escape and slowly burned ath. None of the passengers was seriously injured, but all were badly shaken up, and the confusion and ex- citement was indescribable. Superin- tendent Laws was stricken down al- ! most immediately after the accident. The passenger train was backed up to Cisco, where it is at present, the body of Superintendent Laws resting in his private car. The forward portion of the freight train escaped from the burning sheds, and fire trains were soon battling with the flames, but a mile of snowsheds | was consumed. A snowshed outfit or wrecking train | together with the station at Yuba Pass {and all the telegraph poles and lines were totally destroyed. Large forces of -workmen are engaged in clearing away the burning timbers and laying | new track, but it will be near midnight before trains can pass. The passengers that were traveling in the two coaches that were destroyed jumped from the train in time to save their lives, although many of them were given a hard shaking up when { the two trains came together and re- ! ceived slight injuries, such as bumps and bruises. It is said that nome of the baggage belonging to the tourists was saved and most of them will arrive in this State with a scant supply of ciothing. | At 2 o'clock this afternoon twenty freight cars of train No. 218 plunged off a bridge between Marmol and Calvade into the Truckee River. It is claimed | that no one was hurt. The bridge is | seriously injured and a wrecking train | and bridge crew from Cisco, after working at the Yuba Pass wreck all | Gay, sped through Truckee at 7 o’clock to-night to try to repair the bridge. The current of the river is not strong enough to sweep the cars away and they lie in a most inextricably con- fused and broken mass thirty feet be- low the bridge. GROWS OLD IN SERVICE. | | Superintendent Laws an Old Employe of the Southern Pacific. SACRAMENTO, Oct. 20—R. J. Laws, superintendent of the Sacra- mento division of the Southern Pa- cific Company, who died so suddenly this morning at the scene of the wreck at Yuba Pass, began service with the railroad company July 14, 1868. He was first employed as rod- man in the engineering department and later as assistant to the resident engineer. In 1876 he was appointed roadmaster on the Sacramento di- vision with headquarters at Blue Can- yon, within a few miles of the station where he passed away. After two yeats he was transferred to the posi- tion of roadmaster in charge of the lines between Sacramento and Oak- land. In the spring of 1880, through the recommendation of A. N. Towne and J. A. Fillmore, Laws took the posi- tion of superintendent of the con- struction of the Carson and Colorado Railroad, in Nevada, and in 1882 he became assistant superintendent of the line. After the line was complet- company as assistant superintendent and chief engineer until April, 1902, when he was transferred to Sacramen to to take the position of division s perintendent, which he filled until his death. Laws was & prominent Knight Templar. character and was well liked by all who knew him. He always fairly with the men and commanded their respect. He was 57 years of age. - CARS CRASH | Railroad Official Succumbs to ! | | i | | | | decision denied right of the rallroads | torneys for the railroads gave notice | ed he continued in the service of the | He was a man of sterling, dealt ! A wife and three daughters survive | hi . im. —_— WRECK NEAR VERDI Twenty Cars Fall From Bridge Into Truckee River. SACRAMENTO, Oct. near Calvada, four miles west of Ver: di, Nev., and near the California line, Twenty loaded cars were derailed, eighteen of them being precipitated into the Truckee River. Two tramps, whose names are not known, were se- riously injured. They were stealing a ride when the wreck occurred. The wreck is said to have been caused by a wheel under one of the cars breaking. Wrecking crews have been dispatched to clear the track nnrl| reopen it to traffic. A man in trouble is apt to discover that his friends are not as friendly as they might be. e FREE — FREE — FREE WITE ——— SUNDAY CALL — WANT ADS. of Two Your Choice Premiums, _LIGHTNING BREAD and— CAKE KNIFE or a ———— NUT SET (Six Nut Picks and a Crack) —_— | places of interest. 20.—This af-! | ternoon a freight train was wrecked CANNOT ROUTE ARBITRARILY Fruit Growers Are Victors in Legal Battle to Deter-| mine Rights as Shippers i RAILROADS LOSE SUIT| Judge Wellborn Refuses to Grant Corporation’s Plea to Stay Ruling of the Court | LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20.—Judge| Wellborn, in the United States Circuit Court this morning rendered his de- cision in the fruit routing case, deny- ing the application for a stay of exe- cution asked for by the railroad upon | the former decision of the court, which | to arbitrarily route shipments of fruit at the initial shipping point. The at- of appeal from the latest decision both to the Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. Judge Wellborn announced that he had been unable to file a written opin- ion. A synopsis of his oral opinion follows: The doctrine of comparative hardships should be applied to the case. To justify the suspen- sion of the decree it must be shown, first, that irremediable damage will result to the defendants by its enforcement, and, second, that no such loss will result to the complan- | ant. and by this is meant, not the Interstate | Commerce Commission, but the gemeral public, | ov, more especially, the citrus fruit shippers. | It may be conceded that the defendants will sustain damages by the enforcement of the decree, for which there is no adequate recom- perse, but the nature and amount of which 1s | not ascertainable. t As against this phase of the case the prop- osition arises, will the complainant sustain s by reason of the suspension of the In what condition will the suspension of the decree leave the shippers? The decree restores to them the routing peivilege; the suspension will take it from them and thereby | utterly destroy competition both as to service and rates, As to the value of this privilege it is onmly | necessary to refer to the testimony of Bisseil and others. That it is of great value is evi- | denced by the efforts that have been made to | retain it, as shown by this litigation, and the | statements that have been made that the rail- | roads expect to transport 25,000 or 30,000 cars of citrus fruits this year. i Rebates are a violation of the interstats act so flagrant that it is difficult to find language sufficiently strang and blistering to_character- | ize it. While the matter has not been treat- | ed directly in the case at bar, I am convinced the joint tariff is a violation of that act. and | for that reason I cannot entertain favorably | the motion 1f the obvious intention was to violate some other law than the interstate act. | It follows from the views expressed that the motion, for a-stay of the decree fs denied. The | temporary stays are terminated. H [ Milliken at once filed notices of ap- | peal to the Circuit Court of Appeals| of the Ninth District and also to the | Supreme Court of the United States, and asked that the court, in fixing the | bond for costs, also fix the amount to cover damages, supersedeas. “I will not approve a bond that would have the effect of nullifying my action,” said the Judge. so that it could act u( MINERS SELECT TINELY TOPICS Engineers to Supply Array! of Figures About Erosion From Natural Causes| —.— Taking advantage of expert opinion that will be furnished by practical en- gineers, the California Miners’ Assocla-! tion, at the coming annual meeting, will consider the mining-debris ques- tion in a large way. The cussion will undoubtedly begin with the reading of a paper that has been provided for, which will have the title of ““Natural Erosion Compared With Mining Opera- tions.” This will lead to accurate esti- mates and much light will undoubtedly be thrown upon a problem that has caused more discussion than any other in California. | At the annual convention of the Cali-; fornia Miners’ Association in 1903 the anti-debris men met on the floor of the convention with the members of the association, and a somewhat spirited episode was the resuit. Since then!' the California gold-dredger miners have made up a report relative to operations in the dredger fields in the river bottoms. Within the last month threats have been made by the anti- debris men to enjoip the operations of certain mines. Altogether the time is ripe for a systematic study of all the problems relating to erosion and to mining debris, and great interest is sure to center in the discussion for which the California miners have ar- ranged. The executive committee of the Min- ers’ Association has decided to hold the annual convention in the white din- ing-room of the Hotel St. Franeis on December 5, 6, 7, 8 and possibly on the 9th also. Business sessions will take place only in the forenoons, the after- noons being reserved for excursions. Trips will be made to the Selby Smelt- ing Works, the Union and Risdon fron | works, using the Union Iron Works"| tug for the purpose; to Mare Island by | steamer Slocum; to the Pacific Steel| and Wire Company’s plant, the Cali- fornia Powder Works, and to other| Before the assem-| bling of the convention a programme | will be sent out and the delegates will | ave a chance to make selections of the places that they desire to visit. Mr. Benjamin, secretary of the Cali- 'ornia Miners’ Association, has made early apolication to persons who have| been requested to -prepare papers for the convention, and has asked them to get their communications in as soon as | possible, to the end that all may be printed in time to be distributed in| pamphlet form at the convention, so that the discussion resulting may all be from an intelligent peint of view. Judge E. A. Belcher will prepare a pa- per on “Mineral Land Laws.” A com- mittee is about to report to Congress concerning such laws, and the topic| is, therefore, of more than ordinary in- | terest. Among the papers to be pre- sented for consideration are the fol- lowing: PRAGERS Grand Orchestral Concert This Afternoon From 2 to 5 o’clock. Friday Surprise, No.15 Prices To-Day Only No matter what reductions have already been made these Friday events are | aim to place on sale only goods and prise. 63c Candy Special 24c a bb. Delicious Cream Almonds BLEACHED MUSLIN. ' a yard—We have one hun- dred pleces of fine Bleach- ed Mustin, a full yard 4U iae. This Musiin is made by the well-known Lon- drael Manufacturing Co. It is a Muslin made to seil regularly for 10e. but for this Friday Surprise we have made it an extraordinary bar- in. (Only $1.00 worth will be sold to any one customer.) BLACK GRANITE SUITING. a yard—This is a 45-inch ' Suiting that has been sold aver our and other counters until to-day at 65c a yard. FOULARD SILKS. a _yard—19-inch Foulard Silk, in brown. navy, tan and green, brown with white polka dots on an all- silk cloth. It is a splendid material for waists, dressing sacques, etc. Actual value, 50c yard. STREET HATS. This is a complete line of Street Hats that we are showing ] for the first time. There are neat little felt shapes, in colors- of brown, black. navy, green and champagne. All are trimmed with velvet, ribbon. quills, pompons, etc., in the most at- tractive styles. been made for There are all colors and sizes, and they will found to be on merchandise, the prices for wer than ever. We the most popular to make each item a genuine sur- Eiderdown Dressing Sacques These dressing sacques are made of fine German Eiderdown, nicely trimmed, and sell regularly for $1.00. This reduction in price has this Friday Surprise Sale. urprisingly good garments. Toilet, Specials Kirk's Vrals Violet Soap—Box of 3 cakes; regular price 2Sc; special to-day .. -10e Castile Soap—Long bars; regular price 25c; special to-day....15e Imperial Tooth Powder—Special to- lay. a bottle -10e Good Tooth Brush—To-day 10e STATIONERY. Note-Size Tablet—70 sheets; regu- larly Sc; to-day . . -d4e a yard—Point de Paris and Torchon Laces; in a great variety of patterns and In many different widths; you will find these values unpre- cedented. Each yard !s worth So and 10c. “Buster Brown’ Collars These Women's Collars are ' made of W Butcher Linen. embr ered with Bulgarian Thread, ental designs about 50 dozen of these Collars and for this Frida: B made this unusually low priee actual worth 35¢ each. These Drawers are made of good wearing Muslin and have a six-inch hem- stitched flounce. They come in both regular and 50 xtra sizes and are worth regularly Tée. g gravel elevators, the cyanide tuel for mining operatio process, refining haulage, undergrs WASHINGTON, Lieutenant H. S. Kiersted, assistant surgeon, Has been relieved from duty at Fort Myer, V. Fort_Snelling. Min Private H, Fourth Cavairy, San Francisco, signal corps. nicia Babson, when ment at the naval hospital, Mare Isl- to his home for ! three months” sick leave to date from arrival at home. Major Parker W. West will leave for the East Sunday morning. He expects to return to his pest about Decem- ber 12. and, Cal, Ropp, J. E. Kemp Van Ee, A. D. Gas- | soway, D. B. Huntley, Charles C. Derby, E. Painter, George W. Kimball, W. F. Engelbright, Mark B. Kerr, John Ross Charles Uren and Henry P. Stow | Mies s at t beer: asked to prepare papers. For | the delegates special rates have been secured at the Included in the topics not previously | mentioned are the following: | Stamp milling of low grade ores, profitabls | treatment of mine tatlings, dams, Ariliing machines e Hotel St. Francis. use of deb: rg auriferous gravels with wire ropeways for transmit- ctical methods of pros ods, tre: proc dust and zine T e Army Orders. Oct. Twenty-first Infantry from Cal. Gunner C. B. ischarged from trea Barracks. will go John Ferguson, Waggoner, of low grade cop- deep mining ce with hydrauMc =~ as de ne 30.—First and ordered to to accompany that Post to the Presidio, San Francisco, and upon the completion of this duty he will proceed to the Monterey, Cal., for duty at that post. Nelson McCracken of Troop at the Presidio, | is transferred to the | Presidio at He will be sent to Be- PERSONAL. C. L. Brown of London registered at the Lick yesterday. Colonel J. G. Hamilton of Durant, Palace. Sheldon Borden and wife of Los An- geles are at the St. Francis. Attorney Frank Mattison and wife of Santa Cruz are at the Grand. | Dr. J. W. Robertson and wife of | Livermore are at the St. Francis. | L. A Bilasingame, a well-known horseman of Fresno, is at the Grand. | . Frederick Lyon, a prominent resi- | dent of Salt Lake City, is at the St | Franeis. | T. W. Heintzelman, who is connected | with the Southern Pacific Company at | Sacramento, is at the Grand. Y. Tosi of Milan, Italy, who has t@én visiting the St. Louis Exposition and is now making a tour of the Pa- cific Coast, registered at the Occi- | dental. | R. B. Burns, chief engineer of the western system of the Santa Fe road, is up from Los Angeles and staying at | the Palace. Dr. Oronhyatekha of Toronto, head | of the Independent Order of Foresters |of America, who has been visiting | Southern California, arrived yesterday | at the Occidental. Prohibition Meetings. San Francisco Prohibitionists will neet in county convention and con- | erence to-day in the Academy of Sei- ences Hall on Market street at 2 o’clock and will hold a big mass meet- ing at 8 o'clock in_the evening. to be presided over by State Chairman A. B. Taynton. The principal attraction of the day will be the Riverside cam- paign singers, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Simmons, who are very popular among Prohibition workers and who sing campalgn songs.