The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 2, 1904, Page 1

San Francisco and westerly winds. ~ A. THE WEATHER. Yorecast mede at San Francisco for Jhirty hours ending midnight, unsettied weather Wednesday: District Forecaster. Nov. 2: vicinity—Cloudy, fresh G. McADIE, Cmmlm CENTRAL—"The Worst Woman In [Cay ] b \¥ i 4 '! [ FILL PRODF THAT STANDARD OIL 1S A NDING DEMOCRATIC MANAGER. | Company Official %ams .’/?ooseve/c‘. Large Sums Bxpended. - In New York Contest Special Dispatch to The CalL atic campaign fund denied by the Democratic committeemen HOTEL BARTON, \\'ASHI!\'GTOI\'. ican managers here now make the definite lard Oil interests -have conttibuted largely to - for New York ‘City, and: that interests in Indiana, especially at Whiting, Mun- n, have been working for the Demoeratic ticket. in r Knox is among the President’s friends ‘who be- eight of the Standard Oii management is per- son I financially in support of Judge Parker’s campaign. o to the Republican shanagers; he medium = nt ‘Roosevelt ini id d sa N The Pres already. go 1 Oil officers to gers.in AN -campaign ne suspected that he President’s: elec .. was against his-election. ne to Judge Parker’s managers in New York City one of the ‘officers Oil Companyin Chicago, a personal friend of ne to Washington not long ago to-inform he company, represented by a large major- This information of the Cabinet. officer; and " the at 1he same time said he himself was: pet- Roosevelt's election. srmed the man that he hoped no iard Oil Company would " contribute - to: his he understtood that a proposition had been ite” to. the Republicans in some: States and ‘to ident hoped they would not con- that the repiy was that, so far as the Demo- ions were “concerned, it was too late, because con- It was said also that it had been the -custom contribute a large amount to _tI'ue in every. campaign..- managers declare that ¢hey ‘have the Standard Oil interests were tion. . In’ this .connection the. ab- hode Island from participation in p.fin!(‘d out: EPIDEMIC OF CRIME [\ CHICA Grewsome Record of Murders and Sticides. Specid! Dispatch to “The - Call CHICAGO, Nov. 1. —. Forty-three | persons committed suicide and sixteen were murdered in Chicago during the Iudian s nth, October, ac- cording oner’s report. Two hund: and thirty-three deaths were reported during thé month. -Of this n 10 were - .accidental. y-six, on. ir by Coroner’s | were foun been due to natural causes. In the suicides carbolic acid seemed ] to be 't vorite means, as this drug.| thirteen cases. - Ninc per- themselves, eight used gas, ed: themselves, three -took two dro d themselvés, - gasoline .,n! one -took rat es in the accident lst show to have been killed 3 and -thirteen by | sireetcars. _Eight were run down by wagons, nine fell down stairs, six fell from windows, ten fell “in‘ various’ s, two were electrocuted, one was d by an explosion, eight were was accidentally ' shot, t a dog and died of | one died of burns, one was one was_kicked to by @ horse, six were accidentally phyxiated. by gas and one fell down elevator shaft Twe cases of murder and suicide of similar nature occurred to-day within two hours, of one another. Joseph M. Scala, ‘a butcher, fatally shot his wife and then himself. The shooting is said to have been due to business troubles. Shortly afterward William Kuhiman, publisher and president of a mining company, was shot and fatally wounded by his former partner, Henry Holtze, who then killed himself. Holtze alieged that he had been ewindled by Kuhiman, de alh accidentally | 'RmLER - CAND JAGUAR i { { -~ FIGHT DUEL ?Deam of Reptile a,nd the Beast Fnds 1 Gontest amp Dispatch -t w'nu can. - i RENO, Nov. "1-A - furious. Jax\mr broke from its cage in'a zoo owned.by | Sam Davis- at Carson City this after- noon, ‘and. while - prowling among the jother cages toré.the door-from a cage containing a huge rattlesnake. between the beast and the reptile im- | mediately ensued and as long as it last-, i | I ed the. contest was one of the most, | startling battles of its kind ever wit- nessed. " The cries-of the attendants at | the zoo and the growls of the. jaguar | attracted many people to the scene and hundreds - witnessed the straggle to| the death. When thé. door fell from thie screen ‘(age containing the rattlesnake the | | reptile immediately struck, the enraged | jaguar, but the skin of the ahimal re- sisted the fangs of the snake. "With a &rowl the jaguar jumped at the snake, attempting to grab it in his jaws. The reptile uncoiled and throwing its long | body to its full length sunk -its fangs Jdeép into the side of the beast. The | jaguar caught the snake in its mouth | and crushed its body, but not until jts | fangs had again been sunk into his | shoulder. The jaguar died with the #nake coiled around his leg and body. i | DEATH IN FLAMES FATE | OF TWO MEN OF MODESTO Charred Remains of Laborers Found | in Ruins of Hotel Destroyed by Fire. MODESTO, Nov, 1.—The City Ho- last night. | Trail of Holedu-the- A fight| SHOT DEAD INDEFE SE ~OF A BAMK Wyommg Outlaws Kill a Brave | Gasmer | “Buifalo- Blll” t Take tl}e FLo Wall (}ang | Noted.. Soont “Hurrying-. by Specml Train 1o Lead His Indians "1~ After Diesperadoss.. Special ‘Digiatch o “The Cail. CODY, Wyo armed’ outiaw | Walt country «this- afternoon held .up. |'and robbed the First National Bank ef: | this - place, ‘and; " after: ghooting. and: | kimiig Cashier Frank Middaugh, had a | running fight with cowboys -and hunt- ers - and escaped into the Rattlesnak: |'Mountains. To-night they are being | pursued - by a half-dozen different $posses, A’ battle is.izaminent. " The Hole-in-the-Wail gang 1§ noto- ov, 1.—Feur heavily .trious as an aggregation.of the ‘most | desperate outlaws in the. West, and Cody posses aré.détermined to- wipe it out of existence. . Buffalp ‘Bill .himself is en route .from Omaha in a spectal car, having with him a party of .titled *’| Englishinen and two of his Sioux’ In- dian scouts,-and has tfl]egraphefl ordérs for herses to be"in waiting for his party at_the depot. - He. will: taike the trail inperson immediately upon hisar- rival. - Just before the clase of ‘the bank this aftérnoon four. roughly dressed men rode up to the First National Bank; .in the heart of the town, and immediately across the stréet from the Irma, Buf- falo BII'S fine hotel. Three men dis- -f mounted and entered-the building, the | fourth- staying outside and guarding the horses. | .-As soon as the outlaws émtered the. ] y bank one-of them covered Cashfer Mid- | daugh; who was the only occupant of the room,'dnd demanded the cash from thie . vault. | Instead of complying Mlddaugh ‘séized. a° revolvér and niade a game :fight for’ Jife and money, shooting sev- ‘eral. times, .even before' the - outlaw |-leader could fire' upon’ him, but. Mid- d h' was excited and his bullets went wild, ‘while the single shot sent from -thie _outla- -weapon passed through the banker's brain: ‘The. sho g-atfracted the at!entlon of a party of hunters, who reached the’ ! Irma..from the . opposite -side of the | building, and as they -rusted- around | the cormer of the hotel they took' in the whole situation and " opened fire .upon the outlaws’ horses. But the out- laws, rushing oit of ‘the building and firing continuously, - mounted their _herses and rode down the street. They aped "on to the prairie and “thence the mbuntains, seemingly without a | Bcratch.’ “Within a few minutes twenty moupt-’ -ed.men ‘'were in pursuit. Deputy Sher- iff - “Jeff” Chapman was in ihe lead. Word reached Cody to-night that he xlotyk ‘a short cut through a field and |'encountered the outlaws twenty miles from here. Shots were exchanged, and his Korse was killed under him, It is expected that the robbers will | surely be taken and they probably will be lynched. A large reward has al- ready been offered by the citizens of | Cody for- their ‘canture or their death. OMAHA, Nov. 1.—William F. Cody’s" private’ car, filled with Cody’s’ English friends and Indian iscouts and guides, ; directed by Colcnel Cody himself, went westward to-night on the -Burlington | fiyer. Excitement was at fever - heat |,over the: man hunt which the party "'will have at Cody, instead of the bear hunts expected. Colonel Cody will take | the trail himself as soon as he reachea the scene of the holdup. “I1 wired White Beaver, my manager at Cody, to offer a large reward for the capture of the outlaws,” said Colonel Cody, “and to double the reward in case an outlaw is killed.. We want to kill them, not capture them. “Within ten minutes after we reach Cody we will be in the saddle, ready for the trail. My best horses will be in readiness at the depot and I have with me my old scout, the Sioux chief, Iron Tail. . The old fellow is now cleaning up his guns and is overjoyed at the chance of getting into a scrimmage. “The Government had several hun- dred thousand dollars on deposit in that bank and it was a narrow escape for the funds. The Government is put- ting in a $5,000,000 irrigating system in tel was burned to the ground here|the Big Horn and had the cash there threshold of his room, while Beck's but the resistance of Cashier Mi ul-, was found in the hallway. The property loss exceeds su.ooo. J. E. Mitchell owned the building, which contained a hotel, and saloon. daugh prevented it being stolen.” Colonel Cody’s train will be run as| a special from Toluca to Cody and he | another m-mtgmmtomch&m bx-m*un ursday. s from. theé Hole-in-the- | STIR GREAT BRITAIN ON DON Nov. 2.—Thcre is a suspicion that the war scare which threw Great Britain into a frenzy of excitement vcstcrday had. its origin in a conspiracy to disturb the stock market. Not the slightest foun- dation c)ust‘ed for the alarmist reports, which even' werit so far as to assert that war with Russia had been de- clared. - Onthe contrary, the settlement of the North Sea affair is proceeding’ without a hitch. The general “public, 1gno'mnt of the fact that it had been duped rctlfcd last mght thh the belief that hostilities had al- j r:ady commcmxd, ,Populace Tbrown lnto Frenzy by Groundless Bulletins Indlcalmg Immmence of a Battle With Baltic Fleet 'BARBAROUS DEED OF S Try to' Destroy Slgm 0t a Man Thgy CHeld Up. Fea.r of Future» Be(;ognltion : by Vlctlm Pvpmpts t_ne . Brutal lct.’ . 'smm Dlsuu:.l‘tv_ The call, *RENO, Nov. 1.—G. Roda, a railroad employe, was held up #nd robbed of Ssobyln-eur nanFM to-mght. this work the vllla!nu f__enred recognitton and, in an effort to cover up -their crinre and still avoid ¢committing murder, they at- ; ‘tempted to destroy the sight of the de- fenseless .victim: The sight of one eye was destroyed and in all probability the sight of ‘the other will be totally lost, The injured man was brought here to-riight and will be sent to San Fran-" ¢isco for further t‘rearment immedi- ately. Rosa was walkmg n'ong the track when aecosted by the brutes, who, af- tér.relieving him_of .his money, pro-/ ceeded to carry’ out their terrible deed with diabolical coolness. | The men are supposed ‘to bé mem-’ bers of a gang that has terforized the employes upon the Gévernment canal in. that section-'for the past.year and officers are now search; ng for. !hem VIS[TS HEAVEN DURING TRAVCEi Tndiana - Woman " Returns - Withi .Glowing' Description | of the Great Lnlulown Special Dllpald: to The Call. * ~ MARION, 1Ind., Nov. 1.— Rising from a trance in which she had lain- for. eighteen hours, after being pros- trated at .religious services in ' the home of W. H. H. Mook of . West Marion; Mrs. Laura Hill declared she had visited heaven. “I saw my grandparents,” she said, “and they were at my side, and angels were. all about me. Everything was so beautiful.”” She spoke of having seen and been with girl friends who had long been dead. While Ml‘l‘ Hill lay in the trance her lips were seen to move at frequent intervals, as if in conversation. Smiles played on her face at times, and then again she appeared sad and tears came into her eyes. Mrs. Hill, although revived from the trance, is still unable to leave her bed, because of being weak from going without nourishment for a long pe- riod S sl o O B SPEEDIEST YET ON TYPEWRITER © CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—The world's record for speed in typewriting has again been smashed and another clerk in the Patent Office is the proud vic- tor. Miss Mary Pretty yesterday wrote 26,400 words, beating the record of M:s Olivé Cameron by 3400 words in a day. Miss Pretty has suffered no incon- venience so far fron. her remarkable James Rice and Levil with which to pay off the workmen. | day’'s work, despite the fact th: Beck, laborers, were burne@ to death.| The outlaws evidently knew this and M: l-.fiedutp % e £y Sy Rice’s body was found lying across the | were after that Government money, |the Patent hat the speed tests at Office frequently result in Ry crippling the clerks’ wrist She WM at har desk t.hll for ‘a .nmy !hfll iy L e EA coxnuu ERS OF THE BRITISH CHANNEL SQUADRON AND .MEDITERRA BET, WHO WERE THE CENTRAL FIGURES IN THE WAR SCAR ’I'HAT CAUSED A FUROR IN KING EDWARD'S METROPOLIS. % HEAR‘TJ‘ ARE WRUNG BY lUOMflN’J' PLIGH‘T — Spcclal Dispatch to The Call.. C 3 LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1.—To drag by hand 300 miles, from Orange to Porterville, . Tulare County, a spring wagon loaded with 800 pounds of household goods, was the task Mrs. M. J. Durian, a _peor widow, set for herself and two little daughters, aged 10 and 12. The world has been rough with her and her heart hungered for her sons of 14 and 16, whom misfor- tune had compelled her to leave at Porterville, chopping .wood. To be with them and satisfy the longing of a mother’s heart was her one thought. The only way she could do so was the trip over the ‘dusty wagon .roads. Bravely she undertook it. This evening A. Miller, driving from Anaheim to Fullerton, came upon the mother in her plight. In the middle of the road each little girl was tug- ging at a shaft and the woman was pushing with all her might. By her VT side wearily trudged a lad “of flv Miller’s heart was wrung and he wen to Fullerton and raised a purse. John Clandine gave a horse and the Du- riahs drove away rejoicing, but .soon the eldest girl became seriously sick. She returned to Fullerton and Miller and Clandine raised more money, bought tickets for mother and chil- dren to Porterville, and they are now on the way. They had pulled theh- wagon four- teen miles. Mrs. Durian’s husband died in Por- terville five years ago, leaving her des- titute. Lately friends in Orange in- duced her to come south, assuring her an easier living. She says she found their promises false. Sixteen doilars was all she had in the ‘'world and with five of this she bought the old wagon, expecting tu live on the balance while going like beasts of burden the long journey. TRAGEDY FOLLOWS IN HIS PATHWAY Special Dispatch to The Call REDDING, Nov. 1.—Fate has been unkind to Otis M. Storer of this city. Within the short space of a month and a half he has been struck two cruel blows. The first robbed him of his sweetheart, she being killed before his eyes by a falling tree. The second probably will rob him of his life or leave him a helpless cripple for the rest of his days. Yesterday he fell from a lumber flume near the Afterthought mine, striking the rocks twenty feet be- low. His back was broken by the fall, and he now lies at the point of death. And yreterday was the day upon which he was to have been married had not death clalmed his bride-to-be. - The death of Storer's sweetheart, Qr»a of Round Mountain, was a ' particularly sad ome. It occurred last September at the home of her father. She was assisting ker.cousin to fell a tree. Storer came along while the work was in progress and insisted that she should allow him to take her place at 1 M.@fif AL % 0% BAL ’WMUZZ 3 i LONDON, Nov. 1L—Negotiations ba- tween Great Britain.and Russia .ook- ing to.a settlement. of the North Sea affair are progressing ‘favorably, and there is not the slightest danger of fric- tion- arising between the two govern- ments. The constitution.of the inter- national commission uader The Hague ° convention -is on the verge of settle- ment. In. spite of these pacific conditions, Great Britain to-day experienced a war panic that.can only be compared with the panic created on ‘Saturday, October 23, when the news of the sinking of the trawlers in the North Sea was received. .Not in years have so many alarmist re- ports and flaming extras flooded Lon- don.” The most extraordinary feature of this scare, which was serious enough while. it lasted, is -that there was not one single circumstance to justify it. The excitement started early In the day, when the newspapers announced the ‘departure of the Russian Baltic squadron ‘from Vigo. The public was [not in possession of the information cabled by the press to the United States that only the officers concerned in the firing on_the British trawlers would be detached, ahd- jumped at the conclusion that Russia had broken faith by mot detaining the vessels mvolved in the nflain ‘WAR PANIC s]-:xm-;s EDITORS. On. top of this.came -wild reports of tremendous activity at.Gibraltar. Hour by hour the news from Gibraltar be- came mare serious, until at last_the cli- max was reached with the announce- ment that the British fleet had.cleared. for action. Some..even said that the fleet had .sailed to meet Rojestvensky’s. squadron. - In huge type the papers made’ thé parallel statements: “The Russidn ¥leet Has Sailed,” “The Bru- ish Fleet Has Cleared for Action.” No newspaper and no person seemed able to explain these movements. The reassuring information from ‘the United States that the salling of the Baltie squadron from Vigo was - with' ,the knowledge of and agreeable “to the British Government was not even te ed at by the papers here.’ The {mwa from Gibraltar became more and .more alarmist and finally the Foreign Office was overrun by re- porters, some- of whom brought the rumor that Admiral Beresford had giready sunk.the remnant of Admiral Rojestvensky’s fleet. Embassador Benckendorff at that moment was quietly discussing with Forelgn Min- ister Lansdowne the personnel of the international commission, but it was popularly rumored that he was receiv~ ing an ultimatum. IN PEACEFUL COUNCIL. Premier Balfour, Admiral Sir John Fisher, commander in chief at Ports- mouth; Lord Selborne, First Lord of the Admiralty, and Prince Louis of Battenberg, director of naval intelli- gence, were all in conference, and it was openly hinted that they were plan- ning the first stroke of war. As a mat- ter.of fact they, like Lord Lansdowne, were engaged in considering names that had been suggested for the inter- national commission. When all London was in -this state of mind and while anybody who might be supposed to know anything was con- stantly being asked “Has war been de- clared?” the Foreign Office decided to adopt a course most unusual for it and the saw. Laughingly she complied with | in order to allay the public sentiment his request, then stood about for a few | gave out to the press the following minutes chaffing her cousin and lover. ‘With a'merry laugh upon her lips she started to leave, unconsciously walking in_the direction in which the tree had already started to fall. She did not hear the shout of warning uttered by her flance. It was drowned in sound made by the forest giant as it ull and crushed her to the ground, and to the statement: < “Before the Russian fleét left Vigo instructions were given to the Rus- sian admiral with the view to prevent- ing injury or incomvenience to neutral shipping during the passage of the Russian fleet to the Far East. “In compliance with Russia’s agree- ment four Russian officers have been lover was left the heartbreaking task mt behind at Vigo. of -taking from the beneath the héavy trunk and blood-stained branches the form of his beloved. mmmwmumumu-du— Continued on Page & Column &