The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 7, 1904, Page 1

THE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Francisco for thirty hours ending midnight, Novem- ber 7 n Franciseo and vicinity—Clouly Monday, probably rain; fresh southeast wind A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. —_— ALCAZAR—"Prince Karl.” CALIFORNIA—“Sweet Clover.” CENTRAL—"Her Marriags Vow." COLUMBIA—"The County Chairman.' CHUTES—Vaudeville. FISCHER'S—Vaudeville. GRAND—* “Pretty Peggy.” n American Cltizen.” VOLUME XCVI— 160. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. AOOSEVELT IGNORES PARKER'S BAODKLYN aPEECH The final word in the passage between the rival candidates for the Presi.dency has been spoken. President Roosevelt will ignore Judge Parker’s reply to the sta‘tement is- sued from the White House denouncing the Democratic nominee for waging a campaign of slander and falsehood. appointed leading Democrats. Judge Parker’s utter failure to substantiate his charges has dis- s Failure of Esopus Nominee To Substantiate His Charge Discourages the Democracy His the Only Reputa-| tion Damaged. —_————— SLANDER REACTS UPON HILL-BELMONT RING —— Dispatch to The Call. Special BARTON, WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—Presi- nder to Judge Parker's Brooklyn speech r his friends think that any reply hat his own statement of Friday » offer proof substantiating and, since Judge Parker did t is expected. to the statement issued by ht, to the effect that the Republi- Committes £ nd. Whatever is said in answer -to this is nal headauarters in New York. T Pres was not giv much attention to the Democratic ges b but spent th ntire eve ith his family and received ot at his ¢ to-night, and it retired at 9 o'clock o meke a reply to Judge Parker, was an- . is Brooklyn speech. He waited hes giving the substance of what red by Secreta Loeb that the it was accepted that the personal can and Democratic candidates' for the presi- that nothing further would be forthcoming from and distinct feeling of disappointment among ‘Washington e final outcome of the passage at arms between Mr. Roose- They do not attempt to conceal their feeling that t of it verv much damaged, because he had no proofs eech simply reiterated his first charges. ADDS ZEST TO LAST HOURS OF —_—— Partisan Views of the Rival Candi- dates’ Passage at Arms. Special Dispatch to The Call views with men prominent in politics show Roosevelt and Judge Parker in the closing s struck fire in both great parties and brought . th heartier zest than was dreamed of in the aigr ge » hed and rebuked by leading Republicans for g that Roosevelt has been capable of acts which would render s to hold the high office of President of the United t oosevelt is ridiculed by leading Democrats for making ker, conspicuous for its display of anger and failure trusts have contributed to the Republican campaign Judge Parker's insinuating charge that Presi- spired with Cortelyou in order to:squeeze money monstrous. If anything is firmly established in the people it is that Roosevelt's character is invul- fair-minded men will resent it monstrous that h thewise ) ve voted for Parker. he claws of the management he & paign have come out from under the judicial ermine and . d with that kind of tactics. The President's answer vocal APy and « ctly met the charge. said The only thing peculiar about Judge Par- as so tardily taken. The only peculiarity of tion was that he so promptly appreciated and, ed the trusts in his own behalf. The only effect of is to convince voters that Parker detests such do what he can to stop trust rule, but that the good taste to be angry when exposed in this DeWitt w Roosevelt's 1 ve be saying will eEs > ‘denying it, to get the benefit of it.” r “The President has not denied that contributions o have been made to the Republican campaign fund. As t by Judge Parker, such contributions are, in fact, contributions ders, made without their knowledge or consent and in violation dge Parker declares that, in the event of his election, he will € power that legally and constitutionally inheres to the great resident to check this evil, We have no such promise from ev M. Depew said “The tilt between Judge Parker sevelt will not change ten votes in the country. It came ampaign, viewed purely as a political bomb. The people's oady de up. Even if there were those who may have 3 bout President Roosevelt's position with the trusts, the es t rous and emphatic denial has fixed that matter straight. finish of the campaign was unigue. I have been in campaigns and I have never known one candidate to ding office, of acts which would, if the accusation were personally unfit for high office. On the other hand, I have man holding the office of President to come right out in all another candidate a liar. But that's Roosevelt’s way and e like it. T read Roosevelt's retort yesterday in several speeches nd it was cheered loudly everywhere.” ntia "R — CORTELYOU'S FINAL WORD Claims Three Hundred and Fourteen Electoral Votes for ROOSEVelt. NEW YORK, Nov. 6—George B.|will carry every Northern State, with chairman of the Republican | the possible exception of Maryland and Committee, made a brief | Nevada, and will not have less than 314 to-night, reiterating his {of the 476 votes in the electoral col- | lege.” | There was no extreme anxiety about political headquarters to-day, but the managers were alert and watching the close of the campaign with great in- terest. The Democratic National Com- mittee issued a statement claiming with confidence the election of Judge t of the previous night on the t of the election. He-said: “As a final forecast, I see no reason 1o change my previous statement and 1 adhere to that after receiving full re- ports from all over the United States in the past forty-eight hours. 1 am satisfied that the Republican candi- dates for President and Vice President Continued on Page 2, Column 1., CAMPAIGN| USES DRUGS AN GAN TO END LIFE | Oregonfict-o—r Makes, Flahorate Plans for Death. Morphine, Chloroform and| Carbon Monoxide Give | Invalid Reliel ; | Physician Bids Wife Farewell, Goes| | to His Room and Calmly Car- | ries Out His Scheme. ‘ Special Dispatch to The Call ‘ LOS ANGELES, Nov. 6.—Dr. Edward | | Thomas Gagen, for years a prominent physiclan of Baker City, Ore., commit- ted suicide by the most elaborately planned process ever recorded in this | city a week ago. He used gas, chloro- | form and morphine together to. make | sure of death. Professional c¢ourtesy due to one physician from anéther and the tearful pleadings of the heart-| broken widow are the reasons now given by the Coroner for keeping the matter secret. The facts came to light to-day. To-morrow the widow will leave for Baker City, taking with her a | { little box containing her husband’s| ashes. Dr. and Mrs. Gagen came to Los An- geles a month ago from Oregon for the former’s health and secured rooms | at outh Hope street. The doctor was afflicted with an incurable disease rt and although he knew that were numbered he gave no of ending his life. A week ago yesterday, accompanied by their landlady, the doctor and his wife went to a Turkish bath establish- | ment intending to remain all night. At | the entrance to the ladies’ department | he bade his wife good-night, saying he would call for her in the morning. The next morning when the women sent word by an attendant that they were waiting for the doctor they were in- | formed that he had left the place im- mediately after they had entered the | female department. Hurrying home they found the house filled with illuminating gas. It was al- most impossible for them to remain in | the hallway, but divining what had happened Mrs. Gagen, despite the gas, rushed to her husbands room. She found him upon the fioor near the bed. Across his mouth was a towel, on which a pint of chloroform had been | | poured. A hypodermic syringe was near | his hand, and every burner of a gas stove in the room was turned on. Notes left by the physician told of his | deliberate preparations for death. He | { wrote that in order to remove the pos- | | sibility of failure he intended to adopt | | three certain methods of ending his life. When found he was not quite dead, but | died an hour later at the hospital to which he was hurriedly removed. Dr. Gagen was 46 years of age and is | said to have been a man of considerable | wealth. The husband of the woman at whose house the couple were rooming committed suicide two years ago in the same room in an almost identical man- ner, except that he did not use chloro- form. —_——— OPERATIO PERFORMED ON MRS. JOHN P. DREXEL Dr. Bull Goes to Newport to Attend the Philadelphia Society Woman. NEWPORT, R. I, Nov. 6.—The condition of Mrs. John P. Drexel of Philadelphia, who is ill at her summer residence here, is said to be favorable to-night. The nature of her illness is not known except by members of her family and a few intimate friends. It was not known that Mrs. Drexel's condition was serloys until to-night, when Dr. William 'T. Bull, the New York surgeon, arrived and performed an operation on her. Immediately | after the operation Dr. Bull left for | New York. i Y BEQUEATHS HER ENTIRE FORTUNE TO HER COACHMAN Mrs. Eleanor Chambers Handsomely Remembers Man Who Came to Her as a Tramp. INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 6.—The will of Mrs. Eleanor Chambers, the daugh- ter of the late General Thomas A. Morris, was received here to-day from California, and it was discovered that she had left her fortune of $150,000 to Harry Graves, her coachman,” who came to her home as a tramp. Mrs. Chambers lived in Indianapolis most of her life. Her father left her a large fortune. When she went to California to live she took her coach- man with her. | TWO LIVES END WiTH OUTLAWS Notorious Desperado Lipton Day Dies Fighting. His Gorpse_I_s.-flumd Near Those of Oificers Who Tracked Him. Eight Killings Charged to Kentucky Cut-Throat Only Twenty- Four Years 0Old. et Special Dispatch to The Call OWINGSVILLE, Ky., Nov. 6.—After a man hunt extending over the greater | part of the Menifee County mountains, two officers whose names have not yet been learned entrapped Lipten Day, one of the most desperate outlaws in the Mentucky pountains, and a battle Wwith rifles took place.” Day killed the two officers, but lost his own life in the fight. The battle occurred on Indian Creek, in Menifee County. The officers had been chasing Day, and from the ap- pearance of the men’s bodles when found the three evidently had fallen at almost the same moment. Their weap- | ons were lying near them. Day had long terrorized that section of the mountains. A reward of $800 was offered for his capture for the killing of Howard Wilson, United States Mar- | shal, three years ago. The battle in which Wilson was killed took place in August, 1901. . Day was wanted for making moonshine whisky, and Wilson, with a posse of officer: went to Menifee County after him. Day was with several companions when found and was ordered to surrender. He and his companions opened fire on the officers. Howard Wilson and one of Day’s companions were killed, and Wil- liam Stamper, a member of Wilson's posse, shot Day five times, badly wounding him. Day was placed in jail at French- burg, from which he was later rescued by his followers. Day was a fugitive and lived in a cabin between two high mountains. He maintained a line of guards for several miles from his moun- tain retreat, who kept strangers from approaching him. He wore a coat of mall under his clothing to prevent as- sassination. Although only 24 years old, he had killed eight men. SCHOOL, PIPILS 1000 POLITICS Chicago Instructors Will Give Practical Course in Methods of Government R RS Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Nov. 6.—Miniature -city councils, upon which the public search- light may be turned at any time; min- fature legislatures, minus the shadow of the octopus, and near-real con- gresses, in which national policy will be molded without regard to party pre- judices, are to be organized in the Chi- cago public schools. In addition “good government"” and “‘improvement” clubs will be formed. All of these departures from tradl- tional methods are advocated by Su- perintendent Cooley as the most influ- ential means of teaching practical civics to high school students. City, county, State and national econ- : ventions will be held—unless the pupils decide to try the direct primary ex- periment—and nominations made for all offices in all branches of govern- ment. The platforms of the school par- ties then will be outlined. A corps of schoolyard “whitewings’ are also to be organized, with a view to teaching prospective voters a practical lesson in municipal cleanliness. ese organizations are “to serve as a me- dium of instructing students in a prac- tical way in the more important obli- gations which students owe to society and the rights and protection which they may demand of society." The action of Superintendent Cooley was taken as the result of recommen- dations made by the High School Prin- cipals’ Association. The committee in its report declarefl; ‘“The subject of civics is of sufficient importance to high school students to warrant its re- ceiving more attention than it now re- celves at the hands of teachers and principals.” HUSBAND MISSING LIKE A SOED ER PLOT, band’s brother last Wed- nesday. Saturday the Bowers brothers disap- ipeared and with them is | |missing $3000 in cash belonging to the estate of Mrs. Bowers and all of the woman’s personal property. The police be-1 lieve that a conspiracy existed to get possession of the woman’s money by fair means or foul. [ They liken the case to that of the conspiracy of| Leon Soeder, who killed {his brother-in-law. ‘ - — Eleven years ago Harley Bowers of Chicago married Miss Butts of Carbon- dale, 111, and last Saturday afternoon, two days after the arrival of the couple in San Francisco from the Middle West, the man suddenly disappeared, taking with him all of the family coin and personal property, leaving his wife penniless and sick in a community of strangers. This is the brief intro- duetion to a story that contains much of pathos and mystery. The deserted woman furnishes the pathos, the police detectives supply the mystery. Wednesday morning Harley Bowers and his wife reached this city on the Central Overland train. Accompanying the pair was Robert Bowers, a brother the trip of the brothers was ostensibly to acquire some sort of business on the coast, where they had decided to tane up their residence. Before leaving Chi- | woman, drew from the business of her brother, William A. Butts, of Carbon- | dale $3600, with which she intended to assist her husband in the purchase of uch business as he might see fit to en- te: Saturday morning Bowers had his wife give him all the money that was left—$3000—saying that he was going to place it in a savings bank. But Bowers did not stop at the ap- propriating of the $3000. He took all of Mrs. Bowers' dresses, her jewelry, her Iittle trinkets, such as women treasure —her manicure sets, silverware—in short, everything that had a commer- cial value, leaving on the floor of their rooming place a few soiled pieces or linen after he had separated his own apparel from the family. clothes bag. Sick and despondent, the poér woman is cared for by Mrs. Gunn, the landlady of a flat at 176 Fell street, where the Bowerses had come to live. Even the small change that was in the sick wo- man's purse was taken. HVIDENCE OF CONSPIRACY. In these facts the Police Department sees evidence of a conspiracy that De- tective Coleman thinks originated in Chicago, where, according to his theory, the brothers, seeing that they could not get possession of the money Mrs. Bowers held in trust, decided to lure the woman to Califor- nia and here compel her to give it them either by peaceful or foul means. Coleman holds that it is another Soe- der case, but this theory is not very well borne out by statements made by Mrs. Bowers. Nor is there other than the testimony of the landlord and land- lady at 216 Kearny street, where the Bowerses roomed during the first two days spent in this city, to substantiate the story that Harley and Robert Bow- ers fled with all of the wife’s property. However, the nolice are inclined to place confidence in their deductions and have discovered evidence that in a measure bears them out. “When my husband, his brother and myself arrived in San Francisco,” said Mrs. Bowers yesterday, “we rented a room at 2156 Kearny street: 1 did not like the locality and we decided to move. “Saturday morning my husband said he had found a nice room in a private family at 176 Fell street and 1 accom- panied him and Robert to this place. Robert waited at the corner while Harley and I looked at the quarters. They suited us and we said that we would take them. Harley paid only $1 50—for one night—saying to the landlady that he would settle later as he had not the change, or some such | excuse. He then told me that as I j was not feeling strong I had better { remain where \I was until he could move our trunks from 215 Kearny. 1 agreed to do so. ““Harley then joined his brother and they must have gone to the Kearny street place direct. In the forenoon I gave $3000 to Harley to either place in a bank or keep in safety on his person. I warned him to be careful with the money. He said he bought a coin belt and that he would carry the money in it if he did not bank ft. HUSBAND DISAPPEARS. “I waited for the return of my hus- band and his brother until late in the afternoon, and when they did not come back I went to the Kearny street lodg- Continued on Page 3, Col. 8. of the woman’s husband. The object of | cago Mrs. Bowers, who at the time of | her marriage was considered a wealthy | g e | 3 ‘ RS. HARLEY|| BOWERS of] | Chicago came here with her husband and her hus- - WITH FORTUNE. i MRS. HARLEY BOWERS LEFT ALONE AMONG ’ STRANGERS, ILL AND WHOLLY DESTITUTE SAY DETECTIVES ———— ILLINOIS WOMAN, A RECENT ARRIVAL IN DAY WAS ROBBED BY HER HUSBAND AND HIS BROTHER OF AND HER CLOTHES AND LEFT SICK AND DESTITUTE. THIS CITY, WHO ON_SATUR- 3000 BATTLESH MAINE WILL BE RAISED Famous Hulk to Be Shown at Coney Island. e Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—For $5000 the United States Battleship Maine Salvage Company of this city has bought from the Cuban Government the wreck of the ill-fated' battleship Maine in Ha- vana harbor. A coffer dam will be built around the hulk and it will be raised. Such of the seventy-four bodies of American sail- ors not recovered will be removed and buried with due honors in the United States if the Navy Department desires to take charge of them, or in Havana if the Washington Government makes no provision. The salvage company will make arrangements for the sale of the machinery and armor of the famous old ship. The people of Havana will be allowed to visit the hulk upon payment of a small fee. It is planned, after Cuban curiosity is satisfied, to put a new bot- tom on the ship and tow it to Luna Park, Coney Island. There it will be exhibited as a curiosity. NEGROES ORDERED FROM A TOWN IN COLORADO Killing of an Officer by Two Blacks Results in Summary Ac- | tion by Whites. DENVER, Nov. 6.—The killing in cold blood of Marshal Hiram Bates of Coal Creek, a coal mining town in Fremont County., by two negroes, Grant and Wenley Thompson, whom lhe was trying to arrest for causing a disturbance, has caused the white res- idents to issue a warning to the ne- gro population to leave the camp. On hearing of the decision of the whites many of the negro residents left the town. If they insist on remaining it is feared bloodshed will result. The whites are greatly incensed against the negroes, to whom they charge numerous crimes committed since the blacks were imported into the camp to take the places of strik- ers about a year ago. SOLSHEAT IS PURELY ELECTRICAL Thus Asserts the In- ventor of the Sun Motor. Special Dispatch to The Call. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 6.—Professor Hima- laya, the Portuguese priest, who invent- ed the sun motor, has issued a bulletin giving the resuits of his experiments with the machine at the World's Fair. The most important of these is the dis- covery, the inventor says he made, that the heat of the sun is purely electrical. Professor Himalaya has succeeded in finding the source of this energy, and he has settled scientifically the possi- bility of utilizing in future this and some other primitive and perpetual forces of nature. The sun motor on account of its prin- ciple, besides its important scientific properties, seems to be economically applicable for redicing aluminum and for producing new chemical compounds, especially a fertilizer of great value. Its value to science cannot be overesti- mated. —_———— MINISTRY VIOLENTLY DENOUNCED IN FRANCE Nationalist Journals Demand Its Res- ignation as Result of the Andre Debate. . PARIS, Nov. 6.—The narrow es- cape of the Government from defeat in the Andre debate has caused 3 great outcry on the part of the na- tionalist journals to the effect that the ministry must resign. The Press, the nationalist organ, publishes an inter- view with M. Clagney, the president of the nationalist group, violently de- nouncing the ministry. The journal hazards the suggestion that a dissolution of the ministry will be proposed on Monday. Well inform- ed persons, however, consider that the Government has passed through this important crisis and is now stronger than heretofore. —_—— New Postmaster Appointed. WASHINGTON, Nov. §.—C. L. Dorn has been appointed postmaster of Moor Park, Ventura County, Cal