The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 12, 1904, Page 1

ber 12 Satrrley; | THE WEATHER Forecast made at Sen Franeisco for | thirty hours ending midnight, Novem- | fresh southeast winds. 4 victnity—Cloudy XCVI—NO. 165. CENTRAL—“Her Marriage Vow.™ COLUMBIA—*The County Chairman." CHUTES —Vardeville FISCHER'S— Vaudeville GRAND—“Pretty Peggy.” MAJESTIC— Az American Citizen.” ORPHBUM —Vaudeville. TIVOLI—""The Messenger Boy." Matinees at all theaters to-day. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GREAT LEAP 0F PACIFIC MAIL STOCK Shoots Skyward as | Result of Offer by Lawson, MRS PRI, kes Sensational Advance: of Seven Points in Singie Day. | | | Wall Street Believes There Is No Fight Control, but an Organized Speculative Schems vour eye Lawson's cir- as it will be an cial legerde- performed is the of $30 into $190| y watched, um- | 1l see just| 4 | | Lawson and his s, state that he has not already comment — ARMY INIFORMS T0 BE CHANGED. | were joined in the attack by Orders Are Issued Carrying| Into Effect Recommenda-| tions of the General Staff| WASHINGTON ov. 1L—By direc- of the Secretary of War orders | issued carrying into effect, t recommendatio of the general #ta® making changes in the uniforms of the army. The provision for sub- ornaments the let-| instead of the coat of ect June 1, 1905. As| icles of the new uni- will not be is-| onding articles of have been ex- ve been . 11 resy shall rescribed is intended for the garrison, with the but the campaign hat ear on certain occa- g of the white uni- rely optional with | listed men. En- den to have thelr| 1 the cold weather, Critto, i | alligator in the menagerie in Central | Park, to-day killed three other saurians | aerial craft. = YSTERY STILL SURROUNDS THE AUBURN TRAGEDY i ! Motive for Crime Lacking ‘Bullet Wound Is Found n | | Julius Weber's Body. Special Dispatch to The Call ov. 1L—Mystery still enshrouds the Weber case. The au- ation of the body of Julius We- which was found this morning. A bullet wound was in his breast sim- to the ones found in the breasts ! the of the house. The other bodies werel found in the front part of the house. |/ Adolph Weber, the only member of | ily alive, was downtown at the | time the fire was discovered. He had | purchased a pair of trousers at Cohen’s store, donned them and was doing | me oiher errands when the fire was | Mrs. Weber and her daughter and vered. When he reached the| } death. A 22-caliber rifle ng house he threw his old trou- - beside Weber. The bullets ' s which were wrapped up, through b m the bodies of Mrs. Weber & Window to break it. His hand was | ket Twaee caifber. So badly cut by the glass and later he sber. show any WaS_Overcome and taken to town, -y idence to = spent the night with friends. | the crime. v a heartrending were taken Yomen sight Weber was badly burned the bodies we at the time rdies were blaz pearances woul er had set fire n dragged them e was no odor of f the victims and the ey a not on the removal. The b to 1 locked to be an extremely lovable man at Fred Rechen- Adolph Weber is a very quiet 0’c and he was in| youth He is a great reader and 800 rite. Little Frances Snowden | thinker, and devotes considerable time at the Weber home at 6:30. The | to chess and the study of palmistry. | amily was at the supper table His culiar actions te-day are not The body of J r ar the s Weber was found bathroom in the rear' BATTLE ENDS | IN DEATH OF THE SAURIANS |Central Park Alli-|Wili gator Kills His { . | Companions. | Bl g | The Call Special Dispa: NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—Irritated by the largest after a long battle. The keepers threw a large piece of beef toward Critto to-day, but he did not show any signs of hunger. Then| an alligator almost as large as Critto ate part of the beef and was nibbling at it when two of his companions joined in the feast. Critto thereupon became angered and rushed toward the intruders. Before the first one at- tacked had an opportunity to retreat it was seized in the strong jaws of Crit- to and killed after a short struggle. The others did not retreat and the maddened alligator turned on them Dealing one 2 heavy blow with his tail, he attacked the other with his teeth Both alligators then assailed with their teeth and tails and itto they others. Strong and muscular, the two saurians against whom the attack of Critto was mainly directed, used their teeth and | tafls with such effect that he was re-| pulsed several times, but Critto finally | killed his enemies and feasted on the | | remainder of the piece of beef. upper part of the before the fire he said his father was nother was ned reading in the kitchen, his mother was A singular fact was t getting the baby to sieep and his sis- | action to recover $500,000 damages from | ber was interviewed by and District Attorney 3 s this morning. He did not | ivance any theory and said he did not of anv enemies that the family and that he did not think rob- been the motive. had, bery could have When he left the house about one hour | as playing at the piano. This lat- has been verified by neigh- who heard the piane. ung Weber also stated during the 1 father had a fierce | is well known in receives but little at- as Weber sen known dered unreasonable because of his peculiar temperament MRS. VLASTO DECIDES 10 DROP ACTION ot Press Suit Against Clark’s Daughter. ——es Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—Fearful that her suits at law might interfere with her son’s business career, the wife of Solon J. Vlasto has discontifiued an | Mrs. Everett M. Culvert, daughter of Senator William A. Clark, and another for separation from Vlasto. It was said to-day that no payment of any kind was made to Mrs. Vlasto by Mrs. Culver for the discontinuance of that | suit. { Mrs. Vlasto has been spending most; of her home in Wollaston, Mass., since | the two suits were instituted, but she is now in this city living with her son. She is an English woman of much re- finement. Her husband is a Greek. Mrs. Culver sued her husband, Dr. Everett M. Culver, her divorce, the referee’s report being confirmed last December. Mrs. Viasto was named in the complaint. —_———— Regiment Reaches Fort Spelling. ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 11.—The Twenty-eighth Infantry reached Fort Sneiling this afternoon. The regi- ment had been encamped at the Pre- sidio, San Francisco, since early last spring. —_— AERONAUTS RECEIVE THE MESSAGES Test of ST. LOUIS, Nov. 11.—As a result of [ a scientific experimental balloon ascen- sion made to-day from the aeronautic concourse on the World's Fair grounds, the practicability and accuracy with | which wireless messages could be re-| ceived both as to altitude and distance werg satisfactorily tested. Morg than twenty messages were transmitted from he World’s Fair wireless tower and received by the operator in the | Successful | ney through the air, one hour and a Wireless Telegraphy Paul Knabenschue of Toledo, accom- panied by the operator, A. W. Me- Queen of Guthrie, O. T., and W. S. Foreman of St. Louls, made the ascen- sion. After making a successful jour- half in duration, Aeronaut Knaben- schue made a safe landing four miles | southwest of the concourse. The bal- | loon was carried back in a wagon to | the aerodrome. The highest point of altitude reached | Miller, OPEN BANK 10 FLERCE FARMERS Coachella Growers Are the Dupes of a Clever Pair. Bodenhamer and Miller Are Shown Up as Team of Swindlers. Recent Developments Reveal How| Ranchers of Valley Were Robbed of Hard-Earned Money. Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELE Nov. 11. — Six months ago when the most promising cantaloupe season ever known was opening on the frrigated southwest- ern spur of the Colorado desert, Paul’ Bodenhamer and F. S. Miller ap- peared in the thriving new town of Coachella. Without a cent of capital, as it now develops, they established the Coachella Valley Bank. To-day Bodenhamer, who became president jof the institution,®is enjoying liberty under bonds; Miller, the erstwhile cashier, is a fugitive from justice, supposedly in the East. The bank is wrecked and the people of the val- lheydlose practically all the money they ad. Bodenhamer and Miller, it now trans- , tried to borrow money to stari the ban! Failing in this, one of them resorted to the trick of forwarding his check to a friend or accomplice in Riv- | erside and having it cashed with the understanding that it was not to be presented for payment for a week. A few piles of glittering gold, the pro- ceeds from this trick, were displayed on the bank tables, and Bodenhamer and Miller, ensconced In an unpaid- for new brick puilding, were ready for business. Such an institution was needed, and the patronage wa# good. Trainload after trainluad’ of ‘melons moved sut and the goldem returns flowed in to the growers, who cleaned up over $150 - 080. Confidingly they deposited in this new bank. Even the Indians on a nearby reservation who had flourished as cantaloupe growers were roped in as depositors. The check in Riverside was redeemed with the deposits of the bank's first customers and apparently everything went swimmingly. The bank prosper- ed so that enlargement was talked of by its management. When the last quarterly report was due Bodenhamer and Miller worked late one Friday night; the whole town knew, while it watched the glimmer of their oil lamp, that its financial wardens were terrib- ly busy making up a great balance. Saturday afternoon Bodenhamer and jaded from their hard work, strolled to the railway station. They were going out of town to rest over Sunday, they told their friends. Trains east and west were due to pass at the same hour. It was noticed that Miller went east and Bodenhamer west. Mon- day the bank did not open. It was found, too, that the fashionable house- keeper of its two managers had de- parted. Bodenhamer was arrested trying to get out of the country, but Miller was not caught. The melon growers have receipts for their money. Millor is supposed to have the cash. Not so much as a pair of cast off trousers Gid the bankers leave in Coachella. The pile of bricks that composed the tank building is for sale and tha ua- paid man who made the bricks finds he must pay the bank’s receiver §500 for an overdraft. Before trying to get away Boden- hamer had gone to 8an Bernardino znd flled a schedule” in bankruptey. The document was duly recorded and it réad in the papers as a very re- spectable bankruptcy—not more than a few hundred dollars shy. Only the good folk in the canteloupe town knew that the bankrupt's liabil- ties represent their hard earned money, while his assets are mostly shares in a projected ice plant, patd for by a check on his own bogus bank. It is said the law cannot touch the bankruptcy banker. No magnate of frenzied finance could have been more careful in keeping on the right side of the legal fence. Bodenhamer is to appear in San Bernardino for examination on an em- bezzlement charge next Friday. He charges all the trouble to Miller. A special dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio, giving Miller's record says: “F. S. Miller, the cashier of the de- funct ‘Hot Air’ bank at Coachella, has a bad financial record here. He was an officer of two institutions that went to pieces In Cleveland, the Superior Street Savings Bank and the Northern Ohio Bullding and Loan Company. DENVARK N LINE FOR PEACE Invitation to Con- : ference. E S Also Joins With the United States for Treaty of Arbitration. Pact to Follow /Along General Scheme of That Signed With France and Other Countries. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 11. — The Danish Government will accent Pr: | dent Roosevelt's invitation to par | cipate in a second peace conference. The Government considers that it is particularly desirable that a clearer international agreement be formed re. garding neutrality and contraband | regulations. Negotiations for a treaty | of arbitration between the United | {States and Denmark have been | | opened. The Danish Government, it | | is declared, is glad of the opportunity | to enter into such a treaty. ! WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—Great | Britain and Mexico already have in- dicated their willingness to participate | in another peace conference so that | the announcement of Denmark's in- | tention to do so will make three na- | tions enrolled in favor of President | Roosevelt's proposal. Mexico and ed only in prineiple, so that the time | for another conference remains in- | definite. | The arbitration treaty with Den- mark will follow the lines of that al- | ready signed with France and other | countries. A similar treaty negotiated with Switzerland awaits the signature of the contracting parties. Bl FIRY FORCED 10 THE WALL Boston House Caught by the Rising Market, BOSTON, Nov. 11.—The pronounced rise in the stock market was responsi- ble to-day for the suspernsion of the Federal Stock and Grain Company of this city, ore of the largest concerns in the country. The company had four offices in Boston and fifty or more in other citles. Treasurer D. E. Murray states that the concern has lost $1,000 - 000 in the last six months and adds that the claims against it do not ex- | ceed $150,000. While most of the branch offices are in New England, the concern had agen- cies in Montreal, Denver and several other cities. : Several branches were closed shortly after the announcement of the sus- pension and in several places attach- ments have been filed against funds standing in the banks to the credit of the concern. The company is said to have cleared $2,000,000 last year. Of late, however, steady losses have been sustained, the officials assert. Treas- urer Murray says: “There have been no misrepresenta- tions by the officers of this concern. Every customer has fully understood that it is what is commonly known as a bucket shop. It is a New York cor- poration and was started In 1903. J. C. Burger of Denver is president. It | has about fifty private wire connee- tions, the greater part of them being, in New England. It was capitalized for $200,000 and during the last six| months we have lost about $1,000,000. I am about the only Boston man in the firm. ““The claims against the company will not amount to more than $150,000 if as- signment is made, and I am going to i Accepts Roosevelt’s; Great Britain, however, have aceept- | | MRS. CLEVELAND PERFORMS NOTABLE CEREMONY B e ; LAYS CORNERSTONE OF SCHOOL BUILDING . Pt = —p e WIFE OF FORMER PRESID ING THE CORNERSTONE OF THE FOR GIRLS BEING ERECTED IN N ENT WHO PERFORMED THE ¢ EMONY OF LAY- | NEW HEBREW NICAL SCHOOL | EW YORK CITY — NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—Mrs. Grover | leat & Cleveland to-day performed the | mony of laying the cornerstone of the | new building of the Hebrew Technical | | School for Girls, now being erected in | this city. Former President Cleveland acted as presiding officer of the exer- cises and delivered an address. | In the course of his address Cleveland said: altogether a fanciful oe pessi- tion that teaches many of our patri- otic and sincere citizens to lament the growth among us of materialism. OQur peopie ars undoubtedly becoming more and more infected with a feverish desire to accumulate Wwealth and to succeed In undertakings far removed from philanthropic intentions. Thoughtful men must also regretfully con- cede that even the best and highest civiliza- ticn, movements called charitable and beevo- lent. are to cloale self-ex- plotiation and purse-proud vanity, or are om foot to satisty the whim and caprice of the | s It s & matter of common | 00, that projects, really bemevo cere- | : orphan girls and boys cared for aad sheitered. ¢ genuine benevolence a different o the establishment of farther than opportunity for would otherwise I ing of an unimvit are taught remunera teachings and influe: form the characters of those who in the fu- ture as wives and mothers will fix the quaiity | of many of the homes of our land and so mold the thoughts and inclinations of the children in these homes as to affect our citizenship and our country’s zesl for gemerations to come. YOUNG BARONESS VON STEEG DEAD Passes Away in a New York Tenement House. Spectal Dispateh to The Cail. NEW YORK, Nov. 11.—Friends of the young Baroness von Steeg, born Countess di Carignana, a descendant| of the royal families of both France 2na Italy, mistress of seven languages | and a musician of rare ability, learn- | ed to-day that her pitiful struggle | against poverty in a strange land hnd‘ been ended by death in a New York| tenement in the lower East Side, but; just where they could not ascertain. A little less than a year ago, when | NEW BORN BABY WEIGHS A POUND _ Doctors Say the Infant Is Smallest in the World. —_— Spectat Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, Nov. 1L.—"Tiny Tim "~ eight inches long. with an inch waist measure and twelve ounces in weight is declared by physicians to be the smallest baby in the world. Ha has been transferred from his improvised incubator, consisting of a basket of cotton, to a real Incubator. His ‘meals” consist of four drops of lukewarm water. sterilized, and these he takes greedily. Mrs. Dora Falk. mother of the in- fant, was slowly improving to-day. In i the Baroness and her husband were; trying to save her life Thursday Dr. hiding their poverty and their noble| Glass was compelled to give her all his attentlon. When he turned to the | was estimated at about Poor investors and depositors lost two miles. i heavily by these failures and there was try to prevent that by securing some | money with which to carry on the bu Ttis decoration re-| ernments shall and men while on States troops, the' ng sueh wearing while on | Constunt Worry as to the Probable r v-.v\v(«: uniform is pre- Punishment in Store for Him e [ 'n’i States and cot- Proves Fatal. gl for tropical 2 lppgstn: - tis s NEW YORK Nov. IL—Frederick A REVISION ‘Ewe. a young tradesman who nly—a)‘s OF PHIL E had borne a good reputation until he LIPPINE TARIFF| [, orrested ten days ago on charges | made by two little girls, died in a cell in the Jersey City Jail to-day. It is Make Desirable Changes. believed that his death was due to WASHINGTON. Nov. 11.—Presj- ! [right and constant worry as to what Roosevelt will recomimend to] f2t¢ had in store for him. ess that authority be given the| EWe Was one of four Hudson county ppine Commission to revise the | men arrested on six charges preferred t now in force in these islands. | by little girls, and his death adds an- decision was the principal and | other dramatic link to the cases which 2bout the only accomplishment of the | excited Hudson county. Already many Cabinet session to-da The matter | reputations in Jersey City and Ho- was brought up by Secretary Taft and | boken have been shattered and two of bis recommendation in the matter | the accused bave tried to commit sui- was approved, cde PRISONER AWAITING TRIAL DIFS SUDDENLY FROM FEAR Soers United FAVORS President Will Recommend € to Authorize the Commission to — H WAYWARD GIRL IS GLAD | TO REACH HOME Acm’, San Bernardino Miss With Fondness for Travel Declares She Has Had Enough. SAN BERNARDINO, Nov. 11.— Emma Worthoff, a wayward girl of this city, is again safe at home. She was found in Los Angeles this after- noon just as she was about to entepr a carriage with a young man by her | father and a deputy sheriff from this | city who had gone to look for her. !The girl ran_up to her father and { threw her arms about his neck, kissed | him tenderly and declared that she had had enough of travel. She had | been visiting girl friends in Los An- geles, she said. Emma Worthoff disappeared from her home a few days ago. She slipped out of a window late at night and took a Santa Fe train for Los Angeles. hot indignation against Miller and the other officers, one of whom subsequent- ly committed suicide. Although the two concerns were ‘rotten’ from end; to end the schemers who worked them kept shrewdly within the law and at- tempts to prosécute them criminally failed.” ———— TWENTY YEARS IN PRISON SENTENCE OF MURDERER LOS ANGELES, Nov. 11.—J. W. Heart was sentenced to serve twenty years in Folsom penitentiary to-day for the murder of Thomas Kearns. He was convicted of murder in the second degree after the jury had been out for twenty hours, ten of the jury- men standing for the death penalty. Kearns was a tenant of Heart and was moving from his quarters. Heart claimed Kearns owed him 50 cents, and when payment was refused he killed him. A lennu:g:l feature of the trial was the fact t a warrant was issued for the wife of the defend- ant for perjury, but she escaped to Aexico before it could be served. . iness. The claims are small, being di- vided among 3000 customers all over | { the country.” I ! i NEW MINISTER PLEASES } THE JEWS OF RUSSIA Sviatopolk-Mirsky Favors Equality for the Various Elements of the Empire. ST. PETERSBURG. Nov. 1L—The Russian Jews are greatly pleased with the reception accorded by Sviatopolk- Mirsky, Minister of the Interior, to a deputation of their co-religionists, on ! which occasion it was announced that | the ideal at which-he was aiming was the equality for all the elements of the population of the empire. Evidence also exists to show that it is the purpose of the Minister to re- verse the Von Plehwe policy regard- ing the Armenian Church property and the management of the Armenian school, which has again become inde- pendent, and it is believed that this {will be followed by the restoration of the church funds. | birth from their neighbors in a hum- | le apartment at Williamsburg. announcement of the birth of an heir to their titles brought them the rec-| ognition they shunned. The Baroness was the daughter of | Count @i Carignana, son of the Prince of that name in Italy. Her mother | was by right of birth the Princess de la Tour d’Auvergne. e el . POSTAL REVENUES SHOW BIG DEFICIT FOR YEAR Expenditures Found to Have Exceeded the Receipts by Over Eight Million Dollars. WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—The annu al report of the auditor for the Postof- fice Department shows that the fisca! business transacted through the postal and money order branches of the de- partment during the last year were: Revenues of the pcstal service, $143,- 582,624; expenditures of the postal ser- vice, $152,362,116; total amount of money orders issued. domestic $382,342.378, for- the orders paid, domestic eign $6.714,846. The deficit in the postal reyspues, therefore, was 38,579,492 child, to his surprise, it gave signs of life. By immersing it in hot water Dr. Glass succeeded in getting eight respirations a minute. By alternating hot and cold baths, he succeeded in getting sixteen respirations. ———— CHINA IS THREATENED WITH A BOXER UPRISING MILWAUKEE. Nov. 11.—An Even- ing Wisconsin special from Beloit, Wis., says: Sensational in the extreme are the reports sent from Peking by Charles F. Gammon of the American Bibls Society of another threatened Boxer uprising in China. Gammon says that a second Boxer outbreak is inevitabis and states in a letter to his father, E. M. Gammeon of this city. that United States Minister Conger is alive to the danger and has notified the Chinese officials that unless the movement i3 suppressed at once he will reques: United States troons to be sent to Pe- Kizg,