The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 2, 1904, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2. 19M4. IS NOT LEGAL Appellate Judges of the Su- preme Court of New York| Becomes Railroad Officia Give “Tmportant Decision UNION™ LOSES- ITS SUIT \greement Stipulating Who shall Be Employed Is Held | Contrary to Public Policy i o I Dec 1.—That the €h egal was decided to- 3 tices of the appellate di- = e Supreme Cc sitting in into between the s and Protec- Pressers’ -Local Workers was pro- not be- a from em- f the union d signed ame local, to be con- -Layers Quit Work. _On ac- from head- urs of work n divisjon, Cow Creek —— WOTHER'S MEETS SUCCESS Mayor of Pitts- h in South Pierre, brother 20,000 ce and said rom p- Portland; for the i -about will bring property he s now in other ed pver as almost SEEE U il ALTFORNIA'S NATIONAL BANKS ARE PROSPEROUS 7 With Comptroller of standing of the ath Insti ns ember Comp- a discounts; FIRM CLOSED Business end “in n. Rich- 4, " brokers, and issued no frastmhent ed by .this porated) e largest v New York -————— V Woman and Himself. D Mrs, Jennie Williams were me of the former an, who was a wounds in her was cut. ed the woman SRS R in Postal Service. N, Deec. 1.—John W, been appointed post- Ridge, Cal:- Additional rural free delivery, ty, is established, at ADVERTISEMENTS. (/ Safety " Razor N = | Price $§00° of new styles, in Box Writ- lly suitable ! ing Papers Don't Self-Filling pr Pen | X, akes an ap- useful present to Best and most made. Price, t pen orders promptly filled, AT MAN PITTS PITTS, The Stationer, MARKET ST. Opp. Piftn, TH " SAN FRANCISCO CUTLERY BLADE o i totiu] of - OF COAST MAIL SERVICE. | <+ | +- - | VETERAN SUBERINTENDENT OF PACIFIC DIVISIC OF UNITED STATES ATLWAY MAIL SERVICE, WHO RESIGNS TO ENTER SERVICE OF THE HARRIMAN LINES, AND HIS FORMER ASSISTANT, WHO HAS BEEN AP- POINTED TO SUGCEED HIM g - . , H. P. Thrall. who has been superin- 1tendent of the eighth or Pacific divi- sion of the United States railway mall service ‘for mopé than six vears, the territory incliding California, Alaska, Arizona. Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Ore- gon, Utah and Washingion, has r signed that position accept an ap- pointmert as manager of the mail ¢ purtment of the Harriman rallway lines. - A. H. Stephens, assistant in the rail- | way mat!l service to Thrall for four vears, has been-appointed to succeed Thrall in the railway maii service and ? { began his duties as superintendent yes- terday.-. This news is of interest to men in the postal service and to all who have to ‘deal with the. {nited States mails in-a vast territory. The eighth division ‘of the- U'nited States -service is- the largest -in tfe country under Federal administration. The railway district in which Thrall becomes manager for the Harriman lines is greater than s 1 of the Federal districts com- bined. 3 Thrall was first connected with the { United States railway mail in 1883, | when he went on the road as clerk. { He served on the road until 1891, when | he.was made postal inspector. He re- mained in that capacity until July, 18 and then was made superintendent of | the Pacific division of the railway mail service Stephens became a clerk in the rail- way malil service in 1893. Tn a little more than eleven years he has risen to tne position of the chief of the eighth | | or Pacific division. ‘He first ran as a | clerk on' the road between Ogden and | San Francisco, and remained on that | run until 1%98. In a train wreck on the Central Pacific line at Colfax, Placer County. he was nearly killed. When he resumed work Le was taken into the office of the railway mail service in this city one month after Thrall was made | the superintendent of the «division. | Since 189¢ he-has worked his way through all the various office branches of the service. Prior to entering the railwny mail service Stephens was a newspaper man, connected with papers in San Jose and San Francisco. the voungest railway mail division su- perintendent in the United States, be- ing but 28 years old. Included in the Pacific division of the railway mail service are 13,000 miles of raiflway lines over which the malils are carried in mail cars and 3000 miles on wwhich the service is conducted in bag- gage cars in closed pouches. The sea lines up and down the Pacific Coast of the United States and between the States and Alaska and Hawalii are meanaged by the superintendent of the Pacific division. To his care are also entrusted star postal routes that run under contracts. Many postal men yesterday extended their congratulations on his promotion to Superintendent Stephens. Thrall is | in Chicago, where he will be perma- nently stationed, that being the point from which he can most advantage- ously manage the entire postal area included in the Harriman territory. Thrall ie credited with having dou- bled the number of men employed in the Pacific division of the United States railway mail service during his com- paratively brief period of administra- tion, and the number of miles over which mails are carried has also been nearly doubled in the same time. He has been repeatedly complimented by his superior otficers in the postal service. His efficiency has long been recognized by the Southern Pacific pen- ple, who some months ago planned to ive him the position to which he has now been appointed. The =alary of the superintendent of the Pacific division of the railway mail is 38000 a year. The Harriman lines will give Thrall more than double that sum, and it is rumored that his salary will be $10,000 a year, with a long con- tract. i ll(mummmmt would be genius. SEE He is | CANNON BOOM SALUTE 10 DIAZ [For the Seventh Time Aged President of the Republic of Mexico Inaugurated | 1| Cut Off Within Short Dis- IS PURSUERS Escape of Texas Murderer tance of Scene of Crime A¥ POSSE'S FIRE! —_— q,fl“lcers’ “Bullets End the l—ffiifi‘z& “Riend Who Killed 90h eTeV. -Fhree <Persons ssore adl ¢ ! 81838 fads O IFORT WOR FH, Tex., Dec. 1.—The sequal “‘tp 'the h:fiedy that cost .the liyes,of, Stgve McKinley, his father ‘and ashived man on their farm near Alva- rafioTuesday came:to-day. J. M. Wil- 8, 4 t¥fple’ nitirderer, barricaded ) Tuesday ' ipnt¥- and defied the of- | ¥ w8rd to his daughter, ddwéd Brifle ‘af one of the men ’iegfi‘lflfl if she did not | céne tg’ W}xé would Rill her. =k “Fn féat and trenit she went to the hbifEe! *¥Phers “shé her father | afmér Kvfl((ffi‘ivnjbr?. rrifle and in a | Teptzy 6P FHzd? XM Hight" the officers Ki ioeé, where lay o fled by Wil- ‘érer ‘seated 5 Winchester ' drowsy, his east and he at her father ofted bride stoie “to the home | Officers ching for an oppor- | tunity to aks’thethurderer a prison- | er. As soon as thé posse learned the prisoner was alone they opened fire. He was not slow in returning it. Fnal- | ly the crack of the WincheSter was heard no more in Williams’ house. Cautiously the Sheriff entered and | | found the murderer lying prone on the | floor with a bullet through his brain. — e GAS ENDS THE LIFE OF NEW. YORK LAWYER Attorney, After Waiting for Return of { Wife, Goes to Room and Kills Himself. NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—Franklin Paddock, a lawyer, was found dead in bed at his home to-day, having been asphyxiated by escaping illum- | inating gas, and it is believed that he | committed suicide. The circum- | | stances leading up to the act weré | | unusual. | | The man went to his home last night and found that his wife had | gone out. He waited for a time, but | as she did not return, he went to his | | room, leaving his dinner untouched on | | the table. That was the last seen of | him until his body was found to-day. | Paddock was the son of a well | known lawyer of this city. He grad- uated from Princeton in the class of ! 1890. | | SOLDIERS IN ISLANDS ! A HEAUTHY SET OF MEN Report of Chief Surgeon Shows That Loss of Life by Disease Js Small. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—The last monthly report of the chief surgeon of the Philippines, covering the month ending .Qctober 15, just received by | Surgeon General O'Reilley, shows the | percentage of sick out of a totalj strength of 17,664 soldiers to have| been less than 6 per cent. The surgeon general regards this as a splendid showing for the tropics. But six deaths occurred during Octo- ber, three from disease, the others be- | ing violent or accidental. The chief surgeon reported an entire absence of smallpox among the troops. —_— e New Head of Dead Letter Office. CITY OF MEXICO, Dec. 1.—The in- auguration of General Porfirio Diaz as President of the republic of Mexico for | the seventh time ahd of Don’' Ramon Corral as First Vice President took place te-day in the hall of the Chamber of Deputies under most auspicious cir- | cumstances. Preparations for the in- /| | auguration have been going on ever | { since the election, June 7 last, but ac- | tively extended over a period of about a fortnight, beginning with the grand ball given in honor of Fresident and | Madame Diaz November 20, which was | attended by the Mexican and Spanish | aristocracy of the capltar. i At sunrise to-day all the artillery sta- | ticned in the Federal district and also | the infantry here and at barracks | | throughout the republic fired a Presi- | de; salute, and flags were hoisted over all public buildings. The prin-} | cipal streets and edifices zand residences | were decorated profusely with arches and national flags, freely interspersed | with the flags of foreign nations. One of | | the features of the street decorations | was two allegorical arches over the | Paso de La Reforma, the principal reet of the capital, representing eace” and “glory. | At the Hall of Congress, amid great | erthusiasm, the President and Vice President were formally notified o their eléction and took the oath of al- | legiance. The afternoon was devoted to field sports and merrymaking. To-night there was music on the va- rious piazas by military bands and an | inaugural ball. ——————————— CHAPMAN TAKES LIFE ‘WHILE TEMPORARILY INSANE London Jury Finds New Yorker Was ' Mentally Deranged When He Committed Suicide. { LONDON, Dec. 1.—"“Suicide during ' temporary insanity” was the verdict of | the Coroner’'s inquest on the remains of Elverton R. Chapman of New York, who committed suicide on the evening of November 28 at the Carlton Hotel by throwing himself from the third ffloor landing to the vestibule. The evidence of friends showed that Chapman while in Paris exhibited signs of derangement. He 'therefore was closely watched at the hotel, but eluded the vigilance of his attendant and succeeded in throv(lng himself into .the vestibule. Chapman never recovered con- sciousness. Shortly before he took his fatal leap he handed his banker letters addressed to his father and sister, ex- pressing regret if they had any dis- agreements in the past and wishing them long and happy lives. ———— Portuguese Transport Abandoned. ISLAND OF PERIM, Dec. 1.—Th Portuguese transport Saothome, whi; sailed from Lisbon on November with troops and passengers bot East Africa, has been wreck Red Sea and abandoned. The steamer Clan McKay rescued ,bcard the transport. COPENHAGEN, Dec. 1. — Ibsen continues to improve and his condition is now regarded as satisfac- tory. e e WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—The Post- | master General has appointed former Congressman James Rankin Young of Philadelphia superintendent of the dead letter office to fill the vacancy caused by the death of D. P. Leibhart ! last September. Young took the oath of office this afternoon and immeadi- ately assumed the duties of the of- fic | Mare Island, FOR SAN DIEGO Darling Thinks Government Will Use Its Property There for a Coaling Depot MORE DRYDOCKS NEEDED Assistant Secretary Will Make Thorough Inspection of Harbor at San Pedro LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1.—Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles H. Dar- ling will leave Los Angeles to-morrow morning for a visit to San Pedro, where he will make a thorough inspection of the harbor and dock facilities and the advantages of locating a navy drydock and coaling station at that port. The Assistant Secretary and his wife to- night were the guests of honor at a public reception held at the directors’ rooms in the Chamber of Commerce. They will leave for New Orleans to- morrow evening. Speaking of the possibility of coaling stations on the Southern California coast, the assistant Secretary sald to-day: “My inspection along the Pacific Coast has thus far shown me the im- portance of establishing a coaling sta- tion at San Diego. The Government owns property there and I feel safe in saying a coaling station will be estab- lished there. Those interested from a business and patriotic standpoint urge a system of drydocks along the Pacific Coast. There will have to be more drydocks established. ~Some of them undoubtedly will be large. In the course of time these will be built. I have inspected the harbors at Eeattle, Puget Sound; Portland, Or.; San Francisco, Santa Barbara, -Del Monte and at San Diego. All of these have shown me it is im- portant to establish a coaling station further south on the California coast. 1 cannot properly discuss the Los An- geles harbor at San Pedro until after 1 have inspected it. It would be im- possible to say what future San Pedro has as a naval station at this time.” ———————— CORONADO'S ATTORNEYS WILL ASK FOR DISMISSAL Say That Defendant Was Once in Jeopardy and That He Cannot Be Tried Again. SAN JOSE, Dec. 1.—Attorneys Wil- liam A: Bowden and B. A. Herring- ton, about whom sensational charges of misconduct centered yesterday" prior to the dismissal of the jury in the Coronado murder case, filed a no- tice in the Superior Court to-day that cn December 9 at 10 a. m. they will move for a dismissal of the charge against their client. Judge Tuttle yes- terday after dismissing the jury or- dered that the case be set for trial on January 9. In the notice filed the attorneys al- | lege that Coronado has been once on trial before a competent jury, which was dismissed without the consent of the defendant. The point will be raised that as Coronado has been once in jeopardy he cannot be tried again. Attorney Bowden to-day in an interview said he had no doubt that Coronado would secure his re- lease because of the dismissal of the Jury. Juror Louis S. Cavallaro, who was so severely condemned by Judge Tut- tle for associating with the attorneys for the defense, to-day called at the County Clerk’s office and collected jury fees amounting to $14 15 for services in the Coronado trial. —_———— Packers to Enlarge Plant. VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec. 1.—A special general meeting of sharehold- ers of the British Columbia Packing ‘Association’ has been called for De- cember 19 to raise additional working capital to the amount of $500,000. It is announced that much of the work- ing capital has been used in improve- ments and additions to the canneries recently and unusually large supplies aré needed for the expected big run of salmon next year. | | R0AD PROJECT Work on a Line to Connect San Jose and San Fran- cisco to Be Soon Begun MATERIAL IS ORDERED John W. Gates, the Eastern Millionaire, Is Said to Be Financing the Scheme PN EGES A Special Dispatch to The Call. PALO ALTO, Dec. 1.—It was an- nounced to-day that the syndicate that is promoting the construction of the Palo Alto and San Jose electric road has purchased the Santa Clara and San Jase electric road and also the line from San Jose to Alum Rock Park. 'The syndicate intends to extend the line from Santa Clara north through Palo Alto to San Mateo, and if satisfactory connections cannot be made with the San Mateo line a separate road may be bullt from there to San Francisco. The surveys have been made and most of the right of way secured. A franchise was granted by the City Council of San Jose Monday night for extensions of the line in that city. The company has a franchise on University avenue and ‘Waverly street in Palo Alto, and peti- tions for franchises have been made to the trustees of Mayfleld and Mountain View. Except through the incorpor- ated towns the line of the road will be through private property in order that fast time may be made. The project to build this line was in- augurated about a year ago by J. F. Parkinson of Palo Alto and a short time ago he succeeded in interesting John W. Gates, the Eastern millionalre railroad man, and his associates in the enterprire. The company has adequate financial backing. William Dohrmann and A. T. de Forest, both wealthy men who recently located here, are sup- posed to represent Gates' interests as they are taking an active part in pro- moting the road. W. F. Hanrahan of San Francisco has been employed for the past month in securing rights of way and has met with but little oppo- sition except at Fair Oaks, where the owners of country estates do not take kindly to having an electric rallway -pass through their property. The ma- terial for the road has been ordered and it is expected ‘that construction work will be begun in a few weeks. —_———— FEAR FOR THE SAFETY OF SCHOONER SEA WITCH Vessel Has Been Missing Since Last Friday and May Have Gone Down in a Storm. EVERETT, Wash., Dec. 1.—The thirty-foot schooner Sea Witch of Bal- lard, Wash., left Everett last Friday with seven passengers on board. They were expected to return Saturday, but have not been heard of in Everett since. It is feared the craft may have | gone down in the storm of Saturday night. Those on board were Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Pritchard and their three daughters; R. Starks, owner of the beat, and a man named Sprink, a marine engineer. Millie Pritchard, a sister of the three girls in the missing party, says the trip was undertaken as a pleasure voyage and none of the party was prepared to be away more than a day. They had expected to land in Seattle or Ballard. ————ee———— Believes Spirits Are Haunting Her. SAN JOSE, Dec. 1.—The belief that spirits and hellcats are haunting her is one of the delusions that led to the commitment of Mrs. Mary Thomas to | Agnews Insane Asylum to-day. She had been an inmate of the Woman's | Relief Corps at Eversreen. Of late she has been starting fires in her room and running about with a red hot poker to clear’the room of spirits. Mrs. Thomas is 67 years of age and came to California twenty-seven years ago from Kansas. Aside from the matter of spirits she appears to be perfectly rational. “CLOSED SHOP” THRALL LEAVES THE EMPLOY/DIES FIGHTING |NAVAL STATION NEW ELECTRIC |STANDARD OIL IN A NEW ROLE Announcement Is Made That It Is Not Unfriendly to the Independent Agency EXPLAINS RECENT. MOVE ORI Hope by Refusing to Buy to Induce Outside Companies to Join the New. Combine e i Speelal Dispatch to The Call. BAKERSFIELD, Dec. 1—It was statea on the best of authority here to- day that the Standard Oil Company in declining to purchase any meore spot oil is actuated only by motives friendly to the independent agency, it being the’ wish of the big combine that the agen- cy, with which it hopes to do business, will secure as far as possibie the con- trol of the product of the fleld. It is also said that the Standard is ready and willing to purchase from the agen- cy all the oil it controls at a rate of not less than 25 cents a barrel, but in order to do this it must be reasonably certain that there is no great amount of loosa oll that can be thrown upon the market at a price less than what the Standard- is paying the agency. Hence the re- fusal of the Standard to take any mors spot ofl, the idea being to induce all the companies riot yet members of the ° independent combine to join and be- . come a part of the agency. - The Standard Oil Company will soon have an idle storage capacity of 8,000,000 barrels in the Kern: River fléld, a ca- pacity almost equal to the oil it.now has stored. It wants the oil for these empty reservoirs, and the only me- dium through which it can secure it in quantity is through the independent agency. ——.———— MAJOR EVANS VORS NEW MA /ER GROUNDS Says American Lake Site Commands Many Advantages From a Mill- tary Point of View. VANCOUVER BARRACKS, Wash,, Dec. 1.—The report of Major R. 5 Evans, assistant adjutant general, U. | S A., chief umpire of the maneuver ! division held at American Lake, has been completed. Major Evans espe- cially praises the adaptability of the | maneuver grounds at American’ Lake | and expresses his desire to hold the next maneuver at that point. After describing the site, together with its chain of filve lakes, and setting forth its advantages from a’ military peint - of view, Major Evans says: “When one considers the particu-- larly favorable. conditiond existing at American Lake for the assembling of large masses of trops, its advantages are apparent, and shoyld war condi- tions arise it is unexcelled as a point of departure for troops _requiring transportation on the Pacific Ocean.”™ —_———— . Footpads Are Granted Paroles, SAN DIEGO, Dec.. 1.—D.- H. Me- | Cage and William Carter, * brought . into the Superior Court for sentence for haying held up and robbed an-old man in this city recently, were pa- | roled to-day for three years. They must report regularly' to the Sheriff and must not enter a saloor or become intoxicated during their paroles. The holdup - was comrnitted while- they were under the influence of liquor. —_—————— Traveler Is Held Up by Footpads. ! BAKERSFIELD, Dec. 1. —F. A. Welcher was held up .here last. night and robbed of all he possessed. . He was on the way from Los Angeles to San Francisco and stopped. off here. He was waylaid on the way ‘to his hotel. e < — e————— Final Installment Paid. NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—The final 50 . per cent instailment on the $40,000,- . 000 of mew preferred stock of - the Southern Pacific Company was paid in to-day. states for that matter, sells we do. decided leadership. must add to their prices— or Cravenettes. Our manu enable us to sell a garment cost at least $12.50 in any o Belt overcoats, greatcoal Suit,Overcoat or Cravenettenr®*10 No store in San Francisco, or in the western There must be a good reason for this It is because we make all the clothing we sell, without charging you the usual wholesaler’s profit which other stores Should other stores sell their goods at cost then they would be meeting our regular priges. ~ Just as water seeks its level thegreat buying public will seek and patronize that store which gives them their money’s worth. This is why we are the largest clothing store in the West. For example, take our $10 suits, overcoats coats and rain coats in all the suitable materials, .Single and double breasted business suits nter weights and patterns, $10. triped worsted pants in neat patterns, as much clothing as facturing advantages for $10 that would ther store. ts, Chesterfields, top ow to-day will be seen men’s 1.00, $1 .30, $1.95, $2.50 and