The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 19, 1904, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19. 1904s OLD BRIG TANNER ARRIVES|“BILLIONAIRE" |DISASTER ENDS |WILL INSPECT ~ NECRO COLONY AFTER A HARD TRIP. Battered by the Elements, She Finally Reaches Port. The old brig Tanner, after the many Vicissitudes that have followed her for | the last fifty years, once more hobbled into port yesterd storm beaten and practically dismantied. She left Port Angeles on December 2 and had barely £ot into the Pacific when she ran into & tremendous hurricane. She was knocked about and buffeted in all kinds ©of gales until December 6. Here she Tan into a southwest gale which tossed her about like a cockle shell. Two of her staysails were blown away, as well &s her jib. In the midst of the storm she sprung & leak. Great seas washed over her from stem to stern and a big wave €truck her windmill and carried aw found that there were five feet of wates in the hold. The ship at this time wa practically at the mercy of the ele- mente, and the captain was almost at his wit's end tc beat know what to do. inning to get belligerent. They went to the captain’s quarters and de- manded tha back to the port from which T took place just off atteny. Captain Holstrom re- fused to act on his crew's demands and ordered the vessel kept on her course to this port. Heavy seas kept swash- ing over ecks, flooding her with water. A tremendous gale from the soutneast was blowing all the time. She finally succeeded in making port. Ehe brings iumber and shingles to J. anner is the oldest on on this coast. 1855 at Smithtown, £ her career she has New bee kinds of mishaps. She was bhumped up on the rocks of this coast | dozens of times, but has always man- aged 1o get off with slight injury. ke et i Has Terrible Fall. ble fall on the Bris- y. He was going main deck to get v picked him up carefully laid He was unconscious and he would die at any word on shore to Crow- ut a laun and d brought the tely taken to Here it t notwithstand- received the water fromt h in the bay from was kept busy taking sattieship Obio and the About the gang- ered & big fleet of ¥ part of the bt on a number lsland and pri- it | y. The captain sounded the pumps and | the storm was raging furiously | The crew was | he turn the vessel about | ‘Weather Report. (120th Meridian—Pacific Time.) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18—5 p. m. ! The following are the seasonal rainfalis te | date as compared with those of same date last season and rainfall in last twenty-four hours Last Last Stattons— 24 hours season. Eureka 0.00 Red Bluft 0.00 Sacramento ..... San Francisco . | Fresno Independenca San Luis Obis Los Angeles San Diego " THE COAST RECORD. P EEK O 2 % 3 2k $e R 3 i §EsE .2 2° § Eegc 3 2 2 saaniom. 3 EZER PP H i E : : H 40 54 Portland . | Red Blufr | Roseburg | Sacramento | Sait Lake | san “Diego. | Seattle 42 Cloudy .04 | Spokane 28 Cloudy .01 Tatoosh 42 Rain 66 JWella Wa 4“4 Clear 0.00 | W emucca is8 Clear 0.00 Yuma 48 lear 000 WEATHER CONDITION FORBCAST. G ¥ cloudy weather prevails over the | northern portion of the Pacific Slope. and foggy weather in the great valley of California; else- ¢ Mountains it is len In the Puget AND GENERAL in Northern Callfornia, weather along the coast s Obispo southward. nade at San Francisco for “thirty ending midnight December 19: fornia north of Tehachapi—Fair Monday: h fog in the valleys; light north wind. alifornia south of Tehachapi—Fair Monday; wind. Nevaga—Fair Monday San Francisco and vicinity—Falr Monday; light north wind. Los Angeles and vicinity—Fair Monday: | 1ght northeast wind . | _ Sacramento and vicinity—Fair Monday, with 1 08 Fresno and vicinity—Fair Monday, with fog. G. H. WILLSON, Local Forecaster. e from New Yo -+ stmr Sylvania, from Bos. ew York. s ooy Memoranda. anner. {rom Port Angeies Dec 18— off Cape Flatter. had a eucces- carried away two staysails windmill carried vessel ¢ water in hold; when off Flattery, SE gales raging crew re. quested captain to put back to port, this he refused to do. continuing on to San Francisco. GARDINER, Dec 17 (via Marshfieid, Dec 18— —Schr Lucy, previously reported ashore here, slipped. her anchor Saturd: morning _and sailed over the south spit, across main chan- nel onto inside point of north spit, where she now lies; will get off to-morrow, Dec 18; ves- | sel makes no water; is eafe and sound, except | a asmagea rudder ot | Movements of Steamers. floated on the explained to a main drawing- king in generali- ties. She nevertheless. She can carry 25,000 tons lead weight freight. She will =a eattle to-day —— SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. December 18 14 hours from <en Hammar. 40 hours from 39 hours from San ours from Eureka er, 85 hours from Lindquist, 27 hours from Coronado, larbara. ion. Bridgett. 22 houre from Port ie, Whitney, 4 hours from Half- os Bay. Nicoison, 55 hours from San Pedro Brig Tanner, Holmstrom, 15 days from Port Angeies hr Bessie K, Stark, 12 hours from San Vicente Landing Schr Mary C. Campbell, 10 hours from Bo- cegn ED. SAT December 18 Stmr Santa Rosa San Diego and way ports Stmr North Fork, Nelson. Bureks Stmr Pomona, Swanson, Eureka Stmr Geo W Eider, Randall. Astoria. Stmr Bee, Wehman Grays Harbor Stmr South Coast, Olsen, Caspar. Stmr San Mateo, Kirkwood, San Jose de Guatema: Stmr Reinertson, Albjon River. Stmr Dollar, Olsen, Grays Harbor. Stmr Madsen. Caspar ammar, Fort Brage. Point Reyes. & Grays Harbor. RAPHIC 18 10 p m—Weather velocity 10 miles per hour. TIC PORTS assed Dec 18,9 a m—Stmr Schr Compeer, TEL! POINT LOBC hazy; wind N Dec Marehfield. from Hardy Creek, for San Diego. stmr Coguille River, from Crescent City. for San_Diego. SEATTLE - Arrived Dec 18—Stmr Jefferson, “from Skag Sailed Dec 17—Stmr Cottage City, for Skag- way BALLARD—Sailed Dec 17—Schr Columbia, for San Francisco, * ASTORIA ed Dec 1S—Ger stmr Numan. tia, for China and Japan: stmr Aurelia, for San Francisco; Fr bark Europe for Queens- town: Br bark James Johnsor Arrived Dec Ruth for Cape Town; bktn n’ Fedro. Stmr Chas Neison. hence Pedro. Dec 15; schr Mabel Gale from TATOOSH—Passed in Dec 16—Stmr Uma- tilla, hence Dec 16 for Victoria and Puget Eound. EUREKA—Arrived Dec 18—Stmr F A Kil- burn, hence Dec 17 Sailed Dec 15—Stmr San Pedro, for San Francisco. stmr Mandalay for San Francisco; stmr Corona. for San Francisco: stmr Alliance, * for Coos Bay and Po stmr F A Kilburn, for Coos Bay snd P PORT BRAGG Bailed Dec 15—Stmr Jos 8 Higgine. for San Francisco. RT HARFORD—Sailed Dec 18, Lmnum Stmr Bonita, for San Pedro and way ports. SANTA BARBARA—Arrived Der 18—Stmr & of California from San Dieg Salled Dec 18—Stmr State of Lllllornh for nd: San Francisco MONTEREY —Sailed Dec 17—Stmr Rose- crane, for Portlapd. PORT BLAKELHY —Sailed Dec 18—Schr Henry K. Hall, fbr Vaiparaiso: Ital bark Italia, for Australia PORT TOWNSEND—Safled Dec 18—Schr Henry K Hall, from Port Blakeley, for Val- EAN DWAMM Dec 18—8chr Mawee- ma, from Everet mho PORTS. HoHOLL'LL—&nedDec 17—Stmr Iwlani, for OCEAN STEAMERS. ll.w YORK—Arrived Dec 18—Stmr Bran- Bremen: stmr St Paul, from = TO A‘RR!\ E. Eteamer. From. | Due Empire. 19 Meteor. 19 | Entzabeth. ... Coquille River E 19 | Redondo. Portland & Astoria.... Dec. 19 Chico Coquille River Dec. 19 San Pedro.. Humboldt . 9 8. Mont Grays Harbor 1Dec Centralia. Gravs Harbor Dec Corona. . Humboldt Dec. State of Cal.. | San Diego & Dec Chebalis Grays Harbor Dec -|Dec. 2 Columbla Y Albl ./ Dec. Dec. 2 Dec. Breskwater. Santa Rosa Polut Arena.. Mendocino & Pt. Arenl {Dec. 2 Puget Sound Ports. ... Newport & Way Port Burs & Way PorisiDes. rays Harbor Dec. 2 Mexican Ports . Honajulu Dinatitte. .- | Puger. Sound’ Porte. .. City Para.... New York, via Ancon..|Dec. TO SAIL. Steamer. | Destination. ber 1 Vanguard J. Higgin: Monica izabeth. . Breakwater. Ary 2 Area Coos Bay direct ..| 4 pm Pler 13 Coronado. .. | Grays Harbor......| 4 pm|Pier 10 Czarina Coos Bay direct...| 5 pm Pler 8§ Eureka . . m Pier 13 Centralia 0 am|Pler 10 | December 20. | Chenalie.... Los Angeles Porta| 4 pmPler 2 Redondo. ... Portland & Way.. 2 December 21. Grays Harbor i 0 A . Humbolét .. San Pedro.. Humboldt . December 22. | Pomo. . Pt. Arena & Albion| 6 pm|Pier State of Cal. San Diego & Way.| ® am Pier Ventura. Sydney & Way Pts| 2 pm|Pier December 23. | Astoria & Portiand'11 am| Willapa rbos I’ 4 pm Steamer. | Skegway & Way Ports.,Dec. 18 Scldovia & Way Ports.Jan. 1 “Sun, Moon and Tide. United States Coast and Geodetic Survey— Time and Height of High and Low Waters at Fort Point, entrance to San ctsco nny I'Ibu-hulw official authority of the P 7% y minutes later than st Fort Point: the of tide is the same at both places. MONDAY, Dmgnm ". Sun rises 2.7] !:21! L 25| i Moon rises ll IZDl Aurella Pler 27 Bonit Newport & Way..| 9 am/Pier 11 City Puebla_| Puget Sound Ports.I1 am|Pler § . December | Mongolia... China and lapan .| 1 pm|Pier 40 { l FROM SEATTLE. i [ Destination. Balls. [ PLEASING S EGETY Possibilities of Fun Are Not Fully Developed, but There Is Enough to Cheer [ORPHEUM BILL CLEVER { Variety Adds to and Audience Is Ple Interest s Harry B. Smith has done better things the book of “The Bllllonllr!," which made its first appearance here last night at the Columbia Theater. “The | Billionaire” is programmed as a “mu- | slcal farce,” with Gus Kerker at the! |music. The title is ambitious. The! piece has not plot enough for farce, nor music enough to be musical. The cen- | tral idea, however, is quite funny, | though developed only slightly com-! pared with its possibilities. There is a | billionaire as chief character, and his; attempts to spend some of the un- earned increment buying steamship lines, theaters and such like trifles fur- nishes such story as there Is. However, ! the billionaire has only a comparatively ' modest share of the interest. A man- aging American mamma, with a pen- chant for French malapropisms, her i two rebelllous daughters and.an unim- | portant son and spouse take up much time. There is also a waiter with a plumful part, and a Hungarian Count and a soubrette who figure largely in the cast. The feature of the piece is the setting | of the last act, the stage and audito- ! rium, with upper boxes and all the ap-, pointments of a handsome theater. The stage within the stage is cleverly used for the specialties introduced, and the novelty will doubtless attract many to the performance. Audiences, the woman with the large hat—extinct here, hap- pily—the matinee matron, the matinee man, the gentleman that amuses him- elf falling over his neighbor’s feet, and 80 on, furnish some good fun here. The stage burlesques are not startling. Possibly in Jerome kes' hands the billionaire, John Doe, was funnier than Thomas Q. Seabrooke makes him. Mr. Seabrooke’s farce is of a particularly mild brew. He seems rather to be say- ing that he could be funny if he wanted to, but that he intends to wait until to- morrow. You haven’'t quite shown him why he should, and he won't. He has all the air, too, of the taken-for-grant- ed comedian, and you somehow feel the situation is your fault. Occasionally, however, Mr. Seabrooke seems to for- get, and you get a taste of something approaching fun. His songs are very clearly sung, and the one, Street in Heaven They Cell Broadway,” was warmly welcomed. Of the other men Harry Macdonough gives an amusing sketch of the waiter, Baptiste, and Walter Percival Is a splendiferous gold-lace Hungarian as Lieutenant Ladislas. He also owns a voice and sings rather nicely. Josie Intropidi as the managing mam- ma, in cerise locks and. canned com- plexion, is a very lively person. She certainly does her best tc fill the Marie Cahill part and succeeds in being spas- modically amusing. Of the daughters Miss Helen Dexter shows an unusually pretty volce—a pure, clear, high so- prano. She has apparently only just discovered it, for it is used only in amateurish fashion. is a pretty and attractive soubrette and dances delightfuly. Shf also has a pretty voice, and shoul{ take serious i note of the fact. The rest of the cast fills in strenu- ously, and a large, well-firilled and co- | quettish chorus is no kmall part of ““The Billionaire's"” goes only for the week. BLANCHE PARTINGTON. s i sw Rose Melville, in “Sis Hopkins,” be- gan her second week at the California last night to the usual large house. Just before the curtain went up Louis Mor- rell, who plays the heavy, was taken suddenly ill, and the paft was played by Herbert Farjeon, the ¢apable young stage manager of the Alcazar stock. Considering the fact that Mr. Farjeon had no chance to rehearse and was compelled to read the part, he acquitted himself exceptionally well. *Sis Hop- kins” will continue tnroughout the week and it is expected that Mr. Mor- | rell will be well enough to resume his part to-night. . e The Orpheum bill this week has something on it that is béund to please everybody. One can thotoughly enjoy the various numbers ranging from the soprano’s sweet notes to *he marvelous performances of a_bunch of cockatoos | and parrots. Aida Hemmi, the soprano, | easily won a high place h her clear, sweet notes. She rendered a few favor- ite selections and the audience was loth to see her leave the stage. and Viate are a pair of dainty young | a trick on a slack wire. Albertina Mel- ich and her performing parrots and | cockatoos came in for their share of the applause. This is an original act—one that is both instructive and amusing. * . Alfred Farland, the great banjoist: the . ! Dillon Brothers, Ford Sisters and Herr- | mann all had something welcome to of- | with merited applause. As a special form of entertalnment | for the Christmas holidays the Chutes | management has put on at the the-| | ater the Japanese musical extrava- ganza, “The Princess Fan-Tan.” The actors in the Japanese fairy tale are pupils of a local dancing school. A | large audience greeted thelr initial ap- pearance yesterday afternoon. | _There are over threé hundred chil- dren in the bill and all are graceful |and droll. entertainment are the intricate and beautifully costumed ballets and the . carried the house by storm. The play is in two acts and the in- ‘termission. lasts forty-five minutes, during which time the audience has ample opportunity to visit the other Chutes attpactions. “The Princess Fan- Tan” will n until after New Year's with matinee and night performances every. day. DIVERS TO SEEK BODIES OF GLEN ISLAND vtcrms NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—The wreck. of the ill-fated Glen Island, with only the smokestack visible, was found tos day near Hempstead Harbor, L. I. The general manager of the Starin transportation line has sent divers to the wreck and will spare no effort to find the bodies of the seven members of the crew and two passengers who perished in the burning steamer. d. | | California Draws “O“dsxmugm Sierthe Gebris- et right | e | and worse—not seriously worse—than! ““The Little ! Diamond Donner make-up. The piece Lucy i woemen who can do almost any kind of | fer and their efforts were, as usual, met | i The main features of the | well known Song of the Citles, Wwhich | Epecial Dinltch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18.—A serious accident which resulted in broken siderable money in payment of dam- ages happened to a party of young people from New York while driving to Downey Saturday evening to attend a ball. The west section of the Wash- | burn bridge across New River col- lapsed as they were crossing it, pre- cipitating the horses and carriage with its occupants into the river bed. The timbers pinned the rig to the ground and Miss Carrie Sproul was leg was broken in two places. rest of the party escaped injury, though all suffered from shock and | fright. —_——— POWERS GIVE ATTENTION ‘ TO TROUBLES IN BALKANS Warfare Continues in Macedonia Be- tween the Bands of Bulgarians | and Greeks. | LONDON, Dec. 19.—There is reason | to believe, according to the corre. | spondent at Sofia of the Times, that | the marked aggravation in the situa: tion in Macedonia is seriously occupy~ ing the attention of the powers. The warfare between Bulgarian and Greek | bands, the correspondent reports, con- | fights recently, while the Porte has done nothing in the’ direction of the | repatriation of Bulgarian refygees in | the Adrianople vilayet, | _ CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 18.—The Porte has replied to notes from Austria and Russia that its objection to the suggested increase in the num- ber of foreign officers in the Macedo nian gendarmerie is on the ground | ‘than it would disturb the native popu- ! lations. —— SWISS HEIRESS RETURNS HOME FROM ZION CITY LONDON, Dec. 19.—“Mrs. Glad- stone Dowie (nee Ruth Hofer) has re- turned to her home on the shores of Lake Constance,” the Geneva corr spondent of the Daily Mail reports. “After a five ‘months’ stay in Zion City she discovered that it was her , money and not herself that Gladstone Dowie was in love with. Neglect continual hypocrisy opened her eyes to the true state of affairs and Dowie's posing as the restored Elijah was the last straw. She determined to quit Zion City at all costs. The Dowies it first firmly refused to let her go, but! she threatened to run mother sent her money, away. Her and disii- lusioned, broken in health and spirit | she arrived at her old home.” OLYMPIC IN HANDBALL ME EXCITING STRUGGLES Interest in the handball tournament now on at the Olympic Club grows more intense each day and the soft ball court is too small to accommo- date the spectators anxious to watch the various matches. There was a big crowd at the club yesterday and the . players did their best to win. W. J. ! Kennedy defaulted to Fritz C. Weg- {ener. L. N. Baudoin was too st for J. Ryan and beat him two str: games, scores 21-6, 21-19. C. Carr had a hard time taking Ar. “fthur Poheim's measure. The latter played erratically at times and Carr ' did the scoring. Carr captured the first game by 21-19 and the second game belonged to either man. Pos heim missed an easy one and. Carr ! went in and won out by hard tossing | by a score of 21-20. R. H. Postel- | waite played in rare form and lowered the colors of his rival, J. W. Ginno. | Scores 21-6, 21-13. T. Stealey de | feated H. Meyer in g ht Scores 21-17, 21-10. Al Hampton, caast champion, refereed the games and Mr. Miller scored. An exhibition game of doubles was iplayed by Al Hampton, with Garnet | Ferguson for a partner, and Louis Levy, with Stanley Fay for a partner. Levy and Fay won the first two games and then Hampton and Ferguson pulled themselves together and gave a brilliant exhibition, winning the next two games. The final game was full | of wonderful plaving. | Hampton and Ferguson captured the ! final game by one point. Scores: Hampton and Ferguson.....14 18 21 21 Levy and Fay 1 21 10 16 To-night George James and Louls Levy will meet in the first class. Hugo Poheim and Dr. G. N. Converse have | been advanced to the first class and will play next Friday night ————— Gulilty of Manslaughter. ! SANTA ROSA, Dec. 18.—J. Solani, who killed J. Guidotti at Glen Ellen | some weeks ago during a quarrel over | | a dice game, was found guilty of man- | slaughter by a jury here to-day. 21 ADVERTISEMENTS. Now It's Cold, Why Don’t You Bu!;a 64s HEATER i | | 1t will warm the room cheaply and quickly. A NIGHT RIDE tinues and there have been severah two fast games. | STATE PRISONS SACRAMENTO, Dec. 18.—R. W. Mc- Laughry, warden of the United States | Military Prison at Fort Leavenworth, | bones and may cost the county con- [Kansns. who, by invitation of the Gov- | the project is now well under way, sev- {ernor and Prison Directors of this | State, comes to inspect the penal insti- ltutlonu of California, arrived here to- ‘duy and to-night went to prison. McLoughry is regarded as one of the most experienced students of penology in thig country, a reputation he has earned after many years of | work In various positions, such as chief of police at the Chicago Exposition, superintendent of the Huntington Re- formatory School of Pennsylvania and warden of Joliet Prison. | During his stay in California Mec- Laughry will spend the greater part of { his time within the State prisons, mak- ing a careful study of the ccnditions | existing at the Folsom and San Quen- | tin penal institutions, with a view to | giving to the wardens and the Prison Directors the benefit of his advice and { Judgment as to needed reforms. That | many changes are needed is an opin- {lon that is shared by ‘all the directors |and the wardens. | McLaughry expects tc remain at Fol- | som several days and will then go to | San Quentin. After thoroughly ac- ‘qu-innng himself with the affairs of | | both places and attending meetings ot he Prison Directors he will settle down 0 a close study of the opportunities for | reforms, and when his final conclusions are arrived at his views will be incor- porated in a report to the Governor. ————— NOMINATE OFFICERS FOR UNION LEAGUE | Regular Ticket for the Ensuing Year | Is Presented by the ] Committee. The nominating committee of the ! Union League Club, W. C. Van Fleet Ichfillman and Arthur W. Spear secre~ { tary, nominates the following regular | ticket of officers for the ensuing year: President, George H. Pippy; first vice | president, S. J. Hendy; second vice president, H. G. W. Dinkelspiel; treas- 'urer, I. W. Hellman Jr.; secretary, J. B. Fuller; directors—C. H. Garoutte, A. E. Castle, George Stone, N. | Rideout, H. D. Loveland and John Rothchild. All the other land are members of the existing | board. The annual election will take place early in January. There are no indications of an ‘opposition ticket. —— MOROCC:, HOSTILE TO THE EUROPEANS nominees on the ticket Sultan to Dismiss Foreign Officers From His Court, Including | " the French, . | LONDON, Dec. 19.—The corre-/| spondent at Tangier of the Times, with reference to the fact that the { French mission to Fez was compelled | to travel by sea by way of Larache !instead of- direct overland, owing to ne hostility of the tribes, remarks that there is a strong anti-European | feeling in Morocco and declares that Maghzen is more than secretly hostile and that the tribes are openly so to' any European interference with their | affairs. The correspondent learns that the | Sultan is officially notifying the le- gations of his intention to dismiss all foreign officers attached to the Moor- {ish court and army, including the French military mission, the Italian officers employed at the Fez arsenal, Sir Harry MacLean and other brother 1 officers. e e ELABORATE CEREMONY HELD IN ST. PETERS Pope Pius Venerates the Blessed Bufalo While Thousands Crowd Basilica. { ROME, Dec. 18.—St. Peters was especially decorated for the formal an« nouncement this morning of the beatification of Gaspare del Bufalo, fownder of the congregation of the | Precious Blood and canon of San| Marco under Pius VIIL This afternoon Pope Pius X, accom- panied by the Cardinals of the court; and all the Bishops and dignitaries of the church at present in Rome, The quartet | went to venerate the Blessed Bufalo. | | was tired, but playved hard to win. | Over 30,000 basilica. e }CONGRESSMA S DAUGHTER CAUGHT SHOPLIFTING persons crowded the Taken to Jail In Milwaukee, but the | Case Will Not Be Prosecuted. MILWAUKEE, Dec. 18. — The | daughter of a Congressman from the | Imerlqr of the State and a well-known ‘Milv\aukee %oclety girl were caught yesterday in the act of shoplifting at | a Milwaukee department store, it is | said, and were escorted to the police station by Detective Mauger. After | being detained at the station for sev- | eral hours .the girls on account of their prominence were released, the proprietors of the store refusing to | brosecute them. 5 LONDON EXCHANGE UNDER AMERICAN INFLUENCE Business Restricted, but No Great Alarm Felt Over Developments in Wall Street. LONDON, Dec. 18.—The Stock Ex- change last week was again mainly under the influence of the American ! market, and considering the violent i fluctuations in-the latter the absence | of serious trouble was regarded as de-~ | cidedly satisfactory. Bueiness was | very much restricted, but there was less uneasiness felt as to probable de | velopments in Wall street than might have been expected, and prices alt around were better and steadier. —————————— | Afmy and Navy Orders. | WASHINGTON, Dec.18.—By order of the War Department Private Joseph | M. Morgan of the Sixty-seventh Coast Artillery at the Presidio, San Francis- co, will be discharged without honor from the army by the commanding of- ficer of his station on account of hav- | ing become disqualified for service through his own misconduct. First class Sergeant Charles H. Campbell of ! the Signal Corps at Benicia Barracks |is transferred to Fort Assinniboine, ,]‘onunm Private George A. Wilson, { Ccmpany M, Tenth Infantry, now in | confinement "at the infantry canton- ! ment at the Presidio, San Francisco, ! will be discharged without honor from the army by the commanding officer by reason of desertion. Sergeant Ruel H. Murch of the Bu'nltl C:‘rpl. Ctoalgl Ranch, Arizona, is transferred to - Bls Dariseke ans Tallawad to-: sthp twenty days en route. First Lieutenant William H. Patterson is transferred from the Twenty-fltd!h !‘lm :h’e‘ ’l‘"venty; fo\ln.h Infantry, an Irs! leutenan lexander H. Hall from the Twenty- !fllflh to _the Twenty-eighth by their request. Lieutenant Hall is Jjoin his regiment. Bureau of i Folsom | than Stone, Rideout and Love- | 1 Episcopal IN THIS STATE LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18.—A move- ment is on foot to start a negro.colony in San Bernardino County. In fact, eral negroes already having homestead- ed land in that county in the township | of Victorville. Bishop Abraham Grant of the African Methodist Episcopal i church, who has been here for several | days, was called on by a committee of | | the projectors and gave the enterprise his approval. Five of the committee that awaited on him have taken up 160 acres each. In discussing the matter to-night Bishop Grant said: “I am heartily in favor of a plan to encourage thrifty and industrious peo- ple from the Southern States to settle in Southern California. Many of the best colored people of the South will leave if conditions continue as they | have for the last four or five years. It { is;my purpose to place them where they can best earn a livelihood, educate their children, enjoy their franchise and when they are so unfortunate as Lo have to go before the courts they will feel that justice will be meted out { to them.” i o e POLICEMAN HAS NARROW i ESCAPE FROM BEING SHOT | Policeman Hyland had a narrow es- cape last night from becoming the | vietim® of a revolver in the hands orl | Foten Jaco, an Italian, living at 169 | De Haro street. Jaco is now in prison charged with assault with a deadly weapon. | Jaco and Peter Vellaigo were beat- | ing Willlam Dore of 25 Dore street at | Seventh and Brannan streets when | { the patrolmen interfered. Hyland | | caught hold of Jaco and was about | | to place him under arrest. Jaco drew | |« revolver and placed it against the | patrolman’s breast and pulled the trigger. Fortunately the cartridge proved defective and before Jaco had a chance to pull the trigger again the policeman disarmed him. Vellaigo | was charged with battery. BRI Y RS | . WOULD PROBE CLAIMS | OF MONK OF LLANTHONY | ‘l\l‘v Thomas B. Gregory Says l"lllhl!rK Ignatius’ Miracies Should Be 1 Investigated. | NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—Rev. B. Gregory said to-day: “In the accounts now arriving daily | { from London of the remarkable power | | of Father Ignatius, founder of the | Monastery of Llanthony, I am free to.confess that I am much in- | terested. In this day and age it is auite unusual to find the type of man we { seem to have in the monk of Llanthony. | Thomas i and if what Father Ignatius says is to be believed, then the age of miracles is |nut past, and the ‘supernatural’ is still | a tremendous reality in the world. “There ought to be some way of find- out whether the monk of Llanthony truthful. The matter of which he speaks is one of thrilling interest and | paramount importance, and a commit- tee of intelligent, honest men should {at once be sent to the region round | about the Abbey of uamhony to make | a ‘thorough investigation.” e ee——— | MASKED MEN BLOW UP PIPE LINE IN KANSAS Take Action jAgainst Gas Company ““Which Is Approved by Many Residents. | COFFEYVILLE, Kas,, Dec. 18.— Between Liberty and the Verdigris River more than a mile of the par- ompleted pipe line of the Kan- | ! sas Natural Gas Company was blown up with dynamite by masked men | some time dyring the night. The pipe | jwas broken and great holes torn in | the right of way. The perpetrators are unknown. Beside being masked | they were otherwise disguised. The | | officials of the company have as yet | tzeken no steps to investigate. | ~The act is openly approved by many | of the residents here. The explosions | are the result of a fight that has been | | waged for some time against the plpe‘ { line company, which is a foreign cor- poration, by the farmers of this sec- { tion, who' resent the piping of the gas | | to Missouri. B — | NANCE O’NEIL SCORES THE NEW YORK CRITICS: Also Takes Fling at Audiences and | Says She Will Yet Be Acclaimed on Broadway. BOSTON, Dec. 18.—Literary Boston | is simply chuckling with glee to-day, {as Nance O'Neil has come out with a newspaper statement in which she | gives the New York dramatic critics a terrific excoriation. She says that she “will triumph in New York in spite of the critics,” and adds: “It is truly much to please an in- telligent New York audience, but by ‘intelligent audience’ I do not mean | the first-night crowd of wine agents, | bookmakers and divorcees. My mail | i3 packed with New Yorkers' letters | telling me not to heed the New York | crities. I shall yet be acclaimed on Broadway.” Funeral of Mrs. Clark. H LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18.—The fun- eral of the late Mrs. Mary Andrews | | Clark, mother of United States Sena- tor William A. Clark and J. Ross Clark, who died in this city Saturday fiight after a brief illness, will take place on next Tuesday afternoon. Six grandsons will bear the remains to their last resting place. | the guns. | nessed more atrociti | Engineer F. C. MAN AND WIFE BOLD BURGLARS PRESCOTT, Ariz., Dec. 13.—Fred Roemer and his wife, formerly consid- ered respectable people, were caught in the act of burglarizing J. I. Gardner's store this morning at 4 o'clock. Gard- ner had been missing goods from his store for years, as had other business houses. Gardner and one of his em- | ployes have been sieeping in the store for two weeks in the hope of capturing the maraude and their efforts were rewarded this morning. Roemer and his wife drove in a small spring wagon into the alley at the rear of the store. The former opened the door with a skeleton key, entered and commenced carrying the goods outside, while Mrs. Roemer remained on guard In the alley. Gardner and his com- panfon waited until the wagon was about loaded, when - they surprised Roemer and took the couple into cus- tody and escorted them with the goods to the County Jail. The Roemers reside about half a mile north of town, and this morning of- ficers made an investigation of the premises and discovered a miscella- neous assortment of articies, aggregat- ing seven drayloads, including a piano, furniture, bar- rels of beer, dry goods, groceries, cloth- ing, doors, harness, tools, thousands of clgars, drugs, cases of shoes and boots and samples of nearly every article that can be mentioned. Some articles were identified as having been stolen two years ago. The couple have six children. ————— INCREASED PROTECTION FOR BOAT PASSENGERS Changes Made in the Requirements of Boats and Life Preservers on Vessels. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—A number of important changes in the rules and regulations of the Board of Supervising Inspectors of the Steamboat Inspection BService have been approved by Segre- tary Metcalf of the Department of Commerce and Labor. These changes are the result of recent protracted meetings of the Board of Supervising Inspectors of the servcie, which fol- lowed soon after the General Slocum disaster at New York, in which a thou- sand lives were lost. The changes require that metal air tanks in wooden lifeboats be provided: prohibit the use of loose or compressed granulated cork in the manufacture of life rafts or life-preservers, or the use of kapok life-preservers. Life-pre- servers must be suspended on wooden slats or cotton cords, and not on wire, and at a height of not more than seven feet from the deck, and there must be one life-preserver for every passenger and member of the crew on all vessels. All passenger steamers must be pro- vided with fire buckets, barreis and axes, instead of on inland steamers only, as before. —_——————— ONE BOY KILLED AND TWO INJURED WHILE HUNTING Gun Accidentally Discharged With Fatal Effect as Lads Descend Mountain. MISSOULA, Mont., Dec. 18.—Carl Brooks, aged 9 years, was shot and in- stantly killed and Howard Brooks, his brother, aged 16, and Arthur Chan- dler, aged 16, were slightly injured by the same discharge of a shotgun while out hunting this afternoon on Rattlesnake Creek, two miles north of Missoula. Five boys were in the party and | while coming down the mountain in single fi Claude Chandler, aged 13, and a year-old boy of the Brooks family followed In the rear, carrying One of the boys slipped and a shotgun loaded with buckshot struck the ground and was discharged, sending the bulk of the load into the head of Carl Brooks, who was immedi- ately in front of them. One shot struck Howard Brooks and another Arthur Chandler. —_—e——— SAYS CONGO CONDITIONS ARE NOT AS REPRESENTED Mrs. Sheldon Asserts That King Leo- pold Has Sanctioned No Cruelty in Africa. LONDON, Dec. 18.—Mrs. M. French Sheldon, the African explorer and author, who has just returned from a tour of the Congo Free State, says that her assertion that she had wit- in the London streets than she has seen in the Congo applies to the rubber country as well as to the rest of the State. She trav- eled, she says, in every part of the country, King Leopold having aec- corded her complete freedon, and she was convinced that the allegations of maladministration were groundless and that it was quite false to state that King Leopold had sanctioned “ cruelty. —_—— ‘Water Report Ready. OAKLAND, Dec. 18.—~The report of the engineers who examined the Bay Cities Water Company’s plant will not be filed with the City Council to-mor- row night, as had been expected by the Councilmen Thursday when they fixed the rates of compensation. City Turner, one of the board, said to-day there was no like- lihood of the committee finishing the report before the end of this week. —_—————————— Bishop Phelan Near Death. PITTSBURG, Pa., Dec. 18.—Late to- night the condition of Right Rev. Rich- ard Phelan, Roman Catholic Bishoo of Pittsburg, is very critical. He may not live longer than a few hours. 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