The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 24, 1904, Page 7

FRANCISCO CALL WRECKED TRADERS Schooner Victor Sails on Reef While Crew Slumbers food iated t the sh. at k of their taken Papeete, h trading seems to as-catch-can ber 30 the am Harris and ’ » her doc a woman step L Movements of Steamers. dainty more than d to cease five and nen h r oars f the mar were ached Tah 11 would recove om Ta and a of whom 1 enjoying smmer sunshine and G. A. who returned on than a ith reluct- of winter. a isiand there very rl king, and his They » they make gins, who up to sixteen between here passenger with his two sons. on Raiatea and 8. Barbara North Fork..| Humbol Queen........| Puget Sterra. - 8 | s - T. A. Grady, | Baxonia!.. ('] Aurelia i R el B | : came up | e TO SAIL | Steamer. | == e s | 1 & Portland| 4 Jdt . m Pler pm Pier 9 am/Pier 1:30 p|Pier pm Pler pm|Pler Aurelta Astoria Humb Hu a & Portland] December 25. | Tos Angeles Ports. |10 Chehalis Los Angeles Ports.| 4 pm Pler Norwood...| Los Angeles Ports.| 4 pm'Pler 2 | ! December 26. | | - | ra Northland 5 Centraiia am|Pler Ceptain clock last night for th € bher passengers were 9 am|Pler am Pier am Pler pm Piér Ereakwater S. Monica pm Pier 2110 am Pier -]1:30 p|Pier 9 am|Pler m Pler Park, M. A. Silva, | pm|Pler -...%.|Pler 9'am Pler pm|Pier ter. H._C.“Jobns, J. W. Jewett, Moore, Mrs. Moore, Mrs Willis. | Arctic Mongolia.. - ina & Japan G. W, Astoria & Portiand 11 am Pler December 29. { Pomo .. | Pt. Arena & Alblon| 6 pm Pler State of Cal San Diego & Way.| 9 am/Pier | Newburg...| Grays Harbor.. 4 pm!Pier 10 | G. Lindauer, Grays Harbor......, 8 pm|Pier 2 | acker, E. F. §r Coos ay..., San Pedro & Way.| 9 am Pler Grove, W. Stapley, | December 31. | t and child Alaska: New York direct. .iPler — | Miss M. Abbott, | Maripos Tahit! direct .....J111 am|Pier 7| Miss Ebel G. Bode, | Tmatit Puget Sound Ports.|11 am(Pler 9 | m, C_ A. Davis, Mrs Alameda. Honolulu 11 am{Pler 7| £ | San Jose... | N. Y. via m|Pler 40 | Mrs. | p Kilburn.| Portland & Way pm Pler 27 | , Ro- | Rainter.....| Seattie & Bllnghm| 4 pmPler 10 Mrs. Scarlett, Dr. Jur | 17 gaa Y ! { Iy Ussher, Mrs. Ussher, A. | cojumbla.. | Astoria & Portland /11 am|Pler 24 B. Whittegoom, A G. Wi-| Seanie..... | Seatile & Tacoma.| 5 pm|Pler 20 Miss F. Crabtree, A. H . 3. N. Mennie, Mrs. Rosen. FROM SEATTLE. Destination. | Satls. Skagway & Way Ports.|Dec. 28 Skagway & Way Ports.|Dec, 29 Skagway & Way Ports. Dec. 30 Skagway & Way Ports.|Dec. 31 Seldovia & Way Ports.|Jan. 1 st Hooolulu for Auckland—Willlam Mre. Dunn, Miss J. Dunn. H u for Sydney—John Knight, W. J. Robertson. A S s iy Coffee Crop is Big. to the people who arrived yester- acific Mafl steamship San Jose the in Central America is very h Sun, Moon and Tide. United Btates Coast and Geodetic Survey— Time and Helght of High and Low Waters at Fort Point, entrance to San Francisco Bay. Published by official authority of the Superintendent. NOTE—The high and low waters occur at the city front (Mission-street wharf) about 25 minutes later than at Fort Point: the height of tide is the same at both places. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 24. | Sun rises | Sun sets Moon rises ¢ [Time| £ L i B w , there is not a sign Panama to Guate- of War Taft arrived at Pan- She brought from Ma- sed at §53,000. sers from New York, by was a party of five well- the borse racing game. They Kerryhart, John J. Rogers, Phil- J. L. Hayman and Julian A. Fred Theorin and d Eric Wilson, the tug Alexander Volto Guatemala, returned ; [Time| CLw |1 E=im [ L wi Ewl REBRE | conman Allen A’s Long Passage. 2 schooner arrived on Thursday ved the anxiety of those tion of the ti the early morning tides are given in the hand column and the successive tides of gay in the order of occurrence as to time; the fourth time column gives the last tide of the f st Makawell inter wi §% d oemetimes occurs. The helghts given are in No Change in Overdue Rates. sadition to tng moundings of the otics Tiaced 3 rvey Charts, e when a —) wax made yesierday in the rates gt the height, and then the number | reinsurance e two vessels on the over- given is subtracted from the depth given by , The Edith Mary is quoted at 76 per | ae charts, The plane of reference is the mean and the Brier Holme remains at 80 per | Lot o jower Jow. Waters. {of AChes g Time Bali. Hydrographic Office. U. S.'N., Mer- ch-.'.l‘:: Exciange. San Francieco Cal. The Time Lall on the tower of the Ferry | bufiding was dropped exactly at noon to-day— ISR Coasting Schooner in Trouble, hooner Jobn ¥. Miller, bound to this ! Mukiiteo, has put into Port Angeles and with her head sails biown o ecipiniiitioia Charters, The iatest charters reported are: The British Leargiemore, lumber and merchandise from i e, at moon of the 120th meridlan or a: § 5. @ Greenwich time. J. C. BURNETT, Lieutenant, U. §. N., in charge. e et SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Stmr Bonita, Preble, 60 hours from San P dro and 3' VICTOR, FRENCH _ SCHOONER "KED ON A WHICH WAS WRE SOUTH SEA YSLAND. . Carison, 15 hours from Men- tmr Brooklyn, r Westport, Swanson, 48 hours from San 11 days 18 hours 3 23 days trom atian 5 days and 20 hours. Nelson, 2§ hours from Mass, S1 days from New- amano, Saxe, 11 dave from. Port CLEARED. Fr December 23. Honolulu kels & Bros Co. San Diego; Welling! ¢ bia, Astoria. ndlay, Yokohama, via Seattle. Ladysmith. Hagen, Alblon River. nristlansen, Eureka. kinger, Lautz, Port Ludlow. Astoria. son tingham, Roos, Astoria. SPOKEN. sa—Dec 21, lat 28 58 N, D Agenor, from Guayaqu iat 35 1 Per stmr M long 127 42 Port T, Per Br s nd. > Hutton Hall—Nov 3, long 89 43 W, Br ship Falls of Dee, from Pisagua, for Azores; wished to be reporied all w c S, long €5 W, Br ship Loch Finlas, from Port Talbot, for Taltal. ov 28—Lat 18 N, long 125 40 W, Fr bark | General de Negrier, hence CORRECTIO Reported soeaking of Br y Br ship Chiltonfor Nov 16 for Hull. Ip Colonial Em- on Oct 14, lat 19 §, long 65 29 W, was an error: ship was Br ship Ormsary, which arrived at n Francisco yesterday. ELEGRAPHIC. cloudy; wind S DOMESTIC PORTS. UMPQUA RIVER—Arrived Dec 21—Schr iy, Dec 9. —Sailed Dec 22—Stmr Mackinaw, san Francisco. E—Salled Dec 22—Stmr Norwood, Arrived Dec 23—Stmr Arcata, hence Dec ANTA Safied Dec 23—Sumr 3ay, stmr State of Cali- Dec 23—Stmr Geo W Francisco; stmr Iaqua, for San Dec 23—Ger stmr Arabia, from A—Arrived Dec 23—8chr Allce Mc- om San Pedro. —Stmr Arctic, for San Fran- 'NEWPORT—Satled Dec 23—Schr Lous for San Diego. REDONDO—Arrived Dec 23— Stmr Santa Monica, from San Pedro; stmr Jas § Higgins, from San Pedro. SAN DIEGO—Arrived Dec 23—Stmr Marsh- field, from San Pedro; stmr Coquille River, from San Pedro. Sailed Dec 23—Schr Admiral, Sound. GRAYS HARBOR—Salled Dec 23—Stmrs Centralia, Melville Dollar and Chehalis, for San Pedro; stmrs G C Lindauer, Prentiss and Newburg, for San Francisco. Arrived Dec 23—Stmr Grace Dollar, hence Dec 18: stmr Coronado, hence Dec 19. SAN PEDRO—Arrived Dec 23—Schr Alert, from Bellingham: stmr Samoa, from Fort Bragg, via San Francisco; bktn J M Griffith, from Port Hadlock. Salled Dec 23—Stmrs Francis H Leggett and Scotia, for San Francisco. ISLAND PORTS. HONOLULU—Eailed Dec 22—Stmr Nevadan, for Kahulut. Arrived Dec 23—Stmr Siberia, hence Dec 17 for Yokohama and Hongkonkx. [LO—Arrived Dec 22—Ship Falls of Clyde, hence Dec 3. MAKAWELI—Arrived Dec 22—Schr Allen FOREIGN PORTS. A, from Grays Harbor. COLON-—Arrived Dec 20—Stmr Advance, trom New York. Sailed Dec 21—Stmr Allianca, for New York. HAMBURG—Arrived Dec 19—Ger bark Schurbek, from Chemainus. HONGKONG—Arrived Dec 21—Br stmr Sat- suma, from New York. Dec 22—Stmr Man- churia, hence Nov 19, not sailed, as yesterday. Jasiled Dec 14—Br stmr Salfordla, for Port- for Puget TCHIO—Arrived Dec 21—Fr bark Anne de | Bretagne, from Santa Rosalia. AGASAKI—Sailed Dec 22— U & stmr Shér- man. San Francisco, via Honolulu. GUAYAQUIL—Satied Dec 22- stmr Assuan, for Francisco. NEWCA! AUS—Sailed Dec 23—Bark St James, for San Fracisco. ACAPULCO—Sailed Dec 19—Stmr City of Sydney, for Ancon. Dec 22—Stmr City of Para, for S=n Francisco. SAN JOSE DE GUATEMALA—Sailed Dec 23—Ger stmr Amasis, for San Francisco. VICTORIA—Arrived Dec 23—Br stmr Aor- angi, from Brisbane and sailed for Vancouver, OWwing to the southeast hurricane the Aorangi sheltered in Esquimalt harbor all night and until noon riday, ding and mail there. . sopig i VICTORIA—Sailed Dec 23—Stmr Minne- sota, for Seattle; vessel lost an anchor and sixty-five fathoms of chain cable riding out the southeast hurricane in Royal morning; she shipped her 172 Chinese crew by tender, not coming to the outer wherf, OCEAN STEAMERS. PALERMO—Arrived Dec 23—Stmr Algeria, from Nasies, for New York. NAPLES—Arrived Dec 23—Stmr Neckar, from New York. ‘ GENOA—%PHM Dec 23—Stmr Prinz Oskar, from New 2 n JUEENSTOWN—Arrived Dec 23 _Stmr mqnunu. from New York, for Liverpool, and raine. from New York - and | isen, Bureka, in tow velocity 12 mlles per hour. | ; | ! ! | Weather Report. Meridian—Pacific Time.) SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23—5 p. m. The following maximum and minimum tem- Deratures are reported for previous day: Cncinnatt 52-46: Philadeiphia Boston 2 Washington 3622 | | Jacksonvilie New York | 8¢ Louis 0 Pittsbure Chicago. ..... 8 Honolulu, H. 1 | New Orleans 54 i SAN FRANCISCO .......... 56-42 | The_followinz are the seasonal rainfalls to | { date as compared with those of the same date last season, and the rainfall in the last twen- ty-four hours: | | | { Last This Statlons. 24 Hours. Season. Season. 0.37 17.54 11.82 4.44 8.02 0.90 0.42 0.82 | Los Angeles 0.43 i San Diego . 0.42 ; THE COAST RECORD. ! e Ca ey g ghdz %3 4% { § 223212 & | STATIONS, ’5 Es ;; gs E | - : i 29 : ! Baker 20.82 34 24 Cloudy .04 Carson .20.88 42 30 Cloudy . | Bureka ...01.20.82 50 44 Rain | Fresno .30.08 52 86 Cloudy | Flagstafr 20.90 38 24 Bnow Pocatello .20.88 34 20 SW Pt.Cldy | Independence .20.92 46 30 SE Pt.Cldy Los Angeies..30.00 64 48 W Pt.Clay Mt Tamatpate 30, North Head..29.74 Phoenix FRER2R2ES 10 37 T, 03 10 00 00 57 84 00 .34 «20 .36 24 oS 45 00 2 06 05 00 1: 2 CA ....... 88 40 S Pt.Cldy | WBATHER CONDITIONS AND GENERAL { FORECAST. | Showery, unsettled weather prevalls gener- | ally over the country west of the Rocky Moun- | tains. Snow Is falling in the Sierras and also in Utah, Nevada and Northern Arizona. Throuzhout California the femperatures are | abou=t normal. Forecest made at San Francisco for thircy | hours. ending midnight, December 24: 1 California. north of Tehachapi—Cloudy, un- | settled weather, with showers; fresh southerly wind. California _south of Tehachapi—Cloudy Sat- urday, possibly showers; fresh southwast wind, Nevada—Lizht warmer. San Francisco and vicinity—Cloudy, tied weather Saturday, with showers; southwest winds. Los Angeles and vicinity—Cloudy Saturday, pegsibly showers; fresh southwest wind. raln or snow Saturday; unset- | fresh | | fresh southeast wind. | | Sacramento—Cloudy Saturday. provably showers: Fresno—Cloudy Seturday, probably show- ers: light south wind. A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. | * + NEW YORK—Arrived Dec 23—Stmr Baltle, from Liverpool. Memotanda. Per Br ship Ormsary, from Antwerp Dec 22 | —Salled Aug 3; had head winds in the chan- nel for seven di had light and variabl winds to 2 N: crossed the equatc 37 in long 27 : lost them in 18 Horn: had fair wind and flne w. the Horn and several snow squalls; s had vari- able winde to 23 S, when we got the SE trades | and lost them in 1 N: crossed the equator, 106 | Jp; g poat, where they succeeded in | days out, in long 110 W; got the NE trades in | 2 N and lost them in lat 18 N; thence to port | had variable winds. SEA , 23—8chr John F Miller, | from Mukilteo, for San Francisco, put back | 1o Port Angeles waterlogged and head salls blown away. VICTORIA, Dec 23—So flerce was the gale here this morning and the reports from Cape Flattery ehowing a sixty-mile wind, with mountain seas and snowstorms, the captain of the white funnel liner Yang Tsze decided not to put to sea to-day. aithough the ship was loaded_and ready; the Yang Tsze will proceed to Yokohama as soon as the weather moderates. ———— MANY ATTEND FUNERAL OF LATE BISHOP PHELAN High Dignitaries of the Catholic ! Church Different Parts of the Co Are Presént. PITTSBURG, Dec. 23.—The funeral services over the remains of Bishop | Phelan, held to-day, were marked, with simplicity. Pontifical requiem mass was celebrated by Bishop Cane- vim, after which absolution was given by five Bishops individually. At the grave the services were brief and con- sisted of the ritual for the burial of a Bishop and the blessing of the grave by Bishop Canevin. There were many high dignitaries of the church present frcm different parts of the country. —_————— Army and Navy Orders. WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—By order of the War Department Corporal John M. Wattles of the signal corps at Be- nicia Barracks will be sent to Price, Utah, Moses of the signal corps. - Sergeant Moses will be sent to Benicia with a view to duty in the Philippine Isl- ands. Orders to naval officers—Paymaster T. J. Arms will be detached from the Southery at the navy yard at Ports- mouth, N. H., December 31 and will proceed to Cavite station for duty as pay officer of that yard, sailing from San Francisco on February 2. | St. John, N. B. | his daughter among her passengers, | was last reported leaving Boulogne- : Sur-Mer December 18 for New York | is the longest detention of ocean liners | detained in the Mersey,\but the fog | | shows signs of clearing. | WRECKED PASSENGERS SWIM ! managed to relieve Sergeant Leslie R.| URDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1904 REACH TAHITI|(CEAN LINERS ARE FOGBOUND Heavy Mist Is Still' Hang- ing Over the Mersey and Steamers Cannot Proceed | EXPECT CLEARWEATHER Will Clear Away the Haze and It Is Hoped That It‘ | i LONDON, Dec. 23.—The fog in Lon- don practically disappeared this after- | nocn before a western breeze. Reportsi from the coast show a continuance of | the disorganization of tratfic. Accord-| ing to a telegram from Liverpool thi: morning the White Star line stea.mersi Oceanic and Cedric were still fogbound | ,in the Mersey. i The vessel said to be the Hamburg- American line steamer Pretoria, report- | ! ed last night with others as being fog- | bound in the Mersey, was not the Pre- | toria, but was the Allan line steamer Pretorian, bound from Liverpool for The Pretoria, having Dr. Chadwick of Cleveland, Ohio, and and is due at the latter port Decem- ber 28 or 29. The White Star line steamer Oceanic, | from New York, December 14, the} Wiite Star line steamer Cedric, which | sailed from Liverpool December 21 for New York. and the Cunard line steamer Saxonia, from Boston, December 13, are i still fogbound off the Mersey bar. This by a fog within recollection. 1 Late to-night various steamers are| —_— i CUTLER MOUNTAIN VICTIM i MAY BE CRIPPLE CREEK GIRL | | | Colorado Springs Police Searching for Miss Minnie Swift, Who Is 1 Missing. | COLORADO SPRINGS, Dec.!23.— | The police of this city and the Cripple Creek district are searching for Miss Minnie Swift, a young woman who left her home in Cripple Creek on Decem- ber 8 to spend several weeks in Colo- rado. She is said to answer the de- seription of the Cutler Mountain vic- tim. She has not been heard from by her family since she left her home. The city chemist has to-day ana- lyzed the contents of the bottle found near the scene of the murder and pro- nounces it pure carbolic acid. The bottle is full, however, and is believed by the officers to be in no way con- T. | nected with the crime. The police are abandoning the idea that the mur- dered girl lived in this vicinity and are+depending upon the circulation of a detailed description of her teeth to ! ultimately reveal her identity. i Chief Reynolds has also been working upon a report made by Conducter Al- len of the Cripple Creek Short Line to the effect that he carried a girl an- swering the description of the victim from Cripple Creek to Rosemount about i three weeks ago. Sheriff Grimes to-day received a tele- Cal., asking the local officer to compare the description of Mrs. Hoxie, who left that town with Dr. F. N. Stapels some six weeks ago, with that of the un- known body. The Sheriff says the de- | scriptions do not tally in any way and so instructed Sheriff Norman. Many stories are being sent out of the finding of clothing, but according to | Chief Reynolds there is absolutely no | truth in the reports and the officers are | as much in the dark as ever. ————————————— EIGHT MILES IN ROUGH SEA Three Young Men Escape With Their Lives From Disaster in the } Soutk: Pacific. PAPEETE, Tahiti, Dec. 10.—The Pitcairn Islanders residing in Tahiti anc¢ Raiatea have received word of the wreck of the Pitcairn Island cut- ter. One of the passengers named | ! Coffin was drowned. Three young men to make their escape by swimming eight miles in a very rough ' sea. It appears that shortly before the vessel foundered most of the passen- gers were sent to the island in the making a successful landing. The; | crew remained by the vessel, standing ; diately after the shooting Abraham off during a furious gale, finding no ! opportunity to beach it. | “A cutter arrived from the upper Tuamotu Islands on December 10, bringing news that the French schooner Victor, foundered on the reef at Apataki, about December 5. Two spars were saved, but the cargo of the ship was a total loss. No lives were lost. The French cruisér Protet will soon go to San Francisco. ————— OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. — Post- | masters were appointed to-day as fol- | Jows: California—William A. Clgyton, | at Allegheny, Sierra County; Edith M. !Tuckm‘. at Hernandez, San Benito County. Oregon—John W. Minto, at | Pertland. The contract for carrying the mail from ‘Seattle to Valdez was awarded to the Alaska-Pacific Navigation Com- pany for $1000°a round trip, to be made every twenty days. lished, béginning January 1, station Nq. 4 of the Postoffice of San Fran- cisco at California and Leidesdorft streets. Miss Alice M. Quinn has bech ap- ’polnted stenographer of the Land Of- fice at Susanville, Jones to a position in the Surveyor General's office at San Francisco. Dennis Geary of San Francisco was admitted to practice before the de- partment. I | holiday business, except in some por- | Business FPASSENGERS IN A HURRY | gram from Sherift Norman of Jackson, | { wild rush for shore among the 450 "lou! to get the earliest train to-day for their homes to spend Christmas. HOLIDAY TRADE 1S VERY BRISK Demand for Christmas Goods Is Steady and Exceeds| Expectations of Dealers| STAPLE ARTICLES QUIET Greater Than During the Same Period Last Year| =0l okl | NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—Bradstreet's | to-morrow will say: Holiday trade and retall business generally holds the center of the stage, wholesale business and speculative | tocks and staples quieting down. In some lines of industry, too, seasonable influences make for quiet, but a marked exception is noted in iron and steel, which display activity and strength and still further advances on | crude and finished produects. | Railway gross earnings are up to| the best of the year and exceed all| previous periods at this time. Net re- turns indicate present profitable ope- rations about making up for lessened earnings earlier in the year. A pre-| liminary survey indicates close to, if not in excess of, record preportions in tions of the south and the Pacific Coast. | Among the metals tin and copper | alone show weakness. Leather is firm; lumber is steady. Wool is strong, sup- plies are limited, one-third of next vear’s clip is sold in advance, and the high cost of material makes for higher finished products. Business failures in the United States for the week ending December num- ber 249, against 239 last year and 243 in this week of 1903. | In Canada failures for the week num- ber 37, as against 37 last week and 15 last year. ‘Wheat (including flour) exports for | the week aggregate 1,080,708 bushels, | against 1,444,890 last week and 2,335,606 last year. From July 1 to date the exports agg: 77,137 bushels, against 83,2 year. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade will say: Demand for holiday goods has ex-| ceeded expectations, but trade in sta-| ple merchandise is seasonably quiet. conditions are_satisfactory, manufacturing plants producing freely except where insufficient water supply | restricts ‘operations, and a large vol- | ume of option trading was recorded for | the week at the leading commercial ex- changes. Dispatches from the leading | cities are encouraging. Traffic returns | continue favorable. Railroad egrnings | for December thus far exceeded last | year’s by 7.6 per cent. Foreign com- | terce at this port during the last| week showed increases of $1,415,369 in | exports and $2,085,038 in imports, as compared with the same week in 1903. Irregularity continues in the hide| market. Limited receipts maintain previous advances in foreign dry hides. Failures this week numbered 251 .in the United States, against 284 last year and 32 in Canada, compared with 20 two years ago. —_———— TO REACH THEIR HOMES Liner Deutschland Speedily Landed So People Can Get to Destinations by Christmas. NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Thera was a cabin passengers when the gangplank | of the great liner Deutschland was | lowered at her pier in Hoboken early | to-day. Among the travelers were | many from the West and South, anx- It was to vermit this that the vessel was brought up the bay and passed at | quagantine in the night—an extremely unusual event at this port. —_————— MERCHANT SHOOTS BROTHER | AT THE B'RE.»\KFASI‘ TABLE | i anlli Wounds Relative When Stricken With a Sudden Fit of Insanity. NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Becoming | suddenly insane while at the break- | fast table with his brother and their mother, Abraham Chaphowsky to-day fired five shots at his brother, Lewis, wecunding him fatally. The wounded man is a well-to-do cloth importer ahd merchant in Lisbenard street. Imme- seemed to recover his senses, and, dropping to his knees beside his pros- trate brother, begged his forgiveness. —_—— Glove, formerly 121 Grant ave. C. Limousin.*® | BUCKLEY MUST FRANCIS CIVES HIS. TESTIMONY Refuses to Divulge Name of Exposition Director Who Made Charge .‘&;_min.\t Blair GIVEN FINANCIAL AID | Western Breeze Springs Up Railway Gross Earnings Are“Fri«»nd: of Deceased Raised $35.000 to Take Up Note Held Against Him by Bank ST. LOUIS, Dec. 22.—The testimony of Thomas €. McPheeters, for many years an intimate friend of the late James L. Blair, was the feature to-day in the suit brought by a New York life insurance company to annul a $200,000 policy on the life of Blair. McPheeters rehearsed the story told by Blair that a brother had invoived him in financial difficulties and said that he had called a meeting of Blair's friends to see if something could net be done for his relief. Later, accord- ing to McPheeters’ testimony, a note given by Blair became due and when a local bank became insistent and Blair had told McPheeters that he could not raise the fund, McPheeters went to ten of Blair’s friends and secured the mon- ey, $35,000, with which to take up the note. David R. Francis, Louisiana Purch: president of the Ex ition Com- pany, was also a witn Francis told of a meéeting of the board of directors of the World's Fair after the publica- tion of the alleged peculations of Blair, who was at that time general counsel for the World's Fair Company, at which it was intimated by one of the directors that from personal knowledge he knew teat Blair was guilty and that when Blair heard of the accusation he of- fered to resignm, after demanding to know the name of the man who pro- | fessed to know of his guilt. President Francis said that he re- fused to tell the name to Blair. He also refused to ose the identity of the director when requested to do so at the hearing to-day. ———— GREAT SUM TO BE PAID OUT AT YEAR'S OPEN G Dividend and Interest Disbursements Will Exceed All Records by Three Millions. NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Dividend and interest disbursements to be made in January will break all records, ac- cording to statistics collected by the Journal of Commerce. The compila- tion indicates a total of about $13 600,000 to be paid out by leading rafl= road and industrial corporations, local banks, trust companies, traction com- panies and the National Government. This is nearly $3,000,000 more than in January a year ago, when the total payments of similar institutions were about $133,800,000. The industrial payments show a ccnsiderable falling off because of the | reduction and passing of dividends, but this is much more than offset by the increased payments on the part of railroads and local traction com- panies. —_——— YOUTHFUL DESPERADOES STRANGLE GRANDMOTHER Choke Her Into Unconsciousness and Then Rob Her of Money and Jewelry. NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Wearing cartridge belts and with their pockets filled with dime novels, two boys have been arrested in Harlem on chagges of strangling their grandmother into un- consciousness and then robbing her of jewelry and money amounting to more than $25. The boys are Charles W. Upton, 16 years old, and his cousin, Frederick McDermott, who gave his home as Oyster Bay. Several pawn tickets were found on the youths, together with a signed resolution that they should never part and that neither should marry. —_————————— AwWAIT ACTION BY THE COURT | Governor Will Not Interfere in Cone demmned Man’s Case Until Appeal Is Decided. SACRAMENTO, Dec. 23.—Governor Pardee says there is no truth in the report that he contemplates commut- ing the sentence of William Buckley to life imprisonment. He says the case has been appealed to the United States Supreme Court and therefore is in the hands of that court. “I will not consider the case with- in my jurisdiction again,” said the Governor, “until that court acts upon the appeal.” “The Postmaster General has estab- | ONDUCTE and dailyexcursionsin sleeping cars without change from Los Angeles, Santa Bar Monterey, San Francisco,#Bakersfield, Fresno, ’ Stockton, Sacramento and other California points via the Southern Pacific, Union Paeific and Chicago & North-Western Railways > TO GHICGAGO and the East. Fast trains. Excellent service. Dining car se e a la carte. Choiceof routes. Low d-triprates. Double berth to Chnfigsu