The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 25, 1904, Page 21

THE SAN FRA "TITLED YOUTH WILL GO TO PARLIAMENT | | IRISH ESTATE NCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1904 HEIR T0 VAST |OPENS HER PURSE TANKEES PREY [FUMES OF GAS FOR THE POOR Big Celebration Held Upon Coming of Age of the Son Lerd Turnour, Oxford Student, El’ectedi Labor Lead LONDON, Dec, 24.—Two Parliamen- . have just taken place which are of more than passing nterest because the striking con- rasts presented by the successful can- dates and the exhibitions they afford bye-elections the diverse conditions under which trance to the House of Commeons is brained. One of the new members is seif-taught, self-made man of the eople; the other, a stripling of a Lord, vhose sole claim to distinction at pres- nt is that he has more influential ti- tied relativ than any other youth in he kingdom At West Monmouth, in Wales, Thom- as Richards, a labor candidate, was clected to fill the vacancy created by he death of the former member, Sir William Harcourt At Horsham, in Viscount Turnour won a vic- the Conservative party. nine years old. He ing &s a youngster f age was set to ory. He employed his t the defects of but from ex- r more than from won leadership among his workmen in the coal fields by his i the confidence ip- rling integrity. s with the owners of es he was frequently put ard as the spokesman of the wage- t influence was invari- side of restraint ment. a labor stinguished by his mod- his mastery has been gen- Miners’ Federa- t important labor country, compris- ers and affecting i of 2 quarter of a million troub speaker, by he grounds for men are better rliament wag great JUST PAST TWENTY-ONE. sentative ludes schoolboys > representation find a man less r a seat in Parliament than the heir of the Earl of who sits in the House of mount to a great deal he is still going undergraduate at resent an st April. With- would not receiving a. chance ven - first Duke sixth Duke Ab ish peerage Marquis and n, the doy- He is a Marchio- of the Duke and cugh, of Harriet, d and the Marchio- i has aristocratic Br th v ne eagy for him a Con- wid was debut, and tremendous so- was exerted to help pull ough. Titled gcore of mot families cars at his dis- wes, and no vassing W aced his election ex- ses n the result of the poll s anr ed the Right Hon. Arthur four telegraphed his congratula- v Turnour, and promised to ' ) to) the House of Commons hén Parliament reassembled BABY OF THE COMMONS. * He will be known there as the| v, the unofficial titie always con- he youngest member. The e Prime Minister proudly e the youthful lordling. who ased to be a legal infant only a few Rs ago. as a fit and well-qualified 1 to legislate for the greatest em- th will be an astonishing The election of Lord Turnour is a siriking stration, which might be paralleled by a score of others, of the | failure o ular suffrage in England to reali sanguine expectations of its advocates that it would result in electing to Parliament the men best fitted to represeni the various classes of the nation Had not Tom Richards frund a vacancy in e constitutency in vwhich he was well known, and the la- hor vote well organized, he would prob- ably never have succeeded in getting n » Parliament. ¢/ <m tie other hand. Lord Turnour, de- epite his manifest unfitness, because of hix youth and inexperience, would have had to wait no longer than the next general « m to have obtained the Pick of a °n constituencies where the sa sences would have assured his returr Lord Rosebery's heir, Lord Dalmeny, the Earl of Aberdeen’s eldest son, the Earl of Dartmouth’s first-born, and some half-doz ther sons of peers, not much older than Lord Turnour, and equally lacking in the experience that would fit them for membership in the House of Commons, have announced their intention of runm:ng for Parlia- ment. The way will be made easy for them:; family and socia! influence will rally to their support, and most of them will undoubtedly ger in. LABOR'S FEEBLE VOICE, It is a singular fact that there are fewer representatives of the wage- earning class in the British Parliament than in ent of any com- tinental re popular suffrage exi ANl told the are not more than ten of them, whiie In the German Reichsiag there are something like eighty. The paucity of their number cannot be attributed to their lack of abllity. Thery have all of them far more brains than the average member of Parliament, and none of them is a demagogue. There are something like two score scions of the peerage in Par- liament, but if the best of them were picked out for the purpose it is doubt- P ful if they could furnish a team of equal numbers, that judged by any standard of praciical capacity would gov- | birthday | s the ven- | chosen for | placed | | i pass muster with such men as John | Burns, Henry Broadhurst, Thomas Burt, Will Crooks and the rest of the doughty little band who hold briefs for | labor in the House of Commons. ‘ | Lords figure in every Cabinet, but| |never a labor representative. An un- | dersecretaryship is the highest official honor ever bestowdd on them, and only’ jtwo of them have ever attained to that | dignity—Broadhurst and Burt. Young | Lord Turnour will stand an infinitely better chance of receiving a Parlia- ymentary office than Tom Richards. | Aristocratic influence counts for as much inside the House as outside of it, { especially under the Cecil regime. | POSITION AS A LUXURY. ! The fact that members of Parliament are unpaf is alone sufficient to place extremely narrow restrictions on labor representation, or the election of poor | men, however able. When ‘labor or- | Banizations succeed in getilng one of their number elected to Parliament they have to. subscribe money enough 10 enable him to live while performing his legislative duties. Of course there | &re methods by which a member may | recoup himself for the lack of salary. {The most common and popular is the acceptance of directorships in various {oint stock companiés in which the | magic letters “M. P.” carry great j weight with the share-subscribing pub- | lic and are liberaliy paiG for. ! Many aristocratic names appear among these “guinea pig” directors, as they are termed, but no abor member, despite the temptations of his poverty, has ever besmirched his honor by such associations. Nor has this been due to | any lack of opportunity. More than once John Burns has been offered $2500 2 year to allow his name to be used as a director of some company dealing ‘n commodities that sell largely among | the working classes. | Laws against corruption are very | etringent, but for all tnat the “sack’ counts for quite as much in politics here as in America, though in a some- what different fashion { MAINLY FOR THE RICH. The “finest club in the world,” as | the House of Commons has been termed, is essentially a rich man’s club. { There are far more wealthy men in it | than in Congress, and with many of them—one might say with most of them—it is to their wealth they owe their election. They maie themselves { “solid” | spending vith money their constituencies by freel; in local char- ities, social organizations z=nd football | and cricket clubs. Not long ago a member of Parliament ' resigned because he frankly acknowi- edged he could no longer stand the ex- | pense it entailed. There are over a hundred members of the House of Commons who figure in the Parliamen- { tary directory as “country gentlemen,” | which is an extremely large representa- | tion for a very limited class. Most of them have never earned their own liv- ings:*have no knowledge of business, and would probably cut sorry figures | if suddenly turned adrift in the world and throw. on their own resources. | Radicals predict that before many years elapse members of Parliament will be paid, and that with freer oppor- | tunities given tb ability brainier men will be elected, and rank and social in- | fluence will not count for near as much as they do now. It may be so, but the signs of such a change are not ap- jparent. The fact is that there is a great amount of snob-worship among | the middle classes, and servility among the lower, and while they exist the 1 way will be made easy for the iord and | the squire to get into Parliament with or without brains. : —_———————— AMERICAN PEER WILL SOON : ' RETURN TO THIS COUNTRY | | Lord ¥Fairfax Finds the Simplicity of the Western World More to | His Liking. | LONDON, Deec. 24.—Lord Fairfax, | | the representative of that Maryland | | family which has long held a Scotch | peerage, is looking forward with pleas- | | ant anticipations to his speedy re- | | turn to the land of his birth, where he will be able to assume once more | the simple dignity of a plain American citizen who recognizes to the full his | obiigations to make a living himself. | His business mission, in connection | with some Americen banking institu- tion, has heen far from successful. The fault was probably none of his, for! money is scarce in these days and British capitalists are very shy of mak- ing foreign investments. Apparently | those who sent him here thought that | his title would attract people to the| scheme he represented. If anything| it has had quite the contrary effect. So | many scandals have resuited of late vears between the association of coro- nets and commercial veniures that | the public generally refuses to. bite at | the company promoter’'s hook when it 1 baited with a peerage. For his title Lord Fairfax really seems to care not a jot. He has so long lived in America as plain Albert Kirby Fairfax that he has no notion how to assume the airs that are here supposed to be the appropriate and necessary accompaniment of it. He prefers| “Mr.” to "My Lord,” but people have | insisted on giving bim the full benefit | 'of nis title. At the swell functions, ! | which he found it impossible to shirk, he always looked bored and much out | Iol his natural element among those | | with whom fashionable frivolity con- | stituted the chief business of life. B cynical ecritic remarked that it is a | great pity Lord Fairfax cannot take | back with him a shipload of young| titied idlers that in America they might undergo transformation into useful | | wage-earners like self. Lord Fair- | | fax’s visits to Englaptl seem associated | with failures. ‘When all the peers of the realm were being rounded up to grace the corona- tion of King Bdward VII he crossed the Atlantic and had a costly set of peer’s { robes made for him, but the King’s ill- +ness and the consequent postponement ! of the coronation compelled his return 10 America before he had had an op- portunity to make a public appearance in them. y i | | i i { plan for | puckage when delivery was made. | port, of the Earl of Kilmorey er Also Chosen WoRtHY oF FORTUNE L e Viscount Newry Said to Be Favored With Good Looks and a Strong Character LONDON, Dec. 24—In every way.a lucky youth, and one who seems ‘(o deserve his good fortune, is Viscount Newry, the eldest son of the Earl and Countess of Kilmorey, whose coming of age has just been celebrated with much rejoicing and lavish hospitality at the family seat, Mourne Park, County Down, Ireland, where the major por- tion of the broad ancestral acrgs are situated. Tenants, friends and local authorities have overwhelmed the young heir and his parents with con- gratulations and gifts. The festivities were kept up for a week, servants and tenants sharing freely in the good time. The Viscount's father is a fine, stal- wart, virile type of the aristocrat; his mother is one of the stateliest, tallest and handsomest women in the peerage, and from them he has inherited a good figure, a sound constitution, strength and good looks, and brains enough to steer clear of the pitfalls that beset wealth and rank. He is a lieutenant in the First Life Guards, the swellest regiment in the British army, where many scions of titled houses have first learned to “‘go the pace.” Young Lord Newry has left cards alone—takes his profession seri- ously, and is popular with his brother officers. He gives himself no airs, and is ne of the unspoiled ‘a\'oriles of society. Matrimonially he is a good catch, for some day he will inherit 44,000 acres in Ireland, 2000 in England and a town residence in addition to the Irish man- sion. The report circulated some time ago that he was engaged to Miss Lulu Pfizer, a- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pfizer of New York, appears to have been unfounded. As the family is not an impecunious one he is not under theé necessity of hunting up an American heiress, but that is no reason why he should not wed an American girl some day. The Earl of Kilmorey is one of the representative peers of Ireland, but he is a Protestant and the family is of Kng- lish origin, springing from Wiiliam de Nedham, who was Lord of Staunton in 1i02. Though a keen sportsman he is also a man of scholarly accomplish- ments and an M. A. of Oxford. He was a member of Parliament' for some years before he succeeded to the family ritage. What he most prides him- self on is the fact that he has never had any trouble: with his tenants, which is a rare record for an Irish landlord. The Countess is equally pop- ular with the tenants and takes zn interest in the promotion of reasant industri = —_———— F'S INGENIOUS PLAN SPOILED BY THE THIE POLICE chasers of Christmas Gifts Saved From Heavy Loss by Gotham Officerg SW YORK, Dec. 24.—An ingeni- ous plan for robbing persons who had purchased expensive Christmas gifts from big jewelry houses in this city, the police say, was disclosed to-day by the arrest of William Roseman for the authorities of Atlantie City, N. J. Roseman is charged with grand lar- in connection with the theft of worth of diamonds from the ams Express Company at Atlantic According to the police Roseman’s was to loiter around the big | jewelry stores, and, overhearing a sale being made, take the names and ad- dresses of the purchases, lie in wait the messenger and receipt for the e e—— AFTER FORTY LONG YEARS GOVERNMENT PAYS DEBT Oficer of Civil War Receives Check for $3 55 due H on Servant's Ciothing Allowance, COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Dec. 24 —General Linus E. Sherman of this | LONDON, Dec. 24.—Mrs. Spender- Clay’s influence over her husband is | The captain’s chief income is desired | | from the towh of Bunon-on-Trem.! where he owns much land besldes;e- 1 TS ing one of the principal sharehol | in Bass' brewery, but there is no evi- | The afternoons she spent on a high dence that he has ever taken much in- | Stool, swaying her body about from the ! terest in the town or its people. The! condition of the poor during the hard ' winters always aroused the sympathy | of Miss Pauline Astor, but her bene-| factions were usually confined to the East End of London. Since her marriage she has been to Burton-on-Trent for the first time, and was shown over the huge brewery | by Lord Burton. She afterward visit-, ed some of the poorer districts of the | town where she witnessed squalor quite | equal to anything she had seen in the | worst parts of London. One or two cases that needed immediate relief she | assisted there and then with her own hands. Since that visit parcels of clothing and tickets for groceries and coal have been distributed among a number of poor widows whose husbands have died in the service of the brewery. Cap- tain Spender-Clay has been seen more frequéntly in the district since his mar- riage and he, too, now shows a decided | interest in charitable societies and or- ganizations throughout the town. It is feared among clergymen and others who are interested in the London poor that Burton-on-Trent's gain will be London’s loss. L VES HANDSOME HOME. When A. D. Loney of New York ac- | quired Willoughby Hall, in Northan-, tonshire, he thought that he found an ' ideal residence. He had previously | tried several places in Seotland and | England without discovering what he really wanted. He has spent much money on the new residence in order to | render it equal io modern. domestic re- | quirements, and this week found that the severity of the English winter would not permit him to spend Christ- | mas there. He has removed his fam- | ily to the south of France/ and it is | somewhat doubtful whether they wm' again return to Willoughby. The sudden decision of Lonéy has caused much disappointment among a | number of his friends because exten- sive prenarations had been made to have a-fashionable party at the hall | for the Christmas festivities. A large | staff of servants has been disbanded, | but each member has been generously | treated, so that there will be no im- | mediate necessity for them to swell the ! ranks of the unemvloved. Some of the local trades people feel Loney’s removal keenly because since he has been in the neighborhood he [ . has made it a rule to support local trade and industry as much as pos- sible. Tondon stores were scarcely drawn upon for anything, which is con- trary to the rule practiced by fashion- able peonle living in large country | mansions. Some persons living in the neighborhood believe that Loney may vet decide to keep the mansion as a summer residence. Nothing has yet been dispoged of. A man has been en- gaged to look after the place for the | time being. | COLD ENGLISH HOUSES. This is the season when the much | vaunted open-grate'fire of the average English home proves a delusion and a snare, and one yearns for the comfort of the American stove or steam radia- | tor. | Only the most modern and preten: | tious of English houses make any provi- sion for heating the whole house. To one who is not familiar/with the simi- larity of English habits to the laws of the Medes and Persians, this national adherence to archaic methods would eppear amazing. The annual waste of | | fuel in England is something prodigi- | fous, Tho—~ city, past department commander of the Grand Army of the Re-; public for Colorado and Wyom- ing, to-day received a warrant for $3 55 for a debt which the Gov- ernment has owed him for forty years. ' It was a war settlement warrant for his servant's clothing allowance for March 19, 1865, which is paid as a re- sult of a readjustment of claims upon which General Sherman received $75 several years ago. — e HOLIDAYS AT PASO ROBLES. Only $7.20 for the Round Trip. Waoever spends the holiday season at Paso e sure of enjoying every moment. Fine drives through lovely country, hot mud and other mineral baths, unsurpassed service and cuisine at Hotel El Paso de Robles, and bright_sunshine and fresh, invigorating moun- tafn alr. = id_chance for a fine i Pacific agents, * e SECOND ATTEMPT MADE TO DESTROY A FOUNDRY Plant of Newport Machine Company Shaken by Terrific Explosion of Dynamite, CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. 24.—An- other attempt was made during the | night to blow up the Newport Foundry and Machine Company’s plant at New- Ky. The entire building was mite. The dynamite was dropped near a fence and consequently little dam- age was done. The expiosion was heard all over the city. * e IF YOU ARE LOOKING For any kind of a Musical In- strument. from a jewsharp to a piano, consult the Musical In- strument Colamn of THE CALL. You will find reliable dealers there. \ — haken by a terrific explosion of dyna- | | ! | l Tie round-trip rate of $7.20 from San| 1 | i i i | | U Gy ——— | press you with the “‘brightness’ of her intellect. But she never really im- [presses any one Who has once seen ‘through and realized the astonishing| ‘self-consciousness which distinguishes | ‘greatest mbuel /the women of the ‘on eart " There is a | French saying to the effect | cerns, | ing the defendants have | does mot understand mfirfi:rg Mrs. Spender-Clay Befriends People of Husband's T own. A.D. Loney Leaves England for France for the Holidays.' that “you must suffer to be beautiful.” Its truth has been strikingly shown by b i | commencing to assert itself already. |2 l1ady’s maid in Paris, who has jusat, revealed the secret of her mistress’ beauty. To attain it she endured mar- tyrdom for a year. During the morn- | ings she lay flat on her back on the! floor. This was to improve her figure. hips. This treatment was supposed to make her graceful and beautify the contour of her waist and throat. Nature had bestowed on her a sky- tilted nose, but it was made Grecian by the application of a spring bandage to it night and day for months. nostril was larger than another. The constant use of a pad increased the size of the smaller one until they were a weil matched pair. Her cheeks, which were too thin, were filled out by | Her ears were | compressed against the sides of her, . head by springs until their bat's wing injections of paraffia. tendencies had been overcome. weights were attached to the lobes to produce the desired elongated shape. Now she is considered a pretty woman. And she considers it well worth the price she has paid for it. AN ODD LONDON CLUB. There are many queer clubs in Lon- don, but probably the oddest is that which dined the other night at the Whitehall rooms. “Nobody's Friends” is a quaint title, a phrase hardly sugges- tive of exclusiveness and distinction. Yet it includes among its members Ar- thur Balfour, Prime Minister; the two Primates of England—the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York—half a dozen bishops, thg Lord Chief Justice and five or six lesser Jus- tices, beside various other notables. Its name does not remotely suggest its origin or purpose. In the last quar- ter of the eighteenth century there flourished one William Stevens, who at- tained fortune as a hosier and fame as a theologian by the publication of an essay in defense of those pillars of the English church, the thirty-nine articles. | In 1300 he issued a theological brochure signed “Ain,” which is Hebrew for “no- body,” and Nobody's Club was founded to commemorate its versatile author, Excent among antiquarians Stevens and his works have long been forgotten and undoubtedly the club would many years ago have shared the same fate but for one of its articles of incorpora- tion, by which its members piedged themselves to dine together ihrice a year. ‘That bond of union has kept it alive for 104 years and may centinue it in existence for another century or two. —_———— RUBBER TIRE COMBINE IS SUED FOR DAMAGES Plaintif Manufacturer Alleges a Vio- lation of the Sherman Anti- Trust Law. CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. Eleven rubber tire manufacturing con- comprising the so-called rub- ber tire combine, were made defend- {ants in the United States Court to-day a suit filed by the Mulford Rub- be: Tire Company of Atlanta, Ga. The suit is for damages under the Sher- man anti-trust law, the plaintiff claim- injured the cempany'’s business to the extent of $19,500. The suit is for $59,100, three times the amount of the damages, in accordance with the Sherman law. ————— | MOTHER AND BABE DIE IN SMALLPOX HOSPITAL Four Deaths in Pesthouse Cast Chill Over the Christmas Celebration Planned by Unfortunates. CHICAGO, Dec. 24.—Four deaths in he Isolation Hospital to-day broke the record for the institution and cast ‘ “; P00 m o One ! Heavy | 24— OF GRAFTERS American Sharpers in Lon- don Lie in Wait There for Their Fellow Countrymen WORK VARIOUS SCHEMES | Generally Seek to Secure ! Loan by Telling a Well! Learned Hard Luck Story! LONDON, Dec. 24.—Probably few of | the people from the United States, ! who have visited London this season, | have escaped a meeting with one or more of the little clique of American “grafters” here, who make fellow-| | countrymen their victims. Those of | them, who, by frequent encounters | have become well known to Americans, are wearing a prosperous air, from | | which one would conclude that the sea- son has been well spent. | One of the cleverest of these men is | a dark-complexioned, quxel—volcedf young American of medium height and | poor but respectable appearance Wh0| | stops travelers anywhere between | Fleet street and Hyde Park corner to ! tell them how, by becoming ntranded& somewhere in the provinces, a theatri- ‘» cal troupe left him with barely enough money to reach London. He makes his | distress so real that the tourist’s hand i goes down into his pocket in almost | every case. On Sundays when there | are few Americans about the streets, | this individual haunts the British Mu- seum, the picture galleries and any | free exhibitions that may be open. | Another of these “grafters” is bare- ly five feet two in height, solidly built | and invariably wears a broad-brimmed soft hat. For two years he has “just | been discharged from Buffalo Bill's show” and he has an excellent story | about waiting for money from home for which he has written. ! Of American “confidence men” there are many in London, especially during ths summer and autumn when visitors are plenty. Their usual method is to follow a traveler about until he “signs"” | for a registered letter, or money order at a nostoffice, when, his pame and possibly his eity ascertained by look- ing over his shoulder, he is accosted. “glad-handed” and frequently “done.” Americans who would be wary enough at home seem to he off their guard while on their travels and seraping ac- | quaintances with them is a compara- tively easy matter. A particularly successful member of | the gang of American grafters in Lon- | don is a respectable looking fellow with j iron-gray hair and a business-like man- ner, who is supposed to get acquainted with travelers’ names from the hotel registers and then make deductions as to where they have been from the la- bels on their baggage. This sharper has been known to the metropolitan police for six or seven years, but so seldom the victim morally brave enough to complain to the authori- ties that the latter have not been able to take care of him. —_————— FRENCH BARK IS HELD | BY CUSTOMS OFFICIALS ' A is Suilor Who Was Not Entitled to Land Deserts and Vessel Is Refused Clearance Papers. PORTLAND, ¢ Dec. 24.—Emi- gration Inspector ‘Barbour has re-| fused to grant a clearance to the French bark Jules Gommes owing to the fact that a sailor named Morris- seau, who deserted the vessel, cannot be found. Upon being notified a week ago by the inspector that the man was not entitled to land, the captain of the Gommes swore out a warrant | for his arrest, but tha officers have ‘ been unable to locate him. When the vessel finished loading her captain ap- plied to the inspector for his release | and was refused it, as were also his clearance papers by thes customs of-! ‘ficials. The captain has carried the matter to the French representatives, who have protested against the deten- | tien to the authorities at Washington. | Inspector Barbour has asked instruc- | tions from Washington and until a reply is received the vessel will be de- i tained here. ‘The Gommes is loaded with 120,- #69-bushels of wheat destined for| sreat Britain. —— e OSTAL ORDER FORGER GOES TO PENITENTIARY | entence of Twelve Years' Imprison- | ment Is ITmpdéed Upon James hiason by Judge. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24.—Twelve | lears’ imprisonment in the peniten- ijary was the sentence imposed by Tudge Welburn in the United States District Court upon James R. Math- | lason, the counterfeiter and postof- fice money order forger. Mathiason | bleaded guilty to two indictments, bne for counterfeiting and a second | for forgery. ! | Mathiason, who is 33 years of a‘e.l vas shot and dangerously wounded at | Dcean Park last summer as he was trying to escape after having passed | i raised $2 bill at a store at that, place. After his arresi he was iden- | ified as the man for whom the pos- al authorities had been looking for’ nonths for “raising” postoffice money | rders and whose operations extend- d zlong the entire coasi. | i VASHINGTON BOY SHOOTS AND KILLS HIS FATHER ‘ires Load of Buckshot Into Parent’s Back Because He Had Cursed Him While at Work. TACOMA, Dec. 24.—Near Chehalis | 'homas Brown, aged 17, has shot and’ lilled hig father while they were at! vork in the field. The father cursed he boy, who ran to the house, got a lun and told his mother he was going 5 shoot an owl. Then he hunted up | wd shot him in the back. As the latter ‘started to run the boy shot again, killing him. TWO ATTACHMENTS SERVED—The Sher. | yesterday served two writs of | . W. Thomas of 13 Poik £C. N. b . a hat dealer at i for $2174 23 for the Creditors' Adjustment Company. KILL TWO NEN Vietims Are Overcome by Deadly Odor While Clean- ing an Oil Car at Sunset RESCUERS NEARLY DIE g Noxious Vapors Render Un- conscious Employes Who Try to Save Companions —_— BAKERSFIELD, Dec. 24.—Two men went down to their deaths in a tank- car at Sunset last evening and the lives of two others were imperiled by their heroism in seeking to rescue their companions from the deadly fumes of gas in the empty car. C. E. Barmes and Ed Hoagland are the victims who died under the influence of the nox- ious vapors, while George Rogers and P. Iseaburg nearly suffered a like fate in their heroic efforts to bring their companions to safety. ‘Work was begun in cleaning out a car that had been filled with distillate standing at the terminus of the Sun- set line, and Hoagland in a moment was overcome by the imprisoned va- vors. Foreman Barnes, on hearing the call for help from others on the car, rushed to the scene and without a mo- ment’'s hesitation dropped into the tank and attempted to rescue Hoag- iand. ' He, too, was in a moment lying senseless. Ceorge Rogers essayed to effect their release. He descended into the car and vainly endeavored to bring out Barnes. The gas was too much for him, and he barely sfcceeded in ascending the ladder into the fresh air. Isenburg, another workman, with- out reckoning the danger to his own life, dropped into the deadly fumes and made a heroic effort to rescue his fel- lows. He was forced out of the tank, but had no sooner fliled his lungs with fresh air than he attempted to return to the work. He was forcibly dstained by other employes. In the meantime repes had been secured, and after much effort the bodies of Barnes and Hoag- iand were brought to the top of the car. Barnes had been a resident of Los Angelez, and with him in the oil flelds were his wife and two children. Hoagland was a resident of Ottumwa, lowa, and was a newcomer to this courty. He was a Knight Templar. ——— e ——— TROUBLE IN SETTLING COYOTE SCALP CLAIMS Controller’s Office Discovers That the Courts in Some Instances Have Given Double Judgments. SACRAMENTO, Dec. 24.—The State Controller's office has run up against a snag in connection with the settlement of coyote scalp claims. Four years ago there were claims against the State aggregating many thousands of dollars for bounty coyote scalps. The Legislature appro- prizted $204,000 to pay the claims, The act made the money available on the first of January, 1905. Deputly State Controiller W. W. Douglas said to-day that there should be an ab- on | stract fer the guidance of the Con- troller, which will show every certif- icate that has been sued on. It has been found, said Douglas, that the courts have given double judgments, which meant that claimants could col- lect twice and thus secure many thou- sands of Jollars from the State to which they are not entitled. i it Plays Santa Claus and Gets Burned. SANTA ROSA, Dec. 24.—A panic narrowly averted last night at Men's Hall when a false beard costume worn by Otto Seeman, :who was officiating as Santa Claus at an entertainment being given by the Council of Pocahontas, took fire from a lighted candle on the Christmas tree and enveloped him in flames. Seeman. who was badly burned, rushed madly through the crowd of spectators until one of them jerked M his coat and threw it over him. Seeman will probably recover, but tha affair broke up the entertainment. —————— Alleged Firebug Under Arrest. AUBUR) Dee. 24.—Sheriff Bos- quet of El Dorado County passed through here this morning, having in charge Bruce Provine, who is accused of burning a dwelling near the Zant- graf mine in El Dorado County on the night of September 19 last. Provine says he can prove an alibi. Sheriff Bosquet will take the prisoner (o Placerville, —— e TEN YEARS FOR F Flannery, convicted by a Jor's court of grand larceny. was sentenced yesterday to serve ten years in San Quentin On Auguvst 27 he stole a diamond stud from 1 reet, while was Red and William in Judge Law- Waiter N. Kelly, Fremont eet ADVERTISEMENTS. Fiernal Youth Is the dream of every woman of tha present day. 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