The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 4, 1905, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL.. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 4: 1905. NNOCENT OF THE CHARGES OF MISUSING THE FUNDS OF CORB DECISION IS UNANIMOUS Continental Building and Loan Manager Is Virtually Exonerated. Gavin McNab as a Witness Clears the Minds of Jurors. ecided that there was no harge of embezzle- w m Corbin, secre- a d ager of the Continental Loan Association. It more agreed in manner not more time ot hasis n: wasted investigation of the compan r aft that mismanage- f funds Association the whole- the grand unjust and | has been | assoc ion The aig estroy the concern by | & s offi Is, he declared, | perate political no embezzlement of | declared Long there had e directors he witness it difficul- e company He knew that d always beea dard of horor. " was so old tions hed it any < t Cor- $27.000 or any | [ m vear ago, McNab said > ately no truth in the | gatio Not & cent had been| g 4, and the books would | s si He suc- jurors be. - on which e two pro- | d ses o every de- | f the ny presented, was sion, spe arrived at after | - excused, not to file a dissent- b ere was not was thered was heard d Jury f Corbin and the offi- yratior - 4 SEARCH FOR BILLS. Detectives Look for Marked Notes in Sacramento. | SACRAMENTO, Feb 3—All the scandal that | the State for | who is flit- main streets in an au- 1doned the city until | to-night lacks confirmation. | deny with all the vehemence they are ‘lator French had assaulted Detective parted for the city, but in the mean- | while purveyors of rumors are not idle. | nor is District Attorney Seymour of Sacramento, nor County Detective| O'Nell. Bright and early this morning De- tective O'Neil, armed with a search | warrant, arrived at the State House. | K and Tenth streets, where Senator Emmons has apartments. Producing his warrant of authority the detective asked that he be permitted to search the hotel safe to determine whether f the marked bills were concealed The hotel proprietor complied ! protest and for half an hour ective searched every nook and corner, but without success. He brought to light $100 in gold that belonged to ator Emmons, but as the detective | looking for bills only, the coin was | allowed to remain where it was. | ator Emmons arrived shortly the detective concluded his labors and said that he was glad the action | had been taken and hoped the detective | would search his room, for he would find nothing there and this would add some weight to his contention that he is innocent. After searching the safe the detec- tive continued on his quest of the bills. As to whether he succeeded in finding any of them is not known, but it is be- | ved that he did not. Word went out | that since the consummation | of the alleged bribery not less than thirty detectives have been scouring the city in search of the bills, with what success is not known. A rumor | is also in circulation to the effect that ne of Harry Morse’s men trailed one | of the accused Senators to a San Fran- : | cisco bank the day after he received | he bills, and gathered in the entire lot after the Senator had exchanged them | for gold. This story, like the rest,| MANY RUMORS AFLOAT. The theory is voiced to-night Yevery one is looking for a theory to which to | pin his faith) that some of these bills | are in possession of the prosecution, | but that it did not present them dur-| ing the presentation of its case in | chief, having a well-defined object in view. The statute relating to bribery | directs that any legislator so accused | shall be compelled to testify, but that any statement he may make shall not thereafter be used against him, except | as a basis for prosecution for perjury. | It is the intention of the prosecution, | it is said, to permit the accused Sena- | tors to take the stand, permit them to| capable of that they took the bills, then present the recovered bills, to- gether with witnesses that saw them | passed by the accused, and demand | warrants for their arrest on charges of | | perjurd, in addition to those on charges | of bribe | There is some eriticism here as to the | methods used by Corbin and his advis- | ers to entrap the Senators. Some say that officers of the law should have | been posted to arrest the boodlers the minute they took the bills and estab- lish their guilt through the simple | process of searching them. But these | critics do not bear in mind that the | purpose of the prosecution was to catch four, not one of the alleged brib- ers. Had that plan been followed out the first man to take the money would | have been arrested, the alarm would | have gone out and the rest would have | escaped even the suspicion of guilt. PLANS ARE SPOILED. The prosecution had this end of the| case well cared for, it develops, but the | sudden action of the Senate in issuing a warrant for Corbin on contempt pro- ceedings spoiled its plans. It was forced to show its hand too soon, and the de- tectives posted to follow the movements | of all the accused found themselves without a job, because it was apparent that after the exposure the accused, though they may have been burdened under the weight of marked bills, would take care to see that they remained un- passed while the excitement lasted. Monday night the hearing will again g0 on, with half a hundred character witnesses present. This means that a tiresome sesslon awaits the trial com- mittee, When the people generally learned through this morning’s Call that Sen-| Tichenor any sympathy for the accused Senator that may have remained de- parted. All are inclined to support Tichenor’s theory that French, if inno- 1(‘91’\:. should have assaulted Joseph S. Jordan, because the testimony estab- | lishes the fact that it was Jordan who { told Tichenor he had paid French the | bribe money. Tichenor was simply re- | peating Jordan’s story, and if French feels he must fight it is agreed that Jordan should be the object of his | wrath. —_—————— :("('TE WIFE'S NOSE OFF WITH A CASE KNIFE perfect Fountain Pen. No to Jook for. No inky fingers. Crazed by Liquor and Jealousy, Vents His Rage in Horrible Manner. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 3.—Maddened with liquor and jealousy, John Cooper sliced his wife's nose from ner ‘ace | this morning with a case knife. After the cutting occurred, which was be- fore the couple had left their bed, the landlord of the house in which _the Coopers resided went to the room |'and drove Cooper out with a revolver |and then called in the aid of physi- |clans, who replaced the woman's nose. 1 have good razors re homed and ground; honing Mail orders filied promptly. MAN Worry wont cure a cough. When vou find a cough holding on— when everything else has failed— try ——————— GOUCHER IN THE HANDS OF A COAST DETECTIVE Released From Minnesota Prison to Be Placed on Trial for Murder It js guaranteed to cure. If it € Potiosmman Tobimeon. doesn’t, we’ll refund your money. Prices: S.C.Weis&Co. 4 5. 50c. 1. LeRoy, N.Y.,Toronto, Can. 8T. PAUL, Feb. 3.—Allen Goucher, a conviet in the Minnesota Penitentiary, accused of the murder of Policeman Robinson in San Francisco, was re- leased to-day and given over to a Cali- fornia detective by the State Board of Pardons. Goucher’s term would have expired in March. —_—— destroved of badly damaged by fire early ioday and several persons were injures. ‘mone fatally. is estimated at $260,000, partially covered by insuramce. us vote the Grand Jury | cusers, witnesses and judges have de- | """ ——ou— 1} SEARCH W00DS FOR PLATMATES Five' Hundred Schodlboys Join in Quest of Girls Who Mysteriously Disappeared Special Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, Feb. 3.—Five hundred school boys are to-day engaged in searching the district of Vancouver Isl- and, between Southfield and Nanaimo, for the Rogers and Jones girls, who have not been seen since January 10. The girls wandered away from school at Nanaimo and a thorough search has so far failed to reveal their where- abouts. Searchers to-day were formed into squads of six under a careful leader. Mrs. Walker, a clairvoyant of Van- couver, claims to have learned, while in a trance, that an old Englishman, liv- ing with an Indian, in a hut four miles from a railroad track near Ladysmith, on the afternoon of January 10, while returning from Nanaimo, came across the girls on the railroad track and took them home. She says both children are ill, particularly the youngest. John R. Packard of Alberni writes the chief of police of Nanaimo describ- ing another spot where he belleves the children will be found. The searchers | are to-day trying to locate this spot, though Packard gives no reason for his belief. —_————— CHARGES DISCRIMINATION ON THE PART OF RAILROADS Witness Before Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce Complains of Secret Agreements. WASHINGTON, Feb. guson of Duluth, Minn., representing the retail and shippers’ association, continued his statement before the Sen- ate Committee on Interstate Commerce to-day. He made especlal complaint of the secret routéing agreements of the railroad companies operating in the fruit centers of the West. This ar- rangement enabled the railroads to se- lect lines without consulting the ship- pers, and Ferguson said that loss and inconvenience often resulted to perish- able goods. He charged discrimination by the railroads in the interest of the Armour private refrigerating car line company, saying that the charges of that company were often double those of railroad lines themselves. This. he said, was due to the exclusive con- tracts which the Armour Company had been able to procure, and he asserted that the organization and success of the beef trust were traceable to those contracts. In reply to questions Ferguson ex- pressed the opinion that the railroad officials were interested in private car companies, but that the railroad com- panies themselves secured no benefits from the arrangement with the compa- | nies. —_———— CHOCTAW INDIAN IN SUIT AGAINST CABINET OFFICERS Secks to Enjoin Them From Paying Big Fee Granted to a Law Firm. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Summonses were to-day served on Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, Secretary of the Inte- rior Hitchcock and TUnited States Treasurer Roberts in proceedings insti- tuted against them by Richard McLish, a Choctaw Indian, to enjoin them from drawing and paying warrants to sat- isfy the award of a fee of $750,000 to the law firm of Murray, Mansfield & Cor- nish of South McAlester, 1. T., for ser- vices in “purifying” the citizenship rolls of the Choctaw Indians. The award was made under authority of an act of Congress. McLish charged that the firm secured this fee by fraudulently concealing and withholding the fact that the firm al- ready had been paid salaries aggre- gating $15,000 a year for their services and sums aggregating approximately $200,000 for thelr expenses, —————— AIMED AT WHEAT DRAWBACK. Amendment to Sundry Civil Bill Intro- duced by Hansbrough. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. — Senator Hansbrough to-day introduced in the form of an amendment to the sundry civil bill a measure which if adopted would have the effect of repealing the drawback provision of the Dingley act, in so far as it applies to wheat. The amendment has been referred to the Committee oen Appropriations and when it comes up for considera- tion Senator Hansbrough will argue the necessity of its enactment on the ground that the general drawback pro- vision of the Dingley act was not in- tended by the framers of that meas- ure to apply to wheat, although under the recent decision of Attorney Gen- eral Moody drawback will be allowed on imported wheat manufactured into flour in the absence of some Cengres- sional enactment. —_———— FEAR PROSPECTOR IS LOST IN MOUNTAINS OF INYO FRESNO, Feb. 3.—The whereabouts of George N. Howard is a mystery and his relatives in Inyo County fear he is lost in the mountains. Howard, who is a prospector, spent the holidays with friends in Fresno City and about two weeks ago started for his home in In- dependence, expecting to make the trip in a few days. He has not been seen since leaving here. A searching party of forest rangers is scouring the country about Sampson Flats. z Howard is: about 40 years old ‘and v:ell known in Fresno and Inyo coun- ties. 3.—E. H. Fer- | AGRICULTURAL |KEANE MAKES NOT TO FIND TRUE BILL| SICIETT REPORT) LOSING FIGHT Hold-Over Committee Deals With Affairs of Association and Its Financial Troubles BLAME FOR SHORTAGE Smallness of Legislatures’ Appropriations, Say Solons, Caused All the Difficulty Special Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 3.—The hold- over committee appointed at the la session of the Legislature to investi- gate the affairs of the State Agricul- tural Society reported to-day, The com- mittee goes into details as. to the causes that led to the society’s finan- cial difficulties and holds that they were brought about by insufficient ap- propriations of the Legislature, politi- cal interference in the appointment of subordinates and improper methods of conducting races and installing agri- cultural exhibits. After recommending that these evils be corrected, the com- mittee goes on to say: The total indebtedness of the soclety to De- cember 16, 1908, with interest and salaries charged to February, 1904, amounted to $88, 797 95. Credits: Cash balance, $883 5 balance, $282 State appropriation, $15. Net_indebtedness, - December 16, ‘1003, §1: 1 81 In addition to the above indebtedness there was an Indebtedness of $7110 due the Califor- nia State Bank and $639 90 interest to July 1, 1904, together with money coljected as entrance to futurity stakes and unpaid bills, amounting in the assgesate to $9910 51, making a total indebtednesk on July 1, 1904," of $90,202 22. Between July 1. 1904, and January 1, 1905, a further indebtedness of $9444 10 created by storms and destruction of fences and bulldings on the fair grounds, making & total indebted- ness on January 1, 1805, of $99,736 22, The committee is of the unanimous opinion that if this Leglslature desires to continue the existence of the State Agricultural Society an carry on a yearly exhibit of its resources is contemplated by the act creating sald s clety it should appropriate sufficient money therefor and in an amount not less than $150,000. reason of damage to the pavilion from —_—————— DISCUSS INTERSTATE COMMERCE LEGISLATION Railway Presidents Recognize the Reasonableness of Governmen- . tal Regulation of Rates. WASHINGT! Feb. 3.—A. B. Stick- ney of St. Paul, president of the Chi- cago Great Western Railway, to-night delivered an address on “The Defects of Interstate Commerce Law" before the regular monthly meeting of the Wash- ington Economic Society. Among those in the audience were Commissioners Knapp, Prouty and Clements of the In- terstate Commerce Commission. Stick- ney’s chief point was: “As all the pur- poses of the law relate to the schedule of rates, and as none of the purposes can be accomplished without a sched- ule, it seems evident that the most se- rious defect in the law is its failure to authorize the cominission”to make a schedule of interstate rates.” PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 3.—A. J. Cas- satt, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, in an interview on interstate commerce legislation, says that,k the management of the Pennsylvania Com- pany had for several years recognized the reasonableness of legislation pro- viding for governmental regulation of rates, under proper safeguards, to the owners of railway properties. He be- lieved there was now a general disposi- tion to acquiesce in proper legislation on this subject. Cassatt sald the ques- tion of preventing discriminations of preferences between shippers, by the rayment of rebates or by any other de- vice, seemed to be confounded in the minds of the public with that of gov- ernmental regulation of rates. Discriminations were already dealt with by the Federal statute known as the Elkins act, passed in 1903, he said, in as effective a way as it is possible in any legislative enactment, unless per- haps in the case of private car lines, where further legislation might possi- bly be needed to bring them under the provisions of the Elkins act, and that this would be met by the Overstreet bill, which is now nending in Congress. —_—————————— PETER BARXUM BOTTS Tries to add a-zebra to his animal show in next Sunday’s comic supple- ment. —_—————————— CARE OF THE LEPERS. Surgeon General Wyman Appears Be- fore House Committee. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—The care of lepers in the United States and Hawah was considered to-day by the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Two bills, one providing for the establishment of a sanitarium in this country to which may be scat all lepers in the United States, and another appropriating $150,000 to be used in Hawaii for the scientific study of the disease, were before the com- mittee. Delegate Kalanianoale ex- plained briefty the condition of lepers in the Hawalian Islands. The diminu- tion of ‘the revenues of the islands, owing to their absorption by the United States, he sald amounted to $1,250,000 annually, and for this reason the Fed- eral Government was asked for an ap- propriation, not to care for the lepers, but to prosecute a scientific study of the disease with the view of finding some remedy therefor. Surgeon General Wyman of the Pub- lic Health and Marine Service explain- ed the need of the leprosarium in this country. He said there were known to be 275 persons afflicted with the disease in the United States and he estimated there were 100 others. They are scat- tered through the States and Terri- tories. He suggested to the committee a site in the arid region of the South- west. The committee authorized a favor- able report on both bills. —_————————— New California Postmasters. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Postmasters were appointed to-day as follows in California: W. Hofflund at Raymond, William Z. Adam at Bryson, Monterey County. FREE FREE WITH SUNDAY CALL SMALL ADS. A GOLD-NIBBED. POUNTA-E PEN GLASS FILLER - in Paper Box. Free With Every Small Aq - Sunday Call. fn | recruiting station at San ‘| report:®z to Major Charles R. Krauth- :1! of the p Efforts to Prevent Passage of Liquor Bill in Senate Receive but Little Support LOCAL DEALERS HURT Measure Provides for Confis- cation of Spirits for a Violation of State Laws —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. - SACRAMENTO, Feb. 3.—Senator Keane put up a strong but futile fight in the Senate this morming to amend Broughton's bill that permits of the confiscation and destruction of liquors involved in a violation of State, county or municipal regulation. neane said that he had no objection to the bill if the words ‘“‘county or municipal” were stricken therefrom, but that if the bill was passed as written it would stand as a grave menace to tne large inter- ests of liquor dealers of San Francis- co, who are always more or less sub- Jject to assault from first one belligerent clvic body and then another. If the bil were passed without amendment in accordance with his ideas, he said a liquor man might sud- denly find himself stripped of thou- sands of dollars’ worth of property for the most trivial breach of some of the hundreds of municipal regulations. Keane, however, found little support. Half a dozen Senators took a fling at the liquor business in San Francisco and then the motion to amend was put to a vote. Markey and Nelson of San Francisco alone voted withKeane and the bill will go to the Assembly as it stands. The Finance Committee reported to the Senate this morning in favor of the bill appropriating $300,000 for the con- struction of a hotel in Yosemite Val- ley. The bill will not be placed on the file, however, until after the vote has been taken on the re-cession measure and then it will be withdrawn in the event the State is authorized to re-cede the park to the National Government. The committee also reported in favor of a majority of the bills appropriating funds for the completion of the present buildings and the construction of new dormitories at the Glen Ellen Home for the Feeble Minded; also the bill appro- priating $3000 for the purchase from the heirs of the Cogswell estate of pic- tures of Abraham Lincoln and Willlam McKinley, it being the purpose to place the pictures in the State Capitol. A Dbill was introduced this morning to grant the right to Lake County to drain the bed of Clear Lake and re- claim the lands, the title to such lands to thereafter vest in the county. A bill ‘was also introduced prohibiting the sale of liquors within one and one-half n}llu of the Veterang’ Home at Yount- ville. Coggins’ bill vesting the Governor with the right to restore to citizenship under certain conditions persons who have been deprived of such right through conviction of crime was finally passed and sent to the Assembly. The Realty Syndicate of Oakland, through F. C. Havens, this morning petitioned the Senate in general session to order at its earliest convenience an investigation by a committee of its af- fairs. The petition recites that in an- swer to subpena officers of the syndi- cate, bearing books: and papers, ap- peared at the rooms of the Committee on Commissions and Retrenchment last Monday, but did not secure a hemring. Subsequently these officers went to As- semblyman Waste and caused him to introduce a bill providing that corpora- tions whose functions are the same as those of the Realty Syndicate be placed under the inspection of the Bank Com- mission. Last evening, the petition continues, these officers went before the commi- tee appointed to take up the work that has been removed from the jurisdic- tion of the Committee on Commissions and Retrenchment and was informed that it would have to wait till some fu- ture day before it could explain the condition of its affairs. The petition was ordered printed in the journal and will be taken up early next week. —_— DIES SUDDENLY IN CHURCH AS SHE KNEELS IN PRAYER Mrs. Evelyn Cashman, Wife of a San Francisco Actor, Passes Away in New York. NEW YORK, Feb. 3—Mrs:~ Evelyn Cashman, about 38 years old, an artist, living at 320 West Thirtieth street, died suddenly to-day in St. Francis German Catholic Church. Rev. Father Fugensuis had finished celebrating the 8 o’clock mass and was walking down the aisle of the church, when he saw the woman in a pew. She wasg In an attitude of prayer. The clergyman stepped up to her and touched her on the shoulder. Receiv- ing no response, he summoned Dr. Houley, who pronounced the woman dead. In the woman's purse was found a card with the name ‘“Evelyn Cashman, care of Frank Mayne, No. 246 West Thirty-eighth street.” Mayne was summoned and he identi- fied the body as that of Mrs. Cashman. Her former husband, Mayne said, was at one time connected with the Tivoli Stock Company of San Francisco. Captain Hayes went to the woman’'s boarding-house in Thirtieth street, where he found several paintings bear- | ing the name “Evelyn Temple.” In ad- ‘ dition to.the card found in the wo- man’s. purse, there were aiso found four pawn tickets calling for articles vul\l:-ed at $140. There was also $6 30 ln‘ cas] Harry Cashman, who was rormerly‘ the comedian at the old Tivoli and ; played a short season at the Grand Opera-house with the Fischer Com- pany, has been in Seattle in a stock company for several weeks, His pres- ent wife, Irene.Cashman, has been with him during this time. Mrs. Cashman yesterday telegraphed her father, De- tective Lynch, at the Palace Hotel that she would be in this city in a few days. Nothing is known here of a former wife of Cashman. e ° Army and Navy Orders. ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—By order of the War Department, Captain Arthur M. Edwards, commissary, is relieved from duty es assistant to the chief commissary in the department of Da- kota ard will proceed to San Francisco, - commissary for v ordot-—.&l;mbn.}t x.::-n. detached from naval hospi t Philadelphia to the naval and mnfl.:n uty as HIS ASSOCIATION, DECLARES THE GRAND JURY EFUSE T0 RECONSIDER THE RECESSION MEASURE Assemblyman Makes Vain Attempt to Revive Bill and His Motion Is Promptly Laid on Table. Special Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 3.—Jones of Tuolumne was not present in the As- sembly this morning to make his prom- ised motion for the reconsideration of the vote upon which the(bill for the re-cession of the Yosemite Valley was passed, important business calling him away. It would have done him no 800d, for the motion would have been shelved. Hawkins moved that the davy on which reconsideration was to be asked be extended. This and also a motion to reconsider at once were laid on the table. The fight against the re-cession of the valley to the people of the| whole nation, for whom it was taken | in trust by the ploneers to save it from | private acquirement, is ended as far| as the lower house is concerned. Jones of San Francisco has succeeded in securing a favorable report from committee on his constitutional amend- ment exempting the Cogswell Poly- | technic School from taxation. A rec- ommendation that it be passed was filed to-day. Prescott’s bill making it a misde- mednor, punishable by fine not to ex- ceed $50, for any public school teacher or public school authority to exploit or try to secure the purchase of any supplemental books recommended for the use of pupils, under the provision of the act, was passed. A motion made by Anthony that when | the Assembly adjourn it be till 10 o'clock Monday morning was vigor- ously fought and it was finally with- drawn by its author. Duting the ar- sument Dorsey of Kern sald if the ad- Journments from Friday to Monday Were continued the gembers of the house would find themselves working twenty days beyond the statutory sixty days and at their own expense, as the file was getting crowded. At the afternoon session there was | read a petition from Superior Judge | Lucas F. Smith of Santa Cruz County, in which he sald that to save any members of the Assembly from the task of presenting the impeachment charges against him that had been prepared in Santa Cruz County, he would ask that they be considered filed and that a committee of five Repub- licans, he being a Democrat, be ap- pointed to investigate the charges, which the Judge declared false and malicious. He asked that the inquiry be held in his own county and said that if he did not prove the accusa- ions false he would pay all the ex- penses. The special committee to investigate probably will be appointed as re- quested. After the second reading of bills had been carried on for some time it was discovered that here was no longer a quorum present, A call of absentees was ordered, but not enough could be gathered to adopt a formal motion te adjourn. Under the rules the Assem- bly will have to be called to order n’-ln to-morrow meorning at 9:30 o'clock and at that hour each day thereafter until there is a quorum present, which may net be till Mon- day, as it will be difficult to collect enough Assemblymen to do business to-morrow. It is quite probable that | there will not be a quorum present at 9:30 o'clock Monday morning and those present will be held under a call of the House until enough mem- bers canm be rounded up to do busi- ness. Regular night sessions will soen have to be resorted to in order to fine ish within the sixty-day limit. —_—— FRIENDS SIT UP WITH HIM AFTER HE TAKES POISON | John Leisy of Sam Joaquin County Puts End to Himself With Strychnine. STOCKTON, Feb. 3.—Some pecu~ liar facts have developed in connec- tion with the suicide last night near Atlanta, in this county, of John Leisy, a laborer, about 50 years of age, em- ployed as a ranch hand. He was a brother of Princival E. P. Leisy of the Jefferson School. Late last night Leisy told some of his companions that he had taken strychnine. His statement was not be- lieved at first, but he insisted and so some of his companions sat up with him to await developments. Time passed and Leisy showed no ill ef- fects from the poison and his com- panions decided he had been joking. Finally those who were sitting up with him left him alone. This mern- ing. however, Leisy was found dead in bed. —e————— Veteran Pilot Answers Call 1 SAN DIEGO, Feb. 3—Caotain A. F. Dill, aged 64 years, one of the best known citizens of San Diego. died to- day. He was a sea captain before the war and served with distinction in the navy from 1361 to 1364. He was one of the pilots of this port for many years. He was a native of Massachusetts and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. —_———— Dies Far From Home. PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. X—John 8. Cheevers died here to-day of tubercu- losis, aged 33 years. For twelve years he was assistant auditor of the Chicago Postoffice and held the dlamond medal for service in the Second Illinois In-~ fantry. The body will be shipped to Ckicago to-morrow. FEATURES ' O NEXT SUNDAY’S F CALL ' The President’s Ideal Citizen. i ining of the Child. Mor:yl t{erg::"sli’mue’]- James Lee, rector of St James Church. Are Women Degenerating? By Lady Jeune. Fashion Model. (Tourist Coat and Shirt Waist Suit.) The Call’s Free Music Lesson. (Lesson No. 12.) Grove’s Musical Simplifier. ' The Brethren. (A2 Romance of the Crusades.) Sixth installment. By H. Rider Haggard. The King of the Crooked “H.”’ : By Ann Ballard Reeves. ($50.00 prize story.) On and Off the Bread Wagon. By Charles Dryden. Fables for the Foolish. By Nicholas Nemo. Chimmie Fadden. By Edward W. Townsend. Jottings of 0ld Lim Jucklin. By Opie Read. P Matrimonial Handicap. By Kate Thyson Marr. $50 Prize Announcement for Con- clusion of Disraeli’s Unfinished Novel. The Scaler. By Stewart Edward White. What Women Want to Know. . By Madge Moore. Books and Writers. ‘By Robert W. Ritchie. - Features at the Theaters. Name Puzzle Page and Comic Section. Fraternal News. JSociety, by Sallie Sharp.