The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 13, 1905, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1905. "STEAMSHIP BRUNSWICK HAS TERRIBLE[PULPIT TALK BATTLE WITH THE ELEMENTS. I ffects of the Passengers Are Lost BY PRESIDENT Mr. Roosevelt Speaks Before American Tract Society g IMMIGRANT |Chief Executive Points Out Necessity of Spiritual Help for the Newcomer ————— WASHINGTON, March 12— The ‘Washington meeting of the Americal Tract Society was held to-day in th President's church, the Grace Re- formed Church, Rev. Mr. Schick, pas- tor. Justice Brewer, honorary vice president, presided and made a brief address, setting forth the important work carried forward by the society. President Rocsevelt delivered the ad- dress and the Rev. Judson Swift, fleld AID TFOR The report stated that the society would celebrate its eighth anniversary in May next; that the immigrants were ceming to the United States in in- creasing numbers and if the average for the last month continued, the mil- lion mark would be reached for the vear. The society takes a special in- terest in the spiritual welfare of the immigrant. The call for the soclety’s special and unique work, the report says, is greater than ever before in its history and its resources are greatly overtaxed. A nwost earnest appeal is made for in- creased gifts. The President follows: | ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT. 1 am glad, on behalf of this church, to say amen to the appeal that has been made by Dr. Swift on behalf of the great society. Justice, you quoted the advice of a poet, to be ‘‘doers rather than dreamers.’”” In the book of all books, there is a sentence to the same effect: ‘‘Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only.” Let us show ourselves to day doers of the word, upholding In fact wha has been preached to us by Dr. Swift. This church, more than others, should eve: keep before it as one of the chief parts of it: duty, that of caring in all ways, but especially in spiritual ways, for the people who come to us_from abroad. The United States Government does en- deavor to do its duty by the uamigrants who come to fts shores, but uniess people have had some experience with the dangers and diffi- culties surrounding the newly arrived immi- grant they can hardly realize how t they are. taticns, Innumerable petty oppressions, on al- most every hand; and unless some one is on P hand to help him he literally has no idea where to turn. No greater work can be done by a philan- thropic or religious society than to stretch out the helping hand to the man and the woman who come to this country to become citizens and the parents of citizens, and_therefore to do their part in making for the future of our Jard. It we do not take care of them; if we' do mot try to uplift them then, as sure as fate as our own children will' pay the Penalty. If we do not see that the immigrant and the children of the immigrant are raised up, most assuredly our own children, and our children’s children are pulled down. Bither Ly T | wheat and barley, already suffering, | would have been past redemption. The | rain means money for the grain men |'and Joss to the fruitgrowers. spoke — \! ; ——— RAIN IN NICK OF TIME. Sacramento Valley Farmers Welcome me into torn , and a looking T was oKt Was a won- terri! rs.” In speaking 1 Jones said: “Talk ¢ sea! Why a hur- the the ADVERTISEEMENTS. Convulsion, F itS, then Epilepsy. Dr. Miles’ Restorative Nerv- been " so successful in brain-wrecking diseases that' there is every son to believe that even the 10st hopeless cases can be benefited, if not fully restored. We will be pleased to refer one thus afflicted to many ho now enjoy the blessing of 1 fter years of hopeless re a son that had brain fever s old, followed by fits of pe, and he was pronounced spent hundreds of dollars »ut relief. After about became so bad that we 1iff hospital for the nsport, Ind. He was ly three years, but he con- grow worse, 50 we brought se Julyy 30, 1902, in an awful E *ld lost his mind almost rdly knew one of the ot even find his bed He had fr were urged to try and before the first , we could see a change We have given it to nd he has had but since last August, s not well other him cured, here. m 5 to berty. NNELL, Lincoln, Dr. Miles’” Nervine Is sold by your druggist, who will guarantee that the first bottle will benefit. If It falls, he will refund your money. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind w. T. HESS, - Notary Public and Atteney-at-Law. Tenth Fi Room 1015 Ciaus Spreckels bldg Telephone Main 983. Residence, 1802 McAllister st. Residence Telephone Page 5641 the | | redwood lumber go overboard. With a | terrible crash it went into the sea taking with it all the trunks of th. sengers, a lot of househoid furniture, a piano and two locomotive trucks. At { the moment the steamer was actually | on her beam ends, and in another in- stant she would undoubtedly have gone down. As soon as the weight on her bows was released she righted, and the ed p: en who had, been ed about miscellaneously in their erooms, were enabled once d themselves in their berths. | SAFE ASHORE. | The steamer docked at Mission-street | wharf shortly after 2 o'clock. The woe bego gers | aspect as they clambered down shaky gangplank to the dock. presented a sorry the The women passengers were Very much exhausted as a result of their rtlin experience. While all were d over the loss of their trunks they were glad to reach land in safety. Many of the unfortunates lost every- thing they possessed. Some of them had their furniture with them and had come prepared to settle in this city. Mrs. John Manchester, who is an invalid, had to be carried ashore. She! was made as comfortable as possible |in the freight clerk’s office on the | wharf, pending the arrival of an am- | bulance, when she was conveyed to the | Lane Hospital. A great crowd had | collected on the dock, and viewed with interest the debarking of the demoral- ized passengers. 2 Captain Charles Eilefsen, master of the Brunswick, made light of his ex- | perience. He said: “Oh, it was nothing out of the ordi- nary. We had a little wind, but the | sea was not rough. I don’t want to | | say anything about the trip. I sup- | pose the passengers will all be coming |in for big damages for the loss of | their trunks and their belongings. That | the baggage went overboard was no fault of mine. It is all bosh to say I ordered the lashings cut to save the boat from sinking. She listed a little | and the forward deckioad went overAi board.” TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. Mrs. 8. A. Kapple, one of the pas- sengers, said: “Oh, it was something terrible. I thought at 2 o'clock this morning we were all going to the bot- | tom. I was awfully seasick, but I was | aware of the danger we were in. I have lost everything. All my trunks and my furniture were swept over- | board. I don’t know what to do.” { Charles Kapple, another passenger, | said: “I don’t know how to relate the | story of this trip. Some of the crew | | told me the boat was overloaded. Of | course, I don't know about that, but I | { do know that she almost stood on end | at times, and until the load on her| bow was cut away she was flooded with water.” | "The Brunswick was twenty-two hours from Fort Bragg. Her usual time is about fourteen hours. She is 275 tons burden, and brings lumber and ties tc the Union Lumber Com-' pany. She had forty-one passengers. i e g e SEVERE STORM VISITS COAST. | Much Damage Is Done in the Interior | of the State, One of the liveliest storms of the i season visited the Pacific Coast from Puget Sound to Los Angeles yes- | terday. The wind blew at the rate of | 100 miles an hour in some localmes.l Heavy rains fell throughout the day; | 2nd night. The heaviest precipitations were recorded at Red Bluff and Los Angeles. The storm came from Western Ore- | gon, and quickly blew along the entire California coast. The wind was un- WEPT OVER HER DECK DURING R DECKLOAD, INCLUDING THE — 3 | the interior, especially to the telegraph ' lines, most of which were blown down by the high wind that prevailed all through Saturday night and yesterday morning and afternoon. Weather Forecaster McAdie reported severe windstorms, accompanied by { Heavy Downpour. SACRAMENTO, March 12.—About three-quarters of an inch of rain fell to-day. The storm extended over all | this part of the Sacramento Valley, doing great good to the farmers and fruitgrowers. The season thus far has been ideal in every respect and this secretary at New York, made a report. | in part as| He is exposed to innumerable temp- | |Storm Hurts Fruit Trees, but Bene- heavy rains, in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. He says the Sacra- mento River is sure to run high this afternoon and may overflow in the vicinity of Red Bluff, where the rain has been unusually heavy, one inch and a twentieth having fallen there in | twenty-four hours up to 6 o’clock last night. In Los Angeles and San Bernardino 1 lhfa rainfall was very heavy. One inch 1l in Los Angeles up to 6 o’clock last night and nearly that much in San| Liernardino. The wind in the two | places blew at the rate of thirty-six miles an hour. No reports were re- ceived from Fresno or San Diego, ow- | ing to the wrecking of the telegraph | wires. | The wind in this city blew at the! rate of thirty-eight miles an hour and ' kept up steadily all day. Off Point Reyes the gale developed a velocity of 100 miles an hour, at Mount Tamalpias seventy was registered, while off the arallones the gale averaged seventy- twe miles an hour. Reports from the | southern part of the State show the velocity there to have been from thirty- | two to thirty-eight miles an hour. McAdie looks for more rain to-day, accompanicd by heavy winds. The storm prevailed throughout Washing- ton and parts of Oregon as well as in | this State. It is expected that the| rainfall to-day in the southern part of | the State will be heavy and that sec- | tion will receive its much needed | drenching before the storm breaks up. | \ Jdbenylig e FURY OF THE SEA, Several Hundred Sightseers Brave . Elements to Visit Beach. Huge masses'of flying scud, a heavy ! surf that broke in spray over the Seal | Rocks and along the shore furnished the attraction at the beach yesterday, and those who took the windy jour- ney were well repaid for their trouble. | ocean into a fury at times, blew all day long and being an off-shore breeze | precluded the chance of any wreck. | which has been brewing for Captain Varney and his staunch men | of the Golden Gate Station were on | the alert for the unexpected, but it | failed to appear. A few hundred sightseers braved the | .weather to reach the beach, while a straggling few wandered over the ball | grounds in the park hoping to see a geme. Automobilists and thoSe hav- ing trotters spent the greater part of their time in the beach taverns. R g S GRAIN MEN SMILING. fits Cereal Growers, FRESNO, March 12.—The most op- portune and at the same time the most destructive rain of the season began to fall this morning. During the after- noon the storm increased. Rain came down in sheets and a heavy wind cre- ated havoc with fences and fruit trees. | The greatest damage Is to the decidu- | Bakersfield this evening. ous crop. The apricot and peach trees are in blossom and the rain and wind have united in littering ' the ‘ground with petals. Horticultural men say that while the damage is heavy the havoc has not been sufficient to permit the statement that the crop is entirely ruined. Many trees are not yet in ‘bloom. Grain men are smiling. For ten days vevally strong and blew from the they have been hoping for rain. An- .other week without rain and a large rain comes exactly in the nick of time, suiting all interests. The river is quite low, being only eighteen feet and six inches, and there is not the slightest danger of any de- structive freshet this year, as it could easily stand twenty-seven feet without straining the levees. Less damage was done. by high water this season than for many years. The outlook for abun- dant crops is good. BIG SHIP ADRIFT! U. S. S. Relief Blown From Moorings Off Mare Island. VALLEJO, March 12.—One of the flercest gales that has ever swept over San Pablo Bay made the lives of ship- ping men anything but pleasant to- day. The United States steamship Re- lief, which has been moored in the channel off Mare Island Navy Yard, broke from her anchorage this after- noon and was being swept by the wind up Napa Creek when a tug sent out from the navy yard fastened @ line to the big ship and brought her back to her anchorage. i S (';OOD CROPS ASSURED. Visalia Farmers Welcome Storm Though Some Damage is Done. VISALIA, March 12.—A wind and rain storm of unusual severity broke over Visalia at noon to-day. Trees were blown down, several skylights were wrecked and many frame build- ings were damaged. About two inch- es of rain fell. The Mount Whitney power company’s lines weére damaged. It required six hours to make repairs. This rain insures good crops and the farmers are accordingly jubilant. o g O FARMERS ARE PLEASED, | A steady southeaster that whipped the ETth!Y Soil in San Joaquin Valley Gets nching. STOCKTON, March 12.—The storm geveral days burst furiously over Stockton this forenoon and the thirsty soil received the drenching it was greatly in need of. Reports are to the effect that the storm is general over most of the'San Joaquin country. Crop prospects have been bright all along, but the present storm makes the outlook even brighter. T DR TRAINS ARE DELAYED. Heavy Storm Damages Railroad in Tehachapi Mountains. BAKERSFIELD, March 12.—It has been ralning for fourteen hours. The at Washington Meeting| Mr. | | | | | | ideal of the natlon, { half century. | of still greater changes in the futur OLD MAN KILLS |[FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD FARM LABORER Midnight Tragedy in a Sa- loon Three Miles East of the City of Marysville NO WITNESSES TO DEED Slayer, When Arrested by Sheriff of Yuba County, Says He Shot in Self-Defense MARYSVILLE, March 12.—Shortly fter midnight last night Willlam P. Slusser, a bartender at the Yuba Dam saloon, three miles east of Marysville, shot and killed Schuyler C. Douglass, a farm laborer employed in the neighbor- hood. There was no witness to the tragedy. Siusser claims he shot in self-defense. After the shooting he called “Jake” Morrison from his ‘room and left him with the body of Douglass while he came to his home in Marysville. Sheriff Voss and Police Officers Sayles and Becker arrested him a few hours after his arrival. Slusser is past sixty years of age and his victim was about forty. Douglass has parents in Jowa. o = they will rise or we shall sink. The level of well being in this country will be a level for all of us. We cannot keep that level down for a part and not have it sink more or less for the It we raise it for a part, we shall raise it 1o a certaln extent for the whole. Therefore it means much, not merely to t immigrants, but to every good American, that there should be at Ellis Isiand the colporteurs of this city, and the representatives of other religious and philanthrople socleties to try to care for the immigrant's body, and above all to try to care for the immigrant's soul. It is, of course, unnecessary to say that the things of the body must be cared for:; that the first duty of any man, especially of the man who has others dependent upon him, is to take care of them, and to take care of him- self. Sech man must be able to pull his own weight, to carry his own weight; and there- fore each man must show the capacity to arn for himself and his family enough to ecure 8 certain amount of material well being. That must be the foundation. But on that foundation he must build as a superstructure he spiritual life. It is a good thing to have had the extraor- dinary material pypsperity which has followed %0 largely on the extraordinary scientific dis- coveries alluded to by Justice Brewer, if we use this material prosperity aright. It is not a good thing, it is a bad thing, If we treat it as the end of all of our life. If we make it the only ideal before this nation, If we per- mit the people of this republic to get before their minds the view that material well-being carried to an ever higher degree is the one and only thing to be striven for, we are lay- ing up for ourselves not merely trouble, but ruin. BIG PROBLEMS BEFORE US. 1, too, feel the faith and hopes that have been expressed here to-day by the vice presi- dent and the secretary of the soclety, but I feel because I believe that we shall not permit mere material well-being to become the only because I believe that more and more we shall accustom ourselves to looking at the great fortunes accumulated by certain men as being nothing in themselves, either to admire, to envy or to deplore, save as they used well or ill. If the great fortune is used well, if the man who has accumulated it has the strength necessary to resist the temptation either to use it wrongfully or, what is nearly as bad, not to use it rightly, he is entitled to the pralse due to whoever employs great powers for the common good. If the man who accumulates that great for- tune uses it 11l or does not use it well, then so far from being an object of envy, still less an object of admiration, he should take his place among those whom we condemn and pity. If he uses it aright, then he is entitled to our admiration, our respect, exactly as every man is entitled to it if he has special talents and uses those special talents for the welfare of the people as a whole, for the uplifting of mankind. ‘Wonderful changes have come In the last It may be well, as Mr. Justice Brewer has sald, that we tremble on the verge The railway, the telegraph, the telephone, steam. electricity, all the marvelous mechanical in- ventions, have changed much in the superfici aspect of the world and have. therefore, pr duced certain great changes in the world self. But after all, in glorying over and won- dering at this extraordinary development, T think that we sometimes forget that, compared to the deeper things, it is indeed only super- ficlal In its effect. The qualities that count most {n man and in woman now are the quall- ties that counted most years ago, and as a mation we shall achleve success or merit ac- cordingly as we do or do not display those qualities. The railroad, the telegraph, all these wonder- ful inventions produce new problems, confer benefits and bring about new dangers. Citles are built up to an enormous size, and, of course, with the upbullding of the cities comes the growth of the terrible problems which con- front all of us who have to do with city life. | Outward clreumstances change. New dangers spring up and old dangers vanish. But the spirit necessary to meet the new dangers the spirit necessary to insure the triumph that we must and shall win is the same now as it has always bee: " BOY SH Lad Uses Shotgun to Stop Abuse of Mother. WOUND FATAL Tragedy Occurs on Farm in Placer Countu. Special Dispatch to The Call LINCOLN, March, 12.—M. S. Nis- sen, a fruit rancher near Lincoln, was shot this afternoon by his fourteen- year old son Claus. Nisson, who was in the habit of abusing his wife, was In pursuit of her when her screams was near by. a double barreled shotgun and from a distance of twelve feet deliberately fired at his father. The shot took ef- fect in Nissen's back, inflicting a mor- tal wound. After the shooting the boy ran to a neighbor’s house and told of his deed. Several persons were soon on the scene ot the tragedy. Doctors were sum- moned and the wounded man was re- moved to the county hospital. There is no hope for his recovery. The boy surrendered himself to Con- stable Lasswell. He has the sym- pathy of the entire community. His act is considered justifiable as his fa- ther had frequently beaten Mrs. Nis- sen and shamefully abused his chil- dren. Nissen senior is about 50 years old and has a family of six children. The ison Claus warned his father that he would kill him if he continued to abuse his wife. ————————— CONVICTS BREAK RULES AND LENGTHEN TERMS Prison Directors Punish Felons by Taking Away Credits Earned by Good Behavior. SACRAMENTO, March 12.—The State Board of Prison Directors met last night at Folsom and transacted the usual routine business. A con- vict named John Redmond, serving a | sentence for robbery committed in | San Francisco, lost three months’ credits for having opium in his pos- session. A prisoner named Brown, sent up from San Francisco for bur- glary, lost six months’ credits for +hiding out and trying to escape. It is understood that Prison Di- rector Robert T. Devlin will soon re- sign from the board, as he has been appointed United 'States District At- torney for Northern California. ————————— SAN FRANCISCO ACROBAT | Francis Perliot, Known in Vaudeville Circles as Francisco, Trick Bi- cyclist, Meets Sudden End. | POMONA, March 12.—Francis Per- liot of San Francisco was killed here | this morning while helping the South- ern Carnival Company to load its wagons upon Southern Pacific cars. He was in the employ of the carnival ccmpany as an acrobat. Perliot’s head was crushed between two wagons. The accident was due to the slipping of a wedge used to block ‘the wheels of the vehicles. He was taken to the Pomona Hospital, where ihe died shortly after his arrival. Perliot was 24 years of age. parents live in San Francisco. His He is acrobats as Francisco, the trick bi- | eyelist. —_—e——————— London women who wish to excite compassion when begging by having a young baby with them can hire the necessary article for 12 cents a day. attracted the attention of her son who | The boy hastily grabbed s e { tween April 12 and June 23 in a tour | of known among vaudeville and circus | 00TS FATHER [NOUIRY INTO LANDS IN UTAHR Hundreds of Thousands of Acres Said to Have Been Grabbed by Corporations QUESTIONABLE METHODS Valuable Coal Property Has Been Secured at Prices of Agricultural Holdings SALT LAKE, Utah, March 12.—Spe- cial agents of the Federal Government are reported to have been engaged for some time past in investigating publia land frauds in Utah. The Salt Lake Herald to-day states that hundreds of thousands of acres of valuable coal lands have been acquired by corpora- tions by questionable methods. Vast tracts of coal land are said to have been flled on and patented as agricul- tural and grazing lands and then trans- ferred to coal companies. In many in- stances, it is stated, lands have been filed on as coal lands, under the law which permits every adult citizen to acquire 160 acres of coal lands by pur- chase, upon payment of ten dollars an acre for such lands, when situated more than fifteen miles from any rail- road, and twenty dollars an acre when situated within fifteen miles of a rail- road. Later these filings have been allowed to lapse and the same lands have been acquired as agricultural or grazing lands at $1 50 an acre. More than two thousand of these coal entries have' been made In the Salt Lake land office, but not more than one in fifty of the persons who made the filings have completed the purchase, the fll- ings lapsing and title being secured as agricultural or grazing land from the State land office through State land selections. Forty filings made in 1901 within & period 6f sixty days have recently been investigated and thirty of the forty claimants are found to have been represented by an employe of a big coal corporation, exercising a power of attorney. The land was filled on and held for fourteen months, as is permit- ted under the law, without being paid for, but in none of these cases was the purchase completed, title being acquired through the \State land office at a nominal figure under proceedings instituted while the land was covered by the coal lands flings. —_—————————— GENERAL BLACKMAR WILL VISIT PACIFIC COAST Commander-in-chief of the G, A. R. tot Attend Gathering in Marysville. BOSTON, March 12.—A grand fly- ing tour of the United States to the Pacific Coast and possibly Alaska is being arranged by Command-in-chief Wilmot W. Blackmar of the Grand Army of the Republic. General Blackmar will cover 26 States be- inspection. He will arrive in Cal, on May 10 and re- main threg¢ days to inspect the Cal.- fornia and Nevada departments. Be- tween July 10 and 30 he will arrange a schedule of camp fires through the Northwest. N — HEARS WIFE'S FUNERAL SERMON BY TELEPHONE Marysville, | Husband 11 in Hospital Listens to Pastor’'s Words in a Distant Church. PITTSBURG, Pa.. March 12.—Ben- jamin P. Welsh, a druggist. lay on a cot In the Allegheny General Hospital this afternoon Wwith a telephone re- ceiver adjusted to his head and heard the sermon at the funeral of his wife at his home in Allegheny. The telephone company had ar- ranged a transmitter in front of the coffin. Rev. Thomas Park talked into the receiver while addressing the mourners in a room. A mile and a half away, the sick man heard every word. ADVERTISEMENTS. downpour has been general all over the country. From points in the Te- hachapi Mountains news has been re- ceived that the rainfall is very heavy. Damage has been done on the rail- road. At Keane a washout has oc- curred, and from the present indica- tions no train will move south o H R DESTROYS WAREHOUSE.. ‘Wind Blows Down" Big Structure at Willows, Delaying Traffic. WILLOWS, March 12.—This after- noon the wind became so flerce that it blew down a large 4000-ton warehouse at Logandale switch, six miles below ‘Willows. The wreckage blocked all traffic for some time and delayed the southeast. Much damage was done in | percentage of the acreage planted in | Oregon exuress. i Free to Lady Purchasers Women and Children in San Francisco. JUST TAKE A LOOK AT THE WINDOWS 7 7 Every man in the Rightway organization is enthused over the mew Spring Footwear we now have on display. And no wonder! Such a mass of novelty, such an enormous display in which quality is so apparent and such matchless values, tend to enthuse even the layman. The producing field has been thoroughly gone over, the best of the best has been selected. 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