The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 7, 1905, Page 6

TO A GROCER’S CLERK What if the cream of the business in San Francisco is done by peddlers? Where are your wages to come from? What chance have you, unless you turn peddler? Three-quarters of the city tea trade is believed to be the hands of peddlers now; we don’t know. What true of coffee, though gro- think the is less. We don’t see it. The peddler sells both; the woman buys both. Spices and extracts n is true of tea is cers appear to proportion too. Butter is going the same What next? Is the grocer going? When ped- way. dlers leave him nothing but sugar, salt, flour, tomatoes, Royal baking-powder, Bak- er's cocoa, Fels- Naptha soap, and Eagle milk, is he going to keep-on or quit? There's no money for you in @ business stripped of its profits. Our reason for raising the question with you is this: We are asking your em- ployers to join in appealing to buyers of groceries not to destroy the business by buying of peddlers. You are a part of the plan. If you want to be in it, talk with them. Now or nevey. This is not our war. The trouble is local; our trade is from Mexico to Alaska and Ease. Our policy is to support the retail grocer all over the Wiestern States. Ve8! make it our war if the.grocers are ready. Talk with-them. A Schilling & Co (wholesale only #nd loysl to San Francisco) BAJA. CALIFORNIA Damiana Bitters A GREAT RESTORATIV! - Ry s TIVE, INVIGORA- he most wonderful aphrodisiac and Spect Temic for the Sexual Organs, for both sexes: The Mexican Remedy for Diseases of the Kidneys and Bladder. Bells on its own merita, ool VABER, ALFS & BRUNE, Agents, 328 Market st., 8. F.—(Send for Circulars) Prescrigtions 34,406 and 1, GUARANTEED CURE cases in 4 few days, Worst cases. NO OTHER REQUIRED. Prevents and Cures Stric. tures. PREVENTS CONTAGION. liarm- less. $2.00 for both bottles. For sale only P. 5. KELLY'S P! . 102 Bady. BRUSHES vers, bookl 3 re, flour mills, foundries, laundries, hzrgers, printers, painters, shoe factories, blemen, tar-roofers, tanners, tatlors, ete. EUCHANAN BROS., FOR BARBERS, BAK- ers, bootblacks, bath- hotses, billiard’ tables, candy makers. canners, Brush Manufacturers, 609 Sacramento St. "W. T. HESS, Notary Public and Attorney-at-Law. Tenth Fieor, Room 1015, Claus Epreckels bldg. Telephone Main 983. idence, 1802 McAllister nos Telephone Page S6iL FOR MEN. M. Cures ordinary | and Warranted to cure | | THE SAN. FRANC CISCO. GALL TRIDAY. APRIL 7, 1905, WULD EXD TIE ERA OF ~ AUTOCRACY Central Committee of the Russian Revolutionists Is- sues a Circular Outlining Its Hopes and | PLANS OVERTHROW OF THE ROMANOFFS | Democratic Republic to Be Built Upon the Ruins of the Present Despotic Form of Government MOSCOW, April 6. — The Central Committee of the Social Revolutionary party has drawn up a document con- { taining the main points of its pro- | gramme and of this hundreds of thou- sands of copies are being printed for | circulstion in all parts of Buropean Russia. The first and main point is the establishment of a democratic repub- | ic on the ruins of the autocracy, and, besides the usual points of social demo- | ments especlally directed to Russian conditions and designed to appeal to the self-interest of the Russian pro- | letariat, both agricultural and indus- trial. It voices phrases familiar to the American ear, such as “initiative and | referendum,” “public ownership of public utilities,” etc. The committee demands the institu- tfon of a democratic republic, with broad autonomy for the provinces, mu- nicipalities and communes; the widest application of the federal principle to the relations between the various na- tionalities; a direct secret universal bala lot, without distinction as to sex, na- | tionality or religion; proportional rep- resentation; direct popular legislation, wth the initiative and referendum; electibllity, responsibility and remova- bility of all officlals; separation conscience, speech, the press, assem- bly and association; the right to strike; compulsory popular education and abolition of the stand- ing a militia. Under the head of national economy, | it favors an eight-hour day, with a re- duction for the more dangerous and un- sanitary occupations; a minimum wage scale; state insurance for a)l, the forms regulated by the insured at the expense | and substitution of a national of factory construction; prohibition of child labor below 16 and of female la- | bor at certain occupations, and pro- fessional organization of workmen with an increasing share in the internal management of institutions. In agrarian policy the party declares the earth is the common heritage of all citizens and demands the socialization of all land, or such approach to aboli- | tion of private ownership as is prac- ticable, including the sequestration of | crown, church and state lands, turning them over to the communes, and the | limitation and conversion of rents into an income tax, payable to the com- mune. In the realm of finance the party fa- | vors progressive income and {nheri- tance taxes I[napplicable to small in- | comes; the abolition of indirect taxes and the protective system except as to | objects of luxury. It also favors the common ownership of all utilities, med- | co-operation on strictly democratic principles and measures tending to the independence of the working classes of governmental bureaucracy. i WORKING GIRLS POISONED. Arsenic Sprinkled Through the Rooms of a Cotton Mill. WARSAW, April 6.—An extraordin- ary case of wholesale poisoning has occurred at a cotton mill at Pabianize. Seventy girls In the coloring depart- ment were taken suddenly ill and fell to the floor unconscious. Thirty of them were taken to a hospital in a dangerous condition. An investigation showed that the illness of the girls was due to arsenic having been eprinkled through the rooms by un- known miscreants. CER N iy FEAR RETURN TO SLAVERY. Peasants Are Made to Believe They Will Again Become Serfs. SAMARA, Russia, April 6.—The ex- Achmge here representing commercial connections over a region inhabited by 7,000,000 people hes telegraphed to Minister of the Interior Bouligan that great excitement and that a terrible catastrophe can be avoided only by §mmediate summoning representatives of the people in accordance with the terms of the imperial rescript. The peasants are greatly aroused over the reports that the “intellect- uals” are seeking to return them to a condition of slavery. —_— CONDEMNED TO DEATH. Two Workmen Sentenced for Attacks Upon Policemen, WARSAW, April 6.—All persons participating in disorders will here- after be tried by martial law. The new regime cemmenced yesterday when two workmen were thus tried condemned toy death. One of them fired a revolveMat a policeman | and the other struck a policeman with | an fron bar. PR SRR REFUSE TO PAY RENT. BORISOFF, Russia, April 6.—At many places in the Minsk Govern- ment the peasants are refusing to pay rent for their land, declaring that it belongs to them. The land owners are powerless, as the peasants threaten to destroy everything if troops are sum- | moned. SRS L No Attempt to Kill Czar. ST. PETERSBURG, April 6.—The Chief of the Imperial Police at Tsar- skoe-Selo gives an absolute denial of Aims | | cratic doctrine, it includes many argu- { of | church and state; complete freedom of | | [ and gratuitous | | | State Superintendent of Insurance this | ing with the Superintendent of Insur- | ance, the amendment being: “The board | “Speeches were made by James J. ical assistance gratis, development of | | controversy the whole area is in a condition of | RECTORS STOP FIGHT At Stormy Meeting Conserv- ative Members of Board De- mand That Alexander and | | { | | Hyde Cease Quavreling SQUABBLE HURTS ! SOCTETY’S BUSINESS ‘Tempm'ary Truce Is Estab- | lished hy the Adoption of Resolution Amending the| Charter of the Corporation | ! | Special Dispatch to The Call | NEW YORK, April 6.—By the adop- | tion of an amendment to the charter | | the board of directors of the Equitable Life Assurance Society to-day estab- lished a temporary truce in the fight which has been going on for weeks be- | tween the Alexander and the Hyde fac- tions in the soclety. This was accom- plished at a meeting of the board at | Wwhich thirty-eight of the fifty direct- ors were present. The meeting was characterized by the most bitter contention between the rival factions. Personalities were in- dulged In which brought to their feet | many of the members of the board in | emphatic protest. These directors de- clared that the time had come for the | more congervative members of the { board to take a hand in the quarrel be- tween Alexander and Hyde. They de- | manded that both sides stop the war that was having such disastrous effect upon the society. They declared that these attacks made by the rival fac- tions were ruining the business of the society and causing public opinion to rise against it. Several of the speakers urged Alex- { ander in no yncertain terms to stop his | attacks on Hyde and the management | | of the society. They criticized both the president and the vice president for { having made public through. newspa- | | pers their personal opinions regarding the integrity of the directors. In all the speeches there was strong | intimation that if such conduct was not | immediately stopped the directors as a | body would be compelled to take offi- cial action. A new feature in the Equitable mat- ter is the resolution adopted for the appointment of a committee of seven, headed by E. H. Harriman, to thor- of the state and employers; regulation | ?:5:‘”‘ iDvertisess L hag Hanitable, &l The original plan for the mutualiza- tion of the company provided that it should be accomplished in four years, | but after last week's sessions with the was amended to make the time two years. The two year plan was ac- quiesced in by Hyde. The plan begins to take effect on December 1 next. The following statement was given out at the close of the meeting of the directors: “The board of directors, after full discussion, unanimously adopted the amended charter approved at the meet- of directors” shall continue to be di- vided into four classes of thirteen each.’ Hill, Melville E. Ingalls, John A. Stew- | art, Charles Stewart Smith, Brayton Ives, T. DeWitt Cuyler and others, in- | eisting upon a cessation of the entire | controversy and the use of the press, | which is €o injurious to the company. That, while in the charges and the counter charges there was no question as to the solvency of the company or its large surplus abéve all Habilitles, or the soundness of its investments, the was creating widespread distrust and doing great injury to all life insurance companies, and that the committee of the board should and would so probe and as a result of their investigation so recommend as to jus- tify confidence in the company and its management. “CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW, “CORNELIUS N. BLISS.” G BELIEVE THEY HAVE ROBBER RENO, Nev., April 6.—Henry McNa- | mara, suspected of holding up a street Qcar and killing three men at Santa Monica, Cal, two months ago, was captured in Reno to-day. The Chief of Police at Santa Monica was notified | and sent a telegram to hold the man pending the arrival of the California officers. LOS ANGELES, April 6.—The Los | Angeles police know nothing regarding the arrest of Henry McNamara at Reno, Nev., to-day, on the charge of having held up a street car at Santa Monica. The only holdup of a street car in this part of the State occurred two years ago last winter, in which one | passenger was killed. The holdup oc- curred just outside the city limits of Los Angeles, and not in Santa Monica. ————.———— Physician Barely Escapes Death. SAN JOSE, April 6.—Dr. Howard | B. Gates of this city has barely es- | caped with his life from blood pois- | oning resulting from pricking his fin- | ger with an instrument he was using last week in an autopsy. Until to-day his life was despaired of. He is now believed to be out of danger. ———— Shoes, 85c a Pair. Friday and Saturday at 9 o'clock you | can buy the very best ladles’ or children's ! shoes for 35c a pair. Men's shoes, 95c a | pair. Be on time, 9 o'clock sharp. Mam- | moth Shoe Co., corner Seyenth and Mar- | ket strects, Odd Fellows’' building. * R S o e the report to the effect that a stranger disguised as a colonel of Cossacks, who entered the Palace on Honday.' had been arrested and that two small bombs were found concealed upon his RKEEP PACT WITH DEATH Thirteenth and Last Member of a Connecticut Suicide Club Is the Only One to Die of Natural Causes JESTING CONVERSATION RESULTS IN TRAGEDIES Ten Years Elapse Between the Organization of the Society and the Fruition of Its Grim Ambition Special Dispatch to The Call. BR![)?EPORT. Conn., April 6.—Or- ganized ten years ago by thirteen con- genial spirits, who derided supersti- tion, Bridgeport's so-called “Suicide Ciub” has been dissolved by the death of its president and last remaining member, Daniel Loeser. He was the only one who did not die by his own hand. There has always been more or less mystery around the association’s pro- ceedings, but details of its formation are well known. Its membership was made up largely of .German Americans, who met in the evenings in various re- sorts to drink beer and play pinochle, and it was at one of these merry meet- ings that the talk of a ‘“suicide club” was started. The suggestion was accepted and it was decided to limit the membership to thirteen. Not long after that first night only twelve men assembled at the appointed place. The announce- ment was made that John McKenzie, who had just returned from Switzer- land, had shot himself. ‘Whatever shock or surprise this may have been to the other members, it did not disrupt the society. George Leav- enworth, city editor of the Bridgeport Farmer, was a member, and on the morning that a humorous article on the club appeared in his paper he was found dead with an empty bottle that had contained carbolic acid lying beside him. For a year there were no breaks in ranks. Then Victor Heisterhagen went into a ‘cellar and shot himself. Alexander Heatherington was the fourth to die. He shot himself. “Jack” Eichel, a blacksmith, followed within a brief time in the same manner. ‘Walter Mickel, a painter, hanged himself. A few more weeks passed and Wal- |lace Zepp, a saloon-keeper, was found drowned, and John Meyer shot him- self in his meat market. Gustav Wolf, a dlamond expert, chose a similar manner of death, and about a year later Michael Horat drank carbolic acid. Several years went by without fur- ther reductions and then Oscar Beers, who had twice tried to kill himself, succeeded with a razor. George Wagner shot himself in a New York hotel last fall. MAKES DEVAND FOR AN ELECTION NAPA, April 6.—At a special meeting | EQUITABLE ~ |TWELVE MEN [LETTERS HoLD ~ NEW CLEWS! Seized Correspondence Adds to the Weight of Evidence Against “Nan” Patterson FATHER'S GRAVE ERROR Reveals Information in His Missives to the Sister of the Tombs Prisoner| | —_— Special Dispatch to The Cah NEW YORK, April 6.—District At- torney Jerome and his assistants will | take up the trial of “Nan” Patterson next Monday with more confidence than they felt at the beginning of the two previous attempts to convict her. Letters found in the trunk of Mrs. J. Morgan Smith after her arrest in Cifi- cinnati have supplied clews for new lines of evidence upon which Jerome and Assistant District Attorney Rand hope to build up a case much stronger than they presented before. The call- ing of J. Randolph Patterson, father of the prisoner, before the Grand Jury Yyesterday was, it is understood, in re- lation to these letters. After the elder Patterson had been examined Rand could not-conceal his jubilation; nor could the fact that the elder Patterson had revealed secrets under pressure in the Grand Jury room be kept confined Wwithin the limits of the District Attor- ney’s office. There could be but one reason for the calling of Patterson before the Grand Jury. He was in Washington at the time of the shooting of “Caesar” Young and had no knowledge at first hand of the events that led up to the tragedy. That he should be subpenaed a few hours after the arrival of the package of Smith letters from Cincin- natl indicates thit he was called to identify some of the letters, Natural- ly he could not be expected to identify letters written by any other person than himself. From the deeply worried expression on his face when he left the Grand Jury and from the gratified ex- pression on the face of Rand, it is in- ferred that in the trunkful of letters there were found some from J. Ran- | dolph Patterson to his daughter, Mrs. J. Morgan Smith. Patterson was with “Nan” every day during the two trials and visited her often afterward. Naturally, in writing to his other daughter, he would refer frequently to conversations with “Nan,” and in all likelihood the Dis- trict Attorney has been able to pick new threads of evidence from these revelations. Just after he was called before the Grand Jury yesterday Patterson visit- ed “Nan” in her cell in the Tombs. He of the City Council held this afternoon | Agtorney W. T. Rutherford of Napa appeared and made a sensational de- mand on the Council. He asked that the Council call a municipal election, to be held May 1, 1905, to elect a Mayor, | City Engineer, City Attorney, City Marshal and City Clerk. The Council had already called an election for that date to select three Councilmen from the wards, but took the position that the other officers were not to be elécted this year. Rutherford contended that in February, 1903, the city of Napa by vote adopted an amendment to the charter which changed the terms of the Mayor, Engineer, Attorney, Marshal and Clerk from two to four years, and also stated that for the purpose of reck- oning the first election was to be dated | 1903, the second 1907, the third 1911 and 80 on. City Attorney York rendered an opin- fon that the position of Rutherford was not correct and that the five of- ficers should not be elected till 1907. The Council then refused to grant the de- mand of Rutherford for a call for an election. He will immediately bring a mandamus suit in the Superior Court | i§ style and childish features. to direct the Council to issue the call for the election as he requests. ———— LOVE-CRAZED GARDENER KILLS A SCHOOLTEACHER REDDING, April 6.—J. H. Gregory, a gardener living near Mott station, five miles south of Sisson, shot and killed Miss Annie R. Miller, a teacher of the Mott school last night, and then blew his own brains out. courting Miss Miller and when she spurned his offer of marriage he be- came angered. Last night he met her at the depot and walked with her to the gate of the Maxwell home, where she lived. He repeated his offer of marriage and when she refused him and started to go in the house he drew a pistol and shot her through the hesd. He then killed himself. Miss Miller was engaged to L. H. Osborn, owner of a shingle mill at Sisson. Her folks live at Fort Jones, Siskiyou County. = Gregory has a brother in Redding and one in Port- land, Or. ———— Striking Machinists Are Enjoined. LOS ANGELES, April 6.—United States Judge Wellborn this morning issued an injunction on petition of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail-' way Company restraining A. R. Davis and 114 other striking machinists of San Bernardino from interfering in any way with the operation of the Gregory was | left her very depressed. Thus far the most damaging evi- dence against her has been given indi- rectly by members of her own family. That the Smiths should be the cause of supplying new evidence and that her father should be an involuntary agent in strengthening the case of the Dis- trict Attorney has flung the young woman into despair. Patterson appeared at the Grand Jury rooms to-day in answer to a subpena that was served upon him at the con- clusion of his testimony yesterday, but Assistant District Attorney Rand was so busy that he was excused. He will go before the Grand Jury again to- morrow. CINCINNATI, April 8.—By order Prices to-day only. Except Friday SurpriseNo.38 No C O. D. or telephone orders Grocerles. — (Main sheer quality, in such pattern 12%¢, 15¢ and 20c values. a yard Turnover and (Main broidered. Worth up to 65¢c prise Price, each.......... & Creamery Butter rade of wash goods, in polka ) g o 5 Special Friday Surprise Price, Finsst Quality Floor) Two hundred and fifty pieces of beautiful dress lawns In a nice, close s as are generally shown in the 25¢ dots, etc. Regular 10c Stock Collars Floor) There are a number of handsome new designs in this line of collars; made on best quality Swiss and Linen and_finely em- 17c¢ each. Special Friday Sur- Swiss Embroidered Handkerchiefs (Main For women, in a large assortment broidered scalloped borders; made of best quality Swiss. Regular 25¢c and 3sc handkerchiefs, but are slightly soiled Friday Surprise Price, each from display. Floor) of patterns; hemstitched and em- 12¢ Black Moire Ribbon (Main Floor) This is an extra good heavy quality ribbon, from 114 to 2 inches wide; just the thing for hair bows or for hats. Regularly worth 25¢ a prise Price... trimming yard. Special Friday Sur- [ {5 25¢ Suspenders 10c Pair (Main Men’s elastic Suspenders; strong nickel trimmings; in a big va price 25¢ a pair. Special Friday Price, paif......cceueee Floor) mohair and cord ends; riety of patterns. Regular 10c Figured Dress Lawns (Main Have white and colored grounds, stripes; 100 pieces in the lot. Price, a yard... Hear @rand Opera Singers on Records of Victor Talk- ing Machine This Afternoon. (5th Floor, Lecture Hall) Floor) with small dots, figures and Special Friday Surprise Easter Nove/ties of All Kinds. Bring the Children to See. tradition to New York, placed on the list of guests instead of prisoners at the jail. detalned under arrest, but they are to have the best food the market af- fords and otherwise be allowed every- thing to which they have been accus- tomed, except their liberty. of District Atorney Jerome of New York J. Morgan Smith and wife, who are in the county jail here pending the result of the contest over their ex- were to-day They are still —_——— TUTAH BANKER COMING TO SAN FRANCISCO Resigns From Salt ILake Financial Institution to Accept Vice Presi- dency of Local Concern. SALT LAKE, Utah, April 6.—B. W. ‘Wilson, one of the best known bank- ing men cashier of the Commercial National Bank of this city to accept the vice presidency of the American National Bank of San Francisco. Wilson has been prominently identified with the political, social and business growth of this State. of Utah, has resigned as BODY IS FOUND UNDER A HOUSE LOS ANGELES, April 6.—Late this afternoon boys discovered the body of & young woman under a house at 1130 East Pico street. TPhere is no doubt but the body is that of Mary ‘White, and it Is probabie that she com~ mitted suicide. An aunt of Miss White Hves In the house under which the bedy was found. The girl visited her aunt on the day she aisappeared ten days ago. The last seen of her was when she left the house. An opening in the foundation of the house at the rear furnished a means of entrance, and it is thought that the girl took polson and crawled under the house to die. She had com~ plained of being in ill health. P S ——— Sacrifice demonstrates sincerity. This '§ we make the clothes in at a wholesale price mn establishment. eton collar as pictured. to 6 years. with each suit. / 4 to 16; price only $6.50. Boys’ Communion and Confirmation suits in an im- mense assortment at’our usual very low prices. Stylish Little Russian Bloyse Suit for *3.50 Picture in your mind any $5.00 Russian blouse suit you ever saw and then you will have an idea of the one we sell for $3.50. We are able to save you this $1.50 because and sell direct to the mothers in San Francisco. She comes into our store and buys a suit which costs her no more than if she bought it This pretty little Russian blouse is tull of royal, navy blue and fancy Scotches. We will give free of charge one linen collar S ’ Girls’ Department. All the garments here mentioned are fresh and new an The department was just opened last week. We mention Girls’ Peter Thompson reefers—man tailored chevron on arm; very swell coats for only $5.50. Girls’ Tourist coats—something new this season. box plaits in front and back; belt all around; colors ADVERTISEMENTS. our own workshops some manufacturing It is made with an The colors are red Ages 27 SNWOO0Ds (D Manufacturers Wholes: of Clo - 740 Market Street, garments—ages 4 to 16 vears: —garments are man tailored; navy, royal and brown; ages alers and Retailers Seeched from iy | d in the height of style. two important values: Mail orders filled carefully for any- thing in. boys’ clothes; write for 1905 catalog.