The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 26, 1905, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1905. PRETTY NURSE [IS ATTACKED DIES FOR LOVE BY FIVE MEN ity | KICHES AWAIT LOST BROTHER Miss Annie Mertz Takes HerlJohn McLean of San Fran-{Known Heirs of Mrs. Charles Life When She Learns Her! cisco Beaten Upon Head Affection Is Not Returned] With a Brick in St. Louis KANSAS CITY TRAGEDY!HE MAY NOT: RECOVER Indifierence of Archie J. A.|No Valuables Taken and the Fryhofer of California| Motive of the Assault Is Said to Have . | The Call | DENVER, Ay Desperate be-; ST. LOUIS —A mysterious cause of 1 her fail- : assault, wi deveiop into a mur- "pl je A der, tock place during the night, and ed n in | John McLean of San Francisco, the Jast night | victim, lies dangerously wounded in the s death being momen- s expected from concussion of the a dose of who returned | They jumped upon him in .a group and % days ago,-ls began to pound him with their fists. One of the quintet seized a brick and n the af- tim A private watchman saw the assault and ran to the assistance of McLean, but he was too late t¢ save him. The five men scattered and left their vic- tim lying on the sidewalk Nobody knew who the man was, and ce, he was at first registered as uniden- of sent by the | far as knc ss her re John Brac an habitue of the her friends | neighborhood where the assault took her remains | place, was subsequently arrested, but wi flicials of Kansas | denies all knowledge of the crime. City ol SR L n " 1CTIN D SCENE OF BOUTON MURDER | | ‘KK TO BE PART OF A PARK | t 1 i Cutl Mountain, in Colorado, Be- ™~ . Palmer. D SPRIN 1 25— ’ 4 —_— e ser, fo: nder of this the ain, Special ch to The Call NEW YORK, April 25.—Negotiations are under way for placing a $5,000,000 insurance policy on the new house of Chariles M. Schwab and its furnishings. The dwelling, which stands in the middle of a plat of ground bounded by Riverside drive and West End avenue whose nude body |and Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth ler Mountain last | streets, with its furnishings, will cost, when completed, ®bout $9,000,000. It is to be fitted with the work of the best p where o« of Bessie Bouton { { | | | Caused Aet| Veiled in Decp )Jysteryl cident Is Well Fouunded | begun in d to have | brain, as a result of a number of on end of | blows on the head with a brick. J. A.| McLean was attacked by five men. | began to batter the head of their vic- | tified, but papers subsequently found Miss ' in his pockets showed that was John McLean of San Fran and that he was a guest in the Model Hotel. At this el nobody knew anything are nu- | about him, however ) : been there several d: L otifled this Nothing was taken from McLean, | iss Mertz | though he h y and other valt e her rel- | ables. He has not been in St. Louis r body wi g ugh to have any enemies so ROAD QUICKLY MADE artists and sculptors and Mr. and Mrs. | FOR STALLED TRAINS S have been ransacking Europe for years for paintings, tapestries and Track Laid 0 antiques. “1,‘":,".:{” ";:‘n;:;:d(,m; Ed“on‘ Announcement has been made that - = < the carved silver gilt dinner set which | Wyoming. has been ordered will cost $150,000 and | RAWLINS, Wyo., April —After | will be the finest ever made for a pri- f f herculean work, | vate dining-room. ty-eight completed the con- ges and 2 track | WIDESPREAD DAMAGE DONE vhere the big | BY THE QUAKE IN INDIA aturday, and senger trains, at Rawlins and on their way. It to six| apted in clear- | Nearly Every Building Ruined in an Area of Seven Hundred Square Miles. LAHORE, April 25.—The Lieuten- oc of a public address on behalf of the earthquake fund, stated that he hoped | exceeded 15,000, but within the affect- - | ed area, seven hundred square miles, d | with a population of 25 s | every building has collag | rendered uninhabitable. »sed or been e great mass of | ant Governor of Punjab, in the course ! 1 25—On & tele- | the deaths by the earthquakes had not | 000, nearly | | the Governor's private secretary, has | | ®ard to the train service and sched- L. Fair Will Share the Es- tate With Frank Smith HIS IDENTITY PROVED (laim of Relationship to Vietim of Automobile Ac- —_— BOULDER, Colo., April 25.—Charles J. Smith, of this city, brother of the late Mrs. Charles L. Fair, who was killed in an automobile accident in France, said to-night that Frank Smith, of Topeka, Kan., is his long lost brother and that he will receive & share of the estate of his mother and sister. Charles J. Smith to-day re- ceived a photograph of Frank Smith and is convinced beyond a doubt that it is a likeness of his brother. The picture resembles William Smit¥, an- other brother residing in Newmarket, N. J. Twenty-five years have elapsed since any of the Smiths heard from Frank. Although he was advertised for by the executors of the estate, Frank never |, made his whereabouts known until he heard of the death of his mother re- cently. Charles J. Smith has arranged to meet Frank in Denver. e —————— NOTABLES AT FUNERAL OF SENATOR O. H. PLATT Fairbanks Attends the Ceremonies as the Representative of Presi. dent Roosevelt. WASHINGTON, Conn., April 25.— To attend the funeral of Senator O. H. Platt regular and special trains | brought hundreds of, vistors to this village to-day. Among them were members of Congress, Senators and Vice President Fairbanks, who. was present as the representative of Pres- ident Roosevelt. The Congregational Church, where the services were held, was entirely too small for the crowd. In keeping with the marked simplicity of all the | funeral arrangements the altar deco- rations consisted mainly of branches of evergreen and mountain laurel. —_——— OFFICIALS OF SANTA FE PLAN SPRING SCHEDULES Confer With General Superintendent Hurley in Topeka in Regard to the Service. TOPEKA, April 25.—George T. Nicholson, passenger traffic manager of the Santa Fe road; J. P. Lindsay, general agent of the mail department, and Dan Cain, general superintendent of the Western Grand division, are in Topeka to-day in consultation with General Superintendent Hurley in re- ules for the spring season. | It is announced that the Caiifornia Limited of the Santa Fe will be changed from a daily service to a semi-weekly service within six weeks. —_—_———— OFFICIALS INTERESTED IN NEW OIL REFINERY Secretary of Kansas Governor and Congressman Curtis Members of the Company. TOPEKA, April 25.—T. A. McNeal, | gone into an independentr refinery scheme with an oil and gas company of Humboldt, of which he is a mem- ber. At a meeting of the company it was decided to issue $60,000 of treas- ury stock to ‘build a refinery of two 300-barrel stills. Among other mem- bers of the company are Congressman Charles Curtis, Pension Agent Wilder S. Metcalf and United States Attorney in the Legal Companies Organization of Life Insurance | e Constitytion of the State of California Provides that each stockhoider be individually and personally. Hable pre rata for ALL DEBTS and LIABILITIES contracted or incurred during the time he was a stockholder. It also provides that the Directors shall be jointly and severalty liable for ALL moneys embezzled or MISAPPROPRIATED by the Officers. Section 10 of the ‘‘Act to provide for the incorporation of Mutual Insurance Companies for the insurance of life and health and against accidents,” POLICY-HOLDERS Are More Interested To-Day Than Ever Before Section 3, Article 12, further extends the LIABILITY of stockholders. THE PACIFIC MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF CALI- FORNIA is the ONLY Company in the United States organized under such stringent laws, and there is no other Life Insurance Company transacting business in America whose policy-holders, by legal enactment, are so safeguarded. Notwithstanding the Fability of stockholders, they receive no profit from the premium payments made by participating policy-holders, but every dollar paid into the company by the latter,with the accumulations thereon, is applied for their benefit. Following are the Directors of The Pacific Mutual. nolders of the Company and also policy-holders : WAKEFIELD BAKER . JAMES CAROLAN. W. R. CLUNESS . HENRY J. CROCKER.... ’ D. W. EARL GEORGE A. MOORE ... SCOTT .......Vice-President, (Scott & Van Arsdale) SCOTT..........Union Iron Works S. M. MARKS, Secretary Assets, $7,650,000 HOME OFFICE, Montgomery and Sacramento Streets SAN FRANCISCO BRANCH OFFICE, Crocker Building .Baker ® Hamilton T Retired Merch «ev...Medical Director Capitalist .Second Vice-President .President of the Company THE PACIFIC MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY GEO. A. MOORE, President Surplus, $897,000 LOUBET PRESIDES DURING CEREMONIES AT MONUMENT Exercises Held in Bordeaux at Unveiling of a Statue to Gam- betta. BORDEAUX, April 25.—President Loubet presided to-day at the cere- mony of unveilfhg the monument to Gambetta by Dalon. It shows Gam- betta standing in a meditative attitude on a pedestal. The figures about the pedestal include a child defending its mother, and Wisdom assisting Liberty, both symbolical of Gambetta's pa- triotic labors at the close of the Franco-Prussian war. A vast crowd was present and many notable ad- the J. S. Dean. dresses were made. ADVERTISFMENTS. ST o PP a matter of much discussion on your part. Your Protection If the suit is not to your entire satisfaction, money will b- refunded without a question o1 our part. SNWO0D 5 (D Manufacturers Wholesalers and Retailers of Clothing 740 Market St. and Cor. Powell and Ellis Sold Direct . Wou Price wear suits we sell for $15.00. And when we say “you’ Suits for *15 to Wearer—Otherwise the To-day we want ¢o tell YOU about the ready-to- From Maker I1d Be $20 ” we refer to the man who has been buying his suits at $15.00, $17.50 or $20.00 outside of our stores. Such 2 man is surely interested in knowing the following facts: These suits are made by They are sold direct from maker to wearer at only one profit. These garments are the by other stores who do not make their goods, but buy from manufacturers. This difference of $5 represents the manufacturer’s profit and the cost incurred by the retailer the goods. ‘Why should you go on can be bought from the makers for $15? ‘Why should you hesitate a minute in putting this question to a test, by purchasing one of our suits ? How do you run the slightest risk when we any purchaser his money back if he is not pleased ? You will surely find a suit in the immense assort- ment to meet with your desires in pattern, material and style. The suits come in navy blue serge and black thibet; also tweeds and cheviots in the popular grays and browns, cc;mprising solid color effects, mixtures, stripes, checks and plaids; styles single or double breasted. Now what are you going to do about it—pay $15 here or $20 elsew! re? The saving \ any Our Suits kept sponging and pressing done ‘ us in our own workshops. equal of the $20 suits sold his salesmen in selling paying $20 for a suit which give of five dollars shouldn’t be Your Privilege standing gu‘arafitee: b free in re time you wish. FOR TRANSVAAL LONDON, April 25.—The draft of the new Transvaal Constitution was issued to-day. It provides for a progressive Assembly or Volksraad, consisting of the Lieutenant Governor, six to nine official members and thirty to thirty- five elected members. Every burgher of the late South African republic is entitled to vote for members of the first Volksraad. The same right is granted to all white males of British birth occupying premises at an annual rental of not less than $50 or having capital to the value of $500, unless con- victed of treason since May 31, 1902, or of murder. These restrictions are removed where a free pardon has been granted. A commission will divide the Trans- vaal into electoral districts. The de- bates in the Assembly will be carried on in English, but the president of the Volksraad may permit a member to use the Dutch language. Financial measures must be recommended to the Assembly by the Governor and no part of the revenue may be apportioned without his authority. In a communication to Lieutenant Governor Tawley, accompanying the letters patent providing for the changes, Colonial Secretary Littelton says the time is not yet ripe to grant full self government. The matter in- volves party government and this in the Transvaal will become more prac- ticable when the two races have acted longer together under equal rights and when bitter memories bave become softened by time. In regard to the colored population not being directly represented in the Volksraad, any bill subjecting them to special disability or restriction must have the sanction of the home Government before it becomes operative. Secretary Littelton explains that similar constitutional changes can- not be extended to the Orange River colony immediately, because the in- dustrial and economie conditions there do not so urgently demand them. NORFOLK, Va. April 25.—General Cronje, who was a member of Presi- dent Kruger’'s cablinet for twelve years and a noted Boer leader, and who is on a tour of America, was shown the re- port of the new constitution just is- sued from London. He said: “It is a breach of the treaty of peace, made us by England at Vereeniging on May 31, 1902, which promised us self-govern- ment as soon as our country was in a settled state.” ————— NATIONAL CITY LEAGUES e Y HONORS FRANK SYMMES San Franciscan Made a Member of Executive Committee of the Body. NEW YORK, April 25.—The elev- enth annual meeting of the National Municipal League and the Twelfth National Conference for Good City Government began to-day in this city and will fonflnue until Friday night. The following officers were elected: President, Charles J. Bonaparte, Bal- secretary, Clinton R. Wood- ruff, Philadeiphia; treasurer, George Burnham Jr., Philadelphia. Among those on the executive com- mittee is Frank J. Symmes of San Francisco. ——— . LEWISTON, Mont., April 25.—Frightened by an aul e, a mmmchoftwla— tore “:.p the itching to ‘were to- i ‘,:'s.m'm":'.;'. Piaving on_ the over ‘was killed E -~ | Baster by the proclameation of general ! prisoners now confined in .President Crocker-Woolworth National Bank Forwarding and Commission Merchant ‘Manager Anglo-Californian Bank, Ltd. They are all stock- S MADE CLEAR ST. PETERSBURG, April 25.—“My will regarding the convocation of rep- resentatives of the people is unswerv- ing and the Minister of the Interior is making every effort for its speedy realization.” Emperor Nicholas, receiving in audi- ence at Tsarskoe-Selo on Sunday the | Marshal of the nobility of Kostroma, a Government of middle Russia, directed that the foregoing message be com- municated to the nobility of Kcstroma. The message evidently was designed to be published to quiet the fears of those who are impatient at the delays and | who have grown skeptical of the ful- fillment of the promises contained in the imperial reseript. It is very significant that the Em- peror used the words “Convocation of representatives of the people,” thus go- ing heycnd the expregsion employed in the rescript and setting at rest all doubt as to his meaning. A rumor is circulated here to the ef-| fect that Emperor Nicholas will mark and religious the fort- | resses or prisons of European Russia | or who are in exile. i Fears that the Easter holidays, which | extend over thirteen days, will be the | occasion for bloody riots are mani- | fested everywhere and the population is becoming decidedly panicky over the rumors which are circulating of mur- der, pillage and terrorism by mobs in various parts of the country. Even churches, according to the stories told, are not exempt. SOSNOVICE, Russian Poland, April 25.—Great disorders are expected here at Easter time. The town is full of troops. Russian officials are receiving letters threatening them with massacre and the workmen have been deluged with proclamations signed by the Po- lish revolutionary committee, warning them nct to heed those who advise them to kill the Jews, but instead to kill all such persons. The proclama- tions are directed against the police, who are charged with attempting a diversion agal the Jews. e e G —— DISPUTE ARISES AMONG DAUGHTERS OF REVOLUTION Mrs. McLean, the President, Refuses to Recognize the Vice Regent for Montana. WASHINGTON, April 25.—At a meeting of the national board of man- agers of the Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution Mrs. McLean, the newly-elected president general, re- fused to recognize Mrs. Walter Weed of Washington, D. C., as the duly elected vice regent for Montana. Mrs. McLean's grounds for her refusal to recognize Mrs. Weed as a member of the board was that the election had not been certified by the congress. Mrs. Draper, who managed Mrs. Mec- Lean’s campaign, declared that she| had letters from Montana proving that | Mrs. Weed was not the choice of the | rity of the chapters of that State ice regent. ————————— Indian Supply Bids Opened. CHICAGO, April 25.—In the pres- ence of Francis E. pp. the Com- missioner of Indian Affairs, Roger C. Spooner, superintendent of the Indian amnesty for political for for Indian supplies for the year com- | mencing July 30 were opened this af- ternoon at the warehouse sontracts were awarded to-dax IPOPULAR BODY [CZAR'S MEANING |KILLS HIMSELF BEFORE ALTAR Special Dispatch to The Call SAN DIEGO, April 25.—Kneeling be=- fore a mirror, supported by the legs of a chair placed upon the altar plat- form in the Peniel Mission, Charles Durston of San Bernardine placed a revolver to his right temple and pulled the trigger. Death followed instantly. Durston came here four weeks ago from San Bernardino and registered at the Russ House. He disappeared from the hotel last Saturday. The superintendent of the Peniel Mission says that he has been a regular at- tendant at the mission. The mission people believe Durston was insane. He removed his shoes and coat before shooting himself. In his pockets were a gold watch, some money, tobacco and a little opium. His condition indicated that he was not an habitual user of the drug. At the inquest it developed that the man had been despondent- He told some acquaintances that he “had a past.”™ ———————— New Rural Carriers. WASHINGTON, April 25.—James J. Hutchinson is appointed a rural car- rier at Clovis, Cal., and Leonard D. McCormick substitute; Paul F. Nord- strom is appointed at Kingsbury and Albert B. Lindquist substitute. ———————— VIENNA, April 25.—An afterncon newspaper t>day publishes a report from Venice that Em- peror William will arrive there May 1 to con- fer with Signor Tittoni the Itallan Gotuchowski, Foreign Minister, and Count the Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary. SAVE HALF OR NEARLY HALF PIANO PRICES CUT IN TWO BY POMMER- EILERS—INVESTIGATE THIS. Planos at Dbest cost money, but we claim that can save you half or nearly half on any piano purchased dur- ng our big sale. demands that investigats this. you are inten to buy a plano month. next fall, or next year, you shoula visit our store to-day. A little m&: now will be worth several hundred lars to you later on. If you are not ready to buy, select your piano and have it reserved for you. We are not s bat offerin, left over stocks of last year's makes, Hanos from the best fac- ca. Aside from our stock not of this year's 3 ou know t! reputation of the Hazletom, the Decker, the Kimball, the Hallst & Davis &“._m We have these—the very best of and at prices so low as to be almost be- ond belief. We can sell you one at a figure than the a dealer would quote you for a low instru- ment. We are not only the initiators prices; we are the introducers pianos as “"io A g e - ml n sl m‘-. Se the only handlers of the iano; and we are the Peerless electric exclusive agents iane hm‘: o ielao' are revolutionizing the sical worl -";fynu ‘want to see the viano in all its variety from the miniature Little Jewell suitable for houseboats and summer camps to the most magnificent of you should visit our store to-day. whele floor devoted to used