The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 29, 1905, Page 4

THE N FRANCISCU CALL, SATURDAY APRKRIL 190D, . TiE AN RANGNE A AR A BIGELOW LOSES PALATIAL HOME Residence of Defaulting Banker Passes Into the Possession of Receiver . GIVEN SHELTER BY SON | | Whereabouts of the Missing Assistant Cashier of Insti- tution Is Still Unknown gyl MILWAUKEE, Wis.,, April 28.—Bit- terness was added to his already over- fiowing cup to-day when Frank G. Bigelow, the defaulting banker, was bliged to leave his palatial home on r street, it having been taken pos- y the Wisconsin Trust and pany as receiver for the te. Bigelow, with his fam- ttle save their personal t 1o the home of his son, Bigelow, 480 Marshall street, will make their home for ry schedule of lia- to Bigelow’s peti- ptey will probably not & week or ten days. id that Judge Carpenter in the Court will take steps within a r remove Bigelow from ious trusts which he holds by appointment. ed to-day that he »dhead estate an amount ,000 in addition to the unsecured credit- has been received and ac- nce against the First Na- in the Milwaukee Clearing was reduced to almost thus showing that the ecovered its normal condi- whereabouts of Henry G. Goll, nissing assistant cashier of the (UVBOY MURDER [ FOLLOWS GOODLAND, Kan., April 28.—The heirs of Danlel Berry, killed two years y the Dewey cowboys, have suit he against Chauncey It is urged that the Kkilling he Berrys was unprovoked and ges are asked from the Dewey iel Berry and his two sons g a fight with Chaun- ey Dewey’'s men. The trouble resulted < existing between the a small farmers, to which the Berrys belonged. R v —— NEBRASKA BELLE WINS A CALIFORNIA PHYSICIAN Dr. Luther Leisenring of Placerville Is Wedded to Miss Ethel C. Wilcox of Omaha. OMAHA, April 28—Two hundred invited guests attended the ‘wedding of Dr. Luther Leisenring of Placerville, Ca Miss Ethel Cora Wilcox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George W. ‘Wilcox of this city, which ‘took place in the First Buptist Church. The al- tar and chancel were heavily banked h Easter lilies, palms and ferns, he ceremony was an unusually ne. A reception was held aft- at the home of the bride's which was decorated in red and green After a2 week at Plattsmouth Dr. Leisenring and his wife will leave for their future home in Placerville. The only relatives from out of town pres- ent were the brother of the groom and his wife, Dr. and Mrs. Leisenring of California, sickness preventing others from attending. e L BONGKONG Kow April 28 —The @ockyard at n has replaced three 45-ton wire-wound barbette guns of the British battieshipe Experts consider this a notable schievement, showing the Kowloon dockyard is an_important factor in the ef- ficiency of the British Far Eastern squadron. DOAN'S PITLS. Albion and Glory RE YOU SATISFIED? If Not What Better Proof Can San Francisco Residents Ask For? This is the statement of a Francisco citizen. The testimony of a neighbor. You can readily investigate it. The proof should convince you. C. H. Swain, mining engineer, 3947 Clay street, says: “It is three «or four years since I first noticed pain in my back and other marked symptoms of kidney complaint. I rhought the first attack would pass away as mysteriously as it came, and it.probably did, but only to be suc- ceeded by another of longer duration and more acute. By and by the at- tacks were more persistent and the pain more pronounced, until finally it was a difficult matter for me to at- tend to my daily duties when suffer- ing from one of these attacks. Al- most by accident I happened to read an ady. about Doan’s Kidney Pills and I used three boxes. They certainly acted with me as the advertisement stated. From the beneficial results received 1 have a very high estimate of Doan’s Kidney Pills.” For sale by all dealers. San of Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. sole ‘agents for the United States Remember the name, Doan’s, and take no substitute. RICH OR POOR—YOU NEED TEETH No one, old enough to know better, should be neglectful of that most vital and useful crgan of the human system—the teeth—the ! very guards to the gateway of health. SOZODONT TOOTH POWDER should be found on the toilet table of every <ne, be he rich or poor. It willmot tarnish €old work nor scratch the enamel. A per- fect dentifrice—the one for you % FORMS: LIQUID, POWDER PASTR. 'Mrs. J. Morgan Smith Re- N0 TESTIMON) FOK DEFENSE “Nan" Patterson’s Lawyers' Rest on Contention That | Charge Was Not Sustained | —_——— | TRADE SHOWS STRONG TONE Favorable Reports for the Week From Both the Dun and Bradstreet Agencies PROSECUTION FINISHES| e | fuses to Answer Questions! Put by the State’s Attomey] —_— NEW YORK, April 28.—After a day | of interesting developments both' the prosecution and the defense rested in the case of Nan Patterson, indicted for the murder of Caesar Young, the wealthy bookmaker, almost a year ago. The prosecution finished its case just before the adjournment of the court and later Attorney O'Reilly of counsel for Miss FPatterson notified the prosecution that his side would submit no defense and would rest on the contention that the State had failed to make any case against the defendant. The plan had been under consider- ation for some days, but was only de- cided upon at a conference to-day be- tween the counsel for Nan Patterson and her aged father. The decision means the speedy conclusion of the woman’s third trial for the sensational tragedy on West Broadway. When the case is called on Monday, to which date the trial was adjourned to-day, Assistant District Attorney Rand will Immediately begin the summing up of the case of the State. Besides this, the succession of events which marked to-day proceed- ings included the court’s denial of a motion to dismiss the indictment; the testimony of the prisoner’s sister, Mrs. J. Morgan Smith, in which she made some interesting statements, but stood on her right to refuse to answer ques- tions, on the ground that the answers might incriminate her; Rand’s prom- ise to quash the conspiracy indict- ments against Mrs. Smith if she would answer his questions, and the protest of the counsel of the defense to the court that Rand’s merciless method of questioning w badgering the wit- ness” and the rejection again by the court of the much quoted letter of Mrs. Smith to Young expressing fear as to the consequences if Young did not see her sister. MRS. SMITH ON STAND. In the course of his examination Rand asked Mre. Smith if she pos- sessed all the information she has tes- tified to in this trial at the time she left New York last June. Mrs. Smith replied that she would like to answer the guestion, but feared it would tend to degrade and incriminate her, as she is under indictment for conspiracy. The prosecutor then promised that if she would answer he would move next Monday to quash the indictment against her, but she declined to do so. The direct examination of Mrs. Smith, which was not completed yes- terday, was resumed to-day. Mrs. Smith testified yesterday that Miss Patterson had expected Caesar Young to get a divorce from his wife and marry her. She, herself, believed that Young intended eventually to marry her sister until last May, when Leslie | Coggins told her that Young did not| intend to carry out the agreement. | Miss Patterson became greatly excited:| when Coggins’ statement was repeated | to her, Mrs. Smith said. “Did not Coggins tell you that the best thing Young thought Nan could do was to accept Matt Trimble’s offer of marriage?” asked Rand. “He did not say anything like that to me,” replied Mrs. Smith. “Did Miss Patterson say that the cause of her emotion was that Cog- gins had misrepresented Young's in- tentions toward her?” “She did not say so in those words, but I knew {t.” *“She did not tell you what she was going to do?” | “No.” | “And yet you described’ her as ‘frantic’ and ‘desperate’?” “Yes.” “When you wrote the letter to Young were you in a state of feeling brought you?” ““Yes, my sister is not responsible for that letter.” “Did that letter represent truthfully the state of your mind?” “It did.” “Did it represent Nan's state of mind 2" This question was not answered. Rand here offered the intercepted letter which Mrs. Smith sent to Young, which was ruled out yesterday, and again it was rejected by Recorder Goff. IDENTIFIES A LETTER. Mrs. Smith identified a letter which she wrote to her sister, Harriet How- ell, of Washington. This letter was written from Toronto and was said by Rand to contain a statement to the effect that Stern was there for the pur- |. pose of identifying them as the pur-| chasers of the revolver and that they would have to go away. The name Stern, Rand claims, is represented by the letter 8 and he attempted to get & confirmatory admission from the wit- | ness. Bhe declined to answer when the question was put to her, however, and again Rand offered to dismiss the conspiracy indictment if she would reply. Attorney Levy for the defense broke in at this point with an objection to the methods which were being em- ployed by the prosecutor. He com- plained to the Recorder that the wit- ness was being “badgered” and asked that Rand be warned to proceed in a different way. Rand replied that he would not press for an answer as he had no desire to confuse the witress. DEFENDANT NEAR COLLAPSE. The ordeal in the courtroom to-day proved almost too much for “Nan” Patterson. The resolute manner : in which Mrs. Smith refused to answer questions put to her by the prosecuting attorney and her declardtion that she would stand by her sister affected the prisoner deeply and she was near a breakdown when the luncheon adjourn- ment was announced. Mrs. Smith ap- peared to be unstrung as a result of her experience and the two women spent the recess in their cells in the Tombs weeping in each other’s arms. The prosecution in the Patterson trial rested its case this afternoon. The | clerk employed by Hyman Stern, the pawnbroker, who, it was expected would go on the stand to attempt to identify Morgan Smith as the pur- chaser of the revolver with which Young was killed, was not called by the prosecution. Just before the prosecution rested Rand read extracts from the testimony glven by Miss Patterson at the last trial, and then recalled Mrs. Margaret Young, the dead bookmaker's widow. She was asked if she and her husband had ever discussed a legal separation, but was not pérmitted to answer the question. TO OFFER NO DEFENSE. A motion by Miss Patterson's counsel that the case be taken from the jury and the indictment nst her dis- missed was denied by Goft. | on by what Nan had told | | MONEY REMAINS EASY UNCLE SAM DRAWN INTO THE STRIKE Chicago Employers’ Teaning Association Carries the Railroad Earnings ExceedY Present Labor Troubles by Far Those of Last Year for the Month of April| NEW YORK, April 28.—Dun’'s Week- ly Review of Trade to-morrow will say: Activity at the interior is evi- denced by the increased transfers thither of silver dollars and subsidiary silver by the Treasury, crop prospects being well maintained despite exces- sive cold in a few sections. Railroad earnings for April thus far exceed the same period last year by 10.7 per cent, while foreign commerce .at this port for the last week shows a gain of $3,834,447 in value of merchandise im- ported and ah increase of $1.947.550 in exports as compared with 1904. Mer- cantile collections show further im- provement and money remains abun- dant and easy. Strength is still conspicuous in the hide situation, large tanners purchas- ing more freely. Failures this week numbered 203 in the United States, agalnst 202 last year, and 15 in Canada compared with 16 a year ago. Bradstreet’s to-morrow will say: Ir- regularity still charatterizes dis- tributive trade, while industry is ac- tive and outdoor construction is of un- precedented volume. Labor is well em- ployed, and with the one conspicuous exception of Chicago, where the team- ters’ strike affects trade and shipments. disputes are below the average for May 1 Prices of many staples have been weak and unsettled, and cereals. cotton, some kinds of pig iron, copper and country produce have moved lower. Railway earnings are good and bank clearings this week, owing to the holi- days, are smaller than last week. but heavily exceed a year ago. Collections are . rather tardy, especially at the South. Crop conditions, though the season is backward, promise well as regards the cereals. A heavy vyield is in prospect. Wholesale trade is sea- gonably quiet. Trade reports from the Pacific Coast are favorable. Building is active the country over. far distant points uniting in reports of unprecedented construction. Petroleum is lower. Hides are stronger. Business failures in the United States for the week ending April 27. number 193 against 183 last week, 197 in the like week of 1904, and 173 in 1803. In Canada failures for the week number 17 against 21 last week and 24 this week a vear ago. Flour exports are 1.260.316 bushels against 1,242,267 last week and 1.101.850 this week last year. From July 1 to date the exports are 52,308,250 bushels against 121,723,847 last year. REFINERY LAW 10 BE TESTED TOPEKA, Kan, April 28.—Governor Hoch announces he will not hire any attorneys to help Attorney General Coleman prosecute the oil refinery case in the Supreme Court. State Treas- urer Kelly and Warden Jewett have engaged half a dozen attorneys to fight the refinery law. It is announced that others whose names have not been given to the public are at work on the case in the interests of the Standard Oil Company. They will help the at- torneys hired by Jewett and Kelly. The suit is to test the refinery law. ——— L ATTACKS TRUST TO ESCAPE THE PAYMENT OF HIS BILL | Kansas Man Argues. Wire Combine Has Not Right to Do Business in ghe State. TOPEKA, Aptil 28.—S. L. Leonard of Finney County is trying to evade paying the wire trust a bill he owes ! that corporation on the ground that the trust has no right to do business | in Kansas. The case was filed in the ! Supreme Court to-day. Leonard had purchased wire, giving his notes for $550. These were unpald and the company secured judgment in the Finnev County court. Leonard then appealed, claiming that this trust had not complied with the laws of Kansas realting to foreign corporations. — e UNION MEN TO ENTERTAIN CONFEDERATE VETERANS Four Hundred Southerners to Be Guests of U. S. Grant Post of “New York. NEW YORK, April 28.—Four hun- dred Confederate veterans, members of the local camp, are to be the guests of U. S. Grant Post, G. A. R, on Memorial day, and from 9 a. m. until late at night the veterans of the two armies will mingle. Senator Black- | burn is to deliver the oration of the | day at Grant's tomb. have marched with Union veterans in this city. —ee———— BUFFET CHAIR CAR On Santa Oruz Trains, Narrow Gauge. Commencing Sunday, April 80, the Southern Pacific will run & buftet chair car on trains | leaving San_Francisco, narrow-gauge . ferry, ! 8:15 a, m. for Santa Cruz; returning, arrive | Ban Francisco at 5:55 p. m. B — — Lawyer Daniel J. O'Rellly, for Nan Patterson, late to-day announced to Assistant District Attorney Rand, who has been conducting the State’s case, that he would put in no defense in the trial, resting on the claim that the | State had failed to make out any case against the girl. This will result in the summing up of the case by Rand when the case is opened on Monday. A story to the effect that Miss Pat- terson and her sister quarreled in the Tombs last night over the testimony | glven by Mrs. Smith was denied by their father, John Randolph Patterson, to-day. In doing so, he said: “I am thankful to say that my daughters are devoted sisters, and even | casion for them to quarrel now, when | there is so much reason for them to help each other. either would be glad to sacrifice any- thing for the other.” —_——— Don’t miss seelng the great international baseball match between the teams of the Tokio University and Stanford University at Palo Alto on Saturday, April 29. Special train will leave Third and Townsends strects sta- tion at 9:15 8. m. on that day. Special round is being wmong {rip uckets. $0 cents, B Titarest ‘manifested in occasion, 1; our Japanese residenta. 5 It will be the | | first time that Confederate veterans | if they were not there would be no oc- | I feel free to say that | Into United States Court |INJUNCTION ISSUED ‘ AGAINST THE UNION Non-Union Driver Uses His ! Revolver When Attacked | by a Crowd and Seriously . Wounds Two Bystanders CHICAGO, April 28.—For the first time since the strike of the American Railway Union the Government has been made a'party to the labor troubles in this city. The Government was brought into the teamsters’ strike to- day by the issuance of an Injunction by Judge C. C. Kohlsaat of the United States Circuit Court. The writ was asked on behalf of the Embloyers’! Teaming Association on the ground that the organization is incorporated under the laws of West Virginia and is therefore under the protection of the Federal court. The order commands that all defendants refrain from anv interference with the business of the Employers’ Teami Association and commands the strikers to refrain from picketing, massing on the streets. with intent to interfere with the wagons of the complainant and from interfering in any manner with non-union men in its employ. As soon as issued coples of the in- junction were printed on large cards and two of these were attached to every wagon of the Employers’ Teaming As- sociation which went upon the streets to-day. The injunction exerted a pacifying influence and there was less rioting in the streets than on yester- day. A heavy thunderstorm which con- tinued during the latter part of the afternoon and through the evening also lent material assistance in keepinx the streets clear. POLICE MAKE ARRESTS. Twelve arrests were made for inter- ference with the injunction, all of them being made at one time and place. At 1:30 o’clock this afternoon two wagons loaded with coal approached the Union League Club on Jackson Boulevard and when they attempted to drive into the narrow alley east of the clubhouse to unload the non-union |teamsters were attacked by a crowd of strike sympa- thizers and a lively fight ensued. The wagons were plainly marked with coples of the injunction and the police in charging the mob arrested twelve strikers, who are now confined in the Harrison Street Police Station. Thev may be arraigned in the United States Circuit Court to-morrow morning. One hundred and five copies of the injunction were given to United States Marshal Ames for service upon the labor leaders, and five of his as- sistants were sent out immediately to serve them. The greater part of the notices had been given out by even- ing. | When news of the Injunction reached President Shea of the Teamsters’ Union, he iseued the following order, signed by the committee of teamsters’ business agents: “To all union teamsters: Permit no violation of the peace under any cir- cumstances. Competent drivers can- not be procured to handle the teams in Chicago and violence will not help us in this strike. Be loyal to your union | and obey its instructions.” The injunction writ is made return- able May 10 and the defendants will be given a hearing at 10 a. m. on that | day. STRIKE SPREADS STEADILY. In the afternoon a new situation was placed before Judge Kohlsaat when atterneys for the Scott Trans- fer Company asked for an order to re- strain the heads of the various unions | from calling out the men who are | working -for the transfer company. | Kohlsaat declared that the injunc- tion prayed for was too sweeping in its scope, and directed that a modifled form be presented to him to-morrow morning. The strike spread steadily through- {out the day. Most of the teamsters going out, however, were employed by small concerns. There are now about 3500 teamsters on strike and their in- action has largely deprived about 15,000 other men of work. It was impossible to-day to have a package delivered to any address outside of the downtown dis- trict from any of the large drygoods stores. Customers were told that dellvery of large parcels could not be made for a day or two at least and they were strongly urged to take small packages with them. Hundreds of people called in person and by telephone at the headquarters of the drygoods’ drivers asking to have parcels delivered. All of the requests were refused. Express drivers, how- ever, were instructed by the strike leaders to carry coffins’and flowers to | funerals and in no manner to interfere with the shipment of corpses. SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED. ‘Three persons were seriously injured during the street fighting to-day. They are: R. Brown, colored, non-union teamster, beaten into unconsciousness. Samuel Bradshaw, colored, non-union teamster, struck on the head with a plece of iron and knocked unconscious. Budd Moore, a colored boy, sitting on one of the wagons of Field & Co., was struck on the right arm with a brick. The arm was broken just above ‘ thse w:;t. has been reported b: teady progress n y the Employers’ Teaming Association, in securing men to take the places of the | strikers and it is predicted by the em- ployers that before many days they will have thelr business back to a nor- mal basis. Two men were shot and seriously wounded to-night by Charles King, a non-union driver for the Pacific Ex. | press Company. King was on a Blue Island-avenue car, when a crowd of | strikers who had followed him boarded the car and attacked him. King drew a revolver and emnptied it at his as- saflants. He shot none of the men who attacked him, but instead the bullets i struck two men who were standing | near watching the fight. Joseph Zeig- |ler, one of the injurea men, received a bullet in the left thigh, the bone be- ing shattered. His leg will have to be amputated. Patrick Enright was shot Intl;.‘eletgnmmmmjnflu are not King was arr 4 By: “police fu T a fight, in Wi zt;a%tpis to shoot the officers. R ‘WASHINGTON, April 28.—Secre- tary Taft to-day recef lica- aumn;mmnmmfli;’&m DESERTED WIFE [THINKS RATES SEEKS A MINE California Woman Goes to Property Left by Spouse A RICH FIELD IS IN Mrs. Annie T. Newman ef Lot Angeles Cast Off by Her Husband Ten Years Ago Special Dispatch to The Call DENVER, April 28.—Mrs. Annie T Newman of Los Angeles has come tu Denver to search for the mining prop- erty which her husband, who deserted her ten years ago, owned at the time of his death, Twelve years ago she mar- ried Thomas R. Newman, son of James Newman, a wealthy California mer- chant and fruit packer. Two years later her husband, who offended his parents by his marriage, left her and returned to them. Reverses came and her husband was left penniless. He came to Colorado and located a mine near Ward, Boulder County. Six months ago he died in the county hos- pital here. Mrs. Newman believes the mine may prove valuable. It was named the “Annie N,” in remembrance of her. Mrs. Newman says her husband re- ceived $50,000 from his father for de- serting her. She is stopping with friends until she gathers some data about the property, which had been de- veloped to some extent when her hus- band died. The mine is said to be near the Utica property, one of the best mines in the Ward district, and she may realize something from it. She says nothing else wos saved of the property to which he was heir, and i that her father-in-law has nothing. _———— | MILLIONAIRE’'S FUTURE BRIDE MAKES CIGARS Rose Pastor Visits Factory Where She Worked Before She Met Stokes. CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 28.—Sur- ,rounded by many of her old shop- mates and many other girls who know her only as the flancee of J. G. Phelps Stokes, Miss Rose Pastor to-day rolled cigars at her old work bench in Marcus | Feder's cigar factory. She picked up the filler, straightened it on a wrapper and “deftly rolled the latter, whisking off the ragged edges with a cirgarmaker’s knife and sealing the tip with gum, as an expert does. The first cigar went a little slowly. but it has been two years since Miss Pastor left that bench. The second and third were made more quickly. Those fol- lowing were tossed into the molds as fast as any of the girls could have done. The foreman declared that Miss Pas- tor had not lost any of her old-time skill. When the news of her achieve- ment reached the members of the firm. they took the cigars made by Miss Pastor to keep as souvenirs. Her old shopmates gave her a rousing welcome when she appeared in the workroom. In her address to them, she urged all to strive to better their condition by study and advised the organization of social clubs, where all problems of their livés could be discussed. ——— MRS. JORDAN NOT TO WED NICARAGUAN MINISTER Engagement Broken Because of Be- lief That He Has Negro Blood in His Veins. MACON, Ga., April 28.—Although no announcement has been made. it is understood here that the marriage en- gagement between Mrs. Ilah Dunlap Jordan” of this place and Senor Luis Corea, Nicaraguan Minister to the United States, has been broken. Because of the publicity which at- tended the engagement, Mrs. Jordan's | family has made no statement. hooing that the matter would simply die out. It is said that the breaking of the engagement is due to the belief that Corea is part negro. Mrs. Jordan is an heiress. She in- herited a fortune from her late hus- band and is considered one of the most beautiful women in the South. —_— s Treasury for the transportation of treasury coin and bullion passing be- tween the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- ! road station in Chicago and the Sub- Treasury in that city, which is reported to be Interrupted by the teamsters’ strike. The Secretary accordingly instructed Colonel Duggan, who is temporarily in command of the Department of the Lakes, to furnish the necessary teams and. military guard upon application from the Sub-Treasurer. It is not ex- plained that this action has nothing to do with the strike, but is made nece essary to prevent an interruption of the functions of the Government. Iy i quarter. Cor. Stockton and Market Cor. Powell and Market Colorado to Locate the, 100 LOW NOW General Freight Agent of| the Missouri Pacific Be- fore the Senate Committee S QUESTIONED BY ELKINS Witness Explains Why Ad- vance Was Made on the Charges for All Livestock WASHINGTON, April 28.—James C. Lincoln, general freight agent of the Missour! Pacific Railroad, continued his statement before the Senate Com- mittee on Interstate Commerce to-day. He said that at times the Missouri Pacific charged a less rate than fixed by the commission. Chairman Elkins asked a number of questions relative to the advances made on livestock rates, which he sald, were the cause of the greatest com- plaint. Lincoln replied that the rates, owing to competition, were very low before the advances were made. He thought the rates too low now. Replying to questions about private car lines, Lincoln explained that the American Refrigerator Transit Com- pany, in which the Missouri Pacific was a stockholder, operated on that line, This company had more than four thousand cars. The private car company®made the charges for refrig- eration. Owing to the interest of the Missouri Pacific in the American Re- frigerator Transit Company, it prefer- red to use the cars of the latter com- pany, although it did operate other cars and furnished ice for such cars. There were complaints of high charges for icing the private cars of the Ameri- can Refrigerator Transit Company and also other cars. A. C. Bird, who is an officer of the Missouri Pacific and also an officer of the refrigerator company, had charge of the private cars of the railroad. “Then does he make the contracts with himself?”” asked Chairman Elkins. “Yes,” replied Lincoln. It was announced that Bird would appear before the committee. George R. Peck, general cotunsel of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road, then was heard by the commit- tee. At the conclusion of Peck’s formal statement the committee adjourned as a mark of respect to Senator Dolliver, a member of the committee, whose father died to-day. o SR Will Investigate Rates on Lumber. TOPEKA, April 28.—Carr W. Tay- lor, attorney for the State Board of Railroad Commissioners, announces that he will start half a dozen cases before the Interstate Commerce Com- mission in regard to the Kansas freight rates. The first to be investi- gated will be the rates on lumber. Much pressure is being brought to bear for a change in lumber tariffs. Coal and grain rates will follow. —_— e ESTATE FOR FAMILY THAT HE DESERTED Eastern Man Leaves His Property to Those He Left Forty Years Ago. NEW YORK, April 28.—Dispatches from Pittsburg apnouncing that by the will of David James, who died there Saturday, it has been learned his real name was Jamison, that he had de- gerted his wife and three sons in Brooklyn forty years ago, have proved a great surprise to the only son, who still resides in Brooklyn. The will, which has just been opened, is in the nature of an atonement to the deserted family, and it gives them an estate worth $15,000. It shows that Jamison went to Pittsburg, changed his name and married another woman, who is now dead. She knew nothing of his double life. . ——e———— TRAINS BEING DETOURED ON ACCOUNT OF WASHOUTS Serions Apprehension Exists Over the Report of Rapidly Melting Snow in Colorado. OKLAHOMA CITY, O. T., April 28. All Rock Island through traffic north and south is still being detoured through Oklahoma City from El Reno and Chickasaw on account of wash- outs. The vards here were fllled with trains to-day. No bridges have gone out on the South Canadian within the last forty-eight hours, but serious ap- prehension exists over the report of rapidly melting snow in Colorado. —————————— TRICKED BY BUNKO MEN.—Robart Welr, a guest at the Winchester Hotel. reported to the, police yesterday that he was tricked out of $40 by bunko men in Golden Gate Park on Thursday. He met three men who induced him to put up the coin for a game at “heads or tails”’ Just as he handed over the coin a fourth man appeared, representing himself as 2 policeman and asking if they were gambling. They all ran away, leaving Weir a sadder but a wiser man. He gave a description of the three men. ADVERTISEMENTS. o XPERTS STODY CUN PROBLEN Big Weapons of the British Navy Cause of Diseussion FIFTY SHOTS THE LIMIT Necessity for Using Smaller Loads in American Cannon Demonstrated on the Towa PSR BRI Spectal Dispatch to The Call CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, April 28.—Dispatches from London, quoting the Daily Graph- ic’s declaration that many of the thir-- ty-five caliber twelve-inch guns in the royal navy were incapable of firing fif- ty full charges attracted prompt atten- tion in the highest naval circles. The' problem of deteriorating ordnance is one of the most vital before the Ameri- can service to-day, as many of our na- val guns are rendered almost valueless by erosion. x Rear Admiral Converse, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, before the House Committee on Naval Affairs, last win- ter stated that it had become necessary to begin relining many of the guns in the American navy, their tubes having been badly worn by erosion from pow- der. He stated that the British navy considered 150 rounds about the limit of fire for large guns. It is pointed out here that the British navy's favorite ammunition, cordite, is more wearing on gun linings than the smokeless pow- der used in the American navy. The ordnance experts of the navy are giving to this problem their closest at- tention. The blowing off of muzzies of three eight-inch and one twelve-inch gun on the Towa within two years has demonstrated the necessity of using this type of ordnance, which is dupii- cated on other ships, with reduced powder charges, which gives smaller velocities and diminishes the striking power. —_—— REFUSES TO PROSECUTE GIRL WHO THREATENS HIM Army Recruiting Officer Walters Says He Would Prefer to Marry Her. DENVER, April 28.—“I'de be willing to marTy the girl if the Government wouwid let me, but it won't. Anyway, I won't prosecute ber for having tried to kill me." A pretty girl armed with a revolver and Iying in wait for her recreant lover has so in- spired fear in the bosom of Walter H. Walt & recruiting officer here, tpat he thus offers peacs. The girl. Miss Ollte Cavanaugh, bought a revolver in a pawnshop last night and went to the Columbia Hotel. where Walters is stop ping. to scare him, she says, because she heard he loved another. Patrolmar George Malone happened into the pawnshop while the girl was buying the weapon. He followed her and when he s her waliting in the hotel with the rev hidden in her dress he arrested her. ' Wal Was arrested also, but both were released day. Walters refusing to prosecute. Walters declares that he has had ot women to last him for a lifetime. going to ask feave to join his regiment Monterey, Cal.. at once Several days ago carbolic acid was thrown at upon Walters' face while he was in the girl's room, but he says he was preventing her from committing suicide at the time. They met here recently. R DECIDES TO MAKE HER HOME IN SAN FRANCISCO Mrs. Trimble, Richest of Colorado Springs Women, Will Change Her Residence. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 28.— Exit Mrs. George W. Trimbie, wife of the Leadville, Colo., mining magnate and banker, and a well-known leader in Colorado Springs soclety. Th:s announcement has caused dis- may in Colorado Springs. Mrs. Trimble will leave here on June 1. Her determination to give up her home here followed .a sojourn upon the coast, where she went to visit her daughter. Mrs. Beulah Trim- ble Powsll-Edwards. After several weeks spent in San Francisco, where her daughter lives, she has decided to make her home thers and has returned to Colorado Springs to dispose of her Boldfgs. . Frimi owns ome of the finest homes Her bills with any wealthy women here. She has always spent money with a lavish hand, and one firm_alone has for years her a bill of hats at Easter time aggregating more than $1000. Her horses are the finest in the city and she has a different turnout for every day of the weel ic. All these things—hats, gowna, horses and carriages—will be shipped to San Francisco. ““Whether 1 dispose of my house or 'fi 1 o leave on_June L™ sald 1004 in the have am going t Trimble, at the Antlers Hotel, to-day. —_———— Try the United States Laundry. Market street. Telephone South 420. * —————— TRANSACTIONS REGULAR —The st for an accounting fi Sgainse George A All of the trane- bave and dissolution of partnershi brought by T. B. Coghi Kohn is nearing settlement. actions of Kohn, the employes testify, proved to be within the line of business regular. A demurrer to Coghill's sustained yes and ten days allowed E«:h to amend. It L partners will Tk o agroement without ers an turther interventlon of the sourt. SRS SOl s TURNERS' PICNIC.—The Mission Turn Versin will hoid its annual Sunnysida to-morrow. society will parade through Mission morning be- fore leaving for the plenic grounds. 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