The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 12, 1905, Page 1

THE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Franciseo for thirty hours ending clsco fresh west G H. Local Forecaster. and ght June 12: vicinity—Fair wind. WILLSON, | < THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—‘“Mistakes Will Happen.” CENTRAL—“The Eleventh Hour." CHUTES—Vaudeville. COLUMBIA—‘The Usurper." GRAND—“The Gates of Bond: MAJESTIC—"Leah Kleschna." | ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. I TIVOL1—Comic Opera. — FRANCISCO, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1905, PRICE FIVE CENTS. TWO BOYS ARE DROWNEDBIRILIAS BY CAPSIZING OF BOAT Edwin J. and B aR RH Alfred Mohr, Brothers, Meet Death While Cruising Near Tiburon. — S geTluRe i \ SO I DROWNED YESTERDAY IN THE WATERS OF THE BAY , TWO OF HIS COMPANIONS WHO HAD NARROW NEAR TIBURON BY DSCAPES FROM A Edwin J. Mohr and his brother Al- fred, who saileq on the bay in a tiny crab boat yesterday afternoon, . were drowned whken the boat capsized mear Tiburon. Three other occupants of the craft—Arthur Simpson of S13 Shotwell street, F. §. Williams of 1614 Vallejo street and S. B. Holman of 1426 Fil- bert street—ywere saved from a like fate by the watchfulness of Tom Hols- worth, lookout on the tug J. D. Peters, who saw one of the unfortunates float- ing in the ba st certain hauste nd sank n as the Peters haa rgo of rescued it set out ork, but darkness to his death broyght in its o gers of the other obey his will he clung with y to the insensi to Tom H T neph- 1 Holswo! and of the | eamen. It w his sh: D | pllot that the floating | ving man, and | of wood. Quickly the pilot turned the boat until it was headed | toward the body. There, clinging to a | was Williams, & man of perhaps 5 | He was nearly ready to give up drop off, but he held up one hand to | the vessel as a piteous appeal for instant | help. 'With a true eye and a steady hand | Holsworth was waiting on the side of the boat with a life-buoy in his hand. Per- fectly the saving cork sailed into the alr &nd alighted over the extended arm. A single felse step, the slightest miscalcu— spa |a new lation of distance, and Williams had been five of them would never be able t the hang on the overturned craft and keep it afloat. Working like a _demon, he n :d to unloosen the spar, and with frail support he drifted away from the others. Then came his rescue by the Peters. Hardly able to utter a syllable. he managed to gasp, “There are more,” and then he fell senseless to the deck. No one was visible at first, but soon the Peters came in sight of the overturned ft with the two boys clinging to it. A t was lowered and they were safely ught on board. When found Simpson conscious, but the force of his will so tightened his bony fingers to the of the little sailboat that when his nind became a blank he still maintained s saving hold. The Mohr brothers were nowhere in sight. "he party of five started from the Van Ness avenue wharf at about 1 o'clock vesterday afternoon. Their intention was to cruise over to Tiburon in the lit- tle boat Ease, which belonged to the brothers. All went well until the roach to Tiburon was reached. Young Alfred Mohr, aged 18, who attended the Lick High School, sat on the side of the boat. It was a dangerous position, but no one thought of serious troubie until 4 sudden gust of wind rolled the vessel to one side, and Mohr slipped off. He screamed as he fell, and his brother rushed to the side of the boat to try to pull him In. The sudden movement cost both of them their lives, for in a twink- ling' the frail craft was overturned and all were struggling in the water. Only two of the party, Willlams and Edwin Mohr, were able to swim. Willlams got away on the spar which he loosened, and Mohr started to head for the shore, about half a mile distant. That was the last en of him. He must have perished quickly. In the meantime the force of the cur- rent was dragging the overturned boat and its living cargo into the Raccoon Straits. There the water swirled around the boys and tugged in a seeming effort to force them to loosen their holds. Al- fred Mohr was the weakest of the three | and he moon shouted that he was about to go down. “Keep on, for God’s sake; hang tight!” velled Simpson from the other side of the boat. “T'll be there in a minute.” Slowly he crawled around to where the boy clung, encouraged by the words to effort. But the struggle was too much for the youthful strength of Mohr and he finally slipped off the boat. It was then that Simpson freed one of his hands and seized his companion by the hair and held him above the water. For half an hour he maintained this position, supporting the insensible boy. Then to his horror he felt his arm grow numb. ‘With all the power of his will he strug- gled to retain command of his muscles. At last he felt his fingers refuse to hold longer and with his heart sick within | When he {nurses were working over him at the him he saw the boy sink to his death. recovered consciousness the Harbor Emergency Hospital. He 1s an employe of the California Electric Com-. pany. The tug J. D. Peters was returning from a picnic of the Jewish Order of For- esters when the body of Willlams was first discovered. Had not a lucky chance brought the crowd home earlier than was first intended the bay would in all probability have had five instead of two victims. No other boat had passed dur- ing all of the two hours that the men were in the water, although they were momentarily expecting rescue. At a late hour last night the bodies of the two victims had not been recovered. There was another touch of sadness to the unfortunate accident yesterday. Po- liceman T. B. Gibbons, who had been de- tailed on the case, was writing up his re- port when he received a telegram telling him that his nephew had just met death by drowning in a river of Tuolumne Cuonty. N0 IPLENAS FOR STUDENTS W0 CRBBED Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, June 1l.—Georgetown University, one of the largest and most influential schools under the control of the Catholic church, has created a sen- | sation by refusing to permit eleven of the young men of the senior class to graduate this year because of “crib- bing.” Three of the men have admitted their guilt. The imposition on the examining proctor occurred in an examination on medical zoology. The students rebelled at this examination, contending that the lack of textbooks had made, it im- possible for them to properly prepare, but the faculty thought otherwise and threw out the petition to eliminate this form of examination. The similarity of the answers In eleven cases caused a rigid investigation. The three men who admitted “crib- bing” will be graduated in the fall if they take a re-examination in this study. The eight who refused to admit their guilt have had their entiye fourth year examinations canceled, but wiH be graduated in thé fall if they are able to pass the re-examination in medical zoology and other courses. - : | represent the soldfer | crossed over into Mexico.and proceeded WL L ABLLTION Believes People of Guatemala Are With Him, Manuel Dieguez, His Ally, Hastening to This City. | Escdpes From Prison-and Will Join Uprising That Is Being Planned. Manuel Dieguez, one of Guatemala's most brilliant lawyery and revolutionary candidate put forward by General Baril- las for the Presidency of the Central American republic, is hurrying to San Francisco from Southern Mesico to join' Barillas and party at the Palace" Hotel. Dieguez's head is wanted as badly by, Fresident Cabrera of Guatemala as that of General . Barill whose unexpected arrival here Saturday from Mexico has caused a big sensation fB' the Central American_coldbny. When Barillas' vast estate was taken in charge by the general's creditors sev- eral years ago Disguez was chosen.as his friend's legal adviser and continued to until the latter to organize a revolution against Cabrera. Then Cabrera turned his \'v'gath om all of Barillas’ well-known friends and threw a | number of them, including Dieguez, in prison. The latter finally escaped and made his way. ;C:l!h!{»!_g} d later. jofned’ {ias’ ‘fn ‘ Salina Cruz, Mexico, “whence the pairsjsurneved with their military followers to j]'ipack;}g' Naturally, President Cabrera regards Die- gz in the light of ‘one of his bitfebest political foés, and ‘would: pay a handsome price for his return to Guatemalan terri- tory. BARILLAS IS HOPEFUL. Recently Dieguez has made another trip to Salvador to confer with followers of Barillas who are menacing Cabrera on the southern border of Guatemala. On this trip he is said to have secretly tra- versed the entire breadth of Guatemala under the very eves of the spies of the President. He was returnang to Mexico when General Barillas suddenly left for this city and it is.now planned, that he shall meet the géneral here. That the presence in San Francisco of Cabrera’s bitterest enemies indicates fur- ther trouble for the turbulent little re- public is no longer doubted by local Cen- tral Americans. When General Barillas arrived here, Saturday there were many who construed his sudden visit as an in- dication that his plans for a revolution had been abandoned, but the general is authority for the statement that he has nct’ given up the idea of attempting to depose Cabrera. He announced vesterday to several friends that he will lead a rev- oiutionary party, and that he has simply delayed action until he can recuperate his failing health, which, he says, is one of his reasons for coming to San Fran- cisco. Attending him on his visit are his son, Juan Barillas, who was here a num- ber of years ago; the general's private physieian and political sympathizer and two servants, who have-been with Gen- eral Barillas for many years. Yesterday a number of friends of | General Barillas called upon him at the Palace, but there were many more who refrained from going there for the rea- son that they know if the fact thatthey are on friendly relations with the enemy to Salvador'and| o of Cabrera is known the latter would wreak vengeance upon them should they be compelled to return to Guate- mala on any mission. In discussing his position yesterday, General Barillas said that his cause is the common cause of the people of Guatemala. FIGHTING FOR THE PEOPLE. “I am not intriguing with the hope of regaining the Presidency I held dur- ing the prosperous periods of Guate- mala,” said he, “but am endeavoring to lead my countrymen in a cause that they secretly hope to win. Cabrera has not kept his promises with the Guate- malans. Instead of a liberal Govern- ment he has attempted to enforce tyramnical measures that have aroused the hatred of the better classes of the republic. Foreign residents of the larger cities and those who own large interests in the interior will bear me out in my statements, and my country- men swould do likewise were it not for the fact that they know that any ex- pression of resentment from them would be followed by punishment, not only to themselves, but to their fami- lies. “Some of the leading men of Guate- mala, among them a number of states- men, 'who have, with the best jtem- tions; reminded Presiderit Cabrera ti he was not following out the poliey that he had announced wheén\ he was first heralded as a Presidential candi- date, have been subjected to all man- ner of abuse. Not a few of them have been thrown.in prison, for what the President has been pleased to term traitorous acts. After I have rested a while here I expect to return to the south ang eventually hope to see Guate- mala 1 of a b::de‘nnomg and most trying administration.” . oen‘en.l Barillas further deoclares that Cabrera is slowly drawing Guate- mala into trouble with its . foreign creditors, ‘especially England. As an instance of Cabrera's methods .of ad- ministration he cites an act of the re= cent Congress, when the Minister of Finance lu::r.flled a r.p:n to the ef- t that the revenues of the expiring 5&2‘1 year amounted to $40,000,000 TUBERCULE GERMS ARE -~ DRIVEN OUT Forty-fiir?\?ictims of Consumption Cured. Simple TreatmentSaves Invalids From the Grave. Its Efficacy Is Fully Demon- strated by New York Hos- pital Physicians. Special Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, June 1l.—diengers of the medical profession are sivieg close attention - to the experimcsts in the | treatment of tuberculoxis at the New | York Post Graduate Hospital and Nedi- cal School, where it was announced to- day tiat five cures have heen made re- cently, msaking forty-five since the Post Graduate cuthorities urdertook in 18958 to demonstrate that consumption can be curcd in NeW York. Dr. J. T. Russell and a committee ap- pointed for the purpose, including Drs. Rickerton and Barstow, said to-day that the dispensary treatment of the disease was successful. - The five persons who undertook treat- ment are a tailor, a clerk, a barber, a szleswoman and an “L” road guard. They have been discharged as cured. None of them earned more than §18 per week, and,: therefore, could not take treatment gt.a sanitarium. Professor H. . Brooks, bacteriologist. made ‘g close eéxamination of each patient when cures were announced. He found no signs of ‘diseage in the ehests of the patients, and » baedll’ in their no ‘trace o6f tuberdule #putuga; On’ thé~theory that consumption is the Fesult ‘of malnutrition-and. that {he germs | of . tubérculosis cannot live in a healthy | body, forty-five cases were treated. The pracdtice consisted of a scientific diet, aiming to build and strengthen the tis- sues with greater speed than they could be démolished. Of course the diet varied | iz some of the cases, but the pauems} were compelled to subsist upon eggs, milk, cheese and fats of various Kinds. It was necessary that the patients eat systematically and call regularly for their treatment. " Each of the last five to take the treat- ment reported at the hospital twice a day. As they were all emproyed at their callings, the hours were arranged for their convenience.. In the morning each received a cupful of emussion of fats| and after the day's work was done they | called af§ain to repeat the dose. On Sun- day mornings the patients were weighed and the report registered.’ For treating relapses, a feature of con- sumption, an annex has been established ir. Nineteenth street, where physicians can find it more convenient to study the condition of their patients. It is expected that ultimately a specific diet will be formulated that will provide the greatest amount of nourishment with the least inconvenience. The fact that a person aflicted with tuberculosis is poverty-stricken is bar to recovery from this disease. It only necessary fof the patients to have sufiicliélt means with which to buy the simple food prescribed. A determined effort is being made at the Post Graduate Hospital to perfect the treatment and shorten the time of the cures. PRIVATE CLUB T0 Bt FORMED BY DIPLONATS NewOrganizationinthe National Capital Planned. Special Dispatch to The Call CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, June 1l.—Members of | the diplomatic corps, who are debarred by the rules of the Metropolitan Club | from indulging in their favorite games of baccarat, poker, roulette, etc.,, have completed plans for the establishment of a clubhouse of their own. Since the . fire at the Metropolitan' Club, which necessitated temporary quarters else- where pending the construction of a new bullding, a restaurant has not! been maintained by the club. This has caused members of the diplomatic corps | annoyance which they hope to over- come through their own private club. | A fine old mansion at the intersection of two roads, just at the outskirts of | the city, has been secured at a price said to be $80,000and within 4 short itme the club will be incorporated and or- ganized. Under. the rules of the Metropolitan Club.a most rigid scrutiny is given to applicants who apply for admi 4 any attache of a legation or embassy regarded IRoun. the Embassador to RUSSIA KNOWS JAPAN'S TERMS ACCEPTANCE IS LIKELY ST. PETERSBURG, peace conditions and that a basis for negotiadons. -+ June 11.—A well-defined rumor was current throughout the city to-day that Russia had already practically obtained Japan’s they were so surprisingly moderate that Russia could certainly accept them as e Laon Boamrs- l E:S \ < o o < STATESMEN WHO PROBABLY WILL BE RIES O NAMED AS THE PLENIPOTENTLA- F JAPAN AND RUSSIA IN THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS MADE POS- SIBLE BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. e ST. PETERSBURG, June 11.—Russia is waiting for Japan to fix the time and place when and where the Japanese terms will be placed in the hands of Russia’s representatives. The Foreign Office expects that the delay will be brief. The Russian representative will not be a plenipotentiary with full power to negotiate. His duty practically will be confined to the reception and trans- mission to his Government of the Jap- anese terms, for decision as to whether they afford a basis for actual peace ne- gotiations. He will be clothed with power to effect an agreement for the suspension of hostilities, which » sus- pension will be for a very limited pe- riod, during which Russia must decide | the momentous question of peace or a prolongation of the war. During this temporary armistice botl countries probably will be free to con- tinue the movement of troops and mu- nitions of war within prescribed limits, although nothing definite on this point will be known until the meeting takes Pplace. 1f Russia finds in the terms a basis un- der which negotiations can proceed, reg- ular plenipotentiaries will be appointed, the number being decided by the belliger- ents themselves, and then it is not im- possible that the negotiations might be transferred to Manchuria, as President Roosevelt is believed to have suggested. ROSEN TO BE PI~SIIPOTENTIARY. It is stated at the\J ngn Office that the question of pleniptentiaries has not yet been officially considersd, but it is as_almost certain that Baron the United States, on account of his long and inti- ‘mate acquaintance with Far Eastern ar- fairs, beside his familiarity with Japan- | ese, will be selected. George de Stzal, who preceded Count Benkendorf as Russian Embassador at London, and who was president of the | Peace Conference at The Hague In 1399, might be another. ‘The United States, it is recognized here, divided, and this position is consid- President p solely be- | dor Meyer, sent a personal message of — reception of his appeal. In diplomatic circles here it is felt that Great Britain can now play a great role in seconding the President's initiative by restraining her ally and counseling mod- | erate terms. Harsh and humiliating terms would not be accepted, and for that reason diplomatic circles express the greatest skepticism as to whether Japan, elated by her wonderful victories. will be | reasonable enough to offer a basis which | Russia can possibly accept. If at the end Russia were forced to humble her- | self in the dust, her ignominy would i spur her to seek revenge as Alsace and | Lorraine aia for many years. Thers is an indefinite amount of gossip here about Japan’s terms, ? altogether irresponsible, formed members of the diplomatic corps, even the British Embassy, being con- vinced that, while the main outlines are matters of common knowledge in Amerr- ca and in the chancellories of Europe, Japan has not revealed her exact terms even to her ally. WHAT RUSSIA WOULD CONCEDE. Russia js not likely to prove recalei- | trant. A¥cording to the best opinion she | Is prepared to abandon the whole of her Manchurian adventure and give guaran- tees. The rub will come upon the ques- tion of an indemnity, which, it is the consensus in diplomatic circles, Japan will exact, but if it should be made mecd- erate and sugar-coated, so that it could be liquidated by the sale of the Chinese | Eastern Railroad and the cessation of Russtan property and leases in the Kwantung Peninsula, the demand might be accepted. Russia probably will insist on holding the railroad to Vladivostok through Northern Manchuria and will never sub- mit to the humiliation of disarmament in her only port on the Pacifie, nor to the inhibition against having in those waters. Conmsidering the situation of the two countries, members of the 'dlplmtic corps feel that Japan's status in the Pacific is so firmly fixed that she can afford to dispense with the exaction i of so bitter a on. Though the feeling against a cession of actual territory is strong. the island of Saghalien, over which Japan and Russia once exercised co-dominion. might be ceded; or, as an offset to the cession of that island, all fishing and other Russian rights’ in the Kommander Islands might be handed over to Japan. The Radical papers continue their tactics, insisting th although the