The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 6, 1905, Page 4

‘THE SAN FRA CISCO CALL, THURSD. b JULY 6, 1905. ' PROB Governor and Ex- Governor Are. Accused. Division of Fees; the Offense Alleged. Witnesses Refuse to Testify for State. Special Dispatch to The Call y 5.—West the expos- during the Legislature. have been held ht of probing tribunals losed book. There are jone still ing interesting the ex before the li and ere now 2 several gr in the bal which is m which in- s are expected rges made agains Goverr retary ot State d the enormous tate's office and Secretary o Witness in Chicage Tunnel Scandal Implicates Former City Official. rd J. Judd, Tunnel virtually con to having eler, presi- one of the se, He His admitted « with crim- unless Wheeler him the the jurors | and court spectat bound. In the course of Judd told of a letter he had written to former Clerk Loeffler from New Orleans and of Loeftier ng gone to New Orleans to quiet 1 and prevent his making the threatened expose. He said Loef- fler gave him $100 on this occasion and &greed to look to Wheeler for pay- ment 1 told Loeffler,” said Judd, “that he treating me right and that I | peiled to expose him. I Loeffler, but I told have to injure him to Loeffler said I he would see him treat me and ke ate's Attorney Healy at this junct- ure served motice on Loeffler and the defense to letter Judd tes- tified he itten to Loeffler from New Orleans. It was also disclosed by Judd's testi- mony, during which he never removed his eyes from and their counsel, especially President Wheeler of the Tunnel Company, that Wheeler, from the inception of the “tunnel scheme, had plans to secure legislation from the C him to utilize the t: way for traction purpose, which legis- lation he ultim secured so that the bore was enlarged sufficiently to | enable the safe passage of merchan- dise cars. It appeared, however, that “the entire scheme contemplated the using of the bore for passenger serv- ice. The latter part of Judd's testimony concerned his efforts to secure money from Wheeler on the ground that Wheeler had not pald him in full his share of the tunnel exploit. Judd frequently said in his testimony bhe was “broke” when he called Wheeler for funds. — . SHARF BREAK IN WHEAT ON EASTERN EXCHANGES on Favorable Crop Reports Cause Decline in September Option in Chicago and New York. CHICAGO, July b.—After selling within & four cent range here to-day, wheat for September dellvery closed at a net decline of 2@2%c, compared with Saturday’s final figures. The wide fluctuation in price was due almost wholly to conflicting reports as to the condition of the spring-sown crop. At the start the market was decidedly strong as a result of influential buying brought out by damage reports from private sources. Initial quotations on September were up %c to 1%c at 90 to 91%c. Later & sharp break in prices occurred, September dropping to 87%c. An official report asserting that spring wheat is in excellent condition was the occasion for the severe drop. NEW YORK, July 5.—The New York wheat market broke 3%c a bushel to- day, September selling from 94%c to $1%c. It was due to conditions re- ported in the Trade Meeting, a weekly Government report that failed to con- firm private advices as to the North- western damage. ————— Famous Fitters. Pictures need & fit ar well as people. In- correct, inartistic ideas have spoilled many pictures. Our fitters are brimful of good easance in of- an ap- | it was was made in on this | ¢ the coterfe of defendants | for | that | + g | 4 CHICAGO'S RATLWAY | PLAN IS MODIFIED City Will Not Absolutely| Own the Traction | System. ! CHICAGO, July 5.—Mayor Edward F. D e told the City Council to-night his plans for municipal ownership of traction | properties. It was not municipal owner- ship absolutely, but, as the Mayor ex-| plained, the nearest thing possible under existing conditions, and he asked the Aldermen to consider it carefully. Abso- | —=redle WEST VIRGINTANS PROMINE! v SSED OF DIVID- NG sTATE P FIRECRACKERS RAZE NOTED FARMHOU! lute municipal ownership and uperaunn,gBovg D(‘StI’OV A“Ci(’l’lt Dweu_ the Mayor saigy he did not Bonsidér pra tical just now. The plan which the Mayor offered pro- or the incorporation of a company, aged by five men who command. the dence of the people of Chicago. To | company is to be granted a twenty- | franchise covering the streets on which the rights of the old companies already have expired or soon will expire, to be s.ocked to the amount neces- sary to establish a street car system on | | | these streets, roughly estimated at 240 miles. No bonds are to be sold. The | stock is to be deposited with a trust| company which the five directors are to select, 50 as to prevent a purchase of | it and consequent control by outside in- | terests. The stock is,to be sold at_popu- | lar subscription. g | | At any time the city may elect it can | | take over the property on an appraised | valuation. | el o | TWO BARKS WRECKED > | AT MALDEN ISLAND | | Vessels Destroyed ' During Gale, but | Both the Crews Are H Saved. HONOLULU, July 5—The schooner Matthew Turner, arriving from New- | castle, has aboard the shipwrecked | crews of two Norwegian barks. The wrecked vessels were the iron bark Salamis and the wooden bark Victor. They were loading guano at Malden | Island, and during a gale on May 19 |and 20 they were driven ashore. The vessels are a total loss, but the lives of the crews were saved. The gale | was of unprecedented force and it was ; impossible to hold off shore. The Vic- | tor was from Tasmania and was near- | ly empty. The Salamis was from Mel- | bourne and had nearly finished loading | her cargo. The Matthew Turner passed | |Malden Island on June 11 and took | the crews of the wrecked vessels on | board. The ship's boats were all that were saved. L e | MAN ACCUSED OF FORGERY PASSES AS BELMONT'S SON Arrested in Colorado Springs, Where He Claimed Relationship to the New York Millionaire. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., July 6. Registered at a hotel In this city as H. P. Belmont, son of August Belmont of | New York, a young man has been ar- | rested for issuing forged certified I‘(her‘ksA The arrest was made at the | request of Chicago police, who referred ,to Belmont as C. F. Winthrop Elliott. |In Belmont's possession were found | five certified checks for $100 each, four {of which were drawn on the German American Bank of New York and one "On the Farmers' Loan and Trust Com- | pany of New York. These are believed | ! to be forgeries. —l e Packing Companies Give Bonds, | CHICAGO, July 5.—Bonds were pro- ) vided to-day by three of the packing | companies and thirteen of the indi- | vidual packers indicted by the Federal | }Gnnd Jury last Friday. Four of the | indicted packers are still absent from Chicago. ————— Rallroad Operators to Strike. MINNEAPOLIS, July 5.—Telegraph operators on the line of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific have is- sued an ultimatum and if their demands relative to salaries and hours be not |acceded to a general strike will be called on July 8. —_——— Hope to Reduce County Expenses. RIVERSIDE, July 5—A resolution was passed by the County Supervisors to-day urging the county’'s representa- tive in the Legislature to introduce a measure at the next session prohibiting the publieation of county delinquent tax lists in newspapers. Notice instead expensive means. | was there | seriously ! Short Line tracks, was made in is to be given by posting or other iu- || ing Once Tenanted by Famous Men. BOSTON, July 6.—Mischievous boys have destroyed with firecrackers the famous old Brook farmhouse, the an- | cient dwelling in West Roxbury, where sixty years ago, Ralph Waldo Emer- son, George Willlam Curtis, Margaret Fuller, Frank B. 8anborn, the elder Parker, Charles A. Dana and a dozen more kindred spirits set up their short- lived idealistic Social Democracy. It that Hawthorne wrote at the beginning of his literary career. | The old house had been vacant a long time. CHICAGO, July 5—As a result of the thunderous celebration of Independ- ence day hundreds of patients in Chi- cago hospitals were subjected to nerv- ous shocks that may eventually result for the sufferers. In many cases it was necessary to call upon the police to disperse crowds around the hospitals. Lo IS S BREAKS SPEED RECORD ON SOUTHERN PACIFIC General Manager Calvin’s Speeial Train Attains Ninety-One Miles an Hour. SALT LAKE CITY, July 5.—General Manager E. H. Calvin of the Southern Pacific arrived at 10:30 this morning | on a spectal train whioh broke all rec- cords of the Southern Pacific for speed. The run from Ogden to Salt Lake City, thirty-seven miles, over the Oregon thir- ty-five minutes. The entire run from Sparks, Nev.,, to Ogden was made in very fast time, a speed of ninety-one miles in hour being attained at times. Calvin came to the bedside of his daughter, who has been operated upon for appendicitis, but is now recovering. —_———— MINE EXPLOSION BRINGS DEATH TO TWO WORKMEN Several Are Injured as a Result of Aeccident Near Vivian in West Virginia. BLUEFIELD, W. Va, July 5.—By an explosion in the Tidewater mine nt Vivian, twenty miles west of this city, nine miners, all of whom are Italians, were injured to-day and two of them died later in the hospital while three more are in a precarious condition with slight chances of recovery. All of the men were burned badly. The dead: Lee Mozzile and Antonio Bupti- monio. © The Tidewater mine is about two miles from Vivian, W. Va, and em- ploys 200 men. Strike of Convicts Soon Quelled. SALT |LAKE CITY, July 5.—Twenty convicts at the State penitentiary here struck to-day, refusing to work until improvement was made in the food and other accommodations. After the strikers had been placed in solitary confinement and handcuffed to the ceil- ing for several hours the strike lost its popularity’. e iaigie e Population of Chicago. CHICAGO, July 5.—The population of Chicago is 2,272,760, according to the city directory far 1905, which has just been completed. i Personally conducted excursion to “0ld Mexico” and the “Grand Canyon” July 10, 1905, Low rates, special service. ‘The summer al?:- of &dw and the Grand and the ‘rolg‘u.’ct int s mfi-“ sen e predeors 1 o ers RAILAOAD MEN FEEL THE AX Secret Service Department cials of the Wabash “LOOSENESS” CHARGED Claim Made That Ticket Collectors Profited at the Company’s Expense ! Special Dispsich 10 The Cali CHICAGO, July 5.—C. O. Eames, su- perintendent of the secret service of the Wabash Railway; J. B. Nichols, special agent of the system, and 121 operatives in the employ ot lames and Nichols have been given their walking papers by the road officials for alleged “looseness.” F. A. Delano, first vice president of the company, who in the absence in Europe of President Ramsay, assumes the duties of chief executive of the Wabash road, declined to enumerate the charges, to which he referred as “looseness'in the conduct of the secret service devartment.” One of the of- fenses reported, however, is traffic in passes, Delano said it was simply the inten- tion on the company's part to abolish the system and thereby save $75,000 a yedr. “While the secret service system in its incipiency was a small affair,” con- tinued Delano, “‘the head of the depar ment gradually arrogated to himself powers which left him in a posi absolutely independent of any official of the rofd. Mr. Eames formerly re- ported, theoretically, to President Ram- say, until 1 issued an order that such reports are to go to the office of Gen- | eral Manager Mffler in St. Louis.” In explaining the methods of the de- partment affected, Delano sald: | “There was in the special service department, us the secret service was | officially known, another department— | that of collections. The change by | which 121 employes were discharged involves the discontinaing of collec- | tors on trains. Fares will hereafter be | collected by individual collectors. Mr. | Eames not alone employed the collec- tors, but also the operatives who were watching the collectors. Under his su- pervision there came also watchmen, gate tenders and crossing men, grades of labor which really had no connec- tion with secret service work. By hav- ing direct charge of these men, the division syperintendent will be able to | get more effective service, we believe.” The story as to passes is to the, ef- fect that some of the secret service men would arrange such privileges for scores of city detectives and other em- ployes of the municipality and later ask for small loans from these men as a return favor. This practice, it is said, became a scandal. The action of | the higher officials is taken by some as a step toward reform not only in that system but in others. |LATE MILLIONAIRE A HEAVY DRINKER Octogenarian Dunlap a Man . With a Quenchless - . Thirst. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, July 5.—Surrogate Fitz- gerald to-day took up the case of Sam- uel Fales Duniap, an octogenarian who died last March. Dunlap had lved for many years alone with his servants. He left two wills, disposing of his estate of more than $1,000,000. One is dated Octo- ber 25, 1903, and makes his cousin, Hali- burton Fales, the sole beneficiary. The other will is dated January 2, 1903. In it William Haliburton and Samuel W. and | Joseph Brigham, also cousins, are named with Rose BEalden, who for many years was Dunlap's housekeeper. Haliburton Fales is made residuary legatee. The three cousins other tnan Fales contest | the 1904 will on the ground that Dunlap was incompetent. One of the witnesses was Dr. Edward P. Fowler, who was Dunlap’s physician for forty years. He said his old friend had eccentric_ habits. Dunlap wore his hat and his coat in the house until he went to bed and would buy a suit of clothing only once in fifteen years. Dr. Fowler was asked to what extent Dun- lap used intoxicants. *1 have known him to drink a pint of brandy, a half pint of whisky and a bottle of champagne in 24 hours,” said Dr. Fowler. “This he did almost daily.” LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR WOMAN SLAYER Jury Returns Merciful Ver- dict in the Senesceros Murder Case. Special Dispatch <o The Call. SAN JOSE, July 5.—Domascio Senes- ceros, who shot and kitlled Herminia Sa- las, at Almaden on May 6 and ‘then at- tempted suicide, was to-day found guilty of murder in the gecond degree, with the penalty fixed at life imprisonment. He will be sentenced on July 14 by Judge ‘Welch. Senesceros and the woman had quar- reled before the killing. He at first told a story of how an unknown man had visited the house and killed the woman and then tried to murder him. When confronted with evidence that showed his guilt he confessed to the crime, but claimed that in using the pistol he only intended to frighten the woman, and that it was accidentally discharged. Senesceros shot the lower part of his jaw away in trynig to end his life. } SAN FRANCISCO MERCHANTS TO THE FORE IN AUSTRALIA Says Enter- | Canadian Commissioner 1 ‘prising Californians Have Secured Much of the Salmon Trade. VICTORIA, B. C, July 5-—J. S Larke, Canadian Trade Commissioner, who returned from Australia to-day, says that a large market is open to | merchants. He says San Francisco firms have secured much of the salmon trade by using a British Columbia la- bel which has become well known, while Canadian dealers change ,their brands too often. REDDING, July 5.—The grape crop of Shasta County has been badly dam- aged by grasshoppers this year. The hoppers eat all the leaves from the vine Abolished by the Offi-| | but do not touch the fruit and the | grapes are ruined by the sun. —_——— UITABLE NEN T0 FACE TRIAL Former Officials of the Tn- surance Company Will Be Charged With Crime GRAND JURY TO ACT Claim Made That Funds of Policy Holders Were Utilized in Speculation Special Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, July 5.—That evidence sufficient to warrant criminal prosecu- tions had been obtained by those now investigating the affairs of the Equit- able Life Assurance Society was the assertion made to-day. Further infor- mation from a reliable source was that former officials of the Equitable had used the funds of the society for mar- gins in stock speculations. It was from Syracuse, the home of Francis Hendricks, that the informa- tion came that the State Superintend- dent of Insurance would make a sup- plemental report in which he would | bring. dircct charges against men whose names have been frequently in print in connection with the affairs of the Ecquitable. That tne affairs of the Equitable are to be made the subject of an investi- gation by the Grand Jury was the inti- | mation given to that body by Judge | Foster in swearing the jurors in the General Sessions Court to-day. The | Judge did not name the society, but when he todl the jurors that they might be called upon to give extra time and attention to a “matter of great import- | ance” which the District Atorney is in- vestigating, it was understood that he meant the iife insurance company/ Following this Judge Foster deyoted some attention to the work of the Grand Jury, saying that frequently in- dictments were found on the flimsiest kind of evidence and that this was an injustice to the verson charged with crime. He said the Grand Jury should be thorough in its work and he hoped the present body, in the investigation of the important matter to which he | referred, would perform its duty con- scientiously and well, would not con- sider the opinions of the District At- torney and would not subject any in- dividual to unnecessary humiliation. Judge Foster said: “l understand the District Attorney is investigating a matter of great im- portance and may need your assistance. I have given him my assurance that yoeu will assist him.” MOSQUITOS DOINGS KNOWN TO ANCIE Sanskrit Writer Tells Insects Spreading Disea: of Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, July — Assistant Surgeon Kakins of the Marine Hospital gervice, stationed at Calcutta, in a re- port to Surgeon General Wyman, says the discovery in Criton of a pamphlet written in Sanskrit shows the disease- bearing activities of the mosauito were accurately known as long ago as the sixth century. The unknown Sanskrit writer said that his investigation had shown him that there are sixty-seven varieties of mosquitoes (not fifty-sevenr), and that forty of them earry malaria. The an- cient savant @il not say they carried the germ of disease, so the pamphlet leaves the germ theory standing as a modern achievement. He contented himself with the assertion that the in- sects carried the disease. CREW OF THE LENA GROWING IMPATIENT Enlisted Men Demand That They Be Allowed to Re- turn to Russia. Epectal Dispatch to The Call. VALLEJO, July 5.—More than 100 members of the crew of the Russian cruiser Lena, which 48 interned at the Mare Island navy vard, went to Com- mander Genther in a body last Monday afternoon and demanded that they be accorded the same privileges as those granted the enlisted men on the Russian ships interned at Manila, that is that all of the crew except enough men to man the ship be paroled and allowed to re- turn to their homes in Russia. Com- mander Genther quieted the men by tell- ing them that he would communicate their wishes to the State Department at ‘Washington. The men accepted this of- fer for the time being but every precau- tion js being taken to prevent an open revolt. The crew was to have paarded in Vallejo on the Fourth put at the last minute Commander Genther sent word that the men would not come. The note was very polite but did not give any rea- son. It is believed that the officers were afraid to allow the crew freedom in a body, as it would have offered excellent opportunity for the men to make a break for freedom. —_—— WEBER IS NOT TO BE TRIED OF CHARGE OF ROBBING BANK Case Is Dismissed by Judge Prewett on Motion of the District Attorney. AUBURN, July 5.—Judge Prewstt to- day dismissed the bank robbery case against Adolph Weber on motion of the District Attorney. Weber is under conviction for the murder of his mother. —————— Fire Destroys a Block in Glen Ellen. SONOMA, July 5.—Fire broke out in Glen Ellen last night and a block in the main part of town was destroyed. The losers are Charles Poppe, store, residence and postoffice; A. M. Hart- man, store and residence; J. Martens, saloon; Charles Payne, residence. The- fire originated in the kitchen of Payne's house. The loss will amount to several thousand dollars. — e Fall Through a Skylight. VALLEJO, July 5—~While witnessing the fireworks from the roof of the Linch building last evening Mrs. P. B. Lynch, wife of former Mayor Lynch, and Mrs. Lynch’'s sister, Miss Emily Clyne of Benicla, fell through a skylight to the floor below, a distance of twenty feet. They dmg.d '-__agug injury, but were considérably cut by the broken glass. San Fraunciscan Dies Suddenly. GUERNEVILLE, July 5. — Fran Brown of San Francisco, who was camping with his wife and child at %‘ 1 forenoon whil -a':“-u n e a | very CRAVES READY O CAL ZONE Returning Employe Says Disease Is so General Deaths Are Anticipated |DAILY “DEAD” TRAINS Measles, Smallpox, Yellow Said to Exist at Panama NEW YORK, July 5.—George V. Mat- lock, ot Louisville, Ky., superintendent of a dock at Cristobal, was among the passengers on the steamer Advance, which arrived here from Panama to-day. Matlock sald: Things are very bad at the isthmus. The diseases prevalent are measles, black measles, smalipox, yellow fever and malaria, and” was one case of bubonic plague. The * trains run trom Colon to Monkey Hill, a mile and a half north of Colon, always once and sometimes as many as fourteen times a day, and they sometimes have as many aes four coffins aboard. In fact there s so much yel- low fever about that the authorities keep ten graves always ready for emergency cases. | The workink clerical force on the lsthmus is about 90 per cent short. One district su- perintendent has work for seventeen clerks and so far has only five. The Government seems to be delaying paying off the men. Forty-ine of my mates were waiting for thelr money in order to catch this steamship, but enly six were pald in time to sail. Miss A. A. Robinson, of New York, | who was a hospital nurse on the isthmus, also returned on the Advance. She spent a year on the isthmus. She sald: The supply of nurses is beginning to off, and scon the hospital at Panama will short handed. Nome of those who are leaving now will return to Panama, and many others will leave as soon as possible. The pay Is not sufficient. Sickness thers ls increasing and conditions generally are be- coming worse. The body of Samuel J. Hirsch, secre- tary to Governor Magoon, was brought back on the Advance by Mr. and Mrs. Jack Brandon. Hirsch died of yellow fever two days before he was to have been married to Miss Brandon, a sister of Jack Brandon and a daughter of Isaac Brandon, a wealthy merchant. There were three suspected cases of yellow fever on the vessel. e SEES NO HOPE OF CANAL. fall be Yeomans Says Panama Project Is Big- Zest Humbug of Age. SIOUX CITY, Iowa, July 5.—“Wallace was right when he resigned as chief engineer of the Panama Canal Commis- to-day. Yeomans was relieved by President Roosevelt six months ago, after having served more than a decade on the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion. Continuing, he said: | _ Wallce made a fool of himself trying to tell | why. All he should have said Wl);.n‘ h:\'e had enough of Panama and 1 resig it is 1o place for any one.to want to stay. Before 1 wias moved off the Interstate Commission it was Intimated td me would be a valuable man In Panama. No Panama for me, not for $1000 a minute, I didn’t come to this world to T came to ve. The Panama canal is the biggest humbug of the age. have no hesitancy in saying that in my. opinion thére will never be a canal buiit. No important American engineer, who was not paid for it, ever hazarded the opinion that there would be a canal all the way through. The last monthly report of work done shows that it will take 110 years to finish it. The weeds grow In one end faster than they carry the dirt ouf of the other. 3 No_engineer has ever found a rock or elay. bed in that celebrated Culebra, cut, where the United States has done the most of its work. There has been cut of 350 feet there and thirty inches of rain falls in thirty hours down | those banks. Does any ome suppose that the alluvial soil won't wash down in there to make a mud canal too thick for a Government dredgeboat to keep afoat in? The Nicaragua route was. feasible and for that reason it was abandos T was a mem- ber of a syndicate prepared to bulld a canal there for $120.000,000, which would have car- ried 27,000,000 tons of merchandise annmally. We were propared to do the work In four years. This looked tos much like a canal and the great influence behind the present trans- continental transportation business suddenly ceased opposing the canal project and the clamor over to Panama. The men who run our big railroads know what Panama is. By the Nicaragua route as projected a ship could leave New York harbor and arrive in San Francisco in eighteen days. No freight train is mow scheduled to g0 overland inside of twenty-three days. That's what struck in the Nicaragua project. Red tape, clvil service re- form and yellow eyes will do the rest. Do you suppose Congress will go on putting up money for gravestanes and quinine down there? - Iam glad I am not in it. Bverybody down there wants to do what Wallace did or what the hoss of the whole works is doing— live in New York and run it by proxy. Why should Shonts or Wallace be chosen to dig a canal anyway? They never did a plece of work in their lives o {this sort or anything calculated to equip them for doing it. Every man selected so far to do the work has been picked from a transcontinental railrond, Would you pick a_competitor to build a competing tusiness? They may.be all right, but none of it looks like a camal to me. e e et ol S FRAUD ORDER ISSUED.—The Postmaster- General vesterday issued a fraud order against the Vacuum and Vibration Company, 6 O'Far- reil street. This concern will be denied the use of the mails. ' that 1 Fever, Malaria and Plague| sion.” said J. D. Yeomans of this city Commerce | RS A CIRE " IR HENIKITS ?Yonng Physician in New- ark City Hospital Con- | quers the Dread Malady 'HIS METHOD IS NEW Draws Fluid From Spinal Canal of the Vietim and | Administers No Medicine Spectal Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, July 5.—Cerebro spinal meningitis has been cured In two cases recently in the Newark City Hospital and three more victims of the disease are on the road to recovery. Dr. Paul E. FPauschenbach, an ‘interne, | who has been on the house staff only since December last, became the assistant house physiclan on May 1 and took charge of the medical wards. Declding upon experiments of his own when his increased authority permitted he took a course opposite to much that has been done. The result Indicates that he has found a successful treatment for the Aisease. It consists of drawing one to two ounces of the fluid of the spinal canal from the victim as soon as the case comes under his observation and as often thereafter as he believes necessary; two hot baths dafly, the water at a temperature of II§ degrees Fahrenhelt; all the natural light and fresh air possible; absolute quiet: first a fluld, then a soft and then a full | diet; good nursing and no medicine. | “I took the patients from a darkened room, on the theory that germs thrive in the dark,” said he. “Annie Beck, 32 years old, came on May 1, unconscious and de- lirfous. She ‘went out cured om July 1L Raphael Linfondl, 25 years old, came on March 21 and went out cured on June I5. The fluld first taken from the spinal canal was cloudy and filled with germs.” BOY IS DROWNED i WHILE IN BATHING Yentures Too Far Into the Feather River and Is Swept Away. MARYSVILLE, July 5.—While bath- Ing in the Feather River this evening William Porter, 10 years old, a son of James Porter of Yuba City, got beyond his deoth and was drowned. Claud Breamer, another lad, ventured too far into the stream and was carried under by the swift current. He was carried | about a mile down stream and landed on a sand bar. It was supposed at first that three of a party of boys had gone down, but the other two appeared later on. The body of young Porter | has not been recovered. —_———————— LOS ANGELES AUTHORITIES | DENY THE KIDNAPING STORY Report to Govermor That Convieted Mexican Murderer Was Arrested m United States Territory. SACRAMENTO, fuly 5.—Juan Puebla, alias Antonio Martines, a Mexican, is rving a life sentence In the State | penitentiary for murder. He was con victed in Los Angeles County. Puebla claims that he was on Mexican soil at | the time of his arrest and that he was kidnaped across the border by Antonio | Fellz without any effort having been made to secure extradition papers. The Mexican Minister at Washington took up the matter with the authorities there and the Department of State asked Governor Pardee to make an In- vestigation. The Governor referred the matter to the District Attorney of Los Angeles County, who has reported back | that Puebla was arrested on United States territory. It is sald that if Feliz should be ! taken back to Mexico he will be shot. Attorney McDonald of Los Angeles has written to the Governor for certified copies of all the correspondence relat- | ing to the Puebla and Feliz cases. He | Is endeavoring to prevent the extradi- tion of Feliz. ————— FIRE CAUSES HEAVY LOSS IN THE CITY OF EVERETT Newspaper Office and Several Large Business Houses and Their Con- teuts Are Destroyed. 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