The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 11, 1905, Page 5

FHE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1905. MILITIAMEN ARE WANTED T0 FIGHT FIRE CRIOLEY SCENE TOWN NARSHAL BANK IN HANDS NEAR LICK OBSERVATORY. + TRY T0 SAVE AGED SENKTOR Mitchell’s Lawyers Declare Government’s Represent- ative Made a Grave Error HENEY MAKES A REPLY Asserts That Unele Sam Did | Not Have to Prove All the cainst Oregonian July 10.—Co for s Senator Mitckell, In an - to-day before Judge de Haven Court on a motion for & t did not prove the ictment, wherein ary 4, 1904, Sena- sum of money was argued that in received It Jury was structed that it d verdict upon any one or all f the counts and was not instructed to except the unproved count, the whole verdict is defective and should be set d & new trial allowed IMPLICATES WILLIAMSON. Witness Tells of Congressman’s Inter- est in Government Land. , July 10.—The first evi- connected Congressman he alleged land frauds Dr. Van Gessner and g tried, was i et HEAT KILLS INMATES OF STOCKTON ASYLUM Death of Twenty-One Luna- tics Due to Recent Hot Spell. The Call w 8 eather have oc- tate Hospital for ast seven days. g unprecedented. of the medical staff al stated this after- history of the been so many deaths more deaths during t stated Dr. Holsholt. entirely unpre- . who are | diseases or of s are quite fre- The heat es and a clogging up of d death ensues. Since hich was the se d day, we a ty-one deaths. That is an I think all of ibuted to the heat. The the hospital is from nth. We have more emount in but seven ARE YOU TIRED OF PAYING BLUNDER TAXES?| Many a b an pays as much of blundering private touring froney for a ste or under Taxes” cannot be evaded ~—whatever else waits, these must be If a business man gets into the e blunders once, the taxes will soon confiscation. der Taxes” zing frequency upon store adver- Among the blunders which assessed at “full va are these: sers g on of poor mediums ; foo little™ space in good o less atlention to preparing store-advertisement the storing of some emply boxes in the basement ; the ad. altogether for one r more weeks now and then ; advertising the you can “afford” after all expenses are provided for; schemes, 175, posters, [fence-signs, rds and jim-cracks, under n that you are se- g real publicity, and that w, somewhere, sometime ncone will be influenced by me of these things to come to your-store and buy something. YOUR “BLUNDER - TAX” BILL GROWS SMALLER and SMALLER AS YOUR USE OF NEWSPAPER PUBLICITY GROWS BIGGER AND AND BIGGER. programmes,”’ ur meh great stress on the fact | 0.—Twenty-one fa- | levied with | in adver- | appro- | br om on the basis of what| Governor Is Asked to Send San Jose Guardsmen to Relief of Farmers in San Antonio Valley. Epecial Dispatch to The Call SAN JOSE, July 10.—A big fire is rag- ing in the mountains around Mount Ham- fiton, and unless checked it will sweep over the Lick Observatory reservation. The fire started in the neighborhood of the magnesite and quicksilver mines in the Red Mountain district, near San Antonio Valley. It burned through the San An- tory. Many cattle ranches in that sec- | tion have been burned over and many icama killed The fire burned through Deer Park westward over Eiler Moun- tain, and to-day is burning flercely in the Arroyo Bayou A large hay and stock ranch owned by & man named Hayes and rented to J. | Price has been completely burned over. | | Other cattle ranches in the path of the fire have also suffered heavily. This afternoon the fire was within eight miles of Lick Observatory, but be- fore it can reach the observatory it will have to leap the Santa Ysabel Creek. Ranchers in the Mount Hamilton | nills have been fighting the flames all day. The fire is the worst that has ever occurred In this range of hills. The loss will run up into the thousands, as there will be & heavy loss of cattle, ranch houses and hay. B. B. Pegg this afternoon telephoned to Captain Holtum of Company B, N. G. C., asking that organization to come out and help fight the fire. Captain Holtum at once communicated the matter to Gover- nor Pardee, but had not recelved orders to go up to late this afternoon. At 10:30 to-night reports from Lick Observatory state that the fire in the mountains near there is still burning. The blaze has crossed the Ptolemy ridge, some five miles northeast of the observatory. There is no danger of the observatory burning. The fire would have to cross two streams before it could strike the observatory reserva- tion and then only some small out- buildings would be damaged. A large force from adjoining ranches is fight- | ing the flames. | HIGHWAYMAN FOILED BY NERVY TRAINMAN ‘Pullman Conduector Grapples “With Robber and Pre- vents a Hold-Up. SPOKANE, July 10.—A daring attempt of & lone robber to hold up a Pullman | car is reported to-day by the crew of Northern Pacific passenger No. 4, east- bound. Just after the train left Sand Point, Idaho, Pullman Conductor Healy found the robber in the vestibule of the sleeper and grappled with him. In the | scuffie the robber shot at Healy, the bullet passing through the latter’'s coat. He then beat Healy until the conductor was almost insensible. Becoming frightened, the robber made no attempt to hold up the passengers, but leaped trom the car and vanished badly beaten, but not seriously injured. No clew to the robber is reported. —_—————— TURKEYS ARE ROASTED. | Forest Fire Destroys Flock of Birds | Near Redding. | REDDING, suly 10.—Forest fires rag- | ing in the hills about Redding are do- ing great damage daily. Sunday sev- eral head of cattle were burned to death in a thicket near Buckeye and Monday morning about 500 turkeys were burned to death at Lawson's ranch, near Montgomery Creek. The birds were feeding in a fleld of dry grass and when this caught fire they were unable to escape and perished In the flames. The blaze was carried swiftly along by a steady breeze and & boy who was herding the fowls nar- rowly escaped being caught and burned to death. BAPTISTS GATHERED IN CITY BY THE SEA Evangelistic Conference Is Now in Session in Santa Cruz. . SANTA CRUZ, July 10.—The Evangel- istic conference of Central California "Bapllst churches, which is held annually | at Twin Lakes, a Baptist summer resort | near this city, began yesterday. Mrs. Ida | Sherman Womedorf of Chicago, one of | the most gifted women of the Baptist de- nomination preached in the morning and evening and will hold Evangelistic serv- | ices during this week. Rev. W. C. Cook | of Malaga is conducting classes for chil- | dren. Following are the officers of the | assembly: | David P. Ward, president, Pasadena; | Rev. M. R. Wolfe, vice president, Salinas; B. B. Jacques, secretary, Santa Crusz; Rabert Porter. treasurer. Salinas, Healy was | | tonfo Valley to near the Lick Observa- | LICK OBSBRVATORY, ON MOUNT HAMILTON, NEAR WHICH AN MEN 1S FIGHTING FLAMES THAT HAVE SWEPT OVER HUNDREDS OF ACRES AND DESTROYED MUCH VALUABLE PROPERTY. ARMY OF NATIONAL VL S DISHONESTY So Says Charles Bonaparte, New Secretary of the Navy, in a Speech in Baltimore SHOWS WAY TO REFORM Believes Civil BService as Successor to the Spoils System Will Offer Remedy BALTIMORE, July 10.—The Christian Endeavor Convention to-day considered the collective work of the various En- deavor societies and unions, responses be- ing made by many State and local union officers. A pastors’ conference was held at the Central Presbyterian Church, which was led by Rev. Willlam R. Bien- derwolf of Monticello, Ind. Charles J. Bonaparte, Secretary of the Navy, de- livered an address on *Pure Politics and Religion,” speaking in part as follows: Many years ago & story was told of a well-known professional politictan in this eity, now dead, who on his return from church oné Sunday was met by a newspaper reporter, who remarked to him in substance: “Mr. A, I do not understand how so regular an at- tendant at church as you Bre can be also so great an adept in ‘stuffing’ ballot boxes, ‘fixing’ juries and witnesses and ‘plugging’ corporations.” “Mr. B, replied the statesman, mix up politics and religion.”” Of late years the American people have sown a dlsposition eufficlently plain to be widely remarked to act upon a different prin- ciple. Many of our citizens are beginning to “mix up" & good deal of what my late fellow- townsman would call “religlon” with what he would call “politics” and the resuit of this mixture is so unpalatable and unwhole- some to those of his way of thinking that & few words as to the real nature, causes and consequences of the phenomenon may be timely and not without interest. In truth the mixing up of politics and re- lgion, to which my deceased friend referred, constitutes one feature of a very notable popular movement. in progress for some thirty years throughout our country. After the Civil War and the perfod of reconstruction the American people found time to take stock. We were reminded by our tax bills that we had a government, a fact our busy, prosper- ous fathers could more than half forget dur- ing the two generations of steady Internal colonization, and with this reminder came a growing measure of doubt and anxfety as to the practical merits in sober truth of the Fourth of July oratory, of all branches. na- tional, State and municipal, of that Govern- ment ‘'vnder which he lived. As always happens, it proved easler to recog- nize evils than to discover remedies and in like accord with all human experfence our search for the latter was hampered by the proffer of all sorts 6f ‘wonderful nostrums, warranted by their ve advocates to usher in a golden age. But, with that plain, rd, common senee, that distaste for sound and froth, that craving for facts and distrust KIng folk, the pee “Rnally gained ‘s fateiy Tlear insight into the mature of our ills and uaily ot steadlly. learning what medi- “I never lishonest ends. reform, in fact, applies a caus- BUFFALD CIVEN UP O THE ELKS Tastern Range Invaded by Antlered Herd Numbering Far Into the Thousands CHIEF TO BE CHOSEN —_— Robert Brown of Louis- ville Is Slated for the Post of Grand Exalted Ruler BUFFALO, N. Y., July 10.—Elks by the thousand continue to pour into the city. Politics is already the chief topic among the members here. Robert Brown of Louisville, chairman of the board of grand trustees, is slated for grand exalted ruler. It is predicted that there will be no opposition to him. C. F. Tomlinson of Winston, N. C., at present grand esteemed loyal knight, is slated for grand esteemed leading knight. There is still lively competition for the office of esteemed loyal knight and esteemed lecturing knight. Fred C. Robinson of Dubuque, Iowa, grand sec- retary, and John K. Tener of Charle- roi, Pa.,, grand treasurer, are said to be certain of re-election. Two trustees are to be elected this year—one in place of John F. O'Shea of Lynn, Mass, who Is about to end a three-year term, and another to suc- ceed Dr. W. H. Havilahd of Butte, Mont., who is about to end a one-year term. ¢ Denver i{s working hard for the next reunion. Atlantic City came along with its boom to-day. The report of the board of governors of the National Home of Elks at Bed- ford City, Va., recommends more Ilib- eral admission rules, there being now but twenty residents of tue home, who could be more economically cared for in !'a private institution. The report also says that the work of the board of gov- | ernors could be dischargeu .y the board | of grand trustees at a saving of ex- | pense. — tic to the very ulcer In oyr politics, in the Dlication. of morality i 'commen ssnse” 1o the choice of public servants. can politictan, as first 20 long 8 no.ale- any on. Between the good and bad there is and should be warfare wi or quarter, for whoever would now do good t offices are p if_we would puriry that it will rther step in 1 1 to his fello finds the degra- d:“’é‘“’ otar:l:r political lite = hindrance to his s} % “It’s poor satisfaction to have your nelchbpor tell you about a - 1 g bargain sale—after it is all over. Of the n:xt one, GET YOUR INFORMA- TION IN T from the ads, "~ OF B BLAT Incendiary Supposed to Be Responsible for $100,000 Fire in Butte County Town BIG BUILDINGS BURNED Flames Start in Rear of the Stone Block and Spread With Alarming Rapidity il LB GRIDLEY, July 10.—Fire destroyed $100,000 worth of property in this place last night. The fire started in the rear of the Stone block. The fact that fires have been put out in the same place twice within the last week leads many to be- lieve that the blaze was of incendiary origin. Following are the owners of the property destroyed and their losses: C. H. Block, livery stabls, $500, fully in- sured; Willlam Slingsby of Dobbins, W, B general mer- chandise store, $28,000, insured for $13,000; 0dd Fellows’ building, $4000, insured for full amount; C. M. Rankin, drug store, $5000, in- surance $2000; | Gridley Advance printing of- fice and fixtures, $1000, partially insured; F. G. Coolsy, saloon, $1500, insurance §1000; Wil llam Brown, butcher shop, including refigerat- ing plant, $3000, insurance $1600; C. Goulden, tallor, $190, fully insured; Schellenger, barber shop, ), fully insured; Mood & Co., general merchants, loss $10,000; R. M. Beebes, electric light wires, transformers, otc., $500, no insur- ance; J. L. Porter, cigar store and billiard- room, $3000, insurance $1500;'R. A. Norman, drug ‘store, $6000, insurance §5000; R. G. Long, lawyer, books and fixtures, $1000, partially I sured; Masonic Lodge, lodgeroom fixtu: $1000, no insurance; C, A. Moore, jeweler, insurance; Dr. Moffitt, office fixtures and books, $1000, partially insured; R. E. Taylor, post master, office fixtures, mail saved. J. H. Jones, a real estate dealer, Ride- out, the banker, the Gridley Herald, the California Irrigated Land Company and the Butte County Canning Company suf- fered nominal losses. The heaviest loser is the Stone estate, two-thirds of the brick block belonging to that concern having been burned. Its loss is in the neighborhood of $25,000. The postoffice has been re-established in the office of J. H. Jones. Several of the burned ,out merchants have secured temporary quarters and will reopen busi- ness to-day. The Postal Telegraph Com- pany and the Sunset Telephone Com- pany lost their local offices. BABE DADWNED BEFORE EVES 0F I HOTHER Child Left on Beach Is Carried to'Sea by a Big Wave. PSR Bpecial Dispatch to The Call LOS ANGELES, July 10.—A two-year- old baby was swept out to sea and drowned before the eyes of the agonized mother at Long Beach this afternoon. The body has not been recovered. Charles Johnson and wife of Boston are occupying a cottage at Tent City on the Strand, a short distance west of Long Beach. At that point there is a shelf in the beach against wuich the waves break at high tide. This afternoon Mrs. John- son placed her baby girl in a small chair on the sand and asked another child to watch the little one. Before the mother had reached her cottage, an unusually high wave rolled in. The chair containing the baby was knocked over when the wave broke and .the receding water caught the chud and swept it into deeper water. A glimpse or two of its little arms were seen In the foam of the surf by the score or more of persons who had witnessed the tragedy, but by the time the next wave formed, the child's body had been lost to view. The Long Beach Life ~aving crew was summoned, but they could not find the body. —————— LINEMAN AT WORK ON ROOF OF ELECTRIO CAR IS KILLED Harry Ayers, an Employe of the Vallejo and Napa Valley Road Is Elec- trocuted. VALLEJO, July 10.—Harry Ayers, a lineman in the employ of the Vallejo and Napa Valley Electric Rallway, was electrocuted to-night while at work on the roof of a car. The accident oc- curred on the road midway between Vallejo and Napa. Ayres climbed to the top of the car to repair the trolley and in some manner allowed his body to complete a circult. Death was in- stantaneous. MAKES MISTAKE Releases Prisoner and Few Hours Later Learns That He Is an Escaped Conviet MISSES OPPORTUNITY Store Is Robbed by Two of the Men Who Cut Way Out of MeNeils Island Prison SEATTLE, July 10.—8. D. Castle, one of the elght convicts who made their escape from the penitentiary on Mec- Neils Island on July 3, was arrcsted in Kent by Town Marshal 8. P. Eprich and was kept in jail over night, but was re- leased Saturday morning without Kils identity being discovered. It was not un- til he had been gone some ten hours that the marshal learned who his pris- oner was. Castle has not been seen since. ‘While Castle was in jail Friday night, Matt Moore and K. Takeouchi, the two Japanese convicts who escaped with the other men, broke into a Kent clothing store and stole three suits of clothes. They were reported to-day to be In the neighborhood of Covington, dressed in the new suits. STORM RAGINC IN NOME CITY Streets of the Alaska Town Converted Into Lakes and | Great Damage Is Done SEATTLE. July 10.—Advices received to-day from Nome say a disastrous storm has been raging there for several days. River street has been converted into a lake, some inundations of cellars have occurred, and the beach has re- ceived a thorough and much clearing. The greatest damage, however, has resulted in the creeks. Nome, Penny and the Kuzitrim rivers are unusually high. The Kougarok and the streams in its vicinity are raging torrents, while the flood in Anvil Creek beats all records. The dams of Nos. 5 and § are gone, ane the ditch of the Ploneer Company above Banner Station burst its bounds. The water, tearing down the hillside, washed out part of the raillway, which, however, has been repaired. On No. 3 above dis- covery on Dry Creek a dam has been swept off, and Denhart's ditch also suf- fered. Many dams on Dexter gave way. The Solomon district is the largest suf- ferer, the fine bridge at the East Fork | having been destroyed, and the railroa washed out In several places, especially along the beach. Much damage was caused to the proper- ty of the Miocene Company on Glacier. Everything had been put in shape for the commencement of the summer's work, when the creek rose so much and so un- expectedly that the company’s pit, which had been worked by the hydraulic lft, ‘was some twenty feet deep. The removal of the ‘“‘dead” stuff and the delay and disarrangement of the preliminary work will cause a loss to the company of an amount certainly in the thousands. The camp of the Midnight Sun Min- ing and Ditch Company is under water and lumber for eighty sluice boxes, the company’s property, has been carried off. Two lighters broke away from the steamship Olympia, one comi ashore at Solomon and the other land- ing about four miles away, while the ferry cable at Safety is destroyed and traffic stopped in consequence. The splendid new whart of the Nome Arctic Railway Company has stood the test gallantly. A few pleces of crib- bing gave way, but as many men were employed to repair the dam and to add thousands of sand bags to the doubtful parts of the foundations, nothing seri- ous happened. The King Hurst, which has been blocked up at the water's edge down near the Boyd building in preparation for launching, has suffered much. She fell an easy victim to the rising tide and now lies stern to, full of water. Ophir Creek at Council City is prob- ably ‘out of business.” The raliroad bridge at No. 15 is gone and about three miles of track is washed out. The Hunter pipe line across the Neuk- luk River is demoiished. There two men nearly lost their lives. A scow on which they were broke away, but they man- aged to reach a great talling pile In the middle of the river from which they were rescued by a boat from shore. Severin Bjornson, who was returning to Nome from a fishing trip, was caught in | the storm. His boat was partly swamped | and he was washed overboard. A crew from the Nome boathouse rescued the drowning man, Axminster Carpets are » “ the EXCEPTIONAL VALUES 'h“rfll; ::- ::N&::y o:” marked at the lowest possible point for which honest merchandise can be sold. STER CARPET—Fine, deep pile, in choice colorings, effective designs; suitable for living room, dining room or parlor; 5 with or_ without c borders. Per yard. BRUSSELS CARPET—An ex- cellent grade in Oriental and floral designs; colorings that show the master hand of the artist. Per yard .. needed | IF A RECENER iSt. Louis Institution Against Which Fraud Order Was Issued May Pay Depositors |AFFAIRS IN FAIR SHAPE Loss Will Fall Upen Stock- holders, Who Will Receive Fifty Cents on the Dollar —_— ST. LOUIS, July 10.—Immediately after taking charge of the affairs of the Peo- ple’s United States Bank, former Judge Selden P. Spencer, who was to-day ap- pointed receiver by the St. Louls County Circuit Court, sent orders to the deposi~ torfes of the bank in other cities, about fifty in number, directing them to dis- continue the issuance of money on check and to report at once the amount of money on hand credited to the People’'s Bank. Judge Spencer then took up the investi- gation of the bank’'s accounts and, as- sisted by several experts, made a hur- ried search of the institution’s books and to-night issued a statement of labllities and assets. Included in the loans and discounts are the following Iitems con- sidered of doubtful value or Uable to shrinkage. An uninsured note given by Lewis and the old directors for 314637 representing the promotion and organiza- tion expenses of the bank; a loan of $380,~ 000 secured by stock of the Lewis Pub- lishing Company; a loan of §284163 se- cured by stock of the University Heights Realty Company. The balance of $136,020 is made up of smaller miscellaneous items, many of them notes indorsed by Lewis. When Judge Spencer arrived at the bank bullding, he was met by President Lewis who made the following formal 1 protest against the action of the court: | " “I acting as president of this bank, do | protest against said order, as not just and in every way prejudicial to the inter- ests of both stockholders and depositors, and do surrender said bank and its assets | only under protest and In obedience to | said order of the honoable court.” After Judge Spencer had taken control, a meeting of the board of directors of the bank was called, at which the fol- lowing were present and signed the set | of resolutions protesting against the ap- pointment of a receiver by the court and the issuance of a fraud order by the United States postal authorities: Theo- dore F. Meyer, former Governor Lon V. Stephens, W. F. Carter, James F. Coyle, E. G. Lewis. State Bank Examiner R. McCook to- night declared the affairs of the People’s United States Bank were in no very com- plicated condition. He said: “According to an examination made of the assets and liabilities I believe the re- cetver now would be able to pay all the depositors In full and have enough left to pay the stockholders 50 cents on the ollar. Judge Spencer, the receiver, places & | more liberal estimate on the bank's abil- | ity to pay stockholders. He stated that, allowing for shrinkage in the collateral, the stockholders might receive 75 cents on the dollar. | RIVERSIDE MERCHANT ANONG THE MISSING Police Searching for Busi- ness Man Who Has Myste- riously Disappeared. Spectal Dispatch to The Cail. RIVERSIDE, July 190.—J. P. Beishaw, for years a successful Antloch merchant, has mysteriously disappeared. His friends and family are using every means | possible to learn his whereabouts. Bel- shaw and his family have been residents | of Riverside for several months, Belshaw | being associated with his brother-in-law, | G. Rouse, in the clothing business. Of |1ate he worried a great deal over his | Antioch business and recently suffered a nervous breakdown. He left on Wednes- day for Antioch and as he did not ar- rive on time inquiries were set on foot with the result that it was learned he got no farther than Los Angeles. The police of that city made a thorough search for Belshaw but have discovered no trace of the missing man. It is be- ! leved his mind has given way and that ! he has left for parts unknown. He had | a considerable amount of money with | him when he feft and may have been a vietim of foul play. BOYS ARRESTED FOR DRUNKENNESS. — Bert Doran and Barney Gorman, two lé-year- ©old boys, were found in & state of extreme | alconolie ntoxication yesterday evening at Sec- | ond and Townsend streets vy Policeman Roo- Dey. They were treated at the Harbor Hospi- tal and later arrested for drunkenness and sent | to the Juvenile Detention Home. The same | boys were in the same hospital a few months | ago with the same trouble, and at that time | Sata they stole their liquor. AXMINSTER RUGS — Room size, gx12 ft., in mot- tled effects; fine, deep pile. $15~Q L e R