The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 15, 1905, Page 2

. THE -SAN FRANCISCO' CA RECISTRATION 10 BE WATCHED Republican League Discovers Evidence of Frand in the Enroliment of \'otersl it ANY FALSE ADDRESSES Workers Will Keep Eye Out for Trecinet Stuffing by Graiters for Primaries S ——— i every vo for the Of the 81,750 o4 :1G reg dy reg the San already sumber should of regis- t at Steimke Repubiicans ey were enthusiastic cted as follows: Presi- urrier; first. vice )88; secarm vice n el Stirring by Sheldon Kellogg, enerai C. A. Wood- Judge H. C. Dib- | Anspacher, William Sexton Twenty eig 27 Sec- » organized by as president i by Peter Keily. The e San Francisco Re- »osition to cag San Fran- organized | virty-fou Assem- Resolutions were adopted league for failing amd or advise with the publicans of the @is- League Club of the iet will mee Hall on Ge Fairfax H. "y Ryan of the l». committee will ad- LABOR COMMITTEY. MEETS. The Union Labor party’s county com- s et last nigh at 995 Market the wit and appointed the following as ee of ten to confer to-night number from the executive of the Labor League: George J. Berger, N. Copus. James de | James Kennedy, George B. Benham and Egan, resolution every member present paid up memb: labor wun was adopted requiring of the conference credentials showing ship in a recog- A resolution was ze clubs to be known | Hustlers. Ruef was not | actua adopted to org: as Schmitz eulogized QUENTS. Fifty Braves of lroguols Club Are! Dropped From Its Rell, The delinguency of members ‘if the | matter of 'nonithly dues furnished a po- | tent subject for discussion at the week- | ly meeting of the Iroquois Club last evening and resulted in fifty of the prominent braves of the organization being expeiled. IWith ‘thesé expulsions the totu! membership is reduced to 375, and it was hinted that this figure will | be materinlly diminished at the next méeting - unless a farge number of the | former enthisfastic Demotrats come torward with their back dues, N téw of those expeiled last even- ing have.Mguped very prominently in | the affairs of ihe ¢lub in the past For | instance, there i& R’ Porter Ashe. who has wlwaye been knowi a¥ 4 consfétent Democrat, sed sét iis nameée was one of 1he first to he ealled at the meeting. D, J. Mahoney, Wito Was ‘the ‘Horsés and Car:s’ didate Tor Mayor ‘at the last election, and Dr. & 3' “Kingwell, - the' Horses' and Carts' léader ‘in'the Twen- ty-eighth District, were quiefly’ drop: ped from the roll, as weré alsé Thomalk | Hyland, C. Capure &nd J. F. Carroll, alt of the Recorder's ofice. Another dis- tingulshed Democrat’™to be drbppéd was Joseph leggett, law parther of fortfer Congressman Maguire. ~Ambdng the | other well-known men - 6f -ldw who shfired the same faté weére Attoriiey R.| M. Sims, brother of the former chair-| man of the Democratie State ‘Céntrai | Committee; Attorney Thomas Curran, | who has always been active in local pol- | ithes; Judge H. ©. Gessford of Napa mul Judge B. V. Sargent of Sallnas. faet that Willism P. McCada -holds the | important position of searetary - and | bukiness agent of the Labor Council did nat save him from expulsion any miore | tiln it 4id M. Formro &nd David Wolfe of the Sheriff's office, J. X, Strand of the Registrar's office. R. P. Hooe of the of- fice of the Board of Educatien, T. J. Powers, a deputy in the Board of Public Works: R. J. Curtin, an attache of the | THIRTY' MEN OF THE BATTLESHIP KNIAZ POTEMKINE ARE SHOT. ‘Mutneers of the Black Sea Fieet Who Sur- rendered to the Imperial Authorities Are Put % SLAV REGIMENT to Death: URDERS OFFICERS Sappers Stationed at a Small Village in the Mountains of Caucasia Join the Revolutionary Ranks. PO S LONDON, June 14.—The correspondent of the Chronicle nt Kustenjl, Rou- manfa, says that according to a saiib. thirty of the crew of the battieship w! TIFLIS, Caucnsta, July 14.—A rezi small village in the mountains near he is rumored, has joined the revolutionists. de SRG, July the task ©of condu Lehalf of his , but with a otherwise of the intrigue inst him at’ but he 1€ big enough ‘t¢ believe f history will justify the cace on the bes s that ai call conside 1 overmment should ] solution of the internal efe- | =’s posi- been mendations contrary influ- nent Russian statesman, who is w0 spedk; s to turn her ditfi- surroanded the military A gensational report was current early this morning that De Witte might not go Washington, - all. According to the story, his au with the Emperor hing but th, his Majesty her resenting De Witte's plain spokeh d indicating that, under the eir- lLie would prefer that Baron Rosen £hould act as chief plenipotentiaty The Emperor is even said to have in mated that Count Lamsdorff had ex- ceeded his authority in' officiaily announc- ing to the Washington Government that De Witte would occupy the first position. De Witte is sald to have left the Em- | peror in an ugly frame of mind and to| have frankly informed Count Lamsdorft | that it would be impossibie for him to| undertake the mission. It was only by the greatest effert, the story goes, that curstance | the Foreign Minister -has succeeded in| persuading him not to flatly refuse and | the guestion as to whether he will go to| Washing said to be still open. stz C NO PAROLE FOR LENA’S CREW. ton i Demsnd Wil Be lgnored Should It Reach State Department. WASHINGTON, July 14. e threat- | ened demand of the officers and men of the Russlan man-of-war Lena, in- terned zt Mare Island, for their parole on the ground that such clemency had been extended to the officers and men of the Russian vessels '~terned at Ma- niia has not yet reached the State De- partmeni. Press dispatches announced several days ago that such a demand wis to be madé. It is not Hke o receive serious con- sideration. It is explained at the State Department that the cases are not analogous. The officers and men who obtained leave at Manfla were ill. one hopelessly so. Leaves of absence were granted only after the Japanese au- thorities had consented. ¥rom the commanding officer of the Lena the State Department has received 2 request for leave of absence for one ox its officers who is ill. The réquest prob- ably will be granted. Bl e e JOURNEY OF THL JAPANESE. Jamen 3. Hill in Charge of the Peace Mixciow's Itinerary. 87, PAUL, July 14.—James J. president of the Great way, is personally arranging the itin- | erary for the Jupanese peace plenipo- | tentiaries on the journey from Seattle | to Washington. The party, which "is | headed by Baron Konura, will arrive at Keattle on the stea'nship Minnesota on July 20. It will travel eastward -over the @Great Nortlern to Duluth, where the. mission will enrbark on the stean:- ship Northwest for Buffalo. At -Buffalo the party wiil be taken by the Penn- syivania Majlrdad to' Washington, ar- riving there éarly In August. B i Salaries of the Russian Envoys. ST. PETERSBURG, July 14—The salartes of the Russian plenipotentiar- jes have beéen fixed at $200 per day each, besides an allowance of $7500 for the traveling and other expens iy o ¥ Trepof Revives the Censorship. §7. PPRTERSBUKG, July 14—The Tax Collector’s office, or Henry Gut- stadt, formerly employed in the Regis- trar's office. The good and weifare of the organi- zation was the only other interesting : scend-various rivers to Iquitos, on the ! W/ subject consgidered.. at the meeting, wiich Chajrman William J. Locke finai- ly adjourned until next Friday evening. e < ‘.7 Many Veters Register. . "Fhe ‘registration up to last Thurs- day included 198 new names of Intend- | ing ‘votors, besides 280 changes of resi- | dénce. ' The total registration te date for tlie primary election, which closes next ‘Wednesday‘at ‘midnight, is 83,691, The office will be open this afterhioon !! and’ until ‘10 0°216¢k to-might-tor - ‘ration, the Eaturday half-nollday Deing yoéurself, but dfess to’suit | | M."fi(gfilflt others.”” Have you the proper frame around rour ploth the ‘correct dress? P fovers Bave n\gfi : .1.&. .:mm of our . wn some of_the ‘re “natty.” lnhon.“vnl & Co.. 341 Market street. ‘lof the Italian legation, the Marqi: . 'bade the Marguis belonging to the Kniaz Potemkine bo surrendered have been shot. ,A ment of Russinn sappers stationed at a re has murdered all its efficers and, it ’ Gove rent censorship, now under the lirection of General Trepofi, Assistant Minister of the Juterior, has been ro- vived with & li'fl pristine vigor. A en issied prohib- of ary news relat- o gk | 2 ents for Limevitch. SBURG, July 14.--Plans for the reinforcement of General Line- rmy are keeping pace with the paration for peace . negotlations. The Nineteenth Army Corps has re- ced marching orders andgthe tion of six regiments of Cossacks has been successfully accomplished. SR e Railroad Men Defy Employers. WARSAW, Russian Poland, July 14.— ¥ have decided to use from v the I’olish language in the of railway business. If any ed for so doing ull the em- ploves will resign. Fep Band of Terrorists Captured. "'_FI'IRS’I;(.'RG. July 14.—A band of terrorists fully egiiipped to manu- facture bonbs nnd forge passports was captured in a house near the Fontanka canal last”night. FURESTS ABLAE N KERN COUNTY BAK!flRSFIBLD, July 14.—One of the most disastrous forest fires that has ever occurred in Kern County is now in pro- gress on Mount Beckenridge. The. fire started yesterday afternoon near Lucus Creek. Last night the fire reached a point in the vicinity of the Edison Company's camp No. 2 and for a while the entire camp was threatened with destruction, but by hard work the bulldings belonging to the company were saved. The wind then took the blaze down the side of the mountain toward camp No. 3. At last reports the fire had started in an easterly direction and was reaching out toward the county road, from where, in all probability, it will sweep across the mountain, destroying in its path the valu- able lumber belonging to the Kérn County Timber Company and the sawmill of W. J. Doherty. The force now fighting the fire numbers between 350 and 400 men and from the re- ports recelved late to-night it is appar- ent that unless a change in the wind occurs the flames, which are beyohd con- trol, the entire mountain will be swept clean of every vestige of vegetation. | Captain H. White, forest supervisor, is in charge of the fire fighters. SAN JOSE,. July 15.—The fire which re- cently raged in the Mount Hamilton hills was started on a small stock ranch near the Livermore rcad for the purpose of destroying” grasshoppers, which this year are proving a pest in that neighborhood. The fire got beyond the control of the ranchmen and spread rapidly over the hille, burning to within a few miles of Mount Hamilton. * it is reported to-day from the Lick Observatory that the fire, which was raging again yesterday, has about died out. A strip eight miles wide and extending from the Red Mountain and the Livermore district to Arroyo Valla has been burned over. [ WOULD HAVE CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS UNITR Belfaxt Orangemen Call for the Burial of Sectarianism in the Interest of National Welfare. BELFAST, July 14.-An independent section of Ulster Orangemen, headed by Commoner Sloan, has fssued a striking manifesto to the country calling for the burial of sectarianism, which now is di- viding Protestants and Catholics, and invoking the co-operation of all secular forces in the promotion of the natfonal welfare. The manifesto expresses dfs- trust of ¥nglish parties, which, it says. will continue in future, as in the past, to play off Catholics and Protestants against each other to the prejudice of the country’s higher claims. The coun- try, too, has been neglected in the strife | of party and creed, the manifesto con- tinues, and there now s room for a patriotic party having the policy to rid Ireland of the domination of im- practicable = creeds and “ofganized tyrannies and to secure the desired re- dress. —_————— WILL RXPLORE UPPRR s < REACHES OF AMAZON ‘Marqnis de Marignano, Italtan Diplo- mat, Starts on Perilous Journey Through s Wild Counrry. LIMA, Peru, July 14.—The secretary i do 'Marignano, left Lima yéstecday by the 'Central Railway for.Oroya, ninety-five miles from kimu.- Thence he will cross the central regions of Peru and de- Upper Amazon. From tnere he will 'travel down the: Amazon River to the ! Atlantic, where he will take a steam- tship to the United States and eventual- {1y embark for Italy. The diplomatic corps and & nummber of personal friends farewell at the rail- road statjon. it als p | ———— s Ellen Yew Makes Hit in London.: LONDON, July 14—Ellen Beach Yaw, known as the American singer, now Eleanea Elvania, made her debut in ;grand opera at the ‘Theater to- inight as Milda in “Rigoletto.” She | 'scored a_complete success and was ‘glven a warm , L ARG - A%t SIS .rem"m:" declared a b mo- ! 3 Ghl!n"flt_ o OT. AMERICAN BARS FAIL IN LONDON Transplanted Imitations of | Yankee Drink Ewporiums Die for Lack of Patronage ! Spectal to The Call } LONDON, July 14.—Every attempt. to jmaintain a high-class American bar in London has failed. The latest proof of this is furnished by the transterence of the Criterion's American bar, long the most . famous feature of that popular ¥ resort, to' another and less uous pari of the building where, {co dwarfed in size and shorn of its former glory, it will probably continue to make a feeble struggle for existeénce a-few { vears longer. And this has been acgom- | panied by a change hardly less significant | —the abolition of the distinctively Amer- ican features of its noted restaurant. It is because in London Americans seem to prefer adhering to the old adage which bids them when in Rome to do as the Romans do. Taking the resident and iloating Amerjcan population together | there are enough of them to keep sev- eral American bars and restaurants go- ing. But they won't give them enough of their patronage to-make them pay. { And though in America the Englishman | aisplays all the zeal of the convert in i his appreciation of American mixed 1 drinks and bestows a more guarded ap- proval on American dishes, on his native heath he seems to regard it as a patriotic | duty to set himself sternly against any innovations in_ the matter of food and | liquors. : PREFER ENGLISH DRINKS. Americans here secem to prefer taking their liquid refreshment in the English | fashion because ¢f the opportunities it | affords tnem to dflate on the superfor vir- tues of the American concoctions. In speech at least the American Is always loyal to the cocktall and is never more’ eloquent in its praises than when he is | consuming & Scotch whisky and soda :r making a wry face over gin and bit- ers. “There is no doubt, too, that the Ameri‘ can bar in London has suffered griev- ously in reputation because of the many spurious imitations of it that have been folsted on the public. These display a list of so-called American mixed drinks 1o the number of two score or more and to mest of which Americans themselves are entire strangers. ‘“‘Chain Lightning, “Stomach Tickler,” “Corpse Reviver"” are among the names bestowed among them. And the man who is rash enough to ask for one-of them gets something that is apt to make him yearn for some internal fire extinguisher. Of course an American who runs up against that sort of thing generally jumps to the conclu- sion that all American bars in London are humbugs and gives them a wide berth. And the Englishman who has never sampled a genuine American nk thinks. that they are fit only for men with copper-lined intérfor departments, NO REAL BARTENDERS. A rather well known American spend- ing his holidays- here told me. that he would give $25 to any one who would find a genuine American barténder—one wh had been born in the United States an had learned the art of mixing drinks. there—now dispenging American nks’ in London. He said that he had spent i 1 I i i two weeks seeking oné in vain. He had acquired a wide knowledge of J.ondon “pubs,” gilded and otherwise, 'but had not found any one who could even mix him a Manhattan cocktail properly. One reason for the failure of the Amer- jcan bar—the genuine variety—is no doubt due to the fact that such places became the natural resort of “touchérs™ from the other side—men who live by trading on their nationality and appeal- ing to that patriotism and good nature which when an American is in a forelgn land reachés its most expansive form un- der the stimulating - influence of an American drink.. That rendered sueh drinks an extravagant luxury compared with which the most costly of the Eng- lish brands are dirt -cheap. At an Eng- lish bar the American sojourner runs far less risk of being fmportuned by impecunious compatriots. There . are some English bars where they make a pretense of concocting a-few of the best known American drinks, but the art of mixing them has neyer been mastered by an English barmaid,. even when the proper Ingredients are at hand. : ALL EFFORTS FAIL. For a long time at the Criterion they did their best to cater to American tastes. with respect to food and drink. They set aside part of “the ' restaurant for American dishes and tried to impart to it a distinetly American atmosphere. They served clam « jowder; bofled New Eng- land dinners, baked bearns, corn bread, sweet corn and many other American spectalities to which Englishmen are strangers: They made regular importa- tions of all the American good'things in their seasons; and“had them prepared in what was supposed to be the American fashion. But it was of no use. The Amerfcan tourlst seems to think that he cannot do England properly and thor- oughly unless he does it on English food, cooked in the English fashion. And residential Americans, 1or the most part, adapt themselves to the English style of gastronomy after they hdve been here a little while. - Different climatic condi- tions seem to have ‘much to do with it. | improve on a dGinner of roast beef, po- tatoes and greens: washed down by a pint of bifter. oY I restaurants; or at'léast such they purport to be. They, have both been in the hands of receivers, which would indicate that they have not. achieved that financial success which their ‘promoters had an- ticipated. 3 £ D e s e : MecMauhill ta Court. SAN JOSE, July 14.—In the éxamina- tion of 1. B McMabhill, the former secre- tary of the Chamber.of Commerce, who is charged with embezzling $900, Judge { Welch this marning denied:the motion to have the infommation set aside: on ‘oluuon prohibiting members of the as- -} president; Mrs) ' third vice president; R. M. Allen, Ken- | Leeds, Mrs. R. G. Dun, Mrs. J. L. Riker, As for the average Englishman, nothing | will persuade him that it is' possible to [ There are_‘~ thé Stramd two American | PURE FOOD NEN Row Over, thie Ifi_vestigatiou‘ Into- Charge That Protec- tion Is Given Advertisers SESSION COMES To END | S gy | Association Determines .to;\swphen Boggini Loses Life Break Away From Stand-| ards of Federal Government | Special Dl‘lplll:h to The Call PORTLAND, July 14.—The concluding session of the convention of the Na- tionai Food and.Dairy Association pro- duced a s¢nsation in the withdrawal of Comnilssioner ~ Critchiield of' .ennsyi- vania, who was not satisfed with the munper in which: an investigation of the %flmnz of the book of tue annual proc ngs: had beep conducted. in | withd¥gwing, Critcnfield took the State of Pehnsylvania’ with him. Ti® investigation .which . Critchfield objected to as.ausufficient was instituted as the -résult of charges. that ' certain Hrms jn the Kast had been approached by the firm printing the/Look with a re- quest for advertiging, the promise be- ing made, itss alléged, that if they did Bnot comply with' the pure food: laws that they would not be’ prosecuted if they advertised in the book. The mem- | bers present took sides ‘i’ the matter and a great row;,was terminated by the withdrawal of €ritchfield.” Kesolutions were adopted “prohibiting advertise- ments in the official pubfication of the proceedings of. the organization. ‘A res- ® sociation allied with any food oriliquor u;terens holding dfice was also adopt- | ed. 3 It was unapimously ' determined to | brek away from the food standards of | the Depagfineiit of Agriculture and to formulats figw standards for the assoei: | ation. This’remarkable move, which is probably -thé ‘most startling innovation that has ever been introduced in the | fight for.mjire food, means the separa- | xloxx:»olgkr;:‘yan.né Government intev: “have heretofore worked 1 i Tiect $60d standards. At day's ‘session the standards of the‘Gov- ernmenf were decfared wholly - inade- quaté, ‘The ‘climax to the fight of the opposftion came when Dr. E. N. Eaton, | 1ilinois- State Chemist, dellvered ain ad- dress on “State Vefrsus National Stand- ards,” in ‘which he told of the insuff- ciency, of the standards of the Depart- ment of Agriculture and how the work of the. National Asociatlo of State| Dairy “and Food Departments had been hindered by the officials of the Govern- ment. p Following Dr. Eaton’s address, a mo- tion was made and carried appointing a committee on food standard, the com- mittee being instructed to- formulate standards and to report at the next an- nual convention of the association. /The officers were elected for the ensu- ing year as follows: J. B, Noble, Con- nectlcu, president; Professor Elton Fulmer, Washington, first vice presi- dent; E. W. Burke, Idaho, second vice Mary Wright, Colorado, | tucky, secretary. The executive.com- mittee is-as follows: J. I Emory, Wis- consin; F. J. H. Kracke, New York; C. K. Bruner, North Carolina, and Horace Ankeny of Ohio. VESSEL JSHORE OFF HENDOCIND Speclal Dispatch to The Call WESTPORT July - 14.—~The schooner Maid of Orleans, Captain Maloney, bound from San Francisco to Eureka, ran on the rocks nine miles from this point to- day. She lies in shallow water, and if the kea remains calm will be floated at high tide. She was proceeding slowly up the coast when she encountered the gale which had been blowing for three days. The . schooner was thrown out of her course and on to the rocks. Captain Maloney came to Westport to- day to-secure a vessel.to assist -him, but unable to find one. He returned to the- seene .of the wreck and will try to float ‘the schoomer with the rising tide. The wind has settled and the vessel is in no great danger at the present time. The members of the crew.wére never. in danger, as the vessel struck close in shore. The Maid of Orleans s owned by the Western Lime and :Lumber, Company of San Francisco. She is-an old vessel, and recently returned to San Francisco from Puget Sound. _———— BIG NAMES AS LURE FOR DUPES HEaden TN e Continued From Page 1, Column 7. —_— paid $1000, as did Clarence H. Mackay. Among those who paid $500 for the work (for the sclicitors took as much as they could get, or as little, if it were not too insignificant) were J. B. Haggin, W. B. James Gayley, Thomas F. Walsh of ‘Washington, Harold McCormick and Og- den Armour of Chicago, Mrs. E. G. Hub- bard, L. M. Waterbury, Mrs. Harry S. Black, Theodore P. Shonts and Edith E Hanan. = — e 5 New Lodge Organized. PALO ALTO, July 14.—College City Cir- cle, Companions of the Forest of America, was organized last night. The officers are: Mrs. T. Toblas, president; Mrs. M. E. Selzer, vice president; Morgan Johnson, secretary; T. Tobias, treasurer. The installation' will be held July 26. Sagamore Tribe, I. G. R.'M., has elected Dr. A. B. Mayhew, John Grider and L. J. Quinn delegates to the Grand Powwow to be held in Nevada City August 12-16. g ARLESTON, W. Va. July 14—Colonel mfim a 0 m‘l’ lawyer, 'l.ll | the: ground: that the Justice’s Court, in hich he was committed, was not a le- gally constituted court. McMahili's at« | Torneys: had raised- the.point that tha: | court’ of. Justice Frank H. Benson was | not a legal court ia tanat it had been lrmu:rlr emnA ‘m-uufl»wb:“t::gml rd of Supervisors. Attorney V for = which was overruied and :ten days granted - Negro s e R assaultea Mrs. Ber in . Tue: N ) by 2 ao'r"'at,? r%’ 5 sl Rkadiac | B and Mont Saunders, an _em- plore ot the County Clerk's ofdce. ‘was badly E""""’?me“"““ ——————— A | ment s FALLNC BAATH One Man Killed and Another Severely Injured at the| Santa Cruz Powder Works ——p— BANK CAVES SUDDENLY | and Michael Mikalson Bad- . ly Hurt, but Will Recover SANTA CRUZ, July 14—At the Cali- fornia - Powder Works, just outside the city limits,” this afternoon two workmen were buried by ‘a landslide, one of them bejng instantly killed and the other se- verely injured. ~Stephen Boggini, a Swigs, ‘who hasg lived here for twenty years, was the man killed and Michael Mikalson was fnjured, but Wwill recover. The. men!were ‘¢xcavating on a hillside near the powder company's private tracks for a storehouse. ‘There were a dozen men in the ‘gang, whieh was under Foge- man ‘Morgan, . Without, warning part 'of the bank suddénly gave.way. completely coverig Boggini. and pinning Mikalson to:the ground.. It.was some minutes be- fore the men weré‘exlricnl,ed and when Boggini ‘was taken ut life was extinet. The only ark on his body was a-eut on the back of-his head. MARSHALLTOWN, ' Iowa, July 14— Three men were killed and two pfabably fatally infured in a frefght.wreck ont the fowa Central Rallroad néar Ri¢hmond, Iowa, to-day. A The dead: enginder; :Wn- llam West, «Woalsey, biakeman. St ; The injured are: w wil- Illams and Fireman W. 0 an. Al the dead live at Oskaloosa, Towa. CHICAGO, July 14.—A passenger train on the Chicago and Eastern Ilinois Rail- fay. ‘leaving St. Louls at midmght, co- lided with a suburban train at Steliger, INl., to-day. Three persons were killea and seven injured. Some of the Injured may dfe. The engines of both trains were demolished and the first coach on the suburban train was smashed. # The dead: James Lyke, engineer of the suburban train; George Epstein, Chicago; Charles Corn,” Crete, Il The seriously injured: John Milfer, Chicago Heights, Ill, back broken; Fer-| dinand Hoyn; Chicago, back and head in- jured; James Crooks, Chicago, back in- jured; Dwight L. Wood, brakeman on suburban train, lex broken and side bruised; A. Gilmore, engineer on St. Louis train, shoulder dislocated and in- ternal injuries; F. H. Ross, Chicago, arm broken and internal injuries. That the ‘switch which caused the wreck was opened by some. one éither carelessly or with malicious intent is the theory of the officials.-. Search is being made fof a laborer at Steiger, upon whom suspicion rests. The man disappeared soon after the wreck. A warrant been sworn out for his arrest. LIMA, Ohio, July 14.—Albert Rufer, 14, and Charlés Fee, 11, sons of prominent farmers, two miles east of Lima, were ar- rested to-day, charged with an attempt to wreck a west bound Pénnsylvania pas- senger train. The train kept the ralls. “We wanted to see a wreck,” was the only explanation given. ————————— Firing in the British Navy. A Parllamentary paper issyed this morning from the Admiralty gives the result of the gun-layers’ competition in his Majesty’s fleet in 1904. The Lords of the Admiralty note that there is a slight falling off in results compared to the 1903 practice, but this was to be expected with the increased ranges at’ which the. firing toak place: They consider that on the whole the im- provement ‘in shooting oBtained in. 1908 has been well maintained in 1804 The award of the medal will be promulgated shortly, as already notified. The Ce- sar of the Channel squadron scored the best points with 94.42. The other scores of the first ship in each squadron Mediterranean — Formidable, : tertders Bellonay 71.63.. - Paeific. —Flora, 53.89. North America and West Tndigss= Ariadne, 52.01; cruiser Drake, 52.66. South Atlantic—Brilllant, 37.72. Home —FRxmouth, 44.42. East Indies—Hya- ] cinth, 52.56. Cape of Good Hope— Pearl, Australia — BEuryalus, 45.06.—Westminster Gazette. . Plague of Mice. o In the town of Merriwa, in New South Wales, a plague of mice is disturbing the people. Recently 10,000 mice were killed i in four nights in one store. mu ot 500 were captured while a net | was being unrolled. Four or five bush= | ols of oats In a bag were appropriated by the mice in a night. A local well ceased to yield water, and on examina- tion it was found to contain a solid mass several féet deep of dead mice. - Food, water and beuuing are overrun, contam- inated and Injured. The townspeople are fighting the terrible little vis..ors night and day, but at last accounts they had made little impression upon the swarms of vermin.—New York Globe. WASHINGTON, - July = 14.—Rockhill, the St Doty spboatne Ihe " Ihrestescd boveott of American goods. : LIMA. Peru, i first September o Peivi Pt ot t will reduce the rate of postage on - foreign - countries cents ‘and o m”vrumd m(mmd’:nt: : ——— k ALLS FROM SCAFFOLD.—Char} orse, Ellis snd. anatrsets yesterday 4 2 w the skull and internal # —————— < basy China—=Albiom,” 58.848:1 DEATH VALLEY ONCE A CRATER "Colonel Edward Brown of Colorade Has Theory of Desert Hollow’s Origin 4 EXTINCT VOLCANO Eminent -Mining Man Says Government Surveyors La- bor Under a Delusion PESEISTRe IR "."BY JAMES s. TYLER. Staff Correspondence of The Call. CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, July 14.—There is a de- cided difference of opinion be- tween one mining man and the geological survey in regard to one of the queerest, hottest and most disagreeable parts of the United States. Death Valley, Inyo County, is the bone of contention and it will be something for scientists t¢ study before the in- wardness —and outwardness —of this strange region is given its proper place in geological records. Already the Government surveyors have said “This is a dead sea, a dried-up lake such as might have been in its day of moist existence a counterpart of the Greéat Salt Lake.” Gradually its waters receded, exposing to thé hof southern desért sun the sands that are declared to be several hundred feet below the sea legel. * v But there is a practical mining man, a rough and ready mining engineer, a man who hads piadé a study of rocks .and strafa and all that, who presents to us an entfrely new version of the creation of this ‘uncanhy region. The gentleman is Colonel Edward Brown of Colorado, who has recently been detailed by the Santa Fe Railroad to investigate the Tonopah and Goldfield district in Nevada with & view to ascertalning its permanent value as a mining center. The Santa Fe road may ‘some day wish fo éxtend its roads into Nevada and it ‘Will certainly do so it_conditions justify. Incidental to 'the trip to the mines the colonel traveled mto the ‘great Salton Desert and skirted the edgs of Death Valley. Not bétng satisfled with the report that the Governnient surveyors had made re- garding the sflent hollow where not an antmate thing exists except the horned toad and the ocecasional lizard, the ex- pert determined to investigate for him- self. “Death Valley is not a dried up inland sea or lake, In my opinion." said the colonel. “It is an extinct voleano: one that wa# so immense that when it was active it could not have reared its head above the earth’s surface less than forty miles. It was one of the great phenomena of prehistoric time—time when men did not people the world, but when all thnigs were abnormal, according to our latter day ideas. “Giant trees and giant reptiles. Giant mountains and giant birds that flew about their miles-high peaks. This was the con- dition of the period of the life of the Death Valleéy crater. “Why do I draw these conclusions? Well, ‘there is nothing to shew that a lake or an inland sea éver existed where is Death Valléy. The bottom of the val- ley s surfaced with a layer of ashes in which is nothing of the sediment such as develops a@fter evaporation .of @ body of water. The edges of the valley are lay- ers of ashtes and there are traces of these deposits for a hundred miles from the de- pression. “tAnother remarkable préof that the val- ley was once a great volcano are the deep springs extant there. Many of these are found in the valley and some are appar- ently volcanic vents. T had my men fasten a rope about my waist and I cau- tiously approached the edge of ome of the springs. 1t was a peculiar hole, with steep sides that were likely to give way under foot, béing decomposed, lcose ma- terfal. ‘Fifty feet below the edge was a body of blue water, so clear that when I threw a stone into it my head reeled as I watched it go down, down hundreds of feet into the bettomless funnel “The water of the springs is impreg- nated with polsonous chemicals and few of the springs near the valley can be utilized for man or beast. “When this monster mountain was belching forth showers of lava and stones it must have shaken the world. It slowly burnt out, crumbling away with the cen- turies. It made a desert of everything within a Tadius of 20 miles of the place.” —_———— . Crown of Swedén For Sale. Of historical crowns of irom the most famous 1s° tHe Italian, which” legend says was originally forged from a nail of the cross, made into a thin iron ring and set with gold and precious stones. When Gustavus Vasa freed the Swedes from the Danish yoRe he was crowned with fron, and yesterday, at Christie this was recalled by the appearance- a - Milanese sixteenth-century plece known. as gz‘s Cr lm'dotrgwede;:." an jron crown damascened with gold and silver - azzimina,. .-dnd . enriched with gold studs. It was offered in the col- lection of J. H. Fitzhenry.at the King- street..rooms, -London, and the recent royal wedding seemed propitious to its advent, but no bid beyond 53 guineas was forthcoming.—London Telegraph. ——————————— ASCUNSION, Paraguay, July 1—Mr. Rut- fin, American Consul here, has demanded $30,- damages e on e datention of thres. persnal et- ters, which arrived at the consulate during Mr. ‘s three months’ leave of absence. WASHINGTON, July 14.—The forest sirvice el S e Y SYCASRES SO