The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 19, 1905, Page 1

PRINTS MORE NEWS THAN ANY THE WEATHER. | Forecast mede at San Franclsco for thirty bours ending midnight. July 19: vicinity—Falr Wednesday, with fog in the morning; Ban Frencisco, and fresh west wind. G. H. WILLSON, Local For ster, Temporarily in Charge HER PAPER PUBLISHED | N SAN fi%i ALCAZAR—"The Heart of a Geisha.' CENTRAL—"Fast Life in New York." CHUTES—"Princess Fan Tan.” Mat- N S THEATERS. inee. GRAND—“'Rabbi Osher in America.” ORPHEUM—Vaudeville, Ma:inee. TIVOLI—*Rob Roy." I EAe L ) gt TWO DOCTORS CHARGED WITH SAN FRA CIS CO, WEDNNESDAY, JULY 19, 19 MURDER OF A YOUNG G - S i 5 Gladys Cunningham, a 19-year-old girl of San Jose, died zs the result of a criminal operation | | Monday night amid squalid surroundings in the office of Dr."Frank Thomas in the Supreme || Court building, As a result of police investigations yesterday both Dr. Thomas and Dr. H. J. Nims of San Jose were placed under arrest on a charge of murder. The statement of the girl's | father, Charles P. Cunningham, involves Carl Wolfe, of a San Jose family. Wolfe has disappeared. = — — —— — - - 3 3 { | | { HONS REFUSE T0 PAY TAXES | OR OBEY KNG, Lower House of Parlia-| ment Is in Open | Rebellion. ! coalition { | m house __of the Hungarian Farlia: to-day issued a | | Do AN : festo attac g the Fejervary Cab- | | '23‘,- 1 itional and hotding | | (THPIA T t Govermmment of Hun- | ! nlawfully. ’Therefore, _i_l the manifesto says, it is the duty of all S ¥ { £001 citizens to refrain from paying | | ShpHIE EITE An CPEE Ay taxes, rendering military service or oth- | | ~UNDER ARREST. 5 i erw obeying the mandates of the | ¥— - . Government. | It warns municipal ofhcials not to perform the duties lald down by the state authorities, and pledges that, it they shoulid be dismissed for failure to | N IS[U perform said duties they will be reim bursed by the Constitutional Govern- ment when it is finally formed. The Catholic Bishop of Transylva- | nia has ordered prayers to be said in all churches for the speedy re-establish- | MACEDONIAN REFORM Green Paint Will Re- SCHEME IS ADOPTED | Sultan of Turkey Will Be place the Present Aluminum, Coerced By the Powers Into Aecepting. SR Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, July 18.—All of the let- ter boxes, the mail package boxes and the posts supporting both classes of boxes in San Francisco will be painted green. The paint will be sent in bulk from Wash- ington to San Francisco and applied by 18.—In the House of , Foreign Secretary Lans- ing to Lord Newton, said R. O'Connor, British Em- Constantinople, had re- ict improvement of affairs Lord Lansdowne said satisfactory agreement had been ! reached by the powers interested, by which the scheme of financial reform would be carried out under interna- | painters selected by the Postmaster. onal control. This agreement had| T 3 been embodied in a mote presented £o | qa o, bit Of the general.scheme of the Postoffice Department to change the color of the mail boxes throughout the country from aluminum to green as fast) as they need repainting. The aluminum. paint has been unsatisfactry. It was se-, lected on the theory that it would pre- vent the boxes rusting, but it has failed to do so. A committee was appointed to select a new paint. After going Into the subject thoroughly and consulting officers of the the Sublime Porte on May 8. The Sul Lord Lansdowne had refused but he added that the powers would in- £ist upon a different reply. —_——— San Franciscan Is Elected. CLEVELAND, July 18.—At to-day’s session of the thirtieth annual conven- tion of the National Amateur Press As- sociation now in ion here, Edward M. Lind, of San Francisco, was elected my brother alwaye desired for F wmfln ‘which Inspired the French- constitution document of Uruguay, | WANTS LARCER SHARE OF THE ST ESTATE Widow of William Zeig- ler Questions Valid- ity of His Will, Speglal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, July 18—Mrs. E. Matilda Zeigler, widow of Willlam Zeigler, the backer of Arctic exploration expeditions, who is not content with the disposition made for her by the will of her husband, questioning his competency to make a wili at the time the document was signed, has 'brought an action in the Supreme Court to have its validity determined. Judge Giegerich appointed John D. Lind- say guardian of the adopted son of Zeig- ler, who inherited his millions, for the purpose of protecting his interests. Owing to the vast estate involved (it is valued at $20,000,000) the litigation promises to be prolonged. Mrs. Zelgler resides with her adopted son Willaim, who will reach his four- teenth year Friday. The will provided for the payment of annuities to relatives, gave the widow an income of $30,000 a year for life and their Fifth Avenue and Connecticut residences, and set apart his entire residuary estate, amounting to many millions, for the benefit of his adopted son. Mrs. Zejgler's actlon is brought against Judge Gaynor, an executor, and her adopted son is also named as a party de- fendant. John Bowers, who is represent- ing Mrs. Zeigler, says his client simply wishes to obtain a widow's share in the estate of her husband. ———— PAUL DEROULEDE TO STUDY AMERICAN CONSTITUTION Exile Who Refused to Return to France Under Amnesty Proclamation s Coming Here. PARIS, July I18—Paul Deroulede, who recently refused to return to France under Fresident Loubet's am- nesty proclamation after having been | an extle for sedition, is considering « visit to the Tnited States for the pur- pose of studying the American constitu- tion, with a view to advocating a revision of the French constitution. The an-/| nouncement was made to-day by his | brother, Andre Deroulede, in response to | statements that Paul Deroulede was | ing to South America. R Andre Deroulede writes: The United States has a constitution which France. It has last century, while 1s- patterned after the restisiet one of the executive judges’t The next | Bavy @s to the best paint in use on trans- | Rooseveit's personality inspires snnual convention will be held in Phil- | ports and war vessels, the committes |t o e B i By L TR sdeiphia unanimously selected green. TRy b aw Yo W IRL. Thomas and Nims Taken Info Cus- tody by Police. DEATH CAUSED BY OPERATION Gladys Cupningham | Dies in Squalid | Quarters. MISSING BOY 1§ AGCUSED) Pl o it L Two Wealthy Fami-| lies [nvolved in the Tragedy. gt Dr. Frank Thomas of San Francisco and Dr. H. J. Nims of San Jose have been errested and charged with the mur- der of 19-year-old Gladys Cunningham, a | frail school girl of San Jose, who died Monday night in the squalid rooms of Dr. Thomas in the Supreme Court building at Larkin and McAllister streets, as a result of a criminal operation. At the time of the girl's death Thomas was arrested and his name placed on the detinue book ana as a result of the police investigations of vesterday he was last night charged with murder. ring all day to locate Dr. ras seen yesterday in San Francisco, 1 company ' with Attorney John Jury, the police of San Jose ar- rested him last night and a Sen Fran- olsco officer will bring him - here this meorning. ie a5 A3 told exelusively”in The.Call yester- day morning,ithe: dted,swrounded by circumstances of appaliing cruelty. Just bofore her death several dociors were called In consuitation and one of them, Dr. Van Meter, notified the police of the giri’s condition. Detective Sergeant Cody was detailed to take hLer ante-mortem statement, but ‘she dled just as he ar- rived. Almost jmmediately an undertak- er's wugon drove up to call for the body. The presence of the detective was timely, | for he put a stop to the proceeding and called for the Coroner to take charge. DIES FORSAKE: from home and loving friends, rurrounded by un: pathetic and uncar- ing strangers, the young school girl, just on the verge of womanhood, lay in a dark, unventilated back room, suffering untold agonies until death gave surcease to suffering. Whether it was in the mis- erable hole in which she was found, or at her home in San Jose that the opera- tion that brought her death was per- formed, remains for the police to ascer- tain. i —r. Thomas is emphatic in his state- ments that the girl had already under- gone an operation before reaching San Francisco, and the peculiar reluctance of the father to mention Dr. Nims, in his statement to the police, seem to bear him out. . The father of the unfortunate girl is Charles- P. Cunningham, a prominent haberdasher of San Jose. Mr. Cunning- ham and his young son arrived here yes- terday from .Santa Cruz in an automo- bile. After identifying the body at the Morgue, the elder Cunningham was taken in charge by the police and made a state- ment that links the names of two prom- inent San Jose families in a scandal that may result seriously for those involved. The girl died in the midst of squalid surroundings, with practically no medical attendance, though the father, who knew of his daughters' condition, had given his family physician, Dr. H. J. Nims of San Jose, entire charge of the case. Re- lying on the integrity of the physician, the father did not even ascertaln the place bis daughter was taken to, and inquiring of the police. found her body at the Morgue. THE FATHER'S STATEMENT. If the statement of the father, which was made to Detective Charles J. Cody and Deputy Cofoner Peter J. McCormick, is true, Carl Wolfe of a prominent San Jose family is implicated in the death of the girl. Following an attempt by both tamilles to have the young couple marry young Wolfe disappeared. A Another physician is mentioned in the case and his identity seems to be a mys- tery. When Dr. Nims brought Miss Cun- ningham to the city he was vouched for to Dr. Thomas by a physician named formall Away { yielded oaly $150.600, the extrn dmounts Bean, who was, it appears, a friend of Nims. Thomas says that Bean Is a physictan in San Jose, but his where- abouts is unknown. Willlam C. Bean, an osteopathist of this city, called on the police yesterday and announced that he was not the man wanted. Since Gladys was brought to San Fran- cisco the Cunninghams have been living in Santa Cruz. The father had hearad nothing of his daughter until word came that she was seriously ill here. He called at the office of Dr. Thomas and was di- rected from there to the Morgue. D: g the first part of the interview with the police he talked fluently, but when Dr. Nims' name was mentioned he became less talkattve and finally grew Indignant at the questions asked him. YOUNG WOLFE INVOLVED. ‘According to the statement made to Detective Cody and Deputy MecCormick by the father, his daughter and Woite, tory. who is described as & young and hand- | point, some fellow, were intimate for several months without his knowledge. This in- timacy was -known to Mrs. Cun- ningham by th€ girl and it appears from the statement that young Wolfe also told his father. The first inkling d-&gc girl's the 05 FIS” NETS TOTAL I 20010 Gotham Smart Set Pays Well for | Advertising, Mrs. C. P. Huntington's| Subseription Is $10,000. i Other Society Leaders Give! Small Fortunes for Men- tion in Beok. Special Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, July Is—Moses Ellis Wooster, a member of the Soclety Ed- itors’ Association, who ootained all of the subscriptions for Town Toples' “Fads | and Fancles of the Four Hundred,” called | upon Assistant District Attorney Paul | Krotel to-day and gave to the criminal | authorities 2 copy of the much-talked-of | agreement between the Town Topics Pub- lishing Company and himself. Wooster's revelations were sensational ir the extreme. He told Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Krotel that while the low- est subscription was $1500 many of the one hundred subscribers had paid much more, according to the number of pages they desired to be devoted to their per- sonal affairs. He said that Mrs. Collis P. Hunting- ton, widow of the famons railrond man, Lad pald $10,000 to him for her sub- seription; that others as well known bad paid from $2000 to $9€00; so that while the 100 subscribers at the mini- mum price of $1500 cach would bhave paid would swell this to more than $260.600. The terms of the agreement between Wooster and the Town Topics Company were that all subscriptions were to be in the name of the company; that the company was to engage an editor and have full supervision of printing and binding, -and that Wooster -was to..re- ceive commissions of 10 per cent on sub- scriptions up to $50,000 gnd 20 per- cent on all in excess of that amount, the net profits to be equally divided between the parties thereto. Another visitor to Krote: to-day was William R. Travers, a sop of the well- known wit of the last generation, who was an intimate friend of the District Attorney's father and for whom Jerome is named. Travers’ wife was Miss Lil- llan Harriman, sister of Mrs. Willlam K. Vanderbilt Sr., and the fact that she had obtained a divorce from him became known recently. In its current issue Town Topics has something to say about the divorce and its comments are any- thing but complimentary. Counsel for Town Topics to-day refused te supply the District Attorney with. a iist of subscribers to ‘“Fads and Fan- cies.”” The case will be brought to the attention of the Grand Jury. BALFOUR DISSIPATES HOPES OF OPPONENTS There Will Be No Early Dis- solution of the British Parliament. LONDQN, July 18.—Premier Balfour has dissipated the hopes of his opponents of an early dissolution of Parllament. At a meeting of Unionists to-day the Premier urged his. supporters to be reg- ular in their attendance at the House of Commons, so as to prevent the defeat of the Government as the result of a snap division. He pointed out that a dissolu- tion in August would be inconvenient to the House and to the country. The Premier said he did not anticipate any trouble in bringing the session to a close during the week ending August 13. James Chamberlain in a brief speech caid that while he formerly differed with Balfour on the question of an early dis- solution, he now thought that there was no good reason why Parliament should be dissolved at noon. CUTS OFF HIS HAND TO SPITE HIS WIFE Husband’s Way of Proving That Oklahoma Is a State. Special Dispatch to The Call NEWCASTLE, Pa, July 18—To spite his wife, with whom he had just had an exciting dispute, George Maxwell, a tin worker, aged 50, chopped off his left hand with a hatchet to-day. Maxwell, in a chance remark, had call- ed Oklahoma Territory a State and his wife promptly challenged the statement, declaring Oklahoma to be 'still a Terri- and because his wife adhered to PRICE FIVE CENTS. SCORES SUCCUMB TO INTEN SE HEAT IN EASTERN CITIES High Temperature Many District Records Broken in s FEast of the Rocky Mountains. New York City's Parks Transformed Into Vast Sleeping Grounds for Suffering Tenement Dwellers. crrmes— L R~y Denonn, New York: -..--95 120 =28 Philadelphia.- - - - 983 50 5 Paltimore - - - - - - 97.3 5 Washington - - - - 886 S e Eoston - - R — o =4 1 Pittsburg ----- -+ 93 =3 138 Buffaio:. - ----:--78 —E 1 In the above table the total prostra tions include the fatalities. In San Francisco yesterday the tem- pernture was: Maxbuum, 5S; mintmum, o2 % e NEW YORK, Juiy 18.—An era of op- pressive heat that brings to mind with unpleasant vividness the record-break- ing summer of 1901 has settled down upon the Eastern and New England States, already numbering hundreds among its victims and causing inde- scribable suffering to thousansd In this and other citles. From all points to-night came the story of the hottest day of the sum- mer, attended by frequent prostrations and not a few deaths. Philadelphia re- ported a maximum temperature of 98.3, the highest figure officially noted. In this city the Weather Bureau's high mark was 96, while in Boston 34 was recorded. The official thermometers, located in exposed places above the street, did not, however, indicate the temperature in which the ordinary mortals moved and many street thermometers showed ‘@ temperature of 100 or higher. some reitable Instruments registering 194 and 165. s The accompanying table, showing the prostrations In the principal cities, by no ns represents the sum of human suffering to-day, as an_endless number of victims who cellupsed at home, in the office or workshop were privately attended. . Nq.rellef was In sight to- niguc and the roll of fatalities must necessarily be Increased by many who, having thus.far withstood the ordeal. are sq weakened ds to leave them more susceptible to the heat of to-morrow. HUMIDITY 18 NOT INTENSE. To-day all records for the summer were broken in point of high.tempera- tures, but mercifully the humidity was correspondingly less. Only for this the prostrations and deaths must have been doubled. 3 In New York the suffering was in- tense, especially In the crowded tene- ment districts, where scarcely a breath of air relieved the strifling atmqsphere. Thousands who could afford the holiday flocked to the beaches, but even then, in the consequent crowds, women and children fainted and men were over- come, making the trip from home a doubtful experiment as far as securing any comfort was concern At 3 o'clock this morning the mercury stood at 80 degrees and rose umtil the maximum of 9% was reached at 4 o’clock this afternoon. The humidity was 72 at $ o'clock, but it lessened steadily until only 35 was registered when the tempera- ture was highest. “Il was a busy day for the hospitals and the ambulances were continuously on the streets. . Jacob Cook, keeper of the monkey house at Central Park, famous as an in- fant traifer and the idol of the children who frequent the <zoo, was among to- day’s victims. One of the keepers com- plained of the heat and Cook volunteered to help them, overexerted himself, was stricken and dled. . Early in the day the hot wave invaded the stock exchange and its effect was quickly apparent on the traders. Many of - the ‘leading ~operators deserted the floor, and- the market became listless and dull. ., To add to the unavoldable physical suf- fering, Brooklyn was threatened with. a ‘water famine, while the whole city was by the prospect of a strike of the.ice men. The water supply in Brook- lyn was reported as nearing the danger point and the water department took im- mediate precautions, asking that street sprinkling be temporarily suspended and ‘householders to be more eco- nomical in the use of water. . Manhattan, it was sald, had no cause for alarm, as far as the water supply was co It was different with the ice question, though the expected strike to-day did not materialize. A few ice wagon drivers stopped work, but deliveries continued. There was ¢ anxiety as to what to- morrow might bring forth in the trouble of the ice men. . e Prompt measures were taken to-day gh.pnul’;mmcmmu- leviate in some degree the suffering of the public. Orders were issued keeping open throughout the night the park gates and I those who wanted to spend the - in these places. ‘‘Keep :nm&mwwmmb&—uu women and children deserted crowded tenements and apartments for a bed on the cool grass. Thousands of others, too grounds, slept on the pavements in front o . nm BY STATISTICS BUREAU. others to reopen and revise the figures on the acreage as promulgated by the Jume = of your department. cotton mani jturers of the world using American grown cotton have confidence in the report of your bureau until such unbiased evidence Is pro- duced as will have a tendency to weaken tois confidence. The manufacturers: of cotton de- sire only .the true results and are oppossd o any attempt at coercion of any character | whatsoever. The object of our proposed meeting is for the purpose of selecting a committes, not to exceed three in number which will proceed to Washington promptly io confer with you in about the same capacity as other interests {n cotton are now being represented and we W respectfully request that you grant such An audience as e craved herein before any de- cision is determined on by you toward revising your June report, if such revision Is contem- plated by you. We also request that you name a date In the near future which will be agreeadble to you to receive this committee. b, - GIRL MINISTERS TO HORSE. New York Hospital Nurse Revives Beast Stricken Dows by Sum. NEW YORK, July 1S.—Before a crowd of 200 spectators Miss Alice Dudley, a young nurse on the staff of St. Luke's Hospital, this afternoon ministered to a horse which had been overcome by the heat off West One Hundred and Twenty- fifth street and succeeded f reviving the animal. The horse, which was attached {0 a wagon belonging to the Spring Wa- fer Company, was standing i front of the office and fell to the ground as Miss Dudley was passing. Perceiving at a glance what was the animal’s trouble, the nurse ran into a store, sought Richard Tarr, the owner of the concern, and asked him to get for her some ammonta, whisky and ice. Throw- ing aside her hat and rolling up the sleeves of her shirtwaist, Miss Dudley Kkneeled ofi the pavement beside the pros- trate beast and carefully applied iee to its head, meanwhile pouring whisky down its throat. Slowly the horse re- gained consciousness amid the applause of the spectators. who cheered lustily for Miss Dudley. A veterinary surgeon who had been called, arriving later, said that the nurse had done precisely the right thing for the horse’s good. When asked whether she had ever attended a horse before, the nurse smilingly replied: “Oh, no; but I have attended many persons who were overcome by the heat, and, really, human beings and animals, I be- lieve, are affected in the same way. It ‘was all very simple.” puier>a 7 obatiid BIG AS TWELVE EARTHS. Harvard Observer Says Sum Spets Measure 100,000 Miles in Diameter. CAMBRIDGE. Mass., July 18.—In Har- vard Observatory to-day it was said that the sun spots now exciting great interest are of unusual dimensions. When they first appeared on Friday they were not very tangible, but they can be plainly seen through smoked glass or even with the naked eye when the sun is low. Although Harvard observers here do not pay much attention to this particujar phenomenon. they took photographs this during the President’s sojourn in Oyster Bay, has invented a new and wonder- ful drink, which by common consent has been named the “Presidential cock- It is made by filllng a cocktail of maraschino and