The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 31, 1905, Page 1

\ : Prihts__l\(lo;é News Th_afi An Forecest made et fen Frampfsco for | . thirty hours ending mflinight July B1: 'Qfix ithe gay: San Francieéo and vicinity—Foggy day mofning, becoming fair dufing wind. 7. H. WILLEON, CENTRAL~—'Tq Cattle' Xing™* CQLUMBIA—*Weather Beaten Ben- | fresh w son. GRAND—"Joseph In ad Local ‘Forecaster, Temporarily in Charge. — 61 NOVELIST 0L TRUST. . VOLUME XCVIII-NO 31, LUTHER BURBANK REVEALS HIS ONE CROWNING AMBITION. 1905¢ LICHTNING KILLS 31K - +- OCCUPIES | WILL HAVE WLCELL BIG RIVAL R e ——— | Hamlin Garland in Producers in the| Colorado Prison | Southwest Form a Merger. H. C. Frick’s Bankers| Assist in Financ- ing the Deal. Three Hours. | Goes In for Color for a Story, but Gets More J Than He Wants. Forge to tful Turnkey Neglects Release the Author When Desired. Daily Output of the Com- bine’s Wells Ten Thou- sand Barrels, Epecial Dispatch to The CsllL Special Diepatch to The Call. PITTSBURG, Pa., July 30.—Negotia- pending in Pittsburg for several for the absorption of important oil ts in Kansas and Indian Territory virtually been completed. These will give the Mellons, bankers, with whom H. Frick is closely assoclated, | " | control of the most powerful petroleum | company, independent of the Standard, | in the West, and will make them the | greatest rival of the trust. A big linpe | of options will expire on August 5 and | |it is expected they will be taken up. | Leading independent Kansas ° operators | have been in Pittsburg for several days to effect a merger of their interests. The capital of the new company will | be 520,000,000, of which $7,500,000 Wwill be In | 6 per cent bonds, which the Mellons are | arranging to have financed at the Union Trust Company at par. The stock will amount to $17.500,000, of which $5.000,000 be-7 per cent preferred shares and | 00,000 common stock. It is said the | Mellons will receive $5,000,000 at par and | $1,000,000 of the preferred for their work y | in collecting options and financing the company. This will give them a clear majority of the stock. Of the remainder, 32,000,000 and $£0M,000 will be applied to *he Plrchase of the various properties which Mellon expérts have gauged at 10,000 barrels of production a day. Seven million five hundred thousand dollars in cash received from bonds will be applied to cash payments on the properties and the bullding of a big é-inch | pipeline from Chanute to Port Arthur; to the building of tankage for 3,000,000 barrels of ofl and for a working capital. It is estimated the pipeline will cost $5000 | 2 mile, making the total outlay for this purpose $3, 000. MILLIONAIRE'S PROPERTY FOR STEN [] [; HA P H EH | Canaiess with Mattines snd” Cavtir oo allases, Lné that he had had four wives. Contest Over Albert | isreior crom sy b e wnd wx. " Johnson’s Estate Is Ended. Alleged Brooklyn Blueheard May Be Indicted for Big-| amy on His Own Admissions St Special Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, July 30.—Although for | two weeks he steadily denied that he | bad ever traveled under an alias or was | | married more than twice, Frederick Carl- | | ton, the alleged Brooklyn Bluebeard, to- | | present and said as the police had been | unable to find her, he felt practically | safe. The woman he admits he married | as Martinez, is Mrs. Etta Kingey of Gor- don, Ala. Inspector Cross is bending his energies to find Willetta S. Bird, to whom Carlton acknowledges he was mar- ried in this borough. She is belleved to be in the city now. Carlton has made an affidavit to an insurance company that he was married to Elinor Vande- venter, recently from jail. The Grand Jury will be asked to indict Carlton for bigamy on his own admissions as soon as the girl is found. Cariton said to- day: “I went from Fort Barancas to Gordon, Ala., to get married. I brought the woman to New York City. When we parted we were good friends. They are | right about that other marriage, the Bird | girl, but they haven't been able to find | her.” They have me married to a woman |in St. Louis and a Rochester woman, ybut that is a mistake. It is true I was | dishonorably discharged from the army, | that was for desertion, once as McCand- |less and once as Martinez. But I have | an honorable discharge for disability as Frederick Carlton. My record in the navy is good. Cariton is now my legal I'name. It was McCandless, but I had it { changed by the court in Ohlo. My cousin |and double called himself Cartier and I | have used that name too. I was in the army as Carlton, Martinez and McCand- less.” wives is living in New York State at| i s Special Dispatch to The Call. | 30.—Through the District proceedings in the a Dickerson, & Chicago came into undisputed pos- estate of Albert Jchnson, | capolis millionaire. Upon >etween Asa Johnson, brother d Miss Dickerson the entered strators were discharged sed to Miss Dickerson as executive. Dickerson was the sole legatee the will. Dr. Johnson con- 1 the ground that his of unsound mind and had nfluenced by his Chicago ng a protracted hearing the 1 to produce any evidence or undue influence and the red admitted to probate. stant appealed and preparations on for what promised to lawsuit. dropping of the case | passed over NeW York this afternoon five | avenue, Manhattan, was set on fire, but the stipulations and | nor ti:2ir principals t to be Interviewed on the | neither the uld cor subject The estate consists of between $2,000,000 and $3,000,000, —_———— Negro Murderer Captured. ROANOKE. Va., July 30—Cephas Poindexter, the negro moonshiner, who Deputy shot and killed United § Marshal Z. T. Wade, on Wednesday ting to arrest h twonty He was bur- | olaced in jail Lo‘ € city and prevent a lynching. Experiments are being made in inocu- lating rabbits with tetanus germs taken from the brains of Edward Johnson, who died of tetanus on Saturday. These ex- periments will enlighten the officials who are trying to prove that Carlton inocu- lated his wife, Mary Cariton, with te- tanus germs. ———— Root Will Visit Labrador. UTICA, N. Y., July 30.—Secretary of State Root and Colonel Sanger, formerly Assistant Secretary of War, accompa- nied by Mr. Root’s sons, Elihu Jr. and Bdward, to-day left Utica for Montreal. From there they will go to St. Johans and from there will sail for Labrador. They expect to be absent a month. 4 - N GOTHAM ——— Twelve Injured in ~ Big Thunder- storm. Five Struck Dead in a Crowd at Baths at Coney Island. People Had Sought Shelter Under House When Bolt Fell Among Them. NEW YORK, July 30.— During a thunderstorm of terrific intensity which persons were struck by lightning and in- stantly killed and nine were seriously in- jured at the Parkway Baths, Coney Isl- and. At the same time one man was killed” and three others prostrated at’ Gravesend Beach. Those killed: GEORGE DUNWOQODIE, Buffalo. JACOB FRANKEL, Manhattan. ROBERT F. WASCH, Bronx Borough. CHARLES BENNERLE, Brooklyn. FRANK BENNERLE, Brooklyn. HENRY RANSWEILER, Brooklyn. The injured: David Wills, James Dunne, Tina Christiansen, Harry Krohn, Clara Thiel, Mary L. Curley, Isaac Raafe and wife, Amelia Schon, Willlam Ransweliler, John Apple, Daniel McCauley, all .of Brooklyn The intense heat of the morning at- tracted a great multitude to the shore resorts and late in the afternoon when the storm blew up from the westward the park and beach were thronged with bathers and spectators. The rain descend- ed in torrents. Hundreds of men, women and children sought shelter under the big hathhouss, P@ ~elevated -above the sand on pifes.” The lightning was in- cessant and terrific thunderclaps shook the bathhouse to the terror of the crowd huddled together beneath fit. A few minutes before 5 o'clock a bolt struck the flagstaff and grounded in the very thickestfof the crowd. Nearly fifty persons were prostrated and the crowd rushed out into the storm. Those who had remained in the water were also panicstricken and ran in all directions, rot daring to enter the bathhouse, which appeared to be on fire. Ambulances were summoned from the nearest hospitals and on thelr arrival five persons were found dead and nine un- conscious under the bathhouse. The bodies of all were scorched by the electric fluld. The nine injured were removed to a hospital, where it was said that some probably would die. Many persons less seriously hurt were taken home by friends. A slight fire in the bathhouse was quickly extinguished by the rain. About the same time Henry Ransweiler was struck and killed while under a tree at Gravesend Beach and his son William, with John Apple and Daniel McCauley, were rendered unconscious. Lightning struck at various points in the city. A storé on Flushing avenue, Brooklyn, was burned and a car on Bixth the occupants escaped unhurt. The electric light and the telephone wires in Bellevue Hospital were struck several times, extinguishing all the lights and causing much alarm among the pa- tients. ESCAPES FROM MOB IN AUTO Angry Neighbors of Oregon Young Man Attempt to Mob Him for Beating His Spouse R T el Spectal Diepatch to The Call PENDLETON, Or.,, July 30.—Edwin Switzler, a well-to-do young man of this city, yesterday morning pulled his wife out of bed and beat her shamefully. The wife sought refuge on the street, but Switzler followed her up and began to beat her and pull out her hair. Neigh- bors finally came to the rescue of the woman and Switzler narrowly escaped being mobbed. He saved his life by jumping into an auto and riding out of town. In the af- | ORI SRR ternoon a complaint against Switzler was filed by the District Attorney and the case was set for Monday morning. The wife is prominent in social and club circles here. At 11:30 o’clock last night papers for a divorce were filed with the County Clerk by J. A. Fee, attorney for Mrs. Switz- ler. The complaint recites numerous al- leged base acts of the husband. —_——— General Booth Returns to England. LONDON, July 30.—General Booth of the Salvation Army returned to Eng- land to-day from his trip to Australia. He is in excellent health. General Booth to-morrow will start on a 2000- mile motor tour. —_———— Premier Balfour Will Hold On. LORDON, July 31.—The Daily Tele- graph makes the authoritative an- nouncement that Parliament will not be dissolved this year unless the Govern- a\ent be again defeated before proroga on — GREAT (ALIFORNIAN WHO HOPES HUMAN RACE, P HYSICALLY, MORALLY AND SPIRITUALLY, THROUGH THE SCIENTIFIC TRAINING OF CHILDREN, 3 - SR SR i 2 TO SEE_THB PERFECTION OF. E | TWO'SHARKS HARPOONED I " OYSTERBAY Killed Near the Beach Where the Roose- velts Bathe. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. OYSTER BAY, N. Y. July 30.—While fishing for bass within a short distance ot Presjdent Roosevelt's private landing in Oyster Bay yesterday Dr. James S. Hall of this village saw protruding from the water the fin of a shark. The doctor and Howard Leich of Oyster Bay, who was with him, immediately put off from his launch in a rowboat to shore, where they procured a harpoon. Upon their re- turn to the launch they found the shark still sunning itself in the warm, shallow water near the bathing beach. They at- tached a long line to the harpoon and rowed very quietly toward the fish. As the shark started to rapldly dart away the doctor plunged the harpoon with full force into the water and caught the monster just behind the head. its frantic efforts to get away it towed the rowboat for some distance, leaving behind a trail of blood. Lashing the sea it was dragged by the doctor and Mr. Leich to the beach, where it was found to be a shark of a dangerous varlety and to measure about eight feet in length. It was the largest shark ever killed in the vicinity of Oyster Bay. ‘While returning to the launch the doc- tor saw and harpooned another shark, which was not full grown. The doctor’s exciting experience and the fact that the sharks were killed in close proximity to several bathing beaches, including the one upon which President Roosevelt and his family are wont to disport them- selves, have caused Dr. Hall to make preparations for a shark hunting ex- pedition, on which he will be accompanied by several friends, all armed with har- poons and all intent upon ridding the bay of these monsters. WOMAN FOUND GUILTY OF MANSLATGHTEK Shoots Companion Who Was About to Leave Her. MONTPELIER, Idaho, July 30.—The jury in the case of Mrs. Caddie Shupe, on trial for the murder of Arthur Doug- las at her home in Paris, Idaho, ol the night of July 1, brought in a verdict to- day of manslaughter with a recommend- ation for mercy. The case went to the jury late Saturday afternoon. Douglas was a bartender and lived at the home of Mrs. Shupe. On the night in question he told Mrs. Shupe he did not intend to live with her any longer. She pleaded with him not to leave her, While he was in the act of bathing, he was shot, the bullet entering near the heart and causing- instant death. Mrs. Shupe maintained that Douglas shot himself. ! I ORL LR OF BANDITS IS " UNDER ARREST One Member of Band Shot Through the Heart. Epecial Dispatch to The Call BENNINGTON, Vt., July 30.—A re- | minder of the old Jesse James in the | wild West comes to the Green Mountain State in the arrest of an eighteen-year- | old girl bandit, who appears to have led . a gang of outlaws who have terrorized | some of the back towns for weeks. She is in custody of Sheriff Wilson of Ben- nington County. One member of her band, who is believed to have been H. | Ross” of Boston, was shot through the heart by his mates, who, in the darkness of the underbrush, mistook him for an officer. Two others of the gang are be- {ing pursued through the forest near the mountain towns of Rupert and Dorest by six sheriffs and a posse of sixty armed | farmers. The girl under arrest is rather pretty, but is thoroughly hardened and refuses to give the officers any information. | What little she says indicates that she iplanned the raid on Rupert, East Paw- | lett and East Rupert, and kept the camp while the men were away. They were surprised in camp through a boy berry picker, who guided the posse. e W. G. IRWIN BUYS BONDS OF HAWAIIL Purchases Six Hundred Thousand Dollars® Worth of Securities. Special Cable to The Call and New York Her- ald. Coj yrlfh‘. 190 by the New York Herald Publishing Company. HONOLULU, July 30.—William G. Irwin, the San Francisco and Honolulu capitalist, has purchased $600,000 worth of the Hawalian 4 per cent bonds. By the terms of the deal the bonds are re- deemable here at 1013%. Allowing for exchange, the price is 103.82z. Acting i Governor Atkinson closed the deal, pre- ferring that lotal capitalists'should con- trol the finances of the Territory. The bidding for the bonds, both here and on the mainland, has revealed the great strength of the credit of the islands. —_—— WOMAN COUGHS UP A FROG AND HER LONG ILLNESS ENDS ! WILKESBARRE, Pa., July 30.—After lsuflering for some weeks with an ill- pess which baffled physicians, Mrs. Bridget Mangan of Minooka last even- ing coughed up a frog. The frog was four inches long. pains in the stomach for several weeks. | Six days ago she suffered constant emetic. She vomited a small frog. It IRumore(l Betrothal of Em- | "HE one great ambition of Luther Bur- bank is to apply to the rearing of chil- ¢ dren the scientific principles with whick he has wrought miracles with plants. This the Sfamous Californian announced in an inter- view with Rev. Dr. Fames W. Lee of St. Louis. Myr. Burbank asserted his belief that every person could become physically, spiritually and morally perfect, if subjected to the same care and training that he was gtving to plants. The natures of growing children, ke said, should be brought into rela- t1on with all the elements in thetr environment to which they were potentially responsive. Human Race Physically and Morally Perfect. BELIEVES IT CAN BE DONE Sage of Santa Rosa Would Make THROUGH PROPER TRAINING Readily in Child Rearing as in Culture of Plants Special Dispateh to The Call ST. LOUIS, July jo.—Luther Burbaik. the famous California horticul- turist, declares that the great objéct and aim of his life is to apply to the training of children those scientific'ideas which he has so successfully employed in working miraculous transformations in plant life. This phase of the great naturalist’s character. hitherto kept secret from the world at large, was revealed in a recent interview with Rev. Dr. James W. Lee, pastor of St. John's Southern Methodist Church, whe re- turned yesterday from a trip to Santa a, Cal., whither he went for an interview with Mr. Burbank. Dr. Lee says that Burbank has 2500 visitors a year, but he does not see more than one-fifth of them. “My time is worth $2.50 an hour,” Mr. Burbank said to Dr. Lee. The clergyman told Mr. Burbank that he had referred to the latter’s ‘work in an address at Portland and had expressed the wish that he might introduce into the method of rearing children some of the scientific ideas that Mr. Burbank was applying every day to the improvement of plants. Dr. Lee says that Mr. Burbank’s eyes immediately flashed and he replied: “That is the great object and aim of my life.” Fatal Ignorance in Training Children. Dr. Lee was astounded at the unexpected reply of Mr. Burbank, as he had presumed that the latter was completelvy ‘wrapped up in his studies of plants. Continuing, however, Mr. Burbank declared that plants, weeds and trees were responsive to a few influences in their environment, but that children were infinitely more responsive, and the failure to recognize the fact of the spiritual elements in the environing conditions of chil- dren had been the fatal lack in dealing with them. Dr. Lee asked Mr. Burbank if he was familiar with the works of Thomas J. Barnardo of London, who has educated some 60,000 waif chil- dren in the ninety-three homes which he has founded in various parts of England, with the resuit that only 2 per cent of them have turned out bad. Mr. Burbank replied that he had "studied Barnardo’s methods of rearing children, and that the latter was doing in the realm of human life what he (Burbank) was doing in the realm of plant life. Humanty to Enter Upon New Existence. “Barnardo,” he continued, “has demonstrated that infinitely more can be done with children than with weeds and plants. Whenever human beings recognize these realities in the realms of human life and begin to apply scientific principles to the training of children, then humanity will enter upon a new stage of existence.” Mr. Burbank said thct, in his opinion, every person should be physi- cally, morally and spiritually perfect, and could be if the same attention were paid to his or her training that he was giving to weeds. He de- clared that, just as he nad wrought miracles with plants by bringing them into contact with those elements of their environment to which they rapidly responded, should those who have the care of children seek to do for them and to train them by bringing their - natures into relation with all the elements in their environment to which they are potentially responsive. Dr. Lee's interview with Mr. Burbank lasted only fifteen minutes. The Californian presented him with the originil manuscript cf a speech which he recently made at the commencement exercises of the public school at San Rafael, Cal. He said that this was the only address he had ever given for children. Dr. Lee pronounces it a masterly effort and prizes the document as one of his most valuable possessions. ——— o+ MISS REID MAY WED THE SON OF AN EARL . MRS. MACKAY SEEMS bassador’s Daughter to Lord Brooke. —r——e Epecial Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, July %.—Both New York Candidacy for School Di- rector Is Strong. Special Dispatch to The Call. Miracles Could Be Wrought as — CERTAIN OF ELECTION However, Opposition to Her ROSLYN. L. I, July 3.—With the elec- Mrs, Mangan has suffered from severe | | thirst and Dr, Haggerty gave her an| and London are eagerly discussing the ru- mored engagement of Miss Reid, daugh- ter of tine American Embessador to Lon- don, to Lord Brooke, son of the Earl of ‘Warwick. The marriage would be a very popular one, as Lord Brooke i§ an ambi- tious young man. with many friends, but with his finances at low ebb. | Miss Reid has been very popular at the court in London since her father has been America’s diplomat there. 1 the Young nobleman several months ago | while visiting abroad. London society expected this climax in the romance to be reached while Mr. and ‘was dead. Dr. Haggerty says she must have Mrs. Reid were at Easton, but Miss Reid, it is sald, requested her noble woocer to swallowed the frogs in drinking water. | wait, She met | tion of two members of the Board of Educaticn ouly three days distant, inter- i est in the candidacy of Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay is increasing until it is made al- most the sole subject of discussion in the community. While it is generally be- lieved that Mrs. Mackay will receive a large majerity of the votes. the opposi i tion to her is active @nd will work umtil | the last minute to bring about her defeat. Chiet among the objections to Mrs. Mackay's election i$ the charge that she will so coddle and fill the heads of the upils of the Roslyn school that they &ill have an exaggerated opinion of their own importance and will look down upen the unfortunate pupils in other schools.