The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 6, 1905, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNEDAY BHECLARES ALASKA OFFERS VERY RICH FIELD FOR TRADE —p Judge C. kpown as an autheritylon Alas- ka affairs, says that San Fran- cisco merchants are making a grest mistake in not pushing their trade into the north coun- Alasks, offers tremendous opportunities In trade, and unless San Franeisco has such = great commerce with the East that she ean bear S. Hannum, whe is try he says, no more, she is letting slip by siden pathway to comumer- cial superiority. Seattle has taken advantage of the north- ern opportunities, he states, and been steadily growing om of it. “Wake up!” is his warning chants of Sam Framcisco. “Wake Up” Is Judge Hannum'’s Warn- bas aceount ery to the mer- v ing LCry. Merchants ban Francisco Are Warned. BY JUDGE C. of S. HANNUM. rcipally upon is & lamentable fa. ity of the adult pop- nited States and a con- live in members of with the rts of the t va sources and demon- possesses d, copper, tin, besides containin ndaries vast tracts of val ny fertile walleys, han the combined area d San Joaquin tate, Congress has at last rehend In a meas- commercial importance of Alaska members from both branches rere within the last two %, all of whom became its friend and ce taken an sctive interest In fur- its welfare. pioneers ng writing this communication, it was to refer to the politic needs of Alaska, but rather | attemtion to its rapidly expanding ercial importance. day Alaska has 2 permanent witite alat of about 50,000, composed of '-‘r\sl active, intelligent and indus- of American citizens, possessing rue American pluck and energy, who be likened to those brave, feariess courageous men who were first at- ed to California by the discovery of and afterward BiG FIELD FOR TRADE. e 50,000 people are all consumers | the business and transportation { San Franciseo will take the time the monthly summary of com- and finance they will find that dur- asl year they purchased from the States three times as much as the ple Mving in the Philippines, energetic pioneers of Alaska erec and unlocked the store- n earth and taken there- t of her treasure to more )r the $15,000,000 worth of sup- hased from the United States vear ending October 1, 1905. resting facts concerning the s and development of Alaska may 'rnm the report of the Senate mittee, consisting of Benators Dil- ham, Nelson and Patter- ka during the summer of de a thorough examination of T and her resources, as made to the United nd the following figures and <% of Alaska areindicated fact that sinee the ces- POSTUM CEREAL. part by th thing which forces the heart beyond_its natural beat. POSTUM restores its normal action. “There’s a Reason.” of the Alaska peo- | nd transpor- | z:mud empire and | founded this great | Territories, from which a Janwary 12, 10, in which | !in the development of the mining indus- 1 al Gov re made in than the entire expen- her behalf. tes, where a Territ ernment has been established, he salaries of Governors, marshals, | ited States Judges, expenses of Unit courts and United tes offices, reve steamers, cost roads, bridges, tele- ble lines, light and fog | ne, supplies for and educa- | of native inhabitants (properly ! e general Government), all | ve been charged to Alaska, y the table of expen h constitute a part of 1 report, there would stand to the of Alaska in the Treasury of the ed States $5,000,000 derived from collected from the indus- great empire above the ex- N WHO URGES S8AN FRAN- TO AWAKEN TO IMPOR- TERRITORY'S TRADE. to Porto Rico $10,978,528, to the Philip- pines $4,883,141. It will therefore be observed that the shipment of domestic merchandise from the United States to Alaska exceed in value by nearly one million dollars dur- argeable her, | ing the last nine months that which® was alrness and justice to | shipped to any of the other non-contigu- tants of Alaska s ous territories of the United States. nediately available by Con- Since July, 1897, more than one hundred | g7 ternal improvements. Tt is | urther stated In this report that the ation has been enriched by the fur in- y of Alaska to the extent of $52,000,000; by its fisheries, §50,000,000, that the output of gold since 1898 | time of the Senatorial visit of | and twenty-five million dollars in gold | has been received In Seattle from Alaska and the Canadian districts of Dawson and Atlin. More than one hundred millions of this amount passed through the United States assay office st that place, and & great bulk of it was spent there. has been more than $31,000,000,! The energetic business men of Seattle amount do not include any |are thoroughly alive to the importance gold taken from the Dawson or Atlin |and value of the Alaska trade and com- merce and are putting forth every effort to promote ijs growth and retain it. The fifteen-story’ Alaskan building at the cor- ner of Second avenue and Cherry street, country. FIGURES SHOW The 10! WEALTH. owing statement was taken | mouthly summary Of com-|in, highest business block on the Paeific 4 finance for July, 1903: Coast, in which the Alaska Club, a busi “Alaska, for which the United States | CO8st, o which the Alas e g | ness men's assoclation, has large and commodious quarters and where all Alas- kans are made welcome, the new Stander Hotel and several other large and Impos- ing business blocks testify to the rapid growth of Seattle, and all of them are | the results of the benefits derived by that ecity from its trade with Alaska. There is another important factor to be considered in conection with the Alaska trade. Travel naturally follows the course of trade and commerce. In a word, peo- | ple go where they trade. Nearly five | thousand people embark for Nome from Seattle each spring and return there again in the fall, and for several weeks prior to leaving for the north and upon | their return they throng the hotels of |lha: city and spend hundreds of uwp- { paid $7,200,000 in 1867, has since that time supplied furs, fish and gold to | about $150,000,000 ¥n value, about equal- {1y @ivided. ' That the investments ot | ar from the United States in Alas- | Ka are about $25,000,000, and that the | shipments of merchandise now agsre- gate about $10,000,000 per annum.” Since that report was made there has been & marked increase in the gold pro- duetion and in the development of the gold, copper and tin mines, and the in- | crease in trade has been equally great, | incident to the Increased development. | Extensive development work was car- ried on during the past mining season on | | the SBeward Peninsula, of which Nome is | the center. Large dredging machines were | constructed ta work the gravel bars of | uands of dollars. Other thousands | the larger streams, some of these ma- bark by different lines of steamers | ehines having a capacity of handling 4000 | Seward, Valdez and other points along | cubic yards of gravel every twenty-foUr | the southern coast of Alaska, and yet bours. There was during the same sed- | other thousands annually travel the son about sixty miles of ditch, of large greatest and most picturesque waterway | capacity, constructed for hydraulic min- | on the face of the earth, that threads | ing purposes, and a greater number of | jts way along the southeastern coast of | miles of ditch have been surveyed to be | Alaska to Juneau, Treadwell, Skagway built next season in that immediate vicin- { gngd many other small towns and settle- ity; there are also two proposed ditch | ments, each one of which is annually in- es that have been surveyed to be con- | creasing its trade with Seattle. structed next season in the Fairhaven PECTS ARE | precinct, which lies north of Nome, each sy # R about forty miles in length; the esti-| AsS above stated, 1t-is conservatively | mated cost ef both ditches being $T50.00. | estimated that the trade with Alaska About seventy-five miles of railroad will | will reach the $25,000,000 mark during | be built mext year from Nome and Port | the coming year, and that in ten years | Clarence into the interior to meet the de- | it Wwill have passed the $100,000,000 | mands for better transportation facili- | mark annually, and the large fleet of ties from the seaboard to the different | vessels now plying between Seattle and ‘m,nm' camps and settlements on the | the different points along the Alaskan coast wiil be increased accordingly, un- | Seward Peninsula. Bxtensive rallroad building is now being carried on aiong | 88 the people of San Francisco awake g % {to the fact that a mighty empire is the southern ccast. The Alaska Central |0 3 Rallroad, starting from Seward, will con- | bein— deveioped at her gateway, the nect the southern coast with the great | [Tuits of whose commerce is now by | Yukon River via Fairbanks. About sixty | absorbed té: a I;;vs.l c‘lty. The business miles of this route eted, men o n rancisco must go to are completed, and | U\ 1 e and deal fairly with its people there are now employed in its further construction about 3000 if they would secure its large and rap- . men. This vosd | o ™ udreesing trade. Alaske will will open up & vast country, richin gold h and copper. the Fairbanks district alone | Never come fo you. Since the gfeat rielding $7,000,000 In gok : WSS Wiipuyes s ees s i B yislding % S0 last year, and | UO ' "1897-8-9 & few steamers have will render accessible extensive agricul- toral valleys, well w: been sent there from San Franéisco, g SESrS aud tiusiveal, most of these, however, have gone by and equaled in extent to the entire agri- Sea cultural ares of California. The Copper | the t;‘{’o‘:fm m:?“,_h:h::‘;‘;i';";:' d North id & Mountain and Northwestern Rallroad will | 10 the World thet Phe only way San be under active construction mext season from Valdes to the Yukon River and snout | With Alaska was through Seattle. Cali- 500 miles eastward of the Alaska Central, | f0Tnia, like Oregon and Washington, This road will reach the enormous de- | Produces breadstuffs, frults, vegetables, posits of copper in the interior, and lke- | LIVestock, oats and barley, enormous wise crosses great fertile valleys capable | AUantities of which are annually con- of sustaining many thousand farmers, | SUMed In Alaska, and the demand for who will surely follow the miners {n |.heSe Products as well as for manu- factured goods, machinery and railroad Alaskn the same as they did in Califor- . suppliee, will be multiplied manyfold e veanining States and | U ihin the next decade; all of which Territogjes of the West. In view of these will be paid for from the miner treas- ts . extensive en to be carried on dur. ury of Alaska. g, 4 v S g ool oo o The Seattle business men. apprecti:- is ativel timat ng the benefits accruing ta that city the Alaska. trade with the Unifed Statgs {00 thelr Btate at large from the will reach the-§25,06:000 mark during the | Alaska trade, -are excesdingly jealous of it and are putting forth every effort next year. The completion of these rafl- to checkmate competitors by extending roads will furnish shipping facilities for.| ., tho Alagka people every courtesy the apparently inexhaustible copper ore T iouna Siroutheut et g | S, Somion, The argamizstion snd | referred to, the active iInterest dis- played by the Chamber of Commerce, the Commercial Club and the press of that city in all matters in which the Alaskans are interested are proof of the value they place upon that trade. They are now actively engaged in Drmflu: to hold in- Seattle an Alaskan tion in 1907 for the exploitation of Alaska resources, and if they succeed in securing the co-operation of the l ploration and development of the exten- sive coal and oil flelds of that section. SHIPMENTS ARE HEAVY. During the nine months ending Sep- tember, 1805, shipments of domestic mer- chandise trom the United States to Alas- ka amounted to $11,276,010; of which there was shipped from Seattle $9,177,713, from unmm $1,951,502, from Oregon ports 144, Dtiring the same period domestic mer- chandise shipped from the United States to Hawail was of the value of $§,880,630, Congress present session will be asked to make an appropriation in ald of the enter- #The trade, commerce, ponfitu- and | CRODKS HAVE- A BUSY TIME Two Men Make Reports to Police of Being Held Up and Relieved .- of Money BURGLARS ARE ACTIVE Houses and Stores Through- out City Visited, but Noth- ing of Much Value Taken Reports of men being beld yp and others having their residences or stores visited by burglars were made to the police yesterday. William Allison, a mérine fireman on the steamer Curacae, was approached by a colored man short- ly after 1 o'clock yesterday morning at Drumm and Clark streets. The col- ored man pulled a revolver out of his pocket and pointing it at Allison’s face ordered him to throw up his hands. Allison promptly obeyed and was robbed of $2 50. He described the foot- pad as about 30 years of age, with a scar under his right eye. E. Vg Henry, a teamster living at 42 Clementina street, reported that on Sat- urday night, about 6 o'clock, he was walking along Harrison street and when near the Santa Fe railroad yards three men approached him. Two of them grabbed him from behind and the other went through his pockets, taking $25. He was unable to give an accurate de- scription of the robbers. Joseph Schnerr, 1976 Fifteenth street, reported that his residence was entered by burglars on Monday afternoon by prying open a rear window. The house was thoroughly ransacked and women's dresses and other apparel valued at $60 and a gold watch valued at $25 stolen. Arthur Eddington, 688 Howard street, reported that his room was entered on Monday ‘night and coin-and clothing of the value of $25 stolen. Bennie Siedler reported that shontly after 2 o'clock yesterday morning he found ‘a stranger in his room -at 183 Russ street in the act of striking a match. Siedler asked him what he wanted, and without replying the man ran out. A sack coat and 90 cents were missing. Marion ilva reported that his butcher sheop at 3025 Twentieth street was entered early yesterday by forcing the front doer open with a jimmy. An examination showed that the only thing stolen was a cleaver. The reg! estate office and jewelry store at 1410 Haight street was entered by burglars late Monday night, but they must have been scared away. Po- liceman Celnar found the door open and notified M. E. Carroll, the proprietor, who, after an examination, said that nothing appeared to have been stolen. The basement of a new bullding at Howard and Twenty-sixth streets was entered by pulling a board off on Mon- day night and several yain!erl tools were stolen. Millinery . L B. Connor, 23 Post st., {§ offering a fine line of millinery at greatly reduced prices * ———— SOCIETY ASKED TO TAKE CHILDREN FROM MOTHER Mrs, O'Dougherty Takes Her Som From Asylum on Pretense of. & Dyiag Father. M. J. White, secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Crueity to Chil- dren, received a letter yesterday from Mrs. E. E. Pontet, 316 Third streat, stat- ing that Mrs. Katuerine O'Dougherty was living at that place in an Intoxi- cated condition and " was unfit to take care of the two chifldren she had with her. White sent an officer to the house to seize the children, her. He has also given orders for an older child to be seized wherever it can be found. Mrs. O'Dougherty first came before the public when her husband was ar- rested for throwing the infant against the celling twice and breaking its leg. The woman at the time was badly beaten and bruised and both mother and baby were sent to the Emergency Hospital for treatment. The two other children, Katie, aged 12, and Johnny, aged 4, were sent to orphan asylums, the latter going to the Mount St. Joseph Infant Shelter. The mother, it is alleged, went to St. Joseph's, and, after telling a pitiful story about her husband, who at that time was being held in the insane ward of the Central Emergency #ospital, se- cured Johnny by leading the authori- ties to believe that O'Dougherty was on the point of death and wanted to see the child for the last time. That even- ing., when the boy not brought back, a search was made for .the mother, but she was not to be found, White will ask the ecourt to give -him charge of the infant; as well as the boy, Johnny. .;.____—.——’-_—__4.__.;. wealth of Seattle cannot at the present time be compared with that of San Francisco. But her greater and rapidly improving railfoad facilities and the enormous bemefits she 1s deriv- “ing from the Alaska trade will soon place her In a financial and comniercial position to become a Successful rival to San Francisco in the trade and com- merce of Hawail, the Phillppines ‘nd the Orient. —_— Exposition Is Postponed.’ SEATTLE, Dec. 5—The Alaska-Y kon Exposition, which is slated to take place in this eity during the summer of 1907, will be postponed until 1909, This conclusion was reached to-day after a lengthy conference of the com- mittee on permanent organization, This committee believes that a credity able showing cannot be made in so short a time, especlally as the fleld is such a large one and the resources of the country are scattered. TALESor THEROAD Maybe don’t l'llb l'l' but dn,:l-n WANT IT —for it's s'llll full of bully fun, o snap and sharp points. It's the best pusuble mmx to cz ' but the woman was gone, taking them with ! DECEMBER 6, 1905. FIND MO TRACE OF 0TT'S CO Police Here Puzzled Over Al- leged Conduct of Deputy ‘Marshal at Albuqueli'que DEMAND EXPLANATION Mayor and Chief of Police Both Asked to Use Every Effort to Clear Up Mystery. Chief Dinan and Captain Burnett are puzzled over the case of John H. Ott, who was brought back from Albu- querque on Sunday morning by Detec- tive Freel on & warrant charging him with grand larceny in stealing $1106 currency from his friend Frank John- son on Noyember 21. Ott made a statement on his arrival here that the $1100 had been placed by him in a shoeblacking Bottle and se- creted in a woodshed in the yard of Deputy Marshal Jordan's house at Al- buquerque under a dog’s house. A dis- patch to that effect was sent to Thomas McMillin, Chief of Police there, and a reply was received on Monday night as follows: ‘“No dog house on Jordan’'s place. Have dug up ground in the nnly shed there, but cannot find money."” Yesterday Ott made a further con- fession to Detectives Bumner and Freel. He said that the currency was placed in the shoeblacking bottle, and he and Jordan went inte the shed in Jordan's yard and in a corner where there was & plece of canvas or cloth nailed against the wall, forming a triangle and used for the protection of Jordan's dog, Jordan dug a hole, placed the bot- tle containing the currency in it, and. covereg it up. Ott said Jordan told bim that the bottle would remain there until Ott returned fof it. Ott added that the reason he had not made this confession before was he did not want to implicate Jordan. Copies_of this confession were sent ;fierdq‘ to Mayor Frank McKee of Al- uquerque and lef of Police MeMillin with a request that every effort be made to find the $1100 and demanding an explanation of Deputy Marshal Jor- dan’s peculiar conduct. Christmas Preseats. We never were better prepared to supply you than now. Pictures, frames in wood and metal, pyrography outfits, cameras, fancy clocks, jewel cases, leather goods, cutlery, cards and fancy stationery. Better come and look. We'll not urge you to buy—the goods wil] do that. Banborn, Vail & Co., T4l Market streat. » e BODY OF NOTED CHURCHMAN COMES HOME ON MANCHURIA Rev. Danlel Shepard, Known as the “Wheel Chair Evangelist,” Is Sud- denly Strickes in Homolulu. When the Manchuria sailed into port yesterday it brought back to his na- tive land the body of Rev. Daniel Shep- ard, who died gquite suddenly in Hono- lulu on November 25. Mrs, Shepard and Mrs. Yarron came with the body. They will go to Granville, Ohio, where the burial willtake place. Rev. Mr. Shepard was known all over the United States as the “wheel chalr evangelist.” He was a Baptist, and, because of an injury, he was always wheeled about. - Undaunted by this af- fliction, he studied long and became one of the greatest Bible teachers and evangelists in the United States. He had jyst finished eight weeks of work in Honolulu when he was stricken. DNDS EXTRAC WARNING Do not use Witch Haze| disclosed the fact that over 80 per cent of the wilch hazel being sold is adulterated with Wood Alco- hol, (poson)er Formaldehyde, (poi- by the U, S. Pharmacopasia. POND'S EXTRACT is and for sixty years has been the standard of Hamamelis, (witch hazel). Avoid danger of poisoning by fRAC | "’lll ol.a FPAMILY ND's EXT CE HOTEL For, best cooking. THE lm For quickest service. THE PALACE HOTEL b n‘w finest music. THE PALACE HOTEL For modern comforts. m PALACE HOTEL For moderate rates. v supe | Weokly Call, $1 per Year| Giuieiss, o \ Guarantee of Lowest Prices - Victor Talking Machines g and Records are sold at the lowest pnces ob- tainable, no matter e you buy, and the Victor quality 1s one and the same throughout the world. In our stock you can choose from every style o‘ machine that is made by the Victor C, Prices from $20 to 325, $32.50, $45, 365 1o $105. e sell any style of Victor on monthly payments when desired. " Victor Record Prices Reduced We offer selections from upwards of 50,000 Records and the Victor Company, for whom we are Pacific Coast distnbuters, instract us to sell at the following schedule of prices: All 50 ¢t R at 35 ets All $1.00 R at 60 cts All $1.50 Records at $1.00 *Black Seal" and "Red Seal® TAKE ELEVATOR TO SECOND FLOOR SHERMAN, CLAY & CO. STEINWAY PIANO DEALERS Located for thuty-five years at Kearny and Sutter Streets, San Francisco. Qakland Store, Broadway and Thirteenth Streer AMUSEMENTS, AMUSEMENTS. R e COLUMBIA i The First Man Vou meet Is a Rooter for the Widow. _Ask Him. George Ade’s Contineptal Trimmph. The Pacific Coast Joins the Atlantic Seaboard in Praise of THE COLLEGE WIbOW ‘“The hit of the seasop.”’—Examiner. Cav(um the town.'"—Call. . ithy, genuine humor.” ‘Chroulc.l *“Ade is better than Hoyt ever was.''—Post. Nightly, Including Sunday—Matinee Saturday. SBATS FOR NEXT WEEK REBADY THURS. BUSH STREET 4{ CHAS. P. HA Prop & Manager. n This menlnx—;\u Week. Matiness Fri., Sat and Sun. THE ORIGINAL NEW LONDON GAIETY GIRLS The Largest snd Greatest Burlesque Show Traveiins. Don't Fall to See the Great PAT WHITE, Everybody's Favorite Comedian, Popular. Pru:e-— enings, 1Be, 23¢, . All reserved. European and American Stars! Girls, Tom ‘anux Orpheum Motlon Ple< tures and EVA WESTCOTT & CO. Regular Matinees Every Wednesday, Thursdan Seturfey and Sendar TO-NIGHT—EVERY NIGHT. SUPERB REVIVAL Of De Koven & Smith's Romantic Comic Opers ROB ROY REAPPEARANCE OF BARRON BERTHALD: FIRST APPEARANCE OF GERTRUDE ZIMMER and ana EUNICE DRAKE. ALL THE NEW TIVOLI COMPANT in the ast. o MATINEE SATURDAY. AL TIVOLI PRICES—2Se, 50c, T3e. ALCAZAR 5™ TO-NIGHT—MATS. SATURDAY stxDAn AGLOW WITH ROMANCE! Henrfetta Crosman’'s Greatest Success, THE SWORD OF THE KING First Time in San Franciseo. Eves., 25¢ to T5c; Mats. Sat., Sun., 25¢ to 50a NEXT MONDAY—First Time Here. The Comedy Sensation of Two Continenmts. The Secret of Polichinelle And Return of Everybody's Favorite, GEORGE OSBOURNE. ALHAMBRA Corner of Eddy and Jones Strests. Belasco & Mayer, Proprietors. Phons East 1977, THIS EVENING—ALL WEEK. l‘-lflno‘i Saturday and Sunday. Seenic Producton of THE ruor:s MELODRAMA, After Mldmght HERSCHEL MAYALL and ol P atnee 105, xu =5e ll—"‘lfll BHCW by m o eren Next Week: Miner's Merry Burlesquers GRAND .y THIS WEEK ONBY—Mat. Saturday. ESTHA WILLIAMS —AND— SHUGOWS o i HEARTH SUNDAY MAT. AND NIGHT ONLY. At the Old Crossroads NEXT MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, NANCE O’NELL THE FIRES OF ST. JOHN SEATS READY TO-MORROW. MAJESTIC = Lessee and a’mY '“Gll’l‘ THIS WEEK AT !llfl. S Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. EMPHATIC HIT OF THE NEILLS 1In Gillette’s Famous Comedy, PRIVATE SECRETARY “Bow’s Your Liver?" ltx'r WEEK—“CHRISTOPHER JR.” SOON: “IF 1 WERE KING.” Evenings—3%c, Sc. Tic. Sat. Mat—2e, S0c. n-m:--nfhn Sun., 25¢ everywhere. | WS AURE‘!‘ PRINCESS TRIXIB The Great Preuch Violnist BOTHWELL BROWMNE'S GAIETY BIRLS, and | “BOB FITZSIMMONS,” the Hoxlag Atmun SPEED Planist LYRIC HALL TUESDAY and THURSDAY EVES., Dec. 12and 14 w Matinee, Dee. 16, THE BARNES’ DIVING ELKS! AMATEUR NIGHT THURSDAY! Commencing -a-' ‘.:- PRINCESS FAN orni! at Co.'s, Where DMISSTON e | CBILDREN. e c‘»-.l:fe Programmes May be Obtained. s Monday Night, Dec. U—Margaret _Barry, : 1 ' Her tie Interpretation of _-Moung | v-»- “Les Miser- Al Seats 50c and $i. AGADEMY OF SCIENCES HALL Market st., bet. Fourth and Fifth. The Galifornia Promotion . ommittes’s Lectures on California, mm-aud .‘ | New Jiekay California i 1] OAKLAND RACE TRACK ROLLER _S_KATING! i CLARA COUNTY . Jordan, from 3:40 to 4:08. - MISCELLANEOUS AMUSEMENTS. b gl oyt e d s M' ""’"'_*"‘ Open Monday eve.. Dec. 4, from T p m to efi-ec