The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 13, 1905, Page 4

& HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1905. FIENDS BLOW 0P TOBACCO PLANT Kentucky Factory Operated for Trust Destroyed as Result of Commercial War GREAT REDUCTION SALE ‘ Colored and Black |TRAIN ALSO HELD TUP DRESS PATTERNS| rated to afford our patrons an |} | choice DRESS PATTERNS ||| eikron, ky. Dec. 12—The* tobacco | factory here owned by Mrs. H. H. Penyck most unusual prices. ‘ and operated for the tobacco trust by the : y American Snuff Company was blown up Note These Reductions: Outrages of “Hill Billies” of Growers’ Association Cause Great = Uneasiness | loss of life, but the damage to the fac- Patterns, reduced to. ... $7.60 tory was complete. There was no insur- i s s sioned in this locality by the tactics of Patterns, reduced to. . . $10.50 some tobacco growers. Several houses in the vicinity were damageed, as were also the depot and four* or five passenger coaches standing on a siding. ance on the plant, as the insurance com- ill place on sale our entire ac- i pany had only a few days ago canceled the policy owing to the excitement occa- tion of short lengths from 1% han Half Price. The deed is thought to have been com- mitted by parties friendly to the Dark the | by dynamite early to-day. There was no Patterns, reduced to. ... 8$8.00 ’ [ Tobacco Growers’ Association, but ls‘nuer has severely condemned such ac- tions. A few days ago the representative of | the American Tobacco Company at this point received notice not to receive any. more tobacco from people favoring the trust, but he paid no attention to it. The conductor of a passenger train on ANNUAL SALE the Elkton and Guthrie Ralilroad stated Fancy and Foulard Silks || st Sainsig TO= D‘AY’ \‘/'EDNESDAY | was making the return trip from Guthrie to Eikton he was flagged at Bradshaws, » make a final clean-up of the season’s | a small station two miles south of here. | When the train stopped the engine was | boarded by masked men, who instantly | covered the engineer with revolvers and ss Silks and to e room for the strong Sprjng told him to do their bidding. Sy : Gia = | While this was going on about 150 men, tions we have reduced the Foulards and all heavily masked, boarded the train, about forty of them marching from one end to the other with drawn revolvers. The leader of the gang told the passen- | gers not to get excited, as they were'only | looking for tobacco buyers. After a thor- | ough search of the train had been made | all the men, as far as the conductor | knew, left the coaches and the engineer | was ordered to proceed. The train then { moved on to Elkton. { For long time | Growers’ Association has opposed an ele- | ment in its organization known as the “*Hill Billies,” whose depredations while | “night-riding”” have caused much uneasi- | ness in this district, where nearly all the | dark tobacco grown in the world is raised. This matter has been within three T ed to.. Iks, reduced to.. ‘the Dark Tobacco short lengths resulting from our Sale and suitable for waists, work, running from a single yard - weeks the subject of an examination by a special agent of the Department of Commerce and Labor, and his report on the matter is now believed to be at the department in Washington. The head of the Dark Tobacco Growers' Association is F. G. Wing of Nashville, Tenn., and he has frequently taken occa- sion to express his disapproval of the | methods of the “‘Hill Billies.’ | 1t was learned to-day that a tobacco at Trenton, Ky., controlled by several | | factory Itallan contractors was burned nights ago! | e — K Marked Way Down Sale of Leather Bags | successful in securing the Portland f I known Lambert Bags, which varded the Gold Medal, we will place same 1day, December 11, ] i | ! ] sale Mor At Manufacturers’ Cost een w LINPS TO PORT SEE OUR SHOW WINDOWS [ | NEWPORT, Dec. 12.—The little gun- boat Wasp, formerly the yacht Colum- bia, came into port this afternoon with one boller working and several sails set after a terrific battle with a North At- lantic hurricane during which she sprung a leak, and was kept afloat after her pumps choked through hand bailing by her entire crew. The little vessel was blown nearly to the Gult Stream by Sunday's storm, and was nearly two days getting back to port. At one time the water, which came in through a leak in the stern, flooded Geary and Stockton Sis., Union Squarc WESTERN FEDERATION MAY | SMELTER TRUST OFFERS | TRY CO-OPERATIVE MINING BONUS TO EFFICIENT MEN | « Will Pay Extra to Employes in Colo- | rado for Faithful and Continued | | Awsociation Will Consider Plan to R Million Dollar Fund to Begin Work. Service. E 12— utive board of DENVER, Dec. —Announcement of a | her engine room and for ten hours on nus to be pald next vear to laborers in the | Sunday the Wasp was at the mercy of ado plants of the American Smelting and | the waves. o ey o, made todey by Frone. | The crew of sixty men, a thira of eterman, general mavager of the com- | Whom were apprentices and unused to mm,\.‘ The rvO-’\us r|s to !be 5 pfl;‘ cent (‘-(l m: | such bodsterous conditions, bailed for anuual earnings of employes who work not. hours with buckets and Succeeded in less than 322 .full shifts during the year, and ferooin o' tp, - - > —~ v g e engine room. Hospital T e O ment o labor ' | Steward White sustained a broken rib, this State over $100,000. | but refused to give up his place in the bailing line. The success of Chief Boatswain Hugh | Sweeney, the commander of the Wasp, | in bringing his vessel through the hur- ricane under such trying circumstances, received the commendation of the offi- cers at the naval training station here, to which the Wasp is attached. The ‘Wasp left at 1 o’clock Saturday to go to the assistance of the brig Harry | Smith, which was thought to be in a dangerous position at the entrance of Vineyard Sound. | The gunboat Hist, which went to the | relief of the Nantucket ‘lightship, is ex- | pected back to-morrow. | e | LIEUTENANT BURBANK | PLACED UNDER ARREST | Officer Who Deserted His Filipino Bride | Must Serve Fifteen Months in Prison. FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kans., Dec. 12.— Advices received here to-day are to the effect that First Lieutenant Sidney §. Burbank and | First Lieutenant David A. Snyder, both mem- | bers of the Sixth Infantry, have been placed in jail in the Philippines’ for ‘conduct un- becoming officers of the United States army. The exact nature of the charge Is not known ere. Lieutenant Burbank came Into prominence | by becoming engaged to a prominent Leaven- | worth woman while married to Concepclor | Vasquez, a Filipino. The Vasquez. woman | stopped 'the marriage to the Leavenworth wo- man and recently secured a conditional divorce from Burbank. It is stated that\ the sentence growing out of the court martial that recently tried Lieu- tenant Burbank is ready for approval by Presi- dent Roosevelt and that it imposes fifteen months’ imprisonment in a penitentiary. g | BRIBERY CHARGE MADE IN THE HARGIS CASE | | Money Saild to Have Been Offered to Juror to Find for Defendant. LEXINGTON, Ky. Dec. 12.—Judge Watts Parker of the Circult Court created a sensa- tion to-day when he called the Grand Jury summarily into the courtroom and instructed it to take up at once a charge that a certain juror had been offered a bribe to find a ve diet in favor of Judge James Hargis of Bre hitt County In the recent trial of Hargis for the assassination of James Cockrill. The Voice, a Prohibition paper edited by Rey. Mr. Snodgrass, published the charge that @ juror in the Hargis case had admitted to Snodgrass that he had been offered a bribe, but refused to accept. & was sum- moned and the Grand Jury at once entered into an investigation of the case. —_——— Election Officers Go to Prison. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 12.—Thomas H. Hart- man Jr., Willlam Regan and Charles Judge, election officers in the Twelfth Precinct of the Fourteenth Ward, were to-day sentenced to two years' 1 'sonmen! were convicted of having padded the Assesso Ifet and conspired to e fraudulent returns of the election held last February. Ben In Williams, another officer or the same precinct, yas flned $200 and sentenced prison. id der contribute $10. of the plan, the committee give employment to mem- e deprived of work d =ystem in use in Colo- to have | BUSTER BROWN IS NOW A MEMBER OF: The CALL STAFF [ TO MY DEAR LITTLE FRIENDS: This is to inform you of my engagement by the San Francisco Call. I will be with you every Sunday on and er December 31, and if you will follow each issue of the Sunday Call we will enjoy many pleasant moments together during 1906. Yours truly, BUSTER BROWN. New York, December 11, 1905. CANAL BOARD HAS PO BAW Press Agent Bishop Acts as Substitute for Each Mem- ber of the Zone Commission IN CHARGE OF FUNDS Senate Committee Learns That He Signs Checks and Deals Directly With Tait WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—The emer- gency appropriation bill to provide the isthmian canal commission with funds to carry on the construction of the Panama canal will contain no general legislation. This was decided by the Senate Committee on Appropriationsat a meeting lasting all of to-day and at which it was agreed to report the meas- ure appropriating $11,000,000, the amount named by the House bill Secretary Taft of the War Depart- ment, Theodore P. Shonts, chairman of the canal commission; Joseph B. Bish- op, secretary, and other officials of the commission, were before the committee and were subjected to pointed inquiries as to the manner of making expendi- tures. The examination of Bishop, who had been referred to in the House debates as a “press agent” for the commission, was of a personal nature, in that he was asked to define his duties. It was shown that in addition to acting as sec- retary he is a sort of diplomatic agent, charged with meeting any contingency that may arise. In the absence of Shonts or Pepperman, the assistant chief of administration, Bishop assumes their duties in Washington, even to the extent of signing checks, and deals di- rectly with the Secretary of War in relation to canal matters. Bishop said he was the historian for the commission and assembled data of | all kinds that may be of use. He ad- | mitted that to some extent his informa- tion was used for the public press. In his capacity of literary secretary, Bishop explained, he was not expected to create public sentiment, but to keep it normal. In explanation he said that here had been a determined effort on the part of the opposition to direct public feeling against the canal, and that before hé entered the employ of the Government his services had been sought by those interested at more receiving. When asked to name the opposition interests Bishop specified the Nicaragua, the Tehuantepec and the Darien canals, and ventured the sur- mise that the transcontinental rafl- roads also were concerned in the op- position to the canal. BECS THAT LECS BE CHOPPED OF Speclal Dispatch to The Call. HELENA, Dec. 12.—Realizing that death was inevitable unless . heroic measures were adopted at once, Samuel Schubert, a fireman on the Montana Railroad, whose train was in a wreck last night, begged the members of the rescué party to chop off his legs in order that his body might be freed from the tremendous weight resting upon it and which prevented him from | avoiding the escaping steam of the | boiler. | The train was pushing a snow plow, | which was derailed by an unusually large snow bank. This caused the en- gine to topple- over and Schubert was | caught beneath the irgn monster. The steam began to escape and Schubert’s | predicament was soon discovered by the passengers and members of the crew who came forward. Every human effort was made to ex- tricate Schubert from his position but to no avail and finally he directed that an ax be procured. This done, he re- quested, pleaded, commanded and finally | begged that some one use it in.chop- | ping off his legs as the heat was be- | coming unbearable and he realized that | this was his only salvation. No one, however, was willing to per- form this brutal act of surgery and death soon relieved Schubert’s suffer- | ing, the escaping steam scalding him to death. . Schubert was unmarried, about 30 years old, and a resident of Lombard. Engineer Shull was also ‘slightly in- jured and is in a local hospital for treatment. —_———— OLD BATHHOUSE TORN DOWN BY ORDER OF THE RAILROAD Southern Pacific Completes Destruction of Bullding Partially Destroyed Last Winter by Tides. SANTA CRUZ Dec. 12.—The remains of the old Bertha Leibbrandt bathhouse, which stood on land claimed by the Southern Pa- cific, and which was partially destroyed by high water last winter, were removed last night by order of the Southern Pacific. Mrs. Leibbrandt had been prevented from rebuilding the bathhouse by an injunction. Her nelgh- bors helped the raflroad people tear down the building. —————— SUIT FOR DAMAGES FOLLOWS ARREST OF A SANTA CRUZAN Quarrel Oyer Water Rights Leads to Appeal the Court for Momnetary Balm. . SANTA CRUZ, Dec. 12.—Thomas H. Peter- son, who was arrested about a month ago by F. A. Cody, proprietor of the Hotel Ben Lomond and owner of the Ben Lomond Water Company, for destroying a dam, has brought a damage sult against the capitalist. He asks for 85000, VICHY CELESTINS Natural Alkaline Water CURES Dyspepsia Stomach Troubles -The genuine is al- ways sold in bottles “SR like this e ————————§ Beware of Syphons, they do not contain VICHY CREDITORY’ +SALE.. Of the Entire Stock of Heller & Co. The Big Clothing and Furnishing Goods House That Failed in Just Seven Weeks After Embarking in Business Begins This Morning at. 9 O’Clock Everything to Be Sold at Actual Whole- sale Cost.---or Less. liberal compensation than he was now | SEE THE FULL DRESS clothes for men. best manufacturers in worn or out, of fashion. TER SUIT. There are more SEE THE WONDERFUL ©O shouldered fellows —brimful of elegance, ¢ America. the different lines the assortments are full and complete. closed by their creditors in just seven weeks to a day from t.he time they first. opened their doors for business, and their st.ock didn’t, have time t.0 become broken or shop- ..COMEL.. SEE THE BIG MONEY YOU CAN SAVE ON A STYLISH, DRESSY WIN- tterns to choose from than you could countin a day. ERCOAT VALUES. AND TUXEDO SEE THE ALMOST INCREDIBLE HAT BARGAINS. Soft and stiff styles— all in this season’s most, correct. shapes. SEE THE GREAT PRICE CUTS IN THE SECOND FLOOR. Never before could Boys’ and Youths’ Suits and Ower- coats be bought. at. such astonishingly small prices. SEE THE SHIRTS—THE NECKWEAR—-THE SIERY—AND ALL THE OTHER HABERDASHERY. You never dreamed it would be possible to get, such big returns for your money. Just at Xmas time, too. Frisco Never Knew a Sale of Such High- Class Merchandise. The Clothing came from Alired Benjanfin & Co.—Hart, Shaffner & Marx—W. S. Peck & Co.—and - other_equally well-known makers. The Hats and Furnishings were bought from the Everything is new—perfect—strictly up-to-date. As y U Don’t, Forget, the Place—and Get Here Early If You Want. to Beat, the Crowd. 1028-1030 Market Street, omfort, and service. SUITS AT EXACTLY HALF PRICE. Made by Alfred Benjamin & Co.,—the famous manufacturers of fine JUVENILE DEPARTMENT— NDERWEAR—THE HO- Powell and Mason Streets , roomy, And in all ou, know, Heller & Co. were Between \DOLPH WEBER HS OW LAWYER Special Dispatch to The Call. AUBURN, Dec.\12.—Adolph Weber was again the center of attraction to-day in | court. He appeared at both morning and | afternoon sessions. Yesterday he prac- tically discharged all his attorneys except F. P. Tuttle. This morning he objected to a number of items in his guardian's final account. At noon he posed before a photographer’s camera, and late in the afterncon he became philanthropic and wanted to make a gift deed of the Weber home place to the Rechenmacher children. Rechenmacher Sr. called on ‘Weber and offered him $1500 for the home place, which adjoins the Rechenmacher home, and Weber offered to deed it to| his children. Rechenmacher refused to| accept the gift. Weber's change of heart toward Rechenmacher is interesting, for at the time of the murders Weber inti-! mated that Rechenmacher might know | something about the crimes. Weber also wrote a letter to the court to-day in which he objected to the size of some of the attorneys’ fees. He asked, however, that Attorney Grove L. Johnson be allowed $300 additional, making his fee $2000. Samuel J. Pullen has received 51000,5 F. P. Tuttle $1000 and Benjamin P. Tabor $1200. John Adams, as Weber's guardian, has drawn $1000. Weber also objected to the hiring by one of the attorneys of a detective to dog the steps of the jury- men. On this subject Weber said: “Are jurymen who have grown gray in toil pleased to be told by such an act that they are considered bad boys, who must be watched? I wondered what the Attorney General meant by the missing link. This attorney likewise employed a gun expert, a mere boy, who knew not how to measure the bore of a gun, and a juryman stated he would bave acquitted me had I had the prosecution’s expert.” It is learned that Attorney L. L. Cham- berlain was sent for a few nights since and asked by Weber to draw up papers revoking the power of attorney given by Weber to John Adams and make out a new power of attorney denying Adams the right to hire lawyers. Weber re- serves that right to himself. FIREBUG DETERMINED TO BURN TWO BRIDGES For Fourth Time in Week Mateh Is Applied to Creek Crossings. Special Dispatch to The Call. SANTA CRUZ, Dec. 12.—For the second time within a week an attempt has been made to destroy by fire the covered bridge leading to North Santa Cruz. Two attempts have also been made to destroy the upper bridge across the San Lorenzo. last night occurred about 3 o'clock, It was started against the wood- | en bulkhead at the west end. It was ex- tinguished by a chemical fire extinguisher before any great damage was done. e LLEGED FIREBUG IS BOUND A OVER TO SUPERIOR COURT Must Face Jury om Charge of Setting ’ Fire to Property in Sonoma. SANTA ROSA, Dec. 12—Felice de Carli | was beld for trial before the Superfor Court | {to-day by Justice of the Peace J. B, Small | at Sonoma on a charge of arson. There have several incendiary fires in that vicinity icion pointed to the defend- rn of L. Quartoll was de- hour M morning WILL RENT HENS T0 RANCHNEN Special Dispateh to The Call. RED BLUFF, Dec. 12.—Plans for the| incorporation of a big poultry farm | at Corning are about completed. If the| undertaking be carrjed out it will mean great things, not only for Corning but for the entire county. This farm was | started a couple of years ago by an ex- perienced poultry man who had made a few thousand dollars by following | the poultry business on a small scale near Corning. He arranged to go into the business in a wholesale manner and last year succeeded in hatching and raising over 16,000 thoroughbred White Leghorn fowls on his farm. The hens were kept for laying purposes, | while the roosters were sent to a ready | and profitable market in San Franelsco. | It is understod that the new corpora- | tion is backed by business men who are interested in the upbuilding of the Corning section. They plan to ralse thoroughbred chickens on a large scale, at the same time paying great atten- tion to sanitary conditions and making the poultry farm a model for smaller growers to pattern after. The hens | will be rented to small landholders of the community on a percentage basis. The eggs will be gathered daily and the promoters of the plan being thereby able to ship fresh eggs dally to the city markets, will be in a position to command a price in excess of the reg- ular market price. Tt is figured that this excess in price will be equivalent to the rental charged | for the hens, thereby allowing the farmers about the net market price for the eggs. The promoters contemplate the erection of a large cold storage plant, and when the market price falls | below twenty cents a dozen the eggs | will be gathered and placed on cold | storage to later compete in the winter months with Eastern cold storage eggs. It is expected that the farmers | will have over 1,000,000 hens producing | eggs In the next few years. f —_————————— The American Cigar, 2 for 25¢c, beats the world. Mattheas & Co., distributors.® ————— New Rallway for Nevada. SALT LAKE, Utah, Dec. 12.—At a meeting in this city to-day of mining men ani busi- ness men from the Searchlight, Nev., district steps were taken to incorporate in Utah the Searchlight and Northern Rallroad. The road ! will be twenty-five miles long. of narrow gauge. from'Nippeno, on the San Pedro road, to the Searchlight camp. CETS TEN YEARS N SAN QUENTIN SANTA CRUZ, Dec. 12.—Henry Mason, a crook who was convicted of entering a shoe store in Watsonville last month and stealing a quantity of shoes, was sentenced by Judge Smith to-day to tem vears in San Quentin. Mason is the man who passed a 12-year-old girl traveling with bim as his daughter. She assisted him in breaking open the shoe store. When she was put on the witness-stand | she flatly contradicted Mason's attempt to prove an alibi and denied that she assisted him to enter the shoe store from the rear. “How can you talk that way to your father?” sald Mason. The girl quickly repiied, “You are not my father,” and completely broke down her companion’s jine of defense and forced him to plead guilty to the crime. The girl has been placed in a private home in San Fran- cisco. MEN STARVE WHILE WAITING FOR WORK | Employment Ageneies Are to Blame for Deplorable State of Affairs Near Yuma. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN BERNARDINO, Dec. 12—The ho- bos coming in from the desert tell un- canny tales of the want and privation suffered by many of the tramps. From 150 to 200 men are lying around the Southern Pacific Rallroad camps near Yuma starving whilé they wait for work. Prob- ably half of the men stranded in Yuma are sent there by the employment agen- cies. They are guaranteed work and their last dollar is taken to pay their fare. This is a known faet, as a large number of the men arrested and searched carry receipts from employment agen- cies. —_—————————— California Calendars for 1906, California Poppy, Poinsettia, Chinese, Red- wood and all other new and interesting calen— dars. Sanborn, Vail & Co., T4l Market st. * o > ket Lm e St Rinaleorey HACKENSACK, N. J., Dec. 12.—Antoinette Tolla, the Italian woman who shot Joseph Sonta, wio tried to win her from her husban. last March, was to-day sentenced to be hanged on January 12 next. Mrs. Tolla, who has two children, was In her home w Sonta came there making love to her, and she shot him. NEWBR.O’S A “Halresaver’’ that grows in popularity. HERPICIDE The ORIGINAL remedy that *'kills %s> Dandruf! Gorm." GOING! . ING!! GONE !l . 8 NERPICIOE WL TE 1T, Eanicios wiL ark iT. o0 LaTE Fon NOT A HAIRR-GROWER ""fim‘-:u-—"‘"’ i S o | SRS