The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 23, 1905, Page 2

te THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1905. STRIKERS ELUDE THE GUARDS. RUNNING THE CORDON Daggers and Revolvers [Cropped by 1hem Are Sflzed by Po ice. []UARI]S RUN TRAINS 00T OF CAPITAL PR S were vers Continued from Page 1, Column 4. able to held their men in line unless an ate victory: is scered or a conflict | < nd blood she In Moscow the 4 . ailroad men and the lower | . ¥ e AP S e the cab drivers, who see the | TELLS GRAPHIC STORY. taken from thelr mouths by the : o = >, are already at each other’s throat. Revolt of Russinny at Viadivostok De. Russ, evidently discounting _the a Traveler. Henry Bush ostok, Port scribed by RIA, B, C., Dec, 22 e of the strike, to-day declares that | event - any ist “every deféat is a ‘révolu- tic and every victory of the | ved f’“m Government approaches its final sur-| * is reported here that the disorders | s £ at Pskoff, 152 miles southwest of St. Pe- | have assumed great dimensions | rg, and that at Vilorsk, on the Warsaw line, | a squadron of dragoons has been be- sieged for three -days. The news from the Baltic provinces | nues bad., Frederickstad has been | taken by .the insurgents, and Kreutzburg | is surrounded and standing a slege. The Naovoe.Vremya .to-day. printed a | rather provocative article , against the | . g Jews, pointing out that for the first| time . yesterday a revolutionary mani- | festo was signed by a Jewlish. organiza- B & ¢ fire on the |tion. - The paper .says . that. .al- & gh they were | though the Socialist and revolutiopary i r rifies to kill | OTganizations have always containea et rought can after | Many Jews, never before have they . whart and burned |9aTed e put their names to a ddcu- sce me the streets | ment. The Novpe Vremya declares that b € \ing, mad Rus- | the rich Jews are taking advantage .of | o s e sticks and :he situation they have helped to create| end are buying up abandoned estate | and allets whistled nd bullets whistled | "g o of the strike leaders, already dis- corpses were scat- ng g cets and many Rus. | Ccuraged by the prospect of failure, do Xil = not hesitate to say that the decision to | lize his danger until | Accept the challenge of the Government | e - THiing wed at him with | While the organizations were unprepared | s b another ome!” and | Was a blunder and it can only be Te-| ] deemed by forcing a conflict which will Bodics ttered about the | 2rouse the populace. E stans and more than | Several attempts at ‘red flag” demon- x et g killed. The bodies | Strations in the silostrov and other | ed for three days, when they | industrial districts to-day were dfepersed | by A Cossacks. number of attacks were made less d carted on Viadivostok, Bush came body, sometimes scat- ups.. The city that the strike will jeopardize the gratu- ities usually recelved by them during the| e 7 | Russian_Christmas, mi’:r;{::'s‘1‘;::81“2:"21‘ The Circum-Batkal Railroad hds been oz 2 | destroyea for & distance by falling rocks. | g b wap oyt “:‘:"h“"“‘,;s‘“ T |1t is suspeeted that this destrudtion is | e xn e "*“’ the work of the revolutionaries who dre | 3 S 4 = interested in stopping the return .of | ORAR:: IS SOONMIR AN, troops from the Far East at this time. : : | "An official communication authorizes Handbills Hinting at His Death Are ' .. Governors of districts In which mar- ¥Found at Tsarskoe-Selo. | | tial law has mot been declared Xo per- PETERSBURG, Dec —The | mit the jand owners to form a police or- | v f all the bold pronunciamentos | ganization for the protection of their « mysterious | Propertes. Tsarskoe-Selo | The Bourse to-day was quiet. The ke Professing to al- | change in prices was scarcely notice- | plot against the | able { A message by telephone from Moscow says persistent rumors are in efrculation there that all the artillerymen, with the uff of smoke. 3 ] the result will | best thing possible for every- | €Xception of those of one battery, have > refused t6 go’on’ duty. ave been baffled in their | The same ‘message says that ‘a plot has been discovered Doubazoft. the printers and dissemi- to bilis. R seize General ATV { UNABLE TO STOP TRAFFIC. Railroad Strike Is Spreading. ralirded employs R»‘.‘?r?exrla:khtrnx«.g Rallronders ¥afl to Prevent | Al tialic Nae Donsed Trains Leaving St. Petersburg. AROSLAY, Buropean-Russia, Dec.| ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 22.—The fiic on the railroad here is in- | railroad men's strike committee made by the strike herolc efforts to stop, trains.from be- EZH, S Central Russia, | ing run-out of St Petersburg to-day | and succeeded in inducing practically mployes of the South- 4 all the station and roundhouse men | struck this morning directions of their | and many of the trainmen who re- of passenger trains | majned on duty yesterday to join in trains to large towns be-|the strike.. Nevertheless, the company ndoning them in order that|pgs peen dispatching trains under mili- re should not suffer. | tary guards over all the lMnes, al- stern Russia, Dee. 22— poyen regular schedules have not been strike has commenced | | maintained. Soldiers with flags on | their bayonets have been doing duty as switchmen. The strikers are intensely enraged at their failure to suspend traffic. They stopped a train from Berlin last night the better | outside of St. Petersburg, using a red under the esoort of | lantern, and ordered the engineer out, respective locali- | but the soldier guard drove off the Government and | strikers and the train proceeded. in the hands of the| The engineer of a Kursk train was shot and killed in the cab of his engine while taking his train !nm St. Peters- burg. M. mumications, has issued an order that ores are closed. S Flee From the Revolutionis RIGA, Live Ofic ——ie | Plot to Kill Katsura. | DON be: COTORRRINA Nemedhaieft, Minister - of +Coms gy . p graph at Tokio'{ rev rest of a former soldier.|all employes failing to.report for duty . igurashi op the charge of be- [to-day will be dismissed. ,( Agitators & ed in a plot to assassinate | will be prosecuted to th's full extent of e er, Count K ura, because | the law. Throughout the city notices be consented to a “disgraceful peace.” | signed by the Prefect-of Police -have —_———————— been posted announcing that in accord- Martial Law Is Established. | ance with the striké law agitators who WARSAW, Russian Poland, Dec. 22 |incite the people to strike by using A proc .urra" n of the Governor General | threats’ will be arrestéd’and are’ sub- re to-day establishing | ject to'# fine of 3250 ahd imprisonment 1 of thie ten govern- | for three months. sian Poland and appoint- | ~ The landlords throughout the -coun- emporary military governors | try were empowered by, ah imperifl ukase, made public to-day, to organize guards for the pratecu:m of tflelr pmp- erty: A . Do ge ten neral | { i Quiet is Restored at Liba LIBAU, ProVinee of Courland, Dec. . Order bas been restored in Liban | e kil g nd most of the army -reserve ‘men Bel: called out when the outbreak occurred Russtan 0"'::‘:, ‘::'._l ns Driven ére have beer replaced by other men | . L ) of the reserve.” Warships are ,xp“.“,d‘ REVAL, Esthonia, Dec. 22.—The”in- here daily | surrection fn Baltic provinces has now | S gl ; been extended-te-Esthonia, where. in | . . Revolutionists Hold the To: accordance with resolutions pug at | GOLINGEN, ' Provincs of Courland, | Somta the poptistion 1s o bas °“>“ 5 vonia, the population 18 driving ont the Russian officials and Iocal administrators. last night attacked a train bearing. detachment of rural guards near TaAps in this province, but they were. drlvq\' off and the train reached. Reyal: safety. Immediately after these \oc- currences the railroad employes and other workmen here voted to join the pan-Russian strike. To-day every- thing is closed dow ’ : oD hosl VR . Strike Covers Whole of Russin. PARIS, Dec. 22.—A dispatch.from Petersburg to the: Temps says: kit “The strike now covers the whole of Russia. The Novoe v:mnyn admits Thursds Dec. 2 A committee of the people has compelled the District Goy- ernor, Baron Ropp, 1o send the troops eway from hére. The town is‘how un- der control of the revolutionists. ARG electing new | Raflrond Chifef Is Arrested. KIEFF, Russis*Dec. 22 M) Sku- pensky, assistant chief of the South. western Raliroad system and vice pres- ident of the Railroad Congress, was arrested to-day. & —_—— Top Noteh Christmas Goods, The kind thet Will sult him or her. First In the Bearts and minds of 2 lady is dainty | yoery. We ‘were never so-well ! $o Pugnish il ibe new tbiRgs for men's Shav: ing_ouifit ety : razore, 1 o 4 1‘r ~ g kf‘n fl.l:‘::y lnu':rl_ and col:munlcl“ol,g:flh the ’"’f’l"“‘: and | Boler hip ety ciitbmariboard, '3 st of | 305084 ikioe e v el things_ for inspection.” Sanborn, that the ministry will: pected be rendered entirely helpless. Veil & Co. 741!.&:(“!. ’ | lanar, ANOTHER PLOT strikers by non-union workmen, who fear{. | telegraphs as follows, under to-day's Mmr all’ TRIES T0 KILL - |DENY THE STORY ALLEGED RIVAL| CF AN ALLIANCE Redding Deputy Sheriff Fires |Chinese Commissioners Say Shots at Man He Feared| Treaty With Japan Deals Was Winning His Glrl With Munchurmn Afla.u‘s THREATENS HER LOVER IMPORTANT PROVISIONS ——+ Shooting Occurs in House Sixteen Large Cities, Includ- Maid’s Father Killed Man' ing Harbin, to Be Opened in Over Three Years Ago, to the World’s Commerce ! i Specfal Dispatch-to The Call. i PEKING, Dec. 22.~—The Chino-Jap- anese treaty was signed to-day by REDDING, Dec. 22.—Because he imag- ined the affections of the girl he loved were being allenated by Uriel 8. Davis, George Wiley, a Deputy Sheriff and night patrolman of this city, broke into Davis’ room the Riverside Hotel at Keswick this evening and fired two shots at Davis as he lay leep In his bed. Wiley then kicked Davis, left the room and hastened to the room of Lilllan Gallanar, the young lacy over whom the trouble arose, shoved her into one corner of the room, locked the door and threatened to kill the girl | and himself i an attempt was made to | Baron Komura and M. Uchida in behalf of Japan and Prince Ching and Viceroy Yuan Shi Kai in behalf of China. The Chinese ,Commissioners say the treaty relates solely to Manchurian af- Japanese alliance are false. WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—Important details of the treaty between China and Japan signed at Peking to-day have reached the State Department by cable. China consents to lease to Japan the Liaotung Peninsula, at the south- arrest him. | ern extremity of which is Port Arthur | Wiltey “left Redding at 3:30 p.m. urm! and Dalny. This territory formerly | went direct to Keswick. | was held by Russia under lease from | He has been keeping company with the | China. China concedes to Japan the | control of the railway on thé peninsula | northward as far as Changchin. This is one of the spurs which connects with | jeaious of her. Word was sent to Red- | ding and Sheriff Richardson left to make the arrest, the Keswick officials fearing | the Russian Siberian railway system, to attempt to take Wiley lest he should | and the point named.probably will mark | {ecarry out his threat. Davis’ wounds are | the division between Russian and Jap- superficial, and after recovering from the | anese control.-~China also concedes to shock he walked down to 2 doctor’s office | Japan the right to build a railway from | and had them dressed, Antung, on the Yalu River, to Mukden, The shooting occurred in the house| the ancient capital of Manchuria, prob- where, over three years ago, George Gal- | ably along the line of the famous old I father of the girl, killed Andrew military or earavan road. It is pro- { Garman. vided, however, that at the end of a certain period the road may be pur- chased by China. Most lmportant of all the provisions of the treaty is an article whereby China agrees to open to the world's commerce and trade sixteen principal ports and cities in Manchuria, Includ- ing Harbin, the modern Russlan cap- ital of the province and its most im- portant railroad centér, thus marking, in the opinion of the State Department officials, the'final success of the long struggle of the United States for the open door. LONDON, Dec. 22.—William Pritchard Morgan, the Consul General of Korea and Charge d'Affaires of the Korean legation since the suicide of the acting Minister eight months ago, handed over the legation to the Japanese embassy and the consulate to the Japanese Con- sul General to-day under the arrange- ment transferring Korean forelgn af- fairs to the céntrol of Japan. WOMAN’S PROPHECY DAMAGES MERCHANTS Special Dispatch to The Call. PROVIDENCE, R. L, Dec. 22.—A proph- ecy made by a woman during Christmas giri for several months and is extremely" | 1S DISCOVERED BOGOTA, Colombia, Thursday, Dec. 21.— The authorities here to-day discovered just in time a conspiracy to overthrow the Government. It was headed by Fellpo Azxigelo, Moya Vasquez and Louls Mar- tinez, who, with all the others compro- mised, have been arrested and will be tried by courtmartial. 7T'he Government ofticials belittle the af- fair and say that peace is assured, Presi- dent Reyes and the Government being most popular. The whole country, it is added, condemns the plot. The rate of exchange is going down. PANAMA, Dec. 22.—Advices from Car- , capital of the Colombian State of r, say there is great discontent throughout the republic owing to the an- nouncement of an increase in taxation. e fairs, and that the reports of a China-} MANIAC CUTS A CONSTABLE Crazy Real Estate Dealer of . Turlock Keeps Officers of Three ‘Towns Very Busy ESGAPES ON A TRAIN Captured at Fresno After He Had Held at Bay the Po- lice of Merced and Modesto Speélal Dispatch to The Call. MODEBTO, Dec. 22.—Constable George Davis of this city was seriously cut about the head at Turlock to-night by ‘W..M. Coward, a prominent real estate dealer of Turlock, whom he with two other officers was trying to arrest. For scmie days Coward, who is a man of magnificent physique, welghing 230 pounds, has been acting queerly. Friday evening he ‘became violently insane and armed with a pistol and an fce pick chased several Turlock citizens into their piaces of busiress, threatening to Kill them. The town was terrorized and as the Tur- lock officer was unable to handle the man the officers of this city were telephoned for and three of them hastened to Tur- lock, arriving there at 9 o’clock. It was found by them that Coward had boarded the southbound Southern Pacific train, Wwhich was then at the station, and in at- tempting to arrest him one of the offi- cers was throwd off the car and Con- stable Davis severely stabbed and cut about the head with an ice pick brand- ished by the insane man. The officers at Merced were notified, and as the train pulled into .uat clty fifteen deputies went after Coward. He was se- curely entrenched in the car and told the officers that if they camg after him he would fight, but that if they let him go to Fresno he would surrender peaceably. They let him go and at Fresno he left the train and was overpowered by four police- men. Coward has served three terms in the | asylum. He has been in the realty busi- ness at Woodland, Modesto and several other Central California towns. Financial reverses years ago caused the unbalancing of his mind. WANAC SAYS SHERIF SHIT WITH REVDLVER Continued from Page 1, Column 5. him. The tragedy has cast deep gloom IBEATS WIFE ALMOST | - DAILY.EOR 38 YEARS Two Aged Seattle Women Tire of Abuse and Seek Divorce. SEATTLE, Dec. 2 Causland, wife of Willlam J. Causland for twenty-one years, has! brought suit in the Superior Court to obtain a decree of divorce. Almost at the same moment Gunild Fretlund filed a complaint asking for a decree from Knute Fretlund, her husband for thirty- eight years. Both women are over 65. In two ars, the McCausland woman says, she received but $50 from her husband, and she had to work for her living. The Fretlund woman says that for thirty-eight years she has been I beaten almost daily by her husband. For fourteen years he has compelled-her to live in a one-room shanty. —e—————— Great Plague Epidemic Advances. BERLIN, Dec. 22.—The St. Peters-| burg correspondent of the Tageblatt | holiday week, that an explosion would occur in one of the large department stores and cause the death of many per- sons, has resulted in the loss' of many thousand dollars to merchants during the week and driven terror stricken invet- erate bargain counter.fiends to Bostaon. How the report started no one seems to know, but it spread like wildfire." About one hundred clerks in stores, fearing they would lose their positions, resigned. One big store to calm the fear, which by Wednesday had become widespread, paid hundreds of dollars to local newspapers in advertising the fact that the fires in the boilers were drawn and that the only power in operation was electricity. To- day there was an explosion in a jewelry shop, in which two men were injured. This caused hundreds of shoppers to re- turn to their homes. The merchants fear they will suffer many thousands of dol- lare’ loss following to-day’s explosion. —————————— To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tableta Druggiate refund money it 1L falls to curs; E. W. GROVE'S signature Is on each 28e.s —_—————————— Crushed by Big Girder. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22.—J1. Nelson, a laborer employed at the Edison Elec- tric Company’'s generating plant, was killed to-day. Nelson was employed in assisting roofers on a new building, who were moving a heavy iron roof truss, when it fell and crushed him to death. Me- Mec- 2.—Martha E. i date: “Slowly but surely the danger of a great plague epidemic advances. Noth- ing more can be done to suppress it and already the infection covers an area of 180 by 300 miles. Owing to the lack of doctors it is impossible to isolate the sick.” —_——————— Ploneer Takes His Life. SALINAS, Dec. 22.—Frank Watson, aged 76 years and a native of Monterey County, died suddenly last night from the effects of chloroform taken with suicidal intent. The deceased had been morose and despondent for some time past over fancied misfortunes. He was a brother of ex-Sherliff Thomas Watson, ML PO - Britain Is on the Alert. LONDON, Dec. 22.—It was announced to-night that the British Government, in response to communications from its Consuls at Riga and other Russian ports, has authorized them in case of danger to charter vessels for the re- moval of British subjects. Alfred Henry Lewis. Margaret Sangster. Helen Dare. ‘W, L. Brown, Mabel Beeson. Marion Harland, Im‘rmsed n Suz. thy New Features. It Is the Smnda]( Paper of the West. e Well-Groom: ‘oman. B: 28 Ka(herlne Mor?gn?v ¥ 6 !Q‘Nlbhol !o}}' ?%; v o WAusuflt&rescb?m b Live Waména Page. ‘[‘he :!?.ap. ~ eron. Blouse Desl, What to thy e Do e Fhe F‘go lsfl% By Mar- Yo' o : e President. Fourth Install- ment of r. Lewlis' Great Story of Modern Politics, Alfred Henry Lewis, How She Saved the General. B E el n Mmuder Jarnette. Y ial 'tnnd’ By ’flchohl Nemo. 2 y x xflfl! Et ks that v.?a-ht Great Inter- ot Francis- s of the bel Bu- ;53 Hl the News /) ountul. .“' over the entire county. e 2oty RECORD 1S BAD ONE. Slayer of Sheriff Smith Is Knowa to Santa Rosa Police. SANTA ROSA, Dec. 22.—Frank Wil- lard, who shot and killed Sheriff Smith of Mendocino County at Ukiah this morning and then took several shots at Judge White, 18 well known here, where he has a criminal record. He was | arrested here in 1903 on a charge of | assault to commit murder for an at- tack on a half-breed Indian. He was defended by Attorney Clarence F. Lea. The charge was dismissed on the In- struction of the court on the ground that the evidence was at variation with the information filed. A new informa- tion was filed, and Attorney Lea with- drew from the case because Willard refused to pay him anything for his gervices, although he had money. At- torpey Joseph P. Berry, who took the case, advised Willard to consent to be sent to an asylum, as it was the be- lef of the attorney that the man was insane. Willard would not listen to the advice, and roundly cursed the at- torney. The trial was held before Judge Seawell and resulted in an acquittal. ‘Willard was arrested here about six months ago for threatening the life of Jaller Piezzl. The jailer believed his life was in danger, and insisted that the man be held for insanity, but Willard was allowed to go. ————————————— WIDOW VETTER CONSENTS 10 A COMPRONISE Agrees to Drop Suit Against Millionaire Packer. —_— PITTSBURG, Dec. 22.—The spirit of Christmas time has affected the Pittsburg millionaires who are in trouble. G. D. Packer will probably present Mrs. Mary L Vetter with a $25,000 check. The buxom widow is suing for $100,000 for breach of promise and she will send a neat bundle containing 140 love letters, a diamond ring ‘worth $1600, and notice of release from her }matrimonial claims, ending the pending litigation. The peace plans have been worked out by lawyers interested in the suit who are aware of the sensational developments to follow if the case ever comes to trial. Packer's attorneys have employed detee- | | tives to shadow Mrs. Vetter. the meeting held to-day between )lr-. Vet. and her lawyer. They refused to tell -‘tnuw-fl during the conference, nun comes from zm «tudnnt' t a compromise has been reached t the breach ot promise suit will .—_‘*—_ o 1s lx’:m , Dec. 22.—Chief Engineer Ball of ‘the .Fire Department, ahmd by F. K. Mathews and others ‘who dfm& inefficiency in h-;aln‘ the | Third street planing mill fire on ember 19, was exonerated to-night. All were declared to be stained, after long Investigation BOCKS JUCCLED CONDEMNED NAN \J BY THE MUTUAL BECS FOR LIFE Tosses on Real Estate Con-| Kentuckian Awaiting Death cealed by Manipulation by the Order of MeCurdy | TS ARE DOCTORED | ACCOTUD e Same Expedient Said to Have ‘Been Resorted To by the| New York Life Company NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Additional testimony as to the management of the Mutual Life Insurance Company was adduced to-day by witnesses be- fore the legislatiye committee on in- surance investigation, tending to show that the company used profits from the sale of securities to conceal the reduec- tion of book values of real estate, or | losses, as Charles E. Hughes, counsel| to the committee, called them. Francis Hendricks, superintendent of | the State Insurance Department, when on the witness stand yesterday, said he had never heard of sueh a thing and that it had never been called to his attention. To-day, after auditors | of the Mutual Life had testified to this fact, Isaac G. Vanderpoel, chief exam- iner of the department, declared that | he had not discovered the matter In | his examination of the company lasti| year when in his report he gave the | company what was practically a cer-‘; tificate of “good character.” He said | these manipulations “of the figures were nof apparent in the books. These transfers of profits to the debit side of the profit and loss ac- count were made by the auditors upon the instructions of President McCurdy | and Vice President Grannis and the | written instructions were produced They named the figures that adjusted the accounts. Last year while there was really a profit of almost $1,500,000 when these transfers were made no profit whatever was shown. Vanderpoel said he had examined the report of 1904, which showed no profits from the sale of securities. Al- though he knew this was untrue he did not so report it, because he did not think it was necessary. The same situation existed in the New York Life, according to Vander- | poel, although the practice was not| general. When asked what he did in the matter he said, Nothing.” Van- derpoel said he had examined the Hanover Bank account of the New York Life in 1904 and did not find the $100,000 that was paid to Andrew Ham- ilton. Vanderpoel never knew of the year- end loans of the Metropolitan Life to Vermilye & Co. and never knew how the company handled its collateral loans. He sald he never in an exam- | ination of a company went back of fts | ledgers. 1 Henry D. Appleton, second deputy In | the Insurance Department, was on the | stand a large part of the afternoon. He testified to his duties and detailed legislation that had been advised by | the department to control assessment companies. Appleton sald that no| more attention is paid to the state- ment of a New York company than is paid to the statement of a company incorporated in any other State. He said no actual inspection is made of a report unless an examination is made. <"The committe¢ adjourned ow Christmas and will resume its inve: tigation next Wednesday. Sessions then will be held up to and including | Saturday, which will be the last day | of the committee’s investigation. —_—————— SERUM CHECKS TUBERCULOSIS AMONG CATTLE Experiments Prove the Success of Behring’s Preventive. Special Dispatch to The Call, PARIS, Dec. 2.—During a series of ex- tensive experiments with a quantity of bovovaccige sent by Professor Behring. the serum expert, for use at a gathering of the most eminent physicians in France at Melun, it was demonstrated that this serum prevents tuberculosis among cat- tle. The experiments conducted at Me- Tun, it is the general bellef of the dec- tors, present. constitute the greatest step yet taken toward the discovery of a se- rum for the prevention and cure of tuber- culosis among human beings. The doctors pronounced the experiments at Melun ab- solutely conclusive. Under the supervision of Professor Val- lee of the Alfort Medical College and Sec- retary Rosignol of the Soclety of Veterin- ary Surgeons, forty head of cattle were procured. Numbers of these were inocu- lated with bovovaccine. These, with a number of others not vaccinated, were placed among still other cattle already afflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis. The unvaccinated cattle contracted tuber- culosis while those inoculated with the bovovaccine proved to be immune from the disease. Then the experiments were repeated, but this time to demonstrate fully the power of the bovovaccine by inoculation instead of mere contact. A number of fresh cattle not used in the first series of experiment had bovovaccine injected into their veins and under the hide. They and others not treated with bovovaccine were inoculated with a virulent culture of pul- tuberculosis. The effect was decisive. The unvaccinated cattle pulmonuy tuberculosis in its worst The vaccinated cattle were ab- | | could give testimony that | missions of the HORSE SINKS TO NECK IN BED OF A CREEK Treacherous Quicksands En- gulf Animal in Remark- ably Short Tune. Spectal Dispatoh to The Call. SAN BERNARDINO, Dec. 22.—It re- on the Gallows for Killing Goebel Seeks the Truth WRITES FOR EVIDENCE A\sks : Bakersfieldian Whe Claims to Know Something for “God’s Sake to Tell It” ———— BAKERSFIELD, Dec. 22.—Charles E. Ehler, on a ¢ot in the County Hospital, suffering from a wound presumably self-inflicted, has admitted to the su- perintendent, Frans Buckreus, that he has information as to the killing of Governor William Goebel of Kentucky, which, if it were presented on the wit- ness stand, would clear Caleb Powers, former Secretary of State and now un- der sentence of death for complicity im the murder of the late Governor. A few days since Powers wrote from the Blue Grass State to Ehler in Ba- kersfleld, saying, in substance: “1 see. by a press dispatch that you may be an important witness in the Goebel murder. For six years I have lain in prison and three times I have been sentenced to death for a erime of which I am as inn nt as the angels around the thronme. If you have any information that will throw light on the death of Governor Goebel, then, for Ged’'s sake, declare yourself and ald in proving my innocence.” Ebler, on receiving this letter, per- mitted Superintendent Buckreus to read it, and the latter, recognizing its importance, questioned Ehler closely, whereupon the latter admitted that he waould save the life of Powers and he Intimated that if the ex-Secretary’'s execution were imminent he would give such testi- mony. . When Buckreus had read.the plead- | ing letter of the condemned official he | satd: “Do you know anything that would ar this man of the charge of mur- .\nd Ehler, who is wracked with a pain, after a moment's study, bowed his head “Then,” sald the superintendent, “in God's name, why don't you declare yourself?” “Because it would implicate others Ehler replied. “But you would not see an innocemt man executed,” said the official indig- nantly. Ehler reflected for a moment and said: ‘Well, Caleb Powers isn't executed yet.” And thereupon he closed his eyes and | refused to say more. Powers has been notified of the ad- man now in the ho: pital, and whether any steps will be taken by the Kentucky authorities is not known here. It was shortly after midnight on the morning of December 7 last that Ehler was mysteriously shot In front of the Southern Hotel. He passed out of the | corridor of the hotel and a few minutes later a shot was fired, the bullet strik- ing Ehler in the breast. No assailant was .in sight when help came, nor was any weapom to be seen on the sidawalk and none was found on Ehler’s person. i< POWERS MYSTIFIED. Alleged Slayer of Goebel Does ot Know Bakersfleld Man. CINCINNATI, Dee. 22.—When seen in jail at Newport, Ky.. to-night Caled Powers admitted that he wrote to Eh- ler and declared that he is entirely in- nocent of the charge of murder. Pow- | ers said: “I do not know Ehler and never heard of him until his name appeared in the newspapers as being an eye- witness to the murder of .Governor Goebel. I have Investigated every clew concerning the murder and it is to-day as much of a mystery to me as it is to the outside world. \4 Morgan Morgans Dies. SEATTLE, Dec. 22.—On Sunday, Decem- bér 17, the remains of Morgan Morgans, for nearly twenty years superintendent of the Black Digfnond coal mines, were lald to rest in Lake View Cemetery. Mr. Mor- gans was well known in California, where he ha. been actively connected with mines for over thirty years. He dled in Spokane Saturday, December 9, at the age of 75 years, —_————————— Women Accused of Perjury. VANCOUVER, B. C.. Dec. 2—Mrs Thomas Jackson and her mother, Mrs. P. Jones, were arrested here to-day on a charge of perjury growing out of their testimony at an inquest held in the city two weeks ago over the body of Thomas Jackson. 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