The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 2, 1906, Page 6

6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1906 NEW CHIEF OF POLICE TAKES FORMAL COMMAND Hodgkins Goes Out and Wilson Is in Charge. Present Chiefship Carries Full Authority. R Rtis 1-The changes in the which were partment STABBED BY ITALIANS. HELD UP BY FOOTPADS. AN J R. B. Morrill | near the waylaid ads wi re- nd Morrilt He watch $80, obeyed | hahds and m covered ather went th to r Aed men are described as et § inches tall and ts and black slouch ——— DEATH OF OLD POLITICIAN, AKLAND. William W r form Republi- died yes- Ninth Mor- but He | v ative of Bcotland, s youth, oyed by the He was Sherift will be noon at 2:30 Hall, Peralia, Services - will be traz Lodge of Ma- in former 1 ————— GLADDING WEDS. ELEY e wedding of rles ® and Mr »ok place this -aft ne of Dr. C. K. Jenness, Methodist Epis- adding is prison and was for many practitioner DR. BERK F. Gladdin Heywood at the h. ot | her promine rkeley. Mrs. Gladd rmer husband’s s wood es ago. The cd ® = 8 E a & H il make their home at Represa, near Oskiand, Jan, 1.— 21 Magnolia street Scventh-street is morning and er right elbow. s that were treated | ] the body, don’t dose it with medicine. = Scott’s Emulsion is the best nourishment in existence. It is more'than a food; you may doubt it, but it | digests perfectly easy and at the same time gets the digestive functions in a condition so that ordinary food can be easily di- gested. Try it if you are run down and your food doesn’t nourish you. BOOTT & BOWNE, oy Peasi Strees, Now Ferke | legally remain open. | promptiy | for | likely | coal, — <+ LIQUOR DEALERS 6F BERKELEY IN FIX Licenses Expire and Cannot Be Renewed for a Week. BERKELEY, Jan. 1. ery dealer in Berkeley to-day faced the Iproblem of doing business without & | liguor license, and each for himself de- [ cided the question whether to rémain | open and sell dripks without any li- | cense or to close and keep closed un- | til next | | Board of Trustees will have given out | Tuesday, by which time the licenses. For the first time <in the history of the town it was to-day practically & dry city. Almost all of the liquor men decided to be on the safe side and to keep tielr places closed until the Ii- censes are handed out. The tangle in which the saloon men find themselves is the result of hasty action on the part of the Trustees a week ago, when, after granting li- saloon men in the town, and thus | oming thirteen dealers to extinctlon, | they found that their action was fi-] because certain technical require- s had not been complied with, The ents were such as to make it for the Trustees, at that to award 1 s for the & year or to take any actiomn un- ‘next regular meeting on Jan- the saloon ‘men ‘are - puzzled. have no licenses. They -cannot If they do busi- s any citizen may make complaint them, and an arrest will follow. If they are arrested violating the law they are not find favor with the Trustees s to ‘the time for award- xt week mer was asked by sev- dealers what they had bout the. matter and he re- at -if they opened they did so own risk. The -dealers, ac- kept closed doors to-day will do so during the cases of men who of getting one of the icenses, and even these to take the chance of be- and fined for technically the law. accordingly, 1s for .a drouth in Berkeley, prevalling every- for the first time They ne against ingly, ibition town ALAMEDA IS VISITED BY MANY BURGLARS Thieves Hold High Carni- val in the Island City. ALAMEDA, Jan. .1—Burglars thieves took advantage of here last night, and reports of robberies pted housebreaking came in police. etation in a way that he officers busy. D. D. Graham of 1430 Ninth street reported that a valuable sealskin at and $45 were stolen from- her home while she was visiting friends. The burglar ga d entrance to the res- idence by forcing a window. Thieves visited the poultry coops of Mrs. J. A. Richardson, 343 Railroad -avenue, and carried away two dozen chickens. ' An- tonia Perata of 1100 College avenue and | lost $60 and the best pair of pantaioons n his wardrobe. He suspects that a New s. guest stole his cash-and clothing and has given - the police a de- | scription of the missing trousers. H. R Téylor and Charles Thompson, armed w! ith a révolver and a‘bucket of routed a-supposed housebreaker from the basemcmt of the Taylor resi- dence, 1275 ‘Regent street. ADVENT OF NEW YEAR QUIETLY CELEBRATED Business Is Suspended and Clubs of Oakland Keep Open House. AKLAND, Jan. - 1—Residents of Oakland joined to-day in.a quiet cele- bration of New .Year's. day, general business being suspended. s took advantage of the ahmost per- fect weather to celebrate the holiday out of-doprs Open house was kept all day at the Claremont Country Club and the - | Athenian and Nile clubs of, this_city; in accordance with custom long establish- ed. Dyring the day the members of these organizations visited the club-. rooms i join for a time in the New, Year festivities. At the Claremont Country Club -the day was divided by the members between golf and tcnnis and the less strenuous pastimes of the clubheuse. —_———te DRINK CAUSES SUICIDE. ALAMEDA, Jan.-1.—Discouraged be- cause of dissensions In his family and despairing of the prospects of bettering Lis conditions during the néw year, Thomas B. Morlee ended his life to- day by drowning himself in .the es- tuary off the north end of Chestnut street. He had given his watch a few hours before his death to his son, Roy Morlee, remarking as he did so, “This is yours, ROy; Yyou may never see me again.” Morlge's body was found float. ing in the water by C. J. Hensley and was yet warm when recovered by Dep- uty Coroner A. P. Smiley. P Morlee was 54 yedrs of age and had resided here for many years, being in | the employ of Mrs. William Johns of 2051 Santa Clara avenue. He had quar- reled frequently with his wife becauso of his fondness for liquor, and, yester- day Mrs. Morlee was takeén to a local hospital suffering from illness due, it is said by her son, Roy, to the actions of his father. —_—— WHOLESALE DEALERS WIN, OAKLAND, Jan. 1.—The wholesale coal dealers of Oakland defeated the retallers in a game of baseball at Idora Park this morning by a score of 11 to 5. The teams were composed of the following players: Wholesalers—Brown, second ham, pitcher; White, third base; Tairs, short. first base; Weeks, catcher; ‘White, left fleld, and Cram- lett field: fe bese; Hecken- 3 e right fleld, and Slater, third Ry FALLS ON TIN HORN.—Oakland, Jan, 1.— 18 vears old, & tallor, who had Sousa, been welcoming : he new year by blowing a tin e and Alice ey . He car- he was about ried the horn with him and ss to blow a final blast, he took @ header and the Bom was driven into roof mouth. e went to the Reoei tal for . ving Hospital fo: liquor | es to ten out of the twenty-three | the | festivities | Unusual Height of Oakland Laborer Is Responsible for His Horrible Death |WARNING IS TOO LATE W. A. Hartsock, Iee Company Employe, Almost Instantly Killed While at His Work | | OAKLAND, Jan. 1.—To the unusual | height of W. A. Hartsock, a laborer, ! was due his accldental death this morn- |ing, when his head was horribly crushed between a floor and an- ele- vator beam. He was taking a load of ice from the basement to the first floor of the California Ice Company’s build- ing at Becond street and ° Broadway. Hartsock was 6 feet 5 inches in height ( and his head was much higher than the beam by which the elevator- was .ised and he leaned over this beam. He had failed to open the door of the floor above and before his fellow work- men could warn him his head was | caught and crushed. Little 1s known of Hartsock except ) that he was a native of Ohio, about 30 | vears old, and has a family in the East. He came here from' Stockton a short | time ago and secured employment with the ice company. For the last tive days he had a room at the Colonlal House at Second street and Broadway: Hartsock and A. Kenline, who was at §58 Haight ‘avenue,. Alameda, went to the icehouse to work at- 6 o'clock this morning and twenty minutés later the unfortunate man was-killed. Ken- line says he tried to warn Hartsock of | the danger, but was too late. | Deputy Coroner Van Vranken was notified of/the accident and removed the body to the Morgue, -From papers found. in the dead man’'s pocket it Is upposed that he was a member of the Stockton Lodge of Americans. BB e T R B S BLACKWAL NOW ISSERTS HILER Pennsylvanian Declares That Fitzsimmons and His Wife Have Hatched Up Bold Plan RS T Special Dispatch to The Call, FRANKLIN, Pa., Jan. 1.—Major Mil- ler, in an interview, bluntly accuses Mrs, Titzsimmons of being in con- spiracy with her husband ‘and, Leon Friedman to blackmail him. His out- burst is due to & telegram from Scran- ton saying that Friedman has consult- ed lawyersand paved the way for a | $100,000 damage suit. Miller says that even in the lifetime of Gority, Mrs. Fitzsithmons’ first husband, he was con- | sidered a goed thing, and cites a létter {from the woman to Gority which he says substantiatés his claim. “This is about the crudest bit of | plackmail I .ever heard of,” declared | Miller this afternoom. It looks ‘to me |'like tife work of amateurs. But they are not dealing with an amateur.” It iooks, he declares, “as if ths whole bunch, including ‘Mrs. Fitz, needed money.” He added: s “Here is Fitz:- He has been whipped. As a money-maker he is done for. His wife, whom T used to know,-sends him a“telegram that is through- with him Then Fjtz sets up a roar, ‘It's and Friedman, jumps into print, T'll give them all the fight they . e e A o J. L. DU FRANE JR. WEDS. OAKLAND; Jan.1.—John L. du Frane Jr., son Of the’ electric alarm engi- neer, was married this evening at St. Paul's Episcopal Church to Miss Mar- garet Smith, the daughtér of Mrs. Jo- seph Scott- of 306 Fourteenth street. After their honeymoon the’young cou- ple will make their home ‘in this city. TN A TR Aged Woman Dies. ~ ALAMEDA, Jan..1.—Mrs. Susan Fon- tairte Glassford, descendant -of General Winder, of military note in the war of 1812, died la8t night at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Thomas H. Ben-] ton, of 88§ Walnut street.” Mrs, Glass-' ford was 73 years old, a ndtive of Richmond, Va: G —————— STRUCK WRONG "MAN/—Oakland, Ja Antone, Swartz began the celebration of the hew year by attempling to thrash a cripple, &nd when Captain of Police Petersen appeared on the sceme he undertook to chastise guardian of peace.. Before he realized what had happened he found himself on the pave- ment, all but *‘out.”” He went to thé Re- celving Hospital repairs and later to the City Prison to answer & charge of disturbing the pegoe. e — ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY.—Oakland, Jan. 1.—John Towns, residing at .1801 Seventh sireet, reported to-night to the police that a negro armed with a knife or pistol had stoppe him at Seventh’and Campbell streets at footpad® was frightened away by approaching pedestrians before he got any valuables. — e e—— o When Doggy Felt at Home, Dr. John JBrown, the much-loved author of “Rab and His Friends,” ufed to say that he °was personally ac- i quainted with every dog in Edinburgh, Once while out driving he stopped in the middle of a sentence and looked lout eagerly at the back of the ca riage. “Is it some one you know?” asKed the friend who was with, him. “No,” he replied. “It's a @og I don't know.” An old resident of Edinburgh ! tells thls story. A dog had recently been brought to the city from Iceland, and for a long time apparently suf- fered from all the pangs of homesick- ness. Dr. Brown became much inter- ested in the animal, and tried fre- quently to comfort it. At last one day he came to the house of his friend, Dr. Peddie, with a smiling face, and | sald: “That dog is all right now. He went out last night and saw the pole star, and that made him feel quite at home here.”—New York Tribune. USES BRASS KNUCKLES QXH FIGHT.— rested by charge of battery. The brass found at the scene of the fight. ¥ —_— e the'| | o'clock this evening and tried to rob him. Tho Assistant Chief McDonald - Céndemns the Methods of Constructing ~ Fireplaces SON SAVES HiS FATHER Invalid Smells Smoke at the Home of G. A. Kernick and Gives Alarm by Shqufing OAKLAND, Jan, 1.—The home of G. A. Kernick at 1904 Summit street was the scene of one of the dangerous grate fires that have kept the firemen busy during the last twenty-four hours, and had it not been for the fact that Ker- nick’s father was 11l and unable to sleep there might have been a serlous accident. The elder Kernick has been ill for several days and last night was rest- less. As he lay awake at 5 o'clock this morning he detected the fumes of burning woodwork and called loudly for help. The son.ran to his father's room, removed him to a placé of safety and turned in a fire alarm. The dam- age to the house will amount to about $100. . The cause of the fire was a defectlve grate, which has been.the cause of four other fires within. twenty-four hours. Chief N: “A. Ball of the Fire Depart- ment and Fire Warden and Assistant Chief "McDonald do not hesitate te con- demn the mianner In which.fhe grates have been. constructed. Under tlie building ordinance recently passed, they say, this danger will be avoided. Among the homes that have been visit- ed by such’fires within the last twenty=- four hours are those of G. Cohn, 1143 Filbert street; Ellen Watson, 1730 Ninth avenue; M. L. Boardwell, 1512 Brush street, and Kernick. Fire Warden McDonald said to-day: The adogtion of a new bulldling ordinance was absolutely necessary for the protection of property. Many fine homes have re- cently been built that® have defective grates and where the owners have ‘spared no expense on the other parts of ‘the house they have seemed to give no thought to this dan- ger. Since the t cold .weather began fires have been kindled to warm the houses and henee the ‘many fires of that kind at this time. The trouble has been.that there was no protection between the fires and the Wood- work. The wood is brought down so close to the grate that it becomes lgnited, smolders and finally. when the family has retired, bursts into flame . The new ordinance regulates-the constriiction of grates. ROSE FESTIVAL | IN PASADENA Mishap Mars Race of Charioteers. P L PASADENA, Jan. 1.—Pasadena _cele- brated the New Year with the rose car- nival, which has become oge of the fea- tures of Southern California’s winter sea- son. Although the day was windy and djsagreeably cold, there was the usual great crowd which comes to the Crown-| City every New Year's day to see tife flower- parade and witness the chariot races and other sports at Carnival Park. Perhaps 40,000 or 50,000 visitors carae to the city by the half dozen transportation lines, in automobiles and other vehicles. There was the usual-show of Southern California’s floral wealth, the various vehicles in the parade being beautifully decorated with every flower that thrives’ at this season of the year. 5 A serfous casualty marked the charlot race, one of the features of the carnival. Thé four horses driven by Edward T. Off, became unmanageable at the conclusion of the first heat, which Off had won. They started to run away and swerved suddeniy; throwing Off fromi his chariot and rendering him unconscious. He was picked up and taken to a hospital, where his injuries were found to be of a serious nature. Qff is one of the most prominent citizens of Pasadena. .He was formerly a member of the well known drug firme of Off & Vaughn, and is at present one of the officers of the Pacific Express Company. 4 The accident took plage in the-presence of 50,000 people and created the wildest excitement. The pole of the chariot was broken when the team swerved, and the broken end ran into theé ground.’. The charjot, with its occupant,° was thrown high into the air and the vehicle did not strike the ground for forty feet. Off was thrown upon his back. His injuries’ are chiefly bruises. The team dashed wildly away and made a complete circle of the track before it was stopped. - ° ———————— PAINE DENIES THE REPORT _THAT MecCALL HAS RESIGNED —t—— o Trustee of ‘the New York Life Asserts That No Meeting Was Held o - ¢ on Saturday.® > NEW YORK, Jan. 1.—A report that John A. McCait had resigned: as presi dent of the New York, Life Insurapce Company at a meeting of the trustees of the company last Saturday was de- nled to-day by Augustus G. Palne, a member of the committee recently ap- pointed to go over the company's af- fairs. e Palne sald tha{ the report was ab- solutely untrue and added that the trustees did not meet on Saturday. It had been said that the meeting -was a secrbt one and that the trustees had pledged themselves to keep the resig- nation secret until the annual report of the company is issued to-mqrrow. The Times to-morrow will Say: “Al- though neither John A. McCall nor any member of his family would discuss the WS OF THE COUNTIES AF HEAD CRUSHED (BLAZES CAUSED |LONDON CIRL BY ELEVATOR' BY BAD CRATES| } BEFRIENDED BY YERKES Miss Gladys Unger, Formerly of San Francisco, Given All That, Money Could Buy in Lifetime of Magnate LIVES IN HANDSOME HOME IN ENGLAND Young Artist and Writer and Her Mother Are Made the Objects of Lavish Expendi- tures by -the Millionaire Spectal Dispatch to The Call. —_ NEW YORK, Jan. 1L-The World to- morrow ‘will say: “There was an element of romance connected. closely.with the life of ‘Charles T. Yerkes in. London daring the past eight years. The intefest which the great financler took in the career of a young - American girl, Gladys Unger, formerly of San Francisce, is teo well known to many persons 6n_both sides of the Atlanti¢-to be regarded ‘as a secret, ‘though * it has néver 'before been made public. “About twelve years ago there lived in St. Johns Wood, a well-known suburb. of Londor, specially favored by artists, Mr. and Mre. Jules Goodman. “Their. house, which Is called.‘The Wigwam,’ i€ on Aca- viously: Mrs. Frank . Unger “of Chicago. Frank Unger lived .at one time in San Francisco. Owing to a matrimonial dis- agreement she left Unger and went to England, -taking’ ‘her littleé daughter, Gladys. . She-married Goodman, and.at that time they wefe in somewhat embar- rassed circumstances. © ° : A near neighbor to fhe ‘Wigwam’ was Mrs. James Brown Pottef, who took an interest in vretty little Gladys. Gladys was remarkably cléver, her drawing and painting being unusually bfilllant for a child. : ‘‘After many struggles Goodman . suc- ceeded in-establishing this stepchild. and his “wife in Pafis, where: the girl, then about 12 years old, was. taught by. the best masters. - About.this time, perhaps eight years ago, Yerkes was in Paris.a great .deal. One-day, at the house of an American, Yerkes met Gladys and her mother. He took a_deep interest in- the girl, immediately sent her to expensive masters, - and as she grew older watched her with affection, perhaps not altogether philanthropie. 3 “About this time Mr. and Mrs. Goodman agreed to differ. A separation-took place; Mrs. Goodmain staying ‘in Parls -with Gladys." ) 3 s _“One day there arrived at .a splendid suite of Tooms at the Hotel Cecil, Lon- don, a fashionably dressed young womah, accompanied by her mother and two malds. . They had a -perfect ‘mountain of trunks. A suite of four or five elegant rooms had been .reserved for them.by Charles T. Yerkes. “Gladys Unger, her motor brougham, hér -beautiful dresses, - costly jewelry, culture and’ intelligence and- her beality s0on bécame familiar features of Lon-~ don life. Tt wes understodd that-Gladys plays. . LIVES IN FINE HOUSE. Rh . “One. .day a bolt from _the. blue descended into the luxuripus drawing- roém° of suite- No. 27, Hotel - Cecil. Yerkes appeared and -informed - Mrs. Goodman ‘and .her daughter -that Mrs. Yerkes was’on the point of arriving in London-and_ that she intended ¢oming at .ohce to the Hotel Cecil In arder to use 7. which- she-had- heafd had been engaged for her befefit some months previou In an incredibly short space of time Mrs. Goadman and Miss “‘Uinger were en route to Paris. Tle narrow escape seemed, however, to have no speclal effect on the nerves of Yerkes or his proteges,- Mrs. Yerkes did ;not care muclr -for London, ard therefore ‘did nof stay v. long. In the course of & few Weeks' she left for Paris.. The. day; followlig, Mrs. 3ood- man, Miss Unger and their accompany- ing pargpliernalia ,returned “once .more to suife No. 27, Hotel Cecil. “Yerkes finally established Miss Un- ‘'get in 4 handsome house in Charles street, where she now résides. °She has written and produced several -plays and playlets that have been more or- lesy successful: It is not krown definitely how she had been pravided. for in Yerkes' will, although it is said he left her, pothing on which to maintain her expensive establishrhent. = " FUNBRAL ‘OF MILLIONAIRE. THe will 6t Yerkes will’be read to his family to-morrow afternoon. Clar- ence S. Knight of Chicago,- who was Yerkes' legal adviser and who drew the will, arrited here . yesterday. Knight would not discuss the general provisions of the will, bwt said: . “Mr. Yerkes has left.his houses at Fifth avenue and Sixty-eighth street, With their immensely wvaluable con- tents, so that tife’ Metropolitan Muse- ‘um of Art will control the property. The pictures and cother objects, how- ever, will femain where they are, the museum having the control and direc- tion and the collection will be called the Yerkes collection.” Knight thqught the value of f{he houses and their contents had not been underestimated. It ,is believed that matter yesterday, positive conflrmation was obtained that Mr. McCall Te- signed the presidency of the New York Life Insurance Company. “With it came [nformagion that Mr, Mec- Call had already turned over to the com- pany a check for $235,000 covering the | tion. moneys that Andrew Hamilton received | anything further, but I do not appre- in 1904 and which are yet unaccounted | hend any trouble of that sort.” It was also learned that |y for in detail. ‘Alexander T. Orr would probably suc- ceed Mr. McCall as president of the dom- pany. ° “Mr, McCall's payment of the $235,000 charged against Andrew Hamilton fol- lowed upon receipt of the report from the New York Life's executive manager, which John C. McCall brought from Paris known that the Fowler committee did ot consider Hamilton’s t satls- %wry as an explanation of trans- payments ¢ ve of Hamilton’s offer to ,000 pending a final settiement they are worth nearly $5,000,000. Knight was asked if there was likeli- hood of the will being contested. He - I am sure there” will be no litiga- Just at this time I cannot say There was at least a partial recon- ciliation between Charles T. Yerkes and his wife about two weeks ago. Knight said to-day. “Two weeks before Mr. Yerkes died,’ said Knight, “Mrs. Yerkes visi him at the Waldorr-Astoria. She kissed him and they had a short conversa- tion. She did not repeat the visit be- cause after that Mr. Yerkes was un- ‘consclous most of the time.” The funeral of Yerkes took place from his home at Fifth avenue and Sixty- cla road.- Mrs. Goodman had.been pre-| Unger ‘painted miniatures’ and: wrote ENDS ARGUMENT WITH A SHOT Trackwalker Kills Compan- ion Whom He Quarreled With Over Trivial Matter SELF-DEFENSE CLAIMS Sluyér Declares His Vietim Tried to Attack Him With an Ax in a Lonely Cabin| Special Dispatch to The Call. SEATTLE, Jan. 1.—Michael Berger, &} Great Northern trackwalker, late Satur- day night shot and killed Ed Burns, an- other trackwalker, in a bunkhouse (v miles west of Index. Berger is now in the | County Jail. Berger and Burns were | alone in the house when the shooting oc- curred. They quarreleg over whether the | door to the shack should be left open. Berger claimed he acted In self-defense, as Burns tried to attack him with an ax. He shot him through the heart and killea | + him instantly. Willlam Stewart, a third trackwalker, 'who lives with Berger and Burns, says he was coming down the track when he | heard the shot fired. He feared the two | men had had trouble and looked in at the | window. There he saw Berger cooking | supper and Burns' body lying on the floor. He returned at once to Index with- | out entering the house. An hour and a | half later Berger reached Index and gave | himself up to the station agent. Stewart was held as a witness. SHOT IN FAE “WHILE SLEEPING Ag'ed German Ranch Hand Is Victim of a Mysterious| Crime Near :_lcramento — , Special Dispatch to The Call SACRAMENTO, Jan. 1.—An old German ranch hand named Mauch was found this morning in a house on the old Isaac Free- man ranch, near Franklin, fifteen mfles south of here, suffering from a gunshot wound °in the face. His lower jaw is | almost entirely shot away. He probably wili die. Mauch does not kgpow who shot him, and District Attérney Seymour, who investigated the matter, has not been able to throw much light upon the strange case. - Mauch: was shot while in bed, and the .weabon, a double-barrgl shotgun, re- loaded, ‘'was found standing in the corner of an adjoining room. One theory is that Mauch shot himself, but this is not gen- éraly believed. Mauch has made no statement other than he does not know who shot him. HOQODLUMS STONE POLICEMAN WHO_ TRIES TO ARREST DRUNK Policeman Mike McPhee had a desper- ate’ eficountet with a gang of hoodlums last .night in the Potfero. They stoned him, ‘though he escaped without serious injury. His hands were badly cut as the resplt of striking many of them who gave bim a’hand-to-hand battle. * The trouble occurred at Eighteenth and Missouri streets and was precipitated by the patrolman endeavoring to arrest Har- ry Halloway, a member of the gang, who was helplessiy drunk. The crowd num- heted elghteen. Threats were made to deter McPhee from his duty. This did not prevent him from making the arrest. As he proceeded to the patrol box with his charge the roughs stoned him. Many of _the more .desperate ones closed in on -him, -and the policeman was kept busy ducking blows ffom his assailants. Mec- Phed succeeded in arresting his man, and to-day he will swear to warrants for the arrest of the other members of the gan: * There has heen much resistance to of- ficers lately, .and some of the Police Judges Mave said they would emulate the example of magistrates In England and 9| the Eastern States, where fighting an of- ficer in, thie discharge of his duty is pun- fshed to the full extent of the law. This case will prove a test and show how such crimes are to be considered in San Fran- cisco, Fe ———————— Miners’ Will Investigate Murder. DENVER, Jan. 1.—“An inquiry into the assassination of former Governor Steunenberg of, Idaho will be conducted by the Western Federation of Miners,” sald President Charles H. Moyer of that organization to-day. “We will do this not only to prepare ourselves agalnst any charges that may be brought against the federation, but in order to ascertain if possible whether or not a member of our organization committed the crime. The affair is to be lamented. * No one is more sorry for its perpetration than are the officers of the federation.” . B — Cashmere Shawls. Delhi, ig India, is the principal dis- tributing pvint for the famous cash- mere shawls, woven of the hair of camels, goats and sheep in the pro- vince of Cashmere, which lies to the northward about 300 miles. There are brought to Delhi packed in panniers on the back of camels. The foreign demand for cashmere shawls has almost entirely ceased; a very few are shipped from India now- | days because in Europe and America i they are no longer fashionable. Hence | prices have gone down. Phe weavers { are dependent almost entirely upon the , local market of India, and good shawls { may be bought for about half what | they tormerly cost. ( In Northern - India every Hindod, must have a shawl; it is as n.cunr!l i | | to him as a hat or a pair of boots to & | citizen of Chicago or New York, and it 1 is customary to invest a considerajle part of the family fortuné in sha They are handed down from gene: to generation, for they never wear but; the older they are the more val they are considered. There oftes may be i | i giiis ¥ BT POLICE PREVENT REVOLVER DUEL Arrive in Time to Stop Pro- posed Fight Between Two Gamblers in City of Reno BLOODSHE D IS AVERTED Officers Interrmpt Proceed- ings Just as Angry Men Were About to Use “Guns” e Special Dispatch to The Call RENO, Jan. 1.—Mart Johnson, formerly of San Francisco, and owner of a gam- bling house in this city, and Charles De- laney, also a gambler and formerly an employe of the Louvre saloon, were omy the point of settling their differemces by fighting a duel in the suburbs of Rend vesterday morning when stopped by the police. The men had quarreled during the night over some trivial affair and finally Johnson placed a revolver to Delaney’'s breast and threatened to kill him. Friends interfered and the men were finally sep- arated, it being mutually decided to set- tle the affair by fighting a duel with re- i volvers. Accordingly seconds were chosen and the men proceeded to the scene of the proposed conflict. In the meantime the officers had been apprised of what was in the wind and hastened after them, arriving just before the he- ginning of hostilities and averting blood~ shed. DIRECTOR OF MINT RECOMMENDS VILAS Appointment of Politician te Seattle Assay Office Will Displease Miners. Special Dispatch to The Call. SEATTLE, Jan. 1.—A letter has been ree celved by a prominent politician in Seat- tle from Senator Piles declaring that Cal- vin E. Vilas, & politiclan and member of the Legisiature, has been recommended to the President by Director of the Mint Roberts as the best person to name to succeed Fred A. Wing, the assayer who was forced to resign in order to restore confidence in the local office after the discovery of the peculations of Cashier Adams. Piles has always leaned toward the appointment of Vilas, and his letter is taken by politiclans to mean that ne other man will be considered for the posi- tlon. Among the bankers and Alaskans the cholce of Vilas or any other politi- clan. despite any recommendation of the Treasury officlals, will not meet with fa- vor. It is declared that Alaskans will not send their gold here until they are satisfied that the office Is purged of poli- tics. With political considerations “deter- mining the appointment of the head of the office they declare that a repetition of the Adams peculations becomes possi- ble through loose management and lack of proper supervision. The merchants, bankers and Alaskans favor the appoint- ment of some well trained man in the Treasury Department of the Government. TRACED TO FAR WEST THROUGH PHOTOGRAPH Man Murdered in Chicago a Former Inventor of Seattle. Special Dispatch to The Call. SEATTLE, Jan. 1-Theodore Edison, who was killed in Chicago ten days agw. has been traced by a photograph found in his pocket to Seattle. He lved here for eighteen months and was employed by the Seattle Electric Company. He roomed at the house of Assistant Engi- neer H. J. Crockett. The picture found in his pocket was a photograph of Crock- ett’s 1l-year-old daughter. While in Seat- tle Edison was regarded as an electrical genius. To Crockett he admitted that s name was not Edison, but that he had taken that name because of his admira- tion for Thomas A. Edison. He always stated that his folks were wealthy people of Bangor, Maine. He Invented a sub- marine boat and an airship. He also had an invention which marine men declared would make it easy to ralse sunken ves- sels. The best financiers in Seattle backed him while here. 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