The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 6, 1906, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, P T R ANUARY 6, 1906. i ENCAGED CIRL CHANGES MIND ughter of Well Known tesident of Asti Colony fopes With New Lover UN-AWAY ON FOOT lice of Two Counties Are \sked to Locate Miss Who Said to Be Only Sixteen » n IRR Special Dispaich to The ( Ja MUST FACE A JURY ON EXTORTION CHARGE Doctor Accused by Wife Is Bound Over for I'rial. ES n o r. William S eg brought SLAYER OF SHERIFF MUST STAND TRIAL ken From Asylum Au- thorities on a Writ of Habeas Corpus. COURT REFUSES TO CHANG ORDER MADE IN DIVORC #'ather Failx to Prove That His Child Is Suffering in the Care of Mother. 5.—After an all-day fodesto, refused sother he had ather's Pears’ My grandmother used Pears’ -Soap; perhaps yours did, too. We owe them gratitude for that. Use Pears’ for the children; they soon acquire the habit. Established in 1785 In D= Graves' Tooth Powder you have a perfect dentifrice and antiseptic. It insures moufi purity and beauty — becomes a part of one’s life in its twice-a-day use. Just ask your dentist about it. in handy metal cans or botties, 35 Dr-Graves’ Tooth Powder Co, 1 [ ; cover his body. [ 1 within the last year and a ha If. > DROWNING OF LARBIG A MY'§ Searchers Drag the Rroer in Vain for Bedy. Oiher Mariners Meet Like Faie Near Same Spot. e of Captain of the Santa Fe freight er Fri s at Antioch on Christmas eve h: aused his friends in this city to believe he met with fou! play. It is| w thirteen days since Captain Larbig or accidentally | of s body has friends are trying | find out if{ murdere yet no trace overed. e remains or the aged mariner came to The detectives of the Santa ard at work on the case, but availed nothing. an Joaquin 1 ed ill to the : Larbig is the third aster within a year and a half to lose| ais life there in a erious manner. Last winter Captain Gallagher of the »pkins pleasure yacht was drowned in| still of the night, and a few weeks| ater the life er of the bark B ing down the stre Neither of the above t was ost people are of the er was a and alcohol, but i. When the body . dark stories of a members of the , but all efforts e mystery failed top of these two peculiar and leaths in the silent waters of the that of Captain Lar- is even more myste s for the have not as yet the river has either « remains though E ged and detectives austed their utmost skill THOROUGHLY DRAGGED. Friday morning the papers con- lines about the mysterio in Larbig. He was last e 7 o'clock on Christmas g toward his boat, which was ving in winter quarters in the stream. Five days later his wife came up from t to inquire about her husband. tigation started, but no trace of r could be found. His room on board the little boat was broken open and then the plot thickened. On the bed lay his best clothes, where he had evidently placed them so as to have them rea » don on Christmas morning. The key to the door was missing. No- body had seen Larbig since Christmas eve and as he had a large sum of money, a valuable watch and other jewelry on his person at the time, his friends became convinced he was the victim of a foul piot. The work of dragging the river was commenced at once under the direction of C. D. Smith, the Santa Fe agent at Antioch. Four days of work avalled naught. Not a sign of the remains have en as vet, though the searchers t work and they hope their be rewarded within the next been few day If the body happens to be found and the money and jewelry are missing, Larbig's triends will be satisfied he.was murdered for his wealth. But should the valuables car on the person, the case will be dropped and set down as one of accidental ath. DETECTIVES WORK ON CASE. When the news of the disappearance of the captain reached the ears of the Santa Fe officials they immediately detailed De- tective Hall and a corps of other sleuths on the ca: But these knowing men weré baffled as the others had been. They were unable to throw a single ray of light on the mysterious case, though they fol- lowed up every clew and questioned every person along the river front of Antioch. Captain Larbig was around town dur- ing a greater part of Sunday, December 24, He told his friends he intended com- ing to this city the next day to spend Christmas with his wife and friends. He started for his boat about dusk, bidding a cheerful good night to Edward Swee- ney, one of his friends, but the next day he was nowhere to be seen. Noble Heath, foreman of a factory on | the outskirts of the town, was walking home along the raliroad tracks near the river. In front of him Captain Larbig wended his way. The mariner turned into the wharf as was his wont, and | started for the boat. Heath lost sight of him then, but a moment later he heard a sound of a falling body. He listened, | but, hearing nothing more, went his way | without investigating. Miss Helen Beede, daughter of one of Antioch’s representative citizens, was | visiting the house of & friend directly opposite the wharf where the steamer Frances lay. Her attention was at- | tracted by the pitiful moaning and groan- ing of a man. She also listened intently veral seconds, and then the sounds zway, and all was qulet and still | again IDEAL SPOT FOR HOLD-UP. Neither Heath nor Miss Beede thought |any more of the matter till they | heard of the mysterious disappearance iof the captain five days later. Then they told their stories. Had Captain Larblg fallen overboard accidentally he would hardly have lingered long enough to emit several groans, nor would his body have struck the wharf with a thud, such as Heath describes having heard so dis- tinctly on that eventful night. Not a soul was seen in the vicinity of the wharf, save Captain Larbig, when Heath was passing. The place is a lonely one, and an ideal spot for a footpad or murder. There are several piles of lum- ber and old scrap iron in the vicinity, which would afford ample shelter for a | prowler in the dark. To make away with the old salt would be a comparative- iy easy matter in such a secluded spot. | "It is the theory of the captain’s friends that he must have been struck from be- | hind, stripped of his valuables, then cast inty the river, after being laden down with weights to make sure of the body’'s | sinking. There is an abundance of quick- sand all along the bed of the stream, and | should. the body happen to sink into a {bed of this there is little likelihood of | its ever being recovered, especially if it had been weighted down, as many are |led to believe. Some advance the theory that Captain Larbig had been drinking and lost his balance and fell overboard. But those DEAD CAPTAIN'S FRIENDS THINK HE WAS MURDERED| 1) SEk £S B0Y Friends of the late Captain Nicholas Larbig, who was drowned in the San Joaquin River near Antioch on Christmas eve, believe he met with foul play and are endeavoring to re- Captain Larbig is the third mariner.to lose his lifein the Antioch harbor — W\ R ‘~' AN — 'RAN RIVER SKIPPER WHO WAS DROWNED _NEAR ANTIOCH ON CHRISTMAS EVE AND WHOSE FRIENDS ARE WORKING ON CLEWS THAT MAY TEND TO PROVE HE WAS MURDERED. WESTBOUND AL TRAIN IS DITCHED Three of the Crew Are Hurt in Disaster Near Larney. RENO, Jan. 5.—The fast mail train, No. 9, westbound, went into the ditch near Harney about 11 o'clock to-night. Three of the train crew were injured, but no one seriously. Detalls of the accident are not obtain- able at this hour, owing to the fact that the Southern Facific wires are down, and it is impossible to get in communication with the scene of the disaster. The names of the injured or the extent of thelir Injuries are not ob- tainable. The train was in charge of Conductor Noble and Engineer Church. The track has not yet been cleared, but the wrecking crew from Carlin is at the scene of the wreck. ———————— WILL INSPECT LAND OFFERED FOR SITE OF THE STATE FARM SANTA ROSA, Jan. 6.—Professor E. J. Wickson, acting dean of the agri- cultural college of the University of California, has written E. W. Woolsey that he will visit this county next week to look over the site offered for the State Agricultural Farm. Woolsey and Talmadge offered the commission a large and valuable tract of land on Mark West Creek. with some $30,000 Wworth of improvements, some time ago. who know him well say he was not a drinking man and never was seen under the influence of liquor. Sweeney avers when he left his saloon, shortly after Heath saw him enter the wharf, Captain Larblg was perfectly sober and walked with a steady tread down the street. So far as is known, Captain Larbig had no enemies’ He was a very quiet man, who did not make friends in a hurry, but he was esteemed by all who knew him. He was never known to quarrel or fight, and among the residents of Antioch he was regarded as an honest, hard-working soul, who would wrong no one, but would inconvenience himself to do a good turn for a friend in need. Captain Larbig was one of the best- known river boatmasters in the State. For many years he was running up and down the San Joaquin in charge of various | boats. Last summer he was engaged by the Santa Fe Company to take charge of the Frances. When her season’s work was done she was laid up for the winter at Antioch, and the dead captain had been living on board and taking care of her for some months, The dead mariner's’ wife is nearly in- sane over the mysterious case, and will spare neither time, money nor trouble in an effort to locate her husband’s body, and also to clear up the dark mystery which surrounds his sudden taking off thirteen days aga. LT LR L A s ENLS STRUCCLE FOR ENSTENCE Young Man Supposed to Be an Actor Blows Out Brains on Beach at Santa Cruz e SANTA CRUZ, Jan. 5.—The body of an unknown young man, apparently an actor in hard luck, was found on the beach near the Casino this morning. A pistol shot through the right temple had caused death. In his pocket was a copy of a San Francisco paper of yesterday, on the bottom of which was written in indelible pencil in a very fine hand: “The only regret that I have in doing this rash act is that I will miss the culmination of a ‘well-bred and well-manicured hand which has been turned on myself.” Besides a pencil a fine manicuring-knife was found iIn the pockets of the suicide. A package of shirts and collars was found in the room in the California restaurant where he slept Wednesday night. They are marked ‘‘Moore.” In the package were also two pairs of bones, such as are used by minstrel end men. The body has been recognized by sev- eral saloon-keepers as that of a man who had frequented the saloons here for sev- eral days. Manager Roberts of the Em- pire Theater says that the suicide applied to him for a job as stage manager a few days ago. None of the theatrical people in town know the man, who was of me- dium height and had dark brown halr, gny eyes, a prominent nose and bro ace. : CITY-OWNED LIGHTING ~PLANT IS A FAILURE Seattle Finds Expense of De- partment Is Greater Than Receipts. ! Special Dispatch to The Call. SEATTLE, Jan. 5.—A few months’ ex- perience with the city owned lighting plant has proved it a fallure. On Febru- ary 1 the funds will be depleted. This condition is brought about by the fact that the revenues from commercial light- ing during December only amounted to $824. It costs $2000 a month to operate the plant. This does not include the replacing of worn out material with new or any extensions. Nearly §750,000 has been spent in the construction of the plant and the sales have never reached $1000 a month, The free light furnished for municipal purposes is trivial. The lighting depart- ment declares that at the next election the voters must put through a $1,000,000 issue of bonds or the plant will shut down. —_———— Engineer Is Electrocuted. VICTORIA, B. C. Jan. 5.—Harry S. ‘Ward, chief engineer of the British Co- lumbia Electric’ Railway Company, was instantly killed this afternoon at Cold- stream power-house. He grasped the copper on two switches at the same time, making a short circuit and receiving 700 volts of electricity. —————— BEVANSVILLE, Ind., Jan. 5.—The Specialty Furniture Company's plant burned to-day. Losa, §90,000, GIRL MAKES TRIP MORSE'S TALES |NEGRD SUSPECT ARE REAL NICE| IN PRISON CELL Strange Tale Is Related by Miss of Seventeen Now in Shelter in San Diego TER YWILL BE. TAKEN HOME Sex of “Crew” of Crawfish Man’s Boat Is Discovered by the Police Authorities Special Dispatch to The Cal. SAN DIEGO. Jan. 5.—Margaret Scott, a 17-year-old Los Angeles girl, at pres- ent at the Helping Hand Home in this city, has a strange story to tell. She has. been working in boy’s clothing for several weeks and declares that she is very glad to get into the habiliments of her own sex again. According to the story told to the matron of the home by the girl she left Los Angeles on November 1 with a party including Mr. and Mrs. Bacon, on a launch trip to Anacapa Island, off Santa Barbara. Following the lead of Mrs. Bacon and the other women of the party she donned boy's clothing, the male garb being ‘more suitable for scrambling over the rocks at Anacapa. When the party reached civilization again the women resumed their skirts. In some manner Margaret lost her feminine clothing and she was forced to land at Santa Barbara wearing boy’s clothing. On account of some trouble or misunderstanding with the others the girl concluded to leave the party there. She met with a fisherman named Ed- ward Johnson, who was about to start on a crawfishing trip to San Diego, and he, believing her a boy, hired her. He ran over to the Coronado Islands and lay there several days fishing. While there a storm came up and they were in imminent danger of swamping. After the storm Johnson decided to put into San Diego. The experience had been a terribly hard one for Margaret | and as soon as she got inside the har- bor she declared she would never go upon the ocean again. The crawfish man landed at La Playa and she made her way up the side of the promontory of Point Loma, near Point Loma Homestead, the head- quarters of Mre. Tingley. She was brought to San Dlego from Old Town by an officer and when her sex was disclosed she was turned over to the matron of the Helping Hand Home, by whom she will be returned to Los An= geles to-morrow. ARRANGING FOR BIG FAIR AT CLOVERDALE Directors Fix Date for Open- ing and Begin Work on Pavilion. Special Dispatch o The ©all CLOVERDALE, Jan. 5—The direc- tors of the Cloverdale Citrus Fair As- soclation met yesterday morning and decided to commence work at once on the enlargement of the pavilion where the annual exhibition is held. The date of the fair for 1906 was set for February 20. It will run four days and every effort will be made to make it the most attractive and largest dis- play ever given in this city. The scope of the association has been materially enlarged this year and there will be a general exhibit of the products of the northern end of Sonoma County at the fair. CIVIL WAR VETERAN GUILTY OF FORGERY ‘White-Haired Old Soldier Is Convicted of Pension Frauds. Special Dispatch to The Call. SPOKANE, Jan. 5.—W. H. Maloney, a veteran of the Civil War, who for years has been one of the best known pension attorneys in the Northwest, was sentenced to-day to three months in jail and to pay a $25 flne and costs of court by Judge Hanford in the Fed- eral Court. He was convicted of pen- sion frauds. The white-haired soldier, who has passed three score years and ten, rose falteringly in court to plead for leniency, and Judge Hanford ac- quiesced to the extent of sending him to jail Instead of the penitentlary. CITY OF NAPA WILL HAVE BIG CANNERY Company, Heavily Backed, Announces Intention to Build Fine Plant. NAPA, Jan. 5.—A large fruit and vege- table cannery is to be erected in Napa by Foster Bros. & Co. Work on the new plant will be commenced in a few days. T. H. Foster, president of the company, has been conducting a cannery in Dixon. ‘The company has a capital stock of $100,- 000, of which $60,000 has already been sub- scribed. A number of citizens of Napa have subscribed for stock in the new in- stitution, which wiil'be one of the largest of the kind in this State. It will employ about 600 persons five or six months in the year. LICHAU PAYS AGED WIFE ALIMONY DUE Special Dispatc! to The Call SANTA ROSA, Jan. 5.—H. P. Lichau, after putting up an 3800 bond to replevin the hay attached on behalf of Mrs. Mary E. Lichau, his aged wife, who is suing for the annulment of their marriage, has relented and paid $125 alimony. Some time ago Lichau announced he would refuse to pay alimony and declared he would ap- peal the matter to the Supreme Court. To secure the payment Mrs. Lichau attached the hay on her husband's ranges. FIVE COMPANIES WITR CAPITAL OF $6,000,000 TO BE FORMED SAN DIEGO, Jan. 5.—Within the next few days it is expected articles of in- corporation of the five companies which will form the San Luis Rey Power Com- pany will be filed. The papers are now being prepared. The aggregated cap- italization of the companies will be $6,000,000. The companies will be backed by the Pacific Light and Power Company of Los Angeles and other powerful Huntington interests. This morning a party of seven surveyors left San Diege for the San Luis Rey Valley to assist in the survey work, which is now being actively prosecuted. It is stated that the survey will require a month or more ¥ complete. It is estimated that about fourteen months will be requl to complete the great dam at Warn % Investigators Find Anecdotes Told by High Sehool Prin- cipal Were Not Indecent TEACHER EXONERATED Report Finds, However, That Telling Stories Is a Prac- tice to Be Frowned On Special Dispatch to The Call. PACIFIC GROVE, Jan. 5.—Professor Albert G. Morse, principal of the School Department, Is not guilty of the charges preferred against him by W. C. Little, | president of the board of trustees of the Pacific Grove High School. Such is the conclusion of the members of the board ‘who Investigated the charges. The inves- tigators made their report to-night. In it they declare that Morse did not tell vulgar stories to his pupils, as charged by Little, and that the principal did not treat the students in a harsh or tyrannical manner. The investigators suggest that Principal Morse discontinue his practice of relating anecdotes to the pupils, “‘ques- tioning the advisability of the practice.” The report In full is as follows: To the Board of Trustees, Pacific Grove High School—Gentlemen: The undersigned members of your board, to whom were referred the charges presented by Mr. W. C. Little, presi- dent of this board, against Professor Albert Gy Morse, principal of our schodls, respectfully report that we have thoroughly and publicly investigated sald charges and find that Pro— fessor Morse is mot gullty of the charge of being tyrannical, inconsiderate and unreason- able in his treatment of pupils . who have transgreesed his rules. That Professor Morse i3 not guilty of using profane or lmproper language in the presence of his puplls or teachers. - That the charge against Professor Morse of telling storles or anecdotes in the presence of his pupils has been fully substantiated and admitted by him. We do not consider the stories or anecdotes either vulgar or-indecent, but we do question the advisability ef the practice, and recom- mend that Professor Morse be instructed to discontinue the telling of stories or anecdotes in_the presence 'of his pupils, Respectfully submitted. 'ANDERSON, BLOHM. BELIEVES SCHOONER WENT DOWN IN GALE orthern Mariners Fear for Safety of Vessel Long Overdue. Special Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, Wash., Jan. 5.—There is still no news from the overdue fishing schoon- er Nellie Coleman, now fifty-six days out from Unga Island. She is ‘thought by many mariners to have gone down. The first storm which is thought to have as- sailed her is one in which the liner Shaw- mut was caught on the same course the Nellie Coleman would take in making for Cape Flattery. Seas washed over the huge lner, and it was all her powerful engines could do to force her ahead in the teeth of the storm. The Nellie Cole- man is reported to have left Unga on November 18. She had aboard Captain Andrew Johnson and six others. She is owned by the Seattle and Alaska Fishing Company. VESSEL FOR COAST TO BE BUILT IN EAST New York Company Gets Contract for Construetion of $700.000 Ship. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 5.—The Pa- cific Coast Company has awarded a contract for the construction of the new steel steamship to be placed on the run between Seattle and San Fran- cisco to the New York Shipbuilding Company on a bid slightly lower than $700,000. Bids submitted by Pacific Coast builders ran from $3800,000 up. The company was anxious to award the contract to a firm on this coast, but the additional expense meant a tax of more than 14 per cent for Pacific Coast loyalty. MAYOR'S APPOINTEES OUT IN THE COLD Old Library Trustees of San Diego Refuse to Be Ousted. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SAN DIEGO, Jan. 5.—T. A. Wright and F. W. Stearns, the library trustees, who were removed by Mayor Sehon some months ago, have announced that they will not give up office and that if neces- sary they will take the matter into court. At Tuesday evening’s meeting of the City Council the appointments of Rev. Clar- ence T. Brown and Sam Ferry Smith as library trustees, which were made by Sehon, te fill the vacancies caused by the removal of Wright and Stearns, were con- firmed. Colored Tramp, Believed to Know Something About Price Murders, in Custody CAPTURED BY SHERIFF Afriean Shows Disposition to Resist When Ordered to Throw Up His Hands Special Dispateh to The Call. RED BLUFF, Jan. 5.—Late this after | noon Sheriff J. W. Boyd of Tehama Coun~ | tv succeeded in capturing a big negro, named James Brown, who is wanted in | Shasta County for the murder of the [Price brothers at their cabin near Cen- | terville on Tuesday. The officers of | Shasta County obtained a good deserip- { tion of the .negro and sent it to Red | Bluff yesterday. Sheriff Boyd heard of a negro being in this vicinity who answered | the description of the murderer, and | arming himself with a rifle. he started | with Deputy Shertff Warmoth' this after- | moon to search for him. He found the negro near the southern edge of town. iThe Sherift quickly covered the negro with hig rifle, at the same time calling on | him to throw up his hands. The negro | reluctantly obeyed the command. Only | when he realized that resistan e was fool- ish did he raise his hands. On being lodged in the County Jail | Brown was closely examined. The de- | scription of the supposed negro murderer | of the two miners fits him. He wears No. | 11 shoes, the size worn by the Shasta | murderer. | _Brown acts rather queerly in his cell. | He deeclares he knows nothing about the | erime, but he acknowledges having been in the neighborhood of Centerville about the time the Price brothers were mur- dered. He probably will Red Bluff jail for a few days, as the peo- ple of Shasta County are so highly n- censed over the crime that a lynching party probably would be organized if he were taken to Redding. REDDING, Jan. 4—The bodies of the Price brothers were buried in one grave to-day. A large concourse of friends fol- lowed the remains to their last resting place. The autopsy held this morning revealed the fact that John Price had been shot twice, once with a rifle and once with a 33-caliber revolver. This proved that the murderer had three weapons, including the one taken from Price. The officers here have been kept on the jump all day to-day. Rumors came thick and fast from all directions that the murderer had been captured and officers and deputies went out on numerous wild goose chases. If there should be any link connecting the negro arrested to-night with the crime the officers will have an exceeding- Iy difficult time holding him, for no crime that has ever been committed in Shasta County has so thoroughly stirred and incensed the people and they will consider it no act of lawlessness if the culprit is summarily dealt with. PAYS FOUR MILLION FOR SHORT RAILROAD Northern Pacific Buys Line Running Into City of - Astoria. Special Dispatch to The Call — PORTLAND, Jan. 5.—Reports in Rail- road Row to-day credit the sale of the Astoria and Columbia River Railway to the Northern Pacific for approximately $4,000,000. It is stated that the Northern Pacific, rather than maintain the present main line between Portland and Goble, after the coastruction of North Bank road, as it would have been compelled to do under the %-year lease of the Astoria and Columbia River, decided to buy the entire road for the profits of it. The As- toria and Columbia River is now paying § per cent on $4,000,000 and is in good con- dition. It has eighty miles of road from Gobie to Astoria, with an extension to Fort Stevens, and cost about $40,000 a mile to comstruct. FORCED TO EAT EAR HE HAD BITTEN OFF Lumberjack Who Maimed a Barkeeper in Fight Com- pelled to Become Cannibal. Spectal Dispatcn to' The Call. CLARKEIA, Idaho, Jan. 5.—Forced ta eat the ear, spiced with the bar pepper and salt, which he had bitten from his antagonist, Lank Franigan, Brad Wal- shaw, a lumberjack from Klinard's camp on the Upper St. Maries, became a caf- nibal in spite of himself. Last night a fight occurred in Floss’ saloon, near Clarkela. Walshaw, who had been drink- ing, attacked Franigan, and threatened to “chew him down to a dwarf.” Frani- gan rallied, and after “heading’” Walshaw ‘with his boots, for him to eat the ear he had bitten off, ugh not until he had beaten Walshaw half insensible. Allcock’s PLASTER as shown in illustration. It mot only relieves all pain but it strength- ens the muscies and restores emesgy as nothing else can. Kidneys, Backs, Rheumatism, Also invaluable for Coids, Coughs, Aching Weak Chests, Weak