The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 8, 1906, Page 1

San Franci; light T4V v/ THAT FLIES il C J Expects to Make Over- head Journey to Washington. Wings of His Machine Are Patterned Aiter Those of a Goose. east Tesistance » will be HARLES A. HILLER WILL BE GUARDED Precautions Taken During iquiry Into the Death of Edwards. purpose nderstood th had homestead, and completed SUN-GOD WORSHIPED BY MANY CHICAGOANS 1wan Rites and Ceremonies hserved by Ten Thou- sand Persons. I The Cail s incident k of Mrs. rned to death an attempt which she Apoilo, of Chi- whom | r they burn | | rcm the remotest pagan e much rexpected | would be able Europe in a few days furl s long rest. THE WEATHER Forecast for January &, 1906; ! ! | COLONEI. HEUER SAYS DISPUTED STRIP|JRCANIZED IS PROPERTY OF GOVERNMENT. DECLARES HE S WEDDED T * WAONG TN e Husband Brings Suit for Annulment of | Marriage. Dispatch to The Call. de J. Summers, oceedings to an- wife, Irene. He his rria >s that riage to Ruth Bekman and wai Ruth; the complainant two wer : 3 cites an instance Irene accompanied him to a theater in Buffalo as a joke, he believing she was | Ruth veral days after the wedding, Sum- mers avérs, he requested Yis wife to play | the piano and sing for him. She played | indifférently, he afleges, and could 'not sing. This aroused“his suspicions, as he knew that Ruth possessed a clear soprano voice. n this stalement he secks to e that his wife is Irene, and not Ruth, defendant denies that any error en made and declares she can sing with ability. The whole case will pivot on this point. “WOULDN'T IT DISGUST e wrong girl to the . THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—"“The Lady."” ALHAMBRA—"The Two Orphans.” CALIFORNIA—"“At the Circus” and ““Through the COLUMBIA—*] ‘Richelieu. SHUTES—Vaudeville. Matinee. GRAND-—Nance O’ Neil. ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—** Foxy Quiller. MAJESTIC—"1f Were King." TRAL—"Camil NEW CEN’ Cowboy and Clouds." ller. le." — "SAN FRANCISCO, MO DAY, JANUARY 8, 1906. ’ PRICE FIVE CENTS. o5k Y SRR IR 3 s ot BERRS ons il R e WHERE WESTERN PACIFIC WANTS IT 5 DEPOT | | | 1 [ CIFIC THE UPPER PHOTOGRAPH GIVES A GEN ND.SOUTHERN PACIFIC OV BRIDGE THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC WAS THE POSSESSION OF TIDE LANDS. ENJOINED AL VIEW OF THE SCENE OF HOSTILITIES BETWEEN THE WESTERN PA- 3 THE PILEDRIVER STANDS ON THE FROM BUILDING FURTHER. | in Fixing Value of Stolen Gas. F AN Special Dispatch to The Call CHICAGO, Jan. 7.—One cent will send {Isaac Woods to the penitentiary, if the i Supreme . Court of Illinois sustains the | verdict of a Cook County jury. Woods also enjoys the unique distinction, it is isam. of being the only man in the world { convicted of grand larceny for the steal- | ing of gas. Woods is well-known dancisg master, his patrons being members of South Sfde soclety . circles and children of the Colonel Heuer declares ‘that the tracks laid by the Western Pacific Company-on: the tiaining wall . [ are on Federal property. - This-raises a question of State junsdiction., Track laying ‘work went on yesterday . despite the injunction of the Alameda Superior Court.” Vice President Bogue of * | the corporation and Colonel Heuer held a consultation last night. wealthy.* The gas company charged that Woods had ‘mzde a connection with the gas, mains_ in. front of ‘the Mi¢higan-ave- "I nue dancing‘academy, and that he had been stealing gas for some time. A eol- ored porter employed by Woods gave As- sistant State’s Attorney Crowe. evidence " | against ‘him and the jury found the de- . . fendant -guilty. Lz;nd on Which Western Pacific | Is Within Area of the Training Wall. YOU?” SAYS MILLER| Declares the Row Was a Prearranged ~ R OAKLAND, Jan. 7.—The Western Fitzsimmons ! Pacific Railway Company in its eager- | ness to outwit the Southern Pacific Company in a contest for terminal fa- cilitles on San Francisco Bay has Affair. ch to The Call. Special Dis) FRANKLIN, Pa., Jan. 7.—Major Mil- ler, whom Robert Fitzsimmons, the prize-fighter, accused of running off | with his wife, was very wroth thig af- ternoon Well, they got what they started |after—a lot of free advertising—and they start to New York with the nouncement that they are having new play written for them in which they wiil star jointly as soon as they can get their company together. “Wouldn't it disgust you? And who i it that has to suffer for all this free advertising? Why me. I am more con- d now than ever that the whole was a prearranged scheme. Fitz- simmons lost his fight and couldn’t go around the country posing on his repu- tation any longer.” ————— BOSTON SOON TO HAVE TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL Home to Be Erected nt a Cost of One Hundred and Fifty Thou- sand Dollars. BOSTCN, J 7.—Mayor John iitz- ald, who presided at the meeting which closed the tuberculosis conven- ! tion at Horticultural Hall to-hight, said in nis speech that by to-morrow. night the act calling for a board of trustees for the establishment of a hospital for consumptives, to cost $150,000, would have passed the Board of Aldermen and that it would soon thereafter receive his_signature. Tbhe tuberculosis convention, which ! has been in session here for two weeks, has been a great success, the hall being crowded at nearly all the lectures, while the exhibits have been carefully examined and explained. More than 10,000 people visited the hall to-day. ]nlruck an unexpected snag in the shape of the United States Government. In its Napoleonic move upon the fill | along the north training wall of Oak- land harbor, where its tracks were laid so rapidly, the Western Pacific en- | gineers overlooked a trick. They did | not know that they were treading on United States lands, instead of State lands, as had been supposed. Colonel William H. Heuer, head of the engineer corps of the United States army in the Department of California, who is the representative of the Secre- tary of War in all such affairs as the battle now going on for the strip of mud land beside the training wall, spent three\hours on the scene to-day and magde the statement that the hast- ily constructed track of the Western Pacific lay upon Federal and not upon State property. He said he was sur- prised to find that this was the case. Colonel Heuer said, though, when asked if orders would be issued for the re- moval of the track, that the matter would be allowed to rest for two or three days “to see what the corpora- tion would do.” He said also, which may be significant, that the Govern- ment did not object to railroads upon such property as the training wall “as long as they did not interfere with commerce and navigation,” The Sec- | retary of War had given no permission for the construction of the track along | the Oakland harbor training wall, he | said. H HEUER VISITS I Colonel Heuer made his trip of inspec- tion this morning along the training wall {and the abutting fill formed by the de- | posit of dredgings by the American ! Dredging Company, which holds the con- tract with the United States Government for deepening Oakland harbor. He ex- amined the tracks which have been laid along the fill parallel to the training wall SCENE. and touching the inner side of the long rock structure. Then Colonel Heuer ex- plained that the training wall, the exclu- sive property of the United States Gov- ernment, is a pyramidal structure eighty or ninety feet wide at its base and sloping upward on each side to an apex of six or seven feet. That base on the inside has been covered to the surface of, the rock wall’ with “spoils,” the dredging output. Along this fill run the tracks con- structed by the Western Pacific Company. This filled land from the rock wall to the end of the wall's base is United States Government property. And further, declares Colonel Heuer, the Western Pacific peaple are on United States land without proper authority. To be there lawfully they should have per- mission from the United States War De- partment. Such permission, Colonel Heuer declares, has not been given, for if it had been the Secretary of War would have notified Colonel Heuer, the engineer in charge. GOULD KOAD NOT VANQUISHED. But the Western Pacific is not altogeth- er lost in its strategic struggle for a place on the bay. Colonel Heuer goes further and announces that he has not decided when, if at all, he will order the com- pany to withdraw. His plan is to wait two or three days for developments, He ‘explains that there is a proper way to g0 about getting permission to occupy Gov- ernment land for such a purpose as the ‘Western Pacific Company desires. And he is going to Indicate to the Western Pacific engineers just how that procedure should be taken. To Washington the scene of battle mi be ghifted now, and in the nation's capital the men who grip vast areas of the con- tinent in iron embrace with ease will use all their cunning and all their strength in the struggle for possession of a little strip of land lying along an unpretentious ston¢ wall on the shores of the Pacific. tl.l the mighty Harriman and allied finan- 1 interests will be battling to prevent the equally powerful Gould col from acquiring permanently the track- ‘way the latter have so boldly seized. The % : ¥ however, was that the jury found the value of gas stolen to have been $150L Had the one cent beén left off the offense would have constituted a misdemeanor, but the adding of the penny, as was done by the jury, made it a felony and punish- able by imprisonment in the penitentiary. The Judge overruled a motion for a new trial. The only course left {s an appeal - The most serious part of the verdict, Laid Tracks little ribbon of mud that, unrolls itself from the edge of Oakland to the rim of the bay and has so suddenly developed into the key to a transportation way from the world of the East to the swiftly en- to the highest tribunal in the State in order to get a decision covering the un- usual cr& COUPLE OF APE larging metropolis of the Far West will be the inspiration for all sorts of pres- sure on high officials at the natlon’ capital. Itlis safe to say that the Western Pacific never intends to relinquish the roadway it has appropriated. FORMALLY MARRIED Ceremony Performed by a Judge in a Town in i OUT OF STATE'S COURTS, 3 H If Colonel Heuer’s position is the correct Illinois, one, the work the Western Pacific has Special Dispatch to The Call. been doing on the flll is within Federal e HARRISBURG, I, Jan. 7.—A mar- | riage ceremony out of the ordinary has taken place at Mount Carmel, in which | a number of local business men took part. Bismarck, a large ape which made his home at the Lotta Hotel for some time, was married to Miss Evolution, another one of the kind. The bride arrived on the evening train and was looking” her best. Judge H. J. Hen-, ning officiated and the ceremony wull very solemn and impressive. George man and John Sherift jurisdiction and cannot come within the purview of the State courts. In this view of the contest the Western Pacific's apparent cool and deliberate ig- noring to-day of the ipjunction issued yesterday out of the Alameda County Su- perfor Court against track-laying on the fill may be accounted for in the possi- bility that the eminent counsel for the company y have fuil knowledge of the Federal contest existing, as Colonel Heuer has disclosed it. ul:gu:lhly "m’,';,‘.'fi,d t;ushltrlp of fllled | 01 B e oottt jwea) | Barry gave the bride away. Refresh- | Heuer is about forty or fifty feet wide. | ments were served aftér the cere- “This strlp must be vacated by the West. ; mOnY. Announcement cards have been ern Pacific unless permission to remain,sent out. there is granted by the War Department. | Mr. and Mrs. Bismarck will begin From the tenor of Colonel Heuer's re- | housekeeping at once at Lotta, where marks to-day after he had concluded his | they are at #ome to their many friends. examination of conditions along the train- ; —————————— ing wall and the fill, it was manifest he| - Fire im a Cotton Warehouse. did not intend to take snap. judgment | CHESTER, S. C., Jan. 7—Fire that upon the Western Pacific people. Had he | sfarted in the cotton warehiouse of the been so minded this could have involved ' Bureka mill to-night has already de- a very pretty contest With visions of | stroyed 1500 bales of cotton, resulting Uncle Sam’s men in blue making a in a loss of $30,000, and threatens to forced march down' the training wall and | ypread to an adjoining warehouse, in Laubender was best Keich was maid of honor. ‘the flil to oust the Intending railroad men. | which are stored two or three thousand WHAT MIGHT HAVE OCCURRED. |hnlel of cotton. Such a spectacle would have added | * —————— color ‘to the battle of the giant rail- Cold Wave Hits Omaha. roads and would have fairly eclipsed { OMAHA, Jan. 7.—The coldest weat! the ‘dignity of the lone tent and its!of the winter so far in Omaha w:: 2:' clvillan occupants at the head of the | perfenced to-night. At midnight the x ercury stood at 5 d B wed on 2 ol 7 m Ty al em:mv.mo and was still falling. GANG LOOTS -~ FROM CARS Half Million Lost by St. Paul Road. Twenty Train CrewsAre Diszaissed by the Company. Goods Shipped From Chicago Taken While on Way to Destination. Special Dispateh to The Call. CHICAGO, Jan. Thefts of goods valued at 300,000 from cars of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Com-~ pany in the last vear are alleged to be responsible for the wholesale discharge of train ecrews. There is said to be evidence of an qrganizea gang of train robbers. That there will be no arrests or proseeu- tions is almost certain, as it is against the policy of the road, accord of its attorneys, to make publ by theft, and it is contented with the discharge of the oftenders and those held responsible. Twenty crews, it is claimed by those who are in a position to know, were dis- charged on Friday, and it is alleged that when a delegation called upon \General Superintendent D. L. Bush, asking the reason, the men were told that they were held responsible for the loss of goods com~ whose disappearance had caused plaint. The unearthing of an organized gang to_loot the road is said to be due to the arfest of a traipman in Milwaukee last to have made a confession under promise of lenlency that astonished the officials of the company. He is alleged to have implicated fellow trainmen. Every effort is being made by the railway officials to keep the affair from becoming public. When asked regarding the wholesale dis- missals Superintendent Bush said that the crews were laid off, as is usual at this time of the year, owing to light traffie. The trainmen cannot understand the lay- ing off of the crews for that reasom, as traffic is unsually heavy just now, When the men asked the reason for their dismissal, they were told that the road had lost $500,000 worth of goods dur- ing the past year from cars in thelr trains. John E. Hinsey special agent of the road, who has charge of the secret ser- vice department, admitted that the road had suffered heavy losses from car thieves, but claimed the loss would not exceed $400,000. He sald that the man ar- rested at Milwaukee was a conductor named Kiser, and admitted he had made a confession implicating many other em- rloyes of the road. The theft of cigars alone is said toamount to §11,000, while that of whisky is as much more. Large quantities of these goods shipped from this city to North Dakota are alleged to have been stolen while en route. Large consignments of these goods were frequently shipped and on each oe- casion, when the destination was reached, it was found that the cars had been opened and quantities of the goods were missing. The thieving was not confined to cigars and whisky alone. Merchandise' of all kinds has been taken and it is evident that a systematic plan for disposing of the plunder was carried out with parties outside the company’'s employ acting as fences. When asked as to the truth of the re- port that he had laid off twenty crews on Friday Bush did not deny the story. HIS EYES, EARS, NOSE AND THROAT PERFECT Normal Man Found by Lee- turer Before Medical : Society. Special Dispatch to The Call, CHICAGO, Jan. 7.—A man with perfect vision, perfect hearing and a perfectly healthy nose and throat has been found in Chicago—but he has lived here only three weeks. He came forward at a meeting of the Chicago Medical Society last night when Dr. Frank Alport, lec- turing- on tle necessity for an annual examination of public school children for defective vision and hearing, selected at random from the audience subjects throngh whom to demonstrate the pro- tests. With the exception of Theodore Meyer, who three weeks ago came from Basle, Switzerland, to study medicine, all of the subjects proved def -“‘ve, either in vision or hearing. ——————— WOMAN WHO W WASHINGTON'S MEN AT VALLEY FORGE DEAD Negress Passes Away at the Age of One Huadred Thirty- Five. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 7.—Mary Me- Donald, a negress -who claimed to be 135 years old, died yesterday at the Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Per- sons in this city. According to Mrs. McDonald and her surviving relatives, she was borm No- vember 14, 1770, in a settiement known as Frogtown, near Valley Forge, Pa. She often told of the scenes In and about the camp of Washington's sol- diers at Valley Forge during the win- ter of 1777-78. Mrs. McDonald was of robust physique, and was an in smoker up to a short time ago,