The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 20, 1906, Page 2

LUKE WRIGHT WILL SUCCEED GRISCOM General Smith to Become Chief of Philippines, Californian Gets the Post in June, as Ide Retires. = e N tch to The Ca! | 9. —Luke Governor Ge; es, is mbass ves t The an- ~ ENERAL JANIES F < ITITH | DUSHNELL Pworo Zim mil 1 ir $20,00 he will able financial loss. cting Governor Ide's 300 per annum. Rafiway Car Falls to Street. Elevated NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—One person was killed and a dozen were injured when a car on the elevated railway in ¢ Brooklyn fell to the street to-day: The accident occurred at a curve on the | Lexington-avenue line of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company at Fulton ‘an@ Chestnut Streets. The train, “which e sted of three cars, jumped thetrack s at a switch, but only the rear car fell . A manstartedto hunt bears with a popgun. “Can’t, cfford a rifle,” he said, “it, costs too much.” € He found the bear. His tombstone cost. his friends more than the rifle would have cost, him. Q. The same story of false economy . pplies to pianos. Many people sacrifice the essen- tial qualities of an instrument in the mis- : taken endeavor to save money on the pur- chase price. The result is as certain as the fate of the bear hunter; only a question of time when the piano is worthless. That of pianos- we don’t sell. Guaranteed pianos, of unquestioned value, from Amer- ica’s Geatest Factories are our specialty. Ore price, the lowest possible, consistent with quality, our motto. Our business methods invite closest scrutiny. ~ Our easy payment plan makes the ownership of a high-grade piano easy. cort ort (. Five specials in used pianos for Sat- urday at prices far below their real value. f——————— 931-933 MarkeT ST SanFrancisco.CaL. SACRAMENTO, BRANCHES - OAKLAND, SAN JOSE, SANTA ROSA.FRESNO. RENO. NEV. PHOENIX ARIZ. . R | 0N THE APRULTY JURY BEAT AND ROB ~ AGED WIDOw ‘Two Men Enter House | Through Window at Night. Leave Woman Penniless f SUSPECTS UNDER ARREST iYouths Are Taken In by Po- | lice, Charged With the As- sault and Taking Money Robert O'Donnell and Albert McGee, about 18 years of age, were arrested yes- terday on the accusation made by Mrs. Mary Scheefer, a poor widow, who lives at 21 Harrison avenue. 'The woman says the two young men entered her home | early last Surday morning, and after beating her brutally took $, all money she had, They represented tiem- | s:ives as policemen, she says, and on her refusal to onen the door they entered through the window. She did not report the occurrence to the police until yester- day, "fearing that the two would murder her. Mrs. Schaefer says that shortly after 1] the | o'clock Sunday morming she was awak- | ened by a loud knocking at the Whaen asked whe was there a voicé rephied ‘re volicemen.”’ The weman partly opened the door, but when e saw the two young men she becam fcious and closed it again. O’ Donn t in through u window. He seized the woman by the throat and beat her with his fist, she says. Fearing that she wor te murdered the womdn told ! | tie young men that she would give them money she had 1f 1hey would go. took the %5, and after threatemmg wou'd m ned to the nolice, e woman remained silent ir escape. about the would keeo their word. Detec geants Regan ‘and O'Connell were about the crime yesterday morning rounded vp the pair They toht and within a few. hours. were booked et the Uity Prison for burglary. Both deny that they had any- thing to do with the crime. 110 70 REMAIN e— Continued From Page 1, Column 7. the same way. If any member of the daor, | { | Chamber | | | | | | jury has violated his oath the court ought to be anprised of that fact, It it is true a crime has been committed | the perpetrators should be punished.” “If I get any infcrmation to that effect it willsbe probed to the fullest extent,” declared Judge Harris. “There isn't any doubt of that in the | mind of any decent man,” replied Frick. ““I gather from what is common talk in | the newspapers that the person who ap- proached Raftetto was his wife,” said | Judge Harris, | *The newspapers have gone further and suggested briber; said Frick with econ- sidorable “heat’ *If.‘@ny tlfizen knows any such thing it 1s his duty ‘as a citizen {und a man to state what his informa- | tion is.” | “There 1s a Grand Jury in session,” said Judge Harris, “and any information will be thoroughly investigated.' Judge Ogden asked what Raffetto said | when interrogated, and Judge Harris re- night that had caused a change of his mind, It was suggested by Judge Ogden | that Raffetto was probably guilty of con- tempt of court, and Brown made a state- ment of what Raffetto had /told him, | which he refused to divulge yesterday. Brown said: RAFFETTO'S STATEMENT. “Raffetto came to the District Attor- ney’s office yesterday morning and said | he wanted to get off the jury—that he had to get off. 1 told him that would be impossible, and he then said he had made |2 mistake in swearing that he was on the assessment roll, and, further, that he had had a discussion with his wife about | the case that lasted all night. He said his wife had insisted upon talking to him about the case, but I didn't go into the | dctails with Raffetto. “l came into court and made a state- ment that Raffetto claimed he could not act fairly as a juror, because of some- thing that had occurred after his accept- ance. In answer to questions by the | court, Raffetto said he would listen to the evidence, but could not try the case ac- cording to the evidence. That is all I kuow about it.” “He probably thought his obligation &t the altar was more than his obligation as a juror,” sald Frick. “Every little while we have a case in which you can see the hand of a woman,” remarked Judge Harrls wearily, and the matter went over till Tuesday. The “trouble at home" | expected by remaining on the jury will not be the first that has come between him ind his wife. He and Miss Romie Campbell were marrfed in Oakland in September, 1894, when he conducted a saloon at 90 Fifth street. About two years afterward Mrs. Raffetto surprised her friends by applying for a divorce, which she secured. The court also al- | lowed her to resume her maiden name ot Campbell. WIFE CHARGES CRUBLTY. The ground of divorce was extreme cruelty. It was alleged by the wife that Raffetto had begun beating her cruelly a few months after thelr marriage. Among the specific allegations was a charge that he cursed her with the vilest of language, threatened to kill her and ordered her from their house. He de- manded that she go to San Francisco | to live, it is recited, because his family 4id not want him to live with her. Despite these allegations of cruelty, | however, Mrs, Raffetto was not separated irom her husband long, and theys soon | became reconciled and were remarried. | Regarding the selection of Raffetto as | & juror, when it was generally known that he was acquainted with McNulty and that Frick had defénded Mrs. Raf- fetto’s brother-in-law, Deputy District Attorney Brown said: N » “We had no other course to pursue. We had exhausted our five peremptory challenges and the only /way to get rid of Raffetto was to challenge him for cause. We desired to have him excused, | but could not bring out a single fact upon which to base a challenge. There was nothing against Raffetto except that we did not think he would mdke a good juror. A glance at the transcript of tes- timony taken would soon cenvince any one that we tried hard to get him off the jury, but every answer was Ty and finally we had to bé content.” ‘William Raffetto, when seen to-night his residence, 807 Adeline street, “Now that I must serve on the Mc- Nulty jury I have nothing to say to any onme. If I am approached by any one on the subject of the McNulty case I shall report It to Judge Harris. I have taken legal advice, and have been informed that I would be In contempt of court if 1 talked.” Mrs. Raffetto, 'Mm tly, was at last plied that he had heard something over | | that Raffetto | CHAMBER O] STRONGLY FOR NEW RAILR After Hearing Both Sides the DA Business Men Decide. Commercial OAKLAND, Jan. 19.—There was an interesting ‘meeting between represent- atives of the Gould and Southern Pa- cific railways this evening before the directors ‘of the Chamber of Commerce of this city. The new transcontinental line, struggling to perfect the final link of its connections with the water front facilities of the Oak!and harbor. won a decided victory, and got an endorse- ment from the civic body of its pro- posed plans, one to be immediately for- warded to Secretary of War Taft. the other to be presented to the City Coun- ! cil, asking that body to grant the new railway such franchises as it, will need in order to make its plans complete for perfecting its ferry connections adja- cent to the north training wall ofsthe Oakland estuary. Representing the Western Pacific Ratlway was Resident Attorney C. E. Snook and George L. Dillman, one of its engineering corps. For the Southern Pa- cific appeared General Superintendent W. 8. Palmer and Local Traffic Manager G. T. Forsyth. All appeared befor: a special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce in the Athenian Club at 5 o'clock this evening. The_ meeting w presided over by Edson F. Adams president of the of Commerc and was at- tended by a representative number of the influentia]l men of the city, includ- ing . A. Heron, president of the Oak- land Traction Consolidated; Charles J. Heeseman, Councilman Edwin Meese, Chairman of the Board of Su- pervisors John Mitchell, Bernard Mil- ler, W. H. Weltlbye, F. W. Bilger and others, oon as the meeting had convened President Adams stated briefly its pu pase to be the giving of an opportunit to both sides to present their views on the matter under consideration, so that neither could say it had not been given a fair hearing, or that action had besn taken for one side or the other with out notice. He then called upon W. Palmer, who said: This Is & matter that the corporation which I represent helieves should be fought out through the medium of the courts. It is largely a matter of the private rights of the opposing parties, which can only be adjudicated by the proper tribunals. 1 do not - helfeve that i sheuld be the policy of this organization to side in this matter. OLD ROAD STATES CASE. The Southern Pacific Company has heen en- gaged In business in this city since 1868, It ras established large works and has plans for improvements which will be a great conve- nience to the people of Oakland. We are now employing 3700 men, who are bread winners for familles estimatéd to number 19,000 per- sons. We arc paying out $270,000 & h to employes in thls city, aggregating 42,000 annually. It seems to me that with this showing the Scuthern Pacific Company deserves some recog- nition for what it _has done for Oakland and should be. protected in its rights. Mind you, we are not asking you to aid us. ' We are vot asking you to take fighting, but it does ask vou to be tmpartial and keép your hands off a question that we beileve 13 one purely of personal tights. We have plans which we gre about ready to begin on which mean great improvemente on | the water front of this city, which, If the plans of our rival are allowed to be completed, will disarrange and possibly necessitate the re- moval of Intended industries to other sites. For these reasons I would ask you not to pass any resolutions or take any action In this matter pro or con and leave the settlement of these questions .to the proper tribunals. There are franchises being asked for by the stern Pacific Company, one of which is not all necessary for it to have. The other is h we propose to contest cvery inch Before making his reply Attorney €. nook stated that with the permis- sion of the president he would ask Mr. Diilman to show the assembled mem- bers a set of the plans for the ter- minal now sought to be established by the Western Pacific Company. Blue prints showing a mole with several ferry slips were spread on the table and were examined by the members. A number of questions were then put to Mr. Dillman in regard to them, and he surprised many by setating, in answer to a auery as to how long the Western Pacific had been at work in preparing the water front for occupancy. that three years ago the Western Pacific bought the spoils of a dredging com- pany then cleaning out the Oakland channel, which it had had dumped where the newly laid track of the Western Pa- cific now lies along the north training wall. He said that when the American Dredging Company had got a contract it also made a contract with it to pur- chase the slickens from its dredgings. Attorney C. E. Snook then began his remarks and sa‘d: As Mr. Paimer has already told you.the Southern Pacific Company has been he;n since 188 and as most of us can remember it proctically ran this city and State up to about ten years ago. He would have you leave mattérs as they are, but we are here before you asking for assistance In establishing the terminal of a great transcontinental railway. We believe as a public body interested in the welfare of this city that you should take action and offer a helping hand to a new industry. 4 One could almost believe from hearing Mr. Palmer talk that the Southern Pacific had been here all these years for the good of the people of Oakland. = We ‘wish to come here for business. You ask me if another road comes n here whether competition will really ensue. Even if they do not ehgage in a rate war they will compete in the matter of faell- itles. See what the Key Route has already done for Oakland. RICH IN PROMISES. From the time I was a little boy the South- ern Pacific Company been promising twen- ty-minute boats and we get them? When the Key Route Company started its op- poition and only then. It did not result in a reduction of rates, but it has greatly im- proved the facilities and aided in the up- uilding of the city. Mr. Palmer almost threatens that if F:“ I 1 do not speak take "action here to-night the Southern cific will move ity works to other Dlaces, dl? not, however, believe this. way to inflame you, for 1 belleve that . 1l this question should ~be 'set on. lor grounds. The Southern Pacific cmnmny has had possession of this ground for thirty-elght years and has never made a move to do a ml!:s with it unti) the Wests Pacific indl- cal that it wanted it. Then' we began to hear of all sorts of improvements. The machine shops Mr, Palmer r;: cald have been in mind of the Southern® Pacific Com- ‘pany for two years, but the site had not been selected untll now, when they hi been be- gun right across our pathway. Out at gredt actiocy, and while T.46 Dot Sctu tha iouthern Pacific Company of our way, the fact remalns that actlvity s the result of the work mow Pacific Cq Yy the Western ‘ompany. take it that it i in poor taste to come in here now after all the favors it recelved from this community and tey means o block the’ Advent o anothet. Tine, eepecially when the lines already here cannot handle t business they have, much lese what might be worked up with better factlitles, No other railway ever came into lnn. thethfi the Western P‘uzzc has. rchase | righ! way nn?- of hou: v practicall; s y ‘whole fronf on ird stréet. This E" some idea of the amount of money it in- T sbend in” getiimg the faciifties it _Both sides haying had their say the meeting went Into executive ';";“"‘ d at the end of a half hour's debat the following resolutions were adopted Resalved. | That ‘Oakland Chamber ody Favors Grant to New Company. sides in this matter. { The Southern Pacific Company can do its own | r permission to run its trains over our prop- | Melrose we have suddenly heard of 1000 feet ' along the plerhead line northerly from the outer end of north training wall of the Oakland harbor, We respectully represent that the public in- | terest demands the approval of said profect leaving the question of damages for unoccupied property {aken to the ~mutual adjustment of the companies interested or to the courts for {any damages sustained, on account of any property questions involy<d; and be it further Resolved, That a certified copy of this resolu- tion be forwarded to the Segretary of War. FOR THE FRANCHISE. Whereas, The Western Pacific Railway is how actively - constructing its lines from Salt Lake City to Oakland, the natural terminus of all transcontinental roads: e ‘Whereas, The line along< Third street and througn East Oakland passes close to the busi- ness center of the city giving our citizens con- tinued access 1o it stations and giving strang- | ers an opportunity to view the more populous ; pertion of our city in reaching their destina- i ion: «nd Whereas, It is desirable and necessary for , ihe proper overation of its line that it have adequate facilities for handling its local and through business, now therefore he it P | Resvlved, Thai the ‘public Interést demands 'that all reasonable franchises beé granted said raiiroad consistent with the proper pfotection of said city and of existing railroads, leaving the question ‘of damagés for property covered | ! and taken and for nec rights of way to | mutual adjustment between the corporation {and - parties interested therein or the courts | for the damages sustained on account of any Droperty questions involved; and be it further | Resoived, Trat the secretary be instructed to forward a copy of the above resolution to the City Gouncil. AR FAVORS THE NEW ROAD. Board of Trade Telegraphs Indorse- ment to Taft. | OAKLAND, Jan. 19.—The board of I directors and the harbor and water | front committee of the Oakland Board of Trade t8-night adopted and tele- | graphed to the Secretary of War Lhe | following resolutions: Whereas, The Western Pacific Railroad Com- | pany Lave asked the - Secretary of War to grant them permission to occupy the mads land adjolning the north training wail of Oak- 1and harbor and also to build plers-and wharves for the proper handling of paesengers and | frelght; and whereas, this is a transcontinental raliroad and every reasonable facility should | be granted to enable them to transact thelr business to the best interest 0f the people of his city and it | Resolved, That the Oakland ! herehy indorse the application of the Western Pacific Railroad Company for terminal facili- ties adjoinirg the north training wall of Oak- 1and harbor, together with pérmission to ¢ n struct rip-rap protection and to occupy the made iand adjacent thereto, and they request the Becretary of War to grant sald application. therefore State; Board of Trade ! gk | Alumni Pass Resolutions. OAKLAND, Jan. 19.—The mentbers | of the Alumni Association of the Oak- | 1land Polytechnic High School, at a | meeting ~ held to-night at the school, | i adopted resolutions favorable to the Western Pacilic Railway Company in its battle for a terminus and pier on | San-Francisco Pay, and at the close of the meeting voted to send the.follow- ! ing telegram to the Secertary of War: . Willlam Taft, Secretary of War, | Washington, D. C Kindly grant Wesfern Pa- | cific most iiberal pler. and wharf privileges. thus, giving our generation a chance. By order of wémeral meeting. ¥ oy Alumni yjesociation, Oakland Polytechaic ‘High School. FRANK RITTIGSTEIN, President. MRS. AMY MITCHELL, Secretary. -— Favor Westera' Paeific. OAKLAND; Jan. 18.—The 'Butchers’ Exchange of Alameda County has adopt- ed resolutions urging the Secretary |of War to grant the Western Pacific Railroad Company's application for terminal facilities on the Oakland water front. EX-PRESIDENT OF ARGENTINA PASSES AWAY BUENOS AYRES, Jan. 19.—General Bartholomie Mitre dled to-day. He was 83 years of age. He was President of Argentina from 1867 to 1871, and gen- eral in chief of thg army of Brazil, Ar- gentina and Uruguay In the three years’ war with Paraguay. He gained considerable distinction also in litera- ture, his work including a translation into Spanish of Dante's “Divine Comedy."” gt b DEATH ENDS VISIT. Oakland Man Ansiwers the Last Sum- mons at Folsom. FOLSOM, Jan. 19.—Alymar Onkland died here vesterday Fox of at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Peiton. The deceased came here several months ago, hoping that a change of climaie would benefit his health. He was 35 years old. The remains were taken to Oak- land for interment. PLLNS S A Richest Man in Glenn Dies. WILLOWS, Jan. 19—J. R. Talbot, the largest landowner and wealthiest man in Glenn County, died at his home lgnear Willows yesterday of paralysis. He was a native of Missouri and §1 years of age. He settled in this county many years ago. He leaves an estate valued at $500,000. et g S Cardinal Spinola Dead. SEVILLE, Spain, Jan. 18.—Cardinal Spinola, Archbishop of Seville, died to- night. He was created a Cardinal on De- cember 11, 1905. SERVICES OVER BODY [ Remains Placed in Stone Vault in Family Lot at Cemetery. CHICAGO, Jan. 19.—Funeral services for Marshall Field “were held to-day at his late home, 185 Prairle avenue. and the First Presbyterian Church. The ser- vices at the home were held at 11 o'clock is | and were characterized by simplicity and being | brevity, and none but those immediatly | conpected with the family and household | was in attendance. The service at the OF MARSHALL FIELD] PR d S T OF COMMERCE SPEAKS OAD. Y BRINGS DVICTORY TO WESTERN PACIFIC Continued From Page 1, Column 4 ing than mere equality with the Western Pacific. We expect a preference on ac- count of our present holdings which give us equities, such as right of access to deep water, which the Western Pacific, as a trespasser, cannot claim. The re- portc are not decisive, however. The engineers are merely passing up the re- sponsibility to Secretary Taft. The latter will make his decision only after a thor- ough study, and we will of course ac- quiesce in it." Over in Oakland the Western Pacific won its first skirmish in the proceedings by which it seeks to condemn a right of way across the lands of the Southern Pa- cific north of the Peralta street siip. Judge Ellsworth overruled the demurrer of the Harriman attorneys and gave them ten days to answer complaint. A PR GOULD MEN WIN LEGAL POINT. Judge Ellsworth Overrules Demurrer of | Southern Paecific. OAKLAND, Jan. 19.—The first ob- | struction piaced in the way of the| Gould system in its efforts to condemn a right of way over the Southern Pa- cific tracks and lands near the Peralta- street slip was brushed aside to-day | by Judge Ellsworth when he overruled the demurrer of the Southern Pacifie attorneys and gave them ten days in which to answer the complaint. There were two principal points at- tacked in the demurrer over which the main argument was made, the first being the claim by the Southern Pa- cific people that the Western Pacific Company had not as yet been given permission by the City Council to main- tain and lay its tracks through the city. The second point was that while the | same fourteen different parties had been | made defendants in the condemnation suit, as having some right, title or claim to the land in question, the alle- gations in the complaint showed that an effort to come to some sort of agreement between the Western Pacific Company and the defendants nad been made with but two of the defendants, i. e4 the Southern and Central Pacific companles. Attorneys M. C. Cerf and Warren Ol- ney appeared for the Western Pacific, and as to the first point raised had a decision of the Supreme Court of this State directly in point in which it had been held in a San Diego case that it was only necessary to show tikat pro- ceedings had been commenced to get permission from the governing body of a city in order to maintain an actiom in such proceedings. As to the second point raised, it was | argued that the Southern Pacific and Central Pacific railways were the only ones interested, so far as the crossing of their tracks were concerned. | The remainder of the argument was made over the contention made by At- torney Frank Shea for the Southern Pacific that the Western Pacific Com- pany had failed to set forth the rights of fhe various parties in the land in question, and objected to the complaint on account of its uncertainty. In regard to this, Attorneys Cerf and Olney maintained that it was sufficient to bring all the various owners into court gnd make them defendants'in the actions, and it was then for them to set forth what their title was and claim their amount of damage. “When the court fixes the amount of damage we will pay it into the hands of the clerk of this court,” said At- torney Cerf. “and it will thén become necessary for the court to apportion to the various owners their pro rata. It would be impossible for us to say what the rights of these partles are.” Judge Ellsworth, after hearing argu- ments for about an hour, expressed himeelf satisfied that the points made in ‘the demurrer had been fully met. He overruled the demurrer on the ground that the objections were not well taken, and gave the defendants ten days in which to answer the complaint. -——— MERCHANTS WAKE APPEAL. | Commercial Body Asks Secretary of | War to Help New Road. The following resolutions were adopted by the Merchants’ Association yesterday ! and were telegraphed to the Secretary of | War: . Whereas, The Merchants’ Association of San Francisco favors the granting of all necessary terminal facilities to all competing transcon— tinental rallroads desiring to make San Francisco or the bay of San Francisco their termini; and whereas, the policy of the nation at large. as exemplified in the Sherman anti- trust act, favors the existence and overation of competing ratiroad lines: and whereas, this organization 1s informed that there has n filed with the honorable, the Secretary of War of the United States, an application on the | part of the Western Pacific Rafiway Comvany for permission to construct certain wharves, and by other means to oceupy certain iands | and waters on that vert of the water front | of the citv of Oakland, on the bay of San Francisco, lying immediately north of the north jetty or training wall of Oakland Creek: and whereas, the Western Pacific Railway Company Is a competing transcontinental rail- road now in the course of construction, and | Which when finally completed will be of very great and materiai benefit to this eity and the whole Pacific Coast; and whereas, it is es sentla) that the Western Pacific Railway Cor pany have access to deep water on the bay of San grancisco at a convenient point and with IN THREE BATTLES sutficient facilities for conducting lts business in order that it may meet thé deman: commerce and afford to the public these fac ties and benefits of a transcqntinental » romd; and whereas, the Western Pacific way Company has no facilities on deep water on the bay of San Francisco, and its aopl tion to the honarable, the Secretary of War. for the purpose of enabling It to obtain suc tacilities; now, therefore, be it Resolved, That it is the semse of this or- ganization that It Is of very great importance to this city and to this coast that the applica— tion of the Western Pacific Rallway Company be approved, and that this organization hereby respectfully petitions the honorable, the Socrlf' tary of War of the United States, fo aporove the same and to grant to the Western Pacific Rallway Company the right to comstruct such wharsves and other structure: & may be neces- sary and proper; and be it further Resolved, That a certified copy of this lution be transmitted to the honorable, Secretary of War, and a certified copy be sent to each of the Senators and Representatives ‘ongress of the Lnited r Resolved, That this organization and the of ficers thereof take such other and further steps as shall be necessary and proper to carry into solution. JCIATION OF Vice President. cretary s Station Site. SAN LEANDRO, Jan. 19.—The West- ern Pacific has purchased half of Judge Smith's place for $8000. to be used for depot and yard purposes. MAGNET TO DRAW STEEL FROM BRAIN ill Be Used to Extraet . Metal From Man’s Head in New York. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 19—A powerful magnet will be used to-morrow at a hos- pital here in an effort to draw a plece of steel from the brain of John Naill of Winston, N. C. While Nail was at work in a machine shop six months ago, a plece of metal penetrated his skull over the right ea It was drawn out, but a splinter of st remains in the brain. Recently Nall ar rived here and physiclans with X-r found the bit of steel. The skull was opened and there was a hemorrhage, which made it impossible to proceed. To- morrow a magnet will be applied to draw out the plece of steel St WILL NOT ACCEPT CARDS OF WESTERN FEDERATION United Mine Workers of Ameriea Take Independent Stand at the Indian- apolis Coaventiou. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 19.—The con- vention of the United Mine Workers of America to-day by a decisive vote killed a resolution favoring the ac- ceptance of transfer cards from the Western Federation of Miners. Among the resolutions tabled was one seeking to place the mine workers on record as favoring the control of cvery branch of labor included in one industry by one union, as is the case in the orgakllllon of the miners. Pres- ident Mitclell took the floor and vig- orously opposed the adoption of this resolution. Following his speech the resolution was tabled by an almost unanimous vote. The convention then adourned until to-morrow morning. —_——————— BURIED TREASURE FOUND NEAR EMPORIA, KANSAS Gold Worth Hundred Thousand Dollars Sald to Have Been Uncarthed by Two Men. EMPORIA, Kans., Jan. 19.—Marion Turner and Otto Freshwater, Emporia men, claim to have found a buried treasure, valued at $100,000, In or near Phoenix Mound, southwest of Emporia. Part of the treasure. they say, is in gold coin and the remainder in gold- bearing quartz. The treasure Is said to have been buried In 1848 by thre men who were on their way east from California when surrounded by In- dians. ' To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. GROVE'S signature is on each box. 25c.* .- OLGA NETHERSOLE AVERTS A PANIC IN HER THEATER Actress Calms Audience, Which Had Begun to Leave Beeause of Small Fire. NEW YORK, Jan. 19.—During a per- formance by iss Olga Nethersole at the Harlem Opera-house last night an electric fuse burned out in the upper gallery. Firemen playing hand gren- ades on the blaze nearly caused a paie as well as a fight among several per- sons who were drenched. Some one 1 the dress circle hearing the ‘sh eried “Fire,” and a panic was narrowly averted. The spectators all over the house stood up, and leave the theater. 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