The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 8, 1906, Page 4

HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY DE WITTE GIVES WAY T0 BURST OF RAGE. Rebukes Peasant Delegation De- manding Gift of Private ands. Thanks Heaven That Czar Is in Position to Act Independently. PETERSBURG, Feb. 7.—A delega- are chiefly confined to the northern part tizens of Ekaterinodar, Caucasia, | of Courland and Riga. sent t urg to obtain the Em- | peror's personal assurance that the land| gf PETEREBURG, Feb. T—A con- question would not be settled by the pres-| ference of Russian insurance men has ent Government, but by the National As- | decided not'to pay losses sustained on sembly, was received in audience by Pre-|account of agrarian movements, riots mier de Witte yesterday. Interesting ac-|Or armed revolts. The Russ asserts { that its of the interview were published | counts of the interview were published| 0 00000 " tnose ST. tion ¢ e Government Relief for Landlords, t. Petersb who have suffered the Government has decided to | Ry Tk Pruiah potapeoient 1 S0E the | from the agrarian troubles and has al- sgrarian problem could mnot be solvel DV | ready apportioned $17,000,000, of which | @ division of the state lands alon®, |y, the estate owners in the Baltic amounting o of which are forest lands must be prepared to buy private lands on the easy instaliment plan, as provided by | the imperial ukase of November last. The | to 16,000,000 acres, much The peasants | spokesr of the delegation replied that the peasants did not wish to buy the lands, but were determined to receive them at a gift from the Government At the close of an informal discussion he Premier thanked heaven that the con- | ditions in Russia were different frnm‘ those prevalling other o ntries. He said, according to the published reports, that a French Pres dependent upon the electors and an English King on Jewish bankers, but the Russian Emperor was independent. The consummation de- sired by the revolutionists—that the coun- try be ruled by Poles, Armenians and Jews—would not be realized. The Pre- mier is said to have added “The greatness and happiness of Russia is due to the Emperor. Without the Em- or you who now wear long coats and P higk hats would still be peasants.” | The Premier is reported to have re- marked in conclusion | “if only it had not been for this un- | bappy war, if only victory should be on | our side, all would now be well did not so will it. At the conclusion of the conference the | Premier promised the delegation that it eived in audience by the But God | gl toioite DEATH FOR REBEL LEADERS. General Mistchenko Crushing the Revo- | lation in Siberia. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. T.—General| Linevitch, commander of the Manchu- | rian_armies, telegraphed to the Em- | peror yesterday as follows: | General Rennenkampff entered Chita, | Trans-Baikalia, on Februar 5, with-| out bloodshed. The inhabitants of| the town have been disarmed and work has been resumed. Two hundred revo- lutionists have been arrested, but of the leaders fled General nikoff, the Military Governor has been relieved of his post | action. General Rennenkampft reports that the measures taken assure & speedy pacification of Trans-Baikalia. | s yred among the troops at ostok and Harbin. st act of General Mistchenko his arrival at Viadivestok was to on send the mutinous infantry regiment to the raflway barracks outside of Vladi- vostok Advices received by the Minister of the Interjor supplement General Line- viteh's dispatch referring to the restor- ation of order at Chita. These show that the city was in hands of the"Tevo- lutionists for three days. The province of Trans-Baikalia, where the peasants, under the leadership of revolutionist arose ‘and raided the Government am- munition magazines and seized 25,000 rifies and much ammunition, pacific. Many of the rifies have been received at Chita in a damaged condi- tion. The captured revolutionary lead- ers were tried by drumhead court- martial and shot The telegram to the Ministry of the Interior added that a famine is threat- ened in Trans-Baikalia. The supplies of fiour were exhausted and relef measures must immediately be taken. Reports from the Baltic provinces say that Governor General Sollogub’s plan of sweeping the revolutionists and | thelr leaders from the province is rapldly approaching completion. The columns of troops commanded by Gen- eral Orloff, which have gradually closed in on Riga, are driving the Livonian revolutionists before them. The advance guard has arrived at the outskirts of the city. In Courland the columns are approaching from the south.* The trap will sobn be sprung’ and the revolutionary chiefs who are being driven by hundreds -into Riga will be captured. The disorders now SCOTT’S EMULSION. A QUESTION OF COST. In any number of ‘stofes you'll see various prepara- tions of cod liver oil at as many different prices. You'll wonder, perhaps, why Scott’s Emulsion costs more than some other kind in as large a bottie. Hearing only one side of the guestion you may be led into buying the “just as good as Scott’s” at the Jower price. That's false economy. Scott’s Emulsion costs more because its more expensive to make. Every ingredient is tested and guar- anteed of the purest quality. No adulteration, no shaving of quality. There's no econ-_ omy in bargain medicine. If you can afford to experiment with your health, substitutes may satisfy you. We take it, however, that you want a pure preparation, a .reliable .remedy and something that’s going to help you. That's what in Scott's Emulsion. Thirty years the standard. . BCOTT & BOWNE, 4op Peasl 5t, New York, | cording to | Those | Kansas provinces will receive $5,500,000. i der i . Medals for Soldiers and Sailors. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 7.—Medals for all those who participated in: the ar with Japan have been ordered, ac- an imperial rescript pub- in the Russky Invalid to-day. who defended Port Arthur are singled out for particular distinction. They will be given silver medals and light bronze medals will be bestowed on those who were engaged in battles on land or sea. lished SeSeneries Terrorist Wounds Chief of Police. | KERTCH, Russia, Feb. 7.—While | chatting with a party of guests in his residence to-day Chief of Police Jav- orsky was shot and dangerousl wounded by a terrorist, who fired | through an unshuttered window. The shooting doubtless was done in re- | venge for the arrest of a number of | | terrorist leaders. —_——— TTNTICQ a . COUNTESS REJECTS PEACE OVERTURES PARIS, Feb. 7.—Strong efforts continue to be made in behalf of the Castellane | family to bring about the abandonment of the dtvorce suit begun by the Countess | Boni de Castellane, but the desired re- | sult has not been achieved. An attempt | made to obtain the Countess’ assent to a judiclal separation without an abeo- lute divorce has been unsuccessful and | probably the case will pursue the ordi- | nary course. It is expected that it will be heard three weeks hence. According | to the French law there is no further ne- | cessity for the defendant to appear un- | | less the judge belleves that his evidence is essential. The pronouncement of a de- | cree releases ‘any contract relating to a | marriage settlement, each party resuming | control of his or her own property. A divorced woman may not remarry within ten months after a judgment, while an appeal against a decision must be lodged within six months. A report, which cannot be confirmed, says that Count Boni has entered counter plea, clalming heavy damages. RACETRACK MEN FORM GIGANTIC COMBINATION | - Edward Corrigan, Matt J. Winn and | Others Pool Their Holdings in | One Organization. | .~The Cour- | will say: * The | LOUISVILLE, Ky., Fel ier-Journal to-morrow | largest turf combination ever formed in | this part of the couptry, an organiza- | tion involying property worth $3.000,- 000, has been formed by Matt J. Winn, | president of the American Turf Associ- ation; Joseph Rhinock, Congressman from the Sixth District of Kentucky, and Edward Corrigan, owner of the City, Hawthorne and City Park (New Orleans) racetracks. According to the statements of Messrs. Winn and Rhinock last night, within the next few days there will be formed a com- pany which will buy outright the fol- lowing racetrack properties: Churchill Downs, Louisville; Latonia racetrack, Covington, Ky.; City Park track, New Orleans; Kentucky Association track, Lexington, Ky. This does not mean the obliteration of the American Turf As- sociation, which controls the principal tracks, with the exception of New Or- léans, now in operation I the West. The four tracks are simply going to combine and pool their interests. —_————————— FUNERAL OF SUICIDE PASTOR TO BE HELD IN HIS CHURCH Protests Ralsed by Congregation of the Late George Simmons Are 4 Overcome. . PEORIA, Ill, Feb. 7.—Fianeral ser- vices for the late George Simmons, who committed suicide Tuesday morning, will be held from the First Baptist Church, of which he was pastor, at 10 o'clock Friday morning. The sermon will be preached by a clergyman from Kehsas City, who has not.yvet been se- lected. A storm of protest was raised in the dhurch this morning when there was- talk -of holding services in the church, but has quieted down and there will be no strenuous objections. Coroher Baker concluded his inquest this afternoon, and the jary returned a simple verdict of death from cyanide of potassium, taken with sulcidal in- tent. A mass meeting of the depositors of the People’s Savings Bank, of which Dr. S8immons was chief owner, was held to-night, and a report made therein in- dicates that the bank will pay from 80 to 100 cents on the dollar. ———— IRON WORKER KILLED BY A FALLING BRICK Perry Battenfeld, While at Work on Kearny-Street Building, Meets Horrible End. Perry Battenfeld, ‘a structuarl iron worker, who llves at 592 McAllister street, was almost {nstantly killed by a brick falling and striking him on the heagd while he was at- work on- a build- ing on Kearny street, near Market. The brick fell from the ninth sto; He was at work on the first floor whi it struck him. “His skull was crushed in as if it had been an egg. Several employes of the building came to his aseletance and the ambu- ance was summoned. There was stlll life In the man when Steward O'Dea put him in the ambulance. When he arrived at the Central Emergency Hospital Dr. Pinkham pro- nounced him dead. The skull had been | and fatally injuring three. demic and wholly exasperating. Nor | does the pianist's ‘technique hold out here. It is not of the limpid, dynamic |'was fiére and throughout in the running STORN HAKES HUN OF TOWN Place of Four Thousamh1 Inhabitants in Sieily Is Almost Wholly Destroyed MEDITERRANEAN 'GALE Two Schooners Are Lost With All Hands Off the Southern Coast of Italy Special Cablegram to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyright, 1906, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. MESSINA, Feb. 7.—For three days & | terrible storm has raged along the Medi- terranean coasts of Sicily and Italy, as well as in the Straits’ of Messina, and | navigation has been almost suspended ex- | cept In the case of vessels used in the postal service. Galati Mamertino, a town of 4000 inhab- itants near here, has been almost com- pletely destroyed. Sixty ‘houses were swallowed up In the sea last night. At Rammacco a house fell owing to the violence of the storm, killing two persons All the fields in the neighborhood are inundated. At Palermo the deluge of rain was min- gled with a fall of yellow sand. The storm also affected the soufh of Ttaly, many vessels being wrecked along the coasts. The schooners FEugenia and Clementina were lost, with all hands. From Genoa to Naples navigation is very difficult. REISENAUER'S PLAYING WINS MUSIC LOVERS Those that like the Reisenauer kind of planistics wjll like immensely Mr. Alfred Reisenauer, who gave his first recital at Lyric Hall last night. A good many peo- ple among the audience, unsually large for a first night, seemed to be of his way of thinking—not inconspicuously Mr. Rels- enauer. It all depends on what one wants in pianism. Mr. Reisenauer has a blg, luscious tone, sometimes firm to hardness, however, the heroic manner, and a spectacular technique. His reading of the Schubert *“Wanderer' wasg mag- nificent, that of the Bach prelude and fugue (D minor) the merest pedagogism. Between these were Mozart, Beethoven, Scarlatti, Chopin, Schumann and Weber, a varied programme. Mr. Reisenauer came on to the Bach number. One had every reason to expect the most. The Herr professor looks the planist better than any two that have appeared here this season. He has the air and the hair, and played, until he forgot himself, llke a whale among min- nows. Really, one felt a little sorry for oneself, such little fish one seemed to Mr. Reisenauer! But to the Bach. Mr. Reisenauer does not play Bach as if he loved him, but as if he had to—the duty before pleasure kind of thing. It is the sort of Bach that has made Bach disliked by the ighorant, conscientious, rigid, aca- sensitiveness that makes a Bauer's Bach such a miracle of technical joy—to say nought else. In fact, Mr. Reisenauer passages lacking in-evenness. A certain obviousness of nuance that marks his playing was possibly most noticeable in the Scarlatti Pastorale and Capriceio that followed, and 2lso the same lack of technical clarity. Like De Pachmann Mr. Reisenauer joys in certain phrases and invites you to join him, but from unspeakable heights! In the Pastorale he invited one to the double third trill—which unfortunately was not clear—with its bouncing bass. Chen Mr. Reisenauer, after a modulatory ramble to the first chord of the Capriccio, stopped short. The late folk, in their usual inconsiderate fashion, were wandering frontward. They dropped anywhere at the Jovian wrath of the planist, and he then resumed operations. Mozart, with the D minor Fanta- sia, developed interestingly, some parts of the work being charmingly played. The Beethoven sonata was the heroic opus 78, and Mr. Reisenauer succeeded in making it heroic if not very inter- esting—though that is not all his fault. And then came the big thing of the evening in the Schubert ‘“Wanderer.” One felt here the planist’s need of a larger canvas than Lyric Hall affords. The work was big spectacle, big pic- ture, governed by the large spacious- ness that is the best of the Reisenauer manner. ‘The work was splendidly read, splendidly played, the chords truly Olympian. Beautifully, tonally, was the little Arabeske of Schumann, and very nice in"fecling. There were three Chopin studies, the F minor (op. 10), A b major (gp. 25), both played rather, sketchily, and the E major (op. 112), with no particular grace of Chopin. The programme closed with .three Weber works. It is quite -possible that Mr. Reise- naeur is a bad first-nighter—more than likely. wout Friday night he will play again, and if there is anything as good as his “Wanderer” the re- cital will be .twice worth hearing. Meéantime last night'’s house :.mostly liked him, and extravagantly. ‘I do, too, when he plays “The Wandere BLANCHE, PARTINGTON. —_—— Japan to Continue the War Taxes. TOKIO, Feb. 7.—Bills providing for the establishmeft of a consolidation fund and for the continuation of the war taxes passed the budget commit- tee to-day and doubtless.will pass the House of Representatives to-morrow. ——— e r— mashed to a pulp from the force of the brick. Battenfeld was about 32 years old. ———— Letis Receives a Light Sentence. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 7.—M. M. Letts, who, while agent and’ operator’ for the Santa Fe Railway at Princeton; Kans,, stole several thousand dollars' worth of tickets and then ‘sét firé to the depot to hide the.robbery, pleaded guflty in the Criminal Court to-day and was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary; TWo Yeats ago Létts made a sensational escape. He arrested a menth brouglt' back 1o 7 ] ing a voung STARTS EAST 'UPON MISSION OF IMPORTANCE i CHARLES A. NELSON, WHO IS ON . THE WAV TO CHICAGO TO AT- TEND LABOR CONFERENCE. —f Charles Nelson to Represent Amalgamated Carpenters at Conference. : = Charles A. Nelson, the well-known young unionist who holds the position of business agent in the Bullding Trades Council of this city, left for Chicago last evening. He has been chosen by the fourth district of the Amalgamated So- ciety of Carpenters and Joiners, which comprises all the States west of the Mississippi and Canada, to represent it at the conference between the Amgzlga- mated and the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. Nelson, who is one of the most popular young men in union and political circles of this city, is only 30 years of age, yet bears on his shoulders a welght of re- sponsibility that would do credit to many. a more seasoned man. His genial man- ner has made him a host of friends. At the conference, which is to be held for the purpose of renewing the trade agreement under which the two great organizations have been working for the last few years, Nelson intends to intro- duce a plan for the amalgamation of the two organizations. This plan is a stu- pendous one, far-reaching in its mag- nitude, for it embraces the entire English- speaking world. Upon boarding the Oakland boat last evening, Nelson was surrounded by a host of friends and fellow unionists, prominent among whom were Justice of the Peace Alfred B. Lawson and Thomas Maxwell, who assumes the presidency of Amalgamated Branch No. 1 during Nel- son’s absence. Delegations from the Building Trades Council, the Independent Order of Red Men, Fraternal ®Order of Eagles and the Ancient Order of For- esters were also there to say good-by. BLAMES RAILROAD FOR MAN'S DEATH Special Dispatch to The Call. RENO, Feb, 7.—The Coroner’s jury in the case of Joseph Elia, the millionaire who was killed in this city Sunday night by being run over by the Tonopah ex- press, brought a verdict to-day holding the Southern Pacific Company to be gullty of mneglect in not having the crossing where the tragedy took place provided with a flagman, and taking other precau- tions to guard against such occurrences. The verdict of the jury will probably re- sult in the widow of the dead millionaire bringing a suit for damages against the railroad company. —————— WILL BUILD GREAT HIGHWAY ACROSS THE STATE OF OHIO National Good Roads Association Se- cures Greater Portion of the Money Needed for the Work. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 7.—Within a year work will be begun by the Na- tional Good Roads Association on a great highway extending clear across the State of Ohio, from the Pennsyl- vania to the Indiana line, that will be one of the finest in the world, and, like the Appian Way, will be built to last for all time to come. This was the information given out to-day by Colonel W. H. Moore, presi- dent of the National Good Roads Asso- clation. The road, which will be the first to be built across a State under the authority of an organization since the old Federal roads, will cost $1,500,000. Of this amount Colonel Moore says $750,000 has beep put up by certain in- terests that he will not now reveal and the remainder will be secured from the counties through which it will pass, —————————— CHICAGO MAY PROHIBIT THE SALE OF CIGARETTES Ordinance Being Prepared by the City Fathers Aims to Prohibit Minors From Smoking. CHICAGO, Feb. 7.—Chicago may have an ordinance making it a misdemeanor for any person under 21 years of age to| smoke tobacco. Articles in the pro- posed ordinance prohibit minors from purchasing cigarettes or any of the parts, known as “the makings.” Fur- thermore, any person who keeps a place where minors smoke, or sells or gives away tobacco without the written con- sent of the parents, will be subject to a fine of $5 to $50 for the first offense and $25 to $200 for subsequent viola- tions. The sale of cigarettes except in original packages is prohibited. The ordinance will be discussed at the next meeting of the committee. —_————————— GOVERNMENT WILI. DEFEND SOLDIERS WHO SHOT CIVILIAN Prepares (o Protect Rights of Men Who Killed a Thief at the Alle- gheny Arsenal. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. —The War Department i{s making ready to test to the utmost its right to protect the soldier who, in.the execution of law- ful orders, kills a civilian. end .preparations are in progress for a sturdy defense hefore the oyer and terminer court of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in the case of Sentinel | Down, who, with his officer, Licutenant Ralph W. Drury, was indicted for kill- an named Crowley two years ago last tember while the lat- ‘| ter was stealing fro) - Tl JiialppJoteper Srem e AL FEBRUARY 8, 1906 To that || NSE ACANST *STANDARD O Producers of Petroleum in State Take Steps for Protection Interests SEEK BETTER PRICES of First Move Is to Elect by a Postal Card Ballot Directors to Lead Way Oil producers of many districts in California met in the Mills building last evening and took steps to organize principally for the purpose of securing a better price for California crude oil than has been paid by the Standard and Assoclated Oil companles for some years. Millions of dollars of actually invested capital were represented in the meeting. Organization advanced no further than the adoption of a general plan, which includes the election of eleven directors by a postal card bal- lot on the part of producers of oil, and the preliminary work of collecting and regularly disseminating statistical and other information to all the members of the association, relating to the con- ditions in the field and in the markets, the demand and actual consumption: in short, all the facts needed to give pro- ducers an Intelligent idea of what Is in progress regarding their interests that they may act accordingly and unitedly. It was the sense of the meeting that at first there shall be no incorporation, but an association, membership in which shall cost $5, with a monthly fee of $1. One hundred and fifty per- sons have signed the roll. To them will be given the task of selecting the first board of directors. A committee to conduct the election was appointed, consisting of W. 8. Morton, W. B. Robb, H. U. Maxwell, William Hinkle and J. F. Davies. brought in the plan of organization consisted of Messrs. Davies, John Hin- kle, W. B. Robb, Samuel Shannon and ‘W. S. Morton. The eleven directors to be elected will be apportioned as fol- lows, to represent all parts of the oil- producing regions of California: Coal- inga district, 4; Kern County, 5; Santa Maria and vicinity, 1; Los Angeles and the amalgamated field, 1. When the directors have been se- lected organization will take place. For the present Stanley W. Morshead, the temporary chairman, and H. U. Max- well, the temporary secretary, continue to act as officers. When the organiza- tion is perfécted steps will be taken at once for the regulation of the market price of oil to be pald to the pro- Gucers at the wells. As the,Standard Oil and the Associated .Oil companies have outstanding a large number of contracts to be filled and so are inter- ested in keeping the price for oil at the wells down a lively trial of strength may soon be in order. Several earnest speeches were made, in which it was represented that, at present prices, the producers are rob- bing their land of oil that can never be replaced, and so exhausting their capital, on a basis that is so low that they are actually earning no divi- dends. T. R. Turner, H. H. Blood, W. B. Robb and others spoke. Blood® urged that immediate action be taken, so that the great corporations that are adverse to the organization of the producers of oll may not get in and prevent a common understanding. Blood also said that he favored having all of the ofl of the producers handled by one man only, and having it tied up by agree- ments so that it could not be bought at a less price than was fixed and so break the market again. Blood's speech was the strongest that was made. The next meeting will be called when the election of directors has been accomplished, which may be in a week. The postal card ballot will be started to-day. —_— STANDARD OIL COMPANY TO INCREASE ITS STOCK NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—An unofficial announcement was made in Wall street to-day that the Standard Oil Company is preparing to Increase its capital stock from $100,000,000 to $600,000,000 by issuing six shares for each one now outstanding. The company has two objects in doing this. One is to try to dispel the public crificism that arises every time Standard declares a 40 or 48 per cent dividend. The other is to bring about a scattering of the stock among a larger number of holders, so that there may be missionaries in every town to help stem the rising tide of opposition to thd firm. It is argued that the salvation of the steel trust is its enormous number of small stockhold- | ers. ‘When the present stock is increased six- fold the price will drop from $6% to about $115, and the dividends, Instead of being more than 40 per cent, will become about 7 per cent. No stockholder will be a loser, because he will hold six times as many shares as before. ———— “‘Buster Brown'' valentines and new lines of postal cards for the 14th. Sanborn, Vail & Co.* —_—— MILLIONAIRE'S SON SECRETLY TAKES UNTO HIMSELF A WIFE ST. LOUIS, Feb. 7.—James B. Hop- kins, only son of James Hopkins, vico president of the Diamond Match Com- pany, and Miss I B. Kelly were secret- ly married in Clayton on Monday last by Justice Campbell. Julius Myer and Mary E. Smith were married at the same ceremony. In getting the license Hopkins gave his address as Detroit and Miss Kelly's as Buffalo. Both have ANOTHER TRIUMPH FOR REISENAUER AND " THE EVERETT PIANO “A great and wonderful pianist—a man who reminds us L e i ily that there Is such a thing e jane plaging. which merely utilizes mwanding, authoritative p! technique as means—comes to layed all makes of artistic pianos in Europe, as com- the United States after having and expresses is unequivocal and unbounded astonishment at the mar?el- ous power and volume of the EVERETT grand plano, and roduces effects—tonal effects, o effects, of course, tone color effects—that conceivable—color give to the Lisat concerto, times in the last three decades by dynamic effects, and—hardly performed here probably Afty the world-renowned pian- ists of the past and present, an entirely new complexion, in fact, a new physiognomy. He himself marvels at the re- sources offered him through this American plano, and plays as he never played before, alt past are the record of his remarkable capacity power. nces in the hough his performa | and artistic “The EVERETT PIANO COMPANY, which makes these great grands, has been a Kind of tone maker, whole scheme has been based too. Their on seeking the tone in its vol- ume without affecting Its quality, and as the tone came forth the quality moved along parallel; that they discovered. This was due to the science applied and its development as the experiment broadened out. trated all this most superbly 1 Now, then, Reisenauer illus- ast week at Carnegie Hall, for he brought forth a tremendous tone, and with a fine and in- tense quality, and supervening over all a musical exuber- The committee that | lived in St. Louls for a number of years. —_—e———— Greater Pittsburg Bill Signed. HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. T.—Gov- ernor Pennypacker to-day signed the Greater Pittsburg bill. Tt provides for the consolidation of Pittsburg and Al- legheny on a joint vote of both cities. ance that saturated the whole audience so lavishly that the attention was necessarily also directed to the means, and every one spoke of the plano, too; on all sides one could hear; ‘Isn’t that a fine piano?” ‘Isn’t that a great grand pi- ano? ‘Whose piano is be playing? ‘My, what a wonderful in- strument! People were simply filled with enthusiasm, and many were really overwhelmed with the Reisenauer per- formance; it was gorgeous pianism. far out of sight when we compare it to o many attempts to do the right thing with a concert grand plano before a musical public. “The EVERETT PIANO COMPANY thus achieves a tri- umph that places its fabric in the very fromt line pf all the great products of the musical instrument industry. When great tone creations are spoken of henceforth the - ETT piano is included as a matter of course. And it t be remembered that this means the whole line of instruments, from the small upriahts to the larger ones, from the short grands to the imperial concert grands they make; it is all just the same principle at work-—tone, tone quality, touch to give it life, and all with the single purpose to make these conformable to the most rationally developed.theories of the musical art. eldom do I give vent to such radical expressions of opinion; seldom does one hear such a performance as Ref- senauer gave on the EVERETT piano this past week—and that is my reason for it. The musical people of the United States are going to have a rare treat this season, an extra- ordinary treat, when Reisenauer and the EVERETT grand appear in concerts it will be an event which will long live in the memory of the musical world here in the TUnited Marc Blumenberg, Musical Courier Extra, Now. Never before in the history of this country has such broad- gauged, heart-to-heart article ever appeared in print as is quoted above and coming from the pen of such a noted authority as Marc Blumenberg. Clark Wise & Co. ¢ 126 GEARY STREET California Distributors of the EVERETT PJANO THE ONLY PIANO MADE AND SOLD WITH A LIFETIME GUARANTEE NERVY SHERIFF FOIS PLOTTERS Spectal Dispateh to The Call. RENO, Feb. 7.—In a hand to hand struggle in the corridors of the Elko Jail, ‘ Sherifft Weathers of Elko County | thwarted the attempt of three prisoners | to break jall. The prisoners had secured | saws from some unknown source and had succeeded In sawing their way !hrough{ the floor of one cell and were, making | good their escape when discovered by the | | | Vietim of Trala Wreek Dies. PORTLAND, . T—Mrs. Nellle Riley_of Walla Walla, Wash, died to- day Irom the injuries she received in the train wreck at Bridal Veil, Ore. yesterday. Mrs. Riley's death makes five fatalitfes so far as a result of the collision. = = INTEREST CAPITAL SURPLUS & PROFITS $3.000,000.00 Sheriff. A desperate battle ensued, and the sound of the struggle finally sum- moned other officers and the escaping prisoners were overpowered. . The men were at once placed in sepa- rate cells with their feet encased in Ore- gon boots. In addition to the charges | against them, they are now charged with attempted jall breaking. The criminals are Frank Sterling, James Watson and ‘Wesley Gardener, the latter a colored man. All are awaiting trial on petty of- fenses. The people who preosper in this world are the people who save their money and put it, away in the Savings Bank. By opening a savings account at this Bank you will acquire the saving habit. A profitable habit. CALIFORNIA Safe Deposit & Trust - Company California and Sts. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA ASSETS OVER TEN MILLION DOLLARS —_———— If you had bought everything in the best market, how much money could you save in a year? A sum large enough to pay yourself good wages for the time spent in reading the ads. ——— HARRIMAN WILL CONSTRUCT = A PRIVATE TROLLEY LINE ¢ MIDDLETOWN, N. Y. Feb. 7.—E. H. Harriman is arranging to construct a trolley line from Newburg Junction, on the Erle, to Tuxedo. It is to be built on his property. The road will be for Harriman's private use and will con- nect with one running to his $1,000,060 mansion now being constructed at For- est Lake, on top of the mountain be- fore Arden. — e Try the United States Laundry. 1 Market street. Telephone South 420. * —_————————— Amends Army Appropriation BfL WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Provision for the abolition of the grade of lieutenant general, the highest rank in the army. is made in the army appropriation bill, which has been reported to the House from the Commiftee on Military Af- fairs. FITTING —_——— Murderess Is Granted a_Reprieve, TRENTON, N. J., Feb. 7.—Governor Stokes to-day granted Mrs. Antoinette Tolla, the Hackensack murderess, a further reprieve of sixty days in order to allow her counsel to present further evidence for a new trial. Entrance tr. Alda ue (Formerly TAIT'S) MARKET AND POWELL STREETS Opposite Columbia Theater MANAGEME~NT OF H. W. LAKE ITALIAN COMPOSITIONS (By Request) GRAND CONCERT TO-NIGHT To be rendered by BERNAT JAULUS and his Famous Orches- tra of Soloists, as fotlows: Telephope Main 141 Arthar L. Fish, Representative The Times is the advertising medium of the Southwest. ——