The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 10, 1906, Page 5

/ : THE SAN FRANCISCO .CALL. SATURDAY. MARCH 10, 190& - _ . YOUNG GEORGE J. MOORE SUES HIS * FATHER George A. Moore, the Ala- meda capitalist, whose life has been burder son, 1 v the escapades now to defend a suit of $50,000 damages the Il bring today. wil young ] The father is charged with be- to have He mast onspiracy nghaied. the -fforts to control him ad proved furtile. 1angna for Action for $50,000. That Conspired to Get Rid of Him. > leges the steerage TELLS THE § way. at here, are well da much re. est of y his fare is entitled eets v MAKES TROUBLE g the pri cace he statem de by arrested several T His fa ited to the sea trip of imes iness. retur y in is The =d to father z0. cons get rid of —_— BLAZE IN TREASURER’S OFFICE CAUSES A SCARE ; Attaches Perform Herole Work Improvised Fire Brigade When as Explosion Oceurs. es with the scare esterday t he City S i e Story Is the| Parent ron swinging embarking on | H g L) i & HANGHAI STORY. ive land several tale to the au- n shang- to Liverpool The story | ew York papers ng considerable | where both known. € in the great de his way tew weeks of a hue but lay e had his suit ¢ young Moore peace on complaint of The son at that time ! from New York, | ad made threats g Moore's tale of woe o partake of homeless, | d compelled to | ntal hardships R FAMILY. rts of the the & George was of a| - actor.” | le in Ala- r says sire further alleges be one of the most ever tried in a be a million- minently iden-7 in_ this | intelligent | g a salary of till his parent aused by? contact FOR HEAVY ! GZOFGE 7 TIOORE for — DAMAGES. GEOEGE R J700RE l WHOM HE HOLDS RBESPONSIBLE YOUNG MAN WHO CLAIMS HE WAS SHANGHAIED, AND HIS AGED FATHER, FROM WHOM HE DEMANDS $50,000 DAMAGES. FOR HIS INVOLUNTARY VOYAGE AND e “CORPSE” SITS 1P IN COFFR | Woman Wakes From Death- to Herself Prepared for Burial Epecial Dispatch to The Call. LACROSSE, Wis.,, March 9.—By wak- Ing from a deathlike trance in the nick of time, Mrs. W. E. Sherwood, aged 27, saved herself from being buried alive, nd so frightened two women who were ting up with her supposed corpse that their condition is serious. wood, who lives at Mabel, Minn., appar- ently died of pneumonia early this moxn- ing. Her body was placed upon a bler and an undertaker sent for. Just before | dawn, two friends, sitting with the corpse, were startled by a wild shriek, and peering into the death chamber, found the ‘“‘corpse” sitting up. She was | delirfous from fright, having realized her | barrowing position without being able to | move. J ASKS TO BE SENT | TO INSANE ASYLUM | Young Rancher Fears That He May Kill Family and Himself. Epecial Dm’rht Call. | SAN BERNARDINO, March 9.—Ed- {win Thomas Bradon, accompanied by his wife, came to the District Attor- | ney’s office today and asked to be con- fined in the Patton asylum. He is a young man, who came here from Idaho a few years ago and bought a ranch a few miles out of town. Broken in health, he is only a shadow of his for- mer self.. Lately his mind has become affected and he has developed sulcidal and homicidal mania. At his examina- tion today he declared that he could hardly restrain himself from killing his wife and baby. At times, he said, his | fury was directed against himself. He | was sent to the County Hospital for temporary treatment and will later be committed to the Patton asylum if his condition deces not improve. SANTA BARBARA, March 9.—Louls Janan Jr., who has been residing for some time past at Santa Ynez, ‘was brought to Santa Barbara this morn- ing and confined in the Insane ward at the County Jail. His examination by on to. | on his tting himsel? | young Moore | » whisky, and when told the shanghal returning to mother and | of T ion occ (the Lunacy Commissioners will take ow of er Davis, ' place tomorrow afternoon. It was s folow sheet of flame, | stated by George Erricson of Santa set fire to the woodwork and { Ynez, who brought the young man to sed the Treasurer's deputies to stop | this city, that Janin realizes his con- ting money d get busy in an at- dition and it was his request that he to extinguish the blage | be given treatment for the mental dif- sty John -McG procured a (ficulty from which he is suffering. - ef De puty re: to the ekly beat the life out O'Con- surer Ban- Depart- were sent The fire under The young man is a son of Louis Janin, a civil and mining engineer, who has been prominent on the Pacific Coast for several years past and who spends a portion of his time on his ranch in Santa Ynez. 1 | S o l Will Bridge the Willamette, | PORTLAND, March 9.—The Port of | re Bookkeeper Tomalty, ks Lorrigan and Winters and Po. man Jack Attridge d lent their | Portland Commission today decided e n forming an improvised fire | unanimously to grant the application’ 1 The @amage causcd was|of the Portland and Seattle Rallroad el Company for a franchise to build a rail- PIMCISERS S road bridge across the Willamette ng out a big lot of broken ends of stationery at one-half River, just below the present outskirts of the city, providing that the rallroad P2 r vrice. Box papers tablets, en. | company will guarantee to observe cer- o neils u\}k. ::-fll'l‘-ne_l ete, Flnbn:u_ tain regulations for the protection of s eaaan - e the commerce of the city. The bridge 3 S £k will be of the swinging-draw pattern. A e otn o™ phun- | The granting of the franchise insures Forrest was observed here today with appro. | the entrance of the Portland and Seattle priate exercises. Rallroad into the city of Portland. like Trance and Finds| Mrs. Sher- | ENDS H LIF WTH CARBOLIC Walter O0’Donnell, Formerly of This City, Commits Suicide dn St. Louis el e Special Dispatcn to The Call, ST. LOUIS, March 9.—Disheartened | by repeated defeats in fighting the drink | habit, Walter O’Donnell, aged 2, who re- | cently came hers from San Francisco, {ended his life with carbolic acid the day | |after he was discharged from the Fire Department. O'Donnell was found dying {In the yard back of his home at an early { hour this morning. Beside him was an empty ounce bottle labeled ‘‘carbolic }acid.” His mother sald that her son was { despondent over losing nis position on | account of drinking, and he took kis life because he feared he could not quit the habit. Atter being discharged from a good po- sition in Sen Francisco because he drank, O'Donnell came to Bt. Louls the latter part of last December. For some time he was unable to get work, but February 2 he was employed by Fire Chief Swingley. With high hopes of a permanent position in the department, O'Donnell resolved not to touch whisky. After he obtained the position for two weeks he kept the reso- lution. Then the love of liquor won. He was discharged Wednesday. WHEAT GROWERS FEEL EFFECT OF BOYCOTT Big Decrease in the Ship- ments of Flour From Stockton. Special Dispatch to The, Call STOCKTON, March 9.—The Chinese boy- cott against American goods is hitting the wheat growers of this section, the Stock- ton flour mills and those engaged in river transportation. The price of flour was cut 10 cents a barrel this week, and the price of milling wheat has been declining stead- |ily for some time. There is practically no trading and has been none of any conse- quence for several weeks. The mill own- | ers do not like to admit that the Chinese | boyeott is responsible for the condition. | Stewart P. Elliott, manager of the Stock- | ton Milling Company, sald today that the shipments of flour from Stockton across | the Pacific had decreased 5 per cent in | the last two years, despite the fact that | the shipments of flour to the Philippines | and to Japan have almost doubled within | those two years. | “Two years ago,” said Elliott, “the | Stockton mills were shipping from 8000 to 10,000 tons of flour a year to the Orient, and now this city is shipping but 4000 tons year.” ————— ‘Will Homor Late Sherifr. EUREKA, March 9.—A movement was started today to collect a fund by popular subscription to erect a monu- ment to the memory of the late Sherift T. M. Brown, who died in office ten days ago after serving the county thirty years as Sheriff. A committee has been appoffited to take the matter in hand and anticipates no difficulty in securing In securing the necessary | funds. ‘Will Net Rum for Mayor. SANTA CRUZ, March 9.—The Good ESTATE .GOES NEITHER COUNTY |LOCAL MEN BUY T0 AN ACTRESS| WILL TRY CASE POWER COMPANY A Rich Engineer Who Dies in|Tragedy Near Line Between!John Martin and Eugene de Los Angeles Cuts Off His Daughter *With a Dollar FRIENDLY WITH WOMAN LSRR Denis le Duc of Montreal Makes Strange Disposition ‘of His $100,000 Fortune LOS ANGELRS, March 8.—By a will filed in the County Clerk's office to- day Denis le Duc of Montreal, a civil engineer who is said to have accom- plished great feats in raflroad bulld- Ing for the Canadian Government and who died at his temporary home Hollywood on March 6, leaves the whole of his Yortune, which exceeds $50,000 in value, to Lucile Isabel Sells, for- merly an actress. He cuts off his only daughter, Mrs. Georgette le Duc EI* liott of Denver, with $1. One of the provisions of the will is that if the daughter shall contest the will she is to lose even that dollar, which then shdll go to the Salvation Army at Denvyer. By the terms of his will, which was drawn up on February 1, Le Duc’s body is to be buried in Mount Olivet Ceme- tery, Denver. J. N. O. Reich of Los Angeles is named as one of the exec- utors. The other executor is a Mon- treal banker named La Fontaine. The estate consists of twelve houses situated in Montreal, Colorado mining stocks, notes secured by mortgages and money in bank. His estate in Califor- nia is valued only at $1000. DENVER, March 9.—Lucile Isabel Sells, known on the stage as Isabel Gilbert, to whom Denis le Duc, who died in' Los Angeles, left his estate, sald to be worth $100,600, is well known in Denver. She was the wife of Frank Earl, for vears secretary of the Denver Mining Exchange, and the daughter of Colonel Sells of Washington and earlier of Chicago. ®arl's original name was Gilbert, but when he came to Denver he assumed the name of Earl. He was deposed as secretary after charges had been brought against him, and for two years has been a fugitive. A body judgment was issued against him, so that he could be imprisoned immediate- ly if apprehended. Farl often complained of friendliness between his wife and Le Duc, and the latter backed the woman in the Minne- qua Lake Stock Company at Pueblo, Colo., a losing venture. Later she went to the coast, where Le Duc had lo- cated. DECISION RENDERED IN BIG WATER SUIT Babcocks” Lose in Court -in Southern Part of State. Special Dispatch to The Cally SAN DIEGO; March 9—This after- noon the written opinlon of Judge Ben- Jamin ¥, Bledsoe of San Berpardino in the case brought by B. 8! Babcoek and Graham E. Babcock against the South- ern California Mountain Water Com- pany and J. D. Spreckels Jr. was re- celved by the clerk of ‘the Superior Court. The opinion was received by mail and decides against the Babcocks in every contention raised by them. The action was brought by the Bab- cocks to secure control of the South< ern California Mountain Water = Com- pany, one of the largest concerns of its kind in this section of the State. It was alleged by the Babcocks that on the 21st of August last they had a controlling share of the stock of the company, but that through the pur- chase of 147 shares of treasury stock by Mr. Spreckels the control had been taken from them. At the trial of the aztion it was brought out that at the time the Spreckels company purchased an in- terest in the company it had made an agreement with the Babcocks whereby all stock was to be divided equally. In speaking of this phase of the matter, Judge Bledsoe in his opinion say: While pretending to live up to_that eovenant B, 8. Babcok secretly purchased and secretly retained for his own use and benefit certain stock of the corporation and from all appear- ances he did so with the intent and purpose at some time to wrest the control of the cor- poration from the Spreckels Company. There can be no galnsaying that this was a flagrant and unconscionable violation of his agreement with the Spreckels Company. It is only by means of this violation of that agreement that he is enabled to come into court and claim that on the 21st of last August he had con- trol of the corporation. The opinion concludes by rendering judgment for. the defendants. An ap- peal from the decision will be taken to the Supreme Court by the plaintiffs. The case is one of the most important that has ever been tried in this sec- tion of the State, and has aroused much interest among attorneys in California on account of the large number of law questions involved. LARGEST SHIPMENT OF HOPS FROM STATE Trainload Sent From Wheat- land to London by Way of Galveston. MARYSVILLE, March 9—A trainload of hops left Wheatland for Galveston yes- terdzy, to be shipped “to New York by water, thence to London. The train con- sisted of nine cars and carried 3634 bales. of an average weight of 1% pounds, or a total weight.of 604,260 pounds.. The hops weighed, when green, 2,777,040 pounds,” It would require 18,515 days for an average hop picker to gather this amount, or about fifty years. : 3 At the present market price the hops are worth about $69,426, but last year they. would have brought $208,278. The hops were from the Durst Brothers’ yards and represent about one-third of the quantity ready for the market. It is the largest single shipment ever made from any part ot California. POSTUM CEREAL. Suffering often caused by Coffee is relieved by 10 days’ use of POSTUM FOOD COFFEE Government League is'having a hard time in securing a to serve the nominee for Mayor. Colonel W. V. Lucas at a meeting last evening de- clined to accept. - ¢ | Read “The Road to Wellville,” in| Santa Cruz and Monterey Results in Legal Mix-Up NO HEARING ARRANGED Arrest Made in Watsonville, but Killing Occurred the Other Side of the Border —_— WATSONVILLE, March 9.—The kill- ing of Bert Phelan by Al Kather has resulted in an interesting conflict be- tween the authorities of Monterey and Santa Cruz counties. The crime was committed just across the boundary line and the arr was made by officers of this city and the prisoner lodged in jail here. -This morning the Sheriff and District Attorney of Monterey County arrived in this city and stated that under the law where a public of- fense is committed within 500 yards of the boundary line of two or mors counties the jurisdiction is in either county, and as the officlals of this county had arrested the prisoner and he was in custody here, they would have nothing to do with the case and left for home, ? Shortly thereafter District Attorney Knight of Santa Cruz came to this city and said that he did not propose to al- low an expensive trial of this kind to be saddled upon the people of Santa Cruz County when they are in no wise concerned with the case except through the matter of accommodation ‘to the Monterey officers and In the further- ance of justice. In the meantime Kather remains in jail, with the of- ficials of both counties refusing to give him- a hearing. Phelan, who was a special police- man In Watsonville, was killed late Thursday night in a saloon near Pa- jaro. - Kather, who is a bartender, claims that the shooting was accl- dental. " WIRELESS STATION ON SAN DIEGO BAY Machinery Arrives for a Pow- erful Plant at Point Loma. Special Dispatch to The Call. . SAN DIEGO, March 9.—The navy col- ler Saturn arrived in port this after- noon, having on board the ma: and complete equipment for the new naval wireless telegraph station to be in- stalled on the top of Point Loma. On board were six masts ready for eruc- tion, dynamos and engines. The three lower masts for the station weligh five tons each and are ninety-six feet In length. The three upper masts are seventy-three feet long and weigh three and one-half tons each. The en- gines are of the gasoline type. The masts and other material will be dis- charged and sent to Point Loma tomor- row morning.— ‘The - contract- for the construction of the station has been let to J. Concannon of San Francisco. The new station will be the most péwerful on the Pacific Coast and it iIs the expectation of the Navy Depart- ment that it will be possible to commu- nicate with ships of the Paciflc squad- ron at Magdalena Bay and also to send and receive messages from Honolulu. —_————————— WANTS SEWER BUILT.—The Castro Strest Addition Club yesterday petitioned the Super- visors to bulld a sewer in mond street, between Chenery and Surrey. The old wooden sewer: hias -caved in and causes a menace to 3 bla Jr. Purchase the Large Plant at Big Creek INCREASE HOLDINGS Reported to Have Paid Three Hundred Thousand for the Concern Near Santa Cruz SANTA - CRUZ, March 9%—The Big Creek Power Company, which practi- cally controls electric power in this county, has been sold to John Martin and Eugene de Sabla Jr. of San Fran- cisco, leading men in the Pacific, Gas and Electric Company, Martin and De Sabla recently purchased the Santa Cruz Electric Light and Power Com- pany, which takes power from the Big Creek Company, and followed it up a few weeks later by purchasing the Co- operative Blectri¢ Light Company, a local concern which makes its own light. The price paid for the Big Creek Company is believed to be in the neigh- borhood of $300,000. The new owners will enlarge the present dam and increase the capacity of the plant at Big Creek. Their pur- chase includes the Big Creek Company’'s new power plant at Watsonville, where Martin and De Sabla bought a local electric lighting company two years 3go. They purpose extending the plant throughout = the county and into ad- joining countles. Y The former owners of the Big Creek Company were John Q. Packard, a Marysville capitalist, who is the donor of the new library now being built in that town, and F. W. Billings of this city. SMALLPOX ABOARD STEAMER KILBURN Sick Member of Crew Taken From the Vessel at Astoria. Special Dispatch to The Call. PORTLAND, March 9—When the steamer F. A. Kilburn, bound from this city to San Francisco, reached Astoria this morning a member of the crew com- plained of being il and was sent ashore to see the marine surgeon at that place. An examination on the part of Dr. Tut- tle resulted in the discovery that the man was suffering from smallpox in the most virulent form, and the physician stated | "n that the contagion from his case was most dangerous. The sufferer was imme- diately sent to the pesthouse. The man gave his name as Charles Ludgrer, 34 years of age, native of Sweden, and had joined the steamer at San Francisco previous to her last trip from that city. While in Portland he sald tha® he assisted in discharging and taking on cargo. —————— G. A. R. Veterans Protest. SANTA CRUZ, ‘March 9-—Wallac Reynolds Post, Grand Army of the R. public, of this city followed the ex- ample of the two Grand Army posts at Wichita, Kans, at its meeting~ last night and appointed- a committes to draw up a remonstrance against the movement of the Confederate veteran: of Georgia to put up a monument to the memory of Captain Henry Wirs, who commanded the military prison at An- | dersonville during the Civil War. . Wirs wa8 banged by the Federal Gévern- | ment after the war for having’ starved | and killed Unfon soldiers. Kidneys, FOR Lumbago Alipzmocks as shown in illustration. only relieves all pain but it strength- ens the muscles and restores energy as nothing else can. Also invaluable for Colds, Coughs, Aching Weak Chests, Weak Backs, Rheumatism, Sciatica. - PLASTER It not INS1ST UPOR HaviNG Alcack’s CORN PLASTERS BUNION PLASTERS For Relief and Cure of Corns and Bunions : Afford Absotute Comfort berth only $7.00. Free information, booklets, maps, car reservations, etc,, on 3 R. R. RITCHI Gl ‘Pacifl Goast, 0. Personally Conduoted Excursions in Pullman Tourist sleeping cars through to Chicago without change. Choice of routes. (Chicago ##*Eas ' Are easily reached by the through train serv- ice of the Chicago, Union Pacific and North-Western Line. Three daily trains route and over the only double-track railway between the Missouri River and Ch_icaza N Double Lawson on Insurance Graft In Everybody’'s for March, Lawson tells how the recent Insurance investigation was “steered” by the ‘System,” making McCall and McCurdy the scapegoats; checking only the petty abuses, and glossing over and protecting the greater grabs (millions of dollars), directly traceable to the “System” and its generals. Read this and do what you can to protect your country against this terrible evil 31 A Company’s steamers at Se- attle. For Victoris, Vancouver, i-unu.so.nn | 8, Apr. & = = 224 |p m., Bk Bornd, 1% 5 1:30 p. m., Aprl For Los Angeles (via Port Los Ban Diego and Santa Barbara: ondo), Banta h“c-' Sundeys § & m ite_of lifornia, ursdays, . m, For Los Angeles (via San Pedro and Hast San Pedro), Santa Barbars, Santa Cruz, Mom- terey, San Simeonm, Cayucos, Port Harford (Sas Lauis Obispo), Ventura and Hueneme: . Coos Bay, ¥ a. m., r. 8, 14, 22, 30, Apr. T. Bonita, 9 a. m., Mar. 3, 10, 13, 26, Apr. & For Ensenada, Magdalena Bay San Jose del Cabo, Mazatlan, Altata, La Paz, Santa Rosalia, | Topolobampo, Guaymas (Mex), 10 a. m., Tth | of each month. ALASKA EXCURSIONS (Season 1906)—The palatial Alaskan excursion steamship Spokane will_leave Tacoma, Seattls and Victoria June 7. 21, July 5 20 "Aug. 2. | " For further information, obtain folder. Right amers or sailing dates. CES, 4 New Montgomery st. | (Palace Hotel). 10 Market st. and Broadway wharves. FREIGHT OFFICE., 10 Market st. OAKLAND, 968 Broadway. C. D. DUNANN, General Passenger Agent, 10 Market st., San Franciseo. 18, AMERICAN LINE. Plymouth—Cherbourz—Southampton. Philadelphia. Mar. 17, Apr. 14, May 13, June 9 Mar. 24, Apr. 21, May 19, June 18 ar. 31, Apr. 28, May 26, June 23 ..Apr. 7, May 5, June June 30 in—Queenstown—Liverpool, .March 24 Merion........April 14 .March 31/ Westernland. .. April 21 | ATLANTIC TRANSPORT LINE. | NEW YQRK—LONDON DIRECT. | MINNETONKA. .....Mar. 17, Apr. 14, May 13 | MESABA...... Mar. 24, Apre 21, » Apr. 7, May 5, June 3 .Apr. 28 May 26, June 28 ROTTERDAM. via BOULOGN® Saliings Wednesdays as per sailing list | Stat’dam, Mar.28, 10am| Noordam. Apr.18, noom Ryndam Apr.4, 10 am|{N.Amsterdm, Apr.25.5a Pot;dlm Apr.;ci, 8 amiStatendam, May3, 10am New Twin-Screw et New Amsterdam 17,250 registered tons, 30,400 tons dlsplacement. From New York April 25, May 30, July 4 | RED STAR LINE. N.Y.,DOVER_ANTWERP (LONDON, PARIS). Kroonland. . 17, Apr. 14, May June 9 Zeeland. .. ... Mar. 24, Apr. 21 May 10, June 18 31, June 23 Finland. . . Mai App. 28, May 28, Vaderland.. ... Stay 5, June 3, June 30 I WHITE_STAR LINE. NEW YORK- UEENSTOWN—LIVERPOOL. O o, 21, ‘Apr. 15, May 16, June 13 Mar 23, Apr. 20, May 18, June 15 Mar. 28 May 4 June 1 June 3 A une 27 eani .. Apr. BOSTON—QUEENSTOWN—LI L. .Feb. 17, 4:30 a. m.; Mar. 24, AKI. 28 “May 10, 11:30 a. m.; June?, July 8 MEDITERRANEAN ,zonws. FROM NEW YORK. CRETIC.....Apr. 3 10 a. m.; May 10, June 31 REP Apr. 313 p. m.; May 31, Oct. 18 5 FROM BOSTON. FRO! ROMANIC. . Mar. 17, 3:30 p.m.; Apr.28, June 8 CANOPIC. . Apr. 7. 8:30 a. m.; May 19, June 30 C. D. TAYLOR, Passenger Agent Pacific Coast, 21 Post st., San Francisco TOYO KISEN KAISHA (ORIENTAL S. S. C0.) Steamers will leave wharf. m. Asst. General Manager. Jamburg-#American, Plymouth — Cherbourg — Hamburg *{Bluecher Feb. 13] *Deutschland. .. Mar. 18 S gl 2 S hecne Mar 5 _Mar. 10! $Pretoria .....Mar, 31 }Pennayivania 8. S. Amerikn. Most Luxurious and Most Modern of Leviathans. .‘um. {Elevator and A la oTie Restaurant. tCalling at Dover for Len- '6'5«":4.1 California St.. San Francisco. A, tor Tabitt, Mch.11, 11 A. M. A, for Honolulu, Saturday, Meh, 0 ; 3 ; g s s s. 1 . SPRECKELS . Markst. Fraight Ofica 327 Market St., Pier 7 Pacil St KOSMOS LINE PASSENGER SERVICE. U A CANADA. Broadway (Hudson Bow Vit fr. FUGAZI & CO.. Conat Montgomery avenue. San 2oid D il Haiirand Ticket Agents. BAY AND INTERURBAN ROUTES. MARE ISLAND NAVY YARD,