The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 31, 1906, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH MRS. LE DOUX ALONE LLED A. N. McVICAR So Says Coroner’s Jury After Learning That Morphine Caused Miner’s Death. ‘ “We believe that the deceased came phine and chioral and while in a dazed condition having been forced into a closed trunk where there was We also belleve that one Mrs. Emma Le mnot sufficient oxygen to sustaln Doux was responsible for the death of Albert N. the evidence sgubmitted, that she was unalded.”—Verdict of Coromer’s Jury in MeVicar murder case. to his death from the combined effects what life there was present. McViear and, as far as of having been drugged with mor- we have been able to determine from Inquiry Fixes Crime Upon the. Woman in Prison. Police to Work on the “No Accomplice” Theory. e 4 tvidence Shows Drugs, Not Blows, Ended Man’s Life. ‘ S S E nide of po- of of its ker told how this all,” were those before Le BOATS ENDANGERED BY A FIERCE GALE Wind Blows RSixty Miles an Hour Along the Water Front. change was on the boats, appened n all sections of the watch for accidents, but Many dis- heavy was the 1 was put into | Harbor Police Station to ssible accidents along the | s, day, BEving reached a compro- with their employers. DANGEROUS PIANOS Are. Expensive at any price, but do yom know what is n dangerous plano? It is the one that is offered st a figure far below fts represemted value, 14 like United it is always worth its face value. When you buy a p you have the a Just as represented, not jeopardize the f 20 years for the ngle plano sale. o from us that it for repu EVERETT PIANOS re- tail at prices vanging from $s50 to $750, according to case design; all are of ome guality. " Partial paymenis if de- sived. | Geath from morphine poisonin; 1 | ’\"‘f": | N . A\ e AN S N =, S & 7 (3 S SN SSS N\. = AN SN - e =% ’j,z :. i i oz N x‘i = il | | | & *- - | WH RESEARCHES BALED CAUSE OF DEATH [ OF McVICAR IN STOCKTON. + Found in Stomach of McVicar. Chemist Rogers Says Miner Was Victim of Drugs. According to the report Roy Ravohe Rogers of the Cooper Medical College, Albert McVicar, the viciim of the Stockton trunk tragedy, came to his Protzssor Rog(rs yesterday finished Lis am:inarion of Mc ar’'s stomach. In addition to large quantities of morphine, he discov- ered chloral in the stomach. Professor Rogers is of the opinion thut the latter drug was administered 1o Me- Vicar in the form of “knockout drops” to render him unconscious. There was ‘not envugh chiloral found in the stomach to produce death. The stomach of McVicar was turned of Professor | over to Rogers last Monday afternoon by | Coroner Southworth of Stockton. "The lo- cal chemist has been working on it since that time. It did not take him long to find ovt that death was caused by mor- phire poisoning, but he continued his re- search in the hope of discovering thc presence of other drugs. Rogers did not ; discover any signs of cyanide of potas- sium in the stomach. It was at first thought that McVicar was killed by this drug, but this theory now seems 0 be routed by the declaration of the chemist. WOUNDED BY SHELL THROWN INTO FIRE Son’s Carelessness Nearly Causes Loss of His Mother’s Life. - UKIAH, March 3.—Mrs. J. 8. Wilson met with a peculiar accident this morn- ing. After cleaning house she gathered the sweepings in a dustpan and threw them iAto the fireplace. Immediately there was an explosion and Mrs. Wilson fell to the floor with an ugly gash in her forehead. It appears that her son, who had been hunting with a 22-caliber rifle, had dropped a few of his cartridges while cleaning the gun. His mother had swept them up without noticing them apd had thrown them into the fire. The beat ex- ployed them and one of the flying. shells struck her. | | Provision {1 ne4s . . | Cities in the House Bill COAST AFFARS ATTHECAPITAL California for as to Public Buildings Speclal Dispatch to The Cail. CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, March 30.—The following California items are in the public bulld- | ings bill as agreed on today by the House | committee: ,Eureka and San Diego, $150,- 0% each: Santa Rosa $10,000, and Santa | Cruz $15,000. An additional $5000 may be se- | cured for Santa Rosa beofre the bill is | brought into the House. Representative Kahn today asked Act- ing Secretary of the Navy Newberry to | order several United States warships to San Francisco Bay on the occasion of the meeting of the National Education Asso- ciation in San Francisco from July 7 to July 14 Newberry sald the department could probably arrange to send some ves- sels and that he would give the matter consideration with that end in view. There is a strong probabllity that the majority of the members of the House | interstate and foreign commerce commit- tee, under whom come all matters of leg- islation affecting navigation, will visit California in July and August next. Rep- resentative Kahn today secured from three members assurances that they would accept the invitations and interest in the proposed trip is already awakened. The invitations will be extended also on the part of the commercial organizations of the Pacific Coast. Kahn is telling the committeemen that so many vessels have been wrecked in the last year-on that coast that it is absolutely necessary that the lighthouse facilities should be in- creased. It is chiefly with this cbject in view that the trip of inspection has been proposed. Through-a motion made in the Hou: today by Representative Hayes the sala- ries of the cashier, bookkeeper, assistant cashier and assistant bookkeepers in the Sub-Treasurer’s office at San Francisco, which had been cut by the appropriations committce, were restored. Not content with this achievement, Hayes, assisted by Kahn, secured two additional coin count- ers, at $%0 each. Chairman Tawney and | every member of the appropriations com- mittee fought the restoration of these sal- aries. The committee on rules of the House to- day discussed the motion of Chairman Burton of the rivers and harbors com- mittee that M¢Kinlay’s Sacramento River irrigation bill be sent from that commit- tee to that on interstate and foreign commerce, buc action was postponed. Steps are now being taken by which it is hoped an amicable understanding will be reached by the two committees as to { jurisdiction over this bill without invoking a special rule. It looks as if the measure will ultimately find its way into Represen- tative Burton's keeping. Merle Holbrook of Pasadena has been appointed a stenographer at Panama at a salary of $1500. ———— ‘Will Be Sent With Wellman. MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 30.—Ma- Jor H. B. Hersey, director of the Weath- er Bureau at Milwaukee and in- spector of Western stations, today re- celved a telegram from Washington in- structing him to report as soon as pos- sible at Washington to p to ac- company the Wellman expedition _in search of the north pole. 3 TAKEN FROM MINE AFTER TWENTY DAYS Thirteen Men Are Rescued at Courrieres in France After Living on Putrid Horse Flesh, Hay and Bark AFFECTING SCENES WHEN THEY EMERGE Renewed Hope That Some Others of the Twelve Hundred Entombed Miners May Not Have Succumbed LENS, France, March 30.—The disaster at the ourricres coal mines had a start- ling sequel today, when thirteen miners were taken ont alive after having en- durcd unspeakable horrors during the twenty days of entombment. The story of the survivors so far as it has been told discloses that they lived for many days on putrid horsemeat, amid total darkness und the stench of scores of decaying corpses. The presence of human flesh wouid speedily have forced the starving en to resort to the last des- perate extremity if they had not been rescued. The survivors were sturdy young min- ers from 17 to 25 years of age, except their leader, Herri Nemy, who is 38 years old. All show tne terrible effects of their experlences, being emaciated and blinded. Their rescue caused a tempor- ary nervous lucidity, during which they greeted their relatives and related their suiferirgs. The doctors then enforced quiet upon them, fearing the results of eaten decayed horseflesh. There were touching scenes as wives and mothers greeted those whom they had long given up as dead. Crowds be- sleged the hospitals to which the men were taken, cheering the survivors and imprecating the ineffective nature of the salvage work that followed immediately after the disaster. OTHERS MAY STILL LIVE. The rescuc of these thirteen men re- vived hope in many families that others " are alive, and the relatives of those whose bodies bave not been recovered clamor- ously demanded that the efforts be re- doubled to bring out any possible sur- vivors. There s a report that in addition to the thirtcen men who were brought up out of the mune today there were five others who came with them almost to the bot- tom of the pit, but were unable to come further owing to exhaustion. The total number of men missing after the catastrophe was 1212. The bodies re- covered approximately numbered 500, and there are still unaccounted for approxi- mately 500. The engineers explained that some smoldering fires prevented them from ex- ploring remote pagsagés of the mine, where it was thought there could be no survivors. The mine owners also clalm that the strike of miners reduced the number of rescuers avaflable. Many en- gineers and sclentists agree that all in the mine must have died long ago. En- gineer Lauer, however, dissents, assert- ing that the salvage work has been de- plorably inefficient, and he believes that scores died of exhaustion owing to the poor work of the salvage companies. EAT PUTRID HORSEFLESH. All attempts to rescue the entombed men had been abandoned more than two weeks ago. The sudden appearance of the impris- oned men caused stupefaction, A gang of salvagers had just completed their night's work when they were startled to see a group of miners, terribly haggard and exhausted and with eyes sunken, appear from a remote part of pit No. 2. The strongest of the party said they had broken out of a distant gallery, where they had been entombed since the dis- aster of March 10. The rescued men were ‘taken up the elevator, but were unable to see, owing to the dazzling day- light. EI'I'Ae mine officials were deeply affected as the weeping survivors were taken to a hospital. The men were able to talk feebly, but audibly. They all asked for news of relatives or friends, and wished to go home immediately. The doctors, however, prevented them with difficulty from so doing. Later crowds besleged the mines in the hope that other survivors would be found. It was necessary to em- ploy a strong force of police and detach- ments of troops to maintain order. It is sald that others of the entombed miners are alive and about to be brought out, their signals having been heard. One of the men rescued today, a man named Nemy, said that for the first eight days the party ate the bark off the tim- bers of the mine. Later they found the decomposed body of a horse, which they | cut up and ate with hay. The survivors brought up portions of the decomposed horsemeat. | Nemy, who was the strongest of the miners who escaped, graphically described thelr imprisonment as follows: “After the explosion I groped my way about, stumbling over bodles and seeking refuge from the gases. I found some comrades sheltered in a remote niche. We ate earth and bark for elght days. “We continued to grope among the bod- ies, seeking for an outlet from our prisod, but were forced back time and again. We found some hay, which we ate, and two days after we found a dead horse, whick we cut up and ate with the hay and bark. ‘We suffered most for the want of water, Finally we became desperate and sepa- rated into three parties and communi- cated with each other by shouts. “Last night we felt a draft of fresh air, which finally gulded us to an open- ing.” » MEN GO WITHOUT SLEEP. The doctors have forbidden the surviv- ors to do any further talking. Vast crowds of people surrounded the hospital where the escaped men are being treated. The families of the mincrs who lost their lives are intensely indignant, They claim that salvage oOperations were never undertaken in the part of the mine from which Nemy and his com- panions escaped. and disorders are ex- pected. The 1ost Severe repressive measures have been taken. Crowds of women denounce the directors and en- gineers, crying: “If you had given us tools we would have saved our own husbands.’” The party which escaped today orig- inally numbered twenty men, of whom seven disappeared during the gropings in the darkness. The* survivors are positive that oth- ers are alive in the mine. They say they heard calls and tappings yester- day. but were unable to reach the en- tombed men. Itenewed salvage opera- tions have been begun, the members of the salvage corps carrying provigions in case other survivors are fourd. A survivor named Martin said: “We suffered intensely from cold. fever and poisoning from their having | The chamber above us was bn{nlng. CLAINS WONAN 15 ADVENTURESS Aged and Wealthy Texas Cattleman - Exposes Plot to Rob Him of Fortune FEMALE CONSPIRATORS Defendant in Suit Brought by Alleged Wife Shows Court Plaintiff Is Schemer Epecial Dispateh to The Call. LOS ANGELES, March 30.—Walter H. Jones, a millionaire cattleman of Texas and New Mexico, who was sued for maia- tenance by his alleged wife several weéks ago, made such a showing in court today that not only was the restraining order which had been issued against him dls- solved, but the court ordered the 'case placed in the hands of the District Attor- ney with a view to beginning criminal proceedings against certain persons inter- ested in the case. The sult was brought by a young wom- an calling herself Mrs. Ella Jones, who alleged that she had married Jones in Deming last July and that he was the father of her child, born early in Febru- ary. She further alleged that Jones had | allowed her only 40 cents a day for the | support of herself and child. At her | request an injunction was issued restrain- | Ing Jones from disposing of his properly. Jones had his inning today when he | filed his answer and backed it with docu- mentary evidence, the nature of which has not been made public, but which the court considered sufficlent for immediate action. In branding the woman's suit as | the outcome of a conspiracy entered into | with her relatives for the purpose of rob- | bing him of part of his estate, Jones, who is 60 years old, denfed positively ever hav- | ing contracted marriage with the plain- tiff. He asserts that the woman's true name is Stowe and that she married James H. Stowe in 1902. Jones further avers that the woman, at the instance of certain other persons, entered into a con- spiracy to tie up his property in the hope of compelling him to buy its release by paying the woman a large sum of money. He gives names and dates and other particulars gleaned by a corps of detectives who have been working on the case several weeks. ENCAGED TOWED THAEE AT ONCE Gay Deceiver Who Has the Engagement Mania Will Be Disciplined by a Woman S MEVELL TRY Epecial Dispatch to The Call. KANSAS CITY, Mo, March 30.—Miss Beatrice Most of Kansas City, sister of Sam Most, the race track plunger, who through her attorneys flled a breach of promise suit for $25,000 yesterday at Ma- rietta, Ohio, against Samuel Raboniritz, sald today that she did it to break the young man of the “engagement mania.” “I learned not long ago,” sald Miss Most, “‘that Mr. Raboniritz has been mak- ing a practice of becoming engaged to young women. When I ascertained this | was the fifth time, I determined to teach | thé¥young man a lesson.” Miss Most and Raboniritz signed a con- tract of marriage according to the old | Hebrew custom, and the marriage was | to have taken place two wegks later. Miss Most says she has learned of two more marriage contracts which the young | man had sizned with two othep” women | whom he had promised to marry. The marriage contract signed by Miss Most and Raboniritz was filed in court | as evidence at Marletta. Raboniritz is | said to be connected with the American Iron Company of Marietta, and is re- ported to be wealthy. He gave Miss Most | many valuable presents, including a dia- | mond ring. ACCUSED OF TRYING TO ROB GRANDMOTHER Son of Wealthy Parents Is in Jail on Forgery Charge. Epeclal Dispatch to The Call LOS ANGELES, March 30.—Walter Fisk, whose home is in Rochester, N. Y., and whose family is said to be wealthy, is in the County Jail, having been held to answer by a magistrate | at Santa Monica on a charge of for- | gery. The arresting officers assert that he has made a full confession of a scheme whereby he sought.to secure thousands of dollars by felonious means. His” grandmother, Mrs. Mary Btanley of Rochester, is wealthy, and, knowing what bank contained her money, Fisk is sald to have forged her signature to an order on the bank for several drafts, one for $1800. —_———— Standard Oil Boosts Prices. CLEVELAND, Ohio, ' March 30.—The Standard Oil Company today again ad- vanced the price of all grades of gasaline and naphtha, the new quotations ranging from % to 1% cents per gallon higher than former prices. Seventy-four to seventy- six degree gasoline is quoted at 16 cents, an advance of 1% cents per gallon; eighty- six degree gasoline, 19, an advance of 1 cent per gallon; eighty-seven degree gasoline, 20 cents, an advance of 1 cent per gallon; eighty-eight degree gasoline, 21 cents, an advance of 1 cent; varnish makers' and painters’ naphtha, 12 cents, an advance of one-half cent per gallon, and deodorized stove gasoline, 13 cents, an advance of one-half cent per gallon. but it did not temper. the cold in the lower gallery.” Another survivor, LeFebyre, when asked if he had slept, replied: “We never closed our cyes.” Some- times we dozed, but Nemy, who took command, would not permit us to sleep.” Nemy displayed his watch, which he had wound up regularly throughout his imprisonment. The watch was out of order and therefore the survivors counted only sixteem “days from the time of the explosion. Leon Boursler, another member of the rescued party, said: “I have heard Nemy's story which is correct, except that Nemy forgot the carrots. We found some in a stable and they formed our best meal.” The rescued men are heing kept in semi-darkness. Dr. Loutiers, who is in charge of the patients, says they are suffering from ptomaine poisoning caused by eating the decomposed horse. ————————— JEFFERSON CITT, Mo., March 80.—A de- clsion was rendered by the Supreme Court to-, holding the townsbip organization law of the State to be unconstitutional. JUDGE H. DIES IN Fall From ‘a Horse Results in Death’ of Jurist. Well Known as Or- chardist in Santa Clara. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call SAN JOSE. March 30.—As the result of a fall from his horse at Seattle sev- eral days ago, Judge Hiram G. Bond, formerly one of the best known resi- dents of this county, died in the north- ern city this afternoon. Judge Bond was riding his favorite horse when the acclident occurred. After unseating its rider the horse balked and dragged Judge Bond several blocks. The fall seriously injured the jurist's left side and a stroke of apoplexy followed with fatal results. Judge Bond was a man of wealth and wide business -experience. His | home was formerly on the outskirts of Santa Clara, where he had an extensive orchard surrounding an ideal country abode. This property was sold less than three months ago and since then | Judge Bond has spent most of his time in Seattle, where he was well known. When the California Cured Fruit As- | sociation was organized in this city In 1900, Judge Bond was chosen as head | of the combine and remained in active control for two years. Since then he has invested in mining property and, with his two sons, Louls W. and Marsh- all Bond, has valuable holdings at Goldfield and in Arizona. He was also jan extensive operator in stocks and was well known on the New York Stock Exchange. o SR Death of Philanthropist’s Wife. HINSDALE, Ill, March 30.—Mrs. Marietta Chapin Pearson, wife of Dr. Pearson, who has given milllons of dol- lars to ald small colleges, died at her home here today. She was born in Springfieldy Mass., In 1819, and was married to Dr. Pearson in 1847. She was especlally interested In forelgn missionary work. iy e Death of Captain Flelds. DETROIT Mich., March 30.—Staff Captain Robert Fields of the Salvation Army died here last night of heart dis- ease. He was 44 years of age and be- fore coming to Detroit two months ago was located In San Francisco and in Chicago. S Y Actress Succumbs to Operation. NEW YORK, Maych 30.—Georgia Wells, an actress, who had been play- ing the leading feminine role of “The Clansman,” died today after a surglcal operation for appendicitis. A T Consul General of Slam Dead. NEW YORK, March 30.—Isaac Town- send Smith, the oldest member of the Union League Club and Consul General of Stam, dled here today aged 93 years. PRIEST PROSECUTES RECKLESS CHAUFFEUR LOS ANGELES, March 30.—The un- usual proceeding of a priest prosecut- ing a citizen in a criminal action was witnessed in Justice Rose's Police Court today. The defendant was O. E. Otto, a chauffeur; the complaining wit- ness was Rev. Father Timothe Tetreault, a French priest. Father Tetreault al- leges that while crossing Broadway at | Fifth street he was knocked down by a Dbig automobile driven in reckless man- ner by Otto and that his injurles were of a painful character. As soon as he was able to leave his bed he caused Otto's arrest. The chauffeur was ar- ralgned today and his trial was set for April 4. G. BOND TLE SEAT ¢ BULSEIIEN LR FORMER SANTA CLARA_JURIST, WHOSE DEA’ IN Snr’l‘u | FOLLOWED FALL FROM HORSE. LOSES HIS RIC, BUT SAVES LIFE Traveler for San Franecisco Drug Firm Has Narrow Es- cape in Mendocino Creek UKIAH, March 3.—W. E. Rutherford of San Francisco, who is on the road for Mack & Co., druggists, while returning from Potter Valley drove into Color Creek. His buggy was instantly capsized. After a hard struggle Rutherford succeeded in | freeing himself and swam ashore. His ef- forts to save the team and buggy were | futile, and the horses and rig. with his | grips and sample cases and overcoat, con- taining checks for several hundred dol- | lars, are now on their way to the Pacific | Ocean via Russian River. Rautherford walked back to Hemlock, a distance of about eight miles, and telephoned to this city for assistance. He was brought in | this evening, much the worse for his ex- | perience. He had gone o Potter yester- day and successtully crossed the stream, but last night about twc inches of rain fell and the streams were roaring torrents } this morning. —— e —— | ASKS THE POLICE 0OF SONOMA TO FIND MISSING HUSBAND Aged Calistogn Woman Wants to Know Whereabouts of W Left Home Weeks Ago. SANTA ROSA, March 30.—Mrs. John Cummings of Calistoga has invoked the laid of Sheriff Frank P. Grace and City Marshal George Severson in an effort to locate her husband. Cummings, who is 5% years old, 1S a sufferer from heagt trouble. He left home five weeks 3.‘0 to come to this city and was seen within a few miles of here, but, as far as can be learned, never reached the city, He has a light, sandy mustache and light hair. ' RS SR ST 1149 Polle Street o .i..c.oq:03 2965 Sixteenth Street . ... 1426 Stockton Street ......... 421 Preéidio Avenue ......... Branch Gas Offices Open on or About. APRIL Ist LOCATIONS: 500 Haight Street ........cccceeveevnnens...Corner*Fillmore Phone South 218. Phone East 2884. Phone South 236: Phone Main 4988. Phone West 3180. 1260 Ninth AVENUe ... .cciviuncseceasansasicascNear J Street Phone South 214. For the Convenience of Consumers : “AT YOUR SERVICE” THE SAN FRANCISCO GAS AND ELECTRIC GO, Sl S S e e 00 T .Near Mission ...Corner Montgomery Avenue <veees..Near California GO EAST SEATTLE And the Puget Sound Country. See the Marvelous Development and Magnificent Scenery IT COSTS Via NO MORE the ¥ Great Northern Railway Observation Compartment Cars on the Oriental Limited. GEO. W. COLBY, Gen’l Agent, p Inquire further 633 Market St., San Francisco. S. S. Minnesota salls from Seattle for the Orient April 29, 1906. S. 206. 3 Dakota sails from Seattle for the Orlent June 7, 1908.