The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 5, 1906, Page 1

THE WEATHER, Forecast for April 5, 1908: and ct Forecaster. | rth winds changing | A. G. McADIE, ALHAMBRA- ALCAZAR- Matinee. Mouse. My Partner.” Charley’s Aunt.” CALIFORNIA—"“Miss New York Jr'* CENTRAL—*The Minister's Son." CHUTES—Vaudeville. Matinee. COLUMBIA—"The GRAND—“‘Monsfeur Beaucaire.” MAJESTIC—“Shenandoah."" ss Timidity." Lion and the Matines. Matines. udeville. ROMANTICALLY WEDDED ot PAIR ARE HERE ON .TOUR - Captain Walter Kirton on Way o Orient. With Bride. ———— Meet on Ailantic F”, Liner Bound for New York. American Girl Agrees to Marry Him at Sait Lake. AND HIS AMERI- ATLANTIC LINER TOR DF MAX MAY FICAT DUEL Bernhardt’s: Leading Man Challenged to Mortal Com- bat by Her Recent Manager SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. NEW YORK, April- 4—Frederick Mayer, until recently the personal rep- resentative of Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, | now touring this country, has, accord- |ing to reliable information ,received | here tonight,. challenged M. de Max, | the leading man of the company, to registering | book 1n front | nis bride of | g PEnglish | Americen | fierce love ; after is use the quick heart er of romance. grew and blflfi—. the promenade deck of a 1 that Mrs. Vivian | twice a year, :f;th!‘ dain- | aght a duel on French soil-within ten 1:;“‘;_%3 the | days after the company returns home. | | Mayer ‘has already gone to Paris. 'De Mrs. Vivian Jones Max is in Texas with Mme. Bernhardt. te. She entertaine much | He will not reach France before shade of the | June 1. | The challenge is the result of a recent TRIP PROMISES TO BE DU | quarrel between the men in the sl Dt | @ressing-room *of M. de Max at the Greenwald Theater, New Orleans. Just how it started even the principals can- not tell, but witnesses say it was ex- ceedingly lively while it lasted. Mme. Bernhardt and Mlle. Barbarter, one of her leading women, were indi- rectiy the cause of the row, although the latter. at least, took no active part {in the incidents leading up to it. From a person who has been on the tour with the company it was learned reseen decision, this for she did not voyage would be | £ her life that Mme. Bernhardf, who is exceed- 1 sailed over to Lon- | ingly exacting. in her demands upon sightseeing in Lon- | her personal staff, complained because g she took the train for | Meyer neglected trivial affairs of hers Liverpool. erpool was thoroughly | to look ‘after the comfort of Mile. Bar- tramped. She was ready for the return | barier. De Max championed the tra- ge to New York re. Jones is & trained sea-goer. She not confined to her stateroom be- of e rough water. Indeed, she waiked up and down the promenade deck, drinking in the fresh ocean air and gaz- g with delight at the turbulent sea. CAPTAIN KIRTON APPEARS. | was to fight. tain Walter Kirton had boarded the ; While he was not born'in France, Mayer .me boat at Liverpool. He was bound | has resided there nearly all his life. He for New York, then across the continent | is an expert swordsman and his skill with a rapier-is well known. De Max also is an expert fencer. gedienne and took Mayer to task. - While in this city Mayer called upon a well-known theatrical’ man and said he | understood he cont¢mplated a trip to Paris In June. On being told that such was the case, Mayer said that he might need his services as second In a duel he A Continued on Page 2, Column 3. 4+ 1 l | BINCHAN'S 108 FOR CHAFFEE Well Known General Said to Be Slated for New York Police Commissionership SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. NEW YORK, April ¢—It was reported about the City Hall today that Police Commissioner Theodore A. Birigham had been slated to go and that his successor would be Lieutenant General Adna R. Chaffee, retired. This found partial con- firmation tonight in dispatches from the West, which stated that General Chaffee had in letters admitted he had been of- fered 2 high ofiélal position in New York. General -Thaffee was offered the Police Commissionership before it was tendered to Colopel Bingham, but was then unable to accept owing, it is.sald, to other du- ties. As he is now free the report of last night was taken by his friends in this city to mean that he was at last to take charge of the New York police force. The general and Mrs. Chaffee are now traveling in-Meéxico. It had been the gen- eral's intention‘after this tour to live in Los Axgeles, but the letter received there today by one of his friends dissipated this hope. The general wrote that he had re- cefved an offer of a high official position in New York City and he thought of ac- cepting it. He did not mention the posi- tion, but those intimately acquainted with the general say that great pressure has been brought to bear upon him recently to accept the Police Commissionership. This is taken to mean that he will as- sumne the office of Police Commissioner about April 15. LOS ANGELES, April 4—A letter from General Adna R. Chaffee, who with Mrs. Chaffee is now in Mexico, to friends in this city states that they will not come to Los Angeles shortly, as previously in- tended, but will proceed to New Orleans, from which place they will leave for New York on April 7. The letter states that General Chaffee has been offered an im- portant public office in New York City and that it is likely he will accept it. No in- timation was given in the letter as to the nature of the position tendered. It was the intention of General Chaffee to come to.this city within the next month to es- tablish his permanent home here. i ——— Rebel Leader Put to Death. LOKOJA, Nigeria, April 4.—The leader of.the rebels, who boasted that he had killed two French officers in February of this year, was executed today after & trial by the Suitan of Sokoto and a native court. ——————— Brazil Orders Three Crulsers. LONDON, April 4.—British shipbuild- ers have received from the Brazilian Government orders for three first-class cruigers of 10,000 tons PRICE FIVE CENTS. N A CREEK —_———— | Searchers Recover the Body of Nocquet. i Balloonist Perishes Af- ter Making a Safe Descent. e — Yields to Exhaustion While Threading Way Through a Marsh. NEW YORK, April 4—Death in the waters of Bass Creek, a small stream winding through the meadows to the shore of Long Island, between Jones Beach and Amityville, ended the daring balloon ascent yesterday afternoon of Paul Nocquet, a French sculptor of note and an enthusiastic ‘jjpateur aeronaut. The body was found ht on the mud- dy shore of the creek, ‘g the tide had left it, and not a distance from where Nocquet's collapSed balloon was discovered late last night by.the life-sav- ers of Jones Beach. The discovery of the body put an end to a search, which had inclu ‘ocean, land and marshes and which h been begun under the direction of t's asso- clates of the Aero Clubof New York as soon as word was recelved early today that the balloon had been found,ewith no trace of its missing occt B Nocquet apparently | sately with his-car and in fighting his y out-of the meadows In the darkne 5 about two-fifths Sf = m Jones 1o 5 iiles, when he died. He had crossed £ fourteen different isiands and had or waded through' the runlets between them before he gave way to complete ex- haustion. That Nocquet traveled as far as he did is considered wonderful. He must have struggled the last mile of the two he traveled under fearful difficulties. He es- | sayed a trip that few men could possibly have completed in daylight. AERONAUT’'S FATEFUL VOYAGE. The valve controlling the ropes of the balloon when found indicated that the de- scent had been started by Nocquet’s ac- tion, and it must have been gradual. ‘When Nocquet started on his flight yes- terday afternoon the wind was blowing out to sea. This meant that unless he should come down after being up but a short time—having started from the Bronx—he would surely be blown across Long Island and out over the ocean. A life-preserver was strapped inside the basket and the word te let go was given. The balloon in its flight passed over Ja- maica, Garden City, Westbury,. Jericho and Cold Springs Harbor. Then darkness came and shut it from view. ‘What its course was after passing over Huntington at abodt 8:15 o'clock there is no means of knowing. Nothing further was heard of it until its dis- covery on Jones Beach was announced today. Captain Austin of the Jones Beach Life-Saving Station who found the balloon, reported this morning that it apparently had been dragged along some distance in the sand. Tracks about the balloon seemed to indicate that the aero- naut had survived his flight. This fact gave the searchers courage throughout the day. Captain George Smith of Amityville, who had joined in the search early in the day, located the body tonight on the muddy bank of Bass Creck and made it fast to a stake. It will be taken to Amityville tomorrow, after having been viewed by the Coroner. AUTHOR, SCULPTOR AND ARTIST. Paul Nocquet had made many daringly successful attempts at &erial nas ition. It was not as an aeronaut alone that he attained distinction, however, He was almost equally well known as author, sculptor and artist. Wida attention re-’ cently was attracted to. nis work as a sculptor by a bronze figure of President Roosevelt, entitled, “A Presidential Va- cation,” This figure represents the Presi- dent dragging a bear by the ear, while in his right hand he holds aloft a cub. Comment upon the flgure was divs N but the efforts of the artist pleased the President, who sent him z complimentary letter. Nocquet was born in Brussels in 1877, and at the age of 14 studied ting un- der Jean Portaels. Soon afterward he turned to sculpture and at the age of 20 won the grand prize of Belgium, which gave him three vears' fellowship in Paris. He also became interested in aeronautics | and before he came to this country was { considered one of the most daring mem- bers of the Aero Club of France. Two ,yean ago he planned to attempt to cross |!he Atlantic Ocean in a balloon, but was deterred bv friends. — e e—— ¢ SENSATIONAL SUIT AGAINST SENATOR PLATT DISMISSED ’C-n Invelving “The Love Letters of a _ Boss” Falls for Lack of Prosecution. OMAHA, Neb., APril 4—The sensa- tional suit filed by Miss Mae Wood against United States Senator Thomas C. Platt; Willlamn Loeb, ecretary of the President, and former Postmaster Gen- eral Wynne for $150,000 damages was called in court today and dis; by Judge Kennedy because no one a ~ ed for the plaintiffs. Miss Wood al- leged that she bad written a book enti- tled “The Love Letters of a which comprised a number of letters written to her by Senator Platt. She alleged that Platt, with the of Wynne and Laeb, g0t the letters fron her and refused to return them. ! 1 T ‘were es. missed g L Boss,” to Be Onkland’s SACRAMENTO, April Pardee and staff have accepted the in- (CANNOT Tells Visitor This Fact PRESIDENT ADMITS THAT HE CONTROL CONGRESS Has' Been Demonstrated 1n the Fight Over the Rase Bill. LAW-MAKING BODY SCORNS COUNSEL| SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALILs CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, April 4—"I have no control over Congress; that has been demonstrated in the pending fight over the rallroad rate bill.” President -Roosevelt is said to have made this emphatic statement today to Colonel John C. Haskell, the anti- Tillman leader of South Carolina, who called at the White House to invoke Presidential aid in securing legislation favorable to a settlement of several million dollars’ worth of cotton clalms now tied up in the United States treas- ury. Colonel Haskell is attorney for the cotton claimants and is also a personal friend and admirer of President Roose- velt. There were several persons in the President’'s office, who could not help overhearing the substance of the conversation. Colonel Haskell went on to say that the cotton claims were fair and just; that millions of dollars derived from the sale of confiscated cotton were now locked up in the vaults of the treas- ury and that it needed Congressional action to release this money, which did not belong to the Government and was not included as part of the unex- pended cash balance in the treasury. Then it was that the President - ex- claimed. in a tone of voice loud enough and with sufficient emphasis to be heard throughout the reom, that he could not undertake to dietate what action Congress shall take on the bill to pay the cotton clalms. He added that he had no control over Congress, as had been demonstrated by the attitude of Congress in dealing with the pending railroad rate legislation. The frank confession of the Presi- dent regarding his relations with Con- gress was the occasion of much co ment among those who witnessed the scene in the President's office. | LAKE TULARE AGAIN A GREAT SEA. Spreads Over a Vast Area Inundating Settlements an d Many Farms. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. VISALIA, April 4.—Tulare Lake, which has been for several years past simply a matter of history, and whose former bed has afforded wide fields for the planting of thousands of acres of grain, is now once more a reality. The heavy rush of water from the Si- erra Nevadas during the past month has filled up the old bed, until the ex- panse of water now measures a score of miles across. and whole townships, which two months ago gave pronfise of an abundant harvest. are now com- ‘The torre: rom the St. Johns, Kings and 'Rl"ila";’vm have all broken. over the barriers which have served as effective dams for the past twenty- five years and have found their way into the old basin. Thus waters ap- proached the lake bed from three sides —the northern, the eastern and south- ern borders. The largs dams, which had been built across the bed of thy lake in all directions by the farmer! as a precautionary measure against a possible inundation, were all too weak to withstand the heavy torrent which rolled in, and levee after levee gave way, until the entire central part of the basin was covered. Though the heaviest rush of the freshet is now over the advance of the boundaries of the lake upon the farms still continues. Farming crews have moved out by the wholesale. During the first spread of the water the crews were often awakened In the dead of night by the water lapping against the sides of the cook houses and washing | pletely inundated. among the plows and were obliged to | pack up, hitch to wagons, plows and other farming implements and start for higher land as fast as possible. A large amount of machinery was | left behind by the farmers. Beside a | number of plows and implements, com- ’paratlvely inexpensive, four combined | harvesters are known to be in the flooded portion. Barber Brothers of Hanford have three harvesters lying down well toward the center of tha basin and Judd Dibble of the same city {1 has one. Effefts weré made to save these machings after th¢ water had covered theé ground, but was found impossible to reach them. Only one of thé machines.now shows above the water, the others being entirely sub- merged. The town of Alpaugh, founded by a number of Los Angeles promoters on a high point of land, known as At- well's Island, and which is already the home of several hundred colonists, is entirely surrounded, and the omly pos- sible communication with the settle- ment is by means of boats. Other set- tlements have also suffered. When the warm days of spring be- gin to bring down the vast quantity of snow packed in the canyons of the Sierra Nevadas, to the east of this city, and this flood goes to augment the al- ready extended boundarles of the lake it is the general opinion that the water will push itself out as far as the town- site of Angiola, covering a large sec- tion of the Santa Fe Railroad. This will be identical with the lake of 1872. BOY MEETS DEATH IN FURNACE 'OF PUBLIC GARBAGE CREMATORY ENCOUNTERS TERRIBLE FATE IN-LOS ANGELES 1L0S ANGELES, April 4—Mark Cota, a handsome Spanish boy of 15 years, met death in a most horrible manner this afternoon by falling Into the furnace at the new public incinerator on Tenth street, near Santa Fe avenue. In his eagerness to snatch a few scraps of metal from a load of garbage as it was being dumped Into the hopper the lad slipped and was shot into the seething pit of fire below, to be literally roasted alive. Half a dozen men were working near by, but the only ome to see the accident was Halet Antoine, a Frenchman, who speaks no English. He was several min- utes in making the others understand. Antoine sgw the boy slip and pitch for- ward, and heard his last agonized scream as he shot down the flery funnel, but the roar of the furnace drowned the sound of his voice. Finally, when Gabe Allen, superinten- dent and chief engineer at the incinera- tor, was told that some one had fallen into the furnace he would not belleve It and thought the men were joking. “Well, he's dead now,” remarked Al- len, opening the furnace door. Peering in, he saw what he thought was a wood- en leg dropped by some one for a joke. Then he closed the door and walked to his office. Here he was followed by his assistant a few moments later, who cried out, “There is a man in the furnace.” Allan looked again, and this time saw the body of the boy roasting with a heap of refuse on.the huge grate. “It was fifteen minutes after he fell into the hopper before we got him out,” sald Allen afterward. “The boy prob- ably died instantly, as no living creature could survive three seconds in the intense heat of the furnace. He has been around here several times with his uncle, Mark Cota, who drives one of the garbage wagons, and rode upon his uncle’'s wagon teday. With several other children young Cota has been in the habit of picking over the garbage for bottles and scrap metal to sell. They have been warned time and time again to keep away, but we have been unable to make them stay out.” The charred corpse of young Cota was rescued from the crematory with much difficulty. The Coroner will hold an in- quest tomorrow. Cota's parents live in San Diego. The lad was visiting his uncle here. -— ELECTRIC LIGHT HEIR TO MILLIONS DIXON, April 4—Dixon has something out of the ordinary, and which perhaps is osity to the -oldest Californian as well as the late arrivals from the Eastern +On ex in the window of Ladies’ Improvement Club of this 1 pevine With grapes is @ healthy graj et The viee the 4.—Governor Vitation of the citizens of Oakland to attend the Fourth of July celebration in that city. 3 RIPENS GRAPES| LOSING NO SLEEP —_— NEW YORK, April 4—Unmoved by the report that he is helr to $16.000,000, L. Bernhardt Gescheidt, an fronworker, re- fuses to lift a finger to learn If the re- port is true. He treats the news with the utmost indifference and is inclined to doubt its authenticity. About the first of the yeaf Willlam Freistadtl of Brooklyn received a letter from a friend in Bota, Hungaty, named Kaltmann, informing him that Alustiit Allomas, owner of nearly the entire province of Putrok, Hungary, had died, leaving all of his fortune to the son of his sister, L. heldt. A part of Allomas’ fortune, which is esti- mated at $15,000,000, of property PRISONERS PUT T0 SEA IN-A TUB —_— Alcatraz Soldiers Try to Escape | Captivity. {In an Old Butter Vat They Vainly Seek Freedom. Wind and Wave Beat Them Back and Are Captured and Put in Iroms. Early on Monday morning four des-~ perate Alcatraz prisoners broke the locks from their cells, crept by the sen- tinels and guns of the fort and put to sea in a tub. But wind and tide were against them and they were forced back to the shore of their island prisom, where they were soon captured and put in irons. When found they were hiding in an abandoned magazine on the west gide of the island. It was about 5 o'clock Monday morn- ing when the officer of the day, Lieu- tenant Edward E. McCammon, started on his rounds of verification and, upen opening the cell of Arthur Armstrong he was surprised to find the prisoner gone. The prison guard was imme- diately called out and sent in search of the,missing prisoner, while the lieu- tenant continued his rounds and to his amazement found that the cells of George W. Davis, Thomas Stinnatt and George W. Brossman were also vacant, the locks having been forced from the outside. In the next-cell the lock bhad been broken. but the prisoner was still fast asleep in his bunk and upon be- ing questioned pleaded ignorance as to how the Jock had been broken. PRISONERS ARE TRACED. The missing prisoners were readily traced to the bakery, where a large butter tub, used for mixing dough, had disappeared, and a trail from there to the water's edge showed where the rude craft had been launched in a vain hope to reach the main land. Shortly after that the prisoners were found hiding in an abandoned magazine on the western side of the island and im= mediately sent to solitary confinement. They are now sent to their work with a ball and chain. The vat was found beating against the rocks near by, and in it were several loose boards which had evidently been used for oars. The prisoners were taken before Ma- Jor Abner Pickering, commander of the prison. They refused to make any statement except that they attempted to escape and were driven back by the tide when they left the shore. They also admitted that they were afraid of the frail craft in which they had embarked. It was later found that the prison- ers had effected their escape through the instigation of Artimur A who evidently carried some b strument into his cell and after veri- fication at 8 o'clock set to work pry off one of the' boards of his cell. Once the board was off it was an easy mat- ter for him to walk down the line, and with one stroke of the same instru- ment, to knock the locks from the gell doors and, one by one, to free their occupants. Upon reaching the fifth cell the prisoner evidently refused to ac- company them and the four started out alone. SCALE HIGH FENCE. Securing a barbed wire they threw it over the high board fence and. pulling it down into a crack between the beards until one of the barpes caught, they, one by ome. climbed to the top and dropped down on the other side while the unsuspecting sentinel slam- bered upon his beat unmindful of what was taking place under his very nose. Once over the fence and past the sen- tinel it was an easy matter for them to reach the bakery and embark upon their journey. The men were so sure of their liberty that they deliberately cut the large “P” from the se: of their trousers and the back of their coats.™ An effort was also made to erase the number from their hats with mud and sand, but In this attempt they were unsuccessful. Arthur Armstrong. although he was among the second class prisoners, was considered one of ‘he most desperata characters on the islund. He was sent to the island some time ago from ‘Washington State, where, it is alleged, he committed a brutal assault upon a young girl. Ever since his arrival at the prison he has been the source of continual annoyance to the authorities and has more than once been punished for bad conduct. From now on, how- ever, he will be compelled to wear the ball and chain. The other prisomers were serving time for larceny and de- sertion. A board of officers was appointed to investigate the case. The prisoners re- fused to tell the time of their escape, however, and as there were three m: upon the beat throughout the night, the board failed to come to any agreement as to whom to-blame and was dis- missed. —_——————— DEATH PAYS DOUBLE VISIT i TO CASTLE IN BOHEMIA Prince William of Schaumburg-Lipoe and Princess Louise Die Within Five Hours of Each Other. VIENNA, April 4.—Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe died today of heart failure at his castle at Nachod, Bohe- mia. His daughter-in-law, Princess Louise, a daughter of the King of Den- mark, died five hours later of menin- at the same castle. .