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

/ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 5. 1906. IPECT DEPEW »FROZEN—IN WHALERS SHORT OF FOOD PRIMINENTHEN T0RESICN SO0H New \Hl‘k Politicians Busy Speculating as to H Successor in the Senate| BRIEF DELAY _ LIKELY Retirement May Be Post-| poned No That Higgins| an Make Appointment Special Dispatch n a family will not s United DOUGLASS IMPROVES AND FREE FROM PAIN Injuries Re- Attack at Jose. Survive in Nan ceived deserted an f crimes. Cra- I, :S. SEWALL'S PLAN WILL BE ADOPTED f $1000 with which to Miss Anthony to place 1 by the da by dence, report on Erants By d condemned th guage Mrs. Swift the sident be laid on carried. Does your- baby sleep well? A baby should not fret and be rest- but on the contrary, d go to sleep and sweetly and peacefully until morning. Use Mellin’s Food baby will sicep well, snd grow good natured day. Send a free sample for your baby. The ONLY Infants’ Food recei vhl t&;fimfl PRIZE at St. Louis, 1904. < edal, Highest Award, Portland, Ore. 1905, MELLIN'S FOOD CO., BOSTON, MASS. MASTER OF KARLUK TELLS OF conprTion or FLEET| | AW[NI]ANE[ e ///I///////,/ //I/ /// 2ol SSIats mm\mmm AR R RN \\\\\\\\ \\\\\\\\\\\\ ST W”% s e 2R 777 /I/ ////// // \\\ 0SSOI ISSUSISS S SSUNTRY E Twenty-Flfth Anniversary of the Tuskegee Normal Institute Celebrated NEGRO TEACHER SPEAKS Booker T. Washington Tells of What the School Has Done for the Black Race SR — TUSKEGEH,| Ala., ‘April- 4. —Owing to the delay in| the Ogden special train the beginning of the exercises in com- nectlon with the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Tuske- gee Normal 'and Industrial Institute was delayed until tonight. Among the jprominent men who came in on the Ogtten train wére Secretary of War Wililum H. Taft; Rubert C. Ogden, president 'of the board of trus- tee; Charles W. EKliot, president of Har- vard University; Dr. Lyman T. Abbott and Oswald Ganfison Villard, editor of the New York Ejvening Post. The party wa: greeted by 1560 stu- dents and alum:il and members of the faculty and boaid of trustees. Principal ‘Boo ker T. Washington de- L2272 - E livered an address of welcome. He sald in part: And Jesus said, [“I will make you fiabers of men?” In the spirit of | these words the foundation of this institution | was laid in 1881, through a gift lrom the Stale of Alabama. Kor twenty- fve years. then, ihe Tuskegee. Normal and In- dustrial institutel has been fishing for men. What of it /With what resuits? In our Quest we ' have ‘ufied land, houses, barns, hen- Dertes, shops, laiindries. kitchens, classrooms, the Bibie, arthmitic, the saw, the trowel, the piow, and money—all these and more we have used’ in our eff t flsh for men. AILOR'S SKETCH OF THE FLEET OF WHALING VESSELS WINTERING AT HERSCHEL ISLAN TO BE CONSIDERED AT RIO DE JANEIRO Programme of Subjects for Coming Pan - American Conference Approved. N, April 4—The pro- subjects to be considered by erican Conference which Rio J iro in July was unan- oproved by the Bureau of Repub to-day. This: pro- 1 by a commitfee of is irman, and adors from Brazil the Ministers from Costa 1ba and Argentina. the most interesting of the embraced in resolutions af- adher the American the prin settlement of disputes arising them, with an expression of t the coming Hague conference agree upon a general arbitration | lso a recommendation that | conference be asked to coa extent to which the use the collection of public debts is s are firming e of republics for the between 1 to this will be the discussion | of the so-callec opposed to the forcible collection of debts of one na by another, a doctrine long adhered to by the United States. Other matters on the programme are those of a rganization of the International Bureau ican Republics, the codification of 'd private international laws, development of commercial consular laws, patents and trade marks, sanitary police and qu regulations, the Pan- tine America vay, practice of the learned | professions and future conferences. Secretary Root decided to ac- cept the invitations given him by the resident diplomatic representatives of | S ath American countries to extend his projected trip to Rio Janeiro, %o as to circumnavigate South America and to visit Buenos Ayres, Montevideo, San- tiago de Chile and Lima. The Secre- tary would like to include the capitals of Colombia and Ecuador in his tour, but press of time and the difficulty of reaching Bogota and La Paz from the seaports will prevent him doing so. WOULD DIMINISH BEAUTY OF FALL Protest Is Filed Against Rec- ommendation for Diver- sion of Niagara Water. WASHINGTON, April 4.—A remon- strance against the recommendations of the Internati 1 Waterways Commission regarding the diversion of the water of the Niagara River at the Falls of Niagara was flled with President Roosevelt to- day by officers of the Amerlcan Civic As- tion and the Merchants' “Association of New York. The commission recommend- ed t legislation be enacted authorizing the diversion of 65,000 cubic feet of water d. The remonstrance urges that | the diversion of that amount of water | would divert 48 per cent of the water go- | | | ing over the American Falls and would materially diminish the beauty of the | cataract Although the President had approved the recommendation of the commission in a message to Congress, he regarded the | remonstrance as important and promised his callers to refer the subject to Secre- Taft and to members of the commis- ————— Will Hold Annual Theater Party, Ignatian Council No. 35, Young Men’s | Institute, will hold its annual theater | party at the Majestic Theater on Wednesday evening, April 18. The reg- | ular performance scheduled for the | week will be produced, together with two exceptionally fine numbers during the intermissions. The play will be “Who Comes There?” with Walter Per- Kkins in the main role. The additional numbers will be John Carrington, emi- nent barytone, and Miss Bertina Buffa, the child violin virtuoso. ery, P Stat ete., Government Washington, D. C., March & Jed proposais will be received at fice until 2 o'clock p. m., FRIDAY, 20, 1906, for furnishing stationery, hardware, plumbing and electric for the use of the during the fiscal The right to bids and to waive defects led schedules of the sta- , required, accompanied and giving the regula ber tuel, ice, e proposals which bidders must comply may Diained by addressing _this office HAS. A. STILLINGS, Public Printer. FOSALS for Material, etc.. Government Office, Washington, D. C., March € Sealed proposals will be received a Gice until 10 o'clock &. m. SATUR APRIL 21, 1906, for furnishing ma “tc., for the use of the Government smpanied by blank proposals, anl ions with which bidders obtained by address'ng S. A STILLINGS, Public SICK HEADAGHE Positively cured by these Little Pflls. PILEE. TORPID LIVER. Thay regulate the Bowels, Purely Vegetable, | SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE. o7 CURE SICK HEADAGHE. Genuine Must Bear S RZorn ITTLE IVER PILLS. ple of arbitration | of | 1 Drago doctrine, which is | WUUL[I ANEND THE RATE BILL Newlands of Nevada Is in Favor of the National In- corporation of Railroads = WASHINGTON, April 4—In the Senate today Newlands discussed the railroad rate bill and Daniel the question of the {lack of representation by the Southern States in the public service. Newlands | advocated amendments to the rate bill | providing for the national incorporation of raflroads ;and announced himself as favorable to the governmental ownership of those utilities. Danfel’s speech was based on a provision in the urgent defi- sfency appropriation bill for the repre- sentation of the United States at the next Pan-American congress, to be held in Rio Janeiro in July. The deficiency bill was amended so _as to provide for | more delegates, and; as amended, was | passed. | Newlands contended that the rate bill |should fix a maximum percentage of profit to be allowed to the roads, and to that end he would have the valuation of {all railroad property carefully ascer- | talned. In addition, he would have & | national incorporation act which would | be the most effective safeguard against | overcapitalization. All these regulations | would work automatically in the dfrec- | tion of a reduction of rates. Newlands argued that the great ma- jority of invstors preferred a steady in- come of from 4 to 6 per centeo a specu- | lative enterprise, and drew the conclusion that the determination of profit would not have the effect of restricting rail- road extension. This plan also would have the effect of taking the railroads out of politics, a most desirable desidera- tum, in Newlands' opinion. From national capitalization to na- tional ownership was only a short step, said the Nevada Senator, and he an- nounced he was in no respect averse to that policy. He could see no financial obstacle in the way of the acquisition of existing roads, but if there should be opposition to this course he would have the Government enter upon the construc- tion. of a railway system of its own, and he suggested an experimental line from Norfolk or Charleston to Los Angeles or San Diego. Such a line, 3000 miles in length, could be built, he declared, for $100,000,000, a cost not exceeding an aver- age of $35,000 per mile, as against the average capitalization of $65,000, which prevailed on existing lines. RICH BANKER ONCE DRIVER OF STAGE Early History of Dead Mil- lionaire Is Told in Will Contest Hearing. Special Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, April 4—During the trial of an action brought by James R. Palmer of San Francisco, aged ninety-six years, to upset the probate of the will of his brother, Francis Asbury Palmer, for fifty-two years president of the National Broadway Bank, which is before Judge Gelgerich and a jury in the Supreme Court, it was disclosed that the aged financier, who died leaving a fortune ol more than a million dollars, in his youth drove one of the first stages in New York. Mrs, Ida H. Manson, grandniece, told of his infirmaties, loss of money and said that although he left his money liberally to colleges and other institutions of learn- ing, she testified he often told her he did not belleve in colleges. On this subject it was his habit to remind her of what St. Paul was told, that “much learning hath made him mad.” Mrs. Manson said one of Palmer’'s hob- bies was a free faith founded ‘on the | bible without sectarianism, and he be- lieved in children and even grown-up peo- ple going to Sunday school. James Morrow, who had known the financier forty-five years, in answer to Flamen B. Candler of counsel for the contestants, stated that whenever he visited Palmer at his home ministers were constantly there talking about colleges and religion. When he spoke to the aged man nhom the ministers’ calls he :would say: “They are all right, but they,want money.” He often accompanied Palmer to the Broadway Tabernacle, where Pal- mer, after the singing and the collection, would invariably fix himself in a corner of the pew and go to sleep, and leaving the church would say, “Jami had a good talk this morning.” The trial will be resumed tomorro: ————— MONS, ' Belglum, April 4.—An unsuccessful attempt was made today to blow up the rafl- road bri over the river Honnel Franco-Belgian frontler. g &K' the outrage was ‘was llter sent to the hoapnu. Cold Is Fierce, but the Men Are All Cheerful. Out of the great white silence sur- rounding Herschell Island, where the ships of the Arctic whaling fleet are frozen in and several hundred men are held prisoners, comes a letter written to The Call by the master of the Kar- luk, Captain A. H. McGregor. The let- ter was written five months ago and at that time the_stock of flour was alarmingly low afd other provisions were growing scarcer. Deer were re- ported plentiful, but natives, on whom the whalemen depended for the killing of the venison, were scarce. It was last November that the news of the fleet. having been caught'in the ice reached this city. Only two. vessels of the Arctic fleet—the Willlam Baylies and the schooner Monterey—escaped. Captain Mogg, whose schooner Bonanza was lost in the ice jam, came out later and reported the other vessels, eleven of them, in no danger until the ice should break up. Of provisions ' he seemed to think there were plenty. Now comes Captain McGregor, how- ever, with another story. A detachment of-Cahmdian mounted police were sent to Point Barrow -to take in and bring out mail and Captain McGregoris letter, written in Novem- ber and intrusted to the volunteer mail carriers when they reached Herschell Island, has only now arrived. Captain McGregor paints a picture of 225 men in a pretty bad plight, but trying to make the best of it in spite of the fact that the worst was yet to come. DARKNESS CLOSE. The great darkness had not set in when the master of the Karluk.wrote his letter, but its shadow was already over the little ice-bound secttlement and the problem of occupation for the 225 men during the long Arctic night was looming big to those in positions of re- sponsibility. Captain McGregor has his wife with him on board the Karluk. This is Mrs. McGregor's eighth year in the Arctic, and, according to her husband, she was enjoying the lone- some novelty of the situation, but just a little worried for fear the depleted condition of the larder would inter- fere with her plans for giving her hus- band’'s crew the kind of Christmas din- ney -on which she had set her heart. Everybody was in good health, how- ever, and in spite of a temperature 50 degrees below zero the whalemen were enjoying themselves playing basball and football. McGREGOR’S LETTER. With his letter Captain McGregor sends a sketch of the five vessels froz- en in at Herschell Island. This sketch, made by a member of his crew, I8 re- produced herewith. Captain McGregor's letter follo Thinking. that a few lines to the San Fran- cisco Call would interest our many friends and those who have friends up here in the |- frozen north, 1 take the liberty of giving you an outline of the sitnation In the first place, we are short of food and very short of flour, which is the main thing in this comntry. We are not alarmed, how- ever, as if we can get deer meat as we have In the past everything will be all rizht. The report is that deer arc now plentiful, but very few natives. The natives did not <xpect the ships in here this winter, so of course they did not_come to the island. Another thing. We have very little with which to pay the natives for hunting for us. It we can on'y get word to the natives we can probably make arrangements with them any- way as we have always treated them well and trusted them for things they needed and could not then pay for. There ere five ships in this little cove of a harbor. It is safe enough, but oh, what snorters of southwesters we 'do have some- times. Simply impossible to go out of doors and the cold is something flerce—50 below zero.' Still the boys play baseball and kick foot-ball and don't mind it much. There are about 295 men of the ships here and about 75 nativee, 80 of course We are not very lone- some, but will be when the dark days set in, which will be soon. We will not see the sun for fifty odd days. The health of my crew apd in fact of all the men has been excellent, hardly a case of sickness the whole vovage. My wife {s with me on this long and lonesome trip and seems to enfoy it. She is In fin: health and is not worrying. Of course she is an old sailor, thix being her eighth year In the Arctic. This i it will tax her small stores to make somethi: for the boys' Christmas dinner. Inclosed s a pen sketch of the ships in winter quarters in this harbor, which is a quarter of a mile long &nd an eighth of a mile wide. It is landlocked and quite safe. SUICIDE’S MOANS A _RACT YOUNGSTERS TO HER AID || Mrs. Margaret Mannix, while in a de- spondent mood, swallowed a portion of a bottle of carbolic acid early yesterday evening In a woodshed in the rear of her sister’s home, at 1807 Post street. The woman was found writhing in pain and was removed to the Central Emer- gency Hospital, but she was beyond medical assistance and succumbed shnrtly after belng taken to the hospi- l(rl Mannix was a widow and she grieved over the 108s of her husband. Several adverse circumstances added to her grief, which caused her to become despondent and end her life. She pro-. cured the drug yesterday and, unknown | to the occupants of the house, -went | into the woodshed, where she drank it. Her moans attracted several school children, who brought assis woman. Dr. Bayer was call CIVE HIM BATH OF JAN AND 0 British Army Lieutenants Haze Brother Officer Be- cause of His Lack of Money ALDERSHOT, England, April 4— Four lieutenants—Hamilton, Dalrymple- Hamilton, Joliffe and Harford—were placed on trial today before a court of inquiry which is making an Investiga- tion into the hazing of Second Lieuten- ant Clark Kennedy, who was severely maltreated by his fellow officers last month, because, it is alleged, he was too poor to meet all the regimental subscriptions. The court is composed of four generals and two colonels, Lieu- tenant General Sir Gerald Morton pre- siding. Lieutenant Kennedy testifled that after mess March 18, just after he had returned from sick leave, he was tried by a mock court-martial on a charge that the medical officer had found him in a filthy condition and that he had told his colonel a lie. Kennedy was thereupon sentenced to be stripped and to take a bath. The sentence was carried out with force and a mixture of motor oil and other ingredients was poured over him and jam was spread over his hair. Subse- quently Kennedy escaped naked to his | room.- His persecutors, however, pro-| ceeded to knock the door open, where- | upon Kennedy jumped out of a window and took refuge in a hotel. » Kennedy, who comes of a family of well-known soldiers, and the other lieu- tenants belong to the First Battallon of Scots Guards. He. had previously served in the Fourth Battalion of the Prince of Wales Own West Yorkshire | Regiment. P CRUELTY IN GERMAN ARMY. Soldiers Brutally Abused by Officers, ‘Who Drive One Hussar to Suilcid BERLIN, April 4—Army debates in the Relchstag have revealed serious cases of systematic cruelty. One sol- dier was suspended in mid-air by a rope until he fainted. He was then lowered WHERE THEY WERE CAUGHT BY THE ICE LAST FALL, | St. Louts, Rocky Mountain and Pacific | Rificant. | cate which owns the old Maxwell land ! | for a price said to be $15,000,000.” Primarily 1 believe that my race has found itself. 50 i3r as its permanent location fs con- cerned. When this institution began its mis- sion there was uricertainty, lack of faith, halt- ing and specuMition as to our permanent abid- ing piace. As to what degree the influence of the Institute has contributed to this I will ventire no assertion, except to state, so. far s 1 can interpret the present ambitions m;‘ the activities of my peopie, the main body of the race has decided to re- main permanently In the heart of the South, in or mear what is known as the “biack beit.” Mr. Washington referred to the growth of tite school, from .its humble beginning in’ one small building, with thirty pupils, to its present enrollment Of 1400 students, and said that the school had $ent out into the world §000 men and women who are now largely engaged as workers in agriculture and mechanlcs, housekeepers and teachers of “both industrial and academic merry. clatter of the roulette ball and | branches throughout the South, as well the monotonous drone of the crap dealer | as in Africa, and one or twe foreign are again heard there the ranks of those | countries. scattered by Sheriff Word are being Mr. Ogden delivered a strong address drawn up in order preparatory to an in- | on the significance of the celebration vasion. President Eliot.of Harvard spoke on Peter St. Mary arrived in Portland] “What. Uplifts a, Race and What Holds yesterday from San Francisco in response | It Down?” to a telegram conveying the glad news| Secretary . Taft also spoke at some that Astoria is an open town. Here he | length: was met by Al Seafeld, and arrangements were made to open a big gambling house. This morning all the gambling parapher- palla in use at Erickson Concert Hall before the Sheriff got busy was packed | up and shipped to Astoria by St. Mary. | publicans. The four Demoeratic meém- COAL LANDS SOLD | bers of ‘the lower house were the only FOR. A LARGE SUM | Democrats successful in yesterday's ASTORTA TO BECOME SECOND MONTE €ARLO Gambling Men of the Coast Plan to Invade the Town. PORTLAND, Or., April 4—"On to As- toria.” This Is ‘now the slogan of the knights of the green cloth. Gambling | men from Portlana and Seattle.are pre- paring to make the county seat of Clat- sop thelr Mecca. Since the embargo was removed on gambling at Astoria and the ———— Re lleans Make Clean Sweep. KANSAS CITY, Mo, April 4—Every one of the fourteen members of the upper house of'the new City Council is a Republican and ten of the fourteen members of the lower house are \Re- election. Of the Councilmen re-elected 5 N 130 3 N s yesterday none voted for or favored Extensive Fields in New MeX- | the gas ana street ratlway franchise 3 2. extensions . that were before the late ico Purchased for Fifteen | &oinci ™ only one of these franchise illi Councilmen was even renominated. Million Dollars. LThe plurality of Henry M. Beardsley, ELES, April 4—The Times will | Republican for Mayor. is < A s:;oi;;f’ow e e ooipmen il L other candldates on the Republican comprising 800,000 acres in Colfax County, ' tcket received nearly the same plural- New Mexico,have just been brought by the | Ities. The Socialist vote was insig- e e e | MUST PROVIDE FOR HIS FIRST WIFE AND CHILDREN Ralilroad Company from the Dutch syndi- | grant of 1,570,000 acres in Colfax County, Divorce and Remarriage Do Not Re- leve a Man of This Re- sponsibiitty. CHICAGO, April 4—When a man is divorced and remarried the second mat- cutting his flesh. Some officers seized | rimonial contract does not relieve him another soldler and ducked his head in | of the responsibility of caring for his filthy water, the smell of which made | first wife and children. This was point- him ill. A hussar named Adam Gesser [ ed out to Willlam Holden by Judge Me- was literally driven to commit suicide | Ewen today when' Holden protested in desperation. against further payments of alimony to Y BT A e T T Mrs. Lulu Holden, . who obtained a di- Good men are too busy to be egotistical. | vorce from him five years ago. Holden Genuine urbanity doesn’t ‘shy at street | will present further arguments. to cars. Judge McEwen on April 11. g — and thrashed with a horsewhip_until he | regained consciousness, when he was bound tightly to a bedstead, the ropes The Lowest Prices Fine China $l Salad Bowls Choice of 12 or more beautiful decor- ations. Regular price $1.75 to $2.25. Enameled Ware Bargains Pearl Gray Enameled Ware—good quality, as cheap as tinware. 80c Coffee Pots ... $1.50 Dinner Palls . 15c Ple Plates .. 40c Pudding Pans . 50c Preserving Kettles..25¢ 15¢ Basting Spoons ... Se Scores of other equally good - bargains. - Covered 350 These are: fifst quality earthenware * (white), and excellent values at our former price. of 63c. Combinets, regular price $1.00, now 65¢. glass, now pair tall, Tremendous Bargains CHINA, TABLE GLASS, LAMPS, KITCHENWARE quality. See them and be convinced. Extra salespeople. Quick service. Glassware Bargains large useful and ornamental pieces for only.73e ake Stands or Salvers—g-inch diam- etcr, curled rim, cut glass design, m:‘l‘y’ Sugu' Bo'h——Large, covered, excel- lent imitation of cut glass. price-25¢, NOW.... .. Cream Pitchers—Footed, were Handled Jelly Dub—-G—mch. 20C, now ... Berry Bowll—-B—mch "choice of four cut glass designs. Were 25¢, now..10e Pepper and Salt Shak: imitation cut design, nickel-plaled toge Tumblers — Clear weight. —per dozen Vases—For fluted " design. Were 20c, now..10e Wiedero’s Crockery Fourth and Mission Streets ever quoted in San Francisco for goods of equal &Qu-bim Cof- Saucers -he Choice of 12 dainty designs in real china, all beautifully decor- ated. Reg. price 3sc. Decorated Dinner Sets $3.75 Light weight semi- “porcelain, embossed edges, pink flower sprays, gold lines and tracing; full so-piece set for 6 persons. Reg. price $7.50. Coffee Cups and Saucers 10c ea. seb’?'Sc Reé. price $1.75. Clear pressed with white flower and green stems, four Regu!ar Se 15¢, Were Oc ers—Colonial glass, medium /) Regular price 35c dozen, now|( .20¢ German china, fine ' quality, pure white, regular price $1.00 per set. 6 for s5c. Easter flowers, 12 inches and Glass Store