The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 20, 1906, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL 1g Agamst Column 4. Continued from Page 1, pose in charge ng passed without purpose fo m, we now namely than th ated within You violate Under cover you have been us in an extre g for the ov g that y reason to pay us d for you work, ever un- € ve ¥ for the wage agreed ¥ dolla: a for the us in handling force your few lerate pay. We in these stormy WORKING DAY TOO LONG. It is true that the recent advance t odities has made scantier life for us 18, but we suggest in itself givi to and so now the our wages prices we must \ varying de- to 21l others for whom this speaks ort of the second request we s t it is not 1air to us and c t be excusable to the public that we be overworked to the point of ner- \ ustion no matter what yo end be willing to pay for Most of your empl members of this union, have for year: been working. much longer per sday e great body of other workers vou in earlier days justi- 2l of our repeated appeals 1 American work day, we an offer stification for work when it is the and present ng up-the hours of work day be ven to utter g driven in present that s therea grave a graver wrong who travel on for the safety of the public assured by o nen fagged degree of breakdown by not we are be Requesting a prompt reply, ratever might have | v . respectfull urs, TATED ATION OF AND ELECTRIC RAIL-| )YES OF AMERICA, DI- dent i irer.” DENY THEY Officers of Unlon Say Strikebreakers Caused Trouble. Public—Statements have been 1 the daily papers of Thurs- the misconduct of a | en on str 1s from the United Railroads— allege that men, reated circumstances at- »uble, and we are satis- ublished accounts greatly | e what occurred. rbance as occurred was of the Strikers meeting > employ of ited assaulted and badly the early part| 2 the striker | and told a number of his rhat repeated ructions maintain order at all = disturbance, however, was quelled by officers of the Con- 1 Workers' Union present. veral of the strikers met four ebreakers on a car. No ut a policeman in civillan clothes. ntly fearing that trouble might occur, ordered the union men from the car, and one of these men was struck on the head and temporarily disabled for not complying quickly with the rder to leave the car. We find no evidence to justify the statements that y of these men molested In any man- r passéngers on the car or threatened do so. We are anxious that the public thoroughly understand that the officers of the Construction Workers Union have repeatedly warned th* members that violence of any descrip tion will not be tolerated, and if anv o of the members disrcgard this injunc- | tion they will be severely discipline” By the organization. We feel confident that our demand- | on the United Rallroads are based or | absolute justice; that we can only se- | cure a redress of our grievances by cenducting the strike in a peaceable and orderly rner, and it is our pur | pose to firmly adhere to this policy. | One have of te of the most serious things we| ad to contend with is the actiom | employment agents in endeavoring| arouse race antipathies among our| , creating dissension and lack | nce of one nationality in the | ose of other races. The em- | pioyment agents have profited greatly | in the past by exacting monthly trib- | ute from the non-English-speaking| lsborers, and of course wiil be averse | tc having this source of revenue cut off. This viclous system 18 eliminated by the organization under the A. F.| of L. | Regretting that any of our members, | even under the provocation noted,| should have for an wstant forgotten the strict instructions given them to preserve the peace at all times, we are very respectfully yours, CONSTRUCTION WORKERS' UNION. H. H. WILLIAMS, Rec. Sec. JAMES LYNCH, President. San Francisco, Aug. 189, —_— Steamfitters Fix Wages. was decided by the members of the International Steamfitters’ Local Unlon No. 46 yesterday afternoon to call in all withdrawals cards and not to {ssue any more. The action of the Iron Trades Union advocating an eight-hour day for all iron workers was indorsed. The wage scale of $6 a day for steam- fitters working at Chico and the Six- Mile House was approved. No steam- fitter in the future will be allowed to work on a building for less than $6 a day. The dues of the organization were raised to $1 a month. There were fifteen applications for membership It we beg | yesterday, and three were obligated. We just received a carload of high-grade pianos which have been delayed over a month in transit. In addition to the delay we find that the cases are all Some only slightly, damaged. whi anc ese pianos MUS as new instruments. Est. 1856. le the cases are marred, the works are in perfect condition as good as they ever were. T be sold and at a Sacrifice Our factory being overcrowded with work, it is impos- sible for us to take the time to put them in condition to sell Therefore they will be sold Regardless of Cost REMEMBER, they are all musically perfect. Come in TODAY and take your pick of the whole lot. BENJ. CURTAZ & SON H. J. CURTAZ, Pres. 1615 VAN NESS AVE., at California Sheet Music Talking Machines P others considerably. But, | TARTED RIOT. | | for improved | from de to assault the strik-| ht Unions Preparing to Join [ssues ted Railroads. — R o Contractors Decide to Deny the Demands of the Engineers. Continued from Page 1, Column 3. notice was unreasonable. Further, that o suffering serious loss ‘on the build- ings for which they have already taken contracts. It was finally decided that steam or electric hoists are employed shall cease pending adjustment with the engineers. Unless adjustment is made ' this morning the following buildings will be affected: The James Flood build- ing, the new -Chronicle -building, the Rialto bullding, the Telephone building, the Callaghan building, the Fairmont Hotel, the St. Francis, the Merchants’ Exchange, the Crocker-Woolworth building, the Examiner building, the Union Trust building, the German Hos- pital, the Monadnock bullding, the Humboldt Bank, Hale Drothers' build- | ing, Stanford University buildings and | the Butler building. These include theé ¢ |largest buildings in San Francisco. | The engineers in a sense hold the key to the bullding situation, for the hoists carry the.building material to the va- T workmen. When the hoists cease running work on the bulldings must cense. The importance of the work of the engineers increases the seriousness of the situation. The contractors hold that the raising of wages places them in a position where they are unable to take new con- tracts because of their inability to fig- ure definitely the cost of labor. Other workers, it is sald, contemplate asking for increased wages, but will give the contractors due notice, the increase in the majority of cases not going into | effect before January 1. | The contractors will meet this after- noon at 4 o'clock at 771 Market street. HINT 70 WTIONL BANK DRECTORS SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. WASHINGTON, Aug. 19,—The Treas- ury Department purposes maling an example of national bank directors who by constantly ignoring tlie law threaten the solvency of the banks with which they are connebted. reguliting loans by national banks is to be rigidly enforced and the first bank that willfully violates it will have its charter forfeited. This statement was made today by an official of the treasury while dis- Bank of Chelsea, Mass. downfall of this bank was due to a practice of which a surprisingly large number of other banks are gullty— excessive loans to bank directors and officers. The announcement was made at the Treasury Department that two-thirds of the banks habitually disregarded the limitations of the law in regard to the loans that many made. What was more the department was regularly informed of ‘these violations, which were reported by bank examiners. It has long been the custom of the | Comptroller's office, to condone these | unlawful acts, and beyond calling the | oftending bank’'s attention to the ex- | cessive loans and perhaps an admo- | nitfon to avoid a repetition of the }oflense nothing is done. JEROME WILL RUN - FOR GOVERNOR. | NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—District At- térney Willam Travers Jerome today issued the following statement: “In the present shameful condition of our political life in this city I am willing to run for the office of Governor of the State If the Democratic conven- tion shall nominate me without any understanding, expressed or implied, otker than that, if elected, I shall obey | my oath of office as I understand It in | letter and in spirit. “WM. TRAVERS JEROME.” EE L i SIMILARITY IN NAMES CAUSES MUCH CONFUSION Five Famlilies Living in the Same Block in Martinez Responsible for & Pecullar Mix-Up. MARTINEZ, Aug. 19.—In one small | block in this city reside five families with a similarity of names that creates confusion among the merchants and their friends. The families in question are the Stotts, Gotts, Watts, Botts and Scotts. The Stotts and Watts frequent- ly chat over teacups with the Gotts, while the Botts and Scotts go shopping together. Almost all'of them have tele- phones and when ordering from grocer or butcher it sometimes requires sev- eral minutes to determine which one of the quintet is at the phone. Should a friend call up Mrs. Gott and ask for Mrs. Stott across the street, it is a perplexing matter to determine which of the five is wanted, or whether the speaker at the other end of the line has | the right number. Summer Colds Laxative Bromd Quinine, Cold Cure, removes caus: name; loock for sig. of E. world wide Call for full .Grove. 25c.® 7 could not grant the increaee with- | building operations in this city where Hereafter the law | Several Shots Fired During the Rio and Four Participants Injured. DAY, AUGUST 20, 1005. PONDER HOUSE 5 BLOWN UP 0T YREKA Two Boys Are Killed, One Is Missing, While a Fourth Is Dying From Injuries |CARELESSLY FIRE INTO A MAGAZINE \People. Rus Panic-Stricken ~From Homes, Mistaking Concussion for a Quake SPECIAL DISPATOH-TO THE CALL. { REKA, Aug. 19.—Two boys are 1 dead, another is so badly injured an explosion this morning in the Stim- | mell powder-house, situated a half mile distant from the town. Thirty- | two thousand pounds of glant powder | were exploded, wrecking the powder- house and tearing up fully 1000 feet of the rails of the Yreka branch railréad. The windows in every building in Yreka were shattered, and the réport of the explosion was heard at Shovel Creek, thirty miles distant. The dead: JESSE CRAWFORD, aged 16 years. CARL SCHMITT, aged 14 years. It Is not known what caused the eéxplo- sion, but it is believed to have been due to carelessness on the part of the vie- tims. Schmitt, Crawford and Bert Hol- land, who Is aged 11 years were shoot- ing with rifies in the vicinity of the magazine, and it is believed that one of the bullets passed through a ven- tilator and caused the explosion. BOYS SHOOT AT MAGAZINE. J. D. Fairchild, who was about two blocks away from the powder-house, says that he saw Schmitt, Crawford, | Holland and a fourth boy whom he did | not recognize shooting in that vicinity. They did not appear to realize thelr danger, and before he could warn them | to cease firing there was a deafening report, and the earth trembled violent- ly. A cloud of dust rose up from where the magazine stood, and when it had cleared away a hole fiiteen feet deep marked the former location of the | powder-house. | Two other powder-houses adjoining the one destroyed escaped with slight damage. ‘When Fairchild reached the scene he found young Holland lying uncon- scious on the ground. His head and face were frightfully cut and lacerated, and there was a deep gash on his shoulder where he had been struck by a flylng fragment of stone from pow- der-house, His companions’ bodies had been blown. to bits.. TOWN BADLY DAMAGED. Holland was given every -possible medical attention, but the doctors at- tending him hold out no hope for hi recovery. Unless he recovers conscious- ness it is likely that it never will be known what caused the éexplosion. The town of Yreka was badly dam- aged by the explosion. The plate glass windows in the bank were shattered as if they were egg shells, and scarcely a pane of glass was left intact In the town. The residences, high schools and courthouse were considergbly dam- aged. PEOPLE PANIC-STRICKEN, The residents of the ecity, with the fate of Valparaiso fresh in their minds, ran from thelr homes panic-stricken, belleving that they were being tossed about by an earthquake. It was not until gafter news of the explosion reached town that they quieted down and returned to their dwellings. Fearing that a fire might follow, as many chimneys were broken and top- pled over by the concussion, the Mayor issued an order that no fire be lighted in the dwellings until after the chim- neys have been inspected. An ldea of the terrific force of the explosion is given by the experience of E. N. Stevenson, who was riding in a buggy more than a mile away from the magazine. He was thrown out of his rig and painfully bruised, and his horse was knocked to the ground. Small bits of rallroad track and rock were hurled to Hawkinsville, two miles away, and a piece of boulder was sent crashing through the roof of Charles Herzog's home in this city, although the dwelling 1s nearly a mile distant from the scene of the explosion. Dr. O. B. Spalding and wife, who are well known in San Franoisco, pas the powder-house less than five m utes before the explosion. They saw | the boys shooting, but did not apprec)- |nte the danger. ghid SEMEES S, et MISS AMES INDORSED REDWOOD CITY, Aug. 19.—Miss Kate Ames, the ambitious school- teacher of Napa who wants to become State Superintendent of Schools, visited the headquarters of the Republican forces of Sgn Mateo County in Red- wood City recently and secured the in- dorsement of the local chieftains In her battle for office, Miss Ames is a grad- uate of the State Normal School and of Stanford University. She has served on many educational commissions. At present she Is the Superintendent of Schools in Napa. - CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1, COLUMNS 1 AND 2. |Davis from injury at the hands of th struck down two men with his club, bu C. E. Jackson, to take two stitches in the wound. when one of the the ground. the guards, whose name is not known, {assault with a deadly weapon. Davis was locked up at the O'Farrell He wi Adams, but admitted that was not his name. arrival in the city and that he was the son of He sald that he was not a professional strike the position as he was in great need of work. cash ball of §100 by order of Judge Kerrigan. The police are at present searching for Labrandt e crowd. It is reported that Willlams t neither of them was serlously injured. Struck Down by the Railway Guard C who resides at 1205 Gough street, and who i{s @ member of Electrical Workers' Unjon No, 6, was treated by Dr. Willlam P. Burnham, at L1196 McAllister strect, for a severe laceration of the forehead, It was necessary |streets when the trouble began and that he was taking no part In the affair, guards suddenly drew his menacing way. Fearing that the guard ml:h reyolver and flourished it in a some one in the crowd, Jackson grabbed th discharge the weapon and injure revolver and held it pointed to ! I | | Jackson states that he was standing in the crowd at Turk and Fillmore | | | It was while holding the weapon in this manner that one of struck him down, A -Straet police station on a charge of booked under the name of George Davis stated that he was a late well-to-do parents-in the East. ~breaker and that he accepted Davis was later released on a | that he cannot recover and a| > . | transaction th i 2 ' foufth is missing as the result of | hat would net’ him' large HEIRESS SWINDLED BY LOTHARID Daughter of an Eastern Milljonaire Gives Coin to Gay Deceiver ARREST FOLLOWS -SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 19.—The At- lantic City police have been asked for information by several Philadéelphla women about Charles E. Lockhart, who, under the claim of being a detective and a single man, is charged with hav- ing obtained money from his victims under the promise of marriage. Lock- hart was arrested in this city on Au- gust 1, and wa$ induced by local de- tectives to return some bomds and stocks that he had succeedéd in get- ting from one of his victims. The Wwoman from whom he got the se- curitles, however, did not' press the charge after the certificates had been returned to her! Since then Miss Eva N. Campbell, the daughter of the late Archibald Camp- bell, millionaire mill owner of May nunk, has informed the City Hall .de- tectives . that Lockhart made love to her, asked her to marry him and in- veigled her into giving him about $1000 which he fold hér he needed for a profits. Within the past few days N. W. Pul- sifer of 8022 Susquehanna avenue has asked for Lockhart's record, as Lock- hart was about to marry his daughter. This inquiry has led to the knowledsge that Lockhart is a married man, living Wwith his wife in Atlantic City. Pulsifer told the Atlantic City police that the young man had for some time been making violent love to his daughter WILL WORK MINE Emma, and that hé Nad recelved con- siderable money from the family un- der most plausible propositions. The police say that Miss Campbell and Miss Pulsifer are not the only ones victimized by Lockhart. WAISTCOATS OF LEATHER TO BE THE CORRECT THING Shoes ‘Studded With Semi-Preclous Stones Also Decreed for the Coming Winter. CHICAGO, Aug. 19.—Leather waist- coats for evening wear are to be the rage during the coming winter agcord- ing to the prophets at the National Shoe and Leather Fair, which opened yesterday. Not the familiar “working vests” of the laboring fhan; but a dainty creation resembling silk, which comes in all colors and patterns and is war- ranted to outwear one dozen of the ordinary variety. The waistcoats are suitable for wear with evening clothing and despite thelr texture will not come under the clas- sification of “kid clothes,” for “Cholly"” will be obliged to part with consider- able of the flithy lucre before he can become the possessor of one of the novalties. “Garnet shoes” are another offering of the leather men that gomes high. The shoes are studded with semi- precious stones and are valued at $30 a pair. PSRl UD L A Canneries Need More Help. SANTA ROSA, Aug. 18.—The fruit crop is now well open and the harvest { HUSBAND ACEUSES "MEDIUM W Says She Used Her Arts to Induce Him to Buy Indiana Real Estate DESIRES DIVORCE SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. 19.—John B. Amos has filed suit in the Supervior Court for divorce from his wife, Jose- phine Rapp Amos, alleged by him to be a spiritualistic medium, charging that she fraudulently caused him to in- vest $17,500 in Indianapolis real estate by telling him that his former wife desired him to make the investment and have the purchase recorded joint- ly In his own name and the name of the second wife. Amos says that his “medium” wife held conversations th his former wife and told him many things sup- posed to have been said by her. Amos avers that he believed the stories and made the investment. The pecords were so made that the property was to reyert to. Josephine Rapp Amos on her husband's death. When these little preliminaries had been settled Amos alleges his wife im- mediately began to abuse him. He says she tried to kill him with a knife and woundéd him on the wrist and that” she so0 wrecked his nerves that he was compelled to spend large sums for medical treatment. Furthermore, he avers, she went on the road as a spiritualist “medium” and gave exhibi- tions, although she had promised at the time of their marriage that she would not again perform In public. WITH CHICKERS SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Aug. 19.—There will be a great increase in the value of the chickens in the Black Hills within a few weeks. John Mengel, manager of a mining company’s store at Hanna, and J. B. Rhinehardt of Omaha are quietly getting options on all in sight. They intend to use them in gold mining. Mengel some time ago bought a large lot of chickens for sale in his store. When he killed and dressed them he was surprised to find, instead of the usual pebbles, a handful of small gold nuggets In each crop. Mengel conflded his secret to ais friend Rhinehardt, who is a paint drummer from Omaha. Together the two men bonded some land, and are now making preparations to buy large flocks of healthy chickens and turn them loose upon the gravelly soil. These noyel miners will do away with the necessity for costly placer mining machinery. — Weds San Mateo Belle. SAN MATEO, Aug. 19.—Charles L. Kouns of Lower Lake ahd Miss Ella is all that was expected in most cases.4 Leslie, a popular San Mateo girl, were ‘The eanneries and dri full capacity, but are capped for help, Hops will be r for plcking be: the “way, and there will be a larger demand than at present for help. T8 are running riously handi- F. H HILBERT Manager. married Thuréday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Morris, with whom the bride has been staying. The e ready re the fruit is out of | ceremony was witnessed by a few close friends. Rev. Samuel Quickmire offi- clated. J. A. DENEEN President JUSTICE DEMANDED FOR NESROES, %Impassioned Appeal Is | Made by Members of | Niagaria Movement REQUEST HEARING HARPERS FERRY, W. Va. Aug. 19 The second annual meeting of the Nia- zaria movement came to a close today with religious eyercises and & sermon by Rev. G. Frazier Miller. At the con- clusion of the sermon an address to the country was read. It says, in part: | Addresses to the country—The men of the Niagaria movement, coming to the toil of years of hard work and paus- ing a moment from the earning of their dally bread, turn toward the nation and again ask in the name of 10,000,000 the privilege of a hearing. In the past vear the work of the negro has flau ished in the land. Stripped of subte fuge and in its naked nastine the new American creed says: “Fea black men even try to rise, become the equals of the white. in detail our demands are clear and uneauwivocal. First, we would vote; with the right to vete goes everything | —freedom, manhood, the honor of your wives, the chastity of your daughters and the right to work and the chance to rise—and let no man listen to the liars who deny this. We want full | manhood suffrage, and we want it now, henceforth end forever. Second, we want discrimination In public accommodations to cease. Sep- aration in railway and street cars based simply on race and color is un- | American, undemocratic and silly. Wa Protest against all such discrimina- | tion. Third, we claim the right of free men to walk, talk and be with those that wish to be with us. No man has a right to choose another man’s friends, and to attempt to do so is amn impu- | dent -interference with the most fun- damental human privilege. Fourth, we want the laws enforced |against the rich as well as the poor, against capitalist as 411 as laborer, against white as well as against black. |We are not more lawless than the white race, but we are more often ar- rested, convicted and mobbed. We want funl e_even for criminals and out- aws. We want the constitution of the country enforced. We want Congress to take charge of Congressional elec- tions. We want the fourteenth amend- | ment carried out to the letter and every | State disfranchised in Congress which |attempts_to disfranchise its rightful | voters. We want the fifteenth amend- ment indorsed and no State allowed to base its franchise simply on celor. The address closed with an appeal to the young men and women of the na- tion and the question: “Cannet the na- tion that has absorbed 10,000,000 for- elgners into its political life without | catastrophe absorb 10,000,000 Ameriean - | negroes in that same political life at less cost than their unjust and illegal exclusion will involve?” e ATTEMPTS TO LIGHT HIS CIGARETTE ON ARC LAMP by an Virginia Youth Struck Dead | Electric Current of Two Thousand Volts. . LYNCHBURG, Va., Aug. 19.—Robert | Williams, a youth, was instantly killed |last night while trying to obtain a {light for his cigarette from an are | lamp. His companion, George Hackett, | was badly burned in an attempt to res- | cue him. | Willlams placed a piece of paper In the end of an iron pipe and raised it to the light, while Hackett, seeing the | danger, was trying to take the pipe away from him. The iron came into | contact with the electric wiring and both boys were knocked teo the ground. Williams received the full force of 2200 volts. ADOLPH FEIST Secretary and Treasurer THE MONADNOCK BRICK-COMPANY OF SAN FRANCISCO ital Stock of $1,000,000 for the purpose of manufacturing a FIRE AND which is recognized by authorities in the building and construction line as Has been incorporated with a C EARTHQUAKE PROOF BRIC the only FIRE AND EARTHQUAKE PROOF BRICK IN EXISTENCE Machinery with a capacity of a daily output .of 100,000 BRICK 1 s now in transit and will be in operation within thirty days after-arrival. The Company owns the patents for this brick and also controls the machinery (which is patented) for the State of California. The undersigned are so wel $100,000, and of i 1 1 satisfied with this enterprise, in which they invested to the extent of its prospective profits that they have concluded to operate in conjunction with their brick manufacturing plant a complete Lime Kiln and Artificial Stone Works for the purchase of which additional capital being required the ollowing EXTRAORDINARY OFFER is made to investors: We offer for sale $200,000 stock of the Monadnock Brick Company at 50 per cent of its r value for the purpose of acquiring the aforementioned properties by reason of which a saving can be effected in the manufacturing of our fire and earthquake proof brick warranting the prediction of an earning capacity on this investment equivalgnt to at least 20 per cent per annum. . We agree to deposit for a period of five years the entire issue of the stock of the corporation with the CITY AND C 1131 Van Ness avenue, as a guarantee to investors that the in dividends on the par value of their stock, bemF of their investment before any other stock shal capacity. UNTY BANK 1 shall receive at least 10 per cent per annam the equivalent of 20 per cent per annum on the full amount be entitled to prorate with the above stock on its earning We present this EXTRAORDINARY OFF ER and for its better understanding we deem it also expedient to state to prospective investors the nature of the present assets and the advantages sustaining this offer, which will assure the success of our undertaking. 1. Our brick is known as calcium lilic:,‘ or sand-lime brick, and, while brick of this kind - is on the market, our company controls exclusjvely the machinery which produces not alone the only uniformly perfect brick ever manufactured but also the only * RE-ENFORCED BRICK Everinvented and unknown heretofore. These bricks, when laid, form the strongest and most absolute earthquake-proof building material which human skill can the wall and with each other by steel clamps, and are, therefore, mands. 2. the works will be located. 4 The cost of the machinery re; of which full provision has been made. 3. In addition to this, Most favorable contracts have been closed for a s 1 produce, being fastened into singularly adapted to local de- presents an investment of over $130,000, for the payment we hold a favorable lease for a block of land in this city, on which transportation covering a period of ten years. . 5. We have sufficient confidence in our ente: ment) to allow preferred dividends to go to the n able returns, for we are certain that the total capitalization centage in dividends. THE CITY AND COU, 1131 Van Ness avenue, will receive applications for this chase price and will deliver the stock when fully paid up. This offer to remain open until Saturday noon, disposed of before. J. A. DENEEN, Deneen Building Co. Corner Van Ness avenue and Geary street. September For Further Particulars Call on F. H. HILBERT, Deneen Comner Van Ness avenue ADOLPH FEIST, Hotel Majestic, upply of raw material and cost of rprise (as established by our own invest- ew investors as a guarantee to them for profit- winfnnyeamthcabonmmndper- TY BANK ock on receipt of 10 per cent on the pur- 1st, providing the stock is not lnd%rylu& Sutter and Gough streets.