The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 27, 1906, Page 1

M son, under the title, It will be published in arten Maartens has written a strong short story, appropriate to the holiday sea- The Virgin’s Shoe.” The Sunday Call the result of it. T Do you know about “the sillies”? It is of great concentration. . Men in hard ring battles furnish curious examples Read the article in 1906.° PRICE FIVE CENTS. Rocked to Ruins - \ %LP ~\R»\ISO Chlle Dec. 26.—A great earthquake has just visited the Pacific Coast, extending over the entire province of Tacna. severely. zone, the August disaster being fresh in the minds of the people. seacoast, had about 3000 populatlon on the N GALIFORNIA DILLANDS - | Balfour-Guthrie Sale to London Company Two Million OMBINATION POLICY DOMINANT IN STATE for Dollars West Properties in Same Held of Sale Side by Agency Ofl lands in the Coalinga ficlds val- 00,000 are in process of trans- at r to a London company orgasized for the known (Lim purpose, an Fields final as ed) papers under which a ol The Com- pany will assume con- of be signed by the London ¢ the flelds will mpany entire eastern side the ncy has | wese options for ‘one year se of sale important purchase by the | company the principle of com- | n ; established 1n | The Standard are domi- and control of rict, | SECRECY MAINTAINED | has been ntained y proceedings in the which have been in The agent rep- in the Guthrie man- f vear. nting the London con s tion has been B William Hinkl e selling companies Shirley Ward secured t the transaction lagged exp d before pa- pany fo has while for . however, will he co n of the as extensions hav secured, a the papers will be signed be- . se of the year. At the ° L ur, Gu ie & Co. there tance to give out the de- ransaction, and Mr. Lew! \ager of the department through s were passed, refused statement yesterday. learned, however, from other sources that the properties wl e ownership of the clude the following list: pap: y Pittsburg Coalinga, W. More- d « a, McGeary, Starr, Mission, Arline, Avon and ; the holdings of S. 1 of sec 34, 14 and half of township 19 south, range Heath. a are many wells in opera- | value of the the lands of O. the estimated d by expert oil men to be ward of $1000 an acre, and in some rts of the territory included in the s ey are worth a much higher AGENT WENT TO LONDON representative of Balfour, e & C the wernt to London to lay purchasing the « of the proposition FBA company The deal was arranged at that but details have delayed its consumma- time, Negotiate|x | in contest for INDEX OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL’S NEWS TODAY WEATHER CONDITIONS TERDAY—Rain; precipitation, perature, 58; minimum .87; maxi- temper- ECAST FOR TODAY—Cloudy, with oeca- owers; moderate south wind. Page 11 es D. Phelan gives the world an inside racter of Secretary Hitcheock.P.8 that affects the revenue systems the Union on in Chicago. Page § portant measures besides the river that may get through this ses- i Page 8 SCANDAL iovestigators amass evidence showing e aided thieves to loot ruins of burned s clty. Page 2 e Dunne sees through Mayor Schimts's bor b of Con GRAFT s in denying the motion. defeat in debate over Japanese question, Italian refugee shoots three fons and escapes. Page 1 Gutbrie & Co. negotiate a sale of fields, valued at $2,000,000, to a mpany Page 1 sioner of Works Dufle_\' opens caml‘l(lfl e street rallway ‘‘death curves,” w! ined 1in violation of ecity | " Page 1 s surprised at divorce proceedings Stetson Winslow, who alleges n the part of ber busband, Chauncey P venue asked for murderer Jobn Stemsen. Page 16 Police Captain Gleeson must explain to Com- missioners how a “‘trusty’ left O'Farrell-street station to destroy burglar's evidence. Page 2 Expressman Nelgon rifles mafl pouches for | Cbristinas presects for his wife and two ba- bies. Page 16 Disbarment proceedings are to be Brought against Attorney Marchus, accused of divorce frand. Page 9 Drunken father stabs son and daughter after throwing Christmas dinner into the street. P, 16 Lid will be off saloons in San Francisco until City Attorney Burke delivers opinion. Selsmograph records apparently telling of great earthquakes found to bave been caused by tiny mouse. Page 5 State nator Richard J. Welch will ask Legisla to investigate voting machines. P. 10 Fifteen-year-6ld Frankie Gates of Oregon dis- bere while en route to nurse ber father ons Page 16 Approaching marriage of Jimmy Britt and Miss Neva Aymar interests brother Willis, Cof- Page 2 froth and Spider Kelly. s BURBAN W.'B. Bridge answers 0. W. Heyer's charges office of County Supervisor. Page 4 Senator Perkins and Representative Knowland inform Oakland Chamber of Commerce concern- ing Burton's objections ments. Page 4 Postal mail box thieves transfer operations to city of Alameda. Page 4 Mayor F: E. Mott of Oakland invited to become president of new People’s Water Com- | pany, which will absorb the Oontra Costa Water Company and the Syndicate Water Company on January 2. Page 4 Prominent soclety persons of Oskland injured in runaway accident. Page ¢ COAST Eight hundred teachers from all parts of the te attend annual convention tn Fresno. P. 3 Neither the striking miners mor the mine- owners of Goldfield have made overtures for settlems Page 3 Two persons killed and nineteen injured in train collision near Tacoma. Page 2 DOMESTIC sustains demurrers made by Andrew Jompany. Son of Pittsburg candy king is forgiven by Jury is likely to result in mistrial owing to of the case. Page 5§ tes Commissioner of Labor Sargent Japanese from Hawall to America number on islands, despite arrival of new ones there. Page & Blackmatler who demanded $25,000 on threat to dynamite sugar factory in Montana falls to show up to get the money and escapes trap Sherifft had laid Page 15 District Attorney Jerome will take up charges of coercion against President Peabody of Mutual Life. Page 2 Despite strike of firemen fn Texas distriet, the Southern Pacific Company experlences little aifficulty in .moving trafns. Page 2 FOREIGN Earthquake in province of Tacna, Northern wrecks several towns. Page 1 Pecple of Servia express dissatisfaction with Government and may dethrone King Peter. P. 5 The Vatlcan accuses Forelgn Minister Pichon of France of making false statements regarding expulsion of Monsignér Montagninl. Page 2 | sPORTS echead, who as manager of has secured s Company 1s on the west side properties, per cent of the side of the district now as 90 < control, whose present daily pro- He has spent and a half in collecting the op- s 6000 barrels < on this group which he now holds but no information could be £ to the probable purchaser. jce of oil has advanced steadily and the prospect for the Cali- fields is brightened by the large‘ which are now being made to pan and the certainty of increased stern orders for delivery by way of | recently completed pipe line of the | n Oil Company across the isthmus red of late | | ama. These facts have tended | to strengthen the oil situation, thch‘ s jllustrated by this sale in the| Coalinga fields. Jack Welch reaches Tonopah to referee the Gans-Herman championship fight. Page 6 Fight trust is trying to get a special permit to bold the Thompson-Fitzgerald fight in Junu- ary. Page 6 Prominent Elks of San Jose and Stockton to play ball for benefit of charity. Page 6 Favorites bold their own in a mudders’ day at the Ascot track Page 6 Automobile dealers purpose holding a show dffring Febroary or March, Page 7 Banposal, a 40 to 1 shot, wins interesting race at Emeryville. age 7 Good coursing promised at Ingleside during three days’ programme. Page 6 LABOR Labor Counefl will consider move to levy boy- | cott against a photo-engraving firm. Page 8 MARINE Captain W. B. Seabury, commodore of Pacific Mail service, dies from injuries received a few | days ago. Page 11 Fire threatens destruction of Howard-street whart during early bours of morning. Page 11 ll‘ll\G mining stocks their tone in the lml ket and prices advance with heavy sales Page 15 demand for immediate trial and so in- | Page 2 | 1 Page 16 | to harbor improve- | on to complaint of New York Life Insur- | Page § | B ENRAGED ITALIAN Beaten in Debate on Japan- ese Question Joseph Con- § verso Resorts to Pistol REFUGEE COTTAGE SCENE OF TRAGEDY Riot Call Summons Police, but Efforts to Locate the Assailant Are TFruitless Enraged at defeat in a forensic bat- | tle over the Japanese school question, Joseph Converso, an Italian, jumped to his feet in a little refugee cottage in Logan square last evening and scat- | terea bullets broadcast among his three | opponents, threw his emptied revolver j on the table in front of him and fied into ‘the night. Behind him he left G. C. “Cordonl groaning from a wound in the | left hand, Joseph Mariano shou* | from the pain of a bullet in the 1..nt arm and Antonio di Giora gasping in the back and a third in mmlah der. Every bullet fired by the murdsr ous debater found its mark, and the for Di Giora’s death. tims are not in danger. The four men, all refugees, living in the square on Telegraph Hill, were | spending the evening in the cottage oc- cupied by Mariano and Converso and, according to the statements made to the police, were arguing the Japanese school question. FIRES FIVE SHOTS ‘Words led to the passing of epithets, and Converso, who had been worsted in the debate by his more logical coun- trymen, drew a pistol without a word of warning and fired five shots at them. | A riot call was turned in at the Cen- tral police station and a patrol wagon with two policemen was rushed to the scene of the shooting. The injured men were loaded into the wagon and started for the hospital. When going down the steep hill on Union street, between Montgomery and Kearny, a part of the harness gave way and the team ran away for several blocks. Not until the horses were turned headforemost into a wall could they be controlled. ONE FATALLY WOUNDED The wounded men were treated at | the Central Emergency Hospital. The surgeon: gave it as his opinion that Di Giora probably would die. A squad of police was detailed to | search the locality of the shooting in an effort to apprehend Converso, but at | a late hour he was still at large. De- | tectives Harry Braig and Charles Tay- | lor are working on the case. TWO END LIVES AT DOOR OF GELL ELMIRA, N. Y, Dec. 26.—Although a guard was standing close behind him tonight, Frank Delaney, a railroad men, succeeded in a bold attempt to end his life and the life of a woman who occu- pied a cell in the women's dormitory of the Elmira County Jail. The woman was Bessie Wills, awaiting sentence on January 3 for abducting a young girl and harboring her for immoral pur- poses. Delaney possessed a power of attor- ney from the woman and when he called at the jail and stated that he wished to consult her regarding the signing of important papers there was no ob- Jection on the part of the warden, who sent a guard along with him. The guard stood close by while the man and woman were conferring together, when suddenly Delaney drew from his pocket a bottle of carbolic acid and passed it through the bars. The woman seized it and swallowed the contents. Instantly Delaney pressed a second bottle to his own lips. The guard sprang upon -him, but the man fought him fiercely for a moment and then collapsed. He died before a physician could be called. When the door of the . e-ll ‘was un- bolted the woman lay dyir ‘the The other vic- surgeons belleve that he must answer | the agonies of two bullet wounds in |/ NS S e S S SN ENGLAND UFFERS FROM STORMS LONDON, Dec. 26.—Christmas of 1906 will be memorable for the heaviest snowstorm the United Kingdom has experienced in many years. In the northern counties 6f England and in Scotland the snow was accompanied by great gales. There was an average fall of from four to six inches, which under heavy gales drifted badly and worked serious hindrance to locomotion ot all kinds and inconvenience to holi- day-makers. It snowed again tonight, but not so hard, excepting in the Liv- erpool district, where a fierce blizzard is raging, and the indications are that the severe weather will continue. There were many small wrecks along the coast, but no serious loss of life is reported. The crews of nearly all the wrecked vessels were rescued by lifeboats. Almost all the shipwrecked men had terrible experiences and were completely ~exhausted before being brought to land. The steamer Hazel- dene struck a rock and sank off Cloughey. Lifeboatmen succeeded in rescuing the crew after an exciting experience. Another lifeboat made a similar rescue of the crew of the schooner Ringleader, wrecked off Dun- geness. —_——— ORDER FOR STEEL RAILS BY THE HARRIMAN SYSTEM NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—An event of more than- passing interest is the re- appearance of the Bethlehem Steel Company as a seller of steel rails. The plant under copstruction will make a specialty of opu-nutra steel. The company hu just sold 22,500 tons to floor. She expired within Sl el /Ir// % 7 G DINORGE ASKED HY SOGIETY MATRON Although it has been known that Sallie Stetson Winslow has lived sep- arately from her husband for the last three years, it comes as a surprise to society folk that she yesterday filed a | complaint in divorce proceedings in the Superior Court of this city and county, the cause alleged being the formal one of desertion. Charles Rose Winslow, the defend- ant, is the head of the firm of C. R. Winslow & Co. of this city, having branches in:the North. It has been noted that he has spent much of his time of late in Portland, Ore., where he has been very attentive to an at- tractive and beautiful girl, the daugh- ter of a prominent grain merchant in that city. Winslow was first married to an actress of some note at the time by the name of Sophie Eyer. Although he denied this marriage among his club friends, it became evident when he in- stituted divorce proceedings and ob- tained a legal ' separation from her previous to ‘his marriage with Sallie Stetson, who now sues him for divorce. ‘The present Mrs. Winslow is one of the best connected women in the city, -being the daughter of John B. Stetson of the California Street Railroad, and one of the founders of the house of Holbrook, Merrill and Stetson. At the time of her marriage her father gave her the beautiful Pacific avenue house in which she has been living during the recent years of her separation from ‘Winslow. She has also a considerable fortune of her . own.: Her brocher, Harry Stetson, is a mln ~leader, and the family has always taken its place in San Fr-neim society. Mrs. Oxnard, her only sister, has nt sociall; always been Droln- Half of the city of Arica is reported to have been destroyed and other towns in the neighborhood have suffered more or less The port of Iquique, 120 miles south of Arica, however, was not damaged. Terror holds the population in the earthquake Tacna is the northern province of Chile, bordering on Peru. Arica, THREE MENSHOT/Commissioner of Works Duffey Opens His Campaign Against “Death Curves” CWISSIONER OF WORKS DUFFEY has opened his campaign to compel the United Railroads to obey the law prohibiting the maintenance of streetcar tracks within eleven feet of the curb. The United Railroads will be compelled to tear up carves it had laid, at great expense, in direct violation of the ordinance. - STBO VENUE TURNING THE QORNES OF OF HAYES AwD FIEL. s MORE UN?T;‘KAE!‘?EC_A SAR IMITY OF CAR STEPS TO Wn SHOWING DANGEROUS PROXI with the strict letter of the law curb. of which he is a member to act in sel has been secured he- will begin op- erations. ot There can be but one construction of the intent of the ordinance involved, and thdt is that tracks must be eleven feet from the curb. The ordinance provides that violators shall be sub- ject to fine or imprisonment, or both, and that violators shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for every day such violation is continued. It is only with the prohibitive provisions of the ordinance, however, that the Board of Works has to deal, it being the duty of the District Attorney to attend to the punitive provisions. The law in uuuuon is as follows: m 4 of _Ordinance No. 1060, ap- u u-nnw 28, 19031t shall be If Law Authorizes Him He Will Tear Up the Rails Commissioner of Works Duffey has taken preliminary steps in line with his determination to compel the United Railroads to comply providing that no railway track shall be maintained within less than eleven feet of the sidewalk He has sought legal advice as to the full power of the board the premises, and when this coun- unlawful for any person, firm or cor- poration to construct or maintain any railroad track or tracks on the road- way of any public street within a dis- tance of eleven feet of the curb line of the sidewalk or to construct or maim- tain or operate more than one railroad track on the roadway of .any publie street which is less than thirty “ in width. Section 5 of the ordinance fixes penalty for violation at six imprisonment or $500 fine, or both. It further provides that any person, firm. or corporation violating the ordinance shall be guilty of a separate for every day that such