Newspaper Page Text
Seen in the 'light of Indian summer It will bo a memorable sight. The excursion Septem ber 17, via Southern Pacific, goes in by Inspira tion Point and comes out by Glacier Point. The rate. $48 CO, covers all necessary expenses for flve-day trip, both ways, including railroad, Pullman and stage tickets, hotels, drive In val ley, saddle homes and guides and all day at MarlDosa Bisr Tree*. . . - - , . • ¦ ¦¦ The Great Valley. SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 10.— Robbers broke into the bank of Downs, last night and blew the doors off the safe, which is said to have y contained about $5000. The explosion was so great that the heavy safe fell forward, the front downward on the floor. The robbers were unable to raise it to get at its contents and left without their booty. Safe Too Heavy for Robbers. HASHED ROBBERS MAKE RICH HAUL IN TACOMA Five Desperadoes Hold Up a Saloon Crowd and Carry Away $1600. : TACOMA. Wash.. Sept. 10.— Five mask ed men entered the barroom of the Hotel Oheit at South Twenty-first street and Pacific avenue shortly after 12 o'clock last night, held up five men, including the bartender and proprietor, robbed the till behind the bar and forced the proprietor to open the safe in the office adjoining the barroom. • The robbers secured $1600 in cash, a considerable amount of jewelry and sev eral gold , nuggets. After dividing their plunder the men walked out. t Horse Kills an Aged Man. VACAVILLE, Sept. lO.-Thomas Atkln. 6on, an old and prominent resident, was thrown from a bucking horse yesterday and had his collar bone broken. He suf fered greatly for an hour before his death. lie was 75 years of age CHARLOTTE. JC. C. Sept. 10.— VTilfrcd Koseborouph i.nvo, was executed at Statee vllle, N. C. ro-day. fcr having killed Mrs. Adoiph Beavers come werks a?o. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 10.— The fol lowing statement has been authorized by the officers of the steamer Excelsior, re ported ashore in.Wrangel Narrows: "To save his ship from destruction by fire Captain F. S. Moore of the steam ship Excelsior beached her last Sunday on Midway Island near the south end of Wrangel Narrows. During the ; voyage north to Valdes it was discovered that the coal cargo in the bunkers was on fire. Captain Moore headed the vessel for the sandy beach, the sea cocks were opened and the lire was extinguished. ' The pas sengers on the Excelsior, about fifty In number, were taken to Juneau on the steamship Dolphin and thence to Valdes on the Bertha. The Excelsior was slight ly damaged." Alaskan Steamship Only Slightly Damaged and Passengers Are Sent to Valdes. Williams was not at home to-day, be ing out on his run on the "peanut" freight, between Oakland and San Jose. Conductor Robert Buchanan was in charge of the Alameda train. Mrs. Wil liams was a native of Ireland. BEACHING OF EXCELSIOR NECESSITATED BY FIRE This morning when Mrs. Williams arose she complained of illness, but went about her domestic labors as usual and arous ed no suspicion among the family that all was not right. But a despondent fit of melancholy. seized the mother and that is ascribed as the cause for her deed. As soon as the train could be stopped the crew removed the crushed remains, and the Coroner, who was notified, took charge of the body. Less than an hour before she ended her life, Mrs. Williams had parted from her two children, boys, whom she accom panied to the Tompklns School from their home, 1659 Fifth street. She kissed the children and left them, only to go to the death that apparently was delib erately planned, for Mrs. Willlams'went to the railroad tracks only a few blocks from the school and there waited for the train. OAKLAND, Sept. 10— With her mind awry from melancholia, Mrs. Kate Williams, 28 years of age, wife of Joseph H. Williams., a Southern Pacific brakeman, com mitted suicide this morning by throwing herself in front of the 9:45 o'clock Ala rneda local train at First and Peralta streets. Engineer Horace Hammond saw Mrs. Williams at the side of the track on which his train was whizzing through the railroad yards, but he had not the slightest opportunity to check the speed before the deranged woman jumped in front of the locomotive, just as it reached the spot where she had been standing. The body was mangled and torn. The woman's head was scalped and her in juries were such that death was instan taneous. The young man had worked for Tlll mann & Ber.dle in San Frandsro for the past six years and was one of the most trusted and valued employes. ANTIOCH, Sept W.-Carl Poppe. 23 years of age. was drowned in the river near Sherman Island yesterday afternoon. He came from San Francisco to pay his parents, who farm land on Sherman Isl and, a visit and in the afternoon started in a rowboat to have a swim. He was alone and when he did not return his rela tives were alarmed. Upon making a search they found the boat tied .to the bank and In it were his clothes.' They used grappling irons and found the body close by. It is surmised that he struck his head on one of the numerous stumps In the river. What supports this theory is the fact that the face was badly bruised. Young San Franciscan Drowned While Spending a Holiday at Sherman Island. The body was identified at the Morgue in the afternoon by Miss Waldorf's father. J. D. Waldorf, of 312 Van Ness avenue. He stated that for the last six months she had been a victim of nervous prostra tion and melancholia and that she had been sent to the country to recuperate. She returned a few weeks ago but little improved in health, and two weeks ago she went to take care of two children for a friend on De Long avenue, not far from where she was found by the milkman. While there she complained that she was unable to sleep and there is no doubt that the loss of sleep produced insanity. Miss Waldorf was a native of Virginia City, Nev. SWIMS IN A RIVER AND LOSES HIS LIFE At 5 o'clock yesterday morning the driver of a milk wagon reported to the park police station that he had passed a woman acting strangely on Cole street, between Page and Oak. Policeman P. J. Bourdett went to the place indicated and found Miss Waldorf, almost unconscious, leaning against a building. At her feet lay a battle containing a small quantity of carbolic acid. He called to his assist ance a paper carrier named A. J. •Lyle and they took her in his cart to the Park Emergency Hospital, where the young woman died about half an hour later, never having recovered consciousness. She was fully dressed, with the excep tion of her hat. carbolic acid. She had been suf fering from melancholia and nervous prostration for some time. ADELINE WALDORF, a grad uated kindergarten teacher, 28 years old. committed suicide yes terday morning by swallowing Mrs. Kate Williams Hurls Herself in Front of Train. Miss Adeline Waldorf by Carbolic Acid Finds Surcease. THREE YOUNG WOMEN WHO, BECOMING DESPONDENT BECAUSE OF CONTINUED ILL HEALTH, ENDED THEIR LIVES YESTERDAY, ONE IN OAKLAND AND TWO IN THIS CITY. There are nearly 650,000 women dress makers in the United Kingdom. BELGRADE. Servla, Sept. 10. — A mob made a great demonstration last night against the newspapers which have defended the army officers recently arrested. The crowd attempt ed to rroce<?d to the Turkish legation, but wag dispersed by the police. Many persons ¦were slightly Injured. I'KIAH, Sept. 10.— The Lucas & Paxton warehouse and contents in this city -were destroyed by fire this forenoon. The fire caught from a cigarette which had been carelessly thrown In the driveway be side the building. The losses are as fol lows: Dr. George McCoweh, owner of building. $2340; Lucas & Paxton. lessees, $3000; Wainbcldt. Mendenhall and the Up per Lake Canning Company, 1000 cases of canned beans: goods stored belonging to persons. $1000; Ben Melton, ten tons oats; Luois & Paxton, twenty tons of hay, ten tons of salt, and 200 wool Eacks. Orr & Evans, -whose planing mill and lumber : -rd adjoins the warehouse, lost about 40,000 feet of lumber valued at $1303. Part of the depot platform and one freight car were burned. The total losses are $15,000, and so far as learned there was no insurance.' Fifteen Thousand Dollars the Loss by a Fierce Blaze at Ukiah. FLAMES MAKE A BUIN OF WAREHOUSE CONTENTS The property at the junction of Market and Battery streets was recently sold by the sisters and they were also joint own ers of the property at the corner of Ftockton and gutter streets. A scaled envelope lay on the table. It was addressed to Dr. McNutt. It con tained her will, the purport of which Dr. McNutt refused to divulge, but it was rr-ported that the decedent made a sister, Mrs. Grace Strohne of Chicago, her heir. Miss Clark made the request in the note that hn tody should be cremated. Two years ago Bhe made an Ineffectual attempt to take her own life by the use of gas. That was shortly prior to her reing admitted to the McNutt Hospital. She was finely educated and accomplish ed and 22 years of age. Miss Clark was a graduate of Stan ford University and an expert horse woman. One of her sisters is Mrs. Jerome A. Hart, whose husband is man ager of the Argonaut. The discover}- was made at half past 7 o'clock yesterday morning by her maid. Miss Margaret Whitelaw. who smelled pas proceeding from Miss Clark's room. She immediately eumraoned the head nurse, who forced an entrance and found the dead body of Miss Clark lying on a lounge. Near by stood a small gas heat ing stove on a footstool. The valve sup p:ying the burner with gas was fully open. Hospital last Wednesday night by inhaling illuminating gas She had been a sufferer from a nervous affection for the last e5x years and two years ago she became an inmate of the hospital. The young woman was not bedridden, but it v.as deemed advisable that she should reside where medical attendance was r.ear at hand. MISS ISABELLA D. CLARK, a member of the wealthy family of that narr-e in San Jose, com mitted suicide in the McNuit Miss Isabella Clark Ends Life in Hospital by Means of Gas. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE. Sept. 10.— Murder, suicide and arson formed the culmination of a Japanese love affair In this city this forenoon. The murder may be double, for one of the victims of the Impetuous lover is at the point of death. The Japanese boarding-house of S. Tahnchl and wife, at 49 Cleveland avenue, was the scene of the crime. Mrs. T. Tahnchl, on whom the murderous lover tried to force his at tention, and J. Kudow, the murderer and suicide, occupy slabs In the morgue. Tahnchi, the woman's Husband, ,1a in the Red Cross Sanitarium, where the doctors are trying to save his life. The crime was committed shortly be fore 10 o'clock. Tahnchl and bis wife had conducted a Japanese boarding-house in the Sixth-street Chinatown for years. They were quiet, respectable people, and had accumulated considerable money. A trip to their former home in Japan was to be made shortly and they had pre pared for the Journey by purchasing large quantities of the finest clothing. Kudow is believed to have been a Jap anese laborer, although but little 19 known of him. He had made frequent trips to this city and came here again last night. He was smitten with Mrs. Tahnchi and proposed to her that she leave her husband and elope with him. The woman refused and then it was that the man planned the double murder and suicide. Kudow called at the house this morn ing. Just what occurred is not known, but from the position of the bodies It Is believed -he called Mrs. Tahnchl out into th# hall. She was shot twice and her body was found in the hall. The husband of the woman at the • beginning of the shooting had evidently ran into the back yard to get help. Kudow followed him and shot him in the center of the back Just as he reached the yard. He was found unconscious there. The murderer then entered one of the bedrooms. He set fire to the bed, intendins that arson A committee consisting of Dra. E. I>. McCreary, W. C. Gray and Rev. J. W. Ross was selected by a vote of the con ference to nominate a select number of fifteen members of the conference, who shall constitute a court to try the case. Dr. A. C. Bane and Dr. J. N. Beard were elected counsel to represent the church in the trial. The names of Dr. Ham mond's counsel have not yet been an nounced. The conference will meet at 8 o'clock to-morrow morning in executive session to elect the members of the trial com mittee, against any one of which Dr. Hammond has the right of challenge. It is planned to have the trial go on at once and complete It before the confer ence adjourns. The sittings of the trial committee will be held behind closed doors, as is the custom in such cases. The lay electoral conference will meet to morrow morning to elect delegates to the general conference, which meets in Los Angeles next May. The auestion whether the conference should entertain the charges and the method of procedure if they were en tertained occupied the greater part of the afternoon. It was recognized that due notice of the charges had not been given, but after a full consideration and with the consent of Dr. Hammond sufficiency of notice was waived. It was decided to entertain the charges and they were or dered to trial. PACIFIC GROVE, Sept. 10.— The Cali fornia Methodist. Episcopal Conference met in executive session this afternoon to consider the charges of improper con duct preferred against Dr. J. D. Ham mond. The exact nature of these charges, which it is understood were signed . by Drs. E. P. Dennett. E. R. DiHe, J. N. Beard and A. H. Briggs, has not yet been made public, but it is known that they relate, mainly to business transactions in connection with the administration of the San Francisco branch of the Meth odist Book Concern. SAN RAFAEL, Sept. 10.— As the result of the , burning of a portion of trestle No. 20 on the North Shore Railroad all rail communication with points north of San Ansclmo Junction was cut off for many hours to-day. Had it not been for the watchfulness of Engineer Canady last night the com pany would have to record another dis astrous wreck. Canady, in making his up-country run with ten cars "dead heading" to Cazadero, noticed the bridge on fire and stopped the train just in time to keep it from plunging into a ravine fifty feet below. The fire was discovered about 9:30 o'clock. The regular down-country ex press train - from Cazadero and a picnic train with 1500 excursionists from Camp Taylor had passed over the bridge but a short time before the blaze became no ticeable. Canady's train was ascending White Hill grade and had near'.y reached the summit. That portion of the road is very circuitous and on account of the heavy incline the locomotive was run ning slowly. Five trestles have to be gone over and on approaching the last one Canady noticed a light below the track. On reaching the bridge he could see it was on fire. He immediately back ed, notified Conductor de Sella and the train crew went to the scene. One of the crew crossed the bridge, walked through the tunnel and on to- White Hill telegraph station, a distance of a mile, where Oper ator Walter Sharp was awakened and the railroad* officials in Sausallto were noti fied. Superintendent Fisher at once or dered out a wrecking train. The fire was extinguished after about fifty feet of the trestle had been consumed. The cause of the fire is not known, but seme ascribe it to incendiarism. Special Dispatch to The Call. A letter was found on the body of the murderer showing that the crime was the result of a love affair. If stated that the writer was enamored of the woman and had made a proj>ositlon to her to run away with him. His lovo waa stronger than life and if he could not have the woman he intended to kill her and her husband and then commit suicide. The sum of $430 was found in the house belonging to Tahnchl ana his wife, and they are said to have had considerable money in bank. should hide his crime, and then com mitted suicide by shooting himself In the stomach. SACRAiTENTO. Sept. 10.— President E. H. Zimmerman of Watsonvllle rapped to order at the pavilion this afternoon the fourth annual convention of tha Califor nia Creamery Operators* Association. A large number of creamery operator!, farmers and dairymen were In attend ance, and an Interesting discussion wu had on subjects Indicated by the name of tha organization. The cessions will con tinue to-morrow, wbten various papers will be read and discussed. In his address to-day President Zim merman said the executive meeting bad deemed It unwise to attempt another se ries of butter contests, and had decided to reserve energy for the season of 1904. when it was hoped to secure the national convention for California. He urged the widening of the scope of the work of the association so as to get all parts of the State Interested In it. This will enable the association to gain recognition from the Legislature, said President Zimmerman. He said the dairy industry in this State never looked more prosperous than at present. He said the association must keep its eyes open for process butter and he hoped for the time when there would be manufactured in this State nothing but creamery butter of the highest grade. Special Dispatch to The Call. Court to Consist of Fifteen Clergymen at the Con ference.'. Emp'y Train Is Stopped Be fore Reaching Point of Danger. Association Will Strive to Widen the Scope of Its Work. Slayer of a Woman Tries to Burn a House to Hide His Crime. California Creamery Op erators Meet at Sac ramento. Line Is Narrowly Averted. 1 Disaster on North Shore Trial of Dr. Hammond Will Proceed at Pa cific Grove. A Murderous Japanese Succeeds in Murder and Suicide. MINISTERS AGREE TO HEAR CHARGES DAIRY INDUSTRY IS PROSPEROUS TRAGEDY ENDS A LOVE AFFAIR ENGINEER SEES TRESTLE ABLAZE ¦ - . THE J?AN FBAKCISCO CALL, FRIDAY; SEPTEMBER 11, 1903. THREE DESPONDENT WOMEN VOLUNTARILY LEAVE WORLD 3 . As stated last Thursday, we have just received from our workshops a large shipment of V^I&W^iF long overcoats, which we called the "Tourist." ' \^^$g0 The garments are like the accompanying picture, which is sketched from life, and it \*^^^^^v shows just how the coat hangs and fits. I* ~5^&§3p^. The coats have a removable back strap, are made in loose effect, from an all-wool cheviot, j&%$P$^$&^>^ in different patterns, and the garment is fully 50 inches in length. M^^'^^^^^^^ ' We pronounce-k among- the best values we ever offered in overcoats. Considering the jS^^^^^^^^^^ style, material, workmanship and other points of superiority we doubt if there is another /^^t^^''~'i^/v^sk »a coat in town at $15.00 that is one whit better. jfiS^S^'i'^ly't^S^ Hi Our stock of trousers in fall patterns has been received and we were never before in a posi- . '^i%>^M^>V^^^^^ffi® j&§ tion to show you such a vast assortment as now. The stock includes every material and 'i^^v^^M^S^^^i^^^^^P pattern suitable for trousers, and the prices range from $2.25 up to $8.00. '/'£•&%& *^.*^^^^^^^^^ ' If you want a low priced suit you had better see the kind we sell for $9.00. They are all «gSg wool, well made garments and we have seen suits like them sell in other stores for $12.50. M^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ E^^M lip I Special in Youths' Suits for $5.45 'ritiP^Mv m^lf^i^ c °^ ev a special sale of youths' suits in all-wool blue cheviots, in double- i iiih^M liilllirl breasted style, for young men from 12 to 19 years; the picture shows the style of ¦ l . '''\ jliiiH^jr liilila^ 1 garment; the special price will be $5.45. - ? }-, i|f$j[^ I lii^ls-l Latest shapes in boys' soft hats. $1.30. Vj''V r : P^^^f ) W&M$ Boys' automobile caps from 45c up. f i\ \'t- '.* -'ffiffiPli \ Biff line of dollar Sweaters for boys just received, comprising fancy weaves in H •- iHvlliP^li the following colors: Horizontal stripes — maroon and white; black and purple; '''I ¦; tlillii'^ gray and red ; royal and green. Perpendicular stripes — red and green; green \" J ] '*| 7 :!iPfy$ an( l P m^5 navy and white; gray and red. Price $1.00. *V. s \fi 111:?!! 1111 !§'•'! School Buttons free to boys and girls for the asking. ADVERTISEMENTS. BREWSIWS* MILLIONS FOR SALE In Book Form ALL BOOK STORES vj BUY IT TO-DAY Yourgrocer is willing enough to sell good goods — Schilling's Best proves that — the difficulty is to get them. Moneyback.