Number of Sports Items in Yesterdays CALL Chronicle ...... 67 10 3 Examiner 76 Both Quantity) and Quality in The Call. VOLUME CXIL—NO. 129. POWERS AGREE ON TERMS OF NOTE TO TURKEY Austria Gives Adhesion to Form of Demand; British As= sent Assured Collective Note to Balkan States to Follow Completion of Preliminaries - Diplomats Fear That Martial Spirit May Precipitate War at Any Moment PAUIS, Oct. 6.—Austria has given adhesion to the plan formulated by the French and Russian foreign ministers to deal with the Balkan situation. Austria, how ever, suggested a slight change in the working of the proposals, which met with the immediate approval of M. Poincare and M. Sazonoff. The only effect of the amendment is to more sharply define the intentions of the powers and to present a more precise statement of them. It is understood that the proposals do not include a demand for the autonomy of Macedonia, but urge the adaptation of article 23 of the treaty of Berlin, which provides for a larger measure of home rule. , It is believed that the proposals will remove any lurking suspicions in Engiand that the continental powers were contemplating a settlement wholly at the expense of Turkey. Modifications Approved Germany and Italy have approved their ally's modifications, so that, with the full adhesion of the British government, which is confidently ex pected tomorrow, the powers will be in position to say to the Balkan coal ition that the Balkan states will no longer have to depend on the prom ises of Turkey, but on the pledged word of Europe. The reply of Count yon Berchthold, the Austrian foreign minister, which was received at Qua* d'Orsay this morning, has ..causec»-?rr3 to the French government. The alter ations to the note which Count yon Berchthold suggested include an ex plicit declaration that the reforms to I c inaugurated will affect neither the integrity of Turkey nor the sover eignty of the sultan, that they should be applicable to the Ottoman empire as a whole, and that instead of the ambassadors at Constantinople pre senting Turkey with the written de mands they content themselves with a collective verbal representation of what they conceive to be the neces sary steps Turkey should take. Guarantees to Be Demanded The French government is confident that all the preliminaries will be com pleted in time to permit Russia and Austria to present a collective note to Sofia, Belgrade, Athens and Cettinje tomorrow, or, at the latest, Tuesday. As soon as this is done Turkey will be invited to give guarantees that will render effective the promise that Europe will be responsible for the re alization of reforms. In official circles the feeling prevails that this guarantee ought to satisfy :he Balkan states if, as they profess, heir sole motive in mobilizing against Turkey was to force the reforms pro vided for in the treaty of Berlin. At :he same time it is realized that, while .he governments in the coalition may !>c willing to accept this guarantee, they are feeling more and more the uressure of militarism. With peace on the point of being signed with Italy the martial spirit of Turkey has reached a stage which it is difficult to control. If the Balkan governments can hold the fighting clement in check French officials are hopeful that the diplomats may win out against the soldiers. DAN-HELLENICS 1 READY FOR WAR (•reck Residents of San Francisco Pledge the Fatherland Aid Hellenic patriotism, blazoned forever the world's history in Thermopylae nnd Salamis, has lost none of Its fervor In the centuries that have elapsed since lliat time, if the mass meeting of the ;p theoretically annihilated, and future wars will worry along without them. For it has developed that the board of damage appraisers reasoned logY i(*Uv when it #dded two an| four in the matter of chickens. Taking into Consideration the .proximity of the chickens .ranch to the Red army on a certain tlay and the fact that the heads were left behind, the appraisers as sumed that at least one *'mess" fared high during,the War. Hav ing assumed that mucf\. there rame the'J question of who ate the broilers. I No one knew. Adjutant General E. A. Forbes was asked to investigate, and a special report was made to Wash ington. The war department, glancing Continued on Page 2, tulnmt 2 FAMOUS HERO DIES UNKNOWN AT SEA Louis Spitzer, Blockade Runner, Gentleman Adventurer, Meets Sad Ending [Special Dispatch to The Call] IflBW YORK, Oct. 6.—A seaman who died aboard the bark Fue Heng Suey, arrived here 136 days from Honolulu, has been identified as Louis Spitzer, the famous blockade runner, gentleman ad venturer, last of the American privateer skippers. Spitzer died at sea after trying bravely to hide his identity, and doing the hard work of a forecastle hand under the racking pains of a consump tive almost worn to skin and bones. Spitzer was Vie hero of the oriental waters for a decade or more. With his brother, Dick, he revived in reality the most adventurous days of the free lanc*»s of the seven seas. As pearler, blockade runner, gun runner, Louis Spitzer had nair breadth escapes which would fill many volumes. Again and again he laughed at great fleets of the world powers, at the spitting guns of heavily manned forts, the gold lace of angry admirals and even the stone walls of oriental jails. His brother shared most of his later adventures. Throughout the Russo-Japanese war the "Spitzer brothers" and their food ships worried the great Japanese ad miral Togo and the scout commanders of the Japanese fleet. When Stoessel and the garrison of Port Arthur were beleaguered by the late Generals Nogi and Nodzu. com manding the forces in the lines at Dslny, Louis and Dick Spitzer electri fied the world by running ship after ship through the network of Japanese warships and Japanese submerged mines, feeding the starved soldiers of the white tzar from the most dangerous possible inlet. In Manila word was received that fabulous sums could be earned by the man who would pierce the Japanese lines on land or water around Port Arthur. At a "secret conference with the Muscovite agents, Louis Spitzer took up the Russian bid. Several trips were successfully made. At last Dick was taken aboard his steamer, full to the scuppers with grain '< Continued en Pace 2, Column 3 New Beauty Is Proclaimed Call Prize for Sylvia- Hoffman MISS SYLVIA HOFFMAN, First winner of one of The Call's gold watches in the beauty contest. —Harteook i'hoto. MAN SHOOTS WIFE AND THEN HIMSELF Husband Objects to Woman Going to Brother's Home for Dinner [Special Dispatch to The Call] OAKLAND, Oct. 6.—Mrs. Alice Silva insisted upon going to her brother's home for dinner today, even after her husband, Alfonso, displayed a revolver and informed her that unless she re mained with him he would shoot her. Both are at the receiving hospital suf fering from wounds that may prove fatal. After shooting his wife through the left lung. Silva sent a bullet into his own breast and another into his skull. The shooting occurred shortly after noon at their home, 9910 Walnut street. Kimhurst. Silva is a dairyman. 26 years old, and his wife is 25. Miss Marian Lipds, who lives at the Silva home, was a witness to the shoot ing. When she attempted to dissuade- Silva he said: "You get out or I'll kill you, too." Miss Linds remained quiet and saw Silva shoot his wife and then himself. Then she ran from the house screaming for aid. Patrolmen Nedder man, Sherry and Thornally rushed the couple to the receiving hospital, where Doctor Irwin and Steward-Piatt gave them medical attention. According to Charles Silva, brother of the wounded man, the latter's wife repeatedly brandished razor at hei husband and threatened to cut his throat. "For the last six months," said the injured man on the operating table, "thy, wife has been cranky. She goes out frequently and visits her brother, Malcom Perry of 1800 Eighty-first ave nue. She doesn't want to stay with me. Today when she said she was go ing to her brother's home for dinner I told her that unless she remained at home and got dinner for me I would shoot her. She wouldn't listen to me, and I shot her and then myself." "My husband must have been Insane," said Mrs. Silva. Although their condition is serious. Doctor Irwin holds out hope for' the "recovery of both. ' c Winner Pecided Ir Preliminary Contest The first gold watch has been award ed in The Call's now famous beauty contest. Who won it? Why, Miss Sylvia Hoffman, and it is safe to say that while Miss Hoffman counts her friends by the score her list of admirers has doubled, nay tripled, i since yesterday morning. Look at this her latest photograph. Can you won der? The last week has been a palpitating one for any number of fair damsels whose likenesses have been entered in, The Call's beauty contest. Telephone calls, letters and pictures have been pursuing the Pretty Girl Editor, and the city was alive with curiosity. The aforesaid editor had much to do to keep the name of the first prize winner tb.J as persistent demands were' made on her to reveal the winning name. Bright and early yesterday morning San Francisco pounced on its Sunday Pali, There on the front page of the magazine section was Artist Rogers' conception of a pretty girl, but San Francisco wasn't looking for.that, Tha city was interested in ; the real girl— the girl who carried off,the first of .the weekly prises. So the page was hur riedly turned and inside-loomed up a galaxy of-beauties warranted to take any beauty lover's breath'away. Congratulations for Winner From then on until late at night Miss Sylvia Hoffman was made the re cipient of many congratulations. "By Jove!" one man w,as heard to say on a Key Route ferry,;"l didn't know we had such pretty girls In San Fran cisco. I'm glad I wasn't'on that com mittee of should never have been able to come to a.decision." And that's just what the judges thought for a while. By-which Miss Hoffman may have the added satisfac tion of knowing that she was pro nounced winner in a close contest. No body, likes to win in a walk The winner of the first watch Is manager of -the Joan Harvey hair dressing parlors at 56 O'Farreil street. Her picture was sent to The Call office a week' ago by an enthusiastic ad mirer. She Is a dalfcty little maid with a charming manner. Now, here's a word to the girls whose pictures appeared with Miss.Hoffman's CeaUanejl "•■ Page ' % Colusa T ' MAN BURNED TO DEATH WITH HOME Employe of Alameda Street De= partment Incinerated in Bedroom {Special Dispatch to The Call] ALAMEDA, Oct 6.—Daniel Doyle, an employe of the city street department, was burned to death shortly before 1 o'clock this morning in a fire that de stroyed his home at 917 Va San Antonio avenue. The blaze was caused, it is supposed, by the upsetting or explosion of a coal oil lamp. Doyle was. seen in the street just before midnight and said that he was going hOme. The flames were discov ered three-quarters of an hour later. When the firemen gained entrance to the ruihed house Doyle's charred re mains were on the floor of a bedroom. He is survived by two sons, Luke and Benjamin Doyle. - The home of P. Pazzo, 920 Centennial avenue, and' the home of Manuel I.opez, $12 Centennial avenue, both in the rear of the Doyle house were damaged by the flames. , m SiNOW IS INCHES DEEP COVERS BEAR VALLEY Earliest Fall Recorded in South* crn California SAN BERNARDINO. Oct. 6.—The earliest snowstorm ever recorded in >hiß section of California is reported at Bear Valley, where there is a foot and. a half of snow on the ground. Hundreds of duck hunters have been driven out of the country by the snow i and <*olri. ' 1 • WOMAIS SOCIETY LEADER IN CIVIL SERVICE JOB Mrs. McCan First of Her Sex ' to Be Commissioner LOS ANGELES. Oct. 6.—Mrs. • David Chambers McCan, prominent club woman and society leader, announced today she-had accepted -the position of civjl service commissioner tendered her 6y Mayor Alexander. Mrs: McCan is said to.be.jthe first woman civil service commissioner in the country. THE WEATHER YESTERDAY — Highest temperature, 62; lowest Saturday} night, 52. FORECAST FOR TODAY — Fair; tight northwest wind; warmer. For Details of the Weather See Page 13 PRICE FIVE CENTS. PEOPLE FIND TAFT THEIR BULWARK Summing Up Political Situation, President Says Electorate Will Indorse Policies FARMERS OF NORTHWEST DO NOT WANT A CHANGE Lawful Industrial Agitation Is Wholesome and Tends to Im prove Labor Conditions EMPLOYERS ARE ADOPTING GOLDEN RULE PRINCIPLES D ALTON, Mass, Oct. 6.—Presi dent and Mrs. Taft and their. guest, Miss Mabel Boardman, spent a quiet Sunday here with Senator Crane. The second day of 1 their six day automobile trip through Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire was in marked contrast to the first. In the morning the presi dential party attended church in Dal- I ton, and late in the afternoon motored to Senator Crane's country place, seven miles away. Early tomorrow the presidential party will strike northward into Ver mont. Gratified by Situation President Taft tonight summed up the political situation in a statement in which he said: J have every reason to be satis fied with political conditions. I have been pimply overwhelmed for days past with letters and news paper clippings showing the trend of the tide toward flic republican party, its platform and its candi dates. I have been especially gratified by the news from the northwestern states. Chairman Hilles of the republican national committee, who has been visiting the northwest, tells me that re ports from all parts of those states bring most gratifying evidence of republican confidence and activ ity, witli earnest determination to achieve the success of republican principals and candidates. Conditions Satisfy Farmers The population of the northwest is not surpassed anywhere in intel ligence and tiirift And attachment to American institutions. The farmers of that part of the union were never so prosperous, and they do not mean to risk the loss of their prosperity by abandoning the republican party, whose policies have enabled them to prosper. They are convinced that tin- third term candidate is no longer in the run ning-, and that the choice is be tween the republican platform and candidates on the one hand and on tlie other hand the democratic platform, witli its plank of a tariff for revenue ' only, and its candi date, Goveni'ir Wilson, who said in an address in Williams drove. Pa., that the farmer does not need protection. It is unnecessary to explain to the cast, north or on the Tact tic slope—what Governor Wilson's Very frank tlerlaration would mean with Mr. Wilson in the White House and a democratic ma jority in the eapitol. Domestic Trade Is Growing The principal reason for the ex isting prosperity is the assurance that under the republican policy of home protection ami trade expan sion. American Industry, while reaching for foreign markets, is not in danger of losing the home mar ket. While our foreign trade is growing more rapidly than at any time in our history, domestic com ment; is making advances fully as remarkable. Our population is in creasing, the demand for the neces saries of life is increasing propor tionately and, thanks to a< tive business and good wages, the peo ple are able to pay for what they mmuusmmmmuumununuunmumnuummuumnui - . H.Anton Bock ANTONIO Clear Havana through and through. VjjTft N|l}>fe««