The San Francisco call. [volume], October 24, 1901, Image 11

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Tagebiatt reports "a serious Inundation at
Broussa near . the . Sea of v Marmora. - The
water rose with terrible suddenness In the
night time, eighty persons being drowned
and 776 houses destroyed.
Sudden Inundation Near the Sea of
Marmora' Causes, a Great v.
' Disaster. .
VIENNA, Oct. 23.— The Neueste Wiener
HUNDBEDS OP HOUSES /-
DESTROYED BY FLOOD
s OAKLAND,* Oct.; 23.— Licenses to marry
were - issued i to-day- to ; Edward M. Mur
cher, 32, and Alice Brown Oldham, 30,- both
of - Nevada , City ; i Manuel = Monese Jr., » 29,
and Amelia A.- Andrade,<22, both. of Hay
wards; Albert A: Kemke, 87,' Keswick.and
Florence : M.^LaiVine, ; 24,= San Francisco ;
Louis F. Chapman, over 21, Bakersfleld,
and Edith Dozer, over 18/ Oakland ; rA: J J.'
Sllva, 27,- Centerville," and Rosle A; Silva,
20, San Leandro; Holland Lownes, * 23,' and
Genevieve Lavery,'2O, : both ; of San Fran
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Licenses to Marry.
CHICAGO, Oct. 23.— Fire attacked the
packing house ,of ;the G. H. Hammond
Company at Hammond, Ind., to-night and
within an hour gained such headway that
the destruction . of the plant was , feared.
The Hammond Fire Department and ' the
private fire corps of the, packing company
were | unable to cope with the j flames and
an emergency - call j was sent ' to j Chicago
and South Chicago. - •
Fire engines from the Chicago i depart
ment were loaded upon a special train on
the Fort Wayne road and carried to .the
burning : district. - \u25a0 ,_ W „ „ "
The lire began, at the -south end of the
plant in an old frame house.- In an hour
the car, shops, oiling rooms, beef-killing
department and blacksmith - shops were
destroyed. • It - then i seemed that the fire
had burned itself out,, but in a few min
utes the f our-story brick building con
taining the cooling rooms, one of the com
pany's largest buildings of the plant,. was
burning. - - .' \u25a0; "
The fire was got under control at 11:80
o'clock after four departments of the
plant had been - destroyed. •' The loss is
$500,000. V v \u25a0•--.. ' \u25a0\u25a0••\u25a0 '\u25a0' ..\u25a0," \u25a0\u25a0"\u25a0 '\u25a0-.. \u25a0 -\u25a0.- \u25a0\u25a0•--\u25a0-'-. \u25a0
The packing company's plant covers fif
teen acres.. Eighteen hundred men are
employed In. the cooling department.; The
company has * branches in : South ; Omaha,
St. Joseph, Mo.; and Kansas City. r
- Charles C. Griswold \u25a0<\u25a0 and J. t A.\ Klein
have returned from Petaluma, where they
went In the interests of .the annual plains
meeting of the Interstate I Coursing Club.
They found a ojO-acre - field -in the Page
Ranch, seven \u25a0 and '\u25a0 one-half ; miles- ' from
Petaluma,- on the Santa Rosa road,' which
would be suitable " for -the .*- meeting/.. A
heavy- rainfall would ;v place it -in good
condition r for - the greyhounds: » If this
place la . chosen ; the hares *. will be taken
from ' this : city. • « This will do | away j with
the :, tiresome -'.'beating", for. -hares •• which
has been s necessary : in the . San : Joaquln
Valley for some years past. .
F. B! Gerber's Rienzl vs. T. J. Cronin'a Van
dal; Star Kennels' Plckfoeket vs. O. Shar
man'a. Warship; Sterl & Knowles' Olita vs.
Pasha Kennels' Roman Athlete ;. C. O. Peter
son's Lady Nellie vs. G. Sharman's Little Sis
ter; F. Jones' . Wedgewood vs. F. Schou' a * The
Moor; M. Nealon's Agamemnon vs.'- F. B. Ger
ber's Mount Ida; G. Sharman's ; St. Ives j va.'
B. Reddy's Full- Moon; v. F. Schou' s Master
Whalen vs. 'IX. J. Healey's Fine Form; H.
Lynch's Merrlmac vs. E. Geary's America; E.
Geary's Ireland ' vs. F. Schou's King's • Bor
derer; C. O. Petersen's .Haphazard vs. E.
Geary's Ruby Sankey; G. -Nethercott's Freda
C vs. G. Nethercott's Red Rock; J. Dowllng's
Sir Lawrence vs. Chlarlnl Brothers'. White
Hat; Chlarinl Brothers' Dewdrop vs. Star Ken
nels' Herschel's Pride; H. H. Gray's Rona . vs.
»G. Nethercott's Floodgate; . G.- Sharman's Sir
Pasha vs. G; Sharman's -Chicago ' Boy; \u25a0iO.
Nethercott's Hickory Pick vs. J. A. Klein's
Tornado; L. ,F. Bartels' Best • Bargain vs. - D.
J. Healey's Tapioca; Sterl & Knowles' Freeze
Out vs. Pasha Kennels' Royal Archer; H.
Lynch's A.'- J. Martin vs. F.' S, Price's Brutus;
E. Neaves' Spiteful vs. > G. , Sharman's Firm
Fellow; P. Doyle's Liberator vs. J. Markland's
.The Grafter; : Star Kennels' Black Head \u25a0vs. \u25a0 P.
/M. • Clarkson's Golden Garter; Yosemite Ken
nels' Mose vs. G. Graham's Tyrone Prince; M.
Nealon's Achilles vs. A. Vanderwhlte's Lear
King; T. ' J. Cronln's Tralee Boy :- va. . D. : J.
Healey'a For Glory; Aeneld Kennels' Fine Fire
vs. M Neaton's Aeneas ;E. Neaves' First Foot
vs. W. C. Glasson's Sleigh Bells; W. C. Glap
aon's Master Workman vs. E. Neaves' Stray
away; ' E. Geary's Palo Alto - vs. J. Carrolfs
Master Clair ; < Pasha . Kennels' — — ' vs. Star
Kennels'. Fontenoy; J. M. Halton's May, Hemp
stead vs.;L.:S. Barres"Amedee. , . . . .
The card at Union Coursing Park this
week is made up of a sixty-four-dog stake
which will be run entirely on Sunday.
Palo Alto and- other good ones are in the
running, a number of owners are resting
their dogs after the hard \ coursing they
received last week. _
The deciding course for the John Grace
Cup stake ' between Beacon and Rector,
which was not run last Sunday, owing to
darkness, will be run on Sunday immedi
ately'after luncheon.. This will be about
2 p. m. The draw ; for the open stake re
sulted as follows:
Back of Nevills' fight there is a story.
Revenge enters into his plans. It is said
that he had a'dlstinct understanding with
the projectors of the line that the moun
tain terminal should be Jamestown. Act
ing on this agreement, the mining . man
put $500,000 into : a palatial hotel and as
much more into other improvements. His
Rawhide mine backed up the j town and
times became livelier there than for
twenty years previously. But when the
road pushed on to Sonora and Carters,
Jamestown was injured and Nevllls' hotel
became; a "white elephant." He is now
free from litigation over his mining prop
erty and has money in plenty. He has
doubled the forces in his Rawhide and
App mines and is booming all of his enter
prises. . .-
It Is said that many of . the merchants
are not enthusiastic over the coming of
the mountain railroad and will back
Nevllls In his fight for a \u25a0 return to old
time methods of transportation. Nevllls
believes he can make, the '.railroad regret
its go-by of Jamestown and is prepared
for. a stubborn .fight. The railroad peo
ple's side of -the story, is not obtainable
here.- ' -" ." r-. : ._ :. . \u25a0 -, : \u25a0 . .\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 >
STOCKTON, Oct. 23.-Captain W. 'A.
Nevllls, the mining magnate, whose inter
ests in and about Jamestown run into the
millions, has sworn enmity to the Sierra
Railroad and proposes to make his anti
pathy" of a kind that will count against
the mountain line. He will this, week put
on a big line of freighters between Oak
dale and Jamestown and contract to haul
all goods offered him at $1 or more a ton
less than the railroad schedule. Further
than this, he announces that he will meet
every cut the road makes and will give a
rapid and satisfactory service.
,. The people in the mountain districts af
fected are said to hail with delight a re
turn to old-time conditions, when the big
freighters dotted every trail and the crews
made money fly in the roadhouses.
FAST GBEYHOITNDS TO
BrTJlT DECIDING COURSE
HALF MILLION
IN THE SMOKE
LONDON, Oct. 24.— A dispatch from
Brussels says it Is rumored there that
Commandant General Botha • Is camped
with 4000 men between Wakkerstroom and
Ermelo.
Botha Camped With, an Army.
An inquest was held yesterday Jay Cor
oner L«land in the case of Peter Lynch,
who was shot in the leg July 30 last by
one of two colored non-union teamsters
while defending themselves from, an at
tack by, a mob. The Jury returned a ver
dict of accidental death, practically exon
erating William Ferguson and Roscoe
Horn, the men who fired into the crowd.
The nitnesses told practically the same
story ta the effect that as the two colored
rneii were going to work in Enmons' sta
bles on Eleventh street they were ad
vanced upon by two crowds of strikers,
one numbering fourteen or fifteen men
and the other about twenty-five men.
When the smaller mob had reached the
middle of Eleventh street, near Harrison,
Ferguson and Horn drew their revolvers
and finsd into the crowd, wounding Lynch
Dr. Charles M. Miller of the Central
Emergency Hospital testified that when
Lynch came to the hospital he told the
\u25a0witness that .while walking diagonally
a.«>ross the street with his back turned to
Ferguson and Horn he had been struck
by a bullet intended for some one else.
William Ferguson, one of the men who
did the shooting, took the stand and iden
tified Wallace Jamieson, a fireman of en
gine No. 29, as one of the mob. While he
and Horn were going to their work they
saw another fireman go to the door of the
saloon on the southwest corner of Folsom
and Eleventh streets and call to some one
inside:
"Wait a minute, I want to see the fun."
Ferguson testified that he saw Jamieson
leave the engine-house and mingle with
the mob just before the advance was
made upon the witness. When the crowd
began to cross the street for the purpose
of attacking the witness and his compan
ion several stones were thrown and Fer
guson ordered the men to stand back and
drew his revolver. One of the mob made
a threatening remark and the crowd con
tinuing to advance menacingly, the wit
ness'fired one shot in the air. This not
having the desired effect he shot into the
crowd.
Horn corroborated the testimony of his
companion.
Detective Sergeant J. F. Dlnan produced
the transcript of a statement made to him
by Lynch shortly after the shooting."
Lynch said that the strikers had attacked
the colored men and they had fired their
revolvfrs and shot Lynch accidentally.
The Jury returned the following verdict:
That the 6aid Peter Lynch came to his death
October 20 through septic pneumonia and sep
ticaemia following gundshot wound of left hip
inflicted by either William Ferguson or Roscoe
Horn, which one we are unable to determine.
We flnd that the shooting of said Peter Lynch
was accidental.
Coroner Leland approved the verdict.
Killed by. an Elevator.
A Japanese olevator boy known as
George was instantly killed last night at
the Hotel Metropole, 6 Turk street. He
had taken a lady passenger to the third
floor of the building and stepped out of
the cage to direct her to a room. While
he was out of the cage the elevator sud
denly started vpward. In attempting to
catch it the boy had his head crushed
between the floor - and the frame ' work
about the shaft. patBB&Hfe \u25a0<\u25a0'?* f *.'\u25a0- '-
Mrs. Dale Charged With. Murder.
A Coroner's Jury yesterday, after an in
quest over -the body of Mrs. Florence
Hamilton of 708 Gough street, returned a
verdict that death had been caused by a
criminal operation performed by Mrs.
Dale, and charged the latter .with
the crime of murder.* Mrs. Dale has left
the city or, is In hiding.
Call for Dr. Mackenzie Issued.
NEW YORK, Oct. 23.— At a meeting of
the congregation of the Rutgers Riverside
Presbyterian Church to-night a unani
mous call was extended -.to the' Rev.
Robert Mackenzie, now pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church of San-Fran
cisco. The Rutgers Riverside Church Is
one of the oldest Presbyterian churches in
New York, dating from 1798. : "....
COLON, Oct. 23.— The Colombian Gov
ernment formally announced that General
Pompilllo Guiterrez defeated on October
5, near Ambalema. on the Magdalena
River west of Bogota, the insurgent
forces' from the departments _ of Tolima
and Condinamarca. united under General
Marin and General Duran. after a desper
ate engagement lasting three hours. ;. .
According to the official announcement
the insurgents retreated after losing 100
killed, among whom was General
Lombano, and several captured, together
with a large- supply of ammunition. The
Government loss exceeded nfty.
INSTJBGENTS ABE DEFEATED.
Keys the initiates are compelled to do
what they are told by a chosen leader. In
evening dress coats, duck trousers and
plug hats the neophytes met the 8 o'clock
local train this morning at Berkeley sta
tion and escorted the San Francisco co
eds to college. Each man had a tin Jiorn
and when he approached a co-ed he lifted
his plug ceremoniously and gave a blast
on the horn, then he took her books or
grip and walked with her to her class
room. The morning hours were spent in
flying kites and escorting unwilling co
eds over the campus. As most of the
women students were afraid tb,pass from
one building to another on account of the
marked attention they received the col
lege classes suffered severely for want of
students. In fact the antics of the nine
teen neophytes succeeded \u25a0 in making to
day a holiday at the university. The
JIM'S VERDICT
IN LYNCH CASE
BERKELEY. Oct 23.— The annual
"running" of the Skull and Keys
.Society of the University of Cali
fornia took place to-day on th6
college grounds. From 8 o'clock
until noon the Initiates, nineteen In num
ber, kept the grounds around the build
ings Ir. an uproar, and from 4 until 5
o'clock more than 2000 students and visit
ors witnessed their vaudeville perform
ance o:i the gridiron. So numerous were
the ejx*rta.tors Jn the afternoon that the
football field was overrun and practice
among the players wag stopped for a
time. ".Part of the programme was omitted
in crder to clear the field for the foot
ball men. -v „
During the "running" of the Skull and
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Oct. 23.—Ad
vices received here from La Guira, Vene
zuela, under date of Monday, October 21,
say that the first consignment of arms
and ammunition, consisting of 1500 rifle3
and 400,000 cartridges, on board a schoon
er towed by the Venezuelan gunboat on
the 23d of May and in charge of the Ven
ezuelan generals, Pedro Rodriguez and
Francisco Lieva, left La Guira October
28. bound for the Upper Orinoco. .Thd
arms and ammunition will be turned ove.
to the Colombian Liberals at Llanos-de-
Casanare for use by the latter against
the Conservative Government . in the Co
lombian Department of Boyaca. The ex
pedition, which was sent by the Vene
zuelan Government, departed openly, roi
lowing plans arranged in Caracas. -
General Uribe-Uribe, after several days
delay, passed from Venezuela into the Co
lombian district of Las Grias Saturday
at the head of about 2000 men. Whether
they were all Colombians or partly Vene
zuelans it is impossible definitely to ascer
tain It is believed that General Uribe-
Uribe intends trying to- Join the detach
ment commanded by Marin, the Colom
bian Liberal leader, at Garcia Bovera.
General Uribe-Uribe will try to evade ac
tion with the Conservatives near
frontier, and, if he succeeds in so doing,
will attack the Conservatives at some
distance beyond the frontier.
In the meantime the Venezuelan troops
stationed at Tachira have ; been or. are
maneuvering for'the purposeof distract
ing the Colombians' attention from Gen
eral Uribe-Uribe' s movements. President
Castro is anxiously awaiting news, of
General Uribe-Uribejs success. •
President Castro will. probably issue
about the end of October an official state
ment to the effect that Venezuela enjoys
internal peace. \u25a0 \u25a0 \u25a0
CAPTAIN NEVILLS
PLANS REVENGE
" B F. Bishop, F. E. Bishop, H. H. Braley,
W. H. Cooper, L. B. Chandler, F.-C. Dutton,
T. W. Dibblee, J. F. Moore, A. C. Nahl, M. S.
Orrick, A. D. Flaw. W. C. Robbins, Moulton
Warner. J. H.- White, It. A. Womble and E.
T. Zook. .^ -
Thomas Haskins as St.. Peter, arrayed
in the glory of a purple robe, a carefully
adjusted gilt halo and a bunch of vener
able-looking whiskers, first appeared as.
a "voice from the old world" to tell how
it. happened that the initials first got on
to the Skull and Keys membership • rol>.
Philip Clay as a society man told of his
fifteen j years' experience as a society
leader.' Robert W. Ritchie (Carrie Na-:
tion) made a hit in Jiis speech on "The
Gold Cure Simplified, " describing in de
tail the .horrors, of sorority, Russian iced
tea and. Prytanean punch. Bryan Bell,
the venerable Noah, with his "infant mi
crobe," composed of E. M. Hussey an.i
Fr B. Caldwell, adjusted to represent
some animal between a giraffe and a
goat, did a combination turn.
Co-Eds Were With Noah.
1 Noah asked the giraffe-goat, ' named
Filo for convenience, if there were any
co-eds on the ark. Filo nodded^, "Are
any of them here now?" asked*^ Noah.
Filo's vigorous nodding brought down the
bleachers. The original "Family Jar" by
W. B. Bundschu and G. M. Broemmel
(Adam and Eve) and a job lot of melody
by Walter Brown, the tramp, ended the
public ceremonials. \u25a0\u25a0 p
To-night the crivate Initiation and ban
quet-were held. \u25a0
The initiates are the following named: j
Walter Lyman .Brown. Bryan Bell, George
Martin Broemmel, Walter Barbour Bundschu,
Forrest Beamer Caldwell, Philip Tuggle Clay.
Allen Ralston Curtis, George Temple Davis,
Krnest Duden Jr.. Frank Maddux Evans. Ar
thur W Foster, Thomas W. Haskins, Charles
Henry Hudson, Edward M. Hussey. Gurney E.
Newlln, Challen R. Parker, Robert Wells
Ritchie. George L. Sessions and Bosworth D.
Sawyer. • i . '
The following named are the Skull and
Keys members now in college:
Impressarlo George Davis led the "way,
followed by a policeman and a tramp.
N»xt came Noah and his "Infant ml-'
crobe." Adam and Eve and St. Peter
and a blonde belle, followed by living
skeletons, dark -eyed damsels, displaying
milch and varl-colored hosiery; Carrie
Nation and her hatchet and others.
Owing to the vast crowd Davis com
pelled the men to run a ."four-ring" per
formance. Three times their talent was
displayed at -different points in front of
the main bleachers on the west side of
the field, and a special exhibition was
given to a group of co-eds seated on the
small bleachers on the east side.
Many reports from principals of various
schools were read in replifcto a circular is
sued by the board as to the number of
pupils- on- the waiting list. Principal
Brogan of the Moulder School stated that
he had refused admission to. ten pupils
of the first grade. Principal McElroy
wrote that there is one vacant seat in the
Harrison School and nineteen pupils on
the waiting list. Twenty-one pupils are
on the waiting. list of the Adams School.
Nineteen ' were denied admission to the
Crocker Grammar School on account of
lack of accommodation, several to the
Dudley Stone, eight to the Agassiz and
fourteen were turned 'away from the
Hamilton. ; , '
Principal Lyser of the John Swett
School reports, 5 that his school is over-
crowded and that two additional classes
are necessary." He says that parents ob
ject to the board's order to transfer pupils
to the nearest schools because there is no
room at the John Swett School.
- Many Children Shut Out."
Some of the prinicpals stated that they
had never asked for the formation of ad
ditional classes, but the reports generally
supported Superintendent v Webster's -
charge that many pupils are denied school
facilities. , - . ...
President Kincaid reported that she had
formed two primary classes in the Hearst
School, for which outside rooms have been
rented. A first grade-class has also been
formed in the Fremont School and two
rooms will be rented for a new class in
the Everett School and the Sherman Pri
mary. •-" , "• "' " '"• \u25a0 *v
v Leave of absence was granted to Daniel
Cro3by of the Richmond Evening School
and Miss J. Roden was assigned to his
class.
Miss Elinor Murphy was retired on an
annuity of twenty-seven-thirtieths of- the
maximum./ '. ' ' . • " '
The board denied the request of the
Maria Kip Orphanage to have eighty-nine
pupils transferred from the Sutro School
to the Park Primary.
Appointed to Day Eligible Idst.
Attorney Costello appeared before the
board to ascertain why. his client, Miss
Geraldine Donovan, who, although a reg
ular teacher, had been assigned as a sub
stitute to the Lincoln Evening School. The
Directors practically denied - the attorney
a hearing by adjourning before his pro
test was heard. N '; .
The "folowing named, selected by com
petitive examination, I were appointed to
the day eligible list of teachers: .
Cora J. Read, Geortfana Gladys Hawkins.
Mae E. O'Donnell, Emily "Wieand. Sara Allen, ,
Edith F. Browning:, Regina F. Cleary, Mary
A. Nolan, Louis Ferrari and Mary C . McCar
thy, .y - \u25a0-- .....--
• The Board of Education yesterday re
pealed the rule providing that female
teachers who marry thereby lose their po
sitions In the department. The rule has
proven obnoxious and was declared un
constitutional by City Attorney Lane, who
held that the board has no power to inter
fere in the private affairs of its employes.
STUDENTS "WHOSE FANTASTICAL
COSTUMES ARE DESIGNED TO
TERRORIZE GENTLE CO-EDS.
Teachers May Marry and
Not Forfeit Their
Positions.
Philippine Jurist the
G-uest of His Alma •
Mater.
GUIDES RUNAWAY HORSE
\u25a0: ' ALONG CROWDED STREETS
Voting Woman's Remarkable Grit
and Presence of Mind Saves
Her Life.
SAN JOSE. Oct. 23.— Miss Kitty Snell
of San Francisco, at one time a member
of a theatrical company there, had a
thrilling experience in a runaway here
this afternoon, and but for her presence
of mind she would have been killed or
badly injured. The young lady was being
driven in a closed coupe on Third street,
near St.- James. A piece of broken har
ness frightened the horse and he became
unmanageable, the driver being thrown to
the ground. The horse then ran up St.
James to First street and along First at
a breakrneck pace.
Miss Snell. displayed great grit and
presence of mind. Reaching out of the
window, she seized, the lines. For three
blocks on First street, whieh was crowd
ed with rigs, she skillfully guided the
horse. That collisions were avoided
seemed almost miraculous. Every one
expected to see Miss Snell killed.
In turning from First on to San Fer
nando street the rig crashed Into a pea
nut stand T>n the corner, entirely de
molishing It. The horse wa3 then
stopped.
Aside from having, her hair disarranged
and a silk waist torn, Miss Snell suffered
no damage. . . ..
Miss Snell* formerly lived here, but
several years ago went to San Fran
cisco to study for the stage, and for some
time was a member of a stock company
in one of the theaters. She was reared
on her father's cattle ranch near Mount
Hamilton,, and the knowledge of horses
she then gained probably saved her life
to-day. . . \-.-,--. :-;'\-.^ '«,:
Enter Thomas Boyle's Home in So
quel Gulch, and -Open Fire
Upon Him.
MASKED MEN" ATTEMPT
' TO MURDITK. EANCHES
SANTA CRUZ, Oct. 23.— Two masked
men entered Thomas Boyle's residence in
Soquel Gulch last evening. 'Without pro
vocation one of them . began shooting at
Boyle, who grabbed the shooter's arm and
made him drop the pistol. The fellow'3
companion struck Boyle with a club, cut
ting a gash in his head. Neighbors, hear
ing shots, hastened to the scene and the
two men fled. ' Later Frank and Rov
Steinbaugh were arrested in Soquel an 1
accused of the crime. They assert their
innocence. The two were placed in jail
here to-day. . . :
PASADENA, Oct. 23.— James Wagner of
New York has -been -elected president of
the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Asso
ciation;. He -will choose his directorate
and assistants and set about immediately
arranging for the twelfth New Year's day
fete. It is proposed to make the rose
tournament of January 1. 1902, equal to i£
It do not surpass all previous ones.
Pasadena's New Year's Fete.
LONDON, Oct. 24.— An armed band
boarded a train near Batoum, according,
to a dispatch from Odessa to the Daily
Express, murdered three officials and
looted the passengers of valuables..
Murder Officials, Loot Passengers.
SAN JOSE, Oct. 23.— Good indications
of oil have been discovered along the
Shannon road, about two miles north of
Los Gatos, and agents of the North
American Crude Oil • Company are pro
curing leases to land in that vicinity.
Oil North of Los Gatos.
SUISUN, Oct. 23.— Mrs. C. P. Reeves, a
pioneer resident of- Sulsun, made a mis
step in the dark last night and fell head
long down a steep stairway in her dwell
ing. . Both of -her arms were broken
above the wrists, and she received a cut
across the forehead. She was in a criti
cal condition this evening.
Falls Down Steep Stairway.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
CLARA, Oct. 23.-Brigadier
General James F. Smith was honored to
day by the alumni and faculty of Santa.
Clara College. He arrived on the . 12:23
o'clock - train from San Francisco and
was met at the depot by a band of
twenty-two pieces from the college and
escorted to his alma mater by the .entire
student body. He was received by. Rev.
Robert E. Kenna, ; president ! of the col
lege, and at 1 o'clock a banquet was
served, at which 100 guests sat down.
Among, those . around the table were:
Ex-Lieutenant Governor Jeter; Rev.
Father .. Frieden, ' S. J.", superior of . tha
Jesuit order of the Pacific Coast; and
many prominent citizens 'of Santa- Clara
County, as well as &\u25a0 large representation
from San \u25a0 Francisco." -V .' - -
-James Emery of San ' Francisco was
toastmaster. , The responses were marked
by speeches of striking interest, especial
ly that of General Smith. Alluding to the
campaign of - education . instituted , in \u25a0 the
Philippines, he said: \u25a0 \u25a0 . ; ,-\u25a0--:\u25a0. \u25a0'\u25a0:\u25a0\u25a0.'\u25a0 .\u25a0
Not- only ia education needed in the islands,
but there should be :disseminated in the States
of this great Union instruction that will edu
cate the people to exercise patience. -.
It will take many years to bring these island
tribes, to a state of, civilization equal to our
own. Spain, you' say. did not educate those
people. Yes, she did. For three hundred
years she gave them Instruction in the arts
and sciences; she taught them engineering, law.
philosophy; the practice of medicine, -and,- as
a- result, there were natives of the utmost re
finement and wealth who were the equals of
any civilized people. Spain acquired these
islands when in the zenith of her elory and
the race distinction was never wiped out until
the guns of Dewey's fleet gave this country a
foothold in the Philippines. Our duty • Is • to
teach them the principles of 'liberty that have
made this the grandest republic the world has
ever seen. Thia is the task we have before
us and it will require time and patience. \u25a0•\u25a0•
To the toast, "President Roosevelt,"
John E. Richards . responded. "Our
Guest" was the theme of James H. Barry
of San Francisco; ."The First Regiment,"
Dr. A. P. .O'Brien- of San Francisco:
"California of the Future," Judge M. T.
Dx>oling of San Francisco; "The Y. M. I.,'"
James P. Sex. \u25a0-.""\u25a0
At the conclusion of ths : banquet the
guests witnessed a football game between
the college eleven and ' the Santa Clara
High School. The score was 16 to 6 In
favor of the college. Other athletic events
followed. \u25a0 \u25a0-.•::
In the college theater at 8 o'clock this
evening General Smith was accorded a
reception in which more than 800 persons
participated. "William F. Humphrey of
San Francisco. was chairman of the even
ing and introduced General Smith, who
addressed the audience. Upon the plat
form were Judge M. T. Etoollng, Dr. A.
McComb, James H. Campbell, J. Hudner,
H. E. Wilcox, W.E. Johnson, J. J. Mont
gomery, Joseph G. Carey, Rev. R. E.
Kenna, Rev. Father O'Connell and Rev.
J. W. Rlordan.
The affair was in charge of the alumni
and students. Floral testimonials were
presented in ' their behalf , by Francis
Mulcahy and ; Charles < Laumeister. An
original poem was given by James Baci
galupi. -..' --._..' \u25a0'\u25a0
\u25a0 General Smith graduated from Santa
Clara College in 1878. He will remain sev
eral days as. the guest of the faculty of
the,college. •<\u25a0 ,,. '..-;, i
ASSASSIN CUTS
VICTIM'S THROAT
VANCOUVER, Oct. 23.— For the : third
time I within six months Charles | Suto.' \u25a0 a.
New Westminster hotel proprietor, has
been attacked by an unknown assassin,
who appears /to be relentless in' his deter
mination to end Suto's life. Suto's throat
was cut 'by.{tha murderer last
night, and the .'.wound may caused hU
death.
Suto lives alone in the rear of the depot
hotel. \u25a0 He went home at about midnight.'
As- soon as he opened the front door he
heard a noise which convinced him* that
some one' was in the room. He spoke, but
received no answer. ; He went 'toward hid
bedroom to light a lamp, and he was fol
lowed by the assassin, who attacked him
just as he entered the door of his sleeping
room. \u25a0? The man* jumped upon Suto from
behind and threw him to the floor, and
immediately drew >»-.<\u25a0 ra?or-edged knife
across Suto's throat, :.' Inflicting a deep
gash extending almost from 'ear to. ear.
Suto raised an outcry and , the assassin
made off with all possible speed. He wa-s
seen to. disappear through the doorway b/
his victim, -who ; was . lying prostrate . on
the floor- and ; unable to follow him. A
few seconds later Officers McKercher and
Johnson arrived'; on the scene andvSuto
was £ removed to ' the hospital. The offi
cers instituted a search for ! the criminal,
but without avail. - . " - .
Owing to. the darkness Suto did not get
a good' look: at his assailant and- does not
even know, whether he was a Japanese or
avwhite man. t He says he has no bitter
enemies that he is aware, of and does not
know, of any reason: why he should have
been attacked. \u25a0 .
Tolstoi Has a Belapsa.
v PARIS, Oct. 24.— A " dispatch from St.
Petersburg to the Echo t de Paris says
Count Tolstoi : has had a sudden relapse
and that his condition is considered very
serious:
ELIZABETH GLEESON. POPU
LAR CONTESTANT AT THE
HOLY REDEEMER FAIR. .
BULLETS BURDEN
THEIR SCHOONER
The George W. Prescott is a trim little
schooner of . 54 , tons burden. She left San
Francisco on May 28, 1897, bound for the
Arctic whale fisheries. - Not until to-day
have her captain and crew stepped upon
American- soil other than' that of Alaska.
For four years the hardy craft has been
fighting with the fierce- seas of the Arc
tic Ocean. For weeks at a time she was
locked in the ice. During her wanderings
the schooner cruised as far south as Ja
pan and as far north as Cape North. •.
The catch of the - schooner -would be
taken to some Siberian or Alaskan port
and soldi . The boat would then go for
another cruise. One of the six menln the
crew died and was buried at sea with all
the honors which the . rough, seafaring
men could give him. At one time the crew
nearly perished from • starvation. j For
eight weeks they were locked in the ico
and unable to get supplies. Their provi
sions dwindled until each man was living
on a biscuit a day and the flesh from a
stray seal that they happened to kill.' A
break in the ice enabled them to move
their vessel and a lucky encounter with
a Government cutter saved them from ex
pected'death. . . _
A year ago the schooner wintered at
Teller City, The 'crew deserted and fled
to the gold fields. With the coming of
spring an entirely new crew had to be en
gaged.
The Prescott, arrived in the harbor to
aay in a leaky condition. Since leaving
Bering Sea the crew have had to keep the
pumps going constantly. She will have to
go on dry dock in this place before going
southward. - \u25a0
During the time the sehooner .has been
in the north her owner, John ' Smith, a
resident of Whatcom, died. Captain
Douglass was making inquiries to-day to
learn to whom he should . surrender his
command. He is tired of fishing for
whales and would like to turn the
schooner, over to her owners. These can
not be found. Until some one who can
legally claim the boat appears Captain
Douglass will have to remain with her.
SEATTLE, Oct. 23.— After four years of
battling with the ice of the Arctic* Ocean,
the sehooner George ' W. Prescott re
turned to this port to-day; - It is an.Inter
esting .tale of mingled hardship and good
fortune that Captain Angus Douglass
tells. :
"While due praise must be awarded to thosv
of the officers and crew who remained on the
ship until she sank under their feet and for
assisting so many of the passengers to reach
the boats and other available means of preser
vation as presented themselves, we cannot ig
nore the fact that there was an unpardonable
lack of appreciation of existing danger to their
fellow passengers shown by those in the boats
regarding the rescue of others who for the
want of an opportunity had not been able U>
avail themselves of a chance of boarding the
boats before they left the ship's side.
We think that Pilot Le Blanc . is open to
censure for his action in keeping the ship at
full speed— at the rate of nearly fourteen knots
an hour— after seeing* floating ice some ten
minutes before the accident; we would also Con
demn the custom apparently in vogue in coast
waters in leaving the bridge of a steamer at
night (and mere especially a passenger steam
er), in charge of only one officer.
We also find that there is no evidence before
us that the loss of the Islander was due to
the Intemperance of the master or others.
That the Islander was wrecked on the night
of August 15. 1901, by contact with some un
known substance {presumably ice drift, very
much submersed), sinking in deep water In lesa
than twenty minutes after the collision and re
sulting in the loss of life of master, sixteen of
the crew and twenty-three passengers.
It does Dot appear from the evidence that the
master realized the imminent danger in which
the accident ! placed the ship." hence the lack.
of prompt and resolute means in arousing the
crew and passengers, who were asleep in'tha
cabjns; in placing- an officer and crew to each
boat and in forcing the proper quota of pas
sengers to each boat. The evidence clearly
shows the capacity of the boats, was sufficient
to accommodate every person on board, but on
account of Improper management and discipline
there was a rush to the boats at the last
moment, which was beyond the control of the
few officers and members of the crew engaged
in gettinff~lhe boats into the water, thereby
preventing the rescue of several valuable lives.
VICTORIA, B. C./Oct. 23,-The Com
missioner and assessors appointed to in
quire into the loss of the steamer Islander
gave out their finding this morning. In
substance it is as follows:
Finds No Evidence That Dis
aster Was Due to Cap
tain's Drunkenness. /
Vessel That Sailed From San
Francisco in 1 897 Puts
in at Seattle.
morning "stunt" ended by each man mak
ing a speech, singing a song or giving a
dance. - \u25a0 ~ • • \u25a0 . * •
The men dressed for the afternoon
event3 in the Phi' Gamma Delta housa
and were driven from there through town
and to the gridiron. Here they formed
in procession and marched around-' the
field.- Each was in. fantastic- costume.
BOARD RESCINDS
OBNOXIOUS RULE
ALUMNI GREET
GENERAL SMITH
MISS ELIZABETH E. GLEE
SON., of ; Mission Dolores
Church is >ne of the,contest
ants for the prize to be award
ed the most' popular girl, at
the bazaar now \u25a0 being ; conducted for the
benefit of the Church of .the Holy ; Re
deemer, the Rev. Joseph McQuaide, pastor.
The young^ 1 lady Is a daughter, of Police
Sergeant Henry '\u25a0\u25a0 Gleeson \u25a0 of the office : of
the Board of Police Commissioners. This
contest la one of the features 3 of the
bazaar.' and his attracted wide attention.
Miss Gleeson. though now a member cf
Mission Dolores parish, has many friends
\u25a0who remember her when a resident of
this" portion of the: Mission .which *h'a.3
been assigned to Father; McQualde, and
they- will rally to her cause during the
last days of the contest. .
Miss May.Kirby, the other candidate In
this contest, Is a young lady well known
in the, Mission and her friends are sup
porting her strongly. ; ..-
The bazaar has now been in progress
one week and owing to the, popularity of
Father McQualde, whose services In- the-
Philippines with . the First ; California
Regiment have endeared him to the resi
dents of his new parish, the bazaar has
more than exceeded expectations In a
financial way. It is expected that from
$12,000 to $15,000 will be netted for the
completion of the. church, which is now
well under way,-. " "\u25a0\u25a0
The booths are all decorated in fanciful
colors and present a fairy land appear
ance. They are thronged with pretty and
elaborately gowned ladies. : The • shooting
gallery is the favored place for the visit
\u25a0ors to the fair and no one can escape a
match, with Father McQuaide, the soldier
priest. The bazaar, which opened on Oc
tober 12, will probably continue to- No
vember 2. , •
Commission Ends" In
quiry Into the Isl
ander Wreck.'
Schooner Prescott Safe
After Long Battle
With Ice.
Annual Running of the Society Witnessed by More Than. 2OOO
Students and Visitors, Who Are Treated to a 'Show in Which
Noah, Adam and Eve, Carrie Nation and Other Artists Appear
Bazaar in Aid of r the Church -of the : Holy; Redeemer- Is
tracting Large Crowds Every -Evening, and;; Promises
to Be a Most Gratifying Financial and;" Social Success
YEARS OF PERIL
IN ARCTIC SEAS
SKULL AND KEYS INITIATES
DO STUNTS ON THE GRIDIRON
VOTE FOR MOST POPULAR
GIRL GOES MERRILY ON
PASSES CENSURE
UPON TIE PILOT
THE SA*J FRA^CISCO^ X^£, M
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STOMACH BITTERS
Some people suffer from this ail-
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are nervous and „ despondent
through loss of sleep.^ The fact is
their kidneys are weak and i n
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strengthen the kidneys, stimulate
the liver and cure Indigestion;
dyspepsia, sleeplessness or
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• Always Tplerates
H Breakfast Food
ALL THE VIRTUES OF MALT
ALL THE STRENGTH OF WHEAT
,The great - virtues of . Malt [ Breakfast
Food, as well as its tonic and corrective
influence : on the organs of digestion, are
well known to physicians and those inter-
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"Invalids" and^ dyspeptics who cannot tol-
erate oatmeal and other grain foods, find
that Malt .Breakfast Food is relished and
easily retained on the weak stomach. The
invalid is pleased .to note, after a few
meals of Malt Breakfast Food that every
f unction of the system is energized and
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unequaled as a builder -and strengthened
fer the weak and run down. Many of our
ablest medical men are now regularly
prescribing Ifalt Breakfast Food for in-
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and solid flesh.