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VOLUME CXI.—NO. 158.
Magdalena Bay Invasion Story Is Merely a Hearst Hoax
U. S. SOLDIER
IS FIRED UPON
BY MEXICANS
American Infantryman Wounded
While on Border Patrol
Duty Near El Paso
Commanding Officer Submits
Report of Incident to the
War Department
Little Children See Their Father
Murdered in Cold Blood
by Bandit
EL PASO, Tex., May s.—The shoot- j
lag of Private John Baker
of the Twenty-second infantry j
while on border patrol duty was
done deliberately from the Mexican j
side of the river, according to Colonel j
K. 5. Steever, who completed a thorough j
Investigation today.
Baker nm reclining on his elbow
near the river bank when he saw <wo
Mexicans on the other aide. The latter
dodged into a clump of hashes and
fired at him twice. One bullet ahot off
one of the soldier's fingers and acraped
his foot. •
Colonel Steever baa reported details
of the affair to Washington.
Sons Witness Murder
Following the robbery of the Mor
mon colony store at Colonia Diaz, in
the state of Chihuahua, yesterday by
Mexican bandits and the killing of one
of the robbers by pursuing colonists,
information was received here today of
the murder of J. D. Harvey, one of
the colonists, by the brother of one of
the bandits.
Harvey was at work in his field when
he was approached and shot and killed
by the Mexican in the presence of his
three small sons. The murderer es
caped. There is much excitement
among the colonists on account of the
affair, and ■while the entire country is
under the domination of rebels, they
announce their intention of remaining
for the protection of their property by
force of arms if necessary. Telegrams
have been sent to Senator Smoot of
Utah and Senator Fall of New Mex
ico, apprising them of the situation.
Mildly Jeers Gomez
El Monitor, the organ of General
Ornzco, the rebel commander in
chief, this morning's issue of which
was received here tonight from Chi
huahua, jeers mildly at the proclama
tion naming Emilio Vasquez Gomez as
provisional president* of Mexico.
Colonel Pascual Orozco Sr., return
ing from Chihuahua tonight, announced
that the proclamation of Emilio Vas
quez Gomez as provisional president
of Mexico had the full sanction of his
son, the rebel commander in chief. The
elder Orozco said also that he would
be minister of war in the new govern
ment until his son, when freed of his
duties in the field, could take his
place.
Passengers who arrived from Chihua
hua declared that Orozco had suc
cumbed to pressure in withdrawing op
position to Gomez.
Both Ask Recognition
WASHINGTON, May s.—Simultane
ously with the arrival of Senor Manuel
Calero, the new ambassador of Mexico
to this country. Dr. Pollcarpo Rueda,
representative of Emilio Vasquez
Gomez, provisional president of Mexico,
appeared in Washington to ask this
government to recognize the belliger
ency.
"The uprising has been confined to
the state of Chihuahua," said Ambas
sador Calero's statement in part, "In
spite of what has been said to the con
trary and is daily being repeated In
the United States. Disturbances exist,
it is true, in other portions of the re
public of Mexico, but these are not po
litical in character, but are rather
brigandage on a greater or less scale.
My government, while successfully
combating these movements, is earn
estly striving to find a remedy for the
problem, and has, in this connection,
already accomplished some most im
portant work.
No Hostile Feeling
*'I must most emphatically deny that
there exists any such thing in Mexico
a? an anti-American feeling. There are
perhaps some Americans who may have
• 1 injury, either to person or
y at the hand of the bandits,
s happens everywhere. The gov
ernment is making and wili continue
to make every possible effort toward
Mnp: all interests, both domestic
and foreign."
In his statement, which is addressed
to the American people. Dr. Rueda de
clares:
"The provisional government is in a
fully organized political state, capable
of discharging the duties of a govern
ment by enforcing the law and protect
ing life and property and meeting its
foreign obligations.
"It holds two stales and many citips
and towns; it has an established seat
of government; it is supported by the
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EDISON'S GREATEST
School flinus BooKs
! Thomas A. Edison, "the wizard \
of Menlo park"
Mrs. Vanderbilt, in
Critical Condition,
Seeks Her Husband
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
NEW YORK, May s.—Mrs. William
K. Vanderbilt Jr., who had been stead
ily improving since an operation was
performed last Wednesday for appen
dicitis, has had a sudden and ssarious
relapse and tonight her condition is
said to be critical.
Physicians and nurses have been in
constant attendance since the opera
tion. Every effort has been made to
keep from the public news of her real
condition.
It is known that tonight efforts have
been made to locate her husband, who
has been living in separate apartments
at 49 East Fifty-second street.
MAJOR BUTT'S POST
TO REMAIN UNFILLED
President Pays Tribute at
Memorial Services
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
WASHINGTON, May s.—The place of
Major Archibald Butt as personal aide
to the president will not be filled be
cause there Is no one with the neces
sary qualifications to fill it.
This became known after the memor
ial service in the National theater this
afternoon, when the president in the
presence of 3,000 persons, had paid
tribute to the memory and character
of Major Butts.
Not one of the nine military aides
which constitute the staff has been as
signed to the duties performed by the
young Georgian nor, it is said authenti
cally, will one be appointed.
CRIMINALS JOIN REVOLT
OF POLITICAL PRISONERS
Troops Subdue Fighters and
Many Are Killed
[Special Cable to The Call] .
L.ISBON. May s.—Details of the re
volt among the prisoners at Limoeiro
show that 400 political prisoners, well
supplied with arms and money, had
enticed 450 criminal prisoners to Join
them in a revolt in which the wardens
connived.
All escaped Into the courtyard, where
a great fight took place with the
militia. •
The troops subdued the fighters. It
is impossible yet to ascertain the num
ber of victims. A number of bombs
were found.
DORR GOES EAST TO
FACE MURDER CHARGE
Stockton Man Will Leave Today
With Lynn Detectives
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
STOCKTON. May s.—William A. Dorr
will start on his journey to Lynn, Mass.,
tomorrow, where he must stand trial on
the charge of having murdered George
Marsh. Inspectors Kane and Burckes
will take the prisoner east Miss
Thomas, head nurse of the local emer
gency hospital, will accompany them.
Dorr's health is so poor that this was
deemed advisable.
SANTA CLARAN STRUCK
BY BASEBALL; MAY DIE
Oscar Kohner Is Knocked Un
conscious on Diamond
SANTA CLARA. May 6.—Oscar Koh
ner, a son of Town Trustee Max Koh
ner, was struck on the head with a
pitched ball while playing at San
Juan today in the game against Hol
lister. He was unconscious for sev
eral hours. He was removed to his
home here tonight and it is feared that
|he Is badly Injured.
THE San Francisco CALL
Inventor Will Devote
Life and Fortune
To Youth
Thomas A. Edison announces that
the crowning feature of his inventive
I life Will be a revolution in the methods
lof education. He proposes to teach
j boys and girls through the medium of
j the photographic film what they have
[heretofore painfully learned through
I printed words, figures and diagrams.
Edison argues that in this way the
facts about any concrete thing can be
learned to the maximum of efficiency
and with the minimum of effort.
The great inventor already has ac
complished enough in his experiments to
prove the practicability of his idea, and
he declares that he will devote his
remaining years and millions of money
to putting his system into practice.
[Special Dispatch to The Call] ,
NEW YORK, May s.—Thomas A.
Edison will 5 devote $3,000,000 and the
next eight years of his life to the sim
plification :of ; scientific instruction
through ' the j medium of the film.
T« Microscopic and astronomical revela
tions which baffle the child mind and
the limited absorbing powers of un
schooled adults will be' made clear and
easily comprehensible by J the r substitu
tion of I the * film for the book—the eye, ,
Continued on Page 2, Col. 4
PODSZUS-FRITZ IS
MARRIAGE MAKER
Herr Direktor Makes Matri
monial Tree, With Count
Buds, to Bloom Yet
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
CHICAGO, May s.—Chicago's newest
international matrimonial tree burst
into full bloom yesterday at the Con
gress hotel.
On its branches were European
counts, near counts and wouldbe counts
in profusion.
Beneath it stood the gardener who
had made it blossom. He has a sort of
blooming name—Podszus-Fritz Pods
zus, herr direktor of the marriage pltfnt.
He slipped smoothly from New York,
bowed his way past traffic policemen,
doormen and bell boys to the desk.
"A room. If it please your august
selves," said the herr direktor. "I come
to bring joy to Chicago and would my
self prepare."
After that the urbane visitor was
quite at home. He prepared himself
to sartorial perfection, placed in his
pockets copies of his "matrimonial
news"—the name showing plainly—and
paraded down Peacock alley. A glance
was sufficient. He danced gracefully to
the glancer and with a succession of
bows presented his card. It promised
"perfect satisfaction to persons of re
finement seeking marriage."
The herr direktor's methods are sim
ple. He is laden with the names and
qualifications of European nobles in
temporary financial distress. The per
manence of the distress depends on the
speed of the herr direktor.
He matches his ellglbles with Ameri- \
can girls possessed of many American
dollars and, if the lady is so good, a
modicum of good looks. That Is not
necessary, he explains. It Is the heart
that counts—not the face—and the
heart has a dollar sign.
There is no troublesome courtship, no
worry, no publicity. The girl with the
dollars sketches roughly the qualifica
tions that she may be particular enough
to desire along with the title. The herr
direktor looks at his notea Presto, It
is done! If it is not done right there is
no collection, and he will try again and
again. He makes loving couples blos
som where none would grow before.
The list of ellglbles includes counts
galore, a baron or two and so many
second sons of second sons, boasting a
"yon" or a "de" that he has quite lost
track of them.
And his success? In New York It is
wonderful. He says: "My humble serv
ices are appreciated. Chicago Is fur
ther west. Still I should do well."
He exhibited a letter—part of a let
ter, for everything Is ab-so-lute-ly
private—saying: "Hold that name until
Monday, when I shall see you again."
"Yes. I shall do well here,** he said.
SAN FRANCISCO, 4MONDAY, MAY 6, 1912.
SOLDIERS TOLD
TO FORCE MEN
TO FIGHT FLOOD
Governor of Louisiana, Alarmed
by Seriousness of Situation,
Issues Drafting Order
Hundreds, Preparing to Bee, Are
Impressed Into Service; 15
Parishes Inundated
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
NEW ORLEANS, May s.—Gov
ernor Jared Y. Sanders,
alarmed by reports that the
government engineers and
state and municipal authorities in the
flood swept district were having diffi
culty in impressing into service men
in sufficient numbers to check the
spread of destruction wrought by the
rising waters, tonight Issued orders
directing the national guard of Louis
iana to compel laborers to work on
the levees.
If the workers In the various dis
tricts where conditions are most seri
ious are reinforced, It Is believed that
the waters can be confined to the terri
tory which already has suffered a loss
in millions; otherwise a break at any
one or two points inevitably will mean
the inundation of additional thou
sands of acres and possible loss of life.
Immediately following the governor's
order the troops Impressed into service
hundreds, many of whom were hur
riedly assembling their household
goods in preparation for flight. With
few exceptions they offered no resist
ance and tonight are aiding in the work
Continued on Page 2, Col. 3
KAISER'S FRIEND TO
GO TO ST. JAMES
Sensation Is Created by Appoint
ment of Yon Rieberstein
as Ambassador
[Special Cable to The Call] •
LONDON, May 5.—A great political
sensation has been caused here by the
announcement from Berlin that Count
Wolff Meternlch will shortly be super
seded as German ambassador by Baron
Marshall yon Rieberstein, the kaiser's
close personal friend and the ablest
diplomat in the service of the father
land.
While the report comes unofficially,
its accuracy is not questioned and It Is
accepted here as authoritative.
Baron Marshall yon Rieberstein Is
the astute statesman who laid and
operated the diplomatic train which
Germany made paramount at the Porte.
In diplomatic circles he is regarded as
the most notable figure since the death
of Dufferin called away the last of the
old school of European masters of
statecraft.
NEW YORKERS EAT
HATS TO PAY BETS
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
NEW YORK. May s.—The Massachu
setts primary mixup caused two New
Yorkers, Albert Sedano. a contractor,
and Harry Parker, a salesman, liter
ally to "eat their hats." Sedano wagered
Taft to win; Parker pinned his faith
to the hat which Theodore Roosevelt
had tossed into the ring. Both wagered
the drinks and to "eat their hats" In
case of the defeat of their presidential
favorites and both lost. A passing cop
caught them chewing the last of the
unboiled brims In an east side cafe and
took them to the night court, where the
magistrate dismissed them with a repri
mand.
SPARK FROM WIRELESS
PUTS LEOPARD TO FLIGHT
Operator Attacked by Beast
Flashes "S. O. S."
NEW YORK, May 6.—While the
Zazari, a steamer In the Brazilian nut
and fruit trade was floundering In the
sea 400 miles southeast of Sandy Hook
a leopard sprang out of the darkness
into the coop on the storm deck where
James Pickerill, wireless operator, was
stationed.
As the beast crouched Pickerill
touched the key, instinctively flashing
out the "S. O. S." for aid. The leopard
paused in the very act of rising from
Its hauches, turned tall and fled. The
•park scared him.
The leopard later was caught .and
, confined.
GEARY LINE STOPS
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Municipal Road Begun
Last car to go ovfr Ceary street track, with Cripman F. J. Brainerd {left)
and Conductor F. Stanley in charge.
Workmen Tear Out Cable and Track
As Last Car Reaches Barn
AFTER being a storm center for 10 years of the first local struggle for
municipal ownership of street railways the Geary Street, Park and Ocean
Railway company succumbed at 1:07 o'clock this morning when the last
car pulled into the barn at Geary street and First avenue, after distributing
a crowd of night owls from the turntable at Market and Geary streets to the
Continued on Page 2, Col. 5
JERE COOKE HIDES
FROM PUBLIC GAZE
Unfrocked Clergyman Complains
of Morbid Desire to Hound
Him to Desperation
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
NEW YORK. May s.—Jere Knode
Cooke and Floretta Whaley have been
forced to move again.
The former rector of August Bel
mont's church at Hempstead said today
with apparent earnestness:
"A portion of the public wishes to
drive me to something desperate or
criminal. It seems to hay« a morbid
desire to hound me to desperation."
Cook has gone to his painting work
and the mother of his children is with
them at the home of their great grand
mother, Mrs. Kazlah Whaley, in Hemp
stead, Long island, where one of the
little boys is down with measles.
When friends Informed them Friday
that a crowd of the curious was be
fore the family house In Brooklyn, a
floor of which they had taken, Cooke
and Miss Whaley packed their belong
ings and left as secretly as possible
Saturday.
CONVICTS DIG WAY
OUT TO FREEDOM
SACRAMENTO, May 5. — Digging
through the rotten wooden walls of
four cells In the city Jail between the
hours of 12 and 2 o'clock, William
Brusco, an ex-convict, wanted In Reno
for robbing and beating a Greek and
suspected of robberies In this city, and
Wesley Gordon, a negro, also an ex
convlct, charged with robbing a wine
store, made their escape today.
The police believe that the break evi
dently had been planned carefully by
Brusco and Gordon and that Gordon
crawled through a small hole between
his cell, and the adjoining one, where
with the aid of a piece of Iron torn
from his bunk he worked on the bricks
of the outer wall of the Jail.
Each day before the rounds were
made by th,e police Gordon carefully
replaced the bricks.
CAPTAIN OF LOST TEXAS I
IS REMOVED TO PRISON l
Pleas of American and Greek
Consuls Unavailing
[Special Cable to The Call]
CONSTANTINOPLE. May 5. — The
captain of the steamer Texas of the
Archipelago-American line, which was
blown up and sunk by Turkish forts
In the gulf of Smyrna a few days agro
while flying the American flag, today
was forcibly removed from the Greek
hospital in Smyrna to a Turkish prison,
where he is said to have been placed
in a hospital ward. The American and
Greek consuls protested Vainly against
his removal.
STRICKEN BANKER
HEARS MOB YELL
Frank T. Arnold, Confesses
Wreckers, Cowers in Bed
When Lynching Is Urged
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
UTICA, N. V., May s.—Cowering in
his bed of sickness, Frank T. Arnold,
the confessed wrecker of the First Na
tional bank at New Berlin, listened
early this morning to a mob of 800
men, women and children gathered be
fore his bungalow clamoring that he be
brought out and lynched. Not until
dawn did United States Commissioner
James Flanagan of Norwich and United
States Marshal Balck dare to bring the
man out of his house and rush him in
an automobile to the county jail at
Norwich. He will be arraigned before
United States Commissioner Flanagan
tomorrow.
The placing of guards at the Arnold
property has made the former cashier
of the First National bank virtually a
prisoner since April 11, the day the in
stitution closed its doors.
During the last week the bitter feel
ing against Arnold has been Increased
by the suicide of a depositor, who lost
all in the bank failure, and in the case
of a woman who lost her reason as the
result of her losses.
BIG DITCH WILL MAKE
FISH INTEROCEANIC
Species of Two Seas Will Inter
mingle, Say Scientists
{Special Dupatch to Tha Call]
WASHINGTON, May 6.—One effect of
the completion of the Panama canal
will be the intermixing of the fish of
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the
Isthmus, according to fisheries experts
of the Smithsonian Institution, who
have Just completed a survey of isth
mian waters.
S. F. Hildebrand of the bureau of
fisheries and Dr. S. E. Meek of the
Field Museum of Natural History of
Chicago have Just returned from the
canal zone after completing a collec
tion for the Smithsonian Institution of
the fish indigenous to the zone waters.
All of the fish of the canal zone, in
cluding the fresh water varieties in the
Inland streams and lakes, are well rep
resented In the collection.
A second survey will be made in from
Aye to ten years to verify the prog-
of a complete intermixing
of species on the two coasts after the
canal is opened.
ICE PACK TAKES TOLL
FROM CUNARD'S ULTONIA
Strips Propeller From Steamer
in Gulf of St. Lawrence
HALIFAX, N. S., May s.—The Cunard
Line steamer Ultonia arrived hers to
night In a disabled condition, having
lost her port propeller in an ice field
In the Gulf of St. Lawrence while mak.
Ing for Her passengers will
be landed here In the morning and
sent to their destination by .rail. The
Ultonia sailed from Southampton April
23 for Montreal,
YES $iftes} tftftperaiure, 66 ;
FOI&A&r FOR TODAY'i- Cloudy;
prMjably sho£f&rs; Tight T&esi winds.
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PRICE ".FJaWB^CENTS.
VACANT LAND
OFFERS NO
MEANS OF
LIVING
Thrifty Japanese Would Starve
to Death If They Attempt
ed to Colonize the
Peninsula
WRECKS MARK FAILURES
OF FISHING OPERATIONS
Lack of Water, Timber and
Fuel Makes Vacant Strip
Uninhabitable Even
Temporarily
Bottom Falls Out of
Manufactured Scare
■• ' •-
Since the prealdent transmitted
the report of the atate depart
ment on the Magdalena bay In
quiry, the bottom haa fallen
completely out of the manufac
tured story that Japan waa seek
ing a foothold on the went coaat
of Mexico. The atate depart
ment's report showed conclusive
ly that the United State* haa
been fully Informed from the first
aa to all the negotiations relat
ing to Japanese fishing rights on
the Mexican coaat, and that theae
negotiations were net In , any
manner fostered by the Japanese
government.
[Special Dispatch to Call]
WASHINGTON, May s.—The
Hearst newspaper stories
concerning the Japanese
foothold on the west coast of
Mexico and that country's possession
of Magdalena bay have fallen flat.
Even the department clerks smile.
An official of the state department
said today:
Any one who knows anything
about the western coast of Cali
fornia must smile at the idea that
the Japanese covet possession of
Magdalena bay or any other por
tion of the peninsula. It is wholly
uninhabitable, owing to lack of
water, timber and fuel.
Some years ago the Mexican gov
ernment permitted the United
States navy to occupy Magdalena
bay for target shooting purposes,
but the navy found that even tem
porary occupation of the bay was
Impracticable. W*ater was not to
be had. The heat was intolerable.
There is no settlement on the bay
and no facilities whatever for
maintaining a settlement.
The only use that Magdalena bay
could have for any navy lies In the
fact that It Is absolutely vacant.
It la suitable, therefore, for target
practice, but entirely unsulted for
a coaling station or for coloniza
tion. The Japanese are a thrifty
folk and can live on little or noth
ing, but they would starve to death
at Magdalena bay.
For years the Mexican government
has granted concessions for fishing on
both the Pacific and the gulf. These
concessions have been granted with
out regard to the nationality of the
concessionaires and have been merely
a means of raising revenue for the gov
ernment.
Americans, Germans, Italians. Eng
lishmen and Japanese have all been
granted these concessions from time to
time. One by one they have failed and
other ambitions schemes have taken
their place.
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