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THE CALL LEADS~IN ) POLITICAL S I I"! I frt THEATRICAL ill i | fill I REAL ESTATE ill »■ 111 IV SPORTING 111 I 111 l A | COMMERCIAL |1| HB I 1 SOCIETY I .1111 FINANCIAL ■ ■ ta ■ ■ %# I N-, /j VOLUME CXIL—NO. 17. TORNADOES KILL 29 IN MISSOURI AND 2 IN OHIO Storm Sweeps From Kansas City Wrecking Almost Every Building in Its Course Baby Blown a Mile From De= molished Home and Picked i Up Uninjured — Priest Injured by Steeple While Administering the Last Sacrament Havoc Caused by Wind Storms in Two States Three killed in Kansas City, whence siorm passed to south west. Tweniy-six killed in northwest Missouri and every building; in half mile track of five miles de molished. Thousands homeless, telephone wires hlowu down and churches damaged and every person in jured. Ha'i> blown a mile uninjured and bodies of others carried same distance. Damage in Ohio estimated at * 1.000,000. Calling steeple Injures clergyman administering sacrament while panic stricken congregation es capes. KANSAS CITY. June 16.—Twenty nine persons are known to have beten killed and many, injured by a storm that passed over central west Missouri late Saturday, demolishing buildings, tearing down wires and leaving the smaller towns and country hornet completely wrecked. Reports indicate that after doing -■iTiis of dollars t.'OTth >>f damage here the storm passed to the southeast, wrecking all buildings in r,th. In Bates county, Missouri, the north west section was swept for five miles and almost every building in a track half a mile wide was demolished. Here IS deaths have been reported. From Sedalia, Mo., two deaths are reported, while rumors, unverified as yet, make the total much larger. Dead Already Identified Hern Gray, Kansas City. Max Spitskofnky, Kansas City, died in hospital today. Henr.v < ameron nod three children, Mfrwin. Mo. <.ihson tirove*. Bates county. Mrs. K. M. Bice. Bates county. Mrs. Joseph Johnson. Bates county. A daughter in law of Frank Corey and her haby, Bates county. Dan Carlos and wife, Leeton, near Sedalia. I.uclle Cox. W. H. Todd. !-:. S. Howe. Between Merwin and Adrian, Mis souri: Mrs. Oscar Alexander and three chil dren. Mrs. George Reed. Vnldentified (irrek. At Montgomery. Missouri: Mr*. Kllsworth Clark. At Creighton. Missouri: Mrs. I.cc Parker. (herald Stevens. Vena Stevens. tiny Booth, Sutherland, Itlsseuri In the country between Merwin and Adrtan the storm came up suddenly and swept clean its path through the northern section of the country. In one place the storm over the farm killed 50 head of live stock, but did no other damase. The storm struck Bates county half a mile from Merwin. There, when the home of Henry Cameron was destroyed and his three children killed, the wind picked up his baby and it was found uninjured a mile from home today. The bodies of Gibson and Fred Groves were found a mile from their home. They were in the building when the storm struck. Telephone wires throughout Bates county are down and the reports have been brought by messengers. In the country surrounding Sedalia the wires air* down, but aid is being rushed to the outlying towns by War r< nsburg, Sedalia and Windsor. Nothing has been heard from the dis trict lying between Windsor, Mo., and Butler, Mo. Tornado Strikes Ohio ZANESVTIXiJBi 0., June 16.—Two were killed and a score injured today when a tornado struck here, toppling the steeple of the St. Thomas Catholic church through the roof while services were being heard. Rev. F. B. Roach was struck and hurt while administer ing the last sacrament as 500 hundred of the congregation were fleeing. The dead: monies Skinion, head crushed by falling stone. John F. Dinan, crushed, died two hours later. The etorm started in the western Continued on Pafie 2. Column a THE San Francisco CALL ROOT PLEADS FOR HARMONY IN CONVENTION "Welfare of Party Must Be Put Above Friendships," Says Senator | AVOWED CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION BY REPUBLICAN CONVENTION, WHICH MEETS IN CHICAGO TOMORROW MORNING. FINE TRAIN WILL CARRY BOURBONS "Houn' Dawg" Specia! Leaves for Baltimore Tonight With California Delegation California's "noun' dawg" special is to start from this city at JO o'clock to night. This state's representatives in tlie democratic national convention at Baltimore will make the trip across the continent "just as <ie luxe"' as the delegates to the republican national convention at Chicago. But there will be no exclusiveness about the train which is going to start with the democrats tonight over the Western Pacific. The California bour bons, in real democratic style, have in vited newspaper men and all other citizens to join them on their special. They are desirous that the people of the state shall be advised of the hap penings on the train and they have made special arrangements for the news writers. "We are Califofnlans, all of us. and we want the folks at home to keep a line on us," said one of the democratic delegates yesterday. Plenty of Hospitality Hospitality Is the one word that Is going to be in their minds about as often as the name of Champ Clark. Wines, grape juice, mineral water, rais ins and fruits in abundance are to be taken on the train and used to boost California. George Vice of Sacramento Is to be special baggageman on the trip, but keeping check on the baggage will be about the least of his troubles. He is to be chief dispenser of California liquids on the train and when headquarters are opened on the first floor of Hotel Kernan in Baltimore, he will have the assistance of a number of gentlemen lin white coats in pouring out Cali fornia gladness. A glimpse at the !'st of donations by California pro ducers indicates that Vice and his staff j will be busy. There will be 400 quarts !of Cooks water, 1,400 quarts of wine, a ton of grape juice and half a car load of fruit. Bed Is Chairman It Is estimated that there will be 100 passengers on the democratic spe cial. Of the 26 delegates, IS will probably board the train here. Theo dore A. Bell, chairman of the delega tion, James G. Maguire, Albert M. Ste phens and A. H. Kallmeyer are al ready in the ea~t. Edward O. Miller, who was elected a delegate, died two weeks ago. Delegate Benjamin H. Smith of Dos Angeles is not going. H. R. McNoble will probably hoard the train at Stockton and Charles B. An dross at Marysviile. The Western Pacific has assured the democrats that the train will be the finest that has ever left the city. In addition to the special baggageman there will be a stenographer and a bar ber. The trip is to be made leisurely so that visits may be made to the tabernacle in Salt Dake City and side trips may be had in Colorado. The train is due to arrive in Baltimore over the Pennsylvania line at 8:45 a. m., Monday, June 24. the day before the opening of the convention. Senator J. B. Sanford of Ukiah, who Is to be the next national committee man in this state, is planning to stam pede the convention with a real "houn' dawg" which, he says, will bay at the moon every time he is kicked around. Bob Hutchison of Ukiah, chairman of the democratic committee of Men docino county, will also take along a cub bear that he will turn loose on all the delegates that do not shout for Clark. When Clark is placed in nomi nation, Sanford and his son Henry will start the "houn* dawg" howling on the platform while Hutchison will dance tiie grizzly bear with the cub. SAN FRANCISCO, MONf AY, JUNE 17, 1912. California Girl Kills Herself in New York Hotel | [Special Dispatch to The Call} \ \ NEW YORK, June 16.—Flor- J | ence Weston of Santa Barbara, j ! Cal., aged 25 years, until Fri- ! ! day a nurse in the post grad- < >uate hospital here, ended her J > life drinking a solution of eya- 1 ( nide of potassium in the Hotel j > Astor Saturday night. j > The coroner's physician found | | on the dresser two sealed let- ! | ters, one to Mrs. Florence < ! Weston, Santa Barbara, prob- ; | ably her mother, and the sec- \ [ ond to Miss Stevens, training ! I school for nurses. j > A note to the coroner read as j > follows: ! ; "T am Florence Weston of j Santa Barbara. Tdo this cow- j ! ardly act because I was forced J » to resign from my school after ! | working so hard, with eight < 1 months of night work. I sim- J » ply could not stand the dis- \ ; grace. I want my body ere- < ; mated." J JURY TO QUESTION 'SCOTTY' TOMORROW Los Angeles Officials Want to Determine Whether He Is a Faker or Not [Special Dispatch to The Call] LOS ANGELEP, June ]6.—The ques tion, "where did 'Death Valley Scotty' get his money?" may be finally set tled, for there is to be an official in vestigation into his methods and inti mate affairs. The Dos Angeles county grand jury Tuesday will ask Walter Scott, who is now in jail charged with contempt of court, to explain the source of his Income, and to define the loca tion of his paying mines, If he has any, to determine whether he is a bona fide producer, or only a faker. Search by Detectives The proposed inquiry is the result of a search that has been made by county detectives, following Scott's im prisonment for contempt of court, which was ordered when he refused to answer questions in a suit brought by I a local physician for services alleged to have been rendered and never paid for. These questions pertained to his manner of disposing of $25,000, said to have been received June 1, in consid eration of the alleged transfer of Death valley mines to a company recently or ! ganized here. | Has Lapse of Memory F. E. Goodwin, formerly of Port land, secretary of the company, has ex hibited a receipt for the money. Sev eral days after the money was said to have been paid, Scott was haled into court and professed inability to satisfy a judgment for $1,200. The court wanted to know what he had done with the $25,000, and Scott said he could not remember. He was sent to jail until he could refresh his memory. Scott has been summoned to appear before the grand jury, and represen tatives of the district attorney will ex amine him. Officials of the mining company, organized to take over his alleged mine, have also been called to testify before the grand jury. PERILS INCREASE ALONG COLORADO Flood, Already Highest Known, Is Not Yet at Crest; Reptiles Menace Refugees [Special Dispatch to The Call] LOS ANGELjES, June 16.—The re ports of government observers say that the Colorado river at Yuma will be at Its highest next week, the crest of the flood wave being announced for June 26, when the water is expected to register SI feet. This announcement has created dis may along the river, where the situa tion is already acute. Extensive dam- age has been done within the last 48 hours between Yuma and Needles. Near Ehrenberg levees have gone out, and near Searchlight, Nev., many ranch buildings are under water. The town of Blythe, Cal., is prac tically surrounded and Is In imminent danger of being swept away. Some of the inhabitants have hastily sought refuge on higher ground with what be- longings they could readily assemble, and are hourly expecting to see their homes drifting away on the flood. Across from Needles, on the Ari zona side, thousands of feet of con crete wall, put In by the government, is virtually suspended in water, the earth below it having been cut away by the water. This wall, it is feared, is a total loss. Two more serious breaches in the dikes have been re ported above Needles, and warnings have been sent to the threatened towns below the breaks. The water In the Colorado is today higher than at any previous recorded time in its history. Hundreds of fam ilies have been driven out. Added to the discomforts of the refugees perched on the higher ground is the presence of reptiles, including rattlesnakes and "side winders," which appear to have been driven from the bottom lands by thousands and are in an ugly mood. Residents of El Centro, Cal., alarmed over the danger of the river again cut ting Its direct way into the Salton sea, are remaining on guard day and night for the prompt repair of threatened breaks. Signs of Break in Levee NEEDDES, June I«.—That a break in the Colorado river levee had occurred at some unknown point was the belief here tonight, as the river suddenly be gan to fall early this morning and kept it up all day. River men stated that this fall in the water was due to a break at some place where com munication had been cut off, but it was believed to be at some point on the Arizona side. For several years past it has been demonstrated that the greatest dam age during high water occurred after the crest of the flood had been reached and the water began to recede, and to combat this situation the Santa Fe railroad is now marshaling hundreds of men and a great quantity of ma terial to protect the Needles and its bridges here, and the bridges farther south. Topock, on the Arizona side. It Is believed here today, will be the most critical point when the flood subsides and the current turns once more Into its banks. Ten thousand sacks, which will be filled with sand, are being un loaded at that point and barges wil carry in brush and rock. COLONEL NEEDS 41 VOTES Without Them He Will Lose GEORGE A. VAN SMITH [Special Dispatch to The Call] CHICAGO, June 16.—Colonel Roosevelt must win over at least 41 delegates - instructed for Taft before the beginning of actual hostilities Tues day morning, or the proceedings of the republican national convention will be an amplified but reversed reproduction ogf the flattening exhibition given four years ago, when the steam roller was in possession of Roosevelt and Continued on Page 2, Column 4 SHIPPING MAGNATE TRIMS CHAUFFEUR Captain John Barneson Indulges in Sunday Afternoon Fistic Encounter on Road [Special Dispatch to The Call] SAN MATEO, June 16.—Captain John Barneson, shipping magnate, gave a whirlwind demonstration of fistic prow ess this afternoon in the county road at Hay ward avenue in a fight with James Ervind, chauffeur for John E. Gallois of the White House, San Fran cisco. There was about five minutes of lively scrapping before the chauffeur ran. It required five witnesses to pre vent the shipping magnate from giv ing chase. The chauffeur, however, claims the victory in that he secured a constable and slipped a charge of battery against Captain Barneson as the finshlng blow of the battle. The cause of the fight was an auto mobile accident about half an hour before. The 17 year old son of Cap tain Barneson says that he was driv ing an automobile down the county road at the rate of about 35 miles an hour. At Hayward avenue Chauffeur Ervind, with Gallois In the car, was turning into the county road and the two machines met head on. In the smashup both machines were de molished. Barneson was hurried home bruised, but not seriously hurt. He told his father that it was all*the fault of Gallois' chauffeur, and the captain bustled into his coat, slapped on his hat and started up the road. Gallois and his chauffeur were still at the scene of the accident looking over the cars. '\Hullo, Gallois!" breezily sallied the captain. "Where's your chauffeur?" Gallois pointed to Ervind. Without another word Car4&ln Barneson landed a right swing on the point of the un suspecting Ervind's jaw. They mixed, but the captain was too powerful, so Ervind ran. Dater he came back with the guar dian of the law. Barneson was re leased on bis own recognizance to ap pear In court tomorrow morning. Barneson retaliated by filing a charge against the chauffeur of exceeding the speed limit. I— m OREGON TIMBER MAN IS ARRESTED FOR FORGERY Prisoner Figured in So Called Land Fraud Cases PORTLAND, June 16.—Stephen A. D. Puter, a timber operator and one of the best known of the defendants on the so called Oregon land fraud cases of 1906. was arrested here late today on a telegraphic warrant from Minne apolis. The warrant charged forgery. Further than that the detectives are unable to give any information. AI THE WEATHER — Highest temperature, 80; " Saturday night, 58. r FORECAST FOR TODAY —Fair; light northwest wind. For Detail* of the Weather See Page 13 INSURGENTS SLAY TWELVE FEDERALS Rebel Commander Dies of D.T.s; Lid at Madera Is at Once Battened Down [Special Dispatch to The Call] CHIHUAHUA, Mex., June 16—Skir mishing today between outposts of the federals and rebels at Da Cruz, 50 miles south of Bachimba, the rebel strong hold, resulted In a loss to the govern ment of 12 dead and the rebels two, according to reports tonight to Gen- Calamity at Madera MADERA, June 16.—Captain Cristo bal Amaya, commander of the rebel garrison here, died today of delirium tremens and all saloons have been ordered closed. Government troops stopped a train today near here and took several sacks of gold ore. ONLY TWO FATALITIES IN VOLCANIC ERUPTION Latest Reports From Kodiak Island Are Cheering SEWARD, Alaska, June 16.—The revenue cutter McCulloch arrived to day direct from Kodiak with the news that conditions in the district covered by ashes from Katmai volcano are much improved and that there Is no confirmation of reports of heavy loss of life on the mainland. All the inhabitants of KatmaU a mainland village near the volcano, are safe, having been taken to Afognak. This explains the failure of the tug Redondo to find any sign of life when she made her cruise off Katmai bay Thursday. The only fatalities known to have resulted were a woman and a baby. Livestock are being cared for by government men. Vegetation is said to be growing under the ash, which has settled to a depth of 18 inches, and re cent rains have cleared the water, so there is no shortage on the island now. NEW YORK GANG MEN "SHOOTING UP" CITY Death Lurks in Streets Even in Daytime [Special Dispatch to The Call], NEW YORK, June 16.—Gunmen of the lower East Side gangs continued their reign of terror by shooting two men in broad daylight today. One of the victims was killed outright; the other is dying in a city hospital. The man who did the shooting is known to the police as "Yellow." Recently he moved uptown, and today 'Yellow" held up 20 people in a Dexlngton ave nue saloon, shot the bartender through the brain and emptied his gun among the others. A waiter was hit by one of the bullets, which tore a big gash through his left lung and came out through the chest. Police reserves | made a house to house search for "Yel low," but so far he haa escaped. PRICE FIVE CENTS. COLONEL HAS LINE CAST FOR TAFT VOTES Mighty Hunter Angles Fran tically to Bring Delegates Pledged to President to His Support RESULT OF OVERTURES PROVES DISCOURAGING Associate Justice Hughes Crops Out Again as Possible Com» promise Candidate to Save the Party SITUATION AT CHICAGO CONTINUES UNCERTAIN GEORGE GRISWOLD HILL [Special Dispatch to The Call] CHICAGO, 111., June 16.—Senator Root, who arrived this morning, set himself immediately to the task of getting in touch with the situation. He expressed the hope. If not the belief, that the fight which is being waged between the two candi dates would not end In the destruction of the republican party as an agency of government. "The situation is simply this," Root said, after he had conferred with vari ous leaders.. "Taft has an abundant ma jority to be nominated. The only question is whether they will stick. They are making desperate efforts to pull them away. But that sort of thing will work both ways. If any of the/delegates violate their instructions there are others who will as certainly go over to Taft. "It is purely an impersonal matter with me. The welfare of the party is more important to me than the for tunes of either one of these candidates. I am very fond of both Mr. Roosevelt and President Taft. I have known Mr. Roosevelt longer, but their scrap is comparatively unimportant. Party Above Friendships "I consider the republican party a great agency for good government. What concerns me is the possibility of destroying it as an agency. Its re moval as an instrument of government would leave only confusion. I don't want to see any large agency of gov ernment broken up, not even the dem ocratic party. The only way for the Roosevelt people to make themselves regular is to get a majority in the con vention." This morning a long circus train with gilt band wagons, animal cages and all the other paraphernalia of a well regulated show was shunted slowly down the railroad tracks across from the Congress hotel. Its appearance brought out many cheers and jeers from Taft delegates. "First we get Teddy; then we get his circus,*' declared one of them. Bryan in "Enemy's" Camp William J. Bryan made his appear ance in the convention city today. He Is here, not in any political but as a reporter. His visit to the Florentine room, where the Roosevelt committee has Its headquarters, aroused a great commotion. There were shouts and jeers and many calls for "a new party, Roosevelt and Bryan." The Nebraskan didn't seem to take It very seriously. He laughed and chatted with Senator Borah for a mo ment and went away. A second distinguished democrat here was William J. Conners of Buffalo, formerly state chairman of New York. Probably the noisiest delegation here is that from West Virginia, although the Oklahoma men run a close second. West Virginia has an impromptu glee club, most of whose members sing through megaphones to the detriment of tone quality, but with great effect as to volume. It is generous with its music, too. It has a slogan, to wit: "Fight 'em. H.Anton Bock * fe>T <M ANTONIO Clear Havana through and "|Nw through. ./fjlC M Distributers >01, I >61 167 California 1 St.