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Total Number of Items in Yesterday's
CALL 209
Chronicle 148
Examiner J 70
VOLUME CXn.—NO. 61.
STATE ROAD
ROUTED TO
BUY VOTE
Governor Johnson and His Allies
Threaten Hanford to Con
trol Convention
HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER
COUSINS REVEALS PLANS
A. V. Taylor to Be Nominated
for Assembly to Assist
if Roosevelt
TULARE SEEMS SLATED
FOR A DOUBLE CROSS
(Specia/ Dispatch to The Call}
HAN'FORD. July 30.—From the
state capitol has come the
threat that if A. V. Taylor is
net griven the republican nomi
nation for the assembly the state high
way will not be roufed through Han
ford.
The efforts of Governor Hiram W.
Johnson and his political allies to gain
of the republican convention
so that men pledged to Roosevelt will
be nominated for presidential electors
are now being turned to selling the
tlg,OOo,oOe highway for Roosevelt
vote&
In Kings county the tactics of the
administration are similar to those
brought to light recently in Contra
Costa county, where Governor John
son informed Ralph Jones that he must
withdraw from the senatorial fight in
favor of Seiner Crosby, or Contra
' nsta county would be overlooked in
the routing of the state highway.
Hal her than be the cau* of an injury
in hlf: county, Jones stepped aside for
Croeby, who removed to Contra Costa
county only recently from Alameda,
which city he now represents in the
assembly.
Change of Registration
H»nry Cousins, a member of the
. '""mty highway commission, of which
Taylor is also a member, boldly an
nounced today that Hanford must send
Taylor to the assembly or lose the , state
highway. He changed his registration
today from democrat to republican so
that he will be able to vote for Tay
lor and the political highway.
The demands of the state adminis
tration are fully understood in thie
• •ounty. Bowing to the. inevitable, the
county highway commission has en-
tered into a purely political deal
whereby the state highway is to be
built through Hanfor<j as payment for
the nomination of a man to the as
sembly who will betray his party in
the republican convention September 24
by supporting bull moose electors.
There is no secrecy connected with
tins political jobbery. The county com
missioners, who have made many trips
tr> Sacramento, boldly proclaim that
the deal has been made. The pro
gressive slogan here is "Vote for A. V.
Taylor, the Roosevelt nominee for as
semblyman, and the great state high
way."
Cousins unhesitatingly unfolded the
terms of the deal today when he ap
peared at the office of the county clerk
to change his party affiliation from
democrat to republican so that he could
aid Hanford to get the state highway
In the presence of Assistant Clerk
Shore, two newspaper men and another
voter who was registering at the time,
cousins said that Hanford was to get
the highway if Taylor were nominated
for the assembly.
Hanford. and Kings county have been
r eyed since early in the fall over
tl>e state highway routing. A county
•nmmission was appointed, consisting of
Henry Cousins, A. V. Taylor and J. D.
Biddle. Much work was done. Han
ford seemed certain to get the road. At
last came the whisper: "Do the right
t!iing in tie primaries and everything
will be O. K."
Vote Trading Proposed
It was also suggested that, since
Marshall Stimson was close to the ad
minietration, he might have some in
'luence. Accordingly, Stimson was com
missioned to draw up a brief setting
forth the claims of Hanford and Kings
ounty to the state highway routing.
The tip went out that proper recep
tloa of Stimson and Heney as speakers
for the Roosevelt cause and a substan
tial vote for Roosevelt would end the
tight for the highway.
Heney and Stimson came. P'lowers
lecorated the speakers stand and men
of differing faith gathered to give the
kind of reception that would warm the
iearts of the politicians who were wili
ng to trade the state highway for
votes. Then came the primaries with a
&ig Roosevelt majority.
Shortly after the primaries the county
rommission appeared before the state
sighway commission with the magical
stlm*on brief, only to be informed that
before the commission had de
!ided to route the highway down the
ralley, touching Tulare and leaving
-lanford and Visalia off the map.
immediately an indignant cry went
Continued «n Pa»e 2, Column S
THE San Francisco CALL
Drs. Gay and Rusk,
Who Are Advancing
Antisera Research
Crowd Cheers When
Auto and Pulmotor
Save Infant*s Life
[Special Dispatch to The tail]
LOUISVILLE. Ky., July 30.—At
tracted by the rush of an automobile,
500 persons waited outside a drug store
here today while a pulmotof was used
to save the life of a 1 year oW boy.
C. D. Pernett, father of the child, had
carried him to the store after seeing
the baby swallow more than 10 grains
of morphine in tablets.
When the pulmotor had been used it
was announced through a megaphone
that the baby would recover and the
crowd cheered as it dispersed.
■ >
RIPLEY MAY RETIRE
AS HEAD OF SANTA FE
Report Also Says Rock Island
President Will Resign
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
CHICAGO. July 30.—While officials
of the Atcbison, Topeka and Santa Fβ
railroad today denied that K. P. Ripley
would resign the presidency of that
system, there is a rumor here that the
resignation already is in the hands of
the board of directors.
Tt is declared that Ripley will be suc
ceeded by Henry D. Mudge, president
of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
railroad. The latter's place, the re
port says, will be rilled by Ben T. Cable
of Rock Island, 111.
At the office of Ripley the only com
ment was:
'Mr. Ripley is not contemplating
leaving the presidency of this road for
many years. H*- has work in hand
now that would make such a step im
possible."
WOMEN WILL DOMINATE
LOS ANGELES THEATER
Men Are Barred From Staff of
New House
Lbs ANGELES, July 30.—A theater
with a seating capacity of about I,oo©
is to open in this city August 5, the
manager and all the employes of which
are to be women.
Mrs. Anna M. Mozart, the manager,
announced that the rule against men
is absolute and that even the scene
shifters and the special policeman to
guard against disturbance of the peace
will be of her own sex.
She explained her policy by saying
there was no position in or around a
theater which could not be fiilled as
efficiently by a woman as by a man
and in those positions which bring
them in direct contact with the pa
trons, women were much more courte
ous atid conscientious in the perform
ance of their duties.
J. H. McCALLUM NAMED
HARBOR COMMISSIONER
San Franciscan to Serve Un
expired Term of Hill
[Special Dispatch to The Cell]
SACRAMENTO. July 30.— J. H. Mc-
Callum of San Francisco was appointed
a member of the state board of harbor
commissioners, vice the late Commis
sioner Hill, by Governor Johnson to
night.
The appointment wm announced after
a conference with President Dwyer of
the commission. He was here today.
McCallum will serve out Hill's unex
pired term.
The appointment of Dr. Elas Harbert
of Stockton as a member of the board
of managers of the Stockton state noa
pital, vice N. F. Tickle of Sonora, term
expired, was also made tonight by the
governor. Tickle's term was up today.
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LATE DISCOVERY
REVOLUTIONIZES
Achievemeflts of University Sa
vants hi Medical Research
Simplifies Treatment .
"Intraveoal of Injec
tion Saves Time to Perfect
ing Blood Culture
! [Specie. , DitfMkh to Th* Call]
BERKEIUET. July 30.—Experi
ments In meAte&l research have
■ ended in the discovery by Dγ,
j Frederick !». Q*y, professor of
patholory, and Dr. J. G. Fitzgerald, as
sistant professor of bacterlolog-y In the
Untveratiy of California, of a new
method of Immunization from disease
by antitoxin. • The method, shortening ,
the time of auch work In all other
methods, will be a great advance. It is
predicted, in diagnosis by blood cul
ture. In collaboration the scientists
have outstripped in this achievement
the most eminent investigators of Eu
rope.
Doctors Qay and Fitzgerald have de
veloped in eight days a potent anti
toxin for typhoid and cholera, and are
now perfecting in detail their method, >
as applied to these diseases. At the
same time they have extended their
investigations to tetanus, and expect
soon to achieve similar results in the
treatment or prevention of that iefec
tion. In all these diseases the element
of time in diagnosis, in preparation of
serum and in using antitoxin is import
ant, hence the high value of their dis
covery.
When their results had been attained
the work seemed simple. They learned
by experiments on rabbits that the
serum could be injected directly into
a vein—the "ftitravenal method—as
distinguished from the hypodermic or
peritoneal Injections applied in Europe
and America. By thus administering:
the serum, or the "antigen," as the dis
turbing and, poisonous organisms are
CMtiawM •■' *■*• % COIBM 4
WOMAN IS SHOT BY
JEALOUS SUITOR
Demonstrator of Perfumes in
Santa Cruz Casino Is
Wounded in Cheek
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
SANTA CRUZ, July 30.—Insanely
jealous Mrs. Norma Durner.
the pretty demonstrator of perfumes
for R. R. Rodgers, had spurned the at
tentions paid to her during the last few
weeks, a waiter who refused to dis
close his identity to the police created
a scene of wild excitement tonight at
the Casino when he walked to the con
cession in charge of Mrs. Durner and
whipping a revolver from his pocket
fired two shots, one of which passed
through the woman's jaw and cheek.
The shooting occurred shortly after
8 o'clock when the lower floor of the
Casino was thronged. The wouldbe
assassin attempted to shoot himself, but
bystanders overpowered him. At the
county jail he refused to reveal hie
identity.
Mrs. Durner will recover.
RICH WIDOW CHARGES
WARD WITH FORGERY
Girl Says She Was Held Pris
oner in Home
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
NEW YORK, July 30.—Vigorous de
nial was made this evening of state-,
ments contained in a dispatch from
Denver stating that Viola Dawson. the
18 year old ward of Mre. E. D. Carroll,
a wealthy widow, had been held a pris
oner by Mrs. Carroll and not allowed to
visit her mother, a needy widow, living
in Denver.
The girl is in the Tombs on a charge
of having fofged several checks in the
name of Mrs. Carroll.
, Mrs. Carroll, her daughter, Mrs. Pearl
Engel. and the latter's two little chil
dren are here. Mrs. Engel said this
evening: \
"It is untrue that we never allowed
Viola money enough to buy a ticket to
Denver. She' took enough money from
my mother to purchase half a dozen
ticket*.
"Although we hired Viola at first,
simply as a nurse girl, we soon became
so attached to her that we treated her
as one of the family."
JUDGE JAILS HIS CRITIC
FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT
[Special Dupaich to The Cell]
MACON. Oa., July 30.—Following hie
writing of a 45 page letter to Judge
Emery Speer of the United States
court for the Southern District of
Georgia, suggesting- the judge's im
peachment and sensationally attacking
bis acts upon the bench. Colonel W. A.
Huff. 81 years old, former mayor of
Maicon, was arrested here today for
• contempt of court* » I
Scene of Forfeiture Suit Shifts
Fight for Agricultural Empire Is Renewed
FLAMES CAUSE
PANIC IN HOTEL
Several.Women Faint and Are
Carried to Safety From Smoke
Filled Structure
Fire originating In the basement of
the Empire hotel at the northwest cor
ner of Taylor and Turk streets filled
the upper" floors with a dense cloud of
smoke and caused the guests to rush
from the building in a panic Several
women fainted and had to be carried
from the place.
The smoke had only one avenue of
escape and that was through a door in
the basement leading into the elevator
shaft and up through the shaft and
stairway to the four stories where the"
guests were asleep. There was a cry of
lire and the guests rushed into the
halls. Several attempted to run down
the stairs but the smoke drove them
back. The elevator was not of suffi
cient sixe to care for the large number
of persons in the building.
Several ' guests became ' confused,
thinking the fire was in the hotel prop
er. Two women,, are known to have
fainted and were carried' to the street
by attendants of the hotel. .
When,the department arrived Jt was
found necessary to chop up the con
crete sidewalk to get at the blaze. This
caused " further confusion' among the
guests as the smoke- then poured up
the side of the building by the flre es
capes.
The fire started in rubbish in the
basement. There was litle damage to
the hotel. It is* managed by Prestley
and Joy.
ROCK ISLAND TRAIN
GOES THROUGH BRIDGE
Many Passengers Reported • In*
jured in Accident in Colorado
PUEBLO, Colo., Jitfy 30.—1t is re
ported 'that a* Rock Island passenger
train went through a bridge about a
mile north of Pueblo at 11 o'clock to
night and many passengers Injured.
The engineer has not been found and
it is believed he Is dead. The engine
was almost buried in mud.
The bridge is on the Rio Grande
line over which Rock Island trains
enter Pueblo. Heavy rains tonight are
supposed to have weakened the bridge.
FORGER BLAMES WOMAN
AS HE GOES TO PRISON
James F. Hill Sentenced to Five
Year Term in San Qttentin
[Special DUpotJi to The CaU)
URIAH, July 30.—James F. Hill, ar
rested here last week while endeavor
ing to cash a draft J 6n the Union Trust,
company at, the Bank of Uklah. pleaded
guilty today and was sent to Ban Quen
tin for a term of live years. Htll
claimed the fast life he had been lead
ing and the pressing needs of moftey to
retain the affection* at a woman tiaueed
Ms trouble. ' ■ :
J Principal* inthe by ifk. federal, government against the, Oregon
and of lands north $75,000,000.
Atfempt to M&ve Oregon Railroad Case
Heard in Secret Fails
UNCLE SAM brought his fight to San Francisco yesterday to recover
2,300,000 acres of agricultural lands in Oregon, worth $75,000,000,
from the Oregon and California Railroad company, a subsidiary of
the Southern Pacific Railroad, company, on the ground that the rail
road company had violated the "terra*, of the grants.
When the hearing .opened yesterday afternoon, William Singer Jr.,
Cttliti Wl Psit >, CoL «
JUDGES ARE ASKED
TO JAIL SPEEDERS
Grand Jury, Declares That the
Customary Light Fines
Fail to Curb Evil
—
As a result of the numerous acci
dents caused by careless and reckless
automobile drivers In the city to which
the " attention 'of tHe grand jury was
called by a cartoon on the editorial
page 'of The ' Call yesterday morning,
the jury at its session last night took
steps to lessen the danger to pedes
trians.
A resolution waa passed urging the
officers to be more .alert In enforcing
the ordinance and asking that magis
trate* in the city and county of San
Francisco punish all offenders for
by jail sentences instead of
light fines.
Orders will be issued to city and
county officers to pay particular atten
tion to automobile 'speeders, and It is
the belief of the grand Jury, that by
imposing a few jail sentences speeding
will become unpopular.
HAWLEY AQENT DICKERS
FOR DENVER RAILROAD
Note Holders Consider* Offer and
Defer Decision ,
[Specie/ Dispatch to The Call]
NEW TOR*; July 30.—Negotiations
over the sale of the Denver, Northwest
ern and Pacific railway to Newman Erb,
as representative of the Hawley Inter*
ests, continued today, but Information
wU withheld concerning: the . terms
upn which the purchase had been
based and concerning , the progress of
the negotiations. The note, holders'
protective committee has had the £rb
offer under consideration since the mid
die of last week, but will not come to a
final decision in the matter until certain
counter suggestions under discussion
%y the Denver Interests In tktcomvany
are out of the way.
[.* THE WEATHER
- Highest temperature, 64;
AL BLOCH'S WIFE
FLITS FROM CITY
Henry M. Keilus Vanishes on
Same Train, But Alone,
Says His Family
Leaving a brief note saying she had
gone east never to return. Mrs. Marie
Bloch, wife of Al Bloch, a well known
figure in the sporting world of San
Francisco, deserted her husband and
their' apartments at the St. Francis last
Monday night andleft the xity by the
Santa Fe, presumably carrying out her
declared intention.
On the same train, Henry M. Keilus,
son of the late Charles Keilus, former
proprietor of the Hub clothing store,
went east on business. Keilus' family,
who were at the ferry to see him off,
indignantly denied last night'the inti
mation he could have gone other than
alone, although admitting the pair have
been on friendly terms.
Bloch does not concur.
"It is true she*has gone," said Bloch.
"Her note mentioned no names, but I
have reasons for knowing with whom
she went. Of course, I shall not pursue
her. When a woman wants to leave a
man, he is a fool to attempt to detain
her, yet I scarcely expected this after
10 years."
M. E. Dias. brother in law of Keilus,
admitted a friendship existed between
his relative and Mrs. Bloch, but satd
emphatically she could not have ac
companied him.
"Keilus went east in connection with
certain promotion work he has had in
hand," be said* "and it is probable he
will remain there, engaging in the
brokerage business. My mother in law.
Mrs. Henry Keilus, my wife, and I were
all at the station to bid him farewell.
His manner was natural and I am ab
solutely satisfied that no one went
With him."
Mrs. Bloch, who was a familiar char
acter some years ago as Marie Albers,
Iβ a strikingly beautiful brunette, and
renowned for her stylish gowns.
PRICE FIVE^eBNm
NEW YORK'S
GANGSTERS
SLAIN
James Verella, Who Revealed
Hiding Place of One of
. RostsninaTs Assailants
Is Killed
yet.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY SOON
WILL HURL THUNDERBOLT
Lieutenant Becker, Tombs Pris
oner and Shorn of Uniform
and Power, May Reveal
"Higher Ups"
PROSECUTION IS WEAVING
TIGHT NET ABOUT CROOKS
PATRICK GALLAGHER
tSpeekl Dupalch to The Cell] ,
NEW YORK, July 31.—James
Verrella, proprietor of the
Dante cafe at 163 West Thir
ty-fourth street, was mur
dered on.the third floor of his resort
early this morning. Investigation
showed that he w» shot down in re
venge for his betrayal of Frank Ciro
fico, a member of the party that
killed Herman Rosenthal.
Since the arrest of Cirofico last
Thursday night in a flat in Harlem
it had been whispered that Verrella
was the man who told the police
where he could be found. William
Lorenzo, one of the men under arrest
for killing Verrella, is a well known
He- fs-believed t© nave
been delegated with his companion,
Albert Content©, to kill Verrella for
betraying Cirofico.
The Dante cafe had been the ren
dezvous of Cirofico ever since Ver
rella took charge of it last May. The
saloon on the ground floor had been for
months the meeting place for young
gamblers and criminals. Ciroflco, who
was one of the best known figures
among the frequenters of the plaoe.
was on intimate terms with Verrella.
He considered Verrella his best friend
and took him entirely into his confi
dence. Verrella had been acquainted
with every movement of Cirofico since
the murder of Rosenthal.
DECKER FACES
D THIRD DEGREE
NEW YORK, July 30.—1n cell 112
in the Tombs prison, Charles A. Becker,
the deposed head of the "strong arm"
squad, stripped of his uniform as a
police lieutenant, of fiis power as the
husky captain of huskies sitting on the
neck of the pluguglies of New York's
underworld, sits, gritting his teeth,
bracing his nerves, facing the relent
less "third degree," which he loved to
impose upon others.
Can Becker, strong man though he
be, mentally and physically, stand up
against this ordeal?
In the very shadow of the electric
chair, will his nerves hold out?
Or will he, like a drowning man,
snatching at a straw, beg Whitman
for a promise of clemency on his own
pledge to "give up" what he knows?
Upon the strength or weakness of
Becker, however construed, depends the
safety and the peace of mind of the
men "higher up." They are following
every whisper that comes from the
grim walls of the Tombs with the fran
tic terror of children afraid of the
dark.
Startling revelations were made to
day which have thrown this city into
tumult. The thunderbolts are now com
ing thick and fast. Three high police
officials and a civilian high in the city
government and in politics are known
to be among those named by Jack Rose
as sharing the graft which he milked
fWE WILL SELL^
80 ihim Preferred, at f 1W.60.
M shares Commea, at #*§.
KNOX HAT GO.
M Central Bask of Oakland, Bid.
40 Vulcan Tin Insurance at Via, ' '
ICO American Marconi at market.
100 Amerieaa TelegTaphone at «s.M
100 Western Mortcag* and Ouarant7 Com
-75 Western States Life lasnraaoe at 112.60.
M Cal. State Ufa Insurance at f>0.50.
WE WILL BUY
1000 Call Ante iwiteh.
100 Teleyeat ••£''£" »»4 eeewert.
•foe iRSSI. ■& life ZBsnmace.
M 0 Csltfenda Stat* I4fe lavotaao*,
M Fowlsen Wirelaas Corporation.
. M Talcaji Win Insurance.
60 Ban FrancUoo Sec Ce.
100 V. %• Caaaier.
M AaMieaa Srar «radl««s».
Advise v of avmSer of sharea sal toveat
Cash Price.
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