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Number of Sports Items in Yesterdays
Call 104
Chronicle 91
Examiner 85
VOLUME CXH.—NO. 7
JOHNSON TELLS
HIS STORY AS
A "CRUSADER"
Governor Informs Bull Moosers
That He Addresses Them
Not as Candidate
C. S. Wheeler Likens Campaign
to Movement Started by
Peter the Hermit
Six Thousand Welcome State
Executive and Others of
"New Dispensation"
PRESENTING themselves as mem
bers of the "progressive" party,
never as ."republicans," but as
persons of a new dispensation.
Governor Hiram Johnson and several
of his fellow delegates to the conven
tion which nominated Theodore Roose
velt for president and Johnson for vice
president on the "bull moose" ticket
appeared at Dreamland pavilion last
evening to a capacity house. It was a
reception given by his partisans to
Johnson on his return from the second
trip to Chicago and the third party
gathering. He had a friendly house of
men and women, many of whom were
decorated with 10 cent bandanas to
prove their fealty to progressiveness in
politics—and reactionaryism in pocket
handkerchiefs.
There was no bull moose head in
cluded in the decorations of the pa
vilion, the huge place being generously
hung in American flags.
Attacks Newspapers
Johnson spoke for 32 minutes and
touched on the campaign that is to be
made, told something of the spirit of j
the Chicago convention —of both of the j
Chicago conventions as he experienced i
them—attacked indirectly the news
papers that have opposed him and his
colonel, and declared that the success
of tiie progressive principles was the
only thing that would save the nation
from a bloody revolution. •*■
''hester H Roweil of Fresno made
the most personal speech of the even
ing when he- predicted that Johnson
would be candidate for president four
years from now. and to prove that he
is somewhat of a prophet, he recited a
prophecy he made two years ago when
he predicted that Johnson would be
elected governor of the state and in
1912 would become a candidate for the
\ ice presidency.
All the "progressives" in tbe employ
of the state were there —Railroad Com
n-issioners Eshleman and Alex Gordon,
Harbor Commissioner Williams. Jack
Neylan, member of the state board of
control; Secretary Charles Detrich of
the state board of harbor commission
ers, Assemblyman "Jimmy" Ryan and
many others. Progressive Tom Finn
might have been in the house, but he
wasn't conspicuous. Walter S. Scott, a
< andidate for the assembly, was "yell
leader" and aided the band and the
orators In keeping up enthusiasm.
Six Thousand There
In Dreamland pavilion were about
,; ,°OO people, men and women about
evenly divided, and an overflow meet-
Sng was held in the National theater in
the same block, and was addressed by
several of the speakers from the main
hall.
John W. Stetson of Alameda, presi
dent of the Eincoln-Roosevelt league of
<'alifornla, under the auspices of which
the rally was held, presided. The
speakers were Meyer Lissner of I»s
A;,ge!es. chairman of the republican
.-tate central committee, a party and a
■ -mmlttee with which Lissner avowed
■ •> affiliation: former Governor George
1 Pardee of Oakland; Charles S. Whee
•. the Pan Francisco attorney and
gate to on" and near delegate to
another Chicago convention; Mrs.
Elisabeth Gerberding, Chester H.
Flo well, editor of the Fresno Republi
can, an.i Governor Jonjason.
Johnson as Crusader
Johnson, in opening his address, de
clared that he did not appear as a can
didate, but as a crusader, a figure used
earlier in the evening by Wheeler, who
based a Rooseveltlao metaphor on the
sudden movement started by Peter the
Hermit. The governor was epigram
matic, forceful, argumentative and pro-j
phetie. He declared that today the
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THE San Francisco CALL
Park Holdup Man
Finds Love God Is
Profitable Partner
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
PORTLAND, Aug. 12.—Coo
ing sweethearts in the city
parks were victims of a lone
masked highwayman last night.
One of the swains was S. A.
Petersen, for whom the experi
ence has ceased to be a novelty.
A few months ago Petersen was
shot through the hand when he
resisted a holdup man in San
Francisco.
Last night Petersen, in com
pany with Miss Sadie Wilson,
was overtaken at Fourteenth
and Quimby streets by a high
wayman shortly before mid
night.
"Hands up," ordered the man.
Petersen turned and hesitated
about obeying, when the man
swore and said: "Hurry up. I
don't want to have to tell you
again."
Petersen obeyed and the rob
ber deftly went through Peter
sen's pockets, taking $15, but
molesting none of the jewelry
worn by Petersen or Miss Wil
son.
R. W. Piper, sitting with a
maiden in Washington park,
also lost $3.75 to a robber who
worked in the glare of an arc
light.
Aged Swain Seeks
Marriage License;
Gets Hunting Card
[Specie/ Dispatch to The Call]
HAMMOND, Ind., Aug. 12.—Henry
Drake, 40, and Nellie Johnson. 15, ap
peared at the county clerk's office to
day and applied for a marriage license.
When the clerk Informed Drake that
he could not issue a marriage license
for a girl of such tender years, Drake
took the setback like a philosopher.
"If I can't get married I might as
well spend the time I had set aside for
a honeymoon on a vacation," he in
formed the clerk. "If _.you can't give
me a marriage license, give me a. hunt
ing license."
With a hunting license in his
pocket, Drake turned to Miss Johnson
and said:
"This hunting license will keep me
occupied until November. Then you'll
be 16 and we will come back here and
get a marriage license."
The girl consented and they left the
clerk's office arm in aim.
SEATTLE WOMAN KILLED
IN MOUNT RAINIER FALL
Teacher Plunges 500 Feet From
Pinnacle Peak
TACOMA, Aug. 12.—Long distance
telephone message from Longmire
Springs on Mount Rainier, tonight,
states that Miss Helen Hunt, a school
teacher of Seattle, fell 500 feet from
Pinnacle peak to her death this morn
ing.
Miss Hunt was a member of the Ta
eoma Y. M. C. A. party that left here
Tuesday to spend 10 days in mountain
climbing. Sixteen of the party made
the climb this morning. The accident
happened just after the descent had
begun. The other women in the party,
unnerved by the accident, were let
down with ropes.
The body of Miss Hunt, every bone
in which Is declared to have been
broken, was brought to Taeoma to
night in an automobile. Her home is
said to have been in Tama, la.
GIRL, AGED 11, IS HELD
FOR THIRTY-FIVE FIRES
Young Nursemaid Admits to
Police She Is Firebug
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Aug. 12.—Her
eyes red from crying, Edna James, an
11 year old nurse girl, admitted today
she had started three fires in Spring
field. She refused to give any reason
for her act.
Thirty-five fires occurred here Satur
day in various houses. A guard was
placed at the house where Edna
worked and no more blazes occurred.
Her arrest followed.
"Did you start the fires?" she was
asked.
"Just three," the girl replied.
The police believe Edna started them
all.
SAN FRANCISCO. TUI&DAY. AUGUST 13. 1912.
Bridge Blown Up by Raiding Party
Two Dozen Reds Captured by Ruse
Several Officers in Salinas on Lewgw Absence
Are Among Those Trap
By OLIVER W. TUTTLE
[Specia/ Dispatch to The Call]
F.L TOLD RANCH (Red base"). Aug. 12.—Fully two dozen Reds who
were on leave of absence for the evening were caught in a neat trap in
Salinas tonight by a raiding party from the Blue outposts and made prisoners.
The raiders were regulars from the retreating Blue column and were com
manded by Captain A. C. Wright, Twelfth infantry. Among those taken
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BOMBARDMENT ON;
MANAGUANS FLEE
Insurgents Ignore Armistice;
Many Hurt; Government Ex
pects United States Aid
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Aug. 12.—
Despite the armistice, the Nicaraguan
insurgents began the bombardment of
the capital at noon today. The firing
continued all afternoon, shrapnel shells
bursting, with occasionally machine
gun firing on the lines.
Several women and children are
wounded by bullets and from the burst
ing shells, and many persons have fled
from the »-jty.
The guns on Loma hill, the fortress
of the city, are replying to the fire of
the revolutionaries.
A proclamation was issued by the
government warning the people to
leave thp to*n*n.
The revolutionaries attacked the
penitentiary and also the fortress at 5
o'clock this morning, but by 6 o'clock
had been repulsed. They attacked the
government troops covering the east,
side of the city and again were re
pelled atter a sharp engagement.
The Niearaguan government is said
to be depending on the support of the
United States.
Yankee Interests Protected
WASHINGTON. Aug. 12. — For the
protection of American interests in
Nicaragua 350 marines left Panama to
day for Corinto, aboard the collier
Justin. They will supplement the hlue
jackets from the gunboat Annapolis,
who are on guard at Managua, the
capital.
POLICE COMMISSIONER
ARRESTED FOR SPEEDING
James Woods Falls Into Hands
of Park Policeman
Police Commissioner James Woods.
who is also manager of the St. Francis
hotel, had the novel experience last
night of being arrested for violating
one of the ordinances which his own
commission is supposed to enforce,
namely that against automobile speed
ing. He, George Wingfleld of Nevada
and W. EL Travis, manager of the Taxi
cab company of California, were ar
rested in Golden Gate park last even
ing. Travis, who was driving the car,
paid a fine of |20. a
NOONDAY MEAL WITH THE M EDICAL CORPS OF THE BLUES.
DEADLY BLACK SEA
MUTINY IS FOILED
Bold Naval Plot More Daring
Than Kniaz Potemkin
Uprising
[Special Cable to The Call]
ODESSA, Aug. 12.— To seize the Rus
sian imeprial family on board their
yacht and to compel the czar to abdi
cate was the object of a revolutionary
plot framed on board the battleship
Ivan Zlatoust of the Black sea fleet.
The details are just now leaking out.
This conspiracy was more amazingly
daring than the famous mutiny on the
battleship Kniaz Potemkin seven years
ago in the Black sen. Discovery of it
has resulted in tiie arrest of a petty
officer and 16 seamen, all of whom were
promptly sentenced to death.
Th*> conspirators intended to hold up
the imperial yacht while the czar, the
czarina and their five children were
being conveyed from Yalta, their fa
vorite resort in the Crimea, to Sebasto
pol. The czar was to have been com
pelled to either abdicate the throne or
to abrogate his autocratic, powers and
proclaim a limited monarchy and a con
stitutional regime.
The seizure of the Imperial family
was to have been the signal to the
mutinous Baltic fleet, the crews of
which were to have murdered or ar
rested all their officers and to have at
tacked Constadt and St. Petersburg
simultaneously.
MURDER MYSTERY STIRS
COLORADO'S CAPITAL
Man Thought Demented Sought
For as Girl's Slayer *
DENVER. Aug. 12.—Efforts to solve
the mystery surrounding the murder
of Miss Signe A. Cartzen Friday night
at a lonely spot in Montclair, a Denver
suburb, centered today in the examina
tion of ten suspects arrested yesterday.
These men were to be confronted by
Olga Kaiser, 12 years old. who told her
father that a man she thought was de
mented had accosted her in the street
late Friday. According to the Kaiser
girl she encountered the stranger not
far from the spot where the body of
Miss Carlzen was found. Learning from
the girl that a small house near by was
vacant, the unknown man, when last
seen, was climbing through a window
in the« house. •
BANDIT MAKES
DAYLIGHT RAID
Wearing Garb of Cowboy He
Holds Up Redwood Hotel
for $500
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
REDWOOD CITY, Aug. 10. — With
face unmasked and wearing the garb
of a wild west cowboy, a lone bandit
walked into Genochio's boarding house
in Main street shortly before noon to
day, held up the clerk at the point of a
gun, secured booty valued at $500 and
escaped on horseback through the prin
cipal streets of the city before the
alarm had been sounded.
Ten minutes later the police had
been given a detailed description of the
bandit and organized posses under the
leadership of Sheriff J. H. Mansfield,
Undershertflf John Shields and Chief of
Police James Coleman were scouring
the countryside, but up to a late hour
tonight no trace had been secured of
the mysterious horseman.
The boldness of the crime and the
fact that It was perpetrated in broad
daylight, when the streets of Redwood
City are crowded, make it one of the
most unusual cases that ever has held
the attention of the San Mateo county
police.
The boarding house selected by the
bandit for the scene of his operations,
is located on the east side of Main
street, one block north of Broadway,
and is conducted by Antonio Genochio,
a wealthy property owner of Redwood
City. Genochio left the house this
morning to visit the Frank tannery.
where bis 20 lodgers" are employed,
and it was during his absence that the
robbery occurred.
About 11:40 o'clock, John Goularte,
the clerk of the boarding house, wa»
seated in the dining room when he
heard footsteps in the upper atory of
the house. Thinking that the cook or
Genochio's little son were causing the
noise, he attached no significance to
the sounds. Five minutes later he heard
the door of the dining room open and,
turning, he looked into the muzzles of
two revolvers leveled at his head by a
young man wearing a cowboy hat. The
robbery followed. i
•
SOUTHERN WINE MAKER
SHOT DOWN ON PORCH
Indian and Unknown White Man
Suspected as Murderers
SAN DIEGO, Aug. IJ.—The dead body
of Fred Chappelle, who operated a
winery near Alpine, was found on the '
porch of his house this afternoon. He '
had been shot through the neck. A
revolver was found In the road. Sus
picion is directed to an Indian known
as Charlie, and to a white man who -
was in his company. A sheriff's posse
is searching for the two men.
UNIONISTS PROTEST
AGAINST MILITIA
West Virginia Miners Plan State
Wide Strike to Cause With
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[Special Dispatch to The Call]
CHARLESTON, W. Va., Aug. 12.—
Seventy thousand ;■■ coal miners iin West
Virginia will •be called 7 out on strike
•'"■■ ■ ■'* *.-*: . -.-. •- • ■ '-.' r'.- '.'■".• - ,
if the plans made by their leaders to
day and ratified here tonight-are finally
put into operation. At present there
are 10.000 men on strike in the Paint
Creek district and 2.000 more joined
the strikers today. .
The statewide strike is in protest to
the action of the authorities in sending
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a militia guard to the mines in Paint
Creek valley, where 1,000 '' soldiers are
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suppressing the rioting. • %*^^
Union leaders say that 20 strikers
have been killed by the soldiers; while
the stat.e authorities declare that the
riots have resulted in the loss of a
dozen officials and several people who
had no interest in the battles.
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
REMEMBERS HIS NEPHEW
Hoosier Poet Gives Former Sec
retary $50,000 Check
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. 12. — Ac an
evidence of appreciation of the services
of his nephew, Edmund H. Eltel, Dr.
James Whitcomb Riley today deposited
with the Union Trust company of this
city a check for $SQ,QOa in favor of the
youiHr man. Eitel is away on his bridal
trip and when be returns the check
will be turned over to him. The Hoosier
poet does not make the present as a
wedding gift, but rather in payment for
advice given during the time he served
As the poet's secretary.
[THE WEATHER
YESTpRDAY — Highest temperature, 66;
, lowest Sunday night, 52.
FORECAST FOR TODAY — Fair, with
fog at night; brisk west winds.
For Details of the W«*ther 8«e Page 14
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PRICE FIVE CENTS.
FIVE PEOPLE
LOSE LIVES
IN TRAIN
WRECK
Olympian Flyer Goes Through
Bridge at Keechelus, Wash.,
When Lead Locomotive
Jumps the Track
_____
ACCIDENT OCCURS NEAR
SUMMIT OF MOUNTAINS
Mail - and Baggage Cars Are
Dragged Into Creek, hut
CoachesHHolt Fastd t Fast
to the Rails
ENGINEERS AND FIREMEN
GO DOWN TO THEIR DEATH
SEATTLE. Aug. 12—Five per
sons were killed and several
injured late today when the
westbound Olympian train of
j the Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget
| Sound railroad broke through a bridge
j half a mile west of Keechelus. 67
' miles east of Seattle.
THE DEAD
Mr*. Simon Jnrlch, Seattle.
Engineer H. Towmmil, Salem, Ore.
Engineer Henry Noble, Seattle.
Fireman Thlmbel.
Fireman H. Spencer, Taeoma.
Baggagemaster A. D. Sibley, Express
Messenger C. M. Thomas and Brakeman
Thomas Marshall were injured. All
will recover.
Officers of the Milwaukee say no pas
senger, besides Mrs. Jurich, was bur.
She was standing at the, forward end
of the car and was crushed to death.
The trait), drawn by two locomotives.
was approaching the summit of the
Cascade mountains when the forward
engine was derailed on a bridge over
j a small stream.
The pounding of the wheels over tha
ties broke down the bridge and bot i
[engines, the mail car and the baggage
j car fell into the creek.
The forward end of the day coaoi
fell through the bridge on top of ill 4
wrecked locomotives and baggage cars.
| which were piled in a ravine 40 feet
j deep.
The rest of the train remained on th<>
j track.
The train, which left Chicago Friday
1 night and was due in Seattle tonight.
! was running on time and passed
Keechelus at 5 o'clock, a minute before
the accident happened.
Wrecking trains were fent from bot i
ends of the division to repair tha
breakage and open the line to traffic,
which is being handled over the North
ern Pacific tracks across the moun
tains.
FIVE ARE SAVED FROM
DROWNING BY A BOY
Family Bathing Party Meet 3
Disaster; One Lost
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
SANTA BARBARA. Aug. 12.—John D.
Cavanaugh, aged 27. a telegraph oper
ator employed by the Southern Pacific
here, was drowned at Benham, 20 miles
below here today, when a tide rip
carried a family party of bathers, of
which Cavanaugh was a member, out
to sea. That most of the other mem
bers of the party were not drowned
was due to the heroism and cool head
edness of Arnold Gutierrez, aged 16, a
member of one of the oldest Spanish
families in this city.
Besides Cavanaugh and young Gutier
rez, the members of the party were
Mrs. Cavanaugh, her sister, Mrs. Jes
sie Classon, her two brothers. New
ton Hill, aged 10; James Hill, aged
22. and Mrs. Grace Scott of Los An
geles.
The bathers were in water hardly
waist deep when a back lash from a
big wave caught all of them and car
ried them out Into deep water.
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