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4 ALAMEDA COUNT IS CHALLENGED BY DEMOCRATS Ask Court for Order Reducing Roosevelt Plurality by 250 Votes Action Is Brought by Stephen J. Sill, Bourbon Candi date for Elector The mystery enveloping the Califor nia electoral vote was deepened yester day by a cult commenced in the district court of appeal to restrain the Alameda board of supervisors from returning the vote of that county as canvassed. The action was brought by Stephen J. Sill, a democratic candidate for elector, who set up several allegations of irregularities which, if established, may reduce the Roosevelt plurality in Alameda county by approximately 250 votes. The court issued a temporary writ, returnable Friday morning. Sill asks that the Alameda super visors be restrained from returning the vote of precinct 77, Oakland, because the envelope containing the returns was not sealed by the election officers. He also asks the court to direct that the Roosevelt electors be credited with not more than 80. votes in precinct 64, Oakland. He charges that the tally sheet for the precinct showed only 80 vote for Wallace, while the totals sheet shows 180 for the progressive candidate and 184 votes each for his associates, as against 84 for each on the tally sheet. The returns from two other precincts are also attacked by the petitioner. FRAUD CHARGES ARE TOO VAGUE LOS ANGELES. Nov. 18.—The demo cratic contestants won first honors in the legaL controversy over the presiden tial vote in Los Angeles county today when the district court of appeal over ruled the board of supervisors' demur rer to its jurisdiction. At the same time the court held that the petition of the democrats for a writ of mandamus attacking the official re turns in 35 county precincts was insuf ficient and required the petitioners to amend their application by substituting for general charges of fraud, specific in stances of irregularities in each of the precincts involved. The contest will be resumed Wednes day with arguments on the amended pe tition and the answer of Assistant Dis trict Attorney W. J. Ford, acting for the supervisors, which will be filed tomor row. FISHER FOR HOME RULE OF UTILITIES WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—A conserva tion conference between federal, state and private interests concerning the regulation of water power rights in California was held today at the inte rior department. There was general interchange of views'looking to formal promulgation of interior department regulations gov erning water power development on _ federal lands in California. The con * ference will continue tomorrefcv. Secretary Fisher vigorously pointed out to representatives of the California railway and water commissions, power corporations and others that he believed the idea of an arbitrary percentage limit on returns of any corporation was fundamentally wrong, because it did not encourage efficiency in manage ment. He said he favored local control of utilities, and thought power rights should be conferred by revocable fed eral permits based on agreement of corporations to conform to the "rea- Bonable regulations" of the law. Terrey Crosby of Warrenton, Va., president of utility corporations in Wilmington, Del., Chester, Pa., and Trenton, N. J., was the principal speaker for the power companies. He opposed leaving to state commissions the right to determine the question of reasonableness of rates, and contended that when a state had regulated its corporations there was virtually noth ing for the secretary of the interior to do about it. He attacked the com petency of state commissions to go Into the question of fiscal operations of the companies. Members of the California railway and water commissions defended the commission form of control, baying corporations really wanted to weaken the arm of the state regulating power. GREAT ESTATE IS LEFT BY PULITZER NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—Joseph Pu litzer, late proprietor of the New York World, who came to America prac tically penniless and at the close of the civil war, in which he served as a union soldier, was still in reduced cir cumstances, left a gross estate, taxable in New York state, of $18,200,000. K. Halsey Malone, representing , the estate, will make public copies of the official appraisal of Mr. Pulitzer's estate under the New York state in heritance tax laws on Wednesday. Pulitzer left more than |1,500,000 in public bequests, which are .exempt from taxation. He gave |1,000,000 to Columbia university to supplement $1,000,0t>0 given in his lifetime for a school of journalism, and $250,000 to the same university for scholarships. MAN WITH MESSAGE FROM GAYNOR JAILED A man giving the name of John N. Gardner, 38 years old, who hae been stopping at the Palace hotel for two days, was arrested early this morning on a charge of passing a worthless check for $560 on a Denver hotel. He had on him a purported letter of Intro duction from Mayor Gaynor of New York to Los Angeles business men. He is said to be the secretary of a Den\er automobile firm, and said his wife was etaying at the Alexandria hotel In Los Angeles. BY MARCONI WIRELESS SAX FRANCISCO. Xot. IS. STEAMER LANSING—B i>. m., 1-000 miles from I'att San Luis. STEAMER OLEUM—B p. m., 191 miles north of Han Francisco. STEAMEK ENTERPRISE—B p. m.. 382 mile* from lightship. STEAMER MONGOLIA—S n. m., 215 miles from San Francisco. STEAMER W. S. PORTER—S p. m., 185 miles Dorth of San Frai STEAMER WASHTENAW—B p. m., 553 mllee oortli of Bati Francisco. STEAMER ASUNCION—S p. :n.. off Point Arena. STEAMER <JEO. W. FENWICK—B p. m., 60 miles north of Cape Mendoclno. STEAMER WHITTIER-β p. o>.. 20 mile* north of Point Sur. BTEAMER CATANIA—B p. m., off Pedras Blan- COB. STEAMER YALE— Q.ii p. m.. passed Pigeon yoiuv I - I Junior Day Plays Perfected Talented Coeds Will Appear Delia Gamma sorority girls Teho will have leading roles in the junior day theatrical productions at the state university. "Engaged ,, and "A Full House ,, Are Featured For Elaborate Presentation BERKELEY, Nov. 18.—Five members of the exclusive Delta Gamma sorority of the University of California will have prominent roles in the produc tions junior day of Miss Clotilda Grun eky'e farce, "Engaged," and a curtain raiser, "A Full Hoase," by H. L, Mc- Laren and K. T. Perkiirs. Miss Mildred Dodge" will play in the curtain raiser as Myrtle, a fresh man sorority girl. Also in the curtain raiser will be Miss Hazel TieUen as Clara, a sorority girl. _^ BRAZILIANS URGE CLOSER RELATIONS Message of Envoys Reiterated at Commercial Club Luncheon Closer commercial relations between the United States and Brazil was the theme of the speakers at a luncheon over which Captain Robert Dollar pre sided at the. Commercial club yesterday in honor of the members of the Brazil ian trade commission now visiting this city. The principal address was made by Count Candido Mendez de Almeida, chairman of the commission, who out lined the great development of trade between the two countries, especially from the Pacific coast, which will fol low the opening of the Panama canal, and impressed hie hosts with the im portance of preparing in advance for the new markets that will be opened for California products. He dwelt upon the desirability of establishing direct steamer service between San Francisco and Rio de Janeiro, and of the forma tion of a league to study commercial and social conditions in both countries with a view of developing mutually ad vantageous trade relations. The count was followed by Dr. Eu genio Dahne, commissioner general of the Brazilian department of agricul ture. Industry and commerce, who em phasized the necessity for a better ac quaintance between the commercial in terests of the two countries previous to the greatly increased exchange of com modities that will follow the opening of the canal. Dcfctor Dahne, who al ready has paid San Francisco several visits, will remain here for several months and will furnish information concerning his country's commercial conditions to those who desire it. On behalf of the Chamber of Com merce, of the foreign trade committee, of which he ts chairman, Captain Dol lar assured the Brazilian delegates that the chamber would co-operate in every way possible in the efforts to draw tighter the commercial and social bonds between the two countries. Other members of the luncheon party were: Candido Mendez Jr., son of Count Mendez; Dr. Jay me de Argello Jr., a widely known Brazilian journal ist; Dr. Mario Baptlsta Nunes, secre tary to Count Mendez, and professoc in the University of Rio de Janeiro; Dillwyn M. Hazlett, official lecturer for the Brazilian department of agricul ture, commerce and industry, and Uie following members of the foreign trade committee of the chamber, James Otis, A. H. McAllister, T. C. Friedlander, C. W. Burks, C. G. Cambron, G. <H. Car ter, E. T. Ford, C. H. Bentley and Charles Vogelsang. LAST WORD SAID FOR AND AGAINST GUNMEN NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—The last word for and against the four gunmen on trial for the murder of the gambler Herman Rosenthal, was said today when counsel made their appeals to the jury for conviction and acquittal. Tomorrow their fate will be deliv ered Into the hands of the Jury. The four defendants, "Gyp the Blood." "Lefty Louie," Frank Cirofico and "Wnitey" Lewis, heard themselves characterised by District Attorney Moss as "the hands which held the instruments of death —the hands of the body of which Rose, Webber and Val lon were the brains and Lieutenant Charles Becker the will." By their attorney, Charles C. F. Wahle, the defendants were pictured as men who had been, criminals, but who were innocent of thie crime—the victims of the testimony of "the men who really killed Rosenthal, Rose, Webber, Vallon and Scheppe." FRIEND OF PREMIER'S SLAYER IS ARRESTED CEBERE. France, Nov. 18.—The Spanish police have arrested Villar de Huergo in the province of Asturias, a man who may have some connection with Manuel Pardinae. the assassin of the Spanish premier, Canalejas. The man is known as Rafael Fer nandez, and has in his possession let ters from Pardinas and anarchist pam phlets. He explained that he became acquainted with Pardinas aboard the steamer La Champagne while returning from Havana. The Spanish police are searching for a notorious anarchist who left the south of France a few d&vs ago for Spain. THE SAX FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1912. In the farce, Miss Maryly Krusi will have the leading role, Ruth, a junior. Miss Evelyn Reynolds will play Mrs. Henrietta Specks, a landlady, and Mise Hazel Hope will be Miss Stake, the vil lainess. The roles were all assigned after a competition of juniors, and the fact that five Delta Gamma* girls should have made the cast Is being commented on at the campus as unusual in college affairs. AVIATOR FLIES WITH PASSENGER Miss Vivian O'Brien, Who Dares Trip With Francis, Tells of Experience At an'average altitude of 2,000 feet, Aviator Roy Francis with Miss Vivian O'Brien as a passenger, flew from the Alameda aviation field across the bay to the beach near the Cliff house late yesterday afternoon in his triple pro peller biplane. The flight was one of the most spectacular ever witnessed in the vicinity of San Francisco, and Miss O'Brien, who is understudy to the lead, ing- woman in "A Butterfly on the Wheel," is the first woman to ride in the clouds above the Golden gate- The aviator and his companion left the Alameda field at 4:30 p. m., the late start being due to engine troubles. He rose rapidly to a dizzy height, turned his machine toward the bay and at 60 miles an hour he hummed toward the Ocean beach. The Presidio was encir cled several times to the intense delight of several hundred officers and men. As darkness had set in shortly after Francis lighted at the beach, he decid ed not to fly back to his starting point, as was planned. The machine was left jat the Golden gate life saving station and the daring couple returned, home in a motor car. Today Francis will fly back to Alameda alone. With rippling laughter Miss O'Brien stepped from the huge machine, re curled a couple of dew laden feathers in her modish hat and gazed at the clouds, from which she had just de scended in a perfectly unconcerned manner. Her attitude was that of a girl who had just won a game of ping pong, instead of having defied death 2,000 feet from terra firma. "How did you enjoy the trip?" was the first question asked by. & dozen persons. "oh, it was the most delightful ex perience I have ever known, and I am just dying to take another flight. "No, I was not frightened, but I will admit that when we got*up, oh, ever so many feet, it seemed a horrid long way to the ground and the blue water. I clutched Mr. Francis as tight as he would let me, and once I thought I was about to fall. I just shut my eyes tight and tried to imagine I was on the stage and everybody was applaud ing me as a butterfly on the wind, in stead of a 'Butterfly on the Wheel.' "It was lots of fun—but slightly nau seating—when we ducked in a cloud and the world was shut from our view. I could talk all day about the different sensations I experienced, because, you see, I am slightly nervous and feel like getting some of this out of my system. "You can tell all the girls for me that aeroplaning is lots more fun than 'joy riding' and that I am sure avi ators would make good husbands—they are so brave." AIMEE CROCKER GOURAUD SUED FOg ALIENATION W. M. Russell Says Mother in Law Won His Wife [Special Dispatch to The Call] NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—Mrs. Almee Crocker Gouraud is to appear In a new role soon—that of defendant in a suit for alienation of affections. Walter Morgan Russell, who married Mrs. Gouraud's daughter, Gladys, a couple of years ago, has begun action for the alienation of his wife's affec tions. He asks $50,000. Only the sum mons in the suit was filed today. Announcement of a suit for aliena tion caus?d little surprise. JAPANESE EMPEROR HONORS AMERICAN NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—John J. Carty of New York hae been created a mem ber of the Order of the Sacred Treas ure by the emperor of Japan. Carty also wears the decoration of the Order of the Rising Sun, conferred by th* late emperor after the close of the war between Japan and Russia. Carty Iβ chief engineer of the American Tele phone and Telegraph company and hie methods of telephone engineering were those adopted by the Japanese govern ment engineers. PICKPOCKET GETS $lfr-OakUnd, Not. 18.— L. G. Larson, 1213 Francisco etreet, Berkeley, was rplievo.l last night of a purse containing $10 b? a pickpocket on a San Pabio aveuue car. The saloon of Morris & MeCabe. Etsrhtj fourth avenin- and East Fourteenth street, wii entered by burglars, who cut out a panel in a rear door and secured money, cigars and whisky valued at $10. | MANY KILLED AND INJURED IN HOTEL FIRE Actress With Babe in Arms Leaps to Pavement From. Sixth Floor i Continued From Page 1 tor of St. George hotel, arm broken in jumping to net. Alice L,eeaer, 10 yeare old, daughter of proprietor. Jefferson Oeburne, moving picture actor, burned about face and. hands. Mr. and Mr*. R. E. Hanna, roller skat, ers, both have sprained backs. Started on Second Floor The fire originated on the second floor of the hotel and swept up through the elevator shafts. It had gained great headway before it was discovered. When the fire alarm was sounded in the hotel the gueste rushed into the halls in their night clothes but were forced back by the volumes of smoke. Many then rushed to the windows and cried frantically to thoee gathering in the streets below for help. The flames swept upward to the third and fourth stories and the cries of those trapped in the burning building was lost in the cracking of the flames. Cries Heard Below Those on the fifth and sixth floors could not be seen by the firemen but their cries could be heard. Suddenly from out of the smoky blackness a body fell crashing to the pavement. It was that of Mrs. Char lotte Harrington, the vaudeville actress who had an apartment on the sixth floor. Those on the opposite side of the street saw the woman with a baby in her arms poise on the wondow sill for a fraction of a second and then make her daring jump to the out stretched fire net six etories below. Several called to her to wait until the ladders were put up, and their voices either died in the turmoil or fell on deaf ears. Mrs. Harfington missed the net by three feet, but her 18 months old baby girl, which she carried in her arms, fell into the net and was saved. Other guests jumped, but were more fortunate than Mrs. Harrington. Ray Harrah, a performer, and his wife also jumped to the net from the sixth floor. Both were badly injured. The loss to the building is esti mated at $25,000. Heroic Rescues There were also a number of heroic rescues by the firemen, one of whom, T. Gerrard, the first to enter the upper floors by means of an extension lad der, narrowly escaped death by in haling smoke. *He was unconscious for some time, but recovered and re sumed work. A woman whose name was said to be Mrs. Ella Moran jumped from a sixth story window. The man who lost his life was iden tified later as Joseph Martin, a Los Angeles jewelry salesman. Julius Malone, colored, the engineer at the hotel, was so badly burned thm there Is no hope for his recovery. The fire did comparatively little damage except to the upper floors. Couple Leap From Window Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Bock, whose ad dress was given as 605 Jones street, Oakland, jumped from a sixth etory window. Mrs. Bock immediately got td her feet and staggered a short dis tance from the place. It wae not until she was taken to the receiving hos pital that it was learned that her back had been broken. An unidentified baby girl thrown from a third story window was caught by policemen, apparently only slightly | injured, but died from shock. An 18 y«ar old elevator boy made four trips from the fourth floor while the elevator shaft was seething flames. He fell to the floor blinded and dazed and with every scrap of clothing ablaze, crawled on hands and knees to the door, whero he was placed in an ambulance. His condition is critical. "For the Btffffer, Better San Fran* cfsco" la the pledge and aim of Tee Call. There Is Only One Best Beer AN order for Pabst "BLUE RIBBON" Beer carries with it the distinction of quality and good taste. Served with your lunch or dinner, BLUE RIBBON lends zest and refreshment most satisfying. Every bottle is pore and wholesome—worthy of your table—the best beer brewed. Bottled only at the brewery in crystal clear bottles, showing at a glance that it is clean and pure. A trial order will convince you. ■HU g w Phone or write. wiSuM bbbd Jn^aVoßan \sSEffl Blue Ribbon Beer Co. U«H ' PhoM Sutt.r 1749 *\ i FOLSOM PRISON DEVELOPS SOME PETTY GRAFTING Dismissal of Clerk Mosier Brings to Surface Charges Against Former Warden [Special Dispatch to The Call] SACRAMENTO, Nov. 18.—The report which the board of control filed with the state board of prison directors and upon which the dismissal of Clerk J. E. Mosier of Folsom prison followed, also contained evidence of petty graft J involving former Warden W. H. Reilly of that Institution, according to the statement of President John F. Neylan of the board of control. According to Neylan there is a check for |261 in the hands of the state treasurer made out by Reilly to Gover nor Johnson as trustee of the state prison to cover petty crimes, among them that of selling butter produced at the Folsom state farm to the state. These facts were brought to light, says Neylan, by an accountant who spent six weeks over the Foleom books and who made a vain effort to account for much of the produce made off the state farm. The products of the farm for 11 months alone amounted to $8,039, but little or no record was kept of their disposal. HEIIXY GETS THE CREAM "The board of control had Warden Reilly before it last August, following disclosures which an accountant made at the prison, and we now have his check for $261 reimbursing the state for three items which he wrongfully collected," said Neylan tonight. "One of these was $139.09 for butter. Reilly's salary was $5,000 a year and besides that he was allowed $55 a month for the board of directors. We found that he had all the cream from the. farm delivered at his place, and that which was not used by him was made into butter. This butter he then sold to the state. In other words, he was selling the state its own but ter. "There were hundreds of dollars of produce from the farm that could not be traced because no record was kept of it. The records, for instance, showed that in one month Reilly received 368 dozen eggs. What he did with them the accountant could not discover. In another month he received 260 dozen eggs, and again the records fail to tell us where they went. We were un able to find out, Reilly declaring that he did not know. In 11 months alone Reilly is credited with receiving 1,720 dozen eggs. OTHER SHADY TRANSACTIONS "We were able actually to show that ReJUy had collected $261 from the state that he was not entitled to, and we de manded that he return this. Of this sum $30.80 was for expressage that had been paid once by the state. "The report which the prison board has is a copy of the one which we have filed with the governor. It was made to the governor, and not to the prison board. "We found also a similar situation in the shipment of meat from Sacramento by Swanston & Son as occurred at the Napa State hospital investigation. "Mosier's case is but one angle of the investigation. When called before the board of control he confessed his part and made out a check for $53.39 in the name of Governor Johnson, as trustee of the prisoners' fund in Fol som, to cover his mulcting." There la only one Independent newspaper In San Francisco—Th* Call. AGED KAN DIES SUDDENLY—PetaInma, N«r. 18.—Harry T. Brandt, a resident of Cotatl district, near Petaluma, died enddonly at hie home today. He was a native of Germany and was born in 1526. 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Th* articles are worth $250, but most of the stolen Jewelry consisted of heirlooms and was prized highly by the njembera of the family. J. P. Nolan, 279 Shipley street, was held up early yesterday morning by three men at Sixth and Minna streets and robbed of $3. Herbert Hondsman, California Trans portation company, was knocked down and robbed of |3 by two men In Paclflo ■treet. Bart Crowley. 180 Hancock street. was held up at Cumberland and Dolores streets early yesterday by two men while he was going: home and robbed of a watch and f1.50. Burglars broke into the home of T. O. Mochike, 855 Stockton street, and stole articles worth $100. The home of Mrs. P. C McCafffirny. 291 San Carlos avenue, was entered by burglars and a watch and $5 taken. Pickpockets stole a gold mesh purse from Mrs. M. McCauly. 2240 McAllister street, yesterday on a street car.