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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
HULDA JOHNS0N'S
SHOCKING DEATH
THE FACTS BEING LAID BEFORE
A JURY.
Big Damage Suit Against the Market
Street Railway Company Now
on Trial Before Judge
Daingerfeld.

The circumstances Of the death Of little
Hulda Johnson. who was crushed beneath
the wheels of q Mission street car be
tween Fifth and Sixth streets on January
80, 1895. are being explained to jury in
Judge Daingerfeld's court. William john
son. father of the unfortunate child, is
suing the Market Street Railway Com
pany 10 recover 100000 damages.
When the case went TO trial all wit
nesses were barred from the room, and
after a short time the jury was secured.
Those who were accepted TO try the case
are: August Gergus. Joseph Cadenasso,
P. H. Engelbut, A. Huber, Herman Heit-
mann. Richard A. Bourne, n. J. Hogan,
Adolph Asher, y. Ferroggfaro, Engle L
Kohlberg, d. r. Avery and Samuel j.
Mrs. johnson was the first witness
called. She testified that on the day her
little daughter met her death she and her
husband were busy making shot pockets
TO be used at the local shot tower. She
noticed her daughter playing il the yard
and continued her work. 4 short time
6fterward her little son came running into
the yard and told her that Hulda had been
killed. Mr.. Johnson ran from the house
and found that indeed the little boy had
told the truth.
Elizabeth Mclaughlin. who was On the
car when the accident occurred, had but
little chance to tell her story. From her
the plaintiff endeavoTed TO establish the
but this counsel for the defendant headed
of on the ground that the witness had
failed TO establish the contention that she
was competent TO testify as 10 the speed
OF the car, she not being an expert on
speed. An effort was made f9r some time
10 get this information before the jury
from the lips OF the witness, but without
success. The persistence OF plaintiff 5
counsel. however. doubtless had its eff
feet on the jury, as II was easy 10 tell
that il the rules Of evidence had permit
ted the witness would have sworn thai
the car was greatly exceeding the speed
allowed By law. Another matter the plain
tin seeks 10 establish is that the car had
no fender. contrary TO the law.
Theodore DieTks, an undertaken. whose
place of business is near the scene of the
accident. testified that he saw the child
IN the center of the track when the car
was some 80 feet away. Later he looked
up and saw the car strike the child and
end her life. Frank Highey and Julia +.
Knott were called in turn and gave tes-
timony along the same line, after which
the case went over until this morning.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
TO PROTECT CHRISTIANS.
Interesting Proclamation Issued by
China's Dowager Empress.

WASHINGTON. April 6.-United States
Minister Conger at Picking has supplied
the State Department with a copy of the
proclamation posted at Tientsin relative
to the treatment of missionaries in China.
In this edict, issued on '27th of tenth
moon the Empress Dowager recites the
fact that anti-Christian movements had
taken place in many provinces, and de-
clares that these have all been based on a
false sentiment She wishes the people
to understand that the teaching of Chris
tianity is permitted in China and that
the preachers are 10 be treated as good
citizens. The Empress Dowager declares
that a good man, whether Christian or
not, will obey the prlnclples Of being hon
sires her people to treat foreigners as
their own counrymen and avoid an mis-
understanding with them. She Commands
the viceToys and officials in the provinces
to emphasize her sincerity by exerting
themselves to suppress all agitation
among the people before anti-Christian
prejudice is displayed.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
SECTION HANDS
SEEK BETTER WAGES
Promise of the Southern Pacific Hav-
ing Trouble to Keep Men on
the Shasta Route.

REDDING, April 6.--The section crews
along the mountain division Of the Shasta
route are being replaced with little diff
f1culty, though it is anticipated that the
Southern Pacific Company will have
lot of trouble in trying TO keep the men
at 81 % a day for five days week. The
old crews quit to man and are seeking
other employment.
A new crew has been put on at Red
ding, but it is believed that none of them
will stay very long. Twenty men from
the lower country were sent up the line
yesterday for the various sections be
tween here and Dunsmuir. Others are
expected to follow shortly.
Work in the pineries will soon be In
full blast, and it will be difficult to keep
men on the sections at the reduced wages
the railroad company offers. 1t is con-
tended by the old section crews that the
company will be forced to raise the scale
Of wages before the first of May, or de-
pend upon an uncertain class of labor in
its track repair department.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07

WASHINGTON, April Sin the army
Beef Court of Inquiry to-day the letter
of Messrs. Armour & Co., proposing to
use the Powell process for the preserva-
ton OF beef was submitted as evidence
by Major Lee. acting for General Miles.
II was addressed TO the commissary gen.
eral dated at the firms Washington or
fee July IS, 1898. and read as follows:
LAS supplementary and explanatory of
our bid to supply dressed beef in Cuba
we wish TO say that we have the eXclu.
sive control OF the Powell process for pre-
serving fresh meats, and that this pro,
cess has been tested at Tampa, Fla, the
test having been completed with most
satisfactory results This test was made
under the supervision of Colonel John
Weston of your department. who had ad-
vised you of the results. We are advised
however, that he received four cases of
beef which We sent from Chicago, du1y
refrigerated and treated according to the
Powell process. Part of these carcasses
were enveloped in sacks or canvas and
part were not. The Carcasses were dis
tributed to the Third Cavalry, the Sixth
Cavalry. batteries of artillery and the
medical department and were hung IN
the air on the upper deck of the trans
port trOopShipS lying at the wharf IN the
hot sun, without any benent or the treSh
air or movement of the ships. The pieces
that were not wrapped fermented in less
than seventy-two hours, while the pieces
that were covered or wrapped kept about
100 hours.
These practical tests, made under the
supervision Of your own officer, show that
by means of this process wrapped pieces
or carcasses can be kept longer than the
seventy-two hours required by your spe-
ciiCations. We believe We may safely
say that such results have never before
been accomplished in the history OF the
fresh meat business. In view of the
tests which we have made in the past
and of the results of the tests made IN
der the supervision or your own ONCE
We believe that we are absolutely safe
in the assertion that this is the only pro-
cess or method which will secure the re-
suits required by your speSihSauons'
per T. X. O'CONNOR,
The testimony began to-day with DR.. L. Cliff
ford Cox assistant surgeon in the volunteers
IN the District Of Columbia. He was at Tampa,
and testified that the command was attacked
with diarrhea to the extent OF an eplGenlc
after eating refrigerated beef at both places.
AT the second attack Of this character the
regimental surgeon had ordered that the issue
Of the beef be stopped When this was done
the diarhea "
Tho War Department for twenty years, related
his connection with the work OF letting the beer
contracts At the instance OF General Eagan
he had first sent out forty or nifty telegraIns TO
dealers in beef asking Tor olds 70 supply re-
friverstor beef or for beef on the DOCK general
Eavan having supplied the form MT. de
Csf16rey had been Instructed by General Ia
Gan to prepare the original draft or the con
trar+ for the beef supply, and after some re-
arranging. submitted draft FEELING comment
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
Many oters Shut ON.

ALAMEDA. April 6.-The election off,
GERS Of Alameda viii be instructed not TO
receive the ballot Of any elector next
Monday who did not register prior to
March IS. This applies equally 10 trans
fers. Registration has been going on IN
70 a few days ago under the impression
that all who registered b. April ! v-ouid
be allowed 10 vote. To-day the CITY Clerk
referred the matter to the City Attorney
and received the following opinion:
Under the new law. statutes 1899 chan
ter "a. Registration must take place al
least twenty-five days prior to the cleo
ton; hence only those are entitled "a
vote who registered prior 10 March ls
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
MRS. DAVID LEE DEAD.
American Woman Whose Daughters
Married Noblemen.

Special Cable to The Call and the New yo-t
Herald Copyrighted, 1922 by James Cor
don Bennett.
PARIS. April 6-Mrs. David Lee a.,
American. SO years old. mother-in-lay -
General Count Won Waldersee. is dasd
In November, 1864. her youngest dauobta.
Mary Esther, then q years old. was MAJ
RED to Prince Frederick of Schleswie-
Holstein, becoming Princess Won Ma
Six months later she was a widow. and in
April. 1874, she was married to AIf-ed -
Count Won Waldersee. Her eldest Sc
ter was married to Baron Won WachfaT
Wurtemburg. Embassador to France-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
MRS. ELIZABETH SIAS
IS DANGEROUSLY ILL
Woman Financier Who Built Up
Large Fortune by Shrewd
InVestm eDts

NEW YORK, April 6.-Mrs. Elizabeth
Hellman-Sias, Wiliamsbridge resident
who by reason of her wealth and influence
in the community is locally known as
Queen Elizabeth" is reported as being
dangerously i'll at her home
About twenty-five years ago Mrs. Sias
was married to Frederick Hellman. who
conducted the Jerome Hotel roadhouse,
HeHman died in 1890. leaving his widow
property valued at a few hundred dollars
only. In 1885 she was married to Arthur
w. Sias of California, who was manager
OF a sanitarium in Westchester. From the
small property left by her first husband
Mrs. Sias has. by shrewd Investment
built UP an estate of $500 600.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
Simpson Defeats Tou.

OAKLAND, April Elm the six-round
boxing contest between George Simpson
Of the Acmes and Billy Toy OF the San
Francisco Athletic Club. fought before
the Acme Club tonight. Simpson won on
points lie scored blood in the first round
and knocked his man down in the fourth.
Gus Burnel Of Pleasanton acted as ref
cree. Both men put up a clever fight. The
preiiminaries. three four-round try-outs.
between Pete Duval and Al Letter. Tom
Hughes and Otis Coffman, Ed Warren
and K. J. Smith. were also very clever.
the contests.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
FOR THE PANAMA CANAL.
Special Commissioner Going to Paris
to Get an Extension OF Time.

Special Cable to The Call and the New York
Herald. copyrighted. 1925. BY james Cor
don Bennett.
PANAMA. April 6-Senhor Nicolas
Esouerra, Special Commissioner appoint
ed by the Colombian Government TO go
to Paris and treat with the new canal
company in regard to an extension Of
time for the completion of the canal. ar
rived at Colon on Wednesday and came
here on a special car the same evening
accompanied by NJ Belin Roger, other
irnportant canal officials and several
prominent men of the Liberal party.
SENIOR Esquerra VIII visit the canat
route TO gather all the data necessary and
viii sail for Europe via New York at the
first opportunity.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
NELSON TALKED TOO MUCH.
Therefore He Cannot Serve on the
Murdoch Jury.

WILLOWS, April 6.-When the Muir
dock case was called this morning the
courtroom was crowded anticipating the
trial of Juror Nelson as to his state
ments made concerning the case at bar.
Nelson is money lender and note
scalper. and 1t was on account of his
prominence that so much interest was
evinced. Nelson, during a severe exam
nation by Attorney Freeman, protested
that he had at no time expressed an opin-
ion as To this case and denied that he had
talked about it
Ii VAS proved by two reputable Wit
nssses this morning that he had not only
discussed the case, but had done so fire.
quel.tly in a decided and emphatic man.
ner Mr. Nelson was excused, much to
his discontinue, and his efforts TO be q
member OF the Murdoch jury went for
nnGght
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
On the Bennings Track.

WASHINGTON for the funeral Of the dead soldiers
from Cuba brought q crowd TO the BenninEs
races to-day. Weather fine and track fast.
Five Observation-Disclosures won. lambert
second. Tallahassee third. Time, 1:0S
Maiden tWo-y ear-olds. half mile-Mattie IA
gar won. Specific second. Dorcas Lathrop third
Time :6i
ENTHUSIASTICALLY OF a rnile-AIthes Won
Roysterer second, Spurs third. Time. i:2s 2-5
Thirteen-siXteenths Of a mile-Lady Exile
won, Tut Tut second, Red Gidd third. Tine
I:23
Three year-olds. handicap. mile and forty
yards-Danforth won, Egbart second. PIantain
third. Time, las
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
EMPEROR MENELIK's STAND.
Refuses Requests Made by France
and Russia.

LONDON. April 6.-The Cairo CORE
spondent of the Daily Mail says: EN-
peror Menelfk has refused the request of
the French Government that he should
order all exports from Abyssinia TO pass
through the French port, Ras Jibutil
in acquiring Raheita from Italy and de-
clines to allow Russia to reorganize the
Abyssinian army with Russian officers
although in the hope Of securing these
concessions Russia sent him valuable
presents. including $1,000 rifles, 1000 900
cartridges and several machine guns
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
The Building Trades

The Building Trades Council has an
pointed 2. H. Mccarthy a committee Of
one to appear before the Board OF Super
visors TO ask that in letting the contract
for city lighting the contract shall be So
worded that employees OF the light cor
poTations will not have their rates Of
wages endangered. II was also decided TO
commence early preparations TO make La
Dor day of this year great event
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
SETTLED OUT OF COURT.
Suit of Mrs. Banning Against G. Will
son Porter Dismissed.

LOS ANGELES, April 6.-The sud-
termination of the suit of Mrs. Mary H
Banning against c. Wilson Porter. the
welI-known club man, creates as much
comment in and out of the California
of fashion and cult had been sued for
his SOS board bill by the head of the illus
trious Southern California family. Por-
Ter announced TO his friends he was de-
feru1ined to fight the case 10 the bitter
end and filed an exhaustive bill for SER
vices rendered the plaintiff. This morn
ing the suit was dismissed.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
. ss.o,a1s.t.. . a.os.ossos58o

mans proposition is to play Stantord, on
the I'D of next October in Cambridge
Manager Brady says this would be I'M
possible, as il would hinder the team
preparations for the big Thanksgiving
game Manager Muma of Berkeley has
stated that it would be feasible TO play
Thanksgiving. as it would create a new
interest in football, and game each with
the Eastern university would readily De-
fray all expenses of the visitors, provided
they can be induced to come to this coast
1t Is quite probable that every effort VIII
be made TO schedule these games.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
Beaten by the Visitors.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY. April g.
a hnal practice game was played on the
campus TINS afternoon between the San
Jose team and the Varsity. The score
was to in favor of the visitors. The
Varsity was. weakened by the absence
or Strohn. second baseman, who is suf-
IeTlng from a bad arm. The star work
was done by Carson on first, Edwards on
third and the outfielders, Chandler and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
Woodlands Bicyc- : Meet

MCOD41 Ia April ga bicycle tour
nament will be held here next SUNDAY af-
ternoon Among the starters will be Law
son, the terrible Swede" Golfer of Ia
coma, Otto Ziegler, Leonhart and Barna-
oy or chicago and many other protestant
ais OF national reputation. Lawson is al
ready here and other professionals will
join him tomorrow. va
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
Robbery Of a Missouri Bank.

ST. LOUIS, April Ga special TO the
Post Dispatch says that three robbers en-
tered the bank at Wellsviile. No. today
after enticing the Waterman out ana
binding and gagging him. They blew
open the vault, but as they closed the
door OF the safe after leaving the bank
officials are unable 10 say whether anT
OF the contents were taken II was
thought the robbers, who escaped. only
secured small amount
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
stanford,s Ball Team.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY. April g.
The makeup of the Varsity for the first
intercollegiate game TO be played or the
Sixteenth and Folsom street grounds
Saturday was announced this afternoon
by Captain Lougheed. 1t is as follows:
Pitcher. flanagan; catcher, Swindells;
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
Sues the North Pacific Coast Road.

SAN RAFAEL. April 6.-Mrs. c. Bowie
of Mill Valley brought suit in the Superior
Court to-day against the North Pacific
Coast Railway Company for 5000 dam
ages. In January last a train left the
the rails for short distance The acct
dent was Of a minor nature and nobody
else was even slightly injured Mrs. Bowie
was an invalid, and claims that PARALYSIS
of the lower limbs resulted from the acci-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
Agree AS to water Rates.

SAN DIEGO, April 6.-Water consumers
at Chula Vista and vicinity have al last
come TO an agreement with the san Diero
Land and Town Company over warer
rates THESE have been a bone Of cSn-
tention long time and affected the hest
fruit district Of this section.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
Eureka Policeman Weds

EUREKA, April 6.-Frank C. Barnun,
a well known policeman Of Eureka. MAS
united in marriage this morning To Miss
Laura Lindsay. The couple departed on
the Pomona for their wedding tour.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
University Football Cannes.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, April g.
Manager Brady to-day received a letter
from the graduate athletic manager Of
Harvard, who is looking for a game with
the two coast universities. The Harvard
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
Letter Carriers Delegate.

san JOSE, April 6.-George de witt has
been selected by the letter carriers of
OF the National Association Of Letter Car
riers, which meets in Scranton, Pa, next
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
Succeeds Company E.

WOODLAND. April 6.-The new mill
tary company organized TO succeed old
Company f has received instructions 10 be
tional Guard.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
Yosemite Valley.

Via Inspiration Point. now open for tour
lists; Roads in excellent condition. Tow
Is the time 10 see Yosemite. Stages run
daily, Sleeping car TO RAYMOND COM
mencing April 3. Office S. p. Co, 6l3 Mkt.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07
IS EARTH GETTING
FLAT At THE POLES?
Russia Will SeDd On Expensive
Expedition to Spitzbergen to
Test This Theory.

expedition 10 Spltz-
parallels latitude
pa~-! the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-07

first base. Carson; second base, Strohn;
third base, Edwards; shortstop
Lougheed. captain: center field, Murphy;
left field, Crandall; right field, Chandler
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
Fine Point of Law.

Mention is made in another column OF
a case in court that involves a point OF
law Of unusual interest to tobacco sec
tions. As yet there is no precedent on
the question as this particular point has
never been passed upon by the higher
courts, and hence no authority a be
quoted 1t involves the question of
whether a chattle mortgage given upon
a tobacco bed will hold the crop after it
is transplanted III the field and later
after it is grown and ready to market.
The higher courts have held. however,
that a crop cannot be mortgaged until
it is in sight, so it will remain TO be de-
termined whether when the plants are
up ON the bed and visible to the eye the
crop is in sight and come within this
rule. Another point which the court
might pass upon to the satisfaction of
the tobacco industry is whether in the
transplanting of tobacco from the beds
TO the field the tobacco loses its identity.
If it is held that it is easily to trace the
property from the bed to the field and
the field to the warehouse then it would
not be unreasonable to say thatNthe
mortgage security would follow these
stages. The question is certainly an
interesting one TO the tobacco industry
and any decision from the courts will be
eagerly watched for. -Edgerton Tobacco
Reporter.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
Indenendence Of Newsnaners.

Minneapolis Times; Noteworthy is
the growth of independence of thought
and expression among the better class
of newspapers in the United States,
Time was, and well within the memory
of young men, when the newspapers
were so entirely partisan that to have
acknowledged that their side could be
wrong or the opposition right, even in
minor matters of public polity, in the
opinion of the editors, would have been
to commit journalistic hari-kari.
War seems TO have a broadening effect
on opinion. Scores of newspapers who
have little patience with the industrial
and financial policy of the present adj
ministration have deemed it a patriotic
duty-and rightly deemed ito uphold
the presidents hands, and, while thus
u%pholding, TO refrain from acrid criti-
cism of the 'ariff, for instance. But
when the war with Spain ended the
broader views led to wider latitude of
comment not only ON the part of news
papers that by right of utilization belong
TO the opposition, but by those as well
that have been counted as staunchly re-
publican though skies should fall.
1t is a highly encouraging pressage
for purer politics and better government
this independence on the part of edi-
torial writers.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05

Superintendent, Mrs. William Garrett.
TE-F classes IL, ID, ID, 15 and liz, all ar
Of the second day. Tags must be securely
fastened on. Collections must be accom-
panied by list and number OF articles In
collection. All articles to pc mfde by ex-
hihftors and never entered before.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-05
VERNON COUNTY CENSOR
o. G. MUNsoN. Editor and Proprietor.
WEDNESDAY, July 3, 1899.
Cause For CELEBRATING.

A southern journal voices the patriotic
sentiment of the country in giving ex-
preston to the thought that this Fourth
ought to be a big day throughout the
country. Last year the Fourth brought
a glorious surprise, but its celebration
had to be impromptu. Much has hap
pened during the last year to make an
American feel proudly patriotic as well
as expansive. The heroism of the army
and navy has been simply indispensable,
Cuba has been freed and the work of
humanity carried throughout its borders.
Our flag is up over new possessions that
broaden the destiny of the nation. 1t
also waves over the widening lines Of
our devoted victorious army in the
Philippines. A year SO full of brilliant
national achievements naturally sug-
gests a national holiday of both an old
fashioned and a new-fashioned kind If
the Fourth of 1899 fits the circumstances,
and of course it does, the day will be
memorable.