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The San Francisco call., 1903-12-05
ALL ARE ANXIOUS
ABOUT ADJOURNMENT
If Extra Session of Congress Ends
by Limitation All Nominations
Must Fail

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. - Unless
there is an agreement by both houses
of Congress to adjourn the present
session before noon Monday, when the
regular session begins, all nominations
must fail, and if the present special
session ends by limitation, thus pre-
venting the President from sending
recess appointments to the Senate, all
pending recess appointments must ter
inmate with the convening of Con-
gress in its regular session. These con-
siderations to-day furnished the incen-
tive for number of conferences look
ing to an agreement to adjourn on
Monday, or even tomorrow. Friends
of General Wood are vitality interested
and will try to bring about adjourn
ment by concurrent action. Failure
of such action would mean General
Woods reversion to the rank of a
brigadier general and have similar ef-
feet on the appointment of 167 army
officers by reason of General Wood
promotion, all of whom have assumed
the rank and pay of their new ap-
pointments in the same manner as
though their nominations had been
confirmed by the Senate.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4-The first
witness to be heard on Monday by the
Senate Military Affairs Committee,
which is investigating the nomination
of General Leonard Wood to be a ma
5or general will be Colonel Charles S.
Diehl, assistant general manager of
the Associated Press. Major Runcie
will be here Monday. He will be ex-
amined concerning the contradiction
of some of his testimony by Ray Stan
nard Baker, the magazine writer. The
committee has under consideration the
questioning of summoning witnesses to
testify as to the condition of General
Woods Santiago accounts for 1898.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-05
DUKE MAY HAVE
BR|CHT's DISEASE
Manchester Is Ordered
Home From Hunt
ing Trip.
Physicians Fear Result, and
Operation May Be
Performed.
Special Dispatch to The Gall.

LONDON, Dec. 4-The statement
that the Duke of Manchester, who
married Miss Zimmerman of Ohio, is
seriously i'll and confined to his bed by
no means overstates the fact.
1t is given out tonight by a we'll
Informed news agency that the Dukes
condition has been pronounced grave,
that he is suffering from an advanced
form of Brights disease and that an
operation may be necessary.
For some reason the reports of Man
chester's illness have been met by
fiercely worded contradictions on the
part of his relatives, who persist in
saying that he is only suffering from a
slight cold caught while hunting at
Tahderagee Castle, Ireland
The fact is, the Duke is in a private
sanitarium in London, where he is
jealously guarded against any possible
intrusion. Doctors at Tanderagee when
they were called over a fortnight ago
pronounced the case a grave one and
counseled him to go to London to con-
suit specialist. The Duke came here,
accompanied by the Duchess, and the
specialists found that the disease had
involved the liver. but are unable to
say yet whether the complication has
assumed malignant form.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-05
MYSTERY Wells
GUT HAR CASE
Salinas Officials Believe
Kidnapped Girl
Is Dead.
Indications Point to Her Hav-
ing Been Murdered
at San Juan.

SALINAS, Dec. 4.-Reports received
by Sheriff Nesbitt this evening point
to murder as the sequel to the abduc-
ton of 12-year-old Gut Har. Chi
nese girl. by ]. 1. Tanaka, a Japanese.
two weeks ago. Sheriff Croxton of
San Benito County notified the officers
here that he had started to investigate
the finding of a lot of Chinese clothes
and hair in a Japanese camp at San
Juan, near which are large traces of
blood. After this report came another
that after having been traced to San
Francisco the Japanese retraced his
steps and with the little girl went to
San Juan. Fearful that his ruse of
trying to pass her off as a boy might
be detected, he went afoot southwark,
finally reaching Metz Near that
place Tanaka. who is we'll known. ap-
piled to A. r. Hebron for food for
himself and brother. This was given
him, but when the brother appeared
In response to his call Mrs. Hebron
remarked, THAT is woman" where
upon the couple ran off. They were
tracked to the depot, where tickets
were purchased for Hollfster, and from
there to a Japanese camp near San
Miguel, where all trace of the younger
person, supposed to be the disguised
girl, has been lost. Posses are out
from both counties searching for the
body or some clew to what has been
done with it.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-05
Flames Are Spreading
Through San Bernar-
dino Range.
Twenty Cottages and Several
Million Feet Of Lumber
Are Destroyed.
Fredalba Park, Summer Resort, Is
Swept Away and a Big Milling
Plant Is Threatened With
Destruction.
Special Dispatch to The can.

SAN BERNARDINO, Dec. 4-Fanne,
by terrific north wind. the largest
and most destructive forest fire ever
known in this vicinity is raging IN the
San Bernardino range. twenty miles
northeast Of this place. An immense
area Of forest land has been swept bv
the flames. while twenty summer cot
tages at Fredalba Park. a summer re-
sort, have been burned to the ground.
The yards Of the Brookings Lumber
Company at Fredalba have been
destroyed by fire as a result Of the
spread Of the flames.
One hundred men were sent uo from
this place and Redlands this morning
and a second call for help has been
sent down from the mountains. The
latest report is that the flames have
not reached the BrOokings mill, but it
Will require tremendous work to keep
it from being destroyed. All Of the
lumber in the yards is burned. Brook
ings & Son, the proprietors OF the
plant, are in Redlands, but would not
give out any statement except that
there were several million feet OF Iunn-
~ SNo~NTAC0 ~ III JcA40S5 Ill Ok WHICH
is lost.
The fire has spread down City Creek
Canyon to within mile of it's mouth.
Another forest fire started this morn
ing at Brown Creek about a mile from
the mouth of the Mill Creek Canyon. 1t
was got under control by Forest
Ranger Allen, but later was freshened
up by the wind and is now said to be
spreading rapidly. 1t is believed that
the fire was ignited yesterday about
noon. At that time a strong wind
sprang uD from the north and in a
few seconds it was blowing a gale and
carried the fire with remarkable speed
up the slope from the desert. A spark
from a donkey logging engine started
the fire. At 10 o'clock tonight the
fire was still raging and il is expected
that the mill will go before morning.
The fire can be seen plainly from this
city, through a dense cloud OF smoke,
which envelopes the eastern end of the
valley and partly covers Redlands.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-05
SPEAKER CANNON
BECOMES WRATHY
Orders a Labor Leader
Elected From the
House.
John H. j. Schulteis Makes
Insulting Remarks Con-
cerning Committee.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. = Speaker
Cannon. resenting what he considered
an insult from John Herman ]. Schulz
tets, chairman of the national execu-
tive committee of the knights of Labor,
summarily ordered Schulteis from the
Speakers room at the Capitol to-day,
with the parting injunction to the Ia
Dor leader to never darken his door
again
Schulteis made his first call upon the
Speaker several days ago with the de-
mand that Representative Livernash Of
San Francisco be made chairman of the
Committee on Labor, and that Repre-
sentative Wynn of the same city be
made a member of that committee. As
both these men are members of the mi
nority, Cannon explained to Schulteis
that their assignments would depend
On the recommendation of Representa-
tive Williams, the minority floor leader,
but it would be impossible to make
LiVernash chairman of the committee,
as the Craftsmanship would go to the
majority
When Schulteis appeared before the
was taken by that official to be an Of
fensive manner that the labor. commit
tee had been packed"
He renewed his demand that Liver
hash be assigned to this committee, an
nouncing that he had defeated Cannon
for election to the Fifty-second Con-
sress, and that unless his request in
this instance was accorded he was
going into the Speakers district in the
next campaign. Schulteis did not have
time to finish telling the Speaker what
he would do to him, as Cannon at this
point gave his peremptory order for
the mans election from the room. stat
ing as he did so that there was no
chance of the committees being
packed" by Schulteis Just as Schulz
tets went out Sidney Bieber,s the fire
marshal of the District of Columbia,
entered bearing a miniature brass can
non. AS he placed the cannon on the
Speakers desk he remarked: "Mr.;
Speaker, it sometimes takes a little
cannon to protect big cannon"
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-05
CHILD PER|5HES
IN BURNING HOME
Sister Nearly Loses Her
Own Life Trying to
Save Him.

WHATCOM, Wash, Dec. 4.-The de-
struction of the home of George Wright
by fire this morning caused the death
of one child and the perhaps fatal in
jury of another. Early this morning
fires were started in the lower part of
the house by one of the sons The heat
generated in one of the stoves became
so intense as to set fire to the wallpaper
and in few minutes the flames spread
to the upper portion of the house, where
the family was sleeping Reuben, aged
years, was burned to death. In try
ing to save his life his sister Maggie,
aged II years, nearly lost her own, be-
ing compelled finally to jump from an
upstairs window after she had been
terribly burned. In jumping her back
was injured and the physicians are un-
able to tell whether or not she will re-
cover
There were twelve children in the
family of George Wright, all sleeping
upstairs. All the others, with the moth.
er. escaped by jumping from the upper
windows. All were more or less blis-
tered and burned.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-05
STATES PROGRESS
SOME LEADING PROJECTS.
Plans Reported by Papers of Cities
and of Country.

Among the projects which have been
recorded in the papers of California
recently as indicative of progress
are the building of a fashionable
winter and summer hotel by Los An
geles capitalists on the Cummings
place, north of Geyserville, Sonoma
County, the reported cost of the pro-
posed structure being 100000; a rail-
way from San Jose to Los Gatos by
way of Campbell, an auxiliary steam
plant for the California Central Gas
and Electric Company of 500 horsepow-
er at Petaluma, a new cannery plant
for the Pacific Coast Packing Company
in Oakland, a large stone plant at the
junction of the Oakland branch of the
Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific at
Point Richmond. pscking-h house for
the Cooperative Packing Association
at Reedley, and the extension of the
wharf of the Standard Oil Company at
Point Richmond so~that vessels of deep
draught may lie at it.
The Martinez Press reports that
Charles e. Ertz has secured the Bulls
head Point property as the site 70 an
oil refinery and that his company will
occupy the entire point. The people
concerned in the enterprise are from
Ohio.
The Humboldt Times reports that the
Golden State Creamery Company OF
San Francisco has leased one creamery
plant and has secured options on FIVE
others in Humboldt County, and has
also secured contracts with several in
dividuals to furnish cream. The Times
says:
THE proposition is to have the cream
sterilized at the various creameries and
shipped to San Francisco, where 1t
will be manufactured daily into butter,
thus putting the fresh Humboldt pro-
duct on the market every day instead
of manufacturing it here and having it
arrive in the city several days after it's
manufacture"
The Palo Alto Times gives evidence
of local prosperity. 1t says:
1.-THE interest in Palo Alto realty and
the general demand for property in this
vicinity is evidenced by the fact that
three new real estate offices are to be
opened here soon. A San Jose firm. will
establish a branch Office, and two of
our well-known citizens, both expe-
rienced In the business, will also enter
the field. This speaks well for the pros
poets Of Palo Alto and promises to Gre
ate a stir in realty matters
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-05
RESTAURANT KEEPERS
TAKE A FIRM STAND
Decide to Close Places of Business if
Walters Alliance Does Not
Come to Terms

The action of the Walters Alliance in
calling out the men employed by the
Central Dining-room Company has
aroused the ire of the Restaurant
keepers Association. The latter organ
ization has sent an ultimatum to the
alliance. In forcible terms the secre-
tary has informed the union that if it
does not order the return Of the men
this morning, every member of the as
sociatiOn will close its doors tomorrow
night and remain closed until the mat
ter is settled. This may mean a big
strike in San Francisco and the clos
ing Of the leading restaurants.
The alliance desires j. Bertz, pro-
prietor Of the place. to sign an agree
ment as to special privileges to be en-
Joyed by the walters, 10 be in force
next year. Mr.. Bertz has declined to
accede to the demands of the union
hence the withdrawal of the men by
the alliance
The following communication was
sent TO the union:
December (, 19O3.-Waiters' Alliance
No. 30, City: Gentlemen-At a meet
ing of this association, held this after
noon, the action of your union in call
ing out the employees of the Central
Dining-room, "A Ellis street, was dis
cussed, and it was resolved to notify
you that, unless by 10 o'clock to-mor-
row morning Saturday, the 5th inst)
you order back the said employees and
that each and every one of them report
for duty by that time, each and every
member of this association will close
his restaurant Sunday night, December
6, not to reopen Monday morning.
Yours truly,
Fl. A. SWAIN, Secretary"
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-05
ATTACHES OF WAR
OFFICE WORRIED
General Chaffee Causes
CONSERVATION on In
spection Day.
Next Chief of Staff Is Un-
sparing in His
Critics ms.
special Dispatch to The Cali.

WASHINGTON; Dec. General Ad-
ma r. Chaffee, who will succeed Gen
erag S. B. NJ. Young as chief of staff of
the army next month, inspected the
clerical force of the adjutant generals
office this afternoon. He started with
the object of obtaining more desk room,
and found much dirt and many bottles.
The investigation was continued, and
consequently many clerks stayed after
office hours and will be on hand early
in the morning to clean their desks,
for General Chaffee loves cleanliness
and hates empty bottles. The tour Of
inspection came without warning. Ma
jor Swift of the adjutant generals Of
flee marched at General Chaffee's ell
bow. The general paused before desk
behind which sat a woman. 1t was
piled high with papers.
What are these?" he asked, picking
them up. Away With them to the file
ROOM
A negro messenger next fell in his
way. Pull that desk out from the
wall. Look at that dust. No wonder
you have so much sickness here" were
the generals comments.
More papers were sighted and sem
fenced to the file room. Hereafter only
such documents as are required for i'm
mediate use will be allowed to remain
on the desks of the clerks.
General Chaffee says they breed dis
ease. He wants desks spick and span.
His troops in the Philippines were al
ways as well as could be expected, be-
cause their quarters were as sanitary
as they could be made.
Where work was in progress when
General Chaffee appeared he looked in
to its character. He pulled open draw
ers in desks and showed satisfaction
when contents were stacked in orderly
fashion and anger when they were
found in disarray.
From one office to another the inspec-
ton party went. Fleetfooted messen-
gers dashed ahead with the news. Con-
sternaticn spread everywhere except
to those whose own ideas of orderliness
were the same as General Chaffees
They gloated over the discomfort of
their fellows.
In one office General Chaffee pulled
open desk drawer and found on it's
dusty bottom three bottles
What are those bottles" he demand
ed, liquor?"
"Oh, no sir: we bring our coffee for
lunch in en- interposed the anxious
clerk
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-05
Search for Abducted Girl.

The police have been informed that
Gut Har, a Chinese girl, 13 years Of
age, who was abducted from her home
in Salinas by Joe 1. Tanaka, a Japanese
contractor, on November 20, had been
seen in the Japanese quarter here and
an active search is being made for her.
1t is said that Tanaka has had the
girls hair cut and has dressed her in
American clothes, representing that
she is a boy
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progressing during the last week. not
withstanding the two or three stormy
days. The rains, however. have DELAYED
the work TO the extent that the expected
commencement of construction within
our city limits has not. vet begun bur If
further hindrances do not occur we may
expect some beginning to have been
made before Saturday night. Three car
Ioads or ties arrived yesterday morning
and were unloaded near the piles Of
rails.
The grading up to the city limits is
now nearly completed. and everything
this end of the line, is complete The
laying of the track will be rapid when
again commenced and will not again
need to be delayed. 1t is the purpose of
the builders to begin laying rails at this
end of the line and meet the other army
point.
Mr.. Granger hopes to have the line
ready. Tor operation within the city of
San Jose next week and the entire line
by December To-
The Mail does not anticipate the ope-
rating of the line at so early a date. but
as this is our rainy season" and DELAYS
are likely to occur often
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-05
PROGRESS IN SOUTH.
New Irrigation System-Discovery
of Valuable Mineral Deposits.

"
of Valuable Mineral Deposits.
The San Bernardino Times-Index has
the following relating to the discovery
OF large gypsum deposits:
The mountain of acids in Whitewa-
ter, which was discovered some months
ago, has proved to be a richer prop
osition than they had first supposed.
From report received from the Gov
ernment chemists at Washington, the
analysis of the specimens shows a large
percentage Of borax. There are i'm
mense deposits of gypsum, which Is
used in the manufacture Of cement. and
the Portland Cotton cement people have
offered to pay them $4,000 in gold for
an interest in the property. This offer
the locators have turned down, and
there are now New York capitalists in
specting the property"
The Riverside Enterprise records the
progress of new irrigation system at
San Jacinto. saying:
IN. NJ Ball of the Concrete Construc-
ton Company of Riverside has COM
pleted within less than two months
nearly ten miles of cement ditch for
the San Jacinto Irrigation Company.
With the completion of this ditch a
new era of prosperity should dawn on
San Jacinto."
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-05
SOUTHERN PACIFIC MAY
ACQUIRE ANOTHER ROAD
President Hartman Is Reported to
Have the California North
western in View.

SAN RAFAEL, Dec. 4.-E. H. Harri-
man, president of the Southern Pacific
Railroad, is the guest Of President A.
w. Foster of the California Northwest
ern road. The two officials are in Fos-
ter's private car en- route to Willis. the
northern terminus of the system. Fos-
ter and his guest came over from San
Francisco this afternoon by special
boat. At Tiburon they boarded a spe-
cial train, consisting of engine No. /
and Fosters private car "Donahue."
Nothing could be learned from the
officials. 1t was learned, however. from
a semi official source tonight that the
reAl object of the trip is for the pur-
pose of perfecting details for the final
transfer Of the entire Northwestern
system to the Southern Pacific Com
pany.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-05
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crease the navy beyond our needs or
to exDend dollar unnecessarily.
CONCERNING MARE ISLAND.

The cost Of military protection has
frequently been compared with that of
insurance upon property. The COM
parison is not Inappropriate, and has a
special significance in considering naval
expenditures. I have caused a com
parison to be made between the naticn-
al valuation and naval expenditures.
A table computed in this manner, show
ing the percentage of the total prop-
erty Of the United States devoted To
the support of the navy, by ten-year
periods in the last century, shows an
average annual expenditure of $O.O0123
for each dollar of the valuation The
expenditures for the fiscal year 1903
were $82, ,61S, ,034. By reasonable approx
imation. the valuation for that year
was s106, ,229, ,266. Thus there was ex-
pended for this year for each dollar of
national valuation s000O77 If the
average Of the last century had been
reached, the expenditures would have
been s13O,674,29S."
Concerning the Mare Island dock. the
report says:
The accumulated delays in con-
struction of the Mare Island dock are
deplorable. A private firm has com
pleted and has in operation in San
Francisco a concrete dock which was
begun after the Mare Island dock was
contracted for. while even the excava-
tion for our own dock is yet uncon1-
pleted. Radical measures to hasten the
completion of this dock should and will
be taken''
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-05
Railway Wins a Legal victory.

SAN JOSE, Dec. A. = The San
Jose-Los Gatos Interurban Electric
Railway has scored a victory over the
property owners on South Market
street who objected to the line on that
thoroughfare. Judge Rhodes to-day re-
fused the injunction asked by the
City Store, corporation, The City
Store alleged that the railway in front
Of its premises would injure its prop
erty by blocking the ingress and egress
of teams from its place of business. A
week ago the court sustained the de-
murrer of the railroad company, hold
ing that the property had not been
damaged by the railway. The plain
tiff failed to amend its complaint and
judgment was given to-day for the
railway.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-05
DARING HIGHWAYMAN
SHOOTS AT HIS VICTIM
Thomas Lahan, Clerk of San Jose
Court, Has Rather Exciting
Experieuce

SAN JOSE. Dec. 4.-Thomas Lahan.
clerk of Justice Benson's court, had an
exciting experience with highwayman
early this morning. While on his way
home he was stopped at Third and
Margaret streets by a man with a re-
yolver, who demanded his money or his
life. Lahan struck at the robber. who
then shot at him, the bullet just graz
ing his head. Lahan then succeeded
in getting away, although the robber
fired a second shot at him and pur-
sued him for some distance. The per-
sistence of the man in following Lahan
leads some of the latter's friends to be-
lieve that assassination instead of rob-
berry prompted the holdup. Lahan is
quite popular and is not known to have
an enemy.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-05
BARoNETs SON WORKS
WAY TO MEET BRIDE
Young Englishman Is Anxious to
Marry One of Buffalo Bills
Actresses.

CHICAGO, Dec. 4.-Henry G. Wright.
son of Sir Henry Wright, Bart, reached
this city to-day, broke, and is looking
for job. Young Wright-he is barely
2l-is trying to reach San Diego. where
lives the girl whom he intends to
marry. He has managed to get this
far from New York, and says he will
reach San Diego all right, despite the
distance.
Wright went to see the Buffalo Bill
show In London and tell in love with
Susie Amerine. California girl who
was playing Amazon in bison Will
yum's" enterprise. The young couple
came to this country, and Wright had
just enough money to buy Susie a tick
ct to San Diego. Then he proceeded to
work his way west after her.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-05
Fire Sweeps Through Gum Grove.

LONG BEACH. Cal. Dec. "A fire
swept through the southern portion OF
Bixby's gum grove on the AlamilOs to-
day, destroying thousands Of dollars
worth Of standing trees. and on ac-
count of the density of the underbrush
it is feared the roots are so injured that
the growth of the trees has been perm
anently destroyed. Several houses that
stood close to the grove had a narrow
escape from destruction and were
saved with difficulty