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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-11

One Of the young women who was intro
duced to society year ago last winter
is soon to enter a convent. She was reared
in France, came to this city to enter society.
and enjoyed herself apparently as we'll
as most young girls do in her set Then
weeks az it was decided that she should
return to France to enter cloister. Her
aunt is one Of the most beautiful women in
New York, and the future nun has con
siderable share Of comeliness and wealth
She and her mother became Roman
Catholics during their stay in Europe.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-11

Three immigrants, OBVIOUSLY newly
arrived. wandered disconsolately down
lower Sixth avenue. They were Of the
ultra German, if that could be. Their
trousers were cut In such ample proportions
that they seemed at no spot contiguous to
their persons Their caps were such es
q are rarely seen here, Deep gloom pos
sessed the three They were evidently
very homeeick for the Fatherland,
Near Eighth street in Sixth avenue is a
delicatessen shop with two immense arti-
fetal bears heads and every known kind
Of sausage in the window. AS the three
immigrants came abreast OF this store they
executed Simultaneous flank movement
and in a moment three stubby noses were
frst of all the two bears heads, and all
sorts Of pAtAs. Then there were loops
and festoons and circles and curves of all
sorts in sausages. There was everything
In phantasmagoric porcine nightmare.
The three immig grants stood on the graf
ing before the window, the generous pro-
portions OF their trousers ballooned by the
wind from beneath, and gazed in open
mouthed Fascination 'l When they hey, finally
joy. They had seen a powerful reminder
and almost caught feeting glimpse Of
home.
At Ninth street and Fourth avenue a
saloon is doing business literally from
the street. No partition separates the
bar from the public. The building is being
altered and meantime the upper stories
are supported on wooden joists and iron
pillars, but the place keeps on doing bust
ness under the tangle Of scaffolding. En-
trance IL along a narrow plank, which is an
easy enough method Of getting in but
toner. At the end Of the bar on the Fourth
avenue sdc stands an iron safe almost
In the street.. Its position might be con-
sidered dangerous since thieves have taken
to Juggling on 4o0-pound safes bodily. But
the work Of alteration has been going on
for Ave weeks, and will continue FOR three
! months longer, and tho safe b undisturbed.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-07
COLORADO MINES
To Be DRAINED
Tunnel Is Completed and
Valves in Bulkheads
Are Opened.
Stream of Water Two Feet
in Depth Pours Into
Cripple Creek

CRIPPLE CREEK. Colo. Sept. 6-The
great drainage tunnel. which has been in
process of construction since last Janu-
airy. was completed and put in operation
this morning. Under the direction Of Su-
perintendent cambridge the valves in the
bulkheads were opened, and Immediately
a stream of water two feet in depth
poured through the portals of the tunnel
into Cripple Creek. The flow soon de-
creased to 2500 gallons minute. Later in
the day work was begun on the northern
heading, connecting branch, and when
this is completed it is estimated that the
flow will reach 1000 gallons.
The tunnel was constructed for the pur-
pose Of carrying off the water from the
mines in the territory traversed, and is
5000 feet in length. The cost was $4,000.
Work on the tunnel was delayed about
ten days by reason of the existing labor
troubles, and for several days mine own
ers, superintendent and managers them
selves worked with pick and shovel in
the tunnel
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-07
Death to Be Investigated.

The Coroner was notified last evening
by the officials in charge or the Waldeck
Sanitarium that Mrs. Mary A Mills, who
died in that institution last evening, had
come TO her death from septicaemia fol-
lowing a criminal operation The de-
ceased had been under the care of DR..
Alfred Mclaughlin and was admitted to
the hospital on September l. OVng to
her Drecarious condition an immediate
operation was necessary and she was ac-
cordingly operated upon. According to
John +. Behan, brother Of the dead WON
an, she informed him that she had per-
formed the first operation herself. II is I'M
derstood that DR.. Mclaughlin has a signed
statement generating him from any par
ticipation in this operation. Deceased re-
sided at 1412 L street with her husband
Valentine Mills. employe of the Cali
fornia Fireworks Company, and was 80
years OF age.
Detective Ross Whitaker has been de-
tailed on the case and will make an in
vestigation. Upon the solicita ton of the
relatives the body was not removed to the
Morgue
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-07
ISAAC N. THoRNE PASSES
AWAY AT RIPE OLD AGE.
Sturdy octogenarian Practiced as an
Attorney Until Within Week
of His Death.

Isaac y. ThOrne, a well-known and re-
spected attorney of this city, passed away
yesterday at the age of so years, after
an illness of one week. In spite of Mr.
Thorne's advanced age, he remained in
the practice of his profession until a
week ago at Go Montgomery street.
In 1919 Mr.. Thorne crossed the plains
and upon his arrival in San Francisco be-
gan an active career. He came of good
Quaker stock, his late father. Stephen
Thorne, having been a prominent member
Of the Friends in New York City.
Not long after the arrival of his son in
this city, Stephen Thorne also came TO the
Coast and cast his lot here. The late
Isaac Thorne married Miss Bryant
daughter of the late Colonel Bryant Of
this city.
A widow and FIVE children. Andrew
ThOrne, the attorney, Dr. 1. w. Thorne,
Julian Thorne, Mrs. Louis Marshall and
Miss Edith Thorne, at present in New
York. survive.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-07
LARGE CROWDS VISIT
THE NEW CONEY ISLAND
High Class Vaudeville and Various
Concessions Enliven Peoule at
the Reach

The attractions at Coney Island. the
new place Of amusement at the Ocean
Beach. were well patronized yesterday.
Crowds swarmed into the spacious
grounds 81 all hours during the day and
were entertained until q late hour in the
evening. The place. with its free vaude-
vile SHOW and concessions, is worthy Of
attention and its merit is RESPONSIBLE for
the large increase in travel oceanward on
Sundays.
The open air vaudeville was Of a high
class. Every person who stepped on the
stage was an artist and received a shower
Il applause Among the most clever were
lIusa La Var. in seriO-cOmic specialties;
Hazard the Great. as a gentriloquist and
corner solofst: I4aurance Bees, in clever
eDeciaIfies: ROxie and Wayne, in comedy
sketches: and Lawrence DIS and DIS Ella.
The dude and dudine Of cOIored aristoc-
rsc,- AL Of the concessions afforded
more than the ordinary interest and the
resort IS destined to become one Of the
greatest Of its character. The manage
mont is making constant improvements
--ffb view 10 comfort and entertainment
Of visitors
FOR next Sunday afternoon q thrilling
balloon race is on the taps. PROFESSOR
Rosn,er whose fame is known from one
end Of the continent 20 the other. will en-
Ter with Mile Aneti. A purse OF 500
has been put Up and the winner takes IT
I'm Ia addition to this many new at
fractions have been added to the pro-
grarrne
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-07
FLOOD STRIKES
ALASKAN HOMES
ValdeS Suffers Severely
From Ravage Of a
Stream.
West End of the Northern
Town Laid in Ruins by
Water.
Special Dispatch to The CAN

TACOMA. Wash. Sept. slack Hardy,
who arrived at Skagway last week on the
Bertha, brought news Of a disaster at
Valdes that involved the sweeping away
of all the reservation portion OF the town
lying west of the glacial stream known
the VaIdes River.
On August p an unusual high tide
covered the Valdes flats simultaneously
the stream flowing from the great galcier
back of the western part of the town rose
above its banks and swept away all the
improvements on the tract known as the
reservation and which principally belongs
to James Fish & Co. wing dam that
had been built above the main portion OF
the town detected the water sufficiently
to save the houses
The citizens worked valiantly 10 stem
the flood wherever possible with sand.
rocks and other devices. but their work
was Of no avail to avert the entire de-
struction of the west end of Valdes. a.
all Of the houses. fences and other i'm
proVements were swept into the bay The
occupants OF the houses escaped.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-07
WANTS ITALIAN NAVAL
AFFAIRS INVESTIGATED
Deputy Ferri, Recently Acquitted of
Libel, Demands That Parlia-
ment Conduct INQUIRY.

ROME. Sept 6.-Deputy Ferri, the edi-
tor of the Socialist paper Avanti, who
was acquitted September 2 of the
charge Of libeling the navy brought
against him by thirty-five naval officers,
the acquittal being on the ground that
the latter could not represent the whole
navy, has filed an Interpolation to be
made on the reopening of the chamber,
insisting again on a Parliamentary in
quiry into the condition of the navy from
the time of the battle of LISA in 1866, in
which the Italians were defeated by the
Austrians, until the present time. 1t was
on the occasion of a previous attempt to
obtain Parliamentary inquiry that Sig
nor Ferri made his attacks on the navy
which led to the suit for libel being
brought against him. 1t is believed, how
ever, that before the reopening of the
Chamber Premier Zanardeli will appoint
a committee of naval investigation, as he
promised when the proposition for an in
quiry was previously rejected by the
Chambers
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-07
MORE CELL ACCOMMODATION
NEEDED IN CITY PRISON
Chief of Police Whitman Is Concerned
About the Coming
Winter

Chief Whitman made an inspection of
the City Prison yesterday with the object
Of seeing what space, if any, could be
utilized for more cell accommodation for
the coming winter. when there will be
the usual increase in the number of pris-
oners.
We are badly hampered for accommo-
dalton in the prison during the winter
months said the Chief, land l antici-
pate that this will be a hard winter for
the criminal element. Besides our own
have TO accommodate United States
prisoners. but I am endeavoring to have
them sent to the Alameda County Jail
where there is plenty of room.
1.-THE space occupied by the cells could
have been much more economically utiI-
lied, giving much more accommodation
for prisoners, and I will lay the matter
before the proper authorities and see
what can be done to remedy the defect
If the building were extended to Dunbar
alley on the Washington street side that
would do away with the congestion for
years TO come and I hope the taxpayers
will vote favOrably on the proposition TO
purchase the building on Washington
street to effect that much desired object -
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-07
FACULTY AND STUDENTS
WILL HEAR ADDRESSES
Twenty-S Annual Session of
Dental College to Be Fittingly
Observed

An interesting event viii take place this
afternoon at 3 O'Clock at the Dental Col
iese, Affiliated Colleges Of the University
~ California, on Parnassus avenue. The
occasion marks the tWenty-secOnd annual
session Of the college. and the ceremonies
VIII partake somewhat Of an anniversary
Addresses are TO be made by Dr. J d.
EfodEen OF The faculty and DR.. Harry p
carlton. dean Of the college.
The college inaugurates a four-year
course with the present session. the for
0er course having been three wears This
o require four-year course Of nine
months each.
An advance in the matter Of educational
reQuirement for matricUlatiOn is to be en-
forced next year, for students applying
Tor admission must have received diplO-
mas from high schools or academies &C
credited TO the State University. Students
VIII not be received after ten days from
The opening Of the college.
The faculty Of the college consists Of
Benjamin Ide Wheeler. LID. president
- the university; l. J. Dunbar. d. d. S.
emeritus professor operative dentistry; c.
j. Goddard. A. NJ, d. D. S, emeritus pro-
lessor Of OrthodOntia, Harry p. Carlton,
ID. j.. S. dean, professor Of operative den
tistry: 81. J. Sullivan. NJ. D, professor OF
pathology. therap eUtics and materia med
lca5 A A d ramona, A b, ". d, pro-
fessOr OF physiology; J. N Williamson,
n. D. professor Of anatomy: J. D. HOdg-
IN, D. ID. S. professor Of metallurgy and
chemistry, ". ,. Sharp y. d. S, D. NJ
d. professor Of prosthetic chemistry: c.
A. LittOn, =. d. s. professor Of orthO-
dontia, and James O. Sharp, D. d. s,
H. D., professor Of surgery.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-07
CHINA AND RUSSIA AGREE.
Report That a Secret Convention Has
Been Executed.

TOXIC. Aug. % via Victoria. B. c.,
Sept GA special from Picking to-day
states that the much-mooted secret con-
vention between China and Russia has
been executed but this is not officially
confirmed
The Picking correspondent of the Jill
wires that concerning the opening of
Manchuria the United States Minister,
Mr.. Conger, has made a strong argument,
to which Prince Ching has replied stating
that If China assents to the opening at
this time Russia will make that action a
pretext to continue the occupation of
Manchuria after October 10, the date stip-
ulated in the treaty for the final evacua-
ton. The correspondent adds that the
Japanese Minister has also received a
similar answer to Prince Ching.
kilograms from Korea state that Che
Sekio head of the Forestry Department
of Korea, has sent a note to the Japanese
Minister. Hayaisha, stating that the
RuSSO-Korean agreement for lease of land
at Yongampho to the timber company has
been Cancelled as the result of fresh ne
gotiations with the representative of the
timber company, Baron Gunsberg The
Korean officials have also stated through
the Foreign Office at Seoul that the
agreement was only provisional Minis
ter Hayaisha has asked that this state
ment be put in the shape of a formal
note.
According to a later report the stipula-
ton in the agreement about foreigners
charged with any offense in the leased
area having to be handed over to Russian
custody has been Cancelled on account of
the objections made by the Korean For
eign Office acting on protests sent in by
the powers. This portion being Cancelled,
the Russian Minister drafted an amended
agreement which he pressed the Korean
Government to sign. The Foreign once
refused, but the Imperial Household De-
partment ordered that the agreement be
signed.
In the new agreement the Russian Min
lister demanded further grants Of land to
the timber company in return for can
ceiling the jurisdiction clause as a favor
to Korea to avoid getting her into trouble
with other powers.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-07
TWO CABLES CUT.
Several Hundred Wires Are Rendered
Useless by Miscreants.

OAKLAND. Sept. 6-Two large tele-
phone cables. carrying from 100 to 200
wires each. were cut last night in this
city. According to the telephone COM
pany officials the work was done by some
one familiar with the location Of the
wires. as we'll as the methods by which
they could be put out OF service. The
first cut was made at the pole at the
corner of Thirty-fourth street and San
Pablo avenue, where a cable carrying 100
wires was severed and the connecting
telephones in that portion Of the city put
out of service. The second cut was made
in a larger strand of wires running across
Webster-street bridge and carrying sew
eral hundred connections between Oak
land and Alameda. The cut here as in
the San Pablo avenue case showed plain
" that experienced hands had located
the cable and rendered 1t useless
The telephone company early located the
interruption In the service and put skilled
electricians at work to make repairs. Eff
forts to uncover the identity of the wire
cutters have to date been unavailing.
Most all OF the cutting has been done late
at night and at points and hours where
and when detection would be difficult.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-07
SAYS It MEANS
COLOSSAL WASTE
Charles Francis Adams
Opposes Public
Ownership.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

KANSAS CITY, Sept. 6-CharIes Fran
els Adams of Boston in letter to r. T.
Snediker, a local single tax advocate,
uses very strong language to express his
opposition to any plan of municipal own
ership or control of street railway lines.
He says the municipal system in use in
Glasgow would lead to a riot in twenty
four hours if tried in Kansas City. Says
Adams
I can only say that. a result Of careful
official examination my part. 1 have never
yet seen in Europe anywhere case of munich
pal or public transportation worthy of an in
stant's consideration compared with our
own. We here in America do things in the
transportation line which in Europe they do
not even dream Of and wherever a Govern
ment lays it's hands a line it becomes
compared with system, paralyzed at once.
The fact Is when 1t comes to handling pri-
vate business, any and every Government is
in my opinion. utterly incompetent whether
it is a water system. schools, railroads. tele-
graph postoffce what not Every time
private enterprise would do il four times
as we'll at about half the cost.
Please don't talk to me of doing business
through governmental machinery. It is one
colossal exhibition Of waste, extravaganza and
incompetence.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-07
TWO BOYS MAKE
GREWSOME FIND
Badly DecomposedB Body
Is Found Near the
Cliff House.
NO Clew to Identity Of Man
Who Died by His
Own Hand.

l~o boys found the badly decomposed
s-oy az man lying in the rear of a sta
lie directly opposite the entrance to the
Depot CT the SUtro electric line at the
"H House yesterday. The boys are
Henry Madison Of 9 Gage street and Wal
Ter HickoX OF I775 Mission street The
BODY had undoubtedly been exposed to
me elements Tor some time, as it was in
an advanced state Of decomposition and
The features were so frightfully distorted
as TO be practically unacceptable. A
bottle bearing the label Of a Sacramento
druggist and containing a small quantity
n carbolic acid was found by the side Of
the deceased.
The grewsome find was made about 3
% clock IN the afternoon. The bows had
gone 10 the beach for an afternoon out
ing They were walking in the rear Of
the barn and stumbled across the re
mains. Not waiting TO bestow a second
look upon the distorted and swollen fea-
lures Of the dead man. they ran in search
~ an officer. Detectives Z. /. Gibson and
= v. Bunner, who were on special duty
m the beach. We're notified and took
charge Of the remains pending the arrival
Of the COroner's deputies.
The news spread among the immense
crowd Of pleasure seekers. and in an in
credibly short space Of time several thou
sand persons, actuated by a morbid curl
ostty, had gathered at the scene. This
number was augmented by many more
upon the arrival OF the Morgue wagon
Deputy Fennel and Messenger Frank
Murphy took charge Of the body and con-
veyed IL 10 the Norgue
An examination of the dead mans
pockets brought 10 light two pieces of
stout hempen rope tied in a moose, which
-noicates that he contemplated self-de-
struction by hanging in the event the
deadly acid did not have effect A stor-
age receipt issued by the Southern Pacific
company for two days storage. bearing
The number 1882. signed &C. ". Luce,
per B., was found in an inner pocket
and may lead 10 the Identification Of the
unfortunate man. A card Of the Rath-
skeller. 80 California street, on the re-
verse size of which was written. '-Erns
Kaiser, Redwood House Redwood City
rs the only other CleW as 10 his identity
An empty purse, two keys. a razor and a
knife were also found on the body.
John Grimen. a stableman employed [
The Chm House. states that he saw the
deceased on August 81 wandering around
the grounds In a drunken condition.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-07
AERONAUT FALLS
WITH PARACHUTE
Balloonist Has a Mar
row Escape in Los
Angeles.
Plunges Earthward and Lands
Unframed on Tele-
phone Wires.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

Los ANGELES. Sept 6.-Within plain
sight of thousands of spectators, man
and woman made a balloon ascension Of
1900 feet or more this afternoon. The Yo-
man cut loose her parachute and descend
ed safely, but the man found it impossi-
BILE TO loosen his parachute. and with the
dead balloon, in which the hot air had
become chilled, he plunged earthward,
every second seeming to be his last but
saved only by the partial working of his
umbrella-like continuance. He landed
squarely upon a network of telephone
wires and lives to tell about it.
The double balloon ascension was made
by Edna Springer and Farrari Sandusky
from Chutes Park and was the most
thrilling midair event that ever occurred
in Los Angeles. The two performers went
up together, the girl clnging to trapeze
hung just below her companions, and
when at an altitude Appropriated to have
been 5000 feet the girl cut loose according
TO programme and began a successful de-
scent in her parachute.
Her companion was to have followed
suit Immediately, but no sooner had the
first parachute begun its voyage than the
balloon listed heavily to one side and be-
gan to rake the remaining aeronaut to
and fro through the air. The girl scream
ed to him TO cut loose, but his efforts to
free himself proved vain and with its vi
tality fast ebbing away the balloon start
ed toward the earth. threatening every
moment to overwhelm and smother its
unwilling passenger in it's noXious folds.
Finding that he could not cut the para
chute loose, Sandusky suspended himself
from the trapeze by his hands, so as to
land as much in advance of the bag as
possible, that he might make an attempt
to escape being EMBODIED by it as soon
as his feet touched something firm, and
down they came, the useless parachute
opening and shutting ominously.
This saved his life. But for it he would
have been dashed TO death. Sandusky's
feet struck in a network of telephone
wires at Main and Fourteenth street.
Throwing himself TO one side he re-
bounded from his dangerous landing place
the aeronaut just missed being caught by
the heavy folds of the balloon, which
swept across onto the roof of the house,
Tending itself open. The man made his
way over the wires-luc-.y telephone
wires not being sufficiently charged with
electricity TO injure him-and climbed
down the pole, bruised but whole.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-09-07
RAILWAY RIGHTS
To BE GUARDED
Alleged Particulars Of
the Russo-Japanese
Negotiations.
Each Power to Respect the
Others Holdings in Korea
and Manchuria.

LONDON, Sept. THE Times corre-
spondent at Picking telegraphs;
Although they may be officially con
tradicted, the following particulars of the
Russo-Japanese negotiations are reported
in too circumstantial and persistent a
form to be disregarded. In a memoran-
dunn which the Japanese Minister pre-
scented to Count Lamsdorf, the Russian
Foreign Minister, provision was made for
the mutual recognition of the respective
railway rights of the two powers in Man
churia and Korea, each power to define
its rights and have authority to guard its
railways and send troops for the sup
preston of disturbances within its sphere.
In this connection it should be noted that
Japan has very extended preferential
rights for railway construction in Korea. .
The Times correspondent at Toxic says
the report that the basis of the Russo
japanese negotiations is the mutual
recognition of the interests of the two
countries in Manchuria and Korea is Of
ticially denied there.