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The San Francisco call., 1904-09-25

Major Thomas r. Adams, Artillery
Corps, U. S. A, assistant inspector gen
eral, Division of the Pacific, was struck
by a Powell street car at the corner
of Post street last night and now lies
near death in the Central Emergency
Hospital. The accident occurred short
ly before o'clock and was witnessed
by several persons.
Major adams was on his way down
town. having just left his apartments
at the Clarendon Hotel, on Post street.
near Mason. He was walking briskly
and did not slacken his speed as he ap-
preached the corner of Powell street.
Southbound car No. All was just
crossings Post street. The gripman
sounded his bell loudly and at the same
time attempted to bring his car to a
standstill. But the rails were slippery,
the breaks refused to work and before
the speed of the car could be checked
it had knocked the unfortunate army
officer down and he lay bleeding and
unconscious on the street.
Major Adams was picked up by the
gripman and conductor and several by
ISLANDERS and taken to a nearby drug
store. He was removed a. few minutes
later to the Central Emergency Hos
pital, where the physicians pronounced
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-25
HARVEST HOME DINNER
AT THE COSMOS CLUB

The old English custom of celebrat-
ing Michaelmas day was observed at
the Cosmos Club Friday night, when
a merry party sat down to a harvest
home dinner in the spacious dining
room of the clubhouse. The dining
room, which has recently been recon
structed, was decorated in true
autumnal style, with groupings of
brilliant foliage. fruits and flowers.
At the dinner the piece de resistance
was roast goose la good Queen Bess.
Those present were w. B. Brad
ford. president of the club: Henry
Eickhoff, Peter Lamb, Joseph Hopper,
George N. Williams. Marius Kast,
Frederick S. Myrtle. w. S. Loucks,
Charles E. Miller. Hon. F.. NJ. Angel
lott, G.. w. Bates. Hon. .Lucien Shaw,
C. H. Shiels. r. S. Green. E. Peterson,
l.. j. Hart, Oscar Weber. Charles w.
kellogg, Robert d. Hatch. ID. f.
O,Connell, G.. c. Farrell. DIR. Ryfkogel,
George Fisher Beveridge, Major NJ. A.
Batson, u. s. A.; H. F. Hartzell. Com
modore j. c. Burnett: u. S. N; Fran
els Lowndes, Hon.. j. NJ. Seawell. II. S.
Markey, Thomas w. Brooks. Eugene
de Coulon, J.. J.. Chappell. w. l.. b
Mills, C. Fletcher Taylor, L. w. Seely.
r. A. Findlay, Hon. John Hunt. Henry
P. Dimond. M. c. Harrison, Cabel H.
Maddox. Hon. Frank H. Kerrigan. w.
M. Speyer. Captain George S. Wright,
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-25
ENDS TORTURE
WITH 4 BULLET
George Crowley Takes His
Own Life After Years of
Endless Pain and Agony

George Crowley of 44O7 Twentieth
street committed suicice last night in
the InglewOod lodging house at 126
Fifth street by shooting himself in the
right temple. The dead man was de-
spondent over sickness and left a note
telling Of the suffering he had endured.
The body was discovered by Miss
Siolina, a .chambermaid, at o'clock
last evening. On the corpse was the
following note:
This is terrible thing for me to do,
.. but God knows I can't help it. My
head has pained' me so that I was tor
.tured day after day, night after night,
for years, the same thing over again,
ache and ache, so this seems to be the
only way out Of it. G. W. c. If ever
poor devil hated to die it is me, but
it is either that or what would become
Of me the way.I feel"
Crowley rented the room last Tues
day and wrote the note Wednesday.
He must have been dead for two days.
He was about 30 years Of age and a
member Of the Eagles. Aerie No. 5, OF
this city. He gave the name of James
Wilson when he rented the room.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-25
DEBS DECLARES
HIS PLATFORM
Socialist Nominee for the
Presidency Invites Work
ingman to Support Him

In the ring at WoOdward's Pavilion,
where the principles of the Marquis Of
Queensberry have often been expound-
ed. Eugene v. Debs, Presidential can
didate on the Socialist ticket, last
night upheld the principles OF his par
tv. The attraction did not draw so
well as a prize fight. the house being
about half filled. Those who did at
tend greeted many of the speakers
lines of argument with cheers The
Socialist candidate was somewhat
handicapped by a cold, but managed
to make himself heard most OF the
time.
There is just one plank in the So
ciaIist party" said Debs. 1T is a Ia
Dor plank, declaring openly in favor
of the workingman in the great class
war now being waged."
Debs attacked. every other party.
After he had aired his alleged griev-
ances against the Republicans he
burst into a scathing denunciation OF
the Democratic party and its Presi-
Dental candidate. He said in part;
This party is known as the great
unwashed, the ragtag and bobtail. 1t
That is impossible. Once this Demo-
cratic party reserved 1000 chairs at
ST. Louis for the Citizens Alliance OF
that city.
"Hobson, the hero of the Merrimac
and the merrysmack minute
out for Hobson. before the
Democrats at st. Louis. declared that
he admired Grover Cleveland because
he was strong enough to defy the
workingman This utterance was
cheered by the Democrats.
who heard of Parker before his
nomination? He sDrang from nothing
in twelve hours. All that was known Of
him previously was that as member
OF the appellate bench in New York he
helped make the eight-hOur day uncon-
stitutional In one night the Democrats
discovered the Moses that was to lead
them out of bondage.
Let me tell you why Parker was
nominated. Thomas Lawson in his ar
ticles on Standard Oil openly charges
Parker with being RockefeIler's choice.
The trusts own both parties. They took
possession of the Democratic party in
single night. The Democratic ma
. chine is fabricated with Standard Oil
Davis was a slave-driver in his youth
and is still in the same business.
THE Union Labor party was or
ganized by trickery Of the trusts. 1t is
simply well laid plot to divide the
worlxingmen. There is only one party
for the toilers-the Socialist party
I do not know whether you work
ingmen viii vote for Ben Hanfcrd and
myself or not. I know that no million
aires will. If no millicnaires vote for
Socialists. no Socialists, should vote for
miIlionaires- Seoner or later victory
will come for the Socialist party"
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-25

satisfaction and approval of the admin
istrators of the policies of Republican,
ism and elect Theodore Roosevelt to
succeed himself for another four years
A SPLENDID RECORD.
THE issue raised by the Republican
party is the splendid record which it
has made since the victory of 1886 and
the Inauguration of President McKin-
ley in 1897. The Republican party is
satisfied with that record as a whole
and with every part of il, too. They
are satisfied with the fact THAT since
1896, by and through the means of
their protective tariff policy, they have
transformed Industrial disorder of the
gravest kind into wonderful pros
perity. They are~satisfied with the
fact that in eight years they have
changed commercial sloth and leth-
argy into marvellous achievements.
They are satisfied with the fact that
they have confirmed and established
throughout the nation the most logi-
cal and most efficient monetary sys-
tenn known in the world to-day, which
is evidenced by the fact that all other
nations, which since 1896 have
changed their monetary system, have
followed the plan adopted by the Re-
publican party. The Republican
party is satisfied with the fact that
since 1896 the armies of the unem-
ployed, amounting to over three mil
lion men. which at that time was
surging through the States and Terri
tories threatening the institutions of
the republic, have been absorbed into
a splendid industrial system, which to-
day gives employment to nearly seven
millions of industrial workers.
"They are satisfied with the fact that
at last, after more than seventy years
of legislation, discussion and agita-
ton, both national and international,
a bill has been passed through the
House of Representatives, through
the Senate and signed by the Presi-
dent, providing for the construction
of the isthmian canal, and despite the
intrigues and Vaccinations of cor
porations and adverse influences. a
treaty has been signed with the State
of Panama whereby the United States
acquires a strip of territory ten miles
wide through Panama and that now
the dreaming of the navigators and
statesmen of the world will be realized
and before the end of Roosevelt's s
next administration, in all human
probability, the waters Of the Atlantic
and Pacific will mingle as they ebb
and flow through the great waterway.
bearing upon the bosom of their tides
the ships of commerce and the ships
of war of all the nations of the
world, under the shadow of the Ameri-
can flag and under the sanction of
American law.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-25

SAUSALITO, Sept. PA rousing
and enthusiastic mass meeting was
held at Sausalito tonight in honor OF
Duncan z. McKinIay, the Republican
candidate for Congress from the Sec
ond District.
This was the opening of the Repub-
lican campaign in Marin County, and
although the weather was unfavorable,
the residents of Sausalito gave Nc
Kinlay a hearty welcome.
The Sausalito band met McKinlay
at the ferry and escorted him to the
hall, which was crowded to overflow
ing. When he took his seat upon the
platform he was heartily cheered and
ii was some moments before Chairman
w. ]. Martin could call the meeting to
order. Martin opened the meeting, and
in a brief talk introduced McKinlay.
The Chairman said that McKinlay was
unanimously Nominated by the Repub-
licans of Santa Cruz in response to the
demands made by the people in every
county in the Second District. In every
sense of the word, he said, he is the
champion of the American workingmen
and the industries, and is the people
choice for Congress.
McKinlay was cheered again and
again after his address, which was as
follows:
II am more than gratified at the OPP
portunity of meeting so many of the
citizens of Sausalito and adjacent por-
tions of Marin County for the purpose
Of discussing the all important issues
Of the campaign upon which we are
now entering, a campaign recognized
by the leading statesmen of the ma
tion, irrespective of party, as one which
the results for good or for evil are
vastly more significant in many. re-
spects than any national or State cam
paign since the splendid victory of 1896
re-established Republicanism, restored
protection, destroyed financial heresies,
indorsed a sound monetary system and
elected that broad, liberal, progressive
statesman. that mighty champion of
American labor and American indus
tries, the well-beloved Mckinley.
This campaign is all important be-
cause all that was then wrested from
Democracy is in jeopardy; because the
splendid policy inaugurated by Nc
Kinley after his Inauguration in 1897
and so gloriously carried out, first un-
der his own direction, and since his Ia
mentable death by President Roose-
welt, is being most recklessly and vi
ciously attacked by the Democratic
party, greedy for. office, regardless of
the cost to the nation and to the peo-
pie; because the great achievements of
the last eight years are set at naught
by our political adversaries; be-
cause the mighty work of the
upbuilding, the consolidation and the
expansion of the nation accomplished
by the last two Republican admins
trations, aided by the Republican par
ty. will be to a great extent undone un-
less the people at the polls on the Sth
day Of November again emphasize their
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-25

his injuries serious. and perhaps fatal.
Chief Surgeon ]. 1. Stephen said that
Major Adams was suffering from a de-
pressed fracture of the frontal portion
of the skull and from serious internal
injuries Drs. Stephen and Millar per-
formed the operation Of trepanning the
skull and removing a portion of the
bone with the hope of possibly saving
the life of the patient. At an early hour
this morning Major Adams was resting
easily and the physicians are hopeful
of his recovery, though he is still far
from having passed the danger point.
Major Adams is we'll known in mill
tary circles all over the country and
one of the most popular army officers in
this city. He came here to succeed
Major John P. Wiser about year ago.
He has a splendid military record and
is known as an able officer and a brave
soldier.
Joseph .Bojorques, the gripman in
charge of the car, was arrested shortly
after the accident and locked up in the
Central Police Station on charge Of
battery. He was later released on bail.
The gripman~ says he saw Adams try
to cross the track and rang. his bell as
warning, at the same time applying
the brakes. but the tracks were. slip
perry and it was impossible for him to
stop the car.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-25
The Way to Get Rich.

Every observing man looks to the fu-
ture. The man who falls to make provi-
sion for his old age will find himself
when his strength fails him. on the way
70 the poorhouse or other charitable in
stitution. How different is it with the
man who has saved his money. This is
the way 10 get rich. Save your money
and il viii make more money for you
Begin to save now. Lay part OF your
earnings aside each week or each
month You do not need a big sum OF
money to open a savings account. You
can start with 81 with the Phoenix Saw
ings p. & I. Assn, SIG California street
receiving 4 y per cent interest, COM
counts 8 per cent is paid. payable semi
annually. Paid up capital, $1250, 600;
guarantee fund 100000. The directors
are A. A. Watkins. Chas. R. Bishop Geo.
c. Boardman, S. Prentiss Smith. Gavin
McNab. Chas. Z. Ladd; Clarence Grange,
managing director.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-25
w. c. PINKHAM FOUND DEAD
IN ST. KATHRYN HOTEL


: w. c. Pinkham, of whom little is
known. was found dead last night az
i7:3G o'clock in his room at the st.
Kathryn. 4S0 Ellis street BY the
dead mans side was a jar of raw
opium; such as is used by opium
smokers. 1t is presumed that the de-
ceased committed suicide. His stom-
ach will be sent to the City Chemist
for analysis. Nothing was found in
the room that would give any clew to
the business or connections of the
dead man. In his clothes was found
80 So.
Pinkham had been stopping at the
ST. Kathryn since july 20 last. He
was quiet man and seldom spoke to
any one. Last night a phone mes
sage from a woman was received and
on investigation Pinkham's body was
found in bed by Assistant Clerk r. NJ.
Conroy. DIR. j. H. Allen, who resides
in the hotel. was summoned and pro-
nounced the man dead. The body was
removed to the Morgue.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-25
Repulse of His Advances by
Woman He Was infatuated
With Causes Englishman
to Send Bullet Into Brain
FOLLOWS CHARMER
ABOUT THE NORTH
BritOn Is Second Man to Fall
Victim of Siren and a Third
Was Sent From Country by
Relatives Who Feared Her
Special Dispatch to The Call.

TACOMA. Sept. 24-Arthur Hus-
ton put a bullet through his brain in
the rooms of Mrs. R. NJ. Rose at the
Fischer Hotel this afternoon. He is
the second man to take his life within
the last six months on account Of the
woman.
Huston was an educated English
man. Four months ago he met Mrs.
Rose and became madly infatuated
with her charms. Mrs. Rose vainly
tried to get rid of him, but she could
not. He followed her about from
place to place. Recently she gave him
the slip and came to Tacoma. Hus-
ton landed here three days later and
found her~at the hotel. She went TO
another house, but Huston discovered
her place of hiding this afternoon
1t was his intention to shoot her.
but her pleadings and the pathetic at
tempts she made TO get out of the
room by the fire escape. carrying her
child with her, appealed to the fren-
zied man and he shot himself in
stead.
Five months ago Mrs. Roses d.
vorced husband. finding himself un-
able to live without the woman, went
to her home and blew his head off
with a shotgun while she was absent.
Recently a railroad man of standing
became infatuated with Mrs. Rose and
his family sent him out of the coun-
try to escape her charms
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-25

PARIS. Sept. 24.-Fomowing NJ.
Charley's offer Of a prize for a trans
Atlantic auto-boat race, two Paris
newspapers are arranging races in
frail craft. The Matin proposed to
organize race across the Mediter-
rsnean, between Toulon and Algiers.
The Journal now comes out with an
announcement Of a race around the
coast of France. through the southern
canals to the Mediterranean and Mo-
'naco. Prominent sDOrtsmen have al
ready signifed their intention to take
part.
According 10 NJ. Teller Jr. the At
lantic has been already crossed in a
motor boat. The feat was performed
in 1903 by Captain Newman, who left
on July g. accompanied by his son, in
a motor boat named the Abiel Abbott
Low, little more than eleven metres
IN length, fitted with a motor Of ten
horsepower. The boat carried $500
litres Of petroleum and 1925 litres Of
water and arrived. after a bad pas
sage. on August "a
Among entries for the transatlantic
cup are numbered that Of Baron Tan
ner Cray de Wogan, inventor of a
paper boat. with which he has already
cruised the Mediterranean and the
North Sea. He viii contest for the
Charley prize with a paper auto-boat
similar TO the Qui Vive, which was
built some time ago.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-25
Republicans Offer Two to
One on Roosevelt, but
the Parker Supporters Are
Asking for Greater Odds
EVEN MONEY ON
NEW YORK STATE
Commission Houses Make
Complaint Over Lack of
Democratic Coin to Back
Up Boasts of Leaders
Special Dispatch to The CAN.

NEW YORK, Sept. 24-Betting odds
on the Presidential election continue
unchanged, with tendency shown to-
ward bigger odds from the Republican
standpoint. There is accommodating on
the Broad street curb large supply
of Roosevelt money at to l, but the
Democratic supporters demand to 2.
On the result of the State election
even money is still wagered, with
slightly more Republican funds offer
ing, making the betting market favor
Higgins chance.
In the last part of the week -Repub-
lican funds seemed to swamp the bet
ting market Various stock houses an
nounced that they had money to
wager, but complained afterward that
there were not enough takers. An
nouncements like these have been
made quite frequently:
"Gunnell, Buchanan & Company
have the following commissions to
place on the forthcoming election: $4,000
even that Roosevelt carries West Vir-
ginia; $1,000 even that Roosevelt carries
New York State and $4,000 on Roose-
welt at to l on the general result"
g. B. Buchanan OF that firm said to-
day that he had received some inquir-
les concerning his offer, but that was
ALL Other firms who have made SINH
lar announcements say there is lack
of interest displayed. Democratic pol
iticians say that when the State Sen
ate and Assembly candidates have been
chosen interest--Mill be augmented.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-25
Woes of Two Sailors.

William Lewis. who. when aboard his
ship, is a valiant man behind one of
the Independence ancient castiron
guns, came down from Mare Island
yesterday on a pleasure cruise. He
observed a number of men pumping
out flooded basement on Market
street and proceeded to show them how
sailors would get rid of the surplus
water. Lewis fell down into the base
ment, lacerated his scalp and bruised
himself considerably. He was hauled
out and taken to the Harbor Emer-
gency Hospital. where his wounds were
dressed.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-25

=
attention of the voters of the district
to the so-called record of Mr.. Bell.
Mr.. McKinlay then took up Mr.. Bells
record, and, quoting from the Sacra-
mento Bee, which claimed that Mr.
Bell was instrumental in securing an
appropriation from Congress for the
building of a collier to be used by the
United States navy at a cost of
$1,260,00O, showed conclusively that
| this was an absurd statement, giving
the history of that bill, which was the
naval appropriation bill. The naval
appropriation bill was introduced into
the House of representatives and
passed by the House of Representatives
and was transmitted to the Senate
without any clause either in its body
or as an amendment providing for the
building of collier in the national
shipyard When the bill came into the
Senate Senator Perkins, the second in
rank on the Naval Affairs Committee,
observing that the naval appropriation
bin provided for the building of two
GOLFERS, but not designating where
they should be built, added an amend
ment to that bill providing that one
of those colliers should be built in
the Government navy yard at Norfolk,
Va, and the other in the Mare Island
Navy Yard in California. Mr.. Bell
had nothing whatever to do with the
passage of that measure excepting to
vote for it and to speak for it, the
same as the Republican members. In
fact, Mr. Bell could not have success
fully opposed the bill if he had wanted
to. 1t was something that was entire
ly beyond his control and outside of
his influence.
Take heed to see to it that you vote
for Republicans Rrst and last, and. all
the way through, from a Republican
President to the smallest officer. upon
the ticket, because we know that if
Republicans stand firm in this hour in
California the result will be the giving
to Roosevelt and Fairbanks the great
est majority ever given by this COM
monwealth to a President of the
United States. The result will be the
sending back to Washington of solid
Republican delegation from the Golden
State to uphold their hands and to aid
them in promoting their great designs
and mighty purposes"
Stephen H. Ohmstead, candidate for
the Assembly, made a brief address and
received. great applause. The following
gentlemen acted as vice presidents for
the evening: c. H. Boxer, M. Classer,
Captain j. c. Cantwell, j. H. Pryor,
Joseph " Silva, w. G. Morrow, w. W.
Wilde. ]. M. Kilgard, L. c. Pistolesi,
DR.. William, W. NJ. Field, d. tt Till
inghast, W. u. Tiffany, George Har-
Ian, E. L. Braswell, 7. NJ Mullany,
Will Harrison, DR.. ]. Shaw, Joseph
Lawrence. The meeting was adjourned
with three rousing cheers for McKinlay
and the Republican party.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-25
Diffon Pars the RiII

The Spreckels Bros. Towboat Com
pany was yesterday paid by the agents
Of the British ship Ditton $4,000 for
services rendered in hauling the big
sailer of the beach. The vessel went
ashore during a fog several weeks ago.
The Spreckels tugs, before she settled
deep in the sands, succeeded hauling
her into deep water.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-25
Naval Eoofhan Team

The United States snip PensacoIa's s
football team came ashore yesterday
morning from Goat Island en- route for
Palo Alto to play the Stanford men.
They are big. manly fellows. averaging
$50 pounds in weight.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-25

Baylies Clark. Grattan Phillips, J. 6.
Spaulding, W. G. Richardson. Warren
Gregory, c. NJ. Reynolds. Almeric Cox
head. T. b. Lyman; Hon.. Z. c. voor-
heis, A. b. Nichols. DR.. A. E. Phelan,
Hon Frank j. Murasky. DR.. William
A. Martin.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-25

xEAeST ASSESSMENT PAID.-The Posey
Consolidated Mining Company. operating in
Nevada county. yesterday began suit in the
Superior Court 70 compel ". III. Bray to pay
an assessment levied June 20 OF cents share
on III shares Of the company's stock owned
~ him.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-25
CREDIT TO PERKINS.

Referring to his own candidacy,
Mr.. McKinlay said that his opponent
and his managers were extremely de-
sirous of evading the issues of the
campaign and of trying to confine the
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-25

Mark Twain and Richard Watson
Glider. editor Of the Century Magazine,
are near neighbors at Lenox, Mass.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-25
Paris Newspapers 0rganiz-
inc Over Sea Events in
Which Frail Craft of All
Kinds Will Participate
DE WOGAN ENTERS
HIS PAPER SHE'LL
Inventive Baron VIII Com
pete With Toy Vessel in
Dash Across the Atlantic
for the Charley Prize

Special Gable 10 The Call and New York
Herald. Copyright 1908. 10y the New York
Herald Publishing Company.
The San Francisco call., 1904-09-25

satisfaction and approval of the admin
istrators of the policies of Republican,
ism and elect Theodore Roosevelt to
succeed himself for another four years.