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The San Francisco call., 1904-10-24

Mrs. Emma Price, wife of William
I. Price, advertising manager of the
Oakland Tribune. came TO the Hall of
Justice last night, hysterical and de-
terlmined. and saying that her husband
had kidnapped her two young children,
declared that she intended killing him.
She was later arrested at the ferry by
Detective Charles Taylor as she was
about to embark on the boat for Ala
media to carry out her threat. She had
a large revolver concealed in her bos-
ON and objected strenuously TO being
taken into custody.
Il must see my children, must see
my children tonight" the anguished
mother sobbed Almost crazed with
grief she was taken before Captain
Burnett, who. after interviewing her,
ordered her locked UP on charge Of
carrying a concealed weapon
Mrs. Price said she was worth nearly
500, 900; that she had a summer home
in Boulder Creek, from which the two
children were taken yesterday by their
father, and that her mother. Mrs Har-
ris. living on Larlin street, was also
wealthy.
Mrs. Price appeared at the Hall of
Justice about o'clock and asked that
a policeman accompany her to Ala
media and aid her TO regain the Gus
tody Of her offspring She was told
that her troubles were not police mat
ters and that she would have to swear
70 a warrant against Price. Then for
an hour she haunted the corridors of
the Hall and engaged in conversation
with Peter Duffy, an attache. IT will
give any one $1,000 who will get my
little ones back for me; yes, viii give
$4,000 to have them with me again, .
she said
She was in an excited condition and
cried hystericaIly Il have a gun here. .
she said. indicating her bosom, "and
I am going over to Alameda to kill
my husband" She wheeled with a sud-
den determination and fed frantically
from the building.
The police were notified that the
woman was armed and Detective Tav-
Ior followed her TO the ferry, where he
placed her under arrest. The revolver.
fully loaded. was taken from her. She
carried a grip IN which she had a bun
die OF letters
She said that she and her husband
had been separated for six weeks. HE
accused me Of going with other men
and otherwise misconducting myself
while ne was in the city," she said II
had been staying at my summer home
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-24

A @. McADIE.
District Forecaster.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-24

with my two children, and 6 years
old. Friday came TO the city to visit
my mother. on Larkin street, and left
the children with the servants This
morning / received word from my
housekeeper that Mr.. Price had been
there and had taken the children. 1
took the first train for Boulder Creek
and arrived a few hours after he had
left l Immediately boarded a return
train and on my arrival here sought
the aid of the police. Finding my ef-
forts unavailing, / decided to take
steps to regain the children myself. 1
do not remember that said that 1
would shoot Mr.. Price. If did it was
because was nad-mad with anguish
and rage"
Mrs. Price burst into tears and ex-
citedly paced up and down the detect
ives Office. Il must see my children
tonight; I must see my children to-
night" she moaned.
Mrs. Price exhibited her letters. They
were signed variously, full of vulgar
and obscene writing and were read by
the police. All concerned the alleged
misconduct of Mrs. Price She said
they were in her husbands handwrit-
ing.
When informed that she would have
to go to Jail for carrying a concealed
weapon, the woman wept, but she did
not remain long in detention, as her
mother sent down and obtained her re-
lease on bail She went to her mothers
home. where she will be guarded to
see that she does not carry out her
threat to kill her husband.
Mrs. Price has been married twice
The two children over whom the trou-
bic occurred are by her present hus-
band. She has two sons. one II and the
other % years Of age, by her first hus-
band. She and her mother own prom
erty in this city, and are we'll off. She
married Price about seven wears ago.
When seen at his home in Oakland
last night. William L. Price told the
story of his domestic troubles. His
wife had sued him year ago for di-
vorce on account of alleged cruelty.
and he filed a cross-complaint, where
upon legal proceedings were dropped
on each side. Mrs. Price has since been
living mostly at Boulder Greek. where
her husband went on Friday to see her
and their children
Finding his wife absent he said, and
believing that she had gone on spree,
he took the children back with him to
Oakland, intending to bring them to
San Francisco to-day and leave them
ia the custody Of their grandmother.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-24
SIAV WAR VESSELS
TURN THEIR CANNON
UPON FRAIL CRAFT
Two Boats Sent to the Bottom With Their
Crews and Others Damaged by Solid Shot

HULL, England, Oct. 23.-A. M.
jackson & Co., solicitors for the
owners Of fifty Hull fishing boats,
have notified the Foreign Office
and Admiralty Of an attack on the
fishing fleet by the Russian Pa
cific fleet Commonly designated
as the Baltic SquadrOn), COM
manded by Vice Admiral Rojest-
vensky.
The official information is that
shortly after midnight on Friday
the Russian squadron fell in with
the Hull fishing fleet in the North
Sea. The first portion of the fish
ing fleet passed safely. Then
the Russian ships turned their
searchliehts on the British ves-
sels for some time and little
later opened fire.
The steam trawler Crane was
sunk and the decapitated bodies
of her skipper and mate have
been brought to Hull. The boats
were lowered and other members
of the crew who are understood
to be seriously wounded are on
board the mission ship. The only
slightly injured member of. the
crew has arrived at Hull.
The Steam fpaNUIerS Mnr1In1eir
and NinO have arrived at Hull
seriously damaged by shots, the
latter having sixteen holes in her
hull.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-24
GuI7nerS
Make Targets of
HapIeSS TraWIers

LONDON, Oct. 23-The attack by the Baltic
fleet upon the hull fishing boats occurred 200 miles
off Spurn Head The Russian ships were steam
ing in line. The leading ships of the fishing fleet
passed without incident, though most of the Rus
sian vessels turned search1ights on the trawlers
long enough to prevent any mistake to identity.
After the bulk of the squadron had passed it
opened fire, nearly all participating in the firing
The Crane was struck below the water line and
raled above deck. Skipper Smith and Third Hand
Loggott were decapitatcd by shot, many of the
crew being seriously wounded Another trawer
also was sunk, but the Moulr1ein, which brought
the news to Hull has no particulars as to her fate
The news has created an intense sensation and
the greatest indignation in Hull.
The Moulrnein arrived with her flag at half
mast. Her skipper states that the trawers were
fishing about 22o miles east of north of Spurn
Head at I O'Clock Saturday morning, the weather
being hazy when the outlines of several vessels,
apparently warships, sailing in line, were dimly
seen. While the crews were watching the war
ships searchlghts were flashed upon them, in the
glare of which the Molllmein's crew observed what
they took to be torpedo-boats approaching appar-
emily with the intention of boarding the Moul-
mein. They steamed away, however, and soon the
fishermen were horrifed to find they were being
fired upon
First one and then another trawler was struck by
the flying shot What seemed 10 be a round shot
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-24
British Press Regards
the North Sea Affair
as Plain Act of War

LONDON, Oct. 4-Foreign Minister Lansdowne and NJ
Benckendorn, Russian ambassador both OF
closed. usual Sunday therefore official view
cleaned Of the firing by Russian. vessels
upon British fishing fleet in the North
The first reports affair received
regarded as almost incredible When however cumula-
tive evidence no longer doubt general accuracy
of the reports astonishment bewiderment
possible motive could have led Russian officers into
such extraordinary and tnexplcabe OF action
which, satisfactory explanation be Immediately
forthcoming is only to be regarded as act Of
This is the taken editorialy by all the morning
pers feature Of the story viewed here is
hearessness displayed by the Russian fleet in
ing away taking the trouble
whether its inflicted damage without
effort to rescue the victims.
While admitting the necessity Of suspension OF
Judgment investigation and explanation the morning
newspapers unanimous demanding that the gov
ernment instruct ambassador Hardinge to make the
strongest representations to the St Petersburg Govern
ment obtain reparation apology and
the Russian Pacific fleets good behavior for the fu-
that the omission Of the Russian feet to
the look exceedingly and the only pos
sb1e solution Of the excited by runors
recently spread Intentions of the Pacific squad
ron the of its sailing the Russian gunners yielded
and supposed that the trawers rockets were the
signals eneys In view Of the decision IN the
AIlanton regarded quite impossible that the
St Petersburg authorities be in way responsible
for the incident.
Considering the circumstances in the case. the news
papers the with commendabe calmness but
firm demands for immediate satisfaction The
Chronicle says
-The next twenty four hours must way
the other Only two settlement are possible
Either explanation apology end compensation to
the victims families ultimatum
Standard
AN explanation should promptly and sternly de-
inolerabe outrage The Russian Govern
ment should that it Is expected TO recall its
starred squadron first in order that proper investigation
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-24
Pile TIES
IN The PATH
Of TRAINS
VandalS Make DeS-
perate Attempts to
Ditch Cars.
Vigilance Of Train Hands
Prevents a Disaster
Near Modesto.
Appalling Loss Of Life Would Have
Resulted but for Discovery Of
Appalling Loss Of Life Would Have
Resulted but for Discovery Of
the 0bStructionS.
Special Dispatch to The Call.


MODESTO, Oct. 23.-The people of
this vicinity are stirred up over two
malicious and almost successful at
tempts to wreck Southern Pacific trains
between Modesto and Salida early
Sunday morning. At two different
places on the main line ties were piled
on the track, nearly causing the de-
railment of heavy freight train and
the wreck of the morning Fresno pas
senger.
A northbound freight, No. 25S. was
several hours late in passing through
this place Sunday morning. When the
train reached the switch on the south
side of Salida, five miles to the north of
here, the engineer saw pile Of ties
on the track. EiS prompt action the
train was checked and struck the ties
with little force, no damage being done
The second attempt would have cost
many lives if successful. The north
bound Fresno passenger left here at
7:55 Sunday morning and. on account
of the attempt on the freight train, was
run at slow speed to Salida. About a
mile to the south of Salida the engine
struck pile of ties placed on the in
side of and parallel with the rails. The
tender of the engine was torn off by
the force of the impact. The whole
train was Jared and the passengers
were greatly alarmed. BY almost a
miracle, however, the train kept to the
rails. Arriving at the Salida switch,
where the attempt on the freight was
made, the train crew found another
lot of ties on the track, these being so
wedged and jammed into the switch
frogs that the train would have been
ditched if it had struck them.
Guards were promptly stationed and
one of the Southern Pacific detectives
is now on the scene. Deputy Sheriff
Kiernan of this county late this even
ing arrested two suspicious characters
on the Tuolumne River near here The
prisoners slept in a boxcar at Salida
Saturday night. They left that place
and started toward Modesto shortly
before the attempt to wreck the freight
and were seen two miles to the north of
here an hour after the attempt on the
passenger. They refuse to talk or give
their names and can give no explana-
ton of their doings after leaving
Salida
1t is conjectured here that the ties
were piled so as to ditch the north
bound Owl, which passed at a high
rate OF speed shortly before the freight
struck the first obstruction. Had the
Owl struck either pile of ties the loss
of life would have been terrible.
From an unofficial source 1t has been
learned that the Owl of Sunday morn
ing carried much that was valuable.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-24
FTTZ FLOORED IN GOTHAM
BY AN OLD GRAY HORSE
Animal Lands With His Left In a
Scene OF "a Fight
for Love-"

NEW YORK, Oct. 23.-Fitzsim-
mons has been knocked out twice, but
for the first time in his life he was
kicked out tonight. 1t happened
during his performance of "A Fight
for Love- in the Lyric Theater, Ho-
boken. The victor in the kicking
match was an old f1ea-bitten gray
horse, rented for the evening from a
transfer man. The blow landed as
the pugilist backed up to the horse to
show his parlor tricks in shoeing. The
animals left hind hoof got to Fitz in
the region below the belt and he fell
on his face, while the house howled.
When he recovered. he walked over to
the gray horse and kicked him in the
ribs.
IT get this for working on Sunday
said Fitzsimmons to the audience.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-24

preparing the programme for the en-
tertainment of the Prince. High
honor will be shown the distinguished
member of the royal house and, in
addition to dinner by the President
in the White House. there will be a
round of official entertainments in his
honor. 1t is probable the Princes
tour will include VISIT to West
Point, as his Highness is keenly in
terested in military matters, having
already fought with distinction in the
Far Eastern war.
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-24

Forecast made at San Francisco for
thirty hours. ending midnight. octo-
ber "a:
san Francisco and vicinity-cloudy
Monday. with fog; fresh westerly
winds.
n nFoAnTr
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-24
TIE -rHEArERs.

ALCAZAR-''The Wilderness
CALIFoRNIA-''Fritz and Snitz."
CENTRAI-"Pau Kauvar."
CoLUMBIA-''San Toy"
CHUTEs-vaudeville
GRAND-''Arizona.'
MAJEsTIc-''when We Were Twenty.
One
ORPHEUM-vaudevil
TTvOLI-''Der RasteIbinder.''
The San Francisco call., 1904-10-24

Continued on Page 5. Column 5.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-04-11

the late John Contee Fairfax of Prince
Georges county, Maryland, and inner
itor of his titles of Lord Fairfax and
Baron Cameron in the peerage of
Scotland, has assumed these titles and
has taken his seat among his peers IN
the British house of lords. mr.. Fair
fax went to London two years ago to
accept a position in bank, and with
no idea of giving up his American cit
izenship. His claims TO a peerage
were too well known, however, and he
was soon sought by members of the
aristocracy. Then he was adopted as
the legal heir of a wealthy English
man and now he has consented to
assume the titles named. The title of
Lord Fairfax was first worn in this
country by the man who was a friend
Of Washington. 1t has never been al
lowed TO lapse, being confirmed for
ever to the family heir by special
royal grant.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-04-11
SOAP, GROCERIES, DRUGS AND
TEAS AND COFFEES.
FOR STATE INSTITUTIONS
Supplies for AsyIums, Prisons and
Schools to Be Purchased from
Best Bidders - Nearly $4,000
Worth of Business Carried by the
Various Contracts.
Madison, April 6.

Madison, April 6.
The state bOard of control meets to-
day for the purpose of awarding a
number of important contracts. The
annual soap contract, to supply the
various soaps and washing materials
and compounds to the nine state char
liable and penal institutions for the
coming year, will be let. This contract
will carry some $4,000 worth of bust
ness.
4 contract for the supplies of gro
ceries for the next three months will
be awarded, carrying in the neighbor-
hood of $500 worth of business.
The quarterly contract for supplies
of teas, cOffees and spices, carrying
some $4,000 of business, is also to be
let
A contract for drugs, to supply the
institutions for six months, is also to
be considered. This will, if let, carry
about $4,000 worth of business. 1t IS
a new thing for the board of control to
let a contract for drugs and will be
tried this time something as an exper-
iment
Some stock supplies in the plumbing
line are also to be contracted for, but
no estimate of the amount of this is
available.
The board will also at this meeting
attend to various matters of routine
nature.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-04-11

Since his accession to cabinet rank
Mr. Graham Murray has made stih
greater use of the phOnograph for the
conduct of his correspondence as secre-
tary of state for Scotland than he did
during the period when he acted as
LOrd-AdvOcate in the same department.
Some five or six dozen records" are
now constantly in use, and TO these the
minister dictates the replies to his nu-
merOus letters. together with a mass
of other detail work connected with the
Office over which he presides. These
are then forwarded to London, IL he
happens to be in Scotland, and the con-
tents are taken down by his secretaries
in Whitehall. This done. the rec
Ords" are scraped off and the cylinders
are once more ready for use. BY keep
ing a photograph both in London and
Scotland the secretary of state, alone
among his colleagues in Mr.. Balfour's
reconstructed cabinet, is able TO give
viva-voce instructions to his depart
ment at a distance of some hundreds of
miles.-LOndon Graphic.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-04-11
PecuIiarItles of Reindeer Hair.

A close examination of the hair OF
the reindeer shows that the hair does
not have a hollow inside space for its
whole length, but is divided or parti
tened off into exceedingly numerous
cells like water-tight compartments.
These are filled with condensed air
and their walls are so elastic and at
the same time of such strong resist
ance that they are not broken up
either during the process of manufac-
ture or by swelling when wet. The
cells expand in water, and thus it hap
pens that a man clad completely in
garments made of reindeer wool does
not sink when in water, because he is
buoyed up by means of the air con
tanned in the hundreds of thousands
of hair cells.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-04-11
TRAINING OF THE SIGHT.
Much Benefit May Be Derived From a
Systematic course of Education.

Much Benefit May Be Derived From a
Systematic Course of Education.
Youths Companion.-So much oil
the happiness and success of life de,
ponds upon the seeing capacity that
it is both a wonder and a pity that
more attention is not paid by parents
in the home and by instructors in the
schools to the perfecting of this gift.
The trouble is that the great
majority of people regard the capacity
of the eyes as something fixed at
birth, and not to be interfered with.
If they would think a little they would
recognize that it is, after all, largely a
matter of exercise and practice. They
know that the power of the muscles is
capable of almost indefinite training.
but they fail to apply the principle to
the eyes. All forms of exercise are
called upon to increase and strengthen
the muscular system of growing chill
dren, and the wisdom of this, always
granting reasonable moderation, is
never questioned. but the child with
the weak, undeveloped visual faculty,
with the unframed color sense. with
the carrying capacity of the sight
limited to a few feet. is called stupid,
and his best hope is that he may be
fitted with glasses before he is rallied
and scolded into real stupidity
The sight can he educated and ex-
ercised just as truly as the hearing.
the sense of touch, or even the leg and
arm muscles can; and the work, which
can be easily converted into play,
should be begun very early in life.
Much so-called color-blindnes is not a
radical defect of vision at all. but a
lack of training in attention and
recognition, and could have been
avoided by any form of simple half,
play, half-lessOn, with colored balls on
skeins of silk in early childhood.
Maching colors is an excellent game
lesson. 1t can be carried on with
silks, woods, paper or any other
material in which it is possible to get
many shades with very small gradua.
tons of color among them. Certain of
the educational supply houses furnish
colored papers for this very purpose.
An element of competitions can be in
troduced, and the power of the vision
can be trained at the same time with
that esthetic sense which is its great
est reward.
Rapidly of vison can be enormously
developed. Most persons know the
story of the conjuror whose father
made him while a small boy play the
game of naming the objects in some
shop window passed at a quick walk.
If one will try this he will be as
founded at the way the number of
objects seen in the glimpse will grow
with practice.
AS for other forms of exercise. that
of the eye should be taken only under
proper conditions. A tired. WORKOUT
eye should not be forced to new tasks
any more than a tired, WORKOUT body.
This is why the process cannot be
started too soon, that the eye may be
insensibly trained to good habits of
perception.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-04-11
NEWFOUNDLAND TO JOIN
DOMINION or CANADA

Paris. April Ut is understood in
official quarters, in spite of statements
to the contrary, that there is founda-
ton for reports that Newfoundland
will take steps TO enter the Dominion
Of Canada. as a result of the Anglo
French settlement of the shore and
fisheries questions, which heretofore
had interfered with Newioundland's
complete sovereignty.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-04-11
Two Iowa Banks EaLI.

Marshalltown, Iowa, April THE
Exchange bank of Dow City and the
bank OF Buck Grove. Crawford coun-
ty. have failed with reported liabilit-
les of $500 900. The assets are $780,
O0). Both are owned by II. $.
Greene of Dow City.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-04-11
TurtIe Hundreds OF Years old.

The most curious reminder of Hol-
lands sway in Ceplon is a living
creature. a grand old tortoise, sup.
posed 20 have belonged to one of the
Dutch governors some 200 years ago
He is very docile and ever ready TO at
tract the attention of anyone who is
likely to offer him plantain. The tor
toise is so large that he can carry sew
oral boys on his back at one time.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-04-11
GOES REcUPERATING
TO OLD POINT COMFORT

Washington. April POSTMASTER
General Payne lett here last night for
a period of recuperation at Old Point
Comfort. Va. Though considerably
better than he has been since his i'll
ness first confined him to his bed, he is
far from being a well man.