The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-28
never LOSTADAY
San Francisco's Big Newspapers
Didn't Miss an Issue.
Continued Publication From
Oakland After Earthquake.
FOUND HER DIAMONDS.
Woman Receivers Gems From
Ruins of Burned Hotel.
European Syndicate Wants to
Invest ST., 10000
FOUND HER DIAMONDS.

San Francisco, Cal, April est takes
more than an earthquake and a confla-
grafton to put the San Francisco news
papers out of business. With a re-
soureefulness that can but be ad-
mired. they surmounted all difficulties
and today there is little in their ap-
pearance that would indicate the strain
and stress under which they have Ia
/ bored in order to present the news to
! the eager public of this burned city.
Only one of them has suspended publi-
cation. The Evening Post, being IN
able to acquire a plant in the vicinity
/ of the city has retired from the field
4 for SO days. All others are issuing as
usual It must be remembered that at
/ BIB on the morning of the earthquake
j April 18, power and water failed IN eV-
/ cry newspaper Office in San Francisco.
Still in the hope that as the day grew,
/ these agencies would be provided the
/ gathering of news went on as usual.
/ When the confagration made it APP
/ parent that all plants without exception
would be destroyed, the Bulletin put at
I work a force in its composing rooms
ana a hand bill was handset and some
+ hundreds of copies run off on the proof
press, giving the salient features OF
the days news.
The morning papers, the Call, Chroni-
I Gle and Examiner retired to Oakland on
1 the other side of the bay and there on
I 1AQISQaX Issued d joint R0pC-
from the Office of the Oakland Tribune.
/ On Friday morning they split forces
again. the Examiner retaining the use
/ Of the Tribune plant and the CaIl ana
/ Chronicle Issuing from the office OF the
/ Oakland Herald. Two days later the
/ Call secured the service of the Oar, and
Enquirer plant Meantime on FRIDAY
/ the Bulletin, after a suspension OF one
day, made arrangements Tor the use ~ y
the afternoon of the Oakland Herald
equipment and from these sources @ad
under such circumstances the san
Francisco papers have been issuing.
How News Was Gathered.
Offices were hurriedly opened on
| Fillmore street, which today is the
main thoroughfare of San Francisco.
and from these headquarters news OF
the day as 1t was gathered has been
transmitted by means or autofao plles
and the ferry service TO the oakland
shore. There also were accepted Sucn
advertisements as have been offered.
/ The number of these is perhaps the
| best visual sign at present of the resur-
rection of the new city. 1t was noted
that in a fourteen page paper printed
yesterday by the Examiner, there were
/ over nine pages of advertisements and
! in sixteen page paper published this
morning by the Chronicle at least so
per cent of its space was devoted to
! the same end. What better evidence
could the world have of the indomit-
/ able purpose of the merchants of San
/ Francisco? It is to be noted that this
/ issue of the Chronicle of which men
! ton has been made, was delivered this
morning by carrier at the residence of
every subscriber remaining standing
In San Francisco not later than Z
o'clock
The maintenance of telegrap hie
| communication with the outside world
/ has been one OF the most difficult
matters with which the newspapers
have had to contend. The experience
of the Associated Press IN this re-
spect will give an idea of the OBJ
stacles confronting the other news
agencies of the city. From Wednes-
day, April Is, until Monday. April 23
there was neither communication by
means of telephone or telegraph be-
/ tween Oakland and San Francisco. On
1 Monday one telephone circuit with
Oakland was established and the Asso-
ciated Press used this for Geographic
/ purposes. The use continued through
/ Tuesday, and Wednesday it failed On
! Thursday the Western Union by ex-
traordinary efforts succeeded in get
/ ting q bay cable in working order and
/ by running wires IN a roundabout
/ way managed to get wire into the
municipal headquarters at Franklin
hall, on Fillmore street near Bush.
This wire was placed at the service of
/ the Associated Press, and through
communication to the east esta b.
lished. The news from the Associated
Press headquarters has been given
over this wire ever since.
Found Her Diamonds.
The guests who were in the St. Fran
els hotel on the day of the fire were
granted permission yesterday to visit
their former quarters in the big hosiery
| in order that they might ascertain what
could be saved of their personal belong
ings. One lady found 1000 worth Of
diamonds near her burned trunk. The
/ he
were only slightly DANA ged. Very few
| of the guests proved so fortunate.
Detect E Gibson of the local police
force, said yesterday that the fire des-
/ troyed practically every blt o. evidence
/ against Jacob and Herman Eppinger,
accused of swfndIing banks out of $685.
600 by borrowing money on fictitious
| vheas certificates. The second trial of
Jacob Epoinge- was set for Wednesday
i forenoon April IS the date of the earth
/ quake. In speaking Of the loss of the
important documents in this noted
criminal proceeding Detective Gibson
said:
1T is my opinion that the destruc-
i ton of al the evidence secured by the
state against the Eppingers will make
it impossible to convict the defendants.
I At the first trial of Jacob Eppinger
the jury disagreed. It looks now as If
the Eppingers would go free
The Examiners says. A European
syndicate is ready to invest $4,000
! 600 in San Francisco realty. The de-
termination to place this sum in real
estate In this city has been formed
since the great disaster The inten-
ton of the foreign corporation has
been made known to H. E. Law. one
of the Law brothers. owners of a large
amount Of San Francisco property.
The head Of the syndicate cab1ed to
story and pursued the same course as
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