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The San Francisco call., 1907-06-19
MAN AND TWO BOYS RUN
DOWN by MOTOR CARS
MAY DIE OF WOUNDS
Victims Pass Along Street
and Are Struck by
Automobiles
ARREST lCHAUFFEURS
Owners of Machines Obtain
Release of Drivers
on $40 Bail
ARREST 1CHAUFFEURS

A man and two boys were fatally in
jured by automobiles yesterday. The
three victims were taken TO the central
emergency hospital and at late hour
last night were reported to be dying.
The injured are;
W. H Marden, 142 Fair Oaks street,
struck at Steiner and Ellis streets.
A Gardmeyer, aged u, 1915 OFarreIl
street, struck at Sutter and Webster
Edward Lay. aged Is. 1854 Bush
street, struck at Sutter and Octavia
streets.
Marden was crossing the roadway
at Steiner and Ellis streets late in the
afternoon when g machine belonging to
Henri Marx, and driven by Robert Lee,
struck him. Marden was thrown TO the
pavement and his skull fractured. lie
was unconscious when taken to the
central emergency hospital Lee was
arrested on a charge OF battery and
was liberated on $50 cash bail deposited
by Henri Marx, who was in the car
when the accident occurred.
Gardmeyer alighted from an east
bound Sutter street car at 6 O'Clock
last evening and was struck by a
motor car owned by Leonidas Scoohy,
q capitalist. and driven by Robert VIII
son Scooffy was in the machine at the
time. Gardmeyer's skull was fractured
Wilson was arrested and was released
on $40 cash bail furnished by Scooffy.
Lay was injured at Sutter and Octavia
streets about $50 p. m. A touring cal
belonging to the auto livery company
and in charge OF Chauffeur T. A. White
ran him down The front wheel OF the
machine went over the boys chest
breaking every rib. White stopped the
auto, picked up the lad and took him
TO the central emergency hospital
Later Lay was removed to the st
Francis hospital
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-19
TWELVE YEAR OLD ROLLO
VANCE THE VICTIM OF
MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING
Lad Calls at Hospital With
a Gaping Wound in
His Chin
SAYS A MAN SHOT HIM
Police Believe the Boy
May Have Attempted
Suicide

The police are Inclined to the belief
that IL year old Rollo Vance. who
went into the receiving hospital yester-
day afternoon with a gaping bullet
wound in his chin had attempted sui
eide. The boy tells an altogether differ
ent story as to how he had received his
wound, but the tale which he advanced
under cross examination by Detective
Harry Braig lacked plausibility and did
not altogether dovetail in with facts
which the police have so far been able
to gather concerning the case.
Young Vance entered the hospital
about o'clock in the afternoon and
asked that his jaw be treated. He said
that he had been standing at the rear
of the building formerly occupied by
the Lurline baths at Bush and Larkin
streets, when. without warning, a
strange man standing near a hrehouse
in that vicinity shot at him and ran
away. He said that he had just re-
turned from an errand on which he
had gone in company with Ernest
Koocher, friend, and that the two
had separated just before the attack
by the stranger was made.
Vance's story differed from the facts
CLEANED by the police in that no one in
the vicinity of the firehouse could be
found who had heard shot during the
afternoon. Young Vance declared that
the gun wielder had stood more than
so feet from him when he fired the
shot, but his face as well as one of his
hands bore powder stains.
When asked by Detective Braig If
he had not fred the shot himself the
youth evaded the question by stating
that he had seen no gun that after
noon except one which his companion
on the errand had shown him. Koocher
denied this statement
The wound inflicted on the boy, while
not necessarily fatal, is a serious one.
The bullet, from a SS caliber revolver,
entered his face at the point of the
chin and plowed upward along the
jaw bone, finding an exit close behind
the right ear. The wound was dressed
at the hospital and Vance was then
taken to the city prison to be held
pending an investigation Of his story.
He gave his fathers address as 7S9
Market street and said that the latter
was a real estate dealer.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-19
WAR RISK SUIT OVER
CONSIGNMENT OF FLOUR
Defense Contends That Plaintiff Had
knowledge of Loss Before In
surance Was Applied For

The trial of the suit of Balfour,
Guthrie & Co. against the st. Paul fire
and marine insurance company was be-
gun before Judge Van Fleet and jury
in the United States circuit court yes
terday. The plaintiff seeks to recover
$6,100 insurance, which was placed as
war risk on cargo of flour on the
steamer Arabia, bound for Kobe and
Nagasaki, Japan.
The Arabia was captured by Rus
sian war vessel off the coast of Japan
and the cargo confscated. The cap
ture was made on July %, 1904. San
Francisco time, and the insurance was
effected on July %. The defense con-
tends that Balfour, Guthrie & Co. knew
at the time they applied for the war
risk that the vessel had been captured.
This is denied by the plaintiff.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-19
TELLS THRILLING STORY
OF HIS ESCAPE FROM
BIC MAN EATING SHARK
Captain Adams, Pilot and
Pearl Diver, Nea-ly
Loses Life
SWIMS TO SURFACE
Sea Monster Attacks Him in
Deep Water Off Tua-
motu Group
sWIMS TO SURFACE

Captain Adams. the government pilot
at Papeete, is famous pearl diver, but
submarine adventure about a month
ago with a man eating shark has made
him abjure forever his occasional visits
to the depths where the pearl oysters
lie. Details of Adams thrilling battle
for life were brought from Tahiti by
Captain Thomas Lawless, master of the
liner Mariposa, which arrived yester-
day from the paradise of the Pacific.
Captain Adams was shell diving in
the deep water off one of the Tuamotu
islands. Divers in that part of the
world wear an abbreviated costume,
consisting of diving helmet with air
pumping attachment and a shirt COM
ing to the waist. The rest of the body
is naked and it is possible in case of
emergency to loosen the belt, slip out
of the costume and come to the surface
by swimming. 1t was in such cos
tune that Adams descended to an
oyster bed 25 fathoms below the sur
face.
On reaching the bottom he noticed a
large rock, 20 feet high and so feet in
circumference at it's base. He had sent
up a few pearl shells and was stoop-
ing to secure a particularly large one
when a dark shadow doomed overhead.
The diver glanced up and was terror
stricken to perceive a great monster
lowering above him. He thought first
that the visitor was a whale. A num-
ber of large sharks had been cruising
around watching him at work, as they
always do in those waters, and he no.
ticed that they all had disappeared at
the approach of the great fish.
The monster began to circle down
toward where Adams stood and he
realized that it was a man eating
shark of leviathan proportions. Not
daring to move, Adams watched the
creature come closer and closer. When
It circled around the rock Adams
ducked into small cave. Past the en-
trance to the cave the shark slowly
swan. AS it's tail disappeared on the
left Adams poked out his head and to
his horror almost bumped into the
sharks head approaching from the
right. He drew back under the over
hanging ledge of the cave and held be-
fore him part of the inflated suit, in the
hope that If the shark tried to sample
him the escaping air would frighten
the monster away.
The shark paused at the entrance to
the cave and poked his great head al
most against the divers helmet. Adams
watched the sharks hard, gray lip curl
back and expose to view a dozen or
more rows of sawlike teeth. The diver
could almost feel his bones crunching
in that ivory mill when the shark got
under way for another trip around the
rock.
Adams made up his mind quickly. If
the shark gave him another chance he
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-19

would take it. In a few seconds the
ugly head reappeared and the shark
made snap at him. Backing again
the monster circled the rock once more.
AS the sharks face turned away Adams
filled his lungs with air, slipped off
his diving suit and swan like a demon
for the surface. He went up, he says,
like a dry stick and climbed into the
boat without the usual assistance.
After recovering his breath he told
the natives to pull UP the diving suit.
The minute they started to pull hose
and signal lines took a sudden rush
and the shark disappeared with the
whole diving outfit. Captain Adams
would not commit himself as to the
dimensions of the man eater, but de-
clared that the shark could with ease
have taken barrel in its mouth. Cap
tain Lawless vouches for Adams
veracity.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-19
PoLYTECHNIC REFITrED

The Polytechnic high school at First
avenue and H street, which was COM
pletely burned out, has been refitted
and an effort is being made by the
board of education to make this fact
generally known among school children
just graduating from the grammar
grades. For this reason Superintendent
of Schools Alfred Roncovieri has made
special request for the teachers of
all eighth grade classes to take their
graduating classes to the polytechnic
school on Friday afternoon and point
out to them the value of a technical
education.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-19

The Gaelic dancing club, one of the
organizations in San Francisco identi-
fed with the Gaelic league, which has
been responsible for a renaissance in
the native tongue of Ireland and the
revival of its ancient music, dances and
pastimes, has completed arrangements
for big picnic to be held at Schuetzen
park next Sunday. The proceeds of the
picnic are to go to the league to assist
in the teaching of the Gaelic language
in Ireland and the United States.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-19
PROPOSES NEW FERRY

ferry system from the foot of Twenty
fifth street to Oakland the Mission pro-
motion association has appointed a
committee consisting of George L. Cen
ter, James Rolph Jr., Matthew I. Sulli-
van, Eustace Cullinan and T. P. An
drews to request the board of harbor
commissioners to spend part of the ST.
100000 harbor Improvement fund nj
its disposal in the southern portion of
the city.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-19

The different features of the typical
Irish picnic will be included in the
program. A special pavilion is to be
set apart for Irish stepdancing, ex-
hibitions in which are to be given by
John j. O'Connor, the Misses Allen.
Percy H. Lonergan and others. Boats
are to leave for Schuetzen park to ac-
commodate the picnickers at 9:15, 11:0O
a. m. and 1886 p. m. The Sausalito
ferry for San Rafael is to be used by
those leaving for the park later.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-19

George Aigeltinger. brother of Works
Commissioner Aigeltinger, died yester-
day of dropsy at a sanatorium in Santa
Rosa after a brief illness. He was aged
AZ and single and was associated with
his brother in the hay business. The
funeral will be held tomorrow from
Kennedy's undertaking parlors.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-19
FAMILY SUES CORPORATION

Margaret Lowe, a widow, Frank
Lowe, her son, and Mrs. Mary Swift,
her daughter, began suit yesterday
against the United Railroads to re-
cover $4,000 as damages for the death
of Thomas J. Lowe, head of the Lowe
household, who succumbed to injuries
received october 8, 1906, while he was
alightlng from a Market street car
1t is charged that the accident was
due to the sudden starting of the car.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-19

ENvELoPED BY FLAMES-yallejo June 1S
John Plagemann lies at the point of death in
this city result of furnace explosion ut
the Philadelphia brewery at South Vallejo yes
terday while he was stoking the fire. The
flames enveloped his hands, and face.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-19
Beautiful Pacific Grove

by the sea. Best salmon fishing on the
coast. New bathing facilities. Glass bot
tom boats and wonderful submarine gar
dens. Boating and launch excursions.
Skating Kinks. Two brass bands.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-19

EXPLOSION KILLS -williamsport, Pa
June lS.-Five men were killed in an explosion
of the Kelatine department OF the Sinnema.
hoH1ng powder manufacturing company today
Tie dead; ". NJ. Summers. Edward Cole, J.
b Nelson, Harry Cole, Samuel Shadmsn.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-19
FOR NERVOUS DISORDERS
Take H0rSfordsa Acid PhoSnrafr

Restores strength and induces re-
freshing sleep without the use of dan
gerous drugs.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-19

i vAGRANT GETS SIX MoNTHS-Oakland
June 1S.-Peter Smith was sentenced to six
months in the city prison this morning. having
been found guilty of vagrancy.
The San Francisco call., 1907-06-19
GEORGE AIGELrINGER DIES

Pianos stored and rented. Benz Cur
taz & Sons. 1915 Van Ness avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-18
IN THE SENATE.

Washington. Jan. 1.-THE legal phase
of President Roosevelt's discharge OF the
negro troops was again injected into the
controversy in the senate today by no.
tice of an amendment to the Foraker
compromise resolution, which Senator
Blackburn said he should press. Sena-
tor Foraker who concluded tho argu-
ment at once declared his opposition to
the amendment. lie discussed the power
of the executive, holding that the ARRAY
at Brownsville ought to be investigated
promptly as to the facts and the question
of power determined later. If it should
arise as the result of the inquiry.
HI reviewed his previous utterances,
maintaining the same position in every
respect, He replied to arguments which
have been made since his first speeches.
especially those of Senators Spooner and
Knox. He defended the 25th infantry, re-
viewing the ''escapades" it is charged
with, expressing his establishment that
the record furnished the senate by the
war department in this particular was
not complete. and stating that in re-
Spouse to his request it had been sup
plemented by information which was de-
cidedly favorable to the regiment.
Consideration of the resolution de-
ferred until Monday at the conclusion Of
FOraser's address.
Eulogies on the life and character of
William b. Bate of Tennessee were de-
liVered, after which the senate adjourned
as a mark of respect to his memory.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-18
COT TON STEADIER
| SCORES ADVANCE
SIX to Twelve Points Net Gain
for the Day
SLOT CONDITIONS BULLISH
Helpful Influence of Reduction in Bank
of England Discount Rate and
Firmer Liverpool
Cables.
SLOT CONDITIONS BULLlSH

NV York. January 1.-The cotton
malket was steadier today and recovered
par of Yesterdays loss, with the close
stesdy at a net advance of to -
poirts. Sales for the day were estimated
at 10000 bales
The opening was steady at an advance
of Ito points. and while at first there
wassome hesitation prices increased their
gain later in the session, owing to the
firmless of the Liverpool cables. the
SOMEWHAT bullish influence of the reduc-
tionlof the Bank of England discount
rate and talk of smaller receipts from
the EASTERN and central belts which was
colorsd by the smaller estimate for to-
morrtw's receipts at New Orleans.
Owing to the storm private wires we're
not working we'll and this may have cur
tailed business to some extent. but there
was pretty good communication with New
Orleans and the New Orleans market
seemed u be taking a bullish view of
the situation.
At any rate messages received here
reported lullishly on spot conditions and
receipts and there were some southern
buying olders in the market, which at
the high Joint showed a net gain of 10 to
IS points, with March selling at Oil
against 9.,5 the low point of yesterday
The close was or points off from the
best, under realizing. Spot people were
buying the near positions. Southern spot
markets were unchanged to Is cent higher
and generally unchanged.
Receipts at the ports today. 4i.553 bales
against 1894 last week and 10. ASS last
year; for the week. 315,OOO bales. against
S27,3H last week. and 1929 last year
Today's RECEIPTS at New Orleans. 1882
bales, against GAS last year and at Hous-
ton, 1,4Ol BALES. against 704s iast year
New York Cotton Futures.
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Supreme Court Decisions.

Montgomery, January 16.-(Special.) y
The supreme court handed down opinions
in the following cases today:
Dowdell, J.-Byrne Mill company VS..
E. Fl. Robertson, appeal from Mobile cir
cult court; reversed and remanded.
r. b. Hunter VS.. Louisville and Nash
Vile Railroad company. appeal from
Morgan circuit court; affirmed.
Bud Taylor vs. the state of Alabama,
appeal from Tuscaloosa county court; af-
firmed.
Texie Jones, administrator, vs.. Pioneer
Mining and Manufacturing company, APP
peal from Jefferson circuit court; re-
yersed and remanded.
Ed Easley VS.. the state Of Alabama,
appeal from J Jefferson criminal court, the
judgment here is reversed TO the SEN
tence and the cause remanded for re-
sentence of the defendant.
Anderson, Gan Pate vs.. the state OF
Alabama, appeal from Pickens circuit
court; affirmed.
Emmett Moore vs.. the state of Ala
bama reversed and remanded.
Mcclellan, j Jim Mitchell vs.. the state
of Alabama. appeal from Tuscaloosa coun-
ty court; affirmed.
Henry Davis IS. the state of Alabama
appeal from Jefferson criminal court; af-
firmed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-18
II. & B. Beers Cotton Letter to C. H.
Cothran, Manaqer.

New Orleans, January 17.-Developments
over night, aside from the large movement
at the ports and counted interior towns,
and advices from India as to probable
size of this years cotton crop were ia
vorable to a higher level of values, which
was subsequently brought about. Wash
ington had sent out a flood warning for
the lower Mississippi Valley, the Mssiss-
tppi below Cairo being above flood stages
over practically its entire length, and it
is said that the additional rise now
coming down the Ohio will prolong and
accentuate the lower Mississippi flood con-
dtions.
Additional warnings, however, giving
specific information as to stages expected
will be ISSUED in ample time. Here at
New Orleans the guage reads about Ill,
whereas the levees can stand more than
% feet they being in better shape than
ever before. Consequently no alarm is to
be entertained, and the only thing to come
of the high water In the south will prob
ably be the making of the tributaries of
the Mississippi in Arkansas and LOUISE
ana navigable earlier, In which case cot
ton awaiting transportation along the
small streams will probably be marketed
The other development of Importance was
the lowering of the Bank of England
minimum discount rate from to 5 per
cent, money having become easier in
London. Locally futures opened at an
advance of about points, March 1910,
against 100S at close of yesterday.
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BURY wool. l0612c.
Sheepsklns. 20@75c.
Tallow, 4445fc.
Bees wax, Csc.
THE DAY IN CONGRESS
IN THE HOUSE.

Washington, Jan. 1.-THE House today
resumed consideration of the District OF
Columbia appropriation bill under the
fve-minute rule. During the day an
emergency bill was passed for the relief
of the sufferers from the earthquake III
Jamaica, clothing the President with
power to send the supply ship Celtic
loaded with supplies to the relief of the
stricken inhabitants of the island.
After completing 400 pages of the budget
the House adjourned at p. m.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-18
PROPERTYLOSS MAY
REACH MILLION
Futile Efforts TO Check the Allegheny
River Cutting Into Bank-PIant
In Danger

Pittsburg, Jan. 17.-There was no i'm
provement in the situation at the Spring
dale dam today. The Allegheny river IS
still cutting into the bank and unless
the current is soon diverted the property
loss may reach million dollars. Thres
futile efforts were made today by the
government engineers TO dynamite the
center walls of the dam in the hope Of
saving the rest of the construction.
The water is now within twenty-five
feet of the $300OO0 plant of the Heiden-
kamp Mirror company.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-18
Lixerpool dotton Market.

Iiverpool JanuaF 17.-Closing: Cotton
spot, good business lone; prices unchanged
to points lower. American middlng
fair, 6GO good midding. 612; middling, $50:
low middling $50; god ordinary $50; ordi-
nary, 1875 The sal$ of the day were 49,
900 bales of which 1000 were for specu-
lation and export aid included 900 Ameri-
can. Receipts. S6,dD bales, including a.
400 American.
Futures opened and closed steady;
American G. o. q, January, 55l1a; jan
uary-February. soil February-March, 54S;
March-April, 1851 April May, o46; May
June, 546 June-Juy. 5451z; July-August,
545; August-Septe1ber, $40; September
October. 5s5; octoltr November. 531; No
vember-December BOA.
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Opened Offices Here.

John H. Smith of Nashville, Tenn, and
John T. Jones, of Huntsville, Ala, gener-
al agents for the Massachusetts Life In
surance company have opened up an of
flee in No. 3l6-1s BrownMarx build
ing. under the firm name of Smith &
Jones, General Agents Massachusetts,
Mutual Life Insurance company. They
rented their offices from Brown Bros. and
state If they can write life insurance for
all the Smiths. Jones and Browns. their
cousins and friends in Alabama they will
be amply paid for coming to Birmingham.
1-1S-2t-fri-su.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-18

Cash quotations were as follows:
Flour-Steady.
66a79c; No red, 7214Q7SAc.
Corn-No. 2, 31Ac; No yellow, 42Ac.
Oats-No. 2, 354@35ssc No 8, S6A@371ac.
Rye-No. 2, &c.
Barley-Fair to choice mailing, 5O@54c.
Flax Seed-No. 1, $1.131s; No. l north
western, $1.2O1s.
Timothy Seed-Prime, &.35.
Clover-Contract grades, $l4.
Short Ribs. Sides-Loose, $.7599.O5.
Mess Pork-Per barrel, ..16 .021sc.
Lard-Per 10 pounds, 1875.
Short Clear Sides-Boxed, s.. 25d9. 37la.
Whisky-Bases of high wines, 81 %.
On the produce exchange today the but
ter market was steady; creameries, 200
CSC; dairies 19m26c.
Eggs-Firm; at mark, cases included
22d241sc; firsts, 2411c; prime firsts, Csc;
extras, &c.
Cheese-Steady, 1904.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-18

NEW YORK, Jan. 17.-Spot coffee.
steady; No. Rio, sac; Santos No. A. 77sc.
Mild coffee, steady; Cordova, 9&12iec.
Futures opened firm at an advance Of
10 to 20 points In response to higher Euro
pean cables, smaller Brizilian receipts at
interior points, and bullish arguments re-
garding future yalorizaton loans based
on the cheaper English money market
Europe sold some here at the advance
and prices eased off slightly in the mid
die session but firmed up again in the
afternoon on the firmer cables from
Havre, showing further advance in that
market The close was steady at a net
advance of Is to 90 points Sales were re-
ported of 1000 bags, including: Feb,
5.25c; March, 5.35dS. 40c May, 5.45d5. IS;
July, 5.6Oc; Sept, 5.7595.Soc; Dec, 5.95G6c
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Interbr Movement.
New orIears Cotton Market.

New Orleans sIpts closed very steady,
unchanged; middlhg 1880; sales on spot
were 5000 bales It'd 1900 to arrive.
Futures opened suiet at an advance of
gas points
The rise In prifs was caused by the
lowering of the Bink of England's rate
to per cent and official predictions OF
floods in the Mississippi valley. Bull
support in addition to good boil weevil
weather" held ths market up at an adj
vance of about tef points for the active
months The clos was steady, to 10
points over YESTERDAY.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-01-18

Nothing Of material importance is
roted on Morris avenue. The trade in the
local wholesale fruit and produce mar
ket continues large and healthy. The de-
mand Yesterday was steady throughout
the day and the supply Just about met
the demand. Prices are unchanged.