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The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
S.OELRICHSCALLS
NEWPORT TOONASTY
Sells Magnificent Home and Will
F0rsake Former Summer
Resort Forever
Especial DispaIeh 10 The Call

NEWPORT, May 22.-Rose Cliff. the
splendid home of Mrs Herman oeI-
richs, has been sold to Thomas f.
Walsh, the Colorado millionaire. and
Mrs. Oelrichs announces that she soon
Will forsake the famous society resort
forever.
Further than this Mrs. Oelrichs as
serts that she was prompted to get rid
of her famous estate because Newport
is too nasty" MRS Oelrichs would not
say just what she meant by that
OF late the famous American spa
has fallen afoul of the muck rakers
and if there is one thing that Newport
hates it is man or woman with a
faeile pen and habit of discovering
things.
Rose Cliff is one of the most beauti-
ful estates. Walsh is said to have paid
s25O.OOO. which is less by half than
what it cost the Oelrichs It is as-
sessed foD s2S0.Oo0. and but three years
ago was said to be worth s1,OOO0Oo.
Mrs. Oelriehs quits Rose Cliff next
Wednesday to tour Europe with her
sister. Mrs William X. Vanderbilt Jr.
Within theN month the Washes will
have taken possession.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
$4,000 NECKLACE
SWINDLERS' LOOT
Boots Durnell and Companion
Accused of Defranding Show
Girl of Jewelry
Especial Dispatch TO The Call

NEW YORK, May 22.-Charles Brock
way, variously described as chauffeur,
a fortune teller and an expert seer
into the future was arrested. by cen
trail office detectives tonight. accused of
having defrauded Lillian Lorraine, d
show girl with Florenz Ziegfeld, out of
Incidentally, the young woman accused
Boots" &C. Ed Durneli. a turfman. of
having been implicated in the con-
spiracy. and it was declared at police
headquarters that search was being
made for him.
Miss Lorraine is the young woman
who is supposed to have been dining
with E. r. Thomas in an east side cafe
one night when she was mistaken for
Evelyn Thaw.
In August of last year she said to-
night Mr. Brockway his wife and
Durnell and I went to the Hotel Astor
for dinner. While we were seated there
tall gentleman, with a big black
mustache appeared at the door, winked
at Durnell and beckoned for him to
come out.
MFR. Durnell returned in few sec
onds. He confided to me-confded so
every one could hear it-that he and
Brockway had bought some bonds and
there appeared to be some haste on the
part of those who let them go to get
quick action in the matter of monetary
consideration.
They needed $4,000 quickly and. re-
membering how nicely they had treated
me down at the racetrack, I agreed
to the suggestion that I pawn my
necklace. We jumped into an auto
and went to the pawnbroker's and got
s27oo in cash, all the pawnbroker had,
and took ring worth $500 to make
up the balance of a $4,000 loan.
'.The ring was present to me for
loaning them the money, says Miss
Lorraine, who is only IL years old
Miss Lorraine declared she did not
ask for the arrest of either of the
men until detective told her she had
been swindled and added that she
should make complaint, as any loyal
citizen would. Brockway was held in
81 500 bail Durnell could not be found
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
GIRL WITH RED SWEATER
CHARGED BY MAD STEER
Young Woman Narrowly Es-
capes Death in PetaIuma

PETALUMA May "a wild. infu-
rated steer charging down the street
a huddling bunch of frightened and
helpless women. an even more fright
ened and helpless girl springing for the
protection of telegraph pole-that
was the scene which hel dthe specta-
tors spellbound in Adams street Fri
day afternoon.
Miss Myrtle Petit was the object
that caught the maddened animars
eye, presumably because she wore a
red sweater. She sprang for the only
protection. which was the telegraph
pole, just as the animal made iunge
at her.
She missed the force of the blow and
fell in dead faint, but the animal was
turned from his prey by driver and
the girl rescued. She was hysterical
from fright. but her injuries are not
considered serious.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
NEW ROW BREWING IN
SAN MATEO COURTHOUSE
Bids Allowed O'Brien Company
to Be Taken to Court

REDWOOD CITY, May 22.-Court-
house affairs bid fair to be dragged
once more into the county courts as a
result of special meeting of the super
visors today when certain claims of the
O'Brien construction company, general
contractors, were under consideration
The construction company claims that
$500 is due them for extra brickwork.
with which view the majority of the
supervisors agreed, their stand being
backed by Architect Glenn Allen and
superintendent Donald Mackenzie. over
the strenuous opposition of Chairman
MacEvoy the claim was passed. but
MaeEvoy notified his brother officials
and the contractors that the matter was
not ended, as he would see that ait
would finally be determined in the
courts
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
SONS ACCUSE FATHER
OF DISSIPATED HABITS
Aged Expressman Said to In=
dulge in Protracted Sprees

The Jeremiah j. Coughlins. father
and son, who have taken to the supe-
rior court a dispute over an express
business, will fight out the matter next
Wednesday on petition by the son
to dissolve the order prohibiting him
from touching certain money in bank.
jeremiah Sr claims to be in part
nership with jeremiah Jr.. and OBJ
jects to being given all the dirty work
to do. In affidavits made by the
younger man and his brothers, and
filed yesterday by Attorney Frank T.
Hennessey, 1T is charged that their
father is addicted to the excessive use
of intoxicants and that he goes on
protracted SpreeS.
The sons tell of one drunk" that
lasted nine months. during which their
sire did nothing but abuse his rela-
tives. They deny that Coughlin Sr.
has any interest in the express busa-
ness and say that he was employed
at SIS week at his own request.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
WOMAN TO EDIT NEW
PAPER IN PETALUMA
Mrs. Anna Morrison Reed to
Have Charge of Publication

PETALUMA, May 22.-Petaluma is to
have new paper TO be published by
the Keller Reed publishing company.
and of which Mrs. Anna Morrison Reed
is to be sole editor and proprietor. 1t
makes its initial appearance the second
wednesday in June. 1t is to be inde-
pendent in policy. Mrs Reed is the
author OF the local option bill fntro-
duced by Judge McGafvey of UlSiah in
the legislature some years go and
which is now a law Of this state.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
HAS COL. BURNS
SOLD OUT TO
TIL. WILLIAMS
Transfer of Lands in Delta Re-
gion May Relate to Jockey
Club Stock
One Turf Manager Makes Over
Rich Holdings to Former
Racetrack Associate

Rich reclaimed land in the delta re-
gion near Stockton. valued at upward of
s1500oo. passed yesterday from the
hands of Thomas II. Williams, presi-
dent of the California Jockey club, to
Colonel Dan Burns, one time politician
and owner of a large stock of stock in
the Jockey club. Recently Williams
wanted to get rid of Burns from the
management of the racing concern.
Burns was reluctant to sell out 1t is
probable that Williams broke the hesi-
fancy of the older horseman with the
tempting offer of 5000 acres of i'm
mensely rich land. and Burns released
bic Jockey clnh stock
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
KLAMATH WATER USERS
TO BE HEARD IN CONGRESS
Will Send Men to Present Case
of Consumers

KLAMATH FALLS. May 22-Ad-
vices received here from Washington
are TO the effect that Senator Carter.
chairman of the senate irrigation com
mittee. will give the Klamath water
users a chance to be heard before the
committee when it inspects the local
project The date OF the committees
visit is October y. and it is probable
a mass meeting will be called prior to
that time to decide upon the case to
be presented to the committee.
Java Bran, a beer made from rice
and kantanr
Persia Nuheez wine made OF dates
and raiSins.
tucky w hisky.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23

Tibet-chong. a liquor made of
wheat, barley and rice.
NADIA gascar-Be Besabesa, a liquor made
from sugar cane.
AbyssiHia-BoUza. 4 beer made from
grain called da guSa.
Primitive Africa Banana beer. fruit
liquors and honey and palm drinks
Slam Ba ksoum. beer made of bar
ley and millet.
Siberia-Quas, y brew made of rye
and barley.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
Asks Girl to Wed

Finally, without money or hope OF
receiving any. the old impetuosity OF his
younger days once again held fun sway
over him and last Wednesday he visited
Miss Louden and asked her to marry
him. The meeting took place at the
home of the latter's sister at 1918
Marin street, Vallejo. Miss LOuden re-
fused him
To all outward semblance he accepted
his rebuT in the proper spirit and gave
the girl to understand that he had not
done with hope and that it was his de-
termination to keep on lighting until
he won.
He asked me to promise to marry
him in July said Miss Louden. ~but
told him that 1 did not care TO do SO
eitser in July or at any other time. He
said nothing more and left me as usual
He took no further action in the mat
ter until last Friday. Then. donninS
his best suit Of clothes. he wandered
into the st. Francis hotel and began TO
write his last letters. He wrote sew
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
Troubles With Legislature

Next came Williams troubles with
the reform legislature. That made him
jump very stiff legged and put an awful
crimp in the value fthe rose racing
plant which Williams conducted at
Emeryville.
To swing his new campaigns, what
ever they were. Williams decided that
he did not want Burns longer connected
with the California Jockey club.
Burns did not want to sell. Now.
from the nature of the advices received
yesterday from Stockton. some sort of
dicker has been consummated between
the two men and property valued at
s150,0o0 changed hands.
The holdings transferred to Burns
yesterday are located on the middle di-
vision of Union island 1t is in the sec
tion known as the new reclamation and
is as fertile and valuable sany land in
the rich delta region Williams father
once owne dali of tn edelta territory
which now comprises Union, Victoria
and Woodward islands.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
PRUSSIAN CARDINAL
is DANGEROUSLY ILL
Bishop of BresIau Suffering
From Pneumonia

BREsLAU. Prussia. May 22.-Cardinal
Kopp. bishop OF Breslau. who Is suffer
ing from pneumonia Is said to be IN a
very serious condition today He WAS
born At Duderstadt. in 1887, and was
created and proclaimed cardinal in 1898
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
Parts With Valuable Land

The transfers, which were recorded
in Stockton Yesterday. show that Will
liams is evidently short of cash and had
to part with income land of enormous
value to gain his point with Burns.
Williams had a big slice cut into his
fortune by his misadventures as an
angel" to Alice Nielsen, the prima
donna Williams made star of Miss
Nielsen, but for all his angelic wings
of gold could not fly to her height, and
in trying TO maintain his balance
dropped $40. 900 or more in ballast Then
he dropped more in tryingto make the
graceful Alice Jump stiff legged" as
he expressed il to his manager
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
Visited Her Weekly

He met Miss EOuden some months
ago while employed as a clerk in the
navy yard at Mare island, and it was
his custom to visit her every Saturday
night at her home in Alabama street.
Vallejo. where she lived with her
mother. Miss Louden is one of the lead
ing mi1liners in Vallejo.
Nixon. possessing the charm and per-
sonaIity of a man OF family, education
and travel. found in Miss LOudOn
warm friend; but in his impetuosity he
swept across the bounds Of mere friend
ship, and gave TO her a devotion and
love. of which he made no secret. and
which evidently changed his entire life.
A few months ago he left Mare island
with the intention of seeking employ
ment in one of the railroad Offices in
San Francisco. having before been en-
gagged in this occupation in his home
in New Orleans. In his love for Miss
Loudon he lost his happy go lucky
habits OF irresponsibiIity. All his en-
deavors We're devoted 10 obtaining the
position he wanted with the determine
tion OF settling down. marrying the girl
and taking his place as a factor in the
community.
Then it was that the irony OF the gods
fell upon him. Do what he could. he
could not secure employment His
stock OF money ran low. The position
which he expected went to another. and
by degrees he dropped. For four heart
breaking months he maintained his
grip. He struggled on day after day.
hoping ever that the following morn
would bring about the initial steps in
the realization ot his ambition. only 20
recognize at last that the fatss whom
sc long he had houted had gathered
against him. a =
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
MARINE
FORTY-TWO CRIPPLED
CHILDREN IN DIRE PERIL
Rescued From Kings County
Hospital While Fire Rages

NEW YORK. May 22.-Forty-two
little patients suffering with spinal
complaints were removed in safety
from their ward in the Kings cotinty
hospital Brooklyn, tonight, while
threatening blaze ragged in a surgical
ward. The blaze was quickly extin-
guished. No one was injured.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
Tariff Planned by Hill and Har-
riman Lines Declared Menace
TO Western JObbers
Discrimination Against Sea-
board Points in Favor of
Interior Is Alleged
wheeler to Lay Pacific Coast
Protest Before Interstate
Commerce Commission

ME real seriousness of the pro-
posed action of the railroads, and
y rhat should arouse the live and
sa~tfve interest of the san Francisco
sSHistributor and manufactures, lies IN
SHE probability. amounting almost TO
i. certainty. that IL the proposed read
e9ustment 10 Spokane becomes effective
IKE readiustmentS Will be made 10
such points as Reno and Las Vegas,
f@ev.s AIbuquerqUe, y. VI. and Tue
ason. Arfs.. thus neutrslizinE the ad-
Ssutaers Inherent 10 San FranciscO'S
ssreoeraphtcaI location and limiting her
.-,igstributfou 10 the territory west Of
sThe foothills of fhe Sierra Nevadas.-
-STATEMENT BY WILLIAM IL.
WHEELER.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
INDEX OF THE
SAN FRANCISCO CALLS
rELEpHoNE KEARNx So
sUNDAY. MAY %. 1sog
WEATHER CONDITIONS
NEWS TO-DAY

YESTERDAY-Clear; west wind; maximum
temperature. IS; minimum ~.
FORECAST FOR TODAY Fair; light east
wind in the morning, changing TO brisk
west Page 43
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
John H. Nixon Commits Suicide
Because Pretty Jeanette
LOuden Says ''NO'
Writes to Girl in Vallejo Prom.
ising Vengeance After
His Death
Il Never Encouraged Him"
Says Object OF His Vain
Affections
Tragedy in Eddy Street Hotel
Ends Fitful Career OF
Southern Man

IN mis- anger and humiliation at being
4 rejected by Miss Jeanette LOuden
i of Vallejo. whom he loved. John IL
Nixon. a member OF well known
New Orleans family, wrote to her say
ing he would seek his revenge after
separated from her by death. and yes
terday afternoon carried out the first
part of his threat by committing sui
cid in his room at the Hotel Larsen,
SO Eddy street.
IF there is any way" he wrote, 'of
getting even with you after death.
will do it,
The morbid message was the euI-
mination of wild epistle in which ne
blamed Miss Louden for the step he
was about to take. saying that the
refusal of his suit had plunged him
into dependency from which there
was no outlet but the Oblivion OF tne
grave In il he concentrated all the
smartinss from wounded vanity and
a hot southern pride. touched TO the
quick. and in his unreasOning rage
gulped down a glass of earbolic acid
The suicide was the closing scene
of - years of life. checkered, lurid
and untrammeIed, thea last act OF
man who had sought his bread in
many parts of the world and wended
his way through the years apparently
governed by no other motive than the
dictates of his individual whims. Dur
ing his brief span of life he had been
a physician. sailor. clerk. railroad en-
ploye and the end saw him without
funds, without employment. a derclict
upon the waves of the world.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
W HELLER

, william r. Wheeler, manager of The
trsfhc bureau Of the Merchants ex-
kehange. has received from Franklin
x Lane OF the interstate commerce
3commission 2 summary Of the new
system Of rates which the Hill and
s sHa arTimsn lines propose 10 establish
as q result Of the ruling in the Spo-
Kane case. The discrimination against
Pacific coast points is so great that
me western seaboard cities have re
uuested and have been granted an op
-bortunity 10 protest The hearing viii
,lbe held June 9 and Wheeler viii go
east 10 represent the san Francisco
shippers
The rates which the railroads plan
20 put into effect were not ordered
by the commission and are not a neces-
ssry. sequence to the decision IN the
Spokane case. The railroads. explained
wheeler yesterday. have merely seized
the occasion to adopt a schedule of
Sates which for q number of years
they have been endeavOing to create.
i7bis new schedule is offered TO the pub
lie under the pretense that it is ordered
by the commission. Such, according
70 Wheeler, IS not the case. The com
mission in the Spokane case ordered
only certain notifications between
Chicago and St. Paul in the east and
Enotane in the west
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
SUBURBAN

Berkeley high school students TO ele'
for next term under new charter
Girl who defied police and faced j.
on battery charge goes free.
Successful short course in horticultur
versity ends.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
EASTERN

Secretary OF the Navy Meyer
Of his own for administration
yards
supreme court OF Missouri 5
barring out insurance companies
salaries.
Craftsmen, the Masonic organi
igan university, prevents play
ritual.
General assembly Of Presbyte
Denver urged 70 90 after sinners.
Former Banker Morse's wifi
sons high in power Of plot to {
fall.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
Hurts Coast Points

The general scheme of the new sys-
TEN Of rate making is TO beneht the
middle west at the expense OF the
coast points on both the Atlantic and
Che Pacific. The far reaching purpose
Sc to build up traffic in the interior, to
create 5obbing centers in the mid
territory. For time 1t is stated, this
may prove unprOfta bic to the trans
portation companies. The object,
however, looks to the future; in fact
20 the completion of the Panama
psnaL II is the plan Of the railroads
90 fortify themselves against the day
rapidly approaching when the Panama
canal viii inaugurate adequate and
cheap steamship service between the
; "A tlsntic and the Pacific coast.
In general the proposed system of
yste making creates high schedules
srom the coast to the interior. as for
instance from Seattle 10 Spokane on
the one hand and cheap rates between
interior points, as from Chicago to
Spokane. on the other hand In this
lrray the railroads hope TO build up a
fbig interior traffic at the expense OF
ltae coast cities. With high locals from
Sae coast the rail lines anticipate that.
they viii be able 10 nullify the cheap
pecan transportation and at the same
time that they build UP jobbing cen
.ters in the interior destroy them on
She coast
In word. il is an attempt to use
-5he factor OF water competition for
The benefit Of the interior points and
10 the disadvantage Of the seaboard
cities to which such benefit should
naturally accrue.
Will Combat Scheme
That San Francisco has been en-
sbled 10 anticipate the action Of the
railroads and TO prepare to combat it,
wheeler attributes TO the presence of
FRANKLIN K Lane on the interstate
commerce commission.
Wheeler was advised of the con-
tempIated action of the railroads
through the following dispatch from
Lane:
VIM T. Wheeler. manager,
Traffic Bureau of Merchants Ex-
change
San Francisco, Cal
Following proposed basis for
Spokane rates has been presented
10 commission BY carriers:
First: Adopt the class rates from
81. Paul and Chicago as fixed by
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
FORRGN

Tax on bachelors, widows and
ried couples proposed in Austria
Japanese viii honor former V
Fairbanks, who reached TT
day.
King Edward VII forces earl
former Beatrice Mills to
apology.
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23

Continued ON Page Is, Column .
The San Francisco call., 1909-05-23
COAST

Stanford universi
with Professor New
One tomb 10 hol
archs Of Bawaii.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-11-19
NOT "VIOLINISTS" BUT
genuine ''fIDDLERS'
Are Wanted To Participate In Big
Program To Be Arranged for Ben
eft of Rescue Fund-Other Fea-
lures to Be On Program.

Let the fiddlers in the Hatties-
burg territory get themselves in read
mess for great contest in this city
on Thanksgiving evening at the Audi
torium. If you are a fiddler, get out
your fiddle and begin to practice up
on Chicken in the Bread Tray" and
other classics of the old-times in order
that you may do yourself proud when
the Hattiesburg Kings Daughters CIV,
their "Old Fiddlers' Contest on
Thanksgiving night.
What? You say you didn't know
there was going to be one? Well, no
body else knew it either until this
morning when the movement was in
| augurated, but it is going to be had
and it is going to be a contest fol-
''fiddlers"; no "violinists" need apply
The entertainment is to be given
for the benefit of the Kings Daugh
ters' Rescue Fund, and all who can ir
any way contribute to the success oi
the occasion are requested and urged
to lend their assistance.
| 1t is expected that anywhere from
fifteen to twenty-five entries will be
secured for the fiddlers' contest ana
besides this there will be other mum
bers on the program to be arranged.
Mrs D. B. Holmes has taken the in
itiative in the matter of getting up tht
entertainment and she will be assisted
by other members of the circle ans
also by MIR. NJ. L. Bixler, manager o.
the Auditorium. Further details of tht
arrangements will be published in Z
day or so, and it is promised that the
entertainment will be one well wortf
going to see.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-11-19
States Finances.

Governor Noel is devoting very
careful consideration to the States
financial condition, prospective reven-
ues for the next biennial period and
the volume of appropriations that
should be made at the session, and a
very considerable portion of his mes
sage will be devoted to discussion of
these topics.
1t seems to be well-settled con-
clusion among lawmakers who have
been at the capital during the past
fe wdays that it will be utterly i'm
possible to conclude the work of the
session within less than sixty days.
This opinion is also held by Speaker
H. NJ Street. who presides over the
lower house. and Lieut. Gov. Manship
presiding officer of the senate.
Four vacancies have occurred in
the senate membership, due to death
or designations. since the last session
With but one exception, the personne
of the house remains unchanged. The
vacancies have been filled by specia
elections, and the new members will
take the oath of office on the open.
ing day.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-11-19
TWO dwellings
BY The WOODMEN
First at Chappell Cemetery Next SUM-
day, other One Week
From Then.

Leaf River Camp No. 2S will unveil
a w. o. w. monument next Sunday
at Chappell Cemetery, near Petal.
Members of Leaf River Camp will
meet in their hall over The News
office at / p. m, next Sunday, and
will leave promptly at p. M. arriv-
ing at Chappell Cemetery at p. m,
where the monument to late Sow. D.
Il. Granthan, will be unveiled with
the beautiful Woodmen ceremony.
Members of Hattiesburg Camp 449
and Petal Camp are invited to attend
the unveiling and any other camp
that may desire to come.
On Sunday. November 2S, at the
City Cemetery, Hattiesburg, a monu.
ment Will be unveiled by Leaf River
Camp No. 2S, to the late Sow s. S.
Smith. with the beautiful and impres.
sive Woodmen ceremonies. All "chop.
pers" of 449. Petal and other nearby
csmrs a;e invited to participate.