All Principal Events of Week
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formation of Busy Readers
European War
4T HEARTIIiT agree with General
I Sherman when he said that
'War Was Hell, declared Aug
ust Winqkler, late German governor
,of the. Caroline islands, who arrived
In San Francisco on the Pacific Mail
liner China from Manila,
Stories lof the terrible effect of the
Asphyxiating Bases used by the. Ger
frnana in the attacks in the vicinity of
.Ypres weiie brought to Paris by wound
ed arriving from the front. Extreme
cruelty la also charged to the Ger
mans, who are alleged to havs driven
their bayonets into French soldiers
rendered helpless by the deadly gases.
Miss Mary Nissen of Berlin, arrived
in San Francisco en route to -Ger-knany
from Australia, where fine f was
detained for three months because of
ner nationality. ' "
J. S. Dunne,, sophomore In the col
lege of mimes at the University of Cali
fornia, left for Canada to rejoin the
fourth company of the eighteenth bat
talion of Canadian troops, where -fee
became a member while on a leave of
absence from the university the first
of this year. t
Practically the entire starboard side
Of the French Leon Gambetta was
blown Otttj by .the torpedo launched by
ftn Austrian' submarine, which sent the
vessel to. tlie bottom oft Otranto. The
attack cam a a complete surprise
tPiuC0Ve,l'y et a f buoy marked
- - ra, , ..um ovuuiern end OI
i Lerwick Island, i Scotland, gives c"on
f lrmatiort i to the report that the Ger-
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v uesuoyea m a reeetit
battle in the North sea.
The claim that-Rev, . Mr. Booth, an
1 American negro, who is connected with
the Seventh Day Adventlsts, had taken
a part in the recent uprisings ataong
the natives in British Central Africa.
Is recognized by the British govern!
tnent. - . ; '
I , :The army of the Caucausus in the
- "' wjE4ja.il, fersia, won an
important victory over' the Turks, ac
cording to a report from Russian army
headquarters. t
The total number of subscribers to
the war Joan floated in Germany in
March was 2.U3.220 and of these 458 -000
subscribers put their names down
for $48 or less. : . t .
General von Gluck, who was wound
Ad while commanding the German
army in recent engagements, is re
ported to now be' on the. road to re
covery, The national relief fund ' of the
Prince of Wales now amounts t6 $25 -000,000,
King Uorg having started
off the list. -with-?..' donation ir t9crm
for the relief of the Belgians.
- Top- the ret-ent destruction of the
Greek steamer El'Hspontus, the Ger
man government will pay Greece a
full indemnity, t being explained that
he attack watf made by mistake.
Following the flight of the Rus
tUna Srottk Jho JJaok pass, Germans re
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ported that they captured a large num
ber f trenches and big quantities of
war materials.
In desperate fighting in which most
of the Canadian officers were killed,
the Canadians went from 48 t$ T2
hours, their forces numbering 2600
defeating about 7500 Germans, it Is re
ported from the British war office
British aeroplanes routed a German
seaplane, which made Unsuccessful at
tempts to hurl bombs on a British
trawler off the coast of Dover, j
Report was circulated that the en
tire German fleet was. seen cruising
in the North sea in search for the
British squadron, but according to the
Germans, they could not 'get sight of
the enemy. . . j
' London reports that a movement is
Urged there looking to the formation
of a corps t.of corn doctors, i ' j
For the third time within as many
weeks German airships tried to ;hurl
bombs onto English cities, but as in
former attempts, iut little damage is
said to have been inflicted. j
London reports that there was a
neck-and-neck race between a-: railroad
train and a German Zeppelin in which
the latter made Ineffectual attempts
to drop bombs on .the train. ? j
the American steamer Cushing re
ported on her arrival at Rotterdam
that a German aeroplane bad hurled
two bombs at her, neither of the ex
plosives hitting their mark. I
German submarines sank the British
collier Mobile and trawler 1 Lillydale
In the North sea. I
Four Dutch lifeboats and two (Red
Cross boats made preparations to Start
for the Nofih sea from Amsterdam,
and it la reported that a big naval
battle is near. " j . I'
; British war office denies f the offi
cial French report that German war
ships had! bombarded Dunkirk.
The Westinghouse Blectrid comRatty
of New York, is said to have received
an order for $30,000,000 worth of big
guns fox lone of the warring nations,
and as result of the new business the
concern's stocks Jumped to 104. - f
French j reports say that 12,000 to
16,000 dead boides lie unburied; be
twee ri Tprea - and the coast and i that
the health of the soldiers In that sec
tion Is menaced. , i
: German aviators rare ' reported to
have bombarded houses in Oatend.
The German fire is ' said to have
broken a charge of Zouaves and Tur
cos, which had been attempted on the
German wing north of Yprefl.. I .
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General News
GOVERNOR G. TV. P. HUNT of
Phoenix, Ariz., stated that he will
' not be a candidate for governor
or for the United States senate next
year. . I 1
The Hunt administration was 1 the
object of ! a bitter attack In the ! Ari
cona state senate by Senator Stapley,
who scored the present "unprecedented
era of spending" and demanded: im
mediate financial retrenchment, i
With his wife standing staunch In
him defense, and the San Jose Pastors
union urging that he be stripped . of
his ministerial' robes because of al
leged moral turpitude, the Rev. Clauds
Kelly, resigned jastor, of the First
Baptist church at San Jose, Is caught
in a whirlpool of scandal. 1 i
J. Anderson, a decorator, was cat
apulted from his automobile and his
skull probably fractured when the
steering knuckle broke. The accident
occurred In the Wilshlre district, Los
Angeles.
Relief work for non-resident fori
signers in Vancouver, B. C;, has
ceased, $10,000 given by the govern
ment for city relief work having been
exhausted. In consequence ; there are
today 1100 workless men unprovided
lor in the city. , ,
Arriving at San Franelsco from
Tepolobampo, Mexico, on the steamer
Grace Dollar, Mrs. Gertrude Hunter
and her sister, Miss Claire White of
Chicago, brought a thrilling story of
being locked In a steamer cabin for
48 hours while waves ran high over
the vessel and a storm raged outside,
the victim of a severe attack of
Influenza, Captain A H. Payson, as
sistant to the president of the Santa
Fs railroad,, and a director in the
Spring Valley Water and Pacific Teler
phone & Telegraph companies, is seH
oujsly ill in the Red Cross hospital at
San Mateo, Cat. 5
A conference called In ' the office of
Mayor Rolph of San Francisco, In an
effort t bring about an amicable set
tlement between the United Railroads
and their -' employes - was delayed
through the refusal of Jesse Lillen
thai, president of the corporation, to
sit witb representatives of the car
men's union. . i
Resolutions were adopted at the Call
fornia Congress of Mothers calling on
school authorities to abolish the pres
ent texioooK i system 1 ana suostitute
pamphlet textbooks so the danger of
children catching diseases from books
which, had been taken to Infected
homes would be minimized.
Three governors of states are ex
pected in San Diego in quick succession
this week. 1 The first or. these will
be. Governor W. C. McDonald of New
Mexico, May 8, who IS coming here to
participate in the dedication of the
New Mexico building at the exposition.
Teachers and mothers must work to
gether for the good "of- the children
if the little ones are to be given a
fair start in life, Is the opinion of
Mrs. William T. Blackburn of Oak
land, president of the second district,
California Congress of Mothers.
Miss Clara Smith of Berkeley, ac
quired the' right to prefix a "Rev.'' be
fore her name. The only woman grad
uating .from the Pacific Theological
Seminary In Berkeley. . Miss Smith
plans going to Chicago" to secure the
degree of "Ph. D." before : entering
active service.
Los Angeles county turned all its
Jail rules upside down to help a 17
year -old prisoner bold his Job. Wood
son Hoist, who is serving a two weeks
sentence for violating bis probation,
was released to work jn a downtown
Office for four hours this afternoon.
Arthur Montgomery was given 90
days in the county jail at San Fran
cisco .'for 'soliciting alms. After a
successful day, Montgomery would ap
pear at nightfall in evening clothes
and dins In San Francisco s most ex
perieivs restaurants.
Mrs, pay. perdoo shot and killed
T -" ' " -: ,1 'J i S "- " I - - .
herself In her apartments at Sail Fran
cisco. She left no note of explanation.
One San. Pedro fisherman was
drowned and two other fishermen were
swept out to sea when a huge. wave
carried them off a rock from WhiSb
they were; fishing near Point Firmiil,
California,
With politics tabooed and a day of
pleasure in. Sari Francisco their only
object, 140 United States senators and
representatives and several persons
prominent in private , life arrived at
San Francisco preparatdry to their
trip to the Hawaiian islands, i
The monument erected by the. na
tional government In old Midway
cemetery in Liberty county, to the
memories of General Daniel Stewart
and General James- Screven, revolu
tionary heroes, Was unveiled with elab
orate ceremonies at Savannah, Ga.,
Southern Memorial day. Troops from
Fort Screven took part.
Leaving no explanatory notes or
messages of any1 kind. Mrs., Emily
Schussler, mother of two small girls,
attempted her life by gas asphyxiation
at her home in San Francisco. Her
condition is critical.
Dressed' in white as though bent on
a gala occasion, Angela Rangel was
crushed to death under a, Santa Fe
train in the outskirts of Los Angeles.
Nine cars passed over ths young wo
man's body, but death was practically
instantaneous from the impact of the
first car. i .
Puget sound is exporting at the rate
of 8100,000,000 a year, uouDung ana
tripling previous records. During 1914,
the banner year, $47,000,000 was the
value of the merchandise shipped from
the Puget sound ports, Taeoma and Se
attle being "the principal shipping
points, with Everett, Bellingham and
other ports doing a booming export
business. 1 f.",-
a Rraublican love feast, called in
honor of the birthday anniversary of
General Grant, nasi brought to Pitts
burg many Republican leaders who ad
dressed "the bid: canques 01 iu.aiuh-
cus Republican club. '
a resolution before tne isainnesoxa
legislature is designed to put the ki
bosh on joking in tne Minnesoia buu:
forever. It was introduced by Senator
N S. Segues, aftr he had been the
subject of ssveral I alleged Jokes, be
cause his Silk hat blew off While he
was driving along the Mississippi
river and went down the) river.
j waddy u.'aie.i, iisuwmwi 11. in
ordinary of Dallas, Texas, known as
th. "Admiral of White Rock," has
started a campaign in , behalf of the
i.naan fisherman. With the ad
vent Of a new city administration he
announced that he was going to do
something to allevlaU the lot of the
local Iwsak Waltons, inasmuch as they
have been prohibited from boat fish
ing in tbe city s principal, usmug aw.
A big delegation of congressmen and
and families sailed for
Hawaii on the steamer Sierra. While
at the islands they 1 will the guests
of the territorial government. The re
turn trip will b made late in May.
On of the oiggesi uuieiiLw
education and industry ever gathered
in the south opened at Chattanooga,
Tenn. Representatives of colleges, 11
braries. churches aaA scAevUi aU svar
the south were present, 'and for the
conference ori Industrial matters arti
sans, grain growers, livestock men,
fruit growers and poultrymen from far
and wide arrived.
Rev, Thomas F. Ddran was conse
crated bishop of Halicarnassus and
auxiliary to the See of Providence.
Leading ehurch dignitaries came ' for
the services. Monsignor Doran is wide
ly known in New England.
Known to nearly all of the world's
greatest civboys, "Buck," the famous
bucking bull. Is dead, a victim of too
much civilization, says a Pendleton,
Or, report. j
An elaborate demonstration of prac
tical military work was given by New
York's militia at the Forty-seventh
Regiment armory. New York. The
whole state guard was invited.
The annual banquet of the Boston
City blub of the Boston Young Men's
Christian Union, was held at Boston.
Governor ! Walsh, Mayor Curley and
other notables attended.
Dighifyihg overalls. This is the
edifying task td ;which Principal L.
G. Wade of the Pullman Free school
for manual training has dedicated
himself and the school made possible
by the will of the late George M. Pull
man. Erected at a cost of over $400,'-
000.
With Europe eating up America's
cotton . in the form of guncotton by
the thousands upon thousands of
pounds, farmers . through the south
west are planning this year to plant
as much, or mors, ootton than hereto
fore, .
. Mrs. Thomas Lewis of New Lexing
ton, Ohio, who Cited as one cause she
should be granted a divorce that her
husband made her curry his horses;
was granted the horses as alimony, - -AH
records for Sunday school con
ventions - in Oregon were broken
when the thirtieth annual convention
opened. B. Lee Paget, president of the
association, was in the chair and in
troduced the speakers. Governor
WithycoMbe was the first speaker, and
he Was- followed by 'Sunday school
workers from other parts of the
country. x
The dyestuff situation was the prin
cipal topic at the annual meeting of
the National Association of Cotton
Manufacturers,' which opened. "Wt the
Copleyi plasa, Boston. Albert G. Dun
can (of Boston, was in ths chair. Over
4 OA delegates from ail sections of the
country, attended. . ?
. Legal and Criminal,
THE permit granted to ths Asso
ciated Pharmacists, a San Fran
.: Cisco corporation recently organ
ited, was suspended temporarily by
Corporation Commissioner Carnahan.
Carhahan having evidence that the
corporation violated the terms of the
permit by railing to show a copy to
prospective purchasers of Stock. - .
Mrs. Henry; Duebelbeiss, 73 years
of age, wife of a wealthy business
man of Golden, Cold., committed sui
cide by drowning herself In a bath
tub ikfter sending her husband to the
drug store to purchase medicine.
Chauffeur Cecil Lewis faced a storm
on the witness stand at Los Angeles
in the Uial of Chief of Police Be-
, 1 Group of American women delegates to The Hague peace conference, photographed on their- derar,
j ture from New York aboard the Holland-American liner Noordam. Miss Jane Adflama of Chlcas'
i -Is standing next to the woman holding the end of the banner at the left.
2 The German sea raider. Kronpri njg, Wilhelm, "which Is Interned at Newport; Newa after a 255 days
. cruise at sea, during which tlm she, sunk 14 ships. f ,
3 Dr. Maria Montesorrl, expert child teacher, now in San Francisco, and who may; be a Portlan.
visitor before her departure, from the coast. ' I Y
4 Colonel Roosevelt and counsel leaving the courthouse at Syracuse, N. Y. for lunch during one 0:
' the days of the trial of the libel suit instituted by William Barnes of Albany, 1
6 Mrs. A. Ti Cahfield mayor of Warren,, III., the first woman mayor ..in Illinois. . Mrs. (3anfleld 1;
74 years old and conducts a millinery shop. WarreA has a population of 1500. ' f
bastian, accused of contributing to 'the
dependency of "Edith Serkin. His story
ori direct examination was attacked
from every angle by the cross exam
iner for the defen.se, and several dis
crepancies were uncovered.
Asserting the dissimilarity in the
law of California and that of Ontario,
Canada, were being used to evade the
terms of a contract, , J. O. Caugher,
attorney, filed suit at San Francisco
tor $15,000 against Mrs. Stella Me
Mahon, widow of. Alexander McMabon,
son of the late Hugh McMahon, former
chief justice of the supreme eourt of
Ontario. . - ,
Three different stories have now
been presented to the Jury at Trinidad,
Colo., in the trial of John R. Lawson,
labor leader, as to how Mlneguard
Nimmo met his death in the fighting
between miners and deputies at Lud
low, during the recent coal strike. Law
son is charged with the , murder of
Nimmo. . .
; Colotrel Emit Block, lieutenant in the
citizens' police,.- and : close friend of
Chief of Police Sebastian, was identi
fied at Los Angeles by Edith Serkin,
star witness for the prosecution in
the Sebastian trial, as the "mysterious
colonel" whom she . alleges accom
panied her and the Chief on an alleged
JoyridjB to Downey.
1 Arrested in company of . Mrs. Mar
garet Westall, who the police say is
'the wife of a wealthy Eureka, Cat.,
lumberman, J. C Wager, 24, was jailed
at Los Angeles to face a charge of
stealing a diamond ring valued at $360
in Phoenix, Arizona.
i That Thomas Boggs and William
Young, tinder arrest in the Alameda
county jail on charge of having
counterfeiting moulds in their posses
sion, are not members of the famous
Allen gang of Virginia feud fame be
came known to. the satisfaction of the
authorities. While the real name of
Boggs is Claude Allen and that of
Young Is Ed Wilson, ths former claims
Georgia , as the state of bis nativity.
F. M. Shepard, candidate ' for the
legislature at tbe last election, and A.
C. Brown, a rancher, were sentenced
to a year and a day each in San Quen
tin penitentiary for complicity In a
plot to smuggle opium into the United
States from Mexico,
i Forty-two workingmen of Riverside,
Cel., served notice upon City Treas
urer P. A, qunsolua that it la in vlo-
lation of the law and warning him not
to pay! ouf, any more of the city's
money after May 1, 1J15, to city em
ployes who are not citizens of the
United States. 1
Frustrated in what the arresting of
fleers believed 'were two attempts to
take her life, Jennie Flores, 18," at Los
Angles; savagely fought Policewomen
Bowen and S hat to, but was overpow
ered when a police chauffeur precipi
tated himself into the fray. The police
women had gone to Miss Flores' room
to arrest her on a delinquency com
plaint. Twenty-six of the Tijuana, Lower
California bunco - artists turned over
to the San Diego police by the Mexican
authorities, were sent from San Dlegcr
td Los Angeles bf the San Diego police.
Sudden death by a pistol bullet came
to Edward Hugey at San Francisco be
cause he was tod fond of the wife of
E. C. Reed, i agent for 1 the Burlington
sailroad at Ranchester, Wyo., who is in
jail for the deed. Reed returned hom
unexpectedly! and found -Hugey with
his Wife. j - . . j
Attorneys for Harry Chandler in his
fight to prevent Mrs. Virginia Clopton
and 18 other stockholders of the Los
Angeles Investment company from
ousting him from the directorship of
that concern! waived all arguments be
fore the district court of appeals and
the two sides agreed to. submit briefs.
. Charles Ai Elder, former , president,
and eight former directors of the Los
Angeles Investment company, were in-1
dieted by the county grand jury at Los
Angeles on charges growing out of the
alleged mismanagement of the com
pany and bail was fixed at $20,000 for
each person iindicted. t
Pinned beneath an overturned auto
mobile which be was driving,. Robert
F. Conner was killed, two miles south
of Martinez Cel., at 1 3 o'clock this
morning and, James F. McFee Jr., was
probably fatally hurt, while three other
members of; ths party escaped with
slight injuries.'
At the preliminary hearing of Mrs,
Irene Murphy, charged with murder
ing her husband, William Murphy,
at La Canada, the Rev, Leander Lane
testified that Murphy made a dying
statement toi him accusing bis wife to
shooting him; Later, the minister said.
Murphy said the shooting- was acci
dental. ' y
in a desperate daylight atrugcU
with a posse of mounted police end
secret service agent, waited benea
the towering trees of a dense forest
the Sunset district' at San Francis
Louis Markin aiUeged Counterfeit:
was clubbed into ubmleaion, and
placed under arrest
Flourishing a revolver, and screar
lng imprecations wthile a score of I
Hce officers wrestled with, her, 1.
year-old; Lorls Murphy, an escape frc
the detention homei -put up a terrl
battle in a lodging' house where
had fled for refuge before she could (
returned to the home this afternoon.!
Severely condemning him becau
as a lawyer, he went Into the erii
knowing every phase of the law agair.
drug traffic. Federal Judge Bledsoe I
Los Angeles, sentenced. Attorney F. 7
Shepard to serve a j year and a day
San Quentln.
Mexican Situation
AFFICIALfl Of the Vllllsta agency
U Washington declared that the a
ftihilatlon of General Obregon
army was imminent and that Generi
Juan Banderd with 10,000 ZapaUst
was advancing toward Obregon's po
tlon at Queretaro, 1 while Villa's p
sonal command was advancing irv
the opposite direction. ' i
Shocking conditions in Mexico, i
eluding ths confiscation of proper i
and the violation of (women, ar grs pl
rally portrayed in a letter from Mr
Germain. Carle Towle, in Mexico Cii:
to San Francisco, which states tl.
Carranslstas shut the entire city
Mexico off from food supplies, ii
Posed enormous duplicate taxes
business houses, and insulted t.
American flag.-, " :; !
Ten thousand Zapatistas wr i
lng on Wuerstaro with the intent i
of closing ori the rear of Genrl obr
gon's force there. Twelve of Obrtn
troop trains are derailed at iSa,r
according to report! received hr
Oof MiM Book, cm Ftmt, TfWe-M.rki, etc,, (
MBlffM. PMntfriKiKdlhrraib Maan&Ca.
tcecira ft tmicm in tbe Sciaalili Aric. I
sTUJItr A CO $3J1f-lwtn1iELV.,K.Y. i
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