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WM OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1909. NO. 123. COUNCIL 00 DRINK BLOOD FOUND GUILT! SIX ARMED MEN STEAL 174,000,000 GALLONS Of WATER Two Hundred Elks to Re-Open Club Rooms Of Local Lodge With Jolly House Warming THEIR LIVES AFTER TRIAL 2nd section UHttTJW.

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O. WHITEHEAD. jGibsoN Colorado Springs water system, opened the flood gates on Pike's Peak and turned 174,000,000 gallons of water into the Victor' reservoir. Caretaker Arthur was held a prisoner time, bnt finally escaped and telephoned to the city for help. Sheriff Burdsall of EI Paso county, with a posse of ten armed men, left Immediately for the scene.

The water supplies for Colorado Springs and the Cripple Creek district are located on the slopes of Pike'S iPeak and disputes over them are frequent causes of friction between the two cities. i It seems that Victor Is snort of water this year, although Colorado Springs has had an ample supply, having 900,000,000 gallons left after the theft of this morning, Is It Possible, Girls! 47 Gowns Cost $3.75 CHICAOO, June 23. Three dollars and fifty cents will represent the total ex- pendltures on torty-seven liandsom9 gowns with lace garniture and trimmings to be worn 'by forty-seven girl graduates of the Wentworth public school tomorrow. The Wentworth graduates have broken all records for economical gown-making. They have done all the work themselves under the general direction of the sew-i lhg teacher in the school.

One day each week for the last two months! has been devoted by the girls to the making of their graduation gowns. i All of the work has been done secretly at the school and the parents of the graduates will see the gowns their daughters are to wear for the first time at the graduation exercises. I Starts to Bury the Wrong Body CHICAGO; June 23. Juat as she was preparing to bury the disfigured body of a man she believed to be that of husband, Emll Lundgren, lyesterday, Mrs. A.

Iundgren, living near Chesterton, received a message from Lundgren. from Michigan City, stating that he wag; alive and well. Almost simultaneously with Mrs. Lundgren's stsrrtllng discovery the sons of the dead man, whose body she was making arrangement to bury, appeared at i the farm and identified the body as that of their father, E. T.

Moore of Hillsdale, who had been killed last Saturday night In the collision between two cars of the South Shore Electric Railroad, near Gary, Ind. The Moore brothers Identified the body by a finger ring. Oxford Honors 5f a Calif ornian CAMBRIDGE.1 June 23. The delegates to the Cententary of the! birth of Charles Robert Darwin, the observance of which began last night, today presented their addresses- to the Chancellor of the University, Lord RainlelgK Subsequently a number of degrees were conferred by Oxford. Among the recipients were Oliver W.

Holmes, associate justice of the Supreme Court of- the United States, Earl Gray, General of Canada and George Ellery Hale1 of Cali fornia, who was given the degree of Doctor of Science. A. Ll Zelig Dies Of Heart Disease LOS ANGELES, June A. L. Sellg, assistant to the president of the! Edison Electric Company, and one of the best known men in the electric business in the west, died at his home In tihls city suddenly last night of fatty degeneration of the heart.

Sellg waa to have 'gone to San Francisco next Monday to have become assistant general manager of the Western Power Company. He leavea a wife and two children. Two Monkeys Cause Riot and Shooting CHICAGO, June 23. The escape! of two large monkeys from a theater at East Chicago, yesterday caused a panic in that city and resulted in promiscuous shooting by citizens. One of the animals was killed by merchant after hugging a small girl.

The animals are said to have been released by an employe from their cage in the theater and to have leaped, five-foot Tourists Drown In Killarney KILLARNET, Ireland, June 23. A boat containing nine tourists, presumably Americans, ana lour boatmen, I was swamped-today on lower Killarney Lake. Ail of the tourists and two of the boat men were drowned. American Poloists Best English Team LONDON, June 23. The Meadow Brook (L.

polo team won the first match played at Hurllngham today for i the American polo cup, scoring nine goals to five for the lEnglish team. At half tim the score stood 5 for the Meadow; Brooks to tor toe ingiisn teaa HRflQQ iisnrv IQllMPRiqnwrn ill Accident1 Occurs in Coal Mine of in Penn-1 sylvania GO' INSANE AT MOUTH OF SHAFT Few of Miners Are Now Being Rescued by Their Comrades UM. Tune As a resiilt of an exrjlosion in Mine No. 4 of Lackawanna coai, and Coke'J Company here today, thred miners are known to be dead six injured, twenty-five Seriously, while it is feared that sixtyl-five men, believjed to sjill injjthe mine, may burled The mirie is burning fiercely at several places and deadly black damp is pouring from the mouth, cff ectuallyi; preventing systematic rescue wojrk. Iarge quantities of oxygen an? oxygon tanks have been requested from the Cambrian Steel Company of Johnstown, Jand thij United States government mining and it-stlng station at Pittsburg.

Just whati caused the explosion Us not knowjn, but (t probably resulted fijom an accuniilatiorj; of gas. The scene3 about the mine tils afternoon are pathetic. Relatives friends of the victims are hysterically ji weeping and retarding greatly the jyork of rescue. Calls for jHelp Thj ernen that following the explosion seemed to be a flash and then all wajs darkness. Calls for help and: groans heard by them as they made their 'Way to the entranoei stag- frtng over 'the bodies of comrades who ad! fallen 4vith.

the first shock. Superintendent W. N. Johnson, of the mine, said later: "The explosion', from fome unknown cause, seems tp have been worse i' in a portion of the mine that i we recently opened up. We 'don't y-t know extent of the accident, but we think the death list will be a long one and the list of thoso Injured (mueh largeiji" Crying Alt soon a It was known that an accident had occurred the greatest excitement prevajjed both at the mine and In the little hamlet a short distance away.

Relatives rushed to the mouth of the A number of foreign screaming and crying, tried to rush Into; the shaft. The compiiry officials Immediately engaged the services of all the men' they could find ai'd the work of restraining the 'hysterical relatives was undertaken. rnfcantimc calls for help were nuickly throughout the surrounding country anil the task) of reaching the unfortunate pen in the mine was pushed forward, i' ESTIMATES FAR of Running City With Income Fixed at $2,000,000 Wiille all jpf the estimates of the various departments of the city government for the ensuing year are not yet in the hands of City Auditor Gross, the present indications are that there will be a slash of somewherb between $600,000 and The requests of the departments will be considerably in excess of while the total income wil be in the neighborhood of $1,500,000. Among the estimates which have never heretofore figured in the budget are those of the Party Commission, the city, museum and the Playground Commission. In round numbers the Park Commission the Playground Commission wants $38,700, and the City Museum de- 677.80, making approximately $246,000 whir has never Deen figured before.

City Auditor Gross will be compelled to cut the expenses of the other departments to make up this amount. The Free Public library asks that be set 'aside for its use. The fire -'(department estimate is not In. but will be in the neighbornood of Other departmental estimates ays. Overcpme by Heat, Dies During 'Hike' HATWARI, June by the heat while tramping the hills near Morocco valffy.

twelve miles from Hay-ward, John a San Francisco blacksmith, died beneath the burning rays sf the sun yesterday. His body was foujnd by a hunter, who stumbled upon the remains in a hayfleld. The body as taken to the. morgue, where an Inqiiest will be held. Dickson wah 50 years of age, and leaves a widow.

Hi had been spending his vacation with James Rlcard, a farmer of Morocco vallev. nMfr whose place he ABOVE RECEPTS UlinUU irlLLLI lull 1(11 IIIUUIILU IT Declared to Have Been Frequenter of Citiens' Alliance Headquarters ACCUSED DELEGATE DENIES ALL CHARGES Vote Expelling Representative of Stationary Engineers Kept Secret By a two-thirds majority vote, the Building Trades Council last night expelled from membership! in that organization C. W. Poole, the delegate to the council from'" the Stationary Engineers' Union of this city. The council gave Poole a trial on the charge of having been vis iting the Citizens' Alliance Free Labor Bureau on Broadway, near Fifth street, which was, in effect, that the accused was associating with the enemies of union labor and, indirectly at least, giving encouragement to the movement hostile to the unions.

Delegate and. Chairman The severity of this punishment is con sidered by members of the Building Trades Council to be merited for the reason that Poole, 'while a delegate from the Stationary Engineers' Union to the. Building-Trades Council, was. at the samo time chairman of the executive board of that organization. Poole's actions, which have been com plained of, have been a matter of discus sion before the Building Trades Council for several weeks past, and last night the matter was brought to a head by bringing him before the council on trial on the charge, i The trial lasted from 9 o'clock in th evening until 12:30 this morning.

There were about seventy-flvedelegates to the council present and at the close of the testimony a vote on the of the accused was taken, with th pi specified. In the trial Poole was nnnnnt three members of the Stationary Engin-ers' Union. His defense was a general denial of the charge. A. Johansen, organizer of the State-Building Trades Council, appeared in tho role of prosecutor.

Poole introduced the purpose of trying- to nroVe nhi and others for the purpose of endeavoring to show that they had been asked to visit the free labor agency of the Cltl-' zens Alliance in order to get information as regards the working of that organization. were eight or ten witnesses for the prosecution who testified to having seen the accused act in a manner which 1 was not in consonance with the ideas of the Building Trades Council in the matter of dealing with the enemies of that organization. Prest when the testimony was gven and retired from tha W8 "ced! ne oauot, which ulsposed of th Pn know- how any other deleeata wdftIfLe" the -suit baflo, First Trial of Kind Old members of the Building Trades vuuhcu mai mis is the rat time that a trial on such a charge as the one specified has been held by theBuilding' Trades Council. An attempt was made today to find Poole to ascertain whatvhe had to say regarding the mannerin which he had been dropped by the Building Trades Council but he could not be found The action of the council last night may not be final forthe reason that that organization lax a subordinate body of the State Building Trades Council and the latter isin turn, a subordinate organizationof the American Federation of Labor and to each organization Poole, lfhe so desires, may appeal for a rehearing or a review of the case. At last accounts no appeal had' been taken.

The executive committee of the Slate Building Trades Council will hold a regular meeting some time this month, MOTHER, 6 JUU Sadie McCarthy Says Hus-ban Forbade Her to Visit Relatives Sadie McCarthy is seeking a divore from Michael F. McCarthy, and complains, among other things, that her husband compelled her to isolate herself from her mother and other 'relatives among total strangers and forbade her to have anything whatever to do with them. She also says that McCarthy was always telling her that he was sorry he ever married ne had never loved her, and did not know why he had been such a fool as.A0 mr Mrs. McCarthy states that finally McCarthy treated her so cruelly that she could not endure and tolerate life with him any' longer and separated from him and returned to her mother' house, fearing that he would do hei great bodily harm In one of his fro auent fits of rasa- KEPT HER FROM Fugitives and Pursuers Nearly Die! of Thirst on Arizona Desert HIDE IN BOX CAR AND ARE CAPTURED Japanese, Illegally in United States, Suffer Terrible Tortures in Arid Region! LOS ANGELES, June 23. Tracked by immigration officials for two weeks across the desolate' sands of the Arizona desert, suffering Intolerable tortures from the torrid heat, thirst and hunger, being finally compelled to kill one of their pack burros, drink its blood and use' the flesh for food, two charged with being Illegally in the United States from Mexico, were driven to bay Monday In a box car a short distance eaat of Needles, captured and taken to jail.

They will be brought to Los Angeles for trial. The two men are supposed to have crossed the International line near Yuma with two well laden pack animals. The. immigration officials, were notified when one of the burros of the 'Japanese wandered into Avalon, with a bucket of blood and pieces of flesh, cut from the other burro, tied to the saddle. After, a hunt of a fortnight, in which several of the pursuers nearly lost their lives on th desert, the fugitives were finally run down and captured.

.1 SQUIRRELS FOUND TO BE DISEASED Health Board to Stop Ship- ments of Rodents Into This City Mayor Mott has received the following letter from Dr. Rupert Blue of the United! States Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, with offices at 401 FilN more str'eet, San Francisco: I learn with regret that hunters aW in the habit of shooting ground squirrels In Contra Costa County on Sundays and holidays and transporting them by means qf buggies and automobiles into the City of Oakland. This practice constitutes a grave menace to the health cf the people of your city. There is now a widespread epizootic of plague eKlstlng among the ground squirrels of Contra Costa county, and there Is abundant evidence to show that Infection Is rapidly spreading through contiguous territory. Plague squirrels have been found as follows: June 4, 1909 1 squirrel near Lafaystte.

June 12, 1909 2 squirrels at Stewarts- vllle. June 17, 1909 5, squirrels at West Hartley and 3 squirrels on the Mt. Diablo Tract. June 18, 1909 1 squirrel at Stewarts- I would respectfully suggest that the pcllce power of Oakland be Invoked, and that the Importation of ground squirrels and other rodents Into and through the City of Oakland be prohibited without delay. Respectfully, RUPERT BLUE, Surgeon, Commanding.

TO STO PEVIL. In response to the above letter Mayor Mott says: "In reference to the letter from Dr. Blue, the attention of the public Is called to the great danger of infection from plague squirrels and the Board of Health has been directed to seize and destroy all squirrels found In the possession of any person in this or offered for sale in any market, and the Police Department has received instructions to co-operate with the Health Department "At the next meeting of the fpouncil an ordinance prohibiting the Importation of squirrels Into OaklaVd, similar to the ordinance now in force in San Francisco, will be ORDERED TO APPEAR BEFORE HIGHER COURT Edward Lane, charged with receiving stolen goods, was ordered to appear before the-Superior Court by Judge Qulnn yesterday. Lane was arrested on the confession of Earl and Merle Muffley and Wallace Porterfield, who were "taken into custody for stealing electric fixtures from a firm in Frultvale. They claim that Lane put them up to do the work oh the promise of purchasing the goods.

A great many of the alleged stolen goods were discovered In Lane's house ltt Frultvale: LAST PERFORMANCE BY, MISS ETHEL BARRYM0RE Miss Ethel Barrymore will conclude her engagement at the Macdonough Theater this evening. She is very attractive in her play "Lady Frederick." Her engagement In Oakland has been a success for the theater has been crowded at each i performance. The advance sale of seats has been very large for the last perform- ance, wtuca wut ue given uus evening, A housewarmlng as summed 'up in a choice program of "take and bon mots with musical accompaniment, will add to the joy of reopening the fclub rooms -of the local lodge, of, wlthOO or more of the antlered herd In attendance, next Saturday night. For three long weary months the rooms have been in the hands of the decorator and cabinet maker and candlestick maker, and now they are all spick and span and shining once again, and the local' brethren have issued invitations to those of the Grand Lodge and while they DAYS IN STORM CELLAR i SHAKEN BY TEMBLOR Marysville, Chico and Colfax Aiso Sway Under the Earthquake RENO EXPERIENCES 1 A HEAVY SHOCK People Rush From Homes in a Panic When Houses Rock at Night GRASS VALLEY, Call, June 23. An earthquake, the most severe shock experienced here in several years occurred at 11:23 o'clock last night and almost caused a panic here and in Nevada City.

Many people rushed into the street but no damage has been reported. A second and lighter shock came at 11:49. Reports-' from Marysville, Chlco and Colfax-say that those towiis were also shaken. RENO, June 23. An earthquake shock was felt here at 11:26 last night.

While it was one of the heaviest experienced here, no damage was done. This section of the country has heretofore been considered as being out of the earthquake zone and in late years at least no serious earthquake has been recorded. 1 PUBLIC RAISE PROTEST AGAINST BRITISH BUDGET 1 LONDON, June 23. Supporting the letter, protesting against the provisions of the budget, signed by nearly forty London bankers and merchants and sent to Premier Asquith May 14, -there was a reat meeting tne city this forenoon, at which it wastesolved that the main proposals ofthe budget tend to weaken, securltyin all speculative property, discourage enterprise and thrift, and -would prove injurious to the commerced and industry of the country. The gathering, which num bered nearly 1000 persons, was thor- joughly representative of all phases of Q.ly lila.

are local guests they are to be feted and lavishly entertained. The work has been done under the di rection of the house committee, of which E. H. Benjamin is chairman. The house warming will be attended by all the members of Oakland lodge and by visit ors from the Berkeley and Alameda lodges.

An extensive musicaU program is in preparation for the occasion, which will be furnished entirely by talent from the different lodges. Last night the drill team gave its final exhibition before leaving for the con vention at Los Angeles. The men wore their handsome new white uniforms for the first time, and a number of difficult evolutions were per formed undefthe direction of Colonel J. K. Ritter, who has had the team in charge for many months.

Although the team has drilled several times In many of the figures have been kept secret in ordef to prove a surprise whenthe corps competes for the trophy in Los Angeles. The exact personnel of the team will not be decided for veral days, Out of the number at present drilling only thirty will be seleefed for the final contest. This will include twenty-four men, three offlcers'and three reserves. Following tho evolutlons last night the men were addressed by Grand Supreme Knight Harry A. Melvln.

The lodge- officers were present and the ladies were guests of the lodge. The evening closed yVf-ttn a dance. BACK AT BUSINESS AFTER ILLKESS Mr. H. Morton, the Broadway Jeweler, after a forced absence from his business for the past five or six weeks, due to illness, Is once again attending to his duties, having recovered to the extent that be is able to be about his store, Women Who Are Envied.

Those attractive women who aro lovely In face, form ana temper are tne envy irritable. Constipation or Kidney poisons show in pimples, blotches, skin erup- tlons and a wretched complexion. For all such. Electric Bitters work wonders, wwt i t. i iru neys, purity the blood; give strong brignt eyes, pure Dream, smootn, velvety skin.

lovely complexion. Many charming women owe their health and to truun. boa at uacooa lsros. Wrecked House Falls on Underground Room and Buries FamUy NEARLY DEAD WHEN FINALLY RESCUED Husband, Wife and Daughter Live on Raw Potatoes For a Week GALVESTON, Texas, June 23. In removing a cyclone wrecked house on the farm qf Charles Dilson, In Brown county, the wreckers discovered a storm cellar, in which were Dilson and his wife and 13-year-old daughter, more dead than alive.

For two weeks they had been prison ers in the cellar, with barely a morsel to eat for a week and nothing to drink for two days. Raw potatoes had been their subsistence for six days. They will all live. Buried by House After the storm which wrecked thefi; homes the three Dilsons were missed, and searchers believed they had deserted theil" place and moved away. The house had been blown over and covered the stjofm cellar, which was about twentyyards from the house, and searchers knew nothing of the storm cellar.

The prisoners tried to dig their way-to the surface with their' hands and succeeded only' In cutting a tunnel which afforded them air. GA ESAND DANCING AT ANNUAL SCOTCH OUTING The twenty-eighth grand annual gathering of the San Francisco Scottish Thls- tiv s. names of ehnnre nn athletics will fill in the daylight hours and in the evening thera Is to be dancing in the big pavipion which will be decorated for the occiasion with the flowers and emblems of tho order. David Glrwood, royal chief of the Grand Lodge, will preside as master of ceremonies and he will be assisted by A. IX McDougald, recorder.

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