Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 1

NEWS SECTION LAST EDITION VOL. LXXI. WEATHER; Sudmo OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15, 1909. 13 TO 18 40 PAGES. NO.

176 i I II IWM- II I I I mnmm i i If nm nn riimHHnn 7 "nniMi mm Story otVThri 1 1 i ng Told by Two Race With Death Balloonists My! Is Mrs. Spotswood fliss Bogue's Heroine? BOY OSBORNE CISE TO BE BALLOONISTS FACE DEATH Py CAPT. P. A. i AM very sorry that our much anticipated Vt'e had intended to make many trip had such an unlavorablc ending.

valuable observations andfnotes of atmospheric conditions, and but for a careless act of one of our many enthusiastic and excited friends, whereby we were cut 'loose before having sufffeicnt ballast, we might have successfully completed our undertaking, as far as the scientific part is concerned. The act was riot of malicious intent, but was a misunderstanding. "When we were trying the balloon I called to the men below to haul us down for more ballast. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that, we were loose and soaring upward. However, we could do nothing, so' we prepared our thermometers and compasses.

i "Passing northeast, then to the eastward, I dared throw out but a email portion of our oallast, with the result that the hills were barely passed over without striking. "I must say that the conditions and the day were an Ideal combination for art ascension. The day was calm, the atmosphere clear and the temperature normal. "As we passed over Oakland and its suburbs the picture was beautiful In every respect. Far off I saw a column of smoke rising straight and high, and I said to Vander Naillen: 'Van, 1 It couldn't be better; scend a little "A slight breeze eastward, varying at general direction.

Capt. P. A. i Van Tassel. Temperature "I told my companion to mark the height and temperature.

The heighjt was figured at 3000 feet, showing a temperature of 64 degrees Farenheit. Striking a humid portion, we rose to 5000 feet, which was the greatest height attained. The country for miles and the encompassing ocean appeared to wonderful advantage from this height. "I had taken with us two carrier fjlgeons. At 1 o'clock sharp I decided to let one go, vander Naillen first writing the following message: "Who cut us loose without command? Not enough ballast.

Offering for a sack of sand; no takers. Balloon heliavlng splendidly; 1 p. m. drifting toward Mt. Diablo.

All is well. WANDER "I watched the bird speed back until wnetner it would reach the point of departure. Everything was as we would want It. below, including several of Oakland. ,1 think or an hour more we enjoyed the trip.

I the Livermore valley. I had just looked at my watch and noticed the time was Ave minutes after 2 o'clock, when a gentle eddying and a trembling of the cage told us of wind. We had just crossed a high hlS, aown me vauey caugnt us in Its powerful us aown to the ground, where we struck stunned us both. The noise of the wind shrouds. Dragged Over Ground When we the balloon heeled Dumping cage, ifurrowing it.

through the ropes tne bottom of the cage, putting we. crossed a small creek and struck the horizontal, the lower etlge struck first, completely overturning us for a second. Here we lost the camera and instruments "The ropes were our salvation, for if been thrown out again and again, and probably been killed. "We now began to rise gently, for a short distance, when we were again caught by the wind and dragged over fields, crashing through barb wire fences and cutting i 4 into the ground like a plow. 'I cannot remember how many times the ground with a terrific blow.

The cage the dragging, while the solid oak ring, from tirely demolished. (- we VAN TASSEL see how still that smoke Is? Let us de then caught us and blew us still to the times a point or two, but still holding the 64 Degrees it disappeared from view, and took several photographs of the country we took about half a dozen altogether. The unexpected happened as we neared skirted over it, when a terrific gale coming grasp and hurled and tossed and dragged with a terrible crasl(, which temporarily was great, shrieking through the balloon over, and, acting as a' sail, dragged the ground down the hill. We clung to the forth all our strength to keep position. As opposite bank, the basket being practically they had not been there we would have arose and descended, each time striking was.

smashed and worn clear through from which the cage was suspended, was en Page 15.) EVELYN THAW.TD FIGHT HUSBAND FOR HEY Bankrupt and Lunatic Need Not Pay Her a Cent," Declares Lawyer NEW YORK, Aug. 14. Evelyn Nes- blt Thaw stated today that there was no truth in the story that she was go ing to Keno, to establish a di vorce residence. She declared, how ever, that she Intended to go to the courts in order to sePure adequate sup port from her husband, Harry K. Thaw.

Mr. Morschauser today stated that there was no disDOsition not to nay Mrs. Thaw the additional $200 so far as he was concerned, but that he could not send her this check until he had received orders to do so. "In view her life since Thaw has ben in the insane asylum, people admit that he has treated htr kindly." He sent her $500 a month until the present month. She will also receive this in due time, but not today.

"Should Mr. Thaw decide to cut her off without a penny she has absolutely no redress. She cannot get anything by suit because he is a bankrupt and if she sued for divorce, she could get nothing, as he is a lunatic in the eyes of the law. "She was In a great rush to do him injury and to play into the hands of Jerome and the alienists and everyone who was against her husband. Now because he is two weeks behind in sending her a check for $200, she begins to whine." we finally landed in a field about seven miles north of Pleasanton the balloon about collapsed, and we were both bleeding in many places and so weak that, we could barely stand on our feet.

Hobble Painfully Back 'S Body of Ill-Fated Berkeley Lad Is Recovered in Yo-- semite" Valley FIVE CAMP CURRY BOYS SUCCEED IN DARING HUNT Remains Are Shockingly Muti- fated by Awful Plunge Over Steep Precipice TOSEMITH. Auk. It Horace It. Ix- y-on's hoy was found this afternoon 1000 Ifeet below, on the dangerous plivce the )dgt trail from Glacier I'olnt to Camp Curry, where the slippery-rill of water Jeaves the ledge and slides out over the llppery granito In a series of "staircase Stalls." Will Divide Reward Firmly of AM opinion that'the Berkeley lad would be found somewhere near where (TiI hat was last Monday, a Wnd of five boys from Camp Curry Jte.pt up the hunt and their perseverance mnd pluck were awarded lat this afternoon. Incidentally they will divide the 11000 reward which was1 offered for the IrilFcovery of thw lost boy by N.

Rose-Strnnz, secretary of the Crocker estate rid uncle of the lad. Kept Doggedly at Search Although Major W. W. Forsythe, netlng nupertntendent of Yosemlte National Park, felt that to hunt for Logan over the. sheer granite' preelplre below Glacier I'olnt was nn undertaking too hazardous lor his jcavnlrynv-nv even though they volunterri-d.

for the task, the Camp Curry laj's jcntertnlned no such fears and ever since the military authorities abandoned the senrvh they have kept doggedly at the hunt. They explored a dge 400 feet below the where Logan's hat was found and latHr they went still lower, letting themselves down by long ropes and creeping! over, the cliff In places where It sernnjd Impossible for a human being to obtain and keep foothold. Scale Wall of Cliff, In neither of the two main ledges was finy further trace of the lost lad found jand they were beginning to be discouraged when they decided to make a final search In the lowest ledge of all. Using their ropes, they let themselves down the wall of. cliff fully 1000 feet below the trail, nnd tho odor from the decomposed (body- soon satisfied them that they were Vt last at the right place.

ody Horribly Mangled Tho remains of the unfortunate lad Nrero found In a shocking condition. Every bono- had been broken in the tr-jrlble fall over, the precipice, and the eruel rocks had torn the clothing from the body until It hung In long ribbons. JDenfh was evidently Instantaneous. BORN LUCKY, OMAHA, Aiiff. lucky as well hm rich is tho way V.

1. SUUmnn fleiin-s It lie a young man who wears a luo Jumper and overalls six tluys week In the Union Pad Ac hhops at Oniolui learning railroading and Is a nephew of James 1. Stlllman, Mild to lo worth $50,000,000. Ho 1ms a million of tils own and his father Is reputed to he worth ten times this sum. Threo weeks ago young Stlllman took his vacation, going west.

Iat Society Folk Refuse To Pay Dog Tax Dogs are the isue in Burliname. The fown trustees 'Iro waging war on aristocracy, who have issued an ultimatum declining to pay the doif license of 2. J'ound muster Jones bus failed to collect a plnglo dollar from the society folk. Among thoHe who have not paid the annual tax Miss Jennln Crocker. Miss Frances Howard.

Mrs. Eugene Coleman, Henry T. -Scott. Laureuco Scott, Mont ford Wilson, (Jenrge I'ope, Joseph 1). Grunt.

Mrs. Francis Carolan and George Nc-whall. Waits Trial a Year; Gets 5 -Hour Sentence CHEYENNE, Aug. 14. Sam Fiulth, facing a score of burglary charges, who was shot twice In a desperate attempt to escape' arrest, was sentenced today to five hours In the penitentiary and to pay.

a fine of $500. Smith hats passed th lajt year In a hospital and Jail awaiting trial. Ills sentence Is the hot-test ever Imposed In Wyoming. Fire Burns Storage Plant at Rhyolite RIIVOLITE. Au.

H. Fire early today destroyed the Dan News Ice- Cold WE LOGAN Orloff, a rancher, first saw our attempted to assist us by trying to make fast the-anchor, but he was unsuccessful. He arrived at the scene and greatly assisted us In getting straightened out. "I looked back over the path we had traveled and followed it plainly a great, RETRIED Naval Constructor Evans Secures Ordsr for a New Courtmartial DIVORCED WIFE TO GIVE HER TESTIMONY To Introduce Letters Young Lieutenant Is Said to Have Written Her VAL.LEJO, Aug. 1.

Fortified with the evidence of his divorced wife, Mrs. Maud Evans, and. many letters written by Lieutenant Osborne of the S. S. Cheyenne, Naval Constructor Holden A.

Evans, head of the manufacturing department at Mare Island, has obtained a reopening of the famous case, which attracted so much attention a few weeks ago and which resulted in a reprimand given Osborne for his conduct, Evans for making the matter public and which also resulted In the divorce of Evans and his pretty -ife. Osborne was haled before a special board of Inquiry last May to answer charges of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman ini his making love to Mrs. Evans In her home on Mare Island on Christmas Day, last year, while her husband was ill in bed. Evans caught the couple in their lovemaking and soon afterward divorced his wife. Osborne was tried by the navy board at the Mare Island Navy Yard, but escaped with a reprimand.

Is No Quitter Evans, who is known throughout the navy as a man who never quits when once he goes after a proposition, stands high with the Navy Department at Washington. Following the verdict of the board, which let Osborne down so easily, Evans, according to reports current here, appealed directly to President Taft at the National capital and had powerful and influential friends in Washington take the matter up with the chief executive. Lieutenant Osborne, known about the who left navy yards as "Boy" Osborne today for a visit to his father, a wealthy banker at Eugene, admitted to friends before -going away that he had received private advices from asnlng-ton that the case would be reopened. It is expected that the board which heard the case will be reconvened to hear the story of Evans herself, who is now very bitter aginst Osbome. Mrs.

Evans Avent on the vaudeville stage following her divorce, but for the past three months has been quietly living in this city and spending much of her time with the children at the Evans house- hnlil nn Marp Tlnnrl during'' thft flhspnpp of her husband at his office. Reconciliation Rumored t. Rumors of a reconciliation of the Evans have been freely circulated here, but have been strenuously denied by both husband and wife. Mrs. Evans declared tonight that if called upon she will go before the naval board and tell the whole story of her meeting with Osborne, of his love making, his alleged requests i that she become hSs wife, of his promise to sup port her for a year until the inoSSo'cutory decree of divorce which Evans obtained had been made absolute, of her; love-making in San Francisco, of her letters from the lieutenant while he was with his ship at San Diego, and of their visit together to Judge tiranam in san ran- cisco to talk over their case BUILDINGS FALL BEFORE QUAKE IN JAPAN TOKIO, Aug.

14. A severe earthquake was felt at 3:30 this afternoon in the district of Lake Biawa, Kioto and Osaka-Many buildings collapsed and several casualties hive been reported. All trains in the earthquake district have been stopped. A slight shock iwas also felt in Tokio. Nagoya, with a population of more than 250,000, one of the principal cities in Japan, 170 miles west of Tokio, was badly damaged.

Details are merger because of Interruption of telegraphic communication with the cities most affeeted. Twenty-one deaths and seventy persons injured have thus far been reported. One- lourth of'the Shiga prefecture sustained considerable damage. Mount Isuki at tire northern end of Lake Biawa, an extinct volcano, is reported to have collapsed near the top. Abruzzi May Yet Win Miss Elkins WASHINGTON, Aug.

14. That King Victor Emmanuel of Italy will befriend his cousin, the Duke of Abruzzi, aud help him to marry Miss Katherine. Elkins Jaughter of Senator Stephen B. Elkins of VAt Virginia, hv flnnnintW ambassador to the United States was told to a correspondent tonight by a man con-veisant with this romantic episode. This partly explains the reticeneeT of the Italian embassy as to the movements of the Duke and also accounts for the repeated visits of Italian warships to this country, as well as the recent appointment of an Italian military attache which office has been vacant at Washington for some years.

Public Administrator's Auction Sale of house aid lot belonging to the George D. Crocker estate. Sale Monday, Aug. 16th, at 12 at our salesrooms, 1007 Clay strret. near Eleventh.

Oakland. This property Is located on the east side of Chestnut street, 145 feet rtorth of Twelfth street, Oakland. See legal notice. GEO. GRAY, 1 Public Geo.

Reed and John DeLancy, Attorneys. I. Auctioneers, III I AD (Mlaad Aero Club Officers Trail at Ropes' Ends Across fields Cage Smashed by Contact With Trees and Rocks, but Balloonists Escape CLINGING with desperate to ropes which tnreateoed every moment to part and hurl them down to death, A. Vander Naillen and Captain P. A.

Van Tassel, the Oak-; land Aero Club balloonists, were dragged for more than 2000 feet over tha rugged surface of the Livermore valley yesterday' afternoon, while their unmanageable bal- -i loon skimmed along across hills and through trees and fences at the mercy of a perverse wind. Death lurked in every Jolt and bound of the giant gas bag, but the two men, I both past the prime of life, managed, through superhuman efforts, to retain their grip on. the ropes until the derelict 1 finally 6ank to earth in a field seven milea south of Pleasanton. Both men were so Druisea and evhausted that they were scarcely able to stand erect, and their hands and clothing were torn by the-straining ropes and by contact with barbed wire fences and thickets. Basket Demolished The great basket in which they rode was smashed Into shreds, and the solid oak ring from which the cage was suspended was Assisted by a rancheriwho had followed thfn in their perilous flight across tha fields, the two bleeding imen succeeded- in making fast the anchor! and loading the balloon, which was uninjured, upon a wagon.

Then, after, bandaging their wounds, they drove to Pleasanton and took the evening train back to Oakland, arriving here last night. Mishap Unexpected The mishap, which brought tho ascen sion to its disastrous termination, was en tirely unexpected. The balloon had been in the air for about three hours, and was nearing the entrance to Livermore valley, when a furious gale of wind, caught tha bag and swept it back and downward. The balloonists' efforts to escape from the violent air current wero entirely unavailing, and they finally gave, up the attempt and davoted all their attention to saving their own lives. 1 Successful Ascent i The big balloon, bearing in giant letters the legend "City of Oakland," soared up across the steeple of the First Presby- terftin church from the lot at the corner of Fourteenth and Franklin streets, shortly after 11 o'clock yesterday morning, while a crowd of several thousand people cheered its departure.

In its ascension the balloon floated perilously close to the church steeple and the crowd watched it breathlessly fearing that a collision would ensue. But the balloonists, by a judicious shifting of ballast veered away from the danger and made the trip into the heavens safely. The story of the trip by tho balloonists themselves follows: CHICAGO HAS, BRAN. NEW CHIEF OF POLICE CHICAGO. A-jct.

14. Lerov T. Steward is Chicago's new chief of police. Mayor IBusse made formal announcement late IBuse today of Colonel Steward as successor to George M. Shippy, resigned.

Colonel Steward will accept. He will resign his position, as superintendent of delivery at the Chicago postoffice at once. From 1879 to 1S93 he was an officer of the Illinois National Guard, serving five years as assistant inspector-general. He was born In Dr.yton, forty-nine years ago and 'came to Chicago in 1878. He is a close, friend of the mayor.

Fire Rages Aboard Cunarder Lucania LIVERPOOL, Aug. 14. The Cunarder Lucania lies at her dock here with a fire raging in her saloon. The saloon is seriously damaged and-what, the further losses will be cannot, be estimated, as the fire is still racing. ure of today was the number of horses that dropped on the streets, the first general prostration of tjorses that has occurred this year.

The present hot wave Is the most serious St. Louis has had for eight "years. Saturday, being a half holiday, reduced the number of prostrations, for there was little work done this afternoon. I MRS. DANDRIDGE SPOTWOOD, The Heroine of Miss Virgilia Rogue.

(Continued on GHENT" TO Court of Inquiry to Find Officer Unintentionally Shot Himself WASHINGTON, Aug. 14. The finding of the court of inquiry which has been investigating the death of Lieutenant James N. Sutton, will say that he shot himself accidentally and without suicidal intent, according to the report current at the Navy Department today. There la close official connection between Annapolis and Washington, and it is believed that the verdict of the com-t on the main points will be as follows: The court finds that the death of Lieutenant Sutton was caused by a wound from a pistol in the hands of Lieutenant Sutton.

"The court is of the opinion that the preponderance of evidence does not suicidal intent affirmatively The court has not completed its findings and probably will not do so until next week. I npUltahlP Fillriinfl IIIC'IWUIC riHUIMlJ A Navy Department official con menting upon thir. report says: "That the shot was fired by Sutton jhimself seems so well established that jacording to the rules of the court, such ia finding is inevitable. "The second finding is not a reflection upon the original board, for the reason that there was more' evidence before the court of inquiry than there was at the board of inquest. 'Tf the court in.

its further pronouncement next week makes recommendation as to the court-martial of non-com-missioned officers or commissioned officers for violation of- the marine corps regulations on the night of the tragedy, the department would usually follow the suggestions- of the court," i SliiSllSiE PASSIONATE NOVEL CAUSES SOCIETY .1 TO GOSSIP New York Beauty Compared to Woman in Portola Queen's Book OUT from the East comes a social thunderbolt, rapping along the highlights of speculation, suggestion and reminiscence, which has it that Mrs. Dandridge Spotswood. the noted New York beauty, direct descendent of the Puritans of the Mayflower, and none other, is the heroine of Virgilla Bogue's passionate novel, which is even now ready to come from the hands of the publishers. In the Portola queen's book, "The Strength to Yield," the physical charms Of Mrs. Spotswood are patterned so closely as not to be mistaken but that ends it; everybody is hastily assuring everybody else, supplemented by the confusing little "still, my dear, you would recognize the general description in a minute" which is flying back and forth at exclusive tables clear across the continent today.

Tempestuous Heroine, I In Miss Bogue's book the heroine is so tempestuous in her wild so wholly, unreserved in her amours. that even Mrs. Spotswood's most bitter enemies, she has anv. would hesitate before declaring tho itti- would be guilty of violating the dictums of Mother Grundy in such a flagrant manner. And, then, too.

evervhoriv known that- Dandridge Spotswood is, himself, a descendant of one of the oldest colonial families, and that his wife wears his name gracefully and with distinction truly It is most confusing and the very hopelessness of the suggestions and counter-suggestions which are rife lends a sort of sauce piquant, which is llkeiy to carry the discussion on Meanwhile Mrs. Spottswood, who traveling In Europe with her husband, has been observed pier and is frequent guest at the.ppera and at many of the notable entertainments abroad. ALSO RICH week In returning, he registered for a claim on the Flathead Indian reservation. Last night he received a telegram announcing that ho had drawn a claim and that his number Is under 2000, whieli will entitle him to a quarter section of land worth at least $8000. Asked if ho would farm and live on the land for five years, the length of time required, Stillman replied that his job in the shop pays him month and that he can hardly alTord to give it up with winter so close at hand.

M'FARLAND IS CHARGED WITH MURDER SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 14. The coroner's Jury at Martinez In tho case of Manuel Garcia, who was killed near Llv-crmore last Sunday, chaTged James Mc-Farland with tho crime. McFarland, arrested as a suspect in San Jose, is now in Jail at McFarland strenuously "denied that he had offered to confess to Sheriff Veale if the sheriff would assure him a life sentence instead of death on the scaffold.

After the inquest McFarland was taken to the Contra Costa county jail. England in Peri! From Germany; Says McClure CHAUTAUQUA. N. Aug. 14.

S. S. McClure of New York city, In an address today, said the British empire is In momentary danger of destruction at the hands of Germany, and ready merely for the asking to accept the dominance of the United States and see the empire's real seat of authority transferred to Washington. Mr. McClure called the parting, of.

the United States from England in 1776 a disastrous mistake and read' a statement from. Lord Rosebery.to. 4iat effect, Seven Hilled from Meat in ST. LOOS, Aug. 14.

Seven deaths and serious heat prostrations was the record of today In sizzling St. Louis. The maximum temperature was 95, two degrees less than yesterday. The fore-east Issued tonight loes not lse any relief from the present hot wave for at least two" days. A 'teat ftr Ktorngw plant, causln a lost cf.

aoout 10.000. lnturancof 5000 was carried, I A.