Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 1

Ml BANKERS' AGGOCtated Service VOL. LXX. OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA. FRIDAY EVENING.

SEPTEMBER 4, 1908. 22 PAGES No. 14. 1 I i AM POLICE THK DOMOHUE 111011 HIS Iff! BUILD- THE MEW HOTELMi HR MD BUILD IT MOW WW TO Loss of $750,000 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4.

Word reached here that the town of Rawhide, Nev. is burning. The Western Union telegraph office has burned-and wire communication is interrupted. Rawhide is a mining town of 2500 inhabitants in the Southern part of the state. The loss will approximate $750,000.

Three thousand people were made homeless and are without food. There is much suffering. Telegraphic communication with Rawhide was restored shortly before 1 o'clock rkfMt ould Be a Public Mayor Mott Says That manner. I he revenge would be the slaying, and that accom 3,000 flflE Misfortune for the Protect to Fail Captain Petersen Has firm plished, the murderer would consider his work finished. Thinks Berry Innocent "I think that Berry will put in an appearance as soon as he hears of his being accused of the crime.

If he does it will prove to a moral certainty to me that he is innocent. If he does not appear, then it will seem as if he might have had something to do with it If Berry. can prove an alibi, can he Rapid Growth of the City Is Making a First-Gas's Hotel a Greater Necessity Than Ever Himself Committed the Horrifying Crime. Captain of Detectives Petersen Fire Started in a Big stated this morning that it was By FRANK K. MOTT, Mayor of Oakland his firm, conviction that Daniel Donohue, who took his life yes terday'with the evident intention of escaping, the otdeal he was to be put under by the coroner's jury, The, new Hotel should be built by all means.

The city needs it. The people expect it. In my opinion it would J)sa -public misfortune to allow this magnificent project to miscarry after such an auspicuous begin show that he was in the coal fields when the tragedy took place, nothing is more reasonable than that he should come out and prove it. Said She Was Wife "Donohue told me that he had been married to the woman for nine years. It has been proved that this was not the case.

He also knew of the relations be Drug Store. There Arc No Facilities to fight -fire, and a Great Area ls- Already in Ruins. RAWHIDE, Sept. 4. Three thousand people are homeless, a score or more injured, and a property loss of $730,000, is the result of a disastrous fire Vvhich was the slayer of Tvlrs.

Alice Donohue. Petersen bases his theory upon the fact that the woman was carefully buried after she was killed. He holds that. the only otive Joseph Berry, the man accused by Donohue, could ning. tWe cannot afford' such a miscarriage.

There was a substantial reason for temporarily -suspending operations after the sharp financial depres sion which set in last October, but that reason no longer holds good. Business is reviving and money is growing tween Berry and his wife and yet he kept it a secret from me. He knew that Berry had married her, (Continued On Fage 2.) have for the killing would be one of revenge, and he says there is no case on record where murder was done in revenge and the body laterdisposed of in a systematic more plentiful. The city is growing bv leaps and bounds and all the region surrounding and tributar to started at y.JU clock tnis morn-ing in Dr. Garner's office located in the Rawhide Drug Company's, building.

The fire spread quickly to the Ross Hotel, from whence its Oakland is undergoing an extraordinary development. GEN! OTIS TO UNDERGO A SERIOUS OPERA TION sw eep was uninterrupted south Until 'we have such a hotel Oakland cannot call herself a city in the full sense of the word. We have a number of but 'they 'are small and none of them is equipped with facilities demanded by the tourist travel and the wealthy leisure class. We need a hotel first-class in all its appointments, one that will adorn the city, and -advertise it favorably abroad. My belief is ttat such-ian one would speedily become a paying investment, and prove a positive benefit to the hotels now in business.

It will bring travel and money to the city and put us on the itinerary of every tourist visiting the Pacific Coast. It will cause thousands who now pass through to stop become acquainted with our opportunities and advantages, and enjoy the beauties of our climate. 4 A good beginning was made when the hotel was projected. Let us not bring it to a lame and impotent conclusion after spending so much money and doing so much gong-beating There is no question about the future of Oakland. The destiny of the city is assured.

Let us not now that it is assured show a lack of faith. Timidity never yet led the march of progress and it is no time to turn back or halt by the wayside when we are in the midst of a forward movement that is swiftly planting a great city on 'the eastern shore of the bay. Build the hotel say and build it how. Brit I don't look for any backward movement in this matter. Our leading citizens are too strongly committed to the project to let it languish for want of prosecution.

and east to Balloon avenue and up' Rawhide avenue to within fifty, yards of the People's. Hospital. Dynamited Buildings Over a ton and a half of dyna- mite was used in the demolition of buildings, which in a measure stayed the flames' progress. The volunteer fire department worked first-class- modern hotel is more than ever a public necessity, K7e are developing a fine park system, the harbor is Being deepened and improved and extensive public and private improvements of our port facilities are projected for. the immediate future.

Our streets and rapid transit 'facilities are also being extended and improved under the stimulus of a general progressive movement. new overland railroad will soon add to our transportation facilities. A heavy influx of population and an extraordinary building activity, not onlv in the city, but in the adjacent towns and suburbs are factors to the general growth and prosperity of Oakland. We Have no hotel here of the class of the Alexandria and Van Nuys of Los Angeles, the Fairmont and St. Francis in San Francisco and the Portland in the metropolis of Oregon.

That is precisely what weneed. heroically, but on account of the inflammable construction of the buildings they-. were swept away' like tinder. At 11 o'clock the business por tion of Rawhide was a smoulder- ing mass of ruins, the flames being finally checked south of Balloon avenue. Famine Threatens iimi 1 1 ii ii in ii A famine threatens now, as all the grocery and supply houses were destroyed.

A subscription list has been $5000 already started and over GIRL TIE! FOR TWO THEFTS IS ft MCI WRECKED WANTED Mill II HARBOR I I 0 GEX. HARRISON G. OTIS, Who Will Undergo Operation. No apprehension is felt regarding the re suit of the operation, which, while seri' 0U8, is not considered a critical one. BYQRE has been subscribed, and by, nightfall it is expected $30,000 will be in the hands of the committee.

The relief committee is headed by E. W. King. The newspapers, Press, Times-and Rustler, were saved, although, the machinery of the News plant was destroyed. Perfect order prevails.

A special train' left Reno to IMPORTANT AUCTION. BALTIMORE, 'Sept. 4. Gen. Harrison Grey publisher of the Los Angeles Times.

Is at the Hopkins Hospital "here for the purpose of undergoing, a surgical operation, which, it was said- at th hospital today, probably would np't. be performed until tomorrow. HAS BEEN LOS "ANGELES, Sept. 4. Gen.

Otis, who is in a Baltimore hospital, has been ill at his home in this city for some time. His condition, failing to improve during TOKIO, Sept 4, Dispatches from the Saturday, September 5, 11 a. at the Town of SAN PABLO, opposite Belden Store take county ltnf electric car to place of auction), on account of the departure for Europe of VTm. Mintzer, The scow schooner Piute of Oakland turned turtle in a stiff blow on the tay late Wednesday night and its captain and BOSTON, Sept. 4.

Isador Golden, under arrest in San Francisco, is wanted by the Boston police in connection With the dynamiting of the safe of Fleischman Brothers, liquor dealers on Green street, in the "West End section 6f the city on jeity of Niigata, iii the Yehigo Province, miles northwest of this city, tell of 1a fire which occurred there yesterday in which 4000 houses were destroyed by tVlA 1 TT .1 A 1 president of the Bank of Ricnmond. we will sell 3 heavy farm horses, weighing about 1600 pounds, 2 large carriage hors uoiucb. rcauui eccues ui ucauia- (Continued Qn Page 2.) es, about 16 hands high, 1 baydrivlng mare, 2 well trained saddle horses, 1 two-year-old colt, 1 double O'Brien phaeton, (Special, to The Tribune.) SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4. Anna Brown, a comely young woman, 25 years old, was arrested 'last night by Detectives Gallagher and Moltke on a charge of robbing George Lodus, proprietor of a restaurant at S206 Mission street of $65 in cash.

The woman was caught after attempting to rob 4orin Marshal, proprietor of the hardware store at 1959 Mission street, a little later in the evening. According to Lodus' story the woman entered the restaurant about 8:30 p. m. i "wo nuuenng are reporiea as a re- isult or the and the government i js rendering every possible assistance vrT to the Inhabitants of the stricken city. Christmas Day of last year when more than $1300 was taken from the safe.

In connection with the same case and suspect, Samuel Gordon is held by the po-licelice of Denver. Papers have been issued for Gordon's extradition. rubber tire; 1 surrey, rubber tire; 1 sin Harriman Buw' gle phaeton, rubber runabout. 1 heavy farm wagons 1 express wagon Niigata is a city of over 50,000 inhabit- crew of two men had a narrow escap from death. The schooner was with eighty cords of cord wood, 'Valued at $600.

The entire cargo was lost and most of tae wood floated onto-Angel Island. The schooner was proceeding along between Key Rout mole and Southampton shoal light house when a heavy squall came up and the yessel careened over. Captain Small wa at the wheel and was throwa overboard. The tug Ptrate of this city was tlie vicinity at the time and went to' the schooner's aid. Captain Smallwas picked up.

His two men took to small boat and reached share la safety- A coast of the Island of Hondo. Its port is somewhat defective, but the city has Also 10 head milch cows, consisting of Jerseys, Holsteins and Durhams, some milking 7 gallons a day; 3 heifers, 1 set of brass-mounted double harness, 1 set nickle-mounted harness; 2 sets single harness and saddles, 4 set single harness tae past few an operation was decided upon. It was thought best to have the operation performed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital by an eminent specialist there who has had marked success the particular kind of operation which General Otis is compelled to undergo. He Los Angeles for Baltimore and a telegram received from' him yesterday- stated that he Ciad arrived without having sustained any ijnurioQs effects from the trip. General Otis years of age, "buk is exceedingly vigorous for his jyears.

fa good trade inland and the virinity of and while his back was turned pro until some time after. About a half hour later she was caught in the act of endeavoring to pur- JOHNSTOWN, ceeded to a back room and rifled the pockets of his ooat, which was, hanging ported that HarrlmaJ After chatting a moment; loin some goods from the hardware store over a hook. a numoer or peiroieum wens to it. lends additional importance. The government maintained a factory for small arms at Niigata, besides a prison, hospital and nearly now; also lot of fanning imple ments, tools, 'narrows, also lot kitch en furniture, etc.

MEYSEL MEYSEL. Auctioneer. WM. LINDAY. Agent.

with the propfMc she then loft the! and after the 'detectives were summoned closed a contract will Company for BOO steel place and the theft was not discovered I she was arrested. 4.