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VOLUME 23. LIVES OF SCORE OF SEAMEN CUT OFF BY CLIFFS Crew of Foundering Newfoundland Steamer Make Land, But Inaccessible Bluffs Compel Them to Turn Back to Doomed Lives Are Lost MATE AND FOUR MEN WIN WAY TO SAFETY When Morning Dawns Five Survivors on the Heights Overlooking the Ocean Can Find No Trace of 111 Fated Vessel Save Scattering Bits of the Deck Load ST. JOHNS. N. F.

Dec! of the 27 members of tlie crew of the Furness line steamer Florence, from Halifax. X. for St. John, lost their lives In the wreck of the vessel on west of St. Shotts during OTthweet pale last Friday.

Five pxhauated survivors, who reached land a bo.i*. brought the news to Trepassey tonight. The steamer carried no Cantata Barr of the steamer and all men reached after the vessel nek. but the lofty, inaccessible St. Shotta prevented their escape.

The big tide, hacked up by the northit eale. made It impossible to retp. and all hands were obliged to put back to the ship, which was pounding heavily. TAKKS CHAXCE Captain Barr felt confidpnt that the 6 touM so down, but Second Mate volunteered to take four men one of the ship's boats and seek a more favorable landing place further alone the coast. Tn the heavy seas then running (he captain was unwilling to risk more lives and grave his consent to second nee.

With great difficulty Hedley piloted his small boat along the coast until he raw a break in the rugged line of cliffs Pointing the nose of the boat directly into the surf, he avoided the ing rocks and on the crest of a great breaker ran his craft in without being: upset. Tumbling out hastily to nvoid being sucked back by the undertow, the mate and his four men dragged their boat up the beach out of reach the sea and made their way back the cliff to where the steamer ay. HfidKRS BREAK OVER SHIP wind and sea in the meantime had increased. The combers broke continually over the decks of the vessel, which was grinding heavily on the jagged rocks. Hedley and his men searched in vain for some path by which the cliff might be scaled or the crew of the Florence helped.

The coast that vicinity was uninhabited. The few fishermen's huts were deserted for the winter and Hedley had to take refuge for the night in one of these abandoned shacks. At daylight Saturday Hedley found that the wind had been steadily Increasing. Hurrying back to the point off which the Florence lay he could see no sign of the steamer. Considerable of its cargo of lumber was floating along the shore, but no small boats were visible.

VO TRACE OF SHIPMATES The five survivors made a thorough learch along the shore for their shipmates, but no trace of them was to be found. They then started for St. Shotts, the nearest Inhabited placp, several miles distant. Two of them were so exhausted from cold and exposure that they had to be assisted. These two were left at St.

Shotts to recuperate, while the others passed to Trepassey, whence they sent word of the disaster to this city. They are not expected to arrive before the middle of the week. The steamer Florence was of 1.609 tons burden and was built in England, in 1889. DIES ON RAILWAY TRACKS oiiian l'atient ut State Hospital Hurls Under Train Dec. '22.

L. Roscelil of San Francisco, who was comlnittrd to the state hospital here two nped from the receiving ward this morning made her way to Western Pacific tracks in the rear of the hOFpital and before the switching crew observed her presence hurled If under one of the trains. She Btantly killed. The body will be shipped to San Francisco tomorrow for burial. FIRE IN L.A.

CITY HALL Kntire HuildlnK Flooded Before Blaer KxflnSTilehed ANGELES. Dec. which started in the city hall this afternoon because of defective wires threatened troy the entire building. The blase was extinguished, but almost the entire building waa flooded. The treasoAce contained $6,500,000 in money and securities.

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL "The People's Newspaper' View of the disputed potash, soda and borax claims in the Searles lake district, Mojave desert, and several capitalists who are interested in the outcome of the bitter fight for possession of valuable mineral deposits. WIFE DARES GAS TO SAVE HUSBAND Santa Barbara Woman Drags Unconscious Form From Tunnel Then Collapses rSpeelal Tke SAXTA BARBARA. Dec. Dodeon, watchman of the north of the Santa Barbara tunnel late yesterday afternoon failed tn return from an inspection trip into the big mountain bore, his wife feared waa wrong and entered the cave fn search of her husband. After cropincr wny for a quarter of a mile she fell over Dodson's body, Tie was almost dead from gns fumes.

Mrs. Dodeon dragsred ncr husband to the mouth of tunnel, but. sirfferinsr from the ehe on reaching the portni. It was several minutes before Mrs. recovered.

She tlu-n about to arouse htiohand witi cold water. Sho was successful. Santa IJarbara's mfllion dollar wnter tunnfl. which has In of construction for more than eight years, was completed late yesterday, when the horcs that were started simultaneously from the north and south sides of the mountain met. The completion was heralded by blowing: whistles and the firing of cannon.

The tunnel is more than 20.000 feet long and will give the city a water supply from the Santa Ynez river. THUGS TRY JAIL BREAK Attempt of Auto Banditn Front rateil by Colorado Prison BUKNA VISTA, Dec. 22. Fourteen prisoners, led by Edward W. Brown.

Paul H. Jones and Joseph Cobb, three young men from Brooklyn, X. who were arrested after they began operations as automobile bandits in Denver, made a dash for liberty yesterday evening, hut were frustrated by guards. The plans wite discovered by a trusty, who informed the warden. When the prisoners were marching back to the cell house from the supper table, Cobb sprang to the window, from which bars had been sawed, and shouted: "Come on, boys." Rifles in the hands of the guards stopped him as he tried to jump from the window.

PROFESSOR IS POISONED Hypodermic Injection Fatal to Young; French Scholar; Friend Arrested PARIS, Dec. great sensation has been caused in academic circles here by the death from morphine poisoning of Rene Bichet. one of the most brilliant graduates from the higher normal college, recently appointed professor of French in the Royal college at Budapest. The police say that a college friend, who was a victim of the morphine habit, induced Bichet to try the effects of the drug, and gave him a hypodermic injection that proved fatal. The student has been arrested.

SHE WAS FROM MISSOURI And Her Unconventional Way of Being fauiei Trouble Mrs. Ethel Marks, aged 27 and a native of Missouri, who donned boy's clothes in order that she might be shown the gayeties of the Barbary coast, was bailed out yesterday mornins by her husband, a manufacturing? jeweler of Los Anereies. Marks brought some women's clothes and $25 bail money to the jail to get her release from a charge of masquerading in male attire. Mrs. Marks was with her brother at the time ot her arrest.

EVA GODFREY VANISHES l.nnkinc for Lust From Beulah Home OAKLAND, Dec. of the Beulah home and the police are looking for Miss Eva Godfrey, a comely girl of 16 years She was shopping la-t evening in company with a matron from the institution, when she vanished. R. E. Nunn, the superintendant, notified the police.

The girl is dark complexfoned, and weighs 120 pounds. When last seen she was neatly dressed in a plain blue serge suit and a large black hat. cHRISTMAS MAIL RUINED LONDON, Dec. suffragettes made an extensive raid tonight on the pillar letter boxes in London. They employed black and red fluids in an to obliterate (he addresses on the heavy Christmas ma.iL SAN FRANCISCO, MOXHAY, DECEMBEK 1912.

Hammer Burning An Epoch Similar Affairs to Be Eclipsed The Call's Christmas Eve Festival Sheer Splendor For sheer flittering magnificence anil solemn mockery The Call's outdoor Christinas eve festival, "The Burning of the Hammer of Knockery," at Lotta's fountain, which will begin at 6:45 o'clock tomorrow evening, will surpass any similar affair ever attempted in San Francisco. Music loving persons, however, will be inclined to consider the spectacular the least important part of the program, appreciating as they do all the wonderful vocal powers of Mme. Bcrnice de Pasquali, who is to sing as only Pasquali can sing, and the ability of Gottfried Galston, the Munich pianist, who is making his first American tour. It takes a keen imagination to fancy the busiest street corner in San Francisco transformed from a maelstrom of streetcars, automobiles, ponderous horse drawn vehicles and darting, dodging pedestrians into a vast outdoor theater. Here two of the world's most famous musicians will charm the thousands gathered in the streets.

In the office building windows and even persons perched precariously on the edges of the skyscraper tickets are being which entitle the holder to a resting place on the cornices of high build- Ings within sight of Third and Market FOUR HORSES TO DRAW CAR The pageant will proceed from the undertaking establishment of Julius Godeau. 41 Van Ness avenue, where old Buncombe K. Hammer will be laid out on the specially prepared crepe covered catafalque which will be drawn by four white horses draped in black and bearing tall black pompons on their heads. The driver of the hoars" will be fantastically garbed, as will be the pall bearers who are to place old man Hammer on the pyre to be built on the platform which The Call will have erected at Lottas fountain. A full company of Nationals, the patriotic, glittering guardsmen who will act as escort to the doomed symbol of scurrility, headed by their military band, will march with the catafalque to Geary street and Grant avenue.

Geary street is to be roped off from Grant avenue to Lotta's fountain and will form the "wings" of the open air the- FULL TILT DOWN GRADE RAN AUTO Left Unhitched it Broke Away, Colliding With Horse and Rider; Animal Shot An electric automobile belonging to Mrs. Stone. 1441 Larkin street, which had been left standing In front of the owner's home, broke from Its moorings Saturday night and headed full tilt down the grade. following its own sweet will. At the corner of California street It crashed into a horse ridden by Fred Merino, 1261 Green street, throwing both horse an.l rider to the ground in a heap.

Merino was bruised, while the animal suffered a broken leg and had to be shot. Patrolman George R. Kenney. who killed the horse, said he would gladly have destroyed the automobile if he had had jurisdiction. The machine was stopped before further damage was wrought.

TWELVE KILLED IN PANIC Stampede OccW When Film in Mining Picture House Catches Fire Cable to The Call) BRUSSELS, Dec film caught fire during a cinematograph performance tonight at Barraqs. near Menin. The flames spread with great rapidity, causing a dreadful panic. Twelve persons were killed and 20 persons injured. Many of the victims were women and children, who were trampled to death or hurt in the stampede to escape from the building.

YOUTH WON'T KILL KING Anarchist to Slay Italy Mon- arch Suicide (Spfeiiil Cable to The Call) ROME. Dec. 2-. Giormal d'ltalia publishes a sensational Btory that a young anarchist, Henry dal Ferro of San Giovanni, in Perslceto near Bologna, who was designated by lot to assassinate King Victor Emmanuel, attempted to commit suicide rather than carry out his mission. Ferro is now in a hospital in a serious condition.

Around lhe platform will be the choristers who are to be directed by John W. McKenzie. There also will be the massed band of union musicians of A. F. of Local No.

6. Tills will be conducted by Paul Steindorff, than whom none is better qualified to handle the big band. BEAUTY AS SUFFRAGETTE On the platform, besides the peerless Pasquall, will be the charming Mac Josephine Bennett, adjudged the most beautiful woman in Sen Francisco by world noted critics acting in The Call's beauty contest Hiss Bennett, in applying the torch to the hard visaged Hammer, will be giving, unconsciously enough, a suffragette version of Beauty and the Beast, for she requires no favor demanding Prince Charming to slay the graceless monater. but wilt all Cuatinucd on I'ege 2, Column 4 Mn Independent IS'en'spaper" TURKISH FLEET TRAINS GUNS ON TENEDOS ISLAND Moslem Cruiser and Destroyers Bombard Stronghold and Retire, Pursued by Greeks BirLLETIX Dec. fljrhtlng before Janlna Is reported very severe.

DJavfd Pasha, commander of the Seventh army corps, who joined Kssatf Pasha with the remnant of the Monastlr forces, has been killed with his chief of staff. The arrival of re- Inforcenients from Janlna Sundny chanKeri the fortune of the Turku, who drove the fireeks hack In the direction of I.oros. The losses on both sides were heavy. ATHENS. Pec.

The governor of Tenedos, In dispatches today, reporti that the Turkish battleship Rels. the cruiser Medjidleh and three destroyers appeared at 11 o'clock this morning before the entrance of the Dardanelles. The warships remained under the protection of the forts, the destroyers advanced and tired 20 shells on Tenedop, where the Turkish inhabitants tried to hoist the Turkish flag, and put off in boats to welcome the warships. DISSTROYKRS QLICKI.Y RETIRE small force of Greek bluejackets on the island fired on the mutineers, killing three of them and wounding 12. The Turkish shells did no damage, and the destroyers quickly retired Into the Dardanelles.

The Greek squadron anchored off Lemnos was notified and, headed by the admiral's flagship, steamed In pursuit of the enemy. The governor of Tenedos has been ordered to Institute martial law. TWO BATTLESHIPS DISABLED Admiral Countourintis, in a dispatch to the government, expresses the opinion that the Turkish flagship Kheyr- Ed-Din Barbarossa. together with the battleships Messudieh and Azzar-I- Tewfik, must have been disabled in the last naval engagement, as otherwise they would have accompanied the fleet today, because the flagship and the Messudieh are the only Turkish warships armed with quick firing guns. Crisis Comes Today LONDON, Dec, 22.

crisis of the peace conference will be reached tomorrow. The allies oppose the Turkish request for the provisioning of Adrlannoplc not only for the reason that this would give the enemy a great advantage In event of resumption of fighting, which would not have been on Pajce 3, Column 4 HEAVILY ARMED FORGES ARE READY TO BATTLE FOR ALKALINE RICHES I Romantic Mining History of California Has Sensational Climax In Desperate Struggle Powerful English and German Syndicates Are Making to Control Wonderful Potash, Soda and Borax Deposits Revealed in Searles Lake and Claimed by Intrepid American Prospectors Banded Together to Enforce "Rights" ROW OVER WEALTH OF MOJAVE DESERT MAY DEVELOP INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE Properties of Trona Company, Held by Receiver Under Federal Court Appointment, Are Guarded by United States Officers. Deputy Sheriffs and Burns Operatives Against Invasion of Los Angeles Party Bearing Rifles and Determined to Recover for Which It Pretends to Have Title by Prior Entry Down in the lonely Mojave desert in San Bernardino county, hard by the entrance to Death valley, a bitter fight is about to be "waged between bands of armed men for possession of the richest stake in the history of California mining the newly discovered potash and borax deposits of Searles lake. Not since the thrilling romantic bonanza days of when adventurers and claim jumpers harassed the mining camps and fought for the prize of gold, has there been a parallel to the daring attempt now on foot in these civilized days to grab literally from the holders of this vast desert wealth a share that will be worth millions if the scheme is successful. RIFLEMEN LEAVE FOR SCENE OF STRIFE Twenty men, equipped with rifles and revolvers, will leave Los Angeles today via Mojave for the potash sink, which will be the scene of their attack on the present owners of the property.

were recruited as fighters brave, determined men who are prepared to take any risk to gain the object for which the raid is being made, namely, the physical possession of 1 75 placer mining claims, com- prising 28,000 acres, on the lake itself. Opposed to them will be five deputy Untied States marshals, 15 Burns detectives and a dozen or moii deputy shentfs, some of whom Were sworn in only yesterday to help defend the claims from the invaders. This guard, heavily armed, is now divided between the only two passes leading into the region and no matter which approach is chosen, the claim lumbers will be met and turned back. DEFENDERS ARE WITHIN FEDERAL LAW The authority of the defenders is the United States circuit court. The attackers are without the law entirely.

By an order of the court, anyone who wilfully invades the property is guilty of contempt of the federal court. Because of the vast prize, this fact has not deterred those who have planned and are now about to execute the raid. It will be a battle of force, not law, for the millions that lie within the barren salt sink. There are 40,000 acres in the crystal marsh, possessing quantities of potash, borax and soda sufficient to glut the markets of the world. Hitherto Germany has controlled the potash industry of the globe, and since the discovery of the rich deposits in California, the German syndicate has set its diplomatic agents in Washington to working out a plan that will enable it to gain control of the new competitive field.

FOREIGN INFLUENCE IN WASHINGTON With this end in view, pressure has been brought to bear upon President Taft and his cabinet to thwart a bill in congress thai seeks to place perpetual control of the potash mines in American companies. England also is interested, as the Foreign Mines Development company of London, is now in possession of the property. These developments at Washington, which point to international entanglements of broad significance, tend further to complicate the contest that is imminent at the lakenow. Sensational Mining Drama Opens in Mojave Desert A great industrial drama that promises to be an epoch in the romantic mining history of diplomatic entanglement of the United States with England and Germany, financial struggles between powerful corporations and threatened clashes of armed men. rapidly is nearing a physical climax in Searles lake.

Southern California, with slower certainty in Washington. The 40,000 acre rystal and briny deep the American Dead sea in northwest San Bernardino county at the head of the Mojave illimitable deposits of potash, soda and borax, sufficient to glut the markets of the world and drive therefrom the potash producers of Germany and the borax kings of California, is the stake for which a huge three cornered fight is being waged. On one side is the Foreign Mines- Development company of England, the greatest mining organization in the world. This corporation, possessed of vast capital, controlling the Consolidated mines, of South Africa, both diamond and gold output, retaining major interests in other mining enterprises In Europe, Asia. Amerki Australia.

virtual possession of the works at the lake PRICE FIVE CENTS. through a mortgage which it is seeking to foreclose against the California Trona company. GERJIAV IXTKKKSTS OPPOSE BniTISH I AIMS The foremost opponents of the English capitalists are the German producers, whose active agent is Attorney Henry E. of Kan Francisco. The For riot of ffce Nre Pasre 13 Alameda County Has AN AREA OF 537,600 ACRES.

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