The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 9, 1901, Page 1

Call, VOLUME XCL—NO 9, SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, SHIPPING BILL WILL e, | | to be takeaii *¥7 DECEMBER 9, 1901. =t PRICE FIVE CENTS. BE INTRODUCED IN BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS TO-DAY VAN TETS, THE VICTIM OF PRINCE » THREE WOMEN OF ROYAL BLOOD WHOSE MARITAL- TROUELES AFFORD A FUND OF GOSSIP IN EURO- PEAN COURT CIRCLES AND MAY BE FRAUGHT WITH POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF MOMENT TO HENRY’S SWORD, IS STILL LIVING GREAT BRITAIN AND THE CONTINENT. MSTERDAM, Dec. 8.—It is impos- sible obtain confirmation of the reported death of Major Van Tets, 2id to Queen Wilhelmina, who is said to have fought a: been wounded in a duel with Prince Hen- the Queen’s consort. The Amsterdam egraaf asserts that Major Van Tets passed a quiet night last night; that Pro- fessor th has performed an opera- tion upon him and is satisfied with his patient’s condition. At the hospital in in official circles no TENHE STAFT OF 1 HELEA A Depositors Withdraw More Than Two Hundred Thou- sand Dollars From the Concern. Special Dispatch to The Call. HELENA, Mont., Dec. 8.—An innocently intended joke caused quite a run on the Thomas Cruz Savings Bank in this city last week, which, before it ended. caused nervous depositors to withdraw more than $200,000 from that institution. When the true status of affairs became known many endeavored to redeposit their money, but this the bank declined to re- cetve. Thomas Cruz, with the exception of United States Senator Clark, is probably the wealthiest man in Montana. It ap- pears that a practical joker told a friend in the County Treasurer's office that the Cruz bank was in an embarrassed condi- tion, the remark being overheard by a woman who was standing near by. Tak- ing it for granted that such was the case the hurried into a downtown store and ‘elephoned to her husband, who is em- ployed at the Northern Pacific depot. Be- fore starting for the bank the husband in turn telephoned to a friend in the Sher- if's office, who, imparting the knowledge information on this matter can be ob- tained. Three royal families in Europe are in- volved in domestic scanda that have aroused the liveliest interest in Great Britain and on the Continent, and wkich, in one case ‘at have grave - political V'hile the eyes ‘of the world turned upon the court of Holland, whence come tales of the cruel treatment of young Queen Wilhelmina by her consort, Il HUST SUBHT THE DSATES T T New South Wales Enacts a Law Tending to End Dis- astrous Strikes and Lockouts. OR AND GAPITAL Special Dispatch to The Call. SYDNEY, N. 8. W, Dec. 8—By the passage of the industrial arbitration bill through its final stages the Government has placed a law upon the statute books the working of which will excite Interest throughout the world. This bill not only compels reference of all disputes between employers and em- | ployes to a competent court, with power to enforce its orders and awards, but makes a strike or a lockout before or pending such reference a misdemeanor, purishable by fine or imprisonment. The court which will pass on these dis- putes is to be presided over by a Judge | of the Supreme Court, and will have very | extensive powers. [ e e ] ] to the Sheriff, made haste for the institu- tion to withdraw his money. In this way, apparently, a majority of the women depositors in the city became alarmed, as women always predominated in the small crows present at the paying teller’s window. The run was kept up for a week, during which time more than $200,00 Was paid out, England is the more interested in two scandals that involve granddaughters of the late Queen Victoria. The Grand Duchesse of Hesse is said to be on the verge of separation from her husband, and rumor brings news of the unhappy | marital relations of the Duke of Edin- burgh’s other daughter, the Crown Prin- cess of Rouma Each of these three women, fortunate in everything but love, may soon figure as prineipal in an actien looking to a termination of her domestic troubles. B e e e e e e S B B e e S e e e e ) ) RUMOR SAYS HEAWY SALES BY MAS. DALY CRUSED COPPER SLUMP Widow of Montana Million- aire Reported to Have Dis- posed of Her Holdings at Great Loss. Special Dispatch to The Call. BUTTE, Mont., Dec. 8,—A persistent ru- mor is current in Butte that the large holdings of Amalgamated Copper stock by Mrs. Marcus Daly and the Daly estate have been thrown on the market during the past few months and that this has caused the disastrous decline in that stock. It is said that Mrs. Daly, in addi- tion to the large block of stock that came to the estate from the late Marcus Daly, was persuaded to invest on her own ac- count at the time of the consolidation of the Boston companies. When fhe stock began to decline, it is said, she sold and | the estate also unloaded, at a loss of more than $1,000,000. Although the report is generally accept- ed in Butte as true, the manager of the estate has telegraphed a denial from New York. Officers of the Daly Bank and Trust Company in Butte also gave out a state- ment to the effect that the Daly interests were large holders of both Amalgamated and Anaconda stocks and that they had sreat confidence in the future of Amalga- 4dmated. | represented Kenton County. FIND3 BONES OF GIANTS IN ~ GAEAT GAVE Exploring Party Makes Strange Discovery Near Butte. Remains of a Prehistoric Peo- ple in Underground Abode. Theory Is Advanced That Some Seis- mic Disturbance Closed Exits to the Cavern and Impris- | oned the Ancients. Rl o Special Dispatch to The Call. | BUTTE. Mont., Dec. 8.—A new cavei | that gives promise of developing into the most wonderful of its kind in the known world has been discovered in the moun- tains forty-eight miles east of Butte, in Jefferson Canyon.- Its extent is as yet unknown, though it has been explored for | a distance of ten miles and to a depth of about 800 feet. The entrance to the cave, which is near | the track of the Northern Pacific Rail- way and about 1600 feet above the bed of the river, was discovered a few weeks | ago by a hunter, and the cave has just been explored by a party headed by J. W Gilbert, a newspaper writer of Butte. Gil- bert returned to-day after an absence of a week with evidence of his discoveries. Several skeletons were found in one of the many rooms, and many articles and utensils of stone and copper were lying about. Some of these have been brought out. The skeletons are of‘persons of gi- gantic stature, and the belief of Gilbert is that the cave was the abode of a pre- historic people and that further explora- | tion will bring to light proof of this fact. | | A theory is that by a sudden change and | | disturbance of the earth the entrance to the ancient home was closed and the in- habitants walled up and left to die. A large river, with a fall of 100 feet at one place, is one of the wonders of the cave, and a score of apartments, some | hundreds of feet in extent, are decorated with the wondrous formations of natu | One room resembles the interior of a | cathedral, with a gigantic pipe organ, th | pipes being formed of stalactites, tuned | | by nature to give forth beautiful notes of“ harmony. A member of the exploring par- | | tv by striking the pipes with a stick pleved a rude imitation of “‘Nearer, My God, to Thee.” | Access to the cave is very difficult, ds | | a direct descent of 400 feet is necessary | before any footing can be obtained. An- other party will soon visit the place fully equipped for a thorough investigation. | | ACCUSED OF FORGING SIGNATURES ON BOND: S | Francis 8. Mayer Is Arrested at Min- neapolis on Complaint of Jap- anese Authorities. MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 8.—Acting on tel- egraphic instructions sent from Wash- ington by Attorney General Knox, Unitud | States® Marshal Grimshaw to-day arrest- ed Francis 8. Mayer, charged with hav- | ing committed forgery in Japan. | The arrest was made upon the Great Northern overland train as it pulled into | the Minneapolls Union station at o'clock. Mayer was accompanied by his wife and two children and a Japanese serv- ant. Mayer said that he had been in the newspaper business at Yokohama, where he lived for a number of years. The charge against him is that he forged signatures on debenture bonds, but the exact nature of the crime or the amount of money involved is not known. He quitted Yokohama November 19, sailing for Seattle upon the Japanese steamer Shinano Maru, Ever since then the au- thorities have been on the lookout for him. In some manner he managed to evade the officers at Seattle. Mayer is about 23 years of age and of English descent. When arrested he was en route to London. Mayer says he will fight the proceed- ings. He did not claim right to the pro- tection of the consul to any foreign na- tion and apparently will contest the case as an American citizen. GOEBEL MURDER SUSPECT IS FINALLY APPREHENDED Declares That He Is Innocent and Will Ask for an Immediate Hearing. FRANKFORT, Ky., Dec. 8—Berry Howard, indicted for complicity in the murder of Willlam Goebel and who has been a fugitive more than a year, was brought here to-day and assigned to quar- ters in the jail with Caleb Powers and James Howard, a relative, charged with the same crime. Howard protests his in- nocence and says that he became a fugi- { tive in the mountain section only because he did not want to lie in jail here. He will ask for an immediate hearing. Howard was a member of the General Assembly in 1892 and 1893 as a Democrat when Goebel ARCHBISHOP SCALABRINI TO SUCCEED MARTINELLI SRR NOTED ITALIAN PRELATE WHO, ISPATCHES from Rome an- nounce that Monsigor Scalabrini, Archbishop of Placenza. will be appointed Apostolic Delegate at Washington. The statement was first published in the Journal de Roma, following thé Archbishop's return frem a visit to the United States. Monsignor has not yet been announced. B e e S B L e O e ol BRITON'S CORPSE, A0 45 STONE AT UL Undertaker ~ lds an English- | - man’s Bod, -or a Year,but Rich Relatives Will S:znd No Money. Special Dispatch to The Call. SPOKANE, Wash., Dec. 8.—For nearly a year the body of William Herbert, son of an old and wealthy British family, has lain unburied in the basement of an un- dertaker's establishment here. William Herbert came to Spokane short- Iy after the fire from his home at 79 Wil- fred Road, Leicester, England. He was a fine piano player, and when' funds got short he drifted into piano playing as a means of making a livelihood. He would play odd shifts In variety theaters, con- cert halls and other vlaces. Two years ago a relative died and left | him £1600. The family then sent an agent to Spokane to look up the wandering boy. The agent found Herbert playing a piano in a roadhouse. After some haggling Her- bert accompanied the agent to his old home and the money was paid over to him. He had no sooner secured his leg- acy than he hastened back here. Herbert went the pace that kills. Wine and women depleted his purse in six months. One morning he awoke without a dollar. Taking a revolver he shot him- self through the mouth, but his aim was unsteady and although badly wounded he survived. A month later he died of blood poisoning in an insane asylum. His family was notified of his death and asked if they would pay the expenses. A statement was made that $100 would cover the burial ex- penses. _To this message came an answer by Herbert's sister: “We will not pay a single penny,” she wrote. “Get the money from those with whom he-squandered his inheritance.” Herbert's death occurred January 25 last, and ever since his body has reposed in a box In the undertakef's basement.. It was almost forgotten until a reporter asked to see it yesterday. The undertaker himself had not looked at it for nearly six months. It has grown almost as hard as marble. Herbert was 39 years of age. He | was unmarried. SOON BE APPOINTED THE SUCCESSOR OF CARDINAL MARTINEL- L1 AS APOSTOLIC DELEGATE IN WASHINGTON. % 1T IS REPORTED IN ROME, WILL | Scalabrini will succeed Apostolic Delegate Martinelli, who was recently created a Cardinal. The Archbishop, Italian prelate of note, has spent some time in America, working among the mis- | sions of the Order of St. Charles Borro- meo. The date of his accession to the post to be vacated by Cardinal Martinelll ‘SYRACUSE. STUDENTS ' DECOME PROFICIENT University Instructor Lends Encouragement and As- s'stance in Their Ex- periments. - Special Dispatch to The Call SYRACUSE, Deec. tudents of Syra- cuse University have taken up the fad of hypnotism and several have become expert in making their fellow students do all sorts of funny ‘‘stunts.” The experi- menting was started Richard Street of psychology. who is a firm believer that hypnotism will come to be used legitimately in many useful ways. and encouraged their ments. At the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house the boys perform in a manner highly amusing to spectators. The star hypnot- ist there is A. S. Hurrell of the class of 1904, who is an expert. He gave an exhi- bition before several persons and succeed- ed in putting E. A. Lowther, 1302, into an hypnotic state and had his fellow student completely at his mercy. Hurrell says he can hypnotize any one, but he does not dare use his power on every one, as he is not certain of being able to awaken them from the hypnotic sleep. Professor Street of the university be- lleves the art will be used in medicine and in other useful ways and favors ex- perimenting with it. them in experi- DEPUTIES BADLY BEATEN BY STRIKE SYMPATHIZERS SCRANTON, Pa., Dec. 8.—At 10 o'clock to-night an attempt was made by three deputies to arrest boys who were stoning cars on South Maine avenue manned by non-union men. A big crowd set upon the officers and in the face of flying bullets overpowered and beat them severely. Two of them, S. F. Cosgrove and B. T. Rellly, are in the hospital. Earlier in the evening a crowd set upon five deputies who attempted to arrest stone throwers on Capouz avenue, and, after taking their prisoners away, put the officers in retreat with a fusillade of 1 stones and bricks. who is an | IN HYPAOTIC ART. by Professor J.| He taught his students how to hypnotize | FRYE IND CROSVENDR CONFIDENT Believe Subsidy Meas- ure Is Certain of Passage. g | | | All Objectionable Features of Former Bills Are Eliminate Its Success Would Mean Building of New Lines of Vessels to Ply Between This Coast and the Orient. - Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—Senator Frye of Maine and Representative Gros- venor of Ohio will introduce in the Senate and House to-morrow the ship subsidy bill, which has at last been completed. “I have spent much time and thought on this measure,” sald Senator Frye to-night to The Call correspondent, “and it is very largely my own creation. I think all the objections made to former shipping bills are met and I hope it will pass. I expect it will receive the almost unanimous sup- | port of the Republicans of the Senate. In the House I have strong hopes of enough votes to enact the measure into law.” The first section of the bill takes the postal subsidy law of 1891 as a basis and restores the rates practically to what they ‘were in the bill as it originally passed the Senate. It increases the tonnage required | in that law and makes the class of each | knot above fourteen up to twenty. { The bill next provides that all American 1shlps engaged in foreign trade shall re- | | ceive one cent a ton for every 100 miles sailed. All provisions of the postal sub- | sidy act relating to the employment of sailors, apprentices and Government in- | spectors on vessels having contracts to carry United States mails are in the new | measure. Vessels reeeiving Government subsidies according to the provisions of the act shall be built in a manner satis- factory to the Secretary of the Navy and | must be capable of being used for pur- | poses of national defense in times of war. | No Premium on Speed. All speed premiums are omitted in the present bill. The provisions for extended contracts in the subsidy bill defeated in the last session are also eliminated. The repeal of or amendment of the law | rests absolutely with Congress. No for- | eign built ships are admitted to American register. The provisions of the former bill | relating to fisheries are renewed. The bill, which passed the Senate in 1891, providing for postal subsidies, was amended in the House by cutting down rates. As amended the bill became a law and proved an utter failure. Senator Frye now belleves that if a Dbill containing higher rates, as put in by the Senate ten years ago, should be passed it would be a success. Senator Frye belleves the measure he has prepared will establish | regular American lines of ocean traffic. “Certainly,” he said, “we shall have new lines of American ships from the Pa- cific Coast to China and on the Atlantic we shall soon have new American lines | running to the south, where we have a right to look for the greatest exteusion of our foreign trade. “The provision for 1 cent per ‘on for every 100 miles sailed is put in on the theory that it will equalize conditions be- tween American freight carrierr and those | of Great Britain. | Will Boom Shipbuilding. | | “There is absolutely nothing in the bil that is favorable to any of the big trans- | Atlantic lines and there is nothing what- | ever to encourage a combination in so- called trust form of any large shipping corporations. The ship-bu‘lding industries all along our coasts will get renewed life and stimulation by the increased demands for American vessels.” Senator Hanna has seen the provisions of the new bill and has given them his cordial approval. He says he shall make a speech in support of the measure and is advising his friends to work and vote for it. He declares he sees nothing in the Frye bill to which any friend of Amer- ican commerce and shipping could object. BISHOP MATZ TELLS OF TROUBLE IN ROME NEW YORK. Deec. 8.—Bishop Matz of Denver arrived from Europe to-day and will leave for the West to-morrow. The bishop spoke freely of his trouble in Rome with Father John Cushing, formerly of Denver, who charged the bishop with try- ing to introduce the German language into the Catholic service. Bishop Matz had Father Cushing arrested for the alleged ineiting of a demonstration in front of his hotel in Rome. He sald that he afterward secured the priest’s arrest and that he had disappeared. . The bishop also told of his trouble in Rome with Father Michael Caulkin, for- merly of Denver, and said that both the Cushing and Caulkin cases had been de- cided by the church authorities in favor of him (the bishop). He admitted that Father Caulkin had accepted an offer of 1000 francs a year and charge of & small mission in Italv.