The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 24, 1902, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24 LIES ARE PASSED IN COURT; TRIGGERS CLICK AT ALTURAS Belligerent Lawyer and Guard for the State Officers Nearly Cause Tragedy at a Trial. — RAS, Jan. 23.—The impetuous Raker and the self-contained ominous Mr. Miller, both picuous actors in the Look- lynching case on trtal m e ¥ ngton’s court, came very near ening some rich court comedy with ¢ genuine tragedy this afternoon. e has been no shooting yet, but the en of Modoc County realize that a crisis hand. The venturesome Hot- 1f would have considered a trip adfast footing of a spear over t pit a mere kindergarten af- red with the task the authori- o= | | | | 1 + & to-night to prevent a clash s. The end is not yet by any E n of amazing magnitude. Start of the Trouble. of Witness tion ge H ng Judy arrington GHTIA JllLL H RAILWAY MERGER Another Injunction Suit Filed by Dissatisfied Shareholders. NNEAPOLIS, Jan. 23.—The at- L. Bowden and Sophia a petition for an in te District Court to- 5reat Northern Railway to prevent the transfer Northern Securities holds 400 and Mrs. of Great Northern are the same *as of Peter Power of g in the United the retirement of have e complaint sets up the facts as to the attempted e Great Northern, Northern ngton systems, alleges ary to the statutes of Dakota, Montana and intended to destroy all charges that the sep- izations maintained are mere- and intended to deceive the real management and control the Northern Securities ed that by this ac- ern_directors have r of the road subject the suit of the State of traversed subject to rev. ADVERTISEMENTS. w H eve hat Shall We s q uestion arises in’' the family - Let us answer it to-day. Try a delicions and healthful dessert. Pre- Earcd n two minutes, No boiling! ne ng water and set te lavors:—Lemon, Orange, Rasp- Strawberry. -Get ag;ackag‘ preferred stock de- | ave for Dessert? | PARTICIPANTS IN A LIVELY ROW THAT THREATENED TRAGEDY IN ALTURAS COURT. - Judge Harrington arose from his chair and angrily asked one of the women spec- tators (Mrs. R. Nichols) if she was a witness in the case. Mrs. Nichols, reply- ing to the inquiry of Judge Harrington. said that she had never been subpenaed as a witness. Miller made claim that she was taking notes for the benefit of wit- nesses and the crurt asked her to come in- side the rail as he desired to speak to her. Mrs. Nichols came forward to the rail from her seat and said: “I am not before the court and refuse to come inside the rail.” The court ordered her removed from the courtroom for not obeying his order. Spencer, for the defense, then said: “It is a strange thing that a lady cannot remain in this courtroom and iisten to y when her husband's life is at ke and take notes if she wants to. It me and a disgrace on civilization.”” s point Lawyer Raker interjected and demanded that Miller be dis- armed. The court ignored Raker’s protest and then the belligerent attorney re- marked: “I take exception to the remarks of the court and to the court allowing that ocation, and further that several such | suits are imminent whereby the company | will lose valuable rights and privileges unless the directors are permanently en- joined from carrying out the merger. Judgment is demanded on eleven points— that the merger is fraudulent and con- trary to the laws of this State; that the Northern Securities Company is a_con- | spiracy; that the Great Northern direc- jtors and agents be enjoined during the | pendency of the suit and permanently thereafter from registering any transfers of stock to the Northern Securities Com- pany; from recognizing .or according any | privileges to that company or from re- ceiving any votes in its meetings; from entering into any combination whatever with the Northern Pacific which shall disturb the independent integrity of the defendant company; that the defendant directers be enjoined from holding any | office in or participating in the affairs of the Northern Securities Company or from paying any dividends on stock held by that company. The defendants have twenty days in which to answer. ENDEAVORING TO PROVE THE XILLING JUSTIFIABLE Witnesses Testify to the Good Char- acter of Woman Who Killed Her Husband. PLATTSBURG, Mo., Jan. 23.—Mrs. Ad- dle B. Richardson’s defense was begun to- | day in her trial for the murder of her | husband, Frank W. Richardson, at Savan- nah, Mo. The defense will, it is expected, finish to-morrow, when the defendant will take the stand. To-day it was shown that Mrs. Richardson's trips about the streets of SBavannah after night in company with Stewart Fife, which fact the State brought but yesterday, were to find her husband. Johnnie Richardson, 14 vears old, was the first witness called by the defense, and told of going with his mother at 11:30 at night to find his father and how Fife had located him, intoxicated in a hotel, Mrs. Richardson had gone there and taken him home. This was corroborated by Mrs. Gertrude Grant, a sister of the dead man, and by the hotel proprietor. Others told of Mrs. Richardson’s good character. They were Rev. John Atwill, rector of the church where Mrs. Richard- son attended, and who had lived at the Richardson home; Rev. A. R. Hunt and Peter Christiansen. the latter a member of the Grand Jury that indicted Mrs. Richardson. — URGE THE GOVERNMENT TO PURCHASE THE LINES German Papers Fcar Trans-Atlantic Steamers May Be Secured by American Competitors. BERLIN, Jan. 2.—Various German newspapers discuss the trans-Atlantic steamship concern. The Deutsche Tages Zeitung in an edi- torial broadside urges the Government to buy up the German steamship lines. The paper believes that a majority of the members of the Reichstag would favor this project, for the same reasons which T grocers to-day. 1o cts. 3 2, . Big G is « non. Bl e O c RES N Whitie: 2nmatral dis: charges, or any inflamms- of enabled the late Prince Bismarck to na- tionalize the railroads of Germany. The unlimited capital behind the trans-At- lantic steamship combination, says the Tages Zeitung, would force the German lines to make very favorable terms and ul y surrender thelr control. This result in facllitating the imports can into Germany, to the manufacturers, estimates that the woul of detriment of The Tages Zeitw " Danny " MiLyzr armed bully there to sit in this court- room."” Serious Battle Averted. Milier was on his feet in an instant and made a jump for Kaker, calung the latter a liar and using numerous protane epl thets. It was on.y by the prompt action of Attorney James Boyd of the prosccutionu and several of the spectators that Miller was restrained from domng Raker bodily harm. It was a most exciting scene. Spectators arose in their seats and some of them made a rush for the doors. The jury became excited and cries of “Take him out! Take him out!” came from tha. quarter. Raker jumped to his feet ex- ?l‘ledx}, but Spencer, his colleague, quietea sim. All this time Miller was endeavoring to free himself from his restrainers and was onty held within check by a great effort on the part of his captors, who forcea him in back of the stove. Judge Har- rington ordered the Sheriff to remove <Milier, but the Sheriff did not obey the order,’ which gave Miller an opportunity of saying thal he was a gentleman ana would not tolerate insults from Raker. Miller then left the room quietly and un- attended. Are we to stand here and be threat- ened by that man?” asked Raker. ““You and Milier can settle this matter out of court,” said Judge Harrington. going to %e shot down court, and the Judge ordered the Sherift to remove Raker from the courtroom. *‘I take exception to the remarks of the court,” said Raker. The court—You apologize or I will send you to jail for your conduct and words before this court this afternoon. Suecn actions I have never seen in a_courtroom. The Governor of this State telegraphed me asking if I needed troops to carry out the law and I replied that I did not I will revoke it if this case can’t be car- ried on under civil authorities and I will | resort to another expedient.. Spencer—I don’t think it troops to control Raker. The court—It will take a whole regi- ment to control him. I will listen to Ra- ker and Miller to-morrow morning at 1) o'clock. T will not stand this abuse of the_court will Witness Myers told his story of the In-| cidents _preceding the lynching of th Halls, Yantls and Wilson last g.VlaV, : recess was then taken until to-morrow. There is matter deep and dangerous in the air to-night and all Alturas expects trouble. .. TRADER FINDS 3tA"3 VIGTIMG Bodies of a Vessel's Sailors on an Island Shore. Specfal Dispatch to The Call. VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan. 23.—A year and a half ago the British bark Man- chester sailed from New York for Manila. The first authentic news of the disaster which befell her was received here to-day by the Canadian-Australian liner Moana. A trader’s schooner recently touched at one of the smaller of the Mar- shall Islands and found wreckage there which must certainly have come from the Manchester. The ship carried a cargo of petroleum from New York and several hundred cans of ofl are lying along the beach in a small cove. A mile or two outside are several rocky reefs half submerged, where a vessel might eas- ily have been wrecked. The tins are marked *“Chester Tide Water Ofl Com- pany, New York,” which are stated to be descriptive marks of the ofl cans sent | from New York by the Manchester. Besides these there was the battered half of a ship's boat, but with the letters obliterated. The bodies of two men—they were little more than skeletons—were found on the shore. In a pocket were sev- eral well preserved letters under a leather cover. The owner of the letters was evi- dently Julius P. Schwartz. A letter was signed by S. Pope of New York. There were bootmarks in the paths lead- ing up the shore which could not have been made by natives. This shows that some at least of the unfortunate sailors got ashore, but where they went is a mys- | tery. Probably they started to sea in small boats and were lost, for nothing has ever been heard of them. Heavy storms are known to have raged among the islands last January and it is thought probable that the ship struck and went down during one of these. There were thirty men 4 her crew. It was thought when the ship was placed on the mlssfng }I{st lasltthénfhthat ‘!he( might have taken re or that the explosion o caused her end. P! f her ofl cargo —_— East Anxious for Prunes. SAN JOSE, Jan. 2.—Local packers and dealers in dried fruits say that the de- mand for valley dried fruits is very brisk. The stock of prunes has about all gone to market. Prices continue firm at 3% cents for new prunes and 3 cents for old stock. Letters from Fastern dealers state ‘the stock of prunes there is very i demand is likely to lncrea?a’e e i —_——— Pictures and Frames. We recélved during December over 100 patterns -of entirely new things in mold- ings which we have not had time to open until now. The beauty, originality and moderate price of these moldings will lease every one having pictures to frame. two German steams! ip lines could be ac- quired for 215,000,000 nl:’:.m tra » 5 sale after this date. Sanborn, Co., 741 Market street. 4 i take | ILLEG Killin, mission, that it “"has Lew to pro The feal sensations report says: teriplate them leading so manipulate uniawiul rebat and offensive opinion erty. the public Is those great been formed that it now tures of the sion says: Now, the carrier to to be the othe: Taking up report says: Difficult the same time with fitting pt Tt is urged books of the its agoents, tained. It is ers of the co able time. vestigation other points. mostly ceased ers, concern. One buyer. the commissis United States ations of the fact, stons, notified. duplicate 1t, WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—The report of the Interstate Commerce Com- which was transmitted to Con- gress to-day, renews the declaration made in previous reports that in its present condition the act to regulate commerc: As to remedial leg- islation, the commission renews the state- ment maae In its previous annual report 1o suggest ani nothing cannot be enforced. 1sting between the rauroads and & com paratively few heavy shippers. 10 tne commission’s recent investigations into the moving of packing-house prod- | ucts and of grain and grain products, the thelr 'gans with the object of ratecutting is to business and make money, and the corpora- pay the penalty as well every ‘illegal act of that character subjecte: S0 that | the money result of the transaction w is almost always impossible. ; the published rate I8 the thing which can be | | 1 | | should Le amended so as under proper r preveat the misuse of inf . zod that 1f the pow erally cniarged some m devised by whica such orders make nay be mforced within a vearon After summarizing o housc products the 2o the revates were siven t great concerns, and a-hls: The effect is to give them an enormous ad- vantage over smaller competitors located at Already these competitors have These disclosures af- ford a pregnant illustration of the manner in | [ which secret rate concessions are tending to bulld up great trusts and monopolies at the ex- pense of the small independent operator. Small Buyers Driven to the Wall. The commission found also, gating complaints made by Western mill- that the carriers east of Chicago made no serious pretense of maintaining the export rates on Wheat and that the carriers had agreed among themselves upon a rate from Chicago 2% cents be- low the published tariff, resulting in a dis- crimination of from 2} to 4 cents against flour. The open wheat tariff from Kansas City to Chicago has been 12 cents and the actual rate as low as 5 cents. Of the practice prevalent in the West of allowing some particular individual a concession which enables him to handle practically all the grain transported upon a particular railway the report says: The aifferent-lines, in an effort to obtain a share of this busineéss, deem it necessary to the small buyer and to Sferate tneir business through a single largc the miller out of the market as an independent arlve out of busines: Dealing with the “‘agreed” rates ALAGTS OF MAILADATS WRE EAPOSED Annual Report Filed by Interstate Commerce Commission, Sensational Statements Mads Concerning Violations of the Law. Secret Rate Concessions Made to a Few Heavy Shippers Are Fast g Off All Competi- tion. iement of the relations ex: The facts therein developed are of such a character that no thoughtiul person can con- That the tratfic officials of many of the prin- cipal railway lines, men occupying high posi- tions and chaiged with tne most important duties, should uehiberately violate the statute law of the land and in sume cases agree with | each other to uo so0; that it should be thougu by them necessary to destroy vouchers and t obliterate every evidence of. the trgusactions; that hun- dreds of thousand of dollars should be pald packing houses; that the business of ralircad transpor- tation 'should to such an extent be conducted in open disregard of* law, must be surprising persons. | Equally startling at least is the fact that thc owners of these packing houses, names are known throughout the commercial world, should seemingly be eager to augment | the "enormous amounts of | these rebates, which they receive in plain de- fiance of a Ikederal statute. That there are palliating circumstances | under which railway/ traiic officials act | the commission is not unmindful, and the is expressed that existing laws snould be so amended that every man- ager who desires to observe them can do | so without risk of sacrifice of their prop- with indifference. bookkeeping as to es to a few great to all right-minded Remedy Is Fraught With Dangers. |} The application of the remedy, the re- | port says, is fraught with dangers to the | public and should not be applied unless In view of which have | }| by | waich railway competition will be largely eliminated, some method should be pro- vided by which the Government can ex- | Raker protested loudly that he was nou | ercise in fact that control over rallway | | outside of the ! rates and operations which courts with- out number have asserted that it pos- sesses and which many persons suppose | The commission be- | lieves that the whole law should be re- ! fully protected. combinations and are now forming, exerts. vised upon some correct theory and some ! workable bagis. In view of the gross violations of ine|f| act the commission suggests that if.it is Dot possible to amend this law in its.more | essential features it ought at least fo be | i possible to deal with those coercivi £ act which are lntendb t prevent practices of this character. Referring to th€ tion, if any one, profits by’ the illegal act. It is the real offender, and ought certainly to as its officer. If | a substantial forfeltu r way, the inducement the difficulty of to Secure a Conviction. To convict for paying a rebate it is neces- sary to show not merely that the railway com- pany paid a rebate to a particular shippe but it must also be shown that it did not pa: the same rebate to some respect to the same kind of trafflc moving at under similar conditions. Thi shown, and the thing which should be visited unishment. that the twentl 12 open th carriers to the in: also mmissl: 2 19t 1o Lo o : 1210 f the nanall to exist. in fnvesti effect of this is to put on states that the secre country. Such assoclations, exist now, as they did before those deci- and with the same Justice to all parties, We ought probably to ddd that it is difficult to see how our interstate railways could be operated with due regard to the interest of the shipper and the railway without concerted m.-.tlgln of the kind afforded on; eneral through these assoc! ——— Thinks the Man 2 Murderer. BAKERSFIELD, Jan. 2. — Deputy Sheriff Bohrgwbarlxl'lt to—;hul({ arrested a Chi- nese who he believes is Hong Sing D: Do ed in Sacramento for murder c%f:lf-' mitted during a recent highbinder war. The Sacramento authorities have been annual cf the report is the almost Referring men whose ea- | court decisions ¢nat | penalties cannot be imposed upon cor- porations violating the act, and that only | their agents can be punished, the commis- | get o com- mit such offenses would be greatly digninished. | securing convictions in cases of rate-cutting, the | other shipper with Departure from segtion ection of | traffic assoclations, have been manipulated through these agencies, and says: It Is not the business of this commission to enforce the anti-trust act, and we express no opinion as to the legality of the means adopted by these assoclations “We simply call atten- tion to the fact that the decisions of the Supreme Court in the Trans- Missouri and Joint Traffic Association cases have produced no effect upon the raifwvay oper- ,In SENATOR DEPEW ADVOCATES PANATIA ROUTE FOR THE CANAL After a Conference in Paris He Is Convinced of the ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.— Senator Chauncey M. Depew since his return from Paris has been very outspoken in advocating the Panama route for an isthmian canal and his argument on the subject is having more effect than the supplemental report of ‘the Canal Commission, In which nine members have absolutely reversed their opinion. Senator Depew sald to-night: “I am a canal man as well as a rall- road man. I have always been a friend of the Eri: canal. This may seem strange, but I'have disagreed with rail- road men generally on this point. My contention has been that the Erie canal would concentrate the grain business at Buffalo and divert the great mass of the grain traffic to the ‘seaboard from other routes directly down the Mohawk Valley to New York City. Depew Is Converted. “When I went to Paris recently I was walted upon by the counsel. of the New Panama Canal Company, who asked me II’ROQIINENT TIMBER MAN SHOT TO DEATH BY ENEMY Guarrel of Long Standing Renewedl on a Public Highway With Fatal Result. HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Jan. 2.—Col- onel Gilbert Dentley, a wealthy timber map, was killed to-day by#Riley Ramey, { who at once surrendered to the authori- | ties. Both are prominent. The fatal { meecing occurred on the public highway | near Elkhorn City, on the Big Sandy. The ,men met on horseback and both drew {“their revolyers. Bentley was struck in | the left breast by the iirst shot and fell from his horse. It is thought that Ramey | continued firing until he killed Bentley. | They had been enemies for years as a re- | sult’ of a shooting scrape between their ons, in which neither of the sons was eriously injured. Ramey claims that the first bullet from | Bentley’s revolver pierced his hat. S | Pennland, Philadelphia for Antwerp, which | went aground yesterday on Cherry Island flats, i got off uninjured. if I would consent to meet the president | I o o o e R S ] | PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 23.—The ‘steamship | and managing director of the company and talk over their proposed offer to sell to the United States. dia so. ‘was particularly interested in the president of the company because I found him an ex- extremely well posted man, who realized the position in which the Panama Com- pany had been placed and appreciated that if he did not seill to the United States at the figure which the United States of- fered we would build the canal elsewhere. These gentlemen convinced me that the | Panama property could absolutely be transfer: to the United States and that the title would perfectly clear. I looked into this matter with some care. It we take the property we need have no apprehension that litigation and complica- tions between the United States and citi- zens of France will follow. Panama the Better Route. “Having been convinced of this im- portant fact I became a Panama man, in the first place because the Panama route is forty-nine miles and the Nicaragua 183 miles; because the cost of the Nicaragua | when you add the excess of maintenance is almost as much more than the Panama as the Panama was more than he Nica- ragua before the revised offer of the | I INCREASED PAY FOR | RURAL DELIVERY CARRIERS An Additional Appropriation in the TUrgent Deficiency Bill for This Purpose. WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—The consider- ation of the urgent deficiency bill, which has been under debate in the House since Monday, was completed to-day, but owing to the lateness of the hour passage of tne bill was postponed until to-morrow. A | successful effort was made to increase the pay of rural free delivery carriers from $500 to 3600 per annum. Hill of Connecti- | cut made the motion to increase the ap- | propriation_for this purpose. It was re- | sisted by Cannon and Loud, chairman of | the- Postoffice Committee, on the ground | that the \method was irregular, but the members with rural constituents support- cd it and it was adopted. WASHINGTON, Jan, '23.—Consul McWade at Canton has cabled the State Department | that there have beer: over 100 deaths from the plague at Shuiting, about 250 miles south of Canton. W sdom of Buying Out French Company. French company was ‘made; because every foot of ground over the Panama route is knewn, whereas nearly all of the engineering questions on the Nicaragua are unknown quantities; because there has been for fifty years a railroad along the Panama route and none at Nicara- gua, and, finally, because there are har- Dors at either end of the Panama canal that are now in use, while ingenuity will be taxed to construct and maintain har- bors at either end of the Nicaragua. “I have had something to do with g&l roblems of construction, and from a bus- ness standpoint there can be no question that Panama is vastly superior to Nicara- gua, because at Panama we know just where we are and what we have to do. Yet I am grieved to say that some very eminent gentlemen, for whom I have Teat respect, are still for Nicaragua. hey remind me of a very old story, which you may pardon me for repeating: “‘Judge,” sald the witness in court, ‘did £1!§¥ that the horse was sixteen feet gh > ““You d1d,’ replied the Judge. “Well, privately, Judge,’ said he, ‘the horse was only sixteen hands high, but as 1 said sixteen feet I'll stick to it, and six- teen feet it is." " FXPRESSES HIS ATTITUDE ON THE EXCISE QUESTION Says the Law Will Be Enforced and Effort Made to Suppress the Corrupticnists. NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—Mayor Low to- day made public his reply to a letter re- cently addressed ‘to him by the Society for the Prevention of Crime. He ex- pressed his attitude on the excise question as follows: “The attitude of this administration toward the excise law can be clearly de- fined. It will continue to enforce the ex- cise law as one of the gemeral body of laws which it is called upon to enforce in the best manner practicable with the means at its disposal, but it will not con- centrate the entire police force on this one law, and let all other laws go by the board. It will also do everything it can to break up the bribery and corrup- tion of which the excise law has so long been the fruitful parent.™ PRt PR DUBLIN, Jan. 23.—Timothy C. Harrh M. P., for the Harbor division of this eity, has béen re-elected Lord Mayor of Dublin, ‘\!“ | o | | s | i Half-pric our clear If you need a suit o is the time to buy whil sale is going on. If you for such substantial redu cially reduced for this sale. The suits are single and sacks, made of Scotch tweed The overcoats are all-wool ter length and weight, lined t The suits and overcoats now for - $ nishings. il suitsand overcoats need a suit or overcoat in a couple of months or so now is the time to buy, are ‘as unusual as they are welcome. These suits and overcoats comprise cer- tain lines that were broken to some extent in sizes after the heavy holiday selling, and, in addition, some regular goods that were spe- winter - weight material; former price $12.50. farmer satin, velvet collar; former price $10.00 . 5 A glance at our windows will always N prove interesting, ° . whéther you need clothes, hats or fur- Z and ing, as you are $s5.00 to $3.20; es at ing of r overcoat now e our clearing think you wiil ctions as these double breasted s, in stylish cuts, cheviots, in win- with the best of are to be had . 718 Market Street Immense values in boys’ youths’ In buying our boys’ and youths’ clothing at regular prices you are effecting a big sav- makers; in buying at these reduced prices you are making a double saving, as the goods are actually reduced as shown in the following: Topcoats Made of covert material shades of tan. Topcoats for children from 3 toy 8 years, former price $4.00, now $2.60; topcoats for boys from 9 to 13, reduced from to 19, marked down from $6.50 to $4.00. Two-piece and Norfolk Made of Scotch tweeds and cheviots in neat mixtures, ages 8 to 16 and 3 to 10 re- spectively, on sale in two lots: $2.75, $3.00 and $3.50 go at $2.10; Suits worth $3.75, $4.50, $5.00, up to $7.50, go at $2.85 Youths’ Suits Made of winter-weight materials, in many patterns, single or double breasted; former prices $7.00, $8.50, $10.00 and $12.50; now reduced to $5.43. Also many substantial reductions in furnishings and caps for boys and youths. and suits topcoats buying direct from us, the in neat, light topcoats for youths from 14 Suits Suits worth (U il L Il Gim | l L L i Ll Out-of-townorders filled—write us for anything in men’s or. boys’ clothing, furnishings or hats.