The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 13, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCII 135. WIFE'S VISIT FIVE DEATHG CHARGED T0 THIS WOMAN Confession of For-| gery Uncovers Sensation, Bodies of Two Massa-| chusetts Men to Be Exhumed. Detectives Believe They Will Find Evidence of Whole- sale Poisonings. ch to The Call BOSTON, Oct. I Gu buried on July —The body of B. H 20 in the wk w ittle cemetery at Sheldonville, twe: es from Be m, will be exhumed this week. This announcement reveals one of he State police have been called into the case and one of Chief officers is looking iuto th f Guild's widow, Mrs. Jennie g a fifteen months’ for having forged me, and also into that of on, who 18 mow in the formatory on the same charge. min his marriage, Be at the age of 72, to a young e footsteps of Mrs. Guild and the in some of its aspects, reads like a case before Guild died he was in the ; then came sudden sickness Mrs. Guild's first died in 189 3 peculiar sickness, whose mptoms were similar to those of ver, he I sickness began. It is this end of the case that the officials w workir be exhume the first es was Gu WOMAN’S PLAN GOES AWRY. One development of the pas f Guild had lived twen- longer his property would s wife's hands. The trans- but Guild’s signature the @ so0 that his sudder astrated this plan in| which he himself h an interest. s attendants at and Sydney With- name is believed to be an alias), whom Mrs. Guild invited trom no one knows where to help on the farm. Gufld complained sle stomach pains, which were ed by vomit- He grew w day, and | died on Friday mor! ner had Guild been buried Guild moved for her appointment as trix. This was oppo man Hancock Plainville, nd they Ruggles poi in Mre of f Guiid’s second wif er H n lawy he t during the ppointment a ted note ed was prese by Mrs, Guild con- fessed later, was forged. CONFESSES THE FORGERY. it was Mrs. Guild’s hurry to get m. out of state by pr Ing the mote to Administrator Ruggies so soon after nd’s death that wa r undo- e came up before the court Both Mrs. Guhri and With- When they ng retained emine upsel to fight the re came rumors that Mrs. Withinggon wanted (o have the n af scon as possible, o ¢ would be no full investigation, rumors have been too prevalent 0o emphatic to be ignored, and the besr the expense of an ex- 1d an autopsy. jtion to her two husbands the ected of having caused the two children by and that of 2 man known as Lloyd. The children died »sud- in Connecticut. Liloyd, who lived the woman, disappeared after a quarrel over property. No trace ever found, though search le. In every case where death rred Mrs, Guild has profited fin- cse was Two Miners Killed by a Cave-In. GHAM, Utah, Oct. 12.—The High- Boy mine, near this city. was the of a fatal eave-in at 4 o'clock this o men, John Sundquist, sin- gle, and Mike West, married. wel crushed to death and Erick Nyquist, sin- gle. aged 45, fatcliy injured ations ever known | Guild died oe month after | e of 30. A trail of death has followed | pter from Jane Teppan’s autoblogra- | d just hafl his| 1 upon and it was after the | than | d by | wext week. | the first | | feather him if he did not leave town, was painfully thoush mnot 1 10 DENTIST oIS IAE Husband Threat- ens in Town of Palo Alto. A Private Detective’s Story Arouses a Sensation. Vigorous Denial Is Made, But There Is Talk of a Divorce Suit, Special Dispatch to The Call. PALO ALTO, Oct. have elapsed since this quiet little hamlet | has had such a toothsome morsel of gos- sip to roll under its wagging tongue as was unexpectedly afforded it during the past fortnight. Scandal—ever a choice and palatable topic when the names of prominent and fashionable folk are in- volved—has come over the families of two of the best known men of the town, with the result that one happy home is rent asunder and another is apt to be. Gossip is busy wi*h the rMames of Mrs. Joseph Larkin, a petite, symmetrically- formed, handsome, styl!sh young woman, the wife of a leading business man here, and Dr. H. B. Dodge, a dentist, an elder- Iy iemleman of family and of goodstand- ing%in the community. The husband of the young woman; it is said, prompted by tHe dfsclosures made to Lim by a private detective whom he had employed to watch the young wife, vis- i*ed the office of Dr. Dodge and then and there threatened to shoot him and toplas- “ter his flesh with tar and feathérs if he | @id not leave town forthwith. No such drastic measures were taken, however, confined to his bed with a fever. Mrs. Larkin has left town and is now under- stood to be with her parents at Belmont. The two Larkin children have been sent away to school. band, is said to be in San Francisco. LAWSUITS IN PROSPECT. Although no legal action has yet been | ek Sy eAnes ot A parties concerncd, it is said Larkin will institute suit for* divorce some time this week and that Mrs. Larkin will offer a counter suit. De- | tails of the relations between Dr. Dodge | and Mrs. Larkin are necessarily mcager because of the reticence observed by both | sides. Dr. Dodge, lying ill at his handsome home on the outskirts of the town, his sweet-faced wife sitting at the foot of his bed fanning him affectionately, while his 14-year-old son sat reclining in an easy | chair in an adjoining room preparing his denied in toto the accusations against him. Larkin’s friends, on the other hand, insist that the stories of misconduct are true, and are still talking of spreading the tar. 3 Enspicious of his wife's fréquent visits lessons, | to the Dodge dental parlors, Larkin hired a ate detective from a San Francisco agency in the Mariposa building, where the Dodge offices are located. The detective's room adjoined the rear parlor of Dodge’s suite. STORY OF THE VISIT. On the affernoon of October 2 Mrs. Larkin came into the parlors and, as the detective avers, was ushered immediately into the rear room. According to the Lest information obtainable, the detective heard the couple telling each other love stcries, and although he did not actually witness the presence of either, he recog- nized them by their voices and straight- surmised that Mrs. Larkin had not called on professional business. Dr. Dodge says the detective could not have seen Mrs. Larkin in his office—al- though he admits that she was there on | this day—because the door between the rear room and the one supposedly occu- pled by the detective was securely bolted and a heavy portiere hung from the in- side room. The detective hurried to his employer and reported what he had heard. The xt day, according to Larkin’s friends, went to the office of Dr. Dodge and, L | after a stormy interview in which blows were narrowly averted, Larkin threatened to shoot the dentist and to tar and of the heated conversation between { Larkin and Dodge spread over the town and soon many tongues were wagging. The incident was distorted out of all re- semblance to its truth, it even being said that Larkin bad inflicted a severe beating on the doctor and had already prepared the tar and feathers. RUMORS FOR GOSSIPS, Because of the prominence of the par- | ties involved it was attempted to hush up the affair, which would probably have been | | done had Dr. Dodge not taken sick. This fact immediately gave rise to the report that ke had been shot, and naturally the Continued on Page 2, Column 2. 12—Many months | s the doctor is still in town, although | Joseph Larkin, the hus- | and secuted apartments for him | e —— PURPOSELY PROLONGING THE STRIKE Operators Hope to Discredit the President. Politics Back of Their Refusal to Make: Concessions. Morgan Seeks to Defeat the Renomination of Theo- dore Roosevelt. Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—Senator Quay cf Pennsylvania came to Washington this morning by appointment, had an hour’s conference yith President Roosevelt and |’ returned to Philadelpnia at noon. The Scnator admitted that he came to the capital to talk with the President, but would not say more. He declined to ex- press an opinion regarding the coal strike or predict when it would end. Secretary Root also was non-communi- cative regarding his interview with Mor- gan. It is said on good authority that the Secretary carried a message to Mor- gan, but it was not a request. ' President Ttoosevelt has made mo requests of Mor- gan. Whatever his message, it was re- lating to,something he intends to do to end the -Q.rlke if there is not an amica- snd - The senting the third parfy to this contro- versy—the American. people—and Insists that they shall have coal. The President is not worried about poli- tics in this coal strike, while the only people’ who have found politics mixed up with the effort to reach a settlement are the operators and the newspaper organs of Morgan. These have so industriously cried out against political interference | for the past month that there is a grow- ing impression in administration circles that politics is at the bottom of the re- fusal of the operators to come to any terms with the miners. MORGAN DECLARES HIMSELF. This talk about political interference be- gan soon after Morgan returned from Europe. In fact, there has been a persis- tent effort by Morgan’s friends to create the impression that prominertt Republi- can officlals were trying to inject pdlitics into the coal strike as part of the Con- gressional campaign. Since Morgan re- turned from Europe he has let it be known that he did not regard President Roosevelt as a safe executive: that Roosevelt must be defeated for renomina- tion or re-election and a man elected who could have the confidence of “the business interests.” It is now believed in administration cir- cles that the insult to Roosevelt by the operators was premeditated and inspired; that it was part of a well-iaid plan to dis- credit the President with the people and elect a Democratic House to show lack of confidence in Roosevelt. Morgan is will- ing to have his roads lose millions in money now to make impossible a contin- uance of Roosevelt as President after 1904. He has an ambition to name the next President of the United States and is be- lieved to have deliberatély held back a settlement of the coal strike to aid in de- feating the re-election of a Republican Congress. PRESIDENT’S NEW MOVE. The interview Senator Quay had with President, Cassatt of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company yesterday and that which the Senator had with President Roosevelt to-day are sald to point to a new move which will put the coal strike up to the highest possible authority in the coal-carrying business. The Pennsyl- vania company controls the Reading Rail- road, which is the chief coal-carrying road in the anthracite region. President Baer of that road has been the most stub- born man among the operators in refusing to agree to any terms. President Roosevelt, Senators Quay and Platt and Governor Odell have come to the conclusion that mere figureheads can no longer stand in the way of a settle- ment, and they have put the question up to the two chief men in control of the great combination of mine operation and coal hauling—J. Plerpont Morgdd, who financed the roads, and President Cassatt of the Pennsylvania Company, who is the real executive head of the Reading. These two men must fish or cut bait. They must settle the strike or accept the consequences. The Pennsylvania com- pany cannot afford to defy the United States Congress, the Pennsylvania Legls- | latufe and the Governor of New York. Close friends of the President to-pight believe that the strike will be settled within a week. Secretary Root was at the White House this evening to report on his conference with Morgan yesterday. Professor J. W. Jenks, who prepared the report on trust combinations for the Industrial Commis- sion, and Marcus A. Marks, a New York lawyer, also had a conference with the | next day. Other companies say they are, PRICE FIVE CENTS. Sends a Defiance to General Sumner and Says He Will .‘——__.____———.____ of Mohammed. your friendship.’ Cease sending letters. ’—Sultan of Bacolod’s defiance to Uncle Sam. Fight for the Religion of Mohammed. —— tan of Bacolod, Minda- nao, has rcjected the friendly overtures of Gen- eral Sumner, commander of the Amcrican forces in Mindanao, in a deflant letter in which he invites war. The Sultan says: “The Sultan of Bacolod desires war forthwith. He wishes to maintain the re- ligion of Mohammed. Cease sending let- ters. What we want is war. We do not desire your friendship.” Friendly Moros report that the Sultan of Bacolod is fortifying his strongholds. He is in possession of many rifles. It is expected that an American column will be sent from Camp Vicars to capture and reduce the Bacolod stronghold. It has not been decided when the move is to be made. Counterfeit American silver dollars are being made in China and circulated here extensively. The suspicion is held that some of this money was shipped from San Francisco. The dollars are of silver and of standard weight. They have been detected through the improper stamping cf the word “Liberty” on the Goddess. The low price of silver insured to the makers of this counterfeit money a profit of 100 per cent. American silver circu< iates as gold in the Philippines. ™ — RETURN OF THE BUFFALO. Delivered Seamen and Stores to the Asiatic Fleet. NEW YORK, Oct. 12.—The United States steamer Buffalo arrived this morn- ing from Manila and ports on the Asiatic station with forty-two officers and 568 men. The Buffalo left New York on June 5 last with 30 midshipmen of the class of 1902, 750 men and 800 tons of stores for the | Asiatic fleet. She had a pleasant runm, highest authorities on trusts and trust legislation in the country. He is also a warm personal friend of the President. What was the purpose of the conference with Jenks is not known. He declined to reveal the object of his visit to Washing- ton. - ek WILL BE A TEST WEEK. Operators Declare Intention to Start Many of the Collieries. SCRANTON, Pa., Oct. 12.—This is the beginning of a week which it is generally believed will put to a test the claim of the operators that they Wwill be enabled to start up their collieries if given protection and the counter-assertion of the United Mine Workers' organization, as expressed in Wednesday's resolutions, that the strikers will not return to work withou: concessions even though the entire mill- tary force of the United States should be here to protect them. The operators have been for the past week making supreme efforts to engage men. They have succeeded to some ex- tent and make the some positiveness that the various col- lerfes will . resume operations in the course of a few days. The Delaware and Hudson Company will make a start to- Coal Company will open up its Green Ridge colliery probably to-morrow or the President. Professor Jenks is one of the | figuring on a resumption at certain col- ANILA, Oct. 12.—The Sul-~ ! announcement with | morrow at the Bellevue. The Green Ridge “The Sultan of Bacolod desires war forthwith. He wishes to maintain the religion | What we want is war. We do not desire - S— ¥y '5 I REET @ 2 ILIG AT ® 27 TE DITTRICT L ACTIVETY ¢ A ik T 2 i AMERICAN GENERAL WHO HAS BEEN CHALLENGED TO WAR BY A MORO SULTAN, AND SCENES ON THE ISLAND OF MINDANAO, WHERE THE CONFLICT WILL BE WAGED. P 24 4 5 niaking the usual stops at Gibraltar, Mal- ta, Port Said, Colombo and Singapore. At Gibraitar ten midshipmen were trans- ferred to vessels of the European station. The vessel aprived on August 2 at Ca- leries, but decline to give their location. The claim is also made on the operators’ side that' the forces at the collierfes al- ready working are to be largely increased during the week. The United Mine Workers' leaders con- tinte to assert that the military men can @o mothing toward inducing men to réturn+ ‘to work.and that all the men who could be induced to go back to work without concessions are already back. Strike disorder is now aimost wholly want{pg. During the pas: two days the soldiers have had nothing to do further than patrol duty. * WARNING TO HARRIMAN OMAHA," Oct. 12—Thomas F. Wilson, fourth vice president of the International Assoclation of Machinists, to-day said that the strike of shop men now being conducted by him against the Union Pa- cific Railroad might be carried to all of the ‘Harriman ,lines. - Such a result’ de- pended largely on the action of the an- nual meeting of the.Urflon Pacific, which would be held in Salt Lake City on Otto- ber 14. . An indorsement by that meeting of the position taken by the Union Pacific officials ‘'on the strike and the piece work system, said he, would be considered sut- ficlent cause for carrying the strike to the other Harriman lines. —_— 208TS NOTICE TO FTRIKERS ' WILKESBARRE, . Oct. 12—The Erle it vite, Manila, where she found Rear Ad- miral Rodgers with his flagship, the New York; also the Rainbow, the flagship of Kear Admiral Wilder, and several ves- s of the southern squadron. The Buf- company to-night posted notices at its collieries at Pilttston requesting all strik- ing _employes. to return to work to-mor- TOW. * The company assured all men who re- turned ample protection. This is believed to be the first move on the part of the coal companies to break the strike under the protection of troops. Kansas City Relief Fund. KANSAS CITY, Oct. 12-A movement for the rellef of the striking anthracite coal miners was started to-day by the Iudustrial Council, the centrai labor or- ganization ‘of Kansas City.. A fund will be raised by a direct appeal to all of the union labor bodies here. A committee was_appointed by the Industrial Council to .solicit for this fund. One hundred dellars was raised at the meeting of the counetl to-day. S N P Pour Coal Trains Move. READING; Pa., Oct. 12.—Four trains of washery @nd mined coal, comprising 6730 tons,-passed down the Reading road dur- ing last ‘night, The fuel is intended ‘for sale to the company’s employes and for use in the locomotives. This was the heaviest shipment since last May. Geneva Strike Collapses. GENEVA, Oct. 12.—The strike has coi- lapsed, the strikers’ syndicate having called .upon all trades to resume work. falo transferred about 450 men to their vessels and received 280 who had served the required two years in the Philip- pines. She also landed stores for the southern squadron and took on stores for the northern squadron. Bad weather interfered considerably with the handling of the men and stores at Manila, and as cholera existed there cemparatively little communication was permitted with the shore. Thirteen mid- shipmen were transferred to vessels at Cavite, and the Buffalo sailed on August 9 for Nagasaki, Japan, where Admiral Evans, with the Kentucky, the New Or- leans, Helena and Vicksburg, was found. The Buffalo made exchanges of men and supplied stores. She also transterred five midshipmen and received a number of officers who had been ordered home. As much cholera existed at Nagasaki the steamer remained at the water anchorage under voluntary quarantine. On August 19 the Buffalo sailed for Wu Sing, China, where she found the Mon- terey, the Wilmington and the collier Saturn. There she continued the ex- change of men, delivered stores, coaled ship and received officers for home. She left Wu Sing on August 19 for Hong- kong and found there the Monadnock, completed the transfer of men and stores and left for home on August 25, stopping at Singapore, Colombo and Port Said. At Messina, Sicily, the Buffalo fell in with the Albany and received five of- ficers and forty-seven men sent _home of the Buropean station om the expiration of their terms The Buffalo crossed the At- of sea duty. lantic in about 34 latitude and had fine weather. The officers of the Buffalo include Cap- tain A. Rcss, Lieutenant Commander H. H. Hossley and Lieutenant Commander V. 8. Nelson. The officers from the Asiatic fleet include Liecutenant Com- mander F. H. Herman and Lieutenant Commander F. H. Scribner. The striking employes of the street car line resumed work this evening. There were some disturbances here last night. Shots from revolvers were fired and some persons were wounded, but to-day there was complete tranquillity in Geneva. RS Ak Coal From Germany and Pussia. PHILADELPHEA, Oct. 12.—The Brauer Line Steamship Company, operating be- tween Philadelphia and New York and | Hamburg, is reported to have purchased for importation to this country 20,000 tons of anthracite coal from Germany and 18- w0 tons from Southern Russia. The lale ter is to be shipped from Southern Rus- sia during October and November. i Morgan Goes Yachting. NEW YORK, Oct. 12.—Developments here to-day in the coal strike situation were lacking. J. P. Morgan spent the day on board his yacht, the Corsair, lying in North River. It was reported that George F. Baer was one of two men who lei. the yacht In a launch at 10 o'clock to-night. AR R T Aid for French Strikers. CHARLEROI, Belglum, Oct. 12—The national committee of miners of four of the great Belgium coal fields met to-day and passed resolutions in favor of de- manding an increase of 15 per cent in the ‘wages of the coal miners, the object of the demand being to create a diversion in favor of the striking coal miners in France and to prevent the supplying o‘ Belgium coal {o France.