The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 31, 1903, Page 1

SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, MARCH 31. 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BANK HAS NO FUNDS WITH IDHICH TO PAY HIS CHECKS J. Barton Key, of the Illustrious.Revolutionary Family, Confronted by Serious Difficulties Resulting From| HIS wu:[ Careless Utterance of Paper Which Goes to Protest 3 | | —~ HOTEL MANAGER WHO IS EM- BARRA! BECAUSE BANKS REFUSE TO HONOR HIS CHECKS. | amounts, but from other and seemingly just as reliable sourc fact was e tablished that n half a cozen checks held agair him in the city and all for more than what might “small CHECKS FOR HUNDREDS. One check held by book- | maker is said ures upon it representing a sum something like $1500. Three other indivic the proprie- of the Maison another the manager of the Casino, out near the park, | anc the other the keeper of a saloon on | Market street, the Lacey—each hold y's checks Tor amounts in tlie neigh- | borhoed of $100, and another one calling for $100 is in the safe of a local hotel. R. G. Atkins of Montgomery street | holds Key's check for $0, and another gentleman, the manager one of the | tall office buildings on the sa‘de street, | is said to have cashed one foi five times | that amount. | What brought about the change in the the there be termed amounts, wn to h tor of tide of J. Barton Key's affairs few seem to thoroughly understand, but the more charitably inclined atfribute it to his reckless mode of living of late, his ad- miration for horse racing, desire for fine and expensive dinners at which he delight- ed to have a number of guests and gen- erally speaking his fondness for all that | is gay in life, It is said that when he | came here under engagement to the Pa- | cific Improvement Company as assistant manager at the Hotel del Monte he was a bonus of $2000, and with this amount he proceeded to enjoy himself when he had severed his relations with that establishment. | given T oL S X st are troublesome times for { t w s R ry family Other checks were presented and were e, Francis K ccorded the same treatment, until it be- N a n to be noised about that Key's paper, . Bos » the extent of about $3000, was going to s s 5 < stest. The troubles of Key e in- gh reckless of asing with the passing of the days ks va s {rom $50 to | Trad le were complaining and s wh his own mark | th friends wére talking disa- b a » ained p v | &r the bank was sending its for- | m »sitor gentl reminders, restau- 3 s et orsement’ of Severa iz > his notes in to s s a A month . B Key c ave gone forth e housand or more; e s life is e popular atr rade money, in alcxon old Standard er and w > for the ad- - footlights of men a a years remained there for a long riod, during which he was engaged in arfous enterprises, latterly in the man- agement of the Barton Hotel In Wash- gtor ut & year ago he unexpected- the scene of his former t and a week later in the Hotel Del as its assistant man- Francise RETURNE TO CITY. rowever, was not lo g connected Returning to known amous hoste] he made he fact t he Hotel und t he ary funds to effect to organize a Jo- ld furnish the under his man- ell short of their ey has been do- best he couM. ly without used a check afts upon the nk were for a Frequently he is porrowed money in sums dred doliars, giving his e for the amounts ad- , or ‘would go dir ded. About two week: ago, how- one of his checks was present- « the bank: the cashier handed it back wilh the polite statement to its holder were cor the hotel re uneasily at him whenever he approached Finally realizing that he was getting into a very bad predicament, K eral of his acquaintanc out of K looking appealed to s to help him what he termed his temporary dif- ficulties A MAKES EXPLANATION. s creditors a “I have been receiving ullowances regu- larly from our estate in the East. It has been my custom to draw through a loc; 1k upon the bank in which the funas of the estate are deposited, and the for- mer has been in the habit of advancing they came in the habit me money on my checks in anticipation | of the receipt of these moneys from the | East. has has will | and By some mistake my last draft not been honored and the local bank repudiated my checks. The matter be fixed up In a few days, however, my credit will continue as before.” s explanation was appeasing to the oring creditors for a time, but Key saw breakers ahead and began to to meet them. First he ap- proached James V. Coleman on.a propo- | sition to join with some other gentlemen, | a number of whom he mentioned, Includ- | ing John C. Kirkpatrick, Joseph Tobin, Ra val, Henry Crocker and other | men of prominence, in an indorsement of his note of sufficlent amount to cover the | total of his financlal embarrassment. | Mr. Coleman, referring to their short scquaintan: thought that some of the others mentioned by Kex would be | enough for any gentleman's note and turned down the appeal. Key then | appealed to the others, but with the samo el soor prepare colaly { result. Still he hoped, as did the holders of his discredited checks, but hope brought nothing. First it was to-morrow, then the day | after, until yesterday, when he said that within the next few hours he would be | prepared to meet all his outstanding obli. | gations, but evening still found him work. | ing among the young and wealthy set of | the town trying to tide over his “tem. | porary difficulti This morning finds J. Barton Key still in the promising con- | dition, but still hopeful. Upon what he | is building these hopes no one of his cred- | itors feels able to explain. | - Askead 1 night regarding the reports concerning his financial troubles, he gave the stqtement as published above. He referred to his repudiated checks as a few, just six in number, and all for small oning for ex- | | On various occasions he received sums of money from the East, but not suffi- | cient in size to warrant him continuing his extravagance. The leniency of the bank in advancing him money on his per- sonal drafts before the latter had been formally honored in the to, make him carel have been eventually embarrass! s and is thought to materially responsible for g him into his present tion. le po | POPE LEO MAY OPENLY CO..DEMN FRENCH POLiCY; Strong Protest Against Anti-Catholic Course of Premier Combes | Probable. | ROME, March 30.—At the consistory which will be held at the beginning of May for the appointment of a Chancellor of the church, a few Cardinals and many Bishops, it is rumored that the Pope has determined to abandon his usual reserve and will openly condemn the anti-Catho- lic polley of M. Combes, the French pre- mier. This probably will lead to agita- tion In France for the abolition of the concordat. Cardinal Satolli probably will be raised | to the eplscopal order in the Sacred_ Col- lege by his appointment to the suburbi- carian bighopric of Arascati. It is believed that, owing to the disas- }trous results of his church policy, Car- | dinal Rampolla, papal secretary of state, | may fail in’ his candidacy for the chan- | eellorship. | FORGERY OF RAILROAD TICKETS IS UNEARTHED Bogus Coupons Sold {o Travelers on the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific Lines. NEW ORLEANS, March 30.—The pas- senger department of the Southern Pacific has just unegrthed in New York a for- | gery of théir tickets. A coupon of -a tcket purporting to have been issued by the Louislana and Southern Railroad | Company has been turned into the New Orleans office for identification. There is 1o such road as the Louisiana and South- ern, but the manipulators of the ticket took advantage of the name Louisiana Southern and sold to travelers coupon tickets over the Union Pacific 'and South- ern Pacific. The ticket béars the signa- ture of J. M. Davis, general passenger and ticket agenf, There is no such of- ficlal connected with any railroad in Louisiana. East also tended | SIS SPELL BESTS ONER 'Police Commission-| er Makes Start- ling Charge. |Asserts Unserupulous Persons- Control | Spouse. fiMrs. Hutton Charges Hus- [ band With Having Treat- ed Her Cruelly. | Police Commissioner Harry W. Hutton | says he believes that his wife s the vic- |tim of the wiles and: artifices of an un- | scrupulous exponent of suggestive hypnot- ism. This sensational allegation was made during the course of an interview with | | Mr. Hutton at his offices, 608 Montgomery street, last evening. 'To all'of the allega- tions made by Mrs, Hutton relative to her reasons for leaving S8an Francisco and | | instituting an action for divorce on the grounds of Infidelity, | ters most emphatic denial, and intimates | that his wife was spirited outside of the boundaries of the State. Mrs. Hart, who left this city with Mrs. Hutton, comes in | for a share of condemnation and is | charged by Hutton with being the person exercising a hypnotic control over Mrs, Hutton. | Police Commissioner Hutton returned at 1 o’clock after being delayed for ses- | eral shours by a washout on the Central Pacific. When seen at his offices last evening he made the following statement in ref- erence to the departure of his wife from | | this city and the subsequént allegations ! made by her in Salt Lak€ City relative tc the case: “1 wish to state in advance,” said Mr. | Hutton, “that 1 will say nothing against | Mrs. Hutton. he is my wife.and ¥ fn- tend to protect her| gigh meme at ail I parted from my Wifé di the Valen- | eta-street depot-on February 1 and at | that time we were never better friends. | | It was her intention to visit her sister | | ir San Jose and then to go to a Los An- geles sanitarium for treatment, owing to the fact that she was not in the best of | health. 1 did not see her again until last Saturday, when I saw her in Salt Lake City In the custody Fart. 1 experienced ficulty in seeing her, but | ceed | BECOMES ALARMED. dif- suc- considerable finally “After my wife left this city I wrote to [ hér at san Jose and at Los Angeles, but | received no reply. I -then sent a regi tered letter to her in care of her sister, but the letter was Teturned with the | statement that she could not be found. | I became alarmed at her absence from home and communicated with the police | department. They scoured the citysand ommunicated with the police ments of the various cities throughout the coast and in Michigan, her former home, but without securing a trace of her until the police received the follow- ing telegram from Salt Lake: Mrs. Hutton still here. { is in good hands; husband better come. SHEETS, Chiet of Police. erty at the southwest corner of Hyde and Sutter streets. One of the contracts was | with G. H. Umbsen & Co. and the other | with Lyon & Hoag. One was to run for sixty days and the other for ninety days. The property wag valuable and was paying & good rental. She did not want to scll, and at her request I endeavoreg to break the contracts. Umbsen agreed to cancel the contract, but the other firm refused. returned to this city and called on Attor- ney Delmas and told him that she wanted to sell her property. I did not know that she was in the city and she did not com- municate with me. On March 11 the French Savings Bank was kept open un*il % p. m., and she drove up In a hack with a man and converted $35,000 in certitied | checks into greenbacks as the proceeds from the sale of the property. At 6 o'clock she took the trgin to Salt Lake City in company with Mrs. Hart, arriv- ing there on March 13. They registered at the Manitou Hotel as Mrs. and Miss Hart of England. “On March 23 the Chief of Police called at the hotel and was informed that the ladies had left for Detroit, Mich., when the fact of the matter was that they were still in the hotel. CHANGE THEIR ROOM. wThey had changed their room and rsg- jstered under the names of Mrs. and Miss Wilson. Mrs. Hutton gave me the follow- ing statement of her account, which was | rendered by Attorney Delmas: ! SAN FRANCISCO, March 16, 1003. Mrs, Inez Sexton Hutton, Salt Lake City— | Madam: The following is the statement of the | sale of your property here, which was made on the 11thi inst. Purchase price, $35,000, gc- | counted for as follows: Lyon & Hoag, commission 3 8500 Pro rata taxes from January 1 to March 11, due on second installment 36 87 Von Rhein Rea! Estate Company, ser- ViCes .......uk. eet. 10 00 Searcher of records, services < 5 00 Recording of release of mortgage from 1lfbernia Bank. o 195 Notary fees, acknowledg of deed and revocation of power of attor- ney .. l “Continued on Page 0, Column 1. HEADS OF TWO REPUBLICS o e, { cruelty and other | divers causes the Police Commissioner en- | from Salt Lake City yesterday afternoon | of a woman named | depart- | Do not think she | “Some time ago I learned that my wife | had signed two contracts to sell her prop- | “] have learned that on February 9 she | AR B | { N ‘Dominican Army | and Insurgents | in Fierce Battle Government Will . Attempt to Re- take the Capital APE HAYTIEN, Hayti, March 30. A serious engagement took place n Saturday between the Domin- revolutionary forces ~at Juan Calvo. The losses on the Government side were twenty-seven killed and forty-three | wounded, while the revolutionaries lost five killed and eleven wounded, | The telegraph line is interrupted be- | yona Cotui. It is rumored Nere that the | Government troops have surrotinded the capital, Santo Domingo, and that a battle is imminent. SANTO DOMINGO, March 27.—The Commissioners who were sent to'the towns of Bahia Honda, Asua Compola and San Pedro de Macoris to endeavor » obtain their admission to the revolu- tioriary movement have returneéd here. Their mission was a failure. The situa- tion is unchanged. The city is quiet, ex- pecting news of events on the north side of the istand. In the meantime business is at a standstill. It is difficult to foresee the final outcome. NEW YORK, March 30.—The following dispatch was received to-day by the Con- sul of Santo Domingo at this ‘port from Governor Caceres, at Santiago, in that re- public: “General Horaclo Vasquez captured the cruiser Independencia at Macoris. All the chiefs of revolution or. board captured and are imprisoned. Revolution now confined to Santo Domingo city, wnere they are beseiged by Government troops. Rest of country s with Government.” WASHINGTON, March 30.—The Atlanta left Cape Haytien yesterday for Santa Domingo City, where a battle is in sight. —_— BONILLA NOW SUPREME. His Victotious Forces Overrun the Republic of Honduras. NEW ORLEANS, March 30.—The fruit steamer Breakwater reached port to-day with news that General Bonilla and his army are sweeping every point in Spanish Honduras, and that it is a matter of ouly a few days until Tegucigalpa, the capital, falls into his hands, if he does not cc- cupy it already. Puerto Cortez, the most important port March 22. The capture was casy, Government troops mutinied and kilied Mayor de Plaza and the second officer. can Government troops and the | 1 { | HOLD CONFERENCE AT SEA Presidents Cabrera of Guatemala and Escalon of Sal- vador Meet Aboard Ship and Arrive at an Under- standing That Will Prevent a Disastrous War — 1 | — ANAMA, March 30.—Cable dis- patches from San Salvador an- nounce that President Cabrera of Guatemala and President Escalon of Salvador had an intervigw on Sunday on the high sea between Acajulta, Salvador, and San Jose, Costa Rica. Af- ter six hours’ conference they separated, having arranged satisfactorily the differ- ences between the two republics. Presi- dent Escalon returned last night to San Salvador. The meeting between the two Presidents took place on board the steamer Costa Rica and the object of it was to arrange some m=thod of averting future wars be- tween Guatemala and Salvador. Presi dent Cabrera and President Escalon s CABRERA _— PRESIDENTS OF SALVADOR AND GUATEMALA, WHO HAVE AGREED TOQ SUBMIT TO AN ARBITRATION TRIBUNAL ALL DIFFERENCES INVOLVING THE TWO REPUBLICS. Salling to Belize, Vallaradl went ashore, leaving the money aboard. No’sooner had he left the ship than her crew steered her out to sea, and she is now a pirate in unknown seas without a flag or country. San Pedro was captured. by the rebels March 24. Mrs. Arias, wife of the Presi- dent, is in a dying condition. She escaped from Puerto Cortez one day before its capture on board the United States coi- ler Brutus. She was afterward trans- ferred to the Marietta and carried to Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, for safety. RS NEET A3 HAYTIAN LAWMAKERS SCARED. Firing of Rifles Interrupts a Sitting of the Chamber. PORT AU PRINCE, Hayti, March 30.— The Government is incensed against the Deputies because of their refusal to vote an issue of paper money. The sitting of the Chamber to-day was interrupted by the firing of rifle shots. This occurrence created much excitement and the situa- tion for a time looked grave. Quiet, how- ever, has been restored by a proclamation issued by President Nord, In which he says he disapproved the outrage com- mitted against the Chamber and declares that he will maintain order and enforce respect for the constitution. CASTRO RECEIVES MINISTERS. Great Britain and Germany Again Represented at Caracas. CARACAS, March 2.—Herr von Pell- drum, the new Minister of Germany, and Mr. Bax-Ironside, the recently appointed British Minister, presented their creden- tlals to President Castro to-day. Their reception was more cordial than expected owing to the treme amiability of the ‘envoy of Britain. e SULTAN OF SOKOTO ¥FLEES FROM THE BRITISHX FORCES LONDON, March 30.—Brigadier General 8ir Frederick Lugard, High Commissioner of North Nigeria, at the head of a British on the Atlantic coast, was captured on force, occupied Sokoto March 15. After a as the | o ople resistance the Sultan of Sokoto ana his chiefs fled. Sokoto is the religious center of Moham- 500| Commandant Vallaradi of the Puerto| .qanism in North Nigeria. Much im- Cortez district escaped with all the mouey | portance is attached here to the Lugard expedition. available on board the gunboat Tatumbla. — rived at an agreement to draw up a treaty of compulsory arbitration, which will be signed at San Jose, Costa Rica, by plenip. tent of the two coun- tries. Th rents of Guatemala and Salvador will then designate a Span- ish-American Government which will act as arbitrator in any future dispute, WASHINGTON, March 30. — United States Minister Coombes at Guatemala cabled the State Department to-day that the Presidents of Guatemala and Sal- vador have had an interview, and as a result the conditions are so much im- proved that the Minister regards the dan- ger of war as averted. The United States Consul at San Juan del Norte cables that another revelution has broken out in Nicaragua, but he gives no details. —- WILL OPPOSE CANAL TREATY. Two Foes of the Present Colombian Government Win Office. COLON, March 30.—It is reported at Cartagena that General Peppo Ospin, who was expelled from Colombia in October, 1%1, when he was Ministsr of War, be- cause of an attempted conspiracy against the Government, has been elected Senge tor for the Department of Antioquia, u= also that Senor Caro, former President Colombia and now candidate for (M@ Presidency, has been clected Senator for the Department of Caucs. If tuess re- ports are correct, both men are likely to prove strong opponents of the ratifica- tion of the Panama canal convention. The cruiser Cartagena sailed for Carta- gena this afternoon with 350 troops om board. P A — SHOOTS HIS DAUGHTER AND THEN KILLS HIMSELF Family Troubles Prompt a Colorade Rancher to the Commission of a Terrible Tragedy. DENVER, March 30.—A special to the Republican from Durango, Colo., says news was received to-day of a double tragedy on Sunday at Bayfield. Colo., twenty miles from Durango. H. H. Pat- terson, a ranchman, visited his divorced wife to see his six-year-old daughter, and while the child was sitting in his lap drew a pistol and shot her through the heart and then killed himself.