The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 9, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCHI~NO. 130. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1903, d the convi appcar straight. TCall, PRICE FIVE CENTS. WRONGFUL ACTS OF CLERK MAHONY CULMINATE IN A GREAT SCANDAL RK ALB ions of many criminals are said to have been invalidated. An experienced man was induced to undertake the task of perfecting the records. T MAFEONY is responsible to a great degree for a muddle of records just discovered to exist in the court of Superior Judge Dunne. An outsider performed the duties of a Deputy County Clerk. The records have been willfully juggled. The law has been Mahony saw that an exposure and defeat were inevitable unless his books could In spite of secrecy, however, the matter has become public and the guilty must make answer. STRIKE FEVER SPREADS THROUGH OLD WORLD AND MANY RIOTERS KILLED IN CLASHES WITH TROOPS - THE TORMADD | A 2R/ Dutch Lawmakers Pass]| One Article of Anti- Strike Bill. ich prov 1 men 's defense com- the strike if i-strike law - PREPARING AS FOR- WAR. AMSTERDAM, April S—The govern- ment h ered the mobilization of all marines wit hours, and three . n ordered to be in re e service. committee has decid the t untry. of the ave not struck ection for employes of the er and canal navigation companies have decided to strike in sympathy with rallroad men More trains were running to-day than on yesterday. The pupifs of the Locomotive Engineers’ Institute have unanimously tendered their services to the railroads offers have been accepted and a them are being employed as mber of remained quiet up to to-night and her consort drove out as The Hague to-day. nicipal employes met to-night and decided to go out on strike to-morrow morning. This action will affect the gas telephone, sanitary but it is believed that only a third of the men will respond to the strike call, and that the military will be employed to maintain the public service. en t wIEW OF FOortE— ’ | Soldiers Patrol strike of all | Fworr 7HE BALCONY or ST FETER'S - TS NS SN \ MINISTER OF WAR, WHO AGAINST STRIKERS; THE DUTCH SOVEREIGN, D A LABOR UPHEAVAL, AND VIEW OF ITALY'S CAPITAL. IS DIRECTING OPERATIONS WHO SEEKS TO | Streets of Rome and Clashes With Riotous Mobs Are Frequent. OME, April 8.—The Socialists have decided to propose that the differ- ences between the typesetters and their employers, which brought about the general rtrike, should be settled by arbitration. The proposition is al strike will be ended. King, who some days ago went with the Queen and the royal children to the hunting lodge near Rome, has in- formed the Ministers that he will hold the usual council to-morrow. The aspect of Rome was completely changed early to-day. The gay, crowded city of yesterday seemed dead. No cabs | reach the center of the city. The strikers | but Rome was still occupied by the mili- passed through the streets, and even the street cars, which ran at long intervals, were escorted by police and were almost empty, as the people feared to-ride in them because of the threats of the strik- ers. The shops were open, but the shut- ters were up, as the proprietors intended to be ready for any eventuality. were apprehensive of rioting and feared that, as on other occasions, their win- cows would be smashed. MILITARY IN CHARGE. The whole city was occupied by troops. s to be accepted, in which case the | They | Detachments of cavalry were posted on the squares, and special details of soldiers i"m police were stationed around the | Vatican so as to prevent any attempt | against the papal palace. Forelgneérs continue to leave Rome, but any of them cannot get away, as they far from the railroad station and no 1c | buses can cairy only a limited number of { passengers. Unimportant encounters between the strikers and troops took place during the morning, the former wishing to hold | meetings, which were forbidden, or to were easily dispersed by cavalry charges. | During the morning an attempt was made | by strikers to overthrow a street car, but it faiied. STRIKERS ARE FIRED UPON. Five hundred French pilgrims arrived | here to-day and had some startling expe- riences. They got off at a station on the outskirts of Rome so as to avoid going through the city, but there were no cabs, and all kinds of wagons and carts were hired to take the pilgrims’ baggage. The men and women of the party arrived at e e e o e e o] ) strike of all trades throughout the coun- | try is considered to be a policy of despair. and water services, | In authoritative quarters 1t is believed that the strike as an organized movement is doomed to failure and that the govern- ment’s anti-strike bill will be speedily passed, greatly strengthening the hands of the authorities. Meantime there is no doubt that the The proclamation calling for a general | public is suffering great inconvenience through the stagnation of trade resulting from the strike. There is a rush on the State pawnshops and the savings banks. ‘The mails are arriving trregularly and late, being forwarded partly by automo- biles where the railways are held up by the strikers. The theaters were able to resume to-night, the singers and dancers who had gone on strike having resumed their duties. | throughout Holland continues and may extend to every branch of [ 1 bs are obtainable, and the hotel omni- | [ HREE ! —Russia, - Italy and the Netherlands — are in the | throes of far-reaching labor agi- tations. In Nijni Novgorod, a manufacturing city in the Czar's | | | emipire, artillery was used against {a band of rioters, thirty men being | killed and 100 wounded. Rome presents the appearance of a mili- tary camp, because of the large | number of troops called into serv- suppress lawless strikers. |1ce to Clashes between the soldiers and | | | mobs on the streets are frequent. The tie-up of transportation lines abor in the Dutch kingdom. | & 1 | \ Russian Troops Use Ar- tillery "Against { [ | burg, dated yvesterday, says thirty Strikers. | B persons were killed and 100 were wounded during labor disturbances near | | Nijnl Novgorod. The disturbances occurred yesterday at a large factory near Nijni Novgorod. The local civil authorities were unable to re- store order. Troops were called out and artillery brought up and fired polnt blank into the midst of the rioters, killing thirty men and wounding a hundred. L e e e B T ) the Garibaldl bridge just as a detachment of cavalry charged a mob, and a scene | of indescribable confusion ensued. With screams and shouts the pilgrims, in their | efforts to escape, were scattered in all di- rections. About the middle of the day the strikers succeeded in gathering in threatering numbers on the Corso Vittorio Emanuele, although in the center of the city, and detachments of troops charged, fired three | volleys and dispersed them. About a dozen | men were reported to have been wound- {ed. The officers reported that order had ! been completely re-established since noon, ERLIN April 8.—A dispatch to the Lokal Anzeiger from St. Peters- | tary forces and the general strike con- tinued. Many strikers were arrested dur- ing the day. MORE TROOPS ORDERED OUT. The Government has determined to have a sufficient force of troops on hand to_maintain order under any circum- stdnces, and has issued instructions to send ten more battalions of troops to Rome. The Pope was much interested in the particulars of the strike. He said: “It is a sword with two edges.” He expressed sorrow at the damage done the interests of the city and because the strike interfered with the Easter cer- emonies. Instructions were issued to close the churches wherever disturbances occurred, and the prelates of St. Peter's met dur- ing the day to decide whether or not to suspend the Easter services, fearing that the strikers would enter St. Peter's and provoke disorder. TOWNG RAZED [N FURY OF ' Nine Persons Dead and Many Are Injured. Arkansas Counties Are Swept by Devasta- ting Storm. | ton ana children, Pangburn, not expected | | Pangburn, both legs broken; Tom Hou: | spent its force by the time it reached | Bradford. | Hiram, with a population of 150, has been | wiped off the map. |in the storm’s track. Nothing has be:n Little Town of Hiram May Have Been Entirely | Destroyed | LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April §.—Specials |, to the Gazette from several towns in White and Cleburne counties, Arkansas, | tell of a tornado which swept through that section last night, leaving death and destruction in its path. The major por-| ticn of the country through which the storm plowed its way is remote from rail- reads, telegraph or telephone lines. A correspondent wires from Searcy, Ark., to-night that he had gone over a portion of the track of the storm and that trees were twistcd from their trunks and houses demolished. Thus far it has been impossible to ascertan where the storm | began, but it is known that it raged in those. two counties. .The latest reports| @re that niue persons are dead, three dy- ing and several badly Injured. The towns of Little Red, Albion, Bradford, Heber and | Pangburn have been heard from thus far. The dead: JAMES LEGGETT, Little Red. JOSEPH LEGGETT, Little Red HOMAS KING AND WIFE, Red. | THREE KING CHILDREN. Young ias school teacher, who was boarding at King's. A. C. WILLIAMS, near Heber. ! The injured—Infant child of King fam- fiv: Mrs. Williams, not expected to live; | Buck Neely, serious; Albert Kiler, Little| Red; Walter Pollard, Little Red; two of Follard family, near Albion; Mrs. Hover- to live; Mrs. Barkenhousen, Little Red, leg broken and skull fractured; Walter Fuller, Pangburn, leg broken; Mrs. Henry | Wells, leg injured; unknown womul, ton, near Heber, both arms broken; un- | known man at Bradford. Bradford, which 1s on the Iron Moun- tain Rallroad, was the first point heard from. Several houses were blown down there and one man was serlously injured. | The tornado came from the west and had It is feared the little town of | It |8 near Heber and thus far heard from it. It probably will be several days before the names of all who were killed by the tornado are known. A special to the Gazette from Heber says: In the tornado which swept across this section last might A. C. Willlams, living ten miles south of Heber, was killed. He was 70 years old and lived with his wife on one of the mountains south of this town. His house was caught up by the wind and thrown down the mountainside, he being killed. His wife was badly injured and s not expected to live. A white man named Houston Hving near Williams had both arms broken. At Pangburn six residences were blown down and a flock of sheep and a number of cattle, hogs and horses were killed. A large church near Pangburn was blown | half a mile. ! At Little Red postoffice Albert Kiler, Albert Berile, Walker Pollard, Mrs. Pol- lard and Tom King lost their houscs, barns and other buildings. Forty-three residences and sixteen barns destroyed and other wreckage is the rec- ord of the damage reported up to 8 o'clock to-night. The. tornado swupt everything in a path a mile wide. At Pangburn Mrs. Hoverton and one child were badly hurt and are not ex- pected to live. Two of the Pollards, ncar Albion, were badly hurt. A number of others were hurt, but not seriously. . praientins Sy : a Score In- jured at Hopewell. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 8—The lit- tle hamlet of Hopewell, forty miles north of this city and one mile from Hance- ville, was swept away early this morning by a cyclone, which cut a path of deso- lation a mile wide and two miles I across a prosperous farming section Blount County. Twelve persons were in- stantly killed, three or four fatally hurt and a score seriously injured. The dead: MR. AND MRS. NATHAN GRIFFIN. Continued on Page &‘ Column 2. ¢ | select fifty ANTI-MASHER MOVEMENT 15 PRUGRESaING: New York’s League to Extend Its Scope. ; Deputy Sheriffs Are Paid to Protect Women. Branches Will Be Organized in Other Cities of the East. The Call Special Dispatch NEW YORK, April $.—Harry F. Dyruff, president of the Law and Order League of Greater New York, which was recent- Iy organized in Brooklyn with the cific object of protecting women from in- sult and to stop the use of indecent and profane language in public places, a statement to-day. Part of it follows: “Five hundred letters already have been received indorsing the movement. About a dozen letters, chiefly anonymous, also spe- ned | have been recelved condemning the move- ment and threatening the life of the pres- ident of the assoelation. “Of the 500 letters about 200 contained applications for thie appoffitment as Degp- | uty Sheriffs. Of that number fifty have already been selected for appointment. We desire through the press to ask for more applications, and prefer that the same should come from prominent busi- ness men and clergymen (as we wish to more in addition to the fifty already selected from the applications al- ready received). “After the full number of deputies have been appointed the society will issue small buttons, at the cost of manufacture, to be had upon written application by any and al! persons who shall desire to wear them. The wearers of these buttons will be constituted an auxiliary of the league, and are expected to aid its deputies when called vpon and to promise to stop in- sult to women or the use of indecent lan- | guage in their presence, so far as lies within their power. “These buttons alse will be issued to ladies desiring them, the wearing of the same to indicate that the wearer desires at all times to be protected from insult by all gentlemen. “The' great difficulty which our organ- ization will be compelled to overcome will be that many times, in cases of common street and car flirting, deputies will uncertain as to whether the person ad- be dressed, or smirked at, wishes the mat- ter stopped, or whether they connive at the same. In cases where the league’s button is worn our deputies will have no doubts on the subject. “It is the intention of the president of the order to extend this league to all prominent cities of the Eastern States as soon as he possesses sufficient power to do so, and we would like to hear from prominent people in other cities who would wish to aid in such extension—es- pecially the cities of Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston.” FORMER VICE PRESIDENT IS SEVERELY BURNED | Stevenson Loses Hair and Mustache in Trying to Put Out a Fire. BLOOMINGTON, Iil, April 8.—Adlal E. Stevenson, formerly vice president of the United States, lost his hair and mustache and received painful burns on the face, | head and hands to-day while trying to extinguish a fire at his house. The fire started in a bedroom and Stevenson was attracted by the smoke coming through a transom. When he reached the room the curtains were ablaze. Without calling for aiG Stevenson rushed in to tear down the blazing draperfes and in an instant the hair was singed from his head, his mus- tache was burned off and his face blis- tered. Mr. Stevenson retreated before his clothes caught fire. The property loss dces not exceed $1000. g i STEAMERS SAIL TO LAY REMAINDER OF CABLE Anglia and Colonia Will Stretch the Section Connecting Hono- lulu and Manila. LONDON, April $.—The cable steamers Anglia and Colonia salled to-day to lay the remaining section of the Commercial Pacific cable, from Honolulu to Manila. t is expected that the cable from Horno- lulu to Manila, by way of Midway Island and the island of Guam, will be completed July 4. Work will be commenced in May. s~ iatiuiers Czarina Seriously IlL PARIS, April 9.—The correspondent of the Rappel at St. Petersburg says it is reported that the Czarina is seriously ill with peritonitis. -+ Records Are Juggled by Him. AssesSments | Levied on Deputies. \Prisons May .~ Open for ‘ Felons. | The vague rumors of wrongdoing and the open scandals that have been con- stantly hovering over the office of County Clerk since Albert Mahony was elected | to the position have culminated in the discovery of gigantic and far-reaching frauds for which he is responsible. Not alone i harged with the gal juggling of public moneys with which he is intrusted, but at his instigation un- been committed which ilt in a general jail de- e records of Judge Dunne's court for s of 1599, 1900 and 1902 have been made incorrectly, and that, too, with willful in Mahony was inex- cusably careless and violated his oath office as Deputy Cc As Coun- ty Clerk he openly with levy- ing assessm sand dollars on his subordinates and with tampering criminally with the funds of the city of San Francisco. The matter is said to have been brought to the atten- tion of Mayor Schmitz and, according to Senator Frank French, a complaint w be filed to-day demanding an imv | tion by the Grand Jury. | The deputies in the County Clerk's of- fice have been directed to pay another assessment within the last few days, but, iting to many thou- feeling that the end was near, the ma- jority of them have banded themselves together to re: coercion and get what money was coming to them before the break. Mahony and his henchmen all were aware th the truth regarding the dis- sraceful state of affairs could not be kept from the public much longer and for a day two they straining them ves to get what they could out of the wreck. The law library fund was recently depleted to the extent of more than $150 with Mahony's I. O. U. as security. The ticket fund ran shy to the extent of $200 a few dollars are said to have been col- lected among the office employes; the County Clerk is said to have fumed and fretted: the deputies have been gathering quietly in groups and dis ing the ru- mors of the approaching disaster and the last call for contributions has brought the trouble to a climax. GEORGE LEE TALKS. Former Depu Clerk Lee is the man to whom Mahony owed much for mak- ing his election possible, but, suppesediy on the advice of some unprincipled politi peiates, the former was recently from his posiuon. He could or have been A cal as: discharged get no reason for his dismissal and re- peated attempts on his part to see Ma- hony fadled. Lee has finally become di gusted with his former superior, and on being approached consented to tell some of the things he knew about Mahony His story Is as follows: | 1 was dismissed from my position as eleric |in the Police Court on March 7. I did met | know the reason at that time, nor have I sincs know I had a considerable | amount of trouble getting my pay for the | first week in March. I have tried repeatedly to see Mahony and he has promised to see | me and t take me back. He has asserted that | it was all a mistake and that I was ail right, {vut what dia it amount 0?7 I do not care | | learned any. I | about the job particularly, only I hate to be thrown out like a dog by Mahony after 1 have done what I did for him, While he was running for the office he got i1a one day of the fact that a newspaper re porter had an idea that as Juege Dunie’s court he was behind in his records. He is said to have wanted to give up the fight | When asked what for, he replied that th | paper was right and that he had not property | been fulfilling the duties of his office. His as- | sociates tried to hustle up some one to help | | clerk of him cut with his records and at last they came | to me. After some persuasion I consented io give him my help and they put me at the becks. I thought that he was probably about three or maybe four weeks behind from the way he spoke. IS YEARS BEHIND. Well, I got hold of the minutes and I was staggered. He had the rough memoranda, but hic engrossed minutes were three years behind. There was nothing to do but to go to work. 1 worked night and day for five months and a half on the records and at last got them all through straight. The pages were covered with rubber stamps which he ought to have filled in but which I did for him. Of course I kmew that it wasn't right, but I had to get.in and help him make the fight, and if those books had ever been inspected by somebody outside it would have been all up with Mahony. His writing is coarse and can easily be distm- guished from mine. But we got the books to date when he took office as County Clerk. 1 suppose now that the truth about it is made Continued on Page 2, Column 3.