The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 11, 1903, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 11 1903. AT HIS HOME 'SENATE’S BLIND CHAPLAIN DIES IN SANTA BARBARA !HE SH.ENT 'Rev. William Henry Milburn, Widely Known as a Preacher and Lecturer, Succumbs to La Grippe After Two Weeks’ llines O MYSTERY Pennell Inquest Reveals Nothing in Burdick Case. Automobile Disaster May ve Been Accidental r Designed. Written by the Lover of Buffalo Man’s Wife Con- ns Denials of a Guilty Attachme: ACCUSES vellow journalism are nsequently a mass of magination was pub d ble b in fact, but, for d, some of these taken up and met. ch 1 was icott square hed by me un- her man, whi e him to do a col after that arrange- of a salarid position ~sired to accept. 1 ase him, and no busi- ffice, nor was it ever y manner, as was ated eged statements ¥y, whose main io give the desire to = arrangemen ADVERTISEMENTS, | Schiiling’s Best| | suffer most | spirit is .commor sense| PROMINE: RGYMAN, KNOWN AS THE BLIND CHAP- | LAIN OF UNITED NATE, WHO DIED AT HIS | HOME IN SANTA BARBARA FROM LA GRIPPE. | s - 3 s — ANTA BARBARA, April X he came out one of his eyes was Rev. W Milburn, D. 1 and little sight was left in ! He pursued his studie known throu th A tnd o f th 2T hawewer, . £ha blind chaplain o imn ntil gradually he Senate, died at his home nd. In 1543 he became a 2ok gri her of the Methodist Epis- & R ), serving charges in varlous | Re Milburn £ PAntTy Polgoss S Milburn “was - twice elected : by cha Congress, the first time in the g TSt 1845 when a little more than vears of it for a twice chap of the House 1 failing tives and lastly chaplain of 1 whichjoffice: he was elected were his two adopted _ While serving a charge at Mobile, Ala., Rev. Mr. Milburn un t a trial for | ¢ Teide heretic. He was widely known be held from ' g the * cher and lecturer, his rning at 1 minis 1 lecture field covering many | placed in a f the Uniied States and Canada Montecito Cemetery and later Great Britain and Ireland. He to his old home, Jacksonville, also known as an author. ment. When Congress met last December | Chaplain Milburn forwarded his resigna- Rev. William Henry Milburn was born tion to Washington, but it was not acted Philadelphia ; mber 26, 1823. upon. One of his last statements made i a merchant, meeting b in nta Barbara was to express removed to Jacl egret that he had been forced to give up 1837.° When he was 5 a playfellow accidentally the left ecye h a piece of two years he was confined to lark room under medical treatment and years of. ag rick him FROJECTORS OF NEW ROAD NOT READY TO PROCEED Petitioners for Blanket Street Rail- way Franchise in Los Angeles Ask for Time. LOS ANGELES, April 10.—A meeting of e ard of Public Works was called this afternoon for the purpese of taking s action on the application recently ade by William M. for W. A. Clark and othe: blanket street rallway franchi ing some eighty odd miles of Los Angeles streets. When the board met it was an- nounced that the application would go over for one week. The postponement was due presumably to the desire of the s for Garland and clients f E al time to revise their data re- | garding the routes to be covered by the franchise. were made with them by any pe statements on the part of such agenc to reflect in any way upon either any otber person involved, are false and have no basis in fact any ding If or on, They are made up of those unfounded statements of this class of sples which have become of such doubtful value that even in the courts it is now almost held that the presumption Is against their credibility. | Third—During pendency. 3 the divorce ection it became necessary for me to consuit with the defendant in reference to pursue. For that reason it was necessary Lat a meeting should take place h in New York or in_Atlantic City, but in such cases, s can be absolutely proven, these meet- ings were in such places and under such cir- cumstances as to absolutely idea than the purpose of transacting the af- fairs relative to_the divorce. action Finally, it may be sald that the crime is as great a mystery to the writer as to any one. rrible notoriety and publicity has been brought upon people, more . especially wome:, who have entirely undeserved it, and great | wrong has been dome all concerned, specially ily which has suffered and must For that we . must thank the of yellow journalism. which does not hesitate to violate every principle of truth, honor, chivalry justice and sanctity in those efforts to make news and sell papers. which makes that style of journalism one of the sick- to the fa | entng things of modern civilization, applicd to foods Chinese Holds Illegal Certificate. SEATTLE, Wash.. Aprii 10.—Tom Lun Tuck, a merchant of Tacoma, was arrest- |ed here to-day Dby customs officers, charged with being unlawfully in the | with confidence United State: He exhibited a certificate signed by Felix W. MecGettrick, former United States Commissioner at St. Al- bans, Vt. These certiticates, the local | customs authorities have been advised by Y in your finding i | out. the Treasury Department, are belng sent here by the wholesale and sold to Chinese illegally in the country at $0 each. This is the first arrest made here. REDDING, April 10.—M. H. Mclilwaine has refused $35.000 for his one-tenth interest 1n the Dorleska mine on Coffee Creek, Trinity County. “ unqualifiedly | to the course | Iy negative any other | official duties at the national capital, where he had met and learned to love in the past most of the Presidents and statesmen whose services to their country had made it great. | FREIGHT MANAGERS GIVE THEIR TESTIMONY Believe That the Rates Charged Fruit Growers Should Be Meintained. 1.OS ANGELES, April 10.—Edward F. Chamb general freight agent of the Santa Fe Railroad,-was the first witne examined to-day before the United States Interstate Commerce Commission. He testified that the raiflroads have increased the cost of transporting fruit from South- ern California because the fruit business had increased enormously since the 31 25 rate me effective in 188, He ad- mitted, however, that the rate on other perishable goods is In many cases lower than on oranges. William Sproule, freight trafic man- ager of the western lines of the Southern Paciflc, thought the present rate ougat | to be maintained, because of the trem: dously increased service now given for | the same price over the simple procedure of a dozen years ago, when the rate was made. W. G. Neimyer, general agent of tre Southern Pacific at Chicago, was the last witness. He testified as to diversions ard d that frequently a car of oranges is diverted as many as five times. The case will be argued orally in Wash- irgton next Fall. —————— | Roosevelt’s Trip. The Pennsylvania Railway’s red map | outlining President Roosevelt's 14,000-mile journey would indicate that he wants to | spend most of his time on the line along | which he ranched and hunted during ths | earlier if not more strenuous years of his | life. The itinerary shows the President’s | special will use the N. P. R. for 1900 miles, | which is the greatest mileage on any one |10ad. Like thousands of his countrymen his objective point seems to be Natlonal | Yellowstone Park, the playground of the people, where he will spend fourteen day, | doing the park probably on snowshoe: | Lieutenant Schwatka and Haynes, park | vhotographer, tried this in 1885, but | bechwatka abandoned it at Norris Geyser | Basin. Haynes made the tour, securing some wonderful winter pictures, The Government will this season erect | at Gardiner, the Northern Pacific ter- | minus on the park boundary, where the | President’s special train will be held for him, a beautiful stone arch that will mark the formal entrance to this wonderland. The regular park season extends from June 1 to September 15. . ———————— Collides With a Freight Train.' TUCSON, Ariz., . April 10.—A dispatch from Lordsburg, N. M., says that west- | bourd Southern Pacific passenger train | No. 7, with Superintendent C. C. Sroufe's | private car attached, collided with an eastbound freight on an open switch early this morning. Engineer Clark and Fire- man Higgins of the freight were both | gerlously injured. No one’was killed. i \ HILL FEARS FOR SAFETY OF RAILIVAYS Great Northern Presi- dent Speaks of the Merger Decision. Supreme Court, He Believes, Will Take a Different View. | Assistant Attorney General Enumer- ates the Valuable Features in the Exposition of Federal Law by Circuit Court. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, April 10.—Wall street agreed to-day that a death blow has been dealt the Northern Securities Company by the decision of the Federal court. None of those interested in the great combination, which holds a majority of shares of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern raliroads, including J. Pierpont Morgan and James J. Hill, has given up hat the decision will be reversed hepe | | by the Supreme Court, but others are not | =0 confident. Mr. Hill was in conference with his lawyers nearly all day discuss- ing the decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals. He also Morgan and Charles Steele regarding the case. Speaking of the import of the de- cision to The Call correspondent Mr. Hill ald: If this de n is upheld by the Su- preme Court (but 1 am confident that it will not be) no less than 85 or % per cent of the railroad systems in the United | States will be up in the air. All the work {of the last seven years will have to be done all over again in a different way. It is preposterous that Congress intended any such interpretation of the anti-trust bill as the Circult Court of Appeals has placed upon it. | “I am inclined to think that our jurists kave not read their books aright. I do i wish to enter into the merits or de- merits of the case, but mark this, fur- ther evidence will be introduced by the Northern Securities Company and we are just s positive as ever that we shall prove our contention to the satisfaction of the Supreme Court Asked what plan would be pursued if company be defeated in the Supreme Court, Mr. Hill said: “We have made no preparations for de- feat and do not expect it. But if it should | shall unce, for, course, we could not 1d still. Our assets would not be d and the intrinsic worth of our would not have depreciated one nd it would be necessary for us to de some plan for its control; but it | would not be another holding company or two holding companies or anything of that sort. Just what it would be I cannot say at this time.” .- SCOPE 6!‘ THE DECISION. Government Official Reviews the Document Against the Merger. | PHILADELPHIA, April 10.—James M. | Beck, Assistant Attorney General, who argued the Northern Securities case and the recently decided lottery cases for the Government, when questioned to-day as | to the scope of the decision in the former then come anr then s diminis propert cent | provi we | case, sl | Disclaiming any purpose to express any opinion but my own,_ the clear and exhaustive | vpinion of Judge Thayer seems to me to leave | nothing to be desired‘in the matter of a full exposition of the Federal law applicable to the | consolidation of competing Interstate | All interests should welcome such a result, for |it seems to me of first importance that the | | | | exact meaning of the statutory law shouid be definitely ascertalned. When so ascertained, the question of the wisdom of the statutes can he fairly debated in the greater court of public _opini The declsion of the Circuit Court accomplishes this purpose. It destroyed the legal device for the suppression of the competition, shifts the whole the courts to the people and leaves for their reconsideration and ultimate deciston the ques- tion whether the comsolidation under proper regulation s desirable, or whether it should be_altogether prohibited. | The wild suggestion that this decision is rev- | olutionary and will disrupt the American rail- | way system is absurd. It aimply reaffirms ex- isting principles and has no application what- r to legitimate extensions of rallway petition by rallway consolidation. Judge Thayer's decision, in effect. Jemonstrates the inaccuracy of the phrase, holding company, and | also ghows that the community of interest’ plan | through stock ownership, when it suppresses competition and promotes monopoly, is unlaw- ul ? It holds in substance that whenever the con- trol of competing interstate carriers is se- sons or by a corporation which they create, and the motive for competition has thus been destroyed by the consequent unity of int. est, the antl-trust law is violated. The fact that each of the competing lires is nominally operated by A separate board of directors is held immaterial and the court, disregarding real poliey of a railroad is controlled by such individual holders in a real sense dcter- mine all corporate acts. The decision is also of the first importance in holding that the mere ownership of stock in interstate railroads brings the owner in such direct relation with 'interstate commerce ©s to subject him to the plenary powers of the Jederal Government with respect thereto, Per- haps this holding gives the decision its great- | est importance. The defendant's attorneys con- | tended that the mere acquisition of such shares had either no direct relation to interstate com- merce or that in any event such relation was | indizect, collateral and remote. They sought to establish an unsound distinction between ownership of a road and its operation. This view the caurt negatives and holds that the purchase of stock in an interstate railway subjects the purchaser to the constitutional | power of the Federal Government. The impor- tance of this holding, coming as it does upon the heels of the lottery cases, cannot well be overestimated. It greatly widens the scope of Federal activity. The constitution remains unchanged, but the sphere of human action, to which it is applied, is by means of wholly exterior forces, greatly widened. The Attorney General's view of the exlsting law hae been fully sustained and his courageous action” fully dicated, and the responsibility must now rest with the American people to determine, as a legislative and not as a judi- cal question, how far and under what condi- tions the public interest may, if at all, justify such rallway consolidations as are in restraint of competition. [ e e e e e ] ] BURNING EPISTLES, —_— Continued From Page 1, Column 7. those has any new storles to tell me. She looks well. 1 think I like her. I like all of your family and feel an interest in all. Ycu, of course, more than any one else, When seen at her home at 1721 Grove street in Berkeley last night Mrs. Ashton declared hysterically that the letters which Ashton had published were not the ones sent her by Admiral Merry. She sald: “I admit that T received letters from the admiral, but there were none of them which I would not have shown to my parents or ehildren. 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