The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 18, 1903, Page 1

@all. F XCIII-NO. 139. SAN FRANCISCO. SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. JONT NOTE WILL AROUSE | THE SULTAN il | Russia and Austria Unite in Active Measures. Irresolution of the Porte Exasperates the Powers. Balkan Sfituation Has Be- come Critical and Troops Are Massing. —e PARIS, April 17. — A Constantinople dispatch to the Figaro saysa coun- cil of war has decided to place the entrance to the Bosphorus on the Black Sea side in a state of defens Fifty thousand troops will be brought over gradually from Asia Minor and finally military maneuvers will be held in the early summer instead of autumn. & ground of Dionastir ter en- Macedon- wishes ~The PASSENGER TRAIN PLOWS THROUGH FREIGHT CARS reman Is Killed in Northern Pa- cific Wreck Near Dickin- son, North Dakota. N D., April 17.—East- n No. 4 the 2 into a freight tra to-day. Gear: ght train, ad on a tie, and killed. C. D. Litch, e engine until it but will than a N on here the s got worse w switch open, 1d not be seen ck. The en- and freight trucks trom engine and | car. D. L. | a narrow | eft the e i 3 cars 2 the * er D E - SAN FRANCISCAN BUYS | THE NAPA WOOLEN MILL Repert Is Circulated That All the Plents on the Coast Will Change Hands. Napa Woolen was sold to-day to r of San Franc - the mill under the ment for a time, but it is rumored he property will be sold again i with this story is one that the which operates the Marysviile t which John Martin, president of Counties Power Company, the | Share Railroad and other enter- the head, Is negotiating for the ase of all the mils on the coast, | urpose of operating them un. | gement, cutting out compe- | controlling the coast wool siranger, presumed to be the representative of Martin, was in Napa | some time ago looking over the mill prop- | n~rty, 1 MARRDQUIN MAY RATIFY THE TREATY Colombia President Eager to Save Credit. Action Likely With- out a Session of Congress. United States Special Canal! Commission Arrives at Colon. Special Dispatch to The Cali. COLON, Colom April —It s stated on high authority tbat in view of the unsettled conditions in the republic President Marroquin, of his Ministers, the responsibility of independently its credit, el will me deed, may not order has not officially been re- ould have been Knowing that Colombia’s future prosperity and especlal- the isthmus of Panama savin, is inclined to act and thereby sympathy, which lately isthmiar much strained on account of the publications in aquin F. Velez, who, f patriotic "sentiments, sue of the canal qu Rear Admiral Walker and other mem- f the special Canal Commission ar- to-day d recelved a hearty from the inhabitants and of- and from M. Renaudin, director general of the canal company, and Col- Shalter, general superintendent of nama Railroad Company. Admiral Walker stated to The Call’s correspondent that he was not sure how long he would remain on the isth- mus. He might possibly return, he said, on the same steamer or remain until the here welcome ssity of using every method to | e canal ratification, the | following one salled, but the other mem- | bers, including Colonel Hains, Professor Burr and the Engineer Corps, would re- | main the length of time needed to verify the work done by the canal company on the Culebra cut, which possibly may, take about four weeks. Regarding the probable action of the Colomblan Congress, Admiral Walker was rather reticent. So far no news has been recelved here regarding the convok- ing of Congress, which may not be called before June 1, or perhaps not them. ARMOUR CHILD IMPROVES UNDER LORENZ’S TREATMENT Famous Austflani—Surgeon Makes Preparations for Tour of the West. CHICAGO, April 17. Steady improve- ment and no unpleasant 1esults have fol- lowed the removal of the cast worn since last November by Lolita Armour. fessor Adolf Lorenz, the Austrian sur- geon who performed the operation, was a visitor at the Armour home to-day to see his young charge, according to infor- mation given out. Lorenz's movements e characterized by an apparent desire id all visitors and interviewers. He eagaged quarters at both the Auditorjum and Chicago Beach hotels, although he not present himself at either during day and a large amount of corre- nce is awaiting him at the Audi- The professor is said to be en- aged in making active arrangements for Western tour he contemplates. & HAMMOND POLICE TO TRY TO STOP POOLSELLING Governor Will Order Out Militia if Necessary to Stop Bookmak- ing at Lakeside. HAMMOND, Ind., April 17.—The Ham- mond police, acting under orders of the Sher!ff, who was directed by the Gov- ernor, will to‘morrow make an effort to poolselling at the near Chicago. issued an order on Wednesday for the Lake County Sheriff to call out the mili- tia if necessary to stop poolselling. The races have been running three days and $2400 in licenses have been pald to the town of Hammond. i R L MAYA INDIANS CAPTURE SEVEN BRITISH PIRATES CITY OF MEXICO, April 17.—The seven British saflors who deserted from the ship Amphion and entered on a course of pi- racy, which was quickly ended, are now sald to be in the wilds of Southern Yuca- tan, where they have been captured by hostile Maya Indians. They fled from Be- lize, British Honduras, to Yucatan, fear- ing capture and punishment for piracy. There is much speculation as to thelr probable fate. FIGHTING IS RESUMED NEAR SANTO DOMINGO SANTO DOMINGO, April 17.—The ef- forts of the Peace Commissioners have availed nothing and fighting began agalh yesterday and has continued at intervals ever since without material gain to either side. One of the signalmen of the Ger- man cruiser Vineta was severely wound- ed this morning. A French ship in port kere has landed marines. track, EVIDENCE MOST DAMAGING IS FURNISHED BY THE SKULLS OF CHARLES FAIR AND IDIFE £ UBLIC interest is being aroused wver the prospects of another fight belng inaugurated in the lo- cal courts for the millions left by the late Charles L. Fair. °* There is no longer doubt that the case now Bros | pending in New York, in which Mrs. Nel- son, mother of the late Mrs. Falr, seeks to have set aside the compromise made between her and Mrs. Vanderbilt and | Mrs. Oelrichs, is but the beginning of an- Lakeside race- | Governor Durbin | other suit here, in which the New York plaintiff will figure conspicuously as the instigator. In fact, the attorneys repre- senting the interests that are opposed to Mrs, Nelson admit that they expect to be called upon to defend a suit against their principals and they will not deny that they have already begun the preparation | of their case. It is admitted on all sides that Mrs. Nelson, if she intends to rely on testimony such as has been given in her behalf in New York by the two Frenchmen, Mo- rane and Mas, stands a very poor chance of gaining a victory in this State. The suspicion exists that she has been misled in the idea that she has a good case by persons who hope to profit in the way’of another compromise in which they wili have a hand. In the offices of Knight & Heggerty and Reuben Lloyd much legal work is being done in anticipation of a transfer of Mrs. Nelson's suit to San Francisco and it is more than probable that if the mother of Mrs. Fair brings her French witnesses with her, criminal proceedings will attend the progress of the battle for money. The exclusive announcement in yester- day's Call that the attorneys of the Falrs had obtained, through the medium of an autopsy made by Drs. Gallwey and Wil- liamson, evidence proving conclusively that perjury has been committed by Wit- nesses Morane and Mas in New York when they testified to the condition in which they found the bodies of Charles Fair and his wife after the automoblie accident, created a profound sensation and was widely discussed throughout the day. RELUCTANT TO TALK. As might be expected on the eve of a prospective legal controversy, the attor- neys and physicians who have contribut- ed, or are to contribute, toward the de- fense of the Nelson suit are extremely re- luctant in discussing the merits of their case and particularly regarding the evi- dence they expect to introduce relative to the results of the autopsy made in this city a few hours after the bodies of the Fairs had arrived here from France. Attorney Charles Heggerty yesterday admitted that the interests opposed to > g e VICTIM OF AUTOMOBILE AC- CIDENT IN FRANCE AND AL~ LEGED WITNESSES. HERE are prospects of another fight in the local courts over the millions left by the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fair. Mrs. Nelson’s appar- ent determination to dis- solve, if possible, the agree- ment of compromise ex- isting between herself and Mprs. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Oelrichs has been accepted as a warning of impending trouble by the attornevs of the late Charles Fair, and they are quietly preparing to defeat the plans of the op- posing forces in any litiga- tion that they may inaug- urate in the courts of Cali- fornia. — suming, of course, that the mother of Mrs. Fair really contemplates fighting sor more money. “As a matter of fact,” said he, “a suit cannot be Instituted anywhere other than in this State, where the most of the estate of the Fairs is located. Tt is a world-over rule .or law that personal property follows the law of the place of which the parties were residents at the time of death, and no question has been raised as to the place of residence of the Fairs. Real property fol.ows the law of Mrs. Nelson were practically preparing | the place in which it s situated. Th for a hearing of & spit In this city, pre- | only nroverty outside of California b: | | E s | EW YORK, April 17.—Another reluctant witness in the Fair in- quiry has baffled the lawyers and caused further postpone- ment. M. Moranne, unaccus- tomed to the rigors of American cross- exdmination, at times gave way to anger | when he was asked to-day about points | on which his recollection had failed. He | sat twisting his mustache, shrugging his shoulders and glaring at those who plied him with goads of interrogation. “Ah, had I known,” he exclaimed, “that such questions would be asked I would have come prepared—names of shops and | rent of bicycies. La, la, who ever heard of the like, indeed, and the kilometers and all! I d@id not expect so much.” He sald he had made frequent excur- sions on hired wheels in the neighborhood of Paris, and that sometimes he had dis- mounted when the weather was hot in order to have a glass of bock. “Where did you get that?” asked Mr. Candler. “Usuaily,” replied the witness, ‘“one does not go to the shop of a pork mer- chant for a glass of bock.” “From whom did you hire your bicycle on April 8 last?’ asked the attorney for the defendants. “I refuse to reply,” answered the wit- ness, “on the ground that my answer would tend to incriminate and degrade me."” Colonel Willlam Jay said after the hear- iug that the refusal of M. Moranne to an- swer the question with regard to the bi- cycle would be referred to the court.’ In- quiries were then made of the witness as to persons whom he had met in the early days of August and with whom he had talked, but he could recollect no one ex- cept tradesmen and attendants at the house where he lived, objection being made to cross-examination on these points. Mr. Candler declared that the witness was shrewd and such a hard wit- ness to question that it was necessary to go continually around Robin Hood's barn to learn anything from him. The exam- ination was postponed until next Mon- day morning. F e e e e longing to the Fairs is a small plece of land in New York State, belonging to Mrs. Fair, and about $300,000 in stocks and ponds, which Charles L. Fair had de- posited in varlous banks in New York City. Therefore the only contention that Mrs. Nelson can raise in the courts on the Eastern side of the continent is as to er right to s| 't Wo holdings. MUST PAY BACK MONEY. “The proceedings in New York are not in l Continued on Page 5, Column 4, | try.” | Irish land bill | considered essential. | proposed by Willlam O'Brien. | ered several important questions, includ- | | those of peasant proprietary. | a resolution was adopted condemning the | | be full of hope. RISH LAND BILL GERTAIN OF PASSAGE Amendments of the Convention to Be | Accepted. League Concludes Its Gravely Important Deliberations. Americans for Support Given the Cause. | —_—— DUBLIN, Aprjl 17.—The Irish National convention concluded this evening. In two days it got through a large amount of controversial work and emerged, to quote T. P. O'Connor, *‘scathless and hon- | ored from a test that the wide world was watching. It was not only shaping the destinies of Ireland, but it held in its band the fate of the powerful British Min! John Redmond, replying to an enthusi- astic vote of thanks for his chairmanship, | declared that the convention was a credit in every particular to Ireland. In a statement Redmond makes the im- portant announcement that the amend- ments adopted by the convention will be | aceeptad at the joint conference at which Captain Willlam Lord Dunraven, Lord Mayo, Shawe-Taylor, John Redmond, O’Brien and T. W. Russell will meet. This practically insures the passage of the The delegates returned to their homes to-night in a happy frame of mind, echoing John Redmond’'s parting | word, “May the God of our fathers once | agaln visit this land with the peace and plenty that are her due.” T. P. O'Conner summed up to-day's proceedings in the following statement: “This was the day for agreeing on the amendments to the land bill which are Most of these were They cov- ing demands for more liberal treatment of the congested districts and of the labor- ers. The proceedings were axtremely har- monijous. There was an animated but good-humored discussion on the retention of an eighth as a rent charge, proposed by Mr. Davitt and myself, the former representing views in favor of the nation- alization of the land, while I put forward | Ultimately | elghth but retaining a technical rent charge.” HOMESTEAD LAW PRINCIPLE. | One of the most important amendments was that proposed by Michael Davitt, that the principle of the American home- | stead law be added to the land bill to | “gafeguard the peasants from the results | of improvident borrowing and the opera- { tion of land grabbers and land jobbers.” John Redmond made the fol!owing} statement: “The convention was the most impor- tant assembly held in Ireland during the last hundred years. If its recommenda- tlons be substantially carried out by the | Government the land question will be set- tled and the whole future of Ireland will | The convention's recom- mendations will be supported by the members of the land conference and they will be presented to the Government as the demands of both landlords and ten- ants. I have the strongest possible hope that the Government will have the wis- | dom to accept them. If all goes well the | result will be the absolute end of the land war in Ireland, the union of all classes and creeds in this country, with the inevi- table result of the concession, almost im- mediately, certainly within the lifetime of | the present generation, of a system of na- | tional self-government. CONGRATULATES IRISH RACE. « congratulate the whole Irish race at | home and abroad on this most magnifi- | cent result of the labors, sacrifices and sufferings of the men who have con- | ducted the Irish national movement in the past few years, and who, I hope, will live to see the triumph of their prin- ciples. This blessed situation is largely due to the magnificent support we' have received from the Irish in America and American public opinion generally.” The convention reconvened early to-day in the round room of the Mansion House. There was a smaller attendance. In view of & misunderstanding in the case of cer- tain English papers, John Redmond intro- duced a strong home rule resolution, de- claring that the Irish nation would never | be satisfied until it obtained a full meas- ure of self-government. “No substitute,” sald Redmond, or will be accepted.” Michael Davitt briefly seconded the resolution, saying Irishmen would be ne- glecting their sacred duty to the cause i they did not send such a message to thelr race throughout the world. Redmond’'s recommendations were car- ried by acclamation. William O'Brien proceeded to explain the various suggested amendments to the land bill An amendment by O'Brien, providing for extending financial assistance to the | “ean evicted tenants, was welcomed, but many | of the delegates wished it to go farther. PEASANT ORATORS HEARD. Patrick Flynn of the Cork branch of the league, a man of great girth, with a shillalah in ¢ne hand and a broad- brimmed hat in the other, then mounted the platform. His appearance created laughter. ago and conc | tendants in the suit. | she further charges | retained O’'Brien’s sugegstion. “I did not,” he said, “travc’ 150 miles to be laughed at.” A few seconds Flynn held the convention GOPPER KING HAS A WOMAN ON Hl TRAIL Senator Clark Sued for Breach of Promise. Trial in New York Is Kept Secret for a Year. \John Redmond Thanks the Mary McNellis Says Mil- lionaire Made Offer of Marriage. Special Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, April 1.—That Senator Willilam A. Clark of Montana, copper king and multl-milllonaire, shoul ha been sued by a New York woman in the e urts of this county for $150,000 damages sach of y and that the trial een held more than a year cted with so much secrecy the for b omise should have that not a word of it ever reached ears of the public, may seem strange, but is nevertheless a fact, as was divulged (o~ day, when the first step on the part her lawyer to have her case reopened and public trial had was taken in her behalf. Her name is Mary MeNellis, and she ad- mits that she “is past 36." Miss McNellis gave her testimony in her st bef mes L. Bishop. the referee appointed by the court, on March 1 of last year. She told of her meet the Senator at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 18%; of atten- tions she alleges he subsequently lavished upon her; of bouquets and baskets of fruit and tender mi s he sent her. the wooing culminating soon in an offer of marriage. Soon afterward his interest in her waned, and he wrote her sever: notes urging business engagements as t&e reason for his neglect. The suit before Referee Bishop was decided against Miss McNellis. now claims to have new evidence and to-day sought to have the case reopened. | FOBMER MILLIONAIRE IS SUED ON HIS NOTE Louise Feldt Makes Serious Charges Against Dan M. Murphy of San Jose. SAN JOSE, April 17.—The suit brought by Louise Feldt o recover $1000 from Dan M. Murphy, who a few years ago was rated a millionaire several times has taken a sensational turn. The case was before Judge Rhodes to-day and went over until next Monday. In 1897 Miss Feldt loaned Murphy $1000 on a promissory note, purporting to be secured by accepted drafts on C. H. Phil- lips, now dead. Miss Feldt was at that time employed as a servant in the private boarding-house of Mrs. Sue McWilllams on South Second street. Mrs. McWil- lams and D. T. Bryant, a well known man around town, have been made de- Miss Feldt charges that they conspired with Murphy to de- fraud her of her money. M Feldt harges that Mrs. McWilllams repre- over, | sented to her that Murphy was a very | wealthy man and that the loan would %> | entirely safe. Bryant introduced Murphy to Miss Feldt. Mrs. McWilliams at once took possession of the mote ard kept it for two years, so Miss Feldt says, and that this was dore for the purpose of delaying the discovery of the fraud. Murphy, who is now a par- alytic and financially embarrassed, has made no defense. Mrs. McWilliams and Bryant deny charges. PRETENDER ONCE MORE MARCHING AGAINST FEZ Sultan Is Vainly Attempting to Obtain Recruits From the . ‘abyle Trioes. TANGIER, April 17.—The Pretender Is marching from Taza on Fez. The Suitan is vainly attempting to obtain recruits from the Kabyle tribes. Three thousand Moors have arrived at Melilla, seeking refuge from the Pretender’s troops. It is again stated that the Suitan has offered the crown to his brother, Mulal, who has refused it. The Sultan, with his brother, according to a dispatch from .felilla, has started for Taza. ® L ik x spellbound by the extraordinary elo- quence with which he insisted that the present occupler of holdings which for- merly belonged to evicted peasants should themselves be evicted. This peasant orator worked up a storm against “grabbers,” but O'Brien’s more moderate counsel prevailed. Throughout the morning peasant speak- ers discussed the details of the bill wia intelligent rhetoric. Michael Davitt made a long fight against O'Brien’s peasant proprietorship proposals. He maintained that the na- tionalization of the land was the only method for making Ireland prosperous. When a division was threatened Redmond effected a compromise, with the resuilt that the convention emphatically in- dorsed Davitt's well known theorfes, but The con- vention was concluded without any spe- cial incident. A resolution was passed demanding the immedlate release of Colonel Lynch. Mr. Kilbridge, a former member of Parlia- ment, and Major Jameson and Jasper Tully, members of Parliament, were read out of the party for “‘dereliction of duty and lack of loyalty to the United irish League.” A motion was passed urging Thomas Sexton to return to Parllament, -