The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 24, 1903, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1908, AMERICAN SQUADRON ANCHORS AT KIEL GERMAN FLEET THUNDERS WELCOME Prince Henry Goes Aboard the United States Battleship Kearsarge to Extend Greeting to Rear Admiral Cotton on Behalf of Emperor Aprerrir REAR L CIARLES 5. COTTON el 15 EXPLANATION NOT AGGEPTABLE 1'1 odomieii William, Who Will Arrive To-Day at the Scene of the Regatt a +* PRINCE WHO HIM TO KIEL WELCOMED the cap eric shou his staff all the be and mm turret, but did not go inside, as there were seven German admirals on shore duty who were waiting to visit Rear Admiral Cotton. Prince Henry compli- mented the Amerfcan officers on the smart appearance of the squadron. which had been freshly mark ainted at Nyborg, Den- Rear dmiral Cotton and the captains of the American vessels will take lunch eon with Prince and Princess Henry to- morrow The following notables arrived to-day for the regatta: United States Embas jor Charlemagne Tower, United States Consul General Frank Mason, the Prince and Princess of Plesse, the Princess of Thurn and Ta Baron Louis Roths- child, Herr Ballin, director of the Ham- burg-American Line; Archimed Bey and Baron and Baroness Echardstein. Mr. Goelet's thirty footer Swan, the only American-owned boat entered in the | regatta, has been exercising over the course in the lower bay gince her arrival man ships, on board here last Friday. Her owner is assisted ser Freiderich 111 Py in sailing her by Hopkins Smith, who, eturned to call on with the yacht Uncle S8am, won the cup and talked for a given for boats of her class in 192. Prince examined . Emperor Willlam will arrive to-morrow arsarge’s double on the Hohenzollern. CEICIDES PLEA 5 SELF-DEFENSE Former Immigration Of- Claim King Alexander ficial Must Stand His Trial. New Yo efore the President again to-day. By the President’s direction, on McSweeney's request, United States At- torney Burnett of the Southern District of New York heard McSweeney's explan- ation of the charges against him of ab- stracting public records and documents of the United States immigration station at Ellis Island General Burnett h that McSweeney's .action comes within the laws which pun- sh the embezzlement or unlawful with- drawing of officlal records and docu- that the accused was given the opportunity to explain, and that explanations were not satisfactory id not meet the charges, which are stained by the facts brought out uring hearing. After a conference between the Presi- : dent and the Attorney General and upon . the latter's recommendation it bas been decided that the prosecution proceed. “his ADVERTISEMENTS. There's no trouble with ‘Schilling’s Best tea baking-powder wpices coffee fiavoring extracts s>da at your grocer’s; housekeeping is easy enough, so far as they go. 1 | Planned Wholesale Executions. NA, June 22.—King Peter arrived 4% o'clock from Geneva and left Beigrade to-night. He received a warm welcome from the Servian and Montenegrin students and from a delega- tion from Belgrade, headed by the Mayor. In responding to a brief speech made by latter, King Peter expressed his ure at returning to Belgrade after so 1 extle In interview which he gave while on his way hither, King Peter dwelt on the difficulty of punishing the assassins of g Alexander and Queen Draga, in view of their pardon by the Servian Na- tional Assembly prior to his election as King. The reports from Belgrade vary in re- gard to the attitude of those concerned in the assassinations. While it is stated positively that at a meeting held last Sunday the conspirators decided that in the event of an effort being made to pros- ecute them they would all commit sul- cide, another report says the conspirators decided to make a vigorous stand against any attempt to exact a penalty for their crime George Genschich, the Minister of Commerce, who, according to popular be- lief, focused the general dissatisfaction felt against King Alexander, has given a remarkable interview, in which he justi- fied the course taken by the assassins. Europe and Great Britain, he sald, were ignorant of the true facts leading up to the fatal night, which were worse than have ever been known. “While the world has scoffed at the Servians for tolerating a dynasty which, by its crimes and follies, scandalized civilization,” the Minister said, “‘the Ser- vians have borne all untll the removal of the late King and Queen became a public necessity.” The Minister added that it was not in- VIE re at 3 the WAGON TOPPLES DOWN HILLSE San Franciscans Bruised in Accident Near Willits. Special Dispatch to The Call. WILLITS, June 23.—A party of San Franciscans consisting of Mrs. E. Crook, Miss Rosenstern and Messrs. E. Rosen- stern and S. Joseph had a narrow escape to-night in an accident while driving seven miles from this place on the Fort Bragg road. When the vehicle was on a bend of the nafyow driveway the pole snapped in two pleces and instantly the hcrses be- came frightened and unmanageable. They reared and plunged in a mad effort to extricate themselves from the tangle of harness and soon backed the buggy over the grade. The occupants tried to leap out of dan- ger's way, but were not entirely success- ful. All four tumbled down the embank- ment with the buggy and team, and for a time it seemed that the descent would continue for hundreds of feet. Trees on the hillside stopped the vehicle, and one of the men and the two women were enabled to get out of the wreck with little more than slight bruises. E. Rosenstern fared badly and his inju- ries are thought to be severe. He was crushed in the smash-up as the buggy went off the road. L e e e o SR T tended, however, to Kkill their Majestie: but King Alexander himself aggravated and incensed his pursuers in the palace and he asserts that the late King had planned the killing of 150 prominent men on the day that the heir to the throne was announced, in order to spread terror among the ranks of the malcontents. e A S AP ‘WOODLAND, June 23.—The Woodland can- nery made the first shipment of this season’s output of canned goods made in the Stats ‘was a carload of apricots. I Must Have Consent —_— SHIPYARD TRUST. MEN ALARMED {Judge's Words Hint at | Appointment of a Receiver. Says the Reorganization Plan of AllL —_—— | Schwab May Be Compelled to Detail | Hie Part in the Manipu- lation of Bethlehem Plant. —_—— Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, June 23.—Three salient features marked the second day's hear- ing of the application for the appoint- ment of a receiver for the United States Shipbuilding Company in Judge Kirkpat- rick’s chambers in the Federal bullding at Newark to-day. These were the threat that Schwab might be compelled to detail his part in the manipulation of | the affairs of the Bethlehem Steel plant and the United States Shipbuilding Com- pany; a severe arralgnment of Schwab by counsel for the complaining first mort- | gage bondholders (whose first lien would | be wiped out if the proposed reorganiza- | tion plan were made effective), in which | the men who got $30,000,000 in securities | | out of the merger was compared to the | wreckers of the old Sixth National Bank | of this city, who were sent to prison for | criminal acts, and the remarks of Judge Kirkpatrick before the arguments really legan to-day, in which he seemed to in- | dicate that the appointment of a receiver was inevitable. The opening remarks of Judge Fitzpat- | vick were regarded as full of significance. | The lawyers for the reorganization com- | mittee and the officers of the company | wanted to put in supplementary affidavits | showing that $200.000 more stock had been | deposited with them. COURT'S SIGNIFICANT WORDS. “It doesn’'t make much difference about Mr. Sheldon,” observed the Judge. “He | represents a lot of bondholders who are | willing to give up their bonds. As I un-| derstand it, these first mortgage bond- | holders cannot be wiped out without due | ss of law. It does not make any | | difference if six out of ten or nine out of | ten want to-give up their bonds, they | cannot take away others unless there is | a foreclosure or default or some due process of law. The reorganization pro- | | cess cannot be carried out without their | consent. Whila Mr. Sheldon may think it very nice for his scheme to go through, he cannot force these men who won't de- [ | | | posit their securities with him.” Samuel Untermeyer of New York opened | for the complainants to-day, and Charles L. Corbin followed for the defense. | | “Untermeyer declared tnar he would | | show the court that the corporation was | insolvent { “It was conceived in miquity, main-| tained by fraud and is enaing in crime, } he said. | [ The facts, counsel sald, made dut an | overwhelming case, warranting the ap- | pointment of - - recefver. | ACCUSES THE DIRECTORS. | Untermeyer declared that if the in- solvency were not shown to the satisfac- tion of the court, the complainants would claim that the plan of reorganization was a definite plan to wreck the corporation and that the complainants had the equitable right to have the court inter- | fere to preserve their holdings. Unter- | meyer maintained that the directors pur- posely misinformed the listing committee of the New York Stock Exchange by pre- | senting the official stateme=t of the cor- poration’s affairs so that the bonds could ! be sold to the public. | | Taking up the purchase by Charles M. | | Schwab of the Bethlehem sSteel Company | and the subsequent execution of the $10, 000,00 mortgage as a collateral guaranty on his sale and transfer of that property | to the defendant corporation, Untermeyer | | declared that it was as picturesque a pro- | | ceeding as any of those made by the di- | rectors of the Sixth National Bank, who bought and sold the stock of thelr own | corporation. Concluding, Untermeyer declared that a | | year ago the company asserted that it| | had cash assets of $10,000,000, but after a | series of brilllant exploits, without paral- | lel in' the realms of higher finance, the treasurer was forced to state that by rea- | son of the use of this money for the pur- | chase of plants and subsidiary corpora-| tions the company was now unable to pay | maturing fixed charges, due on August 1, | of $941,000, and $421,000 additional Habili-| ties due on outstanding notes and ac-| counts. By its own admissions, Unter-| meyer declared, the defendant had proved the insolvency charges. CORBIN MAKES ANSWER. Charles L. Corbin, for the defendants, | argued that the complainants had not shown the company to be insolvent and | that there was no proof of fraud. Corbin added that but one of the complainants, Conklin, had shown any interest in the | company, and even that was small. There | was no proof of the contention that Nixon | organized the company with the intent to defraud the public, nor that the officials | were responsible for newspaper publica- tions by which the complainants claimed to have been induced to purchase stock. The prospectus to which the complainant referred was not issued by the company, | which was not In existence at the time. | Nor was there any proof as to the terms | of the agreement made with Schwab, as set forth by the complainants, nor that the assets were not worth $10,000,000, nor that the directors were controlled by Schwab. Corbin held that the statements of the committee on reorganization could not be considered proof of insolvency, and these were the only things in the shape of such proof offered by the complainants. —_—— Assigned to Duty in the Philippines. BOISE, Idaho, June 23.—Company I, Seventeenth Infantry, Captain Durfes commanding, left this afternoon for San Francisco. The regiment is to sail for the Philippines on July 1 It went by way of Portland. —_—— Californian Passes the Examinations. ANNAPOLIS, Md.. June 2.—J. B. Earl of California, a candidate for admission to the naval academy, has passed success- fully the mental examinations and has Peeflot;lrdered to report for physical exam- nation. R R Y e e o ) |~ CLARENCE THE COP In a New and Sidesplitting Patriotic Stunt. OUR COLORED COMICALITIES Give You Jokes as Hot as Your Breakfast Rolls. See the 4 NEXT SUNDAY CALL. R R S Tt | YOUNG MORMONS IN REVOLT AGAINST CHURCH OFFICIALS Six Hundred Youths and Maidens of Brigham City, Threat- ened With Excommunication Because They Attended a Tabooed Dance, Defy Elders and Remain From Services | | | | | | i HEAD OF THE MORMON CHURCH, WHO IS CONFRONTED BY A GROWING TENDENCY ON THE PART OF THE RISING GENERA- TION OF HIS FOLLOWERS TO REVOLT AGAINST ELDERS' RULE. ALT LAKE, June 23.—Because they | and the church recently bought the op- disobeyed an order of the local | era-house there. The authorities ordered church authorities nearly 600 young | the size of the orchestra reduced and sal- Mormons of both sexes in Brigham | ries lowered. The ans | | | | | | i | | S musicf succeeded in City, Utah, have heen threatened i e - semrr;g al * i e wag | PAVilon erected, and a dance was adver- | with excommunication.’ Thelr offense was | y;,e3 The church authorities retaliated | the patronizing of a dancing pavilion con- | with the announcement of a ball in the | ducted in opposition to one owned by the | opera-house. The young people were told church. Brigham City is a to keep away from the pavilion dance. When a number signified their intention | rong Mormon town, | open revoit. DR. KILMER'S SWAMP-ROOT. LIFE SAVED BY SWAMP-ROOT, The Wonderful Kidney, Liver and Bladder Remedy. 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You may have a sample bot- tle of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root and a pamphlet that tells all about it, including many of the thousands of letters received from sufferers cured, both sent fres by mail. Write Dr. Kilmer & Co., Bingham- ton, N. Y., and please be sure to mention that you read this generous offer in The San Francisco Daily Call. Don't make any mistake, but remember the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the address, Binghamton, N. Y., on every bottle. ALLEGED JOURNALIST IS ACCUSED OF CRIME W. E. Ashton Is Held by London Police on Charge of Passing Forged Bank Checks. LONDON, June 23.—W. E. Ashton, de- scribing himself as an American journal- ist and author, was remanded at the Gufldhall Police Court to-day on the charge of forging checks for $2600 on the | London and County Bank in the name of Laird, Schober & Co., of Philadelphia. The police believe Ashton is a member of a skillful gang of forgers now operating in_Europe. PHILADELPHIA, June 23.—At the local office of Laird, Schober & Co., large man- ufacturers of shoes, Schober stated that no information of the forgery had been received by the firm and that he was un- aware of any loss sustained. The forged checks, he said, were probably those used by the London office of the company. @ imiminieinini i i e iR @ of going anyhow the announcement was publicly made that any person attending the dance in the pavilion would be cut off | from the church. The fact that conditions have changed since the days of Brigham Young was demonstrated by the organization of an When the night of the dance came there were 300 couples in the ta- booed pavilion and twelve in the church opera-house. Stationed in the pavilion were a num- ber of the faithful taking down names, so that the church authoritles would know upon whom to execute their threat. The insurgents, however, have taken the wind out of the sails of the church au- thorities by staying away from meeting. and now there are indications that efforts will be made to get them back into the hurch instead of excommunicating them. This incident closely follows the with- drawal of a large body of Swedes from the church on account of a clash with the first presidency. ¢ Out aft had been hole. coolness; right and ing suits dressers i The m: sortment crashes i and patte order in from R SATHHY Ou'ing ticularly Made to order COMMON COMPLAINT against outing suits is that the clothes look as if they The fabrics must be light for a light unlined coat that will hang We have solved this problem, and this Summer are making out- We will make a suit to your $10 up Suits for owt-of-town custom- ers satisfactorily made to order through our self-measuring sys- tem—uwrite for samples and self- measuring blank. the interior towns weather is so warm. SNWOO0D 740 Market Street and Cor. 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