The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 17, 1903, Page 1

VOLUME XCIV—NO. 47 SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. NEW CRISIS WITNESSES N PONTIFF'S ARE ACCUSED OF PERJURY Another HOperation‘Arrests in Connec- Is Considered | tion With the Necessary.! | Fair Case. ONDITION Danger That Patient Two ParisiansJailed on Cannot Survive Instructions From the Ordeal New York. His Difficulty in Breathing Charge Against Them Is Becomes More Pro- Preferred by Mrs. W. K. nounced. Vanderbilt Jr. PARIS, July 16.—A new development arisen in the matter of the claims to the inheritance of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Fair, who were killed in an accident in Pacy-Sur-Eure, France, last August. The judicial authorities of the Depart- nt of the Seine have been Informed hat the testimony given by alleged eye- witnesses of the fatal accident contained ntradictions and is open to the suspi- f having been inspired by a party suit. A Paris magistrate was ap- d to make an investigation, as the t of which’two persons were arrest- ed yesterday afternoon on the charge of fetats The officlals refused to reveal the names f the arrested men, ces them rk ut a local paper “Louis M— and who testified before the utborities. The charge of per- as & to this journal, was against them by Mrs. William erbilt Jr., and the magistrate s g acting on instructions from New warrants for their ar- rs protested against being at they were house- men and not likely judicial Investigation. Nev- were detained in custody. te that they were witnesses of the automobile ac- but the local paper recalls that Hourdet, the wife of the janitor of > chateau in front of which the Fairs killed, declared that she was the only person who saw the catastrophe. NEW YORK, July 16.—The two Frenc men who testified on behalf of Mrs. N the Fair were named Paul e Mas and Alfred Jules Moranne. BRUNSWICK, N. J., July 16— Frederick Nels of Newmarket of Mrs. Charles who was d in an automobile accident abroad, rrow escape from a similar death v friend named Tits- m the olders and married evade th were son case brother Pair HIS seashore n near this city work and the ma- ill and dashed into and stunning both 1g the automobile. RS e M HAWAIIAN LEGISLATORS ARE INVOLVED IN SCANDAL omobile es refused to chin® ‘rushed down a tree, b bruising men and wrec Vouchers of Expenses of the Last House of Representatives Can- not Be HONOLULU been made Found. July 16—Charges have the press that the vouchers of the last regular session of of Representatives have either dstroyed. Demands caled or ndalous rev- 1t of publicity. a of the House denies that the vouchers are in his possession. POPE'S TRUST IN RAMPOLLA. Leo i t ad- As an outcome of dissatisfaction exist- but | ing in certain political quarters the or- he t ga fon of a citizens' party for the| county elections is proposed, i R B L PENITENT DEFAULTER IS GRANTED CLEMENCY Admits His Crime and Is Paroled at the Request of a Man He Defrauded. riod lies with one I Rampol! sl e = to take advan. | WO In 18, while engaged in a banking « 4 & power to pull down | PUSINCSS In this city, disappeared with = they o, | 312,000 of the bank’s money, appeared in e iness leaves mothing | CCUFt to-day to receive sentence. Stern . ow the world up to the | 1910 the court that he had traveled all w much he trusts his sec. | °V¢T the world, but misfortune had fol- . lowed him and he could stand the dis- e sick room EFAce N0 lapger. To-day the only one of g ecretary | five original complainants who could be ' | Becured appeared in court and asked for “)‘;“'hn.v for Stern The court granted the request and paroled Stern. red to confirm 4 ———— Eminer NEW YORK MILLIONAIRES wer ce al- ed because of his posit 2 him to také measures FORM AN EXCLUSIVE CLUB v s, would necessi- ¢ £ ”: h", m’:: “Pon. | Plan to Make It the Most Expensive s of his personal devo- Social Organization in the and the services he Country. the church.” | NEW YORK, July 16.—A new social or- | ganization to be known as the Brook Club being formed. The rrembership will be limited to 200 and it probably will be is SYMPATHY OF AMERICA. Associated Press | rv to Cardinal Ram- | the most expensive and exclusive club at on Sunday July | in the country. English methods will offered in Protestant | Prevail and the dues will bar all ex- = v cept millionaires from joining. The doors ’ iited States for th It St i 3 o | will never be closed and lunches will be Leo, the Cardinal has served at all hours—an fnrovation In club- dom. Only the most representative men of other cities will be asked to join. following letter from of state of his Holi- | s The communication for- | @ iiriisiiii-ind » k een most gratifying | retary of state, my hopes that the | allow him, when | moment comes, to inform | the contents of the tele- | ess - American Protestant churches most ac- ceptable. “With true sentiments of esteem, I re- main, ryour devoted servant, 3IACOMA DELLACHIESA, ‘SBubstitute Secretary of State. “Rome, July 16 1903.” The Pope was much pleased when Car- nal Rampolla informed him of the uni- versal manifestation of sympathy toward ]his Holiness, coming from all, even from non-Catholics master nence h will always felt by | 5 infon of the dis- will certainly render this of the interest of the lemonstration HONEYGOMB OF TUNNELS UNDER CITY Chicago Attempts a Remarkable Project. Will Do Away With Teaming on Main Streets. Underground Electric Cars to Replace Delivery Wagons. Special Dispatch to The Call. e for their publication and | NEW YORK, July 16.—Charles 8. Stern, | | CHICAGO, July 16.—The passage of the | Ilinols Telephone and Telegraph Com- | pany tunnel ordinance early this morning | by the City Council after one of the long- est and hottest sessions in the history of that body opens up a wonderful scheme | for honeycombing the city with tunnels for the transportation of merchandise, do- ing away with 75 per cent of the teaming and with all downtown freight yards and freight houtes. As a consequence the | downtown streets will be relieved of the congestion that now exists. This great work is to cost $15,000,000, and | includes, besides the present system of | tunnels bored by the Illinois Telephone | and Telegraph Company, a twelve-mile tunnel twelve by fourteen feet running out to the Stickney tract, in the southwest | part of the city, where is located the im- stem of switches designed for a freight clearing-house for all of the twen- ty-three raillroads running into Chicago. A system of branch tunnels running into | all of the big mercantile houses, whole- sale and retall, and factories will permit of freight being transported directly from the great freight clearing-house to the mercantile houses, and vice versa, without appearing the streets of the city. The branch tunnels to the bufldings will | have immense elevators, that will bring | freight cars directly into the basements | for loading and unloading. All freight | | will be carried on ten-foot electric cars running at a high rate of speed. | Arrangements will be made for rapid | delivery of goods within the city from large department and other stores by A parcel delivery mense s | on | means of these tunnels. system will be established and connection made for the benefit of outlying markets and groceries, so that produce can be de- | livered to them from South Water street. With such an immense amount of team- ing removed from the streets the street car service can be greatly improved, and the ssity for a subway, at least for s, done away with, ————— | ENGLAND IS DISTURBED AND WRITES TO UNCLE SAM | | nec | | : | Asks for an Explanation of the An- | nexation of the Islands i of Borneo. LONDON, July 17.—According to the | | Datly Chronicle the action of America in | annexing the islands of Borneo raises an | exceedingly delicate situation and the | British Foreign Office has asked Wasn- ington for an explanation. The islands concerned, says the paper, are a group of seven which originally be- longed to the Sultan of Sulu, from whom they passed by a charter in 1881 to the | control of the British North Borneo Com- pany, whose officers confirm that they are undoubtedly British territory. They are nsignificant in size, but of the highest | strategic importance, dominating Sanakan Harbor and Labuka | The American side of the question, as | given by the United States Embassy, says | the Dally Chronicle, is that the islands | 2re undoubtedly American by right of | conquest, having belonged to the Philip- pineg, and the Sultan of Sulu having con- firmed acknowledged American su- { premacy over the islands, the course | taken was to demonstrate America’s right | nd establish a more clearly defined line between the American possessions in the Philippines and Sulu Sea and the territo- | ries of the British Borneo Company. | The islands had never been occupied by | any European natlon, and it is unknown | whether Spain ever recognized the trading treaty that existed between the Borneo | Company and the inhabitants of the isl- | ands. | —_—— NOT GUILTY OF HER BABY SISTER'S DEATH When Maud Jordine Is Released | Crowd Hoots Detective | Butler. BLOOMINGTON, I, July 16.—Maud Jordine walked out of the McLean Coun- ty courtroom a free girl this afternoon. Justice A. B. Heineman declared her not guilty of the murder of her baby sister last Thursday evening. The hearing last- ed less than two hours. There was a sensational climax when the result was announced. Hisses and howls greeted J. P. Butler, the detective who made the arrest, while there were cheers and congratulations for the fair prisoner. There was some fear expressed that overexcited friends of the girl | might offer personal violence to the of- and £ e i ] i P M. ARTHUR FLLS DEA N BANQUET Special Dispatch to The Call. WINNIPEG, Man., July 16.—P. M. Ar- thur, grand chief engineer of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Engineers, dropped dead at midnight while speaking at a bangret closing the annual union conven- tion of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin~ rs, which has been in session for the past few days. Arthur had just risen to respond to a toast and repeated the words, “It may be my parting words . to many of you,” when he fell backward and expired a few minutes afterward. Scotland was the birthplace of Peter M. Arthur seventy-two years ago, but he was justly entitled to be called an Ameri- can, for he came here at a time when this country needed just such men as he proved to be. Although but a lad when he first set foot upon these shores he went to work in the shops of the New York and Harlem Railroad Company as blacksmith’s helper. There he became interested in machinery and ultimately learned that trade. He also made his start as an engineer there, beginning as an engineer's wiper and serving his en- tire apprenticeship to the end of manning the throttle himself on the New York Central. When in 1863 that great single labor power, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, was formed he was one of the foremost leaders in the movement and afterward did much toward making it what it now is, the strongest and most ficer, but fortunately nothing of the kind took place. The evidence presented was calculated to show that Maud had expressed her loathing of the task of caring for the baby and that she did not intend to keep up this sort of work always. ——— Cuban Senate Ratifies the Treaties. HAVANA, July 16.—The Senate to-night ratified all the treaties with the United Statgs except the Platt amendment 4 trealy. conservative organization in ‘he world. As a reward for these labors and to show thelir faith in his judgment and as tribute to his rare executive powers the members of the brotherhood made him grand master of the order in 1%73, when that office was made vacant by the death of Grand Chief Blanchard. Not only was Arthur looked up to and respected by men among whom he was Continued on Page J'I, Column 2. LA Ui 1 | AMERICA SCORES DIPLOMATIC TRIUMPH IN GAINING RUSSIA'S PLEDGE TO PERMIT CHINA TO OPEN PORTS OF MANCHURIA CRETARY HAY scored a splendid diplomatic triumph yesterday, when Russia’s representative in Washington put into writing a pledge from his Government that it would not oppose the opening of Manchurian ports to trade. victory twas the greater for the The reason that the State Depart- ment, putting aside selfish considerations, won this concession not for the United States alone, but for all nations. o All Nations Profit by Concession to the United States. T OF CHINA oo i o — SOVEREIGN AND DIPLOMAT OF THE MANCHURIAN ERN PROVINCE THAT IS TO BE OPE. CONCERNED IMBROGLIO, AND SCENES IN THE EAST- IN THE SETTLEMENT D TO TRADE. FAST TRAIN CRASHES INTD DAKEN PLANK Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN RAFAEL, July 16.—An attempt was made to-day to wreck a North Shore passenger train. It was the one leaving San Rafael at 2:20 o’clock and it ran into an obstruction on a dgngerous curve near Alto Station. A large oak beam, ten fet long, six inches wide and twenty inches thick, had been placed across the rails and was not observed until Engineer Ritchie was al- most upon it. The local trains run rapid- ly at this point and had it not been for the watchfulness of Ritchie the train would have been ditched. Ritchie had just come out of the Corte Madera tunnel and was flying around a curve when he saw the obstruction. He put the air brakes on at once, but could not come to a full stop before he struck the timber. The engine's pony truck went over the block, but fortunately dropped upon the rails on the other side and be- fore the drive wheels struck it the loco- motive was stopped. The affair was at once reported to the railroad officials and they have put de- tectives to work upon the case. —_————— Abner McKinley Is Dangerously Il JOHNSTOWN, Pa., July 16.—Abner Mec- Kinley is reported dangerously ill at Somagset with vawlysis \ BANKS: PLAN BI6 MERGER OF MILLIONS Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, July 16.—The Farmers’ | and Merchants' National Bank and the First National Bank, both of Los Angeles, are to be combined to form what will be | one of the largest if not the largest finan- | cial institution in this part of the coun- | try. At a joint meeting of the directors | of the two ¢oncerns held to-day definite plans for uniting the two banks were completed, and all that is now required is the ratification of these plans by the stockholders. and there is no doubt as to their approval of the plan. The First National Bank will change its name to “The First and Farmers' and Merchants’ National Bank of Los An- geles.” Its capital stock will be (ncmased| to $2,000,000, and it will have a paid up | surplus of $500,000. It will acquire the as- sets, business and good will of the Farm- ers’ and Merchants’ National Bank of Los Angeles and will be the largest national bank in California—in fact, in the West— with gross assets amounting to about $18,- 000,000. The officers from the consolidated bank wili be selected from the two institutions. I. W.- Hellman will be president (he is now president of the Farmers' and Mer- chants’ National), John M. Elliott vice | | | | | | = ASHINGTON, July 16.—The Manchurian question has been settled satisfactorily to s Government. Assur- ances been received from the Chinese Government that it will in the mear future open as treaty ports several ports now closed to the world's trade. The Russian Government has con- veyed formal assurance to the United States Government that it will not in any way oppose such opening. The ports to be opened are not yet spec- ified, but it is supposed they are Mouk- den, the prineipal port of Manchuria, and Tatungkao, the mouth of the Yalu River. The State Department is highly gratified at this outecome, feeling that it has obtained not only for American com- merce, but for the commerce of the world at large, very substantial gains. FIRST STEP BY RUSSIA. It now develops that the meeting of 2ussian officials at Port Arthur, just con- ave at | cluded, was but one of the steps, though an important one, which the St. Peters- burg Government had planned in the exe- cution of its purpose to place matters of international administration in Manchuria in such condition that the ports desired by the United States and Japan could be opened to trade without causing disturb- ance or involving undue sacrifice of prop- er Russian interests. It already had been represented that much of the friction that had grown out of the Manchurian ques- tion was caused by a sort of triple yet in- dependent administration of affairs in | Manchuria by representatives of the dif- ferent branches of the Russian Govern- ment. The result was that one official would not feel bound by the pledges made by another, so that forelgn nations com- plained of bad faith. It is understood that now, following the Port Arthur con- ference, a compact and responsible diree- tion of affairs has been arranged for, and orders issued from St. Petersburg are cer- tain to meet speedy and exact compli- ance. Although no set time is mentioned in the promise to open the ports, it is be- lieved that t will follow soon after the Russian evacuation in September. PLEDGES ARE IN WRITING. The negotiations which have terminated so successfully to-day—so far as broad lines are concerned, for only details re- main to be adjusted—were practically brought to their present phase by Secre- tary Hay and Count Cassini at a meeting at the Russian embassy on June 28, the day before the Secretary departed for Newport. The Embassador then had in hand the necessary authorization from his own Government to make the pledges which are now in process of redemption. The pledges were reduced to writing by Hansen, the Russian Charge, during his call at the State Department to-day. It now remains for Minister Conger to de- fine in the trade treaty which he is ne- Continued on Page 2, Golumit 6. Continued on Page 5, Column %