The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 13, 1903, Page 9

HOLD DISGUSSION ON WATER CASE Mayor Olney and Attor- neys Have Informal Talk. T 0F MORPHINE PUSINING Mrs. Irene Upson Ex-l pires Under Myste- ious Conditions. City’s Executive Says Dismis- sal of Appeal Lies With Council. R Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Nov. 12. The story of an Informal discussion of he status of tle water rate case that K at a luncheon table in San o leaked out Oakland to-day. case is now in process of appeal from of Judge Hart, and the attor- city and the attorneys for ipany are at work settling of exceptions upon which the case | | | | | ling Physician Did Not Prescribe Any Deadly Drug. e i Walter Preston Makes Important tement Which Is Flatly Con- tradicted by Druggist ace p Olso: - .. taken to the Supreme Court. N ince Mayor Olney and some re. In son, 31 years of age, wife | | fle 2uo Couae osts " the noon died ea ¥ yesterday IS 3 long drawn out. ‘The disCus- was informal and turned upon the in which each was interested. No reached and neither side 1gh possibilities were dis- Il about one ast S Sunday or Olney to-night explained how the t, and announced that s province to take any 1at such actlon Couneil, and k that he would submit the body. He k reet that t 4 “osta Water year and that > made to hold The Printing able, and 4 snly the s for the one year in s for or city should agreement by vy tha® the uid never be iy against the city in That would leave the that the Hart aded againet poeal, and noth- esal of 1l and hape that mit it to i @ m mor was dead, presumabl polacning DRUGGIST OLSON’S DENIAL. ) g store at Mason and e proprietor denied that sold morphine or 1 called and exhibit: Pt ts, flatly con tement made by Dr, Pres Bayley’s drug store at 251 Grant ave- it was denled that Upson had secured m nes on a prescription of Dr. & not questioned by the Coro- s yesterday and he could not soning . P : ght at his lodgings. Ac- s & ec: 2 = 3 Jpson to addicted to search was made for him the tenderloin, but he could of the house where Upso roomed stated last nigl very devoted s treated her kindl She stated that she did not know Upsor wife artin stated last »port of the case had been to him by Coroner Leland and that no detectives had been put to work to in- gate the circumstances surrounding son's death. e e rday mistook a stick h to find that calm and un- ation which 1s often so diffi- tainment in this crowded world. a Ledger. ' THE MASTER OF ADPLEBY | 1 would cost me more T, it was the colonel -4 v A breath of doubt d once I thought he would ave he broke out in a laugh, | gibe 4 at Gilt then at Falconnet. F I give you i and you, Sir Francis. ve d you bravel S i "twas you e SWO! In that event you and so had the opriest » Margery with a bow that ion, madam: I knew not ur ago. It grieves me ght, but war is cruel longer to you than the e done in cold Carr. he spoke: and 1e gave the word to reco ne.” 2 a novel do you think you could crowd more of bts and fears, the ity of war, the hope and cross | ove into two hundred words than are woven into T he very essence of the art of writing. be: It matters much what comes after. vou get one the most thrilling situations in_ Feate Master of Appleby.” and in those few words you are given a wonderful insight in all that has gone before; but better than all there is such a promise of exciting things to come that, clever as be at weaving a solution for yourself, your curiosity piqued, ue to the ruling passion in human nature, you simply must know w some one else could untangle such a strange love affair. That is the reason that the first installment of the “Master of Ap- y” will have such a big sale when published in the next Sunday Call. perhaps another equally good reason may be found in the fact that 1 cannot buy this masterpiece of American fiction anywhere else in srm for less than $1 50. That is one of the big advantages of the s Call’s literary policy: you not only get the best books of the but you get them for one-tenth of what they would cost you else- That is one of the truisms that has made the Sundav Call so nsely popular. There are no interminable “Qontmued in Our series, no long waits between installments. You not only get e novel complete. but you get it quick. And best of all “The r of Appleby” is worth having in any shape. t, however, that isn't all that there is to the next Sunday Call. no. There is much more besides of the best literature ever 1. For instance, there is “The Roadmaster’s Story,” the last and of Frank H. Spearman’s thrilling railroad stories: “On Sentence y Josiah Flynt: “Private Hogan, Coward,” and a whole page of r Storiettes” of the sort you want to stay awake at night to ¢ Man Who Ended the Land Wars in Ireland” and some- #ly new about “Crime and Criminals” in _the ling Girl” which is a full-page picture that you simply can’t miss; New Boots for the Athletic Woman,” which is another page of pictures ill keep you on the qui vive: “The Girl Who Served Time.” bv “Me-ows of a Kitty” (you’ll laugh at those cats), and s0 many more things besides. Indeed, the next Sunday Call will show you how new the Sunday Call always is. —_——— e — — /™ @ @ % - FOR CITIZENSHP e amite for a bone did not have to go | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL SENATE COMM UPON ARMY of War, S. B. M. Young to B ITTEEACTS NOMINATIONS Selections of Robert Shaw Oliver to Be Assistant Secretary e Lieutenant General to Suc- & ubmt\fmwawwy. : ASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—Tha nomination of Robert Shaw Oliver of New York to be as- sistant Secretary of War was ordered to be favorably re- | ported by the Senate Committee on MH-} itary Affairs to-day. No action was taken on the n"rminmlf‘nl of Brigadier General Leonard Wood to be | l or gen in view of the request made yesterday in execu Senator ller that he b portunity to make inqui General Wood's military re Senator Proctor, acting ch call a second meeting of the ( on Military Affairs within a few is the intention now th the meet | shall be public and a hearing granted to | all persons opposed to the nomination of | Ge 1 Wood | | The committee voted to recommend the confirma of the appointment of Majo seneral §. B. Young to be, lieutenant | e Gener: t of 1, made prior al Wood, was ordered fa- ut 100 nominations of | nacted upon, as eir | promotion depends upon that of General | Wood. | @ il el @ | SHORT METHOD Alien With Cash Can Become a Brit- isher. s VSN Now When the trials and troubles which a foreigner must endurg to become a citi- zen of the United Btates are considered the rapidity with which an alien can gain such rights in Great Britain, be he so minded, seems remarkable. Any man possessed of a fair amount of shrewdness may become a naturalized British citizen for $25. This amount is the fee which the Government exacts for grainting the nat- uralization certificate, and there is a mat- ter of about twenty shillings to be settled | before the alien can be declared fit and | can receive a certified copy of the certifi- | cate. That represents the total outlay in | money. Of courses there are certain con- | ditions laid down in the laws which he must fuifill, but theke are little under- | stood, and the would-be Britisher may | slip through without fulfilling all of them, if he knows how. The laws say that one | must have enjoyed a five-vear residence in the country or served the Government | for that length of time outside, and that | an applicant must show that he does not | intend to decamp as soon as the certifi- | cate is given him. These rules are cn- { forced as rigorously as possible, and of | | late years the number of aliens who have | slipped through has not approached that | recorded some years ago. If the alien is poor, and especially if he |lives in the East End of London, where s0 large a proportion do, he usually elects to solve the pecuniary and all other qucs- tions connected with the process of turn- ing himself into a Briton by subscribing to a naturalization society, of which in that part of the metropolis there are sev- eral. In some cases, and particularly in the Jewish colonies, there are naturaliza- tion societies who arrange the whole busi- ness on the applicant paying a shilling a week and making his residential qualifi- cation good, i CITIZENSHIP A LOTTERY. The whole of the members of such a so- ciety pay their shillings every seven days and agree to do so till the necessary | amount is paid, but they need not neces- sarily wait until then before they can call the Union Jack their own. The business is arranged on the building society prin- ciple, and once a week, or oftener, at a busy time, there is a drawing at head- Qquarters, as the result of which Moses Rosenstein, who once lived in Germany, and who has only paid five shillings of his paturalization money, is able to take his friends round to the “Green Cow” and celebrate his advent into British nation- ality, upon the advantages of which he is expected to make a speech. There is a little anticipation in this fes- tivity, for the application for the certifi- cate has yet to be made in regular form, and It may quite possibly be discovered that there is some flaw in the qualifica- tions of the would-be Briton. A form of petition, which has to be sent to the Home Secretary when filled up, is lald be- fore the alien, and upon it he has to give full details of his claim. As mentioned already, the appli must show that he has lived here five y and is going to keep on doing so. He must also state the number and age of his children, if any, for all under age are naturalized thzoush ASEISTANT SEC- Y OF WAR. HELD UP WITHIN VIEW OF A POLICE STATION - F. Danike Assaulted and Robbed on Fourth Street Near Clara Yes- terday Morning. Danike, who lives on Harrison street ot F. | near Fourth, was a victim of a bold rob- bery early vesterday morning. He was | almost strangled by two unknown men and robbed of $3.60, all the money he had in his possession. His outcry for help at- cted the attention of Corporal Green and other officers in the Southern police station at Fourth and Clara streets. The officers rushed to the sce , but too late to capture the bold robbers, who disap- peared on Shipley street The victim of the robbery informed the officers that the men watched him in a restaurant ard when he departed they followed him. He was able to give a good | description of the men and the police hope | to capture them. | @ cieieielebedeluinleininielaieieleiek @ thelr father, and he must give the names and addresses of four householders to whom reference may be made, three as to | personal character and one as to resi- | dence. { Efforts are usually made to see that the | application is rgade in good faith and that | the facts of the clalm are as stated; but | on many occasions it becomes painfully evident that the alien is seekiug British rights when he has no moral or any other claim to them. Under such circumstances he is plainly told that he had better wait a little while until his qualifications ma- ture somewhat. Thus, on one occasion a rough-looking Pole, who could speak but a dozen words of English, was the applicant, and even to | the officials of the soclety, who in such matters are not at all thin-skinned, it ap- peared eminently undesirable that for the future this person should be allowed to class himself as a British subject. Yet he produced his four references and it seemed as if his case would have to go through, until some one began to conceive suspicions as to the references. Then, after the closest inquiry, it was discov- eerd that each of the four persons re- ferred to had received inducements to act in the capacity, and, when challenged, they declared that they had given their names under a misapprehension, Moreover, the Pole was found to have been a resident In this country for but three months, and to be engaged in an occupation of the most questionable de- scription. “‘Better try Russia,” was the brief and sarcastic advice which was given to the gentleman when all this was known, Some care has also to be taken to make sure that the applicant really wants the naturalization certificate for his own per- sonal gratification or use, for, strange as it may appear, there is some traffic done in these British trademarks, and there is no doubt that there are many of the worst characters from forelgn coun- tries who have been here but five min- utes, so to speak, who are able to flout the certificate before the eyes of anybody. The method of working in this case is simple but effective. TRAFFIC IN CERTIFICATES. A poor alien who s legitimately entitled to naturalizatiog saves up his shillings till he has the number required, gets his certificate in the ordinary course, and then waits for his investment to ripen. He has only got the certificate to sell again, and he passes the word along in the most useful quarters that when one is wanted by a fresh incomer from abroad he has one to dispose of at a price. It does not matter what name the new foreigner goes by in this country, and so it is a simple thing for him to adopt that given on the certificate, whilst other de- taills are easily capable of arrangement. The holder demands a price according to the means and the necessity of the buyer. On an average he is yielded a profit of two or three pounds, but sometimes it may be worth twenty to him.—Baltimore American. ———— BERLIN, Nov. 12—The Munict stonist School of Painters have deided tor for: lo'thammy'l:‘olthmo(mnnfl'fll met awhibit at {the top of an embankment thirty feet | corner of 193 will go down in commercia | history as one of the most remarkable o | nipulators to secure suffieient bank funds (prices. | words of a contemporary grain review, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1903. ENGINE CREWS DIE IN WRECK ceed Miles and Sumner to Be Major General Are Approved [Freight Trains Collide in Fog on Kentucky Railroad. Locomotives Are Demolished and Cars Hurled Down Embankment. WS A LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 12—Two heavy frelzht trains, one of them- a double- header, collided in a dense fog ncar New Hope, K on the Knoxville division of the Louisville and Nashville to-day, kill- ing six trainmen and injuring two, one probably fatally. The dead: MARTIN GRAVES, engineer. MARTIN CONNOR, engine EDWARD STURGES, enginWer. JOHN REYNOLDS, fireman. WILLIAM LEYDEN, fireman. H. H. LEAS, fireman. The injured: S. E. Hume, head brake- man, will probably die; A. B. Winkel, head brakeman. The trains met on a reverss curve at high. The three engines were demolished and nearly every car on both trains land- ed at the foot of the embankment. @ it e e el @ CORNERS N GRAIN MD N COTTON The certainty that the American cotton H such episodes on record calis attention again to the noteworthy points of contrast | or resemblance between this corner and | those of other years. As to cotton corners in recent times, the market's story was told on this page March 7. The notable episodes there noticed, the Labouisse cor- ner at New Orleans in 189 and the Steen- strand corner at Liverpool in 1899, broke down through failure of the corner ma- to take the cotton forced on them at top On the other hand, the eXtraordinary cotton corner of 1864, when the maximum prices in the trade’s history were touched turned out satisfactory to the manipul: tors. From 76 cents a pound in April of that year—a price due, of course, to the Southern blockade—cotton advanced to $1 54 in July and to $1 % shortly afterward. As late as January, 1565, the price held at $1 2. In that extraordinary year our ex- port of cotton was 26,765 bales and our import of the same raw material 76,085. By the time of Lee's surrender cotton was down again to 40 cents a pound, It is in the grain market rather than in the market for cotton that the spectacu- lar corners of this country have been run. The Chicago corner in wheat during 1S was one of the most striking &f these. The crop of the previous season had been somewhat reduced from the year before, but was well ,up to the average. The Franco-Prussfan war, with fits partial suspension of wheat production in the two belligerent states, came to an end in March and the price of wheat declined. The speculative sellers went too far and were confronted with a-sudden foreign demand, as a result of which, in the Imost the whole of our new crop of winter wheat has been going forward to the continent.” Spring wheat, which a “bear raid” drowve down to 9% cents at | when ™ Mitchell Chicago for August delivery, was put up to $1 30 before the month was over. This was a successful corner; it ended, after two “bear failures,” in a highly profitable settlement. There was an exactly similar corner in August, 1572, in which, however, the cor- dia “‘come out ner manipulators not whole.” Spring wheat for August deliv- ery was thought to be absolutely cor- nered; it was advanced above even the New York price and touched $16l. The corner was brought to a head too early in the month. In the third week of A gust a mass of new supplies suddenly came upon the market and within twenty- four hours the price collapsed from $1 61 to $1 19 per bushel. It went to $1 01 a few weeks later. The peculiarity of the wheat corners of 1871 and 1872 was that they were made on reagonably abundant crops, but with home SHOOTS THAEE NEWTON SCORES TIMES AT WIFE| ANOTHER SHUTOUT Thomas Mitchell Makes Target of Spouse ‘While Drunk. aiaealall Patrolman Finds Him Lying on the Floor. Clutching Portland Players Are Unable to Locate His Curves. Ross and Nadeau Pull Down Some Long Flies Very an Empty Pistol. Cleverly. A hurry-up telephone mesage was re- STANDING OF THE CLUBS. ceived at the Park police station last W. L. Pet. W. L Pet night from Mrs. Thomas Mitchell, Nine- teenth avenue and M street. The woman in frenzied tones told the officer that an- swered the phone that her husband was trying to kill her. Patrolman Clener was at once dispatched to the place and found .62 San_Fran.101 105 .490 .50/ Portiand . 89 98 .478 492(Oakland . §5 121 .12 LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12—Doc Newton had perfect backing to-day and scored another shutout. Six hits were all Port- Sac’'to ... 97 100 the husband lying on the floor in the 1 land could secure off his delivery and kitchen, drunk, his right hand tightly y - clutching a 38 caliber revolver, all five these were widely scattered. Portland's infleld did some bad throwing, which was responsible for several of the runs scored against them. Ross and Nadeau aroused enthusiasm by pulling down long flies. Score: chambers of which were empty. The woman was standing outside the house, fearful lest her husband might awaken from his drunken slumber and | again attack her. In hysterical tones the woman told the officer the story of how Portland— her husband, frenzied from drink, had s Sl g By G ke By Ny chased her around the house, firing at her | 5 2Andsn2b3 0 0 O 4 as she fled for her life. 11 2Nadeulf 4 0 2 1 0 My husband came home shortly before 9010 lFremning 0 111 @ F » s, c . vh 2 0 Blake,3! midnight,” said Mrs. Mitchell, “and when 12 gbmkeis ¢ 0133 I saw that he was under the influence of 0 1 0 1 6 Thimn, 4 0040 liquor 1 began to remonstrate with him. | 2 4 2/Clarkec.. 3 0 0 3 1 Suddenly he pulled a reveiver out of his | 2 0 1Shields,p 2 0 0 1 O pocket and fired a shot at me. | 25223 rnE S “He was so drunk that hisaim was bad | Totals 82 5 92713 Total RUNS AND HITS BY Los Angeles 100 | | and 1 started to run. He followed me up, | | | _ Base hits o0 | firing two more shots as he ran. I finally managed to escape from the house and took refuge with a neighbor. As soon as I made my escape he must have fallen asleep, for I watched the house closely, but could see no more of him.” Mrs, Mitchell is at a loss to explain % discharged the two, re- | maining chambers of the pistol. She says that he fired but three shots at her and thinks he must have fired the remaining two after she fled from the house. ere were no other eye witnesses to the shooting and none of the neighbors seem to know anything about it. Mitchell was taken to the Park police station and locked up on a charge of assault with in- tent to kill. He was too drunk to make & statement. @ it @ consumption at a maximum. The ear! '80's reversed both elements in the situa- tion. Prosperity caused increased con- sumption, and in 1887 the harvest failed. A successful cormer was manipulated in that year, wheat at Chicago going from 9% cents early in 1881 to $1 43 in October, and the corner was really continued into the spring months of the ensuing year. It was in 1887 that the famous “‘Cincin- nati deal” occurred, involving misuse of the funds of a powerful bank and the for- tunes of a dozen firms. The market was thought to be really cornered, yet the price was only raised from %% cents to 943, cents per bushel, and that moderate rise was enough to turn the wheat from seaboard storehouses back inte Cine and Chicago and break the corner a lutely. The corner manipulators wen down in a general collapse of insolven wheat fell at once to 68 cents per bushel. By way of contrast 1888 supplied, per- haps, the most successful wheat corner in our history. B. P. Hutchinson, purely by getting his “bear” antagonists to sell him vastly more contracts for delivery than the somewhat deficient crop would | Portiana o0 Base hits SUMMARY. Stolen bases—Wheeler, Errors—Anderson, Los Angeles 7. Passed ball—Clari. ire—McDonald. Sacrifice hits—Ho: Time of gam e —— Plays the Part of Secretary. W. F. Tucker was convicted by Police Judge Mogan yesterday a charge of misdemeanor embezzlement and was or- dered to appe for s nce this morn- ing. The complaining witness was J. Ar- nett, a barber at 202 Duncan street. Ar- nett went to the office of the secretary of the Barbers’ ion, as he wished to become a member. Tucker was sitting in the waiting-room and represented himself as the secretary of the unfon. Arnett pald him the initiation fee and got a receipt Arnett returne a few minutes to ask some question and saw the real tary, who went with him in sear Tucker and found him “‘celebrating. —e-—— Accuses Roommate of Theft. Peter Walken, 54 Sixth street, swore to a warrant last nig! charging Frank Wallace, a former roommate, with hav- ing stolen a purse containing $93. The al- leged theft occurred on Sunday night and the following day Wallace disappeared. It was learned that he went to Portland | with a companion, so Detective Thomas Ryan was sent to the latter city last night in search of W ce. The Chief of Police of Portland has been wired to look out for Wallace. wrecked. on “He had been demented for quite a while,” his family calmly stated to the press; “affairs on board have gone against h For me he has been on the verge of rulm and his fortune has warrant, started with the price around % | disappeared.” cents in the later summer and at the| The extraordinary episode of Joseph very clcse of September drew the lines. | Leiter’s corner, during 1508, {s recent his- He announced on September 2% that 32 | tory. Epitomized, the story fs that he per bushel was his price for settlement | started buying wheat at 72% cents per with the “shorts,” and on the last day | bushel; bought as low as 65; kept on buy- of the month they had to pay it. | ing and selling for a year: put up the “On the Board of Trade,” one newspa- | price to $1 8 on May 10, 1898; actually per report narrated, “a crowd followed | controlled 35000000 bushels and sold or ex- him all over the floor, cheering lu ported on the advance 25.000000; was be- whenever his head could be seen.” lieved to have secured a paper profit of all successful adventurers, he was at least $5,000,0 then, all at once, con= hero of the hour. fessed leaving a member of Yet Hutchinson himself very soon gave | his family to raise at least the sum named fmpressive fllustration of one moral of | above to pay his debts. the “corner.” Convinced to the point of This memorable case contained such of mad infatuation of his ability to handla | the moral as there is im this corner epi- such operations, he started to cerner the | sode. It has been figurbd out that be- Chicago corn market in March, 1861 tween May 10 and June 13 the paper value He had the “statistical position™ on his | of Leiter's holdings shrunk $9,50),000. This side, the previous season's crop having | is the inevitable peril of a corner. Actual run 623,000,000 bushels short of 1889, and | control of the market enables any specu- Europe's crops promising failure. The |lator to name the price, but he cannot corn crop was, in fact, smaller than the | force the real consumer to buy. This ex- recent vield of 19%1. From 65 cents in | perience called forth the well-known re- March, he put the price to 82 on April 15. | mark of the late P. D. Armour, himseif a Then the price wavered. On April 29, 15%], | dabbler in ventures of tmis sort: “Youw “Old Hutch.”” as the Board of Trade al- | can make your corner; you will kill your ways called him, simply disappeared. 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