The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 29, 1903, Page 21

/| Clondy Sunday, with showers; | fresh southerly winds. A. G. MoADIE, District Forecaster. th e Library.*** Orphenm— The Chutes—Vaudeville. +* RBoads.’ Central—“Midnight Ceiuml -Vandeville. VOLUME XCIV—NO. 1s2. TAVIMAY'S HIEF SEEKS k CANDIDATE Left in Lurch byi Mr. Cleveland’s | Refusal. = | David Bennett Hill Makes Overtures to Murphy. Claims of Gorman, Gray and | Parker Are Being Considered. | | | | Spectal Dispatch to The Call | A | EW YORK, Nov. 28—In emphatic- | ref! the use of his ection with another nom- the Presidency Grover has made it imperative for , the leader of Tara- his lines and 1ind g to permit r the organization | ken as yet, but rom- | crats of being consid- nator Arthur Pue Judge Gray of Parker this are ion that Murphy nest in his sup- a meeling of this city on iving, it broadly dis- that is n was f those present at scribed to-day as ser President. The | ressed that Mur- | 1 Cleveland tain that he could | delegation. Friends 1y Hall, on the | that he has | opinion that | , would sweep | a Democratic | m I as | was cer nade over- aside from ther a deal enator Hill { at strength in the | his friends have is hardly probable carried for any oval of Hill. s 10 make a and he has that the r Cleveland has > ranks of Pres- b. Grov will rt of the ge Gray - Pue Gor- ang- g th Democrats eig ve visited Mur- ¥ , and i e NG TESTIMONY vy TA IN THE FAIR CASE gist’s Evidence Is to the Effect | That Fair Died | First. ~The taking of tes- | ir case began to-day | r Eisler, appointed | courts. A number of | American lawyers were e day was given up of Emil Menard, a | scene of the acci- | who the following day was called | 1 to perform the embalming and as- | sist the doctors in the partial autopsy. | He testified that he found the Fairs’ arterial systems so clotted with blood was unabie to properly embalm Charles L. Fair's face was ter- ribly swollen. The tendency of the tes- | ny was to show that Fair was in- | i more than his wife and therefore to the te Gruggist near the Edmond Kelly, representing of Fair, closely cross-ques- | he witness, seeking to bring out | the inconclusive nature of Menard's | evidence. The court adjourned until | Tue when the more important witnesses, including the two attending doctors, w be heard. —e————— POSTMASTER GENERAL PAYNE SUBPOENAED Prominent Officials Must Attend Trial of lelore‘or at Baltimore. SHINGTON, Nov. 28.—Subpenas re served to-day on Postmaster Gen- eral Payne and First Assistant Post- master General Wynne to attend the trial of T. W. McGregor, former supply clerk of the rural free delivery service, on an indictment for conspiracy. The trial will begin in Baltimore on Mon- ey, | to recover the trust company's money. | pany, who is conversant with the sit- | Judges Acheson, AUTHORIZES SUITS AGAINST SHIPYARDS TRUST PROMOTERS 3 Trust Company Exe| ecutive Committee 1 Alleges Fraud. E [ Speclal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Nov. 28.—The executive | committee of the Trust Company of the | Republic has authorized suits to re- | cover large amounts of money, which, | it is alleged, were wrongfully obtained from the trust company for use in get- | ting under way the United States Ship- | building Company. James B. Dill, counsel for the Trust Company of the Republic, refused to-day to speak | of the action of the executive commit- tee, but it was learned elsewhere au- | thoritatively that papers in these suits{ are now being prepared. | No statement of the identity of the | persons to be sued was to be had to- | day, but it was said that there would, | iemsrmmer be at least three defendants in the suits | One of the directors of the trust com- uation, said the testimony brought out | at the hearing in the bondholders’ suit the trust company to take this action. He added: “This testimony shows that some ex- ceedingly odd things were done with our money and in justice to ourselves | and the old stockholders it was thought necessary to authorize suits which would determine the legality of these transactions. The so-called Dresser loans, the depositing of $750,000 with Harris, Gates & Co., and the loan of this moner to Dresser and Nixon—in | | | | for a permanent receiver had compelled [ | | fact, all transactions between the trust | company and the United States Ship- | building Company must be reviewed | and settled. The trust company would like to recover about $1,000,000 it did not make in shipbuilding deals.” SR £ | RECEIVERSHIP IS PERMANENT. ‘ Circuit Court of Appeals Bules: Against Shipbuilding Company. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 28.—The ap- | peal of the United States Shipbuilding Company against the decision of Judge Kirkpatrick appointing James Smith Jr. receiver for the corporation was to- day decided against the company. The | opinion rendered by Circuit Court Dallas and Gray was filed the former. Judge Kirkpat- | rick’s action is sustained and the or- der for the recelvership made perma- | nent, or until the further order of the | cou The opinion, in part, follows: “Upon the whole, we are of the opin- | fon that the bill presented a case of which the Circuit Court, sitting in equity, had jurisdiction and that the appointment of a receiver was within | the authority of the court. We also | think there was evidence to sustain the findings of the lower court and to jus- | tify the order appointing a receiver. Whether a receiver should be appoint- | ed was a matter largely within the dis- cretion of the court, in view of the spe- | cial circumstances of the case. “Upon careful examination we can not say that the order appointing a re- ceiver and granting an injunction was improvidently made. “It was urged in the argument tha!L the decision appealed from was equiv- | aient to a final decree. Although there | is no assignment of error to bring this | question before us, still it deaer\'eu‘ | | | by present consideration. As we read the order it was not intended to be a final- ity and is not so in legal effect. But to remove any possible doubt on this point we will amend the order by strik- ing from the fifth paragraph the concluding words, ‘and especially by the act of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey, entitled'an act concern- ing corporations,’ and substitute there- for the words, ‘the receiver to be sub- Ject at all timés to the orders and di- rections of this court,’ and we will al- low the foregoing order to stand until the further order of this court.” The suit against the corporation was commenced on June 11 last by Roland R. Conklin, Max Nathan, Jacob W, Mark and James D. Maguire, stock- holders. On June 30 Judge Kirkpatrick Continued on Page 22, Column 1. SIRIK Senator jto a | ¥ | run, | | [ | JURIST WHO SUSBTAINS AP- POINTMENT OF RECEIVER FOR THE SHIPYARDS, EOlL 1N THE BED MAN'S LAND New Yorkers Hold 1,000,000 Acres in_ Lease. et Epecial Dispatch to The Call. SALAMANCA, N. Nov. 28.—State Albert T. Fancher and State Senate Clerk James Spencer Whipple are home from Washington, where they have been making an effort to engineer an Indian deal that will make Vree- land’s Indian allotment bill look like a canceled postage stamp if it be carried successful conclusion. The pres- ent scheme had its inception about eight years ago, when Senator Fancher drifted into the Indian Territory. He succeeded in securing a lease of nearly 1,000,000 acres of Indian land for oil purposes. Without awaiting the ap- proval of the lease by the Interior De- partment, Fancher put down several | wells and was rewarded by finding oil In the meantime several other politicians were let in. The lease was secured for only ten and has but two more years to and it was found desirable to ob- tain an extension. J. M. Guffey, the millionaire oil ope- rator of Pittsburg, made an offer to the syndicate of one-tenth royalty and $1 an acre bonus on 160,000 acres of the lease, provided consent were obtained for the laying of a pipe line into the Territory by the Standard Ofl Com- pany. The Standard, however, declined to have anything to do with the venture or to handle a barrel of the oil unless the lease wer: properly approved by the Secretary of the Interior. There is where the trouble began. The renewal of the lease, if obtained on the game terms as the original lease, will be worth hundreds of thousands of dol- lars if the deal can be forced through and Government approval obtained. ———— RESULTS OF NORTH SEA STORM ARE APPALLING More Than a Hundred Lives Are Be- lieved to Have Been Lost. BERLIN, Nov. 28.—It is estimated that 102 persons lost their lives in the recent storms on the North Sea. All vessels arriving in the Weiser and the Elbe report seeing much wreckage and many corpses drifting about. They were unable, however, to pick up any of the bodies owing to the high seas which ‘were running. in paying quantities. ETS POISIN NIGHOLS Princess of Hesse Dies Instead of. the Czar. Seized by Fatal Illness After Partaking of Oysters. Rigid Examination Results in Two Arrests Being Made at Court. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. ' BERLIN, Nov. -28,—That Princess Elizabeth of Hesse, niece of the Czar- ina, died of poison and not of typhoid fever is now admitted. S The following official version of her death is now given by a member of the Czar’s entourage: “The Princess fell a victim to the Czar’s taste for jced oysters. The | Princess ate several on the day she fell ill and within two hours afterward she had a violent attack of what was thought to be cholera, especially when paralytic collapse supervened. “The Czar himself ordered a post- mortem examination, as the death seemed suspiciously like strychnine poisoning. But the doctors are satis- fied that the oysters were the cause of death. “This explanation was unsatisfactory even to the Czar, who instantly ordered a minute investigation into the history of the suspected bivalves from the time of their purchase until they were serv- ed at the imperial table. “It is rumored that two errests have been made from among the suite and ithe suspicion that an -attemnt was made on the Czar’s life is increased by the issuing by thé St. Petersbufg™t#n- tral Revolutionary Cémmittee of a cir- cular emphatically asserting that the revelutionists’had no hand in the recent fatality at Skiernelvice, Poland, where Princess Elizabeth died.” The members of the Czar’s party were all taking luncheon together, it being the -Princess’ dinner. Just before be- ginning the Czar had the Princess placed mext to him at table and when oysters were placed before the Czar he passed the plate to his little niece, laughingly, as she had said in reply to his inquiry about her appetite that she was very hungry. It is =otorious that there are high court influences at work to prevent the Czar proclaiming his eldest daughter helr ‘to the throne and that ever since that intemtion was declared by him spe- cial precautions have had to be taken to safeguard the little Grand Duchess Olga’s life from polson. —_—————— WILL FIGHT FOR HER SHARE OF ESTATE Mrs. L. Auerbach to Contest Will of Her Brother Who Died in Helena. HELENA, Mont., Nov. 28.—The will of the late Henry Klein, one of Helena's most wealthy citizens, who died about two weeks ago, leavinz an estate val- { ued at about $500,000, may be contested | by Mrs. L. Auerbach of San Francisco, | his sister. The heirs of the late Mr. Klein said to-day that this probably would be the case. The will is to be filed for probate Monday. By its provisions Jacob Klein of San Francisco was becueathed $50,- 000 .and the family of Susman Klein, another brother of Los Angeles, was left about $30,000. Mrs. Auerbach was not mentioned in the will. Only about half of the estate was willed away, and according to what is stated to be one of the provisions the remainder is to be divided pro rata among the heirs men- tioned. ————— BRYAN BEING FETED IN EUROPEAN CITIES ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 28.—Wil- liam J. Bryan has written from Lon- don to arrange for an interview with Count Tolstoi. BERLIN, Nov. 28.—At the annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce here to-day former United States Con- sul General Hermann Kreissman was re-elected president and it was decided to invite William J. Bryan to address the chamber upon the occasion of his visit to Berlin in-January. LONDON, Nov. 28.—William Jen- nings Bryan took luncheon with Jo- seph Chamberlain at Highbury to-day. ———— Prominent Surgeon Is Il KANSAS CITY, Nov. 20.—The Star this (Sunday) morning says: Nicholas Senn, chief surgeon of Rush Medical College at Chicago. is Il at the Coates ‘House in this city. He is suffering from an infection of the right hand which resulted from performing an op- eration. While his condition is serfous, the physicians who are attending him say that it is not necessarily dangerous. —_—e—— Storm Sweeps French Coast. PARIS, Nov., 28.—A violent storm swept.the French coast all night. The cities of Bordeaux and La Rochelle suf- fered heavily. It is fgared that casual- ties have occurred among the fishing ficets. INTENDED FOR | FORTY-FIGHT PAGES—SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1903—PAGES 21 TO 34. PRICE FIVE CENTS, COLOMBIA OFFERS A $10,000,000 BRIBE TO UNITED STATES ORGSR P E e S Department of Cauca| Is on the Verge of Secession. Special Cablegram to The Call and New York Herald. _Copyright, 1905, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. PANAMA, Nov. 28.—Arrivals. on the steamship Manavi from Buena Ventu- ra, {n the Department of Cauca, Colom- bia, reports that great excitement pre- vails there and the inhabitants are ex- tremely bitter against the isthmians. Steamships leaving Buena Ventura | for Panama are compelled to ‘obtain clearance papers from the British Con- sul or depart without papers, as the Colombian authorities refuse to issue them. The arrival of the steamer Quito at Buena Ventura from Panama was made the occasion of a hostile demonstration against the isthmians. Public meetings were held and in the evening a torchlight procession was formed to march through - the city. On all sides were heard cries of “Down with Panama traitors!” and “Death to Yankees!” Later a ‘spirit of resigna- tion seemed to prevail. Reports from Cali, in the interior of Cauca, state that a military coup led by General Triana was planned, with the object of proclaiming independence. When the steamer Manavi left, how- ever, no practical results had been ac- complished. General Triana, who commands Bat- talion Five de Cali and is president of the municipality of Cali, is reported to have resigned soon after he heard of the movement in Panama. He an- nounced that at heart he was a sepa- ratist and that he could not under the circumstances continue to serve loyally the Colombian army. General Bonilla, the Governor of Cauca, while admit- ting that he also was in sympathy with the Panama movement, said he could not accept the resignation and pro- moted General Triana to be command- ing general in chief of the army of Cauca. It is reported that the greater part of the conservatives and many of the prominent members of the liberal party are in favor of declaring their independence. COLON, Nov. 28—The Panama Star and Herald says: “We learn from a reliable source that even passports to Port Limon, Costa Rico, from Colombian ports on the Atlantic, are not now allowed 'to be issued to Colombians. The river boats plying on the Magdalena have been armed and converted into war- ships. The liberal generals, Uribe- Uribe and Benjamin Herrera, have of- fered the Government their services for the taking of the isthmus. The conservatives, however, oppose the ac- ceptance of these offers, fearing that such action would result.in the over- throw of the Government.” Exchangé at Barranquilla is quoted at 15,000 and at Bogota the rate is 20,000 —— APPEAL TO FRENCH PUBLIC.' Colombians in Paris Denounce the United States. PARIS, Nov. 28.—8enor Calderon, for- mer Minister of Finance of Colombia, and fourteen other Colombians, including the officials here of the republic, have united in a letter appealing to the French public against the recent events in Panama. The letter declares the United States co-operated in the insur- rection, prevented Colombia suppressing the, ing and precipitately recognized thé independence of Panama. The news- papers publish the appeal without com- ment. AGENT SENT TO. WASHING- TON BY THE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT. | || i v+~ e 7 . Bogota Would Make a Uift of Panama’s Canal Strip. | WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—That the | republic grant to the United States all the canal concessions provided for in the Hay-Herran treaty, but absolutely free of cost, is the proposition which | General Rafael Reyes brings for the consideration of the officials of Wash- | | ington. General Reyes arrived here to- day. He was met at the station by a son of Dr. Herran, the Colombian charge, and went at once to his hotel. General Reyves said: “You will readily admit the propriety | of my refusing to refer to my mission, which is of a confidential-character, but | of the offer which Colombia is ready to | make 1 desire to say that my energies | and those of my followers will be de- voted to the granting of the canal con- cessions to the United States, without the payment of a cent. Even at this, Colombia will be the gainer.” COLOMBIA’'S TARDY ZEAL. “Are you suthorized by _President Marroquin to make this offer to the United States Lovernment?” General Reyes was asked. “That would be divulging my instrue- tions before I have executed them. I cannot say more about this now,” he replied. “But you may say that all Colombia is afire with zeal for the building of the canal by the United States and that the unfortunate polit- ical troubles which were the sole cause of the treaty’s death before the Colom- bian Congress have entirely disappear- ed. We want the canal, and I have come to Washington to see what the people of the United States are prepar- | ed to accept. I come with Instructions from the President of Colombia direct. My mission in no way interferes with the negotiations of Dr. Herran, the Co- lombian charge, for whom both my Government and myself personally have the greatest respect. I shall be- gin daily ‘eonferences with him and: we shall work in entire harmony. Dr. Herran will go to the State Depart- ment with me and present me to Sec- retary Hay.” “What is the feeling in Colombia about the Panama revolution?” “Feeling is running high and there is indignation over the events of the isthmus. We can and will put down the rebellion if not interfered with from the outside. So tense is the feeling and so national the spirit of determin- ation to bring the isthmus back into the republic that President Marroquin will have no trouble in raising an army twice the size necessary to put down Continued on Page 22, Column 3. UNCLE SIS RAPID MAIL aMES LIFE Suicide Prevented by Quick Deliv- ery Stamp. Sacramentan Makes a Failure of Self- Destruetion, Communication to a Friend Interferes With Plans for Death. Spectal Disp h to The Call. SACRAMENTO, Nov. 28.—After soing to the trouble to fasten a heavy piece of black crepe on his front door and writ- ing letters bordered with mourning to his friends announcing his death, A. B. Chamberiain attempted to commit sui- cide this afternocon and failed. To- night he is lying at the Southern Pa- cific Hospital in a stupor from the ef- fects of the gas by which he had hoped to end his life, but he will recover. Chamberlain for flve years has been employed in Southern Paciflc car shops. He has been having domestic troubles, and to-day determined to take his life. | He went out to his house at 2400 O street, of which he has of late been the sole occupant, and fastening a long piece of rubber hose to the jet in a gas stove in the kitchen carried the hose through two doors to his bedroom. In order to do this and yet keep the doors shut he bored holes through the doors exactly large enough to admit the hose. THe loose end he placed in con- venient reach. Then he nalled a plece of black crepe on the front door so it could be seen from the street and wrote farewell letters on black-bordered paper to his friends. One of these he mailed to D. H. Carrell, foreman of car shop 5, placing a speclal delivery stamp upon it. He then went back to his house, turned on the gas, closed up | his room and prepared to dle. The immediate delivery letter made quick time to Foreman Carroll, and when the latter received it, he sent two messages In haste, one after the Re- ceiving Hospital ambulance, the other after the Coroner’s wagon. Both wagens drew up at Chamber- ain’s house at the same moment. The room was broken into and Chamberlain was found unconscious. He was re- pioved to the hospital and restoratives were applied. The physicians say he will recover. : SEEKS RECOGNITION THROUGH BERLIN OFFICE King Peter Takes Circuitous Course to Reach the United . States. BERLIN, Nov. 28.—M. Miletchevitch, the Servian Minister here, has request- ed United States Embassador Tower to forward to Washington an auto- graph letter from King Peter to Pres- ident Roosevelt, informing him of his accession to the throme. Tower ac- cepted the letter and cabled the fact to Washington. The course taken by the King is doubtless designed to bring about a resumption of diplomatic re- lations between Servia and the United States, which lapsed after the assassin- ation of King Alexander and Queen Draga. John P. Jackson, the United States Minister to Greece, Roumania and Servia, who was making a tour of the Balkans, presented his credentials at the time of the tragedy, and he avoided going to that city on Instruc- tions from Washington. Indirect inquiries have been made by the authorities at Belgrade as to whether he did not intend to visit King Peter’s court, to which he replied that he would not do so until directed from Washington, which, until Embassador Tower forwarded his dispatch, has not been officially informed that such a person as King Petter existed. Pre- eisely why -the Servian King's letter should have been sent through this em- bassy Instead of the embassy at Vi- enna does not appear. _—————— SAYS PRINCESS WAS VERY BADLY ABUSED Prince Jaime Defends His Sister Con- cerning the Divorce Proceedings Now Pending. ROME, Nev. 28.—Prince Jaime of Bourbon, brother of Princess Alice of Schoenburg-Waldenburg, has arrived at Souri. He emphatically asserts the untruth of the recént accusations against his sister, and says that the sult for separation from her husband, Prince Frederie, which will scon be be- gun at Dresden, will show the brutality of the latter, who even descended to beating his wife. Prince Jaime says further that the trial will bring out testimony very damaging to Prince Frederic. ———— Julia Marlowe Will Rest. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 28.—After a run of ten weeks the play “Fools of Nature,” which has been running here one week, was discontinued by Miss Julia Mar- lowe with to-night’'s performance at the Olympic Theater. According to her statement Miss Marlowe has quit the stage for the season.