The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 1, 1903, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1903. HUNTERS SAVE HER FROM DEATH Aged Woman Narrowly Escapes Flames in Marin. Padsers-by Discover House on Fire and Rush to the Rescue. Spectal Dispatch to The Call SAN RAFAEL, Nov. 30.—But for the assistance and the heroic ef- f Deputy Counmty Clerk Frank and City Attorney Joseph K. Mrs. W. P. Gray might have st her life yesterday in a fire while he residence of O. H. Fernback, at the T and !rwm. mely H Nawkins fth avenue was burning Gray was the only person in the ome at the time. While en- back g 1 the preparation of a dinner, stove which was leaking .ex- ded, " cau the »om to be filled The worr Gray, whe excited and was unable to n's clothes were is 73 years old,’ smoke gnited. Mrs who were re- ip, happened dence and were ady's screams for into the house and Holland's hands and Hawkins was injurieg are not aze FARMERS SN TRADE_ BALANGE Secretary Wilson’s Re- port Is Flattering ‘to Producers. Success Is Promised in Re- claiming Arid Lands. | 3 —re— WASHINGTON, Nov. 80.—The an- nual report of Secretiry of Agriculture Wilson has been submitted to the President. Becretary Wilson reviews at length the production and exports of agricultural products. The increase of exports of farm products for the half-century ended in 1901 was from $147,000,000 to $552,000,000. of farm products for the closing decade of the last century was more than $700,- 000,000 and for 1903 more than $878,000, 000, an amount second only to that of 1901. . Discussing- the balance.of trade, the Secretary shows that the favorable balance to the credit of the country is due entirely to the farmers. The bal- ance of trade in favor of farm products during the last fourteen years, no year excepted,” aggregated $4,806,000,000. In products other than of the farm during the same period the balance of trade was adverse to this country to the ex- tent of $865,000,000. Secretary Wilson reports a great im- provement of the beet sugar industry. In 1896 19,260 tons of sugar were made and a year ago 220,000 tons. Careful es- timates put the present crop at about 260,000 tons. Examinat with technical reserves ms and reports dealing problems 4n the forest have been made for reserv California, Oregon and New Representatives of the bureau rimer, exam- 0 acres, proposed as ves in th Pacific Coa past y sti'y and tates. the Bureau of ed in making al- rring to an e nsive | e ocated ‘Yicar Salt: Lake, s area of’75,000 acres is_unpro- | cduse of of alkali, 1 and .an exi acres was secur The exports | Rocky Moun- | | erson. president of the Fourth National y reclamation in cé-operation with the Utah experiment station was | the -béginning this to ntain more than alt, ‘or a total of 6650 et of soil. Two-thirds a removed mple meth nder drain- »oding. It area .will. be sufficiently by the end of the present rinit growing a crop. —_————— . Central. The Central Theater's massive spec- melodrama, “The Counter- * which thrilled and fascinated audience. last night, give: ey value in stirring plot, sen- sational incidents and startiing cli- At the conclusion of the third sm ran riot and the act- s efore_the curtain sev- eral times and given a thunderous ovation. The plece is veplete with sur- Put- the most amazing spectacle dén in ‘an abandoned tunnel. Alcazar. The comedy drama; “A Poor Rela-| tion,” commenced its second and | closing week at the Alcazar Theater | | last night to crowded house. California. “At the Old Cross Roads” is still en- | tertaining large audiences‘at the Cali- fornia. ——————— ROME, Nov. 80.—The Pope to-day 3 received jence Mgr. Robert Seton of New- Titular Archbishop of Heliopolis. -believed that | | | the backers of another deal in Chicago. | York gre also mentioned in connection o . | | . Six separate water conspiracy deals| | with coming to him with 2 GRAND RAPIDS OFFICIALS MAKE MERE CHATTELS OF PUBLIC PRIVILEGES Former City Attorney Salsbury Gives an Astonishing Confession,/ Asserting - That in the Recent Water Deal Valuable Rights Were to Be Bartered Away for a Song---He Implicates Ex-Mayor Perry and Many Aldermen 4 e GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.,, Nov. 80.— The confession of ex-City Attorney Lant K. Salsbury regarding the noto- rious water scandal in this city was given for the first time to-day in court at the preliminary examination of State Senator David Burns, and it has created a tremendous sensation on pac- count of the number of prominent per- sons it Implicates, in addition to the seventeen officials and former officials who were arrested on bribery charges ten days ago. Never once did Salsbury have to refer to notes, and he rendered his testimony readlly, giving names, dates and occurrences as though the al- leged events happened only last week instead of three years ago. The exam- | | ination of ‘Senator Burns was com- pletely lost to view in the story of the conspiracy as related by Salsbury. The persons implicated by Salsbury during his testimony against State Sen- ator Burns and the amounts he al- leged they received are as follows: George R. Perry, ex-Mayor, $13,725; J. Clark Sproal, manager of the Grand Rapids Democrat, $3333; R. A. Cam- eron, New York, $50¢ State Senator David E. Burns, $200; Alderman Mc- Cool, $500; Alderman Ellen, $350; Alder- man Depeagler, $350; Alderman Muir, $500; Alderman Kinney, $350; Alderman Donovan, $500; Alderman _Phillips, | $1000; Alderman Johnson, $350 or $400; | Alderman Stonehouse, $350; Alderman | Lozier, $500; Alderman Shriver, $350; Alderman Mol, $350; Alderman Ghysels, ); Aldermmun Hodges, $500; Alderman , $300; Cory P. Bissell, $500; J. Thomson, reporter on Evening | { Press, $500; Isaac Lamoreaux, ex-City | | Clerk, $1500; State Representative Van Zoren, 350; State Representative Van- $60; E. D. Conger, manager Herald, $10,000; Thomas McGarry rcminent attorney now Florida, . S. Burch, manager the Evenjng Press, $5000. “MANY DEALS PENDING. so implicated in the water deal resident of the Board | Dr. Nilke Devries, ex- ! George' Ellis, a - local | muel M. Lemon, collector of | revenue, and William H. And- | interns Bank. o were ori in Grand Rapids at once, ac- | cording.to Salsbury’s sworn testimony, each gigantic in its size, and al? calling r the us a boodle fund. In addi- 2 to the Henry Taylor $100,000 Lake | ichigan water deal, he testified that there were five other strings out, from | each one of which thousands of dollars were hanging. Every one of these six | sefs of men who offered to advance a orruption fund were dupes, so Sals-’| bury says, of himself, Perry, McGerry and Sproal. ! Pat Flynn of New York he names as | one bf those at the head of one con- | spiracy. The men interested’in the Hy. draulic Water Company are named as | MICHIGAN STATE SENATOR WHO FIGURES PROMINENTLY IN A SENSATIONAL BOODLING CASE. 5y and came to his office saying that he had paid the Mayor $10,000 and wanted to know how much it would take to get | the Council. Salsbury added: I told him that it would take $200,000. He | wanted me to come down, but I told him| that he and Anderson wanted $10,000 without | | doing anything. | _ Salsbury also implicated Dudley E. 13 | | | Waters, a member of the. Board of Public Works; Eugene D. Conger, man- ager of the Grand Rapids Herald, and | J. R. Thomson, municipal reporter of | | Then there was a Milwaukee deat, in | - - & which he said Contractor Loss of Chi- | gy/'ne to1d him he had already received. \lhe Evefiing Press. He sald that he| cago was interested; the Omaha deal, | Byrng scorned the offer at first, say- | Sounded Waters and that Waters told | in which the Barton millionaires are|; o 4vot he was no.$100 man, and|him he had enough money, but would | said to have put up $50,000, and the Gil- | ypon e "L Mo h BT CoTe T at he lespie deal. On top of all these Sals- | | would tack on a referendum clause to bury implicates Revenue Collector Sam. Ath s | the bill unless: he were given : $5000. uel Lemon with a deal, charging Lemon | g,1 pury tola him: to put in_ the bill not stand in the way of the water deal, | either voting favorably or staying| away. Salsbury testified: Later I learned that he had negotiated with | contract. "1 00" WINS QUICK FAVOR Brusie- Stewart Effort " Takes With Crowd at Fischer’s. “Way Down East” Excel- lently Produced at the Oolumbia. AR The Greek Theater at Berkeley has put all kinds of queer notions into the Californian head. Possibly “I O U" 1s one of them. It has been determined by the Berkeley enthusiasts that the Greek Theater shall be the cradle of the national drama. Last night Fisch- er's offered a home-made burlesque in “I O U” that Gotham may be glad to import. ‘ In the intervals of being a secretary of Rallroad Commissions and things and things and things, it is said that Judson C. Brusie has found time to write the burlesque. Dr. H. J. Stewart has made the music and the piece is staged by Charles H. Jones, and if the sputter of laughs that greeted it last night be anything to go by “¥F O U” goes! Mr. Brusie knows his Fischer's. Mr. Brusie knows also his audience. The fun and situations of the burlesque are all of the minute and fitfed to every rib of the Fischer folk. Nor has Dr. Stewart done his part less effec- tively. The music Is bright, vif, and suited to the piece and people. And the burlesque is excellently staged. It went almost without a hitch. The pivot of the fun is the labor union, with trusts gnd hotel-keeping as side issues, and the author has achleved a Gilbertian touch in their handling. Here js his-definition of a corporation: “A corporation is an aggregation of men sanctioned by law to do what in- dividuals wouldn’t dare to do.” Of trusts he says: “Corporations eat up companies, Companies eat up co-partierships, Co-partnerships. eat up individuals, And trusts eat up the whole cheese.” But Mr. Brusie is at his funniest when dealing with the eccentricities of unionism. Kolb, Dill and Bernard be- come partners in a hotel-keeping en- terprise, after a delightfully tangled Help.'is short, and the part- ners turn to and do everything from clerking to barkeeping. The walking delegate, very humorously exaggerated by Ben T. Dillon, then comes along and persuades them forcibly to join eight unions apiece, in thelr several capaci- fles. He then informs them of a labor parade to be held the following day, for which they are fined $50 by every union which they fail to represent. Truly Gilbert! Then Dill, objecting that his partners have opened the shop two seconds before time, and closed it four seconds after hours, strikes. Kolb explains that as laundryman Dill un- reasonably objects to washing anything but union suits! But the short man goes away and returns inside a sandwich with theinscription: “Boycott This House!” His march in front of the Dew Break Ipn, chanting “This is an unfair house!” is the kind of climax called screaming. Miss Amber as a circug lass and Mr. Blake as a gentlemanly tircus proprie- tor gone gray take care of most of the lyrics. “Here’s to the Little Tin Pail,” sung by Blake, set the feet stamping, and Miss Amber has a fetching tune in “Am I Dreaming?” The fun trust has three songs, and the chorus has some excellent numbers, notably the finale of the' New York parties directly. One night after a Council meeting Thomson came to | | proposition | 4,4 5 say nothing aboiut the $5000 until | | me and accused me of knowing. about the deai: | | to buy the Council after having bought |. ;. meagure became a law, intimating the Mayor for $10.000. D.'N. Crow off.yy i o would ‘be. further rewarded Grand Ruplds and Moses Crow. of New: iy o e '$200. was pald to: Burns: in Salsbury’s office in the City Hall; Sals- bury testified. et Salabury. testified that the watef aeal ¢ | first.camie: td his attention in June, 1900, when Thomas F. McGarry,;a local at- I took him’in and-offered him $1000: cash and | $5000°"in “bonds. . Afger- McLeod and- myself | took: what ‘money. we. necded out of -the $75,000 | boodle - fund. ‘there’ was: $48,500 left. --I.carried | that.-until -after. eiection. - -The ‘day ‘of. slection | I awakened -suspicion. among ‘som= of ‘the ety | offictals: that - I had the boodle heavily -on: élection results. .They therf"-for - their. money. I gave. §1 with one of the deals. Salsbury testified that. he Burns $200 in addition to. $100 ADVERTISEMENTS. Grand BRI NIEYMN -4 .'.‘fili'f—‘.",m [ ¥in 301 s i Grand Rapids | Furniture Co Grend Rapids Furniture Co Mayor -Perry- and ‘to_the Democrat ‘$13,750. - T gave some to Corey P. Bissell of. the Board of'| Publi¢. Works and i fo. k. D Conger. § Aldermen FElien, Moél: - Stonefis 1o Bissell, T torney, told him that-he "had ~seme nts who wanted to_get a’ contract | to furnish the c.iy with water and that | -inere would be $5000 1n it for him:: Sals-- | bury was driven tnfo the deal, heé’ sald. |‘because of a $ ige. in. hi ! bank account, caused by speculation in | wheat: He met R. A Cameron of New | 'Yorl:and “agreed to- go into ‘the deal {far. $25,000 cash, - The money was: sent | by M. Al Taylor of: New . Yor gent mentioned in-the deal, ~|'State Bank. said: My eols purpos Vi traighten up my bank:account money at_that. time w 4 ha |t ovinge i thiero the water deal Would have ‘ended. { BOODLE TO PAY DEBTS. " Attorney McGarry, however, wanted | 321,600 from Salsbury. he testified, but it was finally agreed that Salsbury should pay him §7500. Salsbury then ‘went Into the newspapers’ alleged con- nection with the deal.’ Said he: { § Farch .ot the. Fvenfus Pios 3300, 1 sl gave 3. Clark. 8 , the ‘manaker ‘of- the Deianerat, -some. 1 was talking of becoming SR e L R st Salsbury sald that the reason he did not get out of the deal ‘after getting. the first boodle was that he had to keep MeCool. | Stocum. ald -$1500, BOGUS CHECKS USED. 1 Lamoreaux was Clity- Clerk “and 1s} supposed: to have -confesséd to the prosecuting: attorney, not yet heen arresteéd 3 . The cornection of E. D, Conger with.} the denl Salsbuiy explained by telling * of the discovery that bogus checks were beliyg put in with the bids that: went in for the contracts with the city, he said. | Continuing, Salsbury said: As t00n -as: Perry heani of the bogus checks he-%0id .me.. We decided ‘that 1f -thicre. was anything bed we ‘had - better ba the onea. to. pose it rather than any ons eise. 3 dfd not e that McGarry would - put up .bogue| Perry's messags making the ox;mnr- o8 pregared - by . T AV, e rank - under pay. by llh:d Indianapoils: Fit- cheme, and: I rev] 1.1t was ‘ar= to: the e E take th $25,000 10 21 ha in :th e omie. niore men about town: to put the deal through, #o 1 went:to Gearge Ellis, ‘a.local broker, and 1isd him £0 o aee Conger and offer him $30,000 ‘in onde, - Conger wonld aut ‘accept. bands, but yanted $10,000 in -cash, . nan Artiele came- out i the. Merald: end’ ) sne | that hoe would kill the whele Shing - 1 called | Kim up €0 ¢he City Hali' and told him about | it. He knew as much about the deai as I did. He demanded the money after admittink of good faith with | having the talk with Ellis. The rext day he up an appearance of & came to me, having an article written. already the promoters, and, because of the ; for oablication exposing the whole deal. ~ He | drains upon him in interesting other | sald he wanted $10,000 or he would expose | persons, he was unable to get enough | {he, Whole thing. "I finally had to give it to him, out of it for himself to' pay up his $15,- | oy BIDDERS WERE VI 000 shortage. After paying McGarry $7500, so he testified, he went down to ‘We had bidders on the string from all sides and our first plan was to get them to put up ex-Mayor Perry's office and gave him | all the money possible with us as bribe money 3$3333. Salsbury continued: and then go to the Council and exhibit the Perry's theory was for him and the Demo- money with thé statement that it was sent | here to bribe us and then keep it. This was crat (a local paper) to support the Bailey Springs water project, a rival of the Lake before the water deal was planned and our first plan would have gove through but for Michigan deal. = He' advocated the Bailey | MY arrest in Chicago, whioh seared some of Springs deal with the sole purpose of getting | them out. =We had bidders in Mlliwaukee, the other papers to oppose the prcject, before maha, Chicago and other places, and were it was known that the other papers would accept money. Burch of the Evening Press Just getting them warmed up w! my ar- rest in Chica upset all the plans. at first wanted $10,000, but finally took the $5000. 1 insisted that nothing h dome by the Council until the additional §75,000, for which we haq bargained with the promoters, came. Attorney McGarry first got held of this money, but I Insisted that it be turned over to Stilsen McLeod, an employe of the old National Bank, with whom I haa been in- terested in stock speculations. MecLgod too $15,300 to make up his shortage ami I .c‘h $12,000 and pald up My debts. The rest was kept by McLeod at the old National Bank. My idea yet was to call the whole water deal off and let those fellows go back to New York thinking that they had donc something. THE MAYOR INVOLVED. Salsbury also implicated Samuel N. Lemon, Collector of City Revenue, and William R. Anderson, president of the ¥ Fourth National.Bank, who, he said, |Post; denies .the wanted $10,000. each. - Lemon was in- | bury. . 4 terested in ‘several water deals that CONG! MAKRKES DENIAL. were on at one time, 50 Salsbury said, In a signed statement E. D. Conger, he next pl was to get the city to buy the hydraulic ter plant. It was practically worthless o far as competition was concerned, but could be made to Appear good. In order to get the deal througn it Was necessary to have the city charter amended and for this purpose we had to arrange with Senators Burns and Otis. Messrs, Crow and a Mr. Gray of New York were to back the scheme and were to put up $60.000 as a starter. Willard ‘Kingsley of this city acted for them. Of this amonnt we were to give $10,000 to Bditor Conger, $5000 to Senator Burns, $30,000 was to go to carry the Legislature for the bill_and the balance of $15.000 was to be divided between Mayor Perry, Editor Sproal, George Eilis and myself. This plan fell down, however, when a referendum clause was at. tached to the bill and we had to give it up and go on with the Lake Michizan deal. C. 8. Burch, manager of the Evening charges made by Sals- |:and singularly: timely although he. has; }tad with advantage.: Clever as itils, it the first act, the opening chorus and closing ensemb: of the second act. There is a little variety lacking in the lyrics, but the whole setting is of much higher than usual caliber, and. in emi- nently popular vein. musician havé struck cleverly the. popu- the interést _with both, but by compari- son with ‘the. store-made article “I O U stands proudly. forward. It is orig- inal-in.marked-dégree, pure burlesque . It is besides ex- cellently-“done; and. the:best thing the her: “Hoards: ‘have.. seen for . these many days. £ Miss Georgia O'Ramey’ must not be forgotten in-a clever and piquant spe- clalty as..a:Janpanese . girl-and -other things. . ‘The.tipsy lady might. be- omit- Jars.’The -Althea” sisters came on late but successfully -in -acrobatic. dances, and pretty Gertle'Emerson and. Flossie Hope. sat -ty front amd cheered them. BLANCHE PARTINGTO Columbia. 'Way Down East,'” the beautiful pastoral play, began a return engage- ment “at the Columbla Theater '_l-;;t night: under favorable auspices. ' ] ‘homeslike scenes with which the play abounds and: the more or leas famillar lar to. farm lifs ;g- peal strongly to human sentiment. The members of the company are equal o the dramatic requirements of thetr sev- eral parts and-‘achieve strocess: fn-a quiet and ‘natural:mannss. - Ths part @ R R manager of the Grand Rap!ds Herald, denles Salisbury’s charges as follows The statement of Lant K. Salisbury that he ever paid me any money ur offered to do %o, or that 1 ever had any conversation with mm whatever regarding the matter, is an unqual- ified falsehcod. - 1d, frcm the inception of this plot, has stendfastly cvposed its consummation, and with untiring zeal sought to unmask the crim- inals. The Herald was the first paper in Grand Raplds to expose the Bartin deal in Chicago and was the first to demand the jury investigation. The Herald continued to urge the summoning of the Grand Jury until it was called, and was relentless in demanding the full exposure of the plot and the punishment of the cunspirators. The arch conspirator has been convicted and now- turns upon me as owner of thiz paper for revenge. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Prompts the Use of Worthless Rem- edies. Even an exgsrlenced physician will sometimes make a mistake M diagnosis, in which event his entire treatment is wasted and may ‘even be injurious to the patient. b The advogates of all other hair restor- atives save Herpicide have wrongly diag- nleed the cause of Dandruff and Falling They figure on a_functional disease, whereas it is now known and generally accepted that hair loss is due to a para- sitic germ which Newbro's Herpicide de- stroys. There is no substitute for Herpicide, accept none. Sold by lud!n*’ dru, s. Send 10c in stamps for sample to e Herpicide Co.. Detroit, Mich. Both author and | lar_vein. There is an_occasional sag in | BOY MURDERERS SHOW BRAVADO Chicago Bandits Talk of Their Fate on the Gallows. Four Criminals Are Arraigned and One Pleads Guilty. —— CHICAGO, Nov. 30.—The youthful | self-confessed murderers and train | robbers, Peter Neidermeier, Harvey | Vandine, Gustav Marx and Emil Roeski, were arraigned in court to- | day. Marx pleaded guilty to all the | chargés against, him, but his three accomplices pleaded not guilty. During the afternoon the prisoners were re- | moved from the Harrison-street Police | Station to the County Jail, where they | will femain until brought to trial | Neidermeler admitted to the police | that he and Vandine had made an at- tempt to kill Marx. Roeski also said | that he had narrowly escaped murder | at the hands of his accomplices. “We will all walk to the scaffold | without a tremor,” was the statement | made to-day by Marx, Vandine, Nei- | dermeier and Roeski as they discussed | their probable fate. @ il e of Anna Moore is in the capable hands |of Ruby Bridges, whose emotional talents are kept within bounds, but are nene the less effective. She is | prepossessing in appearance, and her | enunciation is° oclear and distinct. Charles H. Riegel plays the hard- hearted squire, who afterward re- | lents, with intelligence. best bit of acting is that done by | Imogene Hyams, who plays Louisa Bartlett, the squire’s wife, in a way to | win the heart of every ome. She is Jjust the sort of motherly woman whom | none of us can help admiring, and her | faith in her son David, who follows the Probably the woman he loves, is that which only a | g00d mother could have. Edward J | Heron is capital as Hi Holler, the | chore boy, and his laughing over the ’jnkes in the funny paper is positively | infectious. William Lamp gives a ‘capltal impersonation of Lennox San- | derson, the city man: Madge Douglas | was charming as Kate Brewster, and Loyola OFConnor is perfectly at home as Martha Perkins, the village gossip. | Charles A. Burke created no end of | amusement by his quaint_portrayal of the Town Constable, and his All | Bound Round With a Woolen String was ‘cleverly sung. Philip Yale Drew acted well the part of David Bartlett, and H. H. Forsman was amusing as {the summer boarder. The village | choir, consisting of Adam Warmouth, | Harry Maitland, Caroline Forsman and Pearl Sanford, sang some of the | old songs delightfully. 3‘ Chutes. | Conley and Kiein, singing ana | dancing comedians, one of whom is a clever pianist; the La Moines, novelty musicians; Flood and Hayes, wonder- ful barrel jumpers; and Stanley and Carlisle, who present an amusing skit }entllled “Mrs. O’Grady’s Wash Day,” were new at the Chutes yesterday and | all made hits. Carberry and Stanten, | the “two country kids;” Mabel Lam- | son, the popular contralto, in new il- | lustrated songs; little Helene, the | clever juvenile performer, and the animatoscope, in a charge of moving | pictures, completed an unusually inter- | esting programme. The amateurs will | appear on Thursday night. | SCOTT’S EMULSION. | NOW IS THE TIME. | Take Scott’'s Emulsion of | Cod Liver Oil now. Not | next week or next month, but now. 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