The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 4, 1903, Page 1

midnight, December night; ocooler; wind. ———— Forecast made at San cisco for thirty hours ending San Francisco and vicinity— Fair Friday, becoming cloudy at fresh easterly A. G. McADIE, Distriot Forecaster. 4: Alcazar—“A Poor Relation.” California—*“At the Old Cross Roads.” Central—* The Counterfeiters.” Columbia—"“Way Down East.” Pischer's—1. 0. U.” Grand—“Over Niagara Falls.” Orphenm—Vaudeville. ‘The Chutes—Vaudeville. VOLUME XCV—NO SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1908. PRICE FIVE CEN INGLE S| AY STEP I 15 SURRDIAN' Talk of a Protec- torate Over the | Dominicans. | Jiminez Must Respecti Treaty Made With Wos y Gil. ——— Washington Tires of Revo-/ ‘ lutions Imperiling Amer- ican Interests. STREET, | Now Dec. 3.—Dis- regarding enacing possibility that u nis Santo Do- w ¥ ed to recog- | r eer sident Wos y ate Depart- | i g of the laim of $4,500,000 urged | ngan Improvement | ew York against the Do- who was named as the | presentative on the -arbi- arrived in Wash- rning.. Before he had | hours ne was in con- | erstate Commerce | with John G. Carlisle. for- 7 of the Treasury, who is representative of the improvement any and the United States, and | George Gray of Delaware, who | 8 Regular sessions | = npany assumed part of the ninican debt and was given impor- | s and the right to ues. When these | ere abrogated the company | 1t large claims against Government. A treaty 4 providing for reference arbitration. Gereral | lutionary leader who | Wos y Gil, gave notice that no agreements made | t port e« n rev United ! ago City, { d into r holds that | is in power in | must respect the ar- this case and must | ision of the arbitra- to do so, the 1 have plenty of cause llection of | the award necessity for some such action is 3 to be more app t every day. | Reports came to the § Department | that another rev. on was be mented, this time against Gen eral Jiminez. There has been no an- nouncement by administration of hing a protec- but such a urged as the of for- to Domingo, been stre e the safety coyurse has way to only €ign interests. i’ VATICAN FUNDS Finds That Predecessor Aided Aristocratic Families. ‘ROME, Dec. 3.—Going through the financial matters of the Vatican as left by Pope Leo, thé present Pope found that several mjllions had been em- in restoring the private patri- monies of a number of aristocratic milies the members. of which had re- meained faithful to the Holy See, par- those of the Princess Bon- and Bordquez, but more espe- latter. The historic palace latter, built by Pope Paul V at g of seventeenth century, n into the hands of creditors incely house; who rented it as | the Grand Orient of the e Masons, which Pope Leo | to be & desecration. All rumors to the effect that Pope Plus in- ds to-get, this money back through ication of coercive measures arf considered at the Vatiean as alto- ther without foundation, because the milies thus subventioned are repay- ing the m loaned them by yearly instaliments. InVatican circles it is consid: rob- | abje the following changes will be made | in*the papal! diplomatic corps: Mon- signor Granito Rignatelli di Belmonte, nuncio at Brussels, will be transferred to Vienna: Monsignor J. Macchi, nun- ¢is at Munich, transferred to Lisbon; Monsignor Antonio Vico, apostolic del- egate to the republic of Colombia, transferred as nuncio at Brussels, and Mounsignor Dr. 8. Nicotra, auditor at Vienna, transferred as nuncio at Mu- mich. . i tha ploved to ey DICE PRESIDENCY LIKELY TO GO TO EX ! HERRICK OF OHIO > | TRATION'S CHOICE FOR REPUBLICAN TICKET NEXT D AR, ER Mr. Roosevelt’s Choice. Special Dispatch to The Call CINCINNATI, Dec. 3.—Francis B. Loomis, Assistant Secretary of State, who was at Springfield, Ohio, to-day on a perscnal business trip and to vis relatives, indicated clearly in an inter- view that the administration wants Governor-elect Myron 8. Herrick for 21 ticket. As Loomis is about as close to -President Roosevelt as a oflicial or private citizen, his words were con- sidered full of significance. Loomis said “I have heard much talk of Herrick From his recent decisive victory in this State he certainly is in an enviable po- sition politically. He is generally recog- nized as a strong man in the fullest The party requires a strong man gentiment sense. in this capacity, STRIKE MAY AT END T0 CRAND OPERA Fair Harpists Defy Musicians’ Union ‘n New York. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—The situation at the Metropolitan Opera-house aris- ing out of the fact that Madames Tag- liava and Weile, harpists in the orches- tra, are not members of the Musicians’ Mutual Protective Union, became criti- cal to-day when Madame Weile an- and the nounced her determinationnot to become | a member of the union. Simultaneously | a second warning was received by Con- Master Nahan Franko from the | cert union, notifying him to see that the two women joined the union before next Monday or abide the consequences, probably the ordering of a strike of the orchestra which supplies the music for the present grand opera season. Franko, when asked what he would do in case the orchestra went.on strike, answered: “I presume I should have to close the house, unless the public cared to hear grand opera with piano ac(‘nmpsnl-’ ment.” The women do not want to join the union because of an aversion to being classed as artisans instedd of artists. —_— e LABORER IS KILLED BY CAVE-IN OF EARTH LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3.—A cave-in occurred at a gravel pit in Laurel Canyon to-day, near Sherman, bury- ing alive Chris Kloss, one of the la- borers, under a mass of decomposed granite. Foreman F. B. Mulvane was caught in the avalanche, but was rescued by the workmen when the rush of gravel had all but engulfed him. half an hour’'s digging. )y | that. Roosevelt. drifting toward Herrick promises to be unusually strong and sincere.” Loomis predicted the nomination of He did not appear to be- | leve that there was any question as to { “‘Hanna has said that he is not a can- second place on the Republican nation- | didate,” said Loomis, “and I am assur- = GOVERNOR-ELECT OF OHIO, WHO 18 SAID TO BE THE ADMINIS- PLACE ON THE NATIONAL ILD DAY ON COTTON EXCHANGES Government’s Crop Report Hoists Prices. Fortunes Are Won or {| Lost Within Four Minutes. —— Irresistible Bull Movement Sends Quotations Soar- ing Skyward i NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 3.—This was the wildest day ever seen in the cot- ton market. The bureau estimate at 11 o'clock of 9,962,039 bales for this sea- son's crop sent prices up from 90 to 91 } points above yesterday's closing fig- ures. The confusion was so great that difficulty was had in making accurate trades, and it was fully two minutes after the estimate was read before quotations were posted. Within four minutes prices advanced 40 points. The advance was steady until March stood 60 points higher than the last quota- tions before the reading of the esti- mate. From the highest level there was an immediate and wide recession, under heavy profit-taking. The recession was of short duration and was fol- lowed by another upward movement, which carried prices skyward. Trad- ers could hardly appreciate the bull- —% Governor-Elect of the Buckeye State Is ishness of the estimate when it ap- peared in large figures on a black- board held over the ring by one of the exchange employes. In a few sec- onds the ring was full of wildly wav- ing arms, while hats went up into the alr ‘and the shouting was heard for bigc! In their enthusiasm bulls pre- “‘d’fl!%fi"mr cofton, More con- servative members, however, thought 15 cents was high enough for some- time to come. FORTUNES MADE OR LOST. Up to 11 o'clock there was much ex- citement on the floor and the trading of the day was greater than on any preceding day in the history of the edly inclined to think he knows what | he is saying and is sincere.” The Cincinnati Times-Star, the offi- | cial organ of the Republican party in {this city and county, the editor and | proprietor of which is former Congress- | man Charles P. Taft, a brother of Gov- ernor Taft of the Philippines, gave the Loomis interview a prominent place in | black type this evening, and the ex- pression of Loomis is thus still further | invested with official flavor. éxchange. lost within the first four minutes. Fortunes were made or The traders who had sold short made frantic efforts to cover in the first few minutes. Some succeeded in getting under cover before the price had ad- vanced too far, but there were few so fortunate, for in the first three min- utes the figures in March options ad- vanced 84 points and at the end of eight minutes the prices had advanced 59 points and March was quoted at | Herald. | Hospital there typhoid fever who | method of treatment which, it is said, et @ HOT WATER TREATMENT FOR FEVER Sick Child Is Kept Constantly Im- mersed. Special Cablegram to The Call and New York Copyright, 1908, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. . LONDON, Dec. 3.—In the London little girl with is undergoing a is a 12.50 cents. Other months made tre- mendous jumps, January going up 34 points in five and one-quarter min- utes. Eight minutes after the report was read the market received the first check. The rise on March suddenly stopped at 12.50 and the next sale was 7 points lower. The bears made great efforts to keep the price down, but the bull movement was irresistible and a few min#tes later prices were again on the boom. HEAVIEST SALES ON RECORD. NEW YORK, Dec. 5.—An unprece- dented rush to buy, a sensational soaring of prices upward and the heaviest sales on record followed the announcement on the New York Cot- ton Exchange of the Agricultural De- partment’s estimate of the cotton crop for the present season, 9,962,039 bales. At the sound of the word “nine,” indicating the number of mil- lion bales in the estimate, a scene of frantic bidding set in, the shorts in their excitement not waiting to learn that the total estimate was but 37,961 bales short of the round 10,000,000. Instantaneously prices jumped from 10 to 20 points on the first sales, the rise continuing until advances of from 30 to 40 points were registered before the close of an hour, and of from 60 to 70 points before the upward move- ment was checked. has been employed only once in the | history of that institution. For five | days past the patient, who is only five vears old, has been kept in a bath of | hot water. She lies on water pillows and her body is entirely under water, which is kept at a constant temper- | ature of 101 degrees by an arrangement of hot and cold water entering the mix- ing cistern, from which it flows into the bath and thence out by & pipe. In five days the child’s temperature has fallen from 105 to 103 degrees, but | the crisis has yet to come. At least three weeks must be spent in the bath before the disease can be shaken off. It is said to be most unusual to find a typhoid case necessitating this treat- for six weeks and recovered, In the present case the gir! has mo- ments of consclousness, she asks for her mother. ————— Dying of Ptomaine Poisoning. SANTA FE, N. M., Dec. 3.—The eld- peisoning at Carisbad, N. M., as the result of eating canned meat. M. Harjes is said to be very wealthy and ment. Some years ago, in the London | higher. Hospital, a man was kept immersed 2,000,000 bales, exceeding for this sea- son anything recorded. Then the uncovering of “long” cot- ton in tremendous volume with the advance and the realization that the estimate was practically 10,000,000 bales caused a temporary reaction; but soon an outpouring of buying or- ders from outside markets and bullish reports sent prices upward again and at the high point, reached shortly be- fore the close, December sold at 12.32 cents, January at 12.46c, March at 12.59¢; May at. 12.57¢, and July at 12.56¢c, or 79 to 87 points above the low level of the morning. BROKERS ARE EXHAUSTED. The market closed strong at nearly the top, with prices net 69 to 74 points Sales were estimated at The volume of business was so during which great and the excitement so intepse that the brokers wére on the verge of collapse, the maximum advance rep- resenting an enhancement in value of from $3 to $3 50 per bale, and the est daughter of M. Harjes of Paris, | fluctuations meaning the gain or loss France, is reported dying of ptomaine | of fortunes. - 2 — e Coach Stagg Ill With Pneuthonia. CHICAGO, Dec. 3.—Alonzo Stagg, a partner of J. P. Morgan. He brought | head of the athletic department of the Kloss' body was found aften|his family to Carlsbad several months | University of Chicago, is ill with pneu- _ Yago for the benefit of his wite's health. BLAIR IS CHARGED WITH FORGERY IN THE FIRST DEGREE Grand Jury Indicts) St. Louis Social Leader. I i ST. LOUIS, Dec. 3.—James L. Blair, | formerly general counsel of the Louisi- ana Purchase Exposition, was this aft- | ernoon indicted by the Grand Jury on | a charge of forgery iif the first degree. \\ Blair has been ill for several weeks in | a local hospital, and for a time his life was despaired of. The indictment is the result attorney at one time employed ln; Blair's office. Roberts procured certain | papers and records, on which he after- | ward based his charges that Blair was | juggling the finances of large estates | committed to his trust. Roberts pub-: licly charged that Blair had forged | deeds of trust and mortgages on which | $63,000 was obtained from the estate of the late Peter Blow of St. Louis, and | that he had counterfeited and used no- | tarial seals of the Recorder of Deeds of St. Louis, and frequently employed “Walter F. Jenkins,” a purely fictitious personage, to attest the documents. Blair characterized Roberts’ accusa- tions as a ‘“tissue of falsehood, woven | around a few grains of fact.” | DICKS DEFY THE COURTS. | Blair acted as a sort of fiscal and in- vestment agent for the firm of Dick Brothers of Philadelphia and New York. Evans R. Dick, the head of the firm, was cotrustee with- Edward S. Robert in the Blow estate. The Grand Jury requested the Dicks | and their attorney to come. to St. Louis to testify, but they ignored the sum- mons. Following the Blair expose, Mrs. Blair, who was chairman of the board of lady managers of the fair, resigned her position, and since then the Blairs have sold their costly home and she has disposed of her jewels and her fine stable of horses. BASED ON ALLEGED FORGERIES. Each indictment is based on the al- leged forgery by Blair of a deed of trust to secure a loan from the estate of Peter Blow of St. Louls, of which he, as a trustee, had charge. One indict- ment alleges that on December 10, 1896, Blair filed for record a forged deed in favor of Michael O'Laughlin and his wife, Johanna, to Louisa Meyer for $12,000. Notes and property near Four- teenth and Spruce streets were given as security. 5 The other indictment charges that on July 10, 1895, Blair filed a forged deed for $60,000 in favor of Elizabeth and John Dwyer and the St. Louis Trust Company, their agent, to Otto M. Mes- mer. It covered eleven notes and prop- erty at Seventh and Pine streets. The indictments also charge Blair with for- gery of the seal of the St. Louis Re- corder of Deeds. The indictments were assigned to Judge Danlel D. Taylor's divigion of the Circuit Court. ACCUSED MAN GIVES BOND. Blair gave bond in the sum of $10,- 000. Before the deputy sheriffs started for the hospital with the capias word was recelved through one of the de- fendant’s attorneys that Blair would appear personally before Judge Taylor and give bond. The capias was with- drawn and Blair's appearance was awaited. Later a closed carriage hur- riedly drove up to the Cirenit Court| and Blair, accompanied by counsel and friends, was received in chambers by Judge Taylor. Less than fifteen min- utes was spent in arranging the bond. Blair was evidently in great pain. He walked with crutches and was assisted by friends. Nothing was said outside of matters pertaining to the bond, and as soon as the bond was accepted Blair COLLECTION 1801. gomery County, obtained a requisition i i * +ERSTWHILE LEADERS OF THE EXPOSITION CITY'S ‘ EXCLUSIVE SOCIETY. = — OF PAINTINGS DISAPPEARS Stolen En Route to Omaha From Seattle. Special Dispatch to The Call. OMAHA, Nebr., Dec. 3.—Somewhere between Seattle and this city, paintings valued at-$200,000, intended for exhibi- tion at the world’s fair in St. Louis, have been lost or stolen. Charles R. Hall, the artist and owner of the pictures, and the freight officials of the Union Pacific Railway, by which they were consigned, have given up the possibility of finding them. The bill of lading is said by the railway men to be a forgery. Hall and a brother spent six years traveling through America sketching and - painting representative scenes. Many were made in Yellowstone Park, others in the Adirondacks and many more in the Rocky Mountains and Alaska. The Hall brothers maintained studios in Washington and Alaska, where the paintings were finished. One of the brothers, when the world's fair was undertaken, arranged with the promoters or directors to exhibit the paintings, many of which are already sold to Eastern art collectors. The Halls came East in September. arranging with a firm in Seattle to ship the pictures on order. They were sert for in October, ad when they did not reach their destination tracers were sent out by the officials. The railroad men report that the pictures cannot be found. Action in the criminal courts will follow. —————— Sheriff Is Still After Nelson. TOPEKA, Kans., Dec. 3.—David R. Nelson, former Congressman from Ten- nessee, is to be brought back to Mont- gomery County from San Francisco to answer to the charge of being acces- sory to a murder committed in Coffey- ville by his -brother, John Nelson, in Andrew. Pruitt, Sheriff of Mont- from Governor Bailey to-day for the return of Nelson. This is the third trip Sheriff Pruitt and his deputies have made to the Pacific Coast after Nelson. SUBMARINE BOATS DRIFT BEFORE BALE Two Torpedo Craft Break Loose From Tug. One Strikes on a Bar on the Coast of Virginia. Second Vessel Is Beliéved to Be Again in Tow. of Steamer. —— Special Dispatch to The Call. CAPE HENRY, Va., Dec. 3.—Without a person aboard one of the fastest two submarine torpedo boats in the world, either the Adder or the Moccasin, of the United States navy, lies stranded on a bar four miles south of Curritick life-saving station to-night. Ready to do what they may to save her, but de- terred by a very heavy sea, which is lashed to a fury by a northwest gale, life-savers are upon the beach waiting for a favorable opportunity to reach the craft. . Only by good luck was it that both submarines were not in the same pre- dicament. For a time both had been washed adrift from the line by which the Government tug Peoria was towing them from Newport to the naval sta- tion at Annapolis, Md. After desperate exertion the men on the tug managed to pick up one of the submarines (which one cannot be ascertained to- night) and headed at once for Norfolk. The first that was known that_ the torpedo boats were in any difficulty was when the United States Weather Bu- reau station in Norfolk received this dispatch over its wire from the coast: “Tug supposed to be Peéoria and two torpedo boats are in distress off Lttle . Island.” ; This information was communicated to Rear Admiral P. F. Harrington, who is in command of the Norfolk navy- . vard, and he at once sent the auxiliary gunboat Yankton to Little Island, which is about twenty miles south of Virginia Beach, under the command of Lieutenant G. W. Williams. The Yank- ton left the navy-yard at 1 o'clock this afternoon and four hours later she was reported as having passed False Cape. That the torpedo boats are the Adder and the Moccasin there can be ho doubt. In tow of the navy tug Peoria they left Newport, R. L, where they had been all summer engaged in im- portant maneuvers, to go to :Annapolis. In command of both vessels was Lieutenant Frank L. Pinney, but the crew of each boat was aboard the Peo ria, and neither submarine was manned. @ i @ REGEINES PAPERS IN DREYFUS CASE War Office Turns Over Documents to Gen. Mercier. PARIS, Dec. 3.—General Mercier, the senior member of the revision com- mission, received the Oreyfus docu- ments from the War Office to-day and the case will probably come up, though only in a semi-official form, at the meeting of the commission Wednesday next. A manifesto issued jointly to the League of Patriots, the Patrie Fran- caise, Federation Nationale, Anti- Juive party and the French Socialists recites that the declarations of five ex- Ministers of War prove their belief in the guilt of Dreyfus and warns the public that attempts will be made to tamper with the documents, to suborn or suppress witnesses and intimidate the Judges. In conclusion the mani- festo appeals to the public to frustrate the efforts of “the occuit sects of in- ternationalists and the powers of eap- ital.” Mme. Zola, interviewed at Rome, gives particulars of the dally life of Dreyfus. She says he leaves his house only on very rare occasions, not be- cause he isyin any fear of insuits, but for the reason that he suffers terribly from fever. Mme. Zola says the ex- captain is devoting all his time seeking documents which may demonsirate his innocence, and that only once in awhile does he dine out, even with in- timate friends. ———— “Pather” Bill Daly Attacked. WASHINGTON, Dee. 3.— Father” Bill Daly, the horseman. was attacked this evening on Pennsyivania avenue. near his hotel, by “Vie™ Holler, owner of Cloveriand. Daly and Holler en- gaged in a controversy over the sale of Alsike by Holler to Daly. Holier finally struck Daly several hard blows In the face, knocking him dowz and severely bruising him. Daly was removed to a nearby drugstore, where he was patched up.