The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 23, 1903, Page 1

Forecast made at San Francis- l ©o for 30 hours ending midnight, December 23: San Francisco and vicinity— Fair Wednesday; light northerly winds. A. G. McADIE, District Porecaster. | Fischer's—"1. Grand—* Alcazar—-“Blue Jeans.” California—"Foxy Grandpa.” Central—“Alphonse and Gaston.” Columbia—“Dolly Varden.” Little Ontcast.” Orpheum—Vandeville. The Chutes—Vaudeville. 0. U [ o e S 0. 2. FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1903. LMBERMEN 1L W AGE | THE ASTOUNDING METHODS OF THE PROMOTERS (EVER 1LL TEVY I\ SHARES Asphalt Trust Stock- holders Must Pay $24,QQQ,900. Court Directs That They Be Assessed for Unpaid | Liabilities. | I e Peculiar Stock Manipulations Will Be | Alleged in Suits to Be Brought 1 Against Promoters. { BTTER AR RE California ~ Millmen Will Not Renew Agreement, " Efforts to Adjust- Differ- at Local Crn- :"v‘;renw Fail, - Strif; olriie Threatens to Reduce Income Combination by a Million Dollars a Year. A nat The Call L . 22.—Stockholders Asphalt Company of evy upon m ap & 00,000 for their unpaid per cent of the capi is said to be the largest kind ever made possible urt procedure ening to heated arguments g Henry Tatnall, Asphalt Company > levy this assessment on all rd. rder was signed on the applica- f Charles L. presenting the Land Title and-Trust Company of | Philadelphia, and A. J. Weiderstein of Philadelphia, of counsel representing | the The purpose is to pro- the benefit of the creditors, the holders of Asphalt Com- erica coliat As the insolve mpany the of most of the stock, resulting from this action to go into the pockets of of lawyers interested in | rted affair. than the National Asphait there are a dozen stockhold- rd in the Asphalt Compa Incidentally, they may be re- stockholders of rer Cor’ eceiver. for ates is halt C titude to the $24,000,000 th 1ITH SAYS | RDA IS INNOCENT | Defends Filipino Commissioner Who Has Been Accused in Cabled | Charges. —James F. Smith, mission, in an in- 1 to-day, took the | Legarda, ong of the| s of the commissiqn, | AROUSED. BITTER FEELING ged with grave offenses | said Legarda would | in ’ He with American statesmen but admitted that there w: standard of morality among | the Filipinos than among Americans. | The Legarda case has been referred to Governor Taft by President Roose velt moralit Governor Taft has taken no| action. | —————— Funeral of Frederic R. Coudert. 29 NEW YORK, Dec —The funeral of Frederic R. Coudert, who died in gton last Sunday, was held . Patrick’s Cathedral here to- legations representing busi- | utions, clubs and colleges, hich Coudert was identified dur- nd that a f prices would prove disas-|T w e VR TR N Lo S L ARSI 55 | Trmeml e X IAN French Capitgl- ists Lured by Falsehood. Deceived as to the Condition of - Combine. SHIPBUILDING TRUST CORRESPONDENCE REDEALS o — | i Wi ¥ | 8 | | i TO THE FORE IN AMERICAN LY COMBINE OF TWO “CAPTAINS,OF INDUSTRY' WHOSE NAMES ARE PROMINENT- THE REVELATIONS CONCERNING THE SHIPYARDS. N the shipbuilding trust. beer published. T in years has Wall street been stirred as it is at present cr the publication of correspondence .between York and Paris relative to the promotion and underwriting of Letters and telegrams showing the ex- tremes to which financiers of world-wide note went to bolster up the tottering trust, at the expense of French capitalists,” have Some of these missives and messages are ex- ceedingly frank and will prove interesting reading for mon- | eved men of Europe who were induced to put their faith in the word of Wall-street promoters. New & o 3 NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—Letterd and | cablegrams which are alleged to have passed between New York and Paris in connection with the United States Shipbuilding underwriting placed in | the French capital were published to- day by the World. Reference to these communications was made recently in the shipbuilding hearings before cial responsibllity of those whose sig- natures had been obtained in Paris to the underwriting agreement, which was then in the care of the Bank de Roma. Baron Calvet Rogniat and M. Schreyer, a banker, were the heaviest subscribers. While both were much disappointed over the misunderstand- ing as to the success of the underwrit- ing here, they were said to stand ready | to pay their share. V% ) W i } g ARNEGIE'S FUND FoR | ~ WORKMEX Interest on-$4,000,- 000.or Injured | | | | | Toilers. it AL T | Special Dispatch to The Call. | NEWCASTLE. Pa., Dec. 22.—It has | just been announced at the local of- | | fices of the. Carnegie Steel Company | | that Andrew Carnegie has set apart | | $4,000,000, the interest upon which is to | | form a perpetual fund to relieve work- | | men injured in the Carnegie plants and ; to aid the heirs of those killed while at | wdrk. Married men injured will receive 81? daily, while idle and single men will | g@et 75 cents, and children under 16 | will receive 10 cents daily. In case an employe is killed while at work $500 will be given to his family, while $100 | Greeley and their brother, Louis | ley, were admitted to this institut | All. were weak-minded and were | cation and has been appointed | is no known reason for his . 1so thrown out etime, were present. Low 2 er representa- celebrated by Father La- | United States Special Examiner R. D. 2 & Serihns: il the final absolution was | Oliphant, while Charles B. Alexander nization’s rules in 8iven by Archbishop Farley. of the firm of Alexander & Green, at- Finally, the situation apparently| Will 80 to the family of any child un- had been explained to the satisfaction | 9T 18 Who meets death while at work. of every one and preparations were | Certificates of appointed physicians made for the first call upon the under- | Wij} be necessary to obtain the payment tablished prices —————— | torneys, was undergoing examination. ign markets for | Traveler Is Robbed in Sleeping Car. | The letters, which were kept secret by th> m g OMAHA, Nebr., Dec. 22—W. T.|agreement of counsel, were said to was apparent that Mc- | Sherman-Doyle. general counsel for a | ghow what methods had been pursued Washington (D. C.) corporation, was robbed of $750 in a sleeping car to- his associates were angry did not attempt to conceal the ¢ when they started for Portiand on | 42y between Council Bluffs and st eveming's train | Omaha. Sherman-Doyle was en route | to the Pacific Coast. He believes the ated by a prominent mem- money was taken from his pocket by Pacific Coast lumbermen - evening that the breaking up of | three men who jostled him. - the export trade compact had been!g. in order to compel the French'in- vestors to meet the calls for money on their underwriting after they had been given to understand, through a cable- gram sent by the Trust Company of the Republic to its agent, John W. Young, that the underwriting was a success. This dispatch gave them the writers on July 23 for 25 per cent of the subscription, to be followed by the second, payable on August 1, for the same amount. Then came the exciting portion of the correspongence. ° The banking house of Morgan, Harjes & Co. had been selected to receive payments, to be cabled at once to the Mercantile Trust Company of Nw York, but the subscribers had not come forward on | of injury and death claims. { s s BEALESR EIRET | } Ottoman Governor Apologizes. ( ALEXANDRETTA, Syria, De¢. 22— Attarian, the naturalized American, whose arrest by the Turkish authorities | caused United States Consul Davis to leave Alexandretta, has been liberated. | The Governor of Alexandretta to-day made an official call upon United States | Consul Davis and formally apologized | for the indignities suffered,by the Con- sed for some time. A number of which had previously been the organization, had lately the conclusion that they had ned a large business abroad and | it along without the aid . combine. Hence thelr indifference propesed renewal of the coast | men’s agreement. BIG LOSs TO PRODUCERS. . wo years, or withih | existing agrecment, the | L as amounted to an| annuai outpu of 250,000,000 feet, which | is figured at a basis rate of $14 a thou- | the past of th sand. With the abandonment of the| producers’ agreement it is expected | that there will be a lively cutting in | gpates, and lumbermen predict that the | idea that they only need stahd ready to receive their profits as members of ! the underwriting syndicate. Charles B. Alexadder happened to be in Paris at the time and to him fell the duty of removing the false impres- sion and holding the signers of the subscription list to theff agreement. His firm is counsel -for the trust com- | pany here, which had charge of the underwriting, and the communica- tions, which fill several columns of the World, are alleged to have passed be- tween Alexander and his firm. in this city. UNDERWRITERS DEFAULT. The alieged correspondence began on July 15, 1902, and in the early stages revolved largely around the in- westigation set on foot as to the finan- present price will go to $10 before many days have passed, which means a loss to the mills engaged in exporting of $1,000,000 annually. At present there is an overproduction in the northern mills and the foreign markets are reported to be well supplied, a condition which does not augur well for the foture, so far as milimen are concerned. Among a number of expart agents it is thought that the breaking up of the combine will hasten the Weyerhaeusers and several other of the more prom- inent milimen in the northwest in car- rying out their frequently made threats | to put a number of vessels in the Pa- cific Ocean trade and cul and slash prices wherever trade warrants a re- duction. July 25, to which day the payments | had been postponed, and on July "28 | sul. a letter stated that Alexander had changed his tgne with regard to the situation. The writer is quoted: “While it may be true that these underwriters were npt treated proper- 1y by Young in leaving them under the impression for so long a time that all the bonds had been sold, vet that — et Refusal to Pay Bill Provokes Murder. | - HELENA, Mont., Dec. 22.—Charles | Hillson, aged 30 years, was shot and killed by Mattie Lee at Phil'ipsburg to-day. The woman claimed Hillson | owed her a small sum of money. When Hillson refused to pay her she shot has been well atoned for by the pa- | him. tience and care with which we have in e 7 5 TR T T SR the last week given explanation aftet Hotel Guest Perishes in a Fire. explanation to all parties. They are MENOMINEE, Mich.,, Deec. 22— now all in default from the 25th and I have told Oppenheim to -notify each ndividual liability, in case that money is not in New York in time to make the payment, will not Continued on Page 2, Column 2. Fire to-day caused twelve persons to jump from the second-story windows of the Travelers’ Home, a small hotel. The thirteenth guest, James Beatty, was found dead in the ruins. Joseph Vorschek was fatally burned and three others were seriously hurt. * ——t POORHOLSE ASKS ROOT T0 MANAGE CAMPAIGY ARDS ARE presizentwatiswar WADE RICH R Cousins of - Horace Greeley Found in Infirmary. R i | a Large Estate in 1 Kansas. ged and Feeble-Minded, They Fail| to Realize the Good Portune That | Has Come {o Them. A TOLEDO, Superintendent Farmer has just appointed guardian of Mary and son Greeley, two inmates of the Coun- ty Infirmary of Wood County. A few years ago Orson and been Or- Mary Gree- pau- pers of the aggravated sort. Louis died some time ago. Then it was discovered that the Greeleys had once been related to persons in Staf- ford County, Kansas, and Superi dent Farmer the Proba Judge. He ascertained after much respondence that his charges were onl® cousins of the late Horace Gree- | ley, of newspaper fame, but that for wrote to r- not rhany years past they had been sole ;‘ heirs to a great and unclaimed estate | in Kansas. | Mary and Orson, when told of their | Kansas wealth, evidenced no surprise or joy, failing to comprehend that the were able to buy the place w e they lived ard the extemsive farms which surround it. Superintendent Farmer made appli- their estate | guardian. He will look up the | and straighten out their affairs. Orson Greeley is said to bear a re- markable resemblance to Horace Greeley. Both Orson and Mary are of great & | —————————— ARMY OFFICERS SEARCHI FOR A MISSING LIEUTENANT Disappears. While Engaged With Troops on Guard Over the Tomb of the Late President McKinley. | WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—Officers of the army are endeavoring to find ond Lieutenant Floyd C. Miller of tae First Infantry, who, while engaged with troops on guard over the tomb of President McKinley in the Westlawn Cemetery, near Canton, Ohio, disap- peared on the 4th inst. and has not been seen or heard from since. There onduct. Lieutenant Miller is a native of Ohio, and was an ordinary seaman in the pavy from May 31 to August 51, 1898. In September, 1599, he enlisted as a private in the Sixteenth Infantry and showed such proficiency that he was commissioned as a second lieutenant. ————— LITIGATION DEPLETES AUSTIN CORBIN'S ESTATE Report Filed by Executors of Late Railroad Magnate's Will Shows Great Shrinkage in Assets. -A decree set- | tling the second accounting of the executors and trustees of the Austin Corbin estate has been entered by the Surrogate of Suffolk County, Long Island. Litigation instituted by one of the late railroad magnate’s daughters has, according to the report, greatly depleted the estate. When first appraised in 1897 the personal holdings were valued at $4,800,000. Now there | is shown to be a cash balancs of only | $290,000 and realty worth about $1,500.- | 000. In June, 1501, the accounting filed | showed that the executors were | charged with $2,477,000. However, there | is”still considerable real estate not in- | cluded in the report. The struggle over a divison of the estate has not yet been concluded. | —_————— WOMAN IS CONVICTED OF KILLING HER HUSBAND c- | Gives Him Chloroform and With the | Assistance of Friends Throws His | Body Into a River. | BENNINGTON, Vt., Dec. 22.—Mrs. Mary A. Rogers was to-day. found guilty of murder in the fifst degree for the killing of her huisband, Marcus H. Rogers, August 12, 1902. The ver- dict carried the death penalty. | Mrs. Rogers met her husband, from whom she was separated. on pretense of effecting a reconciliation, and, as- sisted by Leon Perham and Stella Bates, gave him chloroform. The body was then thrown in the river. Love for another man and a desire to get her husband'’s life insurance were the alleged motives. - Secretary to Suc- ceed Hanna. { Receives Ohio Senator’s De- clination to Continue as Chairman. ————— | Are Long Missing Heirs {0 Cabinet Minister Will Serve if Mo Other Suitable Man Can Be Found for the Placs. cial Dispatch The Call. CHICAGO, Dec. 22.—The Record- Herald’s Washington correspondent has formally and hairman Committes e as s offered ship of the Root has eration. Mr. political as and to devote - life, his ¢ in New tire e aign. and Secretary Root the re- placed in possession of Semator Hanna's final and definite declination to continue in office. Only this after- noon the Pre: and his War Secre- tary had ano talk on the su without coming to a final conclusion If Mr. Root shall in the =nd decline to serve then Governor Mu v tts will be the Republican or He has consented to take the President cannot find d ganization. the post any one el “Mr. Hanna has where he feels it his du ent care of his } he has done his full share reached the point y to take most or the party. “Mr. Root believes in conducting a national campaign Without the use of k v as has been employed lieves the amou recent campal tuting a national he consents to serve he upon reformation in this respect “Whether Mr. Root can be induced to serve is a serious question. By the the War Department he time he leaves will have served four and a half years, and during that period he has lost virtually all of his income as a lawyer, which amounted during the later years | of his practice to something like a hun- | dred thousand dollars a year. Mr. Root is neither rich mor poor and he has felt that he could not go on indefinitely making a sacrifice of such large pro- portions.” —e———— | EPIDEMIC OF SMALLPOX RAGING IN NORTHERN UTAH Authorities in Affected District Appeal to State Board of Health to Estab- lish a- Quarantine. SALT LAKE, Dec. 22.—An epidemic of smallpox is raging in Cache and Boxelder counties in the northern por- tion of this State and the medical au- thorities in the affected districts have appealed to the State Board of Health to establish a quarantine. The rapid spread of the disease is said to be the result of numerous dances held vecently which were attended by persons suffer- ing from the contagion. In Boxelder County seventy-seven cases have already been reported, the little town of Mantau alone having forty-nine cases within its borders. In Cache County the scourge, while widespread, has not as ye: assumed such a serious aspect as in the adjoin- ing county. The disease is of a comparatively mild form and no deaths from it have yet been reported. ——— e INSANE MAN PAYS VISIT TO GOVERNOR OF NEBRASKA Brandishes Large Knife and Compels Executive to Express His Belief in Innocence of Senator Dietrich. LINCOLN, Nebr., Dec. 22.—Clayton S. Deeter, an escaped insane inmate of the Grand Island Soldiers’ Home, arm- ed with a huge paperknife, succeeded in getting into Governor Mickey's pri- vate office to-day. Brandishing his weapon, he declgred that Senator Dietrich, now under indictmént for bribery, was innocent and compelled the Governor to express the same view. Governor Mickey .was agreeing to everything the insane man declared when Capitol employes rushed in and overpowered the man