The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 28, 1903, Page 1

THEE WEA? Forecast made at “\l’w‘_ Grand—"The TEE THEATERS. Alcazar—“Blue Jeans.” California—*Are You a Mason?” Central—"“Alphonse and Gaston.” Fischer's—"1. 0. U.” Orphsum—Vaudeville. The Chutes—Vaudeville. Tivoll Opera-House—“Ixion.” Columbia—"“The Girl Green Eyes.” Minister's Son.” With the FRA\NCIS('YO. MONDAY, DECE {BE HOLDS 6L, OVER THE CORPSE Clings for Two Days, fo Its Murdered Mgghe_r. “Shie Won't Wake Up,” Little One’s Plaint When Res- cuers Arrive, It Lake Man Waits Forty-Eight Hours Before Informing Police of Brutal Crime, FREBERCh” A LAKE Dec. 7.~With the had urdered his a barber, surrendered headquarters early t he be locked up. d killed his wife on and that the bedy the bed where sthe after g for n ki lingerin ballet pistol a Third of Mrs her undergar- the ing furnished he body on side as bab t P 1 with the . first thoug! at th vas dead, but when an - 2 ted to release the little s trdm a the dead woman's K 1y and plai that some- £ . h its mamma, 4 on't wake up » days the child had ce n the cold room with the man, without food or at- of-any kind. The child is in a N s ¢onditior it ught, will city’ from St h ago. The husband ent, and the cou 1rreled LT BREE o iy ek POLICE ARE CONFIDENT IS IN CUSTODY Believe Young Man Arrested at Niag- ara Falis Is the Impersonator of Ogden Goelet. \ A FAL N. Y., Dec The he minds of o a he nan arrested on the side of the river last night . it s belie Goelet S still f last week two Savoy Hotel, at Niag- and registered from «o. One of them gave his name 5. Hall and the other W. K. Hall. s ght Chief of Police Mains of io force received a telegram arrest F. S. Hall, who message =aid anted in New charge of forgery. engaged counsel and will e refused to make arther than to declare ommitted no crime S. Ha tion of F. sely and they have Abeel be a igned to-morrow. Pyl s BRITAIN HAS LITTLE FAITH IN MAD MULLAH Dervish Chief in a Desperate Posi- tion and Is Making Play to Gain Time. ROME, Dec. 27.—News has been re- ceived here that Captain Bisco, com- of the n squadron in Somaliland rrived at Obia on the flagship Cristoforo Colombo, from ch point he sent emissaries to the wh or, having been given to under- stand that the Mullah was disposed to eat with Great Britain through the lians The Mullah is believed to be in an 1!mbet desperate condition, owing to | e lack of a good base of supplies. | k is, however, no belief in the good faith of the Mullah, as it is ught his alleged disposition te treat th Great Britain through the Ital- officers is merely a strategem to B time while weiting for supplies. ———— +*RIEND OF DREYFUS WOUNDED 1IN re DUEL Captain Levy Is Struck in the Arm by His Antagonist and Both Retire Unreconciled. PARIS, Dec. .—A duel with swords was fought this morning be- | tween Captain Levy of the Fifth Reg- | ment of Engineers and Henry de Mo! Y leading anti-Semite. Captain was wounded the arm. The| trag@ional results of French duels were not fellowed in this case, for the opponents remained unreconciled. The | duel was the outcome’of an alterca- | ton over the Dreyfus case, | insanity. REFUSES TO DISCUSS REPORT HE CLASH WITH GE PREDICTED RMANY *- ! ™ ARTHUR, | MAC ARTHUR. i | J 3 DIER WHO WAIIAN ISLANDS RETURNED YESTERDAY FROM UNCOMMUNICATIVE AS TO THE RE- PORT THAT IN A SP! "H HE PREDI( D WAR WITH GERMANY B _—— B General MacArthur Returns From Hawaii, Talks of Tour, but Is Silent About Jones Episode. AL PR Major General Arthur MacArthur, received our best attention. The trip nder of the Department of the | about Oahu was very instructive and returned yesterday on the| Very inspiring. My report will be full steamship Siberia from his tour of in- | 21 fomplete, but to what extent the Sonition ~ ok The - Hinwaiien = S, “." rnment will be ,ul?('d by it I can- 2 ; : 8 not, of course, state. Nor can I make where he had gone to look into the| .,y gtatement regarding the detaiis military situation at that place. of my work regarding the situation for He in the best of health and a was greatly pleased and satisfied with the trip.” He talked plezsantly and volubly of the islands, retu nounced that he their condition and prospects, but when asked concerning the alleged statements attributed to him, which wera by en so much publicity recently Coionel Jones, regarding the pro- he had made in Honolulu of a h of arms between the United es and Germany in the near future, suddenly changed and, awing himself up to his full height, sald: I positively decline to discuss the matter; it.is not a subject fi discussion;” , with a wave of his hand, he dismissed the subject and swept it aside as a thing of the past. OAHU IS INSPECTED. Speaking of his tour, he said “We made a complete and thoroyugh military inspec m of the island of Oahu, that is, of all that part that was wey accessible. Our tour was really an exhaustive examination into the military situation, from which I hecy he firm Washington. “We thoroughly looked into all its needs and requirements, and we are now fully in a position to know what is needed for its best interests in the shape of military fenses. “My interests were naturally cen- tered in the fortifications of Pearl Harbgr, but every portion of the island in any | will make my report to the Government at protection and de- | e nd defenses that I have sug- ted as desirable. We were much imy ed with the great sugar planta- tions and the wealth that they repre- sented. The islands are certainly a most valuable acquisition to this coun- try and must be seen to be fully ap-| preciated and understood.” INTERESTED IN ORIENT. General MacArthur was much in- terested in the affairs in the Orient, and one of his first questions was: “What is the latest news of the Japan | war question?”” When informed of the situation, he changed the subject with- out comment and went on with a fur- ther account of his visit to the islands. When asked if there was any truth in the report that his visit to the islands had been cut short, by reason of the Government cabling him to return to his post to be in command here, should | the affairs in Panama come to a crisis, | he replied: i “Well, I'm here,” and then again | | returned to the subject of his tour. When informed that the transports Crook, Buford and Sherman had been ordered by the Government to be im- | mediately placed in seagoing condi- | tion, he stated that it was news to | him. | The general stated that the trip up | on the Siberia was a very fine one, and | greatly enjoyed by all on board. The | general was accompanied by Mrs. Mac- Arthur and his aid, Captain Parker W. West. ACQUITTED ON INSANITY DODGE JONES 'IS s ke | Honolulu Man Charged With the Mur- der of His Wife Released After Hard-Fought Battle. HONOLULU, Dec. 21.—After a trial lasting more than three weeks E. M. Jones, accused of the murder of Mrs. Sarah Parmentar on August 23, last, was found. not guiity by a jury in Judge Gear's court. The defense was Jones shot and killed his divorced wife and Mrs. Parmenter, his | wife’s mother, shortly after midnight of August 22. His trial was one of the longest and hardest fought legal bat- tles ever held here. He is still under indictment for the murder of Mrs. Jones and will be tried on that charge at the next term of court. — |“ALL FOR ROOSEVELT,” SAYS SENATOR PLATT | AT j New York Leader Speaks Out in Open | Concerning the President's | Aspirations. NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Senator Platt announced to-day that the Re- | publican State Convention to elect | delegates at large to the national con- vention and adopt resolutions of in- structions defining the attitude of the State toward President Roosevelt would be held in April. Senator Platt was asked whether the convention would adopt resolu- tions instructing the New York dele- | gation to vote for the nomination of President " Rooseveit in the national convention. He replied: “I suppose the resolution will de- clare for President Roosevelt. We are 4all for him.” | | indicattons are that it will lead them | | |from the highest officials of the South- MacMULLAN AFTER COIN OF ALAMEDA County Supervisors Say They Will Fight g o8 One Methe Board Hints at Attempted Blackmail. Investigation Is. Ordered and Sen-| sational Disclosures May | Be the Result. ! Oakland Office San Francisco Call, | 1118 .Broadway, Dec. 27. The Supervisors and various county | officials of Alameda County are begin- | ning to wonder where an apparently in- | | nocent agreement entered into between | | C. 8. MacMullan and the Board of Su- | | | | | | | pervisors is going to lead them. The ‘m an enforced payment of something in the neighborhood of $35,000 to Mac- !Mullan. though they all say they did | not expect that he would make more | | | than a few hundred dollars at the most. ; But while the Supervisors are trying to explain how they were trapped into | this agreement the City Council of Oak- | | | 1and is felicitating itself upon the fact | | | that it did not fall into MacMullan's | | | trap and that they refused to accept his | offer when-he made it to them at about | the same time he made it to the Super- | visors. Had the City Council done as | dia the Supervisors, MacMullan would | | | have had claims agaipst the city and | county aggregating more than $60,000 | for a few weeks' work. | But this is not all of the scandal that |is 1kely to arise from this matter. | There are hints of actions that are usn- | | | ally described by the ugly word “black- | mail,” and one member of the Board of | Supervisors has.latiers in his possession jern Pacific Company that go to show | that this information, which was sold JAPAN IS PURCHASING WARSHIPS FROM BOTH ARGENTINA AND CHILE X3 |to the county of Alameda upon |a percentage basis, was offered to ‘lhal corporation. When it is consid- | ered that the bulk of this alleged “un- | assessed” property consists of the fran- LAND BLUEJACKETS IN ONE OF THE ARGENTINE WARSHIPS " JAPAN “IS * BELIEVED TO HAVE ‘PURCHASED, AND UNITED STATES VESSEL WHICH WILL KOREA. | | S | chises of the Southern Paeific Company, | Oakland Gas Light and Heat Company, | ;1‘nntl'a Costa Water Company and like | corporations and the personal property | | of the same corporations, the opportuni- ties for such actions are manifold. COUNCIL NOT TRAPPED. ' That the City Council of Oakland was not trapped as was the Board of Su- pervisors is due to Chairman John L. Howard of the Finance Committee of | that organization and Chairman Dor- | nin. These two gentlemen thought that | ©f-War Moreno and Rivadavia, bullt at | they discovered a “nigger in the wood- | Ansaldo’s yards in Italy, have been (pile” and refused MacMullan's offer. | sold by the mediation of the Engiish 5?}a<»)1::11?: ‘w;;'te some letters to the | firm of Antony Gibbs & Cé. for £1,500,- | Counci a ornin and Howar - 7 7 R e ila L :mundd{gl 000 (37,000,000, but the Government does | they were scurrilous in their nature, ERREANN LAt natlon; 16, the freal pur; | and at that moment MacMullan’s prop- | ¢haser. This is the same firm which | osition went a-glimmering. Now the |recently bought two English-built Councilmen are happier than the Su-| Chilean warships, the Constitucion and | pervisors. | the Libertad, the purpose of which pur- | While the story did not leak out from | the Supervisors until yesterday, the | matter has been under investigation by them for more than a week, and the members of that board have been ap- LONDON, Dec. 28.—At the time of palled at the position in which they |the recent purchase of the Chilean war- found themselves. The bill that broke | ships Constitucion and Libertad it was the news to them so forcibly was pre- | reported that they had been bought by | sented more than a week ago. It did|the British Gevernment. This proves | not. take the men who are so well ac-|to have been erroneous, the warships quainted with the affairs of Alameda | having been purchased by a private | County very long to discover that they | firm. It is the current belief that they | would have something more to face| will be added to the navy of Japan, | than the mere Dbill of $1099 15 then be- | along with the Moreno and the Riva- fore them. They sent for District At-|davia, which the same firm has just | torney Allen and County Assessor Dal- | purchased of the Argentine Govern- | ton to appear before the meeting of the | ment. 1 Finance Committee one week ago yes-| Japan also is negotiating- for the terday, but they got very little comfort | Chilean warships Esmeralda and:Capi- from either official. tan Prat, and It is probable the Tokio District Attorney Allen told them that rGovemment will soon become the own- they would have to pay the bill. er.of these vessels. Then they asked County Assessor Japan's activity in the acquisition of Dalton how it was that $5,000,000 worth | warships which are ready for imme- of property had gone unassessed for vears and whether he had placed this property upon the rolis as the result of the labors of MacMullan. The County Assessor replied that it was upon the information furnished by MacMullan that the property got upon the rolls, and that the property had been so deft- ly hidden that with the limited force and limited time-at his command he had not been able to discover it him- self. REPORTED TO ASSESSOR. So the Finance Committee passed the bill more than a week ago, and the board itself passed it, but it did not es- | cape the vigilancé of Auditor Bacon, | who has announced that he will demand | a judicial decision before he will pass it. That act yesterday let the cat out of the bag, and developments have been very rapid since then. The matter will be taken up by the Board of Supervisors to-morrow, and Chairman John Mitchell announces that it will_be gone into thoroughly before | any more bills are passed. This is what Mr. Mitchell said to-day: The Supervisers will make a thorough in- vestigation cf this matter and it will certainly be taken up to-morrow. ~As for this one bill, it ie probable that it is a legal one, and it also probable that it was put in alone cause it was a legal one in the hopes that its BUENOS AYRES, Dec. 27.—It is an- nounced here that the Argentine men- to prevent their falling into the hands of Russia, which also was bidding for them. ture of the news respecting the Far Eastern situation to-day. The Daily Mail's Kobe correspondent asserts that the Japanese army author- ities have requested-the newspapers to refrain from publishing news concern- ing the movement ofstroops or other warlike prepatrations. In an editorfal the Daily Mail says It regards this as a practical censorship and an ominous sign. Editorial articles.in. other morning newspapers expres concern over the movement of foreign warships toward the Far East, and particularly over the statement that United States marines have been ordered to Korea, fearing some unforeseen incident may precipi- tate a crisis. On the other hand, the speech deliv- ered by M. Delcasse, the French For- elgn Minister, in the Senate Saturday (saying that nothing had occurred .to cause him to place faith in the alarm- ing reports that were being published daily) is looked upon as reassuring, and it is believed that the efforts, of ‘the powers may still be successful in pre- serving peace. < The Daily Mail's Tokio correspondent reports the opening of negotiations with Prince Ching’s party with the object of forming an offensive and defensive al- liance between China and Japan. chase according to a cable dispatch was | diate service is the most alarming fea- | Continued on Page 2, Column 2. | The Morning Post's Peking corre- . Tokio’s Acquisition of Fighting Craft an Ominous Indication That Crisis Is Nearing. — Special Cable to The Call and New York Herald. Copyright, 1903, by the New York Her- ald Publishing Company, spondent - says that all classes of Chi- nese : unite in .the belief that in the event. of war China Jnust help the Japanese, and that if this help should not be given' there will be a patriotic insurrection against the Manchu dy- nasty. The Times' Peking correspondent discussing how China Will meet (he situation in she event of war between Russia and Japan, says that China Wil nbt voluntarily take Up arms, but that Russia may attack China. He quotes the remark of Paul Lessar, the Russian Minister to China, answering the query ad- on what pretext Russia could vance on Peking, China's sole de being to maintain an Inflexible neut ity, Lessdr simply replied: “We will pull their tail until they bite.” The correspondent believes that Great Britain fails to appreciate the significance of the present situation, and adds that the Japanese prepara- tions, in contrast with the policy of Great Britain, are more complete, thor- ough and detailed than the world p: ably has ever seen. One victory would give Japan immense prestige in Peking and might Influence China to assist Japan and bring the Russo-French al- liance intb operation. The Times correspondent goes on to say that Uchida, the Japanese Minister at Peking, deserves the greatest credit for having checked China from com- mitting herself by agreement with Rus- sia regarding Manchuria. S FOR A FIGHT. CLAMOROU War Party in the Mikado’s Realm Is Growing in Strength. PEKING, Dec. 27.—The opinion enter- tained by.the best informed diplomats in Peking, that war between Russia and Japan is probable and almost In- evitable, remains unchanged. Nothing has been received here to| corroborate the speclal dispatches from Tokio, which said that the Japanese Government was adopting an impera- tive tone in pressing for a speedy reply to this last note. The report is not be- leved. ‘Official communications received here from high sources say that the Japa- nese war party is growing in strength and is bringing all its influence to bear upon the Government. The Chinese Board of War has or dered the Viceroys to supply full in formation as to the numbers of foreign trained troops available for active ser- vice. - The Viceroys of three of the cen- tral provinces, in response, have report- ed that 90,000 such troops are in readi ness. This unquestionably is a remark able exaggeration, as_the majority o foreign trained troops exist only on pa- per. . The Dowager Empress has issued an DOMESTIC - WOES BACK 0F SUICIDE 'Young —Rfiifi Master ~ Figures in Bank- er's Troubles. ‘Befriended by Rich Man's Wife After Husband Discharged Him. Financier Who Leaped Overboard From Steamship Mentally Un- sound Through Worry. PR Special Dispatch to The Call. GALVESTON, Tex., Dec. Gran- ville W. Garth, the New York banker, who committed suicide by jumping overboard from the Mallory steamer Denver, en route from New York to Galveston, had been suffering from a long spell of sickness, which it is be- | lieved had effected his mind. He was traveling with Thomas Lawson of New York and was en route to Thurber, | Tex., for an outing for his health. He | jumped overboard on Christmas night | when the Denver was approaching Gai- veston. * NEW YORK, Dec. ‘The Mechan- i Bank directors having declared | President Garth's suicide due to pure- ly personal troubles, friends of the bank president are at a loss to account for his action. The only trouble of any domestic nature concerns the discharge of Hubert Hartigan, a handsome young riding master, who was employed by Garth to handle his horses and give riding lessons to Mrs. Garth, who un- der his tuition has become a daring and accomplished horsewoman. After Hart- |igan's discharge he purchased a fine | farm near Morristown, N. J., paying | for it a large sum. He had not been | regarded as a man of means. Mrs. Garth is very wealthy .n her own name, having inherited several | millions from her father, McComb, a manufacturer. * {DEFENDS THE WIFE'S COURSE. Fanny McComb, Mrs. Garth's sister, married Louis Herzog, an artis against her father’s wishes, and she re- cently won a $4,000,000 suit in a contest | ovér his will. Herzog said to-day: | ®Hartigan did not cause any troub's in the family. He is an exceptionally | capable and safe man in handling horses, and Mrs. Garth has kept him in her employ because she can safely en- trust her two little girls to his care when they go driving. She pays him with her own money, and has a right to keep him in her employ if she re- | gards him as best fitted to do the work she wants done.” “But did not Mr. Garth discharge Hartigan?" “I don't know. He may have done There was some trouble with the But even if he did, what of so. servants. “Was not the stock farm at Morris- town bought in Hartigan's name?” DISCORD IN THE FAMILY. “Possibly; I don’t know. But what of that? I have bought property in other persons’ names, and so has almost everybody else. I bought a farm on the co of Maine last year in another ran’s name because there were bus ness reasons for doing so. It was or might hive been the same case with’ Mrs. Garth t has been trouble, trouble, for a long time over money. It began four years ago, when Mrs. Garth refused to turn against her sister, my wife, in the | settlement of their father's estate. She stood for what was right, for the pro- | tection of her own interests and her sister’s, and she won her battle. A | week ago last Friday the suit was de- cided in her favor. The next day Mr. | Garth left- New York, a disappointed, defeated man. Providence, I believe, has acted as the highest court.” Alexander A. Orr, vice president of the bank, said to-day that for some time past Garth had been far from well and within the past few weeks had seemed to be on the verge of men- tal prostration. For this reason the board of directors passed, December | 14, a resolution urging Garth to take a vacation of four months. To this | Garth assénted and sailed with a com~ panion or’ the Denver on December 19. | The bank had continued to prosper under Garth’s management, Orr said, and his death was solely due to mental nxlety of a purely personal character. - edict, at the request of Prince Ching, appointing several unknown and prob- ably inexperienced officials as heads of | the army departments. One such has been appointed director of training, an- | other has been given command of the | department of instruction, while a third | has been put in charge of the depart- | ment which has to do with the supply f ammunition. | Influential officials continue in their | determinaticn to keep China neutral, if | possible, in the event of war. Namaqualand Tribes in Revoit. CAPE TOWN, Dec A general nsurrection has broken out ameng he Bondelzwartz tribes in Great Na- | maqualand, German Southwest Africa. The insurrectionists have eollected in the. Kora Mountaing.