The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 4, 1904, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, PRESIDENT OF MORMON CHURCH MAKES CONFESSION OF POLYGAMY Joseph B. Smith, Who Presides Over the Utah Sect, Explains at the Smoot Inquiry in Washington That He Has Deliberately Violated the Laws of- the State Regarding Plural Marriages' i e —ip | JURISTS HEAR DREYFUS™ PLEA Paris Court Begins Consider- | ation of the Application for Revision of the Case! is associated which at violations of re 2tion practices s a United Stz mmand of t ery vote subject > Mor- seph F. Smith confessed ad continued to co- i that he realized t the consent of the church be- a candidate for ssior President Smith sation of proceedings Senate »mmittee on € Zlections. Mr. Smith » of 1890 had left families in » of being com- desert their had preferred the law” rather and degrade ning his wives and | k borne him. He ad had children by manifesto, had knowledged t! 1 or disturb- of Utah, whom he and broadminded take the witness ural husfemi SENSATION FOR S st Objections to 1 made by the ruled that pon plural mar- ges mbers of the twelve s Mr one, i§ < to such f Pr f ent drawing the nding plural that there DR. SHOOP'S REMEDIES. Will You Write a Postal | So a Sick On: May Get Well? | ard, giving Tell cede heip. way to induce ai | tiply my cures, and 1 ured ones to be fair | o p y difficult | s that ever meet. I know what strengthening weak | estorative is the, only When an organ is wer which alone , = like giveaig an 1 give the weak organ and there s no other organ we eive of & sick one who will neg- a treatment, when I take the entire Box $630. Racine. Wis, are often cured with t druggists Restorative Book 4 for Women the Heart Book § for Men (sealed) on the Kidnevs Book € on Rheumatism At the Doctor’s Risk lh: Simdp’s vepepsia Sound business practice is as important, here, as the wealth of nature. Schilling’s Best is the basis of it in baking powder spices cofiee : fiavering extracts soda at yaur grocer’s and money- back. e ly since the | | polygamy. :SECRETS IN DOCUMENTS | A L S | sAcknowledgment of the Re- | ported New Facts May! | Clear the French Officer| —_— PARIS, March, 3.—The Cassation began to-day the considera- | tion of the appeal of Alfred Dreyfus ,for a revision of his trial. Counselor Chamberaud presided. ! | Though the general interest in the | case was not as great as in previous years, yet the courtroom was crowded with officers, soldiers and lawyers, and !a number of women, among whom i were relatives of Dreyfus. By their side was former Colonel Picquart. ! Dreyfus was not present, his interests | being in the hands of Lawver Mor- nard. The report of M. Brier, report- er of the court, which was read. pre- !sented the two new facts upon which {the Minister of Justice, M. Valle. re- Court of | commended a revision of the caee | These were set forth as follows: | The secret documents include a let- ter bearing the initial “D.” Now, by yan affidavit of October 6, 1903, signed it appears that this document previ- | According to the Minister of Jus- !tice another letter, signad xan- drine,”” which Agent A. addressed to Agent B., contained some words in the handwriting of the late Lieuten- !ant Colonel Henry, who committed | suicide in prison after having confess- ed to committing a forgery in the case. This letter relates to the organization | |of French railroads. M. Gribelin swore | War that this letter was false. It w | true, however, that the date of th | document was March 28, 1895, when L by M. Gribelin, keeper of the archives, | | during the inquiry of the Minister of | s i | | +- - i LAWMAKERS AND THE PROSECUTOR IN THE SENSATIONAL CASE : OF UNITED STATES SENATOR REED SMOOT, WHICH I§ NOW | IN PROGRESS IN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. | had been a misunderstanding as to)ried my first wife more than thirty- whether Mr. Smoot was being tried | eight years ago, and my last wife more | on the charges of polygamy and of | than twenty years ago. By these wives | having taken an oatH incompatible |T have had children and I have prc- with his oath as a United States Sen- | ferred to take my own chance with the ator Now he said, it is apparent |law and suffer any consequences lhf‘ that these charges are not pending in |law might visit upon me rather than | this investigation. abandon these children and their moth- | Senator Dubois dissented from the | opg statement that there had been such a| I have continued to cohabit with understanding and said the real|them since the manifesto of 1890, and | charge is that Mr. Smoot is a member | they have borne me chilaren since that | of a Mormon hierarchy b aih b Sl Gy ks elly e GEwhat T e bes to vows in conflict With the |going | knew I was amenable to the ! of the country and was bound |, but, as I say, I preferred to fscei to s#‘x.-.w:rl'::\;i(r’: \"::; e that situation rather than to desert | niiis ¥ them. I have not cohabited with | said Dubols, “the relations, of th or- gan toward the United States are to be tried Senator Pettus made a protest against the debate among members of the committee, and Chairman Burrows rected Mr. Ta) s were then er to proceed. Ques- directed to ascertain Mr Smoot’s knowledge of the poly- gamous marriages of Abraham H. nnon d whether Mr. Smith had performed the service uniting Mr. Cannon and Lillian Hamlin Mr. iith said he had seen newspaper ports saying that he had done so, but he denied the truth of the statemén CONFESSION OF POLYGAMY. The Mr. Tayler asked a number of questions which brought out a state- ment from Mr. Smith regarding his own position under the laws coverin, had violated them continuously since the manifesto of 1890, and is_ ready | now and always has been to face the | laws of the land. Mr. Tayler asked: “Is cohabitation with a plural wife contrary to rules of the church?” Mr. Smith asked and received per- mission to make a statement and then answer the question in his own way. He spoke with great feeling and di- rectness, just the reverse of his at- titude on the stand at yesterday's hearing, saying: “In regard to the status of polygamy at the time of the manifesto I want to say that after the hearing before the Master of Chancery I understood that we should abstain from relations with our plural families and that rule was observed up to the time the enabling act went into effect admitting Utah as a State. Under that act the only prohibition was that plural marriages should cease. Nothing was said about cohabitation with our wives.” “With the wives you had married previous to the manifesto, you mean?" interrupted Hoar. “That is what I meant,” said Smith. “I understood that plural mar- riages were to cease and ever since the manifesto until the present time there never has been a plural marriage in the church performed in accordance with its teachings or with the conniv- ance of the church,” and he added with greater emphasis: “I know whereof 1 speak.” Then, in answer to the question whether polygamous cohabitation was regarded by the church as contrary to the law, he answered: “It was.” Con- tinuing he said: CARE FOR FAMILIES. “This was the case and is the ecasc now. But I was placed in this posi- tion,” said Smith. “I had a family —& plural family, if you please. I map He acknowledged that he | the | these -wives openly or flaunted the fa but 1 have acknowiedged these wives | and children as my family. The people | of Utah have regarded the situation as | an ex g ct. These people as a | rule are broad-minded and liberal in | | their views and have conconed the of- | { fcnse—if offense it is—rather than to | interfere with my situation as they | found it. Tt has been known what I have been doing. I have not been in- | |terfered with nor disturbed in any way. 1If I had been I was there to answer the charges. I was willing to {face them and submit to the penalty, | whatever it might be.” Smith paused for a moment, but as yler prepared to ask another qu n he again procesded with his statement | DIFFERENCE IN LAWS. “You must draw a distinction be- tween unlawful cohabitation and plural | marriage,” he said. “The State law in| regard to the latter has been complied | with. No marriages have been per- formed with the sanction, approval, | consent, knowledge or connivance of the church or its officials. But the other law is the one I have presumed | to disregard, and which, as I have said, T am ready to face rather than disgrace myself or degrade my family by turning them off.” Tayler resumed his questioning. “You say there is a State law for- bidding polygamous cohabitation, and you have been continuing to violate it | in utter disregard of the conse- quences?”’ he asked. “I think I have,” was the answer. Burrows asked Smith if he had mar- ried any wives between the first and last he had mentioned during his state- ment to the committee. | T “1 have,” said Smith. “How many?"” “Three."” “Then, you' have’ five wives now?" said Burrows. “That is correct,” was the reply. Burrows ruled that the question objected to was in order, and directed the stenographer to read the question: “How many" children have you had since the manifesto of 1890?" “Eleven since 1890,” said Smith. “Each of my five wives has borne me children.” “Since that time “Since that time, peated, in answer. “I rather think,” he added, “that one of them has had three children—I could tell you a little later.” He said in reply to Tayler that he had attended the dedication exercises at the St. Louis Exposition and had been accompanied by his plural wife, Edna Smith, by name. Tayler concluded with Smith and the defense will examine the witness to- asked Burrows. the witness re- ;nocen('e of Dreyfus would be estab- Dreyfus was imprisoned on Devils Is- land. The existence of a traitor in the| French War Office was revealed by an alleged foreign diplomat, who act- ed without compensation. It is now claimed that Lieutenant Colonel| Henry in 1897 caused a book of ex-| penditures to be recopied in order ml‘ remove all trace of payments to this diplomat, who, it has developed, was | an employe of the Intelligence Depart- | ment. H It was claimed by those present in | court that if the new facts were ac- knowledged by the tribunal the in-| lished. M. Boyer made an exhaustive review of the case, declaring he could not find any proof to establish the existence of | the document which was claimed to have been annotated by the German . Emperor, which, was transmitted to one ! of Dreyfus’ judges at Rennes. There | was no doubt, he added, of the trans- ! mission of the ‘‘Alexandrine” letter with the false date. The words in Lieutenant Colonel Henry's handwrit- | ing had an unfavorable effect upon the court-martial. | M. Boyer conciuded by saying that ! the letters used against the accused were falsified prior to the proceedings of 1899, but he added that this had not | vet been judicially determined upon. | Attorney Genera) Baudouin said that | when he began his consideration of the Dreyfus case he was satisfied that a judicial error had not been committed, | but as the investigation proceeded his | amazement increased. “One by one,” the Attorney General continued, ““all the charges vanished, leaving only accusations without im- | portance or consistency. | “When 1 examined the secret collec- | tion of documents in the case and saw ! their miserable character, valuable only because of the mystery cleverly thrown about them, I concluded it was | necessary for justice to have the last word, and it is my conviction that there is not ome of us If in the army and not an officer now in the army | who would not have succumbed had he been under an accusation thus man- aged.” Fearing disturbances during the pro- ceedings, the Government stationed guards among the spectators and in the corridors leading to the court, but| their presence was not riecessary. The crowd was interested, but there were no demonstrations against the favor- able conclusions of the reporter and Attorney General. M e RAILROAD SURVEYORS SEEKING A NEW ROUTE Believed They Are Mapping Out Line Into Vancouver for Great North- ern-Kootenal Coast Road. BELLINGHAM, Wash,, March 3.— The presence of a party of Great| Northern surveyors just north of Lyn- den is causing considerable specula- tion as to their mission. Lynden is just five miles south of the interna- tional boundary line and it is reported | that the party has run two prelimin- ary surveys between here and the line. ! The surveyors are working eastward | and it is believed they are seeking a new route into Vancouver, B. C., for | the Great Northern-Kootenai coast line. Hill has encountered considerable Canadian opposition in the construc- tion of this line because of the fact that it runs nearly entirely through American territory and it is possible | that he is seeking a route nearer the international line. —_————— Grifith Will Make Appeal. LOS ANGELES, March 3.—Griffith J. Griffiths, the Los Angeles capital- ist, who was last night found guilty by a jury in the Superior* Court of as- sault upon his wife with a deadly weapon, is in jail awaiting the passing of sentence upon him by Judge Smith next Saturday. His attorneys have announced that an appeal will be taken to the Supreme Court, whatever the sentence of the trial court may be. —————— HELBYVILLE, Ind., March 3.—The Re blican convention of ‘the Sixth Dist Bay renomt Congressman James E. Wa son and instructed the delegates for President MARCH 4, 1904. DARING ROBBER |LIVES IN FEAR GETS HIS COIN | Claude Hendricks of Scotts | Valley Falls Into Clutches% of a Thug Near Santa Cruz | ) BANDIT MAKES ESCAPE! — | Disappears in Brush on Side | of Road After Compelling Victim to Hand Over Purse; SANTA CRUZ, March 3.—A dartng“ hold-up occurred at noon to-day at| Scotts Valley, near this city. Claude Hendricks, aged about 20 years, was in wagon on his way home when a | nmasked highwayman jumped out from | the brush alongside the road and com- | manded him to stop. Hendricks at-! tempted to parley with the robber, but desisted when the latter told him to stop his foolishness and to quickly hand j over his money. Hendricks complied by | giving the robber his purse, containing §1 50." The bandit then disappeared in | the brush and was last seen heading to- | ward this city. i The robber is described as being a small man with a sallow complexion. The mask did not cover his forehead. | He is thought to be an old hand, as he i did not display any mervousness when | he drew his revolver and ordered Hen- | dricks to halt. ! ] B TR e RO ) Californians in New York. i lously carried the letter For| NEW YORK, March 3.—The fol- this latter was substituted a “D,” and ' 10Wing Californians have arrived at thés the altergd document was pre- ‘(h"l 1“’[‘“;; d“’m:’"‘:fll"]:rflm'i]scoJ sented to the court at Rennes. Hone 904, . & e Albemarle; J.| ! | Lee, at the Hoffman; G. A. Stark- | weather Jr., at the Herald Square; J. | W. Twiggs, at the Albemarle; C. | Weinmuster, at the Broadway Cen- | [tral; C. E. Heinea. at the Imperial. | From Los Angeles—G. O. Noble, at | | the Imperial; E. J. Alpaugh, at thei Rossmore. i i —_—————— | | WASHINGTON. March 3.—The Senate to- | { day confirmed the nomination of the Isthmian | Canal Commiseioners, and also the following: | Lieutenant Colonel Jams F. Randlette, U. S | A., retired, Galifornian, agent for the Indians | | of the Kiowa Agency in Oklahoma. l CRGES MINERS 10 A CONFLICT Western Federation Secre- tary Advises Coloradans of Their Power of Self-Defense OF HER FATHER Thirteen-Year-Old Daughter | of Shasta County Miner Is| Afraid She Will Be Killed | PARENT MAKES THREATS | PROTEST AGAINST ABUSE Arms Himself With an Ax to Chop Off Child’s Head—Is | Taken in Charge by Friends e——i——— | Governor Peabody Declares That Military Authorities Cannot Be Held Responsible Spectal Dispatch to The Cail. | REDDING, March 3.—Duncan Camp- bell, a miner, 46 years of age, em- ployed by the Great Western Gold DENVER, Colo., March 3.—Gov- ernor Peabody said to-day that al- though Telluride is still under mar- tial law, the military authorities were Company at the Afterthought -mine, | NOt responsible for the pillorying of threatened to chop off his 13-year-old | Harry Makl, a striking union miner daughter's head yesterday, and the|Who was kept chained to a telegraph miners at the Afterthought were afraid | pole for an hour and a half because he might carry the threat into effect. lhe refused to work in the chain gang Campbell procured an ax and started |after having been convicted of va- { grancy. ! tended to go over and kill his daugh- | won the annual figsure skating championship for the place where his daughter was | staying, but friends interposed and | stopped him. Word was sent to Red- | ding and an officer will leave to-mor- row to place him under arrest. He is being guarded now. Campbell has been employed at the Afterthought two months. He is a good miner and is well liked by the men in the camp.. That fact served to save him from the wrath of the miners, who under ordinary cricumstances would have dealt harshly with one of | their number guilty of the acts that| are laid at Campbell's door. On va- rious occasions lately Campbell has told shocking stories to the miners about his child, and on one or two oc- casions he has told them he intended to kill her. Once he procured a pistol, flourished it about, saying that he in- | | | ter, and started off as ll:louxh intent | upon carrying out his threat. The daughter lives in dread of the father| and is afraid she will be killed. | B/ £ AR BT K NEW YORK, March 3.—With two firsts out of a programme of sixteen movements, Wil- llam F. Duffey of the New York Athletic Club of the United States at the St ing Rink Nicholas Skat- Willard Runnels, a deputy sheriff. is said to have chained Maki to the pole. No report has yet been received from Attorney E. F. Richardson, who has been sent to Telluride by the of- ficers of the Western Federation of Miners to investigate this case. W. D. Haywood, secretary of the Feder- ation, to-day sent the following tele- gram to the Telluride Union “Suffer no more abuses. If you can- not get relief through the courts, still have left the power of self- fense.” rou e — Damage to the Grace Dollar. ASTORIA, Ore., March 3.—An ex- amination of the disabled steam | schooner Grace Dollar shows that her tail shaft is broken inside the sleeve. 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