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

THE SA - FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1904. BRITISH FORCE FIGHTS NATIVES Major Trenchard’s Column Encounters Fierce Resist- ance in Southern Nigeria BY ATTORNEY T AR LAV Rior v Injured and Much| Property Destroyed in Out-| yinst Jews in Bes-| Killed and Wounnded Number Town of Bender| Two Hundred and Vie-| tors Destroy Six Villages | + LOSS HEAVY B i | ENEMY’S PRSI CERIOR ) break sarabian —ee h to The Call —A dispatch | | | re- . May says the British force un- | ATTACKED IN CHURCH | WHILE AT WORSHIP g % | LoNDC . " £ ceived to-day [oh Assails the Inhabitants | aer Major Trenchard, while operating in i | against the natives in Southern Ni- B Their Homes and Bru- | gert d a severe battle in which the My Hurls the Women and | British native troops lost four killed | : | i | ] Y et £ Prrror o = n re | -n wounded. The enemy lost <hildren From Windows|, 5 el wesleki ate S | BROOKS COMET | AG 1s | IN REVEALED Dr. Brooks, the Discoverer, Makes Ob- | servation of Movements of Stranger. | g Y., May Brook et was observed by coverer, Dr. Smith Obser 3.—The its dis- William M. Brooks, at vatory, last night after a val of cloudy weather. Its on 16 hours declination degrees minutes. The now on the northern border stellation Hercules and toward the. head of Draco. e daily rate of motion being north half a degree and west three minutes ive seconds. i | right ascen second 59 comet of the moving Wy 72 Z —_————— PERL forty. INVOLVED MAY IN WAR AND BEF BRAZIL —_—————————— SLAYER OF WOMEN IS i1 SHOCKED TO DEATH ~ From Rio Janeiro Indicate Troops Have Been Sent to the Frontier. vew York Murderer Pays Death Electric in the Chair. PLATTSBURG, N. Y., May 23.—Al- shot and killed two Lake, New York, was put to death in Clinton Prison, | | Penalty —It Moon, who Saranac 1902, chair at to-day. —e—————— Victim of Steamboat Accident. UIS, May 3.—Philip Mangles, injured in the steamship ac- Sunday, died to-day. D. st St. Louis and E. H. t St. Louis, victims of are in a hospital, un- from the effects of their lan women at mber 4 ctric Nos ZZ es Jurua | conscious ADVERTISEMENTS. 'DIMOND’S SPELLING IS TESTED {Defendant in Fraud Case Adds to His Errors, but Disappoints Lawyer Heney by Avoid- ing Mistakes of the Town Talk Letter Fror Feorr arvorwrroost Lar rEL e L 5 E FRor A3 FOR- GOVERNMENT 3 i { b '%///’b’/fl / SN Dirvoro3 PMOCAKE T . 34/P W s TINE sn Cove 7 flMM! MPLES SHOWING DIFFER. | | N COURT.AND THAT ON HIS M UNSIGNED COMMUNICATION. | | | | 4 i. spelling and writing school again yes- terday, with Henry P. Dimond, one of the defendants in the land frauds case, as the star pupil. Dimond not only produced a dozen additional exemplars of his penmanship, but had an oppor- tunity to show that he was a better speller than the writer of the anonym- ous letters. His errors in orthography, such as those reported exclusively in yesterday's Call, promise to become of vital moment, both in this preliminary hearing and in the trial of the alleged conspirators if they are held for trial. The Government claims that of them- selve: without other evidence, the mists s in spelling are sufficient to convict Dimond of the authorship of the anonymous epistles. On the other hand, his counsel have declared their willingness to rest the entire question of his guilt or innocence under the in- did not write the letters. The “day opened with a move by counsel for Dimond’'s codefendant and former client, Fred A. Hyde. Schles- inger offered in evidence certified copies of the deeds and other documents af- fecting Hyde's title to the lands cov- ered by the thirty-four counts of the indictment. DIMOND SHOWS THE STRAIN. Then Dimond was recalled by Heney for further cross-examination and told to take paper and write from dictation. The Federal attorney read passage after passage from one or another of the anonymous letters, and the wit- ness, first with his right hand and then with his left, now with a pen and now with a pencil, wrote them down in seript or laboriously printed them out in capitals, as directed. It was a te- dious process and occupied nearly the entire day, at the end of which Di- mond declared himself exhausted’with ! the long ordeal. | In obtalning so many examples of the | defendant’s penmanship Heney admits ITIS A FACT THAT - Roos-Made Clothes Excel in imparting that air of Smartness and Distinction which characterizes the dictment upon their ability to prove he| Federal Commissioner Heacock held that he is preparing for the testimony | rapid time to the street without vouch- of nandwriting experts upon the trial lof the case at Washington. He claims | that Dimond’s writing when upon the | witness stand, although studiously dis- guised, will show many of the charac- teristics of pen printing used in the ‘anonymous letter sent to the Secretary | of the Interior. Besides the handwrit- | ing test, Dimond’s mistakes in spelling | have been identical with those made | in that and the other anonymous com- munjcations. In addition to those al-| ready reported in The Call he made | others yesterday. The anonynmus" writer in advising the Secretary to in-| vestigate certain of Hyde's lieu land | selections wrote XIIII instead of the correct Roman numeral XIV, and XVIIII instead of XIX. In writing from Heney's dictation Dimond com- | mitted the same errors. One of the| anonymous typewritten letters to De-| tective Burns contained the phrase, “The picture man has squeeled.” Di- mond yesterday misspelled “squealed” | in the same way. WHAT HYDE THINKS. ‘ On the other hand, a2 number of the| words misspelled in the Town Talk | |letter were given him in the sentences | dictated by Heney, and the wrote them correctly. . Heney offered in evidence a number | \of Dimond’'s Washington docket slips, | on which were many printed words ad- mittedly from the defendant’s pen or pencil. In these letters O, R, D and 8 are invariably made with well-rounded jcurves. In his pen printing in court mond has insisted that he always| | prints a block letter, and has stead- | ‘fasl[y adhered to that form in his ex- | emplars, making the letters named | with square corners and no curves. Then, too, he has been careful with his | | E's and Fs, closing all the “joints.” In | the docket slips, as Heney pointed out, | these letfers are irregular, often open | |at the joints, just as are the E's and | F’'s of the anonymous pen printed let- ter to the Secretary. The case will continue this morning. witness | e Well-Dressed Man | "5 i ! Denver Investigating Body Makes Charges Against Many for Al- leged Election Frauds. DENVER, May 3.—The Grand Jury to-day returned forty indictments against twenty-six persons, alleging election frauds. Among the” persons named in the indictments and the charges against them are Julius Aichele, County Clerk, receiving pad- ded registration rolls; Walter B. Lowry, Supervisor, padding registra- tion: Charles W. Cochran, Alderman, padding registration; John D. Ross, Alderman, padding registration. Gus Mappan and John Kendricks, deputy constables; W. A. Dollisan, candidate for Alderman on the Republican ticket; John Hall, a ward worker, and ‘William Alton, now deceased, but for- merly a ward worker, are indicted for alleged fraudulent work at the elec- tign of 1902. The latter indictments were returned to prevent the statute of limitation running against them. Aichele is a Democrat and Lowry, Ross and Cochran are Republicaps. | The latter is secretary of the Repub- lican State Central Committee and is a candidate for re-election jon the Aldermanic ticket. Single and Double-Breasted Sack Suits in solid Blues and Blacks; also in fancy Cheviots, Worsteds, Homespuns. All- wool materials; finely tailored. . $10.00 to $35.00 Covert Cleth Top Coats in new tan shades, handsome and exclusive styles. $15 to $35 (. Out-of-town orders prompfly filled. ~ ROOS BROS, KEARNY AT POST. e READY PURCHASERS FOR NEW YORK BONDS Comptroller Disposes of Issue of $37,- 000,000 at Slight Advance Above Premium. NEW YORK, May 3.—Bids were opened to-day by Comptroller Grout for $37,000,000 of city bonds at 31 per cent, $10,000,000 for ten years and the | balance for fifty years. The issue was | over-subscribed about seven times. Grout sald that W. J. Seligman & Co. and Edward Sweet & Co. prob- ably wil get the $10,000,000 at 100.88 to 101.53. Kidder, Peabody & Co., | Baring, Magoun & Co. and Fiske & Robinson, who bid jointly 100.7013 for all or any part of the bonds, will prob- ably get about $25,000,000. RERE R al RICH CATTLE RAISER g IS ACCUSED OF THEFT MODESTO, May 3.—Fourteen head of cattle from the Miller & Lux cattle ranges near Los Banos have been found in the possession of Albert Chaton, a wealthy cattle raiser of this county. Chaton was to-day placed under arrest. He gave bonds in the sum of $3000. brands were changed. | canal transfer, J. P. Morgan left Parls | | French money markets. It is alleged that the | credentials and were assigned to vari- PANAMA DEAL IS CONCLUDED Concern of Which Morgan Is Head Will Act as Agent in Financial Transfer CONTRACT IS SIGNED Payments Will Be So Made| to French Bank as Not to! Disturb Money Markets PARIS, Mav 3.—Having wound up the details of the big financial trans- action connected with the Panama to-day for Aix-les-Bains. Before his departure he gave to the press the main points of the final agreement, as | follows: | The Panama Canal Company wished to have the money turped over in Paris instead of in the United States, and was willing to pay all the expenses incident to the payment here. In or- der to accomplish this the United | States has appointeéd the Morgan Com- pany fiscal agents for the purpose of | the payment, the Morgan Company in turn to make a contract with the Panama Canal Company whereby the | $40,000,000 will be paid in Paris. | The contract specifies the Banque de France as depository, and also the pro- portion of the payments going to the old and new Panama companies, re-| spectively. The signing of this cono- tract closes the transaction, it only re- maining for the Morgan Company to carry it out by making payments from time to time to the Banque de France. This will be done so as to cause no disarrangement of the American or The report that a syndicate of Paris bankers is interested is incorrect. &mm Vote Not fo Strike ——— Continued From Page 1, Column 3. According to Mahon, the question | as to how long the agreement is to run is still open. According to Cor- nellus the question has been settled for one year. Mahon maintains that the company presented its terms on the ground that they were to be in force for three years. ‘While the carmen who were off duty were discussing the latest unofficial | conditions, their attention was attract- ed to the appearance of a young man who insisted upon seeing President Cornelius at once. When the guard asked his business he stated he was from the Electric Linemen's Union No. | 151 and had an important message for the president of the Carmen’s Union | relative to a matter he had learned during the night. He was admitted at once to the executive room and told | his story. Within five minutes he re- | turned to the lower floor and made safing any statement of the object of | his visit or the nature of the message | he conveyed. COMPANY'S LAST OFFER. One other matter the company comn- ceded was a paragraph to be inserted as section No. 40, whereby the com- pany agrees to the provisions of the agreement submitted by the union in| section No. 39, which provides that no man shall be discharged for participa- tion in this controversy, up to the time of the present trouble, nor will they put any obstacles in the way of new | men joining the union. In the e\'enl‘ of any man being discharged for any | cau: except for peculation, he shall ! have the right of hearing before the employing officer, but men discharged | for “knocking down” do not have the | right. Should the union accept tRWe | company’s cffer an agreement for threé | years must be signed. The next to the last sentence was\ the last straw on the weight being car- i ried by the executive committee and at | midnight a vote was taken by the thirty-two members as to whether the | company’s terms should be accepted or not. The result showed four in favor of accepting the terms of the | company and twenty-four against. | That action of the committee was | submitted to the meeting of the union at the Alhambra. Theater at 2 o'clock, at which time the vote was taken. CONFERENCE IS BARRED. It was apparent early in the day| that the conference between the com- | pany officials and the Mayor had been practically barren of result. Minor points had been talked over and meth- ods of settlement upon these were pro- posed that would have probably met the views of the executive committee of the union. . The rock uvon which President Hol- land of the United Railroads stood firmly was the main contention in the present issue—the right of the company to hire and discharge its employes without reference to the fact of wheth- er or not they belong to the union. President Holland positively declined to entertain any change in the stand of the company on this proposition. He said that the company was willing to give full recognition to the union uml} willing to treat with its members, through their revresentatives on any differences that might arise between them and their employer, but he could not and would not permit the organiza- tion to dictate to the company what | men it should employ. PREPARE FOR STRIKE. Both sides were confident that the intervention ofs Mayor Schmitz would alter the situation in no way, and both continued their preparations for the promised struggle. All day and evening the corridors of the éighth floor of the Rialto building were filled with men seeking employment from the United Railroads in the event of a strike. For the most part they were a well-looking set of men and generally fairly dressed. Those seeking employment were ad- mitted one by one into the room where the examination was being held. Most of the day General Manager Chapman personally supervised the hiring of the new men. 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He would not give the exact number of these, nor would he give any estimate of the percentage of cars the company expected to operate in the morning in case its present employes voted to quit their employment. MAHON VISITS SCHMITZ. At union headquarters there was an absolute calm until after the noon hour. Several prominent members of the ex- ecutive committee, including President Cornelius and Secretary Bowling, spent the morning at headquarters. When | Mayor Schmitz had finished his confer- | ence with President Holland he went to | his office and telephoned to Interna- | tional President Mahon of the union | that he wished to see him. Mahon | with the Mayor for more than an hour. | When he returned to headquarters he | said that there was nothing to make | public until he had received a prom- ised statement from the United Rail- roads. This was not delivered to Ma- hon until nearly 7 o'clock, but as he knew its general purport he went into a consultation with the members of the executive committee and outlined to them the result of Mayor Schmitz’s e{-‘ forts to prevent a strike. | Mayor Schmitz said he was worn out after his labors in conference. When | asked what the result had been he said: | “The United Railroads is haggling | over one little point, but I still con- tinue to hope that a peaceable solution of the pending difficulties may be had. That is all I carq to say at present.” MEN ABOARD SHIP. The officials of the union are in pos- | session of information that 600 men re- cruited during the last few weeks by the United Railroads are on board a ship anchored somewhere in the bay. The name of the ship and its location they profess not to know. The infor- mation was giVen them by a couple of of thirty employed by the agents of the company in Portland and who were brought to this city. The men were taken to the Vallejo street: wharf and put in a launch. They were told that there were 600 men already aboard a ship in the bay and that there were accommodations for 1500, with plenty of provisions. The union men left the party at the wharf and reported their findings to headquarters. Some days ago it was officially given out by the union that in the event the men voted to strike every member of the organization in good standing BANK OFFICIALS ARE SENTENCED TO PRISON Defaulting President and Secretary of New Jersey Concern Are Convicted. FREEHOLD, N. J.,, May 3.—A. C. Twining, former president, and D. C. Cornell, former treasurer of the de- funct Monmouth Trust Company of Asbury Park, were to-day sentenced, respectively, to six years and four years in State prison. The men were convicted of having presented false minutes of the trust company to the State Banking Department. —_————— New Léader for German Troops. 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