The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 27, 1904, Page 1

THE WEATHER. Torecst made at San Francisco for thirty hours ending midnight Eap Francisco and Octo- vieintty—Cloudy Thursday, with fog in the morning: erly. A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. T LSRN O P TEOTIY the Library.s++e One." day. ALCAZAR—"The Wilderness."" CALIFORNIA—“Fritz and Snitz™ CENTRAL—“Paul Kauvar."” COLUMBIA—*'San CHUTES—Vaudeville. GRAND—"Arizona.” MAJESTIC—'‘When We Were Twenty- Matinee to-day. ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—“Der Rastelbinder.” Matines to- SAYS THAT 0IL KING FRIGHTENED Thomas W. Lawson Answers Rocke- feller, PRSP S Declares That Standard Concern Is Tottering to a Fall . Characterizes as Purely Technical | Oorpogation’s Denial That It Caused Parker's Nomination. BOSTON, Oct —Thomas W. Law- son, that “Frenzied ¥ & long stat ard ¢ the t author of rticles, replies in ight to the Stand- | esterday, in which r people deny their con- | arker’s campaign and gas and steel | | he Call | in copper, exposes their evasions and John D. Rockefeller sees g on the wall and is now| d, that the disinte- d Oil is beginning cial statement given | out yesterday is the first = 1 of totter- | ing. Taking their statement that “that no | c of the Standard Company has taken a part in securing the nomina- f any of the cand.lates for office,” | replies | se, is a purely technical | upon what is meant by | n securing the nomina- | Lawson pa which I Lave since the St. ention many times stated, s nomination was se- | chrough the efforts of | entirely McCarren, who has for years| the employ of ‘Standard Ofl' " H. Rogers. My authority tandard 1 repeat ail I egard to these s in business and in he pfesent campaign. | st chapter of my article, | rs bolted for Europe, | open secret that he bolted | e advice of active Standard Oil | avoid an open rupture with | iler. The latter did all | ke a forty years'| ctated the statement | morning startled the busi- | Standard Oil officers re- | r—before this state- | world d—temp in touch with 26| to for gain, but I; m story began, for word was passed before | meeting that ‘John D. is sething . is going to| street and the financial | ere are ‘two Standard | the public_there is no between Standard 01],} ration which deals in ofl, ete., | Standard Oil, the great indefinite | mes embraces all the statement, | y does not as a n things.” thirty years there | who rights all | tless thousands wre o2 »f happiness and | hope by the most brutal of all human | instruments, ‘the system,’ a piteous wail, ‘kow long, oh; Lord, how long? | In a single business proclamation in | the press of the world this morning | comes the answer, “No longer, no longer™” | For forty years the thumbserews | t rack of the courts and | " of society have fafled | to coax, force or surprise from Stand- ard Oil any other wer than ‘We'll see the American people in hell before We will consult them about our busi. ness LARGE TUNNEL | ENDER SEATTLE { Work Completed on the Bigj‘ Shaft Which Began Last| Year by the Great Northern | i S Lot SEATTLE, Oct. 26.—At 11 o’clock to- night workmen - broke down the wall between the north and south sections | of the Great Northern Railroad tunnel, | which runs directly beneath the busi- | ness section of Seattle, and the shaft | is now clear from end to end. All that now remains is to complete the con- crete work and lay the tracks. This could be completed in two months. The tunnel is the largest in area of any in the United States. It is thirty | feet wide and twenty-eight feet high above the tracks. It is 5130 feet in length. The work was begun in May, 1903. 2 of Major Salma, PRICE FIVE CENTS. \EW YORR SUBWAY S ALL, READY First Train Wil Be Started To-Day. Cliy Prepares to Welcome Rapid Transit on a Large Scale. Mayor McClellan Will Turn on the Electricity and a General Jubi- lation Will Follow. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—With a silver | the | key Mayor McClellan will turn the elec | tric current into the motors of the “first train” in the subway at 2 o’'clock to-morrow afternoon, and with the first tremble of the mechanism the day of rapid transit, so long awaited by New York, will have dawned. Bells will ring . {and whistles will blow from Harlem to | tar by Isalah H. Smith, young enough | to be her son, and a poor man. the Battery. Immediately following the starting of the train by the Mayor there will be formal exercises in the ‘Aldermen’s chamber of the City Hall, but the real celebration will be that of the many thousands who will throng the trains | between 2:30 and 6 o’clock on special invitation of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, and of the still more numerous and probably more demon- strative thousands who will seize the first opportunity after 7 o'clock to pay their nickels for little green lights when the road is thrown open to the general public. The unofficial celebration promises to | equal in picturesqueness the outbursts of enthusiasm and the good-natured Jjostling of the high born and more low- ly for which New York is famous on election nights and New Year's eves. The City Hall has been turned over to the Rapid Transit commissioners for the day, and to-night the but is gay without and within bunting and Charles V. Forunes, president of the Board of Aldermen, wilf open the proceedings, and after a prayer by Bishop Coadjutor Greer he will intro- duce Mayor McClellan. The Mayor; William Barclay Parsons, chief en- gineer of the Rapid Transit commis- sion; Alexander E. Orr, its president; John H. Starin, its vice president; John B. McDonald, chief contractor of the subway, and August Belmont, presi- dent of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, will make addresses. Arch- bishop Farley will pronounce the bene- diction. b FAIR WITNESS DEFIES COURT Refuses to Produce Letters Written by Miss Warren After Miss Dolbeer’s Death —_— Special Dispatch to The Call, NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—The absolute defiance of Miss Elizabeth M. Horan, when requested to-day to bring before Commissioner Lee letters written to her by Miss Marion Warren after the alleged suicide of Miss Dolbeen, was | the sensational development in the hearing in the action to break the will of Miss Dolbeer. ! The existence of these letters is a startling surprise to the attorneys of both sides. Their discovery, it is be- lieved, will change the whole plan of battle and upon them will hinge the right to nearly two million dollars. The attorneys for Miss Warren will oppose their introduction into court. To-night Lawyer O'Reilly tele- graphed to San Francisco to have the Superior Court of that city, before which the final trial of the case is to be held, appoint a special commission to examine the letters. —_———— COUNTESS THE VICTIM OF AN AUTO ACCIDENT Italian Noblewoman Carried Dying From the Scene of a Driv- er's Blunder, Special Cable to The Call and New York o MILAN, Oct. 26.—Contessa Gugliel- mina Mesconi of Verona was the vic- tim of an automobile accident Jast evening near Peschiera. She was re- turning home with her two daughters when the driver made a mistake in steering, causing the vehicle to over- turn, All of the occupants were injured. Contessa Guglielmina Mesconi was hurt on the head and conveyed in a dying condition to the adjacent house Governor of the military prison. RICH WIDOW WON BY A YOUNG MAX Mrs. Isabella Keating 2 Bride Once Again. Led to the Alfar by Isaiah H. Smith, Who IS Rated Poor. Wedding Takes Place in Santa Monica and Couple Quickly Hastens to Bonita Meadows. e Epectal Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 26.—Mrs. Isa- bella Keating of Bonita Meadows, a widow possessed of a fortune estimated at two to five million dollars, and with half a dozen grown children, to-day became a bride for the second time. Monica she was led to the marriage al- Fifty Spanish and English speaking specta- | tors watched Father Hawe unite De- | cember and May, but there was présent none of the relatives of either the bride or the groom. | Two closed carriages drove hurriedly | to the church and the bride and a few | friends alighted and entered. She was |attended by her lawyer, George H. | Hutton. After a rather long wait the | door suddenly opened and in rushed | & young man, who, with nervous stride, | walked up the aisle and took a seat | beside his bride-to-be. The ceremony finished, Father Hawe and the attendants extended congrat- ulations. The wedded pair walked down the aisle, the groom a mute spec- fator to the congratulations offered his Bride. As the outer door was reached there was a shower of rice, the couple were handed into a carriage and whisked away to Bonita Meadows. friends. RS The late Keating and one of his. leagues of fertile soil with ocean front- age in Southern California. — N0 MARRIAGES OF DIVORCEES Episcopal Clergyman Says This Is the = Practical Effect of the New Canon i ———— Epecial Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, Oct. 26, — “Practically there will be no remarriage of divorced persous in the future in the Protestant Episcopal church in this country.” This statement was made to members of the Church Club to-night by Rev. Dr. J. Lewis Parks. Dr. Parks was on the committee on canons of the house of deputies, and he was one of those | who opposed the broad proposition that none who had been divorced should be remarried by a clergyman of the fafth. “l wish to tell you that we of the | committee were unanimous in our opin- ion of the terrible evil of divorce and of the resultant scandal in the church,” said he. “We were determined that if there was any feasible way to minim- | ize the evil of divorce we would do it.” | Dr. Parks told how an application for remarriage on the part of an inno- cent party in a divorce suit must be sent to the Bishop, with satisfactory proof and the decree and records of the court where divorce suit was tried. He must have a lawyer's advice and then must certify jn writing that there is no bar to marriage. “I have hope,” said Dr. Parks, “that we have buried this agitation, if not forever, at least for this generation.” G R R AR B i DIAZ WILL NOT VISIT STATES Embassador Powell Clayton So Notifies Trans-Missis- sippi Commercial Congress ' ST. LOUIS, Oct. 26.—The second session "of the Trans-Mississippl Commercial Congress, held to-day, in the Hall of Congresses, was marked by an even larger attendance than characterized the opening session. To-day"s In the little Catholic church at Santa | where a banquet was spread to & few | having spent several ~vears prospect- She has twe biothers who mi is £0n8 | min £ eers in perished at sea when a &teamship went | whom she ‘not heard for down on this coast a few years ago. Mrs. Austin says that she now holds He left to the widow a vast estate in| considerable stock in mines which were Chile, mines and other property in|once said to be worthless, but which | Alaska and British Columbia. and| might now be worth a fortune. NOTED FINANCIER INDIRECTLY ACCUSED OF ARSON .STARTLING CHARGE INVOLVING THE NAME OF ISAAC N. PERRY, PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL BANK OF NORTH AMERICA, IS PREFERRED BY CORPORA- NICHE BY SHARES I\ 4 MINE California ~ Woman| Claims Spokane Fortune. —_—— f | Holdings Supposed to Be " Worthless Suddenly Gain Value. Lucky Owner Will Be Presented With $275,000 by Millionaire 0. H, Lithgon Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Oct. 26. — Numerous “Mrs. Austins” turned up to-day to| claim $275,000 held by the Spokane millionaire, C. H. Lithgon. Worthless mining stock has become valuable, and | a “Mrs. Austin” who did not sign her| full name to the transfer papers is being sought by Lithgon. Mrs. L. E. Austin of 120 West Forty- | first street believes she has been tagged | by fortune and is the woman for whom Lithgon is looking. She comes from California; and for many years was in- terested in Western mines. She has been throughout the mining country, ing. JAn she Wy - from Ve years. O T R SR R [HIEF TAKES BURIED COIN Tacoma Man Has Relatives, to Whom He Had Confided, Arrested for the Crime Special Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, Oct. 26.—Philip Yuckart regrets now that he told his relatives last Sunday where he kept $3000 in geld, his savings for many years, buried beneath his house. Yesterday he discovered that a sack containing nearly $1000 was missing and four $20 gold pieces scattered in his back yard. To-day Yuckart had Conrad Lund and Jacob arget, two relatives, who formerly lived in the house adjoining his, arrested- Last Sunday Lund visited Yuckart. During the visit the latter told him where he kept his money and advised g D LR S Close Watch on Registration Registrar Adams Writes to Merchants’ Association Promising Quick Action Lund to provide a similar safe place for his savings. Yesterday Yuckart had occasion to visit the house recently vacated by Lund, next door to his own. Fe was surprised to find an opening in the floor, with a tunnel leading under bis own home. An investigation re- vealed that one of his sacks of gold was missing. In carrying it away four twenties had dropped out. Yuckart at once swore out a warrant for Lund and Hargeét. k A During the boom days Yuckart lost some money in a bank, which led to his depositing his money beneath s house. ol Tl e U S Coal Roads Present Evidence. NEW! YORK, Oct. 26.—The presen- tation of evidence by the defendant companies in the hearlng on the com- plaint of Willidm R. Hearst against the anthracite coal carrying roads, al- leging collusion in charging excessive and extortion in prices, was begun be- fore the Interstate Commerce Com- mission to-day. —— & . Embassador Powell Clayton at Mexi City denying the circulated report i‘; the effect that President Diaz proposed (to visit the United States during this year. The following «qfficers were then elected: President, Thomas B. Wilcox, Portland, Or.; vice presidents—General John W. Noble, St. Louis; Samuel Newhouse, Salt Lake: M. J. Saundors. New Orleans; Dr. T. C. F’mler. Coffey- 1 ; secretary, Arthur F. Fran- F. B. Thurber of New York, of the United States Export nAnod.:f tion, made an COUNTY ASSESSOR RUSH ‘Was TION CdUNSEL TOLMAN OF CHICAGO ON THE TESTIMONY OF TWO EMPLOYES. Sequet to an [ncendiary Blaze at the Plant of a Car Company CHICAGO, Oct. 25. — A mysterions fire at the plant of the Chiczgo Car and Locomotive Company’s plant at Hege- ‘wiseh, IIl, has become the subject of & many sided investigation, with sensa- tional results. Corporation Counsel E. B. Tolman of the City Law Department to-dzy gave out a statement which says: “The cvidence shows beyond any dcubt that the fire was of incendiary origin. The testimony of the engineer in charge of the building, together with that of the former superintendemt of the company, amounted to a direct - % \ CHICAGO BANKER, WELL KNOWN IN THE WORLD QF FINANCE, AND ATTORNE Y REPRESENTING THE MUNICIPALITY. WHO HAS MADE A SENSATI TO HAVE BEEN OF INCENDIARY O RIGIN. Registrar George P. Adams and the Election Commissioners, acknowl- edging the receipt of the important communication from the Merchants’ Association, which was published in yesterday’s Call, give assurance that immediate steps will be taken to cancel false registrations. The associa- tion is also assured that diligent inquiry will be made in the matter of Chinese registration. Following is the text of Registrar Adams’ letter to the president of the Merchants’ Association: Department of Elections, Office of Registrar of Voters, City Hall, San Fran- ciscd, Oct. 26. Fank J. Symmes, Esq., Pesident Merchants’ Association, San Francisco— Dear Sir: The Board of Election Commissioners begs to acknowledge receipt -of your communication of October 25,and to state in reply that the usual ade- quate precautions have already been taken to purge the Great Register of false registrations and to safeguard the ballot against illegal voting that might in this way occur. The Election Commissioners have already detalled a deputy registrar to the lodging-houses you enumerated, and will take pleasure in transmitting his report to you within a few days. With the aid of city detectives, who are familiar with the Chinese, the same course will be pursued in the matter of Chinese registrations. T am directed by the Board of Election Commission- ers to state in this connection that special precaution has been taken in the matter of the Chinese voters. All the Chinese who have registered have been required to apply at the Registrar’s office, so that the responsibility for ac- cepting such registrations might be narrowed down. Every Chinese has been carefully catechized and a vast number have been rejected in consequence. In this manner the Board of Election Commissioners has endeavored to em- ploy every possible means to keep the registration within legal bounds. 1 will take pleasure in transmitting to you a report which will show what headway we have been abl® to make in the matter of checking up nares, such as you submit. ‘ 1 inclose to you herewith the blanks which are used by deputy registrars in examining lodging-house keepers and checking up registrations from ques- tionable places. ? I beg to remain your obedient servant, GEORGE P. ADAMS, X ’ Registrar of Voters. . v - PHILIPPINE CONSTABULARY _ OF SAN DIEGO EXPIRES SN T Mason in Kansas, REDUCED BY THE NEW LAW To Be Curtailed’ by Twelve Hundred ONAL STATEMENT CONNECTING HIM WITH A RECENT FIRE, WHICH IS DECLARED e charge that Isaac N. Perry, president of the National Bank of North América, had become the owner of the property, through sales under bankruptcy pro- ceedings; that he had proceeded to manipulate the books and inventories for the purpose of making a largely increased showing as to the value of the plant; that he had ordered the in- surance, then about $100,000, to be in- creased to $200,000; that he had ordered all the cars, locomotives and other- property of the company ‘~ he stored within the shops: that he had sue- ceeded in obtaining access to the' shops, alore and unaccompanied, upon a Sun- day afternoon, and that within an hour thereafter fire had broken out in four of the five buildings and resulted in the destruction of two of them.” “The charges against me seem fto have been raised for the purpose of in- juring my reputation,” said President Perry this afternoon. “They may have come from men who wanted to ruie or ruin the car company, and who had failed in their attempt at the former. I can conceive of no other motive for the- attack upon me. There is adsolutely no way in which I could profit by the destruction of the property. The ine surance money, when paid, will go te the company and not to the bank or me. Our interest will be best served by the preservation of the property. not by its destruction.” At a late hour to-night announce- ment was made by George M. Rey- nolds, vice president of the Continental National Bank, that his bank had pur- chased the National Bank of North America, of which Isaac N. Perry is president. Reynoids made no statement as to the details of the transaction. —_— IMITATION EMERALDS DECEIVE THE EXPERTS New York Jewelers Find That They Have on Hand a Supply of Bogus Gems. NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—Wholesale jewelers in this city made the discow- ery to-day that supposedly high-grade emeralds which they have been im- porting from Paris are merely doub- lets of quartz, cleverly colored, and that they have been paying many times the value of the stones. The fact was learned in time to save the dealers from serious embarrassment, 2 ‘Prominent ————— ATTEMPTING SUICIDE | ™21 W treating on the | in Where He Served as Grand Men, Leaving Force of as in a few days more the Imitation HOTEL AT HIGHLANDS L — E | me in - reclaiming ariq 3 Master. Six Thousand. gems would have reached the retail DESTROYED BY rmz! BLOOMINGTON, IIL, Oct. 26.—A. 3. | 58w Noble of St SAN DIEGO, Oct. 26.—County As-| WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Advices | trade. y A x Francisco, a cigarmaker of this city, ary of the Interior, d sessor J. D. Rush died this evening, | have reached the Insular Bureau that Garreaud and Griser made tests P SAN BERNARDINO, Oct. 26.—Fire |ang four tramps were killed in the | question “Whether Washington | aged 64 years. He was serving his | by legislation contained in one of the | which seemed to prove the stones gen- this evening destroyed the hotel at|wreck.of a Wabash freight train at | gon Are Considered Part second term. He was born at Rush- |appropriation bills recently passed at|yine, but by mere chance they placed i m;m-::u :wm‘-d by :flt-hl’eg: Glea- Martin tory Embraced in_th . - g Manila, the strength of the Philippine | them near the fire, when to their sur- son; also the office e 9 , ) 7 Boston, who was s from |chase.” General Noble of wi nstal X Waier Company. and public library | the wreckage four hours with his head | they were considered constabulary has been reduced at one | prise, two parts of the doublet seppe total ook bodies be stroke by 1200 men. The reduction |ated and the color vanished. leaving = o T Are G T e g R bR e 2 will take effect at the beginning of the | two ordinary quarts crystals w .7 lamp in the third story of the ho- | strangulation, but was discevered by ty | next fiscal year, leaving the strength|of what had seemed to be a 2 H . the trainmen and released. i S of the force at 6000 men. _ &Zreen gem. o >