The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 11, 1904, Page 1

ber 11: A Forecast made at San Francisco for | thirty hours ending micnight, Novem- | Sa= Francisco and vieinity—Cloudy | Friday; fresh northeast wind. { District Forecaster. | G. McADIB, | -+ MAJESTIC- — CALIFORNIA—“'Sweet Clover.*™ CENTRAL—"Her Marriage Vow.™ COLUMBIA—"The County Chairman.” B CHUTES—Vaudeville. FISCHER'S—Vaudeville. GRAND—"‘Pretty Pegsy.” *An American Cltizen.” ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—'‘The Messenger Boy.” E XCVI—NO. 164 SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE BEING INVESTIGATED BY THE PRESIDENT’S ORDER‘ New Postmaster General Is Conducting an Inquiry Charges of Collusion in Connection With Carrying Contracts Will Be Probed to the Bottom. Special Dispatch to The Call. HOTEL BARTON, Nov. 10.—A new in- e Postoffice Depart- way, directed rgest single item of ex- A half-dozen | before | t officials, = to be in Con- sevelt ordered this in- X death of Post- | on n he accept- General he flice two minutes, s I desire to | e | the | with make every effort to have an absolute- ly honest and clean department from top to bottom. So long as 1 am at the head I shall insist upon such an ad- ministration from every official un- der me.” Wynne told the President that, while | there had been a very thorough in- vestigation of the first assistant post- master’'s bureau, there were other divi- sions in the departmeht that required investigation, if for no other reason than to convince the public that the prevailing suspicions had been un founded. President Roosevelt gave Wynne cor- ort and his instructions were: but the fact | "G is Wynne's intention to transfer division of postoffice Inspectors the fourth assistant’s office to the e of the Postmaster General. Other nges conteinplated place all of the letter carriers in one bureau, together all postoffice clerks not imme- diately connected with the department | in Washington. Wynne has ordered a further investi- | gation of certain contracts In the sup- ply division. Wynne says if it is found that 4 saving can be made, he will not hesitate to break the contracts now in force. SHOOTS DOWN SHERIFF AND CITIZEN -+ West Virginia - Mountaineer Commits Two Murders to Avenge the Killing of His Brother. special Dispatch to The Call MONTGOMERY, W. Va, Nov. 10.— yette County and | ninent citizen of this day by of W. A s killed a police- were com- two ed to district eard early Jackson’s mur- ntgomery, swear- Mayor and the be = from the train ¥ ey Jackson standing fifty feet awa he Sheriff walked over to Jackson, and, placing his hand on his shoulder, requested him to leave town or submit to arrest. Jackson, without replying, drew a pistol and shot at the Sheriff three time: bullet tak- ing effect. John Roif ted toward Jackson with uplifted hands and the latter turned his firearm upon him and shot him also Jackson reloaded his revolver, drew another from his pocket, and, brand- | ishing both pistols, defled any one to est him. His two brothers joined m and for half an hour they walked the streets, defying the citizens and the police. Detective Harrison Ash, who lived near by and who is known as the nerviest man in the State,” was tele- phoned to and when he came gallop- ing into sight on horseback the Jack- son bo: started on a run for the mountains, not far away, and escaped When the news of the murders ed Fayette a special train was and more than fifty citizens left for Montgomery, armed with rifles. afternoon and to-night the po: been in the mountains, but it seems \lmptrssihl« to Jocate the Jacksons. LEAD OVER THE Mrs. Bidd\ee and ERSioF SOCIETY AT WAR ERVICES OF MAID —_— e Mrs. Smith Want Domestic Special Dispatch to The Call. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 10.—Mrs. An- thony J. Drexel-Biddle and Mrs. W. i Smith are at odds, and the i in the so- e city. The cause of Florence Dougherty— household of Mr. Bid- In time she became indispensable. er came from Mrs. Smith atter’s household the maid in attaining a place as which she enjoyed a houseful of guests Mawr at her place, when her Mrs. offer and Biddie had made her a fine she was going back to her. Among Mr. Biddle's mail the next morning was a dainty missive from Mrs. Smith. It is said that the recipient turned it over to his attorney and then telephoned to Bryn Mawr that the writer could address any further corre- spondence in the same vein to the legal adviser of Mrs. Biddle's husband. Mrs. Smith avers that she said nothing more in the letter than an offended matron had the privilege of saying. ‘It was a mean thing,” said Mrs. Smith to-night, ““a lamentable breach of etiquette. and T have received no end the maid informed | of sympathy.” B et - + i ANXIOUS TO SAVE LIFE | ACCIDENTAL DROWNING OF A BADLY BURNED CHILD OF A DANISH NOBLEMAN | X zeles Residents Fight for | Count Viadimir Alexis Debacke Loses s in Line to Contribute Cuti- | His Life While Hunting on the cle Needed for Grafting. | Pelly River. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10.—Anxious | —— of a child whom some Special Dispatch to The Call ever seen, three hundred | wded into whe Children's to-night and almoest fought laces ne the bur Nine-year-old Hazel daughter of poor parents, | ed by an expiosion of gaso- | and the 4 rs made public an- | ncement yesterday that uniess a ufficient number of persons were will- | ing to contribute sections of their cut- icle to enable the surgeons to graft | the burned surface of the child’s body the little one would die. | The respopse was amazing. For hours | a dozen surgeons worked on the arms | of the people who presented . them- | selves. Most of them were men, some | heads of families, some university stu- dents, others mechaniecs, but there | were more than encugh of them to sat- isfy the doctors. Within four hours | three thousand grafts had been ap- plied. The same number will be ap- plied Sunday, when another call will be issued. TACOMA, Nov. 10.—Prospectors have brought to Skagway news of the drowning in Pelly River of Court Viadimir Alexis Debacke, a Danish nobleman, who lived in Skagway when the Klondike rush was at jts height. Debacke was hunting with a party of Indians in an effort to secure some bear and mountain lion skins of unusual size. These he intended send- ing back to Denmark. He was drowned in the rapids 100 miles above Hoods Canyon, while attempting to cross the river on a raft. His body was recovered and buried near the shore. Debacke was a son of one of the proudest families of Europe, but was unassuming and democratic to a de- gree. He was a mining expert, hav- ing mined in all parts of the world. He came to America seeking adven- ture and hunting opportunities not found in Denmark. BIDS IGH FOR PACIFI NAIL STOCK ‘Lawson Offers Al- most Double Its Value, Hopes to Wrest Control From Harriman and Rockefeller. Claim Is Made That Minority Share- holders Are Deprived of Their Profits. | | [ Special Dispatch to The Call. BOSTON, Nov. 10.—Thomas W. Law- | son to-day gave out this advertisement for to-morrow morning’s papers: | ‘“Notice to the stockholders of the | Pacific Mail Steamship Company—The | capital stock of this company outstand- | ing is 200,000 shares; 100,050 shares are | owned by the Southern Pacific-Union Pacific railroads. They cost them $100 per share. The present market price of the stock is $42. As the largest stockholders next to the Southern Pa- cific-Union Pacific I will pay $70 per share for substantially 98,000 shares or over all the outstanding minority stock, provided I can purchase same on or before Mondav, November 21, | 1904. “Will you, to enable me to do so, | sign the attached blank and send same | to me by return mail? | “THOMAS W. LAWSON. | “Boston, Nov. 10, 1904.” | The appended blank form is as fol- | lows: | “I herewith agree to deliver to Thom- as W. Lawson in Boston on or before Monday, November 28, 1804, —— shares of Pacific Mail Steamship Co. stock, | upon payment by him to me of $70 per | share.” | According to a friena who has the ceonfideace of Lawson the bid for the stock is a part of the general attack he has planned against the Rockefeller and Harriman interests. Said this man: “It is generally understood that the Southern and Union Pacific railroads control the stock of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, ene of the prop- erties of Huntington. Lawson is a minority stockholder and is in a po- sition to know that the Pacific Mail Steamship Company has been making large profits in the regular order of busine: The profits thereby accru- ing have gone to the Union Pacific- Southern Pacific combination and the minority stockholders have been left out in the cold. “Lawson is convinced tnat it is time something should be done to protect the interests of the minority. He is convinced that the Union Pacific- Southern Pacific. combine does not own more than a small percentage of the stock and has been going before the public under false colors. “The Pacific Mail Steamship Com- pany, the basis of its business, ought to pay at least a 4 per cent div idend and in order to vest this point i I | | s | and get a standing in court Lawson is making a bid for the stock at $70. If it turns out that Lawson is correct in his opinion he will get control of the Pacific Mail, which promises to be a great factor in the building up of trade in the Orient.” ety DAUGHTER IS ACCUSED OF DEFRAUDING PARENTS Allegation Is Made That She Forged Deeds to Raise Money on Prop- erty Owned by Father. SAN BERNARDINO, Nov. 10.— Colton is all agog over a forgery al- leged to have been committed by Mrs. J. Pence. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson, an oc- togenarian couple, owned some prop- erty in Colton on the revenues of which they lived, and great was their surprise when they received word from a Los Angeles money lender to- day that he held a mortgage against | the property. Nelson hurried to James Waters, the former City Clerk, and was told by him that a deed had been made over to his daughter, Mrs. Pence, on his (Nelson's) authority and Waters produced documents which bore the alleged signature of the grief stricken old man. The in- | strument provided that the property | was to go into the possession of Mrs. | Pence with the understanding that { i she would take care of her parents as long as they lived. Upon obtaining the deed Mrs. Pence gave a mortgage for $1500 and it was upon the expira- tion of the note given as security that the discovery of the alleged forgery was made. Suit was at once brought !to cancel the mortgage. Mrs. Pence ly been living at Goldfield. — — | HUSBAND AND WIFE FOUND SHOT IN { has late | Position of the Bodies Indicates That the Man Committed Suicide After H Killing Spouse. { LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10.—The bodies in their home two miles south of Ocean Park this morning. They had been dead several days and from the posi- {tion of the bodies McCann evidently | had shot his wife and then killed him- | self with the same revolver. Both were about 40 years of age. The bodies were found this morning by a man who called at the house to see McCann. The body of the woman lay on a bed, with a bullet hole through the head, and McCann's body was stretched upon the floor, with a bullet hole .ithrough '.l':!e !hh“:‘lu. 1t is suppose: at the traged: s curred while McCann, who is -Jaofo have been a heavy drinker, was under the influence of liquor. THEIR DWELLING | ter before the Supreme Court on a writ : of Robert McCann and wife were found | come up for hearing before the Justices | [ MRS. MOODY'S DEPOSITION READ MISS DOLBEER'S AUNT PROVES POSITIVE WITNESS IN WILL CONTEST LIS T WOMEN AND YOUNG BOY Mother, Daughter and: Son Arg Murdered al Auburn. | ——— Assassin Then Sets Fire to “Home in flope of Hiding His Crime. Husband and Father of the Victims; Is Missing and It Is Thought That He Also Perished. | S e AUBURN, Nov. 10.—What appears to | be one of the most atrocious murders | ever committed In this part of the State took place here to-night. The| crime is thought by some to have been the work of a madman. Others hold to | the theory of robbery. The handsome home of Julius Weber was seen to be in flames about 7:30 o'clock this evening, but as the build- ing was out of the fire limits the fire companies could not reach it in time to stay the progress of the fire. Many of the neighbors rushed to the house and while they were taking out some of the furniture George Ruth noticed a woman on the floor. Dragging hér into | the open air, he recognized her as Miss Bertha, Weber. She was dead. Ruth again entered the burning house and | carried out another body, that of Mrs. Weber. Going in a third time, Paul Weber, aged 9, rushed into his arms. The little fellow was hurriedly taken to the open air, re he soon explre:j It L the body otfl*« Weber, the husband and father, wilk: found in the debris when the search is renewed at daylight. Coroner Shepard immediately took charge of the three bodies and on mak- ing an examination discovered Mrs. Weber had a bullet wound in her breast. Her clothing was saturated with blood. The little boy, Paul, was cut in several places on the head. The | cuts averaged about a quarter of an | inch in depth. His little night shirt was covered with blood. He evidently had been stunned and left for dead, but recovered only to be suffocated by smoke. Miss Weber's body is so badly burned that no marks are discernible. Drs. Todd and Rooney will make au- topsies on the bodies to determine the exact cause of death. Sheriff Keena and District Attorney Robinson are at work on the case. What leads to the theory that a mad- man committed the terrible crimes is that the affair occurred so early in the evening. If Mr. Weber was burned there is no one left to tell the tale., A son, Adolph, aged 20, was downtown when the fire broke out. He is in such a nervous state now that little can be learned from him. When the fire bell rang He rushed to his home, climbed into the burning building and had to be taken away by force. Some of the neighbors say that when they first noticed the fire it was in the lower story and that they saw the two women on the porch above. This story ie hardly reasonable, however, as the wounds would indicate that the mur- derer first made sure of his victims and then set fire to the building to hide his crime. Julius Weber was one of Auburn's oldest residents. He formerly owned the Auburn Brewery and was reported to be worth $40,000. His family stood well in the community. Miss Weber was a favorite in church and society circles. ———— TWO LAWYERS OF SALINAS ARE FINED FOR CONTEMPT SANTA CRUZ, Nov. 10.—At the ar- raignment of Louis Buelna, accused of felony, J. J. Wyatt and P. Zabala, at- torneys of Salinas, appeared for the defendant, but when the case was called for trial yesterday they failed to appear. Judge Smith issued a cita- tion and the attorneys were brought into court this mornin~. In the mean- time the court had appointed two other lawyers to defend Buelna. On their appearance in court this morning Wyatt and Zabala refused to defend Buelna upon the ground that they were not members of the Santa Cruz County bar and could not be cempelled to defend the prisoner without com- pensation. Thereupon the court fined them each $50 for contempt. A friend in Salinas was notified or their posi- tion and C. F. Lacey of that city left for San Francisco to bring the mat- of kabeas corpus. Chief Justice Beatty of the Supreme , Court granted an alternative writ of habeas corpus in favor of Zabala and Wyatt late yesterday. The matter will in bank at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Local attorneys say the point involved has never before been presented in any California court. It has been decided in other States in similar cases that a lawyer need not labor for a client who cannot pay adequate fees. —_——— ‘Wounded Election Officer Dies. CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo., Nov. 10.— Isaac Lebo, an election constable, who was shot by Deputy Sheriff James ‘Warford at a Goldfield polling place on Tuesday, is dead. At the inquest on Constable Chris Miller, who was also killed by Warford at the same time, the jury found that the shot was fired by Warford in self-defense. l | that } | TESTIFYING IN DETAIL, SHE TELLS OF - TESTATRIX’S ILL HEALTH AND GLOOM KNIGHTHOO FOR A KING OF FINANCE Italy Confers a Dec- oration Upon Morgan. Special Dispatch to The Call. ROME, Nov. 10.—On the proposal of the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, King Victor has decided to send to J. Plerpont Morgan the insignia of a Knight of the Crown of Ttaly, as a| testimonial of the gratitude of the) Italian nation for the voluntary return of the Ascoli cope to the Italian Gov- | ernment. The decoration will be sent also to General di Cesnola, director of | the Metropolitan Museum of Arts, for| the part he has taken in obtaining a re- turn of the preclous vestment. Mazzoni, Mayor of Aseoll, has opened a public subscription to offer Morgan a valuable gift in the name of the city which had lost the precious relic. A | large sum has already been obtained | for the purpose, and the presentation | will be made soon by the Italian Em- bassador in Washington. —_——— STEAMERS WINTERING AT DAWSON ARE DAMAGED Jamming of the Ice Above the Mouth of the Klondike River Causes Considerable Loss. TACOMA, Nov. 10.—The fleet of | Yukon steamers wintering at Dawson has been partly wrecked by jamming of the ice above the mouth of the Klondike River. The jam forced the heavy drift ice through Sunnydale Slough, where the steamers of the | Northern Commercial _Company. | North American Transportation amflli Trading Company, one independent | steamer and four big White Pass: barges were in winter quarters. The | tremendous pressure of the ice tore | the whole fleet from the moorings, ' crashing the steamers together and forcing them some hundred yards down stream. The Northern Com-! mercial steamer Mississippi was | crowded ashore on the beach. She is entirely out of watér with a big twist in her hull. The steamer Lightming | was caught in a jam below Dawson | and was unable to get out. The flood swept 500 cords of wood, worth $5000, from Dawson beach. The steamer J. P. Perry, operating between Kyak | Island and Catella and Chilkat Point, | mainland, was wrecked at Kyak Oc- | tober 23, during a storm which drove her ashore after she had filled with water. She is believed to be a total wreck. No lives were lost. The Per- ry belonged to Captain Corlow | cate their children properly. | executed her SAY Gooomx - | 1SS DOLBEER CAME TO ‘ i -5 | MRS. IDA J. MOODY, AUNT OF BERTHA M. DOLBEER, AND | WITNESS FOR CONTESTANT. | BdErdT L vl e A L | Mrs. Ida J. Moody's reasons for be- leving the mind of Bertha Dolbeer ‘was unbalanced when she executed her will were given to the jury yesterday | in the trial of the contest in Judge | Coffey's court. Looking back over in- | cidents that aroused no misgivings at | the time, said Mrs. Moody in her de- position, it was now clear to her that her niece had lost control of her men- tal powers before she left San Franc co for the European tour that ended with the tragic death of the young heiress while stopping over in New York on her way home to this city. Mrs. Moody, who is a sister of Adolph Schander, the contestant, and whose | sister was Miss Dolbeer’s mother, de- | clared that the will, which bequeathed | the bulk of the estate of $1,000,000 to | Miss Etta M. Warren, a friend and companion, was very unjust, for | there were those of kin who needed the | money and should have had it to edu- The aunt of the testatrix is ome of | the strongest witnesses for the contest- | ant. She disclaims any interest in the suit, further than to see justice done. But she could tell only one incident | indicating mental unsoundness on the part of Miss Dolbeer. That was on the Sunday before the heiress started | for Burope and the day after she had | will. On this occasion | Miss Dolbeer had what the deponent | described as a “paroxysm of terror.” * Some parts of Mrs. Moody's deposi- | tion could not be read to the jury be- | cause of conflict with rules of evidence. The statement that her daughter, Mrs. Douglas Sloane Watson, said she (Mrs. Watson) could break the will easily if she desired to do so, by telling the | contents of a‘letter in which Miss Warren had written of Miss Dolbeer’s | insanity, was not allowed to reach the | ears of the jurors. It is understood | that Mrs. Watson will make denial, if | called to the $tand, of a number of such | statéments. } To-day the depesition of Frederick A. Greenwood, well known in business and social circles, will be taken. He | was a friend of Miss Dolbeer and will | testify that she never showed any signs of a failing mind. i Just before adjournment yesterday | Hiram Johnson enlivened things by de- manding production of the depositions which the proponents had taken in New York on October 21 and 22. There was a covert allusion to ‘‘suppression | of depositions,” and Johnson complain- | ed bitterly of the methods resorted to | ; by proponents to hamper his side of ! the case. McEnerney explained that | the depositions had not yet arrived ! from the East, but that a telegram would be sent asking that they be for- warded with all dispatch. MRS. MOODY'S DEPOSITION. “Yes, I knew Miss Dolbeer very well, she was like my own child,” was the; answer of Mrs. Moody to the opening question. “Will you state generally the mental and physical characteristics of Miss Dolbeer?"” “She was rather of a phlegmatic _—_— Continued on Page 3, Column 1. = i ! | | | | | | | i | 1 (= AL S 4 - * - PRESIDENT SENDS IS ~ DORTRAIT Thanks the Woman Who Rebukegd Hobson. —— e Special Dispatch to The Call. INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 10.—~When Captain Richmond P. Hobson spoke at Columbia City in the closing days of the campaign, he was very severe in his criticisms of President Roosevelt, declaring among other things that ths President was tyrannical and that his purpose ultimately was to set up a dictatorship in, this country. When he had finished speaking a crowd of Democrats gathered around him and were congratulating him on his speech. A young woman pushed ber way through the crowd. but when Captain Hobson extended nis hand she did not take it. Instead, she declared that she did not believe one word that he had said about the President and that he ought not to make such asser- tions. The young woman was Miss Ida Gal- breth, a teacher in the public schools of Columbia City. To-day she received a letter from President Roosevelt which read: “WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—My Dear Miss Galbreth: Will you kindly allow me, as a token of my appreciation. to inclose my photograph. Sincerely yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT.” ————— FEAR OF EVIL SPIRIT KEEPS HIM STANDING Nebraska Farmer Afraid That He Will Be Taken Unawares if He Sits Down. OMAHA, Nov. 10.—Charles Nagle, a Nebraska farmer, whose superstitous fear of the devil has kept him from | sitting down for the past six years, is in jail here, charged with having as- saulted John Hanschild with a pitch- fork. Hanschild operated his threshing machine despite the remonstrance of his eccentric neighbor. who declared that the machine was possessed of a devil and that its operation would re- lease his Satanic majesty, to the un- doing of the neighborhood. Finding his objections disregarded Nagle rushed into the barn and returned with a pitchfork, with which he sought to drive Hanschild away from the dread- ed implement. Nagle believes that if found in a sitting posture an evil spirit will cap- tvre him unawares.