The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 16, 1904, Page 1

THE WEATHER, Forecast made in San Franciseo for thirty hours ending midnight, Novem- ber 15, 1904: Sen Francisco end vicinity—Fair Wetnesday; fresh west wind. G. H. WILLSON, Local Forecaster, Temporarily in Charge. | y. THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—*The Climbers.” CALIFORNIA—*A Friend of the Fam- CENTRAL—"Winchester.” COLUMBIA—"The County Chatrman.™ FISCHER'S—Vaudeville. GRAND—*The Fatal Wedding.” MAJESTIC—"Hearts Aflame.” VOLUME XCVIL VO. 169. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMB R 16, 1904 MRS. PHILLIPS TELLS MORE OF HER QUEST FOR BONUS PHOTOGRAPH OF HOTEL HALLWAY IS SHOWN TO JURY | | ~iuene, ety 7y TRIUBLE FOR | GOLD, WIS i) — N r——i = e THE WIDOW 'Agreement I Signed - With Wealthy and Aged_Fia_nce. Special Dispatch to The Call. NO, Nov. 16.—For the sum of | $500 Mrs. Lovey Berry agrees to marry | Mahion Levis, an aged and wealthy lrlnsxdonk: of”Se;:u. and when he dl‘es = nquish all ¢ 'm upon any portion of ! cipnamon DEArs | hig large estate. Articles of agreement | the trall between |to this effect signed by Mrs. Berry on an Official of Dawson. St A Epecial Dispatch to The Call 15.—Prom many di- ories of a bear at- At Dawson two Recorder Wadleigh wo on v Creek. Bears are | the 12th of this month were filed to-day > that Wadleigh |in the County Recorder's office as a them until they ' premarriage agreement. It is further oward him. He ran|agreed that upon the death of Levis the e and pulled upward r ¢ whole estate shall go to his children. A | ds of avoirdupois as rap- license to wed was issued the pair sev- | y as ble. As he reached the|era] days ago. ret bears stopped at the | Mrs Berry is the widow of Willlam se of tree to inspect a bottle of | Berry and lived more than forty b e Dawsonite threw climbed to the high- x g there in the neanwhile the years, while Levis has lived the allotted | three score years and ten. He has four | children, two sons and two daugbt&ri.i He is a well-known Selma man and a | prominent citizen. He is sald to be| worth $75,000. i > pulling freight tober, espled a o e A Ry TR ek r. Having n0 | ONCE HAD MILLIONS; aving spikes | NOW IN A POORHOUSE | i over the bear's | 2 inder Water | NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—Schuyler Van | g | Ness, of the aristocratic Dutch family White Salmon h in 2 desperate | of New York, once the possessor of | lack bear. He had | $5.000,000, was a prisoner before a mag- | icket where bruin |iStrate to-day, charged with begging. | eat of his two | _ Ah, you don’t know me, magistrate? | You're like the rest of the fine fellow | who were my friends in the old days. | he said. “You can’t see In the name- | i dea arth hon | Jess street peddier that you call a beg. | rge. rifie with ®ar Schuyler Van Ness of old Dutch s muz gair the bear's face, | Stock, the Union League and Universi- This fourth shot ended bruin. | ty Club man, who lost $8,000,000 in that Jones twenty killed | hellhole of Wall street twelve years ago, | That’s right, send me to Blackwell.” A i e But Magistrate Com;lt aid ll::mw nh:. - s As soon as the man ore him s; e __; >Ecimscd Modicsl Al he recognized in the shabby, trembiing, HONOL b 9.—Mrs. Mary | shambling prisoner a vestige of the member of a well- | dashing Schuyler Van Ness of other | his wife have be; in that neighborhood. known Hawailan family, died at her | days. home in Hilo last week of consump- | tion Van Ness had some little scented She had been suffering for some | beans from the Philippines, which he . but refused mediclne,or physi- | said he was selling. Magistrate Cornell care, relying on Christian | sentenced Van Ness to the Poorhouse Bcience. for begging. | out with the force of greater detail that | she made the strong suggestion to them | she was under oath, must tell the truth | co | Ing the cross-examination of Mrs. Phil- | to a friend who sympathized with me and I | of me, | Miss Warren to occupy i home on Pacific avenue. i v Pillsbury led Mrs. Elizabeth through a Ibng,and search- s-examination yesterday morn- ing concerning her interviews with the cutors of Bertha Dolbeer’s will for purpose of inducing them to pay the her a bonus of $15,000, to be added to her bequest of $10,000. It was brought | that if she shouid testify in behalf of the contestant Schander she would give much aid to his case. While Mrs. Phillips had sought to im- press on the executors that her testi- mony would be dangerous to the will and that it would be valuable for the contestant, she was not so solicitous | concerning her own legacy of $10,000. Her explanation cn the stand was that { s cerning Miss Dolbeer's mental con- da n, no matter whether she would be deprived of her bequest of $10,000 or not. MAKES STOUT DENIAL. Attorney Pillsbury question bluntly: e you no contract with the contestant u are to receive the amount of your f the will is broken? finally put the 1 have none. Have you no understanding with the con- testant s to what you shall receive? I have not. I think I answered that yes- ey when 1 said 1 had neither been bought Bor sol A fiashlight photograph of the hall- way on the ninth floor in the Waldorf- Astoria Hotel, showing the window through which Miss Dolbeer suddenly disappeared and fell to her death on July 9 last was introduced in evidence yesterday and shown to the jury. The window is but two feet from the floor. Miss Dolbeer was standing on a smooth marble slab, which js a part of the rloor, and her footing was therefore somewhat uncer- tain, it being very easy to slip. On the opening of court in the morn- lips proceeded as follows: Did you not tell Mr. Mugan that you would compel Miss Warren to disgorge $25,000 before you got through with the case? 1 did mot. Was no mention made of $25,000? Yes. 1 thought I was talking confidentially told him 1 thought it was very unjust that Miss Warren's mother, whom Miss Dolbser hardly knew, should have $25,000 while I, who had heiped to rear the girl and was of kin, was left only $10.000. Did you say to Mr. Mugan that Miss Warren would have to give you $16,000 in -addition to your bequest or you would see to it that she didn't get the property? 1 did not. I told him that I could easlly break the will if T would tell what I knew of Miss Dolbeer, but I made no threats. Did you go to Mr. Johnaon, attorney for the . contestant, Schander, or did he come ¥ou in the first place? Mr. Johnson telephoned to me and asked it be might see me. T told him I would see tm. What dld you tell him? 1 told him nothing. I fished around to ascer- tain what evidence he had on which to base his case. He was not transparent, however. He seemed to be fishing to get something out but he didn’t. At subsequent interviews with the attorneys she had discussed the testi- mony she would give. Attorney Pillsbury plied the witness with questions concerning a visit she made to Executor Mugan, at which ! time she plainly stated her grievances. She first protested against allowing the Dolbeer She also com- plained to him because he had held up Miss Warren at the funeral of Miss Dolbeer, showing her much deference, while ignoring others who were of kin. The witness also found fault with Mu- gan because he had given her no ad- vice as to investment of money, while he had favored Miss Warren very much in this regard. Thomas Saywell, a gardener, was called for the contestant to testify concerning the death of Mrs. Dolbeer, mother of testatrix, in 1879, He was the first to break into the room where the body lay with a bullet wound in the temple and a pistol at her side. The deposition of Catherine Lee, taken for contestant in New York, where she is employed as assistant housekeeper of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, was taken up. Bhe had charge of the rooms occupied by Miss Dol- Continued on Page 2, Column 2, g K IRKH AM YARDE-BULL PRICE FIVE CENTS. ER IS DEAD N the midst of despondency over her failure to relieve herself of the,legal restraint imposed upon her by a court of justice, Lady Yarde-Buller, a former California belle and later a favored attendant at the court of St. James, died yesterday at the Livermore Sanitarium. Her life was fraught with many happy and many sorrowful incidents, that eventually contributed to shattering the brilliant mind that once entertained nobility. ANDRE 00T OF ERENCH WAR OFFICE) Sensation Is Caused by Unexpected Resignation, Enemies Claim It Hera.ldsE Downfall of Combes | Ministry. | Bourse Broker Is Appointed Head | of the Republic's Military Forees PARIS, Nov. 15.—General Andre re- signed the portfolio of Minister of War and Henry Berteaux, a member of the Chamber of Deputies, and a successful broker on the Bourse, was nominated as his successor to-day. | This change in the Ministry is the culmination of fierce assaults upon the administration of the War Office, in the course of which the Chamber of Dep- uties was the scene of frequent wild disorders, including the recent personal | assauit upon (ieneral Andre. ’rbesei events stirred '} ; public o a high pl'.ch: ot -eweitemen:, particutarly army and | political circies, where a succdession of | duels evidenced the bitterness. General | Andre reached the decision to resign | only this morning, and immediately dis- | patched a letter to Premier Combes. ! The te'tt of this letter, which was giv-| en out to-night, asserts that the at-| tacks against the War Office were merely a device of enemies of the! Government to undermine the republic. | “While proud of the work to which | I have devoted my best energies,” Gen- eral Andre wrote, I have too much love for my country and the republic to accept for one moment the hypo- thesis that I am the cause of disunion within the Republican majority. It is| by the united action of this majority | that the Ministries of Waldeck-Rous- seau and Combes have saved the repub- lic from the perils confronting them, and it is thanks to this continued union that the Republican party will achieve | the great task before it.” The letter concludes with affection-| ate adieus to General Andre's col- leagues and thanks for their co-opera- tion. Premier Combes laid the letter be- fore the Cabinet meeting, and an agree- ment was speedily arrived at to invite Berteaux to succeed Andre. The Pre- mier presented Berteaux to President Loubet at 6 o'clock this evening and the announcement of the change was thereupon officially made. News of the resignation created a sensation, owing to the in- tensity of the recent controversy. The opposition to the Minister hafled the resignation as a' great victory, which would speedily lead to the fall of the entire Ministry. Reports were circulated to-night that Pelletan, Rouvier and Maruejois are likely to resign the portfolios of the Ministries of Marine, Finance and Pub- lic Works, respectively, but there is no confirmation of these rumors. Conser- vative opinion is that the Cabinet will be strengthened by the removal of the | chief source of the present discord. —p LTS FIANCE FOR ANOTHER Butte Society Belle Re- fuses to Marry Million- aire Spokane Clubman Special Dispatch to The Call BUTTE, Mont., Nov. 15.—Soclal cir- cles of Butte are much exercised over the marriage of Miss Mollie Walker, one of the society belles of the city, and a member of one of the best known families of the State, to Glen Harring- ton, son of Fayette Harrington, a well known Butte banker. Two weeks ago Miss Walker was en- gaged to marry Clyde M. Graves, a millionaire clubman of Spokane. The wedding had been set for one week ‘hence, a trousseau had been made and practically all of the final arrange- ments completed, when Miss Walker announced that she had concluded to marry Harrington, the sweetheart of her school days, whose engagement, it js said, the young lady broke when she became engaged to Graves. Friends say Mrs. Walker's opposi- tion to the attentions of Harrington caused the girl to assent to the offer of marriage from the Spokane clubman in order to progure a trousseau in which she could be married to Har- rington. : ‘The couple will spend their honey- moon in New York and abroad. of Andre|’ Strange and Dramatic Career of Former Belle of San Francisco Finally Closed. PASSES AWAY IN A SANITARIUM A SUES TENGEANCE EWOMA TRICNPAS Epectal Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—“Dismissed by President Roosevelt on charges of scan- dalous conduct and for the good of the service,” was the announcement which came from Washington to-day as an anti-climax in the suit for breach of promise brought by Mrs. Fannie Foss, a pretty cloak model, against Surgeon Charles E. D. Lord of the United States public health and marine hos- pital service. The sweet revenge for which Mrs. Foss declared she sued came more quickly than she had dreamed. The breach of promise action had nothing to do with the dismissal, which had been determined upon before the suit was brought. The charges against Dr. Lord related to his conduct in San Francisco, it was asserted, where he first met Mrs. Foss. On Monday she filed her suit for $50,000 for a broken heart. It was learned to-day that Dr. Lord has a wife in Biddeford, Maine, who was Mrs. Annie Ingersoll before her marriage to the handsome young sur- geon. Mrs. Lord, with her mother-in- law, was in New York a few days ago. Upon their return to Maine to-day they | declared the suit for breach of promise was a blackmailing scheme. Richard Ingersoll, Dr. Lord’s father-in-law, has announced his purpose of coming to New York to help fight the suit. Mrs. Foss said to-day: “l am through with gold lace and uniforms forever. My affairs of the heart have certainly been disappoint- ing, when the charmer has been a fol- lower of the sea. I met Lord during the Haines oburt-martial and he seemed to take an interest in my case. I do not want money, but will press my suit for. revenge.” Mrs. Foss, who is a handsome young widow, is a Californian. —_——e———————— San Franciscans at the Fair. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 15.—The following San Franciscans registered recently at the California building at the World's Fair: J. C. Landsberger, Mrs. E. B. Cousin, E. F. Tway and family, Mrs. R, L. Mann and C. C. McDougall. TCR QSHARE OF ESTALE-§ “FORMER SAN FRANCISCO BELLE WHO DIED YESTERDAY IN THB LIVERMORE SANITARIUM. _ & The closing chapter in the varled ca- reer of a once beautiful belle of Oak- land and later a favored visitor to the court of St. James, Lady Mary Leflah Kirkham Yarde-Buller, was written by death at an' early hour yesterday morn- ing when the unfortunate woman passed away at the Livermore Sana-| torium. Death came to Lady Yarde-Buller a few hours after her long battle for freedom from the restraint that had been placed upon her by a court of justice had been lost. Frail in mind and body, it needed but one blow to bring her to death’s threshold and that came when the court a few days ago refused to grant her absolute free- dom from a guardian under whose charge she had been rebeiling for a number of years. Lady Yarde-Buller had been an in- | mate of the Livermore Sanatorium for some time. It was there that she rose from a sick couch to attend her case at court a week ago, and it was during this proceedings that she contracted a cold that aggravated an attack of Bright's disease. She was told that her condition was helpless. over the failure of her hard fought case, and' tired of a life that had been fraught with alternating pleasures and disappointments, she laid her head again upon her pillow and patiently | g, awaited the end that came not tardily. TES BOYLE BLAIR. Few women of the day have received more public attention or crowded more exciting experiences into a short life than the unfortunate woman who passed to eternal rest at Livermore yesterday. - As pretty Mary Leilah Kirkham, daughter of the late General R. W. Kirkham, at one time quartermaster general of the United States army. the dead woman will be readily recalled by the older members of Oakland society. Continued on Pagp 2, Column 3. “DEATH O Despondent | T LIVERMORE SADECSDEN . BUCKWHEAT CAKES FoR HIS GUESTS OWEGO, N. Y. Nov. 15.—Owego never has seen so many men who are prominent in public life as Wwere as- sembled here to-day in response to the invitation of Senator Platt to his buck- wheat breakfast. Senator Depew, Con- | gressmen, State Senators and Assem- blymen, some accompanied by their wives, were present at the Ahawga | House, Senator Platt’s home in Owego. Neither Governor Odell nor Governor eiect Higgins attended, the latter be- ing L Senator Depew was one of the after breakfast speakers. In the course of an address he sald that Senator Platt’s | twenty years of leadership would stand | i political history as unequaled in its | absence of factlonal strife within the | party and the glorious victories of the | party. Referring to the election Mr. | Depew sald: “What elected Rooseveit? The an- | swer is as clear as revelation: Roose- | velt elected Roosevelt. No personali- |ty in American public life ever stood | out so distinct in Indtvidual character- istics, in emphatic traits, peculiarly his | own, and in outspcken confidences with the whole people like President Roose- velt. The qualities which his enemies | caricatured were the ones which en- deared him to his countrymen. He i holds his commission freer from pledges or obiigations, except to the people who elected him, than any of his pre- ecessors. | | | \ . g “Now, mv friends. what of the fu- ture? Upon the ruins of the disinte- gration of the Democratic party will arise an organization built up by re- sourceful and able agitators, whose ap- peal will be to discontent. It must be our task that there shall be a minimum of discontent and a maximum of sat- isfaction.” —_——e————— Call for National Bank Reports. WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. — The Comptroller of the Currency has is- sued a call for the condition of na- ‘tional banks at the close of on Thursday, November 10.