The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 1, 1904, Page 1

Thursday; possibly A THE WEATHER. Forecast made .at San Franciseo for hours ending midnight Decem- San Francisco and viclnity—Cloudy light sbowers at G District Forecaster. McADIE, THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—"The C\Hflhll CALIFORNIA—'‘Finnigan’ CENTRAL o 1-5. uuh Around the Cor COLUMBIA— Her o-n Way.’ ‘andeville. SISCHER'S—Vaudeville. GRAND—'“The Sho Show Girl.™ LYRIC HALL— ‘The Star of Bethle- bam." 1 HL RSD. AY DECEMBER 1, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS RICH BACKERS TO PAY MRS. CHADWICK’S DEBTS Claims Totaling Vast Sum Will Be Met and the Sensation Suppressed 4 MYSTERI- AFFORDED pears t ¢ £ Br Mrs pect r ¥ ) ¥ ¢ E r straightening out her diffi- evidence of the extent of Mrs. o K's ¥ ces, it s learned t ht t has engaged a private cs 1 » the trip to " ter, to the South. A ph s been engaged to accom- CARNEGIE DENIES. et all of her obliga- resources. of the that case, d Philip Car- s, to say for truth in the had given her statement & note for $300,00 s Carnegie never n with her af- statement of and the New | ewton said to- | s no doubt that she| ation was given | Andrew | connection with | 5 7 she came to get. into ulties at this time her ned’ to make any state- the former point one report n uncle left her a fortune On f $30,000 about six years ago. This, her attorneys believe, is the inost con- venient exp ation. to be made at pre t ¢ from thé several con- ces T have had with Mrs. Chad- that her total indebtedness will exceed $1,000,000" said Attorney Ryall “This sum .includes the ge amount that Mrs. Chadwick illegal and is in the_line of 1 In several interviews she timated to me that she is being kmailed, although she never men- ied any names, I understand, how- that if this’one claim is thrown out her debts would not amount to much more than $600,000.” 3 AMOUNT OF THE CLAIMS. Edward W. Powers of counsel for Mrs. Chadwick said to-day that many of the claims against Mrs. Chadwick | would never be recognized in court. Just how many -clalms there are I t believ: ever, do not know,” said Powers. “Will the clalms aggregate $1,000,- 000?" was asked. Powers paus for a considerable Un'.e before replying, and then said: “Well, approximately, you cam put it at that sum. For all I know there may be claims for $2,000,000 against her, but ail legal claims will be met, as she | is an honest woman.” “Has -she enough money to meet the’| claims of $1,000,0002" “Yes, more than enough,” reply. “How about was the the intimation - tha; some persons are trying to blackmail Mrs. Chadwick?” was asked. “As far as I know there is nothing in the blackmailing line, but there are some persons who are presenting claims against Mrs. Chadwick who | have no legal right to do. so.” signed t ) 000 the sig- | nature was This use of « > in con- nection with Mrs. C affair is | only one of the m sterious cir- cumstances the statement re which t was signed by George E. Ry ir strange ing the $500,000 note to of Andrew Carnegie first given publicity torneye, who said that his client had told him that he had seen such a paper. Ryall said that it was his un- derstanding that the note in question was in the possession of the Oberlin Bank, which was forced to close its doors because of having made loans to Mrs. Chadwick amounting to $240,000. | HIDDEN SOURCE OF WEALTH. As‘o the source of Mrs. Chadwick's The | 11, one of Newton's at- | Powers said he was not ready to give t a list of the creditors or to reveal their names. He said ‘that he was not in a position to state whether any one had indorsed notes tor Mrs. Chadwick. “It was the greatest kind of an out- rage,” said Powers, “to intimate that | there was any connection between Mrs. Chadwick and Mme. de Vere, the ex-convict. Nobody now believes it.” BANK WILL BE REPAID. OBERLIN, Ohio, Nov. 30.—All Ober- lin is awaiting to-night. There is a feeling that something will take place soon that will change the situation, | either for the better or the worse, as far as the affairs of the Citizens’ Na- tional Bank are concerned. It is gen- | erally known that President Beckwith Continued on Page 2, Column 6. S claim | EX-HORMON HORCHMEN 10 TESTIFY Promised Revela- tions in Smoot Inquiry. Secrets of the Endowment House Ceremony to Be Revealed. | Robes Will Be Exhibited and Scenes of the Serviee Faithfully Reproduced. Spectd]l Dispateh to The Call. CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—All of the se- crets of the Mormon endowment-house ceremony are to be revealed when the | hearing in Smoot is resumed by the Senate Com- mittee on Privileges and Elections a week from next Monday. The opposi- tion to Senator Smoot will attempt to show in these revelations that the Mor- mon people in this ccremony renounce allegiance to the United States. In ad- dition the robes of the ceremony will be exhibited to the committee, and as far as possible there will be a reproduction of the scenes in the endowment-house. One form of oath taken is said to be | this: “I will avenge the blood: of pmphets who are killed. in the nation and will teach this to the remotest generation.” During the previous hearings all of the Mormon witnesses, including the apostles, refused to reveal the endow- ment-house secrets, insisting that they | were bound by a secret oath. They were | not pressed further, requested to state whether or not there had been any change in the oath and | ; Amerlcan Steel Comblne. ceremony since the foundation of the church:. They sald there had not. ow the opposition will produce w! nesses ‘who have been Mormons, but| who.have renounced the church. Three of these witnesses have been found who Lhave lbeen through” the endowment, ‘one as laté , ‘and they will reveal | | all of the sécrets. Special stress will be | 1aid at-the -coming hearings on the po- litical power of the church, and Sén- ator Dubois of -Idaho -has been very active in producing testimony in this line. 3 “The. result of the recent national | election,” said Senator Dubois to-night, “goes .to prove the participation of the Mormon church in-- Should such a power remain unchecked | it is altogether probable that some time | the Mormon.church could turn the bal- | ance 1n a Presidential contést.” 1 e VILLAGE SCHOOLS FAVORED BY THE NOBLES OF RUSSIA Pund ‘Subscribéd- in Honor of Birth of Heir May Be Used for : This Purpose. MOSCOW, Nov. 30.—A conference | here of thé marshals of the nobility, at which was discussed the most ad- visable use for the fund subscribed | by the nobllity in honor of the birth of the heir to the throhe unanimously opposed | money to found a second naval col- [lege or scholarships in-the existing college; favoring the use of the money in opening village. schools on model-of the Des.Moulins schools in France and the Litz scheols in Ger- many. This action is considered sig- nificant. . 3 e FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLAR DIAMOND THEFT 'REPORTED | Gems - sata to Hawve From Fair Exhibit, but Police - Scout Story. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 30.—It is reported that $50,000 worth of diamonds were stolén from Mernrod & Jaccard’s ex- hibit in the Varied Industries building at the World's Fair at i hour to-night. port of the robbery is incredible. —_——— IBSEN DANGEROUSLY ILL WITH PARALYSIS Famous Dramatist Reported as Un- able to Either Speak ' Read or Write. LONDON, Dec: 1.—The Daily Tele- graph’s Copenhagen correspondent says that the illness of Henrik Ibsen paralysis and °‘that he is unable to | speak, read or write. the case of Senator Reed | but were ximply' political affairs. | the proposal to devote the’ the | licen Taken | the closing | The police say the re-, has assumed the form of a dangerous | JAPANESE CAPTURE PORT ARTHUR FORT TOKIO, Dec. ment to-night: lon the summsit. I- ’Thejapanese have captured and now hold 20 3-Meter Hill. TOKIO, Nov. j0.-—Imperial headquarters made the following announce- “Qur torce operating against 203-Meter Hill (Port Arthur) *ladvanced at 10 o’clock to-day from the trenches already captured near the sum- mit of the hill and is now struggling for the southeastern portion of the fort A fierce battle was stlll raging at 7 o’clock to-night.” LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30.—L. B. Sroufe, one of the best known and most highly trusted men in the Bisbee dis- trict of Arizona, has been found to be an embezzier to the amount of many thousands of dollars. Whether he will be prosecuted has not yet been deter- mined, for the various lodges to which he belonged have clubbed together and made good his shortages. The discov- ery of his peculations was made by of- | ficers of the Provident Mutual Build- ing and Loan Association of this city, | Sroufe having been the agent at Bis- { bee for that concern and having | handled thousands of dollars for it. | Sroufe for several years has held the post of paymaster at Bisbee for | the Copper Queen Consoifdated Min- ing Company. His high standing led to his employment as |~ confidential agent at Bisbed of the WiiLona Trust and Savings Bank, and'a year ago a | further tribute of buasiness esteem came in his appointment to the posi- tion of agent and collector at. Bisbee for the Provident Mutual of Los An- geles. iy Among his duties were the collec- tion of from $500 to $1500° monthly | TAKES FUNDS. OF EMPLOYERS THEFT. IS MADE GOOD Friends of Embezzler Reimburse Losers to Stop Prosecution. Special Dispatch.to The Call payments on account of the Provident. He made remittances correctly and promptly until two or three months ago, when his monthly totals began to drop and his statement showed more or less individual accounts marked, “Unpaid; carry over,” mean- ing that. these clients of the associa- tion were delinquent, but would pay up later. . Now it has been ascertained that in reality the missing amounts had been collected by Sroufe and used by hlm in gambling. It is not lmown what _procedure Sroufe followed in his peculations. from the Tucson bank. His total shortage in account with the Provident was be- tween $3000 and $4000 when discovered. When the true state of affairs was suspected Secretary Wadleigh and F|e)d Manager Stevens left hurriedly isbee. ‘That was a week or more There they obtaindd, it is underc stood, Sroufe’s full confession. To save the young man from criminal prosecu- tion, ‘lodges to which Sroufe belonged in Bisbee raised enough to fully reim- burse the Provident Building and Loan Assoclation. It is stated that a similar séttlement has. been made with the Arlwna Trust and Savlngs Bank. SEES DoOM 0F A TRUST German States 1 | ‘BERLIN, Nov. 30.—In the Prus- | sian Diet the last two days have hepnf | devoted to’ ari animated debaté on tha | bill appropriating $17.500,000 to take over the sharés of the Hibernia® COdl| { Company, which -the Dresden’ Bank | | bought oz behalf of - ihe. Prussian | | Government. The bill passed its first reading and was referred, to a’ com- | mittee, | | During the, discussion Herr Moeiler, | Minister of Commerce and Industry, dipped into the trust question as it ex- | ists in the United States and warned | Germany against -copying th Amerl- can system. i “For several years,” he smd, “we In\ Europe weré under the spell of those powerful American organizations. We believed the Americans had discovered -the philosopher’s stone. After time had elapsed and we observed what had be- come of those trusts we were in a’posi- man Rldlcules tmn to regard Lh('m more (‘nlm!y We Gernians were most taxed by the great- | ness of the steel trust. matters .take “ith that -concern? order to-effect an organization it was compelled to resort to craz! overcapl- talization.’ :What shape did Minister Moeller, continuing; said the iron - works - had - been. capitalized to double, to three-fold and-finally to ten- fold . their actuel value and that the company was no longer- master:of the | competitive situation_in jts own coun-. try. Its management .of prices caused mew works to ‘be ' established; which were better. equipped ‘than the older ones and were .producing’ greater and cheaper methods. Theé.steel trusts, he contintied, controlled only* 45 per cént of thé country’s production, against 70. or.80 per cent at the start. “Against such perilous experiments,” the Minister concluded, “may Germany be preeerved o4 : “FOOLKILLER™ DOES ITS WORK Epecial m-pnen to The c;u CHICAGO, 'Nov. 30.—Peter Nissen is believed to have been either smothered | or frozen to death in his rolling balloon “Fool Killer,” in which he started for a | trip ‘across the lake yesterday. . The opinion that Nissen was lost be- came general this afternoon when - it there was still absolutely no word from | the inventor, who some years ago shot the whirlpool raplds of Niagara Falls in a barrel. He has not been alghted by any vessel. .- The poulblmy of Nissen's smothering to death was considered more definitely when it was learned that his only sup- ply of air was that pumped into thé “Fool Killer” before the craft was launched. It tas Said by .Nissen's brothers, however, that the navigator had computed his air and figured that it would last him a great number of hours. At the Weather Bureau . it was said that even if Nissen reached the shore he would suffer from the ccld as there was a snowstorm blowing near the Michigan shore, and as his boat had no| means of heating and permitted of no air entering the navigator would suf- | fer severely. The wind toward midnight lnemued from twenty-five miles an hour to a ' sixty-mhe rate, v was found that after twenty-four hours | MAN | FNlNhTY‘ STEALS A WIFE Speciel Diumch to The Call. . . MARION, Ind., Nov. 30.—Mrs: Kate Christian, 37-yéars of age, has eloped with Archie’ Price, 90 years old. Elisha Christian. the . deserted husband, re- ported .the affair to the police and wants his wife and her lover arrested. Christian. sald he ‘learned through friends that his wife was - having cla‘néelune',m_eeflngl with Price, but he was unable to see them together. He said he discovered that they were using a hole in a hollow tree near his home as a postoffice to” exchange let- ters. Christian was unable to gét the letters and placed a stéel trap in the hole for the purpose-of trapping the man who was nnem-pun‘ to brenk up his home. - -To-day. he vhited the: trap and in it. found a ‘note -from “his wife, who said she had not been caught, but had decided to elope with Price and would never return. —‘-———«o—o—‘———‘ 3 .Former Redlands Man a Bishop. * Pa., . Nov. ‘30.—Rev. Wlllil.m T. Manning, vicar of St Anne’s Church, Trinity parish, New Yotk City, and formerly pastor of a church at Rcdlmdl. Cal,, was to-day etected Bishop of the’ newly organized Protestant Episcopal diocese ol Bar- A risburg. | : REAR ADMIRAL WHO WILL BEP. SENT _AMERICA ON NORTH SEA COMMISSION. ELECTRICITY WILL MOVE THE Nortnern Roads o ‘Do Away With Sieam, Speeial Dispatch to The Call _ CHICAGO, Nov. 30.—Many .railroads are: planning to use electric instead of gteam power -for their light suburban trains, but the Great Northern'and the Northern Pacific want t6 substitute eiectric motors for their heaviest freight engines. An expert from one of the largest electric manufacturing .concerns has spent several weeks investigating the . question of electric ‘traction on the roads in the. Rocky Mountains. He re- ports that the water -power in the Cas- cades .is sufficient to supply electricity for motors to take the place of steam engines on the mountain divisions and that the cost of electric power will be much less than the cost of the coal used in the locomotives. The coal consumption of both roads through the mountains is very heavy. The Northern Pacific is fortunate in havingits ownl coal fields on both sides of the Cascade range. Its coal costs the) company ‘$1 35 a ton. The North- ern Pacific has shipped a great deal of its. coal to San Francisco for the Southern Pacific, ‘but this market has been curtailed by the introduction of oij-burning engines on the Southern Pacmc. The Great Northern is mot so fortu- nate in its coal supply in the moun- tains.” It buys a .great deal of coal from the Northern Pacific and uses about 250,000 tons of coal from the Illi- nois mines annually. This coal costs considerably more than that brought through the lakes, but it suppplies mnorthbound tonnage for the Burlington. Last ‘year the Northern Pacific and Great Northern roads used more than 3,000,000 tons of coal, and the average cost was. in excess of $2 a ton. This expense would be greatly reduced if the trains could be moved by electric- ity, produced by mountain waterfalls. -~ THE TRAINS - Northern Pacific and Great Northern i | | | | Russian Consul 'NUGI’S VICTORY ACHIEVED AT APPALLING SACRIFICE OF HIS HEROIC SOLDIERS Five Thousand Men Fall in Two Hour Fight for Forts TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYER SUNK Russians Fire Upon One of Own Ves- sels by Mistake TOKIO, Dec. 1, 1) a. m.—~The impe- rial army headquarters announces that the Japanese troops besieging Port Ar- thur are- in possession of 203-Meter Hill. The following dispatch has been given out: “The army commenced a bombard- ment against 203-Meter Hill at dawn on November 30 and made several charges before 4 o’clock in'the afternoon. Owing to the ememy’s stubborn resistance the charges failed. At 5 o'clock in the aft- ernoon our force advanced. egainst the southeastern portion of the hill, made a flerce charge < and reached within thirty meters of the summit. At o’clock, with reinforcements, we charged to the top, which was occupled by our force. Against the northeastern part of the hill we also charged, and at $ o’clock the entire fort on the summit fell into our hands. The Russians left heaps of dead bodies on the eastern - side of the hill, but we have had no time to investigate further.” ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 30.—The at Chefu telegraphs that the Japanese captured two forts in the storming operations against Port Arthur on November 29, but the news is not confirmed from any other quar- ters. © The Consul says the Japanese losses were enormous and that 5000 men were sacrificed in two hours. The St. Petersburg authorities have decided to grant $50,000 to the defenders of Port Arthur and their familles and appeal to the whole Russiam empire tc raise funds for the same purpose. It is rumored that Russia will call the attention of the foreign powers to | the refusal of the Japanese to allow V\rss»ls with medicine and comforts for the .sick and wounded to enter Port Arthur. LONDON, Dec. Post's correspondent at 1—The Morning Shanghai tele- d that a Russian tor- pedo-boat destroyer, returning to Viad- ivostok from a scouting - expedition, was sunk by the guns of the Russian forts, in .error.” The Daily Telegraph’s correspondent at Chefu, ¢abling- under date of No- vember 30, says that the Japanese be- gan a further heavy bombardment of Port Arthur at 11 o'clock on Tuesday night. CHEFU, Nov. 30.—Chinese who left Port Dglny on November 28 arrived here to-day. They say the fighting at Port Arthur continues. They heard firing on- November 29, while at sea. The Chinese assisted in carrying the Japanese wounded from the trains to the hospitals and personally counted 1000. The Japanese, they add, seemed depressed. —_— BIG SHIPMENT OF BEEF. Cudahy Sending Nearly Six Million Pounds on Raussia’s Order. OMAHA, Nov. 30.—One of the largest orders for beef ever sent out of the country is mow being filled by the Cudahy Packing Company of South Omaha, which last night ship- ped to Portland, Or. the first con- signment for the Russian Government. Seventeen carloads of beef were shipped. The entire order will fill 135 cars and will be forwarded as rapidly as it can be loaded. The meat is consigned to the Rus- sian Government. It was sold through brokers. The shipment is packed in barrels, weighing, when filled, each about 350 pounds. A car will carry about 125 barrels, or 42,000 pounds. The entire train of 135 cars would contain 5,670,000 pounds of meat. The meat would ration an army of 100,- 000 men for six weeks. Bt Calls Halt on British Shippers. LONDON, Dec. l.—According to the Standard the Government has in- stituted a searching inquiry regarding British vessels coaling the Russian fleet; with a view to preventing any future breach of neutrality. L SN ‘War News Continued on Page 8.