The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 12, 1904, Page 1

THE WEATHER. iy Forecast made at San Francisco for thirty hours, ending midnight Decem- ber 12: | San Francisco and Vicinity—Fair | Monday, with fog in the morning; light northwest wind. G. H. WILLSON, Local Forecaster. | | = et ——eeedp CALIFQRNIA— BIA—“A GRAND—"In MAJESTIC— Mr. THE THEATERS. ALE£EAR S Casrion CENTRAL—"Lost in Siberia.” CHUTES—Vaudeville. FISCHER' S—Vaudeville. ahomey." ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—"Kinz Dedo.” ‘Sis Hopkins." Chinese Honeymoon.” . Potter of Texas.” FRANCI SCO, MONDA DECEMBER 12, SENSATIONS ARE PROMISEDIFROZEN 18 IN SMOOT INQUIRY The bitter fight against the Mormoen church leader elected to the United States Senate from Utah wiil be resumed to-day before a Congressional Com- mittee, and three witnesses will reveal endowment house ceremony secrets.’ Dubois of Idaho Di-!} recting Crusade Against Mormon s FEARS GROWING || POWER OF SECT]| Claim Made That Iti Willin Time Con-| | trol Upper House | | NEW REVELATIONS |, The Call 4 Dispateh t r CALI WASHINC HOTEL BARTON, Dec. 11.—It now the endowment house e revealed at the hearings Senate Committee on Privi- is that which will again K ase of Senator Reed S TC The revelations b e ional than nade in re- |, 1t church the endowment | | els a member ce allegiance and this will be Three uced by Robert 1 for the opposition, lete account of e ceremonies. rtained since the last spring power of the Mor- tics and the politi- le Senator Du- committee, who Mormen church in the that the Mor- |« old the balance s ited States Senate xt dozen years unless done to curb their in- rod “ongress ith and aposties spring were asked house secrets sistently to answer. t could be obtained stioning by mem- ttee was that the ceremonies had not | e foundation of the last 108 1IN - 10 CONNECT ADMAN USES 1+ WO CITIES ‘ AN (HLRCH. Lightning ~ Express S ijures Threo Poueamen| SCIVICE Being Planned. Who Try to Arrest Him | e GRAND RAPI Mich.,, Dec. 11— James Dalotta, while crazed by fever, created & panic in the Fifth Reformed Church here this morning, just as the service was about to begin. Three po- licemen were injured in the scrimmage. Bpectal Dispatch to The Call. MILWAUKEE, Dec. 11.—A franchise |is to be asked for in this city for the Universal Pneumatic Transmission : I 1 MORMON SENATOR A IDAHO COL- LEAGUE WHO IS LEADING THE i FIGHT AGAINST HIM e S ORI Dalotte broke into the building clad only in & red undershirt, and wielded an ax with which he cut and hacked the pews as he proceeded up the aisle. Officers were summoned and three po- Company to build and operate a pneu- | matic tube between this city and Chi- cago for the transmission of parcels. If the franchise be granted, construc- tion will be commenced on March 1. lticemen were burried from headquar- | Tnhree stations are planned—at Chi- ters | cago, Milwauke and Racine. It is ex- When they arrived Dalotta had de- | pected that entrance to Chicago will molished a score of pews and Was | pe obtained through the subway of the | shing the big pipe organ to pleces. d on the organ and fell in- | Chicago Tunnel Company. Thres tubes are to bullt—two eight- | ewinging his ax and Working | eep inches in diameter, for the trans- havoc in the interior. The | and a twenty- o | mission of packages, ? the organ were flying out In | ¢oyr inch suction tube. They are to when Officer Slater reached S | be of castiron, lined with steel, so as ) instant Slater was seized b7 |to be perfectly smooth and unresist- e+ mu;zfl "x:’“i“f {ing. The parcels will be moved on the "'H”b_‘. ” tresite el | vacuum Pl'lncmle. The cost of the line e hand 1 o teeth Da. | Will be $5,000,000, and its rates approx- iy 5 off his nnxern' but ;lma;ely one-half those of express com- ek LS " | panies. . 'vfi:l“lhl’”::‘gz:; ’(‘)‘:!:c:] The patent carriers used will insure . unnlng.blow in the “ the perfect ‘safety of packages, and it Two testh ‘_"efwm take only forty-five minutes to Ence: Wil theeibly iund one from here to Chicago. —_—— bt 1o rees ing 107 | LONE HIGHWAYMAN TAKES ‘ CASH FROM A CONDUCTOR:. | | ite eth of his prisoner, then mounted the or- v on the head with the 1 o th inches Robber Cuts Telephone Wire Before Holding Up Los Angeles Streetcar, Man. vus p LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11—A lone pother squad of officers, and one | highwayman held up_and robbed the of them fired several shots. The last | conductor of a Pico Heights car near e tta on the head and |the city limits late last night, reliev- ciess. He cannot re- | jng him of his cash beit, containing ! about $30. The robber entered the | car when it stopped at the end of ! the line, and placing a revolver at the floor unconscious. long was inflicted. | riot patrol arrived ROC TER, N. ¥., Dec. 11.—The | conductor’s head demanded his ):m ¥y Main, West and | money. The conductor made no re- Eliza b t was destroyed by | sistance, and after pocketing the cish fire this mornin Loss, $500,000. the bandit waliked away in the dark- The building was valued at 360,000. | ness. He had gone to the trouble of The Vanberg Silver Plate Company | cutting the telephone connections with jost £250,000, with an insurance of | the city before making the hold-up $150,000. The Hayden Furniture|and it was some time before the po- Company lost $100,000; insured, i lice were notified. GAMBLERS ~ DEN ROBBED [N TONOPAH Bold Thfi'fia—kes Coin « Through a Hole in Floor. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. TONOPAH, Dec. 11.—Some time to- night a bold thief crawled 300 feet | from the street to a spot under the | roulette table in the club rooms of the Tonopah Club and with a large auger | bored a hole through the floor, shoved | his arm through the ‘aperture and, | without disturbing the croupier or any | of the fitty or more men gathered about the various tables in the room, helped himself to $1000 in gold and silver from the coin box that rested under the table. The robbery was not discovered un- til several hours after it occurred and for a time the gamblers were at a loss to account for the missing coin. The | hole in the floor was not noticed until after every visitor to the club had been cross-examined and a thorough search made of the premises. The dis- covery of the hole led to an investiga- tion that resulted in the finding of the auger with which it had been made and the tracks made by the thief in his long crawl after wealth. —_—— KING EDWARD APPROVES SEYMOUR'S APPOINTMENT. | Salmon’s Successor Will Become Ad- miral of the Fleet in February. LONDO! Dec. 11.—King Edward ]has approved the appointment of Ad- | miral Sir Edward Seymour, G. C. B, to be admiral of the fleet on the retire- ment of Admiral Salmon in February.‘ Vice Admiral Anthony Beaumont will | succeed Seymour in command. Prince | Louis of Battenberg will become com- | mander of the second cruiser squad- ron. The Admiralty has issued a circular to all naval commanders, explaining | Lord Selbourne’s scheme, which will become effective on January 1, and de- tailing the organization of warships of the reserve. Each ship on the war list, not in commission at sea, will be kept commissioned in the reserve and have a nucleus crew comprising .the fmpor- | tant officers and two-fifths of the war crew, including &il experts in torpedo jand gunnery ratings. The reserve ships will be distributed between three home ports and provision will be made for surplus crews in barracks, to en- able six battleships or first-class crui- sers to be fully commissioned on emer- gency without dislocating the general mobilization arrangement, | HE CLINGS 10 RIGETNG Sailor Escapes Sea: to Perish of | Position While Others Are Rescued. Wrecked feaman on Atlantic Coast Exposed to Piercing Weather for Thirteen Hours. | NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 11.—The three- masted schooner Montana, Captain Boyce, from Baltimore for Charleston, 8. C., with a cargo of salt and coal, stranded at 11 o'clock last night at Pea Island, N. C., life-saving station, fifty miles north of Cape Hatteras, dur- ing a heavy northerly gale. Within twenty minutes after the vessel strand- ed she was full of water and awash. 80 that the crew, consisting of Captain Boyce and six men, were forced to take to the rigging, where they re- mained until 2 o'clock this afternoon, when six of the 'Seven men were res- cued by crews of the Pea Island, New Inlet and Bodies Islana life-saving stations. ~ One man, Henry Edwards, was frozen to death and was lashed in the rig- ging in such a manner that he could not be reached and his body is still aboard the ship, hanging in the rig- ging -head downward. Another man of the crew was almost dead from ex- posure and exhaustion when he was rescued by the members of the life- saving crews, but bably will recov- er, although his condition is very se- rious. The rescued crew is now at the Pea ‘Island life saming station. Great dificully’ Wit landing the crew, owing to the fact that the vessel had sunk and a heavy sea was running at the time. Freezing weather hampered the work of rescue, and the seamen were so overcome by exposure and exhaustion that only two of the men in the rigging were able to assist in hauling the whipline aboard the vessel. Again and again the line was shot out and one by one the men were taken off the ship in the breeches buoy. They had spent more than thirteen hours in the rigging of the sinking vessel in a temperature much below freezing. Their clothing was coated with thick layers of ice. The vessel will be a total loss. It is understood that the Montana is owned in Sommers Point, N. J. . DESERTION BROUGHT DEATH. Four Drowned in Leaving Ship Which ‘Weathered Storm. HIGHLAND LIGHT, Mass., Dec. 11 Four of the twenty members of the crew of the Boston fishing schooner Fish Hawk lost their lives after de- serting their vessel, which nad struck | and was pounding heavily on Peaked Hill bar, at the north end of Cape Cod. Five others, including Captain | Bly, swho followed their companions over the side, had a severe six hours’ struggle against a freezing sea and gale in a small boat, but managed to | reach Providencetown harbor. The deaths and suffering would have been avoided had all stayed by their vessel, which had a miraculous escape. Four hours after the men deserted it the schooner was safely anchored in Providencetown harbor. The Fish Hawk was fishing off Cape Cod yesterday when the weather be- came threatening and Captain Bly de- cided to run into Providencetown. Be- fore he reached the end of the cape the vessel ran on to the Peaked Hill bar, Captain Bly burned his signal torgh and then ordered his crew into the boats. Four of the men jumped into a dory, which was almost im- mediately capsized. Captain Bly and four others left the vessel a’few min- utes later. Before the rest of the| crew could follow their skipper the | wind and sea had driven the Fish Hawk over the bar and she was navi- gated into Providencetown harbor. S e D STEAMSHIP IN HURRICANE. Belgravia on Its Way to New York. NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—With her bow stove in, the marine telegraph disabled and the forward windlass. twisted the Belgravia of the Ham-. burg-American line arrived to-day from Cuxhaven With tales of a six; hours’ experience in a hurricane that | threw 1200 of her 1820 steerage pas-| sengers into a panic on December 6. The 1200 were Polish and Russian refugees, sent to this country by Lon- don societies. According to Captain’ Magin on Tuesday afternoon the Belgravia ran | into a hurricane the force of which | could not be measured by the wind | registering gauge. Captain Magin esti- | mated that at its height there was a velocity of 120 miles an hour. A great wave swept over the bow of the vessel at midnight of the 6th, tear- ing out the shield, disabling the marine Panic Aboard experieaced. in | val CHADWICK CREDITORS IN G100y Woman's “Estate” to Yield but Little. LRSS ST |Body Held Fast in Its Lotty ! May Pay Total of One and, One-Hall Mills on the Dollar. Lawyers Express the Belief That Shs: Cannot Be Convisted on a Forgery Caarge~ CLEVELAND, Dec. 11.—According to the most accurate estimate of the es- tate of Mrs. Chadwick that is possible before the receiver has investigated her assets and reported his findings to the court, her creditors as a whole will re- ceive about one and one-half mills on the dollar. What lends additional in- terest to this showing from the credit- ors' standpoint is that one man, Iri Reynolds, will receivg the whole of the assets Visible at the present time. There may be funds in reserve some- where, as there may be additional cred- itors who have not yet announced that Mrs. Chadwick is indebted to them, but it is not expected by bankers and attorneys of this city, who have the greatest knowledge of her affairs, that any more large loans will be developed. The extent of her operations is now be- lieved to be approximately as follows: Secured from Citizens’ National Bank of Oberlin and various sources in and about Lorain County, Ohio, $500,000. Borrowed from business men in Pitts- burg, $500,000. Borrowed -from Herbert D, Newton, $190,000. Total, $1,190,000. Against this stands security of known on one note ampunting to §1800, w!fl‘c%‘fi'hdd by Hmoma_’ THAT PITITSBURG LOAN. The amount of money recéived by Mrs. Chadwick in Pittsburg may’ run as high as $800,000, but it is believed’ that a portion of this sum is a bonus promised by her for an original loan of at least $500,000. Her creditor there fig- ures that she is indebted to him for the larger amount, while she has admitted that she owes $500,000. If her debt in this direction is $800,000 the probability in sight of the creditors is about one| and one-fifth mills on the dollar. It is not believed by any of the at- torneys in the case that the Carnegle securities will be of any account what- ever. If they do at any time reveal value other thas that of so many cents per pound of white paper, the delight of the lawyers will be comparable only to their amazement, and just now they are expecting neither pleasure nor as- tonishment. The case of Mrs. Chadwick will to- morrow morning be brought before the Grand Jury of Cuyhoga County. The investigation will extend only to the alleged forgeries of the Carnegie notes and a report from the jury is | expected not later than-Tuesday. It is the opinion of some of the leading attorneys of Cleveland that a charge of forgery canhot be made to hold in connection with these notes. They declare that it is not an act of forgery for one person to write the name of another, but that the offense lies in the attempt to negotiatagsuch a signature for a specific value. This, they say, there is so far no evidence that Mrs. Chadwick has done. She has not sold, or attempted to sell, the notes for cash. She has not said that she would be glad to obtain money in exchange for them. She has obtained money from various sources on the statement of Iri Reynolds that she, to the best of his knowledge and belief, held securities of a certain value, and, whether he prove correct or otherwise in his value of the notes, there can be no doubt that Reynolds believed what he said. The loan of §800,000 said to have been received by Mrs. Chadwick in Pittsburg, or from a man residing in that city, is declared to have been made to her by a multimillionaire manufacturer of that city. Mrs. Chadwick, in discussing this state- ment, declared that she did owe him $500,000, but not $800,000, as had been claimed. CLAIMED CARNEGIE AS FATHER. Secretary Iri Reynolds of the Wade Park Bank declared to-night that his implicit belief in the statements made to him by Mrs. Chadwick, in which she declared herseif to be the daughter of Andrew Carnegie, was the impeliing cause- of his financial dealings with her. “‘She told me,” said Reynolds, “that she was the illegitimate daughter of Andrew Carnegie and 1 believed her- T never doubted her story until on the occasion of my last visit to New York, when Squire came to me and declared that all the securities she had given me as the notes of Andrev: Carnegie were worthless. It was only then that 1 doubted her. Before that I had re- fused to say anything about her or her affairs, because I deemed it my FEWER WOMEN THAN MEN IN THIS COUNTRY BRITISH I Census Bulletin Reveals Excess of Male Population Fair Sex, However, Enjoys Greater Special Dispatc CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—According to the census bulletin made public to-day there are more men than women in the United States, but in the cities there tion is made, from the siatistics gath- ered, that the women live longer than the men. Professor Willcox of Cornell University wrote the discussion and | of sclentific and practical importance. The whele population of the conti- counted with distinction of sex in 1820 11900 the absolute excess of males was greater at each census than at any pre- ceding census, with one exception—that of 1870, when the excess of males was less than in 1850 and 1860. This reduction of the excess cf males between 1360 and 1870 by about 300,000 | are more women than men. The deduc- | analysis of the bulletin and some of the | conclusions drawn from the tables are | nemtal of the United States was first | During the seventy years from 1839 to | was doubtless due to the deaths in the Longevity and in Cities Has a Majority. i s e M h to The Caill “l‘i‘.‘ll War and the diminished | gration” during the decade. | The greatest relative excess of males was in 1890, when in each 10,000 persons there were 242 more males than fe- males. By 1900 this excess had de- creased to 216 in 10,000, less'than the relative excess in 1390 and 1360, but greater than that of $ach other census. In continental United States there are now 1,638,321 more males than fe- males, or about two in each 100 persons, Probably in the population of the world as a whole, and certainly in that half of it which has been counted with distinction of sex, there are several millions more males than females. In | continental United States, however, the relative excess of males is greater than | the average for all countries. Europe has an excess of females; every other continent, so far as known, has an ex- cess of males. | As a rule, sparsely settled regions have an excess of males and densely | settled regions an excess of fem: | The American cities, as a rule, more females than males. imm- hav Court Decides Them t - - LONDON, Oct. 11.—Judge and counsel in a London court yesterday argued the question whether a school- master could claim to be a gentleman. The schoolmaster’s solicitor raised the question in applying for his client's costs as a witness under the head of “gentleman,” or ‘“professional instead of on the lower scale of | “tradesman,” as ordered by the court registrdr. Judge and counsel agreed that Blackstone's definition of “gentleman” as “one who bears arms” was obsolete, and counsel advocated a definition of “one who by education, occupation or income holds a position above menial service or ordinary trade.” The Judge suggested that a draper making $50,000 a year might be a per- | man,” | SCHOOLMASTERS NOT “GENTLEMEN.” Law Consigns o Lower Station. Special Dispatch to The Call | fect gentleman in society, but would jno! be a gentleman for the purpose of the county or high court scale, though [a man with an independent income of $250 would be. | " Counsel maintained that his client, | though without a university degree, was a man of educational attainments, of refinements, of agtistic and literary .uxmln“m—ms, .an accomplished musi- cian, proprietor of a large school and therefore a gentleman. The Judge, however, uphold the reg- | istrar, deciding the costs on a lower scale, but comforting the schoolmaster | with the dictum that “no schoolmaster { must think he is insulted that he | should be no gentleman; that, in fact, |He would- only be no gentleman in law.” and D CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—The Duke and Duchess of Manchester were “snubbed” to-day by Mrs. Colin Campbell. the re- cently married daughter of Mr. and —_e ANCHESTERS SNUBBED BY THE LEITERS Chicagoans Refuse to Receive. the Duke uchess. ,land and pass quietly their honeymoon | on the Earl's vast estate. | The “snub” of the Manchesters ! meditated by the Leiters and Camp- | bells, and followed what has been a Mrs. Levi S. Leiter. The snub con- | sisted in the refusal of Mrs. Campbell and Mrs. Leiter to see the Manchesters | when they called on them at their home | most cool reception given the duecal visitors during their stay In Chicago. They left at midnight for Ludington, Mich. at Rush and Ontario streets. A few hours later Mrs. Leiter an- nounced the engagement of her young- est daughter, Miss Dalsy, to the Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire. They became | engaged only on Saturday, Mrs. Leiter declared, and would be married in Weashington in a week. Both are at present in New York, at quiet hotels. After the wedding they will go to Eng- | They have been entertained by no one. No difiners, no receptions. no teas have been given in their honor. All their time has been passed in shop- ping, at the theater, or in the orivate ear of Mr. Zimmerman, the father of the duchess, which occuples an obscure corner of the Grand Central station. and which for two nights has had no steam on to keep it warm. L\ FOLLETSE FOR SENATOR MADISON, Wis., Dec. 11.—At the ! Senate caucus yesterday the sentiment wa: practicallv unanimous that Gov- ernor La Follette should be elected ; United States Senator to succeed Sen- { ator Quarles. Sixteen Senators were ! present. As a result of the caucus the La Fol- lette forces will organize the Senate, +and, as they have an overwhelming i force in the Assembly, this means that | all La Follette measures, including that providing for a commission to regulate freight rates, will go through. No official action was taken on the United Senatorshin, but the sentiment was practically unanimous that Gover- nor La Follette should be elected. As ] duty to protect her in the story of her}the Governor has said he does not birth as she had given it to me. never once doubted her until T was were worthless. After that, of course, Continued on Page 2, Column 3. - Continued on Page 2, Column 5, own. that the securities she gave me want to be Senator until his reforms are made law, it was tentatively agreed. if necessary, to postpone the election of a Senater-until the freight commis- sion bill should have been passed. SATS HE CAN FLOOD SOUTH LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11.—Charles Hnt?eld. a young man of Inglewood, near' this city, whose operations as a “rainmaker” have attracted consider- abie local attention, ls preparing for an interesting experiment along that line, in the event of the success of which Los Angeles citizens have pledged themselves to pay him $1000. Hatficld promises to induce, by his rain-making manipulations, a fail of moisture in Los Angeles of eighteen inches by the first of next May. If he succeeds the $1000 will be his; if he fails he receives nothing. Hatfleld’s method consists in dis- charging a certain combination of chemicals into the atmosphere at in- tervals of ten days, the result of which he claims comndenses moisture and causes a precipitation. The experiment will be watched with much interest. But three times since 1872 has Los An- geles had eighteen inches of rainfall within the time stated.