The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 13, 1904, Page 1

Forecast made thirty hours ending ber 15, 1904: San settled weather showers: THE WEATHER. Francisco and vicinity—Un- Tuesday, fresh southwest wind. ‘ | A. G. MoADIB, District Forecaster. i S San Francisco for midnight, Decem- | probably N THE THEATER& ALCAZAR—*Caprice.” CALIFORNIA—“Sis Hopkins." COLUMBIA—""A Chinese Honeymoon.™ CENTRAL~—"Lost In Siberia.” CHUTES—Vaudeville, FISCHER'S—Vaudeville. GRAND—"‘Tn Dahomey." MAJESTIC—“Mr. Potter of Texas." ORPHEUM— Vaudevill TIVOLI—"King Dodo." 13. FRANC ISC TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1904 ADVERTISES HIS THREAT 10 LAWS0 Colonel Green to Call Upon the Bos- fonian, S S Will To-Day Invade His Office and Call Him Varions Names, L Westerner's Warning Assures “Fren- zied Finance” Author of Ex- citing Half-Hour. Spec NEW YORK, Dec Green spatch to The Cail. —Colonel W. C. known mining man, with a flaming excoriation . These are some calle the Boston a the nc for- a charietan. el Green declares phasis that he is go- lat- the Lawson in tt Figurativi “Look out! hs ago in a “L” train, name of the ing man covered the way to Green from th the charge n dropped. reen has to say satisfaction from 3oston, I shall call vears have stood an whe has bullt up and 1 know that ne of many hon- swept away by you have spread public press. To- 1 shall denounce liar, a-faker long ago shall be Lawsoy, delivers ng through the advertisements to-morrow’s news- h pe F LAWSON RENEWS ATTACK. )STON, I Thomas W. Law- T upon the stock Amalgamated amer Steel and € has it that he tics to-morrow. It er half-page £ upon the pub- sing columns this form of iroughout the son claims, he rtising, while tele- s brought the an interview ack using agents that I plung- street; tock raid; down Mr. ng to shake truth is that 't a soul my plans dvertisement appeared. for there can be no the whole rotten is smashed. I am in 'he Government is knew says that §f no Federal ac- en toward prosecuting the terers, stock jobbers and fin- ipulators he will take it him- atement this afternoon he ystem’ for the first facts, and that such read broadcast on Fri- which heretofore stem’s’ principal am- abandoned. It will insiders of great cor- ch buy their own securi- after having sold iblic at higher prices, tors and insiders 7€, 10 get in all such work this class of business is going to end.” WALL STREET HARD HIT. NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—Beginning th heavy declines in Amalgamated to-day's market was weak ghout the entire session, the oc- al rallies failing to hold prices more than a few minutes at a Although values crumbled away y, there was little excitement in streft. Brokers seemed to have nothing but selling orders, they said, and they @id not look beyond that fact, the recent reckless speculation and the campaign by newspaper advertisement against a copper stock, to find reasons for the drop in prices. Monev was easy and loans were made freely, but collateral was scrutinized very care- fully. The market closed weak, with prices generally at the lowest. More than two million shares of stock changed hands during the day. the | THE BABES I have no| s battle is going to | | MERILIZED - MILKSAVEN (Cityof Liverpool Ben-| - efits by an Ex- '~ Derimen. {Extraordinary Reduction in! the Number of Deaths | of Infants. l {Pure Lacteal Fluid Supplied Fromi Depot Conducted by the £ Municipality. Special Dispatch to The Call. | LONDON, Dec. 12.—Sterilized milk | depots under public control are spring- | | ing up in nearly ali the principal cities | of Great Britain. Liverpool set the ex- | ample, and the success of the experi- {ment was immediately proved by a| | narrowing of an epidemic of infant| diarrhea to children fed on milk other | |than that supplied by the municipal | | depot. ‘ The City Council is losing money by | the venture, but on Saturday refused a large offer from a private company which desired to assume the enterprise. | The Council unanimously voted that | the public could weli afford to make | good the deficit to safeguard child life | | in the city. | From whatever cause this reduction | in infant mortality has arisen, it is &0 extraordinary that municipalities on| | every hand have been aroused to emu- |late the work of Liverpool. Eminent | | hygienists are formulating a scheme | for sterilizing the milk supply of Lon- | don, where the death rate among in-| | fants in crowded areas is a nightmare | | on the public conscience, | { LEGAL WAR WoN By RAILROAD Western Union Poles May Be Taken Down. —_—— WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—The Su- preme Court of the United States to- day decided the case of the Western Union Telegraph Company the Pennsylvania Railroad, involving the | | right of the Pennsylvania company to | { remove the telegraph company’s poles | | from its right of way, in favor of the | | railroad company. The opinion was | handed ‘down by Justice McKenna. In | the decision the court held that the Congressional act of 1866, which gov- | erns the case, does not grant eminent domain to telegraph companies over the private property of railroad com- panies, | The Supreme Court also decided the | case of the Western Union Telegraph 5Cumpany vs. the Pennsylvania Rail- | road Company involving the right of the telegraph company to condemn a part of the rallroad's right of way in | Western Pennsylvania and appropriate | it for its lines in opposition to the tele- ]grzph company’'s contentions. This is a second case in the controversy be- tween these companies. Responding to contentions on the !part of the counsel for the telegraph lcompany in the first case that rail- roads are not essentially different from | ,other highways, Justice McKenna | I said: “This argument would seem to make ;a railroad right of way public prop- - erty. To that extreme we cannot go. ;The right of way of a railroad is prop- jerty devoted to public use and has| io!len been called a highway and as! such is subject to a certain extent to | State and Federal control, but it has | 1always been recognized that a railroad I right of way is so far private property ias to be entitled to that provision of the constitution which forbids its tak- ing except under the power of eminent domain and upon payment of compen- sation. “It follows from these views that | the act of 1866 does not grant the | right to both companies to ehter upon and occupy the rights of way of rail- road companies except with the con- sent of the latter or grant eminent domain. Nor dces the statute of New Jersey make those rights of way pub- ic property so as to subject them to such occupation under the provisions of the act of 1866. It is admitted that the statutes of New Jersey do not con- vs. | granted him a new trial. NITE FULND I\ CELL OF A POISONER Recalls the Trial and Stuicide of Dr. (raves. —— Convicted Murderer Writes 0f Visitations by Vic- tim’s Wraith. Impelled fo End His Life by the Knowledge That His Mind Is Giving Way. Special Dispatch to The Call. DENVER, Dec. 12.—Before Dr. T. Thatcher Graves committed suicide in the County Jail, more than eleven years ago, he left a statement of his reasons for doing so. The statement re- mained undiscovered until a few days ago, when a plumber in making repairs in the cell formerly occupied by the physician found a letter tucked in a crevice in the wall behind a section of pipe. Dr. Graves was sentenced in this city to be hanged on the last Friday in July, 1893, for having poisoned Mrs. Jose- phine B. Barnaby, widow of J. B. Barn- aby, the millionaire merchant of New York, Providence, R. I, and Boston. His case was one of the most sensa- | tional ever tried in the Denver courts and extended over two years. After his conviction an appeal was taken to the Supreme Court, On the eve of this trial he. committed suicide by drinking water in which he washed fiypaper, which he was allowed to dis- tribute. about his cell. " WRITING IS THAT? OF GRAVES. The finding of the letter, which was | turned over to Warden Hudson of the County Jail, was kept secret until the officers, attorneys and others who had participated in the case had inspected the statement and decided that the writing was that of Dr. Graves. The statement follows: “I have determined to commit suicide. As a physician I have always preferred death to madness, and I am convinced that if 1 am compeiled to remain here much longer I shall go insane. I am so afraid, and yet no one, not even my- self, seems to think me a coward. dread my trial more every moment that I live, and yet itymight come out all right for me. “But I'm afraid to take any chances, and even if I did get free my character is ruined, so I figure that I might as well end my misery now. I have, be- sides this, another reason for what I am about to do, and as no one will ever see this I will tell it, as it relieves my mind in some measure. HAUNTED BY A GHOST. “The ghost of Mrs. Barnaby appears to me every night and seems to call me. I am not ashamed to confess that 1 am afraid to see that awful white face again. I don’'t know why she should come to me, but she does, and upon that T am afraid, and even when I think of it my hand trembles so I can hardly write. “It won’t be hard to commit suicide and I am not afraid of death. I be- lieve there is a merciful One, and into his hands I commit myself. All my life I have tried to do right, and surely that will count for something now. ‘Tempus fugit.’ Soon they will bring me something to eat and then they will leave me, and when they come again I shall be no more. “To write this has made me feel blue. They will take my pen away when they bring me food, and I must hurry and hide this. I told them I was going to write a letter, but they will think T am opening my wrist. I have the feeling now that 1 always have when Mrs. Barnaby appears. I am cold all over, and I am afraid. But I must give up my pen. g “I wish to add that I never murdered Mrs. Barnaby.” EFFORT TO BLOW UP IRON FOUNDRY IN KENTUCKY . Dynamite Wrecks Building and the Company Accuses Strikers of the Act. CINCINNATI, Dec. 12.—For the fifth time within two months the New- port Iron Foundry and Machine Com- pany's building at Newport, Ky., was dynamited late last night. No lives were lost and the workmen in the place all escaped Injury. Two men | were seen running east on Twelfth ! ference in cash. street immediately after the explosion, but they eluded their pursuers. A great hole was torn in the roof of the coal room, where the bomb alighted, 1 and the walls of the pattern room are 80 twisted and bulged that it is feared they will collapse. Members of the company declare it is the work of strikers. —_—\ fer the right of eminent domain upon telegraph companies.” The second case was decided ad- versely to the Western Union on the ground that “eminent domain cannot Dbe delegated” and that “lessees cannot exercise it.” which | EXCHANGES CARNEGIE SUDDENLY BECOMES MOTSWITH | TOO ILL TO GO TO CLEVELAND B GANG ‘Train Hold-Up Pre-, Sickness Follows Service of a Subpena Mys. Chadwick Ready to Face Trial in Ohio venied by Nervy Sporismar, Shoots at Masked Bandits After Receiving Bullet in Breast, i 1 { ! ¥ I Courage of Hunter Foils Plot to Rob/ the Spokans Fiyer Near Portland — Bpectal Dispateh to The Call. PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 12.—Walking ; along the Oregon Railroad and Neviga- | | tion Company’s track at the Montavilla | | switch this evening, Bert Yetter stum- | | bled on four masked and armed ban- dits, who were evidently waiting to hold up the Spokane Flyer of the com- | | pany. He saw the red light of the | switch change to greem just before he | discovered the would-be highwaymen. The train leaves Portland every even- ing at 6:15. Yetter was ordered to drop his rifle, a | | Winchester, with which he had. been | huntirg. He failed to do so and was | | instantly shot, the bullet lodging just | | | over his heart. Again the robber's pis- | | tol was aimea, but this time the trigzer failed. Yetter managed to aim his | Winchester and fire. : “Oh, God, I'm shot, Joe!” cried the! i highwayman to his nearest cemrade. At that instant the passenger train which the gang Had intended to rob | passed along unmolésted. The entire in great agony, feache ‘;v‘*flwr house. § The switch is not five miles from the Portland depot. It is evident that the bandits thought Yetter was a railway detective sent to intercept them. MERCHANTS CTIMIZED BY FORGERS Clever Pair Take Ad- vantage of Holi- day Rush, Special Dispatch to The Call. 1L®OS ANGELES, Dec. 12.—Taking ad- vantage of the Christm: rush in the stores, two expert forgers raided the clothing merchants of Los Angeles Sat- urday evening and by passing bogus pay checks of the Sunset Telephone Company cleaned up between $700 and $1000 cash, besides securing merchan- dise worth several hundred dollars. Nearly a dozen firms were eiu‘hl by the criminals for sums ranging from $20 to $140 each. The fact that the checks were forgeries was not discov- ered until to-day when, after they had passed through the clearing house, they were taken to the Los Angeles | National Bank, upon which they were drawn, and there pronounced forge- ries. - NEW YORK, Dec. lZ.—Mrfln{?‘!Sh L. Chadwick was overwhelmed by the de- velo 1ents of her case in Cleveland to- day, and the statement was made by one close to her that she probabl would give up the fight here and retu to Cleveland to-morrow night i the custody of United States cfficers. She dld not expect the doublé indictment which was found against her by the Cuyahoga County Grand Jury after the failure of the Loraine County -Grand Jury to find probable cause for action. Mrs. Chadwick is of the opinion that if she must face these charges she will be far better off in her home city than in New York. It is known that her counsel have strongly advised against this course of procedure, but Mrs. | Chadwick insisted that she be given free rein. In case this plan be carried out, Mrs. Chadwick will notify United States Commissioner Shields to-morrow, through her counsel, of her desire to waive examination and go to Clevéland without further formality. Shields will then sign the necessary papers and de- liver them to United States Marshal ‘Henkel, who will personally take the woman to Cleveland on the earliest train. Philip Carpenter of her counsel to- night said: “I think it possible that The men who passed the checks were ::roc::‘:w:!:e‘-" Y. "&: N dressed as laborers. They evidently | AR it = had elther been in the employ of the| 1 ay said at the residence of An- { telephone company or had had access| ... Carnegie to-night that he wouldl ) to the checks of that company long be unable to go to Cleveland to testify { enough to take a copy of them. The|in the Chadwick case, owing to iliness. checks they passed were printed for|Carnegle is indisposed an attack the purpose and were similar, but not | of lumbago and his physician is of the | identical, in form to the genuine. The | gpinion that it would be inadvisable for | men represented that they had been, him to take the trip. working on the Pomona extension line| Carnegie's iliness developed suddenly, | and had just been paid off. At each of | after the subpena was served upon the stores they purchased small bills of [ him this afternoon. Carnegie took the iznod-. sometimes a suit of clothes, | gubpena from the deputy marshal hats, underwear, etc,, and tendered the [ with a smile and, spreading it out on } checks in payment, recciving the dif-|his knee, read it carefully. “What!” he cried, when he saw that it required his presence in Cleveland. l"Why, I don’t think I will be able to go I cut there at all. I'm very sick.” T've got lumbago. Do you mean to say that I'll have to be out in Cleveland on The heaviest losers are: Harris & Frank, the Mullen & Bluett Clothing Company, Hub Clothing Company, I. Woiff and James H. Smith & Co., at which place the forgers passed two ‘plication for bankruptcy in the annals R e bl VORI S i checks, aggregating more than $100. There were a number of other victims, most of whom lost between $40 and $75 each. Not the slightest clew to the identity of the forgers has been discovered. Descriptions of them are valueless, be- cause they secured so many different kinds clothing that it would be im- other places. B possible to tell what kind they are wearing. It is believed they have left the city and will try the same game at ‘Wednesday, then come back here to ap- pear before Commissioner Shields” on Saturday?” The iron master was advised that he might see the United States District Attorney here about the matter. The interview terminated with the remark on the part of Carnegie that this weather did not agree with him. I ‘was snowing hard at the time. ' It was semi-officially announced to- 3 — FACSIMILE OF ANDREW CARNEGIE'S SIGNATURE Hdissr Casmspe 7, “ANDREW.CARNEGIE" AS SIGNED TO THE NOTE. o 3 FACSIMILE OF SIGNATURE OF MRS. CHADWICK. * - e ‘\'O{:N “‘im SWINDLED FAMOUS FINANCIERS OUT OF MILLIONS OF DOL- RS, HER SIGNATURE AND TWO CARNEGIE S /RES, THE ONE 1108 CITY'S BIG DERTS 2| CHICAGO, Dec. 12.—Zion - City has| paid the final installment on the big dedt which a year ago involved it in sensational bankruptcy proceedings and threatened to wreck the gigantic enter- prise established by John Alexander Dowfe. Checks were sent out to-day by Deacon C. J. Barnard, head of the financial department of Zion, in pay- ment of the final 40 per cent, approxi- mately $140,000, ¢t tbe orizinal indebt- edness of more than $400,009. ~ The payment brings to a conclusion one of the most remarkable cases of ap- Plan Among Foreign Nations to Pro- hibit Sale of Treasures to Americans. BERLIN, Dec. 12.—The election of J. P. Morgan to be president of the board of trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has caused Siegfried Lilienthal, one of the pest known art critics in Berlin, to see In this increased danger of the United States stripping Europe of her art treasures. He has accordingly be- gun an agitation for international ac- tion to prevemnt art objects going to the United States. I Lilienthal has obtained the written | views of the art authorities of Europe. ‘With one exception they all favor laws to prohibit the taking of works of art from Europe to America. —————————— New California Postmasters. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Ida Bix- by has been appointed postmaster at Atholone, Merced County. Charles H. Daily has been appointed postmas- ter at Geneva, Merced County: John B. Christie has been commissioned postmaster at Jonesville, and Charles C. Perkins postmaster t Perkins, Cal. of the country. One year ago a number of creditors of Zicn City petitioned Judge Kohlsaat for the appointment of receivers for the Zion institution.. At that moment affairs had an exceedingly gloomy outlook. Mrs. Dowie was in Eurcpe and reports had it that she had carried away with her vast sums of money. | argument of the head of Zion and came John Alexander Dowie was preparing | to the conclusion that he was better for departure on January 1for Austra- | fitted to ccnduct the affairs of Zion lia and the Continent. The creditors | than any other person. It was numbered 1100 and the aggregate|that he was to pay 10 per cent in three amount of their claims footed up $435,- | months, 25 per cent in six months, an- 000. X other 25 per cent in nine months and Judge Kohlsaat appointed receivers and they took charge of Zion. Dowie protested that he could pay the debt in | has kept his agreement a year If the receivers were removed. and paid 100 cents on Then came the appointment of a com. ' every claim involved, the balance of 40 per cent in a The receivers were discharged.