The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 20, 1904, Page 1

ber 20: < O THE WEATHER Forecast made at §an ¥rancisco for thirty hours, ending miidnight, Decer-. NN - ! p N - San Francisco and viwity—Fair - ~ CALIFORNTA- THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—"‘Peacetul Valley.” “$is Hopiine.” COLUMBIA—""The Billionaire.” CENTRAL—"Two Little Waifs. CHUTES—Vaudeville. Matinee to-day. FISCHER'S—Vaudeville. Matines to- & Tuesday; fresh northeast winds. G:..A;D—“ Dahomey." A. G. McADIE, MAJESTIC—"Jim Bludso." ORPHEUM—Vaudevilie. District Forecaster. I TIVOLI—"King Dodo.” kS E —— VOLUME XCVII—NO. 20. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1904. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MAY BLOCK PLANS OF OREGONIANS MITCHELL AND HERMANN MUST ACT AS PROSECUT ION DIRECTS. Both Men in Serious Plight 2 AND CONG ALLEGED CC TO DEFEND RE: FROM OREGON WHO ARE SELVES AGAINST CHARGES TO DEFRAUD THE GOV- THE! ONSPIRA rmation recetved in Portland | Hitchcock has | United Senator Representative Binger | idea of the serious- | Secretary States ave ne land fraud charges hang- ads. Both men are sward Portland from fagtjas a train can Reprgsentative Binger ann had declined to come to Port- | port sent by his friends | apparently, that it was reported a had been made | 1 deeply involved him, caused him | rop public bu the Cspilol; accompany Mitchell to | | s more than probable that Francis | Deputy United States | i t Attorney, will not allow either | Benator Matchell or Representative | Hermann to appear before the Grand | Jury and declare their innocence, as they have stated in Washington they | will do. They must wait their turn | and will not have a chance to talk to the Grand Jury until the Government | prosecutors consider it proper for them to do so. | Subpenas were issued for both _the Benator and Representative, but they confession Senator now refused to come. When they heard, however, that the charges were being made directly against them they start- ed st diately. | Because of his apparent connection | with the appalling Norman Williams murders it is believed that C. E. Loo- mis, formerly a special Gnvernmem; Jand agent, will be brought into the land fraud .. | Norman Williams murdered Alma Nesbitt and her aged mother in Was- co County in 1900, hiding their bodies under a chicken-house. He is now under sentence of death. Loomis was sent to investigate the claims held by | Willlams and for pessession of which Willlams had apparently murdered the two women. Loomis became cog- | nizant of the murders, it is believed, and advised Williams to leave thel country. Williams h:ld $5000 worth | of stock in a ditch company at the | time and this stock was afterward found to have passed to Loomis. Loomis is known to have been Bin- ger Hermann's confidential man while Hermann was Commissioner of the General Land Office. If it is proved before the Grand Jury that Loomis | was certainly aware of the facts in the sensational Williams murder trial he will be turned over to the Wasco County authorities and tried for an accessory after the fact. WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—The Su- preme Court of the United States to- day granted the motion to advance the hearing of the Benson, Hyde and Dimond Pacific Coast land conspiracy cases and they were set down for Feb- S s R AT ruary 20. The cases involve the ques- tion of remoyal from one jurisdiction to another. KIDNAPED i1, FOUND > BY FATHER After Fiiteen Years Parent and Child Are United. Special Dispatch to The Call TACOMA, Wash.,, Dec. 19.—After fifteen years’ search James B. McDon- ald of Cincinnati has found in the forest at Twisp, Okanogan County, many miles from raiiroads, his nine- teen-year-old daughter, Lillie, who was kidnaped by two rough looking men June 10, 1888, while playing near her home one mile from Plainfield, N. J. The kidnaping of Lillie broke up McDeonald’s héme and a year later Mrs. McDonald died in Orange, N. J., from a broken heart. McDonald {moved to Dayton, Ohio, and later to Cincinnati. He has spent a fortune in his efforts to recover the child. The girl was found last week as the adopted daughter of Mrs. Mary L. Mc- Cabe, formerly a nurse at Bellefon- taine, Ohio. There Mrs. McCabe found the child nine years ago. A merchant of Bellefontaine in moderate circum- ; stances confessed to Mrs. McCabe Cabe just before dying with typhoid that he and another man had kidnaped the child six years previously. Re- forming, he had accumulated some money and started a store. - He had always treated the girl well. Mrs. McCabeé adopted the child, tell- ing many friends the story of her ab- duction. This resulted in an inkling of the truth reaching McDonald. Only three months ago he secured his first definite clew, and it brought him to this State, and resulted in his finding his daughter. Until last week neither Mrs. McCabe or Lillie even knew the name of her parents. * Mrs. McCabe will give up her home- stead and accompany the McDonalds home to Cincinnatl, ~ MPORTANT FORT TAKEN BY ASSAULT Crushing Blow 10 Port Arthur’s Defernders, Japanese Blow Up North, Keekwan Works With [mmense Mine. I | Infantry Then Charges and Surprised Garrison Falls Back After Gallant Resistance. TOKIO, Dec. 19.—The Japanese fired | an immense mine under portions of the | north fort of East Keekwan Mountain | | at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon. The in- fantry immediately afterward charged' and occupied the fort with a heavy | force. The following report of the cap- | | ture was telegranhed Nogi's headquarters to-day: “At 2:16 o'clock on the afternoon of | | December 18 part of our army blew up | | the parapets of the north fort of East | Keekwan Mountain and then charged. A.fierce battle with hand grenades en- | sued. Owing to the stubborn resistance | | of the enemy with his machine guns | | our operations were temporarily sus- | | pended. “Subsequently, at 7 o'clock in the evening, General Semeamima, com- | manding the supports, advanced into the casemates and, encouraging the men, threw his supports into the fight- ing line in a last brave charge. FORT IS CAPTURED. “At 11:50 o'clock at night we com- plgtely oecupied- the fort and imme- diately engaged in the construction of defen-lVQ works. Our occupation be-| came firmly assured to-day. | “Before retiring the enemy exploded} four mines in the neighborhood of the neck of the fort. “We captured five nine-centimeter hfield and two machine guns, as well as | | plenty of ammunition. | “The enemy left forty or fitty dead. | Our casualties have not been investi- | gated, but they are not heavy.” It is reported that the Japanese have | seized a strong position about 1000 | yards southeast of 203-Meter Hill pre-| paratory to assaulting the new town | and pushing between Liaoti Mountain and the Russian headquarters at Port | Arthur. The fighting against Sungshu | Mountain continues. | SLAVS CAUGHT NAPPING. | LONDON, Dec. 20.—According to spe- | cial correspondents with the Japanese | army the capture of the Keekwan fort was a complete surprise to the Russian garrison, there having been no prepara- tery bombardment. Japanese sappers drove shafts forty feet under the par- | apet of the fort, from the escarpment and moat. In these two tons of dyna- | mite were exploded simultaneously, completely wrecking the interior of the fort while siege and shrapnel guns shelled Russian troops in the vicinity. | This occurred at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. A detachment of Japanese infantry made a headlong but pre- mature rush and sixty of them became buried under a mass of debris, greatly delaying the attack. Despite this mis- chance another volunteer force dashed forward and captured the parapet. In the meantime the Russians had been strongly reinforced and a flerce hand-to-hand struggle with bayonets and grenades was continued until near midnight, when the few IRussian sur- vivors retreated to the city and the fort was captured.” Its*construction displays the utmost sclentific. knowl- edge. e o FIRST CHPARGE DISASTROUS. HEADQUARTERS OF THE THIRD JAPANESE ARMY, Dec. 19.—The capture of the North Keekwan Moun- tain fort was a brilliant spectacle. For weéks the Japanese had been tunnel- ing two shafts forty feet in length, with four branches. They laid seven mines, which were exploded on the 18th. « The two attacking parties were composed of volunteers, and those participating in the first attempt vowed to capture the fort or die. The sol- diers of the first force were distin- guished by a red badge. They re- mained in the moat during the explo- sion of the mines, having charged pre- maturely, and many were killed by the debris. The second body of assaulters, dis- tinguished by white badggs, was in jthe saps during the explosion and i was prevented charging immediately, ! the mouths of the saps haying been filled with debris. 4 The explosfon made two huge rents on the north walls, through which the assaulters charged the enemy, winning the trenches in front of the wall and killing the remainder of the garrison in the rear of the fort. —_— Anti-War Demonstrations. MOSCOW, Dec. 19.—In the course from General | DR. ABBOTT LAUDED AN DENUNCED Clergymen Discuss His Harvard S_e_r_gll_og, Unitarians and Universal- ists Say His Views Are Not Original. Two Fresbyterian Pastors Bitterly Criticizs Patriareh’s Rejection of Biblical Lw. ——— Special Dispateh to The Call. NEW YORK, Deec. 19.—Has Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott broken away from the Christian theology? is the question clergymen of every denomination were asking to-day. In making his views krown to Harvard students yesterday Dr. Abbott confessed that he expected | to be branded a heretic. “I wonder if you students in Har- vard will understand me when I say that I no longer believe In a great first cause?” said Dr. Abbott. “My God is a great and ever-present force, which i3 manifest in all the activities of man and all the workings of nature. I be- lieve in a God who is in and through and of everything; not an absentee God, whom we have to reach through a bible or priest or some other outside aid, but a God who is closer to us than hands or feet.” g Rev. Dr. Minot J. Savage said to- day: “We Unitarians have been preaching just this sort of thing year in and year out, yet when some one else comes along and says it the public ac- claims it something mew. That ser- mon might have bégn preached by any Unitarian-minist 3 o the land.” Rev. Robert Collyer also expressed, pleasure that Dr. Abbott had put him- self on record in such a pronounced manner. “It is an interpretation of the heart and head,” he asserted. “The outlook is growing brighter and brighter for the great, good, grand fatherhood of God.” UNIVERSALISTS PLEASED. Universalists are as ready as Uni- tarians, to whom they are so closely related, to rejoice over the broad.reve- 1stions expressed by Dr. Abbott. Rev. Dr. Parkhurst was unwilling to commit himself to an opinion before reading Dr. Abbott’s sermon in full, further than to say that if Dr. Abbott had been quoted correctly he had blun- dered in placing evolution before crea- tion, as there must be something from which to unfold to make evolution pos- sible. When Dr. Abbott was pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church in Brooklyn several years ago, he made a considerable stir in theological circles by his remarks from the pulpit of that church on the Bible story of Jonah and the whale. The Congregational denomination has slight jurisdiction over its clergymen and Dr. Abbott cannot be tried for heresy in any such official manner as would be possible in the Presbyterian, Episcopalian or Methodist church. A minister’s own congregation could dis- pense with his services as pastor and ministers of other Congregational churches could meet and agree to re- fuse him the use of their pulpits or the privileges of -fellowship, but that is as far as the punishment could go. DENOUNCED IN PITTSBURG. A special from Pittsburg says that Dr. Abbott's sermon yesterday has caused great indignation among Pitts- burg clergymen. Rev. Dr. J. T. Mec- Crory, pastor of the Third United Pres- byterian Church of Pittsburg and prob- ably the leading divine of that creed to-day, sald: - “Abbott Is an infidel. believe in Christianity. ters his-true thoughts.” % “If T were to form a composite pic- ture of the devil as an agel of light and of darkness, I could easily imagine Lyman Abbott and Bishop Potter in the composite,” said Rev. Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts of Washington, D. C., who is in Pittsburg In the interest of the Pres- byterian Reform Bureau. “While both men are clean and probably sincere, their ideas work more harm to the moral world than those of any two men living. I have always found that when a. man becomes loose on theology he hecomes loose on ethics. Lyman Abbott, besides his attacks on the Bible, favors wine drinking and open saloons on Sunday.” —_—— CZAR HOLDS OFFICERS RESPONSIBLE FOR MEN Is Determined to Prevent Excesses hy Soldiers Throughout the Empire. KIEFF, Russia, Dec. 19.—The Gov- ernor has issued a proclamation an- nouncing that Emperor Nicholas has conferred on the heads of military districts in which martial law is not declared the power of trying by court- martial all officers in charge of troops He does not He simply ut- of antl-war demonstrations here to- day, several persons were slightly in- Jured. R+ i ernmw-wt\ in the event of the latter committing excesses punishable by penal servitude under the military codes. The officers are thus held responsible for the con- duct of their men. POLICE MUST DISPROVE CHARGE OF CORRUPTION Commission FilesFindings in Chinatown Case Hutton Makes Complaint Against Eight Members of Department R corruption in Chinatown. T a meeting held yesterday afternoon the Board of Police Commissioners handed down its findings in the matter of the investigation of charges of Though Commissioner Howell, in specific terms, and Hutton, Drinkhouse and Reagan, by omission of specific statement, agreed that it had not been proved that any official was guilty of accepting bribes, charges of neglect of duty were filed by Hutton against three sergeants and five patrolmen who had. done duty in Chinatown, and they will be placed on trial before the commission to-morrow evening. s | | SHOWS 1P LAWSON IN NEW LIGHT ‘Revelation Made by Friends ~of Keene, T L Bostonian Aids in Forming and Then Deserts the - Copper Pool. | Fails to Respond- When ~Assessment Is Levied for Protection of Stock Epecial Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—Thomas W. Lawson’s reference to the transactions of the pool in Amalgamated Copper and his statement that James R. Keene had ‘‘washed” Copper Trust stock in the operation of the pool, brought out to-day in Wall street an interesting tale of Lawson’s connection with the pool. According to this story, which is vouched for by several mem- bers of the pool, Lawson appears in a new role. The pool was one of the strongest ever formed in Wall street and was got up for the purpose of protecting Amal- gamated Copper stock, shortly after the formation of the company in 1899. Lawson was a participant. It appears that $15,000,000 of the $75,- 000,000 capital which the company had then was allotted to the public. A few months after the company was formed the greater part of this stock was thrown on the market. The insiders then formed a pool to support the stock. The funds put up by the pool members at first were insufficient to care for the stock thrown on the mar- ket and a call was sent out to the par- ticipants for further cash. Every one responded except Lawson. Flower & Co. were in Amalgamated Copper stock at that time and were popularly supposed to be the managers of the pool, with James R. Keene act- ing as market operator. Flower & Co. sent out calls to Lawson, but he failed to respond. Enraged by Lawson’s fulminations, H. H. Rogers has started an elaborate campaign against Lawson. He has tried to stop the circulation of the January number of Everybody’s Mag- azine, which will be placed on sale to-morrow, and which contains an in- stallment of Lawson's “Frenzied Fi- nance’* that is particularly severe on Rogers. His lawyers have sent formal notice to the American News Company,. which acts as distributing agent for Everybody's Magazine, notifying the managers that they will expose them- gelves to danger of criminal prosecu- tion if they place the magazine on sale. Prosecuting Attornéy Jerome, on an affidavit of Henry Wack, probably will take steps to indict Lawson for circulating libelous statements. ‘Wack did not appear to-day at Jerome's office, but sent his counsel, Charles M. Beattie. The District At- torney created some surprise by say- ing that he had seen another lawyer representing “larger and greater in- terests than those represented by Mr. Beattie.” Sy POt TWO BROTHERS SENTENCED BY LOS ANGELES JUDGE ‘Heavy Punishment Meted Out to Bold Pair Who Held Up and Robbed a Peddler. LOS ANGELES, Dec, 19.—Jake and Silas Castile, brothers, were to-day sentenced to twenty and ten years res- pectively in State prison at San Quentin by Judge Smith in the Su- perior Court, for highway robbery. two terms in the State Prison. They were convicted of robbing Morris El- lis, a Jew peddler, several months ago. WALLS FALL AN TWELTE AR BURIED 'Hotel Guests Crushed in the Ruins in Minneapolis. Building Partly Destroyed by Fire Tumbles on Hostelry. Flames Burst Forth and Add to the Horror of the fit- uation. MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 20.—The east wall of the O. H. Peck building, which was destroyed by fire? last Tuesday crushing the Crocker Hotel. Twelve in- mates of the hotel were buried in the ruins. As the hotel walls fell in the structure burst into flames. The miss- ing are: WILLIAM CROCKER, MRS. LECLAIRE. JENNIE MORRIS. WILLIAM MORRIS. WILLIAM BRAY, carpenter and con- landlord. tractor. HANS ANDERSON. JAMES » hostler. MRS. MAC————. TWO SCANDINAVIANS, names un- known. PETER , hostler. ALBERT Mrs. Willlams was taken out of the wreckage seriously injured and may die. Four bodies have already been taken from the ruins of the hotel in three of which life is extinct, and a fourth, an unknown woman, is near death. The fire in the hotel was slowly drowned out and the firemen began to work underneath the failen wall, try- ing to extricate the people known to have been in the hotel. POR GIRL SCORES HIT WITH VIOLIY Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—At the Bagby “musical morning” in the Wal- dorf-Astoria to-day Miss Adele Aus der Ohe faileda her audience at the eleventh hour. Mr. Bagby was in de- spair. Finally in the audience he dis- covered Sophie Acounine, a poor Rus- sian girl, who had studied In the Con- servatory of Music in Paris. Mile. Acounine did not have her violin with her, but she made the most of a screechy instrument used by one of the men in the Waldorf-Astoria or- chestra. Miss Acounine played three num- bers. At first the audience was im- pressed with her faultless technique. But it remained for the Berceuse of 3 Joselyn to prove the depth of the, girl's artistic feeling. After this num- ber the audience applauded wildly. Mile. Acounine was recalled many and one woman in one of the unfastened her violets and ‘them down on the stage to the fi who had made so unexpected a ¥ © Miss . Acounine has not made her professional debut and is not yet 20 years of age. night, fell at 1:30 o'clock this morning, | - Three sergeants of police and five patrolmen must face trial before the Police Commission to-morrow evening as a redult of the investigation into the charge that corruption has long stalked through Chinatown. Thomas P. Ellis, William F. Brophy and Philip BE. Fraher are the accused wearers of the chevrons and Henry Heinz, William Doran, Henry T. McGrath, Charles E. Munn and R. R. O'Brien the men of the ranks that have been placed on | the defensive. These men," with the exception of Ellis, are charged with plain neglect of duty. Ellis, on top of this charge, is accused of willful violation of duty, the result of Commissioner Hutton's charge that through the manipulation of some mysterious “high sign” by that officer every Chinese in the city was made aware one night that Hutton was abroad and that it was time to take to cover. The filing of these charges was the result of the finding of the Police Com- mission in what it terms “the matter of the investigation of matters in Chinatown.” Though all the Commis- sioners participated in the findings, it was Hutton who filed the charges and on whom the burden of proof rests. It was Hutton's original plan to charge every policeman serving in Chinatown since raising of the injune- tion s Septentiefwith neglect of duty, but this act would have placed even Patrolman Minihan, Hutton's ald on the night of his memorable raid, on the defensive. After thinking the mat- ter over Hutton decided. to let the weight of the investigation fall on Ser- geant Ellis and his squad of police and Sergeants Brophy and Fraher, whose only connection with Chinatown is that it is included In their district north of Market street. Ellis and his squad were on duty in Chinatown the night Hutton invaded £20 and $20% Washing- ton street and they must explain first. Later, Hutton says, he may call upon the others to save their stars if they can. FILE THREE REPORTS. The Commissioners filed three re- ports. The first—a majority report, bearing the signatures of Commis- sioners Hutton, Reagan and Drink- house—exonerates Mayor Schmitz and Attorney A. Ruef from any participa- tion in any corruption that may exist in the Mongolian quarter, but is not so kind with the police. These Com- missioners find that though hampered by the courts and the difficulty of gaining entrance to the gaming places the police have never, except in rare instances, used proper efforts to in- sure their suppression. These Com- missioners also find that the evidence produced in the investigation shows that funds are raised by the gamblers and believe that some portion of these funds is used for corrupt purposes, “but the final resting place of the money is not at this time susceptible of legal proof.” Commissioner Howell, though shar- ing these views in the main, holds that though he believes gambling could be permanently suppressed in Chinatown, he seriously questions the advisability of stripping the beats of the city in order to throw a great force into Chinatown to effect this purpose, there. by increasing the danger of other crimes, probably of more serious im- port to the whole community than the gambling in Chinatown. ‘While the Commissioners that signed the majority report exonerate Mayor Schmitz and Atforney A. Ruef, they make no specific mention of Chief of Police Wittman or other member§ of the department, leaving the report open to any constwuction the reader may see fit to place Wn it in this re- gard, but Commissione® Howell cor- rects this innuendo in the following language: “I desire to say In conclusion that in- asmuch as a great deal has been said tending to implicate many officials and others in the corruption believed to ex- ist that no evidence of any kind or na- ture whatsoever has been introduced before this commission tending in any manner to directly implicate any of- ficial of this city and county or of the Police Department, or any citizen of this ecity, in any participation in the corruption fund.” FEXONERATE COMMISSIONERS. The third report is signed by Com- missioners Hutton and Howell, and in positive terms they find that no evi- dence was produced tending in any way to implicate either Commissioner Drinkhouse or Commissioner Reagan in the Chinatown scandal. The majority report, signed by Hut- ton, Drinkhouse and Reagan, is as fol- lows: *“Our conclusions from the testimony introduced In the informal Investiga- tion held by the Board of Police Com- —_— Continued on Page 2, Column 4.