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1894, San Francisco and THE WEATHER. Forecast mzde at San Francisco for thirty hours ending midnight, Dec. 21, unsettied weather Wednesday, prob- ably rain by night; warmer; light northerly changing to fresh south- tnds. A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. — | | — s - CALIFORNIA— ALCAZAR—"‘Peaceful Valley.” ALHAMBRA—Paderewski. COLUMBIA— The Billionaire. CENTRAL—"Two Little Waits.” CHUTES—Vaudeville. Matinee to-day. FISCHER'S—Vaudeville. day. GRAND—“In Dahomey." e MAJESTIC—"Jim Bludso. ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. Matines m. day. TIVOLI—*'King Dodo.” THEATERS. ~Sis Hopkins." o+ NO. 21 PRICE VE CENTS “FRENZIED FINANCE Standard Oil's Partg in the Election | 1896. | FIVE MILLION FUND/ of — . Search]ighfg Turned Upon Addicks of Delaware. | | { { “FIXING” A COURT] Alleged Jobbery by Bay State Gas Company. Epectal Dispatch to The Call. — —~ - | BOSTON, Dec. 20.—Thomas W. Lawson said to-night that | he had been poisoned twice in | 1 the last three weeks. He made | light of it, but insisted that | } there was no mistake. He had | reasons of his own for keep- | Sas b atory frwm e public, he said | “In about twenty days,” he | | said, “I have been suddenly and mysteriously stricken down | twice Once doctors worked over me for twenty-four hours before they pronmounced my life | to be out of danger. In both | ses the symntoms were those | « stive pains, nausea usually ac- - | £ Sl < c. 20.—While Every- ing Thomas ‘Frenzied ¥ ng circulated by the r wousand 1o-day ity deflance | " I samuel Unter- ary H. Rogers, in Boston, supposed he t the sensa- American News edition of the have num- H rectly n charges that H. | H in raising b ) d to secure t} ublican ticket ir he h 1o St s me » & v seen, and, with his me nd the radicals -he will ca - ter the r = v surely be working people | W & ry. You know | w he Uncle Mark’ says it's a case of * ng something for the s g STATE GAS SCANDAL. Gas Com- been in | re the di-| licks’ suite, ver had | end had Adadicks, | llected. At Addicks, Lawson another room, and e he describes as| BAY ead of me through the > his bedroom. I fol- straight to the bu- something from a drawer, into his pocket, turned and n the lounge. But a frac-| te had elapsed since he | hone and I, being be- face. He looked ghost be the t before been r at Parker His face was| lead pipe and | and seams. ere dim and | and dead as a fish's from watery depths. game’s up,” he said In | . “That was Fred at| Fred Keller was his per- ) He says White Bray- | himself appointed re- | v State; that he raided | office immediately | ited, broke open the | papers he could | he will be in session of all | He has a-court | bank accounts and a | right to-take charge of our fundeor | COIN FOR COURT OFFICIAL After telling how $150,000 was 19 a court official during the lrou’:;:‘;' £f the Bay State Company, Lawson ! Baysy or should the public concl the dishonor and dishonest ’ in conme don with Bay s‘.,’xe“cli:‘i‘:! exceptional, contrary, doings are the rule in the J!yah:“cal;i great financial corporations. Into the| rigeing and launching of almost every big corporation in the United States during the last twenty years, double dealing, sharp practice and jobbery | have entered: and, what is more, the | men interested have participated in| and profited thereby. To correct ai Continued on Page 2, Column 4. e went ude that | | underground croseing to charity. | | to the nart of town where crossing is b3/ T T T FOTEL LA MERCHANTS | RA_LROAD’f P—— Santa Rosa Dealers| *< s, P } i = . ‘Threaten a Big § TWOMMEN WHO ARE THE MAIN 1 SON'S LATEST “FRENZIED Fi) { SWORN VENGEANCE UPON TH OB T JCTS OF ATTACK IN THOMAS W. LAW. ARTICLE, AND WHO -+ | | Corporation, SANTA ROSA, Dec. 20.—Local agita- tion over the grade crossing asked for YOUNG GIRL by the Petaluma and Santa Rosa Elec- Ti® tric Railway Company across the | 4 tracks of the California North- I 4 western Railroad on lower Third street reached the acute stage to-! day when Pesident A. W. Foster of the latter company replied to a recent communication addressed | to him by a committee of locai mer- chants upon the subject. The mers: | chants threatened to divert freight ents to the electric road after to-| day unless the crossing asked for was| sranted. | Foster's reply was courteous but firm, | the filroad company renewing the con- | tention that to allow the electric line| to cross company’s freight yards at the | point named would be too dangerous. | The letter also contained an offer to| donate half the cost of an overhead or | 10 DEATH Stands Close to Grate and Her Clothes Ca@flre. Special Dispatch to The Call. =\ UKIAH, Dec. 20.—Icie Cox, a pretty young school girl, was burned to death at the residence of her sister near Gua- lala a few days ago. The young lady had attended a party at the Galloway school house and afger her return home was standing in front of & fireplace with her badk toward the blaze. The draught drew her skirts into the flames and in a minute her clothes were ablaze. She yushed from the house caling for | help and her sister rushed to her aid, Sentiment here to-night is somewhat | divided, although several merchants an- | nounce their determination (o ship only | lime. The new road is now | and running from Sebastopol | desired, and also from Sebastopol to Petaluma, and Is doing a good business. The merchants are operating free buses from .the end of the line to the business part of town. | ——— | RUSSIA'S CZAR DECIDES AGAINST A CONSTITUTION | However, He Wiil Soon Announce a Definite Programme of Im. perial Reforms. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 20.—The delay in the issuance of .the imperial manifesto outlining reforms has led to the wildest rumors, according to which Emperor Nicholas has turned his back on the idea of making any concessions, the immediate downfall of Interior Minister Sviatopolk Mir- sky is imminent and the nomination of Lieutenant General Kleigels, Gov- ernor General of Kieff, as his succes- sor, may be looked for. These reports are entirely without foundation. "It is beyond question that the measures shortly to be an- nounced will be entirely unsatisfac- tory to the extremists and to any lib- erals who will be content with noth- ing less than a complete revolution of the Government. The proposition for a constitution and the convocation of a national assembly the Emperokr, al-] ter eareful consultation with his Min- isters and other advisers, has rejected as impracticable and impossible un- der the existing conditions, but what is termed a definite programme of ra- tional measures of reform in the di- rection of liberality has been decided “Mr. McKay made millions in the upon and shortly will b[ announced. | jumber business and with these at 5 ; their command the McKays moved to MOVEMENT FOR MUNICIPAL London in 1903. They have taken the OWNERSHIP IN NEW YORK Duchess of Somerset’s splendid house on Grosvenor Square.” Committee of Citizens’ Union Wants | R e the City to Have Its Own Threats Against Bankers. Lighting Plant. NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—The city O'NEILL, Nebr.,, Dec. 20.—Sheriff committee of the Citizens’ Union has throwing water over her. 'Before the fire was put_out, however, the young lady was so badly burned that-she died {in a few hours. s ————— MRS. McKAY'S HORSE FALLS | AND SHE IS BADLY HURT Leader of American Smart Sct in Eng- land Suffers From Concussion of the Brain. NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—The Amer- ican to-morrow will print a London dispatch under date of December 20, saying: “Mrs. Frank J. McKay, formferly of Chicago and now a leader of the American smart set in England, was seriously injured to-day while fox hunting with the fashionable Quorn hounds. Mrs. McKay's horse fell backward in taking a fence and she | was thrown heavily, sustaining con- cussion of the brain. In an uncon- scious condition Mrs. McKay was taken to Kirby Hall, which she has leased for the hunting season. Hall has gone to Phoenix, Ariz., to get President McGreevy of the failed S adopted resolutions the ex-|hcrn Valley Bank, who is under ar- tension of municipal of public | rest there. The bank’s cashler, utilities, a municipal ng plant, | rick Hagerty, is still missing. the purchase of el conduits and ::e th;:u:t of pgwleuf' by the Lesnl:hmre city to build and operate light- ing plants, gas and electric. have been made against the Valey bankers, but the made preparations to pri 3 his and tried to extinguish the flames by | CARELESS BVELLS | HiS SISTER \Girl's"Neck Is Pierced by Bullet From - Winclesier. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. Z'SAN BERNARDINO, Dec. 20.—Miss ilrene Lamar, a great favorite in soclal . circles, was accidentally shot and killed i | by her 18-year-cid brother, Charles La- mar, at The Needles to-day. The young 1 man was cleaning his Winchester rlfle’ Lo when the weapon was discharged, the !bullet penetrating a door and n and entering the next room, where it embedded itself in the girl's. neck. As soon as the young man saw that ‘e had wounded his sister he ran to summon surgical assistance, but before physicians could arrive the had expired. the bullet having sev- | ered bosh the spinal cord and the jug- uler vein. Miss Lamar, when she received her death wound, was sitting alone, doing T MofeCoaie 51t * u unate girl was the only daughter of the senior member of the firm_of Lamar Bros., and was to have graduated this year from the High j‘:?yool at The Nde‘edleu. The Coroner’s gave a verdict of death by accl- { dental shooting. - 4 FIREMEN ‘DESERT FUNERAL TO FIGHT THE FLAMES Cart in Which They Were Taking Dead Comrade to Grave Struck by Hose Truck. ' LA CROSSE, Wis., Dec. 20.—During ! the funeral of Thomas Ploot, a veteran | fireman, this afternoon an alarm of! fire was sounded, and the app-'mu‘.l dashing down State street collided with the funeral cart. The pro’ce-lon! was just passing the central station, ! into the street, pushing the hosecart hearse, bearing the body of the dead fireman, aside. As the apparatus whirled by the pallbearers, all fire- men, who were walking beside the funeral cart, swung. on the truck and were carried off to the fire. The fire. hoi ‘hitched to the hearse, hearing the alarm, pl far, derstood,, gm meX A tier 1o Port AFthur. “She-had-ew'( 15 tfe.Xind heart of a-jafler, that-m¥ | ye-soower bvas frankness itself. Miss in their ef to folls i i Bat ere Shesken betore t:‘u'r o NTO POLITICS blG FLEET 15 MOVING 10 ATTACK Japan Is Sending All Her Available Warships. Report TDMSquadron Will Be Intercepted Is Reiterated. Two British Blockade-Runners Are Captured With Russian Officers Aboard, LONODN, Dec. 21.—The Daily Mail's correspondent at Hongkong says he has learned on trustworthy authority that a powerful Japanese squadron of battleships and armored cruisers is proceeding southward, accompanied by fifteen colliers and transports, to at- tack the Russian Baltic squadron. According to the Shanghai corre- spondent of the Daily Telegraph it is rumored that a Japanese squadron of warships and transports is going south to meet the Russian squadron. TOKIO, Déc. 20.—The Japanese pro- tected cruiser Tsushima seized the British steamship Nigretia, bound for Viadivostok, off Ulsan, Korea, yester- day. An examination of the Nigretia's cargo showed that she had a large quantity of contraband of war on board. She was sent to Sasebo for trial before the drize court. It is reported that the Nigretia had ¢n board officers and men of the Rus- slan torpedg-boat destroyers who had escaped f!‘firph@,::—memem at Shanghai and were attéempting to Ruselan lines. The Nigretia belongs to Allan & Co. | of Leéith, Scotland. The Hritlgh steamship King Arthur also was captured while attempting. to leave Fort Arthur yesterday by the Japanese guardship Asagiri. It is un- King Arthur tcok Ruselan naval officers who were a pting to join the Russian second cific squadron. The King Arthur was taken to Sasebo for trial. The King Arthur is owned by the Bombay ard Persian Steam Navigation Company of Bombay.' She traded be- ween India and China, Japan, etc. SHANGHAI Dec. 20.—There appears to be ro doubt that the commander of the Russian torpeduv-boat destroyer «Grozovol, who has been interned here since his vesszl arrived after the battle between the Russian and Japanese fleets off Port Arthur on August 10, took passage in the steamship Nigre- tia, bound for Viadivostok. The com- mander documents. NAGASAKI, Dec. 21, 10 a. m.—The British steamship Nigretia. which was seized by the Japanese cruiser Tsu- shima off Ulsan yesterday, has arrived at Sasebo for trial before the prize court. The Nigretia was proceeding to Viadivostok with a cargo of kero- sene. It is said that the crew of the Nigrétia refused to leave Shanghai, but was compelled by the British Consal, who held that her cargo was not con- traband, owing to the fact that the pert of Viadivostok is not being block- eded by the Japanese. iR R DAVIS AN ABSENTEE. Loubct Welcomes the Other Members of the North Sea Commission. PARIS, Dec. 20.—President Loubet to-day received at the Elysee Palace the members of the international commission which is to inquire into the North Sea incident, but the non- arrival of Rear Admiral Charles H. Davis prevented American participa- tion, A guard of coloniai infantry drawn up in thé court of the palace sajuted the admirals. Loubet re- ceived the commission in the audience chamber, surrounded by naval and elvil oflicials. The British and Rus- sian admirals exchanged pleasant sal- utatlons. After Loubet had welcomed the commission there was a brief meeting of the Council of Ministers. ANTWERP, Dec. 20.—Rear Ad- miral Charles H. Davis, representative of the American Government on the international commission to -inquire into the North Sea incident, landed here to-day from the steamship Fin- 1and on his way to Paris, / % i e e s SUFFERING FROM COLD. Japanese Feel Effects of the Severe " Weather. MUKDEN, Dec. 20.—Deserters from the Japanese army are arriving here daily, They report there is much suf- fering from hunger, but more from cold, among the Japanese troops. y Chinese bandits i viee of the Japanese are 'going to Mongolia, which fact is regarded as indieat paid. . The Japanese are changing the ar- ent of their brigades, .regi- and divisions, which makes it ments € information more difficult to utilize where the muffied bell was tnlllng.' rought to the Russian headquarters! when there was a clatter and a_three- lg, pffion:n and deserters, %u( the | horse team swung the big aerial truck of the Japanese .remains about the same. . There was only occasional eannon- ading on the front to-day. b - RESERVES CALLED OUT. Czar to Send Two Hundred Thousand i More Men to Front. ; ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 20.—The of the reserves has been regain the | carried valuable charts and | the ser- ! ting that they are not hclngl ! DRIVEN 1D BY PRISOY CRUBLTIES Terrible Treatment, for Victim in Venezuela, EIncurs Castro’s Wrath and| { Is Condemned With- out a Trial. | Letter of Appeal for Aid Written byl the Sorrowing Motker to Fres- ident Foozevalt Bt - Special Cable to The Call and New York | Herald. Copyright, 1904, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. | MARACAIBO, Venezuela, Dec. '.’0.—! A grave condition of affairs exists in| Venezuela, due to the administration | of President (Castro. His relentless| course in politics is illustrated in an in-| stance which has by thjs time been presented to President Roosevelt| through & letter of appeal written by the mother of a political prisoner. in a | dungeon of Fort San Carlos at Mara- | caibo. The letter reads in part: ‘ “I come as a last resort to implore your pity. I am a widowed mother, ! to whom there remains but one son, the | others having perished on the battle- | ] fields of my unhappy country. The sur- | | viveor is a political prisoner since mnre? | than two years ago without the shadow | | of right or cause, by some whim of a | tyrant. have begged President Castro to receive and hear me that I might en-| deavor to convince him that my wretched son was not guiity. I hum- bled mvself and he has not deigned to answer my prayers, but he has had me | thrust forth by his lackeys. The little tthat remained to me, I sold that I| | might' again find my sop, and after many endeavong, after months of pri-| yation and fatigue, ] discovered, thanks ' | son ‘was chained like a criminal in one | of ‘the casements of Fort San Carlos| i at Maracaibo (to which he had been | condemined without trial); that he is| | not allowed to writé to me; that he { was suffering from fever, or from hun- ger when the fever left him. More than 1600 unfortunates, belonging to | all classes of Venezuelan society, share | | his fate because they have tried to cast| | off the yoke of the oppressor. ! “Now, having neither justice nor| | mercy to expect from the dictator, | { Castro, who has for these five years| terrovized Venezuela, in the name™of | | the mothers, wives, daughters and sis- | | ters of his victims, I ask if that which | you have done in behalf of the Arme- nians and Macedonians so far away, you cannoct also do for the unfortunates | at vour very doors.” | The Call-Herald correspondent corro- borates the mother’s statements and adds harfowing features of which the ! mother is fortunately ignorant. The| crvel treatment received by the pris- oner at times made him a raving maniac. PATTOUT FOR SCALP - OF ODELL Senator’s War Talk Means Fight to Finish. NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—It was an- | nouncea to-night that Senator Platt jhas received seventy-five acceptances i to his invitation to State leaders to at- itend a conference to-morrow, with the object of advancing Senator De- pew's chances for re-election. About 100 "invitations were sent out to-day, it is said. In an interview to-night Platt said: “There will be a zoodly company of - militant Republicans on hand to-mor- {row. The situation can no longer be | obscured or the issue befogged. It is now a fight to a finish. No one can | istay in the bushes. Every one must ! | line up. 1 “Those who are for honest dnlin;.l ifalrne!s and truth will line up with! us; those who favor the tactics and ! policies of Governor Odell will proba- = bly line up with him. There can be | no middle ground. Win or lose, this fight will go on untll honesty is tri. | ENACTS C18 TRAGEDY I¥ PANTOMINE Nan" Patterson Is a Dramatic Witness. Emerges Triumphant From a Merciless Cross- Examination. i Prns;cution Rests Its Case and the oung Woman's Fate Will Soon Be Known. NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—After a day of torment, facing the merciless cross-ex- amination of Prosecutor Rand, “Nan' Patterson, the former show girl, went to her cell in the Tombs to-nighg tired, but happy. For several hours she sat under the galling cross-fire of the As- sistant District Attorney, who probed the events of her life from the day she met Caesar Young, for the killing of whom she is being tried, till the mo- ment of his tragic death. No detail was so trivial as to escape the attention of the State’s attormey, but with scarcely an exception the accused act- ress proved a marvel of seli-control, Only once did Rand confuse her greatly. In going over the conversa- tion between her and Young at the Gravesend track Miss Patterson testi- fied that Young gave as a reason for sailing to Europe the fact that he was afraid Mrs. Young might harm hin the prisoner. Miss Patterson finally admitted that she recalled only an in- cident which had occurred in San Fran- cisco. GIVES FRANK ANSWERS. At times she parried the sharp ques- ticms of her inquisitor, but when he pinned her down to a definite question Patterson talked in a low, clear voice, punctuating her evidence here and there with expressions of much spirit. In the course of ome of her answers she exclaimed in a voice ringing with sincerity: “1 have always tried to be truthful and honorable.” Miss Patterson was led over the same gound to-day as yesterday, in a man- ner manifestly different, for to-day she was under the rapid fire questioning of the man who handled the case against her, and legal pitfalls were to be ex- pected. There were few striking ad- missions made by the witness, despite the very searching ques- tions asked. Noticeable among these, However, was the story of the money given by the bookmaker to Miss Patterson during their acquaintance. At one time the sum was $2800, at another $2500 and at another $1800 or $1500. She did not know the total amount and could not state whether it wouild total $50,000, but acknowledged that Young was a very generous man and gave her money whenever she asked for it. Miss Patterson said that Young was fearful that Mrs. Young would kill him and possibly the actress also.and for that reason wished her to flee to Eu- rope with him. Later she modified this under the battery of the prosecutor. DEATH SCENE RE-ENACTED. The dramatic climax of to-day's court scene came with the pantomime eanacted bpy Miss Patterson and a Dis- trict Aftorney’s messenger, showing the deathiscene in the cab. Seated side by side on a platform facing the court and the jury, the messenger under the tutelage of the former showgirl, they swayed back and forth as the prisoner said sh¢ and Young had done just be- fore the shooting. With the calm re- serve of one accustomed to play to thousands, Miss Patterson, without a tremor, went over the scene and by her interpretation tried to make it clear that Young had taken his own life. Throughout the two hours and forty minutes that Miss Patterson faced cross examination to-day few shadows of emotion crossed her pale face. She had evidently nerved herself for the ordeal, but when it was over a re= action came and she trembled violent- ly. Arising from the chalr, she bowed to the ‘Judge and the Earl of Suffolk, who sat beside him, and to the jurors. Then she ran down to her aged father and buried her face on his shoulder. He kissed her affectionately and said softly: “You did splendidly, little girl.” This scene closed the evidence for the defense. RAND BEGINS THE ATTACK. Assistant District Attorney Rand be- gan the cross-examination of Miss Pat- terson as follows: lAn you an actress by occupation? am. Are you a wife? es. Are you a mother? I am not. Then the story of her meeting’ with Caesar Young in July, 1903, while on a train bound for California with a the- atrical ccmpany was retold. Do member going from San Francisco with Young last year to Los Angeies? Yes. That was commented on in the papers, wad jumphant or I am under the sod.” 1 .rx;r_nu“_l daas. Did Mr. Young give you money when you America Asks for a Rehearing. came back East? ST, PETERSBURG, Dec. 20.—The ! 1o much i he give you? ‘Washington State Department has di-| ! think rected the American embassy to peti- | tion _ the Adm Court for a re- | hearing of the AMerican claims in the of Portland-Asiatic Just for two weeks? = He gave you $2500 to come East for two weeks? . Yes. By a long series of questions Rand Jed up to the time when she came to New York last May. Her sister called at her hotel the first evening and said that her husband, J. Morgan Smith, " Continuea on Page 3. Column 5.