The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 5, 1905, Page 1

THE WEATHER. Forecast made at San Francisco for thirty hoprs ending midnight, Janu- ary 5: San Francisco and vicinity—Fair | Thursday; light gortheast winds, A. G. McADIB, District Forecaster. BIA— day. TIVOLI—"King . THE THEATERS. Al “0ld Heldelberg." #Anm—ufim. LIFORNIA—'‘Yon Yonson." L—"Child Siaves of New ES—Vaudeville. to-day, iy, "My Aunt’s Advice.”" AJESTIC—“Held by the Enemy.” to. Matinee 3 ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. Matinee to- Dodo." 5, - 1905. PRICE . FIVE CENTS. The Mayor and Chief of Police of Portland were indicted yesterday on the charge of malfeasance in They are accused of baving refused to enforce the statutes passed by the last Legislaturc regulating Indictments Were also returned against the recently deposed City Engineer, two of 'his inspect- ors and two contract:rs for alleged fraud in connection with the building of a sewer. office. gambling. | PIRMSSSONES Police Involved ° in Scandal. ’ PERMIT GAMBLING Sewer Work Frauds| Are Charged to I Mayor and Chief of'r“ Engineer. SWINDLE ON CITY| i PORTLAND, Jan. 4.—George H.| Willlams, former Chief Justice of Ore- gon Territory, former United States | Senator from the State of Oregon, Attorney General in President Grant's second Cabinet, Mayor of Portland and & man with the snow of eighty-three winters upon his head, was indicted | by the Grand Jury of Multnomah Ceunty to-day on the charge of mal- feasance in office. The indictment al- | | leges that on July 13, 1904, while| Judge Willlams was Mayor of Port- | | land and acting in that capacity he re- | : fused to enforce the statutbs regulat- | | ing gambling. The law, which was | passed at the last session of the Legi lature, gives the Mayor power to close | disorderly houses within four miles of | the city and it is alleged that he failed to avail himself ‘of that power. An_indictment against Chief of Po- | | lice Hunt is almost identical with that returned against Mayor Williams, charging’ that he knowingly permltted a gambling game to be conducted at * the Portland Club. Peter Grant and Nethan Solomon are the proprietors | | of the club. Solomon recently was convicted of conducting a gambling plate. Indictments were also returned| | against W. C. Elliott, recently deposed ag City Engineer; against his inspec- g g 2 5 5 E = F : ] 3 £ o Riner, contractors. 2 The indictments against Elliott, Cay- | wobdd, Chandler and the Riners charge | obtaining money from the city by false pretenses and are the result of the in- | vestigation of the alleged Lanner | | Creek sewer frauds. The indictment | recites that the contract was awarded to the Riners by the executive board; e that the work was not done in accord- ance with the contract; that C 'wood ified that it had been properly : that the report was approved by | Engineer, and the work | by the Executive Board. | Other indictments returned by the | Grand Jury were against J. N. Flesh- | man and M. G. Nease, managers of the | Warwick Club, a poolroom, for main- | taining a nu ce. ral Willlams gave tne following ent concerning the indictment FOR A TREATNE) THAT CURES PYELNOVIA ment_charges me with no | flfense. It simply accuses me | ing instructed the Chief of | do what was plainly his duty. | i d the suppression | State last | n to com- | gambling resorts in of a mandamus. n the court held that | of gambling was plainly a | 3 to ba done uctions from me. this T don’t think that tion is ne ry.” = 2 STATETO BAVE TW0 COVERNORS cesstully by Chicago Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Jan. 4.—Chicago physi- cians soon will be called upon to hear a technical paper on the use of oxygen in pneumonia, prepared by Dr. H. J. 3 Burwash. So successful has been the Demoerats Decide to Have|system of treatment adopted by Dr. m Burwash that he contemplates giving Alva Adams Take Oath|to the profession all of the data that ¢ 2o 3 . oo bas been gathered in a strenuous sea- of Office in Colorado| gn or practice. S | “Only recently I arrived at the bed- side of a patient who was blue and ap- parently nearly dead from pneumonia,” said Dr. Burwash to-day. ‘“The usual plan of administering oxygen failed of results. 1 sent gas into thé body by way of the bowels, and in three min- | utes the skin glowed a healthy pink. |'The organs seemed to take up their | normal functions, the pulse™ became steady and the lung cells began to per- form their .dities, The absorntion, as ans have but nineteen Sena- | it were, of the oxygen by the viscera ainst fifteen Democrats. The | wag instantaneous. nost in favor to-night is to re- “If 1 had not had such good results sider the vote by which they were| from this way of administering oxygen ated two years ago. | i= severe cases of pneumonia I would The Supreme Court this morning di- | not be so positive in favoring it. But ‘ted that an Inquiry be made into|if the pulmonary passages are clogged conduct of the last election in this: and the patient gets little, if any, of and ordered that it assume the| the oxygen into the lungs by the ordi- pe asked by the Republicans. This| nary method of administering oxygen, that the investigation shall not} why not diffuse gas through the tissues take in the ballot-boxes. but the: by the injection method? . I have de- roll-books, registration slips and all|layed presenting this matter to the at- other matters pertaining to the clecvl tention of my colleagues because of tion, Drofessional activity.” * The application of Alva Adams for | e PR a modification of the order. limiting it to the ballot-boxes only, was denied. The order was, however, modified in the matter of expense. The Democrats have decided that on January 10, the date prescribed by the statutes, they will have Alya Adams n as Governor of the State. 4 ?Ihp nxth] will be .gnum-tered by Jus- '; ce Steele of the eme Court. Horar and piace of the ceremans have | formally dissolved the Diet to-duy In not been definitely settled. As Pea- | a speech from the throne dealing. with body does not intend to surrender of-|the parllamentary situation. The fice the State will have two Governors | spegch proved to be a mild document, until the case is finally decided. containing no criticism of parliamen- There has so far been not the slizht- bstructi o5t evidence of any disturbance. nor has there been in any direction any | fixed to begin January 28. Th indication of a breach of the peace be- | requires that all the e'%ct{onr cause of the political situation. s DENVER, Jan. 4—No action was| taken by the Legislature to-day looking toward a settlement of the Gubernato- rial contest, and it is. not likely that anything in this direetion will be un- dertaken at the first session to-mor- row. When the Senate meets to-morr attempt will be made to oust tw ators. It requires a two-thirds v ] deprive a member of his seat. and the | Reput THE DIET OF HUNGARY Francis Joseph's Speech From the Parliamentary Obstructionists. BUDAPEST, A held within ten days thereafter. ' OF THE METROPOLI v LLEGED MA Oxygen Used Suc-| KING-EMPEROR DISSOLVES 1 return immediately to San n.? ‘ol on.. - 'he date of the elections has been |’ G GAMBLING. GON, WHO HAS BEEN INDICTED BY THE GRAND JURY OF MULTNO- IN OFFICE. IT BEING CHARGED THAT HE REFUSED TO ENFORCE FAIRMONT Mrs. Oelrichs Has Decided That an Apartment House on C(alifornia Street Hill ‘Will Be Better Investment TAKES ADVICE OF THOMAS MAGEE JR. Immediate Remodeling of Hand- e Structure Has Been o.dered by Owner Through Her Agent Here Members of San Francisco's 400 who have ‘been looking ‘pleasantly forward to the functions that would have ai tended the opening, the Fairmont Hotel, will never have their happy expectations realized. Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs has changed - her plans and abandoned the project for a magnificent hostelry. In its stead she ment that will compare with anything of its character in the world. This anouncement was made at the Palace Hotel last evening by Mrs. Oelrichs’ local representative, Thomas Magee Jr., who has just returned from the East, where. he conferred with Mrs.. Oelrichs concerning her interesis here and advised her to abandon her plans for the Fairmont Hotel. Thomas Magee's advice to his client was con- curred in by the architects of the Fairmont and her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbiit, and finally resulted in her complying with their suggestion. Accordingly the architect,' who had been hurriedly sum- moned to New York, was instructed to isco for the purpose of altering the interior plans of the structure. In persuading, Mrs. Oelrichs to accept his views in the matter, Thomas Magee Jr. clearly presented to her many facts that go to show that a hotel on.the isolated from the center of .the city -as it would be and with the ex- pense that would be incurred nishing it elaborately, of a Thomas Magee Jr. was then upon substitute for to suggest a e o client his ideas of an elegan a year hence, of| will open a swell apartment house on the Nob Hill property—an establish- | PLANS WILL | ENDS LIFE BE CHANGED | | | Chicago Girl Shot| | through Southern California. ACCIDENT OF HEIRESS While Cleaning a Rifle. — . Soecal Dispatch to The Call. CHICA®0, Jan. 4—Mies Murial Byram, 24 years old, of 2909 Michigan avenue, a young woman well known in society, was-killed to-day by the ac- cidental discharge of a cartridge in a rifle she was cleaning. Miss Byram was preparing for a hunting trip She was to haveleft for Pasadena to-morrow afterhoon.” Miss Byram was an heiress and one of the most popular of South Side young women. -She had a ‘“‘coming- out” party. about three winters ago, and two vears ago was one of the so- ciety group appointed to efitertain Miss Alice Roosevelt 'during °horse-show week. She gave a luncheon in honor of arflu Roosevelt in her Michigan-avenue ome. ; Miss Byram possessed unusual beau- ty, was an accomplished horsewomen and loved outdoor sports. . Prince Henry of. Prussia during his visit to this country a couple of years ago met Miss Byram. He became very attentive to her and several times re- marked to acquaintances that she was the most beautiful woman he had ever | fashionable sections of San Franc In. two days’ time Mrs. Oelrichs erased from her mind the thoughts of| diecuasing with her wiviser o er Iviser ¥ the- ipcgmtnt house. In ommc’ the story of ‘the proposed abandon-' ment. of the hotel . project, Thomas Jlast night: ¢ wisely and | e &m' ture. the mmu of it mm;.gm % be managers, mi prove B this convincing & PORTLAND OFFICIALS ARE INDICTED]LAND FRAUD DISCLOSURE N MONTANA Charges Are Filed With Secrefary Hitcheock, Indians and “Dummy” Men and Women Utilized by Swindlers, ftariling Allegations ‘Said to Involve Nillionaire Conrad of Irrigation Canal Fame. e Rl Special Discateh to The Call. GREAT FALLS, Mont., Jan. 4—W. G. Conrad, one of the best known of | involved in| Montana millionaires, . is charges of land frauds in thé informa- tion imparted to Secretary of the In- terior Hitchcock, according to mes- sages received from Washington to- day. Startling allegations of fraud, it is said, have been made to the effect that immense tracts of timber and ag- ricultural land in Cascade and Mis- soula counties have been taken up and patents secured througn- fraudulent means. Perjured evidence, it is al- leged, was the principal method em- ployed. Patents, it is charged, nrorthwest of Great Falls, title to which has been transferred to W. G. Conrad. An immense territory is included in the transfer to Conrad, the lands be- ing embraced in a district, irrigated by the Conrad irrigating diica, one of the largest individual irrigating projects in-the State. According to information presented to, the Interior Department about a score of Indians took up timber claims in Missoula County, which in turn were turped-over-to prominent Missoula -cit- izens, about twelve of the latter bsing included in the charge of fraud. E of wholesale frauds near ,~Fiathead County, ere-made,- it alleged have swindled’ the Government out of gigantic tracts. “Dummy” men and women, it is said, have played a large part in the frauds practiced, wealthy ‘men of the State having ubtained pos- session_ of large tracts of mining lands carrying® eopper, silver and gold ores. Inspectors will be sent to Montana at dnee to conduct a rigoraus investiga- were ! secured to large tracts of desert land | sthat the land companies | WAR CRAFT S LOST IN - THE STORM Aniety Over the New Gunboat Chatta-- 100¢a. L LR Fails to Return From Trial Trip Oif the Coast of Rhode Island. R s ameead Blizzard Claims Seven Victims in New York and Causes Untold Suffering. —_—— Special Dispatch to The Call. NEWPORT, R. L, Jan. 4—Naval officers here were concerned to-night as to the wheréabouts of the gupboat Chattanooga, which went to sea in a gale early yesterday afternoon for her | official endurance trial of twenty-four | hours. | A mowling nor'easter prevailed when | the Chattanooga went to sea and soon | a storm of sleet and snow came up off the coast. The storm lasted all'night. At the life saving station on the south | shore the velocity of wind was regis- | tered at fifty miles an hour. NEW YORK, Jan. 4—Not in several years has New York been visited by & | storm of such proportions as tha which commenced yesterday and con- tinued until early to-day. Nine inches | of snow fell, paralyzing traffic, and the | marked drop in the temperature | brought suffering to the city’s poor. | The blizzard caused seven deaths in | New York and yicinity, while many persons, overcome' by the cold, dropped | to the streets, some of them receiving | fractured bones. Five of the men who met death from | the storm died from exposure; another i slipped on the icy platform of an ele- | vated station, fell in front of an ap- | proaching train and was ground to | pleces, while the seventh, L. W. Eller, {a conductor on the Pennsylyania Rail- | road, blinasd by the driven snow, step- ped in fromt of = limited train at South | Amboy, N. J., and was Killed. It is estimated that the storm will cost the New York City Railway Com- | pany more than $100,000. Incomihg ocean liners report a bliz- zard at sea. The Teutonic and Ar- menian from Liverpool, the Furnessia from Glasgow, and the Princess Vic- toria Louise from - Hamburg are at quarantine after tempestuous passages, |in Montana on which special agents:| ‘also was found. i the “party” in New York, Mrs..Chad- | sentéa to the King's be| 5 X yielding-an annual income of $55,00 tion, -which' promises to be fruitful of | disclosures which, it is claimed, will rival apy hitherto made concerning | POr .. o o t ! o X i y 5000 men were put at worl T T e S e connec. | Cleaning the streets of New York and tion with the land fraud developments, | ©°;TOFTOW the mumber Will be doubled, interest attaches to the investigation cf | at-most points along the New England alleged fraudulent desert land entries | 1 TNOSt bolnts alofg the Few BRETRTC marine fatalities have been reported. Ly e from European and South American ports. = have been engaged. Senator Gibson of | that State many months ago sent two | ietters to the Commissioner of the Gen- eral Land Office, forwarding com- plaints of citizens that there were | frauds in this class of entries. Desert | land entries since then have been |age. Small houses were blown down rigidly investigated. The complaints |and the custom-house boat at Chaes- were that the lands entered were not | tum was hurled against a reef and taken in good faith, were not being | destroved. No loss of life has been irrigated and were not entered for cul- | reported. tivation purposes, as required by law. | 4. It was stated at the General Land | Office to-day that the complaints were | v more general than specific, but that | I cases of this sort have been under in- | ] vestigation in Montana and elsewhere | oA for some months. More Cells, a Reformatory STCHEL HOLDS A AT Attorney for the Receiver | Special Dispatch to The Call. Delves Inte Mrs. Chad-| SACRAMENTO, Jan. 4—The report wick’s Private Effects Hurricane in Yucatan. CITY OF MEXICO, Jan. 4—A hur- ricane has been blowing halong the Y of the State Board of Charities and Corrections made public to-day again | calls attention to the overcrowded con- | ditions of the prisons at San Quentin and Folsom. The report in this con- nection quotes as follows from a report made twenty-four years ago: This doubling up or’ congregating of pris- onors we rexard as one of the great evils our system. It renders class'fication simply impossible. ' It and less criminal c association with the vilest and most de clements of criminal life, more cffectually any good that remain,” withcut In the slightest degree re- deeming the utterly viclous. This sort of as- sociation is doubtless the causs of hundreds of “returns to prison, and of course the com- miseion of hundreds of crimes. It is stated that this assertion is ap- plicable at the present date. It is the opinion of the board that California CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 4.—Louis Grossman, attorney for Receiver Na- than Loesser, to-day opened and made & cursory examination of the contents of the .satchel belonging to Mrs. Cas- sie L. Chadwick, which has been the gubject of much speculation. The trunk belonging to Mrs. Chadwick will be opened to-morrow. According to Grossman, the satchel, contained a large number of documents and pa-j pers of various; kinds. Some jewelry Mrs.- Chadwick said to‘day that a formal statement relative to her af- fairs in financial transactions is in the | 0 iq'yoce o reformatory for first of- possession of a “private party’ in|fonjers modeled after the best institu- New York €ity and that it could not ! tions of that kind in other States. be €ven to the public until Mrs. Chad- | "0ns @ SR 00 0 oo That addi- gave her consent. The instant i . cells be built at once and favors of her statement now held bY | s;me form of severe punishment for troublesome prisoners, such as the adds: it that a law should be providi wick said, would be to clear her of all suspicien of alleged wrongdoing and would show that she and her hus- band had been the victims of circum- | bassed stances and not of any crime of their own commission. GIVES A MILLION DOLLARS b TO KING'S HOSPITAL FUND req Makes a Very B “Large New Year's Gift to i Charity. _ LONDON, Jan. 4.—Lord Mount- stephen, formerly president of the Canadian. Pacific Railroad, h:nge- Lord ‘Was properly done so as Agmu:ue'-luwtneued«; wall ‘at —— e Shipment of Nitrate for Japhn. m’r}tl._ .E, Jan. 4.—More than 1 tons of nitrate for' shipment tn'-lx arrived here -to-day on the German steamer Neko. . ’$500,000 1n $500,000 in works -bonds, but outside the bar are several vessels | coast of Yucatan, causing much dam- | GOVERNOR WILL NoT TAKE PART Declares Neutrality in the Senato- rial - Fight, { Denies TIrHeHas Given Hints in Favor of Any Aspirant. e Puts an End to the Gossip That He Is Showing a Preference for the Candidacy of Flint. el i Epecial Dispatch to The Call. ! SACRAMENTO, Jan. 4—Governor Pardee to-day told a representative of | The Call that there was not a single | element of truth in the report that he | had expressed a preference for any one | of the candidates for the United States | Senate. Moreover, he asserts in plain | and positive terms that he is not in | the business of making United States | Senators and that he has never given | the slightest hint or suggestion in favor | of any particular aspirant for the Sen- | ate. This declaration of neutrality on | the part of the Governor will put an end, so It is said, to the gossip in sev- ral Senatorial camps that the chief | executive of the State is showing a preference for the candidacy of Flint. As nearly as can be forecasted at this time the line-up on the first ballot for Senator next Tuesday will be as | follow: Bard—Senators Anderson, Belshaw, Broughton, Greenwell, Leeke, Lukens, | Rowell and Woodward. Assemblymen | —Ameridge, Barnes, Bliss, Chandler, Coghlan, Cromwell, Dorsey, Drew, | Ellis, Espey, Estudillo, John, John- | stone, Held, Jury, King, Manwell, Mc- { Kenney, Perkins, Pr tt, Pyle, | Slavin, Trivp, Waste and Weyand—33. | __Flint — Senators - Carter, French, Hahn, Lynch, Muenter, Pendleton, Rambo, Savage, Simpson and Ward. Assemblymen Burke, Busick, Cleve- | land, Cooper, Devlin, Gates, Goodrich, | Houser, Jarvis, Johnson, Lucey, Mc- Cartney, McNamara, Micheltree, Moore, | O’Brien, Olmsted, Stanton, bridge, Thompson, Transue, Wicker- | sham, Beardslee and Bates—34. | _ Knight—Senators Irish, Leavitt, Me- | Kee, Ralston, Russell, Selvage, Welsh, Assemblymen Boyle, Branstetter, Coyle, Creighton, Duryea, Lynch, Mc- | Gowan, Rolley, Walsh and Tread- well—17. Fisk—Senators Haskins, Markey, Mattos, Shortridge, Wolfe, Wright and Bauer. Assemblymen, Arnerich, Jones | of San Francisco, Pfaeffle, Severance } | and Gans. . | Ruef—Senators Keane, Nelson and Bunkers. Assemblymen Anthony, At- | kinson, Cullen, Hartma: Meincke, | Mindham, Strohl and Vogel—11. Unclassified—Senator Coggins and Assemblyman Whiting. B SENATE NAMES MANY ATTACHES [ Members of the Third House Invade Chamber to Pro- mote Candidacy of Flint Special Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, Jan. 4.—Walter Par- | ker of Los Angeles, Herrin's accredited iazenl. who is aiding Jere Burke, Johnny Lynch and Johnny McKenzie in pro- moting the interests of Frank H. Flint for United States Senator, invaded the Senate chamber this morning and fur- nished the principal topic of conversa- tion. There was little to be done ai the morning session of the upper house so Parker was not annoyed in his but- tonholing occupation by arguments over bills or other questions, and en- joyed a free field. To the right and to the left and be- tween Senators he seated himself and bent the weight of his influence wher- ever he could get an ear. An inter- ested group of Senators stood by the President’s desk watching Parker as he did politics. “‘Pretty raw, isn't 1t?" said one of the group. “The last time we had a sena- torial fight here this kind of work was done midst the luxury of a private c: side-tracked down in the repair yards ‘They feel a little bolder this time, how- ever, and it wouldn’t surprise me much to see one of the third house take the President's before the game is over and direct affairs from that point of vantage. However, it mdy be that Parker is just rounding up things in a hurry, because I hear the third house expects an order any minute that it is | best that it adjourn sine die and light out for San Francisco,” CODES FOR THE MEMBERS, When the Senate convened this morning resolutions were introduced providing for the supplying of the members with codes, stamps, station- ery and zll things that go to lighten the burdens of a solon. The commit- tee appointed to pass on the resolution presented by Woodward, providing that all bills presented amendafory of other acts shall have the new portion under- scored and the portion to be eliminated from the old bill included in brackets, recommended that the resolption be adopted. Though the resol was to be taken up under spécial order, a mo- tion that it be put over till to-morrow prevailed. ~ A few of the younger Senators ob- Continued on Page 2, Colunm 3, Strow-