The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 6, 1905, Page 3

ACCUSED SENATORS MUST. FACE INVESTIGATORS, COMMITTEE IS IN SESSION Subpenas Will Be Issued if Alleged Bribers Decline to Appear a SACRAMENTO, Feb. 5.—If Senators | French, Emmons, Bunkers and Wright fail to volunteer as witnesses.on their >wn behalf they will be subpenaed by the committee before which they are now on trial. The committee met to- day to discuss this feature of the case, and though no announcement was made that it had been definitely decid- ed to subpena the accused Senators the | following facts were pointed to: When William Corbin made his charge before the Senate that Emmons, Bunkers, French and Wright were guilty of bribery each of the accused got up in turn and, after indignantly denying the charge, demanded that a committee be forthwith appointed to investigate the affair and examine every person directly or indirectly in- volved in the scandal. These state- ments in themselves were a confession of willingness on the part of the ac- cused to appear and testify and it is presumed that after making them they will not want to be subpenaed, but will appear and, of course, deny they are gullty. The committee announced last Thurs- day that it was its desire to hear every person having any connection whatever with the alleged offense. There is only- one way the committee can accomplish ts deeire, and that is if any one refuses to testify to compel him to do so or send him to jafl for the term of the Legislature for contempt. The news that Detective Tichenor thrashed Senator French in San!/ ncisco was widely discussed here All, even the friends of French, that he has greatly injured his by his belligerent actions, and the on is equally general that French now abandon his expressed inten- to slap Tichenor's face every time he meets him The avowed willingness of Joseph S. the man accused of passing had o-day to the four State Senators, to go fore the committee of investigation w night has led to considera- lation as to the attitude he ume upon his appearance in the | However, one thing positively | serte§ by Jordan is that he will not | State’s evidence. s expected that evidence will be | luced before the case is concluded the effect that several of the marked ave been recovered by the prose- stion. It is claimed that this will have | be done if the case against the Sen- to be clinched. iderable of the time to-morrow, t will be taken up by the defenle\‘ ting witnesses on the stand for | pose of attempting to discredit tnesses who have already ap-| for the prosecution. e A 2 MAY LOSE SALARIES. Assemblymen Absent Without Excuse Are Likely to Be Docked. SACRAMENTO. Feb. 5.—The As- sembly was called to order this morn- | g by Speaker Prescott under the rule | at provides when there are not | ugh present on one legislative day | onstitute a quorum, the Legislature | shall meet daily thereafter at 9:30 un- | a2 quorum is in attendance. There | were ten members present. The House | will convene again to-morrow at 9:30 under the rule, If the avowed intention of several members of the Assembly is carried some of the Assemblymen who bsented themselves Friday and Satur- y without permission will lose their aries for the time they were absent. Those of the lower house who live at stance and cannot go home when urnment is taken are wroth at zbsentees, because they are com- pelled to remain in Sacramento and are anxious that the work go on while they are here. Under the rules a for- feiture of salary may be had. There is a strong possibility that there will not be a quorum at the hour | of convening Monday morning and the bers present will have to “dally until enough Assemblymen come in to make up a sufficient number to do business. Houser of Los Angeles is leading the movement to make those who absent themselves without excuse suffer loss of pay for the days they are away. o ey CEREAY, OOMMISSION. Bright Prospects of Measure of Inter- est to Agriculturists. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 5.—All of the alk ahout the lack of gluten in Cali- | fornia wheat has had its effect and | Senator Diggs’ bill providing for the | establishment of the California Cereal | Improvement Commission is going | steadily on toward final passage. The bill has been favorably reported back by one committee to which it was as- signed and re-referred to the Finance Committee, which now has it under consideration. The bill provides that it shall be the of the Governor within thirty | lays after the passage of the act to| ppoint three Commissioners who <hall constitute the California Cereal ! Improvement Commission. It shall be duty of the commission to make such investigations under the super- vision of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California as it may deem best in an effort to dis- cover improved methods of cereal cul- ture that will not only increase the | vield, but that will increase the per-| ge of gluten in the cereals of the te. The bill also provides that the com- mission shall receive no compensation for its services other than traveling expenses actually incurred. it b el £y NATIONAN PARK. a the NEW SACRAMENTO, Feb. 5.—Assembly- man Slaven’s resolution providing for the establishment of a National Park at [The Pinnacles,” San Benito Coun- ty, \as passed both houses and is now nd Give Testimonu. ready for enrollment which gives those that favor many places of public recreation an opportunity to turn their attention to the purchase of! Fort Humboldt, Humboldt County. A | bill providing for the acquirement of Fort Humboldt was introduced early in the session by Senator Selvage, but | was subsequently withdrawn, amend- ed in minor particulars and reintro- duced. The object of Senator Selvage in asking for the purchase of Fort Hum- boldt is to preserve the same for its historic interest. Fort Humboldt was occupied by U. S. Grant in 1851 and played an important part in the set- tlement of the great wilderness that is new a center of civilization, the old fort being included within the cor- porate limits of the city of Eureka. It is not believed the bill will meet with any serious opposition. —— FAVOR NATURE STUDIES. Additions to School Courses Provided | in Two Mecasures. ! SACRAMENTO, Feb. b.—Nature study, agriculture and kindred sub- jects are being advocated by legisla- tors here as desirable additions to the regular courses of the public schools of the State. Senator Muenter has introduced two bills relating to this subject, one of which has been fa- vorably reported upon by the Com- mittee on County Government, the | other being under consideration by the Committee on Education. The one favorably reported pro- vides that County Superintendents of Schools, whenever petitioned by a ma- Jjority of the trustees of each district of at least 25 per cent of all the pri- | mary and grammar school districts of any county to make the appointment, shall immediately appoint a super- visor of nature study, agriculture and related subjects for the primary and grammar schools of such counties. | The supervisors of this work, it is fur- ther provided, shall be persons who had been duly accredited by the State Board of Education. | The agricultural sections of the State are strongly in favor of the passage of the bill, and in all prob- | abllity it will go through without op- | position. R LR DEATH BLOW TO RACES. Measure Prohibiting Pool-Selling Be- fore Public Morals Committee. SACRAMENTO, Feb. b.—Members | of the Assembly who are laying for | the chance to vent their eloquence on | Espy’s anti-pool selling bill are going | to demand, probably to-morrow, that | the Committee eon Public Morals, | which has had it under consideration | since January 11, report it in. Just| what complications have been holding | the bill in committee for almost a | month a majority of the lower house | is unable to understand, and an ex-| planation is in order. The bill is intended to stop all pool- | selling upon the result of any horse | race within or without the confines of | any racetrack, and if it passes it will | mean a death blow to the racing| game on the coast. It is apparent | that powerful influences will be di- | rected against the bill, but the Assem- bly as a whole wants to hear it dis- cussed from every standpoint, nndi hence a demand will be made that it | be reported out, either favorably or unfavorably. —ee VISITS SAN QUENTIN. Institution Is Inspected by Assembly‘ Committee on Prisons, SAN RAFAEL, Feb. 5.—The Assem- | bly Committee on State Prisons anl Reformatories, headed by Chairman | McKenney, visited San Quentin prison to-day for the purpose of inspecting the institution and looking over plflnxt and specifications for many needed im- provements. The committee spent the entire day at the prison and will pass the night there. The committeemen | are Assemblymen Bliss, Olmsted, | Lynch, Amerige, Hills, Boyle, Beckett and Wickersham. Senator Carter and Assemblyman Jones of the Ways and Means Com- mittee were also with the party. PR £ RIVERS INSPECTION. Legislators Invited to Join Excursion on ‘Sacramento River. SACRAMENTO, F.eh. 5—An excur- sion down the Sacramento River is to be given next Sunday, which members of the Legislature and State officers will be invited to attend. Colonel Heuer and Rufus P. Jennings, A. P. Antron and all the members of the River Improvement and Reclamation Association of California are expected to be present. A large steamer, cap- able of carrying 700 passengers, will be chartered for the occasion. The trip will include a visit to all the lower parts of the Sacramento River, giving a view of the levees and the over- flowed lands of the Yolo Basin. PR SIXTY DAYS ENOUGH. Movement Started to Adjourn Legis- lature Within Statutory Limit. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 5.—Members of the Senate and the Assembly are starting 2 movement to secure an ad- Jjournment of the Legislature at the end of the statutory sixty days, whether the files are cleared or not. Both branches of the Legislature are being sounded on the project and if the pledges of enough members can be secured thé project will be ca.rrled‘ out. ; 1 —_—— LARGEST WINE OUTPUT FOR YEARS IN FRANCE PARIS. Feb. 5.—The Government reports show that the wine ~product of 1904 was the largest of recent years, being 66,000,000 hectolitres, against 3€,000,000 for the preceding year. ' Boxer. | the week was unprecedented in the THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1803. BARELY ESCAPE |COMEDY WILL PORTRAY WOMAN DRINKS (BOLD BURGLARS DEATH IN ICE| .OLD GERMAN LIFE Thirty Men on Wrecked Boat Rescued and Forced to Walk on Floes to Shore WERE MAKING PASSAGE| Vessel Meets Disaster in! the Jam Off Delaware by | Striking a Sunken Barge LEWES, Del, Feb. 5—Thirty men ; narrowly escaped drowning to-day in ' the fcy waters of the Harbor of Ref- ! uge at the Delaware breakwater and, ' after being rescued with the greatest difficulty by the crews of two tugs, . : they were forced to make their way to shore on foot over the heavy ice fioes with which the Delaware River and bay is blocked. ; The men wkose lives were imperiled were Captain Jacobs and his crew of twenty-nine men of the Philadelphia City ice boat No. 3, which made its way down from Philadelphia in an ef- fort to make a channel for vessels ice- bound at the breakwater. The fice | boat collided with the sunken barge Santiago, the masts and buoys of which had been carried away 'by the ice jam and a large hole was stove in her hull. Captain Jacobs’ signals of distress were answered by the tugs Teaser and The tugs experienced much dif- ficulty in reaching the rapidly sinking ice boat. The jce jam prevented the tugs from docking and the crew of the ice boat, after being taken off, stiff from exposure and nearly exhausted, managed to complete a perilous jour- ney afoot across the ice flelds to shore. Navigation is almost at a standstill on the Delaware because of the ice which is jamming the stream from | Trenton, N. J., to the breakwater and extends nearly ten miles out to sea. There is a large fleet of vessels of all kinds at the breakwater unable to make any headway against the jam. Several ships are fast in the ice at | the Horseshoe, a bend In the river at Gloucester, N. J., and it will probably be several days before the city ice boats can clear a passage for them. | B e s STORM CUTS OFF SOUTH. I | | | Wire Service Paralyzed and the Rail- roads Crippled. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Feb. &5 —Tele- phone and telegraph service over a wide range of the South was almost completely crippled by heavy sleet to- day. Rallroad service also suffered and in some towns the lighting and street car facilities were suspended. The tie- up was the most complete in many years, and although the telegraph com- panies and railroads have large forces of men at work, it may be two or three days before normal conditions are re- | stored. 1 The storm, which covered with | thick icy coat Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Georgia prevalled intermittently for' three days and the wires broke under the accumulated ice. Service from Louisville to Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga and Birmingham was but little interrupted. South of these cit- fes to the gulf only two or three wires were working to-night. The fall of snow and sleet varies from one to three inches. | For several hours Atlanta and New ! Orleans were cut off from the rest of ! the country. All wires were down | from Memphis to Natchez and New Orleans and the telegraph companies sent messages for those points to New | York and down the coast, but even | then the service was interrupted for a | time. Two hundred poles went down | in Mississippl. | In Chattanooga the streets were filled | with broken wires. The lighting and | streetcar cufrents were turned off to | avoid danger to pedestrians and line- | men. —iiin ICE JAM OFF NEW YORK. Floes Carry Off Buoys, Making Navi- gation Dangerous. NEW YORK, Feb. 5.—Ice floes completely filled New York harbor to- day, rendering the passage of vessels | into and out of the port slow and dif- ficult. In the Narrows the ice pack was 50 dense that even the powerful transatlantic liners had trouble in forcing a passage. One of the serious results of the presence of vast floes in the lower bay during the past four days has been the breaking and carrying away of great numbers of buoys in the various | ship channels. Captains of coastwise steamers and Sandy Hook pllots have reported a number of narrow elcnpel[ from grounding, caused by the dis- placement of buoys. Captain Shepard of the lighthouse board sald that the displacement of buoys by ice during history of the department and that the conditions of navigation into and out of the port are the most danger- ous that have ever existed. All the steamships of the Sound fleet arrived safely to-day, although several hours late. Their captains re- ported that heavy ice was encountered throughout the Sound and that navi- gation was barely possible. On sev- eral occasions the fleet of New York- bound steamships was compelled to unite and attack the ice in the wedge formation. Owing to a change in the wind the North and East rivers were comparatively clear of ice during the day and the ferries were operated with little interruption. Y S — FREEZE TIES UP TRAFFIC. Vessels Held Fast in the Ice Off < Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 5.—An al- most complete suspension of the coast- wise trade out of this port has fol- lowed the general freeze-up of the harbor. There are a number of vessels | here, but none will take charters un- til there is some probability of being able to get out of the Delaware River, which is impossible at this time. Very little coal is being received at this port in consequence of the extreme cold in the mining regions and great delay is being experienced by steamships under charter for the West Indies in getting their cargoes. z More than fifty vessels were held in | terest in the undertaking. MOTTOW. ACCOMPLI FRAU KOENIGIN” A BRI EN AT THE ALHAMBRA THEA’ YOUNG WOMAN W'Hg R, As the date approaches for the pro- duction of the German comedy “Frau Koenigin,” which is to be given for the benefit of the library fund of the Ger- man department of the State Univer- sity, local German and society circles are manifesting unusual and active in- The play is set for Saturday evening, February 25, at the Alhambra. The performance is under the direction of Herr Arthur Becker, BY GRACE LLEWELLYN JONES. Franz Koppel-Elfeldt, to whose poetic genius the charming verses of this comedy owe their form, has been so well known for years at the Royal Theater of Dresden that he needs no introduction. His play of “The Renais- sance” brought him renown not only in Germany, but among playwrights the world over. Schoenthau, too, the col- laborator, is known in America through a translation of “Die Beruehmte Frau,” brought out by Daly in New York, un- der the title “The Great Unknown.” It ‘was Baron von Berger, the noted direc- tor of the Deutsche Schauspielhaus, the close friend of the Emperor and his honored adviser on all dramatic affairs, who first brought out this comedy of “Frau Koenigin” in Hamburg. In the title role Frau von Hotenthal, once a celebrated member of the Imperial Theater of Vienna, made a notable suc- cess. Almost simultaneous with this pro- duction was the one in Berlin at the Lessing Theater, under the able direc- tion of Oscar Blumenthal. The very argument of the play, being the taming of a capricious and perfectly charming girl wife,"started much literary discus- sion, and parallels were immediately drawn with the treatmentof the sub- Jject in ‘“The Taming of the Shrew” and in the Spanish comedy of Moreto’s “El Desden cori el Desden.” The Spaniard portrays an exquisitely refined woman,: whose nature responds to poetry and music, but, like an oversensitive in- strument, yields only discord at the ap- proach of any ruder touch. He brings to the caging of this wild bird as re- fined and elegant a tamer as alone could accomplish so delicate a play of opposing wills. The manners of the (amer are far removed from the sturdy Elizabethan methods of Petruchio, and B e —Y Saturday morning . will arrive some |- the ice at the lower bay to-day, and a number of ocean steamships, which attempted to force their way through the obstruction at the Delaware Capes, were compelled to return to sea and anchor for the night. Off Billingsport, N. J., fifteen coal barges are held fast in the ice. They belong to the Reading Railway” Com- pany, and are inwardbound hvg\l Bos- ton. —_—— BRIDGE WASHED AWAY. Traffic in Arizona Is Delayed by Storm. PHOENIX, A. T., Feb. §,—All wires are down at the Gila River bridge on the Maricopa and Phoenix Rail- road and though no definite reports have been received, it is rumored that a hundred feet of,the cribbing put in | to repair a former break at the bridge, has been washed away. The com- -y only. SE 3 The Santa h’tl‘djn‘vm;im'urh i A ¢ ¥ WILL TAKE THE NAME PART IN { PLAY, WHICH WILL BE GI' GERMAN SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 23. the lady is from the land of more illu- sive charm. Around the theme the two German dramatists have thrown the pleasant disguise of a-distant epoch and a ro-| mantic setting. The time is that be- loved of German love poets, the days | of the “Minnesaenger,” when those splendid legends of Parsifal, Lohen-| grin and Tannhauser were still fresh | in the hearts of their poet-knights; | when the love lyrics of Walther von ' der Vogelweide and Heinrich von Veldeke were as near to the people as | Burns and Byron to our day and gen- | eration. . Through a series of scenes of comic | affectation and the worship of a sym- bolic and disembodied love, which has turned the head of the little wife, there runs the song of the nightin- gale and the lyric note of the true Minnesaenger—when in the old days Minne meant both memory and love. | If she had to be shamed like a child | into the final shattering of her false | gods, still there 18 no ungentle touch | in the steady hand of her tamer, who | returns fresh from battle to find her | in the glamour of a court of love, under the new and dangerous charm | of flattery. | ‘With only two acts at their disposal | the authors have succeeded in pre-; senting to us not onlv a romantic | setting from the old days of the trou- ! badours. but a truly universal comedy of the humag heart; the entangle- ment of the most candid of natures in a web of pretense and affectation, and the final disentangling by its own in- nate strength and purity. With no in- ! volved psychology of analysis or sit- ! uation, in the greatest simplicity, we | understand simultaneously the mo-| tive and the action that translates it. | There is no problem and no mymryl of symbols. We have no need of a commentator to exnlain the exegesis. I believe we shall really welcome the chance to enjoy a true bit of German drama, wherein walk knights and! ladies, peasants and retainers, of real flesh and blood, who can move us to natural laughter and perhaps to some very gentle and refreshing tears. And all honor to the tireless energy and really ambitious effort of the well- known stage director who is to bring out “Frau Koenigin” on 2 San Fran- cisco stage. time. this evening, but no train will depart until Monday morning. The Cave Creek flood has subsided and the sea of mud, BOSTON, Feb. 5.—The New Eng- land Coast, south of Cape Cod, is to- night the victim of one of the most gradually toward night, though it re- of an I thaw. F Capitol building is surrounded by a ‘CARBOLIC ACID Mrs. Rebecca Eklund Putsan End to Her Trofibles With Draught of Deadly Poison DISAPPOINTED IN LOVE Squanders a Large Sum of Money on a Man With ‘Whom She Was Infatuated Mrs. Rebecca Eklund, a divorced woman, of Fremont and Harrison streets, committed suicide last night about 7:30 o’clock in front of Thomas J. Morton’s livery stable at the corner of Geary and Leavenworth streets. A few moments before, the unfortunate woman had been ejected from the stable by Fred Jackson. a carriage washer, with whom she had been asso- ciating. Half intoxicated, Mrs. Eklund brood- ed over her treatment. She went to P. Flatow’s drug store at Geary and Jones streets, purchased 10 cents’ worth of carbolic acid, went back in front of the stable and drank the poison. By- standers heard her exclaim in a loud voice as she polsed the bottle of dead- ly liquid, “You shall pay for this, Fred Jackson.” Before she could be de- terred, the woman swallowed the acid and sank on the sidewalk. George Kreplin, a grocer across the street, poured a bottle of oil down the dying woman’s throat and called for the ambulance. Before she could be taken to the Central Emergency Hospi- tal she waf dead. She had been drinking for some days. Her mother, Mrs. George W. Edwards, says she gave her daughter some money to pay a doctor for an opera- tion which she had to have performed, and that Rebecca spent the money. All day yesterday the mother searched forithe girl without finding her. Mrs. Eklund was seen to enter Mor- ton’s stables and a moment later come out crying. Jackson, the man with whom she yas keeping company, said she came in to him drunk and he threw her out. He denied that he had been going with her or had any relations with her. People in the neighborhood say that the woman was always around the stable with Jackson or some of the other men employed there. Mrs. Eklund was left considerable money by an old man, a roomer in her mother’s house. who died recently. This her mother says she squandered on the man with whom she was in- fatuated. The dead woman was about 28 years | of age. The body was taken to the EMPORIA, Kans., Feb. 5.—At mid- night last night freight train No. 34 and an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe switch engine collided in the west end of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe yards. Danlel O. Holman, 28 years old, was burned to death. He was shoveling coal into the firebox when the collision occurred and was thrown into the furnace and incinerated. The engineer, D. E. Gan, escaped with a few bruises. The engineer of the freight train, McClure, and the fire- man, Barker, were uninjured. The wreck caught fire and burned. — e STEAMSHIP FAST IN ICE. Passengers Marooned on the Iowa Off Chicago Harbor. CHICAGO, Feb. 5.—The Goodrich line passenger steamship Iowa, which left Milwaukee early to-day, is fast in the ice two miles outside the Chicago har- bor. Twenty or thirty passengers are supposed to be on the vessel, but the officials of the company sald to-night that they were in no danger. The Iowa is surrounded by an immense fleld of ice, and so far a tug has been unable to reach her. The Jowa has been mak- ing daily trips between Milwaukee and Chicago all winter. WORK QUIETLY Residence Is Entered During the Early Evening and Two Rooms Are Ransacked OCCUPANT NOT WARNED Crooks Break Into Home of Henry Meyers on Lombard Street and Take Coin Henry Meyers of 2531 Lombard street reperted a daring burglary to the police at the Central Police Station Saturday night. It was committed early Saturday |evening and without the knowledge of Mrs. Meyers, who was in the house at the time. Bureau drawers, trunks and closets in two rooms were ran- sacked, but the thieves got onmly 322 in cash for their work. Acgording to the story Meyers told at the Central Police Station, his home about 5 o'clock in ing on some business and return gbout 7. His wife the time. After keeping ment Meyers came pointed time. Soon he had occasion to go into 1 everywhere in evidence. Meyers found the same state of affairs in an adjoin- ing room and discovered that from a drawer in one of the tables $22 in coin had been stolen. Mrs. Meyers said she heard no sound, though she was within a few feet of where the burglars were at work. She knew nothing of the rob- bery until the discovery was made by her husband. How the thieves entered the house is a mystery, but it is be- lieved that they used a skeleton key on one of the side doors. The windows were all tightly fastened and there was no indication that anything had been disturbed. Had Mrs. Meyers come upon the crooks while they were at work she would probably have been killed. As soon as the house was placed in order, Meyers went to the Central Station and made a report of the matter. Detectives are at work on the case and are said to have a clew. ERESO S Cor R BE1LBOY DODGES FORTUNE WOMAN WOULD \Gm HIM Wealthy Idaho Widow Looking for Youth Who Refused Her Offer of a Home. DENVER, Feb. 5.—A bellboy, known only to the woman who is seeking him as the “Kankakee Kid,” is being sought by Mrs. H. Adams, & wealthy widow of Boise, Idaho, who is now in Denver. She met the boy in Chicago séveral years ago and be- cause of his kindness and thoughtful- ness offered him a home in Idaho. He @ectined, but she has resolved to try to persuade him once more. The boy left Chicago and came ‘West, but is not here now. He is well known here, but only by the nickname given, he always having been rei about his family. Mrs. Adams wan! to start him in business and make him her heir. > Four Hours Is Heavy. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5.—Seventy- four hundredths of an inch of rain fell in Los Angeles for the twenty-four hours ending at 5 p. m. to-day. To- night there is a steady downpour, with every indication of the storm continu- ing throughout the night. SAN DIEGO, Feb. 5.—More rain fell to-day. The precipitation up to § c'clock this afternoon was .72 of an inch, making 8.62 inches for the sea- scn. SAN JOSE, Feb. 5.—At midnight the rainfall for the past twenty-four measured .18 of an inch. To-night sky is clear and the storm seems to i over. AD' MARKET STREET REFEREE AUCTION SALE By Order of HENRY P. UMBSEN, Scle Referee. Tuesday, Febryary 28, 1905 At Twelve O’clock Noon. MARKET TWELFTH STREET 8350 MISSION STREET ' v CO! Fronting 275 Feet on Market Street and 375 Feet on Eleventh Street. AT OUR SALESROOMS. STRE RNER o th Streets