The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 13, 1905, Page 1

ary 18: Forecast made at San Francisco for thirty hours ending midnight, Febru- e i e THE WEATHER. ALCAZAR—'‘Are tucket."” CALIFORNIA—‘“Our New Man." COLUMBIA—*“The CENTRAL—The Night Before Christ- You & Mason?®™ Earl of Paw- San Francisco and vicinity—Fair - Monday; not so cold; light north wind. . Cflms—sv:m G. H. WILLSON, GRAND—""Mother Goose.,™ Local Forecaster, P ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. g (i ads B W BRI SR S DE—— SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, PRICE FIVE CENTS - PRESIDENT D) SE] AND SENATE . I AT WAR DISASTROUS HOTEL FIRE \ MOBILE i WARNY HIS PARTNER T0 - BE CARBEUL Action on Treaties/One Person Killed|Mitchell’s Letter to Means an Open Rupture. Executive Will Drop All Arbitration Negotiations | With Europe. ‘ Vote Makes Secrefary of | Saturday’ State Hay Only a Clerk of the Upper House, [ BUILDING th That ne of acti cept the re- 1em, believing 1 what has without first mmittee on r counts, obtained lor had the treati nt, no ma a matter of act e jon of | little | the Senat d to-day by | »f the Govern- yme when mno | jated with any | it had first| d ratified. s ACTION. ge in the s. Here- a nent having has been signed | e and by the | of the con- e neg EFFECT OF & smitted to ernment and rati- exchanged. But negotiations it upon by the will full to Washington, is the ques- f the Sen- | Auence of | n other sing the 1as been planning e expression of in- | President. The ident intensified | r home onspired to bring ne of-them was the | : upon rate | rejoiced at ging about a ident and the r the pur- ongress the ks of many under the Pres DR AMATIC SECRET S Presidents hay generation, wise has ever been Roosevelt was was drastic, Its effects was mo -day than last night. | y features are now manifest that | to emphasize the firm determin f the Senate o “teach the P lesson.” The executive s the final vote are des ost dramatic in the rebuke caloric Tib mory of or twen- feeling. nanimity of ve not prevailed on any r proposition since the | | criticism and censyre of the re t absolutely ' non-parti- Democrats voted to , all Republicans but me thing. There was -nt differences in the manner f expressing the conviction that the >resident was trying to take away the me T IIT L r and Foraker, all close friends President and his spokesmen in attracted unusual atten- = recited the friendship } he President. They told | ate relations. Al ex- regret that their ®iths onstitutional rights of the Senate. E LODGE'S VOTE A SURPRISE. | action of ators Lodge, | ] intim; ain the in the pending . Lodge was especially dramatic he declared that under his oath he could not vote in accordance with the President’s wishes, at the same time speaking with sincere regret of tions which, under ordinary cir- nstances, would dictate that he act otherwise. It was said to-day by those in close touch with all public events that the sgreement for the protection of Santo Demingo through supervision of that republic’s finances had no effect on SAVE LIVES | days. {lowed by the dog. and Several Injured. LR St Famous Battle House Burned Entailing Loss of $1,000,000. Flames Break QOut Late at Night and Spread Rapidly, Causing Guests to Flee for Their Lves. —————— ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 13.—A long dis- phone message from Mobile person was killed and several injured in the Battie House MOBILE, Ala., Feb. 13.—Lo mated at $1,000,000 have been caused by fire that to-night left the famous House a ruin and swept on to ngs adjoining. The blaze was BE bui discovered shortly before 11 o'clock last night nd at 2 o'clock this morning the firemen were still fighting the flames, control. which apparently were beyond The fire broke out in some unoccu- pied rooms over the Kkitchen of the Battle House, which, although an old hostelry, was one of the largest in the South. The flames spread so quickl t a number of guests lost all their belongings and many of those on the fifth floor were compelled to take to the fire escapes in their night clothes. Two elevator bo: Berpard Constantine, stuck to their | posts until all the guests had been taken out, although the elevators caught fire and the youngsters were burned about the face and hands. An hour after the fire started all- the electric lights in the business portion | of the city went out, due to the turn- ing off of the power to save the fire- men from danger. At 2 o'clock this morning the fire, still burning flercely, was threatening the Commercial Hotel adjoining. All the guests escaped, leaving their prop- | erty in the hotel. An extension of the fire was also threatened on the east ide. o BY EATING )G MEAT Awiul Experience of Man and Woman in Alaska, ST Special Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, Feb. 12.—Charles W. | Cook and Mrs. Rita Wolfenden have lived through an almost unbelievable experience. They are now at Kayak, Alaska, recovering their strength after gcing nine days without food, other than the flesh of their small dog. Six of these days were spent at sea in an open whaleboat, the seams of which opened, necessitating constant bailing. Cook and the woman left Yakataga for Kayak to overhaul two men who had robbed them of $600. The boat began leaking, but before they could reach shore they were blown to sea by a terrific wind, which continued six Their food was spoiled by salt A drenching rain fell most Becoming delirious, Cook water. of the time. ;jumped overboard, but Mrs. Wolfen- den seized him by the sweater and pulled him back into the boat. Cook’s delirium continued for iwo days, when Mrs. Wolfenden became delirious. On the evening of the sixth day they were blown ashore at Cape St. Elias. The boat struck rocks and was wreck- ed. The couple waded ashore, fol- They built a fire with difficulty and roasted seaweed, but it gave them no strength. The | nearest habitation was White Head Point, twenty miles distant. They finally killed the dog, eating its roasted flesh without garnishment. Two days later they were able to walk to White Head. 2 —_——————— KING OF SAXONY UNABLE TO SECURE HIS DAUGHTER His Former Wife Will Retain Custody | of Chila for Present at Least. FLORENCE, Feb. 12.—The Countess Montignoso has been victorious in the first stage of her struggle with the King of Saxony, her former husband, over their daughter, Princess Anna Monica Pia. For the present at least the child will remain with her mother. The lawyers of the Countess after a meeting with Dr. Koerner, the emis- sary of the King of Saxony, declared that orders of foreign authorities can- not be executed in Italy and that the case will have to be tried first in the courts of law. The lawyers assert that even should the King of Saxony be victorious in the courts, there would be difficulty in enforcing a decree taking the child from her mother - es esti- | , Joseph Parks and | Tanner in Hands 0f Heney. —_— |Epistle Considered Strong | Evidence Against the Senator. i Correspondence Believed to Have Prompted Testimony Given by Associate of Accused. —_— . PORTLAND, Or., Feb. 12.—Among ‘,th‘\- papers brought by Senator Mit- i chell's secretary, Harry C. Robertson, | from Washington, D. C., was one from lb‘unatol' Mitchell to his law partner, ‘Judgc Albert H. Tanner, dealing with | their partnership agreements. The let- | ter was surrendered by Robertson to | United States District Attorney Heney. | The Government considers this letter of Senator Mitchell's valuable to its | case in that tney contend that it shows ! the line of testimony which Mitchell | desired Tanner to give before the Grand Jury on his second appearance before that body, The letter follows: ““Washington, D. C., Feb. 5, 1905. “My Dear Judge: [ am almost afraid | to write a word; as the scoundrels will misconstrue everything and distort all | that is said. Your friend with letter | did not arrive here until to-day. Your | letter only received at 3 p. m. I have made search for my articles of co™ partnership of 1902, but am unable to find them. I think it must be among | by papers“in office. Harry, of course, | prepared these articles. You will see | Harry on his arrival. 1 found our | supplemental agreements, of date No- | vember 1, 1904, which are all right. Harry has these with him. “Now the facts are these, and you must deal ‘with them accordingly. First, under our articles I was not to have any interest whatever in any | business you -might. do in any of the departments “with’ any ‘land matters. Second, as a matter of fact, I never knew until now that any charges for jany such services had been credited either to me or the firm or that my ac- count had ever been credited with any part thereof. NO STATEMENTS. “I was never furnished with any statement of any bank account or of | any other things whatever, and I have | nothing to do with the book, nor did I! see the same, and you will remember several times I cautioned you not to mix me up in any way with any land office matters. Third, to this day I do not know what book entries you have made or what you did with any cash or checks, if you ever received any for service. Nor was I ever advised by you or did I have any knowledge that any part of any such cash or receipts was placed either to the credit of our firm or myself. “Now, Judge, you will agree with me, I am sure, these are the facts, and 1 am also sure whatever entries you made you never intended I should have any part of such cash or checks, if any, and that vou intended that in some way in settling accounts between us no part of any such moneys or checks should be mine, but your individual property. I had supposed, of course, that you had kept all such charges and accounts in your own name, “There is no offense on your part in doing business for honest people in these land matters. I hope, therefore, vou will do me justice at the proper time in giving the facts just as they are and as I have stated them. You must not get rattled or alarmed. “Harry will doubtless idertify the co- partnership articles of 1902 as having been prepared by him. See him at once on his arrival. Don't be Interviewed until T see you, and now, strictly con- fidential, don’t tell Harry, your son, or any one. WANTS FIRM'S BOOKS. “Can’t you Immediately on receipt i | { H of this, drop everything and come di- rectly here? Bring with you in trunk, but don’t let your family or any one know, all the company's books, day ledger, all of them; also your bank book, as I am extremely anxious to | see for myself personally what the books show. Besides, it is important we should talk over with Fulton, who is to help defend me In regard to the ; costs. I hope you can. come. If so, don’t let a soul know you are coming, [ not even Harry. And if you conclude to come, wire me as follows: ‘John leaves direct for Washington this | evening. TANNER.’ “I do hope you can come and im- mediately before you are called again before the Grand Jury. Sincerely your friend, i “JOHN H. MITCHELL.” “P. 8.—Don’t show Harry this let- ter, or tell him anything in it. Don’t let him see our books. Tell him nothing. i “P. S.—Keep all important papers in safe and safe and office carefully locked, as these scoundrels will get in if possible. “P. S.—Burn this without fail.” Subsequent to writing this letter Senator Mitchell sent two messages | to Judge Tanner, which will be lntro-I duced as further evidence by the Gov- ‘ ernment in support of its contention that the letter was intended to direct| Judge Tanner’s line of téstimony. The messages follow: “WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.—Hon. A. H. Tanner, Portland: Harry is due Portland Thursday merning. Don't fail to comply with my request. It is impertant. n't be interviewed. > “JOHN H. MITCHELL.” “WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Hon. A. H. Tanner, Portland: Harry is due I am sure you are not guilty. Don’t be intervi nothing. Don't fail to comply with my request in Harry's letter. .“JOHN H. MITCHELL.” | Jured. CROWDED ELECTRIC CAR LEAPS FROM TRACK AND THIRTEEN ARE INJURED. . AP MEN AND WOMEN FL FrankKettleman Very Low and May Not Live SKULLFRACTURED —— Railroad Offers Coin to Several of the Maimed An overcrowded car on the Sutro | Electric line jumped the track at the | Parker avenue and California street curve yesterday afternoon and caused || injury to thirteen persons, one of whom, Frank Kettleman, a bookkeeper | for Sperry & Co.s flour mill at | Stockton, may die. Mrs. Kettle- | man, who was seated beside her hus- | band when the accident occurred, was | thrown from the car and struck on her head. She is among those seriously in- | The other eleven passengers | were pitched violently from the outside ° seats or thrown against the doors of the car. In an instant there was a panic and women struggled with men | to clear themselves of the mass of | shrieking wounded and hysterical women. Fortunately the Children's Hospital | is diagonally across the street from the | scene of the accident and the hospital | attendants were quiCkly summoned to render assistance to the injured. With the help of the unhurt passengers the wounded were removed to the hospital, Where they received medicdl attention. Kettleman was suffe: from a frac- tured skull and . 3 &njuflefl and it was at first tn that_‘he had been killed outright. His ‘wife was found lyirfg beside him unconscious and near her was C. S. Holmes, who had accompanied the Kettlemans on a pros- pective trip to the park. Holmes was cut over the right eye and stunned by the blow. Miss Mary Doyle and Mrs. Morris Greenberg were senseless. The former on recovering said that she knew noth- ing of what had happened from the time the curve was struck until she found herself in the hospital. Mrs. Burgoyne was able to take care of her- self, although suffering from phinful bruises. Mrs. J. B. Day and her daughter, after being treated for slight bruises, re- turned to their home on Howard street on the next inbound car, as did M. A. Sheets, who lives at the ivew Western Hotel, and two men who refused to give their names. CAR AT HIGH SPEED. The motorman of the uhlucky car was O. Z. Pike. He was bringing his car down the grade toward Parker ave- nue on the westward trip. According to his official time this was at 12:52 p. m., the time he was due at Parker avenue or thereabouts. He says that he was not going “very fast.” This statement, however, is contradicted by witnesses who saw the car approaching the curve at a great speed.’ The car was one of the large double-ender Sutro motors and was filled with pas- sengers, many of whom were hanging on the outside and maintaining a pre- carious foothold on the steps. Conductor H, R. Poland was at the rear end of the car and did not notice that the conveyance was going faster than is customary on approaching the curve. Pike must have lost control of the brakes when about half way down the grade on account of the unusual weight of human freight. According to a lad named Eddie Folk, who saw the car approaching Parker avenue, it sud- denly shot downward as if released from the hpld of the brakes and in a few seconds was over the tracks and plunging along on ‘the rough roadbed of California street. That the car must have been running at a high rate of speed is made evi- dent by the marks of the wheels shown for a distance of twenty feet in the roadway. The car ran its length over the curve, plowed into the sand and came to a sudden stop several yards clear of the rails. A wrecking crew from the United Railroad shops had considerable difficulty getting it back on the tracks, and it was then run back to the Fillmore street barns. The car was not greatly damaged. SETTLING WITH THE INJURED. ‘While the nurses and doctors at the Children’s Hospital were helping the wounded to the wards, Policemen, Wis- kotchill and Fulwider of the O'Far- rell-street station, who were on duty at California street and Presidio ave- nue, and Mounted Patrolman Munn were Anformed of the accident and im- medlately reported at the hospital and placed Motorman Pike under arrest, pending instructions from headquar- ters. Detectives Dinan and Coleman were sent out by the central office and allowed Pike to go. In the meantime Dr. McElroy and a corps of railroad surgeons arrived and with them came several inspectors for the railroad, who took it upon themselves to give orders that no one should be allowed to see the wounded. They were about with documents attempting to get the injured rsons to make cash settle- PROACHES SHARP CURVE AT RAPID RATE ox INE FCCTDEN T INTO. A SHARP CURVE. — Barnum, 719 Larkin -street; Dennis Begley, 213 Moss street; J.-B. Barna- doe, 111 Eleventh avenue; G. Lago- marsino, . 161 . Fourth..avenue, ..and Matt Asch, 16 Moss street. SKULL IS FRACTURED, The examination of the wounded skowed that Mr. Kettleman.was in a very bad way and likely to lose his life. His skull was fractured and the scalp badly torn. The extent of his in- ternal injuries could-not be ' deter- mined. Mrs. Kettleman was hysteri- cal on regaining consciousness. She is suffering from a severe -nervous shock. The- Kettlemans are ~well known in Stockton and have’ been. in this city for about six ‘weeks on a pleasure trip. 3 o Miss Mary Doyle was cut about-the head, but there was no-fracture. Her arms and upper part of her body were bruised. She d that she was sit- ting on. the outside of the car when it struck the curve and’ was thrown vidlently to the ground. The car, she speed and the motorman’did not' ap- pear to be making any very- great ef- fort to stop. it. 3 ; J. S, Reed was talking. His right leg was broken an: a seriously hurt. ' He was flung from the car when the curve was struck and a number of passengers fell on top .of him. Mrs, J. B. Day and her daughter and Mrs. Burgoyne were not very bad- 1y injured. They were inside the car when the accident occurred, and, al- though somewhat scratched, they suf- fered more from fright than from in- Juries. Morris Greenberg and his wife were inside the car. Mr. Greenberg was pitched against the end door-and sev- eral passengers feu on . him. Mrs. Greenberg sprained her leg and is suf- fering a-great deal of pain; her hus- band bruised his arm and wrist., C..S. Holmes was cut up pretty badly, but mansged to-get to. his feet and walk, with, the aggistance of two al at- tendants, to the operating-room. Mrs. Greénberg had one of the most exciting experiences of any:of the in- jured passengers other than Mr. an Mrs. Kettleman. She said: e - “My husband and I were on our way to -the Children’s. Hospital to visit a care. We were insidz the car, near the ‘ments even before the bandages were Mr. and Mrs. Morris Greenberg were offered $4 as a balm for'their injuries.. Being ignorant_that the law in such matters would ‘protect them in a civil suit for damages, they finally accepted $15 and departed after ing an agreement of some kind protecting the raflroad. One of the inspectors was| exceedingly impudent. % Among the principal witnesses who were found by the police were: J. C. ~and when we' approached Parker :‘:fléu. where we were to get off, I sig- o _the conductor to stop. I noticed that he did not answer my , and ‘instead of slacking-up, went at a startling speed. I said to my husband, ‘My! I wonder what is the matter.’ /7 X o M S0 TR UNG HEADLONG INTO THE STREET D ZLZ L25 ITOEIFON IHONING I IRANER TN WIAUCH PHSSENGERT WERE THROWNR ‘ SCENE 'AND SOME OF THE VICTIMS OF A STREET CAR ACCIDENT THAT .OCCURRED YESTERDAY ON THE SUTRO LINE AS A RESULT OF A GREEN MOTORMAN'S NEGLIGENCE IN RUNNING THE VEHICLE AT HIGH SPEED DOWN HILL | — - THE INJURED. | FRANK KETTLEMAN—Book- keeper, 614 Sutter street: frac- | ture of skull and internal in- juries: probably fatal. MRS. FRANK KETTLEMAN. Cut on head, sprained wrist and contusions of body. J. S. REED, 1012 Post street. Leg broken; internal injuries, MISS- MARY DOYLE, 808 added, was going at a high rate of ,t00. 111 to do much. he was otherwise painfully 'but not|: sick. child that we intrusted to their| Bush street—Cut on head and numerous body bruises. Y C. S.. HOLMES, 614 Sutter " street—Badly bruised. 3 MRS. MORRIS GREEN- BERG, 16 Juniper street — Bruised and left leg badly ' MORRIS GREENBERG — “MRS. J. B. DAY and |’ DAY—Slight bruises. . M. A. SHEETS, New Western . . UNENOWN—Two men treat. ed for sprains who would not give their names. ; —e car.* The persons sitting on the opposite side of the car and those-s! up ‘were piled on top of us. Then followed a scene that is hard to describe. Womi- en were - scream! and men urging them to keep cool. It didn’t take long for the:car.to be cleared of people, and once outside—I cannot tell you how I 5 fiE.E i{ii? ] £ —_— AR L B % i sl pense. we would be under for doctor bills, and as we are poor people my husband and 1 agreed to sign. They paid us the $15.” M. A. Sheets, one of the passengers who was slightly hurt, says it was re- ported to him by a passenger that the | motorman admitted that he was a new man on the line and that he had for- gotten. about the curve and did net slack up. The street is in a bad condi- tion at Parker avenue and the curve is somewhat difficult to observe from the car until one is almost on top of it. Sheets, who is from Baker City, Or., describes his experiences graphically as follows: “I was standing on the rear end of the steps, grasping the safety handle with my right hand. As we drew near the curve I noticed that the car was moving with hair-raising rapidity, and I was inwardly certain that we could not make the turn at the speed we were going. The car was swaying from.side ‘to side, and just before the curve was reached. I tightened my grasp and closed my eyes. . “The next thing I knew I was flying head downward Into a pile of sand, probably the only thing that saved my life. I-had. but-a hazy recollection of hurling through the air and that my and: back were hurting me. It been impossible for any one to held on to the car, and the nails were. torn back from the flngers of my right hand in my desperate ef- fort to. clutch :the rail. 1 narrowly missed striking a trolley wire pole in my tumble. I do not understand the cause of the accident fully, as I was too much occupied In recovering my wits, but I did hear some one say that the motorman admitted he was a'new man and forgot all about the curve he was ing d therefore neglected to reduce speed.” PIKE SAYS LITTLE. Motorman Pike made a statemeat that he was not going down the grade at a very rapid tpeedhand that on ap- roaching the curve he was Ztflp the car. The curve is unusually sharp at the Parker avenue turn and it is the custom of motormen to slow The car gained % plunged H 8 ing it did so. the people from the rear and on the north side of the conveyance. Conductor Poland knew little of the