The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 17, 1905, Page 1

thirty hours ending ary San Francisco and ay; A —_— THE WEATHER. ] Forecast made at San Francisco for brisk east winds. District Forecaster. midnight, Febru- vicinity—Showers G. McADIE, i % VOLUME XCVII—NO. 79. AY COOKEYS £ CLOSE SUDDENLY Noted Financier Dies After a Short [lIness. SR ISR Ravages of Old Age Bring Unexpected Physical Collapse. Remarkable Career of Man Who Lost and Regained an Enormous Fortune, — Jay C d at 10 tz residence Barney -nty-four 2 life : s his own pass be- Cooke will be an who saved ruin in the : ng bankrupt e the country has pay all of his after 3200 per- confidence in than dellar for overed his for- to fortune was, ng the very ed he did not investment in cleared more than —_————— UNION PACIFIC COMMON TO PAY SIX PER CENT Director’s Statement Accounts for In- in Market Value of Shares. crease NEW YO e to place per cent divi- tement accounts the stock recently that Union sell 150 6 at ¥ n view of the Pacific may be in the iderable Pacific throug s ownership of $90,000,000 CAPTAIN MULLIKEN TO BE DISMISSED President Approves the Sentence Case of the Accused Army Man. in WASHINGTON 16.—The he sentence 4 B. Mul- that he single man Y married a Filipino woman. The nce in this case was dismissa the service. ——ag— MURDERED AND THEN THROWN INTO THE RIVER GIRL Evidence Shows That Mabel Scofield Moines Did Not Com- mit Suicide. DES MOINES of Des Iowa prove Feb. 16.—Evi- that Mabel and her body ines River was 1 of Charles Dr. Shope, who autopsy, testified that rop of water was found in the ngs. Thomas ackman, who eged to have administered chloral knockout 4rop! is trying to prove suicide theo e e 34 A NG Guilty of Election Frauds. I VER, Feb. 16.—On the second tr of Peter and William Miller, election officials, and Michael Dowd, a constable, charged with conspiracy to gubstitute fraudulent ballots for bal- Jots legally cast, the jury to-day brought i a verdict of gullty. Sen- tence will be imposed later. rdered “ma ted the w the BALFOURS 6 per cent rate | ; SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. NENINGITE CONOUERED -~ BY A GER Medical Science IS Victorious Over | Disease. ' Successful Treatment of Pa- tients With Antitoxin of Diphtheria. Five Cases Are Absolutely Cured by Physician in Gouverneur Hospital —_— Special Dispatch to The Cail. NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—From the re- n results attained during the last few days at Gouverneur Hospital rom a new treatment for cerebro- spinal meningitis, it appears that sci- ence has another decisive round in with Up to the on struggle disease. present time there ed treatment for this dread disease. Its mortality has varied from 80 per cent in i1ts worst stages of an epidemic to 30 per cent when the epidemic is on wane, and of those cured a larg have retained their lives at the ex- e of their hearing, their power of ch, their eyesight or the use of r limbs, Many men of science will doubt the ibility of a germ of one disease g that of another, but the results in eight cases under the charge of Dr. Edward Waitzfelder at Hospital are astounding. That his antitoxin of diphtheria had | a remarkable effect upon the germ of | spinal meningitis was discovered about four weeks ago by Dr. Wolf, a bacteri ologist, of Hartford, Conn. Dr. Wolf's experiments were confined 'chiefly to the laboratory, though he tried his antitoxin in four cases in Hartford, upon request. Dr, Wolf sent to Dr. Waitzfelder the results of his experi- ments and the latter put them at once to the test in the Gouverneur Hospital, to which most of the cases of men- ingitis among the poor were sent. Of eight cases in which Dr. Waitz- felder has used the antitoxin, five have been absolutely cured without any subsequent complications and two show improvement. This is a result hitherto unparalleled in the history of disease. Dr. Waitz- felder, who goes back in his experience to the great epidemic of 1873, says that he has never known seven consecutive cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis that have recovered. + - MINISTRY TRIDVPES Victorious in House of Commons hy | 31@34_8. | LONDON, Feb. 16.—H. H. Asquith's amendment to the reply to the speech from the throne was defeated in the House of Commons to-night by a vote of 311 to 248, This amendment, which declared ‘that the prospects of the fiscal ques- tion have been fully discussed in the country for nearly two years and that the time has come for submitting the | question to the people without further delay,” was debated throughout to- duy’s session of the House of Commons. No particular interest was aroused until within an hour of the time for the division, when Sir Henry Campbell- Bannerman spoke at some length, at- | tacking Premier Balfour and charging | that he was afraid to face the country or the House of Commons with a definite statement of his position with regard to Chamberlain's programme. The speaker challenged Balfour to ap- peal to the country and taunted the Government with filibustering in order to gain time and delay inevitable de- | feat | Balfour replied, but did not afford | the opposition the satisfaction of any | lengthy explanation of his opinion of Chamberlain’s policy. | —_——— | Ashore in South Pacific. | PERTH, West Australia, Feb. 16.— ;The steamship Orizaba, with passen- | gefs and mails for Sydney, New South Wales, is ashore off Garden Island, | twenty miles out of her course. Her | position is dangerous. The British cruiser Katoomba went to the Ori- zaba's assistance and removed the pas¢ sengers. The Orizaba belongs to the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. has been no accept- | percemtage | Gouverneur | 0L TRUST BROUGHT Sweeping Inves- tigation. SRR e “Begin at Once; Go to the Bottom; Report Early,” His Instructions. | 7 Belief in Washington That Criminal Prosecutions Will Follow Inquiry. Epecial Dispatch to The Call, CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—‘Begin at Go to the bottom. Report early.” This was the substance of President Roosevelt’s message to-day to the De- partment of Commerce and Labor in response to the Campbell resolution adopted by the House yesterday re- questing an investigation of the Stand- | ard Oil Company. It means the begin- | ning of an investigation of the most im- portant industrial corporation in the | United States. In the opinion of author- |'ities the resolution will result in crim- | inal prosecutions for violation of the Federa! anti-trust laws. President Roosevelt's order was pro- mulgated at the White House after a conference with Representative Camp- bell, who went over the Kansas situa- tion in detail. The operations of the Standard Oil Company which resulted | in the closing of 4000 oil wells in that State were fully described. The Presi- dent was astonished to learn of the extreme steps taken there to crush out compeltition. He expressed himself as much interested in the subject, and told Campbell the machinery of the National Government would be put into operation at once, not only to investi- gate in Kansas, but to inquire into all | the doings of the Standard Oil Com- pany and its correlated corporations. 'AR-REACHING ORDER. President Roosevelt dictated the or- der to Secretary Loeb and it was sent to Secretary Metcalf, who in tarn sent t to Commissioner Garfield of the Bu- reau of Corporations. After this the | President had a conference with Gar- field for a preliminary discussion of pians for the investigation. Commissioner Garfield considers the scope of the Campbell resolution much | broader than any ever considered in Congress bearing upon an investigation of any kind of combination of capital- ists. It means that specific charges of restraint of trade in Kansas will be established and all methods practiced by officers and agents of the company in all its business operations in this country will be gone into. This includes its various pipe lines, of which there are thousands of miles; its tank trans- portation service, which employs at least 20,000 private cars, and its steam- boat service. HOKE SMITH ON THE GRILL. Secretary Hitchcack to-day gave out a statement arraigning as a “gigantic monopoly” that présent lease by the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Com- pany of the right to prospect for oil and gas throughout the entire area of the Osage Indian Reservation and ex- plaining the agreement reached several days ago for cutting off more than one-half of the lands operative under this lease during the next ten years. The statement sets forth that what is known as the Osage oil lease, granting the exclusive right to prospect, develop and sublet for oil and gas throughout the entire 1,500,000 acres of the Osage Indian lands, was granted for ten years by the then Secretary of the In- terior, Hoke Smith, on March 16, 1896, to Edwin B. Foster, but that “after a checkered existence,” the lessee is known as the Indian Territory Illum- inating Oil Company. TERMED A “PUBLIC SCANDAL.” “It was,” says 'this statement, “one of the most gigantic monopolies ever issued for an individual or company by once. | | i | | any Secretary of the Interior. The original lease was nothing short of a public scandal.” Secretary Bliss Investigated the lease with a view to canceling it, but found he could not legally do so. The state- ' yment says Secretary Hitchcock espe-! | clally opposed the extension of the { original lease because the company is | obtaining from the Indians practically 50 per cent of the royalty accruing to the Indians who own the property 1 while the sub-lessees provide the capi- tal. An amendment to the Indian ap- propriation bill incorporating the final ‘conclusion reached by the various in- terests and the department, intended to protect both the Indians and the sub- | lessees, cuts the lands operative under the lease to 680,000 acres. KANSAS' WAR ON TRUSTS. TOPEKA, Kans.,¢«Feb. 16.—To suc- cessfully fight the trusts within its borders a constitutional convention may be called to broaden the powers of the Kansas Legislature, the bills strik- ing at trusts, particularly those dealing with ofl, having met with so many ob- jections on constitutional grounds that | a sentiment in favor of a new consti- PRESIDENT EXPLAINS TO SENATE THE SANTO DOMINGO PROTOCOL 10 TRIAL\rEPUBLICS MUS { PRICE 0F NAY WHEAT Shorts Flood Chicago Pit With Buying Orders, - —_— Special Dispatch to The Call, CHICAGO, Feb. 16.—May wheat bounded up to $1 21% to-day, touching a mark 15 cents above yesterday’'s new record-establishing price. Developments indicated clearly mammoth fear of the Wall street crowd which, through its leader, John W. Gates, has plunged into its bull campaign with a vengeance. The plight of the shorts, who ran pell-mell into the pit with buying orders, was almost pitiful. One small operator, E. A. Rang, supposed to have been tied up by the congested condition of May wheat, failed. ———e—————— TO LOSE LEG AS RESULT OF WEARING HIGH HEELS a Young Woman in New York Injured so That Limb Must Be Amputated. NEW YORK, Feb, 16.—One of the legs of Mrs. Marie K. Good, the young and beautiful wife of a Harlem drug salesman, will be amputated to-mor- row at St. Luke’'s Hospital as a sacri- fice to the vanity that causes a woman with a pretty foot to deform it by wearing high French heels. Four years ago Mrs. Good stumbled and twisted her ankle. Since that time she has not walked except -on crutches. She has been examined by various specialists, but without affording her any relief. The will be amputated a few inches beféw the knee. — tution to meet the situation has sprung up. To this end a /resolution submit- ting the question of calling a constitu- tional convention to a vote of the peo- ple in 1906 has been prepared and will be presented in the Senate. Governor Hoch has not yet signed the bill providing for the erection by the State of an oil refinery. Along with its fight on oil, Kansas algo is making war on those who would pipe gas out of the State. To- day in the House Holdren's bill to reg- ulate the mode of procuring and trans- porting natural gas was passed by a vote of 78 to 32. Unlike the ofl legisla- tion, which seeks to make a market for that product, the gas measure is in- tended to restrict the output. President Orders aTIME HAS COME FOR AME NEW RECORD | MRS. CODY ACCUSED BY EX-SERTANT Alleged to Have Ad- ministered Drug fo Ij@b_a,_nd. Special Dispatch to The Call. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 16.—Sensa- tional testimony was introduced to-day | in the suit of Colonel William F. Cody for a divorce from Mrs. Eliza Cody. The first deposition was by Mrs. John W. Boyer of North Platte, Neb., whose husband was in the employ of Cody for many years, she acting ¢. housekeeper at the ranch. Mrs. Boyer swore that she knew Mrs. Cody gave the colonel a drug. Mrs. Cody, she said, bought the drug of a gypsy and it was called ‘dragon’s blood.” It made the colonel sick. Once it was put into his coffee cup, but Mrs. Boyer changed the cups so that Mrs. Cody drank the coffee. She became il Once, the witness said, Mrs. Cody gave her husband some of the drug be- fore he went to a banquet and he fell helpless at the banquet. At another time, after a quarrel, the colonel, she swore, took a drink.of the fluid and Mrs. Cody exclaimed: “I've got him now where I (want him.” He went to a play, then to a supper, was taken ill and had to be carried home. Attorneys. ‘gor the defense attempted to sh that the plaintiff was fre- quent] cated and Mrs. Boyer ad- mitted when he was in such con- dition he acted much the same as when alleged to have been drugged. Mrs. Boyer also admitted that she had quarreled with the defendant. —_———— DIES FROM COLD WHILE CARRYING MEDICINE HOME Man Who Faces Snow and Ice for Sake of Child Perishes on Way. CHEBOYGAN, Mich.,, Feb. 16.—Al- bert Fluery walked on the ice from Bois Blanc Island to this city Satur- day night to get medicine for his sick child. The mercury was 16 degrees below zero and a wild snow storm was raging, but he bravely set out on the return trip about midnight with a lantern and compass to guide him. That was the last seen of him and there is little doubt that he per- ished ' T BE MADE TO PAY DEBTS FORMEP. ASSISTANT VIOUS AWARD CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—As out- lined exclusively in a dispatch to The Call yesterday, message transmitting the new Santo Domingo protocol to the Senate is a full discussion of the whole subject, with the Monroe doctrine in the fore- ground. If we are to maintain the Monroe doctrine .and kee‘ foreign Governments out of the Western hemisphere, the President argues, we must collect their debts for them. If we are not to do this, then we must either drop the Monroe doctrine or fight for it under great disadvantages. President Roosevelt is ready to uny dertake the task. He invites the Sen- ate to join him. Sanguine, active, ready to put thing to rights wherever he thinks them wrong, the President would not hesitate a minute. Not so the Senate. That conserva- tive body does hesitate. It sees brought before it the whole problem of doing police and debt col- lecting duty ~throughout the Western kemisphere. It sees in a new light the responsibilities which the Monroe doc- trine puts into the hands of the young and optimistic President. It is, of course, too early to say that the Senate is disposed to be hostile. Not many of the Senators had read the Presi- dent’s letter and protocol to-night, as it was a very busy day in the Senate. But there is a disposition to go about this business in leisurely fashion. ARGUMENT OF SENATORS. The older Senators argue in this way: Suppose the Senate ratifies this treaty, binds the United States to keep order by using force and settles Santo Domingo’s debt, which shall be the next country the United States must put in order? It will have es- tablished a precedent for the Western Hemisphere. It might be all right to do ‘this in Santo Domingo, because it lies near its door; but suppose it has to go next time to Uruguay or Pata- gonia? The United States did establish a protectorate over Cuba, but Santo Do- mingo is not on aH fours with Cuba. The latter was ready for self-govern- ment. The United States establishes a protectorate over Santo Domingo by this treaty and that is the thing the President Roosevelt's | SECRETARY OF STATE, WHOSE ACCOMPANIES THE PRESIDENT'S SANTO DOMINGO MES- SAGE, AND SCENES IN THE CAPITAL OF THE ISLAND REPUBLIC. Statesmen of the Upper House Are Disposed to RICA TO ACT OK ABANDON MONROEISM EXPLANATION OF PRE- Move Slowlu. Special Dispatch to The Call Senate will discuss before giving the President his answer. In addition to the President’s dis- cussion of the Monroe doctrine in the case of Santo Domingo, the protocol itself makes specific declaration of its application and in that respect is un- usual’in treaty making. The declara- | tion occurs in the second paragraph, which recites that the Government of the United States views “‘any attempt of governments outside of this hemi- sphere to depress the destiny of the Dominlcan republic as a manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the Uniteq States.” TEXT OF THE MESSAGE. In his message the President says: The conditions in the republic of Santo Do- mingo have been growing steadily worse for many years. Thers have been many disturb- ances and revolutions, ana debts have been contracted beyond the powar of the repubdlic to Tepay. Some of these debts wers properly con- tracted and are heid by those who have a le- gitimate right to their money. without question improper.or exorbitant, com- stituting claims which should never be pald in tull, and perhaps only to the extent of a very small portion of their nominal value. Certain countries have long felt themselves ved because of the non-payment of debts due to their citizens. The only way by which forelgn creditors could ever obtain from the republic itself any guaranty of payment would be ecither by the acquisition of territory out- right or temporarily, or else by takings posses- sion of the custom’ houses, which would, of course, in itself, fu effect be taking posses:ion of a certaln amount of territory It has for some time been obvious that those who profit by the Monros doctrine must accept certain responsibilities along with the rights which it confers, and that the same statement applies to those who uphold the doctrine. It cannot be too often and too emphatically as- serted that the United States has not the slightest desire for territorfal aggrandizement at the expense of any of its southern neigh-— bors, and will not treat the Monree doctrine as an eycuse for such aggrandizement on its part. We do not propose to take any part of Santo Domingo or exercise any other control over the island save what Is necessary to its financial rehabflitation in connection with the collection of revenues, part of which will be turned over to the Government to meet the necessary expenses of running it, and part of which will be distributed pro rata ameng the creditors of the republic, upon a basis of abso— Tute equity. The justification for the United States taking this burden and incurring this responsibility i» to ba found in the fact that it is Incompatibie with international equity for the United States to_refuse tc allow other powers to take the only means at their disposal of satistying the claims of their creditors and yet to refuse itselt to take any such steps. MONROE DOCTRINE MENACED. An aggrieved nation can, without intertering ‘with the Monroe doctrine, take what action it sees fit in the adjustment of its disputes with Amerfcan =tates. provided that such action does not take the shape of interfering witn Continued on Page 2, Column §,