The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 3, 1905, Page 3

'THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1905. POISONED BY SOME MEMBER HIGH SHERIFF OF HONOLULU 1S RETICENT Henry’s Actions Are Guided by Chief Spillane. NO REPORT MADE ON THE ANALYSIS SRS T Special Cable to The Call March 2—High Sherift regard to Hunt it is are both the Stanford has been probably on the Pacific Mail China,” which will on March 10 an Francisco on s M i i Highton safd that Mre. en she confided to her 1 her life at San aged philanthropist t concelve of & reason e chould dttempt such a 1 had many long talks ord. - In several of these the Senator’s widow. in- t- of spiritualism ST great interest. - Mrs. ¢ 1 that ‘she firmly be- o = n t she intended ent at Stanford vestigation - of ymor -was in elreu- Deen s false nd, but the au- The chemists st They are guarding ¥ esults of their investiga- h 1tmost eaution. y Andrevs will prob- ver the inques - ARRANGEMENTS FOR FUNERAL. ERSITY, nts for the 1 are about com of the. relatives nt to. Honolulu to re- It is"impossible March al ries ¢ Mrs. Stan- e thé campnus, stees will either wn number or 1ty to make the the date of the r 19th of this will - take ‘the Honolmdu' and ‘an- the -City of Gardner will address be- - of typhoid REMEN W. YORK CITY {, March 2—A conference resentatives of the Brother- 1 of Locomotive. Engineers and the t hedd of Locomotive Firemen n this city.te-day to adjust the conflicting claims of the and firemgn employed on the %k, New Haven and Hartford Grand Chief - Warren 8. e engineers and Grand Mas. Hannahan and Second Vice Master Timothy Shea of the were among those Dresent e of th i upon | and | nd bottle containing | — | | | 7 W ) T \We 2z _— //'/////)'/' = SDAY NIG S DEPARTMENTS OF THIS CITY WHO Al T ON THE SUDDEN AND MYSTERIO HT. DETECTIVE MORSE AYS CASE ELUDES ALL HYPOTHESES o b e head of the Morse in’ San Francisco, ng the matter tive Agency Morse, who has been inve: ever, since Mrs. had the following to say in regard to the matter t nden of my e questioned all Mrs. that gave them any was not all right with anything .at _all acted on it. The ft here yione of her had been-any crime 1t clous we should hav is that when she lef » pelieved that there attempted. The sspect of the case has been changed ¢ developments in- Honolulu ard- I do not v about it. 1 am waiting ow In the hopes that the ch will show conclusively wh strychnine was -t far we have been unable to -dis motive. Mrs. ‘Stanford's secretary had been with her for twenty years. She had éverything to lose and pothing tc gain. - The same with all the rest. of them. - Mrs. Stanford seemingly had no_enemies. Theén again the amount of polson sald to be found in the bicarbonats wouid make it ap- We have redoubléd our efforts since the news | of Ber death, and last night I hardly siept st _all .1 got thinking so much~ aboiit it. The whole thing, however, at present is a perfect blamk.- Look seem to be .mgmy conflicting connected itk the affa I -have no theory. I try to keep my mind | clear from arewing ‘any conciusions until § get facts to go on, There ‘evidently is some connection between Mrs. Stanford's iliness here and her death-at Honolui If her. death there was caused by polson It was put in bere and we must find whete it came from. There was strychnine spoken of here and strychnine came Into the -case down there, and it certainly has the appearance.of intent. | 1 do mot beileve that Mrs. Stanford did- it herself, - If it was done it was a crimje. To- w, however, will tell the tale and If it s out that she died from stryclinine poison- don't know what I shall do about it. - | — 3 Mrs. Stanford’s Assessment. SAN JOSE, March 2.—Mrs. Jane L. Stanford -’ is’ assessed for $56,825 worth of personal property in Santa Clara County. There is.no realty in her name, all of that having been turned over to° the university. Ac- cording to a sworn statement made by | E. B. Ryan to 'Assessor Spitzer on I'April 23, 1904, Mrs. Stanford pos- d the follewing personal prop- which is in Stanford School pl where her. home ‘is locate trict, {Jewelry, plate-or diamonds, $300; sew- | ing ‘machime, $25; other' personal ! property- $1500; State; county, ecity, municipal or other taxable bonds of Kan)’ Jperson, firm or corporation, $35,- {.000; money. on hand, $20,000. Total, $56,825. . . > ————— EARL OF SELBORNE WILL SUCCEED MILNER IN AFRICA Retiring High Commissioner Who Re- ‘signed on -Account of Health Soon 2 Returns to England. 2 LONDON, March 2.—It is officlally announced "that the Earl of Selborne, First Lord of the Admiralty, will suc- -ceed Lord Milnér as High Commissioner in. Scuth.Africa. Lord Milner resigned for reasons connected with the state of his health and he will leave South Africa at the end of March, Stanford’s departure, | anford's attendants | it some. erazy person’ had done’ It. | B y | according to those present, she was | |OLD FRIENDS SAY MRS. STANFORD HAD NO HALLUCINATIONS | Many -of Mrs. Stanford’s oldest | friends declare that her mind was | clear, bright and absolutely freeffrom hallucination on any subject. They em- phatically scout the idea that Mrs. | Stanford ever entertained the slightest that she abnormally dwelt on the sub- ject of death. Mrs. J. A. Fillmore has known Mrs. Stanford for many years, since the early days' of the State, when they i were associated in Sacramento. She declares that her old friend was un- mistakably of sound mind. Mrs. A. N. Towne, also associated with Mrs. Stanford for a period of thirty years or more, voiced sentiments of a simi- lar- order, saying that recent conversa- tion and acquaintance with Mrs. Stan- ford did not disclose any symptoms of | aberration. Judge T. B. MacFarland’s statement | that Mrs. Stanford’s mind was per- | feotly normal was made with the great- | est earnestness, he repudiating the in- | sinuation that she harbored any | thought of poisoning. Mrs. Stanford was hostess at a large | dinner on January 20 at her home on California street, arid among the guests were those mainly who were connected with the early days and had followed the career of Governor and Mrs. Stan- ford. Judge MacFarland, Mrs. Fill- more and Mrs. Towne were among the invited- ones, the hostess favoring the friends of long st#ding. At this date, ‘bright, cheerful, active, taking pleasure in the reunion of so many pioneers | with interests in common, and in every | way a natural and healthy woman, | barring the fact that she was troubled with a slight cold. But her mentality was unimpadired in any slightest par- ticular. e vl G e e FIGHT T0 BREAK RATE COMBINE TOPEKA, Kans, March 2—The Atchigon, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail- road Company is to be included in At- torney General Coleman’s suit for con- spiracy against the Standard Oil Com- pany. Coleman sald to-night that the Santa!Fe was left out of the original petition by an error of the stenog- | rapher. 1 ed petition to include the Santa Fe. all the railroads in the State. The strongest feature of the suit, according to the Attorney General, is that relating to the fallure of the Stan- dard to pay charter fees, thus having no authority to do business In the State. To fight the Standard is the {real object of the suit. The action against the. railroads is brought to dissolve the freight rate combination. ———— SIX CHILDREN KILLED BY AVALANCHE IN AUSTRIA Sliding Snow From Mountain Over- whelms House of Peasant Near Auszer Villegraten. INNSBROOK, Austria, March 2.—Six i children were killed to-day by an lavalanche which overwhelmed- the house of & peasant near Auszer Ville- graten. A fear of being poisoned by any one or | He will at once flle an amend- |, The suit will thus be brought against|| RE- WORKING ON IMPORTANT CLEWS US DEATH OF MRS. STANFORD AT 5 | PRESIDENT JORDAN SCOUTS THE IDEA OF HER SUICIDE STANFORD UNIVERSITY, March 2. President Jordan acknowledges that the mystery of Mrs. Stanford’s death is more than he first would allow him- self to believe, “I can’t understand it,” he said this afternoon. “Poison has been found in her medicine bottle. Who could have placed it there? In the many years I have known her I have never known i Mrs. Stanford to have a single enemy. The murderer, if there is on must have been criminally insane. ~Mrs. Stanford’s mind was as clear and strong the day of the departure as it ever was. No doubt the atfempt to take her life in San Francisco on Jan- uary 14 weighed upon her mind, al- though when I saw her on January 15 she appeared to take the matter lightly.” . Dr. Jordan read letters from Mrs. Stanford dated January 18 to 20 from the Hotel Vendome, San Jose. In these letters she declared that her health had In no way been benefited by her trip to San Jose and that she had giv- en up the proposed trip to Los Angeles, but would probably go somewhere. She never mentioned the attempted poison- ing in any of her letters to Dr. Jordan. “The theory qf suicide is absurd,” continued the president. “Mrs. Stan- ford had always had a very strong mind and, although it is asserted that she was terribly depressed at the time of Leland’s death, it never affected her mind.” At the Palo Alto residence to-day the few remaining servants were reticent concerning the sudden death of Mrs. Stanford. C. L. Wooster, the aged coachman who had driven for Mrs. Stanford for thirty years and who came out with the party from New York, said that the relations between Mrs. Stanford and the servants were of the most friendly nature. “She rare- ly talked to us,” sald the coach- man, “and there were few times when I ever held what might be called a con- versation with her. Yet we all felt that we were closely bound to her and it never entered our heads to think of any one harming her.” 3 _ DEATI INDER WHEELS OF CAR Special Dispatch to The Call. | LOS ANGELES, March 2—Mrs. Ira P. Smith, wife of Ira P. Smith, “super- ' intendent of the Pacific Lumber Com- pany at Scotia, Humboldt County, was | struck by an electric car on the Long Beach line this afternoon and lnlmnt-l ly killed. i Mrs. Smith had been to Willowbrook to look at a lot which she purchased yesterday and was about to return home. She stationed herself near the electric line, but upon the wrong side i of the northbound cars. As a south- bound car approached she stepped to ;the other track, but seeing a car ap- proaching on that track also she step- ped back. . The southbound car struck | her with such force that her body was j hurled to the other track in front of the approaching car. It dropped to the track, rolled under the fender and the wheels passed over it. Mrs. Smith was about 30 years of age and was & handsome woman. i I MAID HOPES FIEND WILL * BE CAPTURED Elizabeth - Richmond Denies She Was - Discharged. IS VISITING WIFE OF FORMER BUTLER —_— PALO ALTO, March 3.—Miss Eliz- abeth Richmond, who was malid Mrs. Stanford on January 14, the time that the first poison was administered, is visiting Albert Beverly near Bur- lingame. She is practically prostrated with excitement and grief. She said: “I left Mrs. Stanford’s employ of my own accord on January 27, notwith- standing the reports that I was dis- charged. They are uttérly false. I am only too willing to give my time and services to help unravel this terrible| mystery. It places all’ those in Mrs. Stanford’s immediate household under a terrible position. I came down here at the invitation of Mrs. Beverly, be- ¢ause I was followed by detectives in San Francisco. There is considerable money left by Mrs. Stanford, and this should be used to employ detectives and lawyers to unravel the mystery. I hope it will be solved to the very end. I was maid to Mrs. Stanford one year and nine months. 3 PO s STANFORD RESIDENCE GUARDED Day and Night Entrances Are Watched and Communication Is Prevented. Day and night the ‘Stanford resi- dence at the southwest corner,of Cali- fornia and Powell streets is under the guard of watchmen, whose orders are to see that no one shall enter the grounds or house or approach the do- mestics employed there. As nearly as can be ascertained there are four Chi- nese cooks and one housekeeper in the residence, all under police guard. Several attempts were made by a Cal] representative to reach the house or communicate with the inmates, but all were frustrated by the guards. ‘When the mansion was twice called up by- telephone the response was pre- sumably by the same man, who said his name was Lee and later Ah Wing. There was’ barely a trace of Chinese accent in his talk. In response to a request at the gate to see Mary Gaffney, the housekeeper, the reply was that she was asleep, al- thcugh it was but 9 o'clock in the evening. It wasg also averred that the feur Chinese, Ah Wing, Lee, Ah Young | and Ah Ying, were not in the mansion and that no restrictions were placed on the freedom of the occupants. A tele- phone call immedlately after estab- lished the fact that at least two of the Chinese were in the house. The statement that no restrictions | are on the five inmates is denled by employes, who say that they have posi- tive orders to allow no one to leave the premises. This is in accordance with the detention of Ah Wing by the police. Y The manner of the employes was pclite and respectful, but any attempt to enter the iron gates of. the east driveway was preverited. OF HER OWWN HOUSEHOLD INQUIRY INTO ~ [THREE JAPANESE STRANGE DEATH Authorities Exhume Body of Colonel Doyle and Issue a Wamnt for M. F. Thomas SUSPICION - IS AROUSED Will in a San Bernardino Tragedy Starts Officers on Searching Investigation Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN BERNARDINO, March 323.—A warrant has just been lssued for the arrest of M. F. Thomas, a well-known ploneer resident of this section, charg- ing him with the murder of Colonel John N. Doyle, & hermit, who -was found dead in his cabin in the Cajon Pass near this city, on February 1l Thomas has not yet been found. Doyle was shot through the abdomen with a charge from a shotgun, the weapon be- ing found on the floor near the body. To-day the body was exhumed for fur- ther examination. Thomas, for whom the warrant has been issued, claimed that Doyle Hhad made a will in his favor. This will was compared with specimens of Doyle’'s and Thomas’ handwriting. and the examiners . unhesitatingly pro- mnounced Thomas its author. The will was strangely lost by the attorney for the public administrator, when the Sheriff demanded f{t. Evidence In the Sheriff's possession indicates that Colonel Doyle was shot while In bed, the body being carried to the kitchen and.so arranged beside his shotgun as to point to the acci- dental discharge of the weapon while he was in the act of drawing It across a box. The coroner’s jury accepted Thomas' version of the shooting, but the appearance of the will and Doyle’s frequent expressions of fear that he would be assassinated aroused the sus- picion of the Sheriff, whose unrelent- ing investigations scared Thomas - off before the Sheriff was prepared for his arrest. He is still a fugitive. —_—————— CAUGHT IN A LONG ROPE AND DRAGGED TO DEATH MODESTO, March 2.—George Hini- ker, a resident of Larkspur, Marin County, was killed on his ranch near Lagrange by being dragged to death by a young horse this morning. He was riding one horse and leading another by a long rope. He becime entangled in the rope and his horse dragged him a mile and a half. was dead when found. SAN RAFAEL, March 2—George Hiniker was engaged prineipally in the livestock business and was Interested in several large ranches in the State. He leaves a wife and four children. Dr..A. J. Hiniker of San Francisco is a brother. — e FORMER MAYOR DEAD. Adolph Pfeister, a Ploneer of San Jose, Passes Away. SAN JOSE. March 2.—Adolph Pfeis- ter, twice Mayor of San Jose, founder of the Public Free Library and father of H. A. Pfeister, County Clerk of Santa Clara County, died at his home here last night. He was a native of. Germany, aged 84, and came to Call- fornia in 1847 as a member of Steven- son’s regiment. He'l SHOT IN ROW Landlord of Oriental Lodg- ing-House. Kills Two.Com- 'patriots and Weunds Third SURRENDERS TO POLICE After the Shooting Komaya Rushes to' Central . Sta- tion and Gives Himself Up K. Komaya, a Japanese landlord of a lodging-house at 110 Prospect place, oft cramento street - near -Stocktom, dashed barefooted Ints the Central sta- tion last night and excitedly exclaimed in broken English that he had shot three men. His cléthing was disar- ranged, his hair disheveled and he car- ried a revolver In his hand. Detective Bralg and Patrolman Min- nehan jumped 1into a patrol wagon with the Iandlord and accompanied him to the scene of the shooting. When they entered it the pjace remembled a shambles. - Two “Japanese lay dead upon the floor and & third was in a chair badly wounded. The wounded man was taken ‘to the Central Emer- gency Hospttal. His name Is T. Murata; and he is a sailor op.the George Loo- mis. ‘He was shot through the -side and hand.. He says-that he, together with T. Quoua-and J. Makamara, had @ quarrel with Komaya over money matters and rent, in which the land- lord cheated them, and In the argu- ment which. followed shot them. Komaya tells a different storys He says that his three .compatriots weras drunk and.quarrelsome and entered hs room. Soon the place was fllléd with empty bottles and the. conduct ‘of the Japs became riotous. H~ remonstrated with-them and they attacked him. The dead Japanese are at the Morgue agd it is believed the third will recover. FIRE AT LAST QUENCHED ON SIEAMSIP OREGON SE 2 Damage to the Vessel Estimated aé Over Sixty Thousand Doliars. EUREKA, March 2.—The. fire on ‘the steamship Oregon. was’ quenched { at 7 o’clock. this morning/and at 9:30 the vessel was floated from the mud flats -to the. channel.. Captains Pills- | bury apd Tibbetts, | representing the | marine underwriters, went aboard the | steamship..” It was- decided that the i vessel shall return to-San Francisco to-morrow. . Last night holes were bored in the side of the vessel and the space be- tween the decks flooded by means of a hose. This proved the best methdd of fighting the flames and goad progress wasg made until 2 $’clock’ this morn- ‘lng. when.a fresh disaster threatened | the vessel. A large quantity of tinned phosphorus was ignited by the heat. After ‘two hours.the second fire was placed under controk This afterncon what was left of the | éargo was transferred to the Roanoke. | The damage to the Orsgon is estimated int between $60,000 and $75,000. Cap- | tain Warner believes the fire was | caused by spontaneous combusion. ——— e SUSPECTED OF ROBBERY:—Willlam F. 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