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

thirty hours ending mis San Francisco and Thursday:* brisk west THE WBATHER. Forecast made at San Francisco for A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. dnight, April 13: vicinity—Cloudy wind. THE THEATERS. mount."* GRAND—Grand MECHANICS' Show. ALCAZAR—"Tom Moore." CALIFORNIA—"The COLUMBIA—"The Other Girl." CENTRAL—"‘Paul Revere." CHUTES—Vaudeville. ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—Comic Opera. rancisco Lady Para- Opera. PAVILION — Nature SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, APRIL PRESDENT | SURPRISES Tireless 10 Pursuit Woli. Ore of Only Four Men In at the Finish of a | Long Chase, - | Stremuous Executive Indulges in Foot- | races With the Wesierners ‘ at His Camp. RS 5 { VERICK, Okla., April 12—This cen a day for President arty of hunters in ther has been enabling the horses well as the dogs, to do was in them. The Presi- be 2 whole show by the words of th e i€ constangly surpris ¥ ow- ing t runs of the entire ing the fore part of wolf was chased off reeks and timber he hardiest andi keep up such a terrific any distaace. When finally cap d there r of the party within sight animal—Bob Burnett, Guy Wag- and John Abernathy, three old- the fourth member t fifteen of the and kept dogs are taken in | the remainder of the | camp, where their | rd for miles. The party | 20 o'clock each morning | mp at i1 o'clock for | orses are saddled by | and the start is made | >ck in the afternoon. rsions of the camp ces, in which the Here he failed however, 1 stomed to pur- | E J left a wildeat, e eing pursued last night, in | - S ctuntiks stomed prey @ coon was discovered in tr This animal was finally c Deep Red Creek, and is now 1 as one of the live trophies of t has COWBOYS ARF GATHERING. DENVER, April " 12.—Information to-night from Glenwood Springs is to | t £ t men who =re ar- ranging ent Roosevelt's hunt in « pleased ha Jake” h: b ty of | v light s of past few days, he bel 3 rable to easy tra t the Presi- :ndulge leaving | accepted, | n all Western Colorado » New Castle to act as resident from New | point south of that place, will mark the beginning of the vhich the public will the President’s cowboys declare they will t in enforcing the “square deal” 1 The march from New be enlivened by a genuine demonstration, accompanied the pool be beer cowboy by rough riding, pistol firing, etc. overnor Jesse McDonald, accom- by a party of National Guards- and officers of the regular army, intends to go to Trinidad to welcome President Rooseveit to Colorado. Gov- ernor McDonald will carry with him the hunting license which has been is- sued by the Game Commissioner to the President. The special permit has been engrossed and incased In a leather covering. It wil] give the chief executive carte blanche on any game he wants. LOEEB HUNTS JACKRABBITS. FORT WORTH, Tex., April 12.— ery little business was transacted to- | at the temporary headq the Government, which maintained here by Secretar since Sunday last. No word came from | e President during the day and no } ages were sent to him. To-mor- morning Seeretary Loeb will break s headguarters here and the President’s special train will leave at 0 o'clock for Frederick, Okla.. where President will board it to-morrow ight. The start from Frederick wiil 8:25 de at o'clock to-morrow ! night and the last stop in Texas will | be made at Texline at 8:20 o’'clock, mountain time, on . Friday morning, No changes in the. Colorado pro- gramme have been given out. During the day the Secretary and | other members the President’s | party participated % a jackrabbit hunt ' on the Burgess ranch, sixteen miles north of here. After a dinner of bar- becued meats, the hunting party pro- ceeded to Blue Mound, the highest point in Tarran County, and there Sec- retary Loeb planted a tree and made 1 brief speech. Another barbecue was given in the Secretary’s honor after he returned to the city and to-night e was initiated as an honorary member of the Con- catenated Order of Hoohoos. The or- also elected the President to honorary membership and conferred ©on him the highest distinction at its command, the mystic number of 999, | ting: | very ! which have been charged NEW YORKS HIPPODROVE 1S OPENED Largest Place of Amusement in the City. Hundreds of Persons and Many Animals on Stage at One Time. = Performance Is Begun With Spectacu- lar Production’ of “A Yankee Circus on ¥ars.” SRR NEW YORK, April 12.—The Hippo- drome, New York's newest and largest place of amusement, was opened to the publie to-night under the management of Thompson & Dundy, and every one of the 5200 seats was taken, some of them having been bought at auction at h premiums. Wherever there was nding space it was filled. The performance was begun with the spectacular, “A Yankee Circus on Mars.” The first scene showed a stranded American circus about to he sold at auction. It was bought by a | Martian, who took it to his planet, and this gave opportunity in the fcllowing scene to show very elaborate stage set- lowing the circus on Mars came a spectacular production of American Civil War incidents—“Andersonville, a Story of Wilson’s Raiders.” In this there was a battle scene, bringing numbers of mounted men on the stage. The great Hippodrome tank was util- ized in the battle scene, the fore part of the stage sinkinz, this process of sub- mersicn continuing for several minutes until the stage represented a river. With mounted troops represented in { retreat, horses and riders' rushed for- | ward and plunged into the water, many feet deep. Many horges were in the water at the same time and the magnitude of the presentation of the battle made a very effective scene. The Hippodrome stage is remark- ably large, and at times was crowded. Hundreds of perSpns and many ani- mais, including elephants and horses, were in view at one time, making a animated and picturesque stage scenc. The circus specialties intro- duced in the first part of the perform- ance were unusually good. e NODNTAIN BANDS A AND MORDER Lawless Conditions in Part of New - Hampshire. Epecial Dispatch to The Call BOSTON, April 12.—A startling ex- posure of the dreadful degeneracy and lawlessness existing in the New Hamp- shire mountain regions at the present time, with details of outrages that have been going on unpunished and unpub- lished for years, is being made by a Boston daily, which has a special cor- respondent in the field. The conditions. in the region—re- mote towns and villages of the Gran- ite/Mountain State—are almost unbe- lievable and rival the feuds of the Ten- nessee and Kentucky mountains, while ; ehe condition of Some of the people is as bad as or worse than the tra- ditional Southern *cracker.” There aré several gangs of crimi- nals, among the chief of which is the so-called “Osipee Mountain gang,” to numerous robberies, assaults, incendiary fires, a murder or two, and many unspeakable | outrages. These gange are not all out- ,Jaws, some of them living in the set- tled comunities and going about their ordinary affairs through day and work- ing their criminal wills at night. Leagued with them are persns in high standing who fprofit in various ways by their operations. Peaceable resi- dents have been terroized into silence and this influence has even extended to the newspapers and to State officials. —— e HARMON AND JUDSON ARE NOT TO RESIGN Attorney General Says the Reports of a Stormy Interview Are Groundless. WASHINGTON, April 12,—The At- torney General to-day authorized a statement that the report that there had been a stormy interview between him and Harmon and Judson, special counsel for the Government in the Santa Fe coal case, or that they had intimated any wish or purpose to re- sign their employment was without any foundation whatever, | HARRIMAN - PLANS WAR LUPON HILL Normerfi%fic'l‘er- ritory -Will Be Invaded. —— New Preferred Smck Issue to Provide Sinews for Strugzle. Branch Lines ill Be Built to Tap the Border States of ths Northwest — Special Dispatch tu The Call. NEW YORK. April 12.—Following the elimination of Edward H. Harri- man from the directorate of the North- ern Securities Company, and the prob- able retirement frofn the board of Ja- | cob H. Schiff and James Stiilman, the only remaining representatives of Union Pacitic interests, railroad and financial circles have placed a new construction on the proposed author- ization of $100,000,000 in new Union Pa- cific preferred stock. According to a statement made to- day by a leading railroad authority it is not improbable that at least a por- tion of the preferred stock issue is to provide sinews of war for a great rail- road contest for the supremacy of the Northwest, to be launched by the Har- riman interests against James J, Hill. There are indications that the funds will be expended in constructing a net- work of branch lines from the Union Pacific into Northern Pacific territory. It is expected that this action would he met at once by Hill by an invasion of Union' Pacific territory, with exten- sions from the Chicago, Burlington and Quiney Radlroad. 2 The remainder of the Union Pacific stock issue is intended to reimburse the company for sums expended in many of the system's recent acquisitions, such as the San Pedro road, its many traction properties and small lines to the Pacific Coast. At least this con- struction is placed on the wording of the statement by the directors, in which it was said a portion of the issue was intended to pay for stocks of other companies. The companies referred to would thus resolve themselves into lines already acquired and not pros- pective purchases. Fiarther developments in this direc- tion are expected after the distribu- tion of Northern Securities assets, which is scheduled to follow, as soon as practicable, the issuance of the mandate by the United States Supreme Court on Monday. If the Northwestern railroad war is to be precipitated, railroad circles would not be surprised if Harriman representatives retired from the direc- torates of other Hiil properties. The Burlington would play a conspicuous part in the contest. Harriman, Still- man, Schiff and Colonel William P. Clough are members of its board of directors. INOUIRY ASKED INTO HYDE BALL Equitable Stockholder Wants the Charge That Society Funds Were Used Probed 3 ALBANY, N. Y., April 12.—Superin- tendent of Insurance Hepdricks re- ceived a formal application to-day to inquire specifically into. the charges that the dinner to Embassador Cambon and the fancy dress ball arranged by James H. Hyde were pald for out of the general fund of the Equitable Life As- surance Society, and into other allega- tions of extravagance on the part of the management of that corporation. The request came from Senator Edgar T. Brackett of Saratoga, as attorney for Charles P. Penfield of that place, a stockholder. 5 NEW YORK, April 12.—A complete record of all the financial transactions ! of the Equitable Life Assurance So- clety, ite relation to other corporations and a. full list of the soclety’s em- ployes, including all its officers, to- gether with a statement of the salaries and emoluments received by them, is asked of the society’s president, James W. Alexander, in a letter sent to him by Henry C. Frick, chairman of the investigating committee appointed by the directors. The letter to Alexander wus upproved at a meeting of the in- vestigating committee at which Harri- man, Bliss, Ives were present. In asking for the information Fflckl writes that the committee does not in- tend to limit its investigation to the questioning of the society’s officers, but that separate and independent exam- inations will be made by the committee and its experts. ———— POSSIBLE REVOLT. IN CHINA./ Liberals Promote Movement Against the Manchu Dynasty. ST. PETERSBURG, April 13.—Dis- patches from Manchuria indicate that the belief prevails there that a revolt will socn eccur against the Chinese dynasty and that it is being promoted by Chinese Liberals. RS S . Charles E. Merrill, the most important witness against Pub- Hc Works Conunissioner Frank A. Maestretli, under indictment for subornation of perjury, was overtaken by Grand Jury detec- tives at Milpitas yesterday while " fleeing from jurisdiction of the courts and was brought back to San Francisco last night. Two I | weeks ago Merrill told a sen- sational story that while at his work on a Sacramento-street car’a stranger had approached him with an offer of $1500 to leave the State. Day before yesterday he notified Foreman Andrews that he was golng to Fairfax, Marin County, on a two weeks’ camping trin. Suspicions were arouscd and trailing detec- tives yesterday morning saw { Merrill start from Oakland in a camp wagon, accompanied by | his wife and children. Charles Merrill IS Captured at ilpitas. —_——— Former Conduc- tor False to Promise. Charles E. Merrill,. star witness against Public Works Commissioner | Frank A. Mzestretti, under indictment {for subarnation of perjury, was EeruKl back from Milpitas last night by | Detective Bolger of the Curtin agency, | Merrill had played the Grand Jury false and tried to make his escape from | the city. - The susplcions of Foreman Andrews. of the jury were arouséd on “Monday and Métrils has been closely watched since that time; with the re- sult that he was intercepted before he had \proceeded far. Merrill was the car conductor who went to Foreman Andrews a few weeks ago and told a sensational tale of how he was offered $1500 to leave the State. He boasted of his honesty in spurning the tempting offer and vowed he would stand by the jury and give his testi- mony at the trial of Maestretti. But an offer, of more coin or some other inportant facter must have been brought to bear on Merrill since that time, it seems, for he laid his plans carefully to play the Grand Jury false at the last moment. The suspicions of Andrews were aroused when Merrill called on him last Monday morning and informed him | that he was sick and tired of the city and wanted to get away to the country for a-while. He told Andrews he was ®oing on a camping trip to Fairtax by himself and that his wife would be home. He added that the Grand Jury could keep in touch with her and in that way be familiar with his where- abouts. i SAYS HE WAS HOUNDED. “They have been hounding me to death,” said Merrill. ‘‘Men have been coming to my house at all hours of the day and night and trying to get me to play the jury false. 1 have got a leave of absence from the railway company and 1 am going to Fairfax to get a rest and dodge thege feliows.” Fairfax Wheelan, président of the Merehants’ Association, was present when Merrill made this statement. An- drews and Wheelan became suspicious of their man and they notified Detec- tive Bolger of ,the Curtin agency to have him watched. A sleuth was set on Merrill’s trail, but he suddenly dropped out of sight. The detective went to Merrill’s house, 3266 Sacramento street, on Tuesday morning and discovered that the fur- niture of the place was being moved out. Inquiry disclosed the fact that Merrill had sold all his household goods the day before. The detective asked Mrs. Merrill where her husband was and she replied he had gone across the bay. She did not know when he would return or what his mission was. This confirmed the suspicions of the sleuth and he watched the woman. Yesterday morning she took an early boat to Oakland, accompanied by her ! two children, and two detectives from | the Curtin agency were also on board. The woman got off at Broadway and there met her husband, who had ar- rived ahead of her on a bicycle. He had a camping wagon ready for the woman and children. ‘GIVE CHASE ON BICYCLES. The detectives secured bicycles and followed Merrill out the Haywards road. He drove his team , fast and made exceilent time over the highway. The sleuths kept at a safe distance. but never lost sight of the wagon. Shortly after 10 o'clock yesterday 1905. P Tl e~ shadow Merrill, for otherwise the lat- ter would “probably have made his escape and be out of reach by the time that ' the trial of Maestretti came around. He had evidently planned a long trip, for he.went well prevared. LAYS PLANS CAREFULLY. That Merrill had planned to play the Grand Jury false and that he must have been reached by some of the ob- position faction is the theory of An- drews and Bolger. He told three~iies to the foreman of the Grand Jury. so the latter says, and tried to put him off the trail in every manner pessible, 80 as to ward off suspicion. 2 In the first place, Merrill saig he was going away alone’ and tha¥ his wife and family wouid remain in- this city. When the detectives found out that Merrill had sold out all his house- hold effects and was about to take his family with him on the trip, they lost confidence in the witness and felt sure he was about to give the Grand Jury the slip. R Then Merrill sald he was going to Fairfax. This was also untrue, for Fairfax lies on the line of the North Shore Railroad in Marin County and Merrill was going as fast as his camp wagon could carry him in the direction of San Jose, and it is likely that he would have kept on his journey had he| not been interrupted. s Merrill gpoKe falsely when he told Andrews he had secured a leave of ab- sence from the United Railroads. Tt wase learned by the detectives that Merrill had resigned his position sev- ‘eral days ago and since then has been making preparations to leave the city. THINK HE WAS REACHED. That Merrill had been reached by, some one high in power who-is work- ing in the interest of Maestretti is be- lieved to be true by Andrews.” Merriil :was a man who liked to accumulate money and was always anxious and ambitious to secure as much of the yel- low metal as he could. For that reason, it is argued, he did not ask for a leave of absence from the United Railroads, for if he had, he would lose his de- posit of $25 which each empleye - is forced to put up as a guarantee to work steadily till he efther quits his position or is discharged. £ . Merrill, as Andrews thinks, would never have quit his vosition so ab- ruptly unless he had good reasons for so doing. He was in the best of health resign. Since quitting his post, he seemed to have been well supplied with money. Merrill's wife undoubtedly knew: all about the plans of Ler husban though she told the detective she was ignorant of his movements and did not know what his plans were. She did her best to throw the sleuth off the trail and was evidently satisfied she had accomplished her purpose when the lat- ter left the house and did not put in an appearance there again. Merrill and his wife visited Adolph Steffens, the convicted stuffer, at the | County Jail on Monday night. and sickness never. compelled him to* They ; PRICE FIVE CENTS. MAESTRETTI CASE WITNESS RCEPTED IN HIS FLIGHT ! S —— - | MOST IMPORTANT. WITNESS IN THE 3 JURY DETECTIVES INTERCEPTED AT MILPITAS YESTERDAY WHILE IN FLIGHT FROM THE JURISDICTION MAESTRETTI C WHOM GRAND OF THE COURTS. - DEATHBED GATES GG [PASSENGER 70 FATHERS | TRAIY GOBS INTO DITCH Letszl_eif‘TCorner”lSMy-Seven Travel- ‘Take Care of Ttsell. - “Special Dispatch to The Call CHICAGO, April 12.—John W. Gates reached Chiecago this morning on his way to St. Charles to pay his last re- spects to his father, who is dying. On' the Board of Trade some 20,000,- 000 or 30,000,000 bushels- of wheat | bought. for delivery ‘mext month were awalting Gates’ will. Market prices nervously bounded up and down, prin- cipally up. Still, this did not interfere with the speculator’s one thought to get to St."Chatles and say a last fare- well to the man who gave him life. Finance shrinks {into insignificance when ‘it meets fllial love. That prob- ably is why the trading to-day did not ‘ amount. to more than 250,000 bushels. | I o Tt e R SR but during -the conversation in the Grand Jury reom he was heard to say, “Well, I was not trying to.run away. You could have found me any time wanted mel” - ‘Merrill is practically under arrest. gim_ given in charge of one of the tives, who had instructions to stay right by him and not lose sight l'al him. The detective will keep morning the detectives wired Chiet|had a long talk with the latter and o jng yurors have lost faith in m-‘-‘i Ingalls and Frick | Bolger that Merrill had passed through Alvarado and was evidently on his way to San Jose or some other town in the vieinity. Bolger Ahe/man himself, so he boarded the 2:15 train for San Jose and intercepted Merrill at Milpitas as hé was passing through the town. Merrill was overcome by surprise wh confronted him, and did nbtp:un:e or several minutes that the deep game he playing was known e T e o o o RS him that Off . t- ‘ter come batk. Mer readily vielded to persuasion -and back with !mt'e:“hflt‘ night, a: ng in this city at 1 ¥ Tt was a lucky coincidence mt ‘man Andrews of Grand Jury te the precaution to have a detect! X R decided to go after| remained at the prison with him for a long time. It is thought that Mer- ‘rill visited Steffens for the purpose of telling him what was going on and perhaps confiding in him his plans for i i He has lost the con- 1»4 wiil not give him another chance ltnwelhmnlhehnmmm. ‘was ! ruffled when the news of the bad become public. 3 2 have discovered i rill played ‘us false. You can draw your, own conclusions as to whether he was offered or received a bribe "., e’ such Merrill _had P ers Are Injured n Wrek VICKSBURG, Misa., April 13.—Yazco and Mississippl Valley train No. 13, southbound, wad ditched near Hardee Station, sixteen miles north of here, at 12:30 o’clock this morming. Re- ports state that sixty-seven passengers ‘were injured. A special train carrving physicians has gone to the scene of the wreck. 5 It is reported the entire passenger train rolled down an embankment. FIRE DESTROYS TACHT NAVAJO e SAN DIEGO, april 12.—News was re- ceived to-day of the burning of the handsome yawl rigged yacht. Navajo, the flagship of the Corinthian Yacht Club fleet, and the property of Com- Converse. The Navajo