The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 21, 1905, Page 1

.}fhe Call Print /‘w“"’” ~ sy Forecast made st San Francisco for thirty bours ending midnight April 21: San Francisco and vicinity—Cloudy, | unsettied weather Friday: showers; fresh southwest wind A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. THEE WEATHER. probably AUGUSTUS s More N ws Than t CALIFORNIA— CHUTES—Vaud: GRAND—"‘Ram TIVOLI—Comie ALCAZAR—"The Man From Mexico." COLUMBIA—''Red Feather."” CENTRAL—'“The Corner Grocery."” ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. ““The Crossways.” eville. Mantines, ona." Opera. FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HE INZE WINS THE MINNIE HEALY MINE 3 i Sl S 2 i B e L . second time 2 decision by the Supreme Court of Montana has awarded the i Minnic Healy Mine to F. Augustus Heinze. Unless some Federal question can be [ found upon which to-base an appeal to the United States Supreme Court, the great ' copper property, worth many millions of dollars, will mew pass into the permanent pos- ! session of the Amalgamated Company’s bitterest foe, after one of the most sensational | gal battles ever fought in Western courts. l + s SRR B0 e =0 o =& e — — o QJL'DGS CILACY ancroh WILL LOWER AIL RATES I ISTRMIS Secretary Taft De- cides to Make Reductions. e —— atch to The Call. ST BUILDING, d rates are to be re- met with denial t it was then con- t ve any intima- na Commission ect to reduce rates is een brought sbout by The rallway charges mus ve been found to the total cost said to have Secretary T ecross the & be about 80 p of the shipment Valparaiso, Iquique and Ceallao were making direct ship- ments to Hamtb Liverpool and Havre and from these ports selling certain product the United States more cheaply th: hey could be sold i shipped by way of the isthmus. The South American export business is not very large, but Central America fol- lowed ite neighbor's example and its trade is very extensive. The same con- ditions m the trade of ) with South and Central America and even rar*New Or- leans & hard race. The countries interested, through rep- resentatives here, have presented fig- ures to show the unnatural condition of things. They estimated that the Hamburg-American -~d Kosmos lines could handle Buropean freights 25 per cent cheaper via the Straits of Magel- Jan than other lines via the isthmus to New York, in the first mentioned case making allowance also for trans- shipment to America tinental raiiroads combat these esti- mates and are making & hard fight to head off a rate veduction. Chairman Shonts of tHe Canal Com- mission is said to have stated that the Panama Railroad rates would not be disturb-d, but it is now almost certain that the objections to a reduction will be overruled. —_————— Death of Well-Known Pioneer. EAN JOSE, April 20.—William F. Echroeder, a well-known pioneer resi- €ent of this county, was found dead fo-day in his room at 358 San Au- Bustin street. He was a native of Wis- ©onsin and €4 years of age. It is be- Ueved he died of heart disease. es to this effect were pub- | export | The transcon- | | { { | | | | | i caused by general rains. £L et Decision 1n a Case Involving Many Millions. Fortunes Spent in Six-Year chal Battle. SlEo s T HELENA. Mont.,, April 20.—To-day, for the second time, the Supreme Court of Montana passed upon an appeal from the judgment of the District Court of Silver Bow County in the case »f Miles Finlen against F. Augustus nd i | { | | f ' $ = -+ A COPPER- MAGNATE WHO HAS BEEN DECLARED THE LEGAL NER OF THE MINNIE HEALY MINE AND THE JUDGE WHOSE DE- CISION WAS SUSTAINED BY THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE. 3+ LY WIEAT EAL EXDS N FAILURE CHICAGO, April 20.—The celebrated | @eal in May wheat, attributed to John W. Gates, received seemingly its death blow to-day. Possibly as much as 5,000,000 bushels for May delivery was dumped on the market. As a result there was a break of five cents a bushel in the price, the quotations for May falling from $1 13% to $1 08%. Some operators professed an opinion that tife slump was due to heavy Eastern hold- ers of May wheat unloading because of notable unrest in the stock market, the alleged purpose of the sellers be- ing to get free to protect securities in ‘Wall street. A much more prevalent belief, however, was that Gates, tiring of the burden, had shifted the May wheat deal to Armour and others. One thing was said to be certain— that Gates had sold tremendous quan- tities to-day through at least one house here. When the price of May fell under $1 10, commission men poured wheat out on stop-loss orders. This caused a breath-catching sheer drop to $1 08%. The total sales of May were estimated all the way from 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 bushels. While the bear turn was on in May, the Armour people were supporting July wheat against selling drives It was ar- gued that Armour’s enormous buying for July was for the Gates crowd, either covering heavy short sales, made from $1 01 down, or possibly, going long for the Wall-street dealer. At the close of the session May jumped back to §1 10, leaving the net ‘decline for the day 3%c. July closed less than %c off at 8T%@87%c. ———— Expect Jefferson to Recover. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., April 20.—There is every indication at mid- night that Joseph Jefferson will re- cover, Y Heinze. the Montana Ore Purchasing Company and others, better known as the Minnie Healy case, involving title to one of the rich copper mines in Butte. Finlen had leases and bonds upon the property from John Devlin, Mrs. Devlin, Mre, Reilly and Mrs. Kei- ly in 1898, agreeing to pay $100,000 for those interests. Heinze claims to have made a verbal agreement with Finlen in November, 1898, to take over the bonds and leases for $54,000 and under the terms of that agreement began working the property. This Finlen dis- puted and in February of the follow- ing year the present suit for posses- sion was commenced by Finlen. The case was tried before Judge Harney without a jury and judgment was rendered for the defendants in December, 1888, Finlen having in the meantime transferred his interest to the Boston and Montana, now an Amalgamated property. The Amalgamated, or Finlen, ap- pealed to the Supreme Court, and a new trial was granted, on the ground that Harney had not acted properly in the conduct of the trial. The case was tried again before Judge Clancy in August, 1903, and he decided for Heinze. The Amalgamated again appealed, the argument being made before the Su- preme Court last, November. To-day’s decision, which was writ- ten by Associate Justice Holloway, affirms the judgment of Judge Clancy, holding in effect that there was a verbal contract between Finlen and Heinze by which Heinze should take over Finlen’s bonds and leases in the mines. Under ah act passed by the special session of the Legislature, the Supreme Court was permitted to review the evidence in the case, although it was an equity proceeding. Chief Justice Brantley dissented from the .proposition and in a long opinion questions the right of the Supreme Court to go into the evidence in an equity case unless a preponderance of evidence favors such action. The effect of the decision is to give Heinze title to the mine, the value of which is estimated fn-the millions. It is said that if a Federal question can be found upon which to base an appeal. the Amalgamated interests will al of the United States. WAR OF THE COPPER KINGS. BUTTE, Mont, April 20. —In the * Continued on Page 3, Column 4. the case to the Supreme Court GOULD LINE [ENRICHED WL Sy - CONTINENT Sea-to-Sea Railroad System IS Now Assured. SRR L Wall Street Brokers Agree to Buy the Western ! Pacific’s Bonds. I Fiity Million Dollars to Be Spent Upon Construction From Salt Lake to Oakland. Specia], Diepatch to The Call. NEW YORK, April 20.—Plans were completed in Wall street to-day by which funds for the construction of | the Western Pacific Railroad are ab- | solutely assured. A syndicate of Wall street brokerage houses has agreed to | buy $50,000,000 of bonds of this com- pany, the proceeds of which will com- | plete’ the line from Salt Lake, Utah, to Oakland, Cal. Three important banking-houses, it is understood, will participate in the bond issue. They are Blair & Co., lomen & Co. and W. A. Read & Co. | 'The final conferences have been held |in Wall street during the last few days. As is generally known, the Western Pacific Railroad will become an in- tegral part of the Gould system, stretching from the Atlantic to the When the new line, for the 5 ction of which the $50,000,000 bonds are to be issued, shall have been completed the combined system will be the first railroad in the United States under one control with termin- als on the Atlantic a‘&% Pacific oceans. The Canadian’ gc ¢ . now " touches both oceans. The Gould system's Western terminu$ is'at present at Salt Lake, where the Denver and Rio Grande and the Rio Grande Western now end. These properties also. ter- minate at Denver and Pueblo, where the great Missouri Pacific finds its ter- minal. This latter system carries the Gould properties as far as St. Louis, where the Wabash, also under Gould control, connects and brings business as far East at Pittsburg. The Wabash is now building into Pittsburg through the ‘Wabash-Pittsburg Terminal Railroad, from the presidency of which Joseph Ramsey Jr. recently re- signed. The West Virginia Central and the Pittsburg and Western Mary- land carry the Gould system to the Atlantic. Thus, when the Western Pacific shall have been constructed, one ter- minal of the Gould lines will be locat- ed at Oakland, on the Pacific, while Baltimore, on the Atlantic, will be the other, FORESEES DEATH OF HIS.FRIEND 1.OS ANGELES, April 20.—Three days before Dr. Martin L. V. Russell of Mount Carmel was struck and killed by a Santa Monica car he was warned that he would be killed by a gtreet- car. Tpon the afternoon of the Wednes- day preceding his death Dr. Russell, who formerly lived in Los Angeles, met Dr. J. A. Mead, a retired physician who had been one of his neighbors. They stopped and chatted for a few minutes. Suddenly, without a word having been said to lead up to such an unusual remark, Dr. Mead inter- rupted Dr. Russell in the midst of a sentence, saying: “‘Russell, T want you to be very care- ful of yourself while you are around the streetcars for the next few days.” “Why so?” “You may laugh at me for saying #0,” Dr. Mead answered, “but while vou were talking to me just now I felt a sort of chill running up and down my spine, and immediately I had the im- pression that you were to be killed by a streetcar within a short time. If you 1+ will take my advice you will walk very carefully when you are near cars for a few days at least.” “I haven't a great deal of faith in hunches myself,” Dr. Russell replied with a laugh. “Besides, I never ride upon the streetcars when I can help it. I prefer to walk.” On Saturday last Dr. Russell, while crossing a street, was struck and killed by an electric car. ey CALIFORNIA’S WINE INDUSTRY TO BE INVESTIGATED Commissioner Yerkes of Internal Rev- enue Bureau Leaves Washington for the Pacific Coast. WASHINGTON, .pril 20.—Com- missioner Yerkes of the Internal Rev- enue Bureau of the Treasury Depart- ment left yesterday for California to look into the revenue affairs of the Pacific Coast and especially the wine and brandy interests of California. - —————— PAUL i WILKES AGAIN A BENEDIOT LOS ANGELES, April 20.—Paul Tupper Wilkes, lawyer, promoter and man of the world, whose name has figured for thirteen years in many sensatit _ep! e ‘was Fisher of l;cw t is X here yeste: being Ethel early sweetheart. T thi: t- rimonial venture. R the York, his BY THE Y - SHE JILTED Millions Bequeathed to an Omaha Woman, —_— Inherits the Fortune of Heren, the South African Diamond King. COroesus of the Band Dies Steadfast in His Love for Girl Who Spurned Him. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call OMAHA, Neb., April 20.—Notwith- standing that he was twice jilted by Miss Mattie Cannon, an Omaha girl (now Mrs. Joseph Munchhoft), Claude Henderson Heren, the South African diamond king, worth two years ago $50,000,000, has left his entire estate to her. The first news of her good fortune reached Mrs. Munchhoff through a ca- blegram from Pretoria, which she re- ceived in Denver while .visiting with friends there. She is now on her way to California. Her friends here say the fortune left her by Heren is but a rem- nant of what he was worth at one time and estimate it at $5,000,000. Mrs. Munchhoff’s father is L. V. Can- non, president of the P. V. Maple Syrup €ompany of Quebec. Hereu was the principal of a rival concern, the Main Wood Syrup Company. When Mattie Cannon was a tiny child he spent hours playing with her, taking her on little excursions and amusing her in childish games. For years he cherished the hope that she would some day become his wife, but when he pro- posed both Mattie and her father told him she was too young for him. Miss - Cannon fell in love with and married Munchhoff, whom she met while he was collecting fares on a mer- ry-go-round at an Omaha resort. When Heren heard of the match he sold his business in Quebec and left. Several years later it was learned that he ‘was in South Africa, where he had amassed a fortune of $50,000,000. The story of his association with Kwalfey and of his sensational split with him at Monte Carlo, where Heren is said to have spat upon Kwalfey’'s face and branded him a coward before a large assembly, came to the Cannons and Munchhoffs through the brief press dispatches. Heren ran through his immense wealth as rapidly as he acquired it. He bought circuses and vaudevilles for a week’s entertainment for his friends. He established churches and libraries, bought rallroads and steamship lines and forgot the deals as soon as they ‘were made. Meantime, Mrs. Munchhoff and her husband found life anything but bliss- ful and their matrimonial venture quickly ended in the divorce courts. Heren, hearing of the separation, again pressed his suit for the hand of Miss Mattie Cannon Munchhoff and was refused a second time. He died several months ago. After obtaining her divorce Mrs. Munchhoff left this city, but has been a regular visitor and has many friends here. She is a beautiful blonde of 26 or 27 summers. BEAR RAID NETS HIN 000,000 Lawson Once More Squeezes Wall Street. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, April 20.—Thomas W. Lawson to-day took advantage of the psychological moment in the his- tory of Wall street for a bear raid and carried off - profits amounting to $1,000,000, according to statements of brokers who claim to know of his transaction. Seldom if ever in the history of the street have conditions been more pro- pitious than to-day. The signing of the stock tax bill by Governor Hig- gins, the near approach of a decisive battle in the Far East, the possibility of trouble over neutrality between Japan and France, the heavy selling |* by life insurance interests, the already marvelously high prices of stocks—all these things contributed to the op- portunity, which Lawson was shrewd enough to turn to his advantage. —_————— Succumbs to Heart Failure. . LOS ANGELES, April 20.—Mrs. Thomas M. Schumacher of Salt Lake, wife of Tbomuo‘ u’: Schumacher, traf- Mine Is LUSK, Wyo., April 20.—The work of Dr. Andrew S. Rothermel, an aged geologist and professed seer, in con- nection with the development of the Copper Belt mines, twelve miles south of here, has created a profound sen- sation in mining circles in this section. The company, known as the Copper Belt Mining ard Milling Company, is backed by Edwin M. Weston of Mich- iigan, Willilam B. Parsons and A. H. | Merchant of Omaha, all prominent mining men. The services of Dr. Rothermel as a mining expert were secured. ‘He made a careful examination of the ‘ground and then drew out in detail a map of the location of all the veins in the mountain, their depth and trend, go- ing down, in prospective, as deep as 1000 feet. The mine has now reached a depth of more than 300 feet and is an exact MAKES AN ACCURATE MAP OF UNSEEN LEDGES. Data Supplied by Aged Geologist Proves Correct When Copper Opened. VEINS FOUND JUST AS HE TRACED THEM Special Dispatch to The Call reproduction of the map made by Rothermel. Every vein was found at the precise depth claimed by Rother- mel “and his description of what the miners would encounter was as full and complete as if the mine already had been dug. More than $26,000 has been expended in the development of the mine, several rich veins being en- countered, and the company is now | preparing to reach the main lead at & | depth of 1000 feet, as predicted by | Rothermel. | It is the opinfon among mining men. {to whom Rothermel is a puzzle, that | he is either a “bluffer” and has made a remarkable guess, or else he is far |ahead of the times in his knowledge of geology. More than 100 details of the mine development predicted by Rothermel have been verified and it is the belief of many that he has discov- ered mew principles in the science of geology, as yet unknown to the mining world at large. AGAINS Aged Ohio Woma CLEVELAND, April 20.—For twenty years Mary Dickerson, a servant in the family of Mrs. B. F. Smoot, has slept at night leaning against a wall, while standing on her feet. Her case has just come to the knowledge of local physicians and has created much in- terest. Mrs. Dickerson is 79 years old. She informed physicians that for more than fifty years she was addicted to the use of morphine, but had cured herself of SLEEPS LEANING T A WALL n’s Novel Cure for the Morphine Habit. Special Dispatch to The Call. , the habit through becoming converted | at a religious revival. She said: “1 found that when I took morphine and went to bed I would dream of fall- ing into hell's fire or going through the | worst tortures. I just couldn't stand | it and I'd have to get up and take more | dope. I couldn’t afford to do that. So 1 started sleeping in a chair. That was better, but the dreams still came and | so I started te sleep standing up. Then {I had no bad dreams and I've kept it | up ever since. 1 ccouldn’t sleep in ded I now if I wanted to.” FINDS GREAT FORTUNE IN LONG-DISUSED SAFE Chicago Nonagenarian Recovars Stock Cer- tificates Valued at One and a Half Million Dollars. CHICAGO, April 20.—A tale of the finding of lost treasure rivaling Alex- ander Dumas’ description of the good fortune of Monte Cristo Is told by John P. Foss of 447 West Monroe street, who a few days ago found in an old safe in the cellar of his residence three certifi- cates of stock in the People's Gas, Light and and Cdke Company, which, his lawyers declare to-day are worth approximately more than $1,500,000. Foss is 90 years old. Action was commenced in the Circuit Court to-day by Foss to secure an ac- counting of the affairs of the People’s Gas, Light and Coke Company and the return to the complainant of propor- Special Dispatch to The Call tionate shares of stock, with acerued | interest, which he claims he is now en- titled to by virtue of the original stock certificates he hoids. The latter rep- resent 15 per cent of the original cap- italization of $500,000. A half century has elapsed since Foss first came into possession of the stock certificates, which were stored |in a safe at the time and lost trace of | during Chicago’s big fire. Recently a son of Foss became curious as to the contents of the old safe in the base- ment and forced it open. In a secret compantment the certificates were found. Officials of the People’s Gas, Light and Coke Company disclaim all knowl- edge of the certificates. FARMS FOR RAILWAY PENSIONERS Western Homesteads'to Be Given the Men Mwmm DENVER, April 20.—It seems prob- able that Colorado will be the principal State selected by the Rock Island and Frisco systems in which to locate em- ployes to be benefited by the new pension plan which is to be placed in operation. The officials of the two systems have decided to pension employes who have been in their service a certain length of time by supplying them with home- eads of 160 acres of agricultural land in the Western States, and B. F. Win- chell, president of the Rock Island. a former Denver man, has been investi- gating the situation in Colorado. Gen- eral Agent Charles B. Sloat of the Rock Island system supplied Winchell with charts and maps of Colorado lands open for settlement. and it is belleved that this State is favored bv the officlals who have the matter in charge. The necessary water for irrization purposes is to be supplied by the rail- road companies, so that the plan. if followed, means much to the beneflci- arfes. The officials of the Rock Island and Frisco systems believe that if they take this interest in their employes there will be less dissatisfaction and less lability of strikes and various labor disturbances. —_—_— FATALLY HURT IN MINE Carelessness Causes an Explosion in Cabin Creek Mines in West Virginia. CHARLESTON, W. Va., April 20.— An explosion in the Cabin Creek mines, near Kayford, about thirty miles above here, to-day is believed to PLEADS INTOXICATION AS EXCUSE FOR THEFT SAN JOSE, April 20.—Oillle Bel- mont, the young woman who was ar- rested a few days ago in San Fran- cisco for stealing clothes from Gladys Martin, is also wanted at Monterey on a similar charge. Sheriff Ross has re- cetved word from Monterey to hold her. At Monterey she went under the name of Lola Martin. She says she was intoxicated when she stole the clothes in this city and was about to return them to the owner when ‘was arrested.