The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 27, 1905, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1905. boii LAVISHED MONEY { N WOMAN WhO ALSO A3 FLED FORMER ACTRESS IS SAID TO HAVE CAUSED UNDOING hecks v 1y Column 7. e drawn up and bank unhesi- Oontinued From Page 1. sone Brooks, paying teil H. {vada Bahk, when ask T of the d if he reme i {he | Dered the presentation of any one « . fcheck by ‘Smith: sald that the Tax Col- t X {lector had beeh doing business with ever gince’election to office. Dur- = A time Brooks has paid - = ney to ith upon 5 indorsement of the Collector. no time was the conduct of t out of the ordina 8 at any time an irr saction 3 id that if Smith had shown vousness or agitation he would no pecial notice of it Ka e plac window, gave Receiving Teller “John naugh, who frequently took t of Brooks at ‘the pay about ame explanaitno of the ransactions. He failed to remember ny particular incident to excite sus- picion or comment. - hard stra n pawn. Her first re- Y get the i 1 | | | as to estab- MAYOR NOTIFIES BOARD. abartments. It — E urs were un- | Informs Supervisors He Has Sus- mERER: H;r pended Smith From Office. - ve been the The following letter was sent to the Board of Supervisors - by Mayor Schmitz, notifying that body that. he had suspended Edward J. Smith from his office as Tax Collector: To_the Honorable, the Board of Supervisors: Ycur honorable board is respectfully advised at it has come to my knowledge that Edward J. Smith, Tex Collector of the City and County of San Francisco, has committed oer- n officlal defalcations as such Tax Collector, s alleged and appears that he has 10 his own use certain sums of displayed in occasionally & furs. These of the women >m. ions were not aspirations. About appeared at the Or- a turn with Don Cann. | ice, and while a singer in a | beauty, her | stage pres- | part in the | also wore k ue said city and county, um of $39,113 28. approxi- also ly Shattuck ap- 'd was a great | an. It is report- Truly contemplated ope. Just before nd 19 of article ded the said fice of Tax Coliector . pending an official investigation of cation and shortage, and have ap- mes McCabe to act temporarily as was carried out, a | Tax Collector of said city and county ™ ; réd ou.the soene Sl ] ng the term of the suspension of said A - ok % | ard J. Smith M seslie ab doned the scheme. e Eoabetion o BhE ‘,“r,,m”:":. l| SMITH 1 ESCUE | »n of vour honorable board MITH TO RESCUE. ble board For a time all went well with her, ock in the further action as may induced her | SR e i FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE on her own re- , her DIES ON MEXICAN SOIL g jewels and until | Hardship and Exposure Endured in s in dire dis- Making His Escape Brings on Fatal Hiness. April 26.—News has been re- death of Pedro Alvares below her rescue, took her BAN DIEGO, vished upon her the ceived of xuries the portion of a|in. international boundary Iline. some et s 10 her departure On | time s warrant for his arrest has been in to some Of her | the hands of the United Sta Marshal at “her man™ had | Los Angeles on the charge of alding ana xe She added that ! abetting thirteen Chinese to secure an entrance rope to cultivate | into the T d States that she b had “wads of | d while she lived in the Alvares was Indicted about a year ggo. He was arrested at Boyle Heights in Los Angeles by Deputy United Sjates Marshal *Trader but escaped the vigilance of the officer, Who permitted him to finish his supper. He was never seen again in dos Angeles, but jpurneyed southward until he reached Mexian sofl. There he was soon joined by his fainily. The flinese which caused his death! was the evious to her de-| calling tour in an | farewell to a coterfe She told some of her | was going to Paris and togid result of the hardships and exposure he en- e said she was ZOIDE 10 gured in making his escape from the horthern ern trip. o He was buried at Tia Juana. It is € ot i Face ek it 3% that the family will return to 1 her. She ent of the to mingle with the en- njoyed the excite love RICH GRAYV WITHIN LIMITS OF CITY IS FOUND ment of the betting crowd. She vays had plenty of money to wager | - 2 was always supplied with stable | Two Residents of Grass Valley Make ets and tips that seemed to come | Strike That Runs $1 50 to t from those who knew. Her| the Pan. iosses were not heavy She was wont GRABS VALLEY, April 26.—Rich gravel t end her win s with a 1avish | p,; peen struck inside the corporate limits of d whenever she won it was the | this city and within ten feet of the oldest occasion for a celebration of some | grocery in the town. The strike was made sort by Paul Morateur Jr. and an associate on a —_—— lot belonging to Morateur's grandmother. A shaft twenty feet deep reveals a big gravel body which runs $1 50 to the pan A bond was obtained to-day on 800 acres of land in Penn Valley, a few miles west of here, for the purpose of working if with gold dredgers. Gold i& known to exist there, but DOES NOT RECALL PAYMENT. Bank Official Can Give No Light on Cashing of Checks. Of the m hecks that have been | the quantity is unknown. 2 el e g v S X S @rawn on the Nevada National Bank 3 = 2 by various depositors for payment of | FIGHT OVER A WOMAN RESULTS IN A TRAGEDY to be collected by | nith there is not one| out from the others xhat“ ve to remind the p ng tel- | taxes Mexican Half-Breed Who Had Pre- viously Borne a Good Reputation tant of Smith's collec- | Commits Murder at Tempe. 1€ rule of the bank,| PHOENIX, Ariz, April 26.—Orlando Doug- »nsolidation recently | las. a Mexican halfbreed and a resident of Far Bank, was to | Tempe for many years, shot and killed Pedro figfoes, o g v | Benites in Tempe last night in a quarrel over vable to the Tax|g womaw. Douglas hitherto has borne an ex- indorsement. As ellent reputation. He is now in custody. ADVERTISEMENTS. These Hats for $1.50 . By special arrangement with a certain manufac- turer he makes some hats according to our specifi- cations, which we sell at $1.50. By examining the hats you will see that they contain better felt, trimmings and workman- v ship than other hats that are sold elsewhere even high as $2.00. ; tured; Dunlap crushers, pantourists, Fedoras, with or bound edges, and stylish shapes. ; We guarantee the hats to' fast in color. See them in bur windows and judge the quality’ for yourself. SNW0O0D § 740 Market Street a Cor. Powell and Ellis SMITH ABSCONDS| WITH PUBLIC 'FUNDS. —_—— I Continued from Page 1, Column 6. | learn the exact amount for which it d be liable. rom all appearances Pdward Smith nned to make a clean-up before ving the city. Last Thursday morn- he presented to' Chief Deputy Treasurer lLouis A. Devoto a personal | checik on the Crocker-Woolworth Bank for $15.550 03 and received bills and coin for the amount. Smith told De- voto that when the United Railroads sent up silver to redeem the check in payment of its taxes, then tne check was to be given to it. Devoto thought the transaction a regular one and did uot hesitate to give Smith the amount of the check. When the check was presented at the bank Devoto was thunderstruck to hear that there were no funds to Siaith's credit. Devoto's part in the transaction was made the subject of an inquiry by the Grand Jury yesterday afterncon. Devoto suid he was perfectly honest In the matter, but he could not isfactorily explain why ' he cashed a personal check of Smith’s. He has come to the conclusion {hat he was ieceived by a man'whom he considered one of nis best friends. This transac- tion would appear to increase the | shortage to 351703 36, and may in- | volve the Treasurer’s. office in the meshes of the case. It would seem to show that laxity was shown in the sys- tem of collecting taxes by check, of which Smith took advantage. DEVOTO CASHES CHECK. Devoto said that Smith came to him last Thursday morning and told him he wanted him to take $30,690 08 in sil- ver from the United Railroads in pay- ment of its taxes, at the same time handing Devoto a check for the zmount. I'evoto told Smith that he could not take so much silver, as he had already taken $30,000 from the company at Smith’s request. At that time Smith telephoned to Treasurer Starr of the United Railroads in De- voto's presence, telling Starr just what denominations of coin to send to the Treasurer’'s office. 'When Devoto re- fused to take the $30,590 08 in silver, Smith took the check back and gave him the check for $15,590 08, which De- voto foolishly cashed. Whether Smith cashed the check for $30,590 08 will not be known until further investigation, but if he did the money will swell the shortage to that extent. The apparent shortage on the Tax Collector's books is $39,112 28, but the juggling of big checks by Smith has complicated mat- ters. Treasurer Starr of the United Rail- roads informed Deputy Treasurer Per- | kins that he held receipted bills for all 'lh? taxes of the corporation. A sus- picious circumstance noted by Starr was that when the first $30,000 was paid to Tax Collector Smith in silver he handed Starr the check, saying: “Don’t put this in for a couple of days.” Starr, however, put the check ‘through .at once. FORMER BIG SHORTAGE. Regarding 'Smith's shortage of $165,000 last year Deputy McCabe told the Mayor that the Supervisors' Fin- ance Committee was' aware of the shortage at the time. The Mayor ex- pressed surprise that the facts had not been brought to his notice at the time, as he could have suspended Smith and averted this second defalcation. Su- pervisor, Brandenstein, chairman of the Finance Committee, when inter- viewed said that the committe had no knowledge of the shortage. “All we knew,” said Brandenstein, “was that there was a check for $198,- 000 on deposit in the City Treasurer’'s office which represented the taxes of | the United Railroads. The check was |drawn on the American National Bank. We wanted the check cashed at once and as we could not find Smith City Treasurer McDougald and | myself went to the bank and made a | demand for the coin. At first the pres- | ident of the bank told us that it was |a private check of Smith’s and as- sured us that everything was all right. In a day or two the money was paid into the city treasury and the incident was closed so far as we were con- cerned.” The fact that the check instead of the money was on deposit In the city treasury would indicate that Smith had allowed the bank to utilize the coin, the check being merely a memo- randum that the taxes of the corpo- ration had been paid, thus preventing the company from being charged with delinquency. SMITH TO BE INDICTED. It is said that the Grand Jury was preparing to indict Tax Collector Smith last week for irregularities, but the case was postponed pending the fixing of the actual amount of the de- linquency in the payment of taxes. The indictment will probably be returned to-day, which will obviate the neces- sity of swearing to a complaint. Mayor Schmitz notified the Police Depart- ment to put detectives on the case with the view of apprehending Smith, but it is thought that he is beyond the border by this time. Besides taking the clity's funds, Smith is said to have obtained more than $1000 from I. Franklin, a money broker, and also a large amount from one McDonald, a broker at ¢ Bddy street. It is said that the Grand Jury has been investigating the alleged | putting through of “dummy” demands| in the tax office for salarfes last Oc- tober and November, whereby some $4500 was mulcted from. the city. 1 Smith’s downfall is attributed large- ly to his passion for gambling on horse races. It is said thHat Eddy Conroy; who handled a combination boék at the races, visited Smith every morn- ing for the purpose of placing his bets for the day. It is sald that much of { the money stolen by Smith went into the pockets of the bookmakers. Smith ‘| upon y belongs to him, but is heavily rtgaged. He also, owns a drug at the corper of Eddy and Tay- réets. What possessed him to ppropriate public moneys is care is a mystery, in he fact that his legitimate in- been in the neighborhood of nthiy for many years. Smith flice of Supervisor in 1897, nd was elected Tax Collec- ;‘gg‘n-elecud by a large ‘appointment of a successor to or” Smith will be not. nounce the appointment until the B of Suvervisors has taken action on | Hague international tribunal. notice suspending Smith. If the sus- pension is approved by fourteen mem- bers of the board, then the suspended officer, under the ‘provisions of the charter, shall thereby be removed from office. With the removal of Tax Collector | Smith it is probable that several of his | deputies will lose their positions. | These are Chief Deputy James W. | Simpson, Cashier Hugo Herzer and E. | H. Hulford and Expert Searcher Si| | Gunst. The other employes in the | office are all under civil service. i | E. Black Ryan produced a check be- | fore the Grand Jury for $14,785 03 which was indorsed by Smith and City l Treasurer John E. McDougald. Ryan| said that the check rgpresented his | "se(‘ond payment for taxes of the; Southern Pacific Company. Ryan said | he had the receipted tax bills for the first check he had turned over to, Smith for $24,378 32, but he has not | | et received the bills for the second | amount. He considered, however, that the check indorsed by Treasurer Mc- | Dougald * was documentary evidence that the Southern Pacific Company had settled its obligations with the | city. Tt is a fact, however, that there is mo record on the Tax Collector's books that the second installment of | the taxes has been paid. So far as the | records stand the Southern Pacific | Company s delinquent in the pay- ment of its taxes. PIOUS FUND CASE LOS ANGELES, April 26.—At the request of the attorneys representing Mrs. Robert P. Troy of San Francisco, widow of the late United States Sena- tor Stephen M, White, the deposition of Superior Judge Charles Monroe, former law partner of Senator White, was taken to-day for use in a suit which will be tried at Redwood City May 2, in which all the particulars of the famous Pious fund case will be brought out. In the suit Mrs. Troy seeks to recover from John T. Doyle | of Menlo Park $20,000 alleged to be | | due as a fee earned by the late Sen- ator in bringing to a successful con- clusion thé controversy waged for | many years between the Roman Cath- i olic church of California and the re- | public of Mexico, which was finally | decided in favor of the church by The Judge Monroe was able to add but | little direct evidence which will be of use, but he turned over to Mrs. Troy’s | representatives copies of the volumin- ous correspondence which passed be- | tween White and Doyle, in which the | Senator's claim is said to have been | acknowledged. Associated with Doyle | was_former Senator Willlam Stewart | of Nevada, and by the terms of a con~ tract between them and the prelates of the church they were to receive ! one-fourth of sueh @mounts as might | be pald in full séttlement of the claim." It was necessary that the United | States Government make a formal de- | mand upon Mexico for the money and | after vears of labor Doyle and Stew- art were unable to interest the United | States Government. White was em- ployed to bring this about and for| five years he worked on it and finally | during the McKinley administration ! he inducéd the State Department to | make the demand, thus glving to the | case an international status and mak- ing it subject to reference to The, Hague tribunal. Doyle and Stewart ! each, received $62,500 cash when the | claim was paid, but Doyle, whom ! ‘White represented personally, failed, it is alleged, to pay White's claim de- spite a contract that White was to re- ceive “one-third of the one-fourth which the others received. The co:- respondence, it is said, shows that | Doyle once offered Senator White's widow $250, thus acknowledging that some just claim existed against him. The former Mrs. White sues for $20,- 000, which is about one-third of the | amount Doyle recelved. / ————— STRIKE SPREADS AMONG TEAMSTERS IN CHICAGO Rioting Breaks Out Afresh and Police | Are Kept Busy Quieting Dis. ~ turbances. CHICAGO, April 26.—Instead of being set- tled, us was predicted last night, the strike of the teamsters at the establisiment of Mont- somery Ward & Co. has spread to other firms, and the indications to-night are that before | the controversy is finally adjusted a general strika of the union teamsters employed throughout the city will be called. The demand of the Chicago Employers’ As- sociation that all teamsters dellver goods to Montgomery Ward & Co. under penalty of in- stant discharge resulted to-night in the spread of the strike to four other busin tablish- ments,' These are: & L, . Co. and the Forbes Cartage Company. While to-day's events were paving the way for the general strike of the union teamsters, rioting broke out afresh in Several parts of the city. Non-union drivers of the Employ- ers’ Teaming Company were assaulted and stoned and their horses cut from the traces. During the entire afternoon the police were kept busy in quieting disturbances. —_———— MOB BREAKS INTO JAIL AND SHOOTS A PRISONER Works for Three Hours With Axes and Sledge Hammer to Enter 2 the Prison. SHREVEPORT, La., April 26.—After work- ing thrée hours with sledge hammers and pick axes a mob of twenty-five men broke into the parish jail at Homer, La., seventy- five miles northeast of Shreveport to-day and shot Dick Craighead, a white man, inflicting wounds which will probably prove fatal. Craighead was charged with the murder of Mrs.. Tsano McKee, wite of his half-brother, and. her little son. The authorities were unaware of the design prisoner until it was too late to the protect him. Every telephone and telegraph wire out of Homer was cut and the rifies ot the local militla company were seized before the movement was made on the jail. —_——————— TO FORCE EQUITABLE Plan Said to Have Been Formed to Press Action Against Big Insur- 26.—It in S Jon Rk s ety .wqmmmmbmvmubg courts. N. 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As the plants which are combined with the figs in the manu- facture of Syrup of Figs are known to physicians to act most beneficially upon the sg/stem, the remedy has met with their general approval as a amily laxative, sidering in making purchases. It is because of the fact that SYRUOP OF RIGS is a remedy of known quality and excellence, and approved b?l physicians that has led to its use by so many millions of well informed people, who would not use any remedy of uncertain quality or inferior reputation. a fact well worth con- Every family should have a bottle-of the genuine on hand at all times, to use when a laxative remedy is required. Please to remember that the genuine Syrup of Figs is for sale in bottles of one size only, by all reputable druggists and that full name of the company— California Fig Syrup Co., is plainly printed on the front of every package. Regular price, 50C per bottle. | svilie, By, cisco, Cal. AvrForniA Fic Syrup (0} AI'FORNIA NewVork A | NUST ANSWER GRAYE CHARCE Special Dispatch to The Call SAN JOSE, April 26.—Ira B. Mc- Mahill, for the past four years secre- tary of the Chamber of Commerce, was arrested . this afternoon - on.a in the long negotiations over the fund .charge of embezzling $801 belonging to that organization. The eomplaint was sworn to by Joseph H. Rucker, a mem- ber of the beard of control of the chamber. Bail was fixed at $15,000 and up to a late hour to-night Mec- Mahill ~had been unable to obtain bondsmen. William H. Stacy, an expert, was put to work on Secretary McMahill's books yesterday and to-day he reported that he had found a shortage of $1500. He has not had time to completeghis wo but it is known that the shortage will exceed that amount. Rumors have it that there is a shortage of $3500. The $901 which McMahill is accused of embezzling was a part of the exposi- tion fund raised by taxation and turn- ed over to the Chamber of Commerce to make a display of the Santa Clara County resources at the St. Louis World’s Fair. The fund amounted to about $14,000. When the committee { had finished its work it had a balance of $901 left. The Chamber of Com- merce was about to turn this over to | the Supervisors and ask that it be ex- pended at the Lewis and Clark Ex- position, when it was found that Mc- Mahill had taken the money. For some weeks there has been a suspicion that there was a shortage in the Cham- | ber of Commerce and President Schel- ler appointed a committee of investi- gation, which ended in to-day's arrest. Besides taking the $901 McMahill, the members of the chamber charge, col- lected the rent for the leased space in the Santa Clara County headquarters in San Francisco and pocketed it. A stormy session was-held in the Chamber of Commerce tb-day hetween President Scheller and the board of control and Secretary McMahill. The secretary was accused of being a de- faulter. He admitted taking the money, but claimed the Chamber of Commerce was indebted to him several thousand dollars, declaring that he was to have had a commission on the col- lections. President Scheller denies that McMahill had any agreement by which he was to secure a commission. The arrest of McMahill created a sensation, as he fs oné of the best known young men in the city. He came here about five years ago from Los Angeles, where he had been em- ployed as a newspaper reporter. BIGELOW ALS0 OWES ESTATE MILWAUKEE, Wis, April 26— Frank G. Bigelow, the defaulting bank president, when interviewed .to-day, sald: “I owe John I. Brodhead, one of the heirs of the estate of E. F. Broadhead, $100,000. Iexpected Mr. Broadhead would reach the city to-day, but up to a late hour this afternoon he had not arrived. 1 expect to make satisfactory arrange- ments with him when we meet with regard to the amount of indebtedness to him. “I have resigned as executor of the estate of Henry W. Payne, and will robably resign as executor of the B‘m-anua estate. These are the only estates with which I have any connec- tion. I have resigned as director of the Wisconsin Telephone Company and severed my connection with the North- western Mutual Life Tnsurance Com- pany and the Milwaukee Electric Rail- way and Light Company.” It is known that Bigelow’s holdings in a large Milwaukee electric: turned ti’ve{ to gzel bank uom e as collateral for loans, so t a‘:’mflwu from these enterprises leaves him entirely free from any busi- ‘ness propositions. 2 - George P. Miller, also an executor of the Payne estate, stated to-nl{:: that curities of that estate since Bigelow’s downfall and found them intact. No successor has yet been chosen to fill the vacancy of president of the oank caused by the removal of Bige- low. It can be stated positively that Bige- low will be prosecuted to the full ex- tent of the law This statement was made by one of the directors to-night. Everything at the bank was normal to- day. Henry M. Goll, the missing cashier of the bank, had not been apprehended | up to a late hour to-night. KINGSTON, N. Y., WApril 2§—Frank G. Bigelow the First National Bank of Milwaukee, is an executor Df the éstate of the late E. H Broadhead of Milwaukee and formerly of Ulster County, this State. Broadhead left’an estate which Is | estimated by heirs here to have been chat its securities are under the direct control of ~Pigelow. The Kingston heirs include the famfly of John C. Broadhead, and they are now asking #hat an investigation be made to as- certain whether Bigelow has made im- proper use of any of the Broadhead trust funds. ——— To Prohibit Bucket Shops. . the defaulting president of | | worth $1,000,000, and it is understood | to 9 a bill to s on the Board of Trade and to prohibit bucket shops. ENGINEER DROPS DEAD IN FRONT OF HIS HOME Southern Pacific Employe Well Known in Los Angeles Suddenly Expires at Redding. REDDING, Apr —E. P. Rosetts, a Southern Pacific engineer, fell dead this morn- ing in front of his home in Dunsmuir. Ro- Angeles and sette was an old resident of Los the hero of many A —_————— ARMY ORDERS. WASHINGTON, April 20 —Army ordere: Major Frederick P. Reynolds, surgeon. will be relieved from duty at the Presidio at Sem Francizco August 1. and procesd to Wort W. H. Seward, Alaska, for duty, relieving Captain ‘assistnt surgeon, Whe will Jere B. Clayton, proceed to Seattle, and report by telegraph to the milltary secretary for orders. First Lisu- tenant Edward P. Rockhill. assistant surgeen, is relieved from duty at the Presidip at San Francisco, and will proceed to Fort Wingate, New Mexico, relieving Captain Frederick F. Russell, assistant surgeon, who will proceed to the Presidio at San Francisco for duty. First Class Sergeant Edward A. Merrill of the signal corps mow_at Detroit, Mich., is or- dered to Benicla Barracks, Cal, reporting to the commanding officer for duty with Company C of the signal corps. Second Lisutenant . Turgeon of the Philippine Scouts will proceed to Manila, reporting to the command- ing general of the Philippines diviston . for SPRINGFIELD, Iil, April 26.—The Tlitnols | assignment to duty. - ADVERTISEMENTS. pared to barefoot sandal for the seashore. For outings wear outing sho: ) Tiadies’ Boots, 11 inches high....... Wvauogmo Vas 5 | OUTING SHOES HRaufmann’s Sunny May will soon be here—the time for tramps and outings has begun, and Kaufmann’s are again ly the whole family with outin, Our display of summer shoes has in San Francisco and our prices the very lowest. We sell more canvas and outing shoes, than any other three stores combined, and with our stock this year—larger than ever— we will far exceed our previous records; any number of new out- ing styles that can’t be seen anywhere else. outing shoes, from the man’s staunch mountain —1t’s inexpensive at Kaufmann’s. 0f course folks who live in the country have the mast use for outing shoes. Mail orders promptly filled. New catalogue ready soon. UFMANN'S __GOOD SHOES foen i en the largest by far Ewvi ing is here in | oot 5 the chiie Men’s Outing Shoes Men’s 11 inch Boots...$3.50 to $6.50 Men’s 16 inch Boots. .86.50 to $10.00 | Men's Gray and Brown Buckskin Pull assortment of Men’s Tennis, Fachting, Goling and Athletio Shoes of every descrivtion. Boys’ Outing Shoes Boys’ Canvas Lace Shoes, gray or ‘white. .$1.00 and $1.35 Beys’ Tan High Cut Boots.....$3.50