The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 29, 1905, Page 2

2 N THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1905. AMOUNT OF MONEY SMITH STOLE GROWS AS EXPERT PROGRESSES INAMORATA £ CHARNER (F REPUTE in Reaping Gold From the Foolish Sons of Wealth PRESSEEEY HAIR ST OF SN DYES HER QUI AT SMITH Complies With Fancy of Tax Collector and Her Raven Are Changed to Warmth of Golden Curls M=% Tresses Brooks, the woman with ector Edward J. Smith nknown, as related y's Call, is per- of her kind early in under the vious to beautiful Lillian Lesl d his path I upon love for her had had fou of dollars that he had aid “d to him uld change the s tresses were evidently mem- N »eks of the fair with the tax man mith ressers we e Leona of ormed as golden elighted was more than d lavished upon the thing that of the social f ““Mumm” enter- t Smith 2 never “exican Police on Watch. Chief of Police Di ved the following from Fe ctor General of Po- Mexico & AD\'ERTISDI )00 Doses For One Dollar Economy- in medicine must be measured by two things—cost and effect. It cannot be measured by either alone. It is greatest in that medicine that does the most for the money—that radically and permanently cures at the least expense. That medicine is Hood’s Sarsaparilla It purifies and enriches the blood, cures pimples, eczema and all eruptions, tired, languid feelings, loss of appetite and general de- bility. Hood’s Sarsaparilla promises to cure and keeps the promise. ANTICO Oow \ QUARTER B1ZE 15 CENTS EAGH" % FOR 25 CENTS AN Fac-Simile Signature Sea ool is attentions were show- s | TRAINMEN SEE SMITH LEAVE CITY Official and His Woman Companion Travel to the Southern Pacific Depot in an Automobile COLORED MAN AWAITS COUPLE AT STATION — | Fugitive | | | | | | | | | | | | Railroad Employes Certain Brooks Were Passengers on Southbound Express SR The Southern Pacific officials are lending every possible aid to the de- | tectives in the effort to apprehend the fugitive Tax Collector. Yesterday the employes at the railroad depot at Third and Townsend streets and the crew of the Sunset express that left here on the evening of April 20 were called upon for statements and. these fully confirmed the report published in yes- terday’s Call to the effect that Smith and a woman, commonly known in the tenderloin passengers on the south-bound on the night mentioned. ng to the statements of sev- oyes at the depot Smith and nale companion arrived at the| in an automobile five minutes depot before the train left and immediately proceeded to the car in which their | room was located. They car- satchels with them and were just inside the depot shed by a man who had preceded them | ten minutes with two grips.| d eviden: had a friend in| ailroad office procure tickets forl h He did not buy them at the main office on Market street and the ticket t at Third and Townsend stréets the fieeing couple did not stop at window. DID NOT LEAVE TRAIN. y after getting aboard the car reappeared a moment on the tform and asked where his colored n had gone, but failing to see him | Ec returned to the drawing-room. | When the train agent passed through | the car Smith was not in evidence in the drawing-room, but the woman pre- | sented the tickets. | It was reported early yesterday that Smith had left the drawing-room just before reaching Gilroy, and for a time it was supposed that he might have got off the train at that station with a view of eluding his persuers, but ductor Hunkins is positive that the gccupants of all the cars;went through as far as San Luis Obispo, where the run of the train crew from this city end mith had made frequent trips dut- | ing the last few months to Los. An- geles in company with a well-known | politician, and is reported ‘to have plurged heavily on the races in the south. s operations on the track there had caused considerable com- ment, but no one ever suggested the | possibility of his having used funds other than his own to make his bets. He spent money liberally around Los Angeles at night, and this fact caused some of his acquaintances there to sus- pect that he was preparing the way for some political nomination in the -fu- ture by getting acquainted with the “push BUYS WOMAN A NECKLACE. Tt was common talk in Los Angeles hat - Smith was showing e deep.at- tachment for leona Brooks, and : no surprise was expressed by: her friends when they learned that she had . been | furnished money and transportation.to return to this city, where, it has since been shown, she was still thegbject of Smith’s attentions. The fact became known yestetday that beforz leaving ~ San' Frantisco Smith purchased from a Market-street | jewelry firm a magnificent necklace for | Leona Brooks, who 'had, in the mean- | time, been making extravagant pur- chases of dresses and other articles of clothing, presumably at the expense of | her peculating admirer. 'The ' local friends of Leona Brooks, among them Alma Rusgell, who was the confidante | of Leona while they were inmates of a house on. Ellis street, declare that {the woman had mno suspicion that | Smith was spending. the.money of the city, but supposed that he had made several big winnings on the race- track. JUDGE SFOILS ROBBER'S PLANS Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, April 25—The residence of Judge 8. F. Leib was entered about {2 o'clock this morning. Before start- ing in to loot the house the robbers se- { cured a lunch from the pantry and sat down at the dining-room table to enjoy it. While at the repast they made a [ noise that awakened Judge Leib. who | went down stairs to investigate. As he opened the dining-room door the ,men made their escape bg a window. Nothing was taken from the house, al- though It was plain that the men had made preparations to gather up the silverware in the dining-room. E ILIFE SENTENCE - FOR MIRDERER BAKERS"XELD, April 28.—Orbega Urbangarin, accused with Philip ‘Welker, Patton Palmer and Dave Senega of murdering aged William Nichols, to-day withdrew his plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty. ‘He was sentenced to State's prison for life. Walker, who is a brother of Newt }\Va!ker,-who shot and killed Burton jand Bagsby at Havilah last Monday, | received a similar sentence last week. " 1 Urbangarin made a statement from the witness stand implicating Palmer. | That Collector and Leona! district as Leona Brooks, | MORTAGE NT WORK OF FICTION John Smith Tells of Former Defalecation, How It Was Made Good, and Refutes Rumors of Fabrications [BROTHER COMES TWICE TO TAXMAN’S RESCUE { Money Paid After Discovery in the Records That Ae- counts With the Treasurer Were in a Bad State John R. Smith,”the brother of ex- | Tax Collector Smith, indignantly de- | nied yesterday the intimations given out that the story of the big shortage ' | of $165,000 which was made up last 1)’ear by James B. Smith, another | brother, is a myth. Acting Tax Col- | lector James W. McCabe lends some i color to the .theory, however, that there was no shortage and that the Tax Collector merely bilked his brother, for the former deputy’s rec- ords show that all taxes were ac- counted for by the payment of coin, with the exception of those delin- quent. el | John. Smith declares that McCabe was not in a position to know that there was a shortage. Smith says that the money was paid by his brother James, who raised it among friends, and that all McCabe had to do in the matter was to credit the moneys turned into the city treasury for the taxes. When the time came for the settlement to be made with the Treas- urer the money was produced. Another reason advanced why there could not have been such a big short- age is that the records of the Treas- urer’'s office show only one receipt or deposit tag for the $84,000 alleged to have been paid to satisfy the balance due on the shortage, while there is no receipt for the balance of the money. The entire transaction is ex- plained by John Smith as follows: My brother Bdward's idea In April, 1004, that he was $91.000 short. He had de- posited checks in various bamks to his own account and drawn money out against the checks to suit his convenlence. When the time came for a settlement to be made with the City Treasurer he flgured up that he had but $17,000 in cash, leaving $81,000 to be made good. James gave him at once tow: the shortage, which left the amount §79,000., BROTHER. TO THE RESCUE. When he went to James and confessed the latter agreed to help him out and drew $13,000 of his private moneys out of bank. He then made & check for the amount payable to Ed- ward J. Smith. Then James went to friends who advanced him $08;000 on security, and he made out another check for the last amount. J2dward tock the two checks to his bank, where he vlaced them on deposit. He drew one check for $79,000 on the bank and the cash was delivered to the City Treasurer in my presence. We were congratulating ourselves that everything was settled when George Varcoe, accountant in the tax office, came to us and said that he had made a clerical error in crediting the Tax Collector with the sum of $84,000 by making & duplicate entry in the cash ledger. The amount had been entered on one day and through some mistake had been again entered on the next day. We were dumfounded, as it meant that there was still $84,000 to account for. ‘‘My God,” sald Edward, "I have no such amount of money. What shall I do?” Then James came to the rescue again, say- ing: will see you through this.” James - secured an _additional $84,000 from friends and made out a certified check pay- able to E. J. Smith. The check was deposited in the latter's &ank and he signed a new check for the amount, payable to John E. Mc- Dougald, City Treasurer, the check being there. upon deposited with the latter official. The fact that a check was deposited with the Treasurer was made the reason for an indi- vidual deposit tag, but the $79,000 paid in cash previqusly was included in the total cash deposits of that day. That is why there ap- ars to be no record of the payment of the 79,000 in the Treasurer's office, nor of the $2000 first advanced by James, BIG SUM IN BANK. On the other hand, it is claimed that when the time for settlement came on May 18, 1904, there was an actual shortage of but $6000 or $8000. On that day it is alleged between $400,000 and $600,000 was delivered to the Treasurer’s office that had been on deposit in the American National Bank for two or three months. The money had been allowed to accumu- late by Edward Smith as the result of cashing checks paid for taxes dur- ing that period. A significant circums stance in connection with the matter is that James B. Smith is a director in the bank named. The money properly belonged in the city treasury, as under the law all moneys paid for taxes shall be ‘deposited in the treasury within twenty-four hours after col- An Impression has gone forth that the clerks and deputies in the tax of- fice are mixed up In the misdoings of Tax Collector Smith. Such is far from being the case. Had they not been faithful it would have been possible for them to join in the irregularities in the office without any fear of per- sonal detection. The clerks have rea- son to think harshly of Smith, as he so manipulated the expenditures for extra clerk hire that they lost their salaries for one month last year and had to sue the city to obtain their salaries for another month. ) —_———— VENEZUELAN SCANDAL ———— Continued From Page 1, Column 6. no quarrel then, but they did not, for some reason, get along well together. raising of the blockade, Bowen went to The Hague. Just after the negotia- tions in "\ ashington Bowen published on his own responsibility a blue book of the correspondence in connection therewith. ' This publication aroused the representatives of the powers. The State Department did not like it, and !to Loomis was delegated the respon- ! sibility of suppressing its circulation or S:?er publication. Bowen resemted Snake Bite Proves Fatal. LOS ANGELES, April 28.—Edward Rabe, one of the best known wild an- imal trainers on the coast and ke of the Eastlake Park zoo, nw oeeg:: bitten yesterday by a rattles: e, died at the County Hospital to-night More Delinquents Hold Receipts for Taxes. —_— Investigation Is by No Means Ended. The known shortage of defaulting Tax Collector Edward J. Smith was {increased by -over $5000 yesterday. ' Discovery was made that two prop- {erty owners whose . taxes were not marked paid on the records held re- { celpts from Smith for the amounts. | The additional' moneys appropriat- !ed by Smith are $1292, representing the taxes of the Protestant Orphan [ Asylum, and $4086 24, the taxes-paid | by Isaac Kohn.' Two pieces of church inroperty standing in the name of Archbishop - Riordan are marked de- linquent for taxes aggregating $500 97, {but Expert Thomas E. Atkinson has "been jupable as .yet to ascertain if paymént jvds made.’ He has a list of other large sums standing delinquent and will prosecute a .diligent inquiry lto ascertain if they were actually paid. | 1f they were, the peculations of Smith will be still further increased. Smith used .a_stamp to receipt. the tax bills for' which he received the cash. The-stamp had not been used in the office for some time. It was known as “stamp No. 8" and was dis- carded when a'new stamp was ob- taired. “No. 8” was, not destroyed; however, and Smith took the stamp |away from the, office and stampead the bills at his leisure, afterward collect= ing the amounts the bills called for. The taxpayers saw nothing irrégular in the proceeding, as Smith invariably signed the stamp with his initial “S.” LIST OF DELINQUENTS. Acting Tax Collector McCabe has made up a list of all delinquencies in excess of $100 and an attempt will be made to ascertain if the persons standing delinquent have pald their taxes in order to straighten out the roll. All those who can produce re- ceipted bills will be fully protected, as the money appropriated by Smith will have to be made good by his bonds- men. Considerable comment was heard yesterday as to why Chief Deputy Treasurer Devoto had not immediate- ly presented Smith’s personal check for $15,5680 08, which Devoto cashed Thursday of last week, to the Crocker- Woolworth Bank. Had Devoto done so and learned that there. were mo funds to Smith’s credit he could have reported the matter to the proper gu- thorities and Smith might have been apprehended. As Devoto did not make known the check incident until the day of Smith's exposure as a de- faulter Devoto’s delay gave Smith a start of six days. Aside from the con- tention that Devoto had no right to cash the personal check of Smith or any one else, the point is raised that Devoto should have cashed ;the ,check before the close of the 'S business. SMITH GETS TWO HATS. The spirit of appropriating things stuck to gnllh n|moa??up to them]ut moment ‘before he left the city on his southern trip. He stepped into Korn's hat store on Market street and asked for a Panama hat. Korn did| not have one to suit his customer, so | he went eut and got a $30 hat. Smith | took the hat, put it in his grip and | left the place, telling Korn to charge | it. Smith then went down to Tom | Dillon’s place and got another Pana- | ma_ hat, which he also had charged. The count of the sacks of gold In the joint custody safe in the City Treasurer’s office was concluded yes- terday afternoon and the amount of $5,940,000 was ‘dulv checked. To-day the city officials and members of the | Grand Jur{ will begin the counting of | the coin In the main vault. This amounts to between $2,000,000 and | $3,000,000 and the task will take all | day. It will then be known if the funds in the Treasurer’s office are in- | tact. Two new candidates are in the field for the vacancy caused by the remov- al of Smith. Ex-Supervisor Horace ‘Wilson and Dan O’Callaghan are will- ing to serve the city as Tax Collector if the Mayor is willing. His Honor said that he may not announce the appointment until next Monday, al- though he may maké up his mind to- POLICE SPOIL 1 BONKO CAME Special Dispatch to The Call. RENO, April 28.—One-armed John Dow and “Fat” Sandy, twe of the most notorfous confidence operators in the United States, were captured in a pri- | wvate room in the Hotel Clarendon here to-night. They were engaged in fleec- | ing Cass Morris and E. T. Thoérnton, | two wealthy young mining men, who are here from their homes in Milwau- kee. The young men were enticed to| the room upon the pretext of looking at some rich ore. While there the out- ; fits were produced and the game had | just been started when Chief of Police Leeper and his officers pounced upon the crowd. ——————— THIEVES TAKE CASH FROM SAN DIEGO PASTOR'S STUDY Small Sum and Clothing Reward Burglars for Raid on' Episcopal Church. SAN DIEGO, April 28.—Last night 'glar or burglars entered the pas- study and guild room of St. Paul's Episcopal Church and extracted from the drawer of a desk $10 in cash and sundry articles of clothing. The burglary was discovered by ev. a to gotiations which followed. They had | Charles L. Brown, rector of e | the charges were true and redfommend- church, when he entered the church this morning and found the door to After the negotiations resulted in the | the gulld room broken open and the | has power to proceed with its business floor strewn with burnt matches. —_——— | GENERATOR OVERTURNS AND KILLS A WORKMAN | Employe of Truckee River Electric| Company Crushed to Death ~in Nevada, RENO, April 28.—Otto Lang was instantly killed to-day while at work at the site of the Truckeé River Gen- eral Electric Company, near Verdl, Nev., by a generator, weighing 20,000 pounds, overturning, burying him be- neath its massive weight. | the court is that the Supreme Court faces they romp and play—when in health —and how corducive to health the games in which they indulge, the outdoor life they enjoy, the cleanly, regular habits they should be taught to form and the wholesome diet of which they should partake. How tenderly their health should be preserved, not by constant medication, but by careful avoidance of every medicine of an injurious or objectionable nature and if at any time a remedial agent is required, to assist nature, only those of known excellence should be used; remedies which are pure and wholesome and trul Syrup of Figs, manu : Syrup of Figs has come into general faver in beneficial ctured by fa many millions of well informed families, whose estimate of its quality and excellence is based upon personal knowledge and use. - Syrup-of ‘Figs has also met with the approval of physicians generally, be- cause they know it is wholesome, simple and gentle in its action. We inform k rinciples of Syrup of Figs, obtained, nown to them to act most benefici- ally and presented in an’ agreeable syrup in which the wholesome Californian L4 H : as with joyous hearts and smili in effect, like the pleasant laxative remedy, -the California Fig Syrup Co. all reputable physicians as to the medicinal by an original method, from certain plants ° ° - e cent size, blue figs are used to promote the pleasant taste; therefore it is not a secret rem- edy and hence we are free to refer to all well informed physicians, who do not approve of patent medicines and never favor indiscriminate self-medication. l?lease to remember and teach your children also that the genuine Syrup of Figs always has the full name of the Company— California Fig Syrup Co. — plainly printed on the front of every package and that it is for sale in bottles of one size only. If any dealer offers any other than the regular Fifty or having printed thereon the name of any other company, do not accept it. If you fail to get the genuine you will not get its beneficial effects. Every family should always have a botfle on hand, as it is equally beneficial for the parents and the children, whenever a laxative remedy is required. L — T T} BAD TIDINGS PROSTRATE SMITH’S WIFE Defaulter’s Invalid. Spouse Takes Blow Hard. —_— Mrs. Edward J. Smith, wife of the defaulting Tax Collector, was so se- verely shocked at the sad news of her husband’s wrongdoings that much fear was for a while felt for her recovery. However, she rallied yesterday. Last night the doctors said she was on the road to recovery and ‘that all she needed to restore her to health was est. Mrs. Smith has been ill for a long time. Several weeks ago she was con- fined to her bed and ever since that time she has been under the care of a doctor and a trained nurse. When she heard of her husband’s flight the shock affected her to an alarming ex- tent. She suffers from fainting spells and nervous breakdowns. _—— BUNKERS CASE WILL GO TO THE JURY TO-DAY District Attorney Seymour Begins His Argument and Expects to Close at Noon. SACRAMENTO, April 28.—In all probability the Bunkers bribery case will go*to the jury directly after the noon recess to-morrow. Attorney Morehouse concluded his argument at 8:20 p. m. and District Attorney Sey- mour began the closing argument for the State. SIS SUPREME COURT HOLDS THAT BOODLING SENATORS MAY VOTE Can Be Deprived of Franchise Rights Only Upon Conviction by Su- perior Court. The Supreme Court yesterday hand- ed down its opinion in the appeal of former Senators French, Wright, Em- mons and Bunkers for a writ of man- date to compel the Senate to reinstate the expelled boodlers. The decision of has no authority to interfere with the action of the Legislature. A feature of the decision is that the four bood- lers still have the privilege of voting. That can only be taken from them when a conviction is obtained in the Superior Court. Another point is that as the Thirty- sixth session is a thing of the past, the usurpation of the legislative function of reingtatement would be impossible, The next regular session of the Senate will be composed of different legisla- tors and will be an entirely different body. The_petition alleged that the Sena- tors were discharged without notice, but this the Supreme Court holds to be untrue, as charges were preferred against the petitioners and referred to a committee for investigation, which committee subsequently reported that ed expulsion. ' There was no irregular- ity in the proceedings, as the Senate ! any way it may select. The opinion follows the denial of the writ on April 3, when George D. Collins appeared for the four petition- ers and Attorrfey General Webb for the people at the request of the Legis- lature. ——— WILLIAM J. BRYAN SPEAKS AT MONROE DAY BANQUET Nebraska Orator Takes for ; Ject “Back to the People.” ' His Sub- WILL LOCATE IN PORTLAND Special Dispatch to The Call. PORTLAND, April 28.—That Mit- | sul & Co., the great Japanese firm, will transfer their American boats to the Pacific Coast and that they have selected Portland as the location for all their exporting business ig the re- sult of the visit of T. Mikimoti, the firm’s traveling representative. whe hag just left here after two weeks on the coast. T. S. MeCrath & Co., who are also the Portland agents for Gervin & Eyre of San Francisco, are to be the agents for the Japanese house. Hereafter all the cement, matting and other imports which are sent by Mitsui & Co. into the United States will enter through Portland. The first shipment will come on the steamship Nicomedia, due here May 3. —_——— PREMATURE BLAST NEARLY CAUSES WORKMAN'S DEATH Employe at Santa Cruz Quarry Badly Burned by Explosion of Dynamite. SANTA CRUZ, April 28.—Frank Pellargrini, an employe at the lime- stone quarry of the Santa Cruz Lime Company, narrowly escaped death by the premature explosion of a charge of dynamite yesterday. The unfor- tunate man was thrown some distance. His face, left arm and left leg were badly burned. TRY T0 BURN AN OLD SCHOOL Special Dispatch to The\ Call. FRESNO, April 28.—The torch was | applied to the Selma school building last night. It is believed that a desire to see the old structure replaced by a modern building prompted the ap- plication of the torch. Three times the progressive element of the town has caused the calling of a bond “election in an attempt to re- place the old wooden structure with two up-to-date brick schoolhouses. Each time . the bond proposition was defeated with the result that much bitterness has- been engendered. Janitor McKnight discovered the flames in a pile of sacks and shingles underneath the building. A few buckets of water put them out. —_—— STARTS ON HER MAIDEN TRIP TO THE PACIFIO Great Northern Company’s New Steamer Dakota, After Some Little Delay, Leaves New York. NEW YORK, April 28.—The Great Northern Company’s new steamer Da= kota went to sea this afternoon on her maiden trip to the Pacific. There was some. little delay in her starting from Brooklyn pier, and an erroneous re- port reached the Maritime Exchange that her machinery was disabled. It required the services of three of th largest tugboats in the harbor to help i the Dakota out to sea. a la carte. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., April 28.—wi1-_ liam J. Bryan was the guest of hon- or and Congressman Champ Clark was toastmaster at the Monroe day ban- quet here to-night. Bryan's was “Back to the People.” Market street. Southern Pacific THE UP-TO-DATE WAY East over a new route, through new scenes, on the luxurious Golden State Limited. Leave San Francisco daily 5:00 p. m. for St. Louis - and Chicago via El Paso and Kansas City. 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