The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 17, 1905, Page 1

Forecast made San Francisco ednesday; west winds, THE WEATHER. s ?:n Francisco for y hours ending midnight. May 17: } and warmer at night; fresh | changing to morth. A G District + | vicinity—Falr | McADIE, Forecaster. SMITH OUT OF JAIL ON HEAVY BAIL Goes tgwf-l—is‘ Home and Meets Wife He Wronged. Pinkertons Locate Part of the Money He ‘ of America Should Has Hidden. : nal DefalcationFound by Gr: Jury Expert Douglas Young. Pt B and released pail. C. G. Church, the paint an# Joseph L. Schmitt, a writy for $25,0°0. The Trust Company of the remaining the Fire “om- i attorney for the ctor. went se tee rett, ue the criminal the bell € footsteps. ssed ni ered Bar- T $20,000 held. nd Jury n were de- consideration Chief Dinan tom of was spar. MANY FAVORS. be photcgraph SHOWN cell to him- ehind the necessary for office of the y all day un- John J. Barrett as urprised both Fore- District Attorney arrett refuses to say what ¢ will enter for Smith, and refuses erviewed upon the case. t Smith was 0 he Im- ght for a larger to release the would ' be out- be e somewhere an his ; too declared to Judge *s for $20.000 ion that the bond strenuously to this fixed at $20,000," said here bonds for that Guaranty Title and s property obtained ime he should be t Jeast as large as ned by commission of th has in his be has stolen?"” nswer the question cached somewhere a s stealings ct Attorney and Barrett in support of their argu- Judge Lawlor called a wrangling and declared that he would raise the bail to $40,000 to cover the peculations with ‘which the thieving Tax Collector has already been charged. Barrett then hurried from the courtroom. The Pinkerton detectives who have been trying to locate where Smith has “plunted” his loot have at last located a part of it in Los Angelesi: The lo- cal representatives refuse .to tell how - Continued on Page 2, Column 1. | | 'Purchase of Canal Smith, the defaulting Tax | last might om | | when {ER PAPER PUBLISHED IN SAf st M et S THE THEA ALCAZAR—""Vivian's Papas.” ALHAMBRA—Ysaye. CALIFORNIA-—‘The Crusader and Saracen.” CENTRAL—"A Huinan Slave.'” CHUTES—Vaudeville. Matinee. COLUMBIA—"‘Terence.” GRAND—"‘The Creole.”” Matines. ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. Matinee. TIVOLI—Comic Opera. SAN ‘RANCISCO, WEDNES DAY, MAY 17, 1905. PRESIDENT WARS WITH HIS PARTY | | | | | Supplies Cause | of Strife. 4 —_— ey AYOR DUNNE has informed the labor leaders of Chicago that, should they order an extension of the strike, he un- doubtedly will find it necessary to ask the Governor for the State troops to preserve or- der. It is believed that the - teamsters’ strike will end within forty- eight hours. President Leaders Hold Markets! Be Favored. Regard the Announced Policy | as Attack on Principle | of Protection. Special Dispatch to The Call. | CALL BUR POST BUILDING, | WASHINGTON, May 16. — Secretary | Taft's public announcement that the| Isthmian Canal Commission will pur-| chase material for couStruction in the west market, without preference for erican goods and without restriction to American bottoms, has raised the | d of a row in the Republican | 3 it begins in President Roose- velt's Cabinet itself. Taft's statement was made at the President’s direction. At least ome important member o(‘ the Cabinet is known to have expressed the greatest uishgent that the pol- should have been adopted aund an- nounced without first submitting it to all of the President’s advisers. E There had been one Cabinet meeting since. Mr. Roosevelt's return from the West. There was anotber this morn- | ing. 'This question was not submitted in any form at either. It is pointed out | by the “stand patters,” .awho are mad | through and through, that the Presi- | dent - in directing .this announcément | relied upon his own judgment and that of only one of his Cabinet Ministers. | | | The entire protective policy of the Re- publican party was attacked, they say, the President practically : an- nounced to the world that it was a failure in so far as it raised prices to some consumers. Secretary Shaw is known to regard the announcement of this policy as an assault upon the principle of protec- tion, and in the house of its friends. Senator Burrows, one of the high pro- tectionists of the West, also is very much concerned at the announcement. He said to-day: | “I have been fighting free ships dur- ing my enmtire public life and here is | an administration in which are included | members of the Repubiican party buy- | ing them by the wholesale.” Representative John Dalzell of Penn- | sylvania, “the high priest of high pro- | te: is astounded at the situation | developed and . Representative ~Gros- | venor can hardly contain himself. | Had the question been submitted at | Cabinet meeting it is known that < Shaw and Wilson would have opposed the announcement | policy. - It is believed, also, ney General Moody and Sec- Hitchock would have advised | against it. The President’s supporters would have been Secretaries Taft and Morton and Fostmaster General Coftel- you. When House Mean stand patt Secretary Metcalf was . in the he was put on the Ways and | Cominittee because he was a | ,” but it is not believed that | { he would have opposed the President’s | | policy in the present instance. Attorney is confi- | tion in a lynching mob. Incidentally the announcement is likely to bring a flood of protests from American manufacturers who have con- tributed l.berally to the Republican campaign fund. The uetion is regarded in some quar- ters as n very frank motice to those manufacturers that they must come down In their prices. Taie Canal Commission has already been confronted with prices on steel rails for the double tracking of the Panama Railway, several dollars in ad- vance of what they can be bought in England, and, in fact, several dollars in excess of what American manufac- turers are selling for in foreign mar- kets. —_——— YOUTHFUIL, BANDIT CAPTURED A YEAR AFTER HIS ESCAPE Leader of Gang of Burglars, Who Broke Jail in Minneapolis, Taken in Montana. GREAT FALLS, Mont., May 16.—Fred Mortesen, the alleged leader of a gang of six burglars of Minneapolis, similar to the Neidermeyer gang of Chicago, has been identified here by Sheriff J. W. Dregger of Hennepin County and will at once be taken back to Minneapolis. Mortesen, who is but a youth, hroke jail in Minneapolis on July 9 last and was taken here several days ago by the city polict as a vagrant, his iden- tity being disclosed through the local rogues’ gallery. ‘ ——————— ILLINOIS GOVERNOR SIGNS AN ANTI-LYNCHING BILL —— Measure Introduced by a Colored Legislator Becomes = Law of the State. e SPRINGFIELD, May 16.—Governor Deneen to-night signed the anti-mob bill introduced by BEdward D. Green, colored member from the First District, Cook County. It provides for vacation by proclamation of the Sheriff’s office when that official allows a prisoner to be taken from him and lynched and provides a fine of $1000 for participa- Gompers of the Ameri- can Federation of La- bor, who has arrived to consult with the strike leaders, has said that he will do. all in his power to restore peace. e, we e 4 | Mayor to Prevent a Spread of the Strike. Issues a Warning to the Labor Leaders. Gompers Believes That Peace Is in Sight. CHICAGO, May . 16~—Although mno facts have tramspired to fully warrant the prediction, it is asserted both by members of the Employers’ Association und by the conservative element in the rauks of the teamsters that the pres- ent strike will be called off probably within forty-eight hours and certainly by the end of the week. It is not likely that any definite action looking to an adjustment of the trouble will be tak- en before the meeting of the national officers of the union, which, it is ex- pected, will be held here to-morrow. Chief among the causes which led to the prediction of a settlement are the firm stand taken by Mayor Dunne when in conference with President Shea and officials of the local Teamsters' Unfon he informed them that any further spread of the strike would certainly make it necessary for him to call for troops,” and the arrival of President Samuel Gompers of the American Fed- eration of Labor, who reached the city this evening. Although not possessed of executive power in the settlement of the strike, | President Gompers declared that he had every hépe that its end was not far distant. “It was my intention to come to Chi- cago anyway at the end of this week,” said Gompers, “but after holding a conversation over the telephone with Mr. Shea yesterday I decided to make my visit here sooner. I shall do all in my power to end the strike and I have great hopes of success.” CONFERS WITH STRIKE LEADERS. Early to-night, immediately after leaving his train, President Gompers went into cenference with President Shea and local officials of the Team- sters’ Union. This conference lasted until a late hour to-night. After leaving the meeting of the labor leaders, President Gompers met a number of the team owners, who have stood by the unifons for the greater part of the strike, and they in- formed him that the time had come when they could no longer refuse to ‘deliver to and take goods from the boycotted houses without losing all of their business and facing financial ruin. It 1s said on zood authority that the teamsters will accept any plan of set- tlement, that will enable them to call off the strike gracefully, and they will accept any plan that President Gompers may proposc. 1t is now said that Gompers will sug- gest to the teamsters that they allow the team owners to do business with the boycotted- houses. Jt is expected that the teamsters will accept this proposition and in this manner the strike will be called off. ‘The Employers’ Association and the ex- | press companies increased their scope of delivery still further to-day. More than 2000 wagons were in use and business for the most part was transacted without hindrance of any kind. There were a fow cases of small rioting, which were dis- persed by a few policemen, who used their clubs |in vigorous fashion. The merchants are confident that they will be able to extend their operations still further to-morrow and have at least 23000 wagons in full service. Three hun- dred and fifty men were brought ints the city to-day to take the place of strikers and as many more are expected to-mor- row. At the hearing before Master in Chan- cery Sherman, where evidence is belng taken relative to the Federal injunctions issued against the strikers, Frank Buck- minster, superintendent of a private de- tective agency, cited two dozen instances where assaults had been committed on non-union men and the Federal injunction violated. He gave names and localities and that the majority of the rioters were wearing the buttons of the aude V. »_manager of the tall- oring division of Montgomery Ward & | L Co., told at length of the troubles lead- ing up to the strike of the garment- workers, which was the prelude to the svmpathetic walk-out of the teamsters. The strike was called, he said, because Montgomery Ward & Co. insisted upon sending part of their work to “open shops.” REFUSES TO- ANSWER QUESTIONS. John H. Donalue, a guard on a United States Express Company wagon, which was used after the commencement of the teamsters' strike for the transfer of Gov- ernment money, evaded many questions put to him by the attorneys for the plaintiffs, on the ground that he did not | wish to incriminate himself. It was sought to show by Donahue that he had been provided by the umion with a pass allowing the passage through the streets of the money; such an admission. At ‘a meeting tion._ to- t, for eight pathy “the Sirike of 3 It was announced by the Superlnundc;nt of Compulsory Education that he had n- | formation to the effect that the strlkel' at the schools had been -instigated by | hoodlums, who had told the pupils that it was thelr duty to refuse to attend school because the schools were buying coal from wrong firms. The threat of arrest of the parents whose children did | not attend school had the effect of set- | | { tling three of the strikes to-day, and a | normal attendance of pupils is expected to-morrow. ———— BOY SHOT BY A NEGRO. Lads Hoot at Colored Men and Ome of Them Opens Fire. CHICAGO, May 16.—Enoch Carlson, eight years of age, was shot and killed to-day by a colored man, a former em- pioye of the Peabody Coal Company, which has sustained an active part in the teamsters' strike. o colored men were walking along Twelity-seventh strect when some boys who were playing ball in an adjacent Jot hooted at them.” One of the colored men drew a revolver and fired at the boys. Just as he did o the Carlson boy came around the corner and’ the bullet struck him in the left groin. He died while being taken to the hospital. The colored man escaped. Pt SIS HEBREW BAKERS STR!!(D. Makers of Bread In Grenter New York want Eig! {-Hour Day. NEW YORK, May lv.—Delegates to the Hebrew Bakers' union have begun to order strikes in the Hebrew bakerles to force an eight-hour workday. Since the United States Supreme Court ren- dered its decision declaring the ten- hour law unconstjtu’’ vat the employ- ing bakers are said to have been work- ing their men eleven and twelve hours % ;lar};'ke! of 400 or 500 bakers already had been ordered in ten shops and about 1000 more men quit to-day. Some of the masters have conceded the de- mands. —————————— PHYSICIAN ANNOUNCES BELIEF IN MIND READING ‘Talks Upon the Power to Recognize Presence o? Cats Unseen and Unheard. WASHINGTON, May 16.—The twen- tieth annual meeting of the - Associa- tion of American Physicians opened here to-day and was attended by a large number of well-known members of the profession. Dr. S. Weir Mitchell read a paper on the fear of cats and the power to recognize their presence unseen and unheard. After reading the paper Dr. Mitchell declared that, through what he considered indubitable evu)e:xgce, he had been converted to a belief in midd reading. ——————— KING OSCAR WILL RESUME THE REIGNS OF GOVERNMENT Intends to Assume Respomstbility for S the Norweglan BOL i KingOscar will resume the reins of government on June 1. This is regard- ed as a semi-offictal intimation ‘and if it proves correct it means probably, that King Oscar intends to sanction:the Norwegilan consplar bill, thus assuming direct re! ility for an act calcu- lated to irritate his Swedish subjects, rather than leave the responsibility on the shoulders of the Crown Prince re- but he fefused to make;} IS them by the PRICE FIVE CENTS. MAY CALL TROOPS TO CHICAGO HE HAS GIVEN HICH THRIE THE WEAPON OF NATIONS {United States Is Ready for Trade War With German Empire. Epecial Dispatch to- The Call. CALL A BUREAU, POST .BUILDING, WASHINGTON, May 16.—President Roosevelt’s administration is prepared for a tariff war with Germany in case that country begins its promised discrim- inations against the United States when the present agreement expires. ) Some apnouncement of this Govern- ment’s policy will' be made within the week, and probably by a member of the Cabinet. It will amount to a recommen- dation - that Congress discriminate by higher .tariff against any country that enforces a maximum tarlff against the United States. - A Dbill has already been drawn for in- troduction in the House as soon as Con- gress assembles. It is said to have sub- stantial administration backing. It pro- vides that when any foreign couniry dis- criminates by making reciprocal 8- ments with other nations to the exclusion of the United States an increase of 50 per cent of the reglilar duties shall be im- posed upon all imports from such country. The Washington Government takes the ground that this is not making any war on Germany, but is simply a matter of defense against Germany’s proposed tarift war on this country. The bill as drawn amounts simply to a measure pri for maximum and minimum tariff, but it does not leave the matter in the hands of | the President to usesat his discretion. It becomes self-operative whenever the act of discrimination’is taken. - The introduction of this bill undoubt- edly will reopen the whole tariff question for discussion in Congress, and this dis- cussion will not be welcomed by the “stand patters.” 3 o X —————————— ROUMANIA HAS GRIEVANCE F TURKEY " ranted Arrest of a Numiber of Her #BUCHAREST, May 16.—It is semi- officially announced that Roumania has ‘asked Turkey for satisfaction on ac- count of the arrest of a number of Roumanian school - inspectors in dis- regard of the e CHIEF MUNICIPAL OFFIiCER OF CHICAGO AND TWO LABOR LEADERS, TO WHOM WARNING THAT A BIKE WILL MEAN THE CALLING IN OF STATE I MAYOR EPWARD =y Sunng: PHRENOLOCIST WILL EXAMINE RAILWAY MEN Employed to Discover Latent Talent in Employes. Special Dispatch to The Call. OMAHA, Neb. May 18—The value of flflN TH[ EAHH ;'—he science of phrenciogy I fts appli- | cation to business purposes received sub- ] | stantial recognition in the headquarters . {of the Union Pacific Railroad to-day, when a contract was entered into with | 3. ML Fitzgerald, a Chicago phremclogist, S AR General Miles Favors mis soimssr s S ~a Return to “Conti- | The civil service system prevails in the | to prevent the transferring a clerk from general offices, but this does not operate nental” Uniforms. | e |latent ability ! in another branch of the service. CRNELIL SSHEA - | SPREAD OF THE ST PS. Epecial Dispatch to The Call | BOSTON, May 16_The Massachusetts s KANSAS CONGRESSMAN militia will in future go abroad in cocked RESCUES T-WO Wom bats and knickerbockers.” This is not a Joke, for General Miles recommends it The revival of the old continental umi- form is serfously contemplated. ‘P‘“mmmwmflhmmm-:m: Smong hGth troome: Sile Citthenl. ° | dock of Kansas saved two women from bt e S g s e i e being drowned in the surf at Ocean Park far as Miles. They admit it would be e pict but some of them, especially | Jite Ulis afternoan. As he agproached the Irish Ninth, knee | the water line his attention was at- breeches might result in raising s cry | tracted by a seream from a Wwoman. against aping or court cus- | Though nearly a bdlock away de saw toms. : two women struggling in the waves. One E of them was trying to save the other, and . ocean. s a strong DEFENDANT IN SUTT fpiuset teto the ocess. He 0.3 o gling women, but %‘a‘rh— Accnsed of Secretly Securing | 5. “unis riacs wied o cimg 1o - them at arm’s Title to Valuable Mines R Be mezase & oo e ae i in Colorado. them what to do, but they were too much ¥ frightened to pay any attention fo his directlon. All!ucvuflhm.;“ NEW YORK, May 16.—Judge Platt, |one shoreward a short distance San in the United States Circult Court to- | 80 to the assistance of the other. Their broker, is the plaintiff, and Thomas F. ‘Walsh, the Colorado millionaire mine owner, is the defendant. ~According to the allegations of Thompson, Walsh secretely secured title to the Oro Cache and Chicago mines. located in the.San Juan district of Col- orado, which he subsequently sold to an English syndicate for several mil- lion dollars, The ownership of these mines, Thompson declares, should have been vested in himself and Walsh jointly. Former Attorney General John W. Griggs represents the plaintiff, and the defendant is represented by United i of Coast Artil.ery, now at of