The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 19, 1905, Page 1

Foreeast made at San Francisco for | thirty bours ending midnight, May 19: | San Franciseo and vicinity—Cloudy day; fresh west winds. A. G. McADIE, District Forscaster. : COLUMBIA—*"Terence.” | GRAND—“The Crecia= | ORPHEUM—Vaudeville, ‘} TIVOLI—Cemic Opera. e e SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1905. WS NET [CITY QUITS L0SING N~ MUNICIPAL ONTRUSTS' OWNERSHIP | 'Lease of Philadel- | phia Gas Works e Attorney General Moody Ready to Act. Voted. Santa Fe and Armour | Excited Citizens Protest Rebate Cases First | Unavailingly to the in Line. Council. o , Do Indictments Against Railroad | Monopoly I ‘ of the Lighting Officials Expected Within | DBusiness Is Granted to a a Few Days. 1 Private Corporation. a ISR RaC O The Call PHILADELPHIA, May 18 — Amid| = < i precedented in the . i iAW 1 ative body r against some of the big trusts of t v i to fflsi it votex 1 the country will be taken by the Gov- orks 1o the Vited” Has ent anring the mext few weeks. | Improvement y for a term of sev- ctment against the Santa Fe five years 2d Company is looked for from | 000.000. the money to h'} ergue, N. M., and the Interstate | 27I0UDts Dbefore the end erce Commission will shortly call Department of Justice to take on the evidence zathered the West regarding the giviag ates by the Armour Company and a Fe Refrigerating Company. preserves a de- rebate case. Judso: L engaged have made ent of justice it before the ter g ago made up be enforced, of the inter- the recent e that only made by where it he opera- he Armour conclusive ety RATE CASE FREIGHT DECIDED. ¢ Commerce Commission Fixes | Seaboard Differentials. per hun- | ew York on flour, | be reduced | 1 cent at| . exi | should be re- | 2 cent per te to New York and | timore and Phil otherwise the erentials should re- | ts filed a dis- WILL WED THE MINER | SHE NURSED ON TRAIL Mar IIN iage at Fairbanks Will Culmination of a Pretty Romance. ¥y 18 —Among the passen- | on the steamship | M. Lefebre, whose | arrives at Fatrbanks tion of a romance be- | Mrs. Lefebre was f four miners all down Lefebre stopped at the yed good samaritan until, sod influence of her cooking , they recovered. Since com- Lefebre and one of the men ed have kept up correspond- she is going to marry him. ————— San Francisco Asks for Comvention. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, May 18— Important resolutions, including one ooking to the immediate expulsion of members convicted of crime, were h\-. | Beaver Creek she came | | { troduced st to-day’s session of the Roysl Arcarum Niagars Falls and San Francisco ask for the néxt convemtion cil chambers and com crowded with exci against the ement Comp protesting d Gas Im from 1 o'clock, when nce o'clock. cil passed the bill hed when the vote as announced after hree hours of debate. The moment Presi- dent George R. McCurdy of the Common Council announced the vote, a great up- roar was started in the gallery, which was crowded to the door. From all over came hisses and the cry “Thieves A squad of police cleared the gallery. The agitation against the passage of the resulted in the Common Council amending the measure so as to provide for a slight reduction in the price of gas. amendment as adopted provides e price of gas from the date of se ¢ shall be same as e; from . % cents; 1 to 1836, 9 cents; from 1936 to 85 cents, and thereafter until the ex- piration of the lease 0, 80 cents. Mayor We ected to veto the bill and both chambers probably will The vote in the Common Council was % to 9, and in the Select Council 37 to 4. There is only one Democrat in each body and both voted against 1 There is some talk am. fought the leasc of taking the case to the | courts. - t of nine to-night the following statement “To the citizens of Philadelphia: You received to-day the most insolent af- front from your Councilmen ever given to the people of any great American Despite reason and respect for rights of the people, the City Coun- voted to confer upon a corpo- ration the unhampered control of your gas works. Your committee, appoint- ed by town meeting, now calls upon you “First—To awaken to your injuries, is- the express g for delay “Theft of your property. vement for three generations monopoly. “Second—To rise in your might and by personal, unceasing effort make im- possible the consummation of the greatest steal ever attempted. “(a) By assemblage in every ward: by personal demand and pressure upon your local Councilmen. “(b) By full and immediate use of the cards and literature distributed by the committee, as well as other forms of written protest. “(c) By preparing for a great rally that will block the final attempt to complete the copspiracy when the or- dinance is again considered after the Mayor has vetoed it.” SOCIETY GIRLS BRING OFF A RING CONTEST Prize Fight Results From Dispute Over Prowess of Their Sweethearts. Special Dispatch to The Call CHEYENNE, Wyo., May 18.—Differ- ences of opinion between two Cheyenne society girls regarding the pugilistic prowess of their respective sweethearts led to a prize fight on Tuesday night between Howard Bagley of Cheyenne and James Morrison of Denver, at a hall in Cheyenne. Bagley received a fractured jaw and was knocked out. Morrison is the son of James Mor- rison Sr., president of the Morrison Contracting Company of Denver. His father is building the Capitol Avenue Theater in Cheyenne. Young Morrison met and fell in love with a society girl of Cheyenne. It happened that this young woman had a bosom friend, who had for a lover Howard Bagley. The four were on the most amicable terms until recently, when the discussion referred to took place. Then the girls went to thelr respective lovers with their grievances, and, of course, the latter felt bound to u.;; up the matter. e fight was arran, and about 100 of the friends of ‘t:‘: four were invited and a little hall engaged for the occasion. Honors were even until Bagley carelessly glanced at his sweet- heart and Morrison landed. 0 your declared opinion and | wish of your Mayor ask- | METCALF TIRES OF IS POST R SR \Californian to Re- sign From the Cabinet. e e Will Return to This State to Engage in Business. Two Vacancies Soon to Occur in the President’s Official Family. Special Dispatch to The Call CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, | WASHINGTON, May 18—It was asserted here to-day on the autharity of men hav- | ing sources of information as to Cabinet | affairs that Secretary Victor H. setcalt | of the Departmert of Commerce and La- bor instead of being slated for tne posi- tion of Secretary of the Navy on the re- | tirement of Morton has tired of official | life and is planning to resign 3o as to en- | gage in business in California. Hc .bas | not determined upon the time when he will give up his portfolio. Metcalf has not found life as the head of an executive department as congenial as he expected. There is neither glory nor money in being the head of a depart- ment that deals with as prosy subjects as come under the control of the Secre- tary of Commerce and Labor. % When Metcalf left Congress 1> {as {Be vacancy created by the retirement of George B. Cortelyou he determined that he would not return to Congress; hence his going from the Cabinat will be fcl- lowed by his entry into active business Lie. | The prospective retirement of Metcalf makes it necessary for President Rocse- | velt to choose two men fgr places in his | Cabinet almost immediately. Secretary | Morton will retire on September 1, and Metcalf, it is believed, will leave about the same time. The President has not vet given the slightest hint as to whom he will place at the head of the Navy De- partment. The retirement of Metcalf has not yet become a subject of Washington gossip. BANQUET IS GIVEN | Prominent Citizens Honor | New Embassador to Court { ~of St. James. NEW YORK, May 18.—Three hundred prominent citizens attended a farewell banquet given to Whitelaw Reid, United States Embassador to Great Britain, by | the Lotus Club to-night. Among those | at the table with Mr. Reid weré: Serator Depew, rk Howell of the Atlanta Con- | stitution, M. H. de Young of the San | ¥Francisco Chronicle, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Rev. Erpest M. Stieres, Presi- dent Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia | University, formér Mayor T. Low, Rev. Minot J. Savage and George H. Daniels. Mr. Reid, after sympathetically review- ing notable events in the life of the club and speaking of the memories they evoked, said with reference to his ap- pointment as an Embassador to the Court of St James that the most gratifying thing about it was the way it had been re- ceived. “We have been living in a strenuous time,” said he. “No man in this great metropolis and in lace could well escape an active part in the incessant controveries and turmoll of the last third of a century, and my critics, I believe, have generally agreed that I was apt to assume at any raté my full share of them. After such a life, to have this ap- pointment made by the President of my country, without the filing of a single recommendation, and approved by the Senate without a dissenting voice, and re- ceived by the press and the public with such apparently general cordiality, fills me with a sobering sense of responsibility beyond anything I have ever feit .before, and with earnest aspirations that all this generous confidence may prove in the end Dot to have been wholly misplaced.™ In conciusion Mr. Reid said he hoped to maintain *in full force the good under- standing between ourselves and Great Britain, which bas grown clearer and stronger at each step in our advance in the paths that have been steadily broad- ening before us every year and month since our peace with Spain.” —_——— FREIGHT TRAINS COLLIDE AND EIGHT PERSONS PERISH Fatal Accident in Kentueky Said to Be Due to the Misreading of Orders. LOUISVILLE, May 18.—In a colli- sion to-day between two Illinois Cen- tral freight trains two miles south of Echols, Ky., eight men were killed and four injured. - The dead: B. engineer, Engltsh, 3 Elizabeth, Ky.; Doc urney, conductor, | Louisville; Ben English, conductor, Ce- cilia, Ky.; Charles St Clair, Louisville; Foster sell, TO WHITELAW REID | | PRICE FIVE CENTS. MISS HEYWOOD ASKS ALLOWANCE FROM FOSTER FATHER'S ESTATE. W, FRESNO RAISIN MEN ARE DEALT — MAUD HEYWOOD, PRETTY AGPOPTED DAUGHTER OF THE KLIN HE’ 3 A HARD BLOW VS WOMEN AN USE WHIP ON HUSHINDS Oregon Wives Bene- fited by a New State Law. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. PORTLAND, May 18 —Sheriff Word will deputize women to lash thetr husbands who are arrested for wife beating. The law providing for a whipping pest for: ‘women maulers becomes effective to-mor- One Man Gets the Con- trol of Seeding - 'Machines.” Special Dispatch to The Call FRESNO, May 18.—To-day a bomb was thrown Into the camps of the leading raisin packing firms as well as the Cali- fornia Raisin Growers’ Company, when A. Gartenlaub, president of the Pacific Coast 8Seeded Raisin Company, an- nounced that he had secretly wought up all the patent rights on raisin seeding machines and would hereafter monopo- lize the seeded ralsin business of the United States. ‘ine announcement caused great con- sternation among the 3000 members of the Raisin Growers’ Company, which, as the | Thinks 3500 a Month | Would Meet Her Demands. | Says Lawyer Powell _ Neglected Her Interests. Agnes Maud Heywood. the petits and pretty adopied daughter of the lats Franklin Heywood, who left this world a suicide after failing to find happiness | with all his wealth, was on the stand in | Judge Kerrigan's court yesterday pleading for a monthly allowance of | $500. Small of stature, she does mot | look as though she had attained wo- man’s estate, but she was very positive in her declaration that the sum she \ asked was none too great for the proper maintenance of a young lady with so many obligations to meet. Was she not the mistress now of the big home where her father used to dwell at 1410 Hayes street? This home | must be kept up, and to do this was not | {2 servant required? A servant would demand at least $30 a month, and then, | perhaps, anmother servant would be | needed. And as a student at the Uni- | versity of California she needed clothes and books and railroad fare, and she | would like to be nice to her girl friends +| | at college. And then s¢ much expense | attached to the litigation she was en- Wy | | NEW TORPED 5 LIOKCHED LKE ROCKET Scatters Hail of Shrap- nel When It Is Exploded. Special Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, May 18.—Joseph J. McIn- tyre, president of the American Projec- tle Manufacturing Company, demon- strated to-day the power and efficiency of a new weapon of his own invention, whaih be declares will revolutionize modern methodS of warfare under certain condi- tions. The new projectile is practically an aerial torpedo, shaped like and oper- ated in the manner of a huge rocket. Sbells are fired at any angle or trajec- tory, sailing a distance of from 1000 yards to a mile. Immediately on striking any object they explode with terrific force, scattering a hail of shrapmel and steel buliets over an area 400 or 500 feet in cir- cumference. To-day's trials were made at Belle Har- bor, a barren waste of land and sand hills af the eastern end of Rockaway Beach. ::1._:’ were conducted by McIntyre him- impact causes an explosion. .mnu‘u the same effect as striking A three-minute fuse was used in the experiments to-day to give those near a chance to scamper to a dis- tance. When the fuse had burned to the gaged in with Mrs. Heywood, the widow of the dead capitalist, opposing all she was sure her father wanted her to have. The $150 a month she has been given from the estate ever since her father's death was not enough, aad, further- more she had been told by Attorney Lyons that her interests had been sadly neglected of .she would have beem en- joying a Mrger income ever since she was left algne, her father dead and she alienated from the woman she used to know as her mother, the widow of Fraak- | tin Heywood. MRS. HEYWOOD ASTONISHED. Mrs. Heywood was in éourt. Specta- cled and austere, she looked with aston- upon-the mere girl on the stand of her needs and hopes aliness of her in- t Judge Kerrigan kid@ly upon her re- the litigation Miss Hey- wood own unusual balance for one of héf years, and it is safe to haz- ard a guess that if her prayer is grant- ed there will be no lavish expenditures for luxuries simply because they bear the name and are intended alone for the rich. When Miss Heywood left the stand, her petition for a larger allowance being taken under advisement, Attorney Tim- othy J. Lyons presented a statement of | what he would prove if given an oppor- tunity to establish his contention that his client’s rights had been inexcusably neglected by William B. and Walter M. Heywood. executors of decedent's will, and their attorneys, Powell & Dow. Lyons presented his statement and it was entered on the records, but the court sustained an objection to the of- fer of proof. Lyons was not permitted to swear any witnesses. ACCUSES HER ATTORNEY. When Heywood died, on July 23, 1988 Lyons asserts in his statement, Agnes Maud Heywood was 17 years of age and the interests in her father's estate had been consigned to the keeping of Attorney H. A. Powell, who had been her father’s adviser for maay years. In. stead of caring for her interests, as Powell should have dome, the attorney for the executors, Lyons sets forth in his statement, Powell allowed the young woman to become of age without taking advantage of her rights, esti- mated to Be worth $50.000, and then when she employed Lyons, her preseat attorney, Powell set up the claim that she had lost her rights through her failure to take advantage of them when a minpor. Lyons further contends that the executors took no action in her be- Balf, although also appointed in the will as her guardian, and that when Powell was later asked by Miss Hey- wood why he had neglected ber rights he became angry and accused her of ungratefulness. In comnection with these charges against Powell and the executors, it was cited by Lyons in argument that in the will of the deceased Powell was referred to as a “friend” and Miss Hey- wood was requested by her father to rely upon him. It was further contend- ed by Lyons that the uncles were inter- ested In handling the estate as they did. for the will of the deceased provided that they should have the entire estats should the daughter die within a speci- fled time. This time has not yet ex- pired, and while it is not probable that the uncles will profit by their failure to enforce the rights of the daunghter it is possible that she will be denied a homestead on the late residence of her father. The case will remain on argument for a day or two, after which the court will take it under advisement for @e eisfon. INVENTS AN AUTO TO RUN ON THE ICE Novel Machine Will Be Used on the Rivers in 4