The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 23, 1905, Page 1

The Call Prints More News Than Any O THE WBATHER. Forecast made at San Francisco for thirty hours, ending midnight, May 23, San Francisco and vicinity—Fair west winds. A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. — ther Paper Pub Work." ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—Comic e e hed in San Fra ncisco Opera. MORTON AY TAKE PLACE OF RIPLEY Serious Problem Is| Before Admin- istration. { Increase of Head Tax Method Likely to Be Adopted. Rigid Enforcement of Present | | Laws Fails to Shut Out | Pauper Horde. oo — ET OFFICIAL WHO MAY E_PRESIDENT OF SANTA FE RAILROAD. tiat it remains action.’ | ber of the | 3 4 a 'President of Sant in- | | Fe Tired of Active Service. - GELES, May 22.—Paul Mor- cceed E. P. Ripley as presi- e made to t b he An increase on the head tax from $2 | each to $20 or $25 each. Limitation of the mumber of immi- | grants from each foreigm country. ! An educational gualification. | o 1 these pro- e s 1 n zmn:«nd Santa Fe Railroad. A ¢ g = u feasible. In or { cen arranged betweer be It will Wednes It result in the resigr the se of Morto: sor Color is g as hi n succes- en to this rumor by the pley recently intimated that arrived at an a where he welcome an, opportuni down the cares of active ser is known to have th T al friends dur hern Californ He remark to d Chambers, freight traffic - of the Santa Fe coast lines, rived in Los Angeles to-day from the East, where Morton’s plans were freely d sed by con- firms the report that Morton has re- | ceived ‘several flattering offers in'the | East, but probably turn to the Santa Fe FIERCE BATTLE WITH A NECRL OWENSBORO, Ky v conform The chief Mexican line ¢ come with- | 22.—Robert sane, after man and wounding seven was put to death by a “NAXN” TO MAKE TOUR IN' EXTRAVAGANZA | Show Girl May Be Seen | Throughout Country in “Florodora.” WILLIAM sheriff. ROBERT SHAW. C. BROWN, a deputy The wounded: Deputy Marshal John J. Jackson, Dr. C. H. Plitt, Town Mar- | shal Watson, James Ford, John Robin- son, Frank Howard, Walton Pelly. Yesterday afterncon Shaw was terror- izing the community around Waitman, l;nd an appeal was sent to this city for nelp. as soon as it approached the madman’s house he opened fire. Marshal Watson | was shot in the face and Deputy Mar- shal Jackson in the back. Others wound- ed were Dr. G. H. Plitt, a boy named { Howard and a boy named Pelly. This morning & posse, headed by Sher- iff Kelly, went from Lewisport to Wait- man and found Shaw sitting on his front be secured as the |POTCh. Shaw quickly barricaded himself thus giving “Nan~ | in his house. The posse tried to storm an opportunity to appear in | (P¢ house, but the negro opened fire, lay in connection with wihch | ¥OURding James Ford and John Robin- now wemembers her. son. He apparently used only small shot, perone, too, her | Which saved the lives of those he hit. Lowell, according to the |, Sreat crowd gathered around the house, keeping a safe distance away. This afternoon Will Brown, a deputy sheriff of Hancock County, volunteered | to go to the house and take Shaw. When | within fifteen feet of Shaw the crazy |man fired, blowing Brown's head ¢om- pietely off. At 6 o'clock to-night a mob of men and boys surrounde@ Shaw’'s house and PARIS, May 22—The Confederation | set it on fire. Shaw remained in the of Labor Unions has called a meeting | burning house as long" as he could for Wednesday to ¥iscuss a proposition | stand the heat and finally leaped out to make a demonstration against King | and tried to escape. Nearly 100 shots onso when he comes to Paris. The, were fired and Shaw’s body was riddled revolutionary element eeeks to make | with builets. . an offensive manifestation against the R R RS P I P £ King and inflammatory circulars are Death of Senator's Daughter. being spread broadcast, calling on the WALLA WALLA, May 22.—Miss Char- workingmen to oppose his Majesty’s | ity Pauline Ankeny, daughter of United ¥isit in the same manner as the Ital- | States Senator Levi Ankeny of Wash- lan Radicals opposed the visit of Em- | ington, died to-day at the University Hos- veror Nicholas to Italy. pital, Philadelphia, of uremic poisoning. Special Dispatch to The Call It {8 now re- terso; the s use of her any of for the country mon are still men- agers who have en- | is announced that | WORKMEN RECEPTION FOR ALFONSO PREPARE HOSTILE Laborers in Paris Desire to Make Un- friendly Demonstration During Young King's Visit. ¢ to lay | recent visit | A posse was at once formed, but) ; SLUWP N VALLE OF - SHTUATIS | Flood of Selling Orders on Wall Street. O Dl ‘Declines of Three or! Four Points in Ac- ‘ tive Stocks. | Difficulties of a Trust Com- | pany and Lawson’s Warn- ings Responsible. | | | Special Dispatch to The Call. | NEW YORK. May 22.—Prices of se- curities slumped badly in Wall street to-day as a result of a combination of { unfavorable influences, chief of which was -the definite statement that the| State Banking Department had notified | a local trust company -that it must| | remedy its weak financial condition or | be closed. The name of the trust com- | pany referred to was freely mentioned | on exchange and it was stated that its | directors had called a meeting for| Tuesday morning to take steps to im- | prove its position. | At the office of the State Banking | Department no jnformation could be | obtained as to the nature of the steps | taken to enforce the requirements of | the law. On the Stock Exchange, how- | ever, reports were current that prep- | arations had been made by the State | officials to take charge of the trust company. | Other facts that evidently influenced | the downward course of prices were the | reported extension of the strike in Chi- cago and predictions widely cireulated by Thomas W. Lawson that a panic was impending. The market was af- fected by the extended speculation that prevailed in the staple market, wheat and corn participating in the move- ment. Before the market opened certain conventional indications gave the im- | pression that a recovery was at hand. Large buying orders were cabled early from London and the early market re- sponded to the purchases, Union Pa- cific, Reading, Steel preferred, Amalga- mated Copper and St. Paul shares ris- ing a point or more above Saturday's market. This upward movement, was suddenly and violently reverse: | noon, when a decline set in which drove prices down from three to four points in all active stocks. This slump in prices, which was attended by tem- | porary and partial recoveries, increased in violence during the last hour, when | several new low records were estab- { lished. | ASSASSINATED AT THE DOOR OF HI5 OFFICE Tllinois Politician Way- laid and Shot From Behind. ——— Special Dispatch to The Call. SAVANNA, Ill, May 22.—Daniel 8. Berry was shot and killed at the door of his office in the opera-house block to-day. The motive for the crime is a complete mystery. Berry had no enemies, so far as known. He evident- ly was ambushed and killed without warning, as the bullets were fired from behind and he held the keys of his of- fice and a package of mail in his hands when his body was found. “Big Dan” Berry, as he was popularly known, was one of the Republican lead- t ers of the Illinols House at Springfield during the legislafive session of 1895, when the late John Meyer of Chicago was Speaker. Berry, Mayer and Haw- ley of Kane (Republicans) and Clayton E. Craft (Democrat) dominated the two sides of the Houge, and “the Big Four,” as they were known, were blamed for all the sins of the Thirty-ninth Gen- eral Assembly. Representative Berry was chairman of the Judiciary Commit- tee and attracted the opposition of the reform element. . Berry served in the House as the rep- resentative of the old Twelfth District from 1896 to 1896 and was succeeded by David Busell. After he retired from the Legislature Berry continued to take | | | | | the time that Mrs. an interest in politics, but made no ef- fort to obtain office. e —_——— KING OSCAR WILL AGAIN ASSUME CONTROL IN SWEDEN Terminates Regency of Son, Who Will Go to Berlin to Attend Royal ‘Wedding. ;: STOCKHOLM, May 22.—King Oscar will resume theé direction of state af- fairs at the end of this week, thus terminating the regency of Crown Prince Gustave, who will proceed to Berlin to attend the wedding of Crown Prince Frederick William. MeVICKER HEIRS WIN CHICAGO S i R § e e IN WOMAN WHOSE ESTATE HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF LITI- GATION IN CHICAGO. Dr. Zlegle—l:leeh but da Small Part of His Claign. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, May —Dr.-L. C. H. E. Ziegler was to-day awarded by Judge Cutting of the Probate Court $10,000 for his services to Mrs. Harriet G. Me- | Vicker. Dr, Ziegler was Mrs. McVick- er's medical attendant up to the time of her death last year in Southern Cali- fornia. He sued the estate for $126,000, basing his claim on three contracts, the first one dated December 19, 1899, the second July 24, 1901, confirmatory of the first contract, and finally an oral contract made prior to May 1, 1901, at McVicker the physician went together to California. Judge Cutting found to-day that con- fidential and fiduciary relations existed betweey Mrs. McVicker .and Dr. Ziegler as presented<to the court by Attorney Leander D. Condee, who was the per- sonal attorney of Mr. McVicker, and was Mrs. McVicker's attorney for a number of years after the death of her husband. The Judge also found that the contract was an overreaching one and void, and that the estate of Mrs. McVicker should not be charged with the payment of Ziegler's claim. The court held that Dr. Zieglér had induced Mrs. McVicker to get rid ‘of all her friends and to adopt new ones, ac- quaintances and friends of Ziegler. The court's decision, it is believed, will end the battle between Ziegler, Horace McVicker, a son of the decedent, Mrs. Clara Game of San Francisco, her niece, and other heirs. CARTER TO TAKE - FIELD IN SAMAR General Detailed to Put Down Uprising on East- ern Coast. MANILA, May 22.—In response to the request of Governor General Wright, Major General Corbin has detailed Brigadier General Willlam H. Carter, commander of the Department of the Visayas, to effect the pacification of the eastern coast of Samar. All the Federal troops that are required have been furnished. The native scouts, who have been on civil duty on the island of Samar, have returned. Gen- eral Carter sailed this morning to take the field in person. —_———— WORK TO DE CONTINUED BY MARINE COMMISSION Story Untrue That Through Error the Appropriation Had Been Assigned to Canal Board. WASHINGTON, May 22—The story that through a clerical error of the State Department the balance of the amount due on the appropriation for the Merchant Marine Commission had been transferred to the Isthmian Canal Commission and that in consequence the marine inquiry would not be prose- cuted .this summer is without basis in fact. The story originated in a joke on one of the Marine Commissioners. The Marine Commission will continue its work, but it will not hold any more public hearings. SACRAMENTO, May 22.—In the Ap- pellate Court of Appeals this morning the petition of Harry Bunkers, ex-State Senator gnd convicted boodler, for re- lease on a writ of habeas corpus was taken under advisement. | invited for the purpose of sounding them | them had an inkling of the purpose of SMART StT PRICE FIVE CENTS. JAPAN PUTo ITY WILD SCENE WLLEDUP | A BN N THE HOLSE Largest House Mrs. Oliver Belmont Interests Society in the Venture. Store on First Floor Will Give Special Prices to Families Above, Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, May 22.—The largest and best equipped tenement house in the world will soon be built in Brooklyn. It will cover an entire city block and will stand twenty stories high. One of its novel features will be the occupancy of the ground floor by a department stofe, which will give the tenants special prices. * Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont is sponsor for the plan, it having been suggested by her at a luncheon, to which wealthy and philanthropic men and women were on their willingness to assist in financing | the undertaking. Mirabeau L. Towns, Brooklyn's lawyer-poet, was one of the number, and on him probably will fall the choice of selecting a location for the big establishment. » Lawyers, financiers and real estate men, besides leaders of fashion, both women and men, were among those whose co-operation ~and advice were asked for by Mrs. Belmont. Some of the gathering, but, except in the mind of Mrs. Belmont and a few of her inti- mate and wealthy friends, it was not ex- pected that the plans to bé discussed would be so far-reaching. Mrs. Belmont said to-night that plans ‘were not yet far enough along to make.a general statement of them public. But, unless some unexpected obstacle ap- peared, there was no reason to doubt that the scheme would be successfully carried out. The plans, so far as they have gone, call for a building which will incorporate all of the most auvanced ideas in tene- ment-house construction, with regard to heat, light and ventilation. A special feature of construction will be provision for large families. In fact, it may be that, in contrast with sp many tene- ments, which are barred to families hav- ing children, ncne will be allowed in the proposed tenement except whete there are offspring. While a reasonable charge will be made | for apartments—enough, in fact, to make | the project self-supporting—the rentals | will be lower for bright, sunny rooms than in many. of the dingy tenements of | the East Side. Whatever profit there may be will be devoted to the building of another tenement along similar lines. ARNY OFFICER SHOOTS DEPUTY AND ATTORNEY Mystery Surrounds a Row in a Los An- geles Club. — Special Dispatch to The Call LOS ANGELES, May 22.—A mysterious sheoting occurred in a prominent club here last night, in which a northern at- torney and a northern deputy sheriff were wounded by a retired army officer. The trouble is said to have been caused by a Jivorce case. It has been learned that Lieutenant Falconer was wounded in an altercation. Falconer is a retired army officer who was wounded in the service and who has been in the north. He will deny nothing. but refuses to talk. He has a wound in the left arm, which was received within the last twenty-four hours, but he will not explain it. The fdentity of the attorney and deputy sheriff is ghrouded in mystery. They are said to have left the city. —_——e————— ST. LOUIS SOCIETY MAN PUTS END TO HIS LIFE Burton Kevill Commits Suicide in His Room by Drinking Ounce of Car- bolle Acid. ST. LOUIS, May 22.—Burton Kevill, prominent in society and a member of one of the oldest families in St. Louis, committed suicide in his room to-day by drinking an ounce of carbolie acid. —_——————— ‘Murphy Made a Consul. W. /GTON, May 22.—Dominic L Murphy of the District of Columbia has been appointed Cohsul to Bordeaux, France, to succeed A. W. Tourgee, de- ceased. Murphy, who has held the sec- retaryship of the Isthmian ' Com- mission, was to sail maorraw. TENEMENT Brooklyn to Have | | JAPANESE _STATESMAN, WHO THINKS INTERVENTION IN THE PRESENT WAR UNLIKELY. — Count Kato Tells the Possible Terms of Peace. —_— TOKIO, May 22.—Count Okuma, former Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs, in a recent interview on-the question of intervention, said that a great change In the lines of diplomacy of different powers being the - natural outcome of the pres- ent -war, it was difficult to make a prophecy. 'Increasingly closer relations between England and France, he said, was already one of the very significant phenomena resulting from the war. The Count declared that Germany could have no other feeling.than satisfaction at find- ing her northern rival becoming srad- ually weak®tned by the war, and would recognize the foolishness of antagonizing Japan if Germany uld maintain and develop her i St the Far East. Okuma saw no occasion for intervem- tion unless a European conference could be formed and he could not understand who would take the initiative so.long as Germany did not_suffer by the war. Ger- many, he asserted, was reaping benefits of various kinds and would " follow the policy of “get the best and as much as possible. TE2MS OF THE JAPANESE. Count Kato, former Minister of For- eign Affairs, and former Minister. to Great” Britain, discussing the same ques- tion, said: “1 do not: think-there. will arise any occasfon -for intervention. . I doubt if Russia has a fixed purpose and aim either to fight or to conclude peace. It seems to me that the ultimate result is left to whatever the future may bring to Rus- sla. There seéms to be no prearranged plai Should ' Russia be determined to hold Viadivostok, it would be to her ad- vantage, to conclude peace before she loses it. But she knows no desire for peace and her policy is devold of any definite plan so there can be no occasion for a third power to attempt interven- tion in the near future. “Even the loss of Vladivostok might not prompt Russia to seek peace. She could go on retreating indefinitely, hop- ing to exhaust us thereby. We might take Harbin and go farther north, but Russia could continue her policy of re- treat, thereby giving no occasion for a third pariy to intervene. Should' Russia ask for peace we shall insist upon an unconditional armistice and when the ne- gotiations are opened we shall require Russia to return Manchuria to China, recognize our sovereignty over Korea, transfer Sakhalien to us, remove perma- nently the fortifications of Viadivostok and pay an indemnity of at least 2,000,- 000,000 yen (3$1.000,000,000). Such lib- eral terms will afford no occasion for intervention WILL BE A LONG WAR. “The scene of hostilities in Manchuria being without any special interest to the powers, none of them would be prompted to take action to stop the war. On the contrary, the war is affording a lucrative trade to some of them in supplying ma- terials for war. *“Looked at from a diplomatic stand- point, Germany, seeing’ her eastern dan- ger lessened by the war, and Russia gradually weakened, will naturally enter- tain the hope cf further reduction in the strength’ of her formidable neighbor. England will feel satisfaction over the blows dealt by her ally to her traditional foe. The United States, much as she sympathizes with us, will not welcome an excessive development of Japan's power, Jest it should cause future trouble and any change. ‘Both the present and the future, to my O COMMONS Attack on Balfour Pressed Amid Tumult. Premier Accused of Vio- lation of Pledge Made to Country. Forced Adjournment Taken After Futile Efforts toSup- press Disorder. LONDON, May 22.—The sitting of the House of Commons to-night was marked by scenes of the wildest disor- der, growing out of a motion by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman to adjourn the House in order that it might discuss his charge against Premier Balfour of having violated his pledge not to deal with the subject of colonial preference without first appealing to the country. Alfred Lyttelton, Secretary of State for the Colonies, was put up to reply to the Liberal leader. but the members of the opposition shouted down his every attempt to speak, even after the Premier had demanded a hearing for the Secretary. Finally the Speak- er, after he had exhausted every effort to quell the turbulence, put into force for the first time a new rule. empow- ering him to adjourn the House in cases of grave disorder. The matter came up at the afterncon sitting, when Premier Balfour. reply- ing to questions on the subject, said he did not consider himself pledged to inaction in regard to colonial prefer- ence, except so far as parliamentary action was concerned. He reiterated that the Government did not intend to deal with the fiscal question in the present Parliament. The matter of colonial preference might. however, be submitted to a colonial conference in 1906, even though the country had not previously had an opportunity of ex- pressing an opinion on the subject. The decision of the conference. however, would not be binding either on the mother country or on the colonies without legislative action. CHARGE AGAINST PREMIER. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the Liberal leader., charged Balfour with having violated the pledge he had made in his Edinburgh speech, and moved the adjournment of the House to discuss the matter. e Liberal leader de- manded a plain answer from Premier Balfour, and Alfred Lyttelton, Secre- tary of State for the Colonies, arose to reply. The members of the opposition drowned the efforts of the Secretary with cries of “Balfour! Balfour! Af- ter continuing for about ten minutes Lyttelton sat down. ‘Winston Churchill then attempted to speak. but the Ministerialists drowned his efforts, the Nationalists joining in the din and shouting for the police. After a number of members had failed to obtain a hearing the Premier rose to a point of order and a temporary lull fol- lowed.. Balfour said he thought it highly improper that he should be immediately expected fo follow the leader of the op- position. He said he had never before known the opposition to refuse to hear a Minister, and he insisted that the House hear Secretary Lyttelton. as otherwise the dignity of the House could not be ‘maintained. Lyttelton again made an attempt to speak, but the uproar was renewed. Fin- ally the Speaker said it was obvious that the scene could not continue, and he would therefore adjousn the House under the rules empowering the Speak- er to take such action in cases of grave disorder. The Speaker had been unable to secure even a semblance of order. after howls and counter-howls lasting more than an hour. The action of the Speaker and the scenes in the House created a tremen- dous sensation in the lobbies, which were crowded with members discussing every phase of the evening’s occurrences, which were declared to unprecedented. The galleries were filldd with peers and other distinguished persons who had gathered in the hope of hearing an in- teresting debate on the fiscal question. They took part in the cries for thelr favorites, thus adding to the din, and i afterward joined the excited crowsd in the lobbies. Except when Sir Heary Campbell-Ban- nerman taunted him with being the sole cause of the d!.on:;r .;rde Balfour hled‘ an angry reply, the ‘mier was mos composed throughout the sitting. Lyttleton also showed the greatest seif- Balfouri” “Let him defend his own honor!” “Let him fight his own battles,” ete. Whenever the storm showed signs of subsiding the Irish members joined in, helping the hubbub. The Liberal leaders afterward held = conference, and it is expected that a vote of censure on Premier Balfour will be . { moved to-morrow by Sir Henry Camp- bell-.