The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 6, 1905, Page 1

Forecast made at thirty hours ending Tuesday; light north fresh west. San Francisco and vicinity—Fair A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. San Francisco for midnight, June 8: wind, changing to lands.” ALCAZAR—"Judah.” COLUMBIA—"The Duks of Kili crankie.”” CENTRAL—“The Eleventh Hour." SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JUNE '6, 1905. A [AESTRETTTS ATTORNEYS OBJECT TO THE CITIZENS ALLIANCE. MEMB —y it i % i il il i TS lii‘ fit it n“!l“fllié‘fli!‘!i!} (G, it i L, BEGIN THE FELONY CHARGE OF A'JU AT ONCE. ERS OF THAT SOCIETY NOT SUBORNATION OF TRY HAS WAN PERJURY WAS YES- BEEN SECURED AND THB { | Police Capture Seven- teen Members of | Gang of Crooks. | Dispatch to The Call, Seventeen members | leged crooks, police annals for , numbers and wide- up at the laries, hold- | ence games ding the use of drugs re charged against the gang, des four women. <" in various parts of the ave been discovered to be the members. It is said they and when one place was to be under suspicion they moved r. Supplies of cocaine and Ivers to equip a small army | ectives entered the places they | the apartments furnished luxu- | s of the furnishings were spoils of theft. The oldest | 5 yvears of age. As show- | desperate character, it was | one escaped from the Pontlac ory three years ago after strik- ing a guard senseless. The vietims of these burglaries and | s have already identified some of | P In one instance a woman was | bound and gagged in her home. In another | $3000 worth of diamonds were stolen from 2 West Madison street jewelry store. 3 ——————— BODIES OF FOUR HUNDRED HURRICANE VICTIMS FOUND ta locked , dncl Corpses Give Mute Testimony of the Deadly Work of Recent Storm in Natal. DURBAN, Natal, June 6—Up to the present time 440 corpses of Hindoo labor- ers, Buropeans and others who lost their lives through the hurricane which re- cently swept over Natal and the subse- quent bursting of the reservoir at Pine- town, have been recovered. The bodies of many other victims have not been re- covered HORSES LEAP UFF PRECIPICE WITH WOMAN Artist Falls Two Huan- dred Feet and Es- capes Death. Special Dispatch to The Call. CENTRAL CITY, Colo., June 5.—A fali of 200 feet from a precipice in the moun- tains near here was the fate of Mrs. George Sheidon Smillle to-day, but she stili lives and it is said she will recover, although severely bruised and cut. Mrs. Smillie, who s a well-known artist, formerly of Kenosha, Wis., 1s here with her husband, a New York painter, on their honeymoon. The young woman en- gaged a buckboard and two horses to-day and drove along the Great Pass west of here. It extends beside a huge cliff and deep canyons are below it. At places the rough road is not more than eight or ten feet wide, and it takes a skiliful reinsman to pass along it. " Mre. Smillie was passing the narroWest part, near a sharp turn, when the horses bolted and rushed straight over the edge of the precipice into the 200 feet of space beneath. No one saw her fall. The accident was discovered when a ranchman riding along the pass saw the wreckage of the buck- board below, one horse dead and the oth- er grazing near by. He gave the alarm and a rescue party lowered the ranchman into the abyss. There he found Mrs. Smillie clinging to a rock in a stream into which she had fallen. The fact that the water was below. saved her life and that of one of the horses. She was still conscious when found, but fainted as the ranchman was holding her while being lifted up the cliff with a rope. e ALLEGED JEWELRY THIEF 1S ACQUITTED BY JURY Theft of $70,000 Worth of Gems Is Not Proved Against New York Salesman. RED OAK, Iowa, June 5.—The jury in the case of Thomas Dennison of Omaha, charged with complicity in the robbery of $70,000 worth of diamonds from James Pollock, a New York jewelry salesman, in 1883 to-night brought in a verdict of acquittal. + NEW RECORD FOR EXPRESS TRAIN SPEED From New York to Chicago in Seven- teen Hours. 3 Epecial Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, June 5.—The Pennsylvania Railroad has broken all records for long distance speed of passenger trains by running a heavy train from New York to Chicago In just seventeen hours. The Tun was made to demonstrate the feasi- bility of putting on an elghteen-hour train | eand making the schedule with ease, un- der ordinary circumstances. Through the completion of the Trenton cut-off and the rearrangement of tracks in the vicinity of Altoona, the Pennsyl- vania is able to lower its rival's twen- tleth century running time by two hours The train was made up of exactly the equipment which the Pennsylvania will carry—a locomotive and six cars, four of which were heavy Pullman cars, The latter portion of the run, from War- saw, Ind., to Chicago, a distance of 108 miles, was made In 113 minutes. Out of Crestline, for a distance of more than 100 miles, the speed was better than one mile a minuté, and the maximum speed recorded by the indicator in one of the cars was ninety-two miles, maintained for e distance of almost three miles. ———————— MUSKOGEE OITY OFFICIALS GREATER THAN UNCLE SAm Succeed in Preventing the Collection of Indian Territory Tribal Tax. OKLAHOMA CITY, June 5.—A from Muskogee, 1. T., states m business men and city officials are in control of the situation in the tribal tax matter. One of the firms were closed has ages against T Wright, the amount asked for being $50,00. The busi- ness houses are all open is withholding his decision in the cases of Indian police under clals state that Indian rested and placed in tempts are made to close further instructions i&‘ton. the Governmsnt oflld:'u are d no TED AS JURORS Lawyers Select Trial Body Gingerly. - ProsecutionShy of Schmitz’s Friends. The following citizens of San Francisco were selected yesterday in Judge Law- lor’s court to try thé casé of Frank A. Maestrett!, member of the Board of Pub- lic Works, charged with subornation of perjury in connection with the election fraud cases: Thomas M. Bittencourt,” 205 Gough street; Aaron S. Brilliant, 1645 Geary street; Roy A. Price, 1618 Hayes street Leon W. Goldstein, 142 Central avenue; Charles Berwin, 1010 Haight street; Leo- Pold Weinstein, 2450 San Bruno avenue; John E. Beck, 119 Park Hill avenue; G son Cohn, 1411 Golden Gate avenue; Charles F. Gunn, 37 Ivy avenue; John H. Paige, 817% Larkin street; Patrick Ban- non, 2053 Twenty-first street, and Edward C. Dennigan, 1715 Octavia street. Nearly all these jurors were chosen at the afternoon session, though it looked from the way matters started out that it might take a week to select the twelve. Prosecution and defense were skittish of g0 many things In the men that they were willing should try the case that it aid not seem at the outset as if twelve could be found without some objection- able feature. The prosecution was espe- clally shy of any one who had any busi- nees dealings with the eity, who had held political office in any of the departments or had a relative similarly tainted. Any one who might even have looked at the City Hall during the present regime was shied at, and acquaintance with any ad- ministration favorite was a bar. Know- ing Abe Ruéf was not a r endation. FIRST VICTORY FOR DEFENSE. The defense was particularly sensitive to Citizens’ Alliance, Merchants’ Assaciation or Republican League affiliations. It was even a little timid about real estate deal- ers, because Bowes is in that business, but Weinstein admitted that was his line. Ex-Governor James H. Budd appeared as leading counsel for the defense, and was assisted by H. C. Dibble. District At- torney Byington appeared to prosecute, and Deputy Raobert Ferral was with him. The proceedings were not sensational, though at the outset Budd gdve promise of some lvely fighting when taking of testimony is begun. District Attorney Byington measured repartee with him once or twice, but they managed to get along amicably during most of the pro- ceedings. At the morning session Governor Budd began asking prospective jurors whether they belonged' to the Citizens’ Alliance. Objection was made to the question by District Attorney Byington, and ‘the first important battle of the case was on. Budd won the victory, the court allow- ing the question, and every man who en- tered the box thereafter was interrogated as to whether he belonged to any of the several organizations that are supposed to be battling for civic reform. in San Francisco. ONLY SOME SMOKE. During the argument Budd demanded that a subpena issue for the secretary of the Citizens’ Alliance and that he be in- structed to bring the books of the or- ganization into court that its purposes might be shown. At another time Budd demanded a subpena for Fairfax Wheel- an, it appearing that William Jones, a prospective juror, had called on him to obtain membership in the Republican League while the morning session of the court was in progress. Mr. Jones' exam- fnation showing that no mention of the Maestrettl case had been made between him and Mr. Wheelan, it is not likely that the subpena will be served, and the inci- dent will be but part of the smoke that is sure to be plentiful during the trial. John Cameron, father of a disnissed employe of the Schmitz Health Board, was among the jurors peremptorily ex- cused by the defense, though he declared ‘he had no bias. Goldstein and Berwin admitted that Ruef was their legal adviser, but this, they said, would cut no figure with their ndings. fl-rh, direct charge against Maestrett! is that he tried to induce C. M. Silberstein to swear falsely that Stuffer Wyman voted only once at the primary at which he did the stuffing. The case goes on this morning at 10 o’clock. AERONAUT TAKES FEARFUL DROP. FROM HIS BALLOON Falls Fifty Feet After Being Dashed ‘With Terrific Force Against a Grand Stand. RENO, June 5.—Before the horvified gaze of 1500 persons at the State Pask, near here, yesterday, J. C. Mars, an aeronaut, was dashed with terrific force against the grand stand and fell to the ground, a distance of fifty feet. Mars’ wife witnessed the accident. As her husband struck 'the ground she swoomed. Mars IS now under the care of physicians. Whether he is internally injured has not been determined. —_——— | NEVADA YOUTH LOSES HIS HANDS WHILE OUT HUNTING RENO, June 5.—Eafl Gignoux, son of one of Ne Y t prominent fam- ilies, lost both han: top of his head while out hunting yes- terday. While resting he placed the butt of his gun on the ground and put | b and almost the | dent Tarbell was DECUNES SIARY OF SH000 Depew Refuses an Offer From the Equitable. Schiff and Coolidge Re- sign and Ingalls Will Follow. First Named Takes Occasion to Score President Alexander. e Fpecial Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, June 5.—There is no ques- tioning the fact that the Equitable Life Assurance Society directors are thorough- ly alive to the responsibility entailed in the selection of some man who is thor- oughly qualified to,accept the place of chairman of the board. The position was tendered to United States Semator Chauncey M. Depew to- day, and it was said he was offered a salary of $500,000 a year if he would stepninto the breach at this time. Senator Dépew refused the offer per- emptorily, accompanying his declination with the explanation that his content- ment in life and peace of mind at pres- ent would forbid his accepting the place. Plans. to establish harmony in the af- fairs of the Equitable were further com- plicated to-day by the resignation of two mgre directors, making five .in all. who have recently retired from the board. A dispatch from Boston announced that T. Jeffersén Coolidge. had tendered his res- ignation, take effect immediately. This was fol by the resignation of Jacob Schiff, head of the banking-house of Kubn, Loeb & Co., who has been a mem- ber of the board of directors for twelve years. In addition, announcement came from Cincinnati toat Melville E. Ingalls would also resign. Schiff’s resignation was conveyed in the following letter to Presigent Alexander: SCHIFF REBUKES ALBXANDER. “In view of the progeedings at the meet- ing of the board of directors of the Equi- table -Life Assurance Society held last Frigay, I feel constrained, after mature reficction, ‘to tender my resignation as a director of the society, to take effect at once. ““Throughout the recent controversy I have studiously refrained from any ac- tion which might add to the complica- tions with Which the sociéty has been struggling.. 1 have even remained silent in the face of many mallcious and base- less ctatements regarding the business transactions between my firm and the society which have been disseminated through your agents, notwithstanding your failure to publicly disavow and deny these statements instead of sending me (as “ou have recently done) private mescages expressive of regret for the in- discreet and overzealous actions of your friends. “The meeting of the directors last Friday offered, it seemed to us, a su- preme opportunity for rescuing the so- elety from the evil situation into which it had been cast by factional disputes and by the conduct of its officers. If you and Mr. Hyde had been able at the critical moment to rise to the occasion and had supported my motion for the appointment of a committee of direc- tors, consisting of men of national reputation for high character and in- dependent judgment, with authority to select a chairmaw of the board with plenary powers to adjust an effective reorganization of the management of the society, the restoration of public confldence might have been possible, but you and Mr. Hyde have permitted the psychological moment to slip by and recognized the mistake only after the disintegration of the board of direc- tors had been begun and it was too late to repair the damage which had been done. “In view of the present situation, it does not seem likely that there will be an opportunity for independent action in the board and I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that I can no longer be of service to the society by remaining upon its board of directors, of which I have been a member for; twelve years. “Very truly yours, ¥ i “JACOB H. SCHIFF.” D. 0. MILLS RESIGNS. i John A. Stewart, one of the commit- tee of seven appointed by the directors !at their last meeting to nominate a chairman of the board, said to-day that he would not decide on what course he would adopt until the special meeting of the directors called for Wednesday. D. O. Mills, another member of the committee, said in all probability he would sign, but would not decide positiyély until the board meeting. It is understood that August Belmont has decided to serve on the nominating committee, regarding this as his duty to the society. Belmont, however, de- clined to discuss the affairs of the Equitable. The inquiry into the irs of the society was resumed to-day at the Equitable offices by State. % of Insurance Hendricks. eral R. | Brown, superintendent of the bond and mortgage de) t of the was summoned, and Second Vice b again questioned. dent Hendricks said that ~would not say ‘what other k| before him. [ATI, June 5. e s s be in u’i:w York in a “hours. . In- NORWECIAN FEDERATION S PLANNED PRICE FIVE CENTS. CZAR'S ACT MAY SPEED THE CRISIS Attempt to Form|Promotion of Tre- Norse Republic Expected. Secession Movement Is Said to Be Well Under Way. Preparations for War Going Forward Apace on the Swedish Frontier. Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, June 5.—The establishment of a republic has been one of the many predicted outcomes of the trouble be- tween Sweden and Norway. The Copenhagen correspondent of the Telegraph reports the bellef that this will be accomplished in the mext few days, the republic being modeled after the Swiss federation. Norway refuses to accept the final defeat of her efforts for the creation of a separate consular service and King Oscar’s veto of the consular bill was virtually the signal for a secessionist movement. For many months past Norway has been preparing for war. Forts have been constructed on the Swedish fron- tier and ships have been gathered in Norwegian ports, where they could be quickly armed for service. HEREROS CAPTURE GERMAN GARRISON Kaiser’s Men Said to Have Perished in South- - west Africa. LONDON, June 5.—A dispatch to a news agency from Cape Town says native re- ports have been received at official quar- ters to the ‘effect. that Warmbad. the German headyuarters in Southwest Af- rica, has fallen and that the garrison has perished. No news is obtalnable except from native sources. The rising of the Hereros against the Germans in Southwest Africa broke out in the northern part-of that colony early in January, 1504, and the depredations of the natives have continued intermittently ever dince. Settlers were obliged to take refuge at the various Government sta- tions, where they were attacked and num- bers killed. After suffering two slight re- verses, German troops last August at- tacked the Hereros at Waterburg, dis- persing them with heavy loss to the na- tives. Fresh troubles arose in October through a rising of the Bondelzwarts, Hottentots and Witboys in the southern part of the colony. Warmbad is a mission station in Ger- man Southwest Africa, about 135 miles east of the mouth and 23 miles north of the Orange River. It is not far from the frontfer of Cape Colony- LETTER TO PRESIDENT HELD FOR A STAMP Missive Forwarded - When the Required Two Cents Is Sent. Special Dispatch to The Call WASHINGTON, D. C, June 5—The fact that the law in the United States ap- plies to the greatest as well as the most humble is illustrated by the actlon of President Roosevelt In sending 3 cents to the Berwick, Pa., postoffice to pay postage on a letter malled at that place. The letter was malled last Monday, and was addi to the President person- ally. It a stamp cut from a stamped envelope, which is contrary to the postal laws. . Postmaster Bowman Informed the President that a letter held for postage awalted him, and that on receipt of 2 cents it would be forwarded. A 2cent stamp was sent, and the letter was accordingly forwarded to the White House. —_————— APACHE'S CREW SPENDS THE TIME IN FISHING Vessel Arrives at Falmouth After Slow Trip in the Race Across the Ocean. FALMOUTH, Eng., June 5—The Amer- ican vacht Apach& arrived here during north and experiencing a series of calms on the banks of Newfoundland. The yacght's movements were so slow that the Subseq “poff Stirs Up Tempest. Ministers Resign as Protest Against Im- perial Ukase. Late Governor General of St. Petersburg Now Absolute Dictator in Russia. ST. PETERSBURG, June 6 3:03 a. m.— Emperor Nicholas’ ukase virtually creat- ing Governor General Trepoff dictator has given rise to a mighty sensation. It is the imperial recognition of the crisis in the internal affairs of Russia and in- stinctively recalls the step taken by the Emperor’s grandfather, Alexander II, im- mediately affer the attempt to biow up the Winter Palace ig 1880, when he ap~ pointed a commission of public safety, headed by General Loris-Melikoff, except that the position of General Trepoff will be more analogous to that occupied by Loris-Melikoff when, later in the same year, he was appointed Minister of the Interior with full control of the police. ‘“Reaction and repression” doubtless will be the quick interpretation put upon the Emperor’'s act as soon as it becomes known to the Liberals. Buried in the col- umns of the Official Messenger and com- ing almost without warning, the ukase is not yet generally known, but to the - itiated the future of Constantine Petro- vitch Pobyedonostseft, chief procurator of the holy synod looms large. Behind the scenes the old man remains as stern and as uncompromising as sver. He left what many belleved to be his deathbed last Thursday and went to Tsarskoe-Selo, where he spent almost the entire day with his Majesty. POWER OF POBYEDONOSTSEFF. The decision to place in the hands of the strongest executive in Russis, which Trepoft is universally recognized as be- ing, the power to crush with an iron grasp the political agitation which has brought Russia almost to the brink of revolution, according to pyblic bellef, is the fruit of Pobyedonostseff's visit, for so far as can be learned, not a single one of the Emperor’'s Ministers was in the secret. The ukase came like a bolt from = clear sky. Bauligan, Minister of the Interior, could not face the humidation and immediately resigned, aud it is net improbable that other Winisters wil} follow suit. It is rumored In the ecity that Count Lamsdorfl, the Foreign Min- ister, has already placed his resigna- tion in the hands of the Emperor and that he will be suceeeded by Muravieff, former Minister of Justice and now Embasxsador at Rome. Admiral Alexie® has also demanded the acceptance of his demission. To find a precedent for the resignation of a Minister as a protest against impe- rial action it is necessary to go back to the resignations of Ministers Loris-Meli- koff, Milutin and Ignatieff, when, after the assassination of Alexander II, Alex- ander 1II repudiated the liberal policy of his father by issuing his famous mani- festo affirming the maintenance of the autocracy and of orthedoxy, which stirred the chancellories of Europe to their depths and marked the beginning of the reactionary policy that has lasted until the present liberal agitation was begun. Sturmer, an extreme reactionary, who be-~ longs to the Von Plehwe school, it is re- ported at this writing, will succeed M. as Minister of the Interior, but it matters little who may succeed to that portfolio, as its holder will be a subor- dinate to General Trepoff in all matters affecting politics. In spite of the popular interpretation, however, that Trepoff’s appointment means lon and reaction to the bit- ter end, the latter conclusion by no means follows, as it was under Loris-Melikoff's dictatorship that the reform programme of Alexander II was worked out. The same thing may prove true in this case.| Indeed, among the contradictory rumors ‘which are current in the city one is that the ukase will be completed with the im- mediate calling of a Zemsky Sobor, but nothing is definitely known, and the Em- peror’s mest influential friends are not aware as to what stand he will take. ‘Whatever he may do, it is now apparent that the Emperor has decided that the hands of the Government shall no longer be forced by political agitation, and that the legislative assembly shall bear the hall mark of imperial fashioning, and not that of popuar clamor. The decision of the Emperor was un- doubtedly precipitated by the Russian disaster in the Sea of Japan, as liberals and radicals everywhere were preparing to make the bast possible use of it in fur- thering their wishes. MEANS CONTINUANCE OF WAR. The Government also will be threatened with peace demonstrations, the first of which was to have been a big meeting poft at the helm to deal with the internal crisis which the determination to pursue the war is apt to cause. Indeed, there are rumors that a general mobilization has already been decided upon and that the appointment of Trepoff was made so #s to enable the Government to carry it out. It is dangerous to forecast the of the change In the situation.