The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 13, 1905, Page 1

More N A G | District Forecaster. | McADIE, p »";/:I 72 SR 1% ews Than Any»‘Other Paper Publishe GRAND—"“The MAJESTIC— TIVOLI—Comic ALCAZAR—“Mistakes Will Happen.'" CALIFORNTA—"‘La Tosea."" CENTRAL—‘‘The Fast Mail." CHUTES—Vaudeville. COLUMBIA—*The Usurper.” ‘Leah Kleschna.™ ORPHEUM—Vaudeviile. THE THEATERS. Gates of Bondage." Opera. SAN FRANCISCO; TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. - EXCLUSION BARS WILL REMAIN UP President Answers Manufacturers’ Protest. He Promises, However, to Confer on Subject With Metcalf. BSOS rts to Be Made to Promote America’s Trade With China. —The boreotting by the Chincse suming more serious guilds have quietly the boyeott American rs is rather gloomy. The apers are refusing adver- American goods. eatened boy- some d on things Asiatic formed to main- and n the s visit is to invite he present unsatisfac- empire ntial part character been of late ad- ce of a sat- between the a and by the dis- | e class in ceive to be the operation of the ced by the immi- of the United States in those of their countrymen ws declare entitled to visit MENACE TO TRADE. be unfortunate that e with the treaty e the expiration of in force between We are not here to mpetency of Congress to isions of any treaty with we do question the e Government of the s occupying an attitude in nciple which it has a mnation cannot e ‘reatment accorded by the immi- | 1 officers of this Government to the t o of Chinese visiting our oppressive than either spirit of the law re- e plainest principles ¥ ons demand that the shall be more ..beral either by amendments or by the negotiation of or both. | upon you the extreme danger | to the industrial and commercial inter- ests of the United States of allowing the conviction which has been growing for some time in Chink to become a fixed one that our Government tries to dis- | nterna courage the coming here of the mer- chants, students and literati of that country. The future of that vast and populous empire is with tue young men, who have almost ceased to resort to our schools and colleges for their education because of the humiliating ordeal to which the administration of our 1 a- ticn law exposed them, and other coun- _— Continued on Page 2, Columa §. | Portland Hotel, { fair belongs to every loyal lover of the {ing at the New York building, where PORTLAND WELCONES NEIGHBORS Hearty Greeting Given to Cali- fornians. Gorgeous Train of Pro-| motion Committee Met at Depot. ‘ | Distinguished Men Greet Vis- | itors to Oregon From | Golden State. [ Special Dispatch to The Call. PORTLAND, June The most per- | fectly appointed train that ever came into the Portland depot brought the Cafffornia Promotion Committee at §:30 o'clock this morning. One hundred and twenty-five representative men of the | Golden State were on board. I Five minutes after the airbrakes closed ] on the moving wheels at the Union sta- | th half a dozen telephones were con- cted the cars and the Califor- ns were calling long distance to talk their home offices. No sooner had train come to istill than a enger stepped aboard with all mail sed to the members of the party. As though they were veteran campaign- r discipline, they were marshaled | and taken to the Portland Hotel, where every conceivaole fetail had been rranged beforehand by Edward P? An- secretary of the Promotion Com- who came here a week ahead. Their tickets were marvels of ingenuity r inside r a sta in 1 mittee, thoughtfulness, with coupons for everything that pertained to the trip. From the moment they stepped on board until they leave the cars Saturd for berths, meals on the diners, fare to the hotel for breakfast, carfare to the grounds and admission to coupons street the exposition and every other movement of the party was provided for by these wonderful tickets Hospitality without precedent, even in a city with a world-wide reputation for it, was showered on the visitors by the | Portland b < men. President H. W. Goode, his assistant, Theodore Hardee; Vice President I N. Fleiscnner, W. D. Wheelwright, president of the Chamber of Commerce; Thomas Richardson, man- ager the Commercial Club; Fletcher n of the Manufacturers’ Association; amuel Connell and F. A. Spencer of the n Lewis, J. H. Thatcher, W. C. A. Dolph and many others ready to give the -hand of good- vship and welcome the visitors to the e ition city. They took them to breakfast at the accompanied them to the exposition grounds and took luncheéon with them in the American Inn, after there had been an exchange of compliments in the formal speech- making in the auditorium of the fair. They will not forget their duties as hosts until the Californians leave Thursday evening. California poppies adorned the lapels of almost every coat in the.town .4 even the street cars bore streamers in green and gold, the colors adopted by the committee. “We're not here to boom California,” said Rufus P. Jennings, executive officer of the Promotion Committee, “but we came to show the people of the world that the Lewis and Clark Exposition is ours as well as yours, andy that any- thing that makes for the good of the Pacific Coast has our good will. This fair i{s broader than one State. It is too big to be monopolized by Oregon. The land of the setting sun.” This was the spirit in which the Cali- fornians came to Portland this morning. Since the opening of the fair nothing has happened to arouse the city to abounding hospitality as has the Pro- motion Committee’s advent to-day. A brilliant reception was held this even- the Southerners met the best people of Portland. St iy BOYS TO VISIT FAIR. Cadet Corps Will March From Eureka to Portland. EUREKA, June 12.—Rev. Franklin Baker and a cadet corps of sixty boys left here to-day en route to Portland. They will march the entire distance. Concerts will be given at Arcata, Cres- cent City, Grants Pass, Roseburg, Eugene and Salem. At Portland the boys will camp near the exposition and give concerts and exhibition drills. They will return by steamship. HLE SUIT 10 RECOVER TOLLS PAID ——— ‘Business Men Seek to Get Back Big Sums. ChargeSouthern Pacific With Violation of the Law. Allege Unfairness Against This City That Assists | Rival Terminals. it has been brought by the merchants | included in the membership of the Pacific | ast Jobbe ciation against the Southern Pacific Com- pany to prevent the raflroad corporation | from collecting a State toll on-overland freights that enter San Francisco by way of the coast line and that do not cross the State's water front in this city. A complaint - signed by H. D. Loveland, president of the Jobbers' and Manufac- turers’ Association, and by Seth Mann, for the association, was to the Interstate Commerce s it asked that the Southern y shall desist from the practice to which the merchants object, but also that the defendant corporation shall be ordered and required to ma reparation and restitution to the com plainants refunding all amounts here- tofore or hereafter charged or collected | as described. The effect of charging State tolls on all freights that enter this city over the lines of the Southern Pacific Company is | to cause San Francisco to pay $1 more per carload, or 5 cents per ton, than is paid by any other terminal point on the Pacific Coast. Not only are Seattle, Ta- coma and Los Angeles favored by the amount of 31 a carload as against San Franeisco, for the nearer at hand ter- inals in this State north of Tehachapi are better off to the amount of the State | toll than is San Francisco. The against the interests of San Francisco in- | flicted by the tolls amounts to a lar sum, reckoned in the thousands of dollars every year. The coast line of the South- ern Pacific Company was completed in | 1900. The practice of charging State tolls | via that route was brought in imme dlately on the opening of the through route via Santa Barbara, and has been | continued ever since. i CHARGES ARE DETAILED. It is set forth in the complaint that the Jobbers’ and Manufacturers’ Association is an organization of individuals, firms 2nd corporations, formed for the promo- tion and defense of jobbing and manufac- turing interests on the Pacific Coast, and that the membership comprises a large number of representative persons, firms and corporations engaged in either whole- sale business or in manufacturing in Cali- fornia, Oregon and Washington, a large number having their places of business in San Francisco and being engaged and in- terested In the transportation of mer- chandise and commodities from points east of California to San Francisco. The defendant is a common carrier engaged in the transportation of passengers and property, partly by raflroad and partly by water,, from points in the United States east of California to points in the State of California. As a common car- rier it is subject to the interstate com- merce act. How the State’s water front in this city figures in the case is sef forth in a para- graph in_the complaint that recounts the fact that the water front Is under the charge and management of the State Board of Harbor Commissioners, and that under the Political Code the Harbor Commissioners have the right to fix rates of wharfage, 'dockage, cranage, tolls and other charges, according to a fixed sched- ul tax | le. “Said board,” it is set forth “has fixed and regulated sald rates as aforesaid, and charges and collects, and for many years last past has charged and collected Tates of wharfage, tolls and other charges according to &}elschedule adopted by the board. Sald tolls are the charges made and collected for merchandise passing over said State premises, that is, over the wharves and water front of San Francisco.” These rates are five cents per ton; one cent per 400 pounds and less; two cents on 800 pounds and less and more than 400 pounds; three cents on 1200 pounds and less and more than 800 pounds; four cents on 1600 pounds or less and more than 1200 pounds; flve cents on 2000 pounds and less and more than 1600 pounds. Prior to the completion of the c line the Bouthern Pacitic Company ! brought all its freight originating be- yond the boundaries of the State of Cali- fornia -and destined to the city of San Francisco to the east side of the bay at ' and Manufacturers’ Asso- | lis | credence, | squarely Deeds jAIso Lays Death of Boston Dentist to Her. Says She Speaks to - Aid Accused Doctor | Police Do Not Credit Story, but In- vestigate. Finding Human Bones | Moves Her to Talk ' Alleged Homicide Is Lying in Her Grave. | | There was 10ld to the police yester- j day by a woman n ghastly tale of mur- ders alleged to hnve been committed in a house in this city many years ago. | The one who is charged with the awful deeds wus a woman also, but she has |1ain in her zrave for a decade and is not khere i{o refute the charges made | against her name. Though the ailezed crimes are said to have been committed thirty-five vears ago and the ouly person who could have been prosecuted for them is dead, the allezations made are so hor- rible that Chicf Dinam, while putting little credence in the tale, has detafled Detective Ed Gibson to probe the mat- ter that awy mystery created by the alleged erimes may be cleared up for the satisfaction of any living person who may be interested. To the Chief of Police yesterday Mrs. Ida May Smith, who lives at a rooming- houke at 930% Mission street, made the statement that in 1870 her foster-mother, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Merrill, who then lived in a house at 228 Post street, \\'h‘--rs' she kept lodgers, Kkilled at nt times two young Norwegian sail- | ors and one mining man, her object being | to obtain their money, and buried two of | the bodies in the cellar and threw the other into a barrel In addition to.this, Mrs. Smith says, Mrs. Merrill had previously murdered a den- tist named Coolridge in Boston because he knew of her having contracted a big- | amous m: ge. So -startling murde told by a natural imp of quicklime there. the story of the many Mrs. Smith that there not to give them but she has not the appear- ance of an insane person. She looks one in the e¥e ahd all her dates and statements fit in proper sequence. She mentions names of persons she says existed in San Francisco at the time of tho alleged murders and who, she says, may have some descendants to whom imparted corroborating circum- nces, but every one who could give that corroboration directly seems to be dead. The enormity of tne charges she makes gives pause as to bellef in them. In addition to the terrible crimes said to have been committed here she un- ravels a mystery that had all Boston ex- cited nearly forty years ago, according to her story. There is a serious discrepancy in Mrs. Smith’s story in regard to the many per- sons supposed to have been placed under the sod. She says that George Green, one of the characters in her tale, is dead. She must refer to the George Green who is now a.member of the Morse patrol. He never was killed, as was the Green of her story, but is very much alive. Mrs. Smith says she was led to make her confession through the remark made by a lady she did not know, who sat beside her on a Post-street car as it passed the place where she declares the murder was committed. The lady remarked that a Dr, de Haven, who had an office there, had heen arrested for a crime and that it was likely to go hard with him, as some ‘human bones bad been found in the base Smith says she knew case of Dr. de Haven, it her duty to explain \ ‘were there. 3 ok “In 1870 I lived with my foster mother, Mrs. Merrill; my sister by adoption, who later became the wife of George Green, a special officer at the Emporium, and Mrs. Merrill's little son Frank, whom Josie, later Mrs. Green, and myself always called our brother, as we called ourselves sisters. Mr. Merrill had separated from his wife at that time and was conducting a carpet-beating establiShment on Stev- enson street, near Fifth. A short distance down the block on/ Post street lived a man named Cushing. His wife's cousin was a mining man nam. Phil some- thing—T have forgotten his last name, but it began with a P. One night he came to our house late and stayed there ail night. maybe. foster mother said tna‘ she didn't want him to go and tell Mrs. Cushing he had been at' our place, as it would foster mother’s reputation. *He said he would walk down there with her. She went upstairs and dressed and Mrs. about the she thought 'y the bones ) | WOMAN TELLS GHASTLY TALE OF M The authorities feel unable to give credence, but a detective has been set of Blood in ANY MURDERS Mprs. Ida May Smith, who lives 1n a rooming-house at 930% Misson street, has told to the police a story of murders she says she saw committed thirty-frve years ago by her foster-mother, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Merrill, at a house on Post street. upon an investigatwon. The woman who is said to have committed the murders is dead. Mrs. Smath alleges that Mrs. Merrill also murdered a dentist in Boston. +JWrs,WIcria M. Smith Says Foster Mother Committed Post-Street House Years Ago THIS CITY, WOMAN WHO TELLS STORY THAT HAS RECEIVED ATTENTION THAT SHE ALLEGES WERE FROM THE POLICE OF FOUR MURDERS, THREE IN COMMITTED BY HER FOSTER MOTHER MANY YEARS AGO | o ing from the dining-room, where this oc- curred. One opened into a closet, an- other into the hall and the third ou to the stairs that led down to the base- ment. She opened this door and) as he stepped forward, thrust him down the stairs and slammed the door. We chil- ren heard him fall and heard him groan- ing down there. A neighbor named Noo- nan who lived next door came in and asked if some one had fallen down stairs, and my foster mother told her no. CHILDREN FIND GRAVE. “The next day we three children went down into the basement and found a newly made mound of earth in one cor- ner and we came up and told Mrs. Mer- rill about it and she told us not to say anything of it. We had previously found a mound in another corner and some bopes in a barrel of lime in the cellar, but didn’t know, being children, what they were there for. “Mrs. Merrill made me swear on a Bible that I would not tell anything about what I had seen, and at another time she hung me on the wall by the neck, evidently intending to kill me, but changed her mind and let me down. “The other mound in the basement and the barrel of lime were the graves of two young Norwegians, who had come here on a ship. I think they were sailors, and went to live at our place. rs. Merrill killed them both and took their bodies into ‘the basement. Their ther wrote from Norway to learn about them, and the police came to our ho where they had been last heard of, and mether, as I called her, told them the young men had gone from there. She took £500 from their trunk then sent their mother a Bible that one of them had owned and a letter of symaathy. -~ - “Mrs. Merrill came from Vermont. Her maiden name was Latham. She married Merrill there in 1847 and they went to Boston. He left her and their' baby in 1553 and she came to California. In 1852 she married a student named Goodwin, and he soon left her and went to Ann Arbor. She had a-child by him, which subsequently died. Dr. Coolridge was best man at the second marriage. She was supposed to be. a widow. The child by Merrill died and she adopted a little girl named Josie, who was of very good parents, and coming te California passed her off as the child that had died. Mer- 1 think he was there two days, | rjll never knew the difference. In 186 she At any rate I remember my | went back to Boston. Goodwin had then ™Y | 1 was 5 years old at the time. ‘WHY SHE CONFESSED. “In November, 1867, she called on Cool- then pretended to help him put on his | ridge and he told her he had written a hat, T think. She drove a dagger into |letter to Goodwin in Europe, telling him his body near the base of the neck. I|of her husl band in California, gnd showed remember her putting a white handker- | her a letter he had written send, to Merrill in California, h chief over it and she then pretended she was sorry and sald she would take him to a doctor. There were three doors lead- | he was found shot in his office. No one knew she had been there. I heard her tell a lady named Eldridge, whose hus- band worked for an express company, that she had killed Coolridge. She said she was struggling with him for the let- ter and a pistol belonging to him lay on a table near by. She took it up, intend- ing to kill herseif, and accidentally shot him. Mrs. Eldridge advised her to leave at once and she took steamer for Cali- fornia, under the name of Palmer, Josie and myself going with her. Goodwin subsequently came out here, but agreed not to expose her, because a child had been born to them. The child had died. DENIES WOMAN'S STORY. “Josie died about six years ago, leav- ing three children. Her husband was killed at the Emporium, I was told. I never told of this while Mrs. Merrill was alive for fear she would Kill -me | and never told of it while Merrill was | living because I wanted Josie's three children to inherit the property, and | Merrill would not have left it to them | had he known she was not his daugh- | ter. What was 228 Sutter street is now next to the Pacific Union Club, the numbers having been changed, and a new building was erected there sev- eral years ago. Some human bones were found while excavations were be- | ing made. 4 Dr. Haven, alias Dr. Henry Beals, was arrested in 1892 on a charge of criminal malpractice, together with a woman. He was released on $10,000 bonds and ran away to Central Amer- | ica. The case against the woman was dismissed. Mrs. Smith's story of the alleged struggle between her and Dr. Coolridge | has a “Nan" Patterson case flavor. The woman's husband {s Andrew Smith, a blacksmith. They were mar- ried a year ago, he being her second husband. George Green, the pugilist, who is supposed to be one of the three children mentioned by Mrs. Smith, was indignant at the woman's story and says she must | be crazy. He says she was given a home by his grandparents, but never was legally adopted. The only time, he says. that he ever saw the woman was a few days ago when she called .at his saloon. | He said she represented herself as an adopted daughter and sala she thought she ought to have been given her share of Merrill's estate. Green said she never said anything to him about the alleged murders. George Green's father is still living. ———— No Coaching From Side Lines. NEW YORK, June 12.—The advisory board of the Intercollekiate Football ‘Association held a protracted session to-night to discuss and pass upon changes in the game. After three and a discussion the onl‘yh‘)l‘ol half hours of PAIR OF THUCS STRANCLE D R0 A WOMAN ' Ransack Country House After Choking the Owner. HEALDSBURG, June 12.—Daring thieves, evidently possessed of the knowledge that Mrs. B. L. Edgar was alone in her home, seven and a half miles from this place, this afternoon entered the house and proceeded to ran~ sack the place. She discovered them at their work and was rushing from the house to give an alarm when one of the thugs intercepted her and threw her to the floor. Mrs. Edgar screamed and her assailant commanded her to keep silent or suffer the consequences. Mrs. Edgar pluckily attempted to break away from the thug and, disobeying his command to “keep quiet.” screamed again. With a curse the burglar grabbed her by the throat and again threw her to the floor. Cruelly he closed his fingers about the poor woman's throat, and, though she strug- gled flercely, he did not loosen his )p until she had lost consciousness. Leaving his victim stretched uncon- scious upon the floor the thief joined his companion and went through the house, picking up everything of value, When they left the house they took with them considerable money and jew- elry, worth several hundred dollars. Some time after they had left Mrs Edgar revived and staggered out of the house to summon help. Neighbors re- sponded to her cries and one of them came to this city for police aid, while the others scoured the country in search of the thieves. Up to a late hour no trace of the woman's assaile ants was found. Momey Voted tor Gemeral Gomes. HAVANA, June 12.—The House of Representatives to-day appropriated $100,000 for the benefit of General Maximo