The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 21, 1905, Page 1

L % e‘i San Wednesday; A Frapcisco and vicinity—Fair fresh west winds. oty G. McADIE, GRAND—"A Woman's Sin."" ORPHEUM-yVaudeville. Matines. TIVOLI—Comie Opera. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FORCERIES NET BANKER 51,000,000 Crime El—{évealed After Death of Culprit. Enormous Stealings of| a Philadelphia Financier. Obtains Loans on Stock Cer- tificates on Which the Figures Are Raised. PHILADELPHIA, June 20—One of the most semsational cases of forgery to light in wax dis- £pe I cireles of this eity day, when it was announced ng for smal! num- ulently raised to causing a loss to certain &nd trust companies of this from $750,000 to §1,000,000. e up his busi- aBmAe R st It s found that Gaskill had eredited himself on his own books with €000 shares of Philadelphia stock, vaiued at approximately $ while the traction company’s books showed be bad only 40 shares. It was =i discovered that he had raised certifieates of the Umpited Rail- s of New Jersey from two to 200 and certificates of the Frankfort and Southwark Street Raflway Company of this city from twe to twenty. The lat- ter stock is worth $430 a share. His books \ $15,000 His BANKS WILL L At least six banks an@ trast com- panies of this city admit holding fraud- ulent securities for large lomns. Not ope of the institutions will make pub- ns. | ccjentist of Cambridge University, | England, who declares he has /found the secret of life in radium. There LIFE MAY URIGINATE IN RADIUN Dr. Buflg fi;scribes | Results of His Research. British Scientist With | Bonillon Produces Cultures. SBelieves That He Has Created | Primitive Form of Vitality. B IS P | Special Dispatch to The Call { YORK, Ju i hether Pr iish lab The Times has | It is a ques- | in Butler Burk, | Cambridge, has | d 4 great scie truth in his ex- with radium or has simply ob- ous chemical phenomenon. e newspaper accounts, the | that Professor Burk n! demonstrated that ation is possible. In experiments, Professor his | sme bouillon as a culture medi- | ing of extract of meat, dilut- water with some gelatine. | t and pepsin added and | rendered slightly alkaline by lit- 1 is then put in a tiny aled and then immersed in a test ining the gelatine and steril temperature under pressure, the boufllon would boil and | evaporate. When the test tube is cooled, | the tube containing the radium is smashed by a mechanical contrivance without opening the tube containing the illon and the radium is dropped on gelatine. fter a few days in my experiment, ures resembling bacterial growth-de- oped and in a fortnight they became sive. The tube, when opened at the | iration of a fortnight, showed, by the | the most powerful micrbscope, | bodies resembling diplocci. but| g 1n size, ranging from the minut- | sixty-one thousandths The large ones, certain stage of develop- i, and when they | development they were sub- fact is conclusive that they | as ot as I have christened them, are not bacteria, as the tubes con- bouillon but no radium produced ccts at all. This seems to be or primitive form of life, and it is ble that after countless generations eveloped into the bacteria as we because all bodies are radio- The earth itself is d it may have been ce of life which it would have usands of years to produce from sou en tho m Jfessor Burk is a young Irishman. being graduated from Trinity Dublin, he lectured at Mason Birmingham, and Owens Col- nchester. He took a degree in -h three years ago at Cambridge. months he has given popular in the United Kingdom on the | lectur discoveries in connection with latest radium INTEREST IN AMERICA. WASHINGTON, June 20.—Great in- terest is manifested in governmental scientific circles in the wonderful dis- covery of John Butler Burk, the young was much discussion of the discovery | of Professor Burk, who has almost demonstrated that spontaneous genera- \BNER [PRESIDENT OUSTS BOWEN AND IND HYDE EXONERATES LOOMIS. lic the mmount of momey it mdvanced, | tion is possible by means of radium but a financier who bas been making | ang sterilized bouillon, walch, placed an investigation said toemight that the | jn a tube, produced cultures with many amount of money loancd on the raised | gppearances of vitality, such as growth certificates would aggregate between $750,000 and $1,000,000. It is belleved wery little will be recovered from the estate. askill was about 41 years of age wk he died and was a high liver. He was a2 member of the and other clubs and was well and fa- v administrators of and George retained John G. e interests of the guer, h to » e protect th left a wife, to whom the Stock a few days ago paid $5000 urance His seat on the hange is valued at $15,000. COMMONS INSTALLS LOWTHER AS SPEAKER Opposition Interrogates Bal- four on the Army Seandals. LONDON, June 20.—The House of Com- mons reassembled to-day, after the Whit- suntide holidays, and the new Speaker, Lowther, wae installed. The opposition immediately bombarded the Government with questions about the | army stores scandal, and Premier Balfour announced that the Government had placed the papers connected with the case in the hands of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The latter, however, con- sidered that the papers did not reveal any ground for criminal prosecution. Manufacturers’ | | and subdivision. | Protessor Otis T. Mason, curator of | the National Museum and chief of the | anthropology division of the institu- tion, and other Government sclentists when seen to-day declined to discuss the matter for publication, but were in- | clined to be skeptical. | BOSTON, June 20.—Dr. Charles W. Du- {val, one of the best known pathologists |in this city and an extensive experi- menter with radium in medicine, would make no comment on the cabled discov- | ery of John Butler Burk of Cembridge, | England. The line that Dr. Burk has been following is outside the course pur- gued by Dr. Duval, who as & member of the city hospital staff has been employ- ing radium in the treatment of diseases. Asked if he considered such a find im- possible, he replied that the would not say a word one way or the other. MAY LEAD TO HIGHER WORK. NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 20.—Rus- sell H. Chittenden, director of the Yale | scientific school, had his attention called | to-day to the published results of the experiment of J. Butler Burk of Cam- bridge University, and all he would say | for publication was that he could give | no opinion now, nor would any scientist care to express an opinion until he had been made familiar with the process by which Burk had produced his results. He added: “The reports of what has been done so far are extremely meager, and merely announce that such and such a thing has probably been done. How ‘the results have been achieved or what the results are have not been set forth.” ‘When asked if it was an impossibility, Professor Chittenden replied: . “I should not like to say that. Too The | many new things are being discovered censured officers had been relieved from | every day.” their duties. Balfour added that he pro- to appoint & CHICAGO, June 20.—Scientists here are committee of | extremely loth to discuss the findings posed the House of Commons to deal with the | of John Butler Burk in the absence of matter. more complete data. Dr. John L. Borsch, / Herbert W. Bowen, until recently American Minister to Venezuela, has been scathingly censured and dis- S'I'[P fll]WN missed from the diplomatic service by President Roosevelt. Bowen failed to sustain the serious charges he Equitable Society preferred against First Assistant Secretary of State Loomis, whom he accused of having accepted a $10,000 | Shake-Up Is Begun. Morton Accepts Resig- nations of Head Officials. Action Follqws the Institu- tion of His Independent Investigation. NEW YORK. June 20.—Following quickly the institution of a new and in- dependent investigation of the affairs of the Equitable Life Assurance Society by direction of Paul Morton, chairman of the board of directors, came the an- nouncement to-night by Morton that he had accepted the reslgnations of James V. Alexander as president and James H. Hyde as vice president. These resigna- tions, with those of Second Vice Presi- dent Gage T. Tarbell, Third Vice Presi- dent George T. Wilson, Fourth Vice President William H. McIntyre and As- sistant Secretary H. B. Winthrop, were placed in the hands of Morton at the meeting of the board of directors at which he was elected chairman of the | board, with plenary powers over all the affairs of the society. In receiving the resignations the new chairman had an- nounced that he would hold them in | abeyance until he had time to acquaint himself further with the affairs of the society. When Morton was asked to-night whether he would give any reason for his acceptance of the resignations he re- plied: . “I have nothing to say.” “When do the resignations take ef- fect?’ he was asked. “They take effect now.” Mr. Morton declined to say whether he had taken any action on the resigna- tions of the other officers, nor would he say anything more ragarding the affairs of the Equitable Soclety. s Inquiries at the residences of Alexan- der and Hyde elicited the information that no statement would be given out by either of those gentlemen. CONGRATOLATES HAN WH SHIT HER HUSBAND Special Dispatch to The Call. BAKERSFIELD, June 20.—Newt Walk- er, who killed Dave Burton, was acquit- ted of the charge of murder to-day and is now a free man. Walker shot and killed Dave Burton and James Bagsby in a street duel @t Havilah last April as the result of a long existing feud Between them. The jury held that he had a right to kill Burton as long as his life was threatened. One of the.singular features of the | trial was the conduct of the widow of Dave Burten. She has shown her sym- pathy for Walker ever since the trial began. To a Call correspondent she said: “When you write up the trial you can say that I am for the defense.” As she sald it she smiled and then asked: ‘“Does that sound romantic?”’ ‘When Walker had shaken hands with the jurors to-day the widow of the mur- dered man stepped forward and congrat- CARTERTS N JEFENTED N THE. ISLANDS Epectal h to The Call. HONOLULU, June 20.—The forces of Governor Carter were defeated in the election in the Territory to-day and the, regular Republican ticket was victorious. Carter, who is a Republican, broke with his party on the nomination of a candi- date for Sheriff. The regular Republicans named Arthur Brown, who held the office for some time, when he was removed by the Governor. The bolting faction, headed by Carter, nominated Willlam Henry. Brown was elected by 1500 votes. The regulars car- ried the rest of the ticket. one of the earliest investigators into the use of radium, voiced the expressions of :.ud:u/n other eminent sclentists when he “‘With less than a hundred words cover- ing the great discovery before me, I can not be expected to pass an opinion worthy of consideration as to the findings of Mr. Burk or the value thereof. Th: ] check from the Bermudez Asphalt Company. 4o Former Minister’s Accusations Against First Assistant Secretary of State Not Sustained. Is Declared 1o ‘WASHINGTON, June 20.—The - dis- missal of Herbert W. Bowen, for some years United States Minister to Ven- ezuela, and the exoneration of Assist- ant Secretary of State Francis B. Loomis of the allegations brought | against him by Bowen are the out- come of the Loomis-Bowen controversy, which has attracted wide attention for many months past. This disposition of the case is made by President Roose- velt in a letter addressed to Secretary Taft, made public. to-night, Mr. Taft's report on his findings and conclusions in the case. The President seathingly arraigns Minister Bowen, declaring that his con- Mr. Bowen ansked one of his witnesses to enter the employ of a certain com- pany for the purpose “in plain words, of stealing” documents which he hoped might incriminate Mr. Loomis, and that Mr. Bowen “has y for many “months—indeed, for thé last two years ~—devoted himself” to humting up scan- dal and gossip until it became a mono- mania and caused him “to show com- plete disloyalty” to the country he rep- resented. The President says he had hoped to promote Mr. Bowen, as during much of his service he had done good work, but that his usefulness in the diplomatic ser- vice is now at an end. The President adds that he would direct that Mr. Bow- en’s resignation be requested but for his statement that he would consider a res- ignation an admission of misconduct, and the dismissal is therefore ordered. The letter quotes correspondence and testimony. The President states that it appears that Mr. Bowen, while Minister, secured the publication of attacks on Mr. Loomis and furnished to the press docu- ments pending before the State Depart- ment for approval, and that his explana- tion Js inexcusable and shows his ‘‘entire unfitness” for the service. Even if Mr. Loomis had been guilty, says the Presi- dent, Mr. Bowen's conduct would be un- pardonable. This letter quoted certain correspondence and testimony. AGREES WITH TAFT'S FINDINGS. The report of Secretary Taft on the case, on which the President’s action is based, is a voluminous document, review- ing the charges and the evidence taken. In his report Secretary Taft says there was nothing dishonorable in the transac- tions in which Mr. Loomis figured, but that he was indiscreet. The report says that Mr. Loomis was not justified in be- coming personally interested in any of the schemes, either with a mere nominal interest or a substantial Interest. He holds, however, that Mr. Loomis has been “most cruelly slandered,” commends him for the self restraint with which he has met the charges, and points out that Mr. Loomis’ bitter experience in this case makes it unnecessary to point out the moral that a Minister cannot afford, in the country to which he is accredited, to personal investments, President’s letter to Becretary Taft fol- ows: l".l‘o Becretary Taft—Sir: I have read your report of June 19 on the Bowen- Loomis matter. I agres with all your findings and conclusions regarding Mr. Loomis, and have nothing to add thereto. “There remains to be considered the case as affecting Mr. Bowen, whom Mr. Loomis -has made counter Mr. Bowen has denied that he made charges against Mr. Loomis. This is a mere matter of terminology. make etc. The beginning signed ‘Herbert’ he writes: “iAs I understand you are the head of the Department of State during the absence of Mr. Hay, I. feel that I ought to mee that you are fully in- formed as to the terrible scandal in the situation here. Consequently, I in- close herewith copies-of papers which have been in Mr. Hay's bands and which will furnish you facts that I think you should know. “Then follows certain cablegrams, in- cluding a report that Mr. Loomis was paid a check and that the custodian of the B udez Lake had in his possession this che and also a letter promising that the United States would intervene and that the President of Venezuela felt . satisfied because of these facts; a copy iot a letter to Mr. Hay of February 18, { 1905, in which Mr. Bowen distinctly states his belief that this alleged, and, as it turns out, wholly fictitious check and whoily fictitious:letter, were in the hands of President Castro, who, because he had them, undoubtedly had not feared to | fuse arbitration with tne United States. He then furnishes documents’which he says were found by him in the legation safe a year ago.and were sent by him point is in reality a ; many other | Hay, g Hay, toge ‘with intimated in return that he had approving | duct is “especially reprehensible,” that | EX-DIPLOMAT IS SCATHINGLY ARRAIGNED BY MR. ROOSEVELT, Making of Attacks Upon His Superiors, Have Become a Monomania With Him. LETTERS 10 SECRETARY-TAFT ARE BEGUN WITH “DEAR BILL” —e the documents as follows: ‘To Mr. Rus- sell, now Minlster to Colombia, through the influence of Mr. Loomis’ (Which state- ment incidentally is untrue). Mr. Bowen again say ‘Mr. Loomis collected the Mercado claim from the Venezuelan Gov- ernment, got a share of it for a small sum and never reported the case to the Department of State.’ And again- he says: ‘He dealt with Buchanan, whom Loomis subsequently got appointed Min- ister to Panama’ (which is again an un- itruth). Mr. Loomis had nothing what- ever to do with the appointment of either Mr. Buchanan or Mr. Russell. “In Mr. Bowen's statement, FEast Orange, May 10, he says: ‘I have never preferred charges against Mr. Loomis.’ Three lines further down he | says that, to his mind; it has been proved conclusively that Mr. Loomis is ‘a dis- hopest official,’ and a few lines. further down says that he had not ‘preferred charges' against Mr. Loomis and ‘that none were needed.’ The documents them- selves were charges, ‘evidence | Proofgtomti sz “w ¥} “The documents, Mr. Bowen explains, were submitteéd to Mr. Hay in the spring of 1904 and that a year had passed with- out furtner action by Mr. Hay (which, by Iimplication at least, looks as if Mr. Bowen were accusing Mr. Hay also of | misconduct). In this same communica- tion of May 10 Mr. Bowen goes on to say, ‘that I was justified in so doing (that is, in securing the publication of the attack on Mr. Loomis). I have but to show how Mr. Loomis abrogated the agreement that President Roosevelt and Mr. Hay had au- thorized me to make with the Venezuelan Government; how he thus ruined our whole case, and how ne seemed likely to bring still further disgrace on our Gov- ernment.’ THAT LOOMIS “PROTOCOL.” Mr. Bowen then goes on to s.ate that after he had recelved by cable, on Jan- uary 10, from Mr. Hay one telegram of which he approved, ‘a protocol arrived by cable from Mr. Loomis” and that this protocol, as he calls it, and of which he complains, he answered by a telegram to Mr. Hay. He adds: ‘1 was, of course, even more astounded than the Venezue- lan Government was that Mr. Loomis should thus destroy my work, and, in fact, override the gdecision of President Roosevelt and Mr, y and derogate from our prestige as a strong and straight nation.’ And he ends his letter by the following statement: ‘If the news- papers’ representatives were influenced by me I was justified in trying to influ- ence them, because Mr. Loomis was dis- honest while Minister at Caracas, and as Assistant Secretary of State was guilty of abrogating the agreements President Roosevelt and Mr. Hay had authorized me to make with the Venezuelan Gov- ernment, and because he deceived gnd seemed likely to continue to deceive the Government and people of the United States.’ 2 “It is disingenucus for Mr. Bowen re- peatedly to use such language and at the same time to insist that he has made ‘no charges’ Mr. Loomis. Moreover, 1t is quite imposaible that Mr. Bowen can belleve that the telegram signed by Mr. dated at and | FORMER MINISTER TO VENEZUELA, WHO HAS BEEN DISMISSED BY THE PRESIDENT AFTER AN INVESTIGATION OF HiS SENSATIONAL CHARGES WILL BE THE WORLD'S TALLEST BUILDING. New York to Have a Structure Five Hundred and Sixty Feet High. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY . . 560 feet WASHINGTON MONUMENT ..... . 555 teet CITY HALL, PHILADELPHIA.... . 537 feet COLOGNE CATHEDRAL ......... . 5.3 feet PYRAMID OF CHEOPS .. y . 479 feet ST. NICHOLAS CHURCH, HAMBURG . . 473 feet STRASSBURG CATHEDRAL . 465 feek ROUEN CATHEDRAL .. . 463 feet NEW YORK, June 20.—The Metropolitan Insurance Company will erect on the site of Dr. Parkhurst’s church at Madison avenue and Twenty-fourth street the tallest building in the world. It will be 560 feet in height—g feet higher than the Washington monument. The site of the Metropolitan’s tall tower has a frontage of 75 feet on Madison avenue and 150 feet on Twenty-fourth street. Preliminary sketches have already been drawn for the huge tower by architects of the building, Napoleon Lebrun & Son, although the company will not take possession of -the site until Dr. Parkhurst’s congrega- tign is ready to move into its new edifice across the street. e ey e e ————— Loomis as Acting Secretary of = State, which he calls a protocol, really proves HUNDREDS SEEK GOLD OF AN AGED RECLUSE Neighbors Swarm on His Farm Soon After His Death. “Mr. Bowen's statement is shown to be absolutely untrue by the statement of the bolicitor of the Department of State, Mr. Pe But his own statement bears within itself its own refutation on this point. H:.;h&-:: in this statement that he answel cable of Mr. Loo- mis’ by a cable to Mr. Hay, who would e g thus have had his attention specifically | DES MOINES, Ia., June'2.—John Nel- g“";‘ld“ '";: l'v‘:"m"'“’;:;"c‘”- even if |gon, an aged recluse of Munterville, a e had not 10 2 orq and even 16,6, had Héwnido" Msglectrul or his" duty | SIALl Lo, Dear Othmama il o me as not to inquire what cables had been on Sundsy yeu ¥ sent in the matter with which he was | Nelghbors were busily engaged digging dealing. up his two-acre farm In search of the fortune that he is said to have buried. REALLY A CHARGE AGAINST HAY. “As a matter of fact, the Loomis cable !m Question was sent by direction of Mr, | Rockford, Iil., for many years. He be- Hay with the assistance of Mr. Penfield, | came slightly demented and sold his store |and was signed by Mr. Loomis simply | and a large amount of property and went because on the day that it was sent it | to Munterville, where he has since lived. happened that Mr. Hay was confined to | No one knows what he wd with his his house, and could not get down to the | money, but occasionally he had been State Department. It is on its face heard to talk of gold and jewels of much absurdity to suppose that Mr. Hay, who | value. When he paid his taxes it was lrezumad to his duties in the State De- |always with musty gold pieees. He left i partment within a day or two, and who | RO heirs amnd the neighbors belleve that lvu repeatedly going over tm.‘mk whoever finds the money and jewels is Venezuelan matter and cabling ) n about it and recelving cables from ! in return, could have been ignorant| Secretary Hay Back at His Desk. jof the fact that such a cable had been| WASHINGTON, June 20.—Secretary !sent by Loomis during his (Mr. Hay’s) | Hay, who returned to Washington yes- | absence. Mr. Bowen's allegation on this | terday after a prolonged absence charge against Mr. | abroad and who last night had a con- “Mr. Bowen furnished his c desk in the State Department to-day. against Mr. Loomis and some of the doc- [ The Secretary attended to a large uments in reference thereto to represen- | amount of correspondence, which had The | accumulated during his absence. He TS — T expects to leave in a short time for his } Neison was a prominent Jeweler at| WOMEN KILL FIVE MONSTER SNAKES Dispatch the Serpents With Clubs After Fierce Battle. Special Dispaicn to The Call LOGAN, Ohto, June 20.—Two women and & 10-year-old boy had a ferocious battle with-five monster black snakes at Smith Chapel schoolhouse to-day. The snakes were discovered by Willie Stone. Three were in a water bucket, protruding, completely filling the bucket. The 3 breathless with fright, apprised his mother and Mrs. C. V. Woodruff, an aunt, who pro- ceeded to the schoolhouse, a short dis- tance from the Stone house. Leocking the door, they proceeded to do battle with the five serpents. The combat | raged for almost an hour, the women | succeeding in killing all the snakes. The snakes attempted several times | to encircle the women, but were fought off with clubs, with which they were finally dispatched. The largest snake measured 8 feet 4 inches. —_———— PASTOR SEES PROPHECY OF AUTO IN THE BIBLE ST. PAUL, June 20.—“The chariots shall rage In the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad ference with the President, was at his | ways, they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightning.” _“This utterance of Nahum, chapter 2, verse 4, was the biblical prophecy of the modern automobile,” declared Rev. G. L. Morrill, in a sermon directed exclusively at reckless