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

Y Is Soved. Taking Wife's Rings and Embezzlement Are Charged. AR THE | I | TTvOLI—Comie ¥ 3PN FRA ALCAZAR—*Harriet's Honeymoon.™ CALIFORNIA—‘Magda.” CENTRAL—'"The Tosnado.” CHUTES—Vaudeville. COLUMBIA—*“A Gilded Fool."” GRAND—"A Woman's Sin."* ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. NCISCO THEATERS. 1 Matines. Opera. N FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SONER TAKES POISON KEARNY STREET CAR yrss BpgNrs bis poison be taken bis wife's Jewels aia not try to t he 1ook the ta and In his o s wife erdose . nd he | bed convul- | ped, “I have of the 3 God, g gone through more since I met that wo- | ely. "My he ths ago than falls to the| a lifetime. See. My ly black last Christmas | it is clear gray. I have been | a on by her and I ged than return to nurse here opened win- | dow nd the face of Read was shows d with mental agony | and his was topped by hair as t of a man twenty years his r the marks of dissipa- he man would have 1l appearance. ANOTHER WOMAN Reed’s wife is ehe twrites th her n d able Infat IN CASE. ow in Sacramento and she has been robbed by. ecause of his unconquer- or & Chicago actress, at ¥rances | gt 1 he met in Son Francisco two ago. “She al- | y dfamond e pawn- spend on s left In Bac- woman year. Neverthelcss came away with her and has lived her cver e. i The W s decelved he con- tinved e had been married three | e 1 left with her for Seattle, | ugh 1 4id not know it at the time. | 2gx were mine, and though I had | hem to ber, I took them with her | Consent in order’ to pawn them to get money to pay our bills in Sacramento. 1| do met deny that ¥ was with Frances ¥arrington for a time, but I n gave _her auy of my wifo's Glamonds. 1 was employed hy the Capial C and Candy Cempany of Sacramento, but I bave net vet done any-work for them, | mor 4id T take any of their funds™ ° | AND STILL ANOTHER WOMAN. | ¥rances Farringion, whose - charms, | later, while being | 1 of Justice on a| | . Read secretly swal-| | )pia tablets in a sup- FEPEIrEL R E ST 4 'GED EMBEZZLER AND ACT- FOR - WHOM _WIFE _AL- HE DESERTED HER. —_ e, claims Mrs. Read,led her husband, to waste his life and his money, was)ound in her apartments at 332 Stockton street vesterday afternoon. She at first denled any acquaintance with Read, but after- ward admitted .that he.had met her one night while he was showing -his new wife the slums of San Francisco. stoutly denies that she ever received a diamond from him, but on’ the contrary alleges that he owes her a wine biil of $200. When arrested Read was in the com- pany of a woman who gave her name to the police as Miss Jerome. He admits that this is not her right name, but says that she was a friend of his: He had been to Los Angeles in an.endeavor to se money for his wife, and" being un- cessful, he was on his way to' Seattle, where he had friends. Miss Jerome was traveling with him. in his coat were found two tickets for Portland. Read’s life history, as given by himself, is of a romantic nature. He says he'is a | native of Kentucky, and of good family. He was wel cducated and went to New York, he says. There he worked for years on one of the morning papers, only to leave this profession to go on the stage as a monologist.- Then e became a grand opera singer and traveled for years with the Emma Abbott English Grand Opera was standing in full view when the fatal shot was fired, but, like many other politictans who did not wish to testify, he boarded the first train and left the State. WIFE'S ACCUSING LETTER. . It was just before Christmas of 1904 She; CRRIBLE FALL - OF WONAN AND -~ FOUR CHILDREN £l Ry Motherand Tots Backed Off Bluff 200 Feet High by Horse. o Gk SALINAS, Jung 22.—News has just been received of a tefrible accident on the Car- mel grade to-day. ‘Mrs. Housatoff, wife of a wealthy rancher in Carmel Valley, was on her way here with four children in a‘'buggy when her horse took fright and backed: off the bluff. The woman and childrén and the horse and buggy were precipitated 200 feet, striking several -trees in their descent. Passers by noticed the wreck of the buggy and went to the rescue of the un- fortunate -woman and children. Mrs. Housatoff's - spine was broken by the fall and it is'feared the four little ones are fatally ‘injured. The horse was killed. y with his wife that he first met Frances Farrington. Then the couple went to . Sacramento. Head made frequent trips to San Francisco and.his wife accused him of frequenting the apartments of Miss Farrington. Then came the day for the payment of the board bill of himseif and wife, the hurried trip of Read to secure money, the suspicions of his wife that he was living with another: woman, the complaint for em- bezzlement and-the arrest here yester- day. . 157 The letter from Mrs. Read"to Chlef Dinan is as follows: { Company. Finally he gave up the stage San Francisco—Dear Sir: Can and returned to his home In Kentucky. g';e':*;; Hntd cocover my two dlamond ‘rings It was soon after this that he Suw | ecription?. My solitaire e Eave 1o Brance the shooting of Governor Goebel and | Farrington 'of 340 Stockton sueet and the in company with Governor Taylor and | other is at a pawn on el strest, other witnesses he left the State. Read | nhow X that Read tame to Seattle for a short| manner of visit with friends. . There he met the | woman who now claims to be his wife. She was a very striking figure and they left together for San Francisco. For a mouth they lived in the Chesterfield apartments on. the corner of Post and Powell streets, They spent a great deal of ‘money and it was while ‘slumming i 1ast night say that no one b; | of Read is wanted as'a witn | Goebel case. < HONOLULU, June 24.— Special cable to The Call.— George R. Carter has resigned the Governorship of Hawaii, to Washington on the steamer which left Honolulu on Wed- nesday. The Governor bas received by cable from President Roose- matter with him. NONCOLMN INVASION TO BF STOPPED 'China Takes Ques- ' tion Into Her Own Hand K Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU; POST BUILDING, WASHING'PON, . June ;. 23. — China is about to take . the gnestion of Mon. golian tmmigration to the United States into her own hands. Within fow weeks the Dowager Empress will pub- lish an edi¢t forbidding Clhinamen of the laboring class to make an attempt to come to this country. It is one of the most important re- forms which that Government ever has considered. It means not only an im- provement in the relations of China ang the United States through the re- moval of many irritating questions but an assertion on the part of the Celestial empire of an independent sovereignty and of its purpose to prevent the insuit and humiliation of its people. This at- titude is one of the results of the vic- tory of the Japanese over the Russians, as the Chinamen now are imbued with the belief that they as well as the Japanese are the equals of the white race. » | Information of the solution which the Chinese Government has been evolving to the serious immigration question has reached the President, and if the edict is issued at once it will have undoubt- edly a big influence upon the policy he wiH adopt In connection with.the mat- ter of exclusion. ISLAND OF PENANG, Straits Settle- ment, June 22—The Chinese are con- vening here to discuss the adoption of a boycott of American manufactures until the Chinese exclusion act is re- pealed. It is said that the Chinese of the Malay states will follow the inftia- tive established here. L5 CLEAN-UP AT NOME WILL BE $3,000,000 Special Dispatch to The “Call. TACOMA, June 22—The spring clean up at Nome had reached nearly $3,000,000 when the stcamship Senator sailed from there on June 13. The Senator brought out $400,000. Little Creek and adjacent ter- ritory produced more than $1,100,000. Oper- ators on this creek could not obtain suffi- clent water to wash their dumps expedi- tiously, but some of them sluiced a few hours dally. Laymen on the eastern portion of the Portland claim owned by the Pioneer Mining Company slulced $25,000. That part of the Portland bench i belleved to be the richest plece of ground yet found in Alaska. The opera- tors struck pay dirt late in February, but were burned out and could produce only small dump. Nevertheless they will clean up $400,000. CALIFORNTAN LEAVES VALUABLE BAG IN CAR Bpecial I.)llpllch to The Call. PORTLAND, June 22—For about an “hour this morning D. H. Jackson of San Francisco, who.came to Portland to see the fair and visit his nephew, was a badly frightened man, believing that a valise containing. $400 in gold dust and nuggets as well as valuable papers had | been stolen from him. On arriving in the clty Jackson alighted on the east side. His valise was missed shortly after- ward. The police were notified. Two de- tectives discovered the grip in another car, where it had been left by Jackson. It had fallen under a seat. . P T His resignation went forward | velt permission to come to} Washington and discuss the| PROFESSIR INPRISONED 1 CRAT « Instruetor in Spanish | at ‘Stanford, Is Undery Arrest in’ New York City| l Spectal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, June 23.—The World says: Marathon Montrose Ramsey, professor in Spanish at Leland Stanford Jr. Univer- sity, is being held In the Jefferson Market Court Prison on a technicdl charge of vagrancy. He Will be examined this aft- ernoon at 2 o'clock and if members of his family do not appear he probably will be recommitted. 3 Professor Ramsey disappeared from Baltimore several weeks ago. At the same time his wife, who was Miss ‘Emily Craig, a literary woman, made a hasty trip to the Paeifig Cdast. There was some trouble betweel them - and - Professor Ramsey’s family said that it unbalanced his mind. They féared he had done away | wiih himself and sent out an alarm. Ramsey came to New York and stopped at a hotel'at Eleventh avenue and Twen- ty-fourth street... He was on the floor of the . Produce Exchange yesterday when, Detective t Foggrty recognized him from a telegraphed description. Ram- sev was. taken to police Leadquarters and | later before Magistrate Baker. A lettet, written by a member of the Maryland Soclety, and one by the Chief of Police of Baltimore, were shown to _the magistrate; One letter suggested that Professor Ramsey suffered from “a men- tal affliction.” i Magistrate Baker was at first in doubt whether tg turn the professor over to the Bellevue authorities or to hold him as a vagrant until his relatives could be communicated with. ‘The laughed when told he was a * professor 2 Lo o ioria, sihce 10 chd = N a g::‘ in the gm of Johns Hopkins University. He = (o m W in Newton, Mass., in 1567 and lt.m' Pt | st mrnm‘@mhmfidm G fifiwm in 1899, he married Ag- NEW PRESIDENT OF WESTERN PACIFIC RAILWAY AND ONE OF THE DIRECTORS. | OIL DRILLERS FIND PETRIFIED SHARKS' TEETH Discovery Made 1600 Feet Below Surfacein Coalinga District. Spectal Dispatch to The Call FRESNO, June 2.—G. E. Shore, a dril- ler for the Coalinga Pacific Oil ‘Company, while drilling for ofl at a depth of 1600 feet, yesterday obtained in the haul forty The well is situated in the heart of the oil near Coa- linga, fifty miles from Fresno. The teeth are perfectly formed and are similar to the teeth that were found on the sur- face in some parts of the valley. ‘The teéth are in a perrect state of petrification. Great interest has been Marathon Montrose Ramsey,| 'WILL CONVENE IN PORTLAND IF AW SENDS IS RESIGNATION TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ROCKEFELLER INTERESTED IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC Company Is Reorganized by Gould’s Men With E. T. Jeffery as Presi dent. Engineer Bogue Says Road Will Cost $45,000,000. Projectors Clear the | Way for Construc- tion Work. |+ At a stockholders’ meeting of the Western Pacific Rallway Company, held in this city yesterday, the directorate of the corpbration was reorganized with Edward T. Jeffery as presideat, a $50,000.900 bond isswe was formally ratified and other steps were takem toward putting the company om a firm basis preliminary to carrying omt the sigantic project of the Goulds and thefr aksoclates to give amother outlet to Sam | Franciseo by a mew trans-contineménl | route. The meeting was the most impertant that has been held by the Western Pa- cific_people. It lasted the greater part of the day and accomplished enough to satisfy the most skeptical that the Gould$ are preparing to carry out a threat, made several months ago in New York, to give the Harriman lines the hardest fight they have ever had for supremacy in the Western traffic business. During the meeting it was announced that the bonds of the company had been oversub- seribed many millions of doliars and to this statement was added the information that among the prominent subscribers are: John D. Rockefeller, the Goulds and Edwin Hawley. J These men. it is was stated, had each subscribed 10 per cent of the necessary capital for the construction of the new line. Engineer Virgil Bogue furnished es- timates showing that it would cost $45.- 000,000 to build the line between San Francisce and Salt Lake City and prop- erly equip it, and of this amount it waa announced that $15.000,000 would be ex- pendea in the construction of the most | difficult part of the road from Oroville to the point where it will pass beyond the border ling of Californfa. JEFFERY MADE PRESIDENT. Yesterday's meeting, although adjourned to to-day, practically terminated a week's hard work, during which half a dozen lawyers, most of whom represent the Goulds and the New York banKers finan- ciering the new enterprise, worked dili- gently in an endeavor to straighten out many legal entanglements that stood in the way of the reorganization of the cor- poration. This work was accomplished only after the recently elected directors, among them Edward T. Jeffery, had resigned in order to make previous acts of the orig- inal directors legal. Finally yesterday Walter J. Bartnett, the president of the road, calied the stockholders together and an election that immediately followed re- sulted in the selection of'the following of- ficers: Edward T. Jeffery, president; Walter Bartnett, vice president and gem- eral counsel; Jesse White, vice president; Virgil G. Bogue, vice president and chief engineer; J. Dalzell Brown, treasurer. The following were chosen to complete the directorate:' H. H. Yard, Warren Olney, J. F. Vaile, Franklyn W. M. Cutcheon, 'W. J. Shotwell and A. H. Cll:f. The newly elected beard of directors made up chiefly of Gould representa who inciude Jeffery, now president of the Denver and Rio Grande road; Bogue, who is a Gould consulting engineer; White, the assistant treasurer of the Denver and Rio Grande road; Vaile, the chief coun- sel of the same road; H. H. Yard, who made the first surveys for the Western Pacifie in California and got valuable rights of way for the new enterprise; Celet, who is treasurer for the Missourl Pacific road, and Shotwell, the local gen-~ eral agent of the Denver and Rio Grande Rajiway. Bartnett and Brown represent local interests. Cutcheon, who is a promi- nent lawyer of New York. represents the bankers of that city, who have under~ taken to finance the Western Pacific. rectors took over the Yard properties, the Indian Valley ahd the Butte and Plumas raflroads, ‘which will form the connect- ing link between Oroville and the State line for the Western Pacific, and the formal ratification of the $50,000,000 of bonds was effected. The announce- ment - that Rockefeller, the Goulds and the Hawley-Huntington interests had lib- erally subscribed and that sufficient funds were In hand to proceed with the actual construetion work seemed most pleasing to the assemblage and was followed a discussion of the probable cost of the building Work. C i