The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 25, 1905, Page 1

rints More N THE WEATHER. ’ { Forecast made at San Francisco for | j thirty hours ending midnight, July 23: 1 | g THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—'The Heart of a Gelsha.” CENTRAL—"Blua Jeans." rancisco Tag' " San Francisco and vicinity—Foggy CHUTES—'Princess Fan Tan” Mate S Tuestay momning, becoming fair dur- inee. S | the day; fresh west winds. | GRAND—"Gabriel.” i G. H. WILLSON, | ORPHEUM—Vaudevilla, | Local Forecaster, | TIVOLI—"Rob Roy." ! 2 Al | Temporarily in Charge. MAJESTIC—“A Bachelor's Romance.™ 3 e - e ErE S % & O VOLUME XCVIII—NO. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 190 PRICE FIVE CENTS THIS YEAR 10 BE ONE UF HORRORS Dire Predictions by the Hoboken Astrologer. Great Earthquake Will Jar Buildings in New York. Rbvolution Is to Transform Russia Into a Republic in Few Months. SRR to The Call JKEN, N. J 1 of Hoboken is predi all sorts home and abroad, earthquakes to President Roosevelt, all the astrologer hopes the “na- her and owever, true is 11 those ¢ astrologica, tien with the i I might ve sum- November and st will pro storms e. great ing of coming events, act Rus: continue year. Then from her external earthquakes 1 seriously that the at da I fear 1sement ne refore it at the bridge, r on Octob as liar If not 4 November Eng- and I trouble which, I s to the United the nations on Mother ¥ ARABIANS ROUTED RBY TURKISH TROOPS Sultan’s Men Suecessful in Regainine Some of the Lost Ground. HODIEDO, Province, Turkish Arabia, July "he Turks are meet- | nccess against the in- a, the capital city of Operations to recover commenced on July 17 were » directions. Marshal Ahmed 1 > head of three Al- k batt dislodged the rebels from a strong position near Menakha, inflicting ere losses upon them. —_———— resident of Vemezuela Dead. CARACAS, Venezuela, July 24.—Dr. Juan Pablo Rojas Paul, former Presi- dent of Venezuela, died to-day. He was born in 1845. He was President of Venezuela from February 20, 1888, to February 20, 1890. July 24.—Professor | what he | e« will be much } up hun- | fall | and | of seven | ASTOUNDED ALK 0F - BLACKNAIL Town Topics Editor Returns From Europe. Intimates That He Is Victim of Design- ing Rascals. |Adheres to Claim That Mr. Roosevelt Was a “Fads and Fancies” Patron. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, July —Expressing deep | indignation that the purity of the mo- | tives of Town Tovies should be ques- | tioned, Colonel W. D. Mann, chief owner | and editor of that publication, talked freely on his arrival from Europe to- night. He said he was ready to meet the District Attorney or anybody else | at any time; that he had nothing to con- | ceal or excuse, so far as he personally | was concerned, and he promised to aid | in the prosecution of anybody connected directly or indirectly with Town Topics who might have been guilty of black- mail. Said he: “No article has ever been withheld {rom publication in Town Topics nor has anything been printed in Town Topics for. a consideration, with my knowledge or consent. ““As to ‘America’'s Smart Set," " Colonel Mann said he never heard of such a publication mer of the Society Editors' Association. » “If the name of Town Toples was used through the means of one of the paper's letterheads to obtain subscriptions for any such publication there has been a ation of ethics and, perhaps, of the law,” he said. Concerning Judge Deuel’s connection | with Town Top Colonel Mann was more reticent. Praising Judge Deuel as | one of the best jurists in the city and as a man above reproach in all respects, | Colonel Mann said that he had too great respect for his legal ability to question the Judge's standing before the law for hything he had done for Town Topics. The colonel was highly indignant at re- ports that such men as Charles M. Schwab and R. Fulton Cutting had paid | large amounts to suppress stories con- { ing themselves in Town Topics. While Colonel Mann sald he had not heard of “America’s Smart Set,” he ad- | mitted that Town Topics was responsible ads and Fancles” and “is proud ‘“Fads and Fanc is the most per- fect piece of book making In the world,” he said. “What the different people paid for coples T do not recall. I will say that it Mrs. Collis P. Huntington paid $10,000 she pald too much. These are detafls I could not be expected to be familiar with, | considering my many other duties.” Colonel Mann expressed surprise that “Fads and Fancles” had not been pub- d, i almost ready for de- livery, when' he sailed. Concerning the denial from Oyster Bay that President Roosevelt had consented to accept a presentation copy of “Fads and Fancies,” Colonel Mann said it must | | have slipped the President’s mind, which | was not remarkable, considering his | manifold duties. He maintained, how- | | ever, that three vears ago toe matter | was laid before the President and that | Town Toples was supplied with a photo- | graph and a sketeh of the President. | WIRELESS SYSTEM IN FROZEN NORTH | Government to Replace Land Lines in Alaska With Modern Plants. Bpecial Dispatch - The Call | TACOMA, July 24—The Government is preparing to install a wireless telegraph system throughout the Jower Yukon country, thereby replacing the land lines that have proved a fallure to a large extent. The greatest difficulties have been encountered in maintaining the land system in the face of forest fires, floods, cold weather and other obstacles. Cap- tain Wildman, the Government wireless telegraphy expert, is now on the Yukon | experimenting with wireless operations between Fort Gibbon at the mouth of the Tanana River and Nome. Wildman installed a wireless apparatus on the Yukon steamship Susie and was in con- stant communication with St. Michael on the trip up the river to Fort Gibbon. St. | Michael in turn was connected with | Nome by wireless. Movements of all | steamers at St. Michael and Nome were reported. ——————— SON SWEARS OUT WARRANT FOR ARREST OF HIS FATHER Declares His Parent Sold Building and JLonn Stock and Levanted With the Proceeds. SACRAMENTO, July 24—A warrant of arrest was granted to-day on requi- sition papers received from-the Gov- ernor of the State of Illinois for & man | named Herman Kompel, who is wanted | on a charge of larceny. The peculiar feature of the case is that Kompel, who is under detention in Los Angeles, has | been arrested at the request of his own son, who alleges that he was the owner of ten shares in a bullding and loan concern and that his father drew the money on the shares and levanted. N quire AUGHTER'S SUITOR 1 15 SLAYER PR Sonoma Rancher Is Killed With a Shotgun, Young Man SaysFarm- er’s Death Is Result of Accident. Girl Tells Conflicting Story and Is Held Pending Investigation. Special Dispatch to The Call. HEALDSBURG, July 24—John Pierce, a rancher who resided in Alexander Val- ley, nine miles north of Healdsburg, was killed Saturday night by John Grill, who had been paying attention to Plerce's l4-year-old daughter, May. Grill used a shotgun. He declares that the shooting was accidental. Pierce’s body was found this morning. Grill was arrested on suspicion this afternoon by Sheriff Grace on the George Jacobs ranch, two miles, north of the scene of the crime. The girl was also taken into custody. Sheriff Frank Grace, District Attorney Charles Pond and a court reporter ques- tioned Grill closely and he soon cenfessed to the crime, but deciared it was an ac- cident. Grill and the girl tell conflicting storfes, so both have been held. 1t is claimed that Plerce had $19 50 Sat- urday. Sunday night Grill visited the Pierce house and gave May $350 to go to Geyserville to hire a rig in which he was to take her riding. This was at 1 o'clock, and when she complied with his request and returned with the rig about 9 o'clock Grill drove off with her from the house. During the drive he gave het $1650 for no apparent reason. The authorities beifeve Grill killed and robbed the old man during the girl's absence. It is also supposed that Pierce, knowing that Grill intended to take his daughter riding, objected and provoked a quarrel that led to the shooting. Sheriff Grace took Grill to the County Jail this afternoon where charges will de preferred against him. At a late hour this evening the girl is being subjected to a rigorous cross-examination by the au- thorities in this city. WOULD-BE SOLDIERS PHYSICALLY UNFIT Three-Fourths of the Appli- cants Rejected by Inspectors. Special Dispatch to The Call OMAHA, Neb., July 24—An unusually large percentage of the young men who are offering to serve Uncle Sam in the capacity o soldiers are rejected as phy- sically unfit. From 75 to 80 per cent of the appli- cants for enlistment in Omaha have | sgme physical ailment which disouali- fies themn. These disqualifications run all the way froin corrs and bunions on the feet to tuberculosis. Of more than thirty applicants in the past ten days, only two have been accepted. Recruit- A. Reachardt, in ex- 'ge number of rejec- planation of the 1 tions, not. because the Government re- nents are more exacting, but be- cause of the general weak physique of ipplicants. We can generally size up a4 man as to his soldier possibilities the moment he enters the office, and he to stand a pretty severe test, physi- cally and mentally, before he can draw a Government blanket and get his measure taken for a khaki suit. One reason for the unusually large percent- age just now may be found in the fact that so many healthy young men are working in the harvest fields.” FUNERAL OF LAMONT SET FOR WEDNESDAY Former Secretary of War to Be Buried in New York Cemetery. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., July 24.—The funeral of former Secretary of War Dan- iel S. Lamont, who died suddenly last night, will be held on Wednesday at amont, the Lamont home at Mill- brooke. It will be a quiet ceremony. The interment will be in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City. Former President Cleve- land has been asked to come to the Lamoent home as soon as possible. Colonel Lamont last night ate dinner with the family and a number of guests and spent the evening on the veranda of the house. There at five minutes past nine he was suddenly stricken with an acute ‘attack of heart weakness. Dr. Stewart of New York. one of his guests, carrled him into the house, where the former Secretary died in ten minutes, WASHINGTON, July 24—The War De- partment too. cognizance of the death of former Secretary Lamont to-day by issuing an order, signed by Acting Sec- retary of War Oliver, announcing “with deep sorrow the death of the Hon. Dan- iel S. Lamont,” eulogizing his official and private life and directing that “as a mark of respect to his memory the flags at all military posts be.displayed at half mast ‘on the day of the funeral.” i l 1 FORTUNE AWARDED TO GOPCEVIC ' BY LAKE COUNTY'S JUDGE. LAST WILL OF ROMANTIC WIFE IS SUSTAINED o R AOOSEVELT CING A TI HAVOR WEAE Consternation in Phila- delphia Political Circles. Epeclal Dispatch to The Call. PHILADELPHIA, July 24—Evidence that Mayor Weaver has the thorough sympathy of President Roosevelt and his Cabinet in his efforts to wipe out munici- pal corruption in Philadeiphia are dafly multiplying. The latest and most signifi- cant indication Is found in.the assign- ment of Major Gillette of the ens’lne% corps to assist in the investigation ol the Torresdale filter plant. Major Gillette was ordered from San Francisco some days ago ‘and arrived nere last Friday, but did not see Mayor Weaver until this morning, owing to the jatter's absence from the city. It is understood that his appointment was di- rectly due to the advice of Secretary of State Root. It was due to the work of Major Gil- lette at Savannah that Captain Oberlin M. Carter was sent to prison and Gaynor and)Greene to exlile in Canada. Major Gillette’'s appointment was a | great surprise to the politicians. It is pointed out that Secretary Taft would never have assigned an army officer to an investigation of municipal affairs in this or any other city, nor would Secre- tary Root have urged such an assign- ment, unless those officlals had been satisfled that this move would be in ac- cord with the wishes of President Roose- velt and would have his hearty approval and indorsement. It means, it is argued, that President Roosevelt believes with his Secretary of State, that- Mayor ‘Weaver Is engaged in a task that should have the encourage- ment of every lover of good government nd that, for that reason, he is ready to ald Weaver In every way in his power. It is further belleved to be a direct blow at Senator.Penrose’s control of the State organization. Hurricane Sweeps Marshail Islands. SYDNEY, N. 8. W, July 24—News has been received here that a hurricane devastated the Marshall Islands on June 320, / | i oo XL s et BRI L R A STATUE t : b [CETS CoNRCT ¢ MILOS * M. 'GOPCEVIC ' AND' HIS * BRIDE: WHO, DYING, LEFT HIM A, FORTUNE, | I aE ogs 7 | DT ] American Triumphs ! | Millions Go to the Former Car Man. Court Holds the Woman Was Sane. The cloud surrounding the last testa- ment of Harry Floyd-Gopecevie, the San Francisco girl who surprised society by marrying a strectcar conductor who rang up fares on the line that passed her home on Sacramento street, has been entirely swept away by a decision hand- ed down yesterday by Judge M. 8. Sayre of Lakeport, who holds that her final will bequeathing the million dollar estate to her husband shall stand unscatched by the bitter attack made upon it. But this decision means far more than mere- 1y that the money shall go to Milos Mitroy Gopeevic for once and all; it means that the memory of this dearly loved girl is cleared of the terrible charges of in- sanity, of being under the hypnotic in- fluence of her most intimate friend, Eliza Prichard, and of being duped by a mere fortune hunter. Judge Sayre makes it a point in his decision to faithfully dispel all of these accusing theorie: The memory of Harry Floyd, as she was best known in this city, is cleared of all these charges. Her marrfage with Milos Gepcevic reads clear with all the sweet romance attached to it that this girl must have feit whenm she secretly allowed the street car conductor to court her and then, one day, without the knowledge of her relatives, when she gave up to his ardent pleadings and yielded herself to be led away to the altar, that day the happlest girl In San Francisco. BEQUEATHS ALL TO HER HUSBAND. “Then came her- Aeath. Be- fore she breathed her last she asked for pen and gaper and with her own hand she wrote her will, bequeathing almost all to her husband, whom she still loved with a passion that had lived unabated since the day that she plighted her secret troth to him. Immediately after the death of Harry Floyd-Gopcevic a contest of the will was instituted by Mrs. L. L. Matthews, Mrs. J. L. Humes and Mrs. M. F. McAdoo, who claimed that she was not competent to make a will and that she had been un- duly influenced by Miss Eliza Prichard, a girl whose companionship was one of the dearest possessions of the young heiress, her husbar@ and his brother, Petar Gop~ cevic, all of whom helped persuade her, it was alleged, to leave the vast estate to Milos, the man of her choice. But by the decision of Judge Sayre the act of the woman is upheld and the contestants de- teated. The most interesting feature of the trial was the testimony adduced to show the habit which Harry Floyd had of im- personating many of the romantic char- acters she had read about. These wera male or female, as the case might be, and when so costumed she would move and act in an atmosphere like that in which she could imagine that these phantem, people really walked. Dumas’ Raoul de Eragelonne In the Three Musketeers, as well as the Comte de la Fere and other imaginary personages, were her favorit and for hours she wouid revel in the happy Imaginings chat her sensitive mind made real to her. The contestants tried to show that she wen:i so far in these irapersonations that she really lost con- trol of her mind, and that she was really mentaily unbalanced during these periods, but the testimony proved that these were merely the pleasant pastimes of a clever CRY WHEN Cf | CRUSHES FOOT Remarkable Stoicism o ~ Over European - Sculptors. e LONDON, ‘July 24—To an American sculptor has been given the commission for a statute of the late Sir Willlam Vernon Harcourt, which is to be placed in the lobby of the House of Commons. | Waldo Story cdme from Rome a day or | two 2go, in response to a telegram from | and innocent girl. MARRIED LIFE HAPPY. The relations of the rich young girl with the streetcar conductor were found o have been of the happiest nature. In a letter to her dear friend, Henry E. Matthews, produced in court, she tells him of her intended marriage wish Gop- cevic. She told of the scene which she saw would be enacted by her relatives when they learned of the secret wedding. Speaking of her new company, she wrote: “He isn't so very new, though, for I found cut quite a time ago that he is the dearest boy in the world. I am not quick Three-Year-0ld Child. ——— Spectal Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, July 24—When three- the committee in charge, and to-day ac- cepted the order. Story will return | Italian .capital and will begin at once the exchequer.® {"American sculptor to find a place in the year-old Ignacio Biogio, of East Thirty- fig‘;‘; AL fii’;‘,‘_‘;‘;’“:,; bn“l:];;‘u‘o':f‘ ":f‘:‘;ze;; fourth street, was run over by a cross- Story—a bust of the late Lord Randolph town car in front of his home this Churchill afternoon, and his right foot crushed, Story.told me to-day that this statue under the forward wheels,. fitty men. of Harcourt would be of heroic size, . portraying him in his robe as chancel- litted the car .50 that:the child coutd FRrCR¥IE TR L LF TS (8 e in be released. | marble and unveiled as early. in the The boy did not whimper as he lay | coming winter as it can be completed— thére, or when he was taken to the. certainly before next Easter. sidewalk.’ It was found that his right ~ The names of several prominent foot had been completely severed. . One. Buropean sculptors have been mention- of those who helped raise the'car made: eq in connection with the award by the a rough tourniquet with a handkerchief | commission. : until Dr. Bowman arrfved in an ambu- lance and took the boy to Bellevue Hos- | TWELVE LIVES LOST IN OIL FIELD FIRL pital. 1 The boy’s mother, who was crossing | the gtreet with him when the car struck {Damage to Property Will Amount to Six Hundred him, was frantic with-grief. Although he was crippled for life, Ignacio was, ‘Thonsand Dollars. HOUSTON, Tex., July 24—The loss of the coolest of all and uttered no com- plaint. . dent That May Result in | 1ife in the Humble oil field fire, as nearly . His Death. as can be ascertained, is twelve, but the SAN JOSE, July 24—W. A. Moore, al names of the vie cannot be aseer- enter, was thrown from his bicycle | tained. . The Texas pany declines to in a collision with a delivery wagon to- | make any estimates its loss or to give He out any insurance figures, but ofl men 7" | place the loss at about $300,000. —————————— BICYCLE RIDER RUNS INTO DELIVERY WAGON AND IS HURT Carpenter on' Wheel Meets With Aeel- day and was picked up unconscious. ‘may not recover. = to-morrow to the ! to care for people, as you know, but when I do I have reason to, and mostly I con- tinue to, because of that fact. You in his studio work on a plaster model | needn’t say ‘boo’ for a day or twe, but for the statie of the late chancellor of ' there is going to be a wedding around here shortly, for Milos and I have de- This will . be the first statue by ln! cided that we do not like to be apart, and for my own reasons concerning lov- | ing kindred and trustees I think if “twere | done, ‘twere well ‘twere done quick~ {ly. Milos 1s willing to do as I | say about that., and we have both agreed that a Justice of the Peace is the best person to tie the knot. You had best notify the banks about the change of signature, for when the event occurs I will sign Harry A. L. Floyd Gopeevic instead of the old way. I wish that you could be here, but as you can- not, I will save you some champagne and cake. Affectionately, H. F.” JUDGE DAVIS' ADDRESS. Judge John F. Davis made the closing speech in support of the dead woman's will and his words rang with proper ap- preciation of her character. His address, is part, follows: “Harry Floyd was one of the greatest | souls, was one of the dearest hearts that | T ever knew. Her woman's influence is | all through this trial. She has spoken from the grave in this trial, an exempli- | fiegtion of the resurrection and the life. | These sacred letters tell her story. The friends over whom she exercised her | influence are defending her here agains® | the siurs of unsoundness of mind, against the intimation that she was not able to take care of herself. “She was a grand and noble woman. Over those who truly loved her, her influ- ence was supreme, as that of every. good Contizued on Page 3, Columa X i