The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 1, 1905, Page 1

THE CALL 1, 1905: San Francisco and Forecast made at San Francisco for thirty hours ending midnight, August Tuesday morning becoming fair during |the Say: fresh west winds. G. H. WILLSON, Local Forecaster, Temporarily in charge. S —— \ 1 | vielnity—Fogzy | PRINTS MORE NEWS THAN ANY OTHER PAPER PUBLISHED IN e g THE WEATHER, King.” son." GRAND—"The TIVOLI—"Rob ALCAZAR—""The CHUTES—Spectalties, CENTRAL—"The Cattle King." COLUMBIA—""Weather MAJESTIC—"Dors Thorne.” ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. SAN FRANCISCO T e s THE THEATERS. Fortunes of Beaten Ben- Interrupted Wedding." VOLUME XCVHI—NO. 62. HARRIMAN HARASSES HIS RIVAL ————— Places Clark in a Very Perplexing Position, Montana Senator Out- witted in Railroad Traffic Game. Local Couference Anxiously Watched by Officials of All the Lines. The railroad world is awaiting with the keenest interest the outcome of the conference begun in this city yesterday the officials of the Southern ny and of the San Pedro, Lake Railwa; the demands of the Clark rackage privileges over the e Southern Pacific in Cali- Traflic Manager Sproule u Pacific, acting for >tor Stubbs of the Harri- es, has already refused to make red concession to the Salt Lake d Preside 1 the decision of his officials. Now representatives of the two lines me together s in this city purpose of talking over the have e« the o what the outcome of the meet- be, those who are attending it vouchsafe an opinion. It is believed, however, that the permit the Aterchange the event reght, United d his mMlion- 1 either endeavor to d war in the suffer the from to be an his mil- to & com- CONFERENCE BEGINS HERE. t yest s meeting San les and Salt Lake road by Vice President J. day ef Counsel T. E. Gibbon eight and P nger he Southern Pa- reight 1 1« nsel ic Manager irector of all of th es, J. C. Stubbs of Chicago. rence yesterday lasted many nd that the officials sent- e not the friendliest of feeling was ced in many ways. were o teous but cool toward other during the meeting, and at the nobn hour the traditional custom emong railroad officials of joining at luncheon was noticeably violated, the € where they talked in low with their legal adviser, while the ever- smiling Sproule and likewise pieasant- faced Dunne strolled leisurely uptown to ir club. What developments took place at yesterday's meeting is kept a secret, &5 wili be probably the proceedings. PREDICAMENT SERIOUS. Vice President J. Ross Clark did volun- teer the statement that he and his asso- clates “hoped”’ for an amicable settle- ment, which is practically an admission, end the only one so far openly made, that le exists between the two roads, and as a flat contradiction to the re- 4 statement issued in New nator Clark denying that any exist between the Salt Lake Southern Pacific Company. Manager Sproule of the fic would not make any ad- act, he would not even ad- conference was being gathering in the from “some visit- south.” ¢ are in a serious conceded by all »d several of his the condtruction,of Lake City to Los achieved their am- they had pur- Oregon Short rackage leases for er portions of the ithern Paclfic Toads n course of construc- one of the sulators in Wall in the Clark e Montana Senator and 50 per cent. Then president persnaded » enter into an agreement of the that the Salt Lake road should not be extended beyond its original intended terminals without the consent of the suthern Pacific. Eventually the Salt .ake road was finished to San Bernar- ino and an organization partly com- pleted to secure business for the road. ATOR MAY FIGHT BACK. < t Harrimen has sus- the traic | held, | watching the sit-: SAN FRANCISCO TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. SHOT DEAD BY HOST AT DINNER Robert Deane, the - Writer, Killed in Fresno. Slain for Remark Made While in His Cups. | Had Reputation as a British Officer and Editor of Eastern Paper. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call FRESNO, July 3L—Emmett Riggins, a wealthy contractor of this city, to-day ;!hol and killed his friend an invited " | guest, Robert E. Deane, who is best | known in these parts as a Vi ardist. | In other sections of the world Deane | has distinguished himself variously as a | British army officer, editor, war corre- ‘-spondcm and magazine writer. He was the son of Royal E. Deane, a millionaire | manufacturer of New York. Until the | Boer war he was a major in the British {army. Later he represented a New York baper as a war correspondent in China. Then he was editor of a Philadelphia {daily and still later an artist and maga- zine writer, fifally coming here three years ago to regain his health on a Cali- | fornia farm. The shooting appears to have been prac. | tically without provocation. After hav- |ing & few drinks together Riggins in- | vited Deane home te dinner. When they | arrived Deane was too intoxicated to eat |and while lunch was being served he | 100k & Bap in his bost’s hod ecm. . | An bhour later he arose, descended to the | parlor and when Mrs. Riggins offered him | & drink of ice water he remarked: I guess I can pay for what I get.” this Riggins became enraged, snatched a revolver and emptied it into the body of his guest. Four bullets took effect and Deane fell dead. The contractor is in jail cha: h murder, ————— BRITISH PRIX "E SOON WILL VISIT AMERICA | Louis of Battenberg, Commanding Sec- | ond Squadrom, to Sall September | 1 for This Country. GIBRALTAR, July 31.—The British | second squadron, Rear Admiral Prince Louls of Battenberg, will sail Septem- | ber 1 for the United States, calling at | Quebec. | ——— - Taft Party at Nagasaki. | NAGASAKI, August 1.—The | ship Manchuria arrived here at 7 o'clock this morning. The Governor, yor and other officials went aboard i extended of welcome to Sec- vy of War Taft and Miss Roosevelt. e party landed at 9 o’clock and took uncheon at the American consulate. Ma — fic originating at California points be- yond the rails of the Salt Lake road, or traffic from the East destined for the same points, was met with a sericus ob- stacle. The uthern Pacific officials curily informed the Salt Lake road peo- | ple that If freight was-to be had at | points touched by the Southern Pacific in | California, President Harriman did not | propose to carry it a few miles to the | Bait Lake line and lose a profitable long | haul, but would undertake to transport it as far as possible over his' own rafls toward its destination. If the Clark freight agents cannot go to Fresno and pick up a carload of freight for an Eastern point and/then run it | down In their own cars to, say Barstow, iby way of the leased Santa Fe tracks, | where it can be transferred to the rails of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt | Lake Company, or deliver Eastern freght over the same route it is generally con- ceded that Senator Clark is out of the transportation business so far as Califor- nia freight is concerned. Under the ruling of the Harriman offi- clals Clark is now in that position, and it {remains to be seen what he will do. It | has been said that Senator Clark has threatened to turn his interests in the Salt Lake road over to the Goulds and | thereby spite Harriman and at the same | time furnish the Denver and Rio Grande |an entrance into Southern California. SANTA FE LOOKING ON. . Clark’s fHiends Insist that if Harriman | does not grant him the demanded con- | cessions the Senator will build a road in | California parallel to the Southern Pa- {eific, but this prediction is confronted ! with the fact that the agreement entered jinto between Clark, and Harriman spe- cifica sets forth that the Salt Lake | road shall not be extended except by con- and Harriman, owning as much as Clark, will naturally not consent !to any addition to the Clark road that ; wiil jeopardize the business of his own | lines, 1 dn the | Harriman and Clark the officials of the Santa Fe road are found in the back- present controversy between ground, smiling serenely. They endeav- | ored to get an agrecment with Harriman lfor an exchange of traffic in Californta but failed and finally bought the San Joa- quin Valley road and have since been ex- tending their lines or sending their boats to points within what was regarded as the exclusive territory of the Southern Pa- cific in order to get freight to their main line. If Harriman should concede the in- terchange of traffic demands to the Clark road he well knows that he would imme- diately precipitate a war between his own road and the Santa Fe. Apparently he prefers to contend with Clark and, if pos- The first attempt to control freight traf- | sible, bring him to submission “Oh, | At | steam- | | DETERMINES THE SEX OF -~ THE UNGORN H e 01d Woman Claims to Be Rival of Schenck. Says Advice Brought Joy to the Cleve- land Homme, | Former President Alleged to Have Named a Daughter in Her Honor, Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, July 31.—Mrs. F. Marion Foye, mother of James E. Foye, private secretary for Charles Gates, was In the | Harlem court to-day to see if her son | appeared in answer to the summons is- sued for him. Foye did not appear, as he is still in Saratoga with his em- ployer. Some days ago Foye had his mother arrested, charging her with an- noying him. She was discharged after stating that her son refused to aid her financially and left her in poverty. Summons for Foye was then issued. | Mrs. Foye has attracted renewed in- terest to her case by claiming to have discovered some years ago the secret | of the predetermination of sex, along lines similar to those of Professor Schenck of Vienna. Mrs. Foye exhibit- ed a pamphlet which advertised her heme of determining sex prior to birth. In part it read: “If you have no sons to perpetuate | your name and inherit your estate, why not consult Mrs. F. M. Foye, world- | wide e)ggelj{enggd_ nurse, She has two sons, and It does not take twenty min- | utes to convince the listener of hav- | ing his hopes realized.” | Mrs. Foye satd: “Grover Cleveland thought so well | of my method that he named his third daughter Marion, after me, because I had successfully predicted the births of his previous two daughters and had as- | sured him that his third child would be | a daughter. | “Since Mr. Cleveland availed himself | of my wonderful and never failing ex- | perience, he ‘has been blessed with two | sons.” | It | court to-day that it @eveloped that she | was still emploved by the Department | | | | was not until she had left the of Par Inquiry of Superintendent Nelson brought the information that, al- though he had no Mrs. Florence Marion Foye on the pay roll, he had Mrs. Flor- ian, of 953 Park avenue (Mrs. | ence | Foye's address). Her salary is $46 a | month, payable every two weeks. At | first. Mrs. Foye, when asked as to the | facts, strongly insisted that she was out of work, did not know where she | could get her rent money, and believed | her son should be locked up for refus- ing to support her. At last she sal “Well, ¥ do work there at the baths, | but the work is hard and I have a $500 piano half paid for. I wanted my -son | to pay for it.” e |FOLK SITS HEAVILY | ON LID OF ST. LOUIS Is Asked to Go Back to Ten- nessee and Leave Mis- souri Alone. Epecial Dispatch to The Call ST. LOUIS, July 31.—"I move, Mr. Chairman, that we, as members of the Humboldt Turn Verein, do respectfully suggest to our Governor, Joseph Folk, that he move back to his home in Ten- nessee, and that he leave us in peace; that in order that he may do this without inconvenience to himself, this organiza- tion starl a subscription to pay the ex- penses thereof.” The motion received seconds, and the members of the Humboldt Turi Verein have solved the baflling problem that confronts the St. Loufs “anti-lid- dites.” The above resolution adopted by t! organization yesterday may pave the wa, for the permanent elevation of the hated lid. Tts success is only contingent upon the amenability of Governor Folk to their plan and his love for his native State— Tennessee. RIG PACKING HOUSE WEPT BY FLAMES ST. JOSEPH, Mo., August 1—Fire, which started about 1 o’clock this morn- ing in the beef beds of Swiff & Co.'s packing plant at South St. Joseph, has | completely destroyed the poultry depart- ment, which is sald to be the largest in the world. The heef beds are also entire- ly_consumed. | The fire spread rapidly from the heef | beds to the poultry department and a sec- ond alarm was immediately turnea Five hose companies were soom on the ground and made a hard fight to get the flames under control. The oil rooms were threatened. Swift & Co. estimate the loss at §250,000. —————— ANTI-AMERICAN BOYCOTT EXTENDS TO JAPANESE PORT Chinese Merchants at Nngnsaki Join in Crusade Against Vessels and Mer- chandise From Here. TOKIO, July 31.—The Chinese mer- chants at Nagasaki will join in the boycott of American vessels and mer- chandise, beginning to-morrow. in. { INEW YORK STATE BRINGS SUIT i | AGAINST EQUITABLE MEN. LA policy-holders. startling recital of the methods of men who stand at the top of the financial ladder. alleges that enormous sums lost to the Equitable Society found their way into the coffers of its officials, and contends that a large surplus is at the present time being illegally withheld from the policy-holders, to whom it should be distributed. ‘Suit was filed yesterday against the Equitable Assurance Society and forty-nine of its officers or committee members by the Attorney General of the State of New York. The action was taken on behalf of the Attorney General Mayer’s complaint bristles with accusations of fraud and theft, and is a Forty-Nine De-| fendanfis Are | Named. s BIG THEFTS | AND FRAUDS Sensational Ac- cusations in || Complaint. NEW YORK, July 8L—An action was instituted to-day by State Attorney Gen- eral Julius M. Mayer in-the Supreme Court of New York County in the name of the people of the State of New York agalnst the Equitable Life Assurance So- clety and its officers, directors and mem- bers of the executive and financial com- mittees, all of whom are named in the complaint. The defendants are the Equit- able Life Assurance Soclety of the l'r\lited States and the following individ- uals: James W. Alex-, Gage E. Tarbell. ander. Marvin Hughitt. Louis Fitzgerald, Chas. B. Alexan- | Chauncey M. De= der. pewt Thomas DeWitt Henry C. Dem- Cuyler Cornelius Nijey e Bliss. oseph F. de Na- George H. Squire,, JoscPh I de Na Thomas J. Jor- B Bradish Johnson. | Chatles 8. Smith.| Jo8€Ph P. Lowe. der. | i % Alvin W. Krech. ™% > | Levi P. Morton. Wm. Alexnnder. | John J. MeCook, Ausust Belmont. | Darius 0. Mills. Robert T. Lin- coln. James B. Forgan, C. Ledyard Blair. Brayton Ives. . Melville E. | George J. Gould. | John Sloane. galls. g - Jumes H. Hyde. | Georze T. Wilson. Alexander J.Cas- Thomas T. Eck- satt. jert. Jacob H. Schif. |~ Wm. H. MclIntyre. James J. Hill. | Henry W. Alex- . Jefterson Coo- 8rder. | lidge. Henry C. Frick. Alfred M. Van-' Samuel H. Inman derbilt. | Henry C. Haar- John Jacob As- stick. tor, David H. Moftatt. William C. Van Henry R. Win- Horne. throp. A week ago, before the papers were completed, Edward H. Harriman, on the eve of his departure for Japan, accept- ed service of the summons in the pro- posed action, and to-day many of the other defendants, including James H. Hyde, were served through their private counsel. The defendants are allowed twenty days from the time of service to file their answers. The complaint contains twenty-one sec- tions and covers thirty-three pages of typewritten matter. It refers to the Frick committec report and the investi- gatton made by State Superintendent of Insurance Hendricks. It is based on In- formation and bellef, and Attorney Gen- eral Mayer, in his prayer to the court, says that the action was brought in be- half of the peopie of the State of New York in the public interest and pursu- ant to the provisions of law. He there- fore asks— 1. That the defendants, each of them, other than the defendant the Equitable Life Assurance Soclety of the United States, accoumt for their official conduct in the management and disposition of the funds and property committed to their charge. 2. That the Individual defendants and each of them be compelled to pay the defendant, the Equitable Life Assurance Society, any money and the value of any property which they or any of them have acquired to themselves or transferred to others, or lost or wasted by a violation of their duties. 3. That any defendant or defendants now director or directors or officer in the deféndant society, upon proof of mis- conduct, be removed, and that a new election be held by the board of the de- fendant soclety authorized to hold same in erder to supply the vacancy or vacan- cies created by the removal. 4. That the net surplus of defendant society, after deducting a sufficlent amount to cover all outstanding risks and obligations, be paid to or credited to or applied for the benefit of the pres- ent policy holders in eauitable propor- tion, in accordance with the charter and with the law. 5. That the plaintiff have such other further relief as may be just, equitable and profitable. . JUGGLING WITH SOCIETY’S FUNDS. The complaint charges that the indi- viduat defendants, disregargfng their duty to the society of which they were directors, ‘‘negligently, improperly and improvidently performed such duties and have habitually and continuously done, or suffered to be dome, wrongful, illegal and improper acts, whereof the defend- ant society has suffered great loss and damage.” The individual defendants are further charged with having “acquired to them- selves, or caused or permitted to be transferred to others, in violation of their duties, money, property and the e The Attorney General S — A, 4 o+ EDWARES . MARRIMAN CHAUNCE Y rm. OCEPE w 70 AUN TRAIN CLEAR ACROSS THE CONTINENT New Palace Car Concern Is Being Formed in New York. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, July 31.—A company fis being formed with a.paid up capital of $1,000,000, which proposes to operate an entire train between New York and San Francisco without change. The company is negotiating for the right to operate a private compartment for ‘‘one person” sleeping cars. This private compartment is equipped with what serves as a sofa by day, convertible into a bed by night, a combined table and washstand and a combined chair and toilet. Eighteen of these compartments and a smoking-room are provided for each car. The equipmept of the train will consist of sleeping cars of this design, a ‘stateroom car and bag- gage, buffet, library and smoking, dining and observation cars. The private com- partment scheme is the invention of Charles D. Pugsley of Peekskill, N. Y. The name of the operating concern is the Pugsley Palace Car Company. —_——————— MUST ANSWER BEFORE THE CIRCUIT COURT Boston Doctor Whe Photographed Ja- maiea Fortifications Committed for Trial KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 31.—The investigation before a magistrate to- day of the case against Dr. Franklin Clarke of Boston, who is charged with wrongfully obtaining a photograph of the fortifications at Port Royal, result- ed in Dr. Clarke being committed to trial before the Circuit Court, which will be 'held the end of next month. A British non-commissioned officer who assisted him in gaining entrance to the fortress will be court-martialed. Dr. Clarke, who is an American and a graduate of a medical school in Bos- ton, was arrested at Kingston July 17 last. He was caught taking photo- graphs of the forts in that vicinity. He wéht to Kingston last March and Continued on Page 2, Column 4. claims merely to be an amateur pho- tographer. JOLIUS A AAYER YORK ATTORNEY GEN- i NEW ERAL, AND SOME OF THE FIN- ANCIERS HE IS SUING. TRAIN WRECKED NEAR ASYLUM ~ ATGLENELLEN Engineer Severely Hurt and May Not Recover. 1 SANTA ROSA, July 31.—In a wreck to- night on the Carquinez branch of the Southern Pacific road. which is that part of the company’'s line between Santa Rosa and Vallejo, Engineer Ciarke was probably fatally injured. The wreck took place about one mile from the Glen Ellen Home for Feeble-minded Children, and the cause of the accident is not yet known. The train was on its way to this place at about 7 o'clock to-night when the en- gine jumped the track and turned com- pletely over. Engineer Clarke was pin- joned in the wreck and was so badly scalded that he will probably not surwive. | Other trainmen had narrow escapes. The baggage car and smoker also left the track. None of the passengers were hurt and they were brought to this place on a freight train. An investigation will. be made to-mor- row as to the cause of the wreck. EI IR SR Morocean Troops Defeated. TANGIER, Morocco, July 31L.—The report is current here that the Gov- ernment froops have met a sericus de- feat near Ujda. S olMiLLS | TABER FHITO | (COLONEL MANN 10 BRING SUIT FOR: DAMACES Millionaire Owner of Collier's Will Be Defendant. Special Dispatch to The Call,, NEW YORK, July 31.—Colonel Mann announced to-night that he would take a hand in court proceedings 'since the publication of an article to_which he takes exception in a number of Col- ller's Weekly, issued a few days ago. He sald papers would be served t morrow on P. F. Collier, the periodical millionajre proprietor, in a suit for $200,000 damage, $100,000 for himself and $100,000 “or Town Topies. “I consider that a fair amount in which Town Topics and I have been damaged by the statements in Mr. Col- Her's paper, in which he advised busi mess men not to advertise in Town Topics and urged that respectable wo- men <hould not read it.,” said Colonel Mar ... As to a threatened suit by M. B. Wooster, who suggested the publication of “Fads and Fancies™ to Cologel Mann, and for two years worked A obtain- ing subscriptions for the book, Celonel Mann sald he was hardly interested in the matter. “Wooster says I called him a scoun- drel,” says Mann. “The man I called a scoundrel was Ahle, and when a man is caught with the goods on him, as Anle. was, it strikes me that one is } privileged to call bim a seoundrel. [ believe I did say o one reporter that ‘the gang’ had tried to square them- selves by going to the District Attor- ney and telling him they ‘could put him on to bigger game If he would let up on them.'™ Woester laid his charges before Dis- trict Attorney Krotel to-day, and will have another conference to-morrow. He urged Krotel to have Cotonel Mann indicted. —_———————— Cotton Operatives May Strike. LONDON, July 31.—The Lancashire cotton operatives have dectded by an enormous majority to strike August 19 unless the advance in wages demanded by them is conceded. During the past week a ballot on the question of strik- ing hgs been taken among the 60,000 operatives. The demand is for a § per cent advance in wages.