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18] THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1. 1905. 5 PEACE CON NMiAY JAPAN MAINTAIN FERENCE NOT BE HELD > FIRM ATTITUDE AR EPERITL - i WILSON HOLDS WILL T0 HS PLAC of Agriculture |Seeretary Envoys Will Return Home if De Witte's Has No Intention of Credentials Are Incomplete. Special Dispatch to The Call nese | Witte M s Te- know the 3 had asked te ere will be Ussu- Shim- Mr. his iven by Hochi but ccepted tual | demanded that was »ne would ght erate Commander f the Jap- | S y on their | charge of the vessel nese navy, were | the Nippon Club. | 1 Japan in | Takeshita, | were | | | Commander experi- with Rojest- manded the To- that nothing r of the sail- know vou who live in for- P your ’ e your | s + e nxious for | t their best and are | sur rn American wa: a great com- be well. Our th all the easier sphere; we do with a love for SO WAR PARTY STRENGTHENED. Message to the Oren- Czar's Martial burg Clergy Stirs Russia. PET "RG, August 1.—E or N n message to the C erg which he expressed the approa t Portsmouth, but the mil 4 versio the cold figures rep- i extent of t ed by Japan. | ns have failed to ntirely and | they d to urge! 00 onerous the merchants of Moscow largely old believers end w o h of the wealth of k sending address to to express confidence fen ja’s honor = will not be s tending to unify | d be necessary to evidently in opera- | on is shown to anticipate the peace conference or to sk the commissioners de Witte's appoint- is regarded as proof ace will be found if i M thing in connection conference is the meeting | Emperor's chosen councilors, | twenty ) in number, representative both of the Liberal and Conservative | schools, as well as the Ministers, which will be held to-morrow, a day sooner was expected, to pass the national assembly eration probably » & week. perhaps longer, | mperor wishes to reach a before the birthday of Al Nicholaiviteh, heir August 12, and a mani- 1y is expected on that day. n of an acceptable ry t would make the accept- decision of the peace con- ference, either for or against peace, | much easter President Nikitino of the St. Peters- burg Do a leading Liber:1 member Zems ihe de! © addr fon which presented the s to the Emperor, to-day declared that a criticism of the project before the ¥ be blication of particulars mature and uncalled for, and that such details as the form of representation and the extent of suf- frage were unimportant as the repre: sentatives of the people themselves | would decide which form would be best when they meet i Seweral papers to-day comment on ! the proposition to mak~ the Baltic a mare elausum. The guestion is gener- | ally regarded as ome between Great Britain and German hich Russia is » disinterested spectator. e gt ROSEN VISITS OVSTER BAY. would <P | Arramges for the Presentation of De ' Witte to the Preside: OYSTER BAY, L L, July Rosen, who recently succeeded Count Cassini as the Russian Embassador to the United States] and who is associdt- | ed with M. de Witte, chairman of the | Committee of Ministers, as one of the' { arrest. envoys to the Washington peace «on- ference, was a guest to-day of the President and Mrs, Roosevelt at lunch- con. He remained at Sagamore Hill for several hours, but ring only & part of that time was he in conference with the President ent was for the purpose of making arrangements for -presenting, infor- n ly, M. de Witte, who IS expected to arrive in this country from Eurepe to- morrow evening or Wednesday. It was arranged that M. de Witte should pay his informal call next Friday. B RUSSIA'S FIRST POPULAR ELECTION Members of the Nationnl Assembly to Be Chosen i Oétober. PETERSBURG, July 3L—It i§ at the election for mem- proposed National Assem- held on October 4 and 5; of the assembly will Petersburg on November the right to pro- the assembly, as well the tion of the to amount of cussed nt of the assembly can he presence of the press at rogue or dissolve to ions, except at such meetings a are declared secret by the Presi- dent or & Minister, for reasons of state The National Assembly will be en- titled to pronounce not only on all Government bills, but also on the pro- visional regulations of the budget, credits, cession of state property and the formation of companies requiring exceptional privileges rejected by both the Council of apire and the assembly will be ed back f sponsible for their introdu approved by both bodies w tted to the Emperor with a state- . the conslderations whi¢h actu- ated both bodies in passing them With reference to the right of inter- pellation, the members will be entitled to bring the matter of infection of the the Ministers law to the attention of and to ask explanations, but the re- sult must be signed by thirty members. If the assembly is not satisfied with the answer the question may be sub- mitted to the Emperor. U MAKING PROGRESs WITH TREATY. New Anglo-Japanese Compact Will Be More Comprehensive Than Old. LONDON, July 31.—Considerable pro- gress is making with the new Jap- anese-Anglo treaty alliance. Some de- tafls have not yet been ful but it an be definitely stated more compre- governing the pres- sh Government’s iz that its advice will be asked Japan in the course of the peace negotiations and that it will then gladly offer what counsel may seem to be best calculated to assure a perma- nent peace, e Briti pr — COURT TO BE PRIZE IGNORED. England Insists Upon Compensation for Sinking of Schoomers. ONDON, July 31.—In reply stion in the House of Lords to sdowne, the Foreign said the Government had inti- to Russia that claims for com- pensation to the respective owners and crews of the British schooners Kilda and Ikhona, which were sunk by Rus- stz uxiliary cruisers after the bat- tle the Sea of Japan, would be irrespective of the findings of original prize court. UG Rojestvensky Is Improving. 10, July 31.—Admiral s condition has made satisfac progress since the operation that to a ight tary, of pressed the tory was performed on his forehead. He was able to leave his bed and sit in a ch yesterday. Pains in one foot, | ver, prevented his walking freely, no cause for uneasiness exists. The iral has expressed his sincere satis- faction at Japanese Obtain Korean Concessions. SEOUL, Korea, July 30.—Japanese in- ence has finally secured free coast and internavigation privileges in Ko- rea. The concession was passed by the Cabinet after several weeks’' consider- ation. Several Cabinet Ministers who were unwilling to grant the conces- sions resigned and thus shirked an un- avoidable responsibility. e Postmaster at Bairdstown. WASHINGTON, July 31. — Llewellyn Baird has been appointed fourth-class postmaster at Bairdstown, Los Angeles County, ,California, vice Samuel A. Kenison. A CAUGHT IN TRAP SET BY HIS WIFE | Wealthy Man Arrested When | Ahout to Attack Spouse. Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, July 3L—L. F. Durand, formerly superintendent of the Inter- state Steel Company of Cleveland, Ohio, sald to be wealthy, was arrestad to-night as a result of a trap set for him by the officers. He was lodged in jail charged with making threats to kil The action of the officers probably pre- | vented a tragedy, for Durand had forcibly | seized a woman whom he had followed clear across the continent and whom he had hounded until she authorities for protection. e says she is his wife and she admits that she mar- ried him, but asserts that she discovered | that he has a wife and four children liv- ing in New Jersey. Instead of prosecut- ing him for bigamy she ieft Ohio and ne ! followed her, He found her in S8an Diego and there, she says, he threatened to kill her un- less she consented to return -to him. [ She flied to Los Angeles and he - fol- lowed and soon learned where she roomed. Yesterday he attacked her on the street, but she escaped from him. To-day she received a letter command- ing her to meet him at the Westmins- ter Hotel and saying he would kill her if she did not come. She Jaid that letter ~nd other sim- ilar letters before the authorities and a warrant was issued for the man's The woman was told to keep the appointment but two.officers fol- lowed wer. When Durand met her, he seized her and tried to drag her into a side street, but the next moment he was seized and handcuffed. He prob- ahlv will be prosecuted for bigamy. The Embassador's visit to the Presi- | revision to the Min- | the treatment accorded him. | appealed to the | Resigning Under Fire | e = | |WILL EXPEL RASCALS |General (lean-Up to Be Made in the Discredited Crop Statisties Bureau OYSTER BAY, July 3i.—Secretary Wil- son will reorganize thoroughly the crop statistics bureau departnrent of the agri- cultural department, according. to infor- mation here to-night. Already he s seeking men of cnaracter, standing and education to conduct the work of tne bu- | reau—men in. whom the. farmers and growers of the country will have impi.cit confidence and who will place the.re- ports of the bureau on a standard of ex- never heretofore achieved. One cellence man he has found, althouBn he does not at this wish to pubiish his name. The o he hopes to secure in a short tume. Two of them will be South- ern men, and both will be experts in cot- and tobacco statistics. ton s, in brief, is one o f the ideas which Seccretary Wilson = elucidated to President Roosevelt to-day. At the conclusion of the conference Secretary Wilson talked frankly about some phases of the work in his depart- ment. He was asked whether there was any likelihood of his early relinquishment of hiz portfolio as Secretary of Agrieul- ture. He replied with a smile: “Do you remember the story of Andrew Fair's service in Sir Walter Scott'’s Rob Roy Andrew’'s master was going to discharge him. In fact he told him to go. Andrew said: “iI won't go. *‘Why not?" asked the master. “‘Because 1 won't, replied Andrew. ““Well, you are-’discharged,’ declared the. master. “‘I won't go,’ retorted Andrew. ‘If you don’t know when you have a good Servant I know when I have a good mas- ter.” o is not a precisely parallel case,” nued the Secretary; ‘‘but it serves to ate the situation. I have not been ed to go and I-am not intending to re- sign. 1 am going to stick to my post and continue to build up that great depart- ment. You will recall that when I went there 1 found practically nothing but a few roll top desks and a half-dozen half- starved scientists. Since that time we have buiit up an important branch of the Government. The Agricultural Depart- ment to-day is a great department, and, I may say, is as sound as a nut. We are trying every day to make it better. | 1 took charge of it 279 people let out of its service for various reasons, many of them on charges of one Kind or another. We make it a point to keep only first-class men and women, The purpose oftthe investigations now in prog- ress is to purge the department of all selfishness and corfuption, and that end will be accomplished. It is my purpose, ard it ie the purpose of the President.” “Have you heard anything about Mr., Hyde?" vell, he has gone to Europe,” re- | plied the Secretary, grimly. “I had no igea he was going away from the coun- | tfy when he left the department. ‘T re- | ceived a letter from Mrs. ‘Hyde, explain- ing that she was responsible “fon s departure; that she had purchased-her- self his steamship transportation|and had insisted.that he go away, en ac- count of his’health. Sne said he was in danger of a nervous collapse.” ! Concerning the inquiries now being made as to the scandals by the Depart- ment of’ Justice, Secretary Wilson did not care to.-tall, “Manifestly,” said he, “it would starcely be proper for me to discuss the work of another department, par- ticularly in the present circumstances. | Only two cases now are before the At- torney General from my department, that of Holmes and that of Dr. Moore What may be the result of the in- quiries I have no idea. Dr. Moore had accomplished some fine results, and if he had only made clear to the depart- at his entire connection with the ro-Culture Company, 1 think we could have kept him on a straight course.” 2 Then Secretary Wilson outlined his plan for tne Bureau of Crop Sta- Said he: It is my intention to create a board I Assistant Secretary Hays at its ad, which shall handle all crop sta- | tistics. 1 appointed a board a little | while ago, the members of which handle | the statistics individually and turn in | their results to me or Mr. Hays. The | present board is a sort of makeshift | affair. It was the best we could or- ganize in a hurry from people in the department, It’is my intention to or- ganize a board of four men, two of whom will be from the South. The other two will be from other parts of the country. They will be the best | men we can find in the country—men of character, standing and education. They will be scientific experts in whom the country will have absolute confi- { dence. All reports will be sent to me | from the field and I will place them at | the proper time in the hands of these | scientists. Each will make up his es- timate and the four estimates will be | received by me or by Assistant Secre- | tary Hays. The members of the board will be regular employes of the depart- ment and they will spend some of their time in traveling in search of any in- formation which may bear upon their work.” ———————— Jerome Wants Another Term. NEW YORK., July 31.—District At- | torney Jerome to-night issued a for- | mal statement in which he declared | that he is a candidate for the office of | District Attorney and that he does not desire to be a candidate for the office of Mayor of New York. This declara- tfon sets forth that if ‘“‘there are 2000 who desire him to run again _for the office of District Attorney, he will cause a petition to be filed nominating him for that office.” ————————— Story of Adolph and Anna. Adolph, an Austrian artisan, adored | Anna, an aristocrat. And Anna adored Adolph. Another aristocrat, Alfred, an Ambassador, adored Anna. Anna abhor- red Alfred. Alfred addressed Anna, ad- mitting. admiration. Arnma assumed amazement. Alfred abjured Anna. Anna wdmonished Alfred. Alfred adopted ag- gressiveness. Alfred's audacity alarmed Anna. - Alfred at ted: abducting An- na. Anna, afrald and agitated, acquaint- ed Adolph. Adolph accused Alfred. Al- fred, angered, abused Adolph ‘awfully. Adolph answered Alfred. Alfred attacked Adol, Anna, aghast, aided Adolph. Adolph and Anna almost annihilated Alfred. Alfred abdicated absolutely. An- na accepted Adolph. Adolph and Anna abruptly absconded and abandoned Aus- tria altogether, arrlving at Antwerp and always abiding abroad afterward.— Town Topies. Sometimes we set hard tasks for the want ads;, but they rarely “fall. down.” For example, when girls for housework are really SCARCE, 11 the whnt ad, finds them—unless the supply for that varticular day has been exhausted. Since | have been | { | electors in the county of New York | { koW - SOON WHERE THEY STAND {New Orleans Health Authori- | ties Expect This Week to Say Whether or Not They Can Control the Epidemic WILL NOT SEEK TO | REGAIN FRUIT TRADE S v People Prefer Giving Up Valuable Busi- ness to Risking: Future Yellow FKever Visitations, 5 e T TS Special ‘Dispatcn to The Cail. tof the presert week the autherities -in charge of the fever situation believe they | Will be in such thorough toucn with con- | ditions that they will be able to speak "wllh authority as_to their ability to con-|| trol and eradicate the disease in advance of the comingof the frost. Dally the system of inspection and report is be- coming more perfect and by that time. not only will it be.possible .to tell pre- | cisely the extent of the fever, but a | period will have arfived when no more new cases traceable to the original infec- tion may be expected. . Ly Three deaths occurred fn the Emergency Hosplgal to-day, the number of patients in which has largely been increased. All | | cases found with no relatives to care for | them are promptly removed to the insti- tution where the most elaborate modern | arrangements have been made for their treatment. President Souchon of the State Board of Health received advices to-day that | the Wilmot case at Morgan City had | | been pronounced yellow fever. Morgan | City is twenty miles from New Orleans, | and the announcement of the case there will doubtless be followed by the bottling | up of the town. No other case in Louisi- | ana has been reported in the last two or | three days. It is generally believed here that when the present sickness passes New Orleans | will not seek to regain the fruit trade | | which has now been diverted to Mobile unless the fruit companies are willing to submit to regulations which will make impossible the introduction of fever. It is almost universally the opinion that, im- portant as this trade has become, it is not sufficientiy profitable for the city to run |again the risk of a recurrence of the present experience. The mosquito ordinance will be passed at the meeting of the Council to-morrow. It will require landlords to screen cis- terns. Fine or imprisonment is the penal- ty for failure to obey the ordinance, Very few houses in the city are without cis- terns and 40,000 or 50,000 of them will re- quire ‘to be screened. The city i now spending some $16,000,000 on a water and sewerage system, which, when completed, will require the abandonment of all cis- terns. i & It will, however, be two or three years before this system is finished. { S HELD FOR OBSERVATION. | Four Childréen With Fever Are Taken | * om Steamer at New York. NEW YORK, July 31.—Symptoms fever, the nature of which has not been determined, was discovered to-day on the steamer Proteus, direct from New Orleans. At the end of the time limit of five days in which the yellow.fever cases develop, the authorities caused four children to be transferred to | | Hoffman Island for inspection for the cause of fever which had just appeared. Three adults accompanied them to the detentlon hospital. The Proteus then proceeded to her dock with the remain- ing passengers and all members of the crew. Great care was exercised when the steamer satled from New Orleans. Four cabin passengers were rejected because they came from 'the Italian quarter of the city and no steerage pas- sengers were allowed on the ship. The crew did not go ashore at all in New Orleans. One possible case of yellow fever which has baffled the doctors for 36 hours was reported at the detentlon hospitai to-day. This man is Vincent Novo, a stoker on the steamer Segu- Tanca. Health Officer Doty announced that the test in Novo's case would be com- pleted to-day. Of the seventeen persons taken off the Seguranca all except Novo were re- leased. et S STATION IS CROWDED. Many Passengers From Infected Ports Are Detained at Havana. HAVANA, July 31.—Seventy-eight arrivals to-day,( from Mexican and Southern State ports again increased the number of passengers detained at the Triscornia station and the authori- | ties are considering the advisabllity of taking some of them to the Mariel sta- tion, where there is abundant room. Of nineteen passengers on the Excel- | stor from New Orleans, 14 were sent to the Triscornia station, as well as were all the 28 passengers on the Martinique from Miami, Fla. The Yucatan, bound from Vera Cruz for New York, brought one feverish patient who was isolated and taken to the Las Animas fever hospital. I S WILL . STAMP OUT FEVER. Minister to. Colombia Sanguine About Isthmian Health Conditions. CHICAGO, July 31.—John' Barrett, Min- ister to Panama until @ month ago and now Minister to Colombia, declared Jast night that the yellow fever will be driven out of the Isthmus, He has arrived here en route to the .Portland Fair. From :’l;nere he goes to his new post in Colom- = ¥ “The fight againgt yellow fever is like a great battle,” he said. “Every effort is made to stamp out the disease. The peo- ple of the United States must not be im- patient if the .progress of the canal is slow. They must remember that the scene of operation is 2000 miles away from the base of supplies.” ARG ‘DIES IN PANAMA. WASHINGTON, July 31.—The Panama Canal Commission to-day received a ca- ble from Governor Magoon the death from yellow fever of Steele Cor- telyou, a er from Muscotah, Kang., who was employed in the auditing office at Panama, There were no addi- ticnal cases. D. C. Lively, an American non-employe at Panama, has recovered. o TR Y - Quarantines Against Fever. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., July 3L.—The Ar- kansas State Board of Health to-night o NEW ORLEANS, July 81.—By the end |- PRESS 10 VAR ON MR BRI Powerful Syndicate Will Establish Twenty - One -Newspapers in Nebraska HOPES TO WIN STATE Would Suppress the Demo- cratic Leader by De- _ feating Him at Home LA v BIRY L Speclal Dispatch to The Call. OMAHA, Nebr., July 31.—A newspaper | trust to defeat W= J. Bryan in any polit- ical aspirations he may cherish i§ being formed in Nebraska, with E. E. Brown | of the Hastings Observer as the active }mometer. The scheme is a part of a whoiesale campaign of education. in be- half of “safe and sane” politics, with no especial reference to the interests of any political party. e 81 | * The plan, as qutlined to-day by Omaha |'people, who are in close touch with the | intentions of those behind the deal, con- templates ‘the establishment of twenty- one papers in the leading towns of Ne- braska—mostly wecklies—to encourage the antl-Bryan sentiment now existing. The move is prompted by the fear that another wave of Bryau popularity may develop as a result of recent disclosures of graft in the big financial and political centers, and Nebraska is to be made the thét, 1f the great silver leader can be de- feated in his home State, his strength will be shorn elsewhere in the country. During the next Presidential contest Brown and his newspaper trust are to have the financial backing of James E. Eccles, ex-Comptroller of the Currency; Paul Morton, president of the Equitable Life; Thomas F. Ryan, the Wall-street king, and Edward A. Cudahy, the Omaha packer. It is said the plan is to make Omaha the headquarters of the chain of papers and to this end an option has been se- cured on the Omaha Commercial, a weekly business paper, from the National Print- ing Company, its present owners. The Commercial, it is further said, will be turned into a daily and the Observer will be moved from Hastings to Lincoln. lcoking after some of the details of the organization, left for Denver last even- ing. He is expected to return in a few days. WILLIAMSON’S NEPHEW ON WITNESS STAND Gives Damaging Testimony in Portland Land Fraud Case. PORTLAND, July 31.—In the .trial of Congressman - Williamson, Gessner and Biggs to-day, on the land frauds indict- ment, Williamson's nephew, Ernest Starr, testified that there had been an umndel standing between Gessner and himself that Geesner should pay $500 for Starr's claim when he secured a patent from the Government, Starr is the witness who surrendered Saturday after being pursued into the mountains east of Eugene, Ore. In the course of his testimony he stated that he left Portland partly to escape testifying against his uncle. Dr Gessner was recalled to deny Starr’s testimony and Marion Biggs verified tes- timony previously given, after which Prosecutor Heney began his argument for the Government. : Heney’s argument was masterly and di- rect. At times he grew caustlc, especially when he alluded to Congressman Wil- liamson as the arch conspirator and ac- cused him of having planned the whole scheme. At the conclusion of the District Attorney's argument court was adjourned until to-morrow, when the argument for the defense will be commenced. Heney in the course of his argument said: “It has been intimated in this trial that T am after the big fish and not the little ones, and let me say that while I am- United States Attorney in Oregon I shall keep after the big fish. The pur- pose of these prosecutions is to deter oth- ers. I tell you that imprisonment of one of the millionaire bribe givers has a more deterrent effect than sending to jail some poor legislator who is induced to take the bribe by his poverty. We propose to make an example of the people who have been at the head of this grafc and sfop it.” DISCOVERS THAT HIS WIFE IS NOT A LADY w York Man After Eleven Years Asks Divorce on Peculiar Grounds. Special Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, July 31.—One of the most remarkable charges ever contained in a legal document is that made by Abra- ham Leakin, a taflor, against his wife, Dora. The Leakins have been married eleven years. Now the husband makes affidavit that his wife of eleven years is a _man. B TLeakin swears, In papers prepared by his counsel, that his wife “never was a woman.” He, nevertheless, injects more mystery Into the case by refusing to state whether she was man or woman. Mrs, Leakin {s“tall and slim, her shoul- ders are broad, her hands are large and strong, and strength is a dominant char- acteristio of her features. e—— . Married in San Jose. PALO ALTO, July 3L—Augustus D. Krause and Miss Alice Tricknoo, both of Palo Alto, were married yesterday in San Jose by Rev. Father James. The young people are well known here, Mr. Krause being a prominent business man. R R A Marine Engineer Drowned. SAN PEDRO, July 31.—Thomas Souls- by, aged 33, a marine engineer of San Francisco, was accidentally drowned last night by falling from the Southern Pa- cific wharf. Hi: body was recovered. It 1s believed Soulsby was a member of the créw of the United States lighthouse ten- der Madrona. L e e R S SR R T a tine for this State against all places where yellow fever ex- ists. ‘ o CASE IN MISSISSIPPL Yellow Fever Appears at Lumberton, but Patient Is NEW ORLEANS, July 31.—A special to the Picayune from Lumberton, Miss., says : Drs. Wasdin and Donald discover- ed a case of yellow fever here yester- day evening. The patient, who is an Italian, is deing well and will soon be up. The reported killing of two Ttal- fans’ and wounding of three others while attempting to escape from the detention camp here, was erroneous. hotbed of the campaign, on the theory | Brown, who was In Omaha on Saturday | FORTY-NIN Continued From Page 1, Column 4. | fendant soctety.” Mercantile Safe Deposit Company, | rental of which is declared te have been inadequate and the terms of the lease greatly to the disadvantage of the Equi- | table Society; furthermore, that James H. Hyde, James W. Alexander, Gage E. violation of their duty to the Equitable | Society. Referring to the purchase of the capi- tal stock of the Missouri Safe Deposit Company, for whickr the Equitable paid $250 for each $100 par value, the eleventh section of the complaint declares that | the Equitable received but | rent for the premises occupled by | Safe Deposit Company; that at the time {of the stock purcthase 1410 shares out o: | a total of 2000 were owned by James H. | Hyde and the remainder by others of | the individual defendants, some of whom | were officers In the Safe Deposit Com- | pany and in the Equitable; furthermore, | that at the time of the purchase the Safe ;Depauu Company had no assets beyond the lease and good will of the business ;b)’ virtue of the lease. RAKE-OFF FOR TRUST COMPANY. The matter of loans to agents, which | were assigned to the Commercial Trust Company of Philadelphia, is set forth, | the charge being made that for the | money advanced on such assignments 3 the | Tarbell and other defendants were di- | : | rectors in the Mercantile Safe Deposit| 204 loss of the praperty of the d Company and thereby derived a profit in| E EQUITABLE OFFICERS ARE SUL value of property belonging to the de-' Secticn 10 of the compiaint deals with | the lease of premises in New York to the | the * as nominal | stockholders, which loan of 250,000 was made upon grossly Inadequate security, and. which property securing said loan was appraised in 1901 by the insurance department of the State of New York at the sum of $150,000. DEPEW’S BROKEN FAITH. “That sald Depew Improvement Com- pany subsequently became insolvent, and the property which secured said loan was bid in at foreclosure sale for about §5 000, thereby resulting in a great society. “That the referee’s deed for said prop- erty was not recorded by said defendant society until about January 12, 195, and that in the meantime no px were taken to collect the judgment for the deficiency thereon, and the same has ever since remained due and unpaid. “That sald Depew and others of the in- | dividual defendants agreed with the de- fendant soclety that they would save d defendant soctety harmiess from loss by reason of said loan, if said so- clety would refrain from recording eaid deed and from enforcing said defici judgment. That sald society did frain, but said defendants have neglected and refused to pay the amount to said losses, sald soclety had so suffered It is -further charged that “the de- fendants wastefully, improperly and | improvidently permitted the defendant society for a number of years past to | per cent interest was paid, while the | trust company at the same time held | large sum® of the society’s money for | which it paid but 3 per cent interest. Referring to the merger in 1882 of the | Western National Bank of the City of | New York, in which the Equitable So- | clety was the owner of 12,000 shares, | with the National Bank of the United States of New York, the complaint says | the society received $70 in cash and 3140 | in stock of the Consolidated Bank in ex- | change for each $100 par value of the | stock in the Western National Bank, making the total amount received $219 for each share, the market value of which at the time was from 3600 to 3625 per share. A schedule of the salaries pald dur- ing the last five years to the principal officers of the society is appended to the complaint, which declares such sal- aries to have been largely in excess of named and that the payment of such salaries resulted in substantial loss to the soclety. It is also charged that, in addition to the salaries referred to, the individual defendants, as officers, mem- bers of committees, trustees or agents, “permitted the defendant society to pay to many of the above named officers and directors and to others large and unwarranted sums as expenses incurred by such persons in the service of the society, and said sums were paid with- out sufficlient vouchers, without proper proof of their amounts and without it being properly shown that the sald de- fendant soclety in any way benefited by such expenditures or was legally or properly chargeable therewith.” GRAFT IN GUISE OF SALARIES. The complaint also charges: “That the defendants wrongfully caused the defendant society and a number of other societies and corpora- tions in which the defendant soclety was largely a stockholder and in which some of said individual defendants were also stockholders, to pay large sums of money to themselves, or to some of their number and to other per- sons under the guise of salaries and fees for attending to their duties as of- ficers and directors and members of committee of defendant soclety, of several other societies and corpora- tions.” Especial mention is made of the re- ceipt by Mr. Hyde of salaries aggre- gating $27,000 annually from the Equi- table, Mercantile and Commerctfal trust companles, in all of which the Equi- table Life is largely interested. Allegation is also made of the pay- ment of illegal and excessive pension$ to various persons and of the payment of “excessive, improper and unwarrant- ed sums to various attorneys and coun- selors at law, the aggregate amount of which far exceeded and was entirely disproportionate to the services ren- dered.” Of the ioan to the Depew Improve- ment Company the complaint charges: “That the defendants improperly, im- providently and wastefully procured and permitted the defendant soclety to loan the sum of $250,000 to the Depew Improvement Company, a corporation doing business in the State of New York, in which company the defend- ants, Chauncey M. Depew and others of the individual defendants, ‘were U 300 better opportunity to get one. the value of the services of the persons | and | keep during almost the whole of each year excessive, unnecessary and un- Wwarranted sums of money on deposft with the National Bank of Commerce, New York; the Mercantile Trust Com- pany, New York; the Equitable Trust Company, New York; the Commercial ; Trust Company, Philadelphia, and at least nineteen other banks and trust companies, in some or all of which the individual defendants, or sets of them, were stockholders, directors or officers, which sums were deposited at inade- quate rates of interest. instead of in- vesting them in proper and more re- munerative forms of investment, and permitted said defendant soelety, res- ularly, for a number of years past to conceal this fact and mislead and de- celve the policy hoiders of the soctety in respect thereto by annually, oun De- cember 27 to 29, loaning approximately $10,000,000 on collateral security, which sald loans have been regularly called in on January 3 or J: ary 5 and the fundy redeposited Im the depositories from which they had been temporarily withdrawn for this purpose.” After reciting that the society has at the end of each year caused a balance to be struck purporting to show the net surplus earned during the preced- ing year, the complaint declares that the defendants have falled to divide among the policy holders an equitable share of the net surplus at the expira- tion of each five years, as provided by the society’s charter. The complaint continues: “Plaintiff further alleges that the rules and regulations adopted and here- tofore acted upon by the defendant so- ctety and its officers, with the approval and consent of the soclety’s directors, tor the ascertainment of the Equitable share of the surplus due to each poil- icy holder were add are incorrect, ille- gal and improper and that, of the sur- .plus now heid or purporting to be held by the defendant society, as shown by its statements, a sum approximating $10,000,000 is held by the society, In which said sum the present policy hold- ers, in violation of the law and the express terms of the charter, would have no interest under said rules and regulations. “That the defendant soclety and the individual defendants. as officers and di- rectors thereof, have held and reported in the reports to the tax commissioners of the city of New York that the entire surplus belongs to the policy holders. “That the present policy holders of the defendant society are entitled to the whole of the present net surplus of the society, after deducting a sufficient amount to cover all outstanding risks and other obligations, in accordance with the charter, and are entitled to have an equitable share of said net surplus credited to or paid to or ap- plied for the bemefit of each policy holder, in accordance with the charter and with la —_————————— Decker Seant to Asylum. LOS ANGELES, July 31.—George Deck- er, the once famous first baseman draw- ing $5000 a year, was committed to the State Hospital at Patton to-day hope- lessly Insane, with homicidal mania. —_——— ST. PETERSBURG, July 31.—The Govern- ment is instituting trials of American car and Moscow . Director the Moscow- Kazen line, who equipped a train of eight care with these couplers, is a&n emthusiastic advo- cate of their use. - . Couches on Sale This Week We have bought the surplus stock of the Couch and Sofa manufacturers who supply this Coast. Couches are goods that cannot be carricd over, and we have been able to bid in this . surplus stock for one-third less than actual cost. We are sell- ing them upon terms as small as $1 down and $1 a week, and at one- third less than the regular selling price. You need a pretty Couch in your home—you will never get a o ‘ 4 b