The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 8, 1905, Page 1

The Ca Forecast made at Ei N Ban Francisco and Prints thirty hours ending midnight, Aagust | Tuesday morning becoming fair Guring day; fresh west winds. G. H WILLSON, Local Forecaster, Temporarily in Charge. an Francisco for vicintty—@oggy reer not Her." in San F ALCAZAR—'“The Ounly Way." CHUTES—Specialties. Matinee. CENTRAL—No Wedding Bells for COLUMBIA—'“Weather Beaten Ben- GRAND—'‘The Merchant of Venice."” MAJESTIC—"The Jut." ORPHEUM—Vaudeville, TIVOLI—'"Rob Roy." rAncisco SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, AUGUST CAPTAIN TAGGERTS ARREST DUEDE WITIE ~T0 PLOT OF CONSPIRATORS. | “The custom of becoming intoxicated is looked down upon, both socially and offi- | cially, in the army. It is one of the strangest things in the world to put an officer | 1in confinement. I never saw it done but once in my life—when a man was suffer- ing from delirium tremens. I saw Captain Taggart before he was put into the hos- | pital and he was utterly sober. I also knew it was recorded in the hospital that he | was there for alcoholism. I knew that it was untrue and that he was put there to cover up the real facts.”—ZFrom Major Morton's Deposition. -— s + Army Men Give | | the Case ’ T R secution. . —————e < Sr h to The Call, WOOSTER, Ohio, Aug. T ~Testimony scnsational fa the weiled intimation that it contained was given to-day in | the trial of the Taggart divorce case. | Army officers, ome a superfor of Cap- | tain Ta rt, testified as to bis worth as soldier and husband, and, incidental- | Iy, expressed the belief that Taggart | | | VAN BENSSELAER- IO » ! - i was wrongfully imearcerated im ylri-‘ son on charges of drunkenness. It is Captain Taggart's contention that his arrest was the result of a conspiracy, and in commection therewith it is in- | teresting to note that the name of an- other of his superiors has been men- tioned urnfavorably with that of Mrs. gart. The testimony ziven to-day lends color te the claim that Captain a vietim of persecution for the affec- sition of | L ¥ & the W flf‘ | ARMY OFFICER WHOSE ME PIGURES PROMINENTLY IN THE TAGGART formerly | DIVO) NDAL, AND SURGEON WHOSE DEPOSITION WAS PRESEN perior officer at 1 ED. BEHALF OF THE AOCUSING HUSBAND. o Yy arrest which for follow- domestic excellent and plary d, as was his tation for morali sobriety 1 think it is pla at Taggart's treatment of his wife should be a model for every husband in the world,” Morton testified. “His tre at of his children was always kind and considerate.” SAYS TAGGART WAS SOBER. Testimony as to whether Taggart's ar- rest and confinement were unus was ruled out temporarily, though the plai ped upon ue ar this arrest was based the cruelty count of the captain’s charges against his wife, it being alleged that it was unusual, contrary to regu- lations and the result of conspiracy. custom of becoming intoxicated ic looked down upon, both socially and officially, the army,” the deponent said. “It i= one of the strangest things in the world to put an officer in confine- I never saw it done but once in when a man was suffering from tremen I saw Captain Tag- put into the @ospital terly sober. I also knew =4 in the hospital that he aleoholism. I knew that nd that he was put there ment was it was untrue to cover up the real facts.' ply to & question whether, if con- ed against, Taggart could not have ned redress through courtmartial, depone: sald the theory of army discipline was that the presumption was elways in favor of the commanding offi- cer and that to obtain redress Taggart would have heT+to overcome that pre- | sumption. COLONEL HOF¥'S TESTIMONY. | The deposition of Colonel John Van Renssalaer Hoff, assistant surgeon gen- erai of the army, followed. been at Fort Leavenworth in July, and thad gone with Colonel Miner to see Mrs. Taggart. He did not consider her con- aition nervous or hysterical, but was im- pressed with her self-possession. This Awas on July 1, the day of Taggart's ar- Continued on Page 2, Column 6. | &t 124 West Fourteenth street, INDISTURBED B HIS WIFES - WARNING NOTE Notice of Intended Sui- . cide Only Angers 3 Husband. ok Special Dispatch to The Call. | CINCINNATIL Ohlo, Aug. 7.—“When | you read this I'll be at the bottom of the | fiver. You need not loox for me. Let | my darling Viola remain with mother, | and never tell her what ber heart-broken mother did. I am tired, tired, tired.” Thus read a note, written. in the trem- bling hand of a woman, found by A. L. | Williams when he returfied to his, home “I'll take care that she s not fooling me. She will never use this stuff again,” was Williams' only remark, and, seizing & hatchet, he began wrecking the furni- ture, inciuding a fine plano. He took his own belongings and left, saying: “I am going to San Francisco.” Earlier in the morning tenants in the same house say that loud words were ex- changed by Willlams and his wife. The. couple had lived at the address but a month, having come there, according to Mrs. Willlams’ story, to start their mar- ried life over again after a separation. He had left her in San Francisco, she said, concealing their child from her, and later rejoining her here. A watch is be- ing kept along the river and canal IARDERBILTS SPARE CHANCE (S TO WAL Frederick W, Makes a Second Gift of $1,000,000. S Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 7.—Freder- ick W. Vanderbilt has given to the Shef- field Sclentific School at Yale a $1,000,000 dormitory. This is his second donation 6f a similar character within a year. first was in memory of his brother, Cor- THE FIRST 10 ARRIVE Now at Ports- mouth. e Japanese Will Reach Meeting Place To-Day. Formal Reception to Guests of Nation Delayed Forty- Eight Hours, PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Aug. 7.—Sergius de Witte arrived in this city to-night from Boston at 11:15 o'clock, coming in a special car attached to the Bar Harbor express. He was enabled to avoid the crowd of several hundred persons assem- bled at the railroad station through the train stopping at a crossing a quarter of a mile from the depot. Mr. de Witte was met by Herbert D. Peirce, son of the Third Assistant Secretary of State, who, in Russian, informally welcomed the dis- tinguished visitor. Governor McLane's secretary, Mr. Moss, also was present. Three automoblles were in waiting and the party was at once taken to Hotel Wentworth, about four miles distant. There was considcreble disappointment among those assembled at the station when the distinguished foreigner failed to appear after the arrival of the train. It was soon learned that the Russians had left the train at the crossing and thére was a rush toward the street lead- ing to Wentworth, but the foreigners were well’ on !herr way before the erowd mgeg he seéne. } wa t disappointment: *r (his city to-day Over ihigw in theé arrival of the Russfan and Japanese peace envoys. Although notice was promptly given yes- terday by Rear Admiral Meade of the Portsmouth navy yard upon learning that the United States warships bearing the representatives, of Japan and Russia had been delayed by fog at Newport, the news of the postponement of the func- tions had not reached many of the citi- zens of Portsmouth and its environs. Consequently this section of New Hamp- shire was astir early, and by 8 o'clock every electric line from the country was bringing crowds of sightscers. ‘When the fact of the postponement be- came generally known there were many expressions of disappointment, but upon the circulation of the rumors of the pos- sible arrival of the ships most of the crowd decided to have a holiday anyway. The postponement of the functions neces- sitated hurry orders to the State troops, which were to have arrived here from gll parts of the State. Governor McLane was up at daylight dictgting telegraphic orders to the troops to reain away until to-morrow. Information also was dis- patched to the Congressional delegation of the State, the members of which had been invited to participate. During the forencon Governor McLane received a telegram from Third Assistant Secretary Peirce stating that the May- flower and Dolphin and the Galveston, their convoy, would not arrive until Tuesday morning and that the proposed reception should be postponed forty-eight hours, without any change in the pro- gramme already arranged. Informal no- tice was then igsued to this effect. Although the navy yard settled back into Its accustomed routine somewhat ear- Her than the residents of the city, the operators in the wireless statfon had a very busy day trying to pick up the Dol- phin, which has the Japanese envoys on board. To-night, in answer to the nu- merous calls, it was said at dark that the Dolphin was oft Cape Cod, seventy- five miles away. She was steaming slow- ly and those on board thought:she would reach the harbor about 9 o'clock to-mor- row morning. On the way from Boston Mr. de Witte dictated a statement concerning dis- . patches from Toklo. It was as follows: ““T have read in the telegram from Toklo that the Japanese captured 30,000 Russian soldlers on the island of Saghalien dur- ing the recent operations there. Now, so far as I know, the whale garrison in Sag- halien Island consisted of no more than 4000. It is a known fact that the Russian soldiprs do not surrender, and if we take into consideration that some of the sol- diers of the island garrison were killed, then the number of captured could not even reach 4000, “I do not wish at all to minimize the successes or bravery of the Japanese, but at the same time all the people of Russia| and myself cannot help being surprised at the cableg which have reached us dur- ing the wéir from Tokio. According to them, if all the Russian soldiers which have from time to time been reported from Toklo as captured, kiiled or wounded had in fact been captured, killed or wounded by the Japanesg, Russia would The | not at this time possess any army at all and then my Journey to the United States nelius Vanderbilt, and it marked the be- | would be quite superfiuous. ginning of the new dormitory system of the school. “Reading ‘these cables, a well known Russian proverb comes to my memory. I Ground will be broken at once for a might translate it thus: ‘One can exag- new building, which, in material and de- | gerate, but there is a limit to exaggera- sign, will correspond closely to the one | fion.’ » erected last year. The-site will be in Col- lege street, between Byers and St. An- thony halls. ) s ot KANEKO TALKS GUARDEDLY. Cornelius Vanderbilt gave the academic | Says Japnnese Are Not Concerned Over department of Yale a dormitory in 1804 in memory of his son, William Henry, who died at Yale while a member of the ju- nior class. Frederick Vanderbilt was graduated from the Sheffield class of 1876. ——— ‘Will Meet at Boston in 1907. GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. 7.—The |apparent frankness about International Anatomical Congress at its first session to-day accepted an in- wvitation to meet in Boston in 1907. Question of Peace. OYSTER BAY, Aug. 7.—Baron Kaneko, the Japanese financial expert, visited Sag- amore Hill late this afternoon, by ap- pointment, for a [erence with the President. Baron Kaneko afterward chatted with elf and about the conditions in his countryf Continued on Page 2, Column 3, ‘Russian Envoy Is $1,50 TERMINAS DESTROIED Y FLANES 0,000 Con- flagration in Hoboken. Trans-Atlantic Liners Threatened With Destruction. Two Ferry Boats Ruined and Entire Water Front Narrowly Escapes. NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—Inside three- quarters of an hour late to-night fire swept away the Delaware, Lacka- wanna and Western Railroad Company’s termlnals in Hoboken, seized two ferry boats and practically ruined them and for half an hour threatened the de- struction of the entire water front in the vicinity, including the Hamburg- American and North German Lloyd steamship docks, at which several big ships were lying. The entire loss is estimated at $1,500,000. So far as known no lives were lost. For more than an hour huge tongues of flame leaped from the wooden struc- ture on the Lackawanna docks, light- ing the New Jersey and New York water fronts. For a time it threatened a loss larger than that of the big dock fire of several years ago when the North German Lloyd plers were de- stroyed with a great loss of life. Blaz- ing ferry boats, cut from their docks, floated in the river, wandering fire ships which for a time endangered shipping in the river. The fire started on_an old weoden ferry boat and spread to the main building of the Lackawanna and then fo the Dukes House. The hotel was a frame struc- ture and was a ready prey - for the flames. By this time the flames were spread- ing in all directions utterly beyond the control of the few fire fighters who had responded to the first aturms. Following the hotel, the structure of the public service corporation went down before the flames. At 1 o'clock this morning tpe fire was under control, the big stéamship piers had been saved and a rough es- timate placed the damage at about $1,500,000. The flames started from an unknown cause on the old wooden ferry boat Hopatchong, which had been tied up In the open slip: between the Hamburg- American docks and the Christopher- street ferry slips. Twenty minutes after the alarm it looked as if the en- tire lower part of Hoboken, including the Hamburg piers would be de- stroyed. The two burning ferry boats | were towed out into the stream by tugs, The Hopatchong sunk later. The new immigration station, built of brick and stone and occupied only two weeks, which cost $70,000 to build and was supposed to be fireproof, was soon 'a mass of fire, the interior burn- ing rapidly. Only a few persons were in the building at the time of the out- break and they were hurried out. ALASKAN SLAVERY TO BE INVESTIGATED Interior Department Takes Task Shirked by the Judiciary. Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Aug. T.—Acting Secre- tary Ryan of the Interlor Department to-day directed Governor Brady of Alas- ka to make an investigation into the charge that slavery exists at Unalaska. ‘The charge was made by,Professor Will- ifam A. Davis, Superintendent of Public Schools at Unalaska. He made the first accusation eighteen months ago when he sald he knew that eight little girls, rang- ing In age from 6 to 12 years, were being held as slaves. They were brought to ,Unalaska from one of the neighboring Aleutian islands. The charges at the time were forward- ed to the Department of Justice. So far as Professor Davis and Acting Secretary Ryan know, nothing has been done to ascertain the truth. A short time ago Professor Davis re- ! terior Department an opportunity of go- ing ahead without awaiting the slow process of the Department of Justice. He asserted in his report that children were held in bondage as were the negroes newed his charge, so as to give the In- before the civil war, but were treated with greater cruelty in that they were not provided with proper clothing and were not permitted to attend school or | associate with other children. - —_————— LEAVES HOUSE FOR FIRST . TIME SINCE OPERATION Takes Drive With His Nurse in Central Park. NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—United States Senator W. A. Clark of Montana, who on July 15 underwent an operation for the removal of a brain abscess, left his apartments for the first time since the operation to-day. Accompanied by a nurse, the Senator drove in Central Park for twenty minutes. It was said at the house that Senator Clark was rapidly regaining his normal condition and he would now drive out each pleas- ant day un his strength was suf- ficient to permit him to leave the city. United States Senator Clark of Montana | PRICE FIVE CENTS. COTTON PRODUCERS WAR UPON BROKERS “We Will Bust Wall Street” the Slogan of Southerners. Special Dispatch to The Call . —_— NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 7. — “We will bust Wall street,”” are the words now be- ing worn on buttons and badges by cot- ton planters throughout Texas, Louls- iana, Mississippl, Arkansas afid the rest of the cotton belt. A New York -cotton broker tipped it to his followers last night that he had Wall street solidly behind him and was going to Sell cotton down to 9 cents this week and still lower next week. It was made to appear that the broker feared the growing power of the Southern Cot- ton Association and decided to crush it at_once. But the method of crushing by the money influence of Wall street was not properly conducted. Officers of the Southern Cotton Association have been and are working night and day. They are sending proclamations out to more than a million members of the assocla- tion telling the farmer that he must not sell a bale of cotton for less than 13 cents, either of the old or the new crop. It is pointed out that the old crop, for all commercial purposes, no longer car- ries with it a surplus large enough to be considered in any commercial statistics and that the present crop does not prom- ise to be larger than 9,000,000 bales, or less than this year's exports. Some farmers already have hauled their cotton to town and, learning of the Wall street threat, have been induced to put on the buttons and take their loads back home, where they will keep it for 12 cents. v Bankers of the South have promised all the money needed to enable cotton holding. This fight between the planters of cot- ton and the Wall street contingent prom- ises to have the center of the stage from now ony FINDS A NEW CAUSE FOR APPENDICITIS. SCIENTIST BLAMES BOTTLE RUBBER Special Dispateh to The Call WASHINGTON, Aug. —Another theory has been advanced regarding the cause of appendicitis. Painstaking in- vestigation has led the surgeons away from the suspected grape seed., which was at first supposed to seek the ap- pendix, and from various other articles ot food to a danger altogether outside ordinary diet. Dr. Pond of Liverpool publishes in the London Lancet a new theory with reference to the origin of appendicitis and other disturbances of the digestive organs. He calls attention to the fact that such ailments often can be at- tributed to antimonial poisoning and the source of the antimohy taken by man is said to be the rubber rings frequently used to close all sorts of bottles. Dr. Pond has established the fact that these rings consist of almost one- third their weight of antimeny. Not only is the antimony disscived by min- eral waters, alkalis and qrganic acids, but the rubber rings, as daily observa- tion shows, soon becomes brittle and some of the compound falls imto the contents of the bottles. In a series of observations, Dr. Pond claims to have found that the frequent- ted introduction of antimony ome a source of a series of dis- turbances of the nutritive and diges- tive system, especially through com- tinued weakening of the muscles of the stomach and intestines. Scientists have taken up the matter of antimony in rubber rings, and If Dr. Pond's conclustons in that regard be proved, his deductions concerning the effect of antimony on the digestive system may be supported by the re- ports of other investigators. ORGANIZE TO SMASH MASHERS Louisville Young Men on Trail of Oglers of Unprotected Women. Speeial Dispatch to The Call. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 7.—Some of the best known and most reputable young men in Louisville have formed a soclety for the promotion of chivalry and the smashing of mashers. For a long time the leading thoroughfares have been in- fested with well dressed young fellows, who have made life wretched for not only shop girls in particular, but for all unat- tended women generally. Joseph D. Bradburn is at the head of the movement to suppress these fellows and the unwrit- ten law Is to smash every one caught, and, if necessary, face the matter in court. There have been three cases recently of such attacks on the streets and no ar- L RATHER THAN REVEAL HIS IDENTITY Fresno Tramp Defies a Justice of the Peace. Special Dispatch to The Call FRESNO, Aug. 7.—A man is in jail here who declares that he would rather stay in prison all his life than have his name published in a newspaper. He has made the declaration five times on five consecutive days when brought before a Justice of the Peace, and each time has been returned to jail without showing any sign of weakening. He was taken off the blind baggage of a passenger train and arrested as a cdmmon tramp some days ago. “I'll know your name if I have to keep you in jail one hundred years,” declared the Judge. “‘Well, you'll keep me a hundred years then. My name will never go Into a newspaper in this town,” was the answer. —_———————— GOVERNMENT JOB FOR LOVUISIANA CHEMIST P. L. Hutchins Is Appointed Traveling Inspector of Agricultural Depart- ment’s Cotton Districts. WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—P. L Hutchins, formerly chief chemist of the State Board of Agriculture of Louisi- ana, who is regarded as an expert in eotton statistics, has been appointed traveling inspector of the Agricultural Department’s cotton districts with the understanding that he will perform duty upon the crop estimating board ‘when called upon to do so. rests have followed, the thrashed man in each case not caring to prosecute or even to tarry on the spot. Bradburn, who is secretary of the Louisville Federation of Labor, in speaking of the movement, said: “I have had conversations with several young men before beginning this crusade against mashing, and they all express willingness to become members of the club. These young men have mothers and sisters and are determined that they shall be allowed to pass along the streets un- molested. There are various ways in which the club can operate, but I be- lieve the most effective way would be to do a little judiclous punching at places where the law does not reach. BO0K OF HAYS WRITINGS WILL BF PUBLISHED Daughter of Late Sec- retary Inherits the Manuscripts. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call, 'NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—Mrs. Payne ‘Whitney, who was Helen Hay, daughter of the late Secretary of Staty John Hay and who inhesited in marked degree her father’s literary tastes and talents, has been bequeathed a large number of her father’s unpublished manuscripts. » Mr. and Mrs. Whitney, who were on their way to Europe when John Hay died 80 suddenly, have been abroad ever since, the greater part of the time at Aix-les- Baines with Mr. and Mrs. Paget, the lat- ter being a sister of Payne Whitney. They salled from England to-day for New York, and on their arrival here next week, after a brief visit to Mrs. Hay at Fells, her summer home on Lake Suna- pee, will go to their country place near Manhassett, L. L, where Mrs. Payne Whitney will devote herself to prepara- tion for the publication of the manu- scripts left to her by the author of “The Breadwinners,” of “Little Breeches" and of “Jim Bludsoce. ——————————— Monsoon a Disappointment. BOMBAY, Aug. 7—The monscon this year has, generally speaking, proved disappointing and as a consequence there is much anxfety. In the province of Punjab the crops in the unirrigated lands are already suffering. There has been an abmormal deluge in the pro- vince of Cujerat. causing extensive damage and rendering ten thousand persons homeless,