The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 14, 1905, Page 1

« The Call Prints More News Than Any Other Paper Published in San Francisco HICH RATE ASKED FOR CALL LOANS Wall-Street Bor- Murphy Likely to| rowers Pay 25 Per Cent. Blightly Margined Ac- counts Closed Out by Banks. v LG Becretary Shaw Refuses to Go to the Aid of Specu- lative Interests. S WASHINGTON, Nov. I13.—Secretary ©f the Treasury Shaw believes there is money enough in circulation the banks over the hard pinces and the = to tional treasury will not go to the re- licf of speculative imterests. Natiomal their stringency. nks plu however, the may use sur- to m o ates also caused a s ng exchange, in - a don sold down 2 me 3 h gold was $my two months | £g P t e 1d that gold » ion made bor | c Ge m broke okerage ac- around the dows cle f money ar wers tement of different groups seemed to i, Borrowers of money on ned accounts at banks emselves sold out. On many of 1 the collateral consisted of so- 1 pool stocks, and these were thrown he market. Reading was the chief rer of the day, losing an extreme 4 poin Metropolitan Street Ralil- Smelting common, Brooklyn Rapld way Transit and other active stocks lost from £ to 2 points FALSE TEETH SAVE A MAN FROM DEATH Deflect Bullet Which Would Have Passed Through His Brain. patch to The Call 13.—At m Semper Ana- had .a t been due to the fact that the was deflected by his false teeth d mow be a subject for the r was acked by Swan An- mbler, in the Turf Ex- saloon e men had quar- 1y n nd Anderson vengeance. Several hours son returned wWith a re- fired, the ball striking e cheek, knocking out two was deflected by some den- E: nination showed that of the bullet was upward not been deflected it would r passed through the brain. prcti Siruadesa < RO b, NEGRO MOB THREATENS TO LYNCH A WHITE MAN ATLANTA 13.—T. Z. Jus- t 2 white man, charged with as- | . on a negro girl, was captured » of negroes here to-day. Jus- threatened with violence and the increased to more than 1000, demanding that he be lynched. A strong force of police rescued Justice THE WEATHER. [ Forecast for November 14, 1005 Ean Francisco and vietnity—Cloudy Tucsday; light north winds, changing’ 1y A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. tide he floor of the Stock Exchange the | instant death and | | R SR THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—"The Lit CALIFORNIA—Tiger to-day. CENTRAL—"The Darkest CHUTES—Vaudeville. COLUMBIA- FISCHER'S—Vaudeville. GRAND—“Buster Brown." LYRIC HALL—Watkin Milly Concert The Light ORPHEUM—Vaudev TIVOLI—Grand O he Prince of Plisen.”” Minister." iltes. Matince Hour. Matinee. Eternal ille. SAN F RANCISCO, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 1905. e PRICE FIVE TAMMANY - NEW CHIEF Lay Down the Reins. 'Mayor McClellan Dis- posed to Join the Opposition. Grand Jury Returns Number of Indictments for Elec- tion Frauds. 1 Dispatch to The Call. 13.—Charles F. Mur- rily from the lead- Hall if Mayor Mc- join the Tammany leaders sfied with Murphy's man- the city campaign and should dvisabuity of such a step. dropped by Murphy's after his return from At- nd his reappearance at Tam- the first time since the tion. nly one bright spot in the ele Murphy, and that is the of the Mciarren machine 3 "he feud between Mur- tor McCarren has been re- if the Tammany leader re- r he will not rest until he q rren as a factor in tic politics. It is re- significant fact that, while the Mayor are blaming r the refusal to nominate Dis- Attorney Jerome, for the predomi- f the gas issue and for other ele- of weakness, laming the Mayor for insisting upon trict nance hollow truce between Murphy and tor McCarren. hagd littie to say to-day. He t discuss the general result, nor attempt to account for the large t vote is elected was asked *McClellan Murphy replied with em- u seen Senator McCarren since of which were present twelve attorneys, all of whom have been retained to represent Mayor McClellan to-morrow when the | Board of Canvassers will meet, it was de- cided to rely entirely on the existing | election decisions and the law as it is re- corded in the statutes. Parker pointed out that there was o one question nvolved and that was covered by the de- of the Court of Appeals, which was written by him. He said that it was a | dangerous practice to open the ballot boxes and in his opinion it was not within the province of th | A large number o; | York election fraud cases were issued by the Grand Jury to-day. Immediately afterward bench warrants were issued. law to do so. tments in New RALWAY BIL * SURE TO PASS IV THE HOLSE Cannon Says It Will | Stand Any Constitu- | tional Test. —_———— Erectal Dispar>n 10 The Call. CHICAGO, Nov. 1 C Speaker Joseph G. nnon was in town to-day on his ; way to Washington to prepare for the | opening of the coming session of Con- gress. Cannon would not talk about his re-election as Speaker, but, as no | one is opposing him, it is certain that he will be re-elected after being nomi- nated by the Republican caucus by unenimous vote. As to probable action by Congress Cannon said: “I look to see a railroad rate bill passed by the House fairly early in the session. As whatever bill is passed by the House must go to the Senate, I presume the House measure will be passed as soon as possible. Of course I cannot say what form the rate bill will take, but it will be one that will | stand any constitutional test‘that may | be applied to it. It will be a bill that | will recognize the legal rights of all concerned. = 3 “1 think no revenue legislation will | be enacted at this. session.” Bauker Sentenced to Prison. | sr. PAUL, Minn.. Nov. 13.—Thomas B. Clement, president of the First Na- tional Bank of Faribault, Minn., who was convicted of embezzling the funds of the bank, causing its fallure, was to-day sentenced to Serve eight years and took him to police headquarters. in prison. Murphy's partisans | McClellan or Hearst?" | BOODLERS CORNERED “Judge” Hamilton, to Be Forced to Testify. Must Tell What He Did With Insur- ance Money. McCall Promises to Repay $235,000 Bribery Fund to New York Life. NEW YORK, Nov. 13.—John Call, president of the New Yo Life Insurance Company, was called before the Armstrong investigating commit- tee to-day and requested peremptorily by the committee to order the return from Europe to this country of Andrew Hamilton, the Ilawyer whe has had | charge of legislative matters of the New York Life Insurance Company. McCall | was further ordered to demand an ac- | counting from Hamilton of the money | expended by him and of the balance which he owes to the New York LI McCall denied that it was the policy of the company to have Hamilton re- | | main abroad until after this investi- | gation had been concluded, and said | that, on the contrary, he would very | much like to have Hamilton return. McCall, replying to Hughes, counsel | for the committee, said he had called the attention of the board of trustees of the company to his testimony before the committee relative to Hamilton and | gave Hughes 3 copy of his statement, | which said f Hamilton did not re- turn o the New York Life Insurance Company the sum of $3235,000 by De- cember 15 he would himself pay it to to the company. McCall said Hamilton was etither in Paris or Nauheim. TAKING CARE OF LEGISLATORS. Another interesting line of examina- tion was opened up just before the ad- journment of the day when John Mc- of the Equitable | produced letter | embodying in- | Comptroller | and memoranda | structions from former Thomas D. Jordan of the Equitable Life to A. C. Fields, relative to the| | killing or assisting the pa: of | every bill introducea in the Legislature | that would affect the intcrest of the | insurance company or any of its offi- | cers. This line of examination will | | be followed out when the sessions are | | resumed to-morrow. Other witnesses to-day were John R. | Hegeman, president of the Metropolitan | Life and Vice President Fiske, who were | interrogated concerning agents’ salaries, | | | { | legal expenses of the company, real es- tate holdings and the methods of ac- quiring propertis and the fact was brought out that the fire insurance firm that places all the risks on the properties of the Metropolitan Company is composed | { of W. D. Edmister and Silas B. Dutcher, | | the latter a director of the Metropolitan Life. The published answer to a question pro- pounded by insurance commissioners of several Btates after the Equitable dis- closures was read to Hegeman. This answer was published after the payment of $13,000 into the company’s treasury and stated that no officer benefited from the company's syndicate participations ana that the company received all the profits of them. Hughes brought out that the answer covered the situation as it ex- isted in July, when the answer was made, and not at any previous ‘time. MUTUAL BENEFIT SCHEME. ‘Willlam A. Reade, the banker for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and former member of the firm of Ver- milye & Co., was questioned about the re- bates to Hegeman on personal loans. He sald the rebates were an instance of tavoritism to a client whom the firm had known a number of years. His as- sociation, he sald, had been a profitable one to the firm. According to a schedule, the Metropolitan Life bought in the past ten years $98,000,000 in securities, of which $87,000,000 was from Vermilye & Co.; In the same period $25,000,000 worth of se- ourities were sold by the Metropolitan Life, of which $24,000,000 worth were sold through this firm. Reade, explaining the loans to him by the Metropolitan Life, of which $100,000 and $200,000 were at 114 and 2 per cent.l respectively, sald Hegeman or Fiske made the loans. He left it to them to fix | the rate. The rate was considerably un- der the market rate, Reade said, and he demurred at it several times, but was told that the company was under obliga- tions to him and would fix the rate sat- isfactorily to the company. —_————————— 3 GOVERNMENT VICTORIOUS i AT SPANISH ELECTIONS Trouble Occurs at Several Places and a Number of Arrests Are Ma MADRID, Nov. 13.—The municipal | ! elections throughout the country yes- | terday resulted favorably to the Gov- ernment, but the Republicans show fin- creased majorities at many points. The result in Madrid was twenty-one Gov- ernmentals, five Republicans and two Soclalists. The police arrested sixty repeaters. Election affrays occurred at various places. The university here was reopened to- day, owing to the subsidence of the student disturbances. —_—— Scores Killed in Mine. JOHANNESBURG, Transvaal Colony, Nov. 13.—A vertical shaft in the Drye- fontein mine collapsed to-day. One white man and sixty-seven natives were killed. SOCIETY LEADER CLAIMS ROYAL DESCENT MAY ELECT | AT ALBANY |[SAYS ANCESTOR WA S AN ENGLISH KING ARS. REQINALD |0 O0OCDALK | e > ! s i a ““S | | f— iy SAN FRANCISCO WOMAN AND HER DAUGHTER, WHO CLAIM TO BE DESCENDANTS OF KING GEORGE IV OF GREAT CATHOLCSH O ANONG THE MPASE Sixty Thousand Native Converts in the Empire. Special Dispatch to The Call. TOKIO, Nov. 13—The editor of the Nippon, commenting on Bishop O'Con- nel's visit to Japan, points out in his newspaper that the Catholics have made the largest number of converts of any foreign falth, | there being 60,000 native Catholics in the empire. But where the work is going on or what form it is taking the Japanese as a whole do not know, as it creates not a ripple on the surface. Catholic teachers work among the poor and humbly housed people, while the rich Japanese incline rather to the Prot- estant faith. Yet the Protestant propa- gandists leave much to be desired In re- spent to ability and personal as no great teacher of this foreign faith is now in Japan. The Greek church, which has met with some success in its work, has the misfortune to be asso- clated in the Japanese mind with Rus- sia’s policy of political aggression. These views of an influential Japanese editor are interesting, as glving the native opinion of the Ghristian workers in) Japan.: ———————— Big Vessel Not Wrecked. 3 PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 13.—A spe- cial dispatch to the Telegram from Til- lamook, Ore., says that the vessel which was reported ashore at that wgmm‘mmnothdmmbm had sought refuge In the harbor and was at anchor. She put to sea to-day. Her iden was not learned. She was a four-: ed ship. 'I:itle to Great Fortune Rests Upon Proof of Lineage. Romance a century old, with a monarch of Great Britain, a beautiful belle of his day, a secret marriage, a vast estate and revelations one hundred years afterward, these are some of the elements which enrich with much dramatic coloring the disclosure that Mrs. S. W. Holladay of this city is a lineal descendant of King George IV, in fact a granddaughter of that ruler of Britain. 3 ‘With a fortune sald to run into $25,- 000,000, with.a title to the crown of Eng- land that might press Edward VII close- 1y, Mrs. Holladay and her daughters, the beautiful Mrs. Reginald Brook. of Lon- don and Mrs. Allen Messer, occupy a central position in the remarkable un- folding of the romance of a Prince and the secret loves of a crowned head. Last Friday, by command of King Ed- ward, documents were opened in the Coutts Bank, London, which declared and confirmed the morganatic marriage of King George IV and Mrs. Marie Anne Smythe-Fitzherbert in 1795, when he was Prince of Wales. These papers: sald to have been under seal for four score years, reveal, it is announced, the unifon of the Prince of the realm and the olebeian, who was one of the famous beauties of her time. Contemporary chronicles. gos- sip concerning that marriage, but because it was morganatic the royal family de- ‘clined to recognize ft. * DAUGHTER OF PRINCE'S SON. Now comes the link thai connects. the charming Mrs. Holladay with this eight- eenth century court romance. Of that marriage there was issue, a son, who, the tale runs, was given by the King’s discarded spouse to a friend, one James Ord. Ord came to America with the to be his son, the elder Ord died he summoned the youth to disclose the great secret of his birth. But the story was sealed by death. In his will, however, Ord revealed to his young ward the startling fact that he was in truth a Prince of England and could have laid claim to the thrope. - Young Ord grew to manhood, being edu- "cated, it is sald. by the British Govern- ment. His mother, discarded by her royal spouse, lived for years in Londep, neglected and scorned. She died, so the mmm-w:“::;':utm marvelous creature who ‘won favor of a Prince. George IV had no use for the beauty after he ascended the throne, - Down through the years lived James Ord. He married and a large family survived. In early days Ord came to Californfa, where he was active in the service of the United States Gov- ernment to establish the sovereignty of the American flag. He dled at Omaha at the age of 95 years. As Ord’'s daugh- ter, Mrs. Holladay is In a position to assert her claim as the granddaughter of George IV and a direct heiress to on estate which is sald to have been left by the monarch, and which, If the marriage to Mrs. Fitzherbert can be definitely established before the Brit- ish Government, will in large part de- scend to this leader in San Francisco's soclety saet. HOLLADAYS KNOW OF CLAIM. Mrs. Holladay is the wife of Samuel ‘W. Holladay, the attorney. Her daugh- ter, Mrs. Messer, resides with them at Octavia and-Clay streets. The Holla- days were well Informed cdncerning the documents which were revealed in London. Mrs. Messer sald that at the time of Mrs. Fitzherbert's death all of her papers and effects were destroyed except five documents. These were ealed by direction of the British crown and were placed In vaults, It is saild they were sealed by the Duke of Wel- lington, the Earl of Albemarle and rd Stourton, Mrs. Fitzherbert’s cou- in and confidant. " So far as the estate is concerned Mrs. Messer declared last night that the family had no knowledge of it and that the recently disclosed documents failed to furnish any information on that fea- ture. Attorney Holladay will take charge of the battle with Great Britain in behalf of his wife’s rights. Mrs. Brook, being at the British capi- tal, is in a. well-favored peosition to help her mother as further develop- ments of this romantic marriage are “disclosed. But Mrs. Holladay is not the only descendant of the original Ord who has ‘taken a llvely Interest in the revela- tions of the last few days. In Chi- cago dwells James L. Ord, superintend- ‘ent of comstruction of the Western Union Telegraph Company, formerly a resident of San Jose. -This Ord, a son of Judge John 8 Ord and grandson of the Fitzherbert Ord, has declared his purpose to begin proceedings at once to e 21 e N A S e W—r—sw—l p— | TOBACED PUTS 0T HONDRE SCHIOL BOYS Lads Experiment With Free Samples of Plug Cut. —_— ~ Special Dispatch to The Call LYONS, N. Y, Nov. l.—About 100 pu~ pils in the lower grades of the Lyons Uns which the school had to be closed and & number of doctors summoned. An advertising agent for a tobacco firm struck the town to-day and began giving away samples of leaf tobacco. Each pack- age contained two and a half ounces. The agent employed a lot of boys to hand out samples on the streets. As a consequence every boy of school age was soon going to school with a package of tobacco In his possession. One youth set the fun go- ing by taking a mouthful of the weed. His example was promptly followed by the rest of the boys. Miss Halpin was the first teacher to see trouble. She noticed that some of her pupils were siting with their heads on the desks, while they appeared to be pale. Like experiences occurred im three other rooms. Miss Halpin made an in- vestigation and found eighteen sick boys who had been chewing tobacco. Five doctors were summoned. They la- bored with the children, and finally the pupils In all of the five grades were lot out of fchool for the afternoon, the sick ones going home, some with other chil- dren and some with their parents. Health Officer Veder as soon as he heard of the occurrence took steps to prosecute the agent who had distributed the samples, but he had gone west ea an early tralo.