The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 22, 1905, Page 1

, The Call} ]?mniM Librazy.*** poc e THE WEATHER cs.sm!— Sapho. ? fi < San cisco and vieinity—Cloudy /i CHUTES—Vaudeville. L \‘/;’ | Wednestay: 1ght north winds, chans- A= T Wta Gk~ N 5 to west GRAND—“Beau Brummel.” x ing v esteriy. i i Vet ’ FISCHER'S— Vaudeville. /\ $ A. G. McADIE, MAJESTIC—“The Light Eternal” S/ /% . Y A 3 ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. Matines fo- / 0 Forecaster. oy 7 s | “TIVOLI—Comic Opers. . NOVEMBER 22, :1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. INSURANCE MONEY JSWELLS _ NEW YORK CAMPAIGN- FUND Lmtcd State< Senator Thomas C. Platt of New York testified the yester: at insurance investigation y that he had received insurance companies 0,000 contributions to State campaign was shown by another witness that for years W. S. Manning of A-\ii)any has been on the of the large companies, presumably because he possessed secret knowledge as to their business methods. B it < RSN, © Senator P/a/f Tells of Frequent Con- iributions. ¥ T SUMS OF $ro,000 GO INT10 “SACK” Mysterious Friend of Depew Brought to Light. UANNING PAID 7o AbLP;zL TET rkerous isclosed was d Legislative the to re- was o inable ed able PLATT HANDLED THE “SACK.” made by the fea- ance of ppea asked said b esi- dent R y of the Mutual Life e He, howev een & use his asure beforc the Legis e ever dope so. He knew noth- t contributions to the national ampai TARBELL CAUSES AMUSEMENT. age E. Terbell, the second vice pres- p f the Equitable, was on the wit- 4 again to-day. His testimony | was interrupted by the ad- and to-day he continued his . , of the ageney system, of v Be DRl CHIES Sull fhe massise of riving et the commissions. One part of his testimony used much amusement to the commit as well as to the spectators, when he described e fight with the New York Life over the taking of agents. In this state- bell told how he had won over general agent and 200 sub-agents of the New York Life in this city without e cost to the Xquit of so much as one The inducement offered was that the agents could make wre on a commission basis than under salary system of the New York | fe a led this deal with the| jous stages, and said the deal on a Sunday. was a good job, as It | 2 good day. WS BRAMBUNCTIOUS FRIEND. | Nichols, lawyer and Quaran- | ssioner of the port of New 1880 to 1892, who wrote the | ers to Senator Depew in bchalf of “friend who usually gets around at | t time of the year” and who, he | wrote, was getting “rambunctious” and ; necded help, was the first witness be- | fore the committee to-day. As shown by vouchers under observa- by the committee on Friday. Nich- received retainers frgm the Equl- eble Life Assurance Soclety. When went before the committee to-day testified that he had been employed Equitable Soclety for twenty to 1e { his I Continued on Page 3, Column'S. | suffering from “moral insanity. | E. Thomae, who was assoclated with C. | bathroom of his home in this city. WOMAN - IN AR ASYLUN | THOUGH SANE Wife of Former British| Army Captain Wins Her Freedom. KEPT | | B S oS Special D to The Call. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. Nov. 21.— glory in my freedom from the Bloo ingdale Asylum, wh 1 was placed by my brothers. I am so glad that I/ an walk on the streets a free \\Omahv and without being wat ~ was a horrible thing to woman, s} se. have been locked up in an s 10¢ ible to contemplat Mrs. v Dean Reld to-night, when she was ordered discharged from the Bloomingdale Asylum | heers and loud hand-clapping rang | 0 rowded courtroom;at White| E to-night when County :Judge Platt, after hearing argyments for five | hours, ordered Mrs. Sarah Dean Reid the wife of. Captain‘ Albert V.- Dean Reid, le formerly of the British army. re- | d from the Bloomingdale Asylum, placed October 26 last, drbeen kidnaped from the | busband. ¥ sea: in the the night sion of the court. Many of the spec tators were stylishly gowned women, o, when.they heard Judge Platt say of her 3 courtroom was ~occupied at side that Mrs. Reld should be discharged | from the-asylum. arose in a body and cheercd with the men. Then they made | rush in a body for Mre. Reid und her'| lawyer and overwhelmed ‘them with Some of the women ongratulations. »d Captain Reid’s wife, while oth- | ers shook her hand 1 I can hardly express my. gladness at my counsel’s victory,” Mrs. Reid said to seVeral friepds. "I had always | had implicit-falth In his abllity and was sure 1 would soon be a free' woman.” Henry T.:Dickman, representing the | brothers of Mrs. Reld, in his final argu- ment contended that she should be kept in the asylum for her own.good, be- cause, he sald, experts swore she. is BANKER TRIES T0 TAKE LIFE WITH POISON & | DIAZ TO RECEIVE " SAN FRANCISCANS | Special Dispateh to The Call. LEAVENWORTH, Kans., Nov. 21.—W. J. Devlin, the coal mine operator and one of the principal stockholders in the defunct First National Bank of Topeka. Kans., took carbolic acid to-night in the His condition is critical and he is not ex- pected to survive the night. Thomas had been in ill health since the failure of the Topeka Bank and the fail- ure of the Devlin interests, in which he | was heavily involved, his liabilities being about $480,000 and his assets about $175,000. A trained nurse had been attending him for the past month. To-morrow, it had | been planned, he was to start for Hot | Springs, Ark., for treatment. To-night at 9 o'clock Thomas went into his bathroom, where he found a | bottle of carbolic acid. He drank consid- | erable of the contents and was found in a semi-conscious condition by his nurse. Several physicians and a priest were hasi summoned and reports from . the home at & late hour are to the effect that he cannot recover. . g v, 3 DARD OIL MAGNATE WHO 1S | ) BE CALLED IN INSURANCE INQUIRY. 3 ol FINDS PLACE WHERE SCOTT LETS WEALTH oL DS ‘Prospector of Goldfield Locates the Mine of Spender. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. RENO, . No cotty’s”. famous Death Valley mine has been discovered. At least this is the clalm made by Rube Spear, one of the best-known prospectors of Goldfield. Spear arrived in Goldfield a few days ago bearing \with him several large spectmens of pure gold which he says he broke from Scotty’s ledge. The mine is not situated in the Funeral range as has been supposed since it be- came known that it existed, but is located on the opposite side of Death Valley in the Panamint country. Spear discovered the mine by shadowing the secretary of Scotty, who It is presumed was sent out from Los Angeles by the Death Valley miner for the purpose of resupplylng the latter’'s pocket-book. The secretary was known to Spear and whken he left Gold- fleld Spear .took mip the trail and shad- owed bhim across the desert until he reached the mine of fabulous wealth. It proved to be in one of the wildest and most desolate regions of the Panamint country. On arriving at the mine Spear made himself known and both men sup- plied themselves with the yellow metal d returned to chvilization. Will Honor the Excursion- ists of the Union League Club. - CITY, OF MEXICO, Nov. 2i.—Presi-| dent Diaz will to-morrow receive the members of the Union League Club of San Francisco, with their families, at Castle Chapultepec. The excursionists will be given a banquet in the evening, at which Vice President Corral will be the guest of honor. The club members to-day visited points of interest in the city. ————————— ‘Woman Accused of Murder. PRESQUE !m “D‘. Nov. Zl.-‘l'l i+ 2 SIABES NTROCITIES N CONCD —_— of Revolting Gruelties. Horrible Measures Used to Compel Natives to Work. |Rev. Wickware Startles a Church Assemblage With Qutcry Against Belgians. | petrated upon the unresisting matives of the Congo Free State was boldly stated Iast night by the Rev. Ira L. Wickware, missionary from Congoland. Mr. Wickware, speaking before the annual convention of the Christian and { Missionary Alliance at the First Bap- | tist Chureh, described ‘aets of barbaric fiendishneys. perpetrated by King Leo- nis white officers. ‘The shocking tor- turing of less atid inpocent wo- men causs ot .. their inability to” supply *, ivory, the two ‘great industries of the Congo, were charged to King- Lcopold' Government. Mr. Wickware, in part, said: “When we return home and read the | accounts of the affairs as pictured in lr\‘mg.{zlnes and the denials, and know- |ing the condltions to be opposite to | that presented, we cry, ‘Oh, would to | God that you people could reallzc the lhmgfi as they actually arel “Painful as it is I will'give you pos- itive facts, no hearsay, of the revolt- ing cruelties perpetrated by the Bel- gian Government in Congoland, which, | through treaties,- is in the hands of | King Leopeld. So horrible ‘are the | happenings that people “here cannot ;rmu:c how they can be true. | “The Congo Free State is rich in Tub- | ber and tyory and King Leopold man- ipulates the whole affair. By the {treaties he is required to put ‘down | slavery, but slavery exists worse than before. Fe doesn’t sell them, but he forces every man, women and child to do his work. SLAVERY FLOURISHES. | “Everything requiréd by his soldiers |is ~accomplished "by forced labor. By { manipulation every man is made to la- bor for him. . Private companies, of course, pay, but nevertheless it is forced labor. “rhe soldiers from the cannibal tribe trained md are t thousand | times worse th: in their natural state. | They perpetrate atrocities _uponm , the men and ywomen and children whe fail to bring in the rubber and thousands » %0 many pounds of rubber or so ¥ hands. ne missionary yau know se well officers carrying = baskets { | met some dropping to the ground. y “Governments_ cloge: their eyes, ~ yet the Baptist and Presbyterian societles in New York and Mr. Moule of Liver- pool can give ypu ten times more sickening evidence of the atrocities. “You do not kmow half. the ‘torture infiicted on theseé poor souls for fail- ure to bring in_the rubber" demanded. It 1s so many pounds of rubber from the women or 8o y women's breasts are cut off, and ' goes on. “King Leopo}d has flooded the world' with literature saying that the. mis- sionary lles. But 1. tell you further that T haye seen poor, defenseless na- tives whipped and killed because. they quired merchandise. The poor African is roped to a -tree.and whipped until| the blood . flows from the - fearful wounds made-by the lash. Anad with it all these poor natives:pay even the rubber tax:imposed upon them. | “But God:! will answer and will bring nations to judge for. &hese things. There is robbery, pillage, ' assault everywhere and when the seldier is let loose he 1s like the demons. WHITES ARE FIENDS, “The white office come no -better than the. savages and fall as low and indulge in all the bar- | baritias and become as depraved as the i worst. “When l\in‘ Leopold’s mveltmtots dh:yird the testimony- on| !eame out and ! the very first they said, ‘We have all the evidence,’ and one gentleman among them said privately, ‘We have enough ‘to conviét the whole Govern- ment.” “As a' mafter of fact the Governor Geéneral just before the investigation {cut his throat and left a note with the 'words ‘I have. aone the m of my King.' “Why, T ask, was this kept a secret?] why ‘was thh‘kont a Itcn!? A.h, this is but one side of and. to‘ll‘ht fll. B.ptm Chul’eh.‘Bll o Missionary Tells ‘That fearful atrocities are being per- | pold’s soldiéry and countenanced by | i‘e m lift up stub hands as’ testimony. laden with hands, the blood from' lk— bt have mot been abie to.bring in the re- TS of the King be- | OFFICIALS-ELECT ARE NOT Found Upon In- vestigation. 3y Walsh Is Not of Age Required. Cannot Sit as Supervisors In spite of the fact that they miin- | tatn they are qualified by law to step |into the offices to which they were | i elected .on November evidence w: { uncovered yesterday which proves con- { clusively that Dr. Willlam J. Walsh, Union Labor nominee for Coroner, and Andrew M. Wilson, nominated for Su- pervisor by the same party, are abso- | {lutely disqualified from serving under {the provisions of the gharter. Jen- nings - Phillips, anothdr Supervisor- | elect, is also disqualified by the evi- | dence which was found yesterday. The case of J. J. Furey, also Supervisor- is receiving a therough inves- | elect,, | tigation and it is likely that he, too, are will be found among those who ineligibie to hold municipal of The_cvidence against Dr. Wil |\Vals:x. prospective Coroner, | most weighty. The young physician | | is defeated, not only by the sworn affidavit of. his age, given when he reg- istered to vote, but by the record of his birth jn the ‘office of the Recorder and by statements which he has made. Dr. Walsh told the truth when he registered on March 10, 1904, and gave | uis_age as 23 irs, . It was no mis 3 h “of “the " regisuration ‘when: he ‘put down- the age I after Walsh's name. He wrote down mg exact. age -that the’ young physi- | ‘clan gave him and wrote it correctly. Dr. . Walsh admitted this fact last night. | FIND RE(ORD -OF BIRTH. In March, 1904, Dr. Walsh was 23 years-old. To-day be Is 23 years and 6 months old. Out in the office of the | Recorder there Is a record of births. | In a’ big book, musty with age, called | “Book B,” in the year 1SS0 there | pears the following: “May ‘27, WHllam | J. Walsh, son, Willlam O. Walsh aad Julla Walsh, 534 Fourth streef. Dr. | Newell, ysician attending. Certificate No. 1 »” This mnkes his age 25 years d 6 mo: and 10 months in A search in. the records of the reg- istration of voters shows that the| father of Dr. Walsh, William R. Waish;, was living at 534 Fourth street in May, | 1880. ' The middle initial is different, ‘but’ the- residence is the same. There can “be no doubt ‘that the William J. Walsh who was born on May 27, 1880, and whose Dirth’is so clearly re- corded,”.is the Dr/ Walsh who was elected Coroner and whose correct age is now 25 years. TOLD CALL HE WAS 25, But the record, although the best, is not the only proof that, Dr. Walsh is but 26%vears of age. By his own state- ments he has afirmed’ this age. At the time of his nomination, last October, he told a Call representative that he was fhen 25 years old, and when he sat for his photograph he repeated that state- ment.. He. did not know, in the excite- ment of the convention, that he was' le- gally disqualificd, because of his age, to hold the office of Coroner. Yet another proof of his yguth is shown by the date of his graduation .of the nbvember of the clu.! of 1902 and gradu- ated in that year. This was before he had taken up post-graduate work. he mother. and father of Dr. Walsh say that they do not remember thelr son's, a.o and _Tefer all questioners to moxmnmumon. . Andrew M. Wilson, fi-umwk-hem«do- fi;tfinh t W:em ;- name from the m Phillips is in a like predica- t. ‘He registered in Alameda Coun- ty m 1902, mdkwxs thérefdre disquali- from being an elector in San Fran- % durlng that time.” He c-nhot now a In case tha isor. . m three- men, are found: ineligible. by the _courts the next three highest andlan.( at the last ,eugumnflrbe tlvén t vlan--n the board. P. Booth, m & Rocktlfid Jonn Conner, all _Fusion: ticket. % ‘Walsh, when. seen at a late hour Mn!‘ht.mfi!ndmtmumnn nt mt ‘he. had ‘ever as- : 29. . He added, however, thc.l:h:ner could not 3 8 l Cpnclusive Proof Is|| for Coroner . Wilson and Phillips | s | A. M. Wilson and Jen QUALIFIED FOR OFFICE. Conclusive evidence was found yesterday that Coroner-elect William J. Walsh is disqualified from serving on account of his age. Supervisors: because they’ have not been electors in San Francisco for the last five years. | nings Phillips cannot serve as ASES OF . INELIGIBILITY OF . DURING WHOSE INCT Y S OLD DL ISSIJES BOLD DEFIANCE OF PRESIDENT S S ‘Will Fight to Retain His Place as New York *“Boss.” —_— Sp(clll Dupl.teh to The CIIL NEW YORK, .Nov. 21— “R'flmb‘l| that for twelve “years after President | Garfleld and President Arthur intecfered in political quarreis in New York State the State went Democratic, » and take warning from thelr warning.” This was the response._from Odell to- day to the conference betweenm President Roosevelt and Governor Higgins in Washington regarding the Republican situation in this State. He made’it clear that the situaticn had not been so critl- cal for the Republican party since the Stalwart-Halfbréed war was precipitated by Presidential ‘interference. He did not hesitate to thifeaten reprisals unless the President and Governor kept their hands out of the Republican factional, quarrel for contrel of the New York ee. | Odell accepted the conference between Mr. Roosevelt and Higgins as a move! inimical to him. He did not hesitate to discuss- it and he .was both defiant and sarcastic in _what he said. With the} President, Secretary Root. both Senators | from New York aud possibly Governor| Higgins arrayed against him. he gave no sign of readiness to abandon the fight, | but assured his friends that he was Con- fident of winning by a large majority ‘when committee shall ‘have met to choose its president next month. “I, have no. comment ‘to. make on the news from Washington,” Sepator Platt said. = “I have not heard from Governor { i Higgins. 1 regard the dtu;flvn as’ un- changed. “They say on the other nuh thtt;nu _Mm.* 3 BOSTON, Nov, 21.—The Boston ,Mayeralty contest was somewhat complicated to-night by the announcement of Henry S. Dewey, that he munuummemma» Dewey was a candidate at the primaries Mne mldn Iflh‘b‘.“-iQh‘_ Frothingham, IAYIIH TAKEN FOR AN ACTOR IN DISTRESS Farmer’s W}fe IsSuspi- cious of McClellan of New York Spectal Dispatch to The Cail. NEW._YORK, Nov, 2l.—After resting & week: at his summer home in Prineeton, N. J., Mayor McClellan returned to his office in'the City Hall today. He gave a humorous description of the troubles he tered on his automobile trip to Princeton. His machine broke down miles out of New Brunswick, N. J. when he applied for lodgings for himself and wife, to say nothing of their dog. the proprietress of a farmhouse refused them, believing that they were members of a stranded theatrical troupe. “We don't care to entertain profes- sionals,” said the woman, favoring Mr. d Mrs-McClellan with an” icy stave, 'And, besides, (and hare her stare shifted to the dog) we don’t take dogs. anyway. A MNttle greenbacked persuasion, how- ever, eventually induced her to change her mind and the Mayor and his wife got sheiter for the night. PSR L E— JUDGE MARRIES COUPLE IN JUST NINE SECONDS No Time Wasted by Busy Chicago Jurist In Tying Nuptial Kaeot. CHICAGO, Nov. 21L—It required just nine seconds for Miss Lulu Miller of Knoxville, Tenn.. to become Mrs. Whit Roy of Chicago to-day. Judge Julian Mack officiated at the wedding. The cloakroom off the juvenile court room was the scene of the ceremony. The Judge left his chair, stepped into the ‘room, ‘performed the ‘ceremony and was back in his seat with’ the next case called before the witnesses for one casa which had been disposed of had moved away to give place to witnesses in the next. “Do. you want to marry this woman?" and “Do you want to marry this man?" elicited answers In the afirmative. “‘Doywnrmhambel‘nodlu’ ‘band?” and ‘Do promise to be a good wife?" completed the cxchange of vm_M I onollpe-‘ husband and ¥ prY you