The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 5, 1905, Page 3

3 MAY TALK FROM HERE TO COTHAM Experiments Being Made in the East by a Professor of Columbia University USES VERY WIRE THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 5, 1905. * PROCLAMATION OF DICTATORSHIP SEEMS MONGOLIAN [IFE INSURANCE PRESIDENT T0 BE THE LAST HOPE OF CZAR. ON A JURY | “SHAKES DOWN" DIRECTOR Even This E Not Likely to Dotz —ma it ? 8600 Vel?’\ore lTsh211)1(trDeerlT:1(§/ D;;as‘tye’syF:I)l. i WAHMNE EW[N flw i)fl]iENfAle\?S%E’_FfS F bl$ i(‘);.)(;’ ial o t ells of Trouble Wit BY SOCIALISTS " Clunic of Cal Clunie of California. | League of Leagues Issues Decrees as THIN -~ Though It Were Rflling Power. HAPNARDA, Sweden, Dec. 4—A dls patch received here land, reports that there has been a new railroad strike in Finland, caused by the nominations to the mew Senate, and that an industrial strike may be ex- pected. from Tornes, Fin- | KOENIGSBURG, East Prussis, Dec. &—The Oesteprussische Zeltung prints reports received from Libau saying that several of the nobility, officials and | other residents of Livomia and’ Cour- land have been attacked by peasants snd" killed and terribly mutilated. | Baron Campenhausen was severely wounded. Bands of several hunmdred peasants are roving about robbing and killing. A general insurrection of the peasants and laborers is expected. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 3 (vi kuhnen, East Prus reported from Cro: man squadros been sighted In the Baltic Sea the Russian coast. Rumor attributes the appearance of the squadron as preparatory to the flight of the Russian imperial family. Agrarian and anti-Jewish outbreaks are reported to have occurred in the Gov- ernments of Chernigoff, Terek, Kursk and Kasan. Eydt- , Dec. 4.)—It is | adt that a Ge near ST. ¥ SREBUF nday, Dec. 3, 8 P m Zast Prus Dec. 4 quiet, but ex- treme fon prevails. Armed patrois of ca d infantry are in the streets, eepecia the n borhood e of the The telegraph and postal plete Soldiers and partments are being c of the vast ac- n to-day un by resolving secute the stri] . their dema e satisfied. The League of Leagues suing decrees like ritable governm as openly walking d attempt to their work the im- issuing and lation of ms to offer immc TALK OF A DICTATORSHIP. onvinced the demand 1l find a Then nothing presentation of ation be- it might arily, f th r when the r nt and dynasty away vince the Zems honostly mod tvoists ySen and has Mos- other te Witte ght ed tc saying and the pdtriotism | it was their » inflame the situation, but to| r ing the country from| DECISION ON ELECTION LAW. | cision was reached to grant prac-! univer: secret and equal suf-| P males rs of age, on the| f onc representative for each 250,- | ut Count de Witte | | ADVERTISEME! NT! 1 New Version of i an Oid Adage Do You Eat for Mere Stimulation or | for Real Nutrition ? { to-day. | © refused to yield any suffrage to the coun- try districts, where there will be a double set of electors. Unless the extremists are willing to accept this solution, the sup- port of the moderates will not greatly improve the situation, as the latter in the present crisis are almost a negligible quantity. Perhaps it is too much to hope that the Soclal Revolutionary leaders, drunk with the success achieved, can be in- duced to cease their efforts, which are now entirely directed to winning over the army. The telegraph operators have re- plied to Count de Witte's refusal to treat with them with an open letter, declaring they will have no nesotiation with In- terior Minister Durnovo and must now continue the strike until the abrogation of all Government measures to prevent the organization and activity of their Con- gress and the liberation and reinstate- ment of their allled comrades. PR IGADE MUTINIES. ARTILLERY BRI Cannomeers at Kishenev Go Over to the Revolutionists. BERLIN, Dec. {—A dispatch the Lokal Anzeiger from Kieff via Podwolo- czysma, Austrian-Galicia, filed at the Jat- to place at 10:15 a. m., says: “Martial law was declared at Kiefl yes- terday. “The troops at Kharkoff refuse to take the oath of fealty to the colors. reat turbulence prevails at Kishenev. The precise character of the event: is not vet known, but the Thirty-third Artillery Brigade is reported to have mu- tinied The catise of the mutiny of the Kieff Engineering Corps is said to have been the maltreatment of severa! soldiers and one officer by the commander. strike has again broken out on the Poltava, Moscow and Voro- A dispatch to the Lokal Anzeiger from Kieff via Podwoloczysma, Dec. 3, noon, ‘One company of a pontoon battalion mutinied to-day, and, fully armed, marched through the streets, trving to persuade other troops to join it. Only an The mutineers, their march. did so. continued engineer corps then 2000 stron Two hundred Ci there | acks were sent to pre- | If Troops Replace Strikers the Government Will Be ! Confronted by Civil War SRR ST, PARIS, Dec. 5.—Acdording to the St. : Petersburg correspondent of the Journal serious difficulties have arisen in the Ministry, resulting in an acute crisis. The Socialists, the correspondent says, have ! informed the Government that if the postmen should be replaced by soldiers an appeal would be made to the people to take up arms against the Government. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Matin describes the sinister aspect, of the Russian capital. He says that patrols | are everywhere, that the doors and win- ! dows of houses are closed, that stores | are barricaded and that Cossacks are | camping in the streets. There is no news ! *| from other parts of the empire, says the correspondent, who adds: ] “The postal cmploves held a great | mecting, at which a commissary of po- lice appeared. He advised the employes lo disperse and threatened that if they did not do so they would be suppressed by the military. The chairman of the meeting told the commissary that the men were prepared to offer armed resist- ance. The meeting then continued with- out further interruption.” The St. Petersburg correspondent of the | Figaro says that Count de Witte has pre- sented to the Council of Ministers a pro- ject for the granting of universal suf- frage and that the project is now under consideration. The population of St Petersburg, according to the correspond- ent, displays absolute indifference to the ! scenes of anarchy, while the authorities appear to be powerless. {CALIFORNIA TRAIN OF SANTA FE DITCHED |Two Passengers Seriously i Hurt in Sunday Wreck in Colorado. Dec. TOPEKA Kans., 4.—The locs vent thelr advance, but General Drake, in order to prevent bloodshed, subse- | this c report the wreck of No. 9, their quently withdrew the Cossacks and per- | fast California train, on Sund after- mitted the eers to pas: noon at Timpass, Colo., about eighteen ‘General ke made repeated and |mjles south of La Junta. The train was lly efforts to persuade.the mutineers | going about forty miles an hour. From to abandon their foolhardy course. A4gsome unknown cause, the engine, the part had complied, when Governor Gen- | maj) car, the baggage car, a smoking car, eral Sucholimaff telephoned an order that | the tourist sleeper and a standard sleeper measures be taken against the | joft the track. Only the mall car tipped cers and that the latter be fired | gver, the others bumping along on the at the first opportunity. The mu- | tjes, halted before the barracks of an | "wo passengers were seriously injured. Azoff regiment, which was called upon 10 | Mrs. Couller, bound for Los Angeles, join the marchers. During the demonstra- at the barracks several mutineers fired, wounding an officer and two or three soldiers. The troops then fired upon the mutineers, who returned the fire and fled after several more volleys by the troops. The casualties on both sides about seventy dead and 30 Two hundred mutineers sur- Drake has been given leave of absence and will be succeeded by Lieu- tenant General Karganoff, an energetic, strict officer. “A strike has broken out in the shops of the Southwestern Railway and in all the factories. The great m meetings held in the Polytechnic Institute have caused the authorities to close the lat- ter. All the newspapers are subject to the strictest censorship and the radical publications consequently are not appear- ing The Odessa correspondent of the Lokal Anzeiger telegraphs as follows: “The employes of the telegraph and | postal departments continue on strike, | which has led the central officers at Mos- op work. The strikers expeet all their demands to be sati: “Placards signed by Kaulbars and General Gregorieff, Prefect of Police, are posted in Odessa, caying that all measures have been taken to preserve order. Perfect order pre- | vails. “The Odessa University council, at an extra session, has decided to Ignore as illegal the order of the Municipal Gov- ernor closing that institution and to re- open the university. —_— HIUSSIAN BON DS TUMBLE. the Markets of Paris and Berli: PARIS, Dec. 4.—Excitement during the early hours on the Bourse was of a 1 rish nature, Russian Government securities and Imperial 4s being sacri- ficed. Russian bonds tumbled 15 rancs, but gradually recovered until the net loss for the day was 12 francs. One of Heavy Drops I | the large Russian industrial stocks suf- matters of money, there is an old | adage that s, “IU's not so much | W your earn as w | so, in the que Ith, it might be £ | so much what you 1 rishment you get of what you | s is the secret of health, s(rsng!h“ lity. No difference how much on your food contains, if your ! does not assimilate that nutri- | ake it up and distribute it | sughout your body—you gain noth- yond a temporary stimulation by aten it a-Vita, best whole white wheat with pure barley malt extract, oughly steamed and cooked and ry flake baked to a crisp, 18 rich strition and is assimilated readily n by the weakest stomach. Every one of its health-giving, strength- buflding elements I8 taken up by the sman economy to nourish and sustain life o wonder that Malta-Vita is called e Per Food,” and that physi- recommend it for the sick and | the weak and the strong. “well, the ] And Malta-Vita is 80 good to eat—) at all like the tasteless variety of flaked foods. A perfect breakfast is| ible witheut it and it's just as ) hree times a day. Try a bowl- You mever not fu' rasted anything so good. { Malta-Vita is always ready to eat. ; No cooking, no inconvenience. All gro- “Keep D~ Graves’ Tooth Powder and use it twice every day. It preserves, brightens and whitens good teeth, and keeps the bad ones from getting any worse.” That's what the dentists say. 1n handy metal cans or botties, 350 D" Graves’ Tooth Powder Co, fered a loss of 100 francs. The entire absence of information in- creased the apprehension and gave an | opportunity for the circulation of false reports. One circular from a fictitious Russian agency, stating that fire had destroyed a large rallway industry, was confiscated by the special police of the Bourse after the report had further de- pressed Russian industrials. Other ru- mors, which were quickly denied, were that the banks did not have the amounts necessary to meet the Russian coupons. BERLIN, Dec. 4. —Prices on the Boerse to-day were very weak. Rus- sians fell sharply but partly recovered. Americans were steady. Russian bonds had one of the worst days of the year on the Berlin Boerse. Enormous quan- tities of Government and railroad se- curities were thrown upon the market, apparently at whatever they would bring. A slight improvement in the middle of the session proved temporary and the downward course was soon re- sumed with greater Intensity than ever. CHRe 1 R GREAT PARADE OF Hundred Thousand March in New York. NEW YORK, Dec. 4—One hundred thousand Jews, each wearing a band of crape on the left arm, marched under a myriad of black banners through the principal streets of the East Side to-day, accompanied by bands playing dirges, in memory of the Jews massacred in Rus- sla. Hundreds of women and children, grouped, led in the singing, and bands were scattered throughout the long pa- rade. A procession marched to the plaza in Union square, where it resolved itself into a mass meeting. Brief, terse resolutions were read by their leaders to the thou- sands of paraders. The voting was done orally, with a great shout, in which the resolutions were adopted unanimously. After outlining the Russian atrocities and calling upon the United States to inter- fere in behalf of the Jews, the resolu- tions continue: A / % To our overwhelming shame, disappointment and sorrow, We realize that eternal vigilance is JEWS, One Mourners Cal., had her chest and shoulders badly crushed. Mr. Axlerod had his head badly | bumped and’ one of his ankles broken. Two mail clerks, whose names were un- knowm, recelved slight injuries. The other passengers were more or less joited and shaken up, but not seriously hurt. e OIL KING'S EXAMINATION POSTPONED TO JANUARY Rockefeller Succeeds in Dodging Men ‘Who Are Trying to Serve Subpena. NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—Postponement of the examination of John D. Rocke- feller, H. H. Rogers and other Standard Oil men in the matter of ousting the Standard Oil trust from Missouri has become necessary because of the failure to get service on Rockefeller and others. ¥ The hearing was to have begun to- ‘day before Frederick H. Sanborn of until January 4. Rogers was recently served with a subpena, but it is said that service is void and that he will have to be served again. Among others for whom process servers have been looking are Henry M. Flagler, John D. Archibald, Wade Hampton, James A. Moffett and Walter Jennings. — e Ladies’ Hand Bags Made of walrus, sea lion, seal, mat seal, snake skin, pig skin, Russia leather in artistic shapes and designs; traveling equipments for your convenience )d pleasure; suit cases, trunks and hand bag: Sanborn, .Vail & Co., 741 Mar- ket street. = 3 o+ the price of the Jews' life, and we urge our people to take up arms against their assail- ants and, if needs be, to sell their lives most dearly. We call upon Jews everywhere to ald in the defense of the Jewish people. CHICAGO, Dec. 4.—At all of the Jewish houses of worship in the city memorial services were held to-day for the Jews killed in the massacres in Russia. Little business was done by Jewish merchants in any part of the city, and the syna- gogues were filled to overflowing all day long. LOONDON, Dec. 4.—According to official Jewish information massacres of Jews oc- curred in 130 localities in Russia. e TREPOFF MAY RETURN TO POWER PARIS, Dec. 4—A dispatch to the Temps from St. Petersburg, dated Sun- day, December 3, via Eydkuhen, East Prussia, to-day. says: “The strike of the postal and telegraph employes is general, the Government re- maining unyielding before the demands of the strikers. Gneral Trepoff is said to be ready to return to the scene and restore order by a system of arrests and fusillades. Interior Minister Durnovo is in full gecord with General Trepoff, and is gradually separating himself from Count de Witte, who is now committed to take his policy from Zemstvolsts of Mos- cow. There are a number of indications that the elements of stern repression are generally getting the upper hand.” AR ‘Widespread Plot Revealed. 9%, PETERSBURG, Dec. 3 (via Eydt- kuhnen, Dec. 4).—The trial of Mme. Ledn- tiff and a dozen others, who are charged with being implicated in a terrorist plot to kill General Trepoff, is proceeding be- hind closed doors. The evidence devel- oped shows the existence of a big conspi- racy, with ramifications at Moscow and elsewkere, which had for its purpose the assassination of Grand Duke Sergius, al- ready acc¢omplished, and of General Trep- off and other tyrants. O Discharged Reservists Starving. VIENNA, Dec. 4.—The Tageblatt pub- lishes a communication from 3 which was conveyed by boat to Podwolo- czyska, Galicia, and thence telegraphed, saying that 1000 reservists have suddenly been released from the service and are hungry and hom They are parad- ing the streets asking'for food. Governor General Kaulbars refuses to help them and they are threatening to stecal and plunder. Cléanse the stomach and mestore and tone it up by using Lash’s Bitters, * Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe offices in | this city. Postponement has been taken | | | | [ | 4 <$ CHINESE WHO IS MEMBER OF A IN A MURDER CASE iN JURY HAWA g ‘Hearin % g Evidence in a Japanese Murder Case. The Call. HONOLULLU, e An unusual fea- ture of a murder trial now in progresé is the presence of a Chinese as a juror trying a Japanese for murder in the first | degree. He is W. Y. Kwai Fong, an em | ploye of the Bank of Hawaii, and .Is probably the only man of his race who has ever had such an experience on an Ameri Jury. The Chinese juror was carefully exam- ined by both sides as to his opinions re- garding capital punishment, his knowl- bad any prejudice against Japanese or Japanese testimony. He answered all questions very satisfactorily, and though there were challengés to spare he was ac- cepted and sworn in. POPE 10 STOP | | | | " CHORCH ABLGES NEW YORK, Dec. 4—A cable dispatch to the World from Rome says: The Va- | tican correspondent of the Stampa at Turin is authority for the statement that | when, a few days ago, Monsignor Thomas | 8. Byrne, Bishop of Nashville, Tenn., was received in private audience by the Pope the conversation of the Pontiff dealt prin- cipally upon serious abuses which are said to be found in the church in Amer- ica, and which Pius X declared he was determined to suppres€ at any cost. The Pontiff deprecated the custom fol- lowed in many American dioceses to ex- act an entrance fec on Sundays and holi- days from the people attending mass in the churches. In the opinion of the Pon- tiff such a custom must be abolished, as it practically constitutes a hindrance 10 people who are attending the church, The Pope spoke emphatically of how he knew that some of the American Bishops had surrounded themselves with more luxuries than even the Pope thought him- self entitled to. i Pius X added that the time was not far distant when he would be enabled to ex- tend kLis work of reform to the church in America, and send there some of the members of the religious orders which he | considered the right arm of the Pope as apostolic vis_tors to report on actual con- ditions. MUCH DEVELOPMENT WORK WILL BE DONE Busy Times Ahead for the Miners in the Klondike. Speclal Inspatch to The Call. TACOMA, Dec. 4.—Dispatches from Dawson state that the maximum amount of development work will. be done this winter. This is especially true of Sul- phur and Dominion creeks. Claim own- ers having low grade dirt are preparing for hydraulic operations next summer. The winter work on Sulphur Creek will extend as far as Claim 107 below Discov- ery. The Klondike mines rallway has sent out engineers to make permanent a location for the extensfon of its railroad beyond Grand Forks. The road will be extended from Lower Bonanza along Upper Bonanza and over the divide on Dominjon Creek watershed. It is ex- pected that the road will be extended next vear to the famous Dome, where it will command the situation, for freight can be pulled on a down-hill grade to every important Klondike creek. —— NEVADA INDIANS SHOW THEIR HATRED FOR A POUNDMAN a Time Looking for Un. RENO, Dec. —D. W. Scales, “official poundmaster of the city of Reno, was attacked to-day by a howling ‘and in- furiated mob of Plute Indians .and re- celvea several injuries from rocks and clubs in their hands.- Scales was look- ing for unlicensed dogs, and coming upon the Indian camp caught of the redskin’'s dogs and proceeded to take it ‘to the city pound. The Indians mediately attacked him and ‘soon cor- nered him.. He finally knocked two of ‘to the ground with the butt of his evolver and made his escape with the Attack edge of the case and also whether he| ‘Official Who Spends His | im- | NEW YORK, Dec. 4—The most inter- esting development in the legislative life insurance investigation was contained in the testimonv of Horace A. Brockway, a hotel proprietor and director of the Mu- tual Reserve Life Insurance Company, who said that he had given $6000 to Pres- ident Frederick A. Burnham of that com- pany at the demand of Burnham in 1598. Brockway told the committee that Burn- ham told him that if he would take out a poliey in the Mutual Reserve he would make him a director. Brockway then took out policies amounting to $6000. Af- ter having been a director for some time, he was put on the payroll of the com- pany at 5300 a week, received that salary for four months, and then it was cut to $200 a week. Asked what he did to earn that money, he said he looked over some loans for the company, was consulted by policy-holders as to whether the com- pany was a good one to insure in and did whatever he was asked to do. He had been getting $300 a week eight weeks when Burnham demanded the 26000. TO CHECK PRESS ATTACKS. What President Burnham did with that money was explained by George D. Eld- redge, vice president and actuary of the Mitual Reserve Life Insurance Company, who testified that President Burnham told him he had given it to Hilary Bell, a newspaper man and publicity agent of the company, to secure the publication of articles favorable to the company at a | time when it was being criticized in the newspapers. Bell had said that he could accomplish much more with the money ! | it he were not compelled to report to the | company just what he expended it for. | Brockway sald he was still a director { of the company. | The reason why President Burnham | was not called before the committee was | | | given by his physician, who told the com- mittee to-day that Burnham is too sick to appear or even to make a deposition. Vice President Eldredge testified that | his company had much trouble with An- | drew J. Clunie when he was Superin- téndent of Insurance of Californta, ana in six years, from 1897, paid Thomas J. Clunie, the Commissioner's brother, $7500 in counsel fees to represent the company before the Insurance Commissioner and Legislature of that State. | MUTUAL’S FINANCIAL STRAITS. George D. Eldredge was the first wit- { ness to-day. He =aid that $22,000,000 of | insurance in the Mutual Reserve Life In- | surance Company lapsed in 1994, on which | the company paid in cash surrender $75.- 1000. Besides this, the company also | charged off about $250,000 in loans due the company on the policies lapsed and allowed $2,000.000 or $3,000,000 of extended | insurance. Eldredge sald that in 1599 the { Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company had reached a point where it would have increase its assess- been compelled to ments to maintain its reserve. Instead, | the members of the company voted to | apply to the payment of death ciaims the portion of the assessments which had been going to the reserve fund. “You mean by members that President Burnham voted the .proxies?’ sald Hughes. Eldredge sald that Mr. Harper was tiien president of the company, and that he did not know whether the proxies were voted | at that meeting. He thought the action | was a great mistake. Since that time the company had been compelled to create licns against the policies and levy specihl assesments. BROCKWAY’S $6000 “GIFT.” Horace H. Brockway was called. He is proprietor of the Ashland House and has been connected with the Mutual Reserve Company for ten years. He became a director of the company at the request of | President Burnham. Brockway got first $10 and then $20 a week as a director. On | March 23, 1898, he was put on the payroll of the corgpany at $300 a week. To earn this salary he attended to alterations on buildings and was consulted about loans, and by policy-hglders as to the status of | the company. About two months after | he went on salary President Burnham told the witness he was getting a good salary and asked for a gift of $6000. The witness gave it to him. Burnham never promised to repay it and never did so. The witness regarded it as a gift. Brockway sald that after he had been drawing his salary for eleven months he told President Burnham he was not earning his salary and asked that he be! | dropped from the company’s payroll. “Didn’t you tell him you had only been on the payroll eight weeks at $300 a week when he struck you for $60007" asked Hughes. “No. I thought he was a good fellow.” The witness sald he expected to be kept on the payroll. He got back in all $6500 in salary. Brockway is still a director in the company. George D. Eldredge again went on the stand. He said that in 1894 it had been charged that Burnham had got money from certain officers in connection with trouble with the insurance department. | independent by giving $2,000,000 to her. Burnham denied it, but in 1%4 told Eldredge that he got the 36000 fromh Brockway and expended it through Hil- ary Bell iu securing the publication of | articles favorable to the company. In 1899 | the witness first heard of the $5000, when Wells, before the insurance department, made certain charges. In January, 1898, Bell applied to President Burnham and the Witness for $5000 or $6000 to expend personally, without rendering bills to the | company, and Bell said later that he got the money. The witness said it was not charged to the advertising account. At | that time the company was being bitterly | attacked In the newspapers, and the wit- | ness asked Bell to do something about it. Eldredge, at Hughes' request, produced a statement of the company’s legal ex- penses. J. Thompson Patterson, Eldredge said, was employed by the Mutual Reserve | Life Insurance Company in 1896 as corre- sponding secretary, and, after he left its employ, made charges against President Frederick A Burnham and Eldredge. Burnham and Eldredge had him arrested on a charge of criminal libel and, when he was discharged by the court, secured his indictent by a grand jury. They also brought civil suits for libel against him. Patterson brought counter suits for libel against Burnham and Eldredge. The counsel for the two officers died. and they settled the trouble by the pay- ment of $5000 to Patterson from the funds of the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Campany. Eldredge said they paid it to avold the expense of securing new coun- sel and to prevent the publication of fur- ther charges against the company. CLUNIE AND THE MUTUAL. Hughes then took up the Mutual Re- serve Life Insurance Company’s legal ex- penses. Eldredge sald there hadl been considérable legal expenss by his com- pany in California, when Andrew J. Clunie was Superintendent of Insurance in that State. The Mutual Reserve Company re- tained Thomas J. Clunie, brother of the Insurance Commissioner, as its counsel, and paid him $7500, fram 1597 to 1%3. Com- | missioner Clunie had raised the point that the company ought to include in its policies the provision of the California law relating to non-forfeiture and to furnish certain lists of its policy-holders in that State. The witness sald he en- | gaged Themas J. Clunie, ahd that he was an attorney of high standing. Thomas J. Clunie represented the Mutual Reserve Company before the Insurance Depart- ment and before the Legislature of Cali- fornia. The license of the company, the | witness said, was held in suspense during the last two years in which Andrew J. Clunie was Insurance Commissioner. It was issued near the end of his ter: During Clunie's term, the company was in ‘trouple in California nearly all the time, Eldredge added. The successor to Clunie, the witness continued, did not give the company a license to do business in California, but insisted upon making an investigation, to which the company did not submit. - TROUBLES IN NEW YORK. The company éngaged counsel to repre- sent it before the New. York Insurance Department 1u various examinations. James F. Plerce was retained by the Mu- tual Reserve Company after he was Su- perintendent of Insurance of this State from 1891 to 1897. Hughes said it had been charged in 1899 that a report of the Superintendent of In- sufnce contalning charges against the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company was afterward modified, and asked if this was true. Eldredge sald it was not um- usual, as most of the complaints made | against the company by the Superin- | tendents were subsequently modified. The | witness said he did not know whether the Superintendent of Insurance examined | the company on all the charges tflen made, but he knew that the company asked Vanderpool, the examiner, to make a report on all charges. The company | did not regeive the findings on them, however. —_—————————— . Rich Youmg Girl Married. ! NEW YORK, Dec. 4—Miss Marjorie Meriweather Post was married to Ed- | ward B. Close at Grace Church at noon Miss Pogt is the only daugh- W. Post, president of the Na- tional Citizens' Industrial Alliance, and is in her nineteenth year. In her six- teenth year Post made his daughter | —_———— Three Earthquake Shocks. FLORENCE, Italy, Dec. 4—The Royal Observatory to-day recorded three vio- | lent shocks of earthquake. The records were made at § a. m., 10:42 a. m. and 1:2¢ . m. The shocks were felt in Sicily and Calabria. There was no seriotis dam- age. —_————— WASHPNGTON, Dec.. 4—The Supreme Court of the United Staes to-day decided that the national Government may properly tax the State lquor dispensaries of South Carolina. Line Will Be Connected on Thursday and First Trial of Theory Will Be Made s Spectal Dispatch to The Call PITTSBURG. Pa., Dec. 4.—Professor Pupin of Columbia University has been making experiments wheréby a conver- sation may be carried on between New York and San Franeisco over a very thin wire. His method Is based on the theory that by the use of loaded cells the sounds of the voice can be carried almost any distance and overcome the resistanee the atmosphere. Professor Pupin is making experiments | in Sewickley, a suburb of this city. He has used wire one-eighth of an imch thick, and his first successful use of so thin a line was made to-day between Sewickley and McKeesport. He has ar- ranged with the Bell telephone system whereby a line will be connected between New York and San Franecisco. This hne is now complete with the exception of & ninety-mile stretch in Dakota and an- other short reach in Colorado. Just as soon as these lines are connected, which will be next Thursday, Prof ssor Pupin intends to make a demonstration to prove that his theory of sound carrying is cor- rect. Professor Pupin believes that long dis- tance telephony will be revolutionized it his theory proves correct. By the use of his loaded cells he can carry sound the longest distance that telephone wires ean be strung at a very small cost. The wires now in use for long distance telephony are heavy copper rods and the expense connected with stringing the lnes and the heavy charge of electricity necessary to carry the sound make them very ex- pensive for long distance operation. GOVERNMENT WILL RUN LUMBER YARD Will Condnet Business in Hawaii Because of High Prieces. ¥ | Special Dispatch to The Call. HONOLULU. On account of the high price and scareity of lumber on the islands Lieutenant Slattery of the Gaw- ernment’s engineer office has recommend- ed to the Lighthouse Board at Washing- | ton that a lumber yard be built in Hono- lulu for the purpose of saving the Gov- ernment money and keeping a supply al- ways on hand. The officials look upon the suggestion with favor, and Lieuten- ant Slattery will at once commence in- specting Government property in this vi- | cinity with a view of locating the yard on the most convenient and best situated site. Lieutenant Slattery figures that with the department’s own lumber yard in op- eration the Government will be enabled to save from 10 to 15 per cent om all work where lumber is required. There will not be a great amount of additional work for Government employes, and the details will be looked after mostly by men already in the service. i IRNY OFICER SLAYS FILIPNO CEBU, P. L, Dec. 1 (via Manila, Dec. 4).—Lleutenant Charles Pendleton of the constabulary ordered four native soldiers into a vehicle in which he was driving. A native policeman stopped him and or dered him to light the lamps on the ve- hicle, when Pendleton shot him dead. He then continued on his way, but returned later and obtained the body, which he de- livered to the police, claiming that he had found the man dead on the road. The soldiers accompanying him confirmed his story until to-day, when they broke down. Pendleton had been drinking. Pendleton’s family lives at Atlanta, Ga. He was formerly a sergeant in the Seventy-first Regiment of New York: ke has been held for murder. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 4—Pendieton was a member of Company H. Seventy- first New York Regiment, during the Spanish-American war, and saw service in Cuba. —_——e——————— posed Assassin Captured. AGDE, France, Dec. 4.—Gendarmes to- day arrested a man who declared he was Avino, alias Farras, the prineipal person accused of the dttempted assassination of King Alfonso, President Loubet and their escort at Paris May 31 last. more restful. Massive carved oak $17 base and legs. - A big, broad, wide couch—much wider than the usual run of couches, consequently Full-roll clipper edge and a-complement of 24 ten-iach springs. They are covered in velours—brocaded velours in two shades of green, and in a continuous vine pattern that is designed expressly for couch covering. We're showing four rows of couches, each row a block long. Imagine a row of couches reaching down Markét street from Jones to Stock- ton street—no two alike and every one as fairly priced as the one pictured. No mail or telephone orders accepted for advertised articles. Furnilure Company 1039