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

The Call Prints THE WBATHER. Forecast for December 14, 1803: San Francisco and vioinity—Cloudy Thursday; changing to southerly. | A. G. MeADIE, J insettled weather fresh ecasterly winds, District Forecaster. — More News Than Any Other P 2T TS nelle."” CALIFORNIA— GRAND—"The TIVOLI—Comio THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR— ‘The ALHAMBRA—*‘Resyrrection.” CHUTES—Vaudeville, Matinee. COLUMBIA—"The College Widow.™ MAJBESTIC—"Christopher Jr.” Mati- Tee. ORPHEUM—Vaudevills. ——,—,——— aper Published in San Francisco ——— e d Secret of Polieni. “Merry Burlesqueos.™ Fires of St. John."" Matines. Opera. SAN FRA ICISCO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. RIGA FORT CAPTURED SUANDALS MAY SHAK BY REBELS PITTSH Livonia's Russian Corey Prepares Governor Is a Retaliate on Prisoner. Enemies. Rl to Details of the Duquesne | Club Dinner to Be Revealed. Provisional Government | Set Up by Revo- | lutionists. | Troops Join Czar’s Enemies | and Province Declares Its Independence. { Noted Names Linked With Those of Anna Held and Cassie Chadwick. e ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 12—Two | Special Dispatch to The Call essengers who arrived here from SITTSBURG. Dec. - 1 Riae Soclny, having walked sbout 199| PITTSBURG, ‘Dec. 13—W. Elis e e "tealn mt Polock, mot | Corey, president of the United States only nfirm the report that a Pro- el Corporation, is in Pittsburg and vistonal Government has been set up im | very busy, though in a quiet way. He Livonin, but say that mn:y lol l:_flr».;»nfd re yesterday and went into troops have gome over to the imsurree- [ . . o el et SEeaps bave woee over & mmm“dl_‘ls‘rlu:h.l ‘v“r‘.m llJnu‘i.lf.‘nn Club, meot Riga harbor, is in their possession and | /N8 0TY © feW close rf“f“ds' gy the Govermor and other Russian offi- R oats At = e “.d”,‘." oo cials are prisomers. O ko NS el e messenge If an effort be made to depose Corey from t head of the steel combine there trouble and lots of it. T t uble b is visit to Pitts- siléncing of J. B, vho has threatencd € ic press to divulge s 1d rare regarding the x ew and e steel trust. ¥ a8 promises to take .a | € hand himsel 'showing up” certain | s | residents of burg and New York - t 2 if he be pressed and if there be dan- oo S o e LEProaf. nine —hotng . farced . feciy disid p . Barbdeni vty pro- ._s)m-_unn Job because of hig (lnmfly teoa- ; Datalions thorities | Dles. He, according to friends who = o i g . but the {have talked with hum, proposes to | e § o e s t rather for many, in- maye . to sel | cluding H. C. Frick, by laying bare thé | pe A Geciare | hitherto unwritten his of a certain € bor; Sui B et at the Duquesne Club, years ago; o e it the inside workings of Cassie th Pit rg millionaires EXPELL he be forced RUSSIAN OFFICIALS to do so to pes deplor- Con- arrived from New 5 ath apire o0king, easy-work- : those of foot a shrewd - Jeen continued Frick dinner” ot | p- ears ago at the Du- ¢ the full history of which | nted, and which, ac- | he Corey people, never > outside world. Anna Held, | o . en given $500 to sing at| : e 4 | tr however, reached the out- = are being {side world that night through a win- ’ 3 es and {dow or a back door in a rather be- y - n the 'Jdmgz]ul state and in tea | t 4 Those in t nfidence of W. B.| D < here that he knows of - <2 s dinner the doings there : e | would have put to shame the innocent < ” clos ness | little dinner given by Corey to Miss | : S ever g der to|Gilman at the year or so| : | of the gu»t!s'\ o whether al self- | at g dinner and their do- | = . s im-lings may be made public to good ad > se - of the - Duquesne Club é made public at the time, wasy - - in her abbreviated stage costume | : g s Held had started to sing her fa- e ite little song. “Oh, Won't You| : . yme and Play With Me,” when some- | . S § ng happe Some of the guests, it | - ppears a desire to accept the | LLOGUB A MAN OF ENERGY. |tu 1 invitation literally and th g o et |song was ne finished, for Miss Held & * = be appointed | was rescued by her manager and o ior T of the Baltse rushed from the club. ¢ B g e The manager started to raise a row ey T aiboral L0 but was quieted in some e > more than the foregoing eddr the recent acts of _were r made public. Corey’s | nddr attempt- | friends claim, however, that there were - emancipation move- | other and more startling facts, others & < rated that political |besides Anna Held to entertain and freedom could be obtained only by an|names and incidents that would make e which all the pro- |rich reading. e ts were invited to join.| The adventures of Cassie Chadwick 3 isn claims to be in pos- <ion of information to the effect that conference of Grand Dukes and officials held at Tsarkoe-Selo it in Pittsburg are being looke: {those connected with Corey az:duptl’?!i may be another reason for asking that certain’ people do not press Corey so s decided that Count de Witte had |that he will have to resign. That od @ faflure and that the time had |there were others besides James W. .4 for the adoption of firm_meas- | Friend in the toils of Cassfe, but that their which could be employed with less | they fought way-out, has been under @ man like Prince |frequently alleged here and if any one _Mirsky, former Minister of | knows all about it it is Corey. He, ac. | rior. The paper declares that a | cording to his friends, Is ready to talk | comference will be held to-mor- [ if he has to, to save his job, vhich Count de Witte will not| “All Mr. Corey asks is to be 1let| alone,” sald one of his friends m»mgm,] BERNHARDT TO TOUR TEXAS IN CIRCUS TENT| é.\'ovel Programme Arranged to Combat Theatrical yorted that Prince John Obol- former Governor General of Fin- ucceed Durnovo as Minister Interior. PP PLANS ITS OWN GOVERNMENT. League of Leagues to Establish a Con- stitwent Assembly. e PETERSBURG, Tuesday, Dec. 13 Syndicate. League of Leagues, now terme 2 p € RV E T K ible Government,” has elab- { NEW YORK, .Dec. 18 —Mme. Sarah ated & project for a comstituent as- | Bernhardt, the “Divine,” playing *Ca- mille” under canvas on Texas plains; trav- eling in her private car at the head of a train of real circus cars, and performing on a portable stage not much different from those used in side shows—that is the proposed programme, as arranged to- day, until the theatrical syndicate gives in and removes the ban from Henry Greenwall, who owns but does not con- trol Texas theaters. “It is fine,” said the “Divine” Sarah, when seen in her dressing room at the Lyric Theater. *Volla, I have great man- agers. They will not be balked, and I shall aid them by appearing in a tent— es, in a circus tent and on a stage of ne boards. Probably I shall enjoy it— may. be not.” The tent will be that used by Barnum & Balley’s circus. of 968 members elected from s of 140,000 inhabitants, which, its convocation, shall assume en- sovereignty, executive, legislative »d judicial The situation in the Baitic provinces i now the most grave of the empire’s conditions. It approaches civil war and the Government has been-forced to ap-: point a Governor General with sweep- ing administrative powers to try to re-: store order. All the troops in these provinces have been placed under his command The importation of arms, which have been entering the country in large quantities, and the sale of weapons have been prohibited and the euthorities are even empowered to ar Continued on Page 2, | S8an Carlos and near the Brittan ranch, | will i road may be operated on it without DIVORCEE'S ATTORNEY ON THIAL et T ' Accused as Result of Dodge-Morse Affair. Abraham Hummell Said to Have Invented False Evidence. WILL FIGHT THE OCEAN SHORE ROAD Southern Pacific Is _to Build a New Line. Plans to Run Electric Cars From This City to San Jose. Life of Chief Witness Against Him Alleged to Have Been Threatened. 0ld Corporation Arranging to Tap the Territory of Its Rival. Special L to TheCall Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN MATEO, Dec. 13.—There is now| NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—Abraham M. no longer any question that the South- mzan]\mlell‘ nmr :ifl;‘orn‘\;" W 1,{.1;; .;.( .;., i T g , o-day before Justice Rogers in ern Pacific Company has decided not{ ;. crimina] branch of the Supreme only to connect San Francisco and San | court on the charge of conspiracy Jose with an electric railroad, but that | subornation of perjury in connection it will give battle to the Ocean Shore | with the Dodge-Morse divorce nd v for an equal share of the rich | when court adjourned- this afternoon ge that is to come from the|only four had Dbeen selected. istrict between San Franeisco | Counsel for the accused lawyer made and Santa Cruz. When the Ocean|an effort to have the trial delayed, but Shore Railway developed into some- | Justice Rogers overruled all the vari- thing very much more substantial than | ous motions having that end in view. avenue’of, access to the comst upen |all Slo R R O el P o gt Rigestadd s may. e opst- ' S0le gt g - . S s god TR Fiummell SHIsshLRR: o Jon = SUS L0 A8 RENEE, LN SL RO RIger 18 of | spiracy to procure perjured evidence. the company in sécuring the necessary'| yormer Supreme Court Justice Edgar ‘:Ff“" il i 'l““kf“g SurveyS| L Fursman also was indicted on the P e o e arrotd: | charge of conspiracy fn ithe same case. the confidence. of the company, have| . LUe consplracy-and petiify charges b - were made’ after an Investigation by said enough to expose the plans of the | pseprjer Attorney Jerome of allegations railroad builders. . _—y APAT 2 | that the courts’had been made use of SUUTE 38 SELRCIN in an improper manner in an effort to Willlam F. Herrin has given his per- | procure an annulment of the decree jof bome. At that point the county road will be crossed and the route will be main- talned through the property of An- tone Borel and others westerly until the foothills are reached at the ex- | treme west of the Murray ranch at| Laurel Creek. That point on the new road will be a most important one in connection with the tapping of the en- tire coast-side district. From the Murray ranch the road will take its way through a pass in the mountains back of the Mills ranch. The road will continue in that direction untll it emerges at Belmont near the ! site of the Reld school. The old Ala- | meda de las Pulgas, which is back of | the most persistent being that a declara- tion of invalldity instead of ‘a divorce was desired in order that another mar- riage might take place with a wealthy member of the Roman Catholic church under the rites of that church. Hummell appeared in the proceedings as attorney for Charles F. Dodge and pre- sented a claim by Dodge that he never was properly served with the summons in Mrs. Dodge’s suit, that he was not repre- sented by counsel at the trial and that he knew nothing of the matter until he was served with a certificate of the de- cree. Former Justice Fursman then came into the case as counsel for Mrs. Morse, and the legal proceedings continued up to the point where, on January 4, 1904, the then be followed. In that direc- tion the road will take a practically | the Supreme Court. Then an attorney straight course until it skirts the west- | nemea Sweetser, who had served the erly boundary of Wellesley Park. At|papers on Dodge and who had been at that point the way will be clear 10| work on the case to save his professional meet the railroad which 1s now build- | rapytation, discovered letters from Dodge ing from Santa Clara to a point on the | ¢, portimer Ruger, also an attorney, grounds of the Stanford University saying Dodge had been served with pa- west of the main bulldings. Here the | ;org fn a divorce suit and authorizinz connection will be made and the elec- | Ruger to act as his attorney. Ruger had tric raflroad from Santa Clara to San | gieq before the latter proceedings. Mateo will be complete. Dodge was at once indicted for perjury, SEVERAL SURVEYS MADE. and after a long and bitter legal battle While several surveys have been | was brought back from Houston, Tex. A made, the one outlined is the one that | member of Hummell's law firm repre- has been chosen. Stakes have been | sented Dodge in Texas in his efforts to driven and the expectation is tRat ac- | prevent extradition to New York. After tual work on the road will not long be | Dodge was brought back here he made delayed. Property owners are being |a statement in which he accused Hum- approached in reference to rights of | mell of having dictated to him the false way and all the necessary preliminaries | adavit. He said he had been plenti- seem to have been arranged. fully supplied with money, the source of The«point at which the coast-side | which he did not question, and that all district is to be tapped is at the Murray | the efforts to prevent his return to New ranch, where the avenue to the coast | York were made undér the direction of is comparatively an easy one through | Hummell the Laurel Creek canyon. The grade is not a heavy one and an electric rail- MAY’OR OF T}IE CITY PLAYS POLICEMAN Special Dispatch to The Call: ——e————— LOS ANGELES, Dec! 13.—Mayor Me- y PANIES Aleer played the part of a policeman to- St m:gl‘lul::fi::’)ruov EMPLOYES | day, when, without assistance, he ar- rested two men and two women who were creating a disturbance on the street, and neld them until the arrival of {a patrolman. Then he summoned a pa- trol wagon and ordered his prisoners locked up. s The Mayor was passing a resort which great difficulty. This will give to the Southern Pacific Company an entrance to the rich district which is now the objective point of the Ocean Shore Railroad. New Organization Planned by the Manufactorers’ Association of Tlinols. : CHICAGO, Dec. 13.—The Mutual Lia- bility Insurance Company and the Mu- tual Employes’' Insurance Company are two organizations now being planned | has given the authorities much trouble, by the Illinois Manufacturers’ Assocla- |when two couples emerged from the tion for the benefit of employes. For |place and engaged in a violent quarrel. three weelks a committee has been in- | They hurled vile epithets at each other vestigating the question and a report, | in tones loud enough to be heard probably. favorable, will be submitted | the street.. The Mayor stopped to the assoclation at fts meeting mext|enough to see that they had been drink- week. : © |ing, The new companies will differ ma- | who he was and placed them under ar- terially In detail from similar organi- |rest. zations now in existence, but the plans{ One of the men is E. 8. Kincaid, known have not heen disclosed by the com- [as “‘Cherokee Bill,” and is sald to be a mittee, which is still at work. The | Portland deputy sheriff. The other man whole scheme is to bring about the best conditions for the employe, how- ever, and liberal terms will be accorded | fainted as she stepped into the patrol him. ! wagon, a project it was thought that the During the course of the arguments | Southern Pacific had 1¢t slip a golden | ¢o-dmy, Assistant Attorney Rand, who | opportunity and that it had 1ost -the | gy fn eharge of the prosecution of the | entire trade of that scction of the coast | euse, made the nswertion thut efforts which for many years had been beg- | pad been made “by the other side” to | ging for transportation facilities. | k111 - Charles Dodge, the most fm- It is clear now, however, that the| poriamt witness against Hummell. Rand officials of the Southern Pacific have | yafd it was mecessary to guard Dodge not been caught napping. They have | coputamtly, He uriged this ss one res- already surveyed a route for an elec- | som for sm early hearlng of the case. tric railroad from San Mauteo 1o San The < HAFEE Apaimst: Mlamel grew Jose and they have also found an easy | o,; of ihe |#ensational Dodge-Morse | sonal attention to the matter and in|divorce obtained by Mrs. Clements company with H. H. Lynch, who di-|Dodge, a former California girl, against | rected the construction of the San Ma- | Charles F. Dodge. After this divorce teo clectric raiiroad, has gone over the | Mrs. Dodge was married to Charles W. ground and has given his indorsement, | Morse, a capitalist of this city, who it is announced, to the route selected. |is prominent in banking and business Surveyors have been in the field for |affairs. The real object of the desire me time and the route has been |to obtain an annulment of the Dodge agreed upon. The road as now planned | divorce was said to be to thereby in- will leave San Mateo for the south at|validate the marriage of Mrs. Dodge a point not yet determined. The road | and Morse. | will run through the Hayward prop-| Why it was sought to invalidate this erty, which for many years has been a |marriage has never been definitely barrier to progress in that direction. | learned, but the most sensational stories The route will be up to the Hayward | have been in circulation cn the subject, Dodge-Morse annulment was entered in| then he approached them, told them gave the name of E. S. Reek. Who the women, are is not krnown. One of them BAIRD'S DEATH REVEALS A SECRET ROMANCE. e | | Behind the death of John Rush Baird, the young clubman who was kill the overturning of his automobile Tuesday night, lies a romance. Neil, his companion in the machine, told Captain Burnett yesterday that they had been secretly engaged and were to have been married in January, —— ed by Miss Ruth Miss Neii Says Wedding Was Planned Girl Sobs Out Story of En- gagement. Tells Captain Burnett About | Accident. When the life of John Rush Baird was crushed ‘out by the overturning of -his | e i |1 i 1 | bl 1 | | } { | | | | o c | SHED <> <= < i { ) ‘ e — —p CLUBMAN AND PRETTY YOUNG GIRL, WHOSE ROMANCE ENDED { WITH HIS TRAGIC DEATH. +- b automobile on Carmel road at midnight on Tuesday death carried with it a | double tragedy. It brought to a sorrow- | ful end a pretty secret romance between the young capitalist and Miss Ruby Brown Neil, his companion on that fatal ride. Baird fell desperately in love with her three months ago, so the story goes, and his wooing had been successful. They had nurtured their love for each other quietly and kept it secret from the peer- Ing eyes of the public. The marriage was to have been celebrated soon after the beginning of the new year, and it was to have been made a surprise to the many friends of both. The story of the romance was told brokenly to Chief of Detectives Burnett yesterday by Miss Neil, who was called before him to give a detailed account of the accident. Her eyes.filled with tears as she told of the death of Baird, and a soft blush overspread her cheeks when she sald, “We loved each other and were to have been married soon.” A hush fell on . the newspaper men and detectives standing about the room when she told of their secret woolng, for they realized that they had touched the saddest chord of the tragedy. Down deep In their hearts they pitied the woman. and every man of them believed what she sald. CRIED OUT IN HER ANGUISH. ‘What wonder, then, that this brave lit- tle girl of 19 yvears crled in anguish when she saw the automobile turn over and pinion Baird beneath its crushing weight., What wonder that she tugged desperately t the powerful machine in her frantic endeavor to lift it up and aw: It was the love’ for the man that caused her to stay with him when others might have fled, kicking out the light lest he be burned in an explosion and feeling of his hand to know by its warmth that he was alive. Then she ran for assistance—ran she knew not where, down a strange road toward the lights of the distant city. But Jove led the way, and she found helping | hands oniy a short distance over the ! hill. Yet she was too lat>. When she re- | turned she found that the man she loved | was dead. In her agony she threw her- long | (¢ down and grasped the hand that a oment before was warm. It was now :M. She called for him to come back to her, and rubbed his limbs in anguish. She would not be consoled. Then a kind- hearted neighbor took her to one side and told her that she must be calm and con- trol her neryes, and this brave little girl regained her, courage and endured her agony in silence. - Continued on Page 2, Columa 5. - mess firms, -«:flb TRUNK LINES WL AB0LISH FREE ASSES All Railroads Entering New York Join Movement. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—It was stated on good authority "to-day that all Trunk Line Assoclation rallroads have agreed to abolish all forms of free transportation after January 1. This step is the natural consequence of the announcement ‘' made by the Pennsyl- vania, New York Central and Reading systems that they will no longer dis- tribute pas: It is expected that the Western roads will follow suit before the meeting of representatives of the Trunk Line Association in this city to- morrow. Of all the roads entering this city, it is generally understood that the Cen- tral, the Erie and. the Ontarfo and Western have been the most lavish dis- | tributors of free transportation. Offi- cials of the Erje practically admit that the management of the road has de- cided to abandon the custom. In addition to the roads mentioned, the abolition of the pass system will | be indorsed by the Lackawanna, the | Lehigh Valley, the Baltimore and Ohio, | the Jersey Central, the West Shore, the Delaware and Hudson and other con- trolled and affiliated lines. ‘While this determination upon the part’ of the railway officials has been influenced by the continued agitation in favor of rate legislation, it is admit- ! tedly aimed at politiclans and their | henchmen and intimates, who have been the chief beneficlaries from the | free pass system. The movement to abolish -passes has the sympathy of nearly every road in the country, but it has always been felt that to be ef- fective the agreement must be unani- mous and rigidly adhered to by all Hines. —_—e—————— Big Fire In New York. NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—The four-story stone building at the cormer of Fulton sireet and Hedford avenue, Brooklyn, owned by State Senator Charles Cooper and occupled by “busi- that broke after 2 o'clock this LAWSON FAILS TO MAKE CO0D 1S A PROPHET Prices of Shares Go Contrary to His Prediction. ——— Special Dispatch to The Call. BOSTON, Dec. 13. — Yesterday was the anniversary of the great full page advertisement of Thomas W. Law- som, in which he advised the selling of Amalgamated Copper down to 33 and by .means of which, at the moment of the President’s message and other con- tributing factors. he broke the market to 8¢. Lawson advertised that Amalga- mated was to sell at 33 and Copper Range would go to 200 by 1906. Yester- day Amalgamated sold within a frac- tion of par and Copper Range was still selling at only 82, after a long perfod of stagnation, at prices ranging as low as 9. The public, which Lawson advised to sell stocks, sold them into the maw of the “System” which he claimed to ba fighting and is now buying them back from that “System” at higher prices. Those who bought Copper Range on his advice either had to “lose out™ or else sit down and wait till the stock got back to where they could close out, lueky if they came out even. The Cop~ per ‘Range stock they bought was the same stock that Lawsorl soid, violating, it is alleged, his pooling agreement. ———— NATION MAY SOON HAVE THE ONE-CENT POSTAGH Many Changes in the Preseat Postal System Advocated by WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Chai Overstreet made it clear to the House Committee on Postoffices in an addressy to-day that he regarded ome-cent post- age as a probability of the near future, His views on the postal neceds are a simple reclassification, then an in. creased second class postage, a higher , price for the transpertation of third class matter sent on first class time, and the abolition of the franking privi. lege.