The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 14, 1905, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1905. A NEW KNABE Knabe Piar s of the Peerless n display. - The instru- designated as Knabe eyond question the mous factory. yle o e 1906 s Style “W,” creation of this S Piano, se, “Old English” in design—of the st ahoganies—is considerably small- ; nensions than f r models and is | S sithout polish, or in the New Art [ Style “W?” is a revela- ind powerful, it possesses all of fthatof the grand piano, meeting ofgthe heaviest forti e same time that purity ess, that living, singing present in Knabe crea- which no piano can be ion of the Style “W ” is the per- asticity and responsivene In nstruction it is the scientific Knabe Grand action applied 1C . = - e amb el b salary was $150,000. Peabody is a lawyer, | to the upright piano. The same perfection aeTiian: reb.siatRties e WAt touch, rapidity of repetition and delicacy Waldorf Astor and a director in several by r R EA e e S banks and other corporations, of which € sent, I ing it ideal in ev ery detail. one is the Illinois Central Railroad Com- T “ ” : artic = pany. Peabody also was nominated as a (-_~ The Style w = Knabe IS F“rtl“umrl.\ trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance WCURDY'S SUCCESSOR IS CHOSEN $C. A. Peabody, American Representative of William Waldorf Astor, Becomes President of the Mutual PERKINS GETS OUT OF NEW YORK LIFE e | Partner of Pierpont Morgan Succeeded as First Vice President of the Company by Alexander E. Orr S i NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—E. H. Harri- man to-day wrote to the legislative in- | surance investigation committee ask- | ing that he be given an opportunity to %0 on the stand and testify as to his attempt, as described by Thomas F. Ryan, to share in Ryan's holdings in | the Equitable Life Assurance Soclety. | The committee replied that this re- quest would be granted and Mr. Harri- man may testify to-morrow.: NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—Two incidents affecting the life insurance situation in New York to-day overshadowed the leg- slative investigation. While the commit? tee was inquiring into the conduct of the Prudeptial Life Insurance Company and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company president and chairman of the finance committee of the New York Life Insur- ance Company. He was succeeded as vice president by Alexander Orr, president of the New York City Rapid Transit Commission, and as chairman of the finance committee by John Claflin, head of the H. B. Claflin Company. ther important move in the situation the election by the trustees of the Life Insurance Company to-day . Peabody to succeed Rich- as president of that 0 a year. MecCurdy's C ed, by reason of its size, to small homes to succeed Justice Rufus W. TR T St and Emory McClintock was re the question of space | nominated to succeed Elihu Root. They i » plao? Si F o A | cannot be elected as trustees until the e Lvthi.flt MI“P“UI) .L“ | next meeting of the board. satin-like finish of its TUnited States Senator John F. Dryden surrouf >s of the modern home. (. The price of the Style “W* Knabe is $525.00. Easy payments may be arranged. Y ¢ Store will be open evenings until after the Holidays. %\ ifey B Wlen G, of New Jersey, president of the Pruden- tial Life Insurance Company, again tes- tified before the investigating committee to-day and made a statement to the com- mittee, giving his reasons for favoring Federal supervision of life insurance com- panies through a national insurance de- partment, which, he said, should have au- thority over them. This, he said, would benefit both the companies and the in- sured. e tendency of the holders of indus- Life Insurance Companies to was examined in great detail by Hughes, counsel for the com- | mittee, who read a statement by the Pru- 37 per cent of its industrial Senator Dryden declared there much to be regretted, from the CALIFORNIA MAN WEDS A MASSACHUSETTS GIRL | SEAMEN'S UNION HONORS SAN FRANCISCO MEMBERS | Shute of Fresmo Marries Miss Bruce T High Places Go to Walter Macarthur, | ers than formerly. The Senator asserted Miriam Goss in Rox- Andrew Furuseth and Cormelius | that industrial insurance, even with high bury. Harrington. | rates and the tendency to lapse, was the | ntion of nion of America | with the election of officers and Boston as the place of the Presi- presidents, ter Macarthur, San Francisco; committee on longshoremen, ‘Walter Macarthur and Andrew Furuseth, -San Francisco: chairman of the ex- committee, Andrew Furuseth. ——— Dec. 13.—At the meeting of the e State Hoepital for the Insdne Agnew to-day the appointment of Miss o A. Dell 0f Oakland as third assistant cian was confirmed. The reports showed Je and 434 female patients December 1, 33,588 in the contingent fund THE BALANCE OF Desks, Tables and Chairs ..of the... Yawman & Erbe Mfg. Co. at 635-639 Mission Street, Will be sold at COST to make room for their increased line of filing cabinets now due. ...NOTE... REDUCTIONS S Top Desk , now Flat Top $112, now Roll Top Desk now Flat Top $§75, now Roll Tep Desk now. . Flat Top 365, now 54, Roll Top Desk pow.. Fiat Top $42, now 30.00 Roll Top Desk . now.. 865 Fiat Top $22, now .R17.00 Top Desk now.. $82 Flat Top $20, now.....815.00 point of the company as well as of the insured, and that the ten- ¥ now toward a greater persist- v on the part of the industrial hold- | greatest economic force now in operation in this country. Just before adjournment to-day Haley Fiske, vice president of the Metroffolitan | Company, told of an incident in which | that company commissioned William A. | Read to buy 3333 shares of railroad stock | for the company. Fiske said that Read the same day sold the stock to a com- it had been sold for to the Metropolitan. Fiske said he tried to get the money back, but Read refused to surrender it. —_———— Fountaln Pens. selling agents for We are Waterman's “Tdeal,” Conklin" Marshall pen. These are the best pens—the cheapest” pens and the only pens worth con- sidering. Sanborn, Vall & Co., 741 Market street. 5 —————— OIL TRUST ROBBING PEOPLE, SAYS GOVERNOR OF KANSAS | Hoch Declares It Is Stealing Twenty- | Two Millions Annually in His | State. { OTTAWA, Kans., Dec. 13.—Govertor W. E. Hoch, speaking here last night at a gathering | of Republicans, sald: “‘At this time the Kansas oil fleld is yield- 60,000 barrels a day, an insignificant part 7, and for this oil the Standard Oil Company, Wwhich sets the price, is_paying less than oné-third what it pald a year ago. I believe it could pay §1 per berrel more for this ofl than it is paying and still make a Jarge profit. In other words, it is robbing the peopie of $60,000 a day, or $22,000,000 a year. We sit supinely down while we are being robbed of enough money every day by this one large corporation to bulld one hundred homes for the homeless Or to rear a great educational institution or to endow a college, or in one year to pey all the expenses of the State for five ves: e SMELTING TRUST MAY HAVE FORMIDABLE OPPOSITION Interests Enter the Field and Wil Build at Salt Lake and Denver. . DENVER, Dec. 13—Announcement was made last night that a controlling interest in the Ohlo and Colorado smelter at Salida, Colo., had been sold and that the purchasers would extend the business of the company by con- structing new plants at Seit Lake and Denver. Timothy win of Denver, former owners of the stook trans is suthority for the announcement. He said that he was not permitted at this time to dis- close the identity of the purchasers, but th New at they were ot in any way connected with the American Smelting and _Refining Company. The price eid for the SUiaa plant was §2,2 250,000. —_————————— MEN OF LOST LIGHTSHIP Their Pay Ordered Stopped From the Day the Vessel Went Down. 2 NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Dec. 13.—Captain James Jorgensen and his officers and crew of the relief lightship No. 58 recelved notice to-day that the lighthouse board at Washing- give the men For Account of GEO. H. FULLER DESK CO. i An effort was made to have Cantain Jorgen- $o reilef ship No. 9, Tew trapsferred at_Woods Holl. but the lighthouse board re- fused. Several ive men here have ‘Washington protesting George W. Perkins resigned as first vice | policies in the Prudential and Met- | se within five years of their | pany of brokers at'$10 a share less than | “Self-filling” and the $1 00 | one of the | GIVEN WAITING ORDERS | DEMOCRATIC - FEUD STIRS - THE HOUSE Hearst Followers Bitterly Attack John Sharp Wil- liams of Mississippi, the Leader of the Minority SEQUEL TO REJECTION OF RAIL RATE BILL Quarrel Begun at Last Session of Congress Gives the Republican Members Four Hours of Amusement ——— el WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—The “washing of Democratic linen for the amusement | of Republicans,” as Williams, the minor- | ity leader, put it on Monday, occupied the attention of the House for more than four hours to-day. The result accom- plished was a “defi” thrown at the minor- | ity leader by Representative Lamar of | Florida and another by Representative | Shackleford of Missouri. The complaint | | of both resulted from the failure of Wil-| liams to recommend their appointment as | | members of the Committee on InterState | and Foreign Commerce. Both made long | speeches, in which Williams' leadership | was assailed from many points. Willlams replied to Lamar at some | length, and briefly to Shackleford. His | defense was that at the last session the| Democrats on this committee were divided | and he deemed it necessary for the good of the party and the country that a united minority report should be made on | the subject of railroad rate legislation. At times there was high tension in the debate. Lamar was particularly bitter in | | his criticism and openly declared that his personal friendship for Williams was for- | ever at an end unless the criticism of him- self were retracted. He, however, would recognize Williams as the party leader. Shackleford denounced all bosses and placed himself entirely independent of party leadership in the House. LAMAR BEGINS THE\ATTACK. | Lamar said that he aid not agree wjth | Williams that Republicans would enjoy personalities between Democrats. Em- phasizing this, he referred to the personal debate of \last session between Sullivan of Massachusetts and Hearst of New York. At that time, ‘he charged, the minority leader had made no objection to the procedure. | Lamar said that he considered his re- | movai from the Commerce Committee an act absolutely untenable and an asper- | slon upon his private character. It had gone to the country through the press that the minority leader would not tol- erate followers of Hearst. Williams was at once recognized to re- ply. . “I am,” he said, “about to perform a | very unpleasant duty, and one as to the wisdom of which I have serious doubts. The gehtleman takes himself too serious- |1y. He thinks he can make a national | issue out of a committee assignment, but He thinks he was re- There was no he cannot do it. | moved, but he was not. committee.” Williams asked if he would not have been lacking in moral courage, in every | | essenttal of a floor leader, if he had | made up a minority membership of the | Commerce Committee which would have been divided four to two on the | | question of railroad rates. | “My brother would have gone off| | that “committee under similar circum- stances,” said he, and he added that if | the Hearst bill received the minority support in committee he would have supported it In caucus. Conversion to the Hearst bill he likened to the con- version of Saul on his way to Damas- cus. It was inspired, he declared. HOUSE APPLAUDS WILLIAMS. | Applause followed Williams when he said he had not allowed personalities to influence his transaction of public | service. He referred to the committee appointments of Hearst—Labor and Ir- | rigation of Arid Lands—and admitted | that he did not love Hearst. “Why should I love a millionaire who owns many newspapers which he | seems to be devoting to tearing me down?” he asked. Lamar at once asked for recognition, as did Shackleford. Lamar was rec- ognized. He spoke with feeling and charged that the minority leader had called the rate bill caucus of last ses- |ston because he was angry at being | turned down by his colleagues on the | Miles amendment. | “It was not a caucus; it was a gold { brick,” he said. | Willlams interrupted to caution La- mar and “to prevent unpleasant things from happening,” adding that “the gentleman Is not permitted to use in- | sulting language on ,the floor of the House.” Lamar referred to a letter of criti- cism of Hearst by Williams. The lat- | ter denied the criticism. During this | personally and for his rate bill. He said he was glad to see that President Roosevelt in his message had “come aroupd to the Hearst bill” retort of Shackleford to a statement of Williams denying the use of certain language at the St. Louis convention. “In Missouri we have raised the cry, | ‘Down” with the bosses,’"” declared Shackleford, who Insisted that the | wishes of his constituents were much more to him than the leadership of Williams. { DENUNCIATION OF BOSSES. ;Continuing his denunciation of bosses, Shackleford said it was the Mc 1s and McCurdys who prevented the eélec- tion of W. J. Bryan as President and | that H. H, Rogers and J. Pierpont Mor- | gan would be delighted to have the| Democraey of the country under the control of one boss. Williams said he had enough and did not desire to reply. The past had gone. He looked to the future and believed that this year there would be foand six Democrats on a committee who would agree. He was tired of discord. “We are represented now in all the funny papers of the country as a don- key,” he said. “The trouble is,” turning | to the Republican side of the chamber, | “that the people of the country are tired of you and are afraid of us, and as happened here this morning that it is afraid of us.” The Democratic party, sald Williams, would support a Republican rate bill it it contained power to name a sub- stitute rate and keep it in force and to regulate private car lines and other abuses. denial Shackleford commended Hearst | “The word of one Missouri Democrat | is equal to that of two leaders,” was a | it is partially on account of such things | NO PLACE NOW - OPEN TO LANE Senators Induee. Commerce Commissioner ~Fifer to Withhold His Resignation RIS e . BALK THE PRESIDENT Mr. Roosevelt, It Is /Said, Is Not Averse to “Pigeon- holing” of Nomination : Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Opposition to the confirmation of Franklin Lane as a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission has taken a new turn. Acting, it 1s sald, upon the suggestioh of :Illinols' Senators, Hon. Joseph W. F#fer, whom Lane ‘was nominated to succeed, has withheld his resignation. There 1s, In consequence, no vacancy at this time. The Ililinois Senators have the sympathy of their Republican colleagues In their protest against so g800d a position being given to a Demo- ;r';\t and Senatorial courtesy’ is power- ul. Back of this party opposition there is understood to be a protest on the part of strong railroad influences which hold that Lane, though a clever gentleman, is not of the callber neces- sary to fit him for the commission, if it is to have the power which the President 4s asking. It is said President Roosevelt, in his talks with Senators, has displayed no very great interest in Lane. He made the appointment because of a promise he had given President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of Califor- nia. This promise was given some time ago—indeed, before the railroad agita- tion became mcute. The close personal relations between the President and Dr. Wheeler made it impossible for an escape from’ adhering to the pledge, but the President has no strong per- sonal interest fu Lane himself. In view of this fact Republican Sen- ators do not feel that they are run- ning counter to the President's wishes in holding up~action upon.the ILane nomination. B o OFFICERS OF THE NAVY SHIFTED TO NEW PLACES WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—The transfer of the command, of the new protected cruiser Charleston from Captain Herbert Winslow to Com:nnfler n McR. Winslow, formerly naval aid to the President, w: 1 Norfolk about December 20, "xlxl:r‘:ekfxa‘:fi?u:; Captain Winslow will remeve Captain R. P. Rodgers in command of the Kearsarge, and the latter will come to Washington on spectal duty, preparatory te relreving Captain Seton Schroder as chief of the Office of Naval Intel- ligence, when the latter goes to the command of the new battleship Virgmia. Lieutenant Commander W. A. Edgar, mew commander of the Dolphin, will at once assume command of his ship. Lieutenant Com- mander John H. Glbbons, whom he relleves, has_been ordered to London as naval attache ot the American Embassy. o S e ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS. WASHINGTON, Dec, 13.—First Lieutenant Paul C. Hutton, assistant surgeon, will report on Friday, December 20, to Lieutenant Colonel George H. Torney, deputy surgeon general, at tre Presidio, San Francisco, for examina- tion to_determine his fitnees for fon. First Licutenant Fred B. Bueban, Thitd Cavalry, will proceed to San Frencisco and sall after January 1 for the Philippines for duty in the Department of Mindanao. The leave of absence granted First Lieutenant Al- fred McC. Wilson, on October 18, is extended two months. Navy orders: The following cable was re- celved to-day from Rear Admiral Train of the Asiatic station at Cavite: “Captain C. G. Calkins, detached from the Cincinnati to his home: Commander J. B. Bliss detached from the I Twentieth Infantry, Philippines division, | the Frolic to his home; Commander W. L. Bur» dick, retired, detached from the Cincinnati to his home; Commander E. H. Tillman de- tached from the Monadnock to his home: Lieu- tenants E. R. Pollock and T. A. Kearney de- tached from the Oregon to their homes; Com- mander F. W, Coffin_to command the Monad- nock:# Lieutenant D, W. Knox, detached from the first torpedo flotilla, to continue command- ing the Decatur; Lieutenant C. H. Woodward to command first torpedo flotilla; Passed As- sistant Paymaster A. Hovey King detached tached from the Baltimore to the marine brig- ade at Cavite; Passed Assistant Paymaster A, B. Smith Jr. detached from the Monad- nock to his home. BN Registrar of Land Office. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—The President to- day sent to the Senate the nomination of Galen J. Dixon of California to be rexistrar of the Land Office at Independence, Cal. Dainty Foods Demand It N EVERY Receipt that calls for cream of tartar, soda, or baking powder, use the Royal Baking Powder. Better results will be obtained because of the absolute purity and great leavening strength of the Royal. It will make : sweeter, of finer flavor, more digestible and wholesome. It is always reliable and uni- form in its work. Alum and phosphate baking powders— some of them sold at the same pnoc and some of them cheaper—will make neither dainty nor wholesothe food. ' ROVAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. CHICES CALLE O STATEROD WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—A call for a Republican caucus to be held in the hall, of the House to-morrow at the conclusion of the session was issued to-day by Hepburn. consider the question of statehood for the Territories. The House Committee on Territori to-day named Hamilton, Brick, Pow ers, Moon of Tennessee and Lloyd as a sub-committee to consider bills for the admission of the four Terrftorles as two States. The committee devoted several hours to a hearing on the proposed prohibi- tion amendment to any statehood bill admitting Oklahoma and Indian Ferri- tory to the Unlon. Members o the statehood delegation from the two Territories and representatives of vari- ous religious and temperance organiza- tions were present. E. C. Dinwiddie, legislative agent of the Anti-Saloon League, declared that | the league and allied organizations would insist upon a prohibition clause in the statehood bill and would be sat- isfied with an amendment to the Gal- linger-Stone amendment, which pre- vents the sale and manufacture liquor in the proposed State for twen- ty-one years and after that time only by adoption of an amendment to the State constitution. Joint statehood for New Mexico and | Arizona was discussed by the Presi- dent to-day with a delegation of New Mexficans, among whom were Solomon Luna, Republican National Committee- man; Major W. H. H. Llewellyn, United | States District Attorney; Judge A. A Freeman and A. M. Hove. Judge Free- man said he believed the people of the two Territories would be glad to ae- cept joint statehood. Major Llewellyn and Luna took up with the President some appointments in the judictary of | New Mexico. The incumbents will probably be reappointed. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13.—Colonel Epes Randolph of Tucson, Ariz, mil- lionaire mine owner, Industrial pro- moter, E. H. Harriman's personal rep- resentative in Arizona and one of the most influential citizens of the Terri- tory, In an interview given here to-day declares in most emphatic language against joint statehood for Arizona and New Mexico, and makes the state- ment that 96 per cent of the Arizona from ihe Chaudcey fo the Monadnock: ‘Cap- [cltizenship is opposed to it. Colomel ain F. M. Wise, Marine Corgs, to the Ore- Sou: Coptain M. .Eabb, Mastne Coroe, de- | Rooaoipn has beem & remident of Tucson twenty years. . Bill Abelishing Canal Commission. WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—A bill abolishing the Isthmian Canal Commission was introduced to-day by Representative Mann of Illinofs. In 1t dlseretion is given the President to put the work of bullding the canal under any one of the executive departments and also to operate the Panama Railroad through the same means. It is called toi of | STEALS T0 PR HONEY SHARSS CHICAGO, Dec. 13.—William J. Smith, for twelve years confidential bookkeeper for the Robert Stevenson Drug Company, was yesterday arrested for forgery. Al- though he had taken almost $3000 from | the funds of the company in less than a year, little or nome of it was spent on himself, as was evidenced by his appear- | ance when arrested. His clothing was | 0ld and worn and his overcoat was not warm enough to protect him from the cold. Smith lived with his wife and two children in a cottage. “The money all went to the loan | sharks,” he said. “They kept threatening | to garnishee my wages, and I knew if that happened I would lose my job and | be able to-do nothing for my children. “My first false step was taken about three years ago, when a friend of mine invented a candy slot machine,” Smith added. “I borrowed $200 from the money lenders and signed a note for 335, which he borrowed to put the machine on the { market. Well, it fell through. I lost my | $200, my friend disappeared and I wyas at the mercy of the memey lenders. All the money I took was paid to them. I did not get any of it, neither did my wife and children. | *I shall make a clean breast of it,” said Smith. “T guess I can do my family as | much good while in the penitentiary as I have in the last year.” —_————— OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST New National Bank for California and, Changes Made in Postal Service. WASHINGTON. Dec. 13.—The Comptroiler of the Currency to-day approved the application to convert the Bank of Comptom, Cal., into the First National Bank of Comptonm, capital $25.000. The Citizens’ National Bank of Los Angeles was to-day approved as reserve agent for the | First Natfonal Bank of San Jaciato. | * The tollowing fourth-class Calffornia post- | otfices will be advanced to the Presidents | ciass on January 1: Kingsbury Laton, $1000; Mendoctno, $1000: Nordhoff, $1200; Quincy, $1200; Tracy, $1100. ‘Among the bills introduced in the House to- day were the following: By Representative Needham of California, transferring the Yel- lowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, Gemeral Gramt. Mount Rainfer, Crater Lake and Wind Cave | National parks from the control of the Depart— wment of the Interior to the ot Agriculture. years after the passage of the ast. ———— Henor for Captain Bauer. WASHINGTON, Deo. 18. A. Bauer of California a vice president of the Assoctation Militia of the United States. LA Mission .Rocker $8.50 picture would have of woven rush fiber—the fashioned unbreakable design and weathered finish. the appreciation. Just as big and massive as the you believe. Weathered finish with seat mu(i‘e old- kind—in perfect keeping with the massive Be a practical Santa Claus—no question as to Positively no mail or telephone orders STERLING FURNITURE COMPANY et $21.50 ish, your choice. Broad French plate mirror extends across the entire top. Plush-lined drawer for silverware, wine closets; every accommedation to_be fourd in a sideboard. Price low, but not y low as Sterling prices go. It isn't a special price. just every-day Ster- ling value that you can buy to-day or next week or any time. your goodness. 1039 MARKIET Something that will be a daily reminder of Mytches the rocker at the Ileft. Little need be said, except that in most stores you would be asked anywhere from fifteen to twenty dollars for a chair not one whit better.