The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 19, 1905, Page 1

THE WEATHER. Forecast for December 19, 1805: San Francisco and vicinity—Cloudy, uneettied weather, with showers; fresh south winds. A. G. McADIB, District Forecaster. ‘The College CHUTES— Vaudeville. Matines. COLUMBIA— GRAND—“Magda.” ORPHEUM—Va TIVOLI—Comic MAJESTIC—"It I Were King." inée—*The M udeville. Opera. Mati- erchant of Venice. PRICE FIVE CENTS. USES BANK DEPOSITS RIVATE DEALS. — _ AN P | Three Chicago financial in- | 1 | stitutions, believed to have | ‘ ’ been among the strongest | | in the Middle West, have | | been wrecked by the op- erationsof Jehn R. Walsh, || | by whom they were con- Walsh used the s on deposit to further The Clearing - house trolled. fu | f 1 | | l J C private | C | bank | no enterprises. fnicago have guaranteed that the closed concerns shall lose a dollar. | Three Concerné Wrecked by Walsh. Financier Owes Millions in LLoans. Clearing-House|| Saves the Pa- || trons. i RIS iy patrons ot ~— Three of ne in Bank, e Equitable t ocontrolled | : e city, and In E; t n YW by him, sus-| I L Thelr af- fair iquidated as rapidly as . possible and y will go out of busi- s t 3 t of the : t Co ¥, and all the Lecturer Says Booker T. Washington Is the the the have re- H. at the ; ik, and directoms have been | nted by the Chicago | new management !tand’ ks of Chicago, which have | resources that every de- | » the last cent, | any one of the | 1o anything | ; son axen vy| OTEAtEr Man, trous panic | N € f W € financial | N s the effect in this Special Dispatch to The Call. al Stock | has LOS ANGELES, Dee. 18.—“There are four men that are really worth while in this country. First of all I place Booker T. Washington; second, I piace | Jacob Riis, and third, I believe I must put Theodore Roosevelt. I am mot sure that We ought to be third, because he is o fast nobody can keep up with him, and you mever know in the morning what he is going to do before night. Fourth, I place Judge Ben Lindsey of Denver, because of his great work In reforming the youths of this country.” | This was the striking statement made by Dr. Albert ‘E. Winship, editor of the New England Journal of Education of Boston, and one of the foremost men in educational circles throughout the country. The statement was a part of his lecture upon “Twentleth Century Ideals, ers’ Institute. “Every 'century e Southern Indiana Railroad Com- | f:;i;uld' Sy The Comptroller, the State Audi- | r and the members of the Chicago Clearing-house ‘Gommittee place the the bonds at one-half the| uation of Walsh, and it was their| ssal to accept his valuation that | d the suspension of the banks, he liabilities .of the three institu- ons are estimated in the aggregate at 000,000. Against this amount the nks and the trust company have re- urces that, on & conservative esti- te, are worth $16,000,000. Then there the bonds of the Southern Indiana lway Company, estimated by Walsh BANKS FUNDS LOANEL D TO WALSH. s Company of claims that if he could tle more time and been is -operations he banks and made | himself and his bases this statement on | rameled in sa ved. his ciates cstimate of the value of the bonds is noted for some said he. “The nine- was notable for organization, | and though I am not a prophet, nor the | son of a prophetess, as a Yankee I may be allowed a guess that the twentieth century characteristic will be power. Power without poise, however, would be valueless. ' I may iike to ride seventy miles an hour;, but Iwant to know tha Iam on the track.” ~ Dr. Winship applied in a masterly manner the lessons | this leading thought to the develop- | ment of power in the child of to-day, | but all the rest of his lecture attracted little attention as compared with that given to his estimate of the leading men being worth $16,000,000. They are|of the country. onsidered by the Comptroller, the| Asked after the lecturs for an addi- e Auditor and the Clearing-house | tional opinion he replied that he haa nmittee to be worth a little more 2 half that sum. Their value is a tter to be determined in the future, B the presidents of the local banks admit that, if the estimate of Walsh be found to be correct, the two banks and the trust company will not only pay 1 of their debts, but leave a surplus besides. The directors of the two banks and Walsh, who has turned over all of private property, as well as that nding in the name of Mrs. Walsh, | ve pledged Teal estate and securities vaiued at $5,000,000, and, estimating the ralflroad bonds at $8,000,000 more, there is a total of $29,000,000 assets, against $26,000,000 liabilities. ENTRAPPED BY COMPTROLLER. For some time there has been a dif- ference of opinion between the officers of the Chicago National Bank and Comp- ller Ridgely regarding the method conducting the , affairs of the bank. e Comptroller took exception to the large joamk made by the bank to the private enterprises of Walsh and de- clared that ‘a portion of them must be — Continued on Page 2, Col. 5. expressed all he could say in the words quoted. He added that posterity will appreciate the real worth of Booker T. Washington because posterity only will know what his work will have accom- plished. He believed that for perma- nency, for real benefit to unborn gen- erations, Booker Washington's work was greater than that of any other liv- ing American. He went on further to explain that he had no desire to detract from what the others he mentioned had done, but he had given simply what: he consid- ered the comparative standing of the four men. ————— Caught After Three Years. “REW YORK, Dec 18.—M. M. Letts, formerly a telegraph operator in the employ of the Santa Fe Railroad Com- pany, was brought to this city from Colon, Panama, to-day as a prisoner charged with forgery and defaulting. He is in custody of a Kansas City de- tective and an agent of the Santa Fe Ralilroad. Lately he has been a station agent and postmaster in the canal zone. The search for Letts lasted three years. 1 k given before the City Teach- he deduced from | HISS VA CEORGE LOST N COLOMDD {Overtaken by Mountain Heiress and Artist Companion Are | Missing, Storm and Lose Their Way. e Reward Offered by Father of Beautiful Los Angeleno Spurs Searchers. BSHTE Special Dispatch to The Call, DENVER. Dec. 18.—Miss Vivian George, an heiress of Los Angeles, and Ralph Loughbrough, a cartoonist from Kala- mazeo, Micl., are lost in the mountains near Arabahoe Peak, fiffy miles from Denver, »nd it Is feared they have per- ished. They were members of a hunting party that left Downs' mining camp, near Eldora, on Saturday morning and be- came separated from their companions during a storm that suddenly came upon them. Hunting parties have been searching the mountains since their disappearance was noted on Saturday afternoon, but the - — COMPTROLLER OF THB . CUR- RENCY, WHO CLOSED THREE CHICAGO CONCERNS. —_— REFUSES TO ENJOIN WIFE FROM TALKING Court Will Not Grant Re- straining Order to the Husband, Special Dispatch to The Call, JERSEY CITY, Dec. 18.—Vice Chancel- | lor Stevenson to-day declined to tie a woman's tongue. | “Adam got up against this question i“‘nh Eve,” said the woman's lawyer, i “and every man who has ever lived has been up against it. 'Your Honor can't | enjoin a woman’'s tongue.” | And so Vice Chancellor Stevenson de- | cided that if Mrs. Willlam M. Abbott of Bloomfield avenue, Hoboken, wanted to talk her husband out of hig job as ticket | agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad, the courts could not restrain her. only trace found was Loughbrough's ri- fle. The blind search was continued dur- ing the past torty-eight hours and the hunting parties are being augmented by new recruits. kivery foot of ground pos- sible to cover will be gome over. Miss George's father, F. George of Los Angeles, has offéred 'a large reward for the {inding of his daughter, dead or allve. He Is said to be frantlc and sympathy for him is doing as much .to hasten the search-as tha-offering ot the- rewetd. Miss George is well known in Denver, | where she has often been the guest of friends. She is an heiress in her own right and last year, when presented at the English court, was declared by King Edward 1o be one of the most beautiful of America’s beautiful women. She is an enthusiastic hunter, and when a hunting pagty was proposed last Saturday she en- tered into the plans enthusiastically. With her father as chaperon and ac- companied by George Bellington, a Salt Lake City attorney, and Ralph Lough- | brough, she followed a guide from Downs' camp to Windy Point, near Arap- ahoe Peak. After going several miles and just before luncheon time on Saturday they formed & line and started about fifty yards apart to stalk what was believed to be an elk. It was thought at first that Miss George and the artist had taken refuge in some sheltered spot and would put in an appearance as soon as the fury of the storm abated. But when they failed to return a hasty trip to the camp was made and searching partles were organized. Unless Miss George and Loughbrough have stumbled upon some mining camp in the mountains there is Iittie hope that they will be found alive. — il WIDOW'S DEATH ENRICHES NEIL Will of Ora Runyon Buck- Abbott had applied to the Chancellor for an injunction restraining his wife from giving him tongue lashings. He i alleged that she so compromised him that his employers sald he would lose his po- sition unless she stopped. Mrs. Abbott said she upbraided her hus- band because he did not provide for her. —_—— SWINDLER OF WOMEN . ARRESTED IN NEW YORK Niece off Supreme Court Justice Is the Accuser of Isadore Appel. NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—In the arrest of a man named Isadore Appel, 46 years of age, the police belleve they will be able to clear up complaints from more than 150 women during the past three years that they have been swindled out of various sums of money by a man who represented himself as being from the Surrogate’s office, and who told ( them certain legacies in cash from dead relatives were awaiting their order and [would be paid as soon as they settled the surrogate's fees, which he had | called to collect in advence. In each | instance the “legacy” proved to be a myth, The complainant against Appel is | Miss Blanche Stover, a nlece of Supreme | Court Justice Stover, who says she paid |the man $35 @s surrogate's fees on a aupimsed legacy of $10,000 from a dead uncle, . ————————— BIG GRAY WOLF SNATCHES FOOD FROM GIRL’S HAND |Takes Plece of Bread With Sugar From Teot of Five In Colorado. VICTOR, Colo., Dec. 18.—Mabel, the 6-year-old daughter of Mre. E. B. Relner, residing one mile east of Vic- tor near Little Bull Hill, had a startling iexperience with a large gray wolf this morning. The little girl was seated on (the lower step at the back door of her home eating a piece of bread covered | with sugar when a gray wolf ran up to her and snatched the food from her hand. The animal then rushed out of the yard and escaped. On Friday two large gray wolves were seen by County | Clerk Dingman on Little Bull Hill near ithe house. £ ‘|disaster. ¥ man Gives Big Part of Her Estate to Her Chauffeur Special Dispatch to The Call, SACRAMENTO, Dec. 18.—The will of Mrs. Ora Runyon Buckman, the widowed young heiress who dled several weeks ago, was flled for probate to-day. She leaves several thousand dollars to local charities; gives her mother, Mrs. Sol Runyon, some property in San Francisco and down the river; remembers various relations with presents of diamonds, and then bequeaths the residue of the estate to Stephen F. Neil, to whom she refers as_her ‘‘esteemed and devoted friend.” The residue of the estate which falls to Neil is valued at $75,000, and includes a half interest in two ranches near Court- land, the handsome Buckman mansion at Eighteenth and H streets, money in bank and other personal property, in- cluding a #2000 automobile. She con- cluded her will by saying she knew she was glving but a small part of her estate to her mother and the greater part to Neil. She said her affection for Neil was such that she would have been mar- ried to him but for reasons which her attorney, Albert M. Johnson of San Fran- cisco, may disclose if necessary in the | demonstration. Neil, who acted ' maintain that the Lien-Chau massacre interest of the estate. SCORE LOSE LIVES IN SHANGHAI RIOTS WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Dispatches to the State Department from Consul Rogers at Shanghai state that rioting occurred in the streets of Shanghai to-day. Twenty natives were killed and several foreigners injured, among the latter being the American Vice Consul and the The last message received stated that all parts of the city of Shanghai had been Anti-foreign feeling precipitated Gemlfln Consul. put under martial law and that the disturbance. the foreigners were all arming, ¥ ACKED AMERICAN OFFICIAL IS ATT Wz (== g A Se(l{z SHANGHAI, Dec. 18.—A bloody riot, started by boycotters,” occurred .in the streets of ' Shanghai to-day. At least twenty Chinese coolies were killed and a number of foreigners were injured. The American Vice Consul was attacked by the natives and severely injured. The German Consul was stoned. During the rioting carriages and motor cars were demolished and sonfe parts of the city were looted by the frenzied mobs. Toward night the rioters were subdued by bluejackets landed from British war- ships in the harbor. Two American crulsers are on their way to Shanghai and forces will likely be put ashore from them, Police, sailors and volunteers co- operated in suppressing the riots, in the course of which one police station was partly burned, a barroom wrecked and a bicycle store looted. No Europeans were killed. The streets are now deserted ex- cept for armed patrols, which are every- where. Although toward night the bluejackets and some volunteers had in a measure re- stored order, the Chinese stores remained closed and the residents of the city feared that darkness would bring a renewal of the bloodshed and a more determined at- tack on the foreign settlement. The riot was prompted by boycotters on account of an incident involving the mixed court. LONDON, Dec. 18.—A dispatch to the Evening Standard from Shanghai says “During the riotous disturbances, car- riages, and motor cars were smashed. Mobs are looting in several parts of the city. There are sounds of sharp firing in the neighborhood of the Town Hall and on the Shang King road, which bisects the central district of the foreign settle- ment.” NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—The Shanghal agent of Fearon, Daniel & Co., a New York commercial house, sent the follow- ing cablegram to the United States: “Rioting by coolie classes. Business suspended. Two police ‘stations burned. About twenty Chinese killed. Few for- elgners injured. Marines and volunteers restoring order. Further trouble and fighting anticivated to-night.” CHEFU, December 18.—The news of the disturbances at Shanghai is pro- ducing no visible effect on the Chin- ese hefe, and at present it seéms improbable that the trouble will extend to this city. The local foreign officials, however, are conferring in regard to tak- ing suitable action to forestall a possible Well-informed persons RALWAY HEN *WAY Do DTy 1S SPOTTERS Plan to Prevent Vio- lations of the El- kins Law. CHICAGO, Dec. 18.—Carrying out the recommendations of President Roose- velt in his message to Congress. the Pennsylvania Railroad Company is be- lieved to e behind a movement to re- port ‘violation of the Elkins law to the Interstate Commerce Commission. A meeting of presidents and traffic men of Western railroads has been scheduled to be held here on Wednes- day. The real purpose of the meeting 1s not known pesitively, but it is un- derstood that the Pennsylvania is to propose that the lines entering Chi- cago, and as many others as will join, watch one another and report all re- bating to the Interstate Commerce Commission. This, it is argued, will effectually put an end to rebating. The roads entering Chicago are di- vided on the plan. They question whether it is not a scheme which will lead them into disclosing affairs that they would rather keep secret. How- ever, there is a posibility of doing away with cut-threat competition and this may induce general acceptance. Railroad men who are in a position to know declare that the New York Central lines will join with the Penn- sylvania. The position.of the Balti- more and Ohio is questionable. The Alton afficials are now in an em- barrassing position, owing to recent in- dictments which make them undecided as to what course to pursue. The plan of the railroads themselves keeping a check upon themselves is not a new one. A, J. Cassatt of the Penn- as the widow's chauffeur, is sald to have ' and also the present disturbances are di- | sylvania fathered the Elkins law and been a Chinatown gulde in San Francisco | rectly due to the boycott. ‘when Mrs. Buckman met him. A contest of the will is threatened and an effort will be made to revoke the testament in behalf of the relatives. . ENGINEER AND CONDUCTOR BLAMED FOR TRAIN WRECK Loses Life In A lent and Latter Is Nearly Crazed h Grief. { ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., Dec. 18.—The Coroner’s jury, which has been inves- tigating the cause of the fatal collision WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—The State De- partment’s information concerning the Shanghai riots was contained in several dispatches from Shanghai from Consul Rodgers. It is gathered that the moving causes of the riots were the anti-Ameri- can boycott and a general feeling of hos- tility toward foreigners, such as preceded the Boxer uprising of 1900. secured ‘its enactment. Yet the Elkins law has not broken up the hablt of rebate giving. The rallroads have al- ways insMted that the Elkins law was sufficient, while the public has elam- _ored for a better one. - had telegraphed for help from American l naval vessels. A later dispatch from the same source + CALIFORNIA PACKING COMPANIES DEFEATED Claims Against Government Not Allowed by the Su- preme Court. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—The decis- fon by the Court of Claims In the case of the American Packing Company and the Russian Packing Company, beth California corporations, versus the United States, was to-day affirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States. These cases Involve claims against the Government based on the fact that the two companies had located salmon packing plants on Afognac Island. Alaska, previous to the setting aside of that island in 1392 for the purpose of fish culture by the Government. The Russian company demanded $144,369 and the American company $119,045. They based their contention on the fact that the law of 1384, creating the civil government of Alaska, provided for the protection of the rights of per- sons occupying land at the time, but the court held that these companies did not come within the scope of that pro- tection, and decided the case against them. The opinion was handed down by Justice Brown. ——————— | GOVERNESS IS ACCUSED 2 OF THEFT OF JEWELS | Attracts Attention to Herself by Claim-~ ing to Have Beem Vietim of Tyobbery. - + NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—It was a strange jmpulse which led Katherine Peters, a governess formerly employed by Mrs. J. Hood Wright, a banker's widow, to enter the West Forty-seventh-street police sta- tion about a week ago and report a mythical robbery of a diamond ring whieh, she said, she valued at $3000. ! Stranger still was the result of the pe- ! culiar impuise, for instead of being a complainant., the young woman appeared {to-day in the station as a prisomer, | charged with grand larceny, her arrest Rodgers’ statement was that all busi- | reported the continuance of the riotous | peing due entirely to her actions of last ness was suspended among the Chines that, as an incident to the geenral striks conditions, adding that the police stations had been burned and a number of persons | ! week. The specific charge against the woman was the theft .of jewels, dresses a number of foreigners had been assault- | killed, probably about 30, including seme and silverware valued at 38000 from the ‘ed. Volunteers had been called out, pre- | of the forelgners, No Americans, however, | home of Mrs. Wright. - between the Overland Limited and a sumably from the people in the foreign | had been harmed up to that moment and freight train at Ahsay on December 7, has returned a verdict holding Engi- neer Brink and Conductor Darrell, of | The warships in the harbor were cleared | the freight train, responsible. The en- gineer was kill nearly crazed /with 23 settlements, whose efforts at maintaining order were seconded by English marines. for action. At the hour of sending the the American Col been killed in the | day’s nsul General | latter place to-night » 't.he streets were being guarded by the volunteers and the naval forces. Rodgers’ last word was that lie expect- ed the American cruiser Baltimore, which and the conductor is| first dispatches, probably some time last| was-¢ erday at Chinkiang, about a grief over the mc..t;;mne-pm 0 . Ariots from Shanghai, to reach —_—e———— Ah Sou Case Dismissed. WASHINGTON, Dee. 15. —The Su- preme Court of the United States to- day dismissed for want of jurisdiction the case of Ah Sou, a Chinese woman residing in Seattle, Wash., who was ordered deported in 190&%