The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 20, 1905, Page 1

DL‘I' + Ban Francisco and vi unsettled weather Wed: bly showers at night; changing to southerly. A G THE WEATHER Forecast for December 20, 1905. light east winds, District Forecaster. Acinity—Cloudy, nesday; proba- McADIE, ALHAMBRA— ALCAZAR—"Brown'syin Town.™ CALIFORNTA—’ CHUTES—Vaudeville. Matines. COLUMBIA—"The Collegs Widow.™ GRAND—"“Magda." Matines. ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. Matines, TIVOLI—Comio Opera. MAJESTIC—"If I Were King."™ mu-nu ““The Thoroughbreds.” SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GENERAL STRIKE IS YANKEE MARINES SENT ASHORE AT SHANGHAI ];;\XI)FD FROM CRUISER BALTIMORE — s > !? -~ Disquieting Reports Received From Interior. ' AR TRV 19.—The State cable WASHINGTON, Dep: Dee. informed by rtment was from Shamghai to-day that there had been some further disturbances there | W asd a few casualtics. The naval forces which were landed from the warships ard of various na- however, control the situa- tion Chinese authorities are also endeavoring suppress the disturb- the volunteer g tional sn ities, The mnces and at the hour of the report the | city was quiet { LONDON, Dec. 20.—The Shanghal | correspondent of the Morning Post say that the American authoerities have or- | dered the American residents into the | foreign settlemexnts I the German | suthorities are bringing their country- men and ustry n from the out- | Iying districts culate. n German con- | LONDON, Deec. 20.—The correspond- ent of the Daily Mail at Shangh; that disquicting news bas cetved from the interior and that the Anglican | missionaries at Seochow, Huchow and Mangchow have been recalled to Shang- | Bal. | sSH L\GH Al I e red - of the dlsturb- | o t§ are filled wi E ro e open, but loot- | ix The United Eta ded a force © British | erul ashore. The German gunboat Tiger has arrived here. Other warships are expected and it is reported that German troops are eoming here from Kiaochau 7 Chinese newspapers say the es proposed to take advantage of | dispute to attack and | settlement | 19.—Owing to the dis- the foreig KIO, Dec aces at Shanghai the cruiser Tsu- | has been dispatched to that port | aseb The gunboat Uji and the ; will be sent there from PR S e MRS. COREY VISIT PRISON AT CARSON | Rides to the Ja of a Wagon Lead of Wood. Dispatch to The Call 1 on the Top! Spect Dec RENO, 19.—Perched upon a wagon of wood, riding at an eminence of dczen or fifteen feet, Mrs. Corey, of the president of the bijlion dollar trust ise known as the a el Corporation, rode througt streets of Carson City Sun- and finished her triumphal tour at the State Prison. She was accompanied a mysterious woman and a still more ysterious man. Arriving at the peni- ary she was shown every possible irtesy, not revealing her name until ebout to depart, when she was asked to A esister . Mre. Corey was so greatly pleased with the attention bestowed upon her by the guarde that she offered to reward them h $ gold pieces. Greatly to her sur- prise the coins were refused, the guards informing the Jady that it was contrary to prison rules for them to recelve tips. other t ¥ Iy t\ \ 752 ,_/}/F/VG}/fl // i U)i//{?@i =] BUILDING ABOUT WHICH, TO A LIFE O] HAL LAVA FLOWS FROM CRATER T0 THE SEA -\ Terrific Eruption of Samoan Volcano Matautu. HONOLULU, Dec. 19.—The steamship Ventura, arriving from Australia to-day, brought the news that the eruption of Mount Matautu, on the island of Savall, in the Samoan group, has increased to such force that the mountain has been piled up 3000 feet. The lava has covered thirty square miles and a stream of lava twelve miles wide is flowing into the ocean. The lava is being thrown 1200 feet high. The natives have deserted the region. According to advices recelved in Sep- tember, the little mountain of Matautu broke into eruption on August 21 last. The | shock of the initial eruption was felt for { thirty miles and shattered buildings of the London Missionary Soclety, ten miles away. Visitors on the island at the time | sald that lava and huge bowlders were huried to a great height, resulting in an | immense shower that at a distance of ten miles appeared like a fall of stars on a gigantic scale. The whole sky was lighted the display. The lava flow in August was a half- mile wide and creeping toward the sea- coast at the rate of a mile a day. It was then predicted that all the rich soil and beautiful beach that intervened be- tween the volcano and the sea would be converted into an iron-bound coast. The jsland of Savail is ninety miles from the American island of Tutulla, and has a length of 100 miles and a breadth of about fifteen miles. Cocoanut planta- tions cover the greater part of the island. —————————— Union of Pullman Car Porters. NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—A Puliman car porters’ union, which is intended to include every negro railroad em- ploye in this service in the United States, has been organized by porters, cafe and dining car men running into New York City on the various lines, LARGE SOCIAL ¥ THE ENGLISHMEN AND AMERICANS IN THE CITY OF SHANG- WHERE DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST FOREIGNERS OCCURRED. EXTENT, CENTERS THE [ TWO ELEVATED TRAINS COLLIDE IN NEW YORK |One Person Killed and Forty Injured in Pe- culiar Wreck. NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—In one of the most extraordirary accidents known to American railroading, two heavily laden passenger trains came together on the elevated tracks of the New York Central and Hudson River Ralilroad to-night at Harlem. J. W. Knapp of New Rochelle was killed and forty persons were .more or less seriously injured. Both of the colliding trains were east- bound, and had left,.the Grand Central station at Forty-second street within a few minutes of each other. One was a Stamford local on the New York, New Haven and -Hartford Railway, which company uses the New York Central tracks. The cther train was the Pough- keepsle express on the New York Central. Rushing along on parallel tracks the two trains suddenly came together. The Jocal was switched from the third track on to the fourth, and in an instant the engine of the express had crashed into the day coach following the smoking car of the local. The tracks at t of the collision are about thirty feel'in the air. This made the work of r difficult, and lent mateérially to the terror of the passen- gers, most of wkom were residents of near-by points in Connecticut and New York State, who had come to the city on holiday shopping tours. Fire apparatus from several stations ‘Wwas sumimoned, and many persons were rescued by means of ladders. John D. Horn, engineer of the express train, was arrested to-night on the charge of I;I‘I,.\;llll“‘hul' and was later released on . ——— Fresmo to Have Subway. - FRESNO, Dec. 19.—After an agitation lasting over several months the South- ern Pacific has eed to build a sub- way at one of its crossings. The sub- ‘Wway is to be built on Fresno street .-tumuhulhn’hhnil& MAY FILE SUIT FOR -~ §300,000 Sensational Liti- gation Promised in South, Management - of Big Corporation Said to Have Looted It. Report of Experts Leads to a Demand for Return of a Large Sum. A Soeclal Dispatch to The Call. Los A?\GELEb, Dec. 13.—The Times to-morrow will say: A complaint has been drawn by former Judge J. S. Chap- man for the California Development Com- pany in the most sensational litigation ever begun in Los Angeles. A quarrel has arisen between the present mahage- ment of the corporation, of which E. P. Randolph is president, and the former controlling divectors—George Chaffey, A. M. Chaffey, A. H. Heber and N. W. Stow- ell—the new management alleging that the Chafteys, Heber and Stowell fraudulently diverted about $900,000 from the coffers of the company. Fhose named as nts asgert 1 A 2 t o v valuable service and by duly . <& -d- ed vote of the corporation, and | svery act of theirs was legally ratified. The moneys alleged to have been {llegally taken were paid in the form of commis- sions, lands and water stock, the direc- tors voting these large sums to them- selves, according to the complaint. Unless a settlement is effected by the payment to the company of several hun- dred thousand dollars by these gentlemen, which is highly improbable, in view of their claims that they owe the company nothing, the suit will immediately be filed in the Superior Court of this county. Those named as defendants being bank- ers and finangiers of hign standing and broad reputation, a tremendous stir will be caused by the litigation. Before the suit is filed the question of a settlement will be put up to those who are named as defendants in the complaint. Repre- sentatives of the Randolph interests say that it will take several hundred thou- sand dollars to effect a compromise. EXPERT MAKES REPORT. The complaint in this suit is based on the report of the Hasell Audit Company miade October 23, 1905. It goes back to the meeting of the stockholders of the California Development Company held on June b, 195. A board of directors was ckosen ai that meeting. These directors were Charles R. Rockwood, George Chaf- fey, N. W. Stowell, A. M. Chaffey, J. W. Swanwick, all of Los Angels, and Lewis H. Pounds of Brooklyn, N. Y. and Charles E. Hoffman of Jersey City, N. J. C. R. Rockwood was elected presi- dent of the company and C. E. Hoffman secfetary. 7The president presented to the stock- hclders a contract between the company and George Chaffey dated April 3, 1900, and one between the company and the Tmperial Land Company of Arizona dated April 9, 1900. It is mainly on these con- tracts that the present contention is like- ly to turn. The reports of the experts say that these contracts were ‘“ostensi- bly” ratified. The contract is cited as a sample of how funds were handled. It wAas to secure the services of George Chaffey as superintendent fn construct- ing canals and ‘““assist in the management of the financial affairs of the company.” Chaftey was made general manager of the California Development Company. On Eis part it is alleged that Chaffey agreed to construct canals capable of dellvering 400,000 acre feet of water per annum. Power of attorney was given Chaffey to use 62 per cent of the capital stock of the company. He was to receive 25 per cent of the capital stock and $60,000 gold, on water rights, or.other securities at his option, but 000 cash was not to be payable until it could be taken from the revenues of the company. No debt was to be created to meet this obligation, but $1000 a month was to be paid as soon as could be from~the income. It is claimed tnat this and much more was eventually PROPERTY GIVEN AWAY. It is set forth by the audit company that where property was absolutely given away the sale agency took 25 per cent of the face value out of the funds of the Californta Development Company as com- mission, as if an actnal sale h; made. This, it is clalmed, was “a rob- bing of the California Development Company of a 25 per cent commission on an excesslve valuation of sald property 8o donated.” The complaint goes minutely into de- tails and alleges that the defendants from timeyto time voted to each other bonuses, s and presents all at the expense of the company and that out of the company they have made enor- mous sums. So involved are some of the alleged transactions. mentioned in the | complaint that it would require plaint says that upon the compan: cials 0 jare ‘fiumu ACAINST PUTNAW B Both W Weary of Their Bonds. BERLIN, Dec. 19. May Yohe, the ac- tress, formerly Lady Francis Hope, has brought suit here for a divorce against Major Putnam Brad- lee Styong, son of the late Mayor Wil- lam L. Strong of New York. She was here for three days, but has now gone to Monte Carlo to await the result of divorce proceedings. NEW YORK, Dec. 19. — The promised end of the Yohe- Strong scandal, which completely blighted the brilliant prospects of a young man, does not come as a complett sur- prise. Strong and May Yohe have quarreled often since he suffered so- cial ostracism and the loss of.his posi- tion in the army to marry her, afler their open assocla- tion while she was still the wife of foolish Lord Francis Hope. i Strong was a hand- | some young chap, a social favorite, a member of the best clubs in New York and gave promise of a brilliant career. He was appointed major of volunteers in the Spanis American war by President McKinlex, | g Rl ;fi!\fl.{ Adsidp | for the youns man. Afterward he re- ceived a commission as captain in the regular establish- ment and was under orders to proceed to the Philippines when he met May Yohe. The actress was then starring at a New York theater. Lord Francis Hope was with her, and her display of herd. DIVORCE. ACTRESS WHO HAS GHT, SUIT IN BERLIN AGAINST CAPTAIN PU M BRADLEE STRONG FOR /Za A ISR SO ez 77 2 PCTTTTN N | own jewels and the famous Hope dlamonds created a nightly sensation. Young Strong quickly became a favor- ite with her and Lord Hope returned to England, where he obtained a divorce. Meanwhile Strong disobeyed orders to re- turn to San Francisco to embark with his regiment and was in danger of being cashiered, but was allowed to resign. Strong and May then went to Japan. On their return they teook up their resi- dence in a villa on the Hudson. Their money ran out and Strong suddenly dis- ’ — appeared. May Yohe declared that he had stolen her jewels, valued at $15,000, and to silence the seandal Mrs. Strong. the young may’'s widowed mother, paid that sum to the actress. May Yohe then went abroad, where she was joined by Strong, and when she next appeared as Mrs. Strong she had her jewels. Last spring the couple had the temerity to return to New York on a starring vaudeville tour, but they met with a distinct failure. HICHWAYHEN NURDER TWO "~ AMERICANS Mexican Outlaws Raid Ranch in State of Chihnahua. BEL PASO, Tex., Deo. 19—Robert W. Rutherford Jr. and M. C. McMurray, both from Philadelphia, were killed last night by highwaymgn on a ranch at Diaz, a ‘small settlement in Chihuahua, Mexico. A man named Finsted of Los Angeles and another 'known as ‘“Shorty’”’ were wounded. The robbers escaped. No de- tails of the fight have been received. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 19.—Robert W. Rutherford Jr., who, with M. C. Murray, was killed by highwaymen on a ranch at Dias, Mex., last night, was the son of a well-to-do Philadelphion. He was 27 years of age and had been on the ranch, which he owned, for more than a year. The ranch was a wedding gift from his father. His wife, who was Sarah J. Ben- son, a niece of R, Dale Benson, a promi- nent citizen of this city: his one-year-old child and his sister, Anna M. Rutherford, were with him on the ranch. Murray is supposed to have been an employe on_a nearby ranch owned by Finsted of Los Angeles, Cal, who was wounded iIn the fight with the robbers. — -s8¥ nothing on which to base the suit and their attitude at the present is that of defiance. If they maintain this stand the suit will be filed and the courts will determine which side is in the right. Epes Ralldolph became president of the company ‘when the Southern Pacific put up $200,000 some months ago and secured virtual oontrol of the company. He is not in the city to-night, but is engaged in Arizona, where he is Harriman's t hend man. The attorneys in the se would not discuss it other than to say that the complaint contains all the hcu they care to divulge at m freely consented to an examination of m colfll-filt. lwm e SAYS DYING PERSONS SEE NO VISIONS Dr. Osler Makes an In- | teresting Declar- ation. — Speclal Dispatch to The Call. BALTIMORE, Dec. 19.—Dr. William Os- ler, the man who wants the aged hustled to the graveyard, Is out with a really important and interesting declaration. In his latest book he says that “death- bed” vistons, belleved in by thousands and of which there are scores of supposed authentic records, are plain nonsense. Moreover, he supports the declaration by hundreds of death-bed observations which, he believes, prove absolutely that such reported visions are untrue. In all these cases there was suffering. fear and other emotions, but no. thought of the future. His observation is a startling contribu- tion to a subject that has always keenly interested scientists, clergymen and phy- sicians, and it is certain to provoke gen- eral discussion. Dr. Osler says: ‘‘As a rule, a man dles as he has lived, uninfluenced practically by thought of a future life. I have careful records of about 500 deaths studied particularly to view the modes of death and the sensa- tions of the dying. Ninety suffered bodi- 1y pain and distress of some sort or an- other; eleven showed mental apprehen- sion; two, positive terror; one expressed spiritual exaltation: one bitter remorse. The great majority gave no sign one way or the other. Like their births, their deaths were sleep and forgetting. In this matter man hath no pre-eminence over the beast. ‘As one dieth, so dieth the other.” " Dr. Osler is still camped on the trail of the aged. In his publication. which is_entitled ‘‘Counsel and Ideals From the ORDERED IN RUSSIA WAY YOHE BRINGS SUIT FOR DIVORCE EMPEROR'S BRADLEE STRONC. CHALLENGE - TAKEN (P Workmen Called From Their Posts. Every Industry in the Slav Domain Is Affected. Preparations for Armed Con- flict on Streets of St. Petersburg. * ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 20, 2:05 =a. m.—A call for a general political strike throughout Russia, to begin on Thurs- day at noon, was issued last night. The 1l is approved by the Unlom of Unions, the Union of Peasants, the gen- eral Railway Union and the Councils of Workmen of St. Petersburg and Moscow. A respouse received from the railroad m of Moscow is unanimous for a strike. The leaders have declared their ability to stop every train In Russia. The strike order renders every mem- ber of the unions signing it liable to arrest and punishment under the new strike law. Minister of the Interior Durnovo attempied to telegraph orders It is expected that there will be diff- culty in enforcing a general walkout on the eve of the Christmas hn.lun.{t. when Russian workmnien, especially the railroad employes, are ldoking torward { te the customary presents, which some times amount to.as much as one or two months’ wages. The committee of the League of Leagues, the prominent members ot which are momentarily expecting ar- rest on account of the manifesto lssued by the league this morning, were pres- eat at the meeting of the Council of Workmen as were several leading lights of the revolutionary, who are working desperately to co-ordinate all elements in a struggle against the Government. To-day Russia may again be cut off from the world, not only by wire, but by rail, Batteries of machine guns are sta- tioned at several points of vantage throughout the city, and infantry and Cossacks are everywhere. An especial~ ly heavy guard is stationed in the neighborhood of the Jewish market. CZAR PRESIDES AT COUNCIL. ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 19.—The advo- cates of universal suffrage had the upper hand at Tsarskoe-Selo to-day. When the meeting assembled the Emperor, who presided, expressed the wish that the Zemstvo Congress should first present Its views. Thereupon Dmitri Shipoff, in an exceedingly earnest speech, pointed out the terrible gravity of the pelitical situa- | tion. He urged not only the theoretical |advantage of granting a system of uni- versal suffrage, but also its absolute ne- cessity from a tactical standpoint, as the only common ground upon which it would be possible for the country to unite. On the conclusion of the speech the Emperor asked Shipoff bluntly whether he regarded universal suffrage as neces- sary for the best interests of the country and Shipeff replied emphatically that he 'rno greatest surprise was the speech of Count Rol master of the court, who heretofors has been an implacabie opponent of unrestricted suffrage. The Count began by confessing that two weeks ago he believed such suffrage should should never be conceded. Now, however, while he still regarded suffrage restricted to the enlightened classes as the safest for Russia, he was convinced that all considerations must give way to a single interest, the saving of the fath- erland. Universal suffrage, he said, had become the watchword of the people, and in such a crisis the Government must seize the psychological moment. The speech made a great impression. DE WITTE TAKES FIRM STAND. It is now understood that Count de Witte at the discussion which will be resumed to-morrow Is determined to force through a universal suffrage scheme. The Molva, the name under which the suppressed Russ Is now appearing, de- clares that the responsibility far a gen- eral strike will rest upon the shoulders of the Government. It charges that it is the pupose of Count de Witte ta pro- pose the assembling of the douma next summer, and in the meantime to “pacify the country” in the old bureaucratic way. A committee representing the Moscow Bourse arrived here to-day to implore Count de Witte to do something to ward off the blow of a general strike and also %o settle the post and telegraph strike fmmediately, as the only means of pre- financial ruin. The committee outlook in black colors. It that already there had the provinces: that the paper of many the paper of many firms was going to protest, and that large eoncerns were hangiig by a thread. It said that, while one week of the general strike would beggar the proletariat, it also would spell the ruin of countless in- dustries. A sensation has been produced by an - Continued on Page 3, Columa &