The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 31, 1905, Page 29

-‘A - THR WEATEER. l Forecast for December 81, 19081 San Francisco end viemity—Showess Sunday; fresh west winds. A G MoADIm, District Forecastes VOLUME XCIX—NO. 81 e FORTY-EIGHT PAGES—SAN FRANCISCO, SUN PRINCESS LOUISE inee—""Don MAJESTIC—If I Wi CENTRAL—" Matinee. NIA — “Broadwsy Gaity Girls."" Mat OLUMBIA—"The American Lovd. CHUTES—Vaudevill Trs Witnesa” “The ACCEPTS TERMS Daughter of Leopold of Be/gz’t{m Willing| to Be Divorced on Minor Ground. -~ PRSP N P s PSRN S e e e e D ] | LD OF BELGI THAT WILL N AND, PHILIP WHO HAS CONSENTED TO BRING OUT SCANDALS IN- XB-COBURG. | oF her husband rg and Goth FORCES WIFE TO SIGN CHECK FOR BIG SUM Hushand Gets Spouse’s Sig- nature at the Point of a Revolver. 30.—Dr. Wil- ved here fro with T n, is to. forgery ompson Thompson, ch that > check vife, but the =i fused to ¢ as on the Merchants San ego. Investigation appeared to show that the check had been originally for 36000, Mrs. Thompson alleges that her husband forced her to sign it Christmas at the point of a revolver. A year the couple were married at San o, where Mre. Thompson lived for years, being the widow of Dr. who left & large estate. Thomp- efused to talk —_——————— Vil Start = Banana Plantation. P n PICO, Mex., Dec. 305V, W. Tr ¢ San Francisco, California, has ¥ i a plantation of 16,000 acres . and will' plant it all in bana- s ¥ pects to engage in exporting the United States on a large ————————— Bark Challenger Beached. japan, Dec. 30.—The Ameri- allenger of San Francisco, *eterson, from Killisnoo, Alas- caught fire in Kii channel, beached. The vessel is being 1t and 4t {8 expected that she e to 'proceed for Osaka in ka, whic has beer will & few days M -2 1 Copper Compuny Changes Hands. PITTEBURG, Dec. 30.—It was offi- efally announced to-day that the con- trol of the Pittsburg and Montana Cop- per Company, capitalized at $30,000,000, has been secured by the A, W. Mellon N aests of this eity, —3 NARRIED MAN ELOPES WITH LIRL PIANIST Leaves a Wife and Baby Penniless in Santa Barbara. DENVER Dec. 30.—Because the | YOUNg woman principal in an elope- letter to Denver friends . T has reached here of the elopement of Fred Runkle from ! Santa Barbara. Cal . . » with Grace Chap- oung and attractive pianist of is well kno in Denver. where he lived for re. As a violin &nd cornet player, he was well known and apparently was devoted to his pro- fessi He was & member of the Mu- sicians’ Union here. Runkle was de- voted to his famil nd neither drank nor showed any inclination to seek the society of oth . He was leader of the City Park band, played in the Syrophony orchestra and figured in musical events of a superior order. About a month ago he wrote to the lo- cal union resigning his membership, and that was the last heard of him here. The story from Santa Barbara is that he eloped with the young girl, leaving n wife and baby penniless. The first intimation of the elopement was a note written by Miss Chapman, in which she sald sh of her own frec will gone | away with Ruankle. TWO MEN ARE KILLED AT A SUISUN PLANT Accident at Cement Works Brings Death and Injury to, Employes. Special Dispatch to The Call. SUISUN, Dec. 30.—At the plant of the Pacific Portland Cement Company near here Xn-dg' two men, who were en; in making an excavation, were crushed to death by the caving in of an embank- ment and two others were seriously in- jured. The names of the unfortunate men @ot been learned S USE BOMB 10 AVENGE THEMSELVES AL 'Dynamiters Mur- " der Ex-Governor Steunenberg, | S G Petard Is Set Off as He Is About to Enter His Home. | Outrage Is Charged to Men Whom He Prosecuted ‘When in Office. BOISE, ldaho, Dec. 30.—Frank Steu- nenberg, former Governor of the State, | pvas killed at 6:40 o’clock this evening | at his home in the suburbs of Cald- | well. A dynamite bomb had been placed at his front gate, with some con- trivance by which it was exploded as he entered. Both legs were blown off and he lived but twenty minutes. There is no reason known for the outrage, but it is charged to- some member of the famous inner circle of the Coeur @’Alene dynamiters, whom he prosecuted so relentlessly in 1899 while he was Governor. Governor Gooding is in communica- tion with the authorities of the county and is prepared to put the full sup- port of the State behind the officials there in running down the perpetrator of the crime. It is thought probable that the leading detective agency of the country will be asked to send some of its best men to the scene and the State will offer as great a reward as the Governor may find he has power to propose. b Steunenberg was Governcr of the State from 1897 to 1901, having been twice elected. He.was born n Iowa forty-four years ago and had been in Idaho since 1887. He leaves a wife and three children. Governor Gooding has informed the Canyon County officials that the Slt? will offer a reward of $5000 for the appré- hension of the murderers. A special train left for Caldwell at 10 o'clock, carrying the Governor and others, who go to as- sist in organizing the work of running down the criminals. The latest information from the scene is to the effect that the bomb probably was | placed by the gate post and the moving {of the gate exploded it. When persons | rusiing to the spot reached the prostrate | man, the latter said something like “Who shot me?” He also said something about turning him over, but he lapsed into un< consciousness and died without giving any information. The victim’s clothing and his shoes were torn to tatters and his back was terribly injured. Both legs were shattered fright- tully. The shock of the explosion was felt all over the town and broke the glass in the Governor’s home. Every road out of town is being guarded and it is hoped to intercept suspects. Two men are under suspiclon who had been lying about Nampa several days, and left for Caldwell to-day. They lived in the Coeur d’Alenes at tne time of the riots there in 1899. Descriptions of them are being wired in every direction. Governor Steunenberg became known throughout the nation through his con- nection with the Coeur d’Alene miners’ strike which began in the spring of 1899. The Miners’ Union made certain demands, which were refused by the mine owners, Most of the mines were closed down, but an attempt was made | to operate the mill of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan with non-union help. In April of that year a crowd of strike sympathizers took possession of a train ! and went to the mill. The building was blown up with dynamite and at least one man was killed by the explosion. The mine owners appealed to the Gov- ernor for protection, alleging that the strikers were resorting to every form of violence and intimidation to prevent the operation of the mine by non-union men. BREAKS UP MINERS’ UNION. The State militia being considered in- sufficient to cope with the situation, Governor Steunenberg proclaimed a state of insurrection and called on | President McKinley for Federal troops. General H. C. Merriam occupied the dis- trict and proclaimed martial law. A stockade, known generally as a “bull pen,” was erected. Strikers and strike sympathizers were imprisoned in great numbers. A permit system was also | tablished by the military and no miner | was permitted to work In the mines who did not make affidavit that he was either not a member of the union or had severed his conmnection with it and would not again join. | This drastic treatment resulted In the extermination of the miners’ organiza- tion in the Coeur d’'Alenes and it has never been re-established. The matter aroused such widespread interest that 12 Congressional inquiry was ordered. The Republican members of the com- mission made a report upholding Gov- ernor Steunenberg, although he was a Democrat, and the action of President McKinley. The Democrats, under the leadership of Congressman Sulzer, made a minority report censuring the State and national administrations. The bitterness against Governor Steunen- berg was accentuated by the fact that he was, at the time of his incumbency, a member of the Typographical Union, —_—— . German Embassador to Toklo. BERLIN, Dec. $0.—Baron Mumm von Schwartzenstein, the German Minister at Peking, has been appointed Embas- sador of Germany at Tokia, 7 WILL TRY 10 REACH NORTH POLE Daring Expedition Undertaken by Reporter. Hopes to Make Suc- cessful Voyage in an Airship. Santos Dumont, Noted French Aeronaut, Is to Be His Companion. CHICAGO, Dee. 30.—“Build an air- ship, go find the north pole and report by wireless telegraph and submarine cables the progress of your efforts.” This was the startling assignment given a few days ago to Walter Well- man, Washington correspondent of the Chicago Record-Herald by Frank B. Noyes, editor-in-chief of the paper, and the commission has been accepted by Wellman. As an assistant on this dar- ing expedition Wellman will have the services of Santos Dumont of Paris, who will have charge of the construc- | tion of the airship and will act as aero- nautic director and pilot of the ship on its voyage toward the north pole. The airship, the order for which has been given, will be built by Louis God- dard of Paris, under the supervision of M. Sa os Dumont, and will be com- pleted oy the end of next April. No definite date has yet been decided upon when the expedition will start on fits journey, but it is expected that every- thing will be in; readiness to get away next July or early in August. After completion the airship will have sev- eral trials in. or about Paris, and in June all the paraphernalia for the journey will be assembled In Spitz- bergen, where the explorers will await a favorable opportunity for the dash for the pole which, according to Well- man, should the expedition meet, with a good run of luck, will be reached in less than a week. DISCUSSES THE EXPEDITION. In announcing his acceptance to- night of the proposed expedition Well- man said: “If 1 did not believe that the chances of success were greater than those of faflure I should not accept the com- mission. “Mr. Noyes acted upon no sudden whim or impulse when he gave me the order to try to locate the much-sought north pole, as he had before him a report which I submitted to him ag the outcome of two visits to the inner polar regions, of years of study of the problem of the pole, of many months of special investigation of alrship construction and navigation, the wind and climatic conditions to be en- countered and all the multitudinous me- chanical and meteorological factors in- volved. In this Investigation scores of eminent experts and specialists were ‘con- sulted, voluminous technical reports were received and finally a complete, sym- metrical and at least a promising project was evolved by me as representing a seemingly practicable combination of the latest development of many of the arts for accomplishing the result in view. “The problem of reaching the pole by means of an airship does not require high speed, and the present rate of the art of aerial navigation by gas-buoyed and mo- tor-driven ships is ample for that pur- pose. From an easily reached base of operations in Northern Spitzbergen we have but 550 geographical miles to go to the pole, and a like distance for the re- turn voyage. If wa take the whole at 1200 miles, it means but 100 hours of mo- toring at twelve miles an hour. Santos Dumont has repeatedly made from nine- teen to twenty-three miles an hour with small airships equipped with relatively small motors. Y WILL BUILD BIG AIRSHIP. ““The airship in which we purpose to at- tain the north pole will be the largest practicable airship ever built. It will be 196 feet long and its greatest diameter will be forty-nine feet. Its surface will meas- ure 23,000 square feet and its volume will be 226,000 cubic feet. Inflated with hydro- gen, it will have a total ascensional force of 15,300 pounds. Seven thousand pounds will be the weight of the ship and its equipment complete, leaving $000 pounds for cargo. The ship will be provided wilh three motors, with a combined energy ot seventy horsepower. If the winds hinder no more than they help and there are no delays, this ship can motor from North | Spitzbergen to the pole in forty-five hours, “The airship will have an endurance capacity In buoyancy sufficient to enable it to remain 25 or 30 days in the afr. It will carry 5500 pounds of gasoline and fts distance capacity during calm weather will be 1800 miles, more than equal to the distance from Spitzbergen stralght across the pole and the whole Arctic Ocean to Alaska. As our airship will be construct- ed it will be able to make headway against two-thirds of all the winds that blow, even though squarely adverse, and it is part of our project to motor only with favorable winds and to anchor our ship to the ice and lie-to in all unfavor- able winds of velocity exceeding one-half the normal speed of our craft. The ship will be equipped for safe anchorage in the highest winds ever knpwn in the Arctic regions. In fact, the ship will be subject to the will and hand of the navigator just like a steamship upon the ocean. WILL BE WELL EQUIPPED. ‘“‘Besides the 5500 pounds of .fuel men- tioned the ship will carry also five men, DAY,] DECEMBER 31, 1905—PAGES 29 TO 38. \ PRICE FIVE CENTS. DR. JORDAN ALLEGES A PLOT TO LOOT STANFORD ESTATE. Dawvid Starr Jordan, president of the Stanford University, has made the sensational statement in a Denver inlerview that the attempt to make it appear that Mrs, Jane Lathrop Stanford's death was due to poisoning was part of a plot of Hono- lulu officials, having for ils object the securing of big fees from the Stanford estate. HONOLULU MEN ACCUSED EducatorMakes Sensational Charge. Claims Officials Conspired to Earn Fees. Special Cable to The Call " HONOLULU, Deec. 30.—High Sherift Henry Indignantly denies David Starr Jordan’s accusation that Homolulu offi- cials plotted to secure fees from the Stanford estate. He is anxious to see the promised statement of the investl- gation and defies the estate officials to publish an honest report of all the facts in thefr knowledge. DENVER, Dec. 30.—The death of the late Mrs. Jane L. Stanford, patroness of Leland Stanford Jr. University, was made the basis for a dastardly plot to secure big fees for the Honolulu offi- cials, according to David Starr Jordan, P KX INCIPALS IN A DEVELOPMENT P%ONCERNING MRS, STANFORD'S DEATH. J. - president of the university, who is in Denver. Furthermore Dr. Jordan intimates that the report that Mrs. Stanford was murdered was part of a plot on tlte part of several of Mrs. Stanford's servants who were jealous of the favor with. which Mrs. Stanford treated Miss Berner, her private secretary. It is hinted that they hoped, by spreading a rumor that Mrs. Stanford had bee.n poisoned, to jeopardize Miss Berner’'s bequest. “We have established beyond a doubt that - Mrs. Stanford died a natural death,” said Dr. Jordan this morning. “A post-mortem examination developed that the aorta had been ruptured. This was the result of fatty degeneration of the heart. The heart is now in Sflll'l' Francisco, where it is being preserved. According to Dr. Jordan no strych'- nine was found if Mrs. Stanford’s room. Reports were circulated by the officials of Honolulu that a large\quan- tity of poison had been discovered. The Rheriff went so far as to say that a bottle containing 600 grains had been found, but this, Dr. Jordan declares, had not proved true. Dr. Jordan and other friends of the late Mre, Stanford have been conduct- ing an investigation since her sudden death on March 1 last. It has uncov- ered,a startling array of facts, he says, but none that point to murder. He declares that within a few weeks a full report of the discoveries in con- nection with the affair will be made public, and he gives the Impression that sensations will follow. What they are Dr. Jordan refuses to reveal. DR. JORDAN MUST DO THE TALKING Myrs. Stanford’s Brother Will Not Discuss the Mystery. PALO ALTO, Dee. 30.—“Doctor Jor- dan has done the talking about this will have to answer all FAMED WORKS OF T FOUND 70 BE BOCLS Worthless Terra Cottas Grace the Chicago Institute. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. ' CHICAGO, Dec. §0.—The Chicago Art Institute’s terra cottas, masterpieces of the aucients, believed to be priceless, ! are forgeries. Director French admits it. Following the declaration yester- day In Philadelphla of Dr. A. Furt- wangler, the famous Egyptologist of Munich, in which he said that many of the antiquities in the American mu- seums were frauds, French took down his térra cottas, looked them over sor- rowfully, and, it may he, will never replace them. “T am glad the story is out,” he said. “I feel relieved. We are sorry to say that such is the case. We have known that interspersed with our valuable an- tiquities were downright forgeries, but to find out which are the true and which are the false is difficult. Just ag soon as we are sure of a certain terra cotta being a forgery we will remove it from the museum.” Alfred Emerson and Director French to-day pointed out a number of terra cottas that, in their cpinion, wers for- gerles. 'Three in particular, supposed to be the most valuable in this country, Emerson said were the basest of for- gerles. USE MILD TOBACCO OR LOSE YOUR WIFE Blowing Smoke in Spouse’s Face Is Ground for Divoree. rendered by Judge Smith to-day in the suit of Mary Shumway against E. B. Shumway, a rancher in the Santa Cruz Mountains. In asking for a divoree Mrs. Shumway alleged that her husband per- sisted in smoking a strong pipe and blow- ing tobacco smoke in ber face after he had eaten his meals. In ad n to granting Shumway an int tory dacres Shum: I SELLS STAMPS AT LESS THAN THER VALUE i Denver Man’s Generos- ity Leads to His Arrest. R DENVER, Dec. 30.—Otis M. Fox. & young man claiming to be the local agent of the Central Supply Company of Kan-~ sis City, was arrested by Postoffice In- spector Phiel and Policeman Andersom this afternoon and is being held, pend- ing an investigation into a charge that he bas been disposing of stamped envelopes at a ridiculously low price. According to the postal authorities Fox has been doing a land-office business for three months. Fox's system, according to them, was to place a 2-cent stamp on an envelopé and then sell it under cost. For Instancs, the inspectors found one merchant who bought 300 envelopes, each bearing a. 2= cent stamp, for $I. The stamps on ths envelopes are worth 38 and the envelopes themselves are worth at least 30 cents. Inspector Phiel, whe is investigating | the case. declares the young man must have done one of two things. Either he advertised in some way and received | stamps for a reply and then sold them, or he stole siamps. Fox had an office at 1755 Californis street. According to information in the | hands of the postal authorities he has | been doing some advertising under several | names, among which are Israel Lubeck i and Fox. . | The prisoner insists he is innocent and { that an investigation will prove this. He says Le came into possession of the | stamps from patrons. He claims to have | sold about $400 worth of stam SAYS HIS FLYING KITE A\ SUCCESS Professor Bell Announces the Result of Recent Ex- * periments. SYDNEY, N. S., Dec. 0.—After experte announeced ed in having his latest designed kite rise in the air and carry a weight of 227 pounds, this Including a man weighing 163 pounds and ropes and lines weighing six- ty-two pounds. The kite iiself weighs sixty-one pounds, making a total welght ot 288 pounds. The kite rose to a height of thirty fest e e taken of T, Fotlow graphs were iogtony £ 2 5