The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 7, 1906, Page 29

v gt ?\ 2 § CENTRAL — the Sword.”™ Matines. m ORPHEUM—Vaudaville, Matihes. TIVOLL “Orpheus in Hades' Mas- ee, Allos MATBE I When We Ware Twantr- One." By Right of oIt FIFTY-SIX PAGES—SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JANUARY 7, 1906—PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS. TITANIC STRUGGLE OVER THE TIDE LANDS Strategic Track Laying and Suits Galore Figure in War of Railroads The vesterday the Gould people laid a strategic track 500 feet in length on the filled-in tide land that is in dispute. e courts and then began the fihng of suits of injunction and condemnation that threaten to'choke the Alameda courts th s AGNATE DEFIANT Smc of Missouri wasted many hours attempt to draw from Henry H. Rogers of the Standard nf as to that trust's ownership of subsidiary erating in the Middle West. Rogers, on the advice of his answer every important question. esentative of the ‘""tr Re uses 10 Answar Quesnon o+ S S SIS DEATH ENDS ' HER SEARCH - FOR A SN “Where Is My ' Boy?" Last Words of a Mother. |Travels Thousands of | Miles in Quest of Lad | Who Deserted Her, |Kind-Hearted Strangers Give | Woman Love Denied Her by Only Offspring. e Bpecial Dispatch to The €ail, SEATTLE, Jan. 6—If Truman C. Bi- dridge, a nomad supposed to be, tramping about somewhere In the middle West, wants to find his poor old mother, let him wander out to Lakeview Cemetery, and in a lonely spot he will find a grave, at the head of which some one has placed |a slab of 'wood bearing these words: | “Died in Seattle of a broken heart. Mrs. E. M. Eldridge.” They buried the old woman out there the other day. After | traveling thousands of miles to locate her son she became insane at Fairbanks, Alaska, was sent to Seattle and-died in the Providence Hospital. All she talked | | about as her end drew near was “My boy, Truman.’ One of the last boats from Nome brought Mrs. Truman out. She had lived in Southern California for years. Her husband was dead and her son had left her. She had not seen her boy for seven vears. She had a little property which she sold, and with the money she went out into the world in search of him. She wrote hundreds of letters trying to locate him. Some one told her he was living In Montana, others in Alaska. She visited hupdreds of towns In the West, but he was not in any of them. Her money gave out, but when she heard her son was in Alaska she went there. She wandered from camp to camp. Everybody she met she inquired about “her boy.” She always HAS FI-ATLY REFUSED BROUGHT BY THE AT- 6.—It devsloped asked by Attorney of Missour! | president and 1 Company of Hadley's chief \ examination the sey and the Wate: divide the trade of @1d not believe It was ever made. injunction against such a division, bu Standard Oil Company of New Jer- -Plerce Company to issour! and that he Hadley said afterward that he had an that he was unable in Missouri to show described him as “a boy.” She became a familiar figure in Fairbanks. | The miners told the newcomers, “She's | erazy about a boy who deserted her.” Last summer she became i1, and the citl- zens, gamblers, miffers, court officlals | and dance hall girls raised a purse to send *her to the outside. They hired a | woman to accompany her and sent out money to pay her hospital bills. She was | beyond medical ald. The end came quickly. Yesterday Dr. Riniger, who had treat- ed her, received a registered letter she | had sent to Butte last summer. Some one had told her to “Try Butte again. Across the letter were these wor “Your poor, sad- hearted old mother. The letter was a most pathetic one. The last paragraph reads: “Truman, you are a man now. I a at the end of my road. You should thlni of the days when you were littie and I t | 414 so much for you. It is for you to say, shall I live or dle. T do not know where of ny in city | from the office of the oil companies| ¢ gend this letter, but some way or other wh t compa OWwne , that they were owned by the same | [ think you are in Butte. Good by, dear - e the Standard | party was what he was aiming | Truman. Pity your mother's sad heart. the Waters- | to show the New York hearing. | It you don’t care for me any more tell 3 ‘ fissouri and the declined to answer the | me why. From your poor, sad-hearied i his. Hadley | ques er he had a transaction | old mother. . step in Pierce in 1904, by which | «p ST have a claim twenty_ miles ¢ the latter ed all or part of the| from here that may be rich some dby.” % s from doing business in Pierce Oil Com s stock for | ———————— y r of New Jer- ra Oi! Comp: rogers| FREE-LOVE' APOSTLE £ Shrtant estions | r tine Indlana company. as he | il whe | J : s, Roe de.| was adiourned untts Mondsy oo | “GOES TO PENTTENTIARY swer WOMAN IS FIRST WITNESS, : ; k , Hadley sequested | gie witness to-day was yrs | MOSES Harmon Sentenced for i . ,'m“',;“,_‘ 1da M. Butts of Marietta, Ohfo. Mrs. | a Violation of the Pos- Sear. | Butts said she was a stepdaughter o or swer them or be ad rer was engaged In litigation with Standard Oil Company almost uestions con Yor) in that com- Ofl Compsny of v Jersey Standard Oil or the Waters- | e not paid to H. | en | ago. When Hadley asked the witness { Rice was ever connected with Standard Oil Company, witness said: “If holding certificates is a member. OIV Tru he | the Standard Ofl Trust?” ® to the | ., “Yes." of New York State to| The witness said th an order for Rogers to sghow [Company was o why he should not answer them. however, tm be that dard Of in cause Rogers did say, mever beard of an sgreement the late George Rice of Marletta, and | had been employed in his office. Rice | | was an Independent ofl operator, apd | the | stantly for more than twenty vears, up to the time of his death, about a year the counsel for all the ofl companies objected, but the ship he was & member of the Standard “Were as L es e by 1883, rge Rice died last year and the wit- ——ii et RS S B thn..co_el.. ! tal Laws. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Jan. 6.—Moses Harmon, ad- vocate and promulgator of free love ideas, must serve a one-year term in the peni- | tentiary. He was convicted on a charge £ | of sending obscene ltérature through the malls in violation of the postal laws. Har- mon §s 76 years old and has already served two terms in jall on similar charges. > | The Circuit Court of Appeals this after- noon decided Harmon's appeal from the finding of the lower court was not good, and found in favor of the Govern~ ment. Unless Attorney Seymour- Ster- man, Harmon’s case to 1] the ted Btates =1 fen, the B Judg ! takes 3 injunction sued one Bard Taor. O | Danite Company. Forced to Reveal Its Plans for the Bay. Must Cross Rival's! Tracks and Area in Dispute. Ownership of Fill} Is the Bone of Contention. Governor Makes an Inspecition of uation.: - OAKLAND, Jan. 6.—The Western Pacific Railcond, by ome of those stra- tegic moves for which American rall- roadiog Is famous, has gained a com- manding terminal position on the Onk- land side of San Frameclsco Bay, equal to those enjoyed by its great rivals, the Southern Pacific Company and the Santa Fe system. Whether the Gould people will maintain thelr ground de- pends upon the courts of the State, into which hax been pourcd to-duy a mass of litigation between the two big rail- road corporations, the Southern Pacific and the Western Pacific, The Western Pacific Company has placed a guard of sevem men, armed | with rifles and shotguns, on the fll The compuny has erected a tent for the accommodation of these men. Early this morning the Western Pa- | cific forces quietly marched down to | t'ie filled land north of the north har- bor training wvall and laid 500 feet of track. By daybreak ties had been strewn along the fill for at least 1500 more feet of track, while from the | | western end of the jetty more track- laying was headed toward this city. This move gave the Western Pacific Railroad possession, though not un- disputed, of the fill, and vut the new- comer ready for the battle in the courts that has been rapidly lining up in the lively twenty-four hours since yesterday. With the two great railroad systems | at war over this terminal site, | with the State of California a third party in the struggle, with the law- yers and the engineers in both camps at high tension, this fight for a trans- continental terminus has assumed pro- portions the like of which has never been .nessed beforc In railroading history in California. TITLE TO FILL 18 .QUESTION. ‘While the struggle has been more or less clouded by the maze of intricate legal questions, involving titles to ti lands and that sort of thing, the is: really resolved down to one gr absorbing question, namely, Does the Scuthern Pacific Company own th lands extending between the bro.,z gauge mole and the north training wall of Oakland harbor out to low tide line a8 established in 18837 The Western Paclfic Railroad people have proceeded upon the theory that the lands belong to the State of California | and that they can be utilized just as the | Bouthern Pacific Company utilized State lands in the days when it built the broad gauge mole and the narrow gauge pler, both of which structures the Western Pacific Railroad by its move to-day indi- cates its iIntention of trying to parallel into San Francisco Bay to deep water for its terminal. Into this Titanic contest has been drawn the State, because there is a claim that west of low tide line, which would cross the training wall about half-way between ‘the west end and its turn near Peraita street, the State owns this water covered jand out to the ship channel or plerhead line. PARDEE MAKES INSPECTION. Goyernor George C. Pardee, with E. E. Calvin, general manager of the Southern Pacific; Warren S. Palmer, general su-~ perintendent of the Southern Pacific Com- pany, and Charles H. Spear, president of the State Board of Harbor Commission- ers, made a tour of inspection this after- n of the training wall, the fill and the mflm‘n Pacific pany’s wnrh at the Western Pacific has planned to have its bay terminus between the Southern Pacific’s broad gauge and narrow gauge moles. The Harriman line promptly TRAMP LEADS JEROME'S MEN ON WILD HUNT Dupes the District At- torney of New York. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call DENVER, Jan. §—Edward Rynders, John Rynders and W Hooker, New York detectives, are in Colorado seeking James Hupln& alias Jun& Krup, :n;:‘ud for elgotion frauds {n recen ow York l “xlm The New York men have te’s various mining and rlllrnuL r. following the tip given Distriot Attorney Jerome by a tramp seeking a cash consideration for betraying his friend. name as James time and John Martin at He succeeded in obtaining another time. $250 from District Attorney Jerome and left the East with the thres New York detectives. On the way to Colorado he gave the detectives the slip, but they con® tinued on their way here and searched where the the Cripple Creek distric ection crook tramp had told them the lived. ‘When McGrath escaped, the detectives ‘were left with his suitcase, which con- n:d nothing but two greasy coats. MéGrath tried to get the reward of- fered by the New York Herald, but was turned down. Then he started West to show the detectives a cave in the Crip- le Creek district in which he claimed %flvln was hiding. The officers have not found a :r — e—— ECUADOR 18 DECLARED + TO BE IN STATE OF WAR Plaza Is Called Home From the United States to Assume Command of the Army. GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Jan. §.—Pres- ident Garcia to-day declared the re- ublic to be in a state of war. Colonel rrea, Secretary of War, has been ap- pointed commander of the cen The revolutionary forces u: hold a = n‘l'f'mo Tunguragua and Chim- _provinces. . At dawn Western Pacific Wants Its Ferry Terminus Between Southern Pacific’'s Two Moles. IPEAR OF THE [ARLES 8 MAKING AN MMTXOH or OOVWOB GEORCGE C. PARDEE AND PMENT CH. [ONBRS FRANCISCO m SITUATION ALONG THE OAKLAND WATER FRONT, SAN FRANCISCO PLANS AUTO PREPARING FOR AN EXPOSITION Congress Is Asked for an Appropriation of $5,000,000. Special Dispatch to The Call CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Reprasentative Kahn to-day took the first official step in the direction of the celebration of the four hundpedth anniversary of the dis- covery of the Pacific Ocean by the Intro- duction of a biil in the House appropri- ating $5,000,000 for an exposition to be held in San Francisco from May 1, 1913, to January 1, 1914 All the nations of the world are invitad to participate in a great naval review to be held September %, 1913, the exact anniversary of Balboa's discovery. Mr. Kahn said-to-day that this early action ‘was taken (n order to serve notice on the rest of the country that San Francisco during tbe conflicting nature might. be that { in August and should they pro- JOURNEY T0 SOUTH POLE 'Explorer Arctowski In- vents a Car That Runs on Ice. = _Speclal Dispatob to The Call PARIS, Jan. 8.—Proposals to explore the poles are multiplying. Wellman's offer to Santos on top of Dumont comes a suggestion that the south pole be discovered by motor car. M. Arctowsk!, who was a member of the Belgian expedition of 1397, has de- signed a car capable of traveling six- teen miles an hour over rough ice. By working several of these in relays he estimates that he eould reach the south pole ten days after leaving Mt Erebus. M. Arctowski will make experiments uc- cessful he will be ready at the begin- ning of the following antarctic sum- mer to attempt the adventure.