The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 8, 1906, Page 4

PLEHN EXPLAINS PLAN THE, SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY & 1906. OF TAX COMMISSION ERPAR a2 Fear of Losing Revenue Ill Founded. Y e Burden on Real TILY ¥ ¥ t Estate to Be Lighter, BY PROF. PLEHN GAIN FOR COUNTIES. ss however satisfied resent is the p real es- n money of statis pes to be able system coun- ie has the entirely ble to les- r estate. RELIEVED OF STATE TAX. people of £ 325,000,000 e e cities and State. rate is e aver- 5 abo nt amount of s of the coun- der to raise efore, to above es it can may possibly fact that in cal tax rates are therefore, any prop- essment rolls is taken ies 1o be taxed exclu- es would pointed i to the true ceases to t it is not imits so reasonable pur- ADVANTAGES. tion of the tax rate on he chief desiderata by any means the come from the sys- jon proposes. Some of dvantages mean quite as much well-being in the long run as financial gain. r example, be no small gain greater equality in taxation erent taxpayers; no practical home rule rtaining to local taxation, gain to abolish the an- expense of State equaliza- OTHER e of and of tax- s should that they should ular, not changing amount, not arbitrary nor a the third, that they d be levied In the manner most e convenient for the taxed vithout loss or expense taxes themselves in- that the taxes should mically collected UNIFORMITY AIMED AT. lan of the commission will Te- mprovement in every one of greater equality, more convenience and ons; nty. -onomy. The incentige 1o aluation, which is one of the auses of present inequalities, cars when the State rate is re e W a uniform valuation it er for each citizen to com- vance what his taxes will be, he has to pay will not be changed each year, as is often the case. Then if the on public service cor- ¢ assessed by & mathemat- e discretion of administra- ers, a large part of the ex- w thrown upon the taxpayers above the amount received by vernment will disappear. ne past ten years have been years collecting | Put | without so | This | rly as high as the | 1 does not allow wide lat- | { X _COMMISSION EXPERT, WHO EXPLAINS PROPOSED CHANGES -+ { | IN STATE REVENUE SYSTEM. | — FRENCH BANKS AIDINC RUSSIA Will Make Temporary Ad- vances to Support Stability of St. Petersburg Finances PR PARIS, Jan. 7.—M. Kokovsoff, former Russian Minister of Finance, who came | here to negotlate another Russian loan, practically confirms the statement made |in these dispatches yesterday that, the loan having been postponed, French | bankers are now considering the making of temporary advances in order to sup- | port the stability of Russian finances. In the course of an interview to-day, Ko- ¥ ff made a statement in relation to a’s real financial position. He sald: “The budget for 1306, which is about | to be presented to the Council of the empire, comprises an extraordinary budget of $246,500,00, of which only $5,000,000 is covered by the excess of rev- enue from the ordinary budget. Thus | $241,500,000 remains to be provided. Three | of the heaviest items included therein are provisions for the repatriation of the troops in the Far East, their maintenance until their return to Russia and the reim- bursement of Japan's outlay for the Russian prisoners of war. Other smaller extraordinary expenses include‘the main- tenance of the families of the reservists; succor for the victims of d ss, rail- road construction, the mobilization of troops owing to the strikes and subven- tions for the naphtha industry.” Kokovsoff sald Russia could, without | difficulty, issue an internal loan to meet these expenses, but it was considered preferable not to float it until the second | half of the year, in order mot to affect the proper agministration of the national resources. Therefore, he said, it was | thought desirable to arrange for a for- eign operation similar to that indicated vesterday, which would be of a quite normal character. In conclusion Kokov- soff sald: “The difficulties through which we have just passed, though grave, were never sufficlently serious to affect Russian credit.” ES Y Damage to American Property. ST. PETERSBURG, “Jan. 7. — Mr. {Meyer, the American Embassador, has received from the Consuls at Moscow and Odessa detailed reports of the in- juries suffered by American property during the recen: riots. A statement of the damages claimed will be forwarded by Mever to the State Department for instructions. AR Czar's Mother Buys Danish Estate. COPENHAGEN, Jan. 7.—The Dow- ager Empress of Russia is purchasing a beautiful estate in Denmark with a view to a lengthy residence, but the | rumor that has been in circulation that she will not return to Russia is with- | out basis. e Pt Celebration Ends in Riot. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—The celebra- tlon of the Russian Christmas by the { miners of that nationality at the Mead- owlands Coal Works, four miles from here, caused a race riot this evening | bétween Russians and Italians in which i one man's skull was fractured, a wo- man with a baby in her arms knocked { the assessment roll of the State, as re- turned by the Assessors, stood practi- cally still during the whole of that pe- riod. The only advance was in 1903, and that was made entirely by e , State Board of Equalization. The chilef reason for this fallure of the tax roll to represent the true conditions in. the , State is the natural pressure, growing greater each year, on the Assessors to keep their valuations down in order 1> re¢lieve their constituents of more | than their just part of the State taxes. | The plan of the commission i a broad one, based on a consideration of the best welfare of the whole Stats, and 1! is hoped that it will be judized in a broad and generous spirit; not clouded by any petty jealousies betwoen counties or cities, jealousies fostered and largely created by the evils in our of great prosperity for California. ¥etd present system. 1 i NECRD 1 NOT PRICES SLAYER Colored Tramp Arrested on Suspicion Proves He ]:[ad‘; No Conneetion With Crime s Special Dispatch to The Call, REDDING, Jan. Sheriff Richardson of this county and Deputy Sheriff War- moth of Tehama spent two solid hours questioning the negro tramp who was ar- rested near Red Bluff on suspicion of hav- | ing had a hand in the Price murders. The negro was to have been released to-day, but because of his weak condition it was deemed best to hold hima few days. He told a story that conforms in every de- tail with the one Sheriff Richardson has gathered, and It absolutely clears him from any conneetion with the crime. The spots on his trousers supposed to have been blood were made by paint. He was given the trousers in Redding. He was seen at Hooker, forty miles from the scene of the murder, the evening before. To-morrow Sherift Richardson will follow a clew that has been furnished him and that has for its foundation the theory that the murders were committed by a resident of the Centerville district. ————— Tires of Life of Shame. PORTLAND, Jan. 7.—In the presence of her husband, who had come from St. Paul, Minn., to induce her to aban- don her mode of living, Mrs. Eva Toy committed suicide by taking carbolic acid to-day. Mrs. Toy left her home in St. Paul two years ago. During the past summer a ffiend of Toy's saw and recognized the woman. He told the husband, who came to Portland, and, notwithstanding the character of the resort in which he found her, wished to become’ reconciled. —_— down with a brick and others were se- riously injured. About 200 men engaged in the rioting. The. coal and iron police are patrol- ing the settlement to-night. T TR W RUSSIA’S DAY OF PEACE. ‘Warring Factions Cease Their Strife on the Christmas. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 7.—Fine snow sifting down from a cold sky furnished ideal weather for the Rus- sian Christmas, so far as St. Peters- burg was concerned. All the theaters and other places of public amusement, even the restaurants, were closed and the day was given up to the proverbial Russian hospitality. The dissensions which have torn and distracted the country seemed to have disappeared for the moment and even the radical newspapers, animated by the sentiment of peace and good will to all, silenced their guns. The day passed quietly and without untoward incidents. The religious ser- vices in the churches were largely at- tended. In the palace at Tsarskoe-Selo the Emperor himself presided at the Christmas tree. Later, accompanied by the imperial children, his Majesty visited the quarters of his imperial Cossack escort, to the members of which he distributed presénts. R L M Gotham Hebrews to Parade. NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—Arrangements were made to-night for a parade of more than 100,000 Hebrews through the streets of the east side on January 22 in honor of the memory of those killed during the riots in St. Petersburg a year ago. The parade will mark the first anniversary of the massacre. A mass meeting will be held after the parade. et SN Russian Budget Revised. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 7.—Accord- ing to the Novoe Vremya the revised budget as submitted to the Emperor makes the revenues for $1906 $1,014,- 000,000, as against $1,027,000,000 for last year. The expenditures ‘are estimated at $1,009,000,000, as against $1,200,- 000,000 for last yea: B~ 0 Japanese Colleet Port Arthur Dufies. CHEFU, Jan. 7—The Japanese at Port Arthur are applying their home customs regulations and collecting fm- port duties. This step has been in preparation for the past two weeks and civil officers are in charge of the work. ———— Mikado Approves New Cabinet. TOKIO, Jan. 7.~—The Emperor has ap-' proved the new Cabinet headed by the Marquis Saionjl. —e———— New safe deposit vaults. §2 per annum. Citi. zens’ State Bank, 518 Montgomery street. @ I on a charge of bigamy. HEYDENFELD S CHARGED WITH BIGAMY Warrant Is Obtained by First Wife, Who Asserts Her In- terlocutory Decree of Di- vorce 'Has Not Expired DETECTIVES ARREST - _ACCUSED IN FLIGHT Scion of Famous Family Gives Police Lively Chase to Avoid Spending Sunday Night at the- City Prison Josephine Maher Heydenfeldt, who was granted an interlocutory decree of divoree last February by Judge Sloss, yesterday through her attorney, Hugh O'Neill, swere out a warrant for the arrest of her former husband, Thor O. Heydenfeldt, one of thé prominent Heydenfeldt family, In the complaint f Irc. Heydenfelar, the man is' charged with haviug married before the expiration of the imerlocutory decree, and in the eyes of the law this constitutes-bigamy. The warrant was served last night upon Heydenfeldt at 2325 Lombard street by Deteciives Freel and Bunner, after a merry chase that lasted all day, and the young capitalist is: now at the City Prison awaiting bail, which has been fixed at $3500 bonds, 3150 cash. He said’ that his only reason for avolding arrest was | the dmpossioility of getting bail on Sun- caw® Heydcenfeldt denles that he is a bigam- ist, although he married before the ex- piration of the :ntericcutory decree. He asserts that the decree was granted over a year and a hali ago, and that his former wife failed to obtain the necessary tinal decree. He admits that he has mar- rica Clarice Wili in August, 1906, but | says that a year elarsed since he per- | mitted his wife to get a divorce. Thor O. Heydenfeldt met Josephine Maher in San Rafael in 1902 and after a short courtship they were married in that vear and at that place. On February 6, 1904, Mrs. Josephine Heydenfeldt ap- peared before Judge Sloss and after tell- ing a tale of crueity and abuse was grant- ed an interlocutory decree to expire Feb- ruary 7, 1966. GROUNDS OF DIVORCE. She testified that Heydenfeldt was a cruel husband and that because of his brutality she was compelied to leave him. She said that he had a violent temper and when things did not go to suit him he would vent his anger upon her. He cursed and swore at her witn great frequenc: she said, and once when they were I ing in Oakland, struck her. Her testi- mony was corroborated by Mrs, Hattie Trimble, the woman who introduced her to Heydenfeldt. After the decree Heydenfeldt went to live on Sutter street and from there moved several times and Nis wife lost | track of him. The last she heard was that he was living at the Goldaracena apartments on Sutter street and appeared surprised when informed that his latest home was at 1080 Post street. Mrs. Heydenfeldt No. 1 said yesterday that she had heard rumors several times that her husband had taken another wife and that when she taxéd him with the fact, he admitted it readily, at the sfme time claiming that his divorce was act- ually given him over a year before his marriage to Clarice Willl in August of ‘While the detectives were talking to his wife in the front part of the house Hey- denfeldt attempted to climb out on a porch in the rear. He was captured just as he was about to close the door after him. At the City Prison he said: “I was married to Josephine Maher in September, 1902. In the latter part of 1904 or the first of 1905 I permitted her to get a divorce from me on the grounds of cru- elty, though I could have obtained the divorce myself on the ground of {nfidelity. The interlocutory decree was granted a year and a half ago, but I belleve that her lawyer, Neil McConaghy, neglected to file the papers, as required by law. SAYS CHARGE IS SPITEWORK. “This charge is merely trumped up on a technicality. It is simply spite work. My first wife 1s angry because I am so happy with my second wife. Attorney O'Neil, who is pushing this charge, was my lawyer at the time thé decree was granted. I promised him $25 at the time, but I have been unable to pay him. This may have something to do with his anx- ety to make trouble for me. “I was very unhappy with my first wife. She caused me a great deal of trouble and I squandered over $17,000 on her. The only reason that I did not want to be ar- rested to-day is that I cannot get bail. “1 was worrfed at first, for I did not know how my second wife would take it. She stands by me, so it is all right. I will be out in the morning. While I may be technically in the wrong, I am inno- cent of any intent to disobey the law. It is the neglect on the part of the lawyer that put me in this hole. “I worked hard for my first wifs when the money was gone. Why, I even pushed a truck over in Oakland to get money for her.” Heydenfeldt was locked up for the night. Neil McConaghy is the young attorney who left this city last June, his affairs being somewhat tangled and in the hands of Hugh O'Neill for clearing up. McCona- ghy was at the time acting as attorney for Mrs. Heydenfeldt, and Heydenfeldt's claim to the right to a second marriage rests upon the failure of the attorney to enter application for e final decree. —_———— HEESCH SUCCUMBS TO WOUND.—The Coroner’s office was wuotifled after- noon that Carl A, Heesch, insurance solicitor, who shot himeelf in Goldén Gate Park on Sat. urday, died at the Gerraan Hospital about 3:15 o'clock. He had been a patient at the hos- pital for treatment for ulcer of the stomach and eluded his attendants on Baturday, going to the park and shooting himself. Ribbons in the Halr. A passenger on the deck of an out- wardbound steamship watched the peo- ple on board. In the crowd was a group of girls who looked like sales- women. Each was well dressed and more or less “smart” in appearance. The passenger gazed at the girls for some time and then remarked: “Now, see that bevy of girls. They are clean, well groomed, tastily and carefully dressed and there's nothing dowdy or slovenly about any one of them. They are trim from the tip of the feather in their hats down to the Cuban heels of their shoes, but how is it that New York girls continue to wear greasy bow ribbon knots in their hair after the bread and butter age? “These ribbons are all very well for little girls in knee petticoats, but when 'a girl 1s big and old enough to dress her, halr and use back and side combs it is surely time to discard the ribbon. bow."—New York Sun. L% ; Parliamentary Life Holds No .Charm for Him BRITISH CABINET OFFICER WHO PREFERS TENNIS OR FISHING TO DIPLOMATIC WORK. Sir Edward Grey Wins| Success in Spite of Himsell. Special Dispatch to The Call, LONDON, Jan. 7.—Gladstone once said of Sir Edward Grey, the new Sec- retary of State for Foreign Affairs: “I have never remembered so signal a capacity for Parllamentary life and so small a disposition for it.” Sir Edward was but a boy of 22 when he made his maiden speech in the House of Com- mons, but Speaker Addington said of his effort: “He went through his per- formance with an eclat which has not been equaled within my recollection.” Yet the debutant himself declared at the time: “I feel convinced of my un- fitness for a pursuit which I detest, which interferes with all my private comfort and which I only sigh for an opportunity of abandoning decidedly end forever.” That was tWenty-one years ago. He has never lost his dis- taste for politics. He would much rather fish or play tennis than take part in the rough and tumble of a gen- eral election. Sir Edward has succeeded In spite of himself. He made an excellent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the last Liberal Government of which Lord Rosebery was the head, and his gtness for the higher office, the most important and responsible in the administration, is everywhere con- ceded. He is particularly weil quali- | points In Kansas, no damage was re- fied for diplomatic work. He possesses the art of refuting or controverting an opponent’'s argument without hurting his feelings. Nor is this due to the employment of ambiguous phrases. He always makes his meaning clear and says what he thinks in .plain, direct Saxon. He never strains after oratori- cal effect. He does not seek out a po- litical foe's particular raw spot and dash vinegar over it, as Chamberlain, for instance, is so fond of doing. He never wins a cheer from his friends by snatching a loose phrase of an op- ponent and flipping him in the face with it Consequently he makes no enemies. It used to be sald of him that he hadn't enough of the fighting spirit—enough “divil,” as some phrase it—to carry him far in politics, but he has disproved that notion and many have picked him out as a probable fu- ture Prime Minister. Only 43, there is still the spring of youth in his stride. His face is clean- shaven, clear-skinned with dark eyes and high forehead crowned by a mass of jet black hair, and a chin and jaw that bespeak inflexibility of will. His character is marked by almost impene- trable re; which nothing distur! It suggests a lendid storage of re- serve force. He is an athlete mentally and physically. A diseiple of Izaak ‘Walton, he has written a delightful book on fly fishing. He 18 a fine per- former alike on the cricket field, on the tennis court and behind the rifle or fowling plece. His inclusion in the Liberal Cabinet as head of the Foreign Office means continuity in England’s foreign policy, for he is an imperialist of the Rose- bery school. When Sir Henry Camp- ell-Bannerman was hesitating in his appreciation of the treaty with Japan and many radicals were inclined to de- preciate the alliance, Sir Edward Grey was the first Liberal statesman to give it his cordial approval. As’ Foreign Minister he gets $25,000 a year, which is $17,000 more than is paid to an American Cabinet Minister, but accora~ Ing to the English standard he is well worth it. He is under no necessity of working for a living, for he has a fine estate of some 2000 acres and a snug fortune besides. As chalrman of the THREE STATES - ~ GET SHAKINE (PRKTE AFTER FORTY YERS: Slight Quakes Are Felt in General Brayton Ives and Several Cities in Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri NO DAMAGE IS REPORTED Wife of New York Unable to Agree and Live Apart —_— HE NOW RESIDES ALONE Buildings Rock at Wamego[Daughters of Pair Take Up and People Flee From Their Homes in Manhattan —_—— KANSAS CITY, Mo, Jan. 7—A dis- tinct earthquake shock with a motion from morth to south, lasting from 23 seconds to one minute, was felt in Western Missouri, Eastern Kansas and | Southern Nebraska at 6:15 o'clock this | evening. The territory affected ex- | tends from Nebraska on the north, nearly to the Oklahoma and the Indian | Territory line on the south, and from Salina, Kan., on the west to Kansas City, St. Joseph and Joplin, Mo., on the east. With the exception of the knock- ing of plaster from walls at some ported, although persons ran to the streets at some places, in fear that | their houses would tumble in. TOPEKA, Kans., Jan. 7.—A slight shock | of earthquake was distinctly observed | here and throughout Eastern Kansas at | 6:15 o'clpck this evening. In some places 2 second and lighter shock was noted. | Neighboring towns report similar condi- | tions by telephone, the most severe ex- | perience apparently being at Manhattan, | where citizens left their houses in alarm. No damage s reported. ABILENE, Kans.,, Jan. 7—A slight | earthquake shock was feit here this even- ing. Dishes were rattled and the move- ment was plainly perceptible, Telephone messages from Salina, Minneapolis, Ciay Center and Wamego, Kans., say the| shock was very perceptible at those points. At Wamego buildings were shaken | so that it was feared they would col-} lapse. In this (Chapman) county build- | ings trembled and doors were slammed. EMPORIA, Kans., Jan. 7.—An earth- quake shock was felt here at about §:15 | Home With Mother and the Son Is at Present Abroad Special Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, Jan, 7.—After a married life of nearly forty years, Gemeral and Mrs. Brayton Ives have separated and are now living apart. The two unmnrfwd @aughters reside with Mrs. Ives at 42 West Forty-ninth street, while General Ives lives alome with bis art treasures at 33 East Thirty-ninth street. A third daugh- ter, Mrs. Walter E. Maynard, lives at 114 West Fortieth gtreet, while the only son of the couple, who equaled his fath- &'s great athletic record at Yale, is now abroad. Eriends of the family ment ig Irreconcilable. It is understood that no definite causes brought about xhv-’ separation other than a growing incom patibility. General Ives surrendered the family home on West Forty-ninth street to Mrs. Ives and his daughters, and say the estrange- | he took quarters in one of the many clubs of which he is a member until he purchased and refitted the house in East Thirty-ninth street, into which he recently moved. His former home at 43 East Thirty-fourth street he sold to August Belmont, who now occupies it. One daughter, Miss Winifred, who studied musie in Paris, returned a month ago and has announced her intention of appearing on the concert stage, with a strong possibility of making this her life work. Mrs. Ives, who is described as possess- ing great charm of manner, Was formerly Miss Eleanor A. Bissell, daughter of the Rev. S. B. S. Bissell of Norwalk, Conn. ——e——————— People in Mexico Starving. o'clock this evening. It was too slight to do damage, but was distinctly felt all| over this part of the country. The vibra- | tions lasted for about sixty seconds. { JOPLIN, Mo., Jan. 7—A slight earth- | quake shock was felt here about 6:2 o'clock this evening. No damage was | done. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Jan. 7—A dl:tinc!} earthquake shock was felt at 6:42 o'clock this evening. Dishes and tin- | ware rattled and small children were | frightened. The shock seemed to come from the south and lasted about Keni seconds. LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 7—At 6:30 to- night residents’ of Lincoln felt an earthquake shock that in several in- stances shook globes and fastenings on | chandeliers. No damage is reported. The shock was distinetly felt at Ne- braska City and Syracuse, in South- eastern Nebraska. - It was slight In each instanc CVEN G PR TO CAUSH BiLS Special Dispatch to The Call, PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 7.—Samuel B. Shipley, the retiring president of the Provident Life and Trust Company, frankly admitted to-day that his company MAZATLAN, Mexico, Jan. 7.—Accord- ing to Ygnacio Fuente, Government dt- rector in the town of Ahome, the peo- ple of that town and the surrounding territory are facing starvation. Crops have been almost entirely destroyed by recent fnundations and the roads have been rendered jmpassable. Thousands of cattle perished in Northern Sinalos as the result of the floods. The loss throughout Sinaloa will amount (o sev eral millions of dollars. — pald last year to Congressman Martin f ’ ! Olmsted, a corporate lawyer of Harris- | burg, $7500 for using his fluence to have unfavorable insurance bills buried in com- | mittee. Shipley also said that the Provi- dent Company had paid for a number of years a salary of $2000, outside of his | regular commissions, to Wiiliam J. Seot one of its agerts, for staying in Har burg while the Legislature has been session, locking out for bills that migh affect the company and having them killed. Shipley said to-day: “Last year two bills were imtroduced in the Legislature which we recognized as unfavorable to the interests of our company. 1 went to Mr. Olmsted and said: “You have ipfluence with the legislator: and I thought you might be able to on- vince them that these bills are unfair.’ Olmsted sald, ‘You wish to retain me, then? and I told him I did. Nothing more was said until the Legislaturs ad- journed. In the meantime the bills died. They never were brought out of commi tee. Then Mr. Olmsted sent me his bil It was for $7500. The company pald it, and that ended the matter.” you have really never eaten a frue soda cracker until you have eaten Une eda Biscuit 'The only soda cracker which is all good and always good, protected from strange dust tight, m proof package. Union-Southern Pacific ..m Winter Route.. S. F. Booth, Gen. Agt., U. P, No. 1 Montgomery St. O 5