The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 9, 1906, Page 1

S — | THE WEATHER. ; y 9, \,\ | Forecast for Janu San Francisco and v ity -Cloudy 1908 | prob- | unsettieq weather Tuesday, a fresh southeast winds. A. G. McADIE, District Forecaster. ‘More News Than Any. Lady." Matinee, CHUTES— GRAND—) nee TIVOLI—Foxy o el R, 4 THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—"Th ALHAMBRA—"The Twn Orphans.” CALIFORNIA—Dreamiand Burlesquers. COLUMBIA—Virgintus." audev ORPHEUM—Vaudeville, MAJESTIC—"If I Were Kin; NEW CENTRAL—“Camille." Francisco Cowboy and the Matizee, o Quiller. 7P R SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9 1906. ) PRICE FIVE CENTS. NSKS INSERTED N CERMAN COMMERCIL CONTRACTS BERLIN, Jan. 8—The National Zeitung says the most recent phase of the Moroccan question caused general lassi- tude on the Boerse to-day, and adds that war clauses are being inserted in grain contracts and that insurance against war 1s being taken out in other business. BALED HAY Diier»fl;n'%g;%all?the’ I: []H WAH.S D CRARTHED Britain Will Act Alone; if France Yieldsto | the Kaiser. 5 mpeter h speaking to allay concede the ng from Grey tollow | Algeciras the latter (Contract Grafts Are Uncovered in | Chicago. eace resul! Edwa Affairs, w rance at ntatives of - | Special Disp: to The Call < t & German | o than the United | CHICAGO, Jan. § sistant Corpora- | r any other for- | tion Cour 1 Thomas Sutheriand ap- peared before Mayor Dunne's ‘“‘contract ' committee at its first meeting to- 7 and cited specific instances in sup- of his charge that at least $5,000,000 ™ paid by tue city in the last fit- rs in graft to contractors. Suther- | ared that an investigation of would unearth a condition of | t iv a jazge de Social Democ ommercia contracts icago “unparalleled in any -3 built of slabs and even of baled | when the specifications called for have been cor ed, he told the , becau: public officials > the conspiracy and viewed centiy the violations of contracts. ¢ con-truction of water tunnels, de- d the attorney, the inspectors were | ept i saloons in a drunken condition at are Tthe expense « i contractors and many of | the wator tunnels of Chicago were to-day reeking with deadly pollution as @ re-| sult. He told the committee that, in his | op m: of the water tunnels under Chicago streets were little “ more than sewer conduits, because of grafts that | h en practiced and permlited by eity | officia . fhe After citing specific instances, in which the names of several prominent contrac tors were glven, the attorney vehement- v pleaded for an investigation that would g0 to the bottom of his charges The committee, consisting of Aldermen Kullerton (chairman), Riley, Sittz, Dough- and Dunn, after hearing the charges, ded to investigate all charges of graft the construction of water tunnels, in- epting sewers and bridges, the erec- pumping stations and the pur- chase of machinery, let by the city of ago from 18% up to the present time. herland, after the committee had n this action, expressed the bellef | 000,000 would be found to be far | e actual figure of the graft cov- ering these ten years. FIRE DESTRODS FREIGAT DEPOT The stable and yards of the Overland Freight amd Transfer Company on Bryant street between Fourth and Fifth | . SENATE TO TAKE UP MOROCCO, incom Introduces a Resolution Asking for Imformation. ntagonism be acute as to f Europe, as Is evi- announced { e dispositions | the gath- ering 4 is also evi- | Wireets sere destroyed by fire at 3 e ess dispatches from the | @’clock this morning. It is reported ! said powers.” |that ffty head of horses amnd 200 B o | | % wagons were destroyed. ‘he origin of | WAR WOULD SHATTER EUROPE- | L. fire is not known. United States mnd Japam May Become FOT @ time it wus feared that the fire would spread to the adjoiming ware- houses, but at 3130 o’clock it was un- der comtrol. World Dictators. 8.—A former Cabinet who Is & statesman of note . ke return to power, has It is estimated that the loss will & portant article in the | peach $100,000, as much valuable Sepa on the Internation- connection with the Mo- ence. He belleves that | freight was buraed. | | CARNEGIE RICHEST e real antagonism is between Ger- y and Great Britain. War b N INN s 3T T e S et MAN IN NEW YORK have dreadful effects, as it nec- would involve other nations retrogression of cen- Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Jan. 8—The tremendous increase of $840,000000 in the value of | New York real estate during the past | year was shown by the assessments of | the Tax Commissioners to-day. The total value of real estate is fixed at $5,400,000,000. Personal property is assessed at more | than $3,400,000,000, which is an increase of over §20,000,000 during the past year. Several interesting assessments on per- sonal property were revealed by an ex- amination of the Tax Assessor's lists. An- dréw Carnegie was assessed on the larg- 1 est amount of personal property, the val- juation being $5,000,000. John D. Rocke- | feller's name stood before the second | largest assessment, which was on $2,500,- 0w, Russell Bage’s personal property was third in point of size, at an assessment of $2000,00. Goldle Mohr Wood, the | | former chorus girl, and widow of Alan { Wood, the Pittsburg miRionaire, is as- | { | is victorious, the ope wouid have to in civilization to who would become weak and discour- any or Great Bri- 15, he says, and eon- bly will come to ng iins SN JATED IN BIG MINING SUIT se in Supreme Court of the United States. sE 8- ice : : . Me- | seased on $500000 worth of personal prop- a = ' of Diited St 201 st . Edward Addichs ama "y | Other assessments'include Emelle Grigs- g versus the Cobre Grande Cop- 1 BY: $500,000; August Belmont, $100,000, and Helen Gould, $25,000. The decision was favorable ———————————— on the ground that the i Ass; nts had no cause of action. o i % g »e vasc grew out of the purchase of | COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, Jan. §.— Cobre Copper Company. Addicks | The authorities herq have decided that Hollenberg are stockholders in the | E. C. Wilson of Chicago, found dead mpany. and they sought by in- | seven miles east of town yesterday restrain the_transfer of the : cvening, was murdered. The character o properts and of the funds of the company | of the wound is sald to preclude its deposit in 2 bank In Phoenix, Ariz. | having been self-Inflicted. Friends of made charges thaet the property, | the dead man, declare that he did not ieh they represented to be worth | have less than $100 on his person yes- %0000, was being disposed of for an | terday. When found the money and his inadequate price. walch were gone, G | John Morley, CANPHC N BATAI NEARS END —a Verdict of Voters Will Soon Be Known, King Dissolves Old Par- | liament and Sum- mons the New. Voice of the Political Orator Is Heard Throughout the Nation. LONDON, Jan. 8.—King Edward, who has beén absent in the country sfnce Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman’s Cabinet was formed, returned to London to-day and held a meeting of the Privy Council, | at which the proclamation dissolving Par- liament was slgned: Immediately after- ward writs were gent to the returning of- ficers for the election of the members of the new Parliament, which, in accord- ance with the law, his Majesty has sum- moned to meet at Westminster on Febru- ary 13 The first polling will take place on Jan- vary 13 at Greenwich, where Lord Hugh Cex leager of the Conservative free traders, i& engaged in a triangular fight for the Unionlst seat against a Liberal and a Chamberlainite. The last poll must close on January Therefore within a fortnight the verdict of a majority of the electors will be known and the probable life of the Liberal Government will be measurable. The leaders of the opposing forces mounted the hustings to-night, and the rallying cries of the main forces and tions engaged in the combat_ were hi everywhere. No less than fifteen mi bers of the past and the present Cabinets spoke in different parts of the country, including former Premier Balfour, Her- bert Henry Asquith, Joseph Chamberlain, Lord Lansdowne, John Burns, David Lloyd George and Austen Chamberlain. The issues were clear and the speakers continued to ring the charges against home rule or tariff reform. The Liberals all along the line attacked the Unionist record of the past ten years, while the Unionists In the main were on the de- fensive. 8ir Charles Dilke, speaking in London to-night, announced himself as an ad- vanced Liveral-Tndependent candidate. He spoke very favorably of the members of the new Cabinet. Questioned with regard to Moroeco, Sir Charles said the difficul- ties predicted over the Moroccan situa- tion were frightfully exaggerated and there was no danger of a war arising therefrom. Timothy M. Healy will not be op- | posed for re-election in North Louth. Cardinal Logue, Archbishop of Armagh and Archbishop Walsh of Dublin, too day declared in favor of Healy and against any contest of his seat by the Unitea Irish ague. John Redmond president of the league and leader of the Irish Parllamentary party, an. nounced to-night that the league would not run a candidate for Healy's seat. ADMIRAL EVANS MAY BE COURT-MARTIALED Inquiry to Fix Responsibility for the Collision of Battle-Ships. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call WASHINGTON, Jan. 8—Admir L ley D. Evans is harshly crltlclud.llnn::- val circles for having had only one pilot on the vessels of his squadron in the lower bay on Sunday at the time of '‘the grounding and collislon. Naval offclals say this undoubtedly was responsible for the damage to his vessels. It s the pol- fcy of Becretary Bonaparte to hold the officer in command of a fleet respon- sible for any accident, and that officer is clothed with ample Zuthority to take all precautions necessary tect his vessels. . e It would not be surprising i¢ Bonaparte should order Admlrm to answer before =a court-martial after he has recelved the report of the court of inquiry which will be appointed by Admiral Evans to make an investiga- tion of the accident. SAN FRANCISCO FIRM INVESTS IN OREGON Pays $50,000 for Sawmill Plant and 1000 Acres of Timber Land. COTTAGE GROVE, Or., Jan. 8.—A tim- ber deal of considerable magnitude has just been consummated.” The Dorena sawmill plant and 1000 acres of first-class timber land, owned by J. H. Chamber., has been purchased by the Russell & Rogers Company of San Fran- cisco. The purchase price was $50,000. It is estimated there are 40,000,000 feet of timber In the tract. The new company wiil «perate the plant to its full capacity. The 10gs are cut, saw< 1 and conveyed to the docks of Dorena in a flume and from there it .. Kkiindried, dressed and shippéd. The plant has been in operation about two years. ldentifiea as a BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 8.—Sheriff Bell of Teller County, Colorado, said this even- ing that he recognized Harry Orchard, the man suspected of the murder of ex- Governor Steunenberg, as the man who s wanted In Colorado for the blowing up of the Independence depot at Cripple Creelk 3 LABOR PARTY TAKES OVER RULE OF (ITY complete control of the city’s overnment. SEAWSTRESS IS GUEST IN ASTOR HOME Her Death Follows a Week of Social Gayety. — Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Jan. 8.—Mrs. William As- tor, leader of New York's ‘“Four Hun- dred,” has cause for much heartfelt grat- ification day ‘in knowing that an act of kindness brought extreme joy to an aged friend a few days before the possi- bility to extend it had vanished, for Miss Mary Noonan, 70 years old, lies dead at her little home in Red Bank, N. J. For years during her early add middle life Miss Noonan was employed as & seamstress in the Astor household. Re- cently Mrs. Astor sent her a pressing in- vitation to spend a week in the Fifth avenue hotne as the owner’s guest. With childish delight and a marvelous recu- peration of her waning powers, Miss Noonan made her arrangements to join in hitherto proscribed functions of the “‘smart set,”” Her joy was boundless, and when Mrs. Astor's carriage met her at the ferry to which her friends had taken her, Miss Nognan's new black silk dress shone no more resplendently than aid her happy face. \, A whole week of unalloyed pleasure fol- lowed. There were luncheons, at which Miss Noonan was the guest of honor, visits to the theater and the opera and carriage and automobile drives in the K. ”l‘rm- morning & neighbor called to see Miss Noonan. The aged woman was found in bed dead with a smile on her face. ATTEMPTS SUICIDE BECAUSE OF A HOMICIDAL MANIA Dr. R. W. Ste- NEW YORK, Jan. 8. sald to be & graduate of Vanderbilt er, :nd Columbia universities, member of a prominent family in Nash’ Tenn., | | tempted to commit sulcide in the i‘“fl“]?on Hotel at Broadway and Thir- ty-ninth street some time Sunday night by taking a mixture of chloroform and morphine. He was removed to Belle- yue Hospital to-day, where physiclans say he cannot recover. Dr. Steger took the poison after leaving a note saying that he had suffered from suicidal and homicidal mania’ for years, E For several years prior to 1800 Dr. Steger was house physician at the Eastman Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark. SnL Baron von BERLIN, Jan. 8.—Baron von Rlcht- hofen, ‘;h_i fzrfll(n 5 , s seri- ously 111 as the result of overwork and EUGENE st YOI, Eand HEAD OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT TERM AS THE DIRECTOR-IN-CI NICIPALITY OF SAN FRANCISCO. PASTOR URGES YOUNG MENTO Hopes to Announce Fifty Betrothals Next Sunday. ——— Special Dispatch to The Call. WILKESBARRE, Pa, Jan. 8.—Fifty young men of St. John's parish at Pitt- ston have been urged to propose this week and have their coming weddings an- nounced next Sunday. Rev. M. J. Manley, announcing the bans of two couples, took occasion yesterday to declare that, in- stead’ of two, thers should have been fifty. ! Rev., Mr. Manley sald many young couples {n the parish were “keeping com- pany,” and he urged the young men to “pop the question”” and advised the young women not to miss a good chance in the ‘beliof that they could, have a Jjolly time and receive much attention as unmarried ! girls for some years yet, instead)of set- tling down as married women. * “Propose ‘to-night,” he said in conclu- sion. . —— Sharp Fighting in Puerto Plata. TURKS ISLAND, Bahamas, Jan. 8.— Advices brought here yesterday by the steamer Cherokee from ‘Puerto 'Plata, Santo Domingo, dated January 6, says the recent fighting near that port was _very sharp, 160 of the 800 men ehgaged ‘on both sides being killed or wounded. The dead were left 1ying In the streets WH ‘HI] ~ POPQUESTION A COOD Fo0D I | | | | | || | | | | i | } | ! i 1 } | e | 0 YESTERDAY BEGAN HIS THIRD [EFF OF THE AFFAIRS OF THE MU- FINDS. BLACK SAND 15 NOT Dirt Cure for Dyspepsia Nearly Kills a Se- attle Man. Special Dispatoh to The Call SEATTLE, Jan. 8.—As the result of eating a handful-of black sand distrib- uted in Christensen’'s Hall last night by Mrs. Katherine M. H. Blackford, an ex- ponent of the science of vitosophy, with instructions to eat it for the cure of in- digestion, John Lawson of 817 Union street, was thrown into convulsions half an hour after he left the hall and nar- rowly escaped death. A physiclan who ‘was called relfeved him. Lawson de- lecturer mends the eating of black sand and says it is beneficial. Some 200 other persons ate it, some of whom suffered consider- ably. -zmrdin‘ to Lawson the woman lec- turer tells her audience that animas keep healthy by eating a certain amount of dirt and sand, and that such treatment will result in keeping human beings’ di- gestive organs clean. Euglish Statesman Stricken. , Jan. 8.~Charles Thomsen Ritchie, who was chancellor of the Ex- chequer in the early part of the Bal- four administration, was stricken with paralysia to-night. Ritchle was created $a s B g | which occurred yesterday. of government at the point where | pathetic side to the change. |up their new | appointed Police Commi The new municipal adminigtration of San Francisco.began yesterday at noon, and the Labor party is now virtually in Outgoing officials, of whom the number was unusually large, gave way to .their successors. The marching in and walking out of the office forces at the City Hall was much like an upheaval. Appointees by the Mayor were seated and all boards and commissions effected reorganization. NEW MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION BEGUN Retiring Office-Hold- ers Yield to Their Successors. —_— Various Appointees Are Formally Seated. Reorganization of All the Boards and Commissions. Never before in the political history of the city was there as complete a change in the municipal administration as that The advent of the Union Labor party into complets power as a result of its sweeping victory last November threw out a small army of city employes and ptit new men in the places vacated. The change was made withcut the slightest hitch, the newly appointed and elected official® quietly assuming the reins ing officials left their desks. Th of politcal warfare decreed that men who had grown gray in the city’s service must give way to others who had labored in the cause of the party that had been successful at the polls. Some of the d placed subordinates had served twenty or more years, and when th left their places several barely suppressed their tears.« A select few of the incumbent subordinates were fortunate enough to secure the necessary Influence and were retained in their positions. The Only offices in which no changes Were made were In these of the Assessor and the Justices’ Clerk, where the incum- bents have one year yet to serve. A scene of activity was presented in the office of Mayor Schmitz, where the newly elected and appointed eity officials congregated for the purpose of recelving thelr commissions, filing their official bonds and taking their oaths of office. As fast as this was done the officials re- | paired to their respective offices to take duties. Deputy County Clerk Greif administered the oaths of of- fice, and the bonds given by a surety company were approved by the Mayor, The members of the various boards who recelved their commissions were: Board of Eduecation—David J. Oliver Jr., Thomas F. Boyle (reappointed). Board of Public Works—Thomas F. Eagan (reappointed). Fire Commission—Mario Bollo; John 8. Parry (reappointed). Health Board—Dr. J. W. Ward (reap~ pointed). Election Commission—Thomas V. Cators Thomas McGuire (reappointed) Civil Service Commission—Edward F. Moran; Richard Cornelius; George H. Bahrs (reappointed) Alexander O'Grady, Schmitz announced rec who Mayor tly would be foner to sue- ceed himself, did not receive his com- mission yesterday, but will to-day. O’Grady has been asked to take George Keanels place as secretary to the Mayor, but has so far refused. LANGDON TAKES HOLD. Punctually at the noon hour yester- day Willlam H. Langdon, the new Dis- trict Attorney, made his appearance at his office and was warmly greeted by Lewis F. Byington, his predecessor, and the members of his staff. Accompanied by his new staff and Byington, Lang- don visited the different Superior Court Judges, to whom he was tformally ine troduced by Byington in cordial terms Judge Cook pald Byington the com- pliment of saying that the outgoing District Attorney had always made the strongest and most forcible presenta- tion of a case at the close of his argu- ment that he had ever heard from the lps of his assistants or any Distriet Attorney during his (enlure of office as e in the criminal courts. ..'v':ad:. Lawlor spoke of some evils that needed correction. One was the necessity of employing sufficient typists so that the transeripts of testimony in the police courts could be made promptly and the District Attorney be enabled to file Informations without any unnecessary delay. He also sald the District Attorney should have a contingent fund at his disposal so that he would not be required to apply to the Board of Supervisors for the ex- penses of telegrams or money needed in sending for witnesses or other neces- sary work for the discovery or prose- cution of crime. This was the only commonwealth in the country, Judge Lawlor sald, where the District Attor- ney did not have a contingent fund at his disposal. He also advocated the appointment of two detectives for the special use of the District Attorney's office. Langdon in each instance introduced assistants to the Judges in whose eourt he was to appear as prosecutor. The only Police Judge who was found on the bench was Judge Cabaniss, to whom Langdon was introduced by Byington in_a felicitov: speech, to which the Judge replied In cordial terms. Langdon's assistants have been as- signed as follows: John O'Gara to Judge Lawler's court; James M. Hanley. Judge Cook’s court: W. Hoff Cook, Judge Dunne's court; Louls H. Ward, Police Judge Shortall's court; Bernard J. ¥Flood, Police Judge Conlan's court; Herbert O. Rogers, Judge \Cabanlss’ court: and R. S. Duke. Puolice Judge Mogan's court. Daniel C. Deasy Is bond and wararnt clerk. with George M. Lipman, D. €. B. McCarthy' and George M. Kelly assistants, and Mark Continued on Page & Col. &