The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 11, 1906, Page 1

probably light r resh | McADIE Forecaster. ON THE 04ALAND SHORE SERATORS WAR UON PRESIDENT ey Intend to Investi-. gate Many of His Acts. Pl e ublicans Join With emocrats in the Attack. Rej De Inquiries Already Au- ed Will Preceed ultanecusly. R TN Y5 Sim ME. ROOSEVELT WARNED. & his rebellion of the ex; making this agree- retary Cromwell, Ehrman the Interna- ese bankers & Bros and con- r '“J‘gmed in Panama on 04 AGREEMENT WITH PANAMA, e agreement the silver colnage 12 was to be recognized at th o silver pesos for each dollar ates currency. Exchange at ate of two pesos and n American dollar. Ameri- be exchanged for Pan- rate of three-fourths ange on New York was es not to exceed three tion by the Finance Com- ry elaborate. It is to be £ nd thus there will be two me time. to subpena a it 1= particularly | g why the agree- le Congress was in consultation with the any s light on Pan- t 1o know about am Nelson Crom- nfidence of Pres- Tarft. of W ————— FINDS HIMSELF WITH TWO WIVES! Court Ruling Tangles Matri- monial Affairs of Spokane Man. Wash,, »on-keeper, Jan. 10.—Gus finds himself s on his hands as a re- dement to-day, setting aside which he secured two years t wife, Mrs. Laura Con- s she was living in Seat- s in comMmunication with he 1sband, but was not served with @ copy of the summons, She asked to ave the decree set aside. After his diverce Conrad was remarried, but has had troub bringing suit for divoroe s | strain ions by the Sen- | s and his second wife 1!1 ALCAZAR—“The Cowboy and the Lady."” ALHAMBRA—"‘The Two Orphans." CALIFORNIA—Dreamland Burlesquers. MAJESTIC—*1f I Were King." inee. Mat- TIVOLI—*Foxy Quiller." The raiiroad fight has jumted across the bay and the very streets of San Francisco are now a bone of contention berween Yesterday the Santa Fe sprang across the right of way ashed by the Western Pacific in the Potrero district Meanwhiie the Southern Facific was siopping the work on the Oakland side by Federal injunction. the . vl corporations. w1t a cross line of iracks. obenE” OF BATTLE IN THIS L‘/"’ BETWEEN THE WESTEIM FICIHL‘ IIID THE WO BIG RIVALS OVER [ FEDERAL COURTS STOP WESTERN PACIFIC’S WORK (ZAR'S SPY 78 EFFW?T 70 G;Ifl A TEfl' INAL SITE. _L /| DRIVEN OUT BY KAISER L‘Strained Relations ‘| Between the Emperors. |Russian Attache in ‘Berlin Found Guilty of Espionage. Aids French Agent in Learn« ing German Military Secrets. Special Dispatch to The Call, BERLIN, Jan. 10.—It was learned toe day from a reliable source that Russo< German relations have suffered a painful breach as a résuit of the discovery that the Czar's military attache in Berlin, Colonel Schebeko, for a long time has been engaged in spying operations in col= lusion with the military attache of France. Colonel Schebeko was formerly connected with the Russian embassy in Washington, and doubtless is well re~ membered in military and dlpimflg :h- Coupt Schiiffen, late chicf of tha Ger- man general staff, lald the proofs of tha Russian attache’s guilt before the Kai- ser In the closing days of December. Em-~ FEDERAL COURT ORDERS 10.—In the midst of ac- tivit at the training wall this after- oon work by the Western Pacific Rail- y and the American Dredging was brought to a sudden stand- | OAKLAND, Jan States Marshal George Burnham, with re- g orders of a sweeping character ate to-day over the signature of e W. W. Morrow. ompany i€ the mover with these in- s, which cover all of the opera- | tions the contested ground by the Western Pacific and the allied dredging | company The.complaints upon which the injunc- tions were iseued are verified by E. B. Cal ice president of the Southern Pa- | cific, and-are supported by lengthy affida- vits from Warren S. Palmer, general su- | perintendent; Division Superintendent Scott and Assistant Division Buperintend- ent Baker Engineer Lioyd of the Western division of the Southern Pacific Company, and other officials and em- ployes, who bave been keeping in close touch with the Gould company’s move- ments along the training wall. Hearinge on the complaint for a perma- nent fnjunction against the Western Pa~ | cific and the American Dredging Company jare set for January 15 before Judge Mor- row. BURNHAM SERVES ORDERS. Deputy United States Marshal Burnham {in a launch went to the scene of the Western Pacific operations on the fill and |served B. A. Arreagada, foreman of the Western Pacific track-laying crew. Dep- uty Marshal Burnham then served Cap- | tain Jobnson on the dredger, who, as soon | as he discovered the order was from the United States Circuit Court, shut down the big pumping machine which has been | shoveling hundreds of thousands of cubic | yards of “spoils” behind the huge bulk- | head at the end of the training wall. 1 The move by the Southern Pacific Com- pam was not unexpected, for the West- ! ern Pacific people have been working at top speed to complete their strategic track | on the fill before the United States tourts | should intervene. Officials of the com- ! pany admitted this eyening that the Fed- {eral injunctions would be recognized as | in force, and that the work would stop until the United States courts had set- | tied the issue as to the rights of the com= pany to be on the ground that has bee | taken. | WILL RELILVE STATE COURTS. I The Seuthern Pacific's action in throw- ing the contest into the Federal courts | simplifies the legal side of the battle be- tween the two great raflway systems. The struggle assumes even greater in- terest, now that the issue is to be settled in a United States court, waere all of the questions Involved will be fought out. Ac- cording to the Southern Pacific Company these injunction suits will test the matter ummmofl?{ma the appearance of Deputy United | t of the United States Circuit | The Southern Pa- | of title to the disputed ground, the right | ARE PROMPTLY OBEYED No Attempt fiiola,te Injunctions Served by Dej Deputy Marshal 'VIEWS OF CORPORATION ATTORNEYS the contest that has been raised by the contending cqrporations. This move’into the Federal courts will also centralize the legal side by causing | & withdrawal of most if not all of the lit- igation so far as injunctions are con- cerned, from the State courts. There are three injunctions pending in the Superior | Court of Alameda County, which cover practically the same ground as has been ;(n\ered in the Southern Pacific Com- pany’s complaint in the Circuit Court. The first of these restraining orders was di- | rected against the Southern Pacific by | the American Dredging Company to pre- | vent the railroad from building a trestle | across the Government training wall to the filled land. Then thére are two in- | Junctions issued on complaint of the Southern Pacific Company against the | Western Pacific and the dredging com- pany touching the same operations em- | bodied in the Federal court complaint. | All of these suits, together with the Western Pacific’s condemnation suit for right of way across the Southern Pacific’s freight yards at the foot of Peralta street, are set for hearing Friday. TRESPASS IS ALLEGED. In the injunction complaint to-day the Southern Pacific’s main' ground is that the Western Pacific and the American Dredging Company are trespassers on the Southern Pacific lands, which the South- ern Becific clalms fee ownership in and describes them as extending from high tide line to low tide line, the latter | boundary being the same as the Bnited States bulkhead line. This bulkhead line, as delineated on the Government maps, crosses the training wall fill about three- quarters of the distance west on the fill from the Peralta street yards. The South- ern Pacific Company also declares that it | Is being firreparably damaged, not only by the encroachment on the lands it claims to own, but by the trespass on | the lands in front. On this score the Southern Pacific contends that if the Western Pacific shall be permitted to en- ter on these lands the Southern Pacific will be shut off from a water frontage and its lands rendered valueless for the purposes to which it is intended t.hey shall be put. While the complaint is very volummnuu as are the accompam: ‘affidavits, the gist of the suits is embodied in the fore- going statement as made by J. E. Foulds, counsel for the Southern Pacific Com- pany. : The suits are brought in the Federal court by the Southern Pacific Company of Kentucky against the Western Pacific Rallway Company and the American Dredging Company of California, together with a number of fictitious defendants. The Southern Company furnished a bond of $25, to cover the Brougilt ments when an injunction suit is The flat Issue s made as to owership of the lands claimed by W company WORK STUPS WHEN UNCLE SN SPEAKS Western Pacific Is Enjoined by the U. 8. Court, Southern Pacific Makes Shrewd Move and Wins a Point. The Southern Pacific, which for the last two days had been seemingly play= ing 'possum, woke up yesterday, and with suddenness and vigor dealt two telling blows to the Western Pacific rivals who are fighting for a foothold on the bay. The first of these attacks was the securing through the Federal Court of injunctions forbidding further track la; I’n‘ on the Federal training wall and the pumping of soil on the same territory. The second blow took the fight to the San Francisco side of the bay. The Santa Fe Company, al- lled in this matter with the Southern Pacific, yesterday laild a frenzied line of tracks across the right sought by the Western Pacific from the corner of Kansas and Fifteenth streets to the corner of Sixteenth and Rhode Island. Meariwhile the Western Pacific was doubling its armed guards on the train- ing wall, which they seized on the night that began the fight, was arming them to the teeth, placing them wunder rigorous discipline, and reinforcing night now the guards are lined up along the whole wall, armed with shot- of way Great War for Now Rages in This City. Santa Fe Workmen Lay Long Crooked Track in Haste. California’s greatest railroad war—the colossal campaign of obstruction Inau- gurated by the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe companies to defeat the efforts of the Western Pacific to gain a point of vantage by the western sea—is now rag- ing in San Francisco. With frenzied haste an army of workmen, captained by agents of the Santa Fe, hurled rails into line out along Rhode Island street yesterday un- til the long ribbon of steel rested on the eastern border of Potrero block 13%. As the road is laid & handcar could not be drawn along it without certain disas- ter. Up hill and down, over rut and bowlder, through ditch and gully, the rails make their tortuous way. When night fell last evening the perspiring crew of road builders gave vent to a cheer, for if possession meant retention all held that the Western Pacific had been struck a staggering viow and that the Santa Fe, acting for itself and the Southern Pacific, had carried the first line of the enemy’s works. This sensational bit of raflroad build- ing was the outcome of litlsation between the Western Pacific and the Terminal Realty Company, ostersible owners of block 136. At recent date the Western Pacific sued the Terminal Company to condemn title a strip of land running dlagonally through the property from the corner of Fifteenth and Kansas streets to. the corner of Sixteenth and Rhode Island streets. Then the fight was on. Charging that the Western Paclific was not acting in good faith and that if condemnation of the land was ordered by the court it would Impair the! obligation of contracts already entered into and would defeat the purpose of the Terminal Company to turn Potrero block 136 and surrounding lands into a great manufacturing center, per- mits to connect the same by spur tracks to the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe main lines having, it was alleged, already begn granted, the Terminal Company de- manded that John B. Wallace and B. M. Bradford, engineers of the Western Pa- cific, appear and give their depositions. 1In response to citations these engineers dla appear before a notary, but their examination had not proceeded far before them with a second gatling gun. At |a clash of counsel ended the proceedings, and Attorney Frank H. Powers, repre- senting the Terminal Company, applied guns, pump guns, heavy caliber Colt to Judge Hunt for an order to compel the Yevolvers, minute, while from both ends gasoline searchlights sweep water and rock, their dazzling rays mingling at times with | the shaft from the patrol launch's ever vigilant eye. It is picturesque and a ferocious battling, K . PAPERS SERVED LATE. = It was a umwn 5 o'clock, with the day's work nearly over, when the Federal xm;:;cuonl were served upon dredger and tracklayers at end of the long United States Wm wall, for which the two glant corporations throat. are clutching each other. n.(m The day has been a early morning a gang ht and ihepiver hay, rails from the £ dischavging w m and two gatlings, which | witnesses to disclose their proposed right pump death at the rate of 120 shots a|of way and survey, asserting that the estern Pacific Company had purchased ijacent blocks, and its demand for the right of way diagomllr through block 136 was Intended for the sole purpose of de- stroying the value of the block, now placed at $100,000, and, asserts the Ter- minal Company, with promise of increas- ing immediately to a value of $500,000. 5 WESTERN PACIFIC UPHELD. The effort to compel the engineers of the Western Pacific to divulge their maps and surveys was a shrewd one, but its peror William confronted the accused offi~ | cer with the documents, and suggested .that an° International military scandal could be avoided only by the colonel ask- ing for his immediate recall. This Colo~ Iron Highway nel Schebukb did, nnd he noew has lefg Berlin on “furlough.” The incident highly sensational, no# only because Schebeko's activitles were employed at a time when Germany was in danger of war with France and pes- sibly alSo with the republic’s ally, but be- cause he was attached to the personal suite of the Kaiser in the same manner that the German military attache In St, Petersburg Is attached to the entourage of the Czar. Colonel Schebeko’s specific offense is said to have consisted of revealing certain plans for ralding French and Russian ter- ritory In time of war by “officers’ pa- trols,” which were to ride far into the in- terior under cover of night and destroy communications in the rear of the ene< mies’ armies. Colonel Schebeko was well liked by the Kaiser, but it seems the general staff long ago suspected him of excessive zeal in the performance of his duties. It is realized in Berlin that to spy s the busi+ ness of every foreign military attache, and the German attaches abroad have instructions of the same kind, but they are told that their activity must be of & discreet and defensible nature. dreds of individuals, that would be happy in the possession of the knowledge of just ‘where this road is going to run. Even though no other opposing interests exist- ed, speculators would hurry to secure lands on the line, and prices would leap accordingly. The petition for the order is denied.” Thus rebuked, the Terminal Company had no alternative but to file its answer to the condemnation action instituted by the Western Pacific. In this answer, filed yesterday, it asks that the action be dis- misséd, but should the court refuse to dismiss it the company, showing the in- terests that are behind it, asks that the Banta Fe, acting for itself and the South- ern Pacific and all contractors Interested | Colonel Vondergoltz, the German mill- in the construction of buildings on the | tary attache n Austria, was recalled in block in litigation, be made codefendants. 1 1880 for spying, only a few months aftes Proceeding with its answer the Terminal | the foundation of the triple alllance. Company says: —_——— ROUTE ACROSS LAKE. 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