The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 19, 1906, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1906. £ THUCS LURE VICTIM WITH 540 STORY R e Mrs. Hollister of Chieago Enticed to Vacant House on Plea That Starving Family Needed Assistance | MURDERED AFTER HOURS OF TORTURE S Police Receive Imformation That Adds to the Horror of Crime Which Rich- ard Ivens Has Confessed here the quar- ered the hours, t she should lite mise She - - - ATTACKS UPON TWO WOMEN. Crime Goes Unchecked in Residence District of Chieago. . ¥ . ——————es BRYAN SURPRISED BY WHAT HE HAS SEEN IN PHILIPPINES Regnarding the JIslands’ Independence, However, His Views Have Not Changed. 18.—After Islands on his J. Bryan made r and afforded, me authorities tigation of ‘the sabled me to col- dge, which I hope to of both the Ameri- people and the Filipinos. given by f the natives to surpasses my anything else. regarding ‘the independ- have not changed. ex- n the habit of smoking g, you will appreciate the No tugging and ulling over the head 4 % $ ; mo breaking of bosom. ) and up at the best stores. te and fancy fabrics. CLUETT, PEABOBY & CO., Tyoy, N. Y. Largest makers of Shiris and Collars in the world. W ERONCHIAL 20 Relieve inflammation of the throat caused by cold or catarrh. Contain nothing iniuriona. SOCIETY LEADER SHOUTS HERSELF i | Wife of Wealthy New York Commission Merchant Is Found Dying in Her Home |WOUNDED 1IN | | Vietim Is Said to Have Been | in a Highly Nervous Con- dition for Several Months EACs e R NEW YORK, Erooklyn TEMPLE 18.—Coroner Brewer a summons last of Otto F. Bothfeld, fon merchant living in sive section of Bay Ridge, the shooting of Mrs. Both- feld, who was dying of a bullet wound in head "hough the police had received no no- e of the tragedy, Dr. Brewer was in- 3 the shooting had taken place vesterday morning. - A misunder- ding was responsible for the failure f the family to notify the authorities. e Coroner's presence was desired to take Mrs. Bothfeld's ante-mortem state- nt. A policeman was dispatched to home of the Bothfelds and after in- y he placed the dying woman under rmal arrest on a charge of attempted At the time of the shooting there th smomea nt in the house Mr. Bothfeld's Rudolph O. and Harry J., a aughter, Mrs. Arthur D. Con; servants, , who have beenalarmed for s because of the highly ner- tion of Mrs. Bothfeld, were roused early in the morning by a pistol followed by the sound of a body by their parents and found Bothfeld over the body of his wife. He | said she had left the bed so carefully as t to disturb him and reached a bureau in a drawer of which was kept a loaded l. Bothfeld said his wife had ap- Iy pressed the weapon to her left temple: and pulied the trigger. Brewer and the police will conduct an in- vestigation | Bothfeld is a commission merchant witg at 54 Broad street, this city, is a er of the Ridge Cl and Mrs, Bothfeld is a leader in soclety of the distric . HAPPY REUNION ENDS LONG SEARCH 'Brothers Meet in Chicago After Separation of Sixty Years. CHICAGO, Jan. 18.—By being mis- taken for his brother, whom he had not has heard from since he s home in Buffalo, N. Y., s’ old the brothers have made but vain efforts to find each e end of ir long separa- ras brought about by their re- able 1keness i Morrison lives within fidesblocks his brother, John Morrison, in Chicago, but neither aware of the t -until yesterday whén the doctor, who was walking near his home, was by a woman, who addressed “Grandpa.” n as » woman scrutinized him closely. she exclaimed, “this must be said Dr. Morrison. t is his name?” or explanations had been made the n, who was Mrs. Christina Mor- , a dpughter-in-law of John Mor- rison, took Dr. Morrison to the home of Martin N. Clark, another member of the family. John was sent for, and the rest of the day the two brothers to grasp the fact that they had found each other. John Mo whom liv ago. These, with s. Eliza Newman, sister, Dr. Mor- rison’s three children, Mrs. Frank F. Sim of Topeka, Kans, Mrs. Hattie Steele of Chicago, and George E. Mor- rison of Grand Rapids, Mich, and an aggregate of twenty-seven grandchil- | dren, will make up a family reunfon | which will take place 8unday. SIMPLE SERVICES AT FIELD FUNERAL | Body of Dead Merchant Will | Be Temporarily Placed in Receiving Vault. CHICAGO, Jan. 18—The body of Mar- shall Field arrived at Chicago to-day on a special train. A large number of the friends of Field were in waiting and a detail of police was present to keep back | the crowd which had gathered at the de- pot. The funeral party was at once driven to the Field residence at 1905 | Prairie avenue. The funeral will be held at the late res- idence of Field at 12 o'clock to-morrow, and will be simple in character. The services at the house will consist of a | musical service and a brief address by Rev. J. A. Morrison of the First Presby- terian Church. The body will be placed in the recelving vault at Gracelahd Cemetery untll ar- | rangements are made for the final inter- | ment. The employes of Marshall Field, num- bering 10,000, will hold a memorial service to-morrow afternoon in the Auditorium. During the hours of the funeral—from noon until 2 o’clock—all ihe large retail establishments on State street will be closed and all the places of business | operated by the members of the Chicago Commercial Club also will close. ————— VICTIMS OF PULMONARY DISEASE TO BE EXCLUDED * CHICAGO, Jan. 18.—The first decisive step toward excluding victims of pul- monary tuberculosis from the public schools was taken by the Board of Education last night when that body instructed all principals and teachers to report the name of “suspects” to Superintendent Cool8y. The board called upon Superintendent Cooley to | notify the parents or guardians of the children suspected and also to dirget ‘he child study department to examine each guch child. was ordered to report the result of the examination in each case to the com- mittee on school management. It is left with the committee whether or not | to exclude the pupil from the ragular | public school classes. A large number | of the board members believe means should be provided to give the victims of the disease educational opportunities equal to those enjoyed by the healthy child. As a result a recommendation calling for segregation will be mads as soon as data has been collected regard- ins the number affiicted \ The children had been to the room occu- | Coroner | b of Bay Ridge, | for sixty s, Dr. James 3 has been united with the sur- members of his family, not one | “You must have made a mistake,” he | spent telling reminiscences and trying | The child study department in turn | DEPOSITION NI Kentucky Jurist Wh i | | FORMER ENGLISH PRISONER AND HER MOTHER, WHO ARE SUING | AN ATTORNEY, - R LEXINGTON, Ky., Jan. 18.—The deposi- | tion of Judge Matt Walton of this city was taken here to-day by Colonel David | Armstreng of New York City in the, suit of Baroness Caroline von Roques of Ger- many against Colonel Armstrong. The | sult was brougnt in the name of Baroness | von Roques, but the action really is forced by Mre. Florence Maybrick, the former | English prisoner. | Armstrong acted as attorney for the | Baroness von Roques, the mother of Mrs. | Maybrick, in the sale of lands in Ken- | tucky, inherited by the Baroness from her | father, D. B. Holbrook of Mobile, Ala. | Both she and Mrs. Maybrick were dissat- | isfied with the amount resulting from the |1and sale and sued Armstrong for a bal- | ance claimed to be due. Judge Walton | prepared certain papers in, the deal here and his testimony was sought for that reason. SCHOOL PRINCIPAL STIRS UP TROUBLE Attempts to. “Systematically Christianize” the He- brew Papils. NEW YORK, Jan. 18—For four hours last night Frank F. Harding, principal of public school No. 141 in Brooklyn, was put through a rigid examination on a charge of “systematically Christianizing his pupils,” 75 per cent of whom are sald to be Hebrews. The excitement reached such a pitch that the chalrman threatened to call the police to clear the room of every person not directly concerned. “The charge was made in writing and signed by the hefld-e of sixty families, all Hebrews. It was® said that Principal Harding read the Bible, spoke of Christ and placed holy pictures on the wall, One little girl testified that the principal said every person but a hypocrite be- lieved in Christ. The principa! admitted *part of the charge, but denied the rest. He said he read quotations from the Scriptures, but not from the Bible, the quotations being in a small book entitled “‘Géms of Wis- dom.” He did not geny that there might be a few holy pictires on the walls. “Dld you read the Lord’s prayer to the children?” the attorney for those making the charges asked. 3 *No,” the principal answered with en- thusiasm. “I know the-Lord's prayer and recited it to the children.” —_— ‘Would Keep Their Logs. VICTORIA, B. C, Jan. 16.—Hon. R. F. Green, Minister of Lands and Works for British Columbia, to-day intro- duced an act to prohibit the export of logs taken from crown lands. All such logs will Jave to be manufactured within theSprovinces, A recent judicial decisfon allpwed the export of logs from crown lands, and this act will stop the practice. Every Salesman 3 Must use pencils. The “Koh-I-Noor" and “‘Regal” penclls are hest; they last longest because the lead is stronger; they write smooth and they simply are the best pencils ever pro- g a%flmb:-%‘%mk pads, ums, - born, Vail & Co., 741 Market street, " 4" FAMOUS PICTURES,—Frai- ol Aptonia. Stolls ABGNSr ‘lein_Antonte gave. ; talks in Lyric ; s TAKEN BRICK SU o Prepared Papers in the Land Deal Gives His 1estimony. WOLD TRACE LOBBY FUNDS State Senator Brackett of New York May Unearth New Insurance Scandals ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 18.—What became of the “yellow dog fund” and other sums contributed to Andrew Hamilton, gen- eral legislative agent of seventy insur- ance companies, under the guise of legal and real estate disbursements? This Is | the problem that Senator Edgar T. Brack- | ett and other members of the Legislature | are endeavoring to solve, and it is likely to become a very actlve issue as soon as the report of the insurance investigating committee is presented to the Legislature, It is the general understanding here, where Hamilton is well known and his transactions are regarded by his friends as legitimate, that the ‘vellow dog fund” and similar appropriations went largely to executive insurance officials through- out. the United States for purchase of rulings and decisions in favor of the companies, where enforcement of the in- surance laws might have interfered with theilr operations. The belief is that it ‘would have been impossible to spend such large sums in the Legislature, even if the occasion had existed, without attracting attention. > If the money was used to influence leg- islation, however, it is Senator Brack- ett's purpose to establish the fact. He announced that it was his intention to follow the trail of the “yellow dog,” even if it were found to lead to the doors of the Senate chamber. In_prosecution of this purpose Senator Brackett some time ago wrote to Hamil- ton in Paris. He has known him for many years and he advised him_strongly to return to this country and tell the en- tire truth. Senator Brackett has received a reply from Hamilton by cable, but he declines to disclose the nature of its con- tents. It is the general bellef that Ham- {iton declined to return. “It constitutes what is known legally as primary evidence,” he said, “and it supersedes all other evidence.' ““What are you going to do next?” was dsked. “My next move will come like a boilt from the blue sky,” Benator Brackett re- ~ \ plied. BANK DEPOSITORS ARE GIVEN A FRIGHT CHICAGO, Jan. 18.—Complaint has been made at several banks that depositors are being called by telephone and advised by persons whose identity is not known to withdraw their deposits from the in- stitution. The depositor is told with much evidence of concern that he had better get hig money out of the particular institution in which he happens to have it lodged. Depositors in three of the richest banks in the city have been given their unsolicited advice. John J. Mitchell, president of the Illi- terday: - This business s to me inexplicable. There is absolutely no occasion for alarm and the persons telephoning or advising dej take their money out of the banks are either foolish or smalicious. We have been trying to | rur down the source of these storles. Three have had the experfence with their de: . There should be some way to put to these unwarranted efforts to frighten timid persons. PHYSICIAN PUT TO DEATH BY TOPOLOBAMPO INDIANS Responds to a Sick Call and Later Friends Find His Mutilated . Body in a Hut. | ST. LOUIS, Jan. 18.—An account of | the murder of Dr. Emil H. Klueber, for- | merly a prominent physician of St. Louis, by Indians, near his home at To- ! polobampo, Mex., i contained in a let- | ter written by Dr. Klueber's son-in-law. to St. Louis friends. "It states that on December 23 Dr. Klueber was called to the bedside of a | sick Indian and the next day his body, horribly mutilated, was found lying on I& cot in a hut in the Indian village. Dr. Klueber was born in Germany and was a graduate of the University of Heldelberg. He came to St. Louis shortly before the civil war and served during the four years it lasted as regi- com there went to Mexico about twen- nois Trust and Savings Bank, said yes- | ‘mental surgeon of an Tllinoi. nt. & ‘Later Dr. Klueber went to fi: wa and | EICHTEEN MEN -~ PERISH IN MINE| Exi)losion Chokes Mouth of Colliery and Fills the! Slopes With Affer-Damp BLAST IGNITES DUST Disaster Oceurs at Noon Hour While Hundreds of Work- men Are Away From Scene ‘ CHARLESTON, W. Va, Jan. 18.— Eighteen men are belleved to have been killed by an explosion to-day in one of the mines of the Detroit and ‘| Kanawha Coal Company at Detroit, on Paint Creek, twenty miles from here. The men who were in the mine at the time of the explosion and who are believed to have perished were: Isaac Pancake, Benjamin Snyder, Charles Snyder, Isaac Snyder, A. N. Sovine, James McArdle, Patrick McAydle, Stephen McArdle, J. P. Neal, Peter Bridgeman, Edward Bridgeman, Phillip Bridgeman, Melyille Bridgeman, John Mickel, Edward Mickel, Claude Saun- ders, Patrick McLaughlin and John Mec- Laughlin. The four Bridgemans were brothers, as were the three Snyders, the three McArdles and two_Mickels. The Mec- Laughlins were father and son. The explosion occurred at 13:30 o’clock. Had it been either before or after the noon hour the death list would have been still greater, as hun- dreds, of men would have been killed. The force of the explosion was so great that the hills trembled. Tons of wreck- age and debris were hurled from the mouth of the mine, blocking the en- trancé and making the work of rescue difficult. The first body reached was that of J. P. Neal, which was discovered 150 yards from the entrance. The mine superintendent says that the other men were working much farther back than Neal and he has no hope of reaching them before to-morrow morning. Even though the men survived the explosion it is almost certain that they will have fallen victims to thé deadly after-damp. The cause of the explosion is not yet fully determined, but it is believed that a blast ignited the dust which had ac- cumulated in the mines. ’ SENKTOR DEPEW 1S SND T0 BE SERIDUSLY ILL Conference of Doctors Held at His Home in New York. NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—Senator Depew returned to New York unexpectedly from ‘Washington on Weflnesday night and it was reported to-day that he is very ill at his home, 27 West Fifty-fourth street. It is sald that a conference of physicians was held there in the afternoon so erit- ical is the condition of the Senator. While it was admitted at the house to-night that Senator Depew was ill it was denied that his condition is at all alarming. It was acknowledged that sev- eral physicians had called during the day, but it was sald that they had visited the Senator as personal friends.’ No in- formaticn was given as to the nature of his fllness. It is sald that no plans have been made for Senator Depew’s re- turn to Washingtoun. ’ CHAIRMAN SHONTS DISPUTES SCHWERIN Replies to the Statement of Manager of Pacific Mail . Company. WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—Chairman Shonts of the isthmian canal sent a communication to Secretary Taft to-day in reply to the statement of R. P. Schwerin, vice president and general manager of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, in a dispatch from San Fran- eisco, that the company was not respon- sible for the freight congestion on the isthmus. Shonts inclosed an official re- port from W. G. Bierd, general superin- tendent of the Panama Raliiroad Com- pany, showing that with a single excep- tion all the Pacific Mail Company’s steamers arriving at Panama between November 6 and January 3 arrived sev- eral days late and sailed several days after the scheduled date of departure. No steamer was furnished for the week embracing December 26, a sailing date which was “suppressed.” thus causing the beginning of the blockade. WESTERN PACIFIC IDILL BE ORDERED TO GET OFF JETTY Continued From Page 1, Colnmns & and 7. the various companies in conflict it was thought that immedi- ate action on the part of the United States authorities directing the Western Pacific to at once remove its track from the training wall was not yet necessary. Uncle Sam to Keep Out of Fight. “At present no good reason is known why the United States Government should be drawn into the controversy existing be- tween these two transcontinental railways, and, from what has previously been stated, it is believed that permits to construct wharves at the locality requested, between the pierhead and bulkhead lines, are not necessary to be granted by the Secretary of War. If not necessary, it is recommended that they be not granted. “There i3 no serious objection to the construction of the riprap protection shown on the map accompanying the appli- cation of the Western Pacific Railway Company, but it might, under present circumstances, be injudicious to authorize it. Must Remove Tracks From Jetty. “It is also recommended that unless the Western Pacific Railway Company voluntarily and in a few days removes its tracks from the United States training wall it be directed to do so.” General Mackenzie approves Colonel Heuer’s recommenda- tions, but recommends that Colonel Heuer be directed to ad- vise the Western Pacific that if it builds a riprap protection the War Department will not interpose any objection. He also, recommends that a telegram be sent to Colonel Heuer directing him to notify the Western Pacific to remove its tracks from the training wall. Among the papers before Secretary Taft is a tel- egram from the Western Pacific stating it laid its tracks “under misapprehension” and that it will remove them as soon as the in- junction against changing physical conditions is dissolved. WESTERN PACIEIC IN SAD QUANDARY Government Says ‘‘Remove the Tracks!’’ Courts Say *‘Don’t Touch Them!’’ The telegram received last night from The Call's special Washington correspondent is an absolute corroboration of the article printed In The Call last Wednesday. The report of Colonel Heuer, chief of engineers in the department of California, upon the applications of the Southern Paeific and Western Pacific rallroads to build wharves along the contested strip north of the north jelty of the Oakland estuary, is in favor of the Southern Pacific. General Mackenzle, chief of engineers at Washington, and Colo- nel Heuer's superior, recommends, however, a modification, which, by graat- ing the Western Pacific's request, places the rival lines on an even basis, as far as the Federal Government is considered, thus leaving the gquestion a pure property one to be decided In the courts. Secretary of War Taft will make this decision upcn these reports, and probably will adopt General Maec~ kenzie's suggestion. # . FORBIDDEN TO BUILD SOLID WHARF. Both railroads made their applications to the War Department shortly before the fight started in earnest by the laying of tracks along the contested strip by the Western Pacific. The applications were made necessary by the constitutional Jurisdiction given to the United States over navigable waters by which construe- tions beyond low-water line can be made only with its authortzation. The application of the Southern Pacific was for a wharf built upon piles. That of the Western Pacific was for a bulkhead, or solid whart. ,Colonei Heue: report was in favor of the Southern Pacific. In his opinion, the bullding of a ‘wharf upon piles, as it did not affect the flow of waters, needed no authorization from the United States Government. On the other hand, the bullding of a solld > . pier, such as the Western Pacific planned, interfered with the tides, and hence necessitated governmental permission: The granting of permission. Colonel Heuer reported. “might be injudicious at the present time. BETWEEN COURT AND GOVERNMENT. General ‘Mackenzle concurred, however, only with the first part of this re- . He agrees that the Southern Pacific needs no authorization for the com- struction it plans, but he recommends that the application of the Western Pa- cific be granted. If it is the amended report rwhich Secretary Taft adopts., the raflroads will be on even footing, both having tie right to build, as far as the United States Government is concerned. If it is Colonel Heuer's report which is adopted, the Western Pacific will be denied by the United States the permission to build a solid pler. It will, however, still retain the right to build a pile pler, for which Federal permission i{s not necessary. The reports of both Heuer and Mackenzie recommend that the Western Pa- cific be ordered to remove its tracks off the north jetty. Should this order be given, an interesting situation will result, for the Western Pacific is at present restrained by injunction from doing any work whatsoever on the disputed strip. Ordered on the one side to remove its tracks, and prohibited on the other from touching them, it will be In a strangely delicate position. WESTERN PACIFIC INDORSED. Real Estate Dealers Hold Meeting and Favor New Road. OAKLAND, Jan. 18.—The Oakland Real Estate Dealers’ Association and the insurance agents of the city, at a meeting held to-night at the Oakland Board of Trade rooms, adopted resolu- tions pledging themselves to employ all necessary and proper means at their command to advance the interests of the Western Pacific Railway Company. The resolution also requests the Secre- tary of War to grant the application of the railway company for permission to construct a pier along the north train- ing wall of Oakland harbor for the pur- pose of reaching the waters of San Francisco Bay. In a brief preamble it.Is set forth that the Western Pacific is a new railway now in course of construction which will be of great advantage to the com- mercial interests of the Pacific Coast, and that it at present has no facilities for reaching the waters of San Fran- cisco Bay, while the Southern Pacific Company already has two plers, well as a freight slip, on Oakland harbor. It is also stated as a reason for granting the petition of the Western Paecific Com- pany that there is no other available means. on Oakland's water froat of reaching the bay. A resolution was alse adopted urging the City Council to grant the franchises for which the Western Pacific Company has applied in this city. John T. Bell was chairman and Ellis E. 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