The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 24, 1906, Page 6

., THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2 1906. BIG CAPITAL DR UNITED RAILROADS roposition Set on Foot to Increase Stock of the Com- From Twenty - Five Million Dollars - o Forty I 1 PITTSBURG 5 Car Systems of San Francisco and the Smoky City Will Be Operated in Conjunction the Holding by Concerin AFTE more econ- both best antage o s the . e that me t prohibi- s 1} prospect n im- ves satisfa gs and no at- g conditions our hold people of San Francisco 00,000 in improve- 30, besides liberal enance which had expenses ant of met} fch could | as largely in ed Yo pay preferred cert jde 2 proportion of the increased capital stock for such purpose. REJECTED SUITOR SHOOT! GIRL AND HER RELATIVES New York Youth Seriously Wounds Sweetheart, Her Brother and Mother. NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—Enraged be- | he was told atten- | to cease his v, aged 17 years, | a youth of 18 years, last ed a revolver st the girl, George, aged 16 years, and er, Mrs. Delia Murphy, in 677 Wales ave- ing all three arrested while | Not Commected With Murder, R, —W. M. Barnes, arrested 3 Saturday on of having murdered Sarah ' Bedford, Ind., about two | was released from custody being no incriminating ! e against him. | jupon us and the siip reeled in the gale. | the birth of my memory and opened my | since occurred within my sphere.” | moment that they were TELLS A STRANGE TALE OF EARLY DAY ROMANCE Ty The excitement of the witness stand made Mrs. Adella Petitpierrec a poor | witness in her own cause yesterday, and moved her to reveal her life secret. Her tale was the strange one of a deathbed~confession of Mrs. Elihu Baldwin, wife of an early-day capitalist, wherein Mrs. Petitpierre learned she was a daughter oniy in name. .Mrs. A. Petitpierre’s Life Secret Is Revealed. ys Mrs. Baldwin Was Not Her Mother. —_—— | Relates a Deathbed| Confession of Years Ago. E st Many a t my chiidish feet have mpered between the white, silent tomb- | t stood where the foundations of | hail now rest,” said Mrs. Adel- | Superior “The lands of ntieman I . Baldwin, Yerba Buena | were lald to but a ham- on the in yvesterda the t runs east- | block from Van Ness | Hayes and Fell streets. | heir at law of Elihu | Lydia A { t quieting Maguire, Mi h Endow asse Baldwin a Baldwin she 1s | g title to the hael Maguire, 1t Fund Asso- | o own adjoin- | re defending the suit. assert that in early days | ded the property | street, that it was | Leen used asy F entitled to that a public st . was called to testify as | her recollection of the alienation of a portion of the lands held by her her and to give facts upon which she | ses her claim for title to the land lui tio But it was her use of the expression, | he gentleman I believe was my father” | that aroused the attention of counsel for | | the defense and developed a romance of | e long ago as replete with interest as | of the many that awoke the genius Bret Harte and gave him fame in the | rid of letters. | GIVES WAY TO TEARS. i “You say you believe that Elihu Bald-| w win was your father?” said Attome Tuska. ~Do you not know that he was | your father?” Placing her handkerchief to her eyes, Mrs. Petitplerre burst into tears, while her attorney, manifestly surprised at the | turn things had taken, protested against | the question. | “Mrs. Petitpierre sues here as the ughter and heir at law of Elthu F. and A. Baldwin, husband and wife,” | d Attorney Tuska, “and in view | t she must establish that | indeed, as she alleges, a daughter | decedents.” = | ere Is nothing that I can tell that between me and my rights,” rs. Petitplerre. “That is for the court.to determine,” insisted Tuska, and Judge Seawell, ad- | mitting the correctness of the position of counsel, directed Mrs. Petitpierra to ‘ex- plain why she said she “believed” instead ng she “knew” that Mr. Baldwin was her father. “Well, is'a strange sto Petitplerre slowly. *I always believed that T was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin untll my mother—I will call her | mother, anyway, for she was a good mother to me—called me to her side as . »n her death bed. She knew that but few hours remained to her and she told me that I was not her child. She did not tell me whether or not Mr. Baldwin was my father—she only told me that she was not my mother, and that I had been given to her when a little babe to rear as her own. ¥ “My heart was broken when I learned that I was thus robbed of my mother while she was yet alive, only to know ! that death would soon take her from my sight forever. But she told me she loved me as her own, and then my pain was not 20 great. BALDWIN WAS SILENT. Yot one word about this did Mr. Bald- n ever say to me. Afterward I was told—it was only hearsay—that I was born at the Loraine mines, . wherever that may be. Of this I have no recollec- tion. I do not know when I was born, nor positively where. For some reason the good folks I called mofher and father never told me. My first recollec- tion of this world was when I was very voung. I could not have been over three or four years of age. “I was on board a ship with mother. I think we must have been coming to San Francisco, from where I know not. I re- member the blue water and then I saw black clouds in the =ky. A storm came deed stand said Mrs. I remember ecreaming in my fright, but soon we were safe in the harbor and all was well. This I shall never forget until I pass from this life. The sc&nes of the ship were burned into my “memory as with the lightning’s flash. It marked mind to the recollection of all that has As Mrs. Petitplerre related her story counsel sat silent. They forgot.for the dealing with FoR CONSTIPATION Hunyddi J‘inos THE BEST __NEW_ADVERTISEMENTS. to the city | | e WOMAN WHOSE TESTIMONY IN COURT HEVEALED A LONG- FORGOTTEN ROMANCE. - P cold problems of the law; their minds /ept hack to the days of the argonauts, with thin romance of fortunes found, their births unrecorded and their deaths forgotten. But lawyers are too calculat- ing to dream of the past and in a moment they had repewed their search for facts upon which the case at bar must be de- cided. Mrs. Petitplerre, whose every gesture manifested that she is a gentlewoman, cultured and refined, sought throughout the rest of the hearing to control her | emotions, but the thought that the se- cret she had held so long within her breast had been disclosed overcame her at times and she would give way to tears. The years that are covered by her claim, however, have seen the passing of almost every one that knew the whole story of the manner in which Linden avenue came into existence, and it will take several days for counsel, aided by Mrs. Petit- plerre, to develop all the facts. —————————— BREAKS OPEN TAILOR’S DOOR TO OBTAIN HIS SUNDAY sUIT ty of Bepnjamin Annixter, a Dairy- l::ny, Causes Him to Commit Tech- aical Crime of Burglary. amin Annixter’s Sunday best sufie:\}’as in the talloring establishment of L. Stevens last Sunday just at the time Benjamin wanted to parade along the Park promenades. The tailor was across the bay and the shop was closed. Ben had to have the garments, so he pried open a door and got them. Stev- ens hes sworn to a warrant for An- nixter's arrest on a charge of burg- lary and Ben may have to pay a price for his vanity. Annixter is one of the firm of An- nixter & Sons, dairymen, at 1426 De- visadero street. Hé declares that he did not enter the place with felonious intent. He only wanted the suit which had justly earned him the sobriquet of the Beau Brummel of Devisadero street. Stevens is enraged at the invasion of his establishment, and is bent on proi cution. ————————— RUSSIAN DESEBRTERS IN PERIL OF THEIR LIVES Escape to This Port and' Reported Suf- fering With Trachoma, Which Is Disputed By Experts. Four Russian Poles who deserted from the Russlan army in S‘lbar& and arrived here recently on the ench ship Admiral Duperre, e detained on the quarantine grounds by the Feder: health officials, who say that the Ru: sians have trachoma, and therefore can- not be allowed toland. If they are de- ported to Siberia and fall into the hands of the Russians they will be put to death as deserters, and several hu- ‘mane persons, among them Judge Hen- shaw, have taken steps to save them from that terrible fate. . A medical expert not connected with the Government service has examined the men and declares that they are not afflicted with trachoma. . AS the doctors disagree an appeal will be taken to the Commissioner General of Immigration. i —_——— Sneak Thieves at Work. Rosenberg & Co., Brannan and Japan streets, reported to the police yester- day that the door of their store had been forced upward by a thief, who had crawled through and stolen three boxes of raisins and a box of prunes early Monday morning. Isaac Penny reported that his toolhouse at 652 Fdlsom street had been entered early yesterday morn- ing and tools of the value of $10 stolen. J. H. Eckhoff, 3843 Twenty-sixth street, reported that some one had stolen $40 from the pockets of his trousers which had been hanging in e ‘closet in his ' & et o d s af Rt 2 b RIS o RN NG o ST St s o MR L AR FIVE MINERS KILLED BY BIG SNOWSLIDE Trains Blocked in Colorado Because of Immense Drifts. SILVERTON, Colo., Jan. 23.—Five Ital- jan miners employed at the Sunnyside mine lost their lives in an immense snow- slide late yesterday afternoon. No par- ticulars nor the names of the men can be obtained, as the telephone line is down and communication of all kinds destroyed. The mine, blacksmith shop and- several tram cars are also known to havé been swept away. No trains from Durango or Denver have arrived here since last Wednesday, due to slides and immense drifts of snow which have blocked the tracks. All the short line roads running to out- lying camps are now snowed In. There are eleven slides between Silverton and Elk Park. The slides average from seven to thirty feet deep and from fifty to 450 feet wide. One immense slide went into the Animas River, forming a dam of snow and iee, which caused the stream to back up and overflow the Rio Grande tracks to a depth of four feet. It will be two weeks before traffic can be resumed betweén Silverton and Durango. The Iowa mill, in Arastra Gulch, has been crushed in by heavy snowslides which came down Little Giant Mountain. The storm, which has about spent its force, has been one of the worst ever known in this section. B U — WOULD EXAMINE ALIENS AT THEIR HOME PORTS Commissioner Sargent Says the Public Henlth Is Menaced Under Present System. BOSTON, Jan. 23.—In the course of an official inspection here to-day United States Commissioner of Immi- gration Sargent expressed the opin- fon that the public health was menaced by the existing conditions of immi- gration due to the exposure of healthy allens to aliens that are diseased. Sar- gent said that the only adequate meth- 0d of dealing with the problem was for the United States to place compe- tent medical inspectors at the port of embarkation, whose duty it would be to ascertain first of all the physical fitness of the emigrant for entrance into this country. Buch a method not only would pro- tect In a great measure the American public from contact with aliens ex- posed on shipboard to a contagious dis- ease, but it would protect the healthy aliens from contact with such diseases. Instead of spending his time and his money on the long voyage across the Atlantic only to have all his" hopes dashed by the deportation order of the United Btates officials Sargent pointed out that the immigrant would be made to realize that he could not enter this country. —————— Captured in Salt Lake. SALT LAKE, Jan., 23.—Willlam Har- rison, alias Glenn Blood, wanted in California on a burglary charge, will be returned to that State at once. Har- rison, who was serving a term at the Preston School in California, escaped from that institution last August, and, in doing so, took with him $66 and an overcoat belonging to one of the offi- cers. Harrison got in trouble at Gold- field, Nev,. and broke jail there, com- ing to Salt Lake, where he was arrest- ed for stealing watches in a local rooming-house, o & ———— ‘Widow Kills Husband’s Slayer. MARKS, Miss,, Jan."23.—W. B. Fair- less was shot and killed to-day by Mrs. E. B. Whiten, the widow of a man whom Fairless killed several months ago at Essex, in this county. Mrs. Whiten entered a store as Fair- less was leaving. Seeing Fairless, she emptied her revolver at him. five of the bullets taking effect. He dled al- most instantly, ShE, 3 PACKERS CASE CROWS LIVELY U. 8. Attorney Denies Claims of Beef Barons to Im- munity From Prosecution CLASH AMONG LAWYERS Defenders of Trust Scored /in the Opening Statement in Behalf of Unele Sam CHICAGO, Jan. 28.—The Govern- ment, through District Attorney Mor- rison, made its opening statement in the packers' cases to-day. The Dis- trict Attorney entered upon his address to the jury with such vigor that the attorneys for the defense at once in- terposed objections. “The claims of the defendants in this case,” declared District Attorney Mor- rison, “are only a part of their clap- trap defense, presented by men of in- fluence in the effort to unfit the jury for fair deliberation in this case. These men have not only the ingenuity of eriminal lawyers, but they are corpora- tion lawyers—trust lawyers.” Attorney Willlam J. Hynes, who closed the opening statement for the packers yesterday with an attack upon the District’ Attorney, made strong ob- Jections to the statements of the Dis- trict Attorney and the court was called upon for a decision. The court ruled in favor of State’s Attorney Morrison. Another clash occurred when the Dis- trict Attorney declared that the plea of the packers that they are entitled to immunity was an “after thought.” “These men,” continued the District Attorney, indicating the attorneys for the packers, “while the Grand Jury was in session went before the high- est law officer in the land and put forth every effort and influence to stop this prosecution. They said nothing about immunity then. Attorney John S. Mil- ler, who appears here for the packers, ‘was thero, and he never said one word about immunity.” “I object to that statement, because the District Attorney can never hope to prove it.,” said Miller. “I can prove, I say I can,” replied the attorney for the Government. “I will put Mr. Miller himself on the stand and he will tell about that interview. I was present, and 1 know what he said.” The attorneys for the packers again offered objections, but Judge Hum- phreys said: “I gave you gentlemen a wide latitude, and I am now disposed to grant the Government a wide lat- itude.” After some additional legal sparring the District Attorney went on with his statement. He declared that the packers are not entitled to immunity, because their statements were not made under oath. It made no difference, he declared, how much a man talked when not under oath; he would still be sub- Jject to the opcration of the law. DRILLS INTO VAULT OF KANSAS BANK Negro Said to Have Bored Through Six Feet of Masonry. TOPEKA, Kan,, Jan. 23.—A man ac- cused of having drilled into the vault of the Merchants’ National Bank of Topeka, and who came near to Securing $172,000, is in the city jail. He s Harry W. Willlams, a negro. He was cap- tured at Lawrence last night, when he tried to sell some of the’stamps found in the vault to a hack driver, who reported to the officers. ‘Williams, it is said, began the work of drilling last Wednesday, living In the basement until Sunday, when his work was discovered. He had drilled through six feet of solid masonry, the hole being so small that an entrance by & man seemed impossible. CAPTAIN LUNDY ACCIDENTALL SHOT IN KENTUCKY TOWN Pistol Falls From Clothing and Is Dis- charged, Seriously Wounding the Californian. OWINGSVILLE, Ky. Jan. 23.—News from Owensboro, Davison. County, in the western part of Kentucky, states that Captain C. Lundy, an officer in the United States army, who lives in San Francisco and Fresno, Cal, was seriously wounded by the accidental discharge of his revolver while in a hotel at Owensboro. He was packing his trunks when the pistol fell from his clothing and was discharged. The bullet struck Lundy’'s chestbone. He was taken to a hospital, where he was operated on and the bullet removed. —_— ee——— Wil Survive Terrible Shock. SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Jan. 23.—BE. ‘W. McClintic of Washington received a shock of 44,000 volts of electricity at the General Electric Works yester- day, but will recover. He was un- conscious for eight minutes, and it was at first belleved that he was dead. FELD ESTATE HeLD INTACT Merchant Prince Leaves His Wealth in Trusteeship for Dead Son’s Children MILLIONS - FOR MUSEUM Family Fortune Takes Its Place Among the Largest in the United States n it 5 TR0 Speclal Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, Jan. 23.—The estate of Marshall Field, according to the will which was read to the family on Sat- urday night, will be held undivided un- der trusteeship for the benefit of the children of the late Marshall Field Jr., according to one of the members of the family present at the reading of the will. To the people of Chicago the mer- chant prince carried out' his implied promise by leaving $8,000,000 to the Fleld Columbian Museum. Field's only daughter, Mrs. David Beatty of Eng- land, was given $8,000,000. These are the only large separate bequests. To his nieces and sisters, Field left cash gifts of $100,000 or less, thus fulfilling the growing belief that he would not dispose of large sums in this direction. Smaller sums were left to various charities in which Field was interested. Old family servants also were remem- bered. The Fleld estate takes its place among the largest family fortunes In the United States. Attorneys now are busy estimating its size, and formal an- nouncement of the contents of the will has been postponed until an accurate valuation shall have been Teached. ‘Whether the lump sum is $100,000,000 or $150,000,000, it certainly takes rank with the Gould, Astor or Vanderbilt fortunes. > The chief beneficlaries of the will are as yet only children. They are Marshall Field III, 12 years of age; Henry Field, aged 9, and Gwendolyn Fleld, aged 4. It is believed that Field included all three of his son’s children in the will because of the poor health from which young Marshall, the natural heir, has suffered. The boy was thrown from a pony in the Berkshire hills two years ago and afterward was attacked by in- flammatory rheumatism, which at one time threatened to terminate his life. It was belleved then that, even if he should recover, he would be a cripple for life. After a few months at Lake- wood, N. J., however, under the personal care of Dr. Frank Billings, the boy was restored to health, and last fall he wasa familiar figure along Prairie avenue, playing with his little black dog. Henry Field, the second child, is physically strong and is said to be a lad of great mental alertness. He is at present in school at Southboro, Mass. Gwendolyn, who is now one of the country’s great heiresses, is a particu- larly attractive girl and was the favor- ite of her father. She inherits the good looks which have always belonged to the Field family. With young Marshall, Gwendolyn is now at Lakewood with her mother, Mrs. Marshall Fleld Jr. The Field rdélatives are as yet ignorant as to whether Mrs. David Beatty, who was Miss Ethel Field and is the only surviving child of Field, will come to Chicago. Mrs. Beatty’s hus- band is a captaln in the English army. She formerly was the wife of Arthur Tree, son of Judge Lambert Tree. —_—————————— MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOR A UNIVERSITY Splendid Monument to Dr. Harper Will Be Reared in Chicago. Special Dl‘ich_lo ‘The Call. CHICAGO, Jan. 2.—A magnificent I- brary building, to be the finest of all the fine structures of the University of Chicago, will be the monument erected to the memory of President Willlam R. Harper. This was the announcement ! made at the university to-day and, fol- lowing closely the news that John D. Rockefelier had given $1.450,000 to the in- stitution, cheered both faculty and stu- dents. ! The Harper m&morial building will be built facing the Midway Plaisance, tween Lexington and Ellis avenues, and the fund for its erection will be raised by subscription. This is the method decided jupon by the committee of trustees to which the question was referred. That this actlon will be ratified by the entire Lpoard is geclared to be beyond doubt, as Dr. Harper expressed a wish that if a bullding were ever erected In his memory it should be a library and should be his final resting place. ———— Wil Ald Genmeral Bingham. NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—Rhinelander ‘Waldo was to-day appointed First Deputy Police Comnmissioner of New York City under General Theodore M. Bingham. ForCoughs and C olds There is a remedy over sixty years old—Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. Of course.you have heard of it, probably have used it. Onee in the family, it stays; the one household remedy for ~coughs and colds. Ask your own doctor about it. Do as he says. We lmfic no secrets! We { 3 the fon,tdas ¥ o I"'n'ngw.g::;.o~ ot b oot pubb'sh ' of all our medicines. R'S { | | MORE MAIL CARRIERS FOR SAN FRANCISCO Postmaster Fisk Expeets’ (¥ Further Improve the Service. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. - CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. — Postmaster Fisk of San Franciseo will leave Wash- ington in a day or two for New York and Boston, returning to this city early next month for a short stay before leaving for Californfa. Mr. Fisk has had fre- quent conferences with Postoffice Depart- ment officials regarding the needs of the postal service of San Francisco. He sald to-day: “A number of additional earriers will be provided for the San Francisco Post- office immediately. Other improvementa of the postal service will not be made until after July 1 next, when the neces- sary appropriations will become avail- able if Congress shall adopt the recom- mendations of the Postoffice Department, which I am encouraged to believe will be done. The Postoffice Department 1s care- tully looking into the needs of the San Francisco service and proposes to supply them if the earnest co-operation of the California delegation and the Postoffice committees of both Houses will bring It about in Congress, where the matter now rests."” Mr. Fisk will again confer with Post- master General Cortelyou and other offi- ctals, and is hopeful of securing the im- proved service desired, including the re- organization of the office force, & screen wagon service and the installment of & pneumatic tube system between the eral office and the ferry station. —e———— WANTS RECEIVER APPOINTED FOR THE NATIONAL LIFE Policy-Holder Says Company Has Not Rept Promise for Payment of Gold Bonds. CHICAGO, Jan. 23.—A Dbill for & re- ceiver for the National Life Insurance Company of Chicago has been filed in the District Court at Des Moinea Towa, where the company has $1,700.- 000 on deposit with the State Auditor. The bill was filed for A. L. Watson, & policy-holder, who also asks that the Chlcago company be restrained from transferring or disposing of funds. Dr. Watson alleges that promises made for the payment of gold bonds have not been fulfilled. Officials of tk Natfonal Life assert that the suit I8 the outcome of an attempt to “hold up” the company. ADVERTISEMENTS. For 33 Years Shiloh’s Consumption. Cure, the Tonic, has been_before the public. this, together with the fact that its sales have steadily increased year by year, isthe best proof of the merit of - Shiloh e e T S # ages. e ey Shioh el oot be withoutit. Those who have never wd it shoud know that vy botle s with a positive guarantee that, if it doesn’t cure you, the dealer will refund what you paid for it. Shiloh Has Cured thousands of the most obstinate cases of Coughs, Colds and Lung troubles. Let it cure you. o e would notbe without a bottle of Shiloh's in my Bote fc man st e of I hay v me many doctor . B. 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For Ensenada, Magdalena Bay, San Jese del Cabo, Mazatlan, Altata, La Paz, Santa Ro- salia, Topolobampo, Guaymas (Mex.), 10 A. M., Tth ot each month. ALASKA FXCURSIONS (Season 1908)—The (Palace Hotel). 10 Market st. and Broadway wharved FREIGHT OFFICH, 10 Market st. OAKLAND, 968 Broadway. C. D. DUNANN, General Pussenger Agent, 10 Market st., San Francisco. TOYO KISEN KAISHA ‘Ticket 0mcs 743 Pigr 7 Pacife SL BAY AND INTERURBAN ROUTES. MARE ISLAND NAVY YARD, VALLEJO and NAPA - ) Napa Valhey Route #. 8. Co. and Nava Vally Elso- Close connections. trie Co.