The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 27, 1906, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1906. 5 DELEGATES COME FROM HAWAIIRENEWS ATTACK y A/ Will Ple F TO ASK CONGRESS FOR AID. ad With Government for Restoration to Territory of Seventy- ve Per Cent of Federal Revenues Now Collected in the Islands. i fi.z’ba/// TABER FWOTA — he including the na- , 15 & heavy one. stration of Gov- has been a heavy expenses, espe- including those there rritorial ries, To Pri EU Througt Queeratown Idverpool Loudon Glasgow Dublin Gothenburg Hamburg Libau line acros: These rat time. Purc you o c we wi YOUR CHANCE or Relalives From. ... rates Copenhagen . 8. F. BOOT U.P.R ng Your Friends ROPE = = to California from nBuREEEse e good only for limited hase tickets at once. If . ®end the money and ou with the tickets. No. 1 Montgomery St. San Francisco. Call of T8¢ until incomes. curtailment works and improve- the Governor will not a constantly increasing run- The Territory, moreover, bonded debt amounting to which does not exceed two half per cent of the taxable »f the -Territory. Owing to the population is Scat- er five different islands. which t milar governmental ma- each island, the cost of ad- is proportionately very than on the malnland. other dificulty has been experi- rough the long leases of pub- These leases were made in the days of the mon- d some of them have yet rs to run. The rentals are low, there being 1,719,160 blic lands leased for an an- of $106,460, which is an { but little more than 6 cents s legacy from the olden andicap to modern Ameri- Government. now ‘expenses This has also of much school teache: tir 2 has a direct interest in the prosperity of Hawali, which buys every month a million dollars’ worth of goods from the mainland. Most of this comes from the Pacific Coast, in- cludin rain and other feedstuffs, fruits, breadstuffs, ofls, paper, meat and dairy products, refined sugar, | wines, beers, soap, vegetables, lumber and many. other articles of daily need. Very largely the trade of Hawall I8 direot with Ban Franclsco, and no less than 9% per cent of the value of the entire imports and exports of this Ter- ritory with all American and foreign ports is carried in American vessels fiylng the American flag. On arrival here the delegates were taken to the St. Francis. At 2 o'clock they went to the Merchants’ Club, where they were entertained at an eluborate luncheon by the board of trustees of the Chamber of Commerce. The entertainment took place in the | spacious dining hall, on the main flc 60) The room was elnhofltJy sayly of the club decorated with American flags, draped about the side walls. The long table where the feast was spread was a mass of huge clusters of viclets and immense (bunches of pink carnations. The repast was an elab- orate one. Captain W. H. Marston, president of the Chamber of Commerce, presided. Besides the guests of honor, there were present: C. H. Bentley, James Rolph Jr., Willlam Watson. Ru- fus P. Jennings, George E. Butler, F. ¥. Connor, George D. Gray, =~ Captain Charles Nelson, E. Scott and C. W. Burks., W. J. Lowrie, president of the Honolulu Chamber of Commerce, was also in the party. Short speeches were in order, and it was late in the after- noon before the entertainment came to a close. PRSI RRS FAVOR HAWAIIAN OCLAIM. Trustees of Chamber of Commerce Indorse Visitors’ Demands. The trustees of the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco favor the Hawatians and their demand for fair treatment. The visitors came hither to urge upon Congress the adoption of a bill of which the principal pro- visions are as follows: Secretary of the Treasury be and h.fi:lh:nwm suthorized and directed to set e hold mpart as .a separate fund 75 :‘nmummm the m revenues w! of twenty “from oo T PR e e heid for only for Federal public orks and public_educational buildings within w “Terri! of Hawell and shall be expended oo s‘:gflrrof Treasury only upon by the the specific appropriations made by the Congress. After the luncheon yesterday a gen- eral discussion took place informally. The Chamber of Commerce trustees fa- vored the proposition, and so informed the Hawailans. In the period of twen- ty- years the sum that would be de- voted to erecting public buildings and P57 v £ GATT PROMINENT HAWAIIANS WHO ARE EN ROUTE TO WASHING- TON ON IMPORTANT MISSION. — — schoolhouses in Hawali would amount, under the provisions of the bill, to about $15,000,000. FUNSTON DISAPPROVES ! Collins’ SENTENCE OF SOLDIER General Thinks Court-Mar- tial Was Too Lenient ‘With Prisoner. General Funston has disapproved the findings and sentence In the case of Pri- vate Hugh R. Binford, BSeventy-sixth Coast Artlllery, who was recently found gulity by a court-martial convened at the Presidio of Monterey of conduct to the prejudice of good order and military dis- cipline, and the prisoner will be dismissed from conflnement without so much as a reprimand. Private Binford was granted a furlough from Fort Banks, Mass., and in- stead of reporting back to his regiment reported to Fort Rosecrans, Cal., instead. He stated to the commanding officer that be had had some trouble with a woman at Fort Banks and that he would have to desert if sent back to that post. - The court-martial found him guilty and fined him $10. General Funston approved the proceed- ings .but disapproved the findings and sentence, which he believed were too light for the offense, and would, if ap- proved, give every enlisted man the right to desert his command and transfer him- self to another at will. Miss Morris entertained the Army La- dies’ Card Club at her home at the Pre- sidio last evening. Colonel Morris and staff made an in- spection of Fort Baker yesterday morn- ing. Lieutenant Gilbert M. Allen, Nineteenth Infantry, has been ordered to the Philip- pines on the transport sailing February 1. The First Battalion of the Fourth In- fantry, now at the cantonment at the. Presidio, has been ordered to stations in New York and Ohio. Lieutenant Nat F. Jamieson, Artillery Corps, has been granted a leave of ab- sence to take effect February 1. Nurse Frances B. Storry has been re- lieved from duty at the General Hospital and ordered to the General Hospital at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, for duty. ———— Paxton Children Want Money. Roma and John Paxton, the afficted children of Blitz W. Paxton, the So- noma capitalist, have applied for an or- der to compel their father to pay them each’ $350 ‘to enable them to defend the appeal he has taken from the ji ment of Judge Graham directing him to pay the children $100 a month for their malntenance. The children assert that it is sheer stubbornness that caused their father to appeal the case and as they are wil “he eyt r the litigation to = conclusion in the ‘highest court Lo 2 2 ON INDCTENT arry Scott Tells of Experiences on the| Motion Is Denied by Judge Burnett and Defend- ant Interposes Demurrer NEW POINTS ARE RAISED Argument, at Request of the Accused, Is Pospponed, Ow- ing to Throat Affection The motion made by Attorney George D. Collins to set aside the second in- dictment charging him with perjury was denied, after argument, by Judge Burnett yesterday morning. Colling made another motion to set the indict- ment aside on the ground that he had been extradited from British Columbia on a charge of perjury, and he could not be tried on any other charge. The Judge dented the motion. A demurrer was then filed by the de- fendant to the Indictment on the ground that the facts stated in the in- dictment did not constitute a public of- fense, and that it did not substantially conform to the reauirements of sec- tions 950, 951 and 952 of the Penal Code. He asked that the argument-on the demurrer be postponed till to-day, as he was suffering from throat trou- ble. Attorney Hiram Johnson for the prosecution said he had no objection to a postponement, but would like the de- fendant to state briefly the main points in his demurrer. Collins said the main points were that in the indictment it did not suffi- clently appear that the Superior Court had jurisdiction of the case. The aver- ment in reference to the materiality of the testimony was fatally defective, as there was nothing to show the fact that the alleged marriage was material in the trial of the perjury case. The indictment did not show that there was any oath administered by the court, and he contended that Clerk J. B. Mar- tin had no authority to administer the oath. There was no allegation of au- thority or power to administer a spe- cific oath which, it was claimed, had been violated. The indictment did not specifically show as a matter of law the substance of the controversy or matter of which the alleged offense was committed. It-did not appear that the defendant was sworn to testify to any specific matter or took any oath in the cause referred to in the indict- ment. The indictment was fatally de- fective, inasmuch as it alleged that a marriage to Agnes Newman did not take place on May 15, 1888, but it was not alleged that it did not take place at any time prior or subsequent to that date. Last of all there was not suffi- clent averment of guilty knowledge. The Judge set the argument on the demurrer for 11 o'clock this morning. ARCHITECT TAYLOR SNUBS THE BROKERS Declines to Recommend Al- teration of New Custom- House Plans. The North Central Improvemert As- soclation has received a communication from the supervising architect of the Treasury Department at Washington, in answer to the protest of that asso- clation against locating the Sub-Treasury on the second floor of the new Custom- house, and also against the proposed ar- rangements of the various customs offices claimed by the customs brokers and oth- ers to be inconvenient to the public in particular, and to the customs officials in general. Supervising Architect Taylor says that any changes in the plans of the bullding, as suggested are not deemed by the ar- chitects (Eames & Young of 8t. Louis) desirable or practicable, and that the con- clusions of the arehitects have had the consideration of the Supervising Archi- tect’s office and are approved. The North Central Improvement Asso- ciation is an organization of business men of high standing, whose sole aim is the upbuilding and improvement of the locality in the neighborhood of the Cus- tom-house, Appraiser’s building, and the original wholesale district; H. H. Taylor being president, Rudolph Spreckels and Dr. George A. Moore vice presidents, and Edgar Palnter secretary. This association believes that this mat- ter is of paramount importance and has suggested to Collector Stratton that he should visit Washington without delay and personally urge the authorities to lend » willing ear to the suggested changes. If Collector Stratton would con- sent to go it is probable that the asso- clation would also send a representative. Collector Stratton said yesterday that the matter was not in the line of his duty and that he, therefore, would not go. ————— Asks Custody of Stepchild. Chares L. Peters has petitioned the Superior Court for letters of rdlan- ship on the person of his stepdaughter, Sarah Helen Lichtig. Peters married the widow of the little girl’s father and on her deathbed the mother charged Peters with the child’s care. A few days before her mother’s death the little girl went to live with Barney Fromberg and his wife and the day after the mother’s death Mrs. Fromberg secured letters of guardianship upon the person of the child. Peters says that Mrs. Fromberg has refused to sur- render the custody of the child, so he ‘asks the court to revoke her letters and grant them to him Instead. el GAS NBARLY CAUSES DHATH.—Mrs. Mattle Farmer of 989 Mission street narrowly escaped death from asphyxiation last night at her home owing to defective gas jets. She was found unconscious and revived at the Cen- tral Emergency Hospital. = CELESTINS ARRIVE ON LINER. I/l-Fated Steamship Dumbarton. CAPTURED CAPTAINS RETURN DISCUSS. CRANT UF FRANCHISE Supervisors Consider Peti- tion of Parkside Transit Company for New Car Line e St The Supervisors’ joint Committee on Public Utilities and Streets yes- terday considered the petition of the Parkside Transit Company for a fran- chise to run a street car line on Six- teenth and Twentieth avenues, between H street and Ocean avenue, and on T street. The Municipal Ownership League flled a protest agalist the grant of the franchise, which it held would simply be an aid to a real estate speculation. The San Fran- cisco Real Estate Board, property own- ers to the number of 300 in the Sunset District, and others, filed petitions urg- | ing that the franchise be granted. E. P. E. Troy urged the fact that the ex- isting board is committed to municipal ownership as an argument why no more | additional franchises to use the public | streets should be gramted for any long term. Troy charged that the United Rallroads 1s behind the petition for the | franchise in Parkside and said he had recefved information that the big cor- poraton had purchased the California and Unlon-street lines, thus gecuring posses- sion of all the car lines in this city. Troy sald that the realty company expects to make a profit of $2,000,000 on the sale of its property contingent on the building of a street car line to tap the district. Troy sald that the franchise should not be granted except under strongest restric- | tlons, including one that the franchise should not be transferable to another company. Supervisor Rey held that it is for the board to consider whether it would be good public policy to open up the district described and if so then all the proper safeguards to protect the city could be put in the franchise. Supervisor Galla- gher stated that if the city itself would build the road the Parkside company | stood ready to pay the city a bonus of $100,000. J. E. Green, president of the company, sald the money would be paid to any person who would build the road and $5000 to the ome who would bring such a person to him. Albert M. Johnson, president of the Municipal League, suggested that the franchise be so worded that the ecity | should acquire the road at any time it desired at the actual amount of invest- ment, 80 as to prevent the watering of its_stock. Green sald the company would, if the franchise is granted, build the road at a cost of $00,000, Including $123,000 for street work in seven months, or if the city will “extend the Geary-street road into Parkside, the company will buy lands to the amount of $400,000 for the municipal improvement. Green reiterated a previoug statement made by him that the United Rallroads had positively re- fused to build a road in the district under the twenty-flve-year term permitted by the charter. Green sald the corporation refused to arrange for transfer privileges until the Parkside company had secured a franchise. Green sald if the transfers cannot be obtalned, then passengers will be carried free on the Parkside road. J. R. Howell, president of the Real Es tate Board, favored the franchise because the road would aid in the development of the city. The committee then took the petition under advisement and the chairmen of the joint committees will report them at & later date. e Policeman Seeks Reinstatement. James F. Sheehan, who was retired from the police force on a pension on :October 6, 1903, for disability and sub- sequently ordered to return to duty and upon his fallure to do so was dismissed from the force, has petitioned the Su- perior Court for a writ of mandate to compel the Police Commission to rein- state him on the pension list. He says that the fact that he is In the employ of the United Rallroads in the claims department caused the Police Commis- sion to assume that he was able to re- turn to actlve duty on the force a.d his failure to appear for examination by a physician, which he was unable to do at the time set, led to his dismissal. In addition to the writ of mandate he asks that he be given judgment against the pension fund for $1200 due him. TS — Among the passengers who arrived yes- terday on the liner Mongolia were two American captains from this port, two British army officers, a San Francisco shipping man and a couple of the Czar's officers, all holdovers from the late un- pleasantness between Japan and Russia. The American captaing were masters of steamships captured by the Japanese. The Britishers were military attaches, one of the Russians was in charge of the Czar's balloon corps at Viadivostok and the civilan was Harry 8. Scott of this city, who brings back more avoirdupois than ever before covered his bones and a thrill- ing yarn of storm at sea, shipwreck, hard- ship, revolution and riot. Harry Scott is connected with the firm of Barneson & Hibberd. He left here Sep- tember 25 on the steamer Dumbarton, which was heavily loaded with supplies for Vladivostok. On the Dumbarton's deck were 150 live cattle, big steers from Texas. All went well until October 8, when a terrific gale was encountered. For thirty-six hours the steamer was hove to. Great seas swept her decks, smashing the cattle stalls and killing many of the animals. At times a sea would sweep five or six big steers overboard. The flying timbers of the wrecked stalls wrought fearful havoc among the cattle. The b lowing of the maimed and bleeding beasts almost drowned the noise of the gale. ‘When the storm passed it was found that 105 head of cattle had been killed or washed overboard. It took three days to clear the wreckage and rebuild the stalls. VESSEL RUNS ASHORE. There was more bad weather and Cap- tain Peter Rettie, master of the Dum- barton, was unable to locate the light- house at Castries Bay. It was learned later that the light had not been in com- mission. While searching for the light the Dumbarton on October 26 grounded on Fox Pank, 26 miles north of Castries Bay on the Siberian coast. She went ashore at the top of high water. She was on sandy bottom and un- injured, but in trying to kedge the ves- sel into deep water Captain Rettle pulled the steamer on top of her own anchor which punched an immense hole in her bottom. Scott, with Mate Purdon, Baron Ward, who was a passenger, and two sailors, left the steamer on October 30 in a skift for Castries Bay. They were blown ashore and after a cold night on the beach were brought back to the ship. They made another start in one of the lifeboats and after a terrible journey reached the lighthouse at Castries Bay. The distance was but 26 miles, but it took them 76 hours to make it and when they got there the sailors were badly frozen. They waited at the lighthouse until the arrival of the Russian gunboat Kamsaval, on which they were carried, to Vladivostok, taking off the crew of the Dumbarton as they passed. The Dumbarton, it is ' expected, will be crushed when the ice breaks up this spring. Scott reached Viadivestok the day after the riots and found the Russian port almost in ruins. Many fine buildings had been burned and the place was under martial law. He left there on the Nor- wegian steamer Anna nd reached Shanghai just in time for the riots there. EUROPEANS ALL ARMED. Of these riots Scott saw nothing. He took the advice of friends and remained indoers. During the Shanghal trouble, sald Scott, all FEuropeans who went abroad carried loaded rifles and he saw one woman in a carriage with a double- barreled shotgum across her lap. Captain Rennie, who left here in com- mand of the liner Australia with a cargo of supplies for a number of Russian trad- ing stations, returned on the Mongolia. His ship was captured August 13 at Pe- tropaulovsk and is still in the hands of the Japanese. She was ordered confls- cated by the prize court, but the under- writers have taken an appeal, which is still pending. Captain Rennie spent twenty weeks in Japan and is glad to be home. At Honolulu, to which port Cap- tain Rennie sailed for many years, he was given a great reception. The other shipless American master on the Mongolia was Captain Thomas Reilly, former commander of the steamship Mon- tara, which, on a mission similar to the Australia’s, was likewise captured by, the Japanese. Captain Rellly says the Mi- kado is a thorough gentleman, “and his men treated me like one.” While in Japan Captain Rellly studled jiu-jitsu. He thinks it might come in handy should fate ever send him to sea in the capacity of mate, ° © “With jiu-jitsu at your fingers’ ends,” says Captain Rellly, “it would be a pleasure to meet a refractory sailor or a belligerent fireman. It's easy and oh so effective, I'm golng to introduce it on Puget Sound when I get there.” OLD S TO ENTERTAIN.—The So- clety of Old Friends will make the election and installation of officers at the Alcazar buflding next Tuesday night the occasion of a social entertalnment. THE CZAR’S BALLOONIST. Lieutenant Colonel F. Postnikov, who was a passenger on the liner, comes from ‘Vladivostok accompanied by his two sons NTERESTING PEOPLE WILL OVERHAUL GOODE'S MINE Aubury Hears Postal Men _Are Ready to Move on Report He Has Secured BILLIONS ARE MYTHICAL Clover Creek Property Is Found to Be a Slight- Iy Developed “Prospeet™ ¥ R A The postal authorities are about to give the Clover Creek Mining Company, that has claims In this State, a lively overhauling, so State Miner- alogist Aubury says. Aubury has been in communication about this mining company and the representations that it has made to the public in its liter- ature. He 1s Informed that the postal people are ready to move. The pro- moter of the Clover Creek Quicksilver Mining Company is J. B. Goode, whose business address is, or has been, 325 Olive street, St. Louls. In the literature sent forth by Goode the statements have been made, among many others of simllar tenor, that the Clover Creek mines give promise of the greatest dividends ever ‘earned by any mining company; that, estimating the known ore veins by the present ore bodies explored, it is evident that “we now have about $300,000 in values above the 110-foot level”; that “the. Clover Creek quicksilver mine is the greatest quicksilver mine ever discov- ered on earth.” One paragraph in Goode's literature is as follows: “Geewhilikens! If you commence talking about that pay streak you will get heart failure at once. Just think, if you had enough of it ready and cotld run our reduction works one day on th# rich pay streak ore, you would produce $52,080. If you could measure it by saying that it was 6 inches wide, 600 feet long and 100 feet deep, you would have nearly $2,000,000 value. If you thought It was over a mile long, as we know our ore bodies are. and that it continued down, say 5000 feet, as I believe it does, we would then have about six hundred and twenty billions of dollars.” State Mineralogist Aubury sent Wil- Ham Forstner, fleld assistant, to in- vestigate the Clover Creek quicksilver mine, and some points from the report he made to the State Mineralogist are here given as a contrast to the repre- sentations of Goode about the same property, as follows: In the accessible workings very little quick- siiver ore can be seen. The great amount of heavy clay makes it very costly, if at all pos- sible, to excavate the mixed materfal, of which only the deteriorated rhyolite appears to carry values. It is claimed that the boulders carry quicksilver, but no signs of cinnabar or calomel could be found with a strong glass in any of the places examined. In the bins are about two tons of material, certainly not con- taining 3 per cent of mercury, probably from 14 to 2 per cent. Assuming the high figure of 5 per cent this represents $125, very far from the $13,000 claimed by Mr. Goede's letter of October 3, 1904. In its present state of development the mine is only a very siightly developed prospect which has not y<t reached the state that justifies the expression of any opinion as to its extent, permanency or future value. No ore of any amount has been taken or is being taken at present out of the mine. The cost of buildings Is about $1000. New Train to Fresmo. In addition to the new train leaving San Francisco at 10:58 & m. for Stockton, Oakdals and Sierrs Rallway points, the Santa Fe has extended the run of train 33, leaving San . m. from Stockton to Fresno, arriving at Fresno 10:25 p. m. Call at Santa Fe offices for new time table. . —————————————— SECOND CONTEST FILED AGAINST WILL OF BETZ Sister of the Deceased Asserts That the Deceased Miser Was of Unsound Mind. A second contest of the will of the late Charles Betsz, the miser, who aec- cumulated $50,000 by washing windows and Investing his income in real estate, was flled yesterday by a sister of the deceased, known as Sister Mary Cotella, a nun, who resides in the East. The contestant alleges that at the time he executed his will Betz was of unsound mind and was unduly Influenced by persons unknown to the contestant. Betz bequeathed his sister $5 and a fow other relatives $1 each, directing that the executor of his will, ex-Sheriff John Lackmann, expend the rest of his estate in erecting a magnificent monu- ment over his grave. Betz lived in a little room on Pacifie street for years. There he ate and sler(, refusing even to satisfy all of 'a bodily needs, with the result that he died from malnutrition. On the walls of his little room were hung fare- well letters left him by his brother, a suicide, and a friend, who also ended his life. Many Soclalistic theories wers also framed and carefully guarded by him. This pecullar conduct has given rise to the belief that he was insane and on this theory the contestant is proceeding. and Lieutenant L. Saknowski. Colonel Postnikov was in charge of the Russian balloon corps in the Far East. The Jap- anese captured all the Russian balloons early in the campalign, he says, but at ‘Vladivostok he managed to make a ser- viceable balloon out of dress material and other odds and ends. While he was up in this makeshift balloon one day a detach- ment of Russian.soldiers mistook the in- flated bag for a Japanese airship and be- gan banging away. Fortunately for Post- mikov the Russians were poor n and before they got the range of the ballocon he managed by signals to inform them of his nationality. He expects to remain a year in Cali- fornia and will put in the time perfecting his knowledge of the English language. Postnikov declined to discuss the trou bles in Viadivostok beyond saying that they were all settled before he left there. Rev. 8. H. Littell, an Episcopalian mis- sicnary from Hankow, says the anti- American boycott 1s still a very serious matter and is developing into a general movement all foreigners. In some parts of China, he says, the feeling has cxtended to the Japanese and about 3000 Chinese students who were attending colleges in Japan have returned to China armed with that most dangerous of wea- pons, a little knowledge. X The desire in China for a more repre- sentative form of government, says Mr. Hittell, is growing. Conservative Chi- . nese’ do not hope for any radical change effective until the country has been thoroughly educated, and they think in about fiteen grade. years.it will be time enough for China to h serlously take up the question of popular by the govel ‘The students, however, who are only, behind the boycott, he believes, want the change right away. They would tako away every forelgn concession and - r, and Mr. tell it ie now developing there will be serious trouble in China before long. ° H. W. Andrews of the firm of Andrews SPECIAL TO-DAY designs of the season. Sizes range from the little door mat to the full room size at lowest prices, as to-day’s special will illustrate. AXYWMNSTER RUG—27x57 inches, in Oriental and floral désigns; colorings; an excellent Quality not to be judged price. Special to-day while they last, each, $].40