The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 29, 1906, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1906. kS WESTERN- PACIFIC. DEPOT BUILDING—/ A€ IT wWwiLL APPE AR, WHEN COMPLETED + # H.C- HowrsiE=E vV BELL TELLS WHY | HE SHOT CHAVEZ PR o 2 Y | ver of New Mexico Poli-|l tician Says He Had Been | Wronged by Man He Killed | ol i h the confes- | murderer of Colonel | t in New Mexico k Bell has Sheriff here, remar! ed for the crime ez wronged me and I I’ould‘ er the same | vears of age, seems sane belleve his story. He low havez from Albu- | e home of Juan de Salas. | e three men were sitting Chavez two feet from a hich he fired twice, Chavez above the | Bell says he had | his escape until| were within a ding place, but he ial and the hounds | n came to Arizona, few yards fr hie bed crossed a sheep t the scent. He as e section har Martinez th of the Banta Fe at w s story is true will be determined to-morrow by Deputy Mar- shal Fornoff of Albuguerque, who arrived night, being sovernor Hagerman to investigate sent as special agent by Th He was a leading politician, hav- ing been nine times elected president of the Territorial Councll of New Mexico ce a delegate to Congress [ ——— GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS AT NEWPORT DESTROYED and Structures Commected with Naval Sta- tion Burned, With Loss of $100,000. NEWPORT, R. I, Jan. 28.—Seven dings connected with the United 1 training station at Coast- | rbor Island, in this city, were de- d fire to-night, causing an es- d loss of $100,000. The buildings the detention building, 1t shop, paymaster's nter shop and two One of the burned ed all of the -small ed for practice pur- were destroyed. tices in single irons the detention building fire broke out. Physical Kirby liberated them -t. When bhe reached lding he could not see prisoners account of yed were on smoke. but they answered hie call. Sup- ported by ne of men, Kirby made his- w o the spot where the 'boys | were wfinement and passed them | ack one by one to the men behind him 50 on out to the seawall. In pass- ( seawall two of the mana- | fell overboard, but were res- me t famous old frigate y which is used as a prac- t the station, was in danger ; t fon. but prompt work on !hu; f the firemen saved the ship. | ——————— Bibies for Midshipmen. l NN APOLIS 8.—Coples of Bible were p d to the mem- of the graduating class of the Academy during the chapel ser-{ this ing ,by the American s P Soctety. A WeelklEnd Trip to Carmel-by-the-Sea Saturday to Mondey found-trip ticket, cas- ve and two daye accommodations st $675. Particulars of South- o Pacific asent - the vices Seame: hw N YW Dl : : TERMINAL '—_pmnr S HOWINC— TERRY W&IP am PEPOT BULLDING wztzz@m P u,: T mu . WHAT NEW COMPETING ROAD PLANE TO DO FOR A FERRY TERMINUS ON OAKLAND SIDE, AXD THREE RAILROAD OFFI- CIALS WHO ARE TAKING LEAD- ING PART IN TIDE LAND WAR MMONITY PLEA WILL BE TESTED Case to Be Tried to Learn if the Packers Are Really Exempt From Prosecution CHICAGO, Jan. 28.—That the question | of immunity from prosecution for the in- dicted packers must be tried on the facts became a practical certainty to-day, when the last effort of the opposing attorneys to reach an agreement by which the mat- ter might be expedited failed. The hear- ing that now becomes necessary will in- volve the taking of a large volume of tes- timony and will last for perhaps three weeks. Had an agreement been reached a plea for the defendant packers would have been made, to which the Govern- ment would have flled a demurrer. On this demurrer the attorneys would have argued before Judge Humphrey, with no testimony and without a jury. District Attorney Morrison and Attorney John R. Wilson, the latter acting for the defendants, each waited for the other to make a move to-day toward an agree- ment, it having been arranged that if either had a concession to offer he would notify the other. Neither made an ad- vance, however. The daw was the last for conferences on the matter, the trial of the immunity plea having been set for to- morrow. The first step in the.trial will be testiy mony by Louis C. Krauthoff, formerly general counsel for Armour & Co., who interviewed Commissioner Garfleld on April 4, 1904, concerning the impending in- vestigation. As the case now stands the packers will introduce testimony to sub- stantiate their claim that Garfield’s in- vestigation clothed the packers with im- munity from subsequent criminal prose- cution, inasmuch as they were compelled to prodtce- evidence against themselves. The jury will decide questions after the fact, and the court wiil decide whether under the facts as found by the jury the fmmunity 1 protecte the packers from trial on the main issue under the indict- ment. HINESE COMMISSIONERS VISIT SOLDIERS' HOME WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—With. the exception of a2 visit to the Soldiers’ Home here and other calls, the imperial Chinese Commissioners visiting this country spent the day in rest. Briga- dier General Hamilton Hawkins, gov- ernor of the Soldiers’ Home, entertain ed the Commissioners informally at tea | ! this afternoon. Following this there were calls upon Embassador Speck von Sternberg of Germany and Embassador Hengelmueller of Austria-Hungary, whose countries the Commissioners are to visit before returning to China, To- morrow the whole party will go to Mount Vernon on the Dolphin. - DYNAMITE BONB WRECKS HOUS Thrown Into a Home Where Twenty-Two Persons Were Asleep in Worcester, Mass. WORCESTER, Mass., Jan. 23,—A dyna- mite bomb hurled through a second-story window of the house of Paul Mosczynski, 32 Union avenue, at an early hour this morning exploded and tore away the rear part of the house, blowing cut the floors and the rear wall. Twenty-two persons were asleep in the house. Miss Vataska Buroyvics, aged 22, who was asleep in the room adjoining the one in which the explosion took place, was hurled under the debris, but not seriously hurt. The wife of Daniel C. Booth, who was ill, was rendered insane by the exolosion. She was taken to a hospital to-night. All of the others escaped unhurt. The cap of the bomb went through the wall of the house at 150 Richland street, 150 feet away, and was found in a picture frame in the home of Willlam J. Riordan. The force of the explosion shook. that whole section of the city. A second bomb, eight inches long, made of two and a half inch gas plpe, was found in the yard and Is in possession of the Chief of Police. The police are looking for Frank Czby- bonskl and his wife, formerly part own- ers of the building, from possession of which they were evicted by mortgage proceedings. CHILDREN WOUNDED IN A DUEL OF MEN Two Deaths May Result From Combat Following a Di- voree Suit. Special Dispatch to The Call. ATHENS, Ga., Jan. 28.—While Wash- ington Christian was fighting to-day to rescue his two daughters from Walter Hardeman, whom Christian’s divorced wife had married,’ both Christlan and Hardeman were shot and the girls were probably fatally wounded. The fight occurred at Hardeman's home. Some months ago Christian divorced his wife because of her infidelity. The court gave Christian the custody of his daughters. Mrs. Christlan immediately married Hardeman and the girls went to live with their mother. Christian went to Hardeman's home to-day to take the girls away and a fight re- sulted. The girls have little chance for re- covery. Mrs. Hardeman witnessed the duel and the girls say she urged Harde- man to kill thelir father. The families involved are prominent. —_———— MAY HAVE BEEN MURDERED AND THROWN INTO RIVER Body Found im the Ohlo Identified aw That of a Tennessee ‘Woman., CAIRO, IIL, 28.—The body found in the Ohio ‘River last Thursday was identified to-day as that of Mrs. Rosa Mangrum of Nashville, Tenn, Mrs. | Mangrum disappeared from her home | in Nashville on December 14. She took with her a large sum of money and valuables and was bound for Chicago hy way of St, Louis on business for the ‘Women’s Christian Temperance Union, being connected with that organizasion. No valuables whatever were found on the body and it is supposed Mrs. Man- rum was murdered and robbed and er body thrown into the river, o x o NN 'COMPANY GIVES 0UT WHAT IT PURPOSES TO DO. Oakland Municipal Officials and Railread Men View Scene of War. OAKLAND, Jan. 25.—The detailed plans of the Western Pacific Raflroad Com- pany for a depot at the end of the north training wall of ‘Oakland harbor were made public to-day for the first time, when Mayor Frank K. Mott, nine City Councilmen, city employes and repre- sentatives of the Southern Pacific and the Western Pacific raflroads went over the disputed grounds of the rival corpora- tions. The trip 6f the City Council and the city’s chief executive did little good ex- cept to advise the officials of the existing conditions, but it caused Howard C. Holmes, advising engineer of the Western Pacific, to exhibit plans of the proposed terminal station. According to the plans of Holmes, who designed the narrow gauge and the Key Route moles and who was formerly con- nected with the San Francisco Harbor Commission, the Western Pacific terminal will be similar to the Alameda mole. There will be an arcade 1000 feet in length and fifty feet wide approaching the ferry building.- There will be two ferry slips and a freight wharf, and on each side of the slips there will be tracks. The arcade opens into the lower deck, but there will be upper deck accommodations in the building, and the slip will be cov- ered with a hood to protect passengers. It is the plan to have the terminal facil- ities cover 1000 feet north of the north training wall, and the slips will extend 500 feet into the bay. When the plans were exhibited to the Councilmen the en- gineer was questioned closely, and he de- clared that the Western Pacific intended to construct a mole, if it received Govern- ment saflction, that would be superior to anything of the kind ever constructed in the West. It was at the request of the Southern Paclfic that the Councilmen decided to visit the scene of the local rallroad war. This decision was reached only after the Western Pacific, through Attorney C. E. Snook, had agreed to stand half of the expense. The cause of the trip was the application of the Western Pacific for a franchise from its property across ‘the Bouthern Pacific's yards and along the training wall to the bulkhead, where the Goulds fntend making a terminal. The reason for the trip was not explained. The time for it was set for 2 o'clock this afternoon, and the tug Rival and two of Crowley’s launches were in waiting at the foot of Broadway at that hour. The tug, however, was the only vessel necessary, and aboard of her went Mayor Mott, Councllmen Aitken, Pendléton, Donaldson, Fitzgerald, Burns, Baccus, Meesey Thurston and Hahn: Phil M. ‘Walsh, Deputy District Attorney, and one of counsel for the Western Pacific; R. M. Fitzgerald and Charles H. Snook, West- ern Pacific attorneys; D. P. Robertson, superintendent of bridge construction for the Southern Pacific; E. J. Tyrrel, the Mayor's clerk; Frank Thompson, the City Clerk, and E. F. Holland, his deputy; J. T. Willlams, Howard C. Holmes and H. M. McCartiney of the engineering force of the Western Pacific, Division Super- intendent ‘“W. R. Scott of the Southern Pacific, F. F. Lloyd, resident division engineer of the Southern Pacific Com- pany, and W. S. Palmer, general super- intendent of the Southern Pacific Com- pany, who directed the party. The Rival steamed down the harbor with the Crowley launches in her wake, but the latter craft were dismissed by Palmer at the foot of Union street. The Rival continued to the bulkhead, running north from the training wall, and after that plece of masonry had been inspected by those aboard returned to the harbor. Midway/along the training wall, where the Western Paclfic was bullding tracks when stopped by an injunctiog, a land- ing was made, and it was while standing near these ralls that Holmes drew his plans for a mole from his pocket and proceeded to explain them “This country will all be filled in even- tually,” said Holmes, whose speclalty is building moles, With a sweep of his arm that seemed to indicate the entire Pacific. Ocean. “Before ten years have passed this country will be crowded with fac- turing and other industries,” asse: torney Snook. “The recent growth of Oakland may seem remarkable now, but you will be Mwhenm-eatha effects of conipeting raflr, The party returned to the ceeded to the Peralta-street slip, “where the bone of contention lies, so as the franchise Is concerned.. 'l'hm the “ big ferry steamer Berkeley was u.. m. rine ways and smaller craft 1 repaired. Palmer exah.lnpfl the worflnt\:f the dry dock lnhh-ry m then took the party to the he was Jjolned by wmm. 1 tnpqrultlndcnt of the Southern zuflpm- ¥ steamers, intendent A. W. Baker. “The Western Pacific desires to cross ! our tracks within 100 feet of this slip,” trains cross It is almost a train a minute, so you can of tracks, how the crossing of our tracks sald he. ‘“‘Gentlemen, 1440 that point every twenty-four hours. understand, observing this maze would hurt us.” “Wouldn't it be better than crossing farther north?” questioned Pendleton, “There is no question about that,” an- “but that is like the man with the bolls, who was asked where he would prefer to have them. We are like You gentlemen can see by these tracks that we would be irreparably injured by hav- It would retard and injure our traffic and there ‘are other facllities for the Western swered Palmer, that man; we don’t want boils. ing another road cross our tracks. Pacific ‘“Ther: ‘ompany.” is a solution to the nal, Key Route mole. railroad yards. In a special car the party was taken to the foot of Kirkham street to visit the Southern Pacific freight depot and later to First street and Broadway, where those who lived in San Francisco took a train to that city, while Mayor Mott and the Councilmen trudged wearily up Broad- way toward their. homes. and Assistant Division Super- | Western Pacific’'s problem of reaching a termi- said Division Superintendent Scott, “without obstructing us. "It could easily carry its line out from Union street and run on a trestle to a point just north of Long wharf-and between that and the It could cross our tracks to the pier either overhead or un- derground, and even if it crossed on the grade there would not be anything like the danger that a crossing causes in the HARRIMAN'S OAKLAND, Jan. 25.—It is belleved the | attorneys for the Southern Pacific Com- | pany gained an important point over the | enemy in the battle before the courts be- tween the Harriman and Gould railways for terminal facilities on the Oakland water front when. they obtained a change jo: venue for the trial of tion proceedings brought in the local courts to the Circuit Court in S8an Fran- cisco. Attorneys Stanley Moore and Frank Shay made this move in the interests of delay, which is all important to the | Southern Pacific. The result is that as | the time for the sitting of the Circult | Court 1s not definitely known the trial of this Important matter has probably been delayed for a long period. It must | take its regular turn on the calendar and no one knows when 1t will be reached. The ground upon whieh the motion was granted was that the owners of the land | over which a right of way “is sought to be condemned are not residents of the State of California, and therefore have & right to have their cause heard in the Federal courts. Prior to the making of this motion a disclaimer to any owner- ship in the land now the bone of conten- tion was filed for the Southern Pacific Rallroad Company, the only corporation interested that was incorporated under | the laws of the State of California. With this corporation out of the way the Southern Pacific Company and the Cen- tral Pacific Railway claim complete own- ership, with the exception of Eastern trusts holding mortgages on the land, and the way was prepared for the motion for a change of venue. ‘With the local courts this action might have been brought up within a few weeks for trial, but as it now stands the meeting of the Circult Court is not dated for many weeks to come. Incidentally the Southern Pacific gets away from any popular sentiment that might tend to in- fluence a jury in its decision on a ques- tion of damages, and it also requires a unanimous vote of twelve jurors to ren- der a verdict in the Federal Court, where- as in the State courts nine jurors may render a verdict in civil matters, The Western Pacific Company was not represented at the hearing, as it was urged that as a matter of right foreign corporations could demand their cases to be tried In the United States courts, and authorities produced convinced Judge John Ellsworth that this contention was sound, and the motion was granted and the order made. 4 Sl RIGHT OF WAY MOVES. HAYWARD, Jan. 28.—I B. Parsons, right of way agent of the Western Pa- cific Rallway Company, has resigned as a trustee of Union High School No. 3, owing to a confiict between his duties | think the conderfina- | with the railgoad and the school work. The Western Pacific has mapped a right LAWYERS SCORE CLEVER COUP Change of Venue Will Probably Delay Suit and Give Big Advantage. of way which will cut off two lots from the High School property between A and B streets, and Parsons did not it was consistent with his posi- tion to remain as a school trustee. It is understood that the Western Pacific will make satisfactory arrangements with the trustees. ' A condemnation suit for right of way throygh Hayward is pending in the Superfor Court. . MAYOR DUNNE EXPECTS TO, COMPLETE PLANS Believes City Will Take Car Lines Before End of His Term. 28. CHICAGO, Jan. I have append~ ed my signature to the municipal own- ership measure recently pasged by the City Council and am resting content that my plans for the municipalization of the Chicago Btreet car linés will be realized before my present term of of- fice is ended.” Meayor Dunne made the foregoing an- flouncément to-night. He said he had signed the so-called $75,000,000 ordi- nance last night while lying ill at hils home, In the belief that it was neces- sary for him to sign the ordinances with the ten days from date of passage in order that they might become legal under the provisions of the city char- ter. That legal obstacles will be placed in the way of the consummation of his plans is anticipated by Mayor Dunne. “I belleve that right after election there will be a natural attempt to test the Mueller law certificates and, in fact, the validity of the act itself,” he sad. “That, however, is a thing to be de- sired. We wish to have it done as quickly as possible and I believe we should get a decision within three months at the minimum and twelve months at the maximum.” The Mayor declared that the defects in the ordinance, If any, could and would be remedied. —_——— CARRIE NATION'S OFFICE TUB}‘ED INTO A SALOON Kansas Reformer Sells Oklahoma Bullding to Wholesale Liquer Dealers. GUTHRIE, Okla.. Jan. 28.—Mrs. Carrie Nation to-day sold her two-story brick building kndwn as the “Harvest Home Mission,” to Shewnatee & Laughlin, wholesale liquor dealers, for 310,000. As Mrs. Nation's office was moved out, bar- rels of liquor were moved in. Mrs. Nation has been waging continu- ous warfare on the rum evil in Oklahoma, declaring that every saloon should be blown up with dynamite. Sale of Sufts Made to measure S5 Very busy in our tailoring department—keeping our big shop full of clever tailors “on the jump.” Of course we make irresistible inducements to you in order to do that, just at this time. Here’s what’s going on: All the short ends of our $25.00, $20.00 and $17.50 woolens gathered together—and a mighty pretty collection it is—well, we're closing them out at $13.25—building suits to your measure—the kind of suits that make men turn around to have another look. for sambles . and self-measuring system. 740 Market St. Satisfactorily . filling+ out-of-town orders one of our sbecialties.