The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 30, 1906, Page 1

PAPER PUBLISHED Prrancisco ‘ands vieinity P‘niri \ > i . 1 '7 4 r ‘f"' fn the morning l’|!y'.i (4 3 ' “‘. 7 L/ : THE WEATHER. ALHAMBRA—Michael Strogoff." ALCAZAR—“A Strenuous Life."” CALIFORNTA—“‘Orfental Bur- lesquers.” COLUMBTA—*"Woodland.™ CHUTES—Vaudeville. Matines, GRAND—"“Way Down East.'" MAJESTIC—"“‘Sweet Nell of Old ORPHEUM—Vaudeviile. TIVOLI—*The Brigands.™ District Forecaster. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1906. STOW LAKE'S VICTIM IS JOHN STINSON. WLUME XCIX—NO. 61 SHUTCUN MEN CAMPED O SCENE OF WAR BETWEEN RAILROADS ~ CONTRA COSTA WATER CONPARY AND ITS NEW RNAL' UST FACE | * : 2 [ || The shotgun brigade is still Seyen years ago the dead body of' a man was found floating in Stow sz.e E u_i:nce {1 | patrolling the scene of war on ; pointed to murder. He was buried as an unknown. The Call at the time pul»';hshcd. ||| San Pablo Creek, in Contra 3 I a portrait of the dead man. Through this likeness the body was yesterday identified as {1] Costa County, be_“"““ the 3 that of John Stinson, formerly a wealthy mine owner of this city. His safety deposit {1 m:d] w‘&' mmpm:;;h;f A‘I}:. REREE; i S box, sealed since 1898 and which was thought to contain his fortune, was yesterday ||| meda unty. e e i it . ened and found to be empty. | B force of workmen. sent there H : I b op : St Bl Mool Mleged (FORTUNE DISAPPEARS FROM BOX | strained by injunction from ga'te ege o | proceeding with improvements, ' * : ~ 1: and with the armed guards om me- o i B i v e AL snn!n!!t\- am acd i i is encamped on the 2;1(!. and B 5 - %’{gg"éfi,’%‘ IHE IDENTIFICATION Jenw s'nrf:gfl' XX | | || trespassers are wamned away % Ne=a AFTER || in summary fashion.- Yester- Ca'lls Upon . heSldent | day the Contra Costa corpora- | 0 : | tion filed 126 condemnation to Supp_ly _fic}al | suits, with a view to obtaining Informatlon' e gy - | all the lands along Sen Pablo - - s | Creek that it does not now Members Frlendly to the Cor- z possess, and even to condemn W SROUL OX S | ) /4 §g2§§2/‘;:’f?;”‘\’ ! ‘ what riparian property the Pomtions Affected Are THE ezt Vil | new company owns. A g Caught Napping, =% A ! gantic battle between giant z capita]ists is now i}lp exciting Epecial Dispatch to The Call. | CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, PR s The men who are WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Something went 7™\ i1 behind the new company are ;rong “fu; ma:i ;mulnu;nu in dthe ) [ of Representatives to-day, | il all well-known men of money ui‘n’f&mn In:;odueced‘hy.au!loupul: ufs ErexE ; 1 on th furn} ||} o Alameds County. ali Information i tha Rissstion. of itha B “ | Interstate Commerce Commission tending lold © Hurrie dly | to show a combination of the Pennayiva- B nia, the Baltimore an 0, the Chesa- | OnCGI'Il y | peake and Ohlo, the Norfolk and Western | Files Cond tion | and ailiea companies to restrain trade and | create a monopoly in olat o e 1 es on emna' ghearman &n(i-u?usi law was pl:led ‘with- Suits Gal out aivision before most. members knew | { what was goin, n. ults alore. Dalzell :ouzgtoenrnufly to obtain re- | consideration, but was declsively defeated by & union of Republicans and Democrats. re is trouble In s resolution T a WILL TRY TO SHUT great many persone. It may develop serl: SYNDICATE MEN OUT 53 i T st ™S Leading “railroad” Congressmen tried hard to kill Gillespie's zesclntion. Dal- zel m 1 , but Seeks to Own All the/i..oavs, For, s Seomsiderston, buc #ince January on the Pennsyl - Rall- Con- B s OF OF BA ALSO A 7 COMPANY NEW WATER COMPANY®TO MAIN- N. PABLO CREEK, TO WHICH THE LLEGES RIGHTE. W, ROLSEVELT | 70 DISHPPOIT 500 PERSD Number of Guests at Wedding of Alice Reduced. RS CIRRE | | { | Spectal Dispatch to The Cal WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Miss Allce Roosevelt will not have a Jarge wedding reception according to the “flans which mind- up to to-day. - After a list of 1500 additional who were to have been asked he reception in-the “Blue Room™ fol. ave been in having prepared to wing the ceremony on February 17 President Mrs. Roosevelt have | aoandoned thie. plan and 1500, persons in | Veshi and other citles, 1f they | knew their names had ‘figured in| ist, wo to-day be _experiencing | ne of the most bitter dlfla;vpmn’memuf £ their for the reception was aban- reasons. It was thought tween the wedding.and | s might be hurtful to | and, again, | n comfort- ) n the White House not more than | cards Deen is- ts would have | 3000, for, s have been is- 5 are double cards, out 1000 wedding guests in all, somewhat embarrassing | ne-thire the guests in the | reakfast and permit the others | the. White | 1ceremontous and Mrs. | the ovigi- | the entire | f them decided cards rep to et sent , that wide interest attaches the wedding of Miss Roosevelt and | Mr. Longworth, the President and Mrs. | Roosevelt $0-4 ent personal invitations | to representstives of the press in Wash- | ington and will accord them every privi- | lege for observing the ceremony. Special cards have been issued to them. | ——————————— | More Pay for Rallway Meun. | STON, Jan. 29.—A wage increase | ximately 7 per cent, in which | 600 employes . participate, went into, ot on the Boston and Maine Rail- ad to-day. The change affects the freight conductors and freight brake- men. KEENE SCORES | A TRIUMPH IN WALL STREET Veteran Smashes the Pool in Reading Shares, Special Dispatch to The Call NZW YORK, Jan. 29.—Several bro- kers were drinking George A. Kessler's wine on Wall street this afternoon and- were paying.for it . with money they had made and Kessler had lost. they sald.’ The brokers drank the health of’ James R. Keene, J. Pierpont Morgan, the First National Bank and the ‘Pennsy people.” They told this story cheerfully. and soon all Wall street was repeating. it. “Jim”, Keene and the great banking interests. that supported him to-day knocked the wind out of the Reading boom, the stock which a great pool in which Kessler was deeply interested raised from 50 to 164 in a little more than a yvear. Reading stock crossed the cloud line of 163 last week and its descent from that altitude was pre- cipitous. The stock dropped to-day from 148% to 139%, 152,300 shares be-*| ing dealt in. Brokers said Kessler's profits would have run into the millions had he sold zbout ten days ago and that they dwindled $500,000 in the past few days. They sald’ Kessler .and the pool had liguidated their holdings of Reading at 140. Kessler “had carried 105,000 shhires, they said, but as he had ac- cumulated much of it at a low price it is probable he, made a profit. ——— NEW YORKER CHEANS UP HALF MILLION IN CUBA Man Formerly With Canfleld’s Gam- bling House Makes Stake and on. Lands Along San BIG FIGHT IN THE COURTS TO FOLLOW | —_—— OAKLAND, Jan. 20.—It is battle all along the line, and apparently without quarter, between the Realty Syndicate and the Contra Costa Water Company for possession of the avallable supply of San Pablo Creek for storage and service pur- | poses. Before dawn to-day the struggle which opened Baturday in the courts at Martinez had been renewed and. pic- turesque phases enlivened the story of the gigantic contest as the day wore on, While the lawyers were busy with the injunctions and what not that follow in the train of such a clash of financial powers as the big Alameda County cor- porations, shotgun guards were patrolling under the direction of the Realty Syn- dicate the borders of San Pablo Creck and the reservoir site on the Clancy ranch. Here contractors have begun op- erations preliminary to the damming of the creek between the hills to form a great reservoir. These patrolmen, with their weapons in full view, have taken posses- sion of the inlet to the site, and are un- der orders to allow no trespasser on the ground, to which the Realty Syndicate asserts its title. COMPANY SHOWS ITS HAND. All this was only incidental to the big development of the day, when clear into the open sprang the capitalists who are behind this attack on the Oéntra Costa Water Company. Hardly had the County Clerk’'s office opened for business this morning when there were filed the arti- cles of incorporation of the Syndicate Water Company, with Frank M. Smith, the borax king, and F. C. Havens, the executive head of the Realty Byndicate, as among the heaviest stockholders. The company, capitalized at $5,000,000, purposes. to supply Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Point Richmond, San Pablo and other towns with water. This move brought the contest to a focus and disclosed officially the pur- poses for which the Realty Syndicate, represented by Havens, filed an appro- priation of 8000 inches on the San Pablo Creek stream. The.Syndicate forces lost no time in preparing for work on the Clancy ranch, but their move was met by the Contra Costa Water Company with an injunction ' suit, as exclusively related in to-day's Call. 3 Following that action the attorneys for the Contra Costa concern lost no time over Sunday in forcing another contest upon the opposition. % RACES TO FILE SUIT. Before dayhreak this morning E. E. Trefethen, a law clerk in the office of M. C. Chapman, one of the Contra Costa Water Company’s attorneys, left Oakland n an automobile for Martinez with the papers in a condemnation suit brought by that corporation against the Syndicate and -covering the lands ‘and watershed now under the armed patrol of the Syndi road saw a chance taxl"v o e LR the resolution.” Demoeratic whip dragged members hurrledly from the cloakrooms. The ayes were 121 and the noes 93, and the Dalzell motion was tabled. > CASE ALREADY MADE OUT. Gillespie asserts that his case agalnst fhe Pennsylvania Railroad Company has already been made by the Interstate Com- merce Commission. He cites the testi- mony glven by Commissioner Clements of that body before the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce as showing that the Pennsylvania Raiiroad is largely in- terested in the Norfolk and Western, the Chesapeake and Ohio and the Baltimore and Ohio, and through the ownership of stock and identical directors is able to control. shipments of bituminous coal in the East. . When the House was passing the reso- lution the Senate was listening to & memorial from the Red Rock Fuel Com- pany, presented by Senator Tillman of South Caroltha, in which it was alleged that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had denfed its right to ship its coal be- cause the railroad was also engaged in coal mining, and for the further reason that it is in combination with the Penn- sylvanfa Railroad and other companies for restraint of trade and destruction of competition. The Senator said: “A flagrant and outrageous situation exists in the anthracite region of Penn- sylvania, and if we sit quietly and allow the bituminous coal output to be lated by the \greed of the millionaires or multi-millionaires who control the rail- roads it looks to me as if we were get- ting very near to the point where the Jdyranny of the corporations will become unbearable.” OFFICIALS READY WITH DENTAL. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 29.—The North American to-morrow will say: ““Regarding the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives, calling for information as to the combination domi- nated by the Pennsylvania Railroad, offi- cers of that company indicated that the Pennsylvania Rallroad management will be ready to supply any facts asked for. It is belleved that it will be determined to prepare a statement of facts' for pre- sentation to the House of Representa- tives. This statement is expected to set out with a declaration that the charter of the Pennsylvania Railroad expressly provides that”the company may buy and own ‘bonds, and stocks of other com- panies. Denfals will be made that the company controls either the Baltimore and Ohio, the Norfolk and Western, or the Chesapenke gnd Ohio. p “In_proof of this, schedules of the stockholdings in the several companies will be submitted. This will show that in no case does the Pennsylvania Rall- road Company own a majority of the stock.” TMMIGRANT’S TRUNK HOLDS A FORTUNE Found to Contain $100,000 in Hungarian Bonds and cate. Trefethen, with a chauffeur, start- ed to make a record-breaking run to the Contra Costa County seat. En route the machine broke down, but despite the de- HAVANA, Jan. —Wm. Burbridge, formerly connected with Canfield's gambling house in New York. has dis- appeared from here with $500,000 won from wealthy Cubans. He announced when he came here that he would start a Cuban Monte Carlo. When Burbridge arrived in Havana a year ago he at- tracted much attpntion by the lavish manner in which’ he spent his money. His popularity remained unty one of the most prominent of Havank's citi- zens lost $50,000 at one sitting. Before this sensation had died out another had dropped 330,000, lay*the attorney reached Martinez by 7:30 o‘egl'ock this morning. County Clerk J. K. Rodgers was routed out of bed and the suit was filed, wh another cause of action over ~the water rights along Ban Pal will be t out. The haste :. Costa Wa;t:r C ny to ‘suit prompted by aflr'zz?n‘ar current dflnt the Syn- dicate forces were preparing to bring a similar suit themselves against the Con- Costa Water Company and all other the creek who might have to be considered. Securities. NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—Under a hottom of a little red trunk, which part of the baggage of tocday found about $100,000 worth garian treasury. way and bank securities. claimed m‘!;vle i voyager and told a.story that led to hi being taken to Ellls Isiand, pending investigation by the ai ; Heicher sald he was 42 years and | e from had knowledge of the s |1 trunk belonged wm PodY YeEARS AGO IN-STOW | K . LAKE . +»4 INE ARS GO WHO W FIED EAL’ OWNER WHO DISAPPEARED FROM THIS CITY SEVEN YE. Al AND VAS IDEN o Y%E‘R’DAY AB. THE MAN WHOSE BODY WAS FOUND FLOATING IN STOW LAKE IN 1808 HIS SAFETY DEPOSIT BOX WAS FOUND TO BE EMPTY. . ANCIENT EGCS FOR TRADUCER | - OF WOMANKIND Street Speaker Arouses ~Wrath of Los Angelenos. _Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGBLES, Jan. 20.—Leaving a trail of air thick with the reek of stale eggs, Robert Lawrence, a street preacher, vanijshed from the town’'s highways to- Lawrence had been in town three or Identification Opens Dark Story of Mystery. September 9, ), The Call pub- lished the photograph of an old man whose body had been found in Stow Lake and was afterward buried in the potter's fleld as unidentifed. X In the Buperior Court yesterday a wit- ness who knew John Stinson, the wealithy mine owner whose disappearance has been a mystery for nearly eight years, posi- tively identified the photograph as that of Stinson. Attorneys representing Stinson's rela- tives addéd another link to the chain of mystery by opening the safe deposit box that Stinson had long used, and finding that hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of bonds had disappeared. These and other facts throw light on a mystery that had seemed to evade solu- tion, and from the silence of all these years is being woven the story of a trag- edy that may never be solved, for the evi- dence is buried beneath the dust and tramplings of the past. The evidence points directly to murder and robbery, the work of a man who must have been intimately acquainted with the life and habits of John Stinson. 2| Yet how the murder was committed and how the money was obtained are the mys- *{terlfes In the case which to-day seem baffting. Probably mo ona will ever know just how this aged miner met his death. For deed, and there is little hope that at this late day they will ever be Stin- son iz dead and buried. He was burled NEEDY WO 5 COUSIN 0F MUSSELL SACE Aged Person Is Object of Charity in Toledo. Special Dispatch to The Call, TOLEDO, Ohio, Jan. 29.—Surrounded b the bare necessities of life, Mrs. Jane Sage, aged 55, a cousin of Ryssell Sags, the milllonaire, is living with her “boy™ James, aged 6. in two top rooms in what was once the best hotel in Toledo. the Oliver House. , The “boy’'s” health has failed, and were it not for the fact that John N. Nichol~ son of the Bethel Mission accidentally discovered them in great want they might have starved to death. Nicholson tem- porarily them, and it is under~ stood that have been provided to care for them. Mrs, Jane Sage is the widow of Alua Sage, an own .cousin of Russell Sage. She says that Russell “allus was a savin® boy,” and that after he attained hig wealth they falled to hear from him. | ‘LCOI_"L DEATH VERDICT OF THE CORONER’S JURY mn}. Jan. 29.—An inquest was held to-day in the case of Jeremiah Denehy, whose body was found floating ear Vallefo Junction last Thursday. a verdict of acgiden- i