The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 31, 1906, Page 3

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It is charged by financiers that this resolution and legislation, and that anger kind that are yet to,come} E STOCK MARKET T AP ES< N abolition of passes has a great to do with them. They say that| the Pennsylvania is in’ an impregnable | legal positi i It is charged that Gates induced Gil- | lespie to introduce the resolution and that knew it would be introduce@ and had ! plans laid a week ago. He put out| an enormous line of shorts after closing | iis long commitments and has cov- | ered at huge profits in the past two days. | Gates was in Washington last week and | knew all about the resolution. He ad- 1 his friends and the customers of | C. G. Gates & Co. to sell their long stocks | and go short on the market. Many of| them did so and made big money through | Monday’s break. To-day Gates was & big | buyer of stocks for his own account. | an interview to-day, Gates said: | 'We have been eight months on the| up-grade and have got to back a little to | get over a knoll. The market will be all the healthler for the setback.” WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—In response to the resolution of the House of Repre- sentatives, President Roosevelt called upon the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion for a report regarding the alleged existence of a combination or arrange- ment between the Pennsylvania Railway Company, the Baltimore and Ohlo, the Chesapeake and Ohlo and other railroads. Chairman Knapp at once called his col- legues into conference and the reply in course of preparation. MADAME MODJESKA vised SELLS COUNTRY HOME | Chicago Attorney Purchases “Arden,” Situated Near Santa Ana. Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30.—Arden, the fa >us country place of Mme. Mod- jeska in Orange County, a short dis- tance from Santa Ana, has been sold. After about July 1 California will no longer be the home of the great ac-| tress. e has not decided where she | will reside, but it is probable that she | will seek some place on the Atlantic seaboard, It being her desire to keep in close touch with other famous mem- | bers of /net profession and to have a | home near enough the great centers of | population so that she can entertain | them. Che realth ing th purchaser is Leopold Moss, a Chicago attorney, who in buy- property is trying to find a place which will be a suitable home for his invalid wife. Later he pro-| poses to build a sanitarium. At the conclusion of her present tour in April Mme. Modjeska will return to Arden and remain until near the| end of June, when Moss will take pos- | session of the place. Arden is one of | the most famous and beautiful estates in Southern California. Men and women noted the world over in varlous professions have been entertained there. The price paid for it has not been made public. HEIRESS DISCOVERS HUSBAND IS SOLDIER |Bride Endeavors to Secure | His Release From the Army. Special Dispatch to The Call, Jan. 30.—From | Fort Russell comes the story of the | pretty romance, elopement and secret | marriage of Private Berthall Wallls and Miss Lelia Daisy Combs, the handsome ng daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Combs of East St. Louis, Il., and an heiress to a large fortune. The mar- riage of the young couple took place at Centralla, Ill, last July, but the secret has just leaked out through the efforts of the bride to secure her husband's re- lease from the army. ‘Wallis recently left with the Thirteenth Regiment for the Philippines, and his wife came to Fort Russell to bid him good-by. Her lefforts to secure his re- two days ago she returned to her home in East St. Louis. She will now appeal to the Congressman from her district. If the Washington authorities refuse to act favorably she will join her husband in the Far East. It develops that Wallis threatened to enlist if Miss Combs would not marry him, so she consented and became his bride last summer. Then ghe learned that her husband, who had expected to be rejected, had aiready joined the army. ————— Succumbs to Her Injuries. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30.—The first death resulting from the streetcar col- lision at Second and Spring streets the night before Christmas, In which' seventy-four persons were injured, oc- curred to-night, when Mrs. Margaret E. Galusha succumbed. She sustained a double fracture of the right leg and internal injuries. She was the mother of E. G. Galusha, a well-known attor- ney. e Will Build New Road Into Nevada. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30.—A party of Santa Fe railway eagineers will start out to-morrow from Los Angeles for the purpose of locating a direct line into Searchlight, Nev. The proposed route will be a feeder from Barnwell, a distance of about twenty-six miles. The grade is said to be very easy and there will be no difficult engineering | problems to overcome. e ——— ALGIERS, Jan. 30.—A band of seventy-five | | s | | | Question of leadership. | to the forrer Premier, repudiating any | 1dea of superseding him as a leader, has | | | | i SN P LABOR FICHT 15 REOPENE Santa Rosa Council Recon- siders the Vote Recently Taken on Brower’s Action -— Special Dispatch to The Call. SANTA ROSA, Jan. 30.—The Santa Rosa Labor Council has reconsidered the vote whereby it recently adopted the | agreement made between President G. S. Brower of the California State Federa- 4 | tion of Labor on behalf of unfon labor H +1flnd the Santa Rosa Bullders’ Exchange = - - ! consideration OLUTION | | This action was taken by the council * + | on receipt of a telegram from President Int Carpenters and Joiners of America, who had 'been promptly advised by mall lof the local situation and the action of . along the line of gpen shop for six months under threats that he would or- | der unton men to aisregard the local Huber replied by wire as follows: INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 20.—This broth- erhood on record against open shop. Agree- British Press Calls on the 5L G f 2 5 | ready addressed communications to their Ex-Premier to Retire From Tespective Internationals along the same . 43 % _ [dine and all others who have not will now Leadership of His Party o ples. | The members of Santa Rosa Council LONDON, Jan. 81.—The small Unionist | @ssert that President Brower had no au- party remaining in Parllament threatens o o L i = o bocome tors by ‘Mimgension over;{he} L fitions besike the Sthte FUleation took action looking to calling for aid from other unions with which to assist in car- in the majority of the Unionist news- papers, those supporting Joseph Cham- berlain publishing each day articles and the old leader as plainly hint that he must recognize the uselessness of a nega- tive policy and, as the Morning Post re- forward to his proper place as the leader of an enlightened and united democracy.” In short, Balfour's own supporters are {Black Fiend Attacks Her in Her Home in Georgia | on behalf of the employing contractors. | | SPECULATOR WHO PROFITED BY D. M. Huber ‘of the International Union | President Brower forelng a settlement UPUN HA[F”UR unions and return to work. President SRR, ment preposterous: Cannot support same. do so and expect to recelve similar re- thority to make a settlement, but was An attack is rying on the local fight. ietters calling on Balfour to retire from marks, “abandon the serene atmosphere hardly more complimentary than his op- and Slashes Her Throat | PECULATOR \WHO PROFITED BY | | The whole matter has been reopened for A numbeér of the other unions had al- simply sent here to find out the local being made upon former Premier Balfour the leadership, while those still loyal to N[[;Rii N[A I-Y of social eminence and aloofness and come ponents, and maintain that the only basis on which he can continue his leadership of the party is that he swallow the Cham- berlain policy. The fact that Chamberlain | himself, since the elections began. has publicly announced his continued loyalty ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 30.—Mrs. Nina May Duprey, a young woman about 20 years of age, who lives with the family of W. H. Grogan, a prosperous farmer,. about six miles from Atlanta, near Cor- nell, was attacked by a negro this after- noon. After cutting her throat and leav- ing her in a dying condition from loss of blood and nervous excitement the negro | escaped. A posse of more than 100 citi- zens with hounds is following the negro to-night, and if he is captured he will'in. all probability be summarily lynched. The attack upon the young woman oc- curred some time between the hours of 1 and 4 o'clock this afternoon. Grogan and his wife, returning home from At- lanta at that hour, found Mrs. Duprey ly- ing in the dining-room in a pool of blood. not had the slightest effect in alleviating the persistence of the attacks on Balfour. —_————————— MAN WHO MADE WABASH. BANKS FAMOUS DEAD Epecial Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Jan. 30.—Paul Dresser, the song writer, dled of heart trouble this afternoon at,the home of his sister, Mrs, Nelson, in this city. He was 47 years old. He was the author of “On the Banks of the Wabash” and also “The | Physiclans, who were immediately sum- Letter That Never Came,” which first | moned, despair of her recovery. She was too weak to say more than that a tall negro was the perpetrator of the crime. JOHNSTON HEIRS FILE AN ANSWER Deny That the Petitioner Is the Widow of the Late Senator. SACRAMENTO, Jan. 30.—Clint ‘White, attorney for the children %’; flll: late Senator Willlam Johnston, has filed amended answer to the petition of Mrs. brought his name into public notice. He had been slightly indisposed for nearly six months, but on Saturday he was taken with acute pains in his heart and did not rally. Dresser was born in Terre Haute, Ind., and the town of Dresser in that State is named after him. When a young man he studled for the priesthood. He went to Chicago, where he wrote his first big song hit, “The Letter That Never Came,” and followed it with “I Belleve It-For My Mother Told Me 80.” About twenty years ago Dresser came to New York. | Besides the songs mentioned he wrote “The Blue and the Gray,” *Just Tell Them That You Saw Me,” “The Pardon Came Too Late” and many others, JANUARY. 31, 1906. - PLANS OF CUPID Chews Off Piece of Marriage License and Bride-Elect Demands a New Document GROOLi IS INDEPENDENT Refuses to Go to the Clerk’s Office to Oblige Sweet- heart and They Separate LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30.—Because his dog had got hold of his marriage li- cense and chewed it in such a manner that his tiance refused to accept it, Jack Hopper, a young man living in Los An- geles County, about five miles from this city, to-day returned a mutilated mar- riage licenge to the County Clerk's office, explaining that he had no further use for it and desired that it be destroyed. The license was issued in June, 1904 Hopper explained his painful experience as fol- lows: ““We came here and got the license and then went home and walted for the day to get married. “My dog happened to find the thing one day on the floor and he chewed one cor- ner of it and then the girl said she would not marry me unless 1 got a new license. I would not do that because the license hadn’t been harmed, so she said I needn’t have her at all, and so it ended. “But since then the thing had been a hoodoo and I want it destroyed.” Clerk Shea assured him that the l- cense had expired thirty days after its issuance, but upon the expression of con- tinued misgivings on the part of the ap< plicant he finally tore up the license. SUICIDE MYSTERY IS FINALLY SOLVED Stranger Who-Killed Himself on Long Beach Wharf Is Identified. Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30.—Through an investigation begun upon the receipt of a letter from L. D. Gandion of San Francisco to the Los Angeles police, a suicide mystery at Long Beach has been solved. On December 23 an aged man shot himself on the Long Beach wharf. All efforts to identify the sui- cide failed and the body was buried. Monday the police received a letter from (andion making Inquiry as to his father, who was last heard from at Long Beach on December 22. A ple- ture of the missing man was also sent. A detective went to Long Beach and soon established the fact that the sui- cide was the man about whom the in- quiries had been made. The home of the elder Gandion was 1017 Jackson street, Topeka, Kans. He started to San Francisco to join his son, but ill- ness caused him to stop here and later go to Long Beach. Despondency due to ill-health is believed to have been what caused him to end his life. He was a man of considerable means. AR REe e P ey e Car Breaks Lose From Train. REDDING, Jan. 30.—A coke car, on which two men were loose from a train on the Southern Pa- cific spur near the Mammoth smelter 8t Kennet this morning, shot for 200 yards down the steep grade at frightful momentum and tore up things at the end of the journey. One man was hurled from the car before it struck the bank, while the other was sent sprawling down the embankment when the car struck. Remarkable as it may seem, neither of the men were hurt. (ING FRECERICK GATES MAKES “KILLING” [ANNE. UPSETS MAKES ESCAPE FATHER LEAVES FRON ASYLUM' HIN A MILLION Humble Baker of Los An- geles Inherits Vast Prop- ‘Woman Breaks Out of Insane Ward of Nevada Institu- tion and Startles Reno; erty by Death of Parent SCALES A HIGH WALL{WILL GO TO ENGLAND Prepares to Cross the Ocean to Claim the Large Fortune That Came Unexpectedly OS5 SR Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3.—Hugh N. Cal= lender, an hum..e Los Angeles baker and a musician of ability, who has been struggling to give his daughter a thorough musical education, received a cablegram from England to-day inform- ing him that he has fallen heir to _cop- erty worth more than a million dollars. It is through the death of Dr. Robert Joseph Callender of Haydon Bridge, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, that Callender, with s two brothers, comes into the Cal- | lender and Nanney estates. The prop- erty is mainly from the maternal side of the house of Callender. Mrs. Cal- lender was a Nanney, a member of the well-known Welsh family bearing this patronymic and which holds large landed interests in England and Wales. Hugh Callender fs the youngest som. He ran away from home when a boy and came to this country. He drifted westward and spent some years in Idaho and Oregon and then came to Californis, where he married. Mrs. Callender is & member of one of the ploneer Californis Pries Open Window With Bar of Iron and Fights Those Who Try to Recapture Her Spectal Dispatch to The Call. RENO, Nev.,, Jan. 30.—Mrs. Forrest, an inmate of the Nevada Insane Asylum, escaped from that institution last night and ran raving through the streets of Reno. She was armed with a club and repulsed all attempts to check her mad flight. She finally entered the office of | Dr. Heppner, where she was overpow- ered. She was afterward turned over to the asylum authorities. Mrs. Forrest escaped from the asylum by prying the window of her ward open with an iron bar taken from her bed. After escaping from the room she od | a twelve-foot wall with the ald of long board. She is considered one of the most dangerous patlents at the asylum. DESPISED CIGARETTE FINDS TWO FRIENDS Claim Made That Its Use| riding, broke | Does Little Harm to the familles. Hor grandfather, Jacob Smoke, ¥ came around the Horn from New York, System. arriving In San Francisco in 1848 and was one of the original owners of the Seal Spectal Dispatch to The Call. Rocks. His son, the father of Mrs. Cal- BALTIMORE, Jan. 30.—An unsuccesstul | 17der, was a musician and a well-known effort to pass an anti-cigarette law to- day brought statements from Dr. Llewel- lyn Barker, successor to D. Osler in Johns Hopkins University, and City Health Commissioner Bosley that cigarette smoking is the least injurious way to use tobacco. ‘The cigarette particularly is singled out for the work of legislators when it certainly appears to be the least harm- ful,” sald Dr. Bosley. “Some of our greatest men are inveterate smokers and thelr first lesson was in the art of smok- ing the much despised cigarette. As a rule, great men of affairs use the weed continually and it seems to have no il effect upon their systems.” Dr. Barker concurred in this opinion. ————— President Wheeler at San Diego. SAN DIEGO, Jan. 30.—President Ben- jamin Ide Wheeler of the University of California, accompanied by J. W. Me- Kinlay of Los Angeles, arrived on the Owl this morning and later in the day visited La Jolla, where he made an In- spection of the marina biological sta- tion, one of the State University insti- tutions. —_——— SHERIFF SEEKS A PARDON FOR MAN WHO SHOT HIM Mother of the Assailant of the Official Is in Destitute Circumstances. DENVER, Jan. 30.—Sheriff A. J. Cal- vert of Morgan County, Colorado, is! circulating a petition for the pardon of the man who shot and seriously injured him in Fort Morgan four years ago. The prisoner {s Harry Simmington. In a Jjall break Simmington shot the Sheriff in the leg. Blood poisoning de- | veloped and the Sheriff was near death’s door for weeks. Simmington was cap- tured and sentenced to serve from twelve to fourteen years. His mother is in destitute circumstances. Sheriff Calyert believes the convict has re- celved sufficient punishment. tragedian of early California days. Mre. Callender’s mother was a woman of lit- erary talent and was a contributor ® the Eastern._magazines and newspapers under the pen name of “Grace Green~ wood."” It was not until years after his mar- riage that the son communicated withi his father, and since he came to Los Angeles he has kept up a correspondence with his people. Despite the fact that his father was enormously rich the son com- tented himself with conducting a small bakery on Temple street, opposite the Courthouse. He will go to England to claim his share of the fortune. ————— To Increase Small Paper Money. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Represent- tive Fowler of New Jersey, chalrman of the House Committee on Banking and Currency, introduced a bill to-day providing for the increase of the amount of gold certificates by empow= ering the Secretary of the Treasury to accept deposits of gold coin In sums not less than $20 and to issue gold cer- tificates In denominations of not less than $5. This bill is designed to in- crease the amount of paper money in small denominations. The smallest gold certificate now is the twenty-dollar certificate. ——— Big Earnings of Steel Trust. NEW YORK, Jan. 30.—The directors of the United States Steel Corporation at their meeting to-day declared the regular quarterly dividend of 1% per cent on the preferred stock. Marvin Hughitt of Chicago was elected a di- rector to succeed the late, Marshall Field. Net earnings for the quarter ended December 31 last were $35,728,- 688, an Increase of $13,819,954 as com- pared with the same quarter a year ago. —_———— WASHINGTON. Jan. 30.—Representative Burke introduced a bill to-day authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to lease acres of public domain to be used exclusively a® pasture for the native buffalo. \ In our big New York plant hundreds of busy tailors work the year round building clothes that have made the name of S. N. Wood & Co. famous. In most every State in the Union we sell our cloth- ing at wholesale to other retail dealers. In San Francisco we sell direct to you—save you that re- tailer’s profit—which is about one-third. Just now there’s even greater savings in store for you—if you every style. that were *11 to*4 They’re pretty and they’re good. Thirty different styles—all sizes among them but not every size in That's the reason you buy them for Dresser was an actor and played the role of comedian in Hoyt's “A Tin Soldier.”" He was also the author of the plays, “Lost, Strayed or Stolen” and “The Green Goods Man.” —_—— ¥ Josephine A. C. Johnston for lette; administration of.the estate, mm‘nfi:: she is the widow of the deceased and al- leging that she was married in St. Louls to J. West Goodwin; that what purported to have been a divorce was granted her, Insurance Man Accused of Theft. SAN DIEGQ, Jan. 30.—Thomas E. Rowan, a well-known Insurance man, | who was charged with grand larceny and who was released yesterday after- noon by Judge Torrance, has not Been located by the police, who have another warrant for his arrest. Rowan is charged with having stolen a diamond shirt stud valued at $150 from Dr. Logan of Escondido.” ——— Moorish rajders who had captured a thousand camels were surprised by & party of Fremch frontier guards at Quednesly, south of Mezied. A fierce fight followed, in which twelve of the ralders were killed. The camels were tured Big Butte Plant Burns. © BUTTE, Mont, Jan. 31.—The Butte Reduction Works plant, valued at §750,000, was partly destroyed by fire this mornis but that the court thet issued the decree had no jurisdiction in the case, and that as a matter of fact she still is the wite of J. West Goodwin, and never was the wife and is not now the widow of the de- Attorney White says he has made an exhaustive {nvestigation into the matter and believes he will have no trouble in showing that the Missouri court had no Jjurisdiction to grant the divorce. Shortly after the death of Senator Johnston, last November, Mrs, Josephine the deceased had in tinez a month before his death, and ap- plied for letters of administration of the | property. A contest was filed. ¢ Goodwin presented evidence that she and | ° 4 been married in Mar- | Mar/ flfinn Promptly $7.85 instead of $11, $12.50 and $14. But don’t delay. Better come early.