The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 3, 1906, Page 1

A4 » Francisco and \v(»(n(\yr1wdy| Saturday, possibly ui fresh east winds. nsettled at night; A. G. McADIB, Dist NATION Pt trict Forecaster. Y OTHER PAPER PUBLISHED IN S CALIFORNIA—*‘Oriental Burlesquers' - COLUMBIA—""Woodland." CHUTES—Vaudeville, GRAND—“"Way L flfr om y *+ 3 Down East.”” MAJESTIC—“Sweet Nall of OM Drury. ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—"The Brigands." Matineas at all theaters. S AGAI} | The failure of the conference of coal operators and miners to reach an | . agreement on'a wage scale foreshadows a great strike, involving 600,000 men in the coal fields of the United States. appears’ inevitabie -unless the Presi BY A GIGANTIC €O A gigantic industrial battle dent or Civic Federation intercedes. 3 SAN FRANCISCO. to Reach an INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 2.—One of the most dramatic scenes ever witnessed in a national convention of the United Mine Workers of America. was the final -ad- journment of that body this afternoon after the dissolution of the joint confer- ence of operators and miners of the cen- tral and southwestern districts, and after the national convention had-administered & stinging rebuke to one of the oldest officers of the organization for transgress- ing one of the fundamental' laws of | unlonism, in voting contrary to his in- structions -to stand for an Increase of | wages. Sy When the lusty.voices of the minérs mingled in the singing of “America” had huslied, an oppressive silence fell upon the assembled - delegates, and as President | John Mitchell , slowly . pronounced the words which adjourned. the seventeenth — 4 UPF OF PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED:MINE WORKERS AND THE LOWER OF THE SP POKESMAN OF GIGANTIC .| 0 WERE UNABLE TO AGREE ON A WAGE SCALB, AS A RESULT OF WHICH A NEA HIS EYESICHT DURING ROW College Professor - Hit in Face With Bot- tle of Acid. RO Fruif et NEW -YORK, Feb. 2—E. C. Grifths, manager of an au oblle garage, made & murderous ass: sulphuric acid n John B. Prince, profes- guages at Columbia wealthlest instructor. Professor Prince Mayor Abram 8. Hewitt .and his summer is a relative-of, former home g said to be worth & half million dollare at enwood, N. J, He is also & member of the New Jersey Legjslature. With his appeared face butned Prince Finn, carry- y fur automobile n partly destroyed by college, instruc- trate tor said h - t him after a violent gquarrel He also had & derby hat ich several holes had been burned his right _hand, which he had raised to ward off the sud- den attack, was blistered Professor Prince $iint cariy St evening he entered the automobile gar- age to take out a new French ¢ar, which he bought several months ago. Repairs amounting to about $200, he said, had been made on the machine, and when he attempted to get into the automobile Professor Prince declared Griffith de- manded the money at once. The bill was paid, according to Professor Prince, after considerable argument. The professor admitted that he had lost his temper and called the garage man harsh names. He gaid that when he turned around to get into the car he received a stunning blow from & bottle of suiphuric acid and im- mediately felt the liguid searing his face nd body. 1 ““The pain was excrutiating and It was all T could do to prevent screaming in sgony. The assault was entirely unex- pected,” said the professor. with a bottle of | SCIENTISTS T0 EXPLORE THE PACIF Plan Magnetic Survey of Vast Pertion of Ocean. e il Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. | CALL BUREAV, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, Feb. 3~Within two | weeks an expédition will leave San Diego, | Cal.; under the direction of the Carnegle | Institute. to make a magnetic survey of the North Pacific Ocean. The cruise, | which will be made in the brig Galllee, a comparatively small salling vessel, will include a complete circuit of that great bodv. of water, and a_journey of 20,000 | mf' . s have beenl made when the ship | returns ta the United States. The ex- | pedition will be under the supervigion ot Dr. 4. A. Bauer, the director of the de- partment of international research in ter- restrial magnetism of the Carnegie Insti- tute." T > " ‘From San Diego the Galilee will sail alonk the west coast of South America to Fanning Island, thence to the Samoan, Fiji and Marshall Islands, Guam and In the nelghborhood of the Philippines. From | there she will go into Chinese and Jap- anese waters, touching at Yokohama. | Continuing her journey north, the Galilee will go aleng the coast of Siberia and stop at the Aleutian Islands, after which Alaskan waters will be entered, a visit being made to Sitka. The Galllee will | then start on her homeward trip to San i Diego. 5 —————————— Schooner Ashore, Crew Saved. CAPE HENRY, Va, Feb. 2.—The schooner Maggie F. Hart; Captain Fos- ter, ran ashore this morning near Hat- teras Inlet. The crew of eight men was saved in surfboats by Captain Bar- nett of the Hatteras Inlet life-saving station. The schooner lies well out and appears to be in good condition, but taking some water, annual convention without day, thus dis- solving every hope of averting a gigantic industrial war without the intervention of some unexpected and powerful influence, the miners marched out of the hall, thefr faces set with a grim determination which showed the steadfastness of pur- pose which has marked the history-mak- fng session just closed, g The apparent determination of bothi| operators and miners indicates that neither will make overtures for further negotiations and unless some influence not | now foreseen steps into the breech 600,000 men will walk out of the mines in every section of the cauntry on April 1. There have been intimstlons that two agencles—the president of the United Btates and the National Clvic Federation— may be appealed to to set in motion nego- tiations for a rehabilitation of the joint agreement or at least a-dlscussion of some possible means of bringing the operators and ‘miners together for further negotia- | tions. So far as known, hawever, there s nothing upon which to base an assertion that either the president or the Clvic Federation has. decided to offer its services. % VAST ARMY INVOLVED. Perhaps the most significant statements made by President Mitchell during any session of the present convention were made this afternoon, first in his admo- nition to all the miners that each in- dividual make preparations to establish a strike fund which will make each miner self-sustaining for at least & reasonable .length of time and again when, in answer to the question of a delegate, who wished to be enlightened as to the correct sense | of the resolution adopted yesterday, he 'sald: “The resolution adopted yesterday is capable of no two interpretations and at the proper time all such questions shall be answered.” During an Interview this afternoon President John Mitchell discussed som of the phases of the situation. 3 “Never in the history of this country has a strike of such far-reaching effect been threatened,” said Mitchell. “It means a national suspension of mining if the strike comes on at the exviration of our mining contracts, March 31, and it includes the anthracite district.” . ““Will this action of the miners, includ- ing the ahthracite districts, that no con- tracts shall be signed until all obtain agreements, have any effect on the meet- ing of the anthracite miners and oper- ators on February 157" “I don’t know at this time,” he sald. “Will you meet the anthracite operators at that time?” ° & 5 “Yes,” he replled; “that is the plad at this time and no chinges have been made in the plans.” According to the figures given out by the national officers of the Miners and Operators Unable Agreement. Six 'Hufidré_d Thousand May Be | Involved in -Walk-jOut. . " ganization they expect the strike to bring out over 600,000 men—about. 150,000 non- union miners in West Virginia and Penn- sylvania, with the 450,000 union miners. Of this number about 150,000 will be out in the anthracite distriots; 85,000 in the Pennsylvania bituminous districts; 38,000 in Ohio; 17,000 in Indiana; 60,000 in Illinois; 16,000 in Iowa; 80.000 in West Virginia; 3000 fn Michigan and approximately 60,000 in Kansas, Missourl, Texas, Indian Ter- ritory and Arkans The States enumerated will be the scene of the greatest part of the battle. ' Mitchell said that never in the history of this' country was'there an organiza- tion which could call out so many men on one strike having such widespread ef- fect. The jnint conference of the operators and miners of both thé great central com- petitive and Southwestern districts ad- Journéd to-day sine die without any agree- ment on the wage le." The adjourn- ment was immediately followed with a call for the annual meeting of the United Mineworkers of America for 2 o’clock. A resclution by F. L. Robbins, the spokesman for the oOperators, that' the present wage scale be continued was lost, as it required, under the rules, a unani- mous vote to carry any of the principal propositions. Operators of Ohlo and Penn- sylvania voted for the motion. Illinois operators declined to vote. The miners of Ohlo, Indiana and Illinois voted against the proposition. Patrick Dolan, president of the Penn- sylvania miners, voted his State for the-| proposition, which caused an uproar among the miners. His right to vote the Pennsylvania miners for the continuance of the present scale in spite of the fact that the Pittsburg convention had voted for an increase was challenged by several other Pennsylvania miners, but on an ap- peal to the chair the vote was so re- corded. The motion to adlourn sine dle wag made by F. L. Robbins immediately following ément that the accept any agreement that dld not carry with it an increase in wages, and the miners’ convention has unanimously, with the exception of three votes, indorsed the action of the jofnt scale committee, which refused the proposition of the mine own-' ers that the present scale of wages be continued. 3 * Robbins, in advocating a continuation of the present wage scale, reviewed the difference in the miners now and when the interstate and joint conference move- ment went into effect. “¥ou have advanced wages and short- éned hours,” sald he. ‘““Without argument and in the face of-all fairness, you yester- day met and repudiated a fair proposition. I want to go on record as protesting against such methods. Yesterday coal sold in Chicago at a dollar a ton carrying an eighty-cent freight rats because the rail- roads were demanding the cars, and yet you refuse to allow one district to sign an agreement unless we propose to deal with our miners even-handed, with the same representation on each: side. You proposé to have miners of other States with conditions entirely different from ours to dictate as to the settlement of our affairs in our district. Your propo= sitfon made yesterday is absurd. A little aec(lont)‘p in Michigan could refuse a set- tlement” and tie.up the whole country. You have a conference with the anthra- cite operators coming. If I were an an- thracite operator I would refuse to deal with you.” 3% President Mitchell took the. floor in re- ply. "He sald 2 “It Is kind of Mr. Robbins to say that we have presented no argument. We re- fuse to allow the operators to have the final say as to whether we have presented any argument or not. We have shown that coal is selling at the mines at from' 85 to 50 cents a ton higher than it was selling seven months ago. We showed this by their own circulars. We have shown by their circulars that the condi~ tion of their own grade is highly pros- perous. The country is in the highest de- gree of prosperity. Stocks and bonds are selling higher than ever before. And yet, knowing this situation, we are asked .to continue a lower wage scale than we had two years ago. And Mr. Robbins will remember that two years ago, when we accepted a lower wage scale on account of an unfortunate situation existing at that time, he promised that the reduc- tion would be restored at the next con- ference. 5 % . “We have come to the parting of the ways and it seems to me the only thing left to do is to go home 'and there try to overcome the seemingly insurmount- able obstacles. We deeply regret the ne- cessity for such a step, but we feel that the time has come when you can give us gn advance in wages without dama; ing your property interests to any con- siderable extent.” The vote was taken, the motion to con- tinue the present wage scale ‘was lost and the conference adjourned sine die. ‘When the miners’ convention was called to order this afternoon, a delegate moved that Patrick Dolan be expelled from the organization “for traitorous conduct and for treason to the district he represents.” Deafening cheers and cries of “‘second”” greeted the motion. After a heated dis- cussion the Dolan matter was referred to the Pittsburg district and the conven- tion adjourned for an hour to permit the district to caucus. W the convention | the Pittsburg district dele- gates presénted a resolution which “‘con- demns the action and attitude of Presis dent Patrick Dolan and Vice President gham for voting in the joint con- ference of miners and operators on Feb- ruary 2, 1806, contrary to the instructions given them by the delegates at our an- nual convention assembled at Pittsburg, January 9 to 13, 1906." 4 The motion to expel Dolan was laid on the table by convention. i President made this announce- ment: - 4 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1906 " THREATENED [COUNT BON AL STRIKE| 10 B SUED * FOR DNORCE Countess - Departs From Mansion in Paris. Friends of Former Miss Gould Hope to Set- tle Trouble: Celebrated French Advocate Is Retained to Draw _ Up Complaint. +Special Dispatch to The Call. PARIS, Feb. 2—Countess de Castellane, formerly Miss Anna Goyld, after having 'Her husband, Count Bonl watched is to sue him for divorce. The Countess left the Castellane mansion precipitately last week and for flve days her whereabouts was unknown to her husband or any member of her family, and it was at first supposed she had sailed for New York. The facts seem to be that the former Miss Gould left the mansion after a scene with Count Boni, when she indignantly accused him. During the last four days the Countess has been at the Hotel Bris- tol In Place Vendomie. The Count has not been at home since the Countess left and he is supposed to have been living at his club. Further confirmation is_obtained from personal friends of the Couhtess, who saw the latter this evening and declare she has no Intention of going to New York. This woman friend says that even if the separation becomes permanent the Count- < to reside in Framce. . o e, “h ol o | “Coufit and Coufitess ‘night, says the family is trying its utmost | to effect a reconcfliation between the couple and to bring them together. Ac- cording to this friend, an amicable set- tlement of the trouble is expected. . Another story is to the effect that the Countess has decided to return to her home In America. Maitre Cruppl, the celebrated advocate, has been instructed to institute divorce proceedings on the Countesses’ behalf if a reconciliation can- not ‘be effected. A sensational trial is certain if the suit is filed. - —— ROW NOT UNEXPECTED. % A Titled Husband Has Been Cutting Too ‘Wide p Swath. NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—It is now within a month of eleven years since Anna Gould ‘was married to Count Paul Ernest Boni- face de Castellané. The ceremony was performed on March 4, 1895. From that time the Castellanes have been almost constantly in the public prints, as the re- sult of the Count's extravagances, quar- rels or politfcal ambitions. ‘When the couple left this country the Countess, who was'then in her eighteenth year, had as her share of the Jay Gould estate a fortune of $18,000,00, which ylelded her an Income of more than $600,000 a year. This looked enormous to every one but the Count, but it became evident within a few months that he in- tended to shew how to live up to it Finally he was spepding faster than $18,000,000 could earn, and the friends of the Castellanes began to talk about their debts. § In 100, five yeafs after the marriage, the Goulds found out that the Count was sadly in debt. Just how many millions could not be determined, but it was esti- ‘mated that he had spent $7,000,000 in that time and an adjustment was necessary. Meanwhile claims aggregating $4,000,000 were lumped by his creditors, and after the bitterest kind of litigation an ar- rangement was made ‘whereby all of the debts were acknowledged and yearly pay- ments were begun, while the income of the Countess was cut down to $200,000 a ear. yDm-'ln‘ the last three years Count Bonl has been living rathér quietly for him, although he has been mentloned in ru- mored duels and. gambling incldents, which he has denfed. —_———————— Aged .Inventor Passes Away. LONDON, Feb. 2—Lord Masham (Samuel Cunliffe-Lister), the patentee of many inventions, including a com- pressed air brake for rallroads and a wool combing machine, died this morn- ing at Swinton Abbey, Masham, county of York. He was born In 1815 and was created a Baron in 1891 —_———————— Californians in Paris. PARIS, Feb. 2.—Adrlan A. Buck and | Vernon E. Magnin of San Francisco are visiting In Paris, executive board at 9\o'clock to-morrow. morning and to the delegates here assem- bled and to_the members of the organiza- tion at home I want to say that they had better provide for a little defense fund of their own, and those who have not laid by anything in the past had better do so now, In order that they may be self-sus- taining for at least a reasonable length of time.” ~ Delegate Campbell, colored, rose to ask 1f the resolution adopted by the conven- tion" yesterday meant that in the event that any district could not reach an agreement with the employers, a general g Mitchell, in reply, said: - “The reso! adopted t yesterday is ca- pable of mo two interpretations, and at the proper time all such questions will be w‘fi: m"n-to-\::rmm? PRICE FIVE CENTS. BIC FRAUDS DN CHICAGD RECISTER —_— Thofisa.nds Obtain - Their Papers - Illegally. Court Clerks A_‘cctiséd of Assisting in False Naturalization. S et Many Different Ways Said to Have Been Found to Work the Game.. ———— Special Dispatch to The Cail CHICAGO, Feb. 2.—Fraud in the nat- uralization of thousands of Chicago voters | is charged against former clerks in the Circult, Superfor and County courts, while coupled with this discovery to-day | arose the story that Circuit Court Clerk John A. Linn never was naturalized and 18 not a citizen of the United S$tates. Linn denied the allegation and denounced it as absurd. He sald he was unable’to re- member what year he came to this coun- try, how old he was at the time or when he was naturalized. One story is that his case is somewhat analogous to the situation alleged against Congressman Michaelek of the West Side, now on trial before Congress upon a charge of not being a citizen of the Unit- ed States. P “Enormoue frauds in the issuance of false naturalization papers have been perpetrated in Cook County for years,” said 2 former employe of the Circuit Court Clerk’s office -to-day. “‘Probably from 10,000 to 15000 vogers are upon the register of Chicago who are not legal cit- STANDARD OIL sang | town have. 0 CORNER THE COPPER TP, Arrangements : Com- pleted to Buy Heinze - Interests. —_— NEW YORK, Feb. 2—An authoritative, though not official statement, was to- day received by the Journal of Commerce regarding the consummation of the im- portant copper deal involving the Stand- ard Oil interests, Guggenheims and the, United Copper Company, information of which was first made public January 11 On the date mentioned it was stated in part: “Rumors are circulating privately in important copper circles that plans are being laid by the Standard Oil interests and Guggenhelms to secure control of the country’s copper industry. Descend- ing from the general to the specific, it is pointed out that the Standard Ofl people have all along fought desperately to re- move the stumbling block which the Heinze Interests placed in their path by holding on to and extending the United Copper Company’s properties, and that, on realizing that Heinze was not to ac- cept defeat, the ofl men adopted dif- ferent tactics, which led to an amicable adjustment of the quarrel. “An authority who has certain sources of inside information, in discussing the situation yesterday, sald: ‘I have heard that for some timy plans have been brewing for bringing the copper industry under one large company. The Standard Ofl Company is évidently working hand in hand with the Guggenheim boys. The ultimate formation of one immense con- trolling organization is inevitable, I hear that the Natlonal City Bank has been accumulating a large sum of money for the purpose, it is conjectured, of under- writing some very big corporation.” “To-day we are informed that negotia- tions have been virtually completed. Heinze has agreed to part with the con- trol of the United Company at a very substantial price. Just what the Stand- ard Ofl Interests have paid for the stock is not to be published at present.”” ———— «HUCKLEBERRY FINN” PASSES AWAY IN IDAHO WALLACE, Idaho, Feb. 2—Captain A. O. Tonkray, r-puted the original of Mark Twain's “Huckleberry Finn,” died of Murray. Captain Tonkray was a native of Hannibal, Mo., and about 6 years of age. He ran on steamboats on the Missis| sippi and Missouri rivers in his early days. when he is said to have met Mark Twain. The Lumorist took him as a model character of “Huckleberry Finn." ey oy 1 for the casket for remains and a quantity of flowers the funeral, 3 t character. was a_ qualn: > sEEVE CHANPIOS KNG FOR ACH WONEN Pastor’s Attack on Mrs. Armour Not - Answered. Harper’s Weekly Takes a Shot at Her Husband. Ladies " Likened to “Half- Naked, Painted, Sensual- ized Creatures.” - Spectal Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGOD, Feb. A& shot at men of prominence, whose wives took part in the recent Kirmess, and were attacked by Rev. Sydney Strong, pastor of the Sec- ond Congregational Church, at Oak Park, a Chicago suburb, ‘is taken in the cur- rent issus of Harper's Weekly. Dr Strong preached his sensational sermon on January 14, and It was reported in & weekly paper of the subuth. Harper's Weekly reproduced the story in which Dr. Strong referred to the women as ‘half-naked, painted, sensualized crea- tures; full sisters to the benighted fetish dancers of South Africa.” Among those he singled out for attack were Mrs. J. Ogden Armour and Mrs. Stanley Field. Harper's Weekly then continues: “Chicago soclety, whatever that may e, was astounded, we can readily be- leve, but why have we no repoert of any- thing happening since? Did Rev. Sydney speak truths so burning as to bar even human resentment? Or have Mrs. - -and- Mrs: Stanley- Fleld no relatives of masculine perguasion?” Dr. Strong does not deny that he used the references to savages. In fact, he furnished extracts. from his sermon to the Oak Park paper. But he never in- tended them to apply to the Kirmess dancers. Somebody, he says, -got the ex- tracts mixed gnd left out all he said about the classes which he does consider “gensualized.” Stanley Field, when shown the para- graph from Harper's Weekly, calmly re- marked: $ “I have nothing Armour-would not takik elther. he did not know Dr. Strong. Mrs. Fleld is president of the Cribmide Society, fer which the Kirmess wag given. Mrs. Armour was a pafron. OPPOSE WINE AT BREAKFAST Temperance Workers Hope to Have Liquor Barred at the Roosevelt Wedding Special Dispatch to The Call. BOSTON, Feb. 3—A movement hasg been started here by the mational of- ficlals of the Women's Christian Tem- perance Union to secure Miss Alice Roosevelt's co-operation toward bare ring wipe from her wedding breakfast, Newspaper, reports that Major Mo« Cauley, director of the White House so- clal functiens, is selecting tha dishes and wines for the breakfast have greatly stirred the temperance women here and there was talk of a formal protest. . It was decided, howsver, that such an action would be out of place and Mrs. Catharine L. Stevenson, president of the Massachusetts branch, has taken up the matter with the national officers, the plan being to get Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens, the national president, to persuade Miss Roosevelt to cancel aH arrangements for wine on her wedding day. It is felt by the Women's Christian Temperance Union that to serve wine at such a national de- casion would have a deplorable effec? on other young couples throughout the country. 3 - ‘WILL RIDE IN SPECIAL CAR. to-say for publication.” He sald ° PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2—The first establishment over which Miss Alice Roosevelt will preside as Mrs. Nick Long- worth will be the Pullman palace car Republic. It will contain all ‘the comforts of home, from a dainty bedroom with its ‘I kitchen and pantry, everything except a The car abounds in snug neoks and corners and the r scheme is Miss Alice’s favorite red faining a large brass bedstead. Both rooms are heavily carpeted in greenm and