The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 8, 1906, Page 3

TRIAL OF SENATOR SMOOT . RESUMED AT CAPITAL The investigation of the protests made agninst of Utah retaining his seat was Professor Wolfe, former teacher of whose conmection with the Mormon fused to pay told of the on sald that with these oaths the sece belief that tithes, polygamy is on the inc e Senator Reed Smoot resumed yesterday at Washington. geology fn Brigham Young College, church was severed when he re- ths administered to members. He a is plunted. It is his rease in Utah. of treason Apostate of Mormon| Church Iestimony. R T 2 Gives n._1: | Believes Polygamy | Is Increasing in Utah. Jutlines the Oaths Administered to Faithful was severed th demands ofessor | he said there had acrifice and by vengeance? u mean that there pledge given to av replied not been making fusing to pay been t ferred to. | n made true,” wumber of hymns of and these e oaths in the ed that in the ‘the seed of said he realized ad taken only once made by He effort was to the church conflict. The Mormon's Latter Day had told C. M. e prosecution, that he was be- church be- been broken it much ¥ Cluff case, he said, was what he was called e committee adjourned until 10| clock to-moOrrow e e—————— FIGHT FOR THE LITTLETON | BABY IS TO BE REOPENED | for the Alleged Mother Say | They Have Final and { Decisive Proof. Again the Little- or Ruth Sher- med by Mr. and Mrs. John McConnell, and Martin Sherlock, & occupying the attention of Judge | Carpenter in the We Court, and | as a final and decisive proof to support | Mrs ri McConnell's at- g to show that the is web-footed and so is John Mc- ell, whom they claim is the father. e babe was born to Ruth MecCon- | four months after she married. To ve her good name she gave it to Mrs, eir contentio torneys are prep | { | erlock. When the latter's husband | got a divorce and the custody of the | babe Mrs. MeConnell began a fight to recover it g S SR Valentine Candy Boxes. Fitting token—a heart-shaped candy- x filled with sweets. Haas' Candy Stores, Phelan bldg. & Jas. Flood bldg. * | ——t—e Hope to Capture Bandit Raisull. TANGIER, Feb. 7.—The Anjera tribe is expected momentarily to attack Rai- su', the Moroccan bandit chief, who js shut in his house in Zinai, which he ha¢ transformed into a fortress. The tribesmen have sworn to take him a prisoner to Tangier. ’ ARISy Feb. 7.—Twenty-one prisoners, sen- ed to various terms of imprisonment in December last for inciting tecruits to dis- loyaty and insurvection, were rearrested to- day, their appeals having been rejected. The priscners include a pumber of well-known politcal agitators ers by | of politics | John | attention. It o - —j UTAH'S REPRESENTATIVE. WHO IS FIGHTING TO RETAIN HIS SEAT IN SENATE. WOULD REVISE THE HOLY WAIT Many Epi opalian Clergy- men Join in Call for an In-| vestigation of the Bible —— e Spectal Dispaich to The Call YORK, Feb. 7.—How Strong a er criticism is taking on the Episcopal church in wn by a letter now In ch calls upon the clergy like to unite in an investiga- so-called traditional details Bible. The is being sent broadcast through the coun , has the approval of many well known clergymen and churchmen. om the offices of George Fos- NEW bold Peabody, in the Kuhn-Loeb build- lllam and Pine streets, the sists chiefly of a letter| is the same, word for word, as that which was disseminated through- out Great Britain a year ago and ob- tained the sanction of of the established church. It even re- tains such expressions as ‘“‘general assent on the part of our rulers” and “authoritative encouragement” and other phrases which the authors of the present communication say are inap- plicable to American conditions. Between the lines, despite the very cautious wording of this epistle to the Americans, may be read that the sign- eve that miracles should not be accepted until they are proved and that many of the statements in the New € nent are regarded as traditions not to be accepted until they have been tested by the touchstone of research. Some of the residents of New York who are identified with the movement have been distinguished for their ac- tivities in behailf of reform in the realm They include such men as Fulton Cutting, Ernest H. Crosby, Brooks Leavitt, George Foster Peabody, Edward M. Shepard, Professor Brander Matthews and Seth Low. CHICAGO, Feb. 7.—Higher criticism scored another blow to-day when Pro- fessor Gerald B. Smith of the Univer- sity of Chicago Divinity School told the “theologists” at the divinity that the Bible and the word of God could no longer be considered iden- tical. Following so soon after the radi- cal critical volume of Professor Foster on “The Finality of Christian Religion,” Dr. Smith’'s statement met with close Said he: is now recognized that the word quoted e Scriptures is not identical with the God. Great Protestant reformers their beliefs on revelations from God. he Scripture, they said : ““Thus saith h and the 'Scripture was taken as the direct word of God. That attitude is no longer possible for the scholar, for he recog- zes that the Bible ix colored by both the d the expression of the men who R We must base our theology, not upon ten- | tative opinions, but upon absolute assurance. The reformers—among them Calvin and Luther —attacked the Catholic church because they objected to the reasoning of men as opposed to the absolute assurance of the word of God. We must arrive at a stage of absolute as- surance by a test of the inner personality, not of a_speculative possibility. Theology must be built upon absolute convictions. The only conception of the superpatural is one growing out of personal convicton rather than out of tentative conclusions based on books. We must proclaim absolute convietion. METHOD TO O DOLAN NOT YET DETERMINED UPON ice President Pre- nt of Miners at Distriet Convention. PITTSBURG, Feb. 7.—National Vice President Lewis saild to-night that he had received from President Mitchell instructions as to how to deal with Pittsburg Local No. 5, but had sent for further and clearer orders. He would not make them public until they were before the convention. Delegates of District 5, in anpther day of their cenvention, fajled to ar- rive at any definite action upon a method to oust President Dolan and Vice President Bellingham, and made an attempt to bolt the convention and elect other officers. The latter move was fraistrated by National Vice Presi- dent Lewis, who arrived here this morning. Lewis was dispatched here by President Mitchell upon receipt of appeals by telegraph from some of the delegates to the local, convention. The conventien adjourned until to- mMOrrow, o this | communication, | 700 clergymen | THE SAN FRANCISCO CA 1 i ONLY RELATIVES 10 BE INVITED Number of Cards Sent Out for Miss Roosevelt’s Wedding Again Cut Down FRANCE SENDS A GIFT Beautiful Piece of Tapestry Presented ‘Through the Kepubhie's xmoassaaor’ S Special Dispatch to The Call. s CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGLON, reb. i.—rhe cutung or | tne list of invitations to Miss alice Roosevelt's weauwing continues to €x- cite comment here, where it is said sev- | eral hundred persons who had counted upon invitations have ascertained that tney are doomed to disappointment. It |18 said on good authority inat intimate friends of rresident and ars. Rooseveit have been omitted in the revised list and with rare exceptions only a few | of Miss Roosevelt's ana Longworth's | close friends are to be asked to attend. Outside of the immediate members of the family only first cousins and first cousins’ children are bidden, thereby causing consternation among a multi- tude of Roosevelts who are not within this narrow limit. Boston has received | In proportion to its population many | more invitations than -any other city. This, it is explained, is because Miss | Roosevelt's mother was a Boston | It is whispered that, through | | | | | woman. | some error or for some uncxphunml‘ | reason, the wife of Senator Henry | | Cabot Lodge has not received the| | looked-for card. | | All arrangements for the wedding | have been made by President and Mrs. Roosevelt. Miss Alice has had very lit- tle to say in the matter and was al- lowed to invite only the most intimate of her girl friends and young matrons who had invited her to be their brides- mald. Each day adds to the collection of | wedding presents for Miss Alice ac- cumulating in the attic storeroom of the White House. The gift of France has arrived and been presented by Em- bassador Jusserand, in whose care it was sent. It is_.a beautiful plece of Gobelin tapestry, which was woven by M. Michael, chief weaver of the Gobelin factory, and is a replica of one of four famous pieces of tapestry in the Na- tional Gallery designed by Francois Ehrmann of Alsace. The original is priceless and this copy is sald to be valued at $25,000. It is understood it was first intended | by the French Government to give Miss | Roosevelt g set of Seyres china, but it was rumored that the German Emperor would give her a set of china and the | tapestry was then selected. The state~ | ment has been made that the gift was | chosen, woven and sent on its way to this country before President and Mrs. Roosevelt were aware of it and that | otherwise they would have requested the Government of France mnot to send it. It is said that the State Department [ has intimated to other countries which | | were contemplating the sending of | gifts not to do so, it being the family's wish to keep the wedding as purely so- cial as ‘the marriage of a President’s daughter can be. Though it is said Miss Roosevelt will make another trip to New York to com- plete her trousseau, she is getting much |of it here in Washington. She goes | nearly every day for a few hours’ shop- ping. Lingerie was her mission last | week; now hosiery and shoes are com- | ing in for their share of attention, and | to-day she purchased white satin slip- | [ pers to go with the wedding gown, | high boots, low shoes, tan shoes and suede shoes to match her gowns. | HAVANA, Feb. 7.—Dr. Ferrer, Cuban | Minister to Paris, reports that he has pur. chased a collar of pearls as Cuba’'s wed | ding gift for Miss Allce Roosevelt, and | | | | i [ ‘ 18:3: l;le “”t: Wl‘l‘l“h_elforv\('a%d'edmmstl\lr ‘ uesada, Cuban nister al ‘ashington. | |MYSTERY HEDGES NEW CORPORATION | |Ryan Interests May Secure a Foothold in All Large Cities. Special Dispatcn to The Call. ALBANY, Feb. 7.—A new corporation was born here to-day that for menace | and mystery exceeds anything of the sort | in the archives. Its title, ““The Traction, | Gas and Electric Finance Company of | | New York City"—a holding company at | that—seemed to smell of the Ryan-Bel- | mont merger, though Willlam F. Sheehan, one of the directors, denied to-night that | the company had any designs on the metropolis. The source of the certificate of incorpor- ation—the law offices of Parker, Sheehan & Hatch—flll combination shy citizens with a new apprehension. The filing of the incorporation papers startled the politicians and representatives of finan- cial interests who are located in this city. The company is filed as a holding com- pany, its capital stock being $500,00. The directors are John E. Borne, Cord Meyer, Stephen Peabody, Joseph B. Mayer and William F. Sheehan, all of New York city. The newly incorporated company has power to do business in all parts of the State and country, and it is believed that the Ryan interests intend to secure a strong foothold in all large cities where they are not already dominant. It is well known that the firm of Parker, Sheehan & Hatch is the representative of the Thomas F. Ryan interests. An idea of the millions behind the new company may be gathered from the list of directors. John Borne is director or president in the fouowing companies: The Bethlehem Steel Corporation, the Borne Scrymser Company, the Cltizens' Water Supply Company of Long Island, the Colonial Safe Deposit Company, the Colonlal Trust Company, the Cord Meyer Development Company, the Detroit Southern Railroad Company, the Griswold ‘Worsted Company, the Home Life Insur- ance Company, the International Steel Pulley Company, the Lanyon Zinc Com- pany, the Mount Morris Bank, the Mount Vernon Trust Company, the Mutual Bank, the Nassau Electric Rallroad Company, the National Park Bank and the Plaza Bank. Pears’ A soap is known by the company it keeps. Pears’ is found in good society, everywhere. : The use of Pears’ Soap betokens refinement. 1 Sceated, or not, as you prefert LLIONS OF INFANTS URDERED Chief of Federal Chemistry Bureau Says They Are Sac- rificed to Greed of Deal- ers in Adulterated Foods DEADLY NOSTRUMS FOR 1LLS OF BABES Impure Milk Sends Host of Little Ones to Grave Kach Year and Canned Food Adds Its Horde of Yietims WASHINGTON, Fob., 7—~That more than a million infants have been sacri- ficed to the various concoctions known as soothing syrups and pain killers and that more than twice that number have been killed by Impure milk was the declaration made Inst night by Profes- | sor H. W. Wyile, chief of the Chemistry Bureau of the Department of ture. Ve do not know anything about the milk that is left at our homes or the condittons under which it is produced,” he added. “There are a thousard and one possibilities which might have com- bined to make what nature intended for a food the most virile poison that chemistry can produce. “I rave found that the foods we daily consume are so fraught with germ life of a harmful nature that T am almost afraid to go to the table. The butter is painted: there is little other to be found anywhere. Camned goods are Kept for years and sold for the genuine article. 1 speak particularly of con- densed milk. If we know nothing of Agri- the fresh milk we get, surely our knowledge is more limited as to the product that is put into cans. The Lord intended us to resort to cans only to tide us over one season, until green fruits could be had again, but the can- neries don’t know 'this. There is no law requiring them to stamp the date upon their goods; if they did it would kill the sale.” —_— ee—— MIDSHIPMAN MERIWETHER MAY ESCAPE DISMISSAL Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte Rec- ommends His Pardon by Presi- dent Roosevelt. WASHINGTON, Feb. T7.—Secretary Bonaparte to-day recommended to the President the pardon of Midshipman Minor Meriwether Jr.. convicted of haz- ing and sentenced to dismissal from the Naval Academy. ANNAPOLIS, Md., Feb. 7.—Midship- man Richard Laurens de Saussure of South Carolina and George H. Melvin of Geneseo, Ill., were formally dis- missed from the Naval Academy at noon to-day for hazing. —_——————————— Endeavorers Will Go to Seattle. NEW YORK, Feb. 7.-~At a meeting to-day of the trustees of the United Society of. Christian Endeavor Seattle, ‘Wash., was unanimously decided upon as the place for the next general con- vention in 1907. IL. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1906. AMERICA REPRESENTS CASTRO IN FRANCE. President of Venezuela Shows Confidence 1n Uncle Sam. Asks the United Srates to Take Charge of Consulates. Secretary of State Root Complies With the Regquest. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—The Vene- zuelan Government has requested the Guvernment of the United States to take charge of its consulate in France. Sec- retary Root has decided to comply with the request and will give the necessary | instructions to the American Embassador in Paris. NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—Oliver Taigny, former French Charge d'Affaires at Car- acas, Venezuela, who arrived here last night on the steamship Zuila from Cura- cao, talked briefly to-day of conditions in Venezuela. He expressed the opinion that the industrial classes in that country were not giving active support to the Government's position on French affairs. “The people of Venezuela,” he con- tinued, “‘were quiet when I left there and their interest scemed to me to center principally in bettering their condition industrially.” He said that until he should confer with French Embassador Jusserand in ‘Washington he had no opinion to express concerning the conditions under which he was forced to leave Venzuela. “I received no passports,” he said, “and no written orders from the Venezuelan Government ordering me to lea 1t was because the Venezuelan police prevented me from landing at La Guayra that I left the country. The difficulties with Venczuela began on September 18 last when, on behalf of my Government, I protested against the seizure of the offices of the French Cable Company.” Taigny said that relations later became s0 strained that he was the only member of the diplomatic corps at Caracas who did not receive any invitation to the offi- clal New Year's ball Asked to explain what President Cas- tro’s objects were in the present contro- versy, Taigny said: “I do not know. Perhaps President Castro does not know himself."” “What did President Castro say to you:” “Meny things.” Asked whether he meant that he be- lieved Castro vsed duplicity in his state- ments, he replie *“Yes, that is it. —————— BOOKKEEPER OF DEFUNCT BROKERAGE FIRM ARRESTED He Is Accused of Embezzling the Com- pany’s Funds and Thus Bring- ing About the Failure. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. Law- rence E. Cummings, formerly book- keeper for the firm of P. K. Fahey & Co., stock and grain brokers, has been arrested upon the charge of embezzle- ment. When Fahey & Co. suspended, about two weeks ago, it was stated that the embezzilement of funds by a trusted employe was largely responsi- ble for the retirement of the firm from business. —————————— Valentine’s day. We have a big line, good for bre & other, sister and sweetheart. Sanborn, Vail Co. FRENCH CHARGE WHO WAS DRIVEN OUT OF VENEZUELA BY DICTATOR CASTRO. —_ INDIANS CONFESS THEY KILLED TRAMP Cut Throat of Cripple Who Would Not Buy Them Liquor. Specia! Dispatch to The Call. RENO, Feb. 7.—The foul murder of a crippled stranger at both of whom have made full confessions telling how they cut the man’s throat he refused to buy whisky for them. The at once to answer charges of murder. According to the culprits they fell in with the one-legged tramp on the after- | treight yards. They offered him a smas amount of money and asked him to buy held the cripple Indian Ibapah drew an old pocketknife and cut the tramp's throat. The cripple fought desperately Montello on_the ! night of December 27 has at last been | cleared up. Yesterday Sheriff Clark ar-| rested Indian Johnny and Indian Ibapah, | and then tried to burn the body because noon of December 27 in the Montello | them some whisky. He refused and they | leaped upon him. While Indian Johnny | were pinioned by Indian Johnny the other the Bible. Indians are in Jail and will be arraigned | mo 1y 11 3 YOUNC: JOHNSON 1S PUT IN JAIL Fighter Whose Blow Caused Ale¢ Dovin’s Death in Custody at Redwood City HE GIVES HIMSELF TUP Says Only Reason for Hid- ing Was Horror of Spend- ing Nights in Cold Cell “Chiefy” 1i. Johnson, the 13-year- old boy whose blow under the heart killed Alexander Dovin in the third round of their unlicensed prize fight at Colma on Monday night, and who has been sought for two days om a charge of manslaughter, gave himself up to Constable R. J. Carroll of Colma yesterday afternoon. Constable Car- roll at once escorted Johnson to Red- wood City, where the youth was locked up in the county jail to await the out- come of Friday's inquest. Johnson had Leen hiding in this city since the morning after the prize fight. He was willing to give himself up at once, but some friends frightened him into laying low for a few days. Ha says he dreaded sleeping in a jail cell. No request to arrest him was officially made of the San Francisco police, and Deputy Sherifft Butts of San Mateo County was alone in the hunt. As soon as Johnson realized that he was causing unfavorable comment by his action In hiding he determined to give himself up at once, and yesterday afternaon he took a car for Colma There he met Constable Carroll and submitted to arrest. Little more has been discovered as to the identity of the promoters who got up the fights on Monday might hout sanction of the law. There seems to be a tendency among the San Mateo officlals to let the whole af- fair drop as quletly as possible. The seven fighters 'now alive who were billed to fight maintain that there was no promoter, but that the matches were arranged by the Individuals. The mother and sisters of Johnson, who live at 62% Guerrero street, were surprised to learn that the boy en- gaged in prize fights. “We had no jdea that he fought in the ring,” said his sister yesterday. “We knew that he liked to box, but he never told us that he was a regular prize fighter.” The family feels certain that Johnson will be cuickly released. ——————ee Pla for King’s Burlal COPENHAGEN, Feb. 7.—The coffin containing the body of King Christian will, at the beginning of the service at Roskilde (the former capital of Den- mark), be placed before the high altar of the cathedral. whence it will be car- riéd by dignitaries of the kingdom to its resting place on the east side of the church. Here it will be deposited within a handsome sarcophagus. Thse . cofin is of massive oak. with two bronze plates inscribed with passages At the foot of/the cof- fin is King Christian’s monogram, af- fixed in bold characters. It is flanked with palms. -_— ———————— and several times had both of the In- | dlans upon the ground, but they fimally overpowered him, and while his hands redskin slashed his throat until he sev- ered the jugular vein, after which the body was burned. " Thousands of beau Oxfords in lace and are bench made and All go—while they Sale of Ladies’ Shoes Powell Street Store Only $4 Values for $2.65 stock of Harrison’s fine $3.50 and $4.00 shoes. shiny or kid leathers. tiful stylish Shoes—Entire button. Street shoes in Most of these shoes are rare values at $4.00. last—at...... ....52,65 Havin, them “a flying.” Cor. Powell and Ellis Arcade Entrance 972 Market Burt and Packard’s famous shoes, most favor- ably known throughout America as ¢one of the - best”---never sold for less than $3.50 and $4.00—- now on sale at a fraction of their cost. Patent leather, burro Jap, colt, kid, enamel, calf—-low shoes, high shoes, button shoes, lace shoes—all styles, but not all sizes; here and there a size is missing. Sale now in full blast at both stores, values $3.50 and $4.00, price . . $2.65 The Reason for This Great, Sale In taking on No. 26 Powell to our Powell and Ellis Streets store we bought the shoe stock of Mr. Harrison, formerly agent for Burt & Packard’s Shoes. already made arrangements for a line of $3.50 shoes, which we believe to be superior to any -sold at that price, we close out the Burt & Packard’s shoes, and place a price upon them that is sendin, Don’t miss this sale. [4