The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 12, 1906, Page 1

Mondey, probably showers: light south- west wind. G. H. WILLSON, Local Forecaster. T4 THE THEATERS. CHUTES—Vaudeville. Matinee. COLUMBIA—“The County Chairman.’ GRAND—West's Minstrels. MAJESTIC—"“'Sweéet Nell ot O SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MAY MONAHAN RECEIVES|FIRFIGNERS FAMILY'S GRATITUDE. P EXPOSES DUPLICITY OF TEACHER PROFESSOR TH( CREANT 8 AND WHO SAYS H ACE FOR 11 HOWED HIM Girl Who Revealed Man’s Perfidy Is Thanked. Miss May Monahan, the dainty little woman who refused to marry Charles S. Thompson, the missing assistant prin- cipal of the Livermore High School, was visited yesterday by a brother-in-law of Miss Alma Hand, the young woman whom Thompson deserted on the eve of the gate set for the wedding. Miss Hand's relatives thanked Miss Monahan on be- half of the family for revealing the dupli- city of Thompson in courting #vo women at the same time. He assured her that if the marriage had taken place, Miss Hand would not have remained with him and that by his flight the family consid- ered that it escaped an unlucky and un- enviabie entanglement. During the two years that Thompson > TISS 2o ”a&r—aor»{ ST FLANCEE, RECENTLY RETURNED FROM LOS ANGELES, TION OF MISS HAND ON COWARDLY DE: SELF AN INGRATE IN GENERAL WHO DENOUNC THE RE- THE EVE OF HER WEDDING, TWO CEORCH COLONELS T0 FCHT A DUEL Atlanta Politicians An- xious to Slay One Another. Special Dispatch to The Call. ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 11.—A personal difficulty which will be accompanied by she use of pistols will take place n At- lanta to-morrow if the preventative ef- forts of mutval friends be not effective. s will be the result of newspaper s, which have been written by Colonel & James W. English, chief of Governor Terreil's staff, one of the wealthlest col- onels in Georgla politics, and ColonelJohn Temple Graves, editor of the Atlanta News, lecturer nnd candidate for the United States Senate. Colonel English is known as a man who s quick to defend his honor. Colonel Graves considers himself the successor of Hepry W. Grady in the South, and is known to be of quick temper. As a re- 1t of the purchase of the News' stock President “Samuel Spencer of the hern Raflway. which stock was sub- sold 1o Colonel gentien: bave said som of one another. Colonel English said that it was impos- answer ad seriatim the “myriads told by Colonel.Graves, while the sajd it was impossible to mention name of Colonel glish without ring the “clanking of ict chains.” k factory nglish, the two bitter things seque: and leases Georgla convicts, It is said to-might that a board of honor is attempting 10 50 arrange matters as to satisfy the honor of both without injury ther. Hearings of varicus injunction suits af- fecting the management of the News come up to-morrow. It, therefore, will be impossible to prevent a meeting of the two men in court. NSKS $10,000 0N HS AT N IWENTOR Wealthy Man Plans a Long Voyage in Airship. Special Dispstch to The Call. NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—To win a wager of $10,000, Major Charles J. 8. Miller has ordered an airship from Leo Stevens and has risked his money and | his reputation for daring on a propo- sition that he will sall in his own ship from this city to his home in Frank- iin, Pa. Stevens is now working on the air- ship in a loft on Ninth avenue. He ex- pects to have it in commission by May 1. It is part of the contract that he shall instruct Major Miller in the art of navigating the air until the Major becomes proficlent enough to go it alone. 2 Major Miller will not be able to make the trip to Franklin without coming to earth because of the necessity of re- newing his supply of gasoline, but he hopes 1o be abie to carry out the terms of his wager, which provide that the trip must be made without accident and with only such stops as are made neces- sary because of inability to carry enongh fuel to keep the ship in the afr for the entire distance. 3 The voyage will take three days at least, including the time which would be taken out for refilling the tanks and for eating and sleeping. The contract price for the airship is $5000. ————————— Electric Plant Burned. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, Feb. 11.— The entire plant and equipment of the Poughkeepsie City and Wappingers Falls Electric Company was destroyed by fire to-day. ' Twenty-two electric cars were burned. Loss §150,000. - — was engaged to Miss Monahan he met and wooed Miss Hand and wrote senti- mental if not%dentical love letters to both young women. What made the missing man’s conduct the more despicable was the fact that Miss Monahan had from time to time loaried Thompson money to enable him to finish his course at Stan- ford Unlversity and he is now indebted to the trusting woman to the amount of $400. Thompson had an interview with Miss Monahan on December 2 in which he, told her that he would try to pay back the money he owed her. After he left her he wrote several times, but never ocalled, and it was not untll a friend of Miss Monahan's sent her an invitation card umounclnf the proposed wedding of Thompson to Miss Hand, that she learned of the man’s duplicity. Bhe then visited Migs Hand and later Thompson was called to account. Thompsop then called upon Miss Mona- !rn, who told him in plain what she thought of his conduot end sald that the only reparation he could make her was the return of money she had so free- ly lent him In his time of need. This Thompson said he could not do, and asked her to wait. On the day he disappeared Thompson wrote Miss Monahan that he would never pay her the money, and un- gratefully charged her with trying to blackmail him. Miss Monahan left the city two weeks ago for a visit to Los Angeles, believing that Thompson would marry Miss Hand. She says it beyond telling Miss Hand of her engagement to Thompson she re- fused to Interfere, for after he had pxov:d himself so unmanly she cast him oft. £ It was with surprise therefore that she picked up a newspdber in Los Angeles several days ago and learned of the flight of Thompson on the eve of his marriage to Alma Hand, after that young woman had made arrangements for the ceremony even to preparing for a rehearsal of the wedding before a minister. The guests had gathered, the presents had been re- ceived and acknowledged, but at the last moment Thompson’s nerve had failed him, and he concluded to shirk the hosts of troubles that he imagined Miss Monahan was preparing for him. In the letter in which Thompson ac- cused his benefactress of blackmall, the writer said he would g0 away forever and that no one W« ever take him alive. In another letter he said that if she in- sisted on securing the money he would commit suicide. g In the meantime no effort is being made by either of the familles of the young women to find Thompson, and Miss Mona- han declares that she will have nothing miore to do with him, and will not prose- cute him to recover the money she has lent him. - = z o | WARNED 11 FLEE CHIM {Februafy 29 Said to Be Date for Massacre. Mongolian in America Urges His Friends to Escape. Says the Greatest Siaughter of Modern Times Is Near at Hand. ERERAES e, =i el Special Dispateh to The Call. CINCINNATI, Ohio, Feb. 11.—Wong Fong, former ecretary of the Six Com- panies in San Francisco, who is visiting in this city, to-day said the Boxer trou- ble in China was about to culminate in the greatest massacre of modern times, He issued the following warning to several American friends to-night, tele- raphing it to Seattle, Los Angeles and San Francisco: “The blow is about to fall. Cable warnings .to friends to leave China at once. Tell them to seek the protection | of Germany temporarily and to get out of the country before February 24.” Fong is visiting Ah Loo Wal, the wealthiest member of the local Chinese colony. After the messages were sent, he explained their purport as follows: “I received word this morning that an order had been sent out to the sub- ordinate circles of the Chinese Reform Association to throw off all foreign ele- ments in our country, starting Febru- ary 25. The association is ostensibly patriotic.” ROOT AND TAFT.TO EXPLAIN. Root and Seeretary Taft will appear be- fore the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate and thé Philippine Com- mittee of the House this week to ex- plain the critical situation in China and the necessity for an appropriation of $500,000 for sending troops to the Phil- ippines, for service in China. It has practically been decided that Congress will not authorize this expenditure un- til advised of the exact situation. For months alarming advices have been re- | celved at the Department of State from China which indicate that there has been a constant and alarming growth of the anti-foreign sentiment and that in the near future there will be an un- rising against foreigners which will be more dangerous and far-reaching than the Boxer trouble, which necessitated the sending of foreign troops to Peking to rescue the beleaguered foreign dip- lomats, who were prisoners in the em- bassies and legations. That the American Government has mitigated the rigor of the administrative features of the exclusion law has not | pacified the Chinese. The latest advices to the Department of State show that the boycott is growing in its scope. One of the most alarming features of the situation is that the central Govern- ment is losing its influence with the peo- ple; that the Viceroys who govern the great populous provinces are acting inde- pendently, of the Emperor, in some in- stances defying his decrees. Some of | them have deliberately arrayed the people against the Government. The BEmperor issued a number of decrees forbldding the continuance of the boycott, but in most instances his orders were defled. CHINESE MINISTER’S THREAT. PITTSBURG, Feb. 11.—We will have a decent treaty or none at all.” This 1s the way the Chinesé Minister put the matter to Rev. E. S. Donahoe of this city, in an Interview in Washington last week. Dr, Donahoe, who Is one of the best known workers among the Chinese in this country, had a lengthy conference with the Minister last week and has just returned to Pittsburg. He said: “The Chinese are not dependent upon us for anything. They can gét anything they need from other countries, Germany is now supplying the war material and rallway supplies we might have sold them but for our treatment of the Chinese. The feeling throughout the country against us is Intense and the Peking Gov- ernment is powerless to prevent it. If another rising should take place, as ap- pears very probable, it would make the Boxer rebellion seem a trivial affair in comparison. len now our missionaries are not safe and I shudder to think what any day may bring forth, “The Chinese Minister told me they are ! determined to have a decent treaty or none at all.-The Japanese can do nothing, as China is not going to be dominated by a little nation like that. She is already awakening and her people will show as great progress as the Japanese in a few vears. When that point is reached China Will be a most formidable nation and one we should seek to be friendly with, in- stead of at enmity.” CANTON VICEROY 70 BLAME. HONGKONG, Feb. 11.—A dispatch re- ceived here from Canton says that the anti-foreign sentiment there is due to the COLLEGE EDITORS A week ago Editor Sam Hell- man of the Daily Californian, the University of California Daily, editorially criticised Mor- ris Oppenheim, editor of the Stanford Chapartal, for his apology to Dr. Jordan in the recent student troubles at Stan- ford University. Yesterday Oppenheim went to Berkeley, sought out Hellman and struck 'him. Hellman fled, but after- ward met Oppenheim and ef- fected a setlement. He will | modify his old editorial on Monday./ 3 Morris Oppen heim and Hell- man Mix. Fight Is Caused by Caustic Article STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Feb. 11— The ire of a man who belleves he has been willfully wronged by the caustic words of another’s editorial rankled in the heart of Morris Oppenheim, editor of the Stanford ‘“Chaparral,” all last week until yesterday, when his righteous wrath could no longer be contained within him. He must have blood for the insult. And so this mornipg he gathered his hosts about him and marched in bat- tle array from calm Palo Alto straight to the peaceful campus of Berkeley, there to make war upon one Sam Hellman, the hl.t:i eallmr of the Daily Californian and author _of the can! rous that P80, gou08a T edlon of SiadforYs hu- morous paper to this deed of desperation. Oppenheim’s host cousisted of C. M. Laumeister, '07, and C. M. Hadley, '06, both of them prominent Stanford stu- dents. The three entered stealthily un- der the shadow of the great campus oaks at Berkeley and there lay in watca for Hellman the JHated. An hour of watching and the vietim did not come. Oppenheim’'s wrath was increasing. A forward march upon tHe gymnasium was ordered. Caution was thrown to the winds. There was no de- ploying or taking advantage of natural barriers; the charge was right up the main avenue to the gymnasium door. ADVANCES ON HELLMAN. There stood the unsuspecting Hellman the Hated. He did not recognize the countenance of the dreaded Oppenheim. This might be a congratulatory brigade for his brave editorial. The thought of an enemy advancing right into the stronghold of the Berkeley camp never once entered his head. There was an onslaught, sudden and terrible. Like the warriors in the Her- culean days Oppenheim depended on brawn alone. He would leave the path red with the blood of Hellman the Hated or die in the attempt. Honor must be satisfied. Oppenheim’s goodly right shot forth and { struck the enemy full on the jaw. Hell- man the Hated started back and nearly fell. In the moment of terrible pain and dizziness that followed he recognized the relentless face of Oppenheim the Dreaded. He raised his right to strike, but too late. A left that would have been the envy of ancient Greece caught him just behind the right ear. Hellman the Hated hesitated and then fled. Swift of foot he was, and he made good his escape into the quarters of the Bachelorden Club, the home of his own guard. He was safe from Oppenheim the Dreaded. But Oppenheim the Dreaded besieged from without and with his host blocked every path of escape. Hellman the Hated came to the second-story window. He offered peace. He would shake hands. He would qualify the editorial. He would do almost anything. PEACE IS DECLARED. Oppenhelm the Dreaded hesitated. His was the victory. A spirit of forgiveness swept over his barbarian heart. He re- lented. He held out his hand. Hellman the Hated saw and trusted. He came down and placed his right in that of his enemy. Peace was restored. The battle had been planndd, fought and peace made in jyst seven hours. Oppenheim the dreaded was appeased in his wrath. He broke bread with Hellman the Hated. There was feasting and rejoicing. “Let us be forever friends,” begged Oppenheim the Dreaded. “Done,” cried Hellman the Hated. Thus was peace secured again. Then Oppenheim the Dreaded took a tearful leave of Hellman the tiated and gathered his hosts and returned with them to Stanford to nurse his bruised knuckles, for he bore the marks of battle. But he was satisfied, and within his heart burned the fires of intense joy. For Hell- man the Hated had promjsed to apologize, and all was well. The trouble between the editors of the rival colleges occured over the stand re- attitude of the Viceroy, who appears l:o- cently taken by Morris Oppenheim in re- | be determined to create friction with t United States. The Viceroy up to the present has taken no action in connection | to this country. This movement is cked | with the representations of the consular | by European interests. It is a misthke on body regarding the recent attacks on for- the part of Americans to pay any atten- eigners. A leaflet has been widely circu- | tion to the boycott, because there is noth- lated fn the city of Canton urging the people to co-operate with a view to the expulsion of the Viceroy. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Feb. 11.—“The so- calied boycoit on ~American goods in China is largely 2 myth,” sald Baruch Cerf, superintendent of the industrial commercial exhibit at Shanghai, to-day. “All this talk about a boycott is part of a general scheme hatched by certain cor- porations in a few places like Canton, where they make a business of lending money to the class of coolles that come ing in it. The:boycott, based as it is upon the exclusion act, affects only those who: migrate to this country. Within the bounds of those eighteen provinces and three colonial dependencies where the! trouble is sald to exist the people of but two provinces migrate, and only the very poorest classes of this intensely popu- lated district. The coolies of the Fokien province migrate to the Malay states and along the peninsula. Throughout the re- mainder of China comparatively few peo- ple ever leave thelr homes.” TIORRIS >~ OFFENHEIM RIVAL EDITORS WHO FOUGHT THE OVER AN ARTICLE IN DAILY CALIFORNIAN. ible between ti ‘:r&n(wemv} sity. He apologized in the columns of the Dafly Palo Alte, the Stanford dally pa- per, for saying that the monitors ap- pointed by Dr. Jordan in Encina Hall were sples. Hellman wrote an editorial in the Dally Californian, the University of California"daily, dubbing this an act of cowardice on the part of Oppenheim. HELLMAN MAKES DENIAL. BERKELEY, Feb. 1l.—Sam Hellman, the editor of the Daily Californian, when asked to-night as to the truth of the re- port that Morris Oppenheim, editor of the Stanford University publication, The Chaparral, had struck him yesterday in an effort to force a retraction of the editorial published in the Californian, criticising Oppenhelm for his weak stand during the recent Encina Hall trouble at Stanford, sald: “There is not the slightest foundation for the report that Oppenheim and I came to blows. He was excited when he first arrived in Berkeley and some hot words were passed, but before he left he was convinced that he had been mis- taken, and when he left we shook hands and parted the best of friends. There were noiblows struck, and I cannot un- derstand where such a report could have originated, unless some excitable person who knew Oppenheim saw him in Berke- ley, and hearing that he was looking for me immediately imagined that there would be trouble between us and then set about spreading the report that the encounter had really taken place. “Oppenheim furnished me with a state- ment which he asked me to run in the Californian explaining his position in the matter, and I will print it. That is all there is to the Incident.” COUNT BONTS DERTS REAC LARGE TO French Nobleman Owes Eighteen Million Francs. —— Speecial Dispatch to The Call PARIS, Feb. 11.—Conservative estimates place the debts of Gount Boni de Castel- lane at 18,000,000 francs, of which 8,000,000 are said to be due to jewelers. He is also heavily indebted to money lenders. As showing his pictyresque and monu- mental extravagance and his method of “borrowing,” it is related that he ordered & fur coat costing 100,000 francs. When the coat was delivered there was 90,000 francs in a pocket. However, this method of borrowing from tradespeople is prac- ticed by many Parisian aristocrats. A viscountess, whose name been mentioned in connection with the Count’s, said before the scandal was disclosed, and ‘while his amiability: “Just fancy, Boni dined at my home only a few times and now he sends me a pearl necklace worth 100000 francs.” ————————— Four Killed in Wreck. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—The official report of the accident on the Southern Railway at Greensboro, N. C., early this morning, received at the offices of the company in this city, states that four employes were killed. No passengers were injured. THOUSANDS _ ENGAGE IN BATTLE] 4RE FACIC STARVATION Famine Threatens Three Japanese Provinces. Roots and Leaves the ‘Principal Diet of the Populace. Almost Total Failure of Rice Crop Brings Great Distress. Spécial Dispatch to The Call WASHINGTON, Feb. 1l.—Famine is threatening three of the northern pro- vinces in Japan, according to a dispatch received at the State Department, and great suffering will follow unless relief be forthcoming. The dispatch says: “Three of the northern provinces of Ja- pan, namely, Miyagl, Fukushima & and Iwate, with a population of 2,821,507, are confronting famine, the worst since the disastrous ome of 1840. The failure of the rice crop in these districts is assigned as the primary cause of the famine, and since rice forms the principal article of diet for the Japanese people it is at once understood what a crop fallure means. A committee chosen by the foreign commu- nity of Sendal after an investigation an- nounced that in a population of $69,279 at least 280,000 were in, extreme distress. The official statement by the Tokio G - ment reveals only in part the terrible con- dition of the people and the suffering they must endure before the new crops are harvested. “Thousands are living on roots and leaves mixed with small quantities of rice or flour. Many are grinding acorns, ‘andl-after extracting the nmeru*m‘_. nut are using the flour Tor “QOf the provinces mentioned Miyagi is in the worst condition. The average crop of rice In this district is valued at .- 976,000 in gold. The yield this year was but 12 per cent of the average, and the loss entailed amounted to about $4,985,000 gold. There are more than 250,000 people in this province, and disaster to them all Is ap~ parent. “Fukushima province grows rice each year to the value of $9,239,802 20 in gold. This year's crop has been 75 per cent a fatlure, and the loss here amounts to more than $7,000,000 in gold. This provinee supports a population of 1174024 The eastern part of the province seems to have suffered most, and the riee ewop / there is but 15 per cent of the average! yield. Reports from this district show that fully 300,000 persons a~e suffering food, and immediate steps must be taken to avold a calamity.” . / BREACH OF PROMISE ' SUIT AGAINST MIZNER Sister of Edith Crater Says Latter Will To-Day An- nounce Details. DES MOINES, Iowa, Feb. 1l.—Detalls of the proposed breach of promise suit of Edith Crater against Wilson “Mizner,+ whi recently married Mrs. Yerkes, will be given out by the young woman to- morrow, according to Miss Alleen Stone, her sister, who Is a member of a theatri- cal company playing here. “There are sufficlent grounds for the suit she Is about to bring.” said Miss Stone, “but she has begged me not to say much about it. Edith 1s not an actress. She lives at our family home in Brooklyn.™ —————— PRINCE EUGENE OF SWEDEN TO WED AN OPERA SINGER Third Som of King Oscar Wil Renounce All of His Royal Rights. PARIS, Feb. 11.—Prince Eugens of Sweden, Duke of Nerecia. third son of King Oscar and an artist to the very tips of his fingers, has charmed his friends by announcing that he will wed the beautiful Mlle. Graefe, to whom he has been so long devoted. Mlle. Graefe is an opera singer of Swedish birth and !s much admired fo» her beauty and charming manner. Tha Prince, of will renounce all his royal rights, n doing this he will follow the le of his brother Os- car, who married a mald of honor of the Swedish court. Prince Eugene is an artist of more than ordinary ability. He studied many years in the studios of Bonnat and Puvis de Chavannes and has just pub- lished a book of sketches of Swedish scenery. —_———— NO CONFIRMATION RECEIVED OF TROUBLE IN THIBEY LONDON, Feb. 11.—Neither the For. eign Office nor the Indian Office had any knowledge to-day of the British garrison in Thibet being surrounded by hostile tribes. Reynolds’ Weekly Newspaper of Lon« don published on Saturday morning @ story to the effect that the British gar« rison left in Thibet had been surround- ed and that an expedition for its relief ‘Was necessary. —_———————— Ploneer Physician Dead. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 11.—DPr. Thomas Ross. president of the Sacramenfe City Board of Health, died this mern. ing from the effects of a stroke of paralysis. He was a native of Ontaria Canada, and 63 years of age