The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 16, 1906, Page 1

The € an Francisco and ttied weath ! - Forecast for February rriday; District Forecaster. vics fresh eouth G. McADIE, nts More News Than Any Other Paper Published i THE THEATERS. ALHAMBRA — “The Black Crook.™ Matinee— Theatrical Mechanics' Ben- GRAND—West's Minstrels. MAJESTIC—“Swi Bur- eet Nell LONCWORTH RUNS AWAY FROM GIFT P TR , Indian Deputation Fails to Find Ohioan. Wedding Present De- livered to Mr. Roose- velt Instead. Prospective Husband of Miss Alice Takes Out Mar- riage License. to The Call efs 1 th could iess he had a hide was and pliabie woven bit of pre- Longworth, of jokes the door- VANISHING ACT. £ no scalp lock to save, clock Longworth, Vels Perkins, h give the City Hall for a license to tant clerk of the mmon, filled in the responded to the . cases. He gave his age as 36 and that of Miss Roose- velt as 22 S GIFT TO MISS ALICE. nel gift of Emperor Wil- ¥ to Miss Alice Roose- ved in Washington. It ught bracelet of rare be presented to Miss Embessador Speck von Taft's present to was an elaborately table vase of American manu- members of the Metropolitan ited in pres square flver salver o tique design, tographic reproductions of the res of the donors. nt of the members of the with which Miss Roosevelt to the East, was a gold neck- alternate links set with dia- a pendant of an aqua- 1 translucency, sur- amonde. The aquama- 10 be w ed at more from th etting. Ac- present was a card in- follows love and best wishes to our from the members of the Taft aside The present of the Empress of China has not yet reached Washington, an it §s evident that it cannot be recefved Y cfore the wedding. to Miss Roosevelt & pair of silver can- @lesticks, beantifully chased and of elegant design. cretary and Mrs. Shaw will pre. 5.—Nine Osage | an of the | teide and the | " boarded a switch engine and went ‘by a mania to commit suicide is the Attorney General Moody will present | FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1906. COAL KINGS -~ AND WINERS FRATERNIZE Good Feeling Pre- . vails at Peace Conference. 'Committees Appointed | to Strive to Avert ' Strike. | Dispute Between Anthracite Operators and Workmen | May Be Adjusted. ommittee iners Feb. 15.—The special 1 the Union Anthracite Coal v esidents other officials mining companies here to- n general terms the prop- it desired the operators to grant then retired to formulate in detail ands. Before the conference i two subcommittees of seven ted, one repre- other the the ques- at issue and endeavor to reach an these -committees neir work they e conference. good feeling prevailed g the meeting and there were signs that all matters at Issue would be settled without resort to a ke. The conference, so far as it related |to the coal companies, was the most Tepresentative that has ever been heid. Every coal company in._the anthracite region - -weaes répresenied. - Fresident Mitchell of the Miners' Union was the epokesman for the employes, and made a speech that was well received by the operators. ake a report t e utmost 1d behind closea offices of the and lasted less It is believed that the at the time of the | December. These call for an eight-hour day, without any reduction in wages, for employes paid by the bour or week; a uniform wage scale for all classes of | employes; & 10 to 20 per cent increase reconstruction of the board lMatfon &nd the recognition There are other grievance: nature of or H0LIS D - THROLCH ICE UNTIL DEAD ‘Man Drowns Himself at the Edge of a Pond. EAST ET. LOUIS, Ill, Feb. 15.—With the greatest deliberation F. R. Avery, treasurer of the Avery Manufacturing of Peoria, Il to-day commit- the ice on a small pond near Centerville, six miles | south of here, and holding his head der water while he lay on the shore. Avery had last night tried to commit a hotel at Cairo, but had been and a guard had been placed " During the might he escaped from the guard. Search for him was in wvain. To-day a passenger on a northbound ofs Central train that had stopped Centerville saw a man leave the train, walk toward a little pon and lean down near the edge, after having broken the ice with his feet It was presumed he Intended washing his hands, as he was stocping down when the train pulled out. The matter was taiked about on the train and an in- quiry telegraphed back to Centerville, which 1s merely a station. The agent replied that a man’s body had just been. found at the pond. Yardmaster Bennett immediately Centerville and examined the body. | Two notes were found In the pockets. One was written on the back of a re- ! ceipt, and read. “To My Dear Wife: If I am found dead it isnot by my own hand. A tough gang has me In bad. F. R. AVERY.” The other note was scribbled on the inside of a sealed envelope addressed to J. B. Partholomew, Peoria. No paper was inclosed, these words being writ- |ten on the inside of the envelope: “I am going In the river at St. Louis, PFebruary 15, 1906. F. R. AVERY.” PEORIA, IL, Feb. 15.—Sudden_attack theory formed here to account for the | death of F. R. Avery, near St. Louls, this morning. Insanity has been hereditary in the family for gemerations and Avery's father committed suicide under a simflar {mania. An investigation of Avery's ac. counts with the Avery Manufacturing Company, of which he was secretary- treagurer, has shown them to be in per- fect order. sylvania appeared be- | eting of the miners at Shamokin last | to | RECEIVER FOR BANK Institution Is Involved. President and Other Of- ficials Are Accused of ‘ Gross Fraud. ’Funds of Concern Are Loaned on Securities of Little or No Value. .~ Epecial Dispated to The Call. CHICAGO, Feb. 15.—The Bank of Amer- | lea, incorporated last December with a | capital stock of $250,000, was placed in the | hands of a receiver to-night by Judgei | Chytraus of the Superior Court, on com- | plaint of John E, Kavanaugh, one of the stockholders. The bill asking for the re- | celvership holds former Judge Abner | Smith, president, and three officers of the | bank responsible for the insolvency of the | | institution. In the few weeks since the opening of | the bank President Smith is charged with | having so manipulated securities, mort- { gages and notes and the stock of the bank | that he has obtained amounts aggregat- |ing $146.000. The other officers, who, in | connection with President Smith, are held | responsible for the alleged insolvency of’ | the bank, are: G. F. Sorrow, vice presi- | | dent; Jerome Plerce, cashier, and F. E. | | Creelman, a stockholder and director. It| | 1s charged against these officials, together | with President Smith, that they had ab- { solute centrol ot the bank and its funds, FUNDS ARE MISSING. Thea operations of President Smith and | the ofciale mentioned in the bill are said | | to have been begun before the bank | opened for business. Judge Smith is said then to have borrowed money and placed it in the treasury to deceive the State Auditor into believing that the stock had been pala up. President Smith was one | of the prime movers in the formation of | | the bank, having subscribed for $70,000 of | | the stock. In order to prevent, if pos- | sible, a panic and a possible run on the bank, it was decided to file the bill for a receiver late to-night. Judge Chytraus and the clerk of the | Superior Court had been asked to be in their office and agreed to do so. Shortly before 10 o'clock attorneys representing {avanaugh appeared with the petition for receiver. Notice had been served previ- | ousty on President Smith, but he did not | appear either in person or by attorney. After reading the bill the court entered &n order appointing Danlel J. Healy, a stockholder, recelver. Bonds In 350,000 were furnished, and Healy took charge of | | the bank. | | Among the specific charges made | That be- | against President Smith are: | fore the bank was certified by the Sta | Auditor President Smith borrowed money |and patd it into the bank to cause ! the requisite amount of stock subscribed for by them to appear as paid on the books; that the full amount of money represented by the capital stock was on deposit; that immediately after the ex- amination by the Auditor and after the bank had commenced to do business Smith and others depleted the bank by | withdrawing the money they had de-| | posited in payment for stock subscribed | by them: that President Smith bor- | rowed $70,000 from the bank, giving in return notes signed by his wife and | brother-in-law, which are declared to be of little value; that within a few days after the bank opened for business Smith secured $62,500 from the bank for himself, giving in return mortgages on |real estate which are said to be inad- equate as security. | WORTHLESS PAPER TAKEN. | It is also alleged that President Smith |-nured into & contract with F. BE. | Creelman, & stockholder, by which the | 1atter was to subscribe for 250 shares of ! the stock and was to be permitted to | withdraw $150,000 from the bank at | any time he wished. This, it is stated | in the bfll, was done, and Creelman has | withdrawn nearly $200,000, giving in exchange drafts on other corporations in which he was Interested. Many of | these drafts, it is asserted, were sent | back unpaid untfl Creelman owed the | bank $80,000. President Smith, against whom the | serious charges are made, was a mem- | ber of the Cook County bench for many { years, having retired from the court in 1904. ——— STREET RAILWAY MERGER DEAL IS ABOUT COMPLETED ,E Phiiadelphia NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—In the long- predicte® merger of the Philadelphia company and the United Rallways In- vestment Company of San Francisco it is sald that the latter will issue for the purpose of acquiring the Philadel- phia company $12,000.000 of 5 per cent | Collateral trust bonds and 36,400,000 of | common stock. These amounts are suf- | ficient to take over $16,000,000 of the $30,000,000 issue of the Philadelphia company, common, paying 33750 in bonds and $20 in stock. The circular will offer to the Philadelphia company common stockholders the right to turn in_sixteen-thirtieths of their holdings. | The syndicate in charge of the deal by its large purchases several months ago is In a position to insure the suc- cess of the plan. Z Ladenburg, Thalman & Co. of this city will act as the bankers in the proposed deal : WOULD LET APPOINTED DOWN GATES 0 COOLIES Chicago Financial Chinese Boycott Has But One Object. Son of Former Minister to Peking Explains Situation, Says 25,000,000 Laborers Are Planning to Invade This Country. Bpectal Dispatch to The Call CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, | WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—Twenty-five { million Chinese laborers in the interior | of China are waiting for the bars to be let down so that they may come to the United States, according to Charles Denby, chief clerk of the State Depart- ment, who to-day addressed the sub- | committee of the House Committee on | Foreign Afairs at ing on the Foster bill amending the | Chinese exclusion law. As Denby spent | many years in China, to which country his father was United States Minister, his declaration caused a deep impres- sion. Discussing the present boycott of American goods by Chinese, Denby said that its purpose now was solely to force the repeal of the exciusion laws, and that the never be satisfied until this was done. He appealed to the committee not to make the laws less stringent, earnest- ly asserting that, in kis opinion, 1t would be better t: sscrifice all the trade the United States had or hoped to obtain from China than that this country should recede from fts pres- ent attitude. The California members of the House attended the hearing. FOREIGN MISSION ATTACKED. LONDON, Feb. 15.—The correspond- ent at Shanghai of the Standard tele- graphs as follows: “News has reached here of another attack on a foreign mission at Ngan- king, province of Nganhwel, on the left bank of the Yang-tse Kiang. No loss of life is reported. “Yesterday an attempt was made here by a trusted Chinese servant to mur- der the secretary of the French Munfc- ipal Council while he was asleep. The attempt was frustrated and the as- | sallant was arrested. “Many of the great provincial Viece- roys are displaying a marked anti- foreign attitude, which they would hardly dare to so openly assume unless they belleved that Peking approved their conduct. In the foreign settle- ments of treaty ports efforts are be- ing made quietly to recover privileges granted to foreigners. “In some quarters Japan is belleved to view the possibility of armed inter- vention being necessary with equa- nimity, since it would provide her with occasion to obtain from China what she failed to exact from Russia. VOLUNTEERS BEING RAISED. “In Shanghal! two additional com- panies of volunteers are being ralsed. It is reported that the Municipal Coun- cil favors strengthening the Sikh po- lice force, by 500 men. Unfortunately it is at this juncture that it has been decided to reduce the British China squadron.” The Tribune's Peking correspondent telegraphs that Yuan Shi Kal, com- mander of the Chinese forces, has moved an expedition of more than 3000 men, with 24 guns, from Paotung to Chenchau against Chinese bandits. CRL TRIES I BOFS Sum San Franecisco Maid of Six- teen Enjoys Experience Un- til Her Funds Give Out Special Dispatch to The Call, SACRAMENTO, Feb. 15 _Yesterday afternoon a rosy-cheeked lad, with a cap jauntily aslant on a curly head, walked up to ‘the Police Sergeant and saiq: “I'd like to make & confession.” “What's your name?’ inquired the officer. “Ethel Donahue,” replied the young- ster. “But Ethel's a girl's name, and you're a boy,” said the Sergeant, eyeing the visitor. “Oh, no, I'm not. I'm a girl,” blushed the youth. The Sergeant took her word for it and notified her parents in San Francisco. An elder brother came UP on a midnight train and returned with her to-day. Ethel told the police that one day she had her hair cut and, thinking she looked like a boy, resolved it would be fun to act like, one. So she got hold of $50 ang, sty away from home, wandered all the opening hear- | Chinese people would | e ALBANY, N. Y, Feb. 15.—Charges in- cluding subornation of perjury, bribery of lawyers, misconversion of miilions of dollars and the enlistment of District Attorney Jerome in a conspiracy to whitewash the offenders were made against the Metropolitan Street Railway Company and its officials at a hearing before the Assembly Committee on Ways and Means yesterday. ‘William N. Amory of New York, for- merly treasurer of the Third-avenue Sur- face Railway Company, who has been fighting the Metropolitan for several years, made a virulent attack on Dis- PRICE FIVE CENTS. DISTRICT ATTORNEY JEROME OF NEW YORK AGCUSED OF SHIELDING VIOLATORS OF LAW o t District Protesting before a legislative committee against the proposed merger of New York City rail- | { roads, William N. Amory has made sensational charges agai i 2 me. | Amory alleges that Jerome had knowledge of subornation of perjury, bribery and fraud com- ] } Attorney Jer | mitted by the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, and that he entered into a conspiracy to i suppress the facts and “whitewash” the guilty persons. ‘Former Railroad Man Will Ask Governor Higgins to Remove the Prosecutor. Makes Sensational Charges Against Financiers Back of City Railroads Merger. that he told James W. Osborne and me that he was satisfied as to their guilt and that the evidence was sufficient to convict. I declare that Jerome subse- quently entered into a conspiracy to al- low these criminals to escape. I de- clare that in furtherance of this end he suppressed facts and deliberately is- sued an official statement which is proved by the records to have been will- fully false.” No action was taken on the resolu- tion. Another hearing will be held ne ‘Wednesday, at which William M. Ivins, recent Republican candidate for Mayor, and many other New Yorkers will argue against the merger. | | 11 { | | - trict Attorney Jerome, Amory submitted | figures which he sald proved that frauds | amounting to millions of dollars had been perpetrated by the officers of the Metro- politan system on its stockholders and the public. The company, he charged, bribed judges, juries and witnesses. In- formation of this in many cases and es- pecially in one case where he himself fur- nished the material had been sent to the District Attorney, said Amory, but, in- stead of acting to convict the offenders, Jerome had entered into a conspiracy to let them escape. Because of this Amory declared he intended to ask Governor Higgins to remove the District Attorney. The Foelker resolution asking for a legislative investigation of the street railways of New York city, and partic- uiarly of the recent merger of traction interests in New York, brought out these charges. *A legislative investigation, Amory said, would force Thomas F. Ryan and his associates to “disgorge” thirty or forty millions. Still the Metropolitan was so rotten financially because of its frauds that not even a combination with the Gnancially sound August Belmont road, almost its equal in moral iniquity, could save the system long. JUGGLERY BY FINANCIERS. Saying that financlal statements issued by the Metropolitan Company and its representatives and filed with the various State and city departments were false and misleading, Amory went on: “Somebody made $4,500,000 profits in 1308 in discounting $860,000 of the 3 per cent notes of the New York City Raflway Company, owned by the Metropolitan Securities Company.” In another instance, in 1903, Amory s g xv 4 :tukh s tre 0 from the 0] ™S fii‘-—::’:';n “to pay for the Third-ave- nue stock,” which had been paid for years before. Proof of this, which he iaid before Jacob H. Schiff, he said, en- abled Schiff to force restitution of 36,- 000,000 from Thomas F. Ryan In 1803. Of $13,000,000 collected at the same time for electrifying the foad about $3,000,000 was spent for that purpose, he said. He added: “I think I can furnish information tending to show that on a certaln ocea- sion Thomas F. Ryan put up $10,000 of Metropolitan stockhol money as part of the assessment required for the nomination of a certain Supreme Court J“-!xuge‘t:n. District Attorney of the county of New York were honest and fearless, as he himself 8o often has de- trails of 3:.. into the office of the Metropolitan t Raillway Company—ifine pos- m the courage to arralgn against himself the most dangerous, the ‘most vindictive and the most powerful influ- ences at work in the community'—I quote his own words—the necessity for | in® on by the Legislature of ::c acts of this band of heartless crim- OFFICTALS AND FINANCIER WHO | FIGURE IN A NEW YORK GRAFT SENSATION. ;o e S SENATOR ACTS A3 AGENT FOR THE RAILROAD Kittredge Represents the Milwaukee in His State. VERMILION, 8. D.,, Feb. 15.—It was not generally known hers until a few days ago who was the resident agent for the Milwaukee Railroad Company. Now it is learned that the man upon whom service can be made in an ac- tion against the company is none other than United States Senator A. B. Kitt- redge, who was attorney for the com- pany before his election to the Senate and, it is reported, is still serving the big corporation. The fact was brought out here a few days ago, when the Milwaukee brought suit to secure title to a tract of land near {ts station and to have a valua- tion placed upon it by a jury. The company is Incorporated under the laws of Wisconsin, but to show that It had complied with the South Dakota ONE_ HILLO Price Chicago Railway Company Could Af- ford to Pay. Special Dispatch to The Cail CHICAGO, Feb. 15— The Chicago City Rallway Company can afford and would be willing to pay $1,000,000 for each Alderman’'s vote for another twenty-year franchise similar to the old one However, the present City Council seems to be unusually honest and it probably would take an !mmense sum to buy votes in it,” sald Professor Wiiliam Hill of the department of po- ltical economy of the University of Chicago, in a lecture to his class to-day on graft in the cities. “Chicago,” said Professor HIill, “has no system of accounting worth any- thing and it 1s easy for grafters to steal public funds. The amount of graft in the city is so large that private cor- porations can get whatever they desire. If a street car company would pay its employes wages 10 per cent higher than the market value it could comtrol their votes. As the car barn vote i3 20,000, this would be sufficient to swing nearly every election.” Professor Hill said that he based some of his deductions on a recent taik Product Consumed in January. NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—New Yorkers aré drinking quite a lot these days Last month alone 372.000 gallons of wine were brought here by ships. Ome hundred and ninety-three thousand six hundred gallons came from California,