The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 20, 1906, Page 2

(8] FLORODORA GIRL RALROAD BILL THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY. WINS A LORD. Frances Belmont Becomes the Bride of Ashburton in French Capital. = 7 ! l THE 5 ¥ MAN FOR WHOM TO CALIFORNIA GIRL IS WED WITHIN SHADOW OF ALPS News of App ping Marriage of | Wealthy Retired Dairyman Is Received at Petalu FRENCH PRIESTS ATTACKED BY INDIANS IN MEXICO One Killed and Two Fatally Wounded in Mountains Near the City of Puebl; XI1CO, ay F | ON AND | OFF LIKE A COAT TELLS THE BTORY OF THE COAT SHIRT $1.50 and more Clu*t.?uhlJlW end Biirte 10 the world, Choose. Dr-Graves’ Tooth Powder Dentists say— It is the best denti- frice and antiseptic in the world for the teeth and gums—Ileaves the enamel white and gleaming; also leaves a delicious after taste.” In handy metal cans or bottles. 25¢. Dr-Graves’ Tooth Powder C | | 1 i | Cripple Creek and Telluride. | said that Orchard’s confession gives a 0F ASSHSSINS (ONSPIRACES Continued From Page 1, Column 1. charged the bomb by means of which Steunenberg was killed at Caldwell, Idaho, on December 30, 1905. The spe- ge of murder was made, it is , in order to forestall habeas eedings on behalf of the ac- | used men; but no attempt will be made to prove that they were in Idaho at itoe of the commission of the crime. alleged, how. that they red with others to murder Ste berg and provided funds to carry out plot The atrocious murders committed dur- It sy ing labor troubles in the Cripple and Telluride districts in this State, which have been shrouded in the earl Coeur d’Alene murders and th orm a chain are being made to connect the officers of the Western Federation of Miners on a t Steunenberg asss confession sald to have been made by |pected that in view of the former action | Harry Orchard, who is charged with the | Steunenberg murder. PEABODY'S DEATH PLANNED. This confession, it i a plot to kill former Gov Peabody of Colorado, bert, Chief Justice rted, disclosed rnor James H. William H. Gab- of the Colorado Su- | preme Court, and John Campbell, former | Chief Justice. Orchard is said to have copfessed that wholesale assassinations planned at the headquarters of the Western Federation of Miners in Denver, chiefly by refugees from the camps at It s also history of the explosion at the Indepen- dence depot, near Cripple Creek, on June | 6, 1904, which killed fourteen men and in- Jjured many others. | Governor * McDonald, who issued the necessary papers for the extradition of confession, but was not at liberty to di- vulge its contents James McParland, head of a detective | agency which was employed by the Idaho | authorities in the Steunenberg case, de- | POOSe, | clared that the evidence against the men | who have so far been arrested was very | strong, and that more arrests were yet to be made. He would not state the nature of his evidence, nor how it was obtained. “The operations of the Mollie Maguires in Pennsylvania, whom I ran to earth and disrupted,” sald McParland, *‘were children’s play ,compared with the work of the Moyer-Haywood crowd. They have existed for elghteen years, but their days are numbered.” Vincent 8t. John, who was arrested in Burke, Idaho, last night, was president of the miners’ union at Telluride, Colo., at the time of the assassination of Ar- thur Collins, superintendent of the Smug- gler-Unfon mine in that camp. He was arrested and charged with complicity in that murder, but was never brought to trial HIDDEN BOMBS ARE FOUND. It develops that Orchard’'s confession, according to the best authority, stated that bombs had been placed in the gate- ways of the residences of two members of the Colorado Supreme Court and that more than a dozen attempts had been made to assassinate former Governor Peabody. An investigation since the al- leged confession was made disclosed the presence of bombe In exactly the spots indlcated. The men who unearthed the bombs, & prominent member of the Colo- rado Natlonal Guard, is now in Idaho, having accompanied the party that re- turned with Moyer, Haywood and Pett|- bone. He will appear as & witness in the Orchard trial, it is said, to prove the [ “TOBE AMENDED President Favors a Changed Provision Providing for Appeals to the Courts UPREME COUBT RULING SRSl 5 Important Deciston Involv- ing Question ¢f Discrimi- nation in Fregght Rates WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Following a conference between Altorney General | Moody and Speaker Canfon and Senators Clapp and Dolliver, thé Attorney Gen- eral and Chairman Knapp and Commis- sioner Prouty of the Interstate Commerce Commission held a conference with Pres- ident Roosevelt to-day, at which railroad rate legislation was discussed thoroughly. The effort was to so shape the provisions of the Hepburn bill regarding appeal to the courts as to make i certain that the bill is constitutional, and yet, so far as there is power by law to do 8o, to limit the appeal to what Is regarded as constitu- tionally necessary. Creek 1 of crimes with which efforts | The President is understood to believe that Moody, Knapp and Prou have worked out a satisfactory provision that is better than that in the Hepburn bill, or in the original Interstate Commerce Commission bill. Justice White to-day delivered the opin- ion of the Supreme Court of the United tates in the case of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railway Company vs. the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion vs. the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail- road Company, aflirming the decision of the United States Circuit Court for the Western District of Virginia. The case involves the question of dis- | crimination in freight rates on coal by the Chesapeake and Ohio in favor of the | New York, New Haven and Hartford road as against other shippers. The de- gainst the railroad company. sion dealt with the question of discrimination by railroad companies, and it was apparent that it was intended to e a general application to questions | ing attention at the hands of the UPON CAMBLING Quickly Passes Bill Directed Against the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona DISPUTE ON THE FLOOR Littlefield of Maine Displays Anger in Replying to an Attack by Delegate Smith P SRS WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Three bills were passed under a suspension of the rule requiring a two-thirds vote in the House to-day. The first makes gambling unlawful in the Territories of the United States, including Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Indian Terri- tory and Alaska. The bill was directed particularly at Arizona and New Mex- ico, where, it was stated, sambling was licensed. The second provides additional work for the Census Bureau by recuiring sta- iistics to be taken on insurance, fish- eries, electrical industries, = savings banks and crimes. The third appropriates $50,000 for the purchase of 300 acres of coal lands on the island of Batan, one of the Philippine archipelago group. On the latter bLill there w debate of two hours. The others were debated forty minutes each. Stating that in Arizona and New Mexico and other Territories gambling is licensed, Littlefield of Maine en- tered a motion to suspend the rules and P the bill reported from the Judi- ciary Committee, making gambling in the lerritories illegal. The bill makes gambling a misdemeanor, punishable by a §3000 fine and one year's imprison- ment. The bill classifies gambling as “‘faro, monte, roulette, lasquenet, rouge et noir, rondo, tan, fantan, poker, seven and a half, twenty-one, chuck-a-luck, or banking or percentage game, or any other kind of a game played with cards or dice.” Vigorous opposition was made Delegate Mark Smith of Arizona. by public. Justice White said’ that to per- mit a carrier to become a dealer in the | commodities carried by it would be to | supply a means for the perpetuation of | evils which the Interstate Commerce | ssion is intended to remedy. cases involved a charge of dis-| tion in favor of the New Haven | d by the Chesapeake and Ohio. They rew out of complications existing in connection with a contract made between the two railroad companies in 18%, in ac- | cordance with which the Chesapeake and Ohio road agreed to deliver two million | tons of bituminous coal to the New Ha- | ven between the 1st of July, 1867, and the Ist of July, 1902. The delivery in the last | | year covered by the contract fell short to | the extent of 60,000 tons, on account of a strike in the coal fields, which rendered it | impossible to supply the coal. The New Haven road purchased coal elsewhere and presented a bill to the Chesapeake and Ohio Company for $103,000, representing | difference in the cost. Instead of paying the money, the Chesapeake and Ohio Company delivered the 60,000 tons of coal, notwithstanding the price of coal | and of transportation had advanced so| that, it is claimed, the Chesapeake and | Ohio lost more than a dollar per ton on its shipments. The case brought to the atfention of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the charge made that the transaction constituted a preference in the matter of freight rates against the New Haven road. The company contended that it was | acting in the capacity of a vender and not as a carrier, and that it was merely supplying the coal to pay a debt. This plea was also made the basis of a charge | against the company, as the laws of West Virginia, where the coal was mined, pro- | hibit common carriers from dealing in| coal, Justice White upheld the decision of the | below in declaring that both the by the Chesapeake and court | contracts made to public policy and void, because they were in conflict with the prohibitions of the act to regulate commerce. s DT B Y PEREST TO PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST OF IN Mayor Roney of Vallejo Favored in Political Dispute by Navy Officials. WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—The case of | Mayor James Roney of Vallejo, an em- plove of the Mare Island navy yard, has been referred by the Navy Department to the Civil Service Commission with a strong recommendation that Roney be | permitted to hold civil office while yet an | employe of the United States. It is ex- | of the commission in a similar case at the | Bremerton navy vard, it will decide in the | present instance in favor of Roney. Representative Needham to-day intro- duced a bill ceding certain unappropriated | lands in Santa Cruz County for public purposes. It is stipulated that parts of these lands may be leased for a period | be utilized in the building of roads. Needham also introduced a bill grant- | ing the Ocean Shore Railway Company a | right of way through the Pigeon Point | 1ighthouse reservation. | “Senator Perkins offered an amendment to-day to the military appropriation bill, | appropriating $50,000 for repairing the sea | coast armament field artiliery and the | general stores at the Benicla arsenal. The House to-day passed the bill al- lowing the entrance and clearance of ofl- | the Federation officers to Idaho, said to- | Jaden vessels at San Luls Obispo (Port day that he had read a copy of Orchard's | Harford) and Monterey, Cal. The bill has already passed the Senate. | The following postmasters have been | appointed for California: Hermon, Los | Angeles County, Duke W. Jackson; Pa- Trinity County, Christian W. | Blakemore; Bkyland, Santa Cruz County, | Temple Wilhelm; Santa Rosa, H. L. | Tripp; Mojave, C. k. Demsey; San Fer- | nando, J. P. Frankhouse, |GIRL LOSES LIFE | SAVING A FRIEND GLASGOW, Mo., Feb. 19.—In saving her friend from being crushed by a freight engine, Miss Mae Diggs yesterday lost her life on the west approach of the Chicago and Alton bridge. Miss Diggs, Migs Louise Arthur and two other young women had walked across the bridge and were nearing the end of the, structure when they heard a traln behind them. All four ran, and three got safely off, but Miss Arthur stumbled and fell on the tracks. Miss Diggs ran to her and threw her from the tracky. At the same In- stant the pllot of the locomotive struck the reseuer, killing her Instantly. —_—— - 4 truth of the alleged confession. Informetion reached here to-night from Cripple Creek that Edward Green, a fed- eration man, had been arrested on a war- rant forwarded by the Idaho authorities charging him with connection in the Steu- nenberg aseassination. Two other war- rants are in the hands of Cripple Creek officers for service. 3 —_—— Take TAXALIVE GROMG Guinime n sty money it 1t fajls L refund 7 cure. B W, GROVE'S signature is on each box. She | point | Smith to interrupt him. Ohio with the New Haven were contrary | not exceeding ten years, the proceeds to | “I do not wish am here in sympathy with gambling,” he began, “but I do protest against the gentleman from Maine, the farthest away from my home, coming in here to meddle in our quarrels, when, with prohibition in his own State, there are 160 saloons open in the town of | Bangor, Me. It is a prohibition that doesn't prohibit. I submit that the | gentleman should conilne thropies to his own State, instead of r the Southwest.” spreading out ov declared that therc was no pure motive behind the bill; that it was for the purpose of influencing votes in Arizona for jolnt statehood. his philan- | HOUSE FROWNS THI | | men in that part of the mine. it understood that I| g z e Smith contended that the Territorial | Legislature would prohibit gambling at its next session. He said he would ask for unanimous consent to amend the bill 80 as to make it apply to “Ter- ritories under the jurisdiction of the United States. He said this would include Alaska, the I'hilippines, Porto Rico, the District of Columbia and all other Territories. In replying, Littlefield exhibited con- siderable feeling, Speaking of Dele- gate Smith, Littlefield said: |~ “I tried to treat him like a gentle- man, but the first thing he does is to meet me with a sneer. I do not pro- pose to be swung aside by his attack on prohibition in Maine. He knows as lit- tle about that as the average gentleman who casts th ame aspersions.” Later Littlefield refused to allow This led to a second statement by Smith to make clear that he was not making a de- fense of gambling. The bill was passed on a viva voce | vote. (1Y EADY 0 ACOUIRE GEARY RoA1 | Continued from Page 1, Column 4. | strating the ultimate success of municipal ownership. Clerk Keane stated that the date for the recelving of bids will be fixed later, but it is intended that the work shall begin as soon as possible. CLUB WANTS BOND ISSUE. | The Thirty-ninth District Club filed a petition with the board that a proposition | to issue bonds for the extension of the Geary street railroad across Golden Gate Park and to the ocean beach along Point Lobos avenue from Tenth avenue west- erly, and for its extension easterly to the | water front, and for such other extenslons and branches as may be deemed advis- able, be submitted to a vote of the people. | The petition states that for $10,000,000 a street railroad system could be construct- ed, equipped and operated on many of the streets yet in possession of the city, from the profits of which not alone the raflroad bonds could be redeemed, but also the 817,000,000 for bond improvements already issued, which will otherwise be a burden on the taxpayers. The club had already petitioned a former | board to connect the Richmond and Bun- set districts by a road, subway or tunnel | either on Tenth or Bleventh avenue. | This means of communication could also be used for the extension of the Geary | street road from Fulton street and Tenth avenue across Golden Gate Park and along Ninth avenue to Q street. The peti- aon ‘was referred to the Utilitles Commit- e. The petition of the Progressive Geary Street Improvement Club that steps be taken to electrically light Geary street, between Kearny and Powell, using orna- mental poles on the plan of those project- ed on Market strect, was referred to the Light Committee. The petition states that the property owners and meérchants on the blocks described have expended a sum in excess of $3400 for lighting and decorat- ing the street. The Market Street and Eureka Valley Improvement Club petitioned the board to proceed expeditiously in the matter of ac- quiring a munieipal water supply, so that the taxpayers may be saved the alleged outrageous charges for water. The club also asks that the board reduce .water and gas rates on the actual investment of the companies furnishing the commodi- ties, allowing nothing for properties not actually in use. : —_——— Dishonorably Discbarged. SANTA ROSA, Feb. 19.—Charles Smith, a member of Company E, Fifth Regiment, N. G. C, was dishonorably discharged from the service to-night for falllng to attend inspection. Smith was recently arrested udr. L charge of abducting a Santa R LIVES LOST IN A MINE I Explosion Spreads Death in the Maitland Property in Colorado Owned by the Victor Fuel Corporation FATALITIES MAY YET REACH SIXTEEN Open Lamps Used by the Men | in Portion of Diggings Be- | lieved to Have Been the| Real Cause of Di | ster | S WALZENBURG, Colo., Feb. 19.—By far | the worst accident in the history of coal | mining in this part-of the country oc- curred as the result of an explosion at | the Maitland mine this morning. At least thirteen miners lost their lives. It | is possible that the list will reach six- teen. The following is a list of the dead so far as known: Archie Miller, fire bo: William Moran of Maitland, James W. Titters of Kansas, Battista Eobrea, Cor- ona Costa, Sopris Costa, Nick Yokibetz. Shortly after 8 o'clock there was an ex- plosion in that part of the Maitland known as the Sunshine, which caused the earth to tremble for miles around. Soon afterward a man ran out and reported that the mine was on fire. The explosion caused a fall of rocks from the roof, and until this is cleared away it will not be known positively just how many more bodies are yet in the mine. The gdeaths were caused by gas and the explosion | was caused by after-damp. It is belleved that the explosion was caused by the open lamps used by the General Superintendent Murray arrived this even- ing and has taken charge. The Maltland mine 4s the property of the Victor Fuel Company. { e e | JOHN MITCHELL REF S NOMINATION FOR CONGRESS | Not Accept Public Office While at the Head of the Mine Workers. NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers of America, to-day received a telegram from Peoria, L. in which he was of- fered the Democratic nomination for Congress to represent t aistrict. Mitchell immediately replied to the con- vention, then in session in Peoria, de- | clining the nomination. He said that | he would not accept any political office will while head of the mine workers. Mitchell lives in Spring Valley, Tl | —————————— Army and Navy Orders. i WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Army or- | ders: Post Commissary Sergeant Charles M. Downey, Presidio, Monte- | rey, will be sent to San Francisco, re- porting to Major Charles R. Krauthoff for duty. Navy orders: Midshipman 8. W. Wal- lace, W. A. Glassford. G. K. Davis, V. N. Metcalf, S. F. Graves, C. A. Wood- ruff and W. M. Perkins are assigned to the Chicago, sailing from San Diego via the Saturn on March 5. | sanitary canal and the Illinois River, was | the mouth | A perpetual injunction was asked. | tten | Company of Utah was to-day decided by ! mining company sought to secure a right | the Federal Supreme Court to-day. 3 | out prejudice. |is a nesro, PERKINS TALKS ON SMOOT CASE Presents Petition of Women of California Against Seating the Utah Semator HIS VIEWS ILLINIS WINS DVER MISSOUR Right of Chicago to Divert Sewage Into Mississippi Upheld by Supreme Court ETTLED OUTLINES NOTED CASE Contention Advanced That|Deelares That the Question the Drinking Water Was| of Religion Should Not Be Polluted by Waste Matter| Allowed to Become Issue AT 2t R G WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—The famous WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—In presenting % . " | petitions against Senator Reed Smoot £4vs ok, the, Siateiof Mispwur) AAESE 4S9 signed by thousands of women of Califor- State of Illinols, involving the right of the | DERCC ¥ 0 o0 nators Perkins and city of Chicago to divert its sewage into Patterson took occasion to-day to define the Mississippi River through the Chicago | their positions on the protests against Utah Senator. The former said that ligious views should not be considered n passing upon the qualifications of a Sen- decided to-day by the Supreme Court of the United States in favor of Illinois. E At~ Justice Holmes delivered the opinion of ator, and that his honesty and the tributes that command confldence and re- the court, which was that Missour! @i | pece should be held above all else. not prove its case. There was no dissen- Perkins said it was the duty of a Sen- sion. ator to sit as a juror upen the conduct of Missouri in its bill charged that the di- | a colleague, and that the chief qualifica- tion to determime the member’s eligibility version, of the sewage was calculated to an have an injurious effect upoi the people of the towns on the Missouri side below of the Illinois River. The declaration was made that 15w tons of poisonous, unhealthful and noxious mat~ ter were discharged through this channel daily into the Mississippl, with the result that the waters of that stream were poi- sonsd and polluted and rendered wholly unfit for domestic and drinking purposes, also that it would render entirely worth- less the water works system of St. Louis and other towns and cities below the mouth of the Illinois on the Missouri side. was that he should be a good ecitizen, honest man and of good character. Wh ever his private belief,- said Perkins, ligious matters should have no weig disqualifying a man from occupying high position of Senator of the United States. Perkins spoke against retracing our steps to a period when religious war devastated the earth. He said that our Government was built upon freedom of conscience and unquestionable indivi ality of expression concerning religious bellef, and no action should be taken which would in the slightest degree abridge this freedom. Patterson said that great constitutional questions were Involved, and in casting his vote he intended to be governed by the constitutional rights of the person against whom the proceedings were pend- ing. ANOTHER CONGRESSMAN WILL FACE CHARGES Blackburn to Be Accused of Using Influence for a Fee. WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Acting upon the advice of the Department of Justice the United States Attorney for the West- ern District of North Carolina will set on foot a prosecution a Republican member of Congress. He Is x Blackburn, Representative Eighth Distriet of North Carolina proceedings against him will be for a leged violation of the law which prohibit members of Congress practicing bef) the legislative departments of the Go ernment. This is the sampe law for the v of which Senator Burton of Kansas been convicted, his case now being fore the Supreme Court upon appeal. was under this law that the late Senator Mitchell of Oregon was convicted. The proceedings against Representative Blackburn are the outcome of a feud which has disrupted the Republican pagty of North Carolina. Representative Black burn is the head of ome faction and United States District Attorney Holton is the active head of the other. Hoiton has just been reappointed By President Roosevelt in face of the bitter oppesition of Representative Blackburn and his as- sociates, Representative Blackburn says charge against him is nothing else than political persecution. In its answer Illinois denfed the conten- of Missouri, alleging that 1,300,000 cuble feet of pure water from Lake Mich- igan being turned into the channel every minute the water of the Mississipp: would be vastly improved, notwithstanding the presence of the sewage matter at the head of the drainage system. The case has been before the court for several years. The case of John and Ellen Strickley sus the Highland Boy Gold Mining v the Supreme Court of the United States in favor of the company. In this case the of way for an aerial tramway across a placer claim near Bingham, Utah, which owned by the Strickleys. The way as condemned upon the ground that it for a public use, and the Utah courts stained the condemnation, as did also | of The Supreme Court to-day decided the case of the United States versus the Bit- ter Root Development Company and other assignees of the late Marcus Daly of Mon- tana, involving the charge of unlawfully cutting $2,500,000 worth of timber upon the public lands of that State, against the Government, but it was stated by Justice Peckham, who delivered the opinfon of the court, that as the Government had secured new evidence the decision is with- ation The Supreme Court to-day affirmed the decision of the Court of Criminal Appeals of “Texas in the case of Rufus Martin versus the State of Texas. Martin, who is under sentence of death upon the charge of having murdered C. L. Swackhammer at Fort Worth in 1903. He appealed his case to the Supreme Court upon the charge that he was dis- eriminated against in his trial and that no men of his race were summoned to sit | upon the jury. Justice Harlan, who de- livered the opinion of the court, said there was no evidence to sustain the charge of race discrimination. the IT'SCORDES 245-259 GEARY S WAY! he SQUARE CORDES FURNITURE 8.