The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 27, 1906, Page 1

STATE" o Francisco and A THE WEATHER. Forecast for February 27, 1906: and unsettled weather Tuesday, ably showers; fresh south winds. { | Forecast' sfficial. A B 7 s i { \ vielnity—Cloudy prob- | G. McADIF Weak. g THE THEATERS. ALHAMBRA—"The Fatal Wedding.” ALCAZAR—"The Girl With the Green E§eq RNIA—"The Baltimore Beau- T ‘Queen of Convicts.” CHUTES—Vaudeviile. COLUMBIA—*‘The GRAND—“The Belle of New York." MAJESTIC— ‘The Proud Prince.” ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—“Isle of Spice.” Matinee. Strength of the SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. BRITISH MISSIONARIES SLAINIPRESIDINT DURING RIOTS IN CHINA. AmericansMakeEscape by Taking to Boats in the River. ANGRY CELESTIALS ATTACK FOREIGNERS Station at Nanchang Is Made Scene of Murders, UNCLE SAM SENDS GUN RS S “al ~Advices from Depart gteze K ang the State Depart- fes In to th gents ssionaries to t from the interior EFFECT ESCAPE™ AMERICANS immediately to he trouble at e been th pon foreign mis- efore there is little e will spread. d that the incident justify such prepara- w under way from a mili- tew. e from Rodgers says the Nanchang trouble are con- w reported to'have orig- e between the French nese officials. A Chinese as at first réported to have Catholic missionary, ned that the magistrate nself. which memt ed. C occurred yesterday s of the Kingman hinese troops were The refugees are going e American mission build- ve been saved and Rodgers adds that kiang. Tk g is understood to h w restored officer of the Raleigh at eived at the Navy Depart- s substantially Consul Gen- report The Chinese Minister has rsceived a ca- blegram from the Viceroy at Canton, saying that the boyeott agitation has subsided. He reports everything quiet. CLASH WITH PRIESTS. SHANGHAI, Feb. 26—8Somewhat con- fused reports have reached here of a m ere of missionaries at Nanchang, province of Kiangsl. As nearly as can be ascertained six missionaries were killed. it is aslleged that after long-continued disputes between the Catholic priests and the Chinese magistrate of Nanchang the priests invited the magistrate to a Ban- quet, Where they tried to compel him to sign an agreement for the payment of a mtinued on Page 3, Column 3. BOATS TO AID| ok S O 4 [ PALRE INE § PILESTONS, + EASTERYY SEZ I = 2 L TER TO CH « RE THE f, IN WHICH S INA AND ATTACK C THBE LOCATION OF IONARIES OCCURRED HS WIFE AND - TWO CHILDREN '| Driven Insane by Hun- ger, He Becomes a Cannibal. ch to The Call. 26.—James McMullen, esterday to Fairbanks, the Kuskoquim, tells dne SEATTLE who retyr Alaska, fr | of the most harrowing tales of the suffer- > | ing of Incians in that district ever heard |in Alaska. ccording to McMullen, one Indian, his nd two children lived some. dis- from human habitation. He what game he could -kill | tance Acpended upo { for his food, and not finding the moose cariboo us plentiful- as usual -he finally found himself on the verge of | starvation. Becoming insane through the pangs of | hunger, kilicd his, squaw and |in the m oded manner pro- ceeded to When he realized | what he had done he evidently was afraid to communicate with mny of efther his own pecple or the prospectors who are in that country and in, a short time was confronted with the same situation -as before. Then the two litle children met. the same fate as the mother. The Indian then made his way to the camp of some other Indians where he told of his crime. He is at present lving among his own people, who persistently shun him. ——————— KITCHENER AND MINTO AGREE WITH JOHN MORLEY Accept Ruling of the Secretary om Administration of Army in India. CALCUTTA, Feb. 26.—Both the Earl of Minto, the Viceroy of India, and Gen- eral Lord Kitchener, commander-in- chief of the British forces in India, ex- press complete satisfaction with the de- cision of John Morley, the Indian Sec- retary, on the question of the admini tration of the Indian army. Under h deession, although the civil authority is fully upheld, the commander-in-chief is given plenty of latitude to carry out his scheme of army reform unhampered by the dual control which existed under the old system, under which the mili- tary department was not answerable to the Viceroy. { MILWAY MU0 CIR STARTS O LONCADURNE Propelled by Its Own Power on Trip to Coast. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—For the first time | in/the history of the Pennsylvania Rail- road a private car rolled into the terminal at Jersey City without other motive pow- er than that generated above the trucks on which it rede. On the car came J. P. Yerge, assistant superintendent of motive power; B. F. Murphy and J. W. ers, assistant . engineers from ~ Altoona, and Division Superintendent Lovell of the Amboy division, all officials of the Penn- sylvania system, and Willlam B. Strang of 15 Wall street, owner of the car. The car is on its way to the Pacific Coast under its own power. It is named the Ogeritta. It will start tomorrow from the Weehawken . terminal of the West Shore Railroad, taking to Buffalo officlals of the New York Central lines. From there the route is over the Lake Shore to Chicago, the Chicago and Alton to St. Louis, the Rock Island to Kansas City, thence to El1 Paso and to San Francisco over the Rock Island and Southern Pa- cific raflroads. It will be the first at- tempt ever made to cross the continent on a self-propelled commercial car. Briefly, the car is a power-house on wheels. A six-cylinder gasoline motor connected directly with an electric gen- | erator supplies. a current to two motore geared to the axles of the front and rear trucks, exactly as motors are to surface railway cars on Broadway. The gasoline motor, of approximately seventy-five horsepower, is constantly at work when the car is in motion, and a surplus over. that s reserved for emers ] in a storage battery bencath the car. Already the car has run without repair or accident more than 3000 miles. S —— e — Suicide Caused by Shortage. ST. LOUIS, Feb, 26.—After an expert accountant’s examination of the books of Allen C. X secretary of the Mississfppl Valley Elevator and Grain Company, who committed sulcide by shooting on February 14, it was made known today that a shortage of $15,000 had been. revealed. ' Bates was under - ,lsurety bond in the sum of $25,000. . P | All Chicago Union Men Will Answer to Same Name, = Tt Sl Special Dispatch t6 The Call. CHICAGO, Feb. 26—To make the Smith family leaders in the city di- rectory as an incident to the war of union printers on the publishers of the Chicago city directory is the plan of the Chicago Federation of Labor leaders. All union men and sympathizers will be requested to give the name of “John Smith” to solicitors for the directory. This, in the opinion of Edward Nockels, secretary of the federation, will give 300,000 John Smiths. The purpose is to make the directory useless, because it is th be turned out by non-union print- ers In the shop of the R. R. Donnelly & Sons Company. A lezgue, national in scope, to abol- ish {njunctions as applied to labor or- ganjzations has been launched by the Chicago Typographical Union. It will try to defeat all candidates for judicial positions who do not promise to ab- stain. from - issulng writs against unions, MAN AND SWEETHEART . WOUNDED IN CHURCH Tiagedy Follows a Quarrel -Over Sunday-School Lesson. MIDDLESBORO, Ky., Feb, 26.—Until John Pearson, and Hiram Paris com- menced attending Sunday-school they had never been in trouble. Now Paris is in a dyihg condition as the result of having been shot by Pearson. Clarissa Wells, a sweetheart of Paris, was badly wounded by a stray bullet. - Pearson and Paris had been at outs for some time over the affections of Miss Wells, but yesterday afternoon they -intensified thelr differences by quarreling over a Sunday-school les- son. The trouble occurred in the Clear Fork Baptist Church. As soon as loud words were heard several young men drew pistols and Miss Wells tried to disarm Pearson. In the fusillade Paris fell with a bullet in his chest and Miss Wells with one in her leg. Pearson has not-been arrested. PRETTY CHORUS GIRLS RUN AFOUL OF LAW Haled Into Court for Riding Wheels %bo}l(lt Fresno ar, — FRESNO, Feb. 2%6.—Three of the pret- ty chorus girls in the Beauty and Beast Company ‘“rode up against'’ the stringent city regulations against riding bicycles in the = Courthouse Park this afternoon. They were out sec- ing the sights when they ran across Park- keeper Burton, who arrested them on the spot. They told him thelr ‘names were ‘Ethel Graves, Mabel Saunders and Ethel Barker, and pleaded ignorance of the law, but Bmo: Juh Drooé. ;nlnmlr wiles and marc! them lore Smith. One of the trio stepped forward and said that they did not see any signs, and there were few people about and they had not inconvenienced anybody. Judge Smit! saild that he them go, as he was convinced they had intended no 2 INTERVENES FOR PEACE |Takes Action to Prevent Strike of Miners. Mitchell Calls Conven- tion at Mr. Roose- velt’s Request. Final Effort to Ward Off In- dustrial Upheaval in Coal District. 2 Feb. 26.—President Roosevelt has again intervened as a peacemaker between the coal miners and operators and as the result of a letter addressed by him to John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers of America, a national con- vention of the United Mine Workers will be held at Indianapolis March 15 in an effort to reach an agreement with the soft coal operators in the hope of avert~ ing the threatened strlke on April 1 in the bituminqus coal flelds. The President's letter and the an- nouncement that the national conven- tion would be called were made public tonight by Mitohell after a long con- ference with Francis L. Robbins, pres- ident of the Pittsburg Coal Company and chairman of the bituminous opera- NEW YORK, tors, who came to New York this morning. -~ The - President’s letter to Mitchell is as follows: “I note with great concern the fail- re of your late convention on the Joint agreement to come to a basis of [ Settlement of the' bituminous miming scale of wages. You in this business have enjoved great industrial peace for many years, thanks to the joint trade agreéement that has resulted in the ac-"| tion of your successive conventions, “A strike such as s threatened on April 1 s a menace to the peace and general welfare of the country. I urge you to make a further effort to avoid such a calamity. “You and Mr. Robbins are joint chairmen of the trade agreement com- mittee of the National Civic Federa- tion and it seems to me that this im- poses additional duty upon you both and gives an additional reason why each of you should join in making a further effort. Very respectfully, “THEODORE ROOSEVELT.” BOTH SIDES WANT PEACE. The conference did not adjourn until nearly 6 o'clock tonight, when Mitchell anhounced that, after the reading of President Roosevelt's letter, it was agreed both by himself and the opera- tors that the national convention should be called. The miners were in session recently at Indianapolis, but failed to reach an agreement with the operators. President Mitchell himself has been quoted as saying that so far as he knows there would certainly be a strike in the bituminous fields on April 1. The negotiations for an agreement between the hard coal workers and the anthracite operators have been pro- gressing smoothly to all outward ap- pearances and arrangements have been made for a joint conference on Wed- nesday between the sub-committees having the settlement of the difficulties in hand. 3 ‘With the anthracitesnegotiations well under way, President Mitchell has been devoting most of his time to bringing about settlement of the differences in the soft coal regions. Mitchell has not announced any de- talls of today's conference, nor does he say just when the call for the conven- tion will be sent out. March 15, he be- Heves, is the earliest date the convention can be summoned. CONCESSIONS TO BE MADE. Mitchell belleves that, If there is to be peare, the two weeks between the date fixed for the miners’ assembly and April 1, when the present agreement with the operators expires, is sufficlent time to bring about the desired result. Mitchell would not indicate what new propositions would be placed before the miners, but significance is attached to his statement that the operators at to- day's conference agreed that the con- vention should be called. Concessions may be made on both sides and Presi- dent Roosevelt's interest In the situa- | tion will be held as an additional rea- son for bringing about a new agree- ment. MORGAN SYNDICATE IS OUT 85,625,000 Cost of Financier’s Failure to Form a Shipping Trust. syndicate which was organized by J. P. Mo: & Co. nearly four years ago to float the §170,000,000 International Mer- Company will be wound syndicate agreement the sub- scribers recelve 50,000,000 of collateral per cent on common stock. These securi- $50,000,000 In cash was paid market prices, are worth: trust 4%% per cent bonds, sold at par witha e and 40 ¢ (AMBLERS RAIDED BY The POLICE Three fi?fifired Are Captured in the Net. ManyEscape Over Roofs and Through the Open Windows, Harvey & Daroux’s New Den Enjoys a Few Brief Hours of Play. SRSl o “Four dollars on the red. Seven on the black. Round goes the wheel and the red wins. Once more, gentlemen. | Bang! The green comes and every- body los—" But that sentence was never finished. Two great black-coated police officers bad suddenly and mysteriously ap- peared at the door of this freshly opened full-fledged gambling joint started by Joe Harvey and Frank Da- roux in a large upstairs room just off Anna lane last night. The dealers of faro turned pale in the green light. The roulette wheels stopped with a bang. The wildly frightened crowd of 300 and more players and spectators rushed helter-skelter in a vain attempt to find means of quick escape. Tables were overturned and money and chips scattered heedlessly about the floor. Men whose faces a moment before burned with the excitement of the game were now perspiring coldly. Some crept out through the open win- dows and escaped over the adjoining roofs. A few.gat. away down- the escape. Some dropped to the street be- low. Three hundred men, $3000 in cash and a carload of gambling parapher- nalia were captured by ‘the police. The raid was made just before midnight, the place having rum four hours. Daroux. Harvey and others bailed out the un- fortunates at $10 per head after they had been taken to the City Prisom and booked. It required all night to com- plete the booking amd bailing. Dis- trict Attorney Langdon declares that he will bring the full course of the law to bear on the offenders. There was many a heavy heart beating in San Francisco last night. NO DANGER EXPECTED. Harvey and Daroux started their place about 8 o'clock last night. It had been well advertised and would have been formally opened Saturday night had the painters finished their work in time. The word had been passed every- where that Harvey and Daroux “stood in” and that there was absolutely no danger of a rald. Indéed. the place was run so openly that the spectators and players felt sure that Harvey and Daroux knew what they were talking about. There must have been a slip in the arrangements somewhere, for the two alleged proprietors were as startled as any when the raiders walked in and placed every one under arrest. ‘Word that the gambling house was run- ning full blast came to Captain D 's ears at headquarters, according to ffhe official statement, about 11 o’'clock t night. Lieutenant Wright and five po- licemen—J. E. Reade, Bert Wren, C. Mer- ROBINSON INDICTED BY LRAND JURY Bill Fou_nflgainst Agent of Brown & Power. m——y Charged With Securing Allowance of Frand- ulent Claim. ey Judge Graham Issues a Bench Warrant for Former Ball Magnate. T. P. Robinson, former baseball mag- nate, and agent at the City Hall for Brown & Power, the big stationery and printing firm that has contracts with the municipality for the furnishing of sup- plies line, was indicted by the 'y last night on a charge of pre= senting a fraudulent claim and securing its payment. Presiding Judge Graham issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Robinson, which was put in the hands of Detective Cody with instructions to make an immediate search for the indicted man. The indietment grows out of the charges filed with the Mayor by Auditor Horton soon after the latter had taken office. It is said that other indictments of a simi- lar nature will be found, other municipal contractors having been under investiga= tion by the Grand Jury. The indictment against Robinson is only on one count. The specific charge is that on January 18, 1906, he, “knowing that only 932 license pads had theretofore, before May 1, 1905, been delivered by Brown & Power to the Auditer of the City and County of San Francisco, did charge for 1285 such pads the sum of $367.50." SAYS TOTAL REACHES $1000. Horton, in his charges to the Mayor, however, declared that Brown & Power have been paid more than $1000 illegally by the city. He also charged that a de- mand presented by Phillips, Smyth & Van Orden, under date of July 1, 1904, had been illegally pald. Horton declared that Brown & Power had but one just bill—it being for %2 pads at 39910 cents each. He stated to the Mayor that the bill for 1255 pads and three others dated July 1 for 1086 pads, $330.87; 533 pads, $191.34, and €7 pads, 71.25, were fraudulent. He said the city had been mulcted of a sum total of $579.09 on this account. For peddlers’ li= censes $49.30 was charged and but 700 de- Hvered, Horton sald, which made an over- charge of $Is. The bills of Phillips, Smyth & Van Ore den of July 1, 1904, for 541 pads, $199.62, and of Brown & Power of January M4, 1905, for 536 pads, $199.66, were practically duplicates of a bill of $372.50 for 1000 pads, previously paid. The Grand Jury paid a visit to the Auditor’s office and examined the books there. Yesterday afternoon it summened John A. Ryan, deputy clerk to the Board of Supervisors, who told of Robinson's swearing as agent to the Brown & Power demands, and Cyril Willlams, expert for the Board of Supervisors, who has beem making an investigation of this particu= lar matter. William W. Nicolls and Frank Rittigstein were also examined. OTHERS BECOME UNEASY. 3 Judge Graham assigned the case of Robinson to Judge Dunne and fixed the chant. M. Joy and J. Cramer—were gent | pgjj of the indicted man at $3000 bonds out to close up the place. and Reade walked up the stairs and went into the room. They were clothes and were, for a moment, unrecog- nized. As soon as Lieutenant Wright stepped inside he raised his hand and shouted, *“You are all under arrest.”” Wright, Joy | or 31500 cash. Soon after the indictment had been in plan | goyng the matter becams known to the newspaper representatives and Judge Graham declared that he would cite the members of the Grand Jury to appear before him, that it might be found where Then followed the rush for the wWindows | ;1. Jeak was. as the indictment has and the futile attempts to escape. Meanwhile President Poheim of the ordered on the secret file. When told member of the jury had given out the Board of Police Commissioners arrived on | yneormation, he was mollified, but sala the scene and another batch of policemen | 4.+ he would dispense with the secret was hurried along. Flve patrol wagons file and have future indictments presents ‘were used to transport the unwilling pas- | .4 1n gpen co sengers to the hustled down the stalrway and- bustled into the waiting wagon. DECLARES HE WILL PUNISH. District Attorney Langdon and his | to have assistants, A. L. McCabe, R. C. Harri- son and R. D. Duke, together with Foreman Mitchell of the Grand Jury, arrived on the scene and immediately walked yp the stairs to view the evi- dence taken and arrange for the bail Daroux pleaded in vain that the money seized be allowed to go as bail. Lang- don was firm and Daroux was compell- ed to send out for money to aid his im- mense clientage. Langdon appeared in- i censed that the joint had been started. “You are trying to hang it on this ad- ministration,” he cried. urt. foflce station. Thex.were | m, gtatement, which is sald to come dictments om the inside, that other In to follow is causing some uneasiness among certaln contractors who are sald making illegitimate profity out of the ®ity. KIDNAPS CHILDREN 2 AT DENVER SCHOOL Mrs. Esther Miller of Sacra- mento Secures Possession | of Her Little Ones. - DENVER, Feb. 26.—James Miller an® “You are try- | Alice Esther Miller. children of the late ing to make this a border town. Wa | D. Miller, have been reunited to thefr will not have it. I will see that the 1aw | gwn mother, Mrs. Esther B. Miller of takes its full course.” The City Prison was not to, Cal., by a sensational move large | made today. Mrs. Esther Miller kidnaped enough to hold all of its guests and | the children, but the statément is made they were held in the halls until their | spnat she “took them on the advice of her bail could be précured. There were attorney.” She and some friends waited many who tried to plead with the offi- | g, the children when they left their cers to let them go, but they found no | .} 0l at noon today and mother and sympathy. Langdon was equally ob- children are now in hiding. durate and refused to let any one off. | “ywuy the ehildren in her possession Yet there was some consolation in the fact that bail was reduced to $10 per head. EVERYTHING FULL BLAST. The games were going full blast when the officers entered the room. man was saying: “If you don't fancy one game, play an- and wide. fi.twmm; a nice gentle- will gladly Klondike? Al . Esther Miller has an excellent chance of getting their half of the estate of James D. Miller, who died suddenly recently. The estate 18 appraised at $40,000. —_———————— e Indian Siain In Drunken Row. FRESNO, Feb. 26.—Word was brought here today from the mountains fifteen miles back of Letcher that an Indian named Major had = killed an- etl Indian named George. Major bed George in the back during a drunken row. Deputy Sheriff Walter Pickett started for the mountains. He to have to follow Major through the snow. i e gl