The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 27, 1906, Page 2

NEAR BLOWS N INQUIRY INTO CANAL MBI Senator Morgan and Attorney Cromwell Have Heated Ex- changes in Session of the Committee of Upper House | ENGINEER WALLACE SUBJECT OF ROW e | rences to Former Chief f Construction Precipi- tate Bitter Between the Ref Contreversy Two Officials were pr ov Wallace vallace had to state facts,” was irpose to con- P Wallace?” ask- # the witness made the 'same | Wyt when Scnater Norgan in a one began to ask the ques- | rd time, Cromwell said he is con- the fac i ach him he is impeached.” FIGHT NARROWLY AVERTED, | Then came a ¢ moment. Mor- | had been question after sestion to th sking him to nversations between Secretary | himself growing out of the | gnation of Wallace, '‘which the wit- ness refused to answer. 1 will deal with you when the facts regard of Mr. Wallace w enator Morgan. “And that is the only safe place to replied Cromwell with burning ®E dc face. e two men, scarcely fivgfeet apart, at cach other in anger, but the situation was _relieved by Chairman Millard, who ' interrupted, saying t the witness had possibly enswered the questions propounded. Senator Morgan was beginning on a new tack when an adjournment was taken until tomorrow. At an executive session held by the o nittee later an effort was made to t the range of ,Senator Morgan's uiries. The Senator, however, in- sisted that his procedure was entirély proper and would not consent to have the scope of the inquiry narrowed. ————e GARFIELD REMAINS FIRM UNDER CROSS-EXAMINATION Declares His Inquiry Was mot in In- ! terest of Department of Justice. | CHICAGO, Feb. 26 —Commissioner Garfield occupied the stand all day in| the packers case, and his cross-exatmi- nation was finished a few minutes be- fore the final adjournment of court. He declared while on the stand today that he had turned over to the Depart- | ment of Justice the names of several | hundred - witnesses at the direct order | of the President. He said, however, | | ) that none of the information given to the Department of Justice was that received from the packers. He stated positively thet there was no inter-| change of agents betsyeen his depart- ment and the Attorney. General, and that ell the information he secured | from the packers he used for the writ- ing of his report, and not for the pur- | pose of aiding the Department of Justice to prosecute the packers. j.th !'his house, (TAR CALLS FIRST SLAV ASSEMBLY Issues the Long Expected Im- perial Ukase Summoning the Congress to Meet in St. Petersburg on May 10 Tl Gl DEALS FINAL BLOW TO REACTIONARIES Announcement Is Expectvd; to Do More Toward Tran- quilization of the Country | | | | | Than Repressive Measures | -ctions in- more ts and open the May 10 with the Cabinet has recom- st meeting of the Rus- held, and the kase to.that effect w This . definite ied a convincing answer argument that the ntion of convok- It is expected complet s of Interior Min ose waning power the several indications ers, including repre- ucasus, Siberia, Po- ces and even of im eff, probably will e in the or- mbly But the urgent nee eedy convocation of the new Pa: in order to reassure the count ions of the Gove the disadvantages ion. nuls the requirement us election throughout the r the convoc of .the bly is the L , and the ex- ary for adapting ment are nearing will make a splendid National embly, and coustic properties and g for the members. history of Rus- commodations nd - foreign »e seated in a gall representatives ry overlooking the ngress for the attainment political rights of Jews, e secretly, has decided to e in the elections for members b sembly and to form a party to defend the interests of the Jew- ish masses. B R L REBEL CHIEFS CAPTURED. St. Petersburg Police Also Seize Funds of the Fighting Section. TERSBURG, Feb. 26.—Thirty who, the police ' claim, > central group of the fight- ion of the Social Revolu- been arrested in St Pe- In addition, the police cap- y revolvers and cartridges thousand dollars of the established 18 woman who hot and seripusly Vice Admiral Chouknin, com- of the Black Sea fleet, and who was killed by the on duty. She was a Jewess cilia Shabad, ears old, and ber of the Jewish Bund of Minsk, her father is a well-to-do mer- nced opol, re chant ; AL L 5. S SV COLLIER ON THE STAND IN TOWN TOPICS CASE Prosecution Will Today Close the Tak- ing of Testimony Agalnst Col- onel Man: W YORK, Feb. 26.—Robert J. Col- publisher of . Collier's Weekly. t upon the witness stand today in bt hearing of Colonel “W. D. Mann, editor of Town Topics, Uipon a charge of ‘perjury.. Colllér's Weekly began its attacks upon Colonel Mann in 1904, he said, following the publication in ‘Pown: Topics of an article reflecting on the private life and soclal career of his father, P. F. Collfer. whén adjournment was taken tonight |it was announced that the prosecution would close tomorrow. Counsel . for | Colonel Mann said that they would im- mediately move for a dismissal of the charge against the defendant, on the ground that the State had failed to make a case. o N TR | CHICAGO PASTORS URGE HIGHER SALOON LICENSES Suggested as Means of Putting an End to Reign of Lawles ness. CHICAGO, Feb. 26.—"Crime in Chi- cago—Its Causes and Possible Reme- dies” were the theme of sermons in many pulpits yesterday. Practically all clergymen who spoke on the sub- ject urged the necessity for higher sa- loon licenses and an Increased police force, although one asserted that these measures would be of little effect if not backed up by moral sincerity in the community. Ciuzens were urged to give strong personal support to the movement to suppress lawlessness and redeem the good name of Chicago. ———— Camp of Cuban Rioters Captured. " HAVANA, Feb. 26.—General Rodri- | guez, chief of the rural police, received | & report today to t effect that a de- tachment of rural guards had captured the camp of the Guanabacoa rioters, believed to be negroes, near Tapaste. The culprits Scattered and only one of them was captured, but the police seized a dozen horses and a quantity of provisions. —————— Masked Men Take His Money. MILLVILLE, N. J, Feb. 26.—Two masked men, one ‘white and one col- ored, today seized Frederick Radel, a | baker, while he was in the stable near and, after gagging him, marched him to his home at the point of a pistol. The men compelled Radel to open his safe, from which they took nearly $4000. The robbers ‘escaped. —_———— 0 Cure = Cold in Take EAXATIVB BROMO m Tablets. V. GROVE S mi ’n-lh:. 28c.* Se- | | the only question was, | that takes the fruit from the shipper in nowing that it is 1e country than all the | not. | | known as the citrus fruit cases, | nies | owr terminals. ‘| have cnjoyed two prosperous | ment’'s contention, | upon the general ground that the routing CALIFORNIX'S FRUIT ROUTING CASEIALL WEALTH ENDS IN RAILROAD VICTORY. | - ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. The suits | in which all the r of Southern California were involved, were to-day decided favor- | ably to the railrcads by the Supreme | Court of the United States, the opinion being by Justice Peckham. The cases in- volved the right of the raliroad compa- to designate the route for fruit shipped East after leaving their own lines. The decision of the Circuit Court for the Southern District of California, and also the order of the Interstate Com- merce Commission, were reversed by to- day's decision. The suit ‘was begun by the Interstate Commerce Commission to test the legality | of joint orders issued by all the railroads of ‘Southern California in 1899 fixing a through rate of $1.25 per 100 pounds on oranges from Southern California points to the Missourl River and farther East. In this order the rallroads reserved the right of routing the fruit east from their The commission raised the question that the routing privilege was virtually a contract for peoling, and the railroad companies justified the re- quirernent by saying that it was neces- sary to prevent the makirg of rebates. The Circuit Court sustained the Govern- and also held the rafl- road circular to be in general violation of the spirit of the interstate comamerce law. The decision rendered today was based agreement violated no provision of the Interstate commerce act and aided in pre- venting rebates. Justice Peckham said “Has the carrier California the right under the facts to in- sist upon the rule permiiting such carrier to route the freight at the time it is re- ceived from the shipper?” The following extracts from his opinion indicate his reply to the questicn: “We think there is nothing in the act which clearly prohibits the roads from adopting the rule In question. The deci- sion turns upon a statute which does not in terms prohibit. The whole question of joint through rates under the provisions of the act is one of agreement between the companies, and they may or may not enter into it, as they think their Interests demand. It is equally plain that an initial carrier may agree upon joint through rates with one or several connecting car- riers, who between each other might be regarded as competing roads. It Is also undoubted that the common carrier need not contract to carry beyond its gwn line, but may there deliver to the next%ucceed- ing carrier, and thus end its responsibil- ity and charge its local rate for the trans- portation. If it agrees to transport be- yond its own line it may do so by such lines as it chooses. ““As the carrier Is not bound to make a through contract, it can do So upcn suck terms as it may agree upon, at least so long £s they are reasonable and do not otherwise violate the law. In this case the Initial carrier guarantees the through rate, but only on condition that it has the rosalng.” LA e BLOW TO THE GROWERS. Decision May Prove Costly to the Frult Industry, LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26.—In com- menting upon the decision of the Unit- ed States Supreme Court, finding in fa- yvor of the railrouds in the celebrated fruit shipping case, Joseph H. Call, who acted as special counsel for the Govern- ment in the case, sald today: “This decision will perpetuate the railroad pool. It gives legal sanction to the companies and probably means that citrus fruit-growers of this sec- tion will be.driven out of business in greater numbers than heretofore.” Former United States District Attor- ney L. H. Valentine sald: ‘““Chis State’s income of mare than $20,000,000 annually is menaced. The decision thoroughly demonstrates the need of haste In the matter of a rate bill. The necessity §s also demon- strated of a law which will protect growers against the railroads.” Manager J. A. Woodford of the Cali- fornia Fruit-Growers’ Express said “It is the end. Under Judge Well- born’s decision citrus fruit growers years. Now they are deprived of the right to jthat ‘he was chained to a tree. sefect their own routes, and delay in’ getting fruit to market means great’ loss." i ——— Belgian Court to Try Waddington. BRUSSELS, Feb. 26.—M. Waddington, sori of the Chilean Charge d'Affaires, who on Saturday kilted Senor Balma- ceda, the secretary of the consulate,| has decided to submit to the authori- ties and stand trlal before a ‘Belglan | most plac Coast Shippers Are Defeated - - — — JUSTICE WHO RENDERED DE- CISION ADN SE TO THE CALI- FORNIA FRUIT SRIPPERS. ES el ATTEMPT TO POISON VENEZUELAN PRELATE Nitrate of Silver Placed in 4 ; Communal for Arch- bishop. WILLEMSTAD, Feb. 26.—According to advices received here from Caracas, President Castro is_ greatly unnerved as the result of an unsuccessful at- tempt by an unknown person to peison the Most Rev. Dr. Juan Castro, Arch- bishop of Venezuela, by putting nitrate of silver in the communal on Sunday, February 18. The Archbishop some time ago re- buked the Venezuelan clergy for their immorality. It is learned from official sources at Caracas, Venezuela, that President Cas- tro’'s next move in the French question will be to call upon the United States to arbitrate the question of the amount of damage done by France In permit- ting the filibustering steamship Ban- righ at Fort de France, island of Mar- tinique, to préy upon Venezuelan com- merce and transport troops during the Matos revolt. The United States claim agalnst Great Britain in the case of the Alabama will be cited as a precedent. & sl s e SHORE LINE LIMITED. New Fast Train—The Best in the West. Commences service March 1, Leaves San Francisco datly, § a. m., arrives Los Angeles 9:30 p.‘m._Parlor cars, diner. Stops at fan Jose, Pajafo (for Sants ,Criz), Castroville {through gar for Del Monte), Paso Roblu, San Luis Oblgpo -and Santa Barbara ony Sce Southern Pacific agent, ————————— QUARANTINE AGAINST A PORT IN PANAMA Official Notice Taken of the Prevalence of Yellow Fever at Bocas del 'Toro. SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Feb. 26.—The Government of Costa Rica has received official notification of the existence of vellow fever at Bocas del Toro, Pan- ama, and quarantine regulations have been put into effect against vessels from that port. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Surgeon General Wyman of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service has noti- fied the various Government quaran- tine stations of the appearance of yel- low fever at Bocas del Toro, Panama, and the usual mcasures of inspection and detention will be adopted. ——— BANDITS CHAIN PRISONER TO TREE IN MOUNTAINS EL PASO, Texus, Feb. 26.—Weak, but feeling no ill effects from his captivity, Colonel Robert Hannigan, who was kidnaped In the Mogollon Mountains while truveling in New Mexico and held for ransom, arrived at his home in. Deming toduy. Hannigan stated that he was kept in a very rough section of the mountains and econfirms the report One thousand dellars ‘was paid for his re- lease. —_————— Attempts to Pass Forged Check. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 26.—A man giving the name of John H, Waterhouse of Seattle was arrested in the Bank of Commerce today on a _charge of lt- tempting to a forged check. ‘Waterhouse, accompanied by his bride. of a few weeks, arrived. h‘rt Friday llhd. the latter declares she is penni- ogn. —_—————— * Heavy Snowtall in Indiaus, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., patches from cities in ql) putlntflu State tell of tlu he:vl m this winter. pnntpl from three to ten Inoh!l- es “to: fall and continued until 7 gonl‘ht -tw» in ‘clock:| | true. Feb. 26—Dis- | OF YERKES 15 MZNER'S Sudden Reconciliation With Bride Followed by An- nouncement That He Pre- vented Loss of Her Fortune LOVING PAIR NEVER WILL BE SEPARATED Young Californian “Squares Himself” and Wife Now Regards Him as Vietim of a Base Conspiracy M Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Feb. 26—"It was a con- spiracy to separate us, but it failed,” said Mrs. Yerkes-Mizner tonight in Hotel Netherland, as she sat looking lovingly into the big blue eyes of her athletic young husband at a littie dinner she gave in that hotel, wherein she had dweit in magnificent state for several years with her first husband, Charles T. Yerkes. “They told me all sorts of dreadful things about Wilson,” she added, “and foolishly I credited them until I started an investigation and found they were all false. Please do not say we are reunited, because we never were separated. We had a little quarrel, it is true, but I love him and I have found out that he is not 80 black as he has been painted.” “Don't let any more of those unkind things be said about him,” she pleaded. “He was always good to me. The stories that he abused me and that we quarreled over money matters are absolutely un- He never asked me for a cent, either before or after our marriage, and gave me only what I have learned to have been the best of advice in regard to financial affairs. All 1 have is his, if he wishes, for I now know that but for | hizn 1 might have been put into a posi- tion where the very roof could have been sold over my head.” With that Mrs. hotel with her husband, and was driven back in her own automobile to her Fifth- avenue home, her face beaming and look- | ing in every sway as charming as most youthful brides. From a friend who was present at the dluner it was learned later that Mrs. Yerkes-Mizner had driscovered in the scheme to separate her from her husband a plot involving more millions than ever | figured in the weirdest romance. “Why, we are finding more money be- longing to the estate every day,” is reported to have sald. “For example, only yesterday I discovered some keys | to safe deposit vaults that had been hid- den away by Mr. Yerkes that I am sure will add millions to the value of the estate. Mr. Yerkes was a great man for hiding thiogs. He would put things in ail socts of odd , corners. = Already we have found clews to.large sums in Eng- land, and goodness knows how much more we shall find before we are through. “It was lucky that, through the advice of Mr. Mizner, I cohsulted a disinterested lawyer before I definitely declded to withdraw as trustee and executrix of Mr. Yerkes' avill.” JAPANESE URGED TO SHUN AMERICA Consul General in Hawaii Adyises Them Not to Go to Pacific Coast. HONOLULU, Feb. 26.—Miki Saito, the Japanese Consul-General, has issued a strong statement to the Japanese la- borers of the Hawailan Islands advis- ing them against going to the Pacific Coast and warning them that during | many months of the year they will find no work there. He says that this, with expensive living, more than counter- balances the offer of larger wages. He further says that there is much desti- tution and even starvation among the‘ Japanese who have already gone to the Pacific Coast States. The Consul Gen- eral declares that the climate cn the coast is more severe than in Hawail and that there is a lessening desire in America for Japanege labor. Ten thousand circulars containing this statement have been distributed by the Japanese merchants here, but de- spite ‘this fact there Is considerable agitation among the Japanese in favor of going to the coast and Immigration agents are busily recruiting among them. ; MRS. COREY TO JOIN THE DAKOTA COLONY Now on Her Way to Sioux /Falls to Secure a Divorce. Special Dispatch to The Call. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 26.—Mrs. W. E. Corey, wife of the Pittsburg steel mag- nate, aciompanted by her maid and an Englishman who was very attentive to her, two Boston terrlers and six large trunks, passed through Cheyenne this morning on the east-bound Union Pacific Jimited for Sioux Falls, 8. D. The party occupied a drawing-room and when the train stopped the curtains at the windows were pulled down ard admission to the compartment refused by the janitor, who sald- he was acting under direct orders from Mrs. Corey. It is stated that Mrs. Corey left Reno, Nev., to get a quick divorce in South Dakota. It is further claimed that she recently recelved $1,000,00 from her hus- band. —_—— Blizzard Yislts St. Louls. ST. LOUIS, Feb. 26.-—The heaviest snowfall of the winter prevailed here today and continued into tohight. The storm began about 7 o'clock this morn- ing and by night a foot of snow had fallen. The temperature registered 27 degrees above zero, A hard wind drove the snow until the storm became a blizzard. —_—————— ARMY ORDERS. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Army or- der: Dy direction of his lieutenant colonel, John A. Lunden, Artillery Corps, will proceed to San Francisco and report to the commanding general of the Pacific division for duty as in- ‘spector general, vice Colonel Sedgwick Pratt. e Death of a Forty-Niner. KANKAKEE, IIl, Feb. iner” and a nmnbu- es | Nicholls, a “forty-n of Nevada's first legislative body, nmu.v at his home here. He m 80 years of age Yerkes-Mizner left the | she | 26.—B." H. SULCESTIVE DRAMA. BAD FOR YOUTH Prelate Rebukes Mothers That Attend. Appeals to Fathers to Save American Children. Bishop Scannel Says Women Are More Lax in Mora! Tone. Speclal Dispateh to The Call. OMAHA, Feb. 2. A vigorous protest | |against the suggestive drama, a lament ! over the steady decline in the moral tone of society and an appeal to fathers to save | their children—a duty which they “can- not safely relinquish to their wives,” is the essence of the instructions in Bishop | ‘<c1nnels pastoral for Lent, read in ail Cathelic churches in the diocese of | Omaha yesterday. | The prelate called particular attention | | to the growing demoralizaticn from bad | | plays and believed that “the knowledge | of evil agquired from the stage has hur- | ried down to his or her ruin many young persens who but for that .would be | jChristlans and useful members of so- | | clety."” | He said it was farthest from his wishes | | te condemn all theatrical representations, | | for ali classical plays, as they are termed, | aid all plays that are clean and healthy | {in tone will do no harm—in fact, may be’ made the occasion of pleasant and ln-: structive recreation. He deprecated the | | plays that represented only what was de- | | praved in human nature; that appealed | not to the best, but to the' worst in| man; that apologized for vice and sought | to make it respectable. To his mind | these were the most potent agents of corruption that it was possible to con- ceive. SOCIETY IS DEGENERATING. In speakirg of the moral tome of so- ciety, the Bishop sald: “This conduct, difficult to understand ana impossible to justify, throws light on n.any things in our soclal system that otherwise would be hard to aceount for. | It explains why it is that the moral tone of societv is today distinctly lower than it was, say ten years ago, and that ten vears age it was lower than it had been ten years farther back. It 'éxplains the | moral and physical deterioration of those who from. vouth have been expesed to the enervating irfluence which I have de- scribed. It explains why that it is that when mon—true men and capable men— are needed for any position they have to be sought mainly among the sons of the poor. These, living the simple and natural lifes trained to honest work and taught by necessity to practiee self- | denial, grow up with clear heads and honest hearts and become men, while habitual theater-goers and votaries of pleasure grow old, morally and physi- cally, before they are twenty and never become men at all. What is the good of our greater material progress, with its apparent refinement, if it cannot produce strenuous and vigorous Christian man- hood? MOTHERS IGNORE THEIR DUTY. T appeal to the fathers of our families to save the children. The fathers of fam- | ilies can do more to purify the stage than | all the mayors and police of the country. “The business is like every other busi- ness—it seeks to serve the public as the public desires to be served. When these that preduce plays find decency pays better than indecency, the stage will at once become clean ahd wholesome. “1 appeal to the fathers of families to save the chlidren, for they cannot safel relinquish the duty to their wives. Man wemen allow themselves to be swayed in thbe matter by extranecous considera- tions and their judgmtent cannot always be relied upon.” —_————————— WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Chairman Bur- rows of the Senate committes on privMeges and elections has agreed with Senator Smoot and his counsel to hear the evidence in re- buttal in the case of the Utah Senator on Mon- Add! D™ Graves’ Tooth Powder. to your toilet necessities if you want the best results. It removes discolorations and tartar. inm anti- septic—a purifier—a cleanser. Ask your dentist. Ask him why. In handy metal caus or bottles, 25c. Dr-Graves’ Tooth Powder Go. anything. Enjoy Yourself You don’t have anticipated when you travel on the CALIFORNIA LIMITED Chicago in Three Days : Onymr way make a. trig to the ,Gfani Canyon of Anzom; FATHER MAY HAVE KILLED LITTLE ONES Developments in Stockton Poisoning Case Show That Barnett Was Despondent and Had Talked of Death BLUE BECAUSE HiS CHILDREN SUFFERED Tells Fellow Workman He Was Ready to End It All, but That He Could Not Bear to Leave His Youngsters Epecial Dispatch to The Call, STOCKTON, -Feb. 26.—Did H. Barnett poison his two children and after seeing them buried administer to himself a killing potion? That he did is strongly suggested by the day’s developments In the strange case. On Wednesday, February while Bar- nett dand Wililam H. Burnett, fellow team- Sters, were eating their - frugal s Barpett said to the latter: “If I t this would last I would end it all. 1 would rather be under theé sod than above it. James | The only thing that makes me hesitate is that I have got two children that [ can't jbear to leawv Aftédr the meal the two men sat talking. Barnett confided to Burnett that he had not a dollar in the world and that the meager $2 a day which he was paid for hauling dirt was insufficlent for the sup- port of his family. He said his loved ones frequently wanted for the necessa- ries’ of life, and that the future looked even blacker for him than the past had been. He sald he expected to lo: s job, and that as he had no team and no trade he did not know what would become of his family. Burnett thought that his d was suf- fering from a temporary attack of blues, and had no idea that he would carry into execution his terrible threat. The follow- ing day Barnett seemed more discouraged than ever. It was on that night or the following morning that the little boy was taken with his fatal illness. i e ® Will Exonerate Admiral Sands. WASHINGTON, Feb. —A majo of the subcommittee sent to the Ann- apolis Naval Academy by the House committee on naval aff: is in favor of recommending a graduated system of punishment for hazing, according to the seriousness of the offense. The re- port will exonerate Admiral Sands, su- perintendent of the academ and the officer> under him on charges that they ignored hazing and made no effort to punish it. THERE ARE COAT SHIRTS AND COAT SHIRTS BUT THERE IS ONLY ONE WHIT! Nt S AND GDLOI FASTNESS $1.50 AND MORE ‘‘ON AND OFF LIKE A COAT"" Pt e e R B A CURE SICK HEADACHE. Genvine Must Bear W.gl! Fac-Simile Stxnamn m _PROPOSALS. BUREAU OF PORT WORKS, MANILA, P. R Dec. 20, 1905.—Sealed proposals for the con- struction of two steel wharves in Manila 11. o'clock then publicly opened. hed on appilca- tion to this affice or to_the Bureau of Affairs, Washington, D. C. Plans may be seen at the above offices and also at the United States Engineer offices at Chicago and San Francisco and at the offices of the Engineertng News and Engineering Record at New York. W. SK, Lisutenant T e of B U & B Taee tor of Port Works, Philippine Islands. a:-nm 11 o'clock a. Fel 'y 28, 1906, and then opened for furnishing and instali- ll‘ otl pump ana certain other work the quarjermaster's steamer General .I’fllll “ San Francisco, Cal. Governmenr resaerves the right to reject or accept any or all bids in whole or in part. Information furnished on application to WM. 8. PATTEN, Assistant Quartermaster General, Chief Q. M. to worry about your wanfs are ‘————