The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 6, 1906, Page 1

rints More News Than Any Other Paper Published in San ikl o b THE THEATERS, ALCAZAR—“The Little Princess.” CALIFORNA—“"Whirli-Gigsle." Forecast for March 6: CENTRAL—"A Tale of Two Cities.”" CHUTES—Vaudeville, San Francisco and vicinity—Fair COLUMBIA—"Strength of the Weak."™ Tuesday: light Borth' winds. GRAND—"The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast.” A. G. McADIE, MAJESTIC—"The Proud Prince.” District Forecaster. e oy e, » TIVOLI—“Isle of Spice.” OLUME XCIX—NO. 96. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. OWNERS OF MINES WILL FIGHT UNION GREAT STRIKE SEEMS INEVITABLE I OIS A4 Ta FEELL ROCKEFELLER OFFERSINEW TANGLE AID TO THE CZAR. | N AFFAIRS WANTS FOOTHOLD IN RUSSIA I][]MINI[:AN Willing to Advance/$200,000,000 in Order to Acquire Railroad Concessions. Woman IsMa.kmg Trouble for Mr. Root. i Mrs. Reader Bears Cre- dentials From Island Republic. HEINZE HIT BY A SLUMP N COPPERS —_— Montanan Loses Millions in a Day. Clean-Up Made by 0il Clique in Wall Street. Enormous Sum Is Added to the Profits of the “ System.” Special Dispatch to The Call ST. PETERSBURG, March 5.—John . Rockefeller is coming to Premier de ‘Witte's rescue. This information comes from a statesman, who, in speaking of Russia’s flnancial crisis, said: “Unless Count de Witte gets money immediately a Cabinet and financial crash will be imminent. The treasury is depleted and unable to meet cur- rent expenses. It is now confronted by the necessity of paying the bill for maintenance of Russian prisoners in Japan, the bill for the purchase price of ]Jand acquired by the peasant bank and short time bills held by Mendels- sohn. “All efforts to obtain a loan have proved futile. Americans demand col- lateral. The Rothschild crowd refused to advance money until after the pro- Jected reforms had been realized. A French syndicate consented to make a loan at 6 per cent interest and 23 per cent commission, the issue price to be 93, with the Indorsement of the Douma. But the Mendelssohn notes are due in April and our contract enjoins us from new loans until these are paid. Men- delssohn refuses to forego this stipu- lation, while the French syndicate is unwilling to make any advance. “‘Meanwhile 400,000,000 rubles ($200,- 000,000) is needed to settle the Men- delssohn and other pressing accounts. Count de Witte wanted to issue an in- terior lottery loan, but the mere ru- mor that he had it in mind caused the price of former similar issues to tum- ble, ruining many of the small holders. ““Thereupon Rockefeller offgred 400,- 000,000 rubles for railroads from Tashend to T: from Tchita to Polomoshna and a grant of land on both sides of the prospec- tive lines. The money advanced will be paid back in installments and used ip the construction of the road. “Count de Witte likes the scheme, and Duke Nicholas, who is anxious to unite Transcaspia and Siberia, also is inclined to favor it. The Czar hesitates to sanc- tion the step before the Douma assem- bles. “Meanwhile the financial situation is exceedingly acute. While the gold lasted, which has been shipped abroad, the ruble was at par, Now paper money is on the verge of a serious de- preciation. The only remedy les in the adoption of broad, sincere reforms.” Claims to Have Authority to Set Aside Existing Modus Vivendi. Special Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, March 5—F. Augustus Heinze is reported to have lost from $2,- 000,000 to $6,000,000 in the storm that broke Special Dispatcn to The Call CALL BURFAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, March 5 — Mrs. Ella Rawis Reader of 45 Wall street threat- ROBEIRS. over Wall street today, and other opera- tors of almost equal importance are known to have béen badly hurt in the gale of llquidation that continued until shortly before the market closad. Standard Ofl brokers were lying by In their wrecking fleet, ready to take salvage of all stranded craft that drifted their way, and it is known that millions upon millions were added to the profits of the “system” before the day was over. F. Augustus Helnze was not seriously affected by his loss: As is well known, ke merely dropped a part of the “velvet” he has accumulated since he has been taking profits on the remarkable boom in cop- pers. N ‘The story of his loss is told in a trans- action by which he is alleged to have sold a block of Amalgamated at % which two STEEL TRUST PLANS A GIGANTIC MERGER Will Absorb All Large Iron Interests Now Independent of the Combine. ens to overthrow the modus vivendi now existing between the United States and Santo Domingo. She has sent to the Sec- retary of State, and also to the commit- tee on foreign affairs in the Senate, a letter, together with a certificate from the Comite Patrieco Central de Monte Cristl, Santo Domingo, copies of the cer- tificate being duly vouched for by a Ncw York notary public as true and correct coples, by which, he says, she g em- powered to settle the entire situation in that troubled island. Mrs. Reader is not only given full au- therity to collect and disburse all revenue collegtic s of the island, but, as she stated in her letter, she purposes to im- mediately hold free general elections throughout the republic fc- the purpose of estabushing a constitutional Govern- weeks ago cost him 115. The number of . g e R e e by Xioonse tne| PITTSBURG, March ‘5—The United wo: Tea 2 Gompany X States Steel Corporation Is sald to 'be ‘erred, $688,300; nnessee arranging a ‘deal by which it will ‘take | Iron Cflmug‘bfi etc., $13,000,000; Col- ol eV o e T e g el £ 1TT R Fuel and Iron Com- . - comimon, 344,200,000; Colorado Fuel Steel Corporation. Appraisers aré now at | and Iron Company bonds, etc., $45,872,000; work on the large and small independent Sloss-Sheffleld Company common, $10,000,~ steel and tin plate companies throughout 000; Sloss Sheffield Company preferred, the country which may be taken Into the proposed merger. The companies and properties, together with their capitaliza- tion and value, which are to be included, in detail, are as follows: Great Northern ore lands, $1,000,000,000; Republic Iron and Steel preferred, $25,000,- 000; Republican Iron and Steel common, $30,000,000; Republic Iron ahd Steel mort- gages and gold notes, $10,000,000; Tenessee Speefal Dispateh to The Call .| ment. She also promjses, as “‘sole repre- 800; Tennessee Coal and Iron Company sentative of the Dominican Government, to call an international commission to ar~ range all financial difficulties of the island.” Mrs. Reader's ietter is now being con- sidered at the State Department, although a reply has not been made. In the Sen- ate it has not been incorporated in the proceedings, but will receive due atten- tion later. In connection with the Dominican situ- ation Senor Nanches, former Minister or Foreign Affairs under the Morales ad- ministration, who went out of the coun- try with Morales, called at the State Department today. He saw Secretary Root and asked him ,what this Govern=- ment would do in regard to Santo Do- mingo in case he refused to confirm the ‘organization of the I pany, and, according was bought through'J. S. Bach Co. United Copper, which is controlled by the Heinzes, appeared to have recetved something of a jolt also and was evident- 1y a victim of the “Crew of Jolly Rog- ers,” for. while Amalgamated only drop- ped from 104 to 100, United Copper' drop- 5 ped from 65 to 5. When Amalgamated ; was at 110, United was selling at 110. $4.000,000;. Labell. rate of '§2 for §1), Company bonds, $2,000,000; Shenago Fur- nace Company stock. $5,000,000; Shenago Furnace bonds, $4,000,000; total $1,242,- 313,100, If' the merger deal is put through the Steel Corporation will have acquired ah most all of the steel plants of any im- CEORGE) F. BEAEDR NAPA VALLEY FREIGHT TRAIN IN A WRECK x TO EX o2 pending treaty. The Secretary declined + portance in the country. Coal and Iron Company common, $22,352,~ HEAD OF THE RPADING RAILROAD AND:PROMINENT COAL MINB COME TO TERMS IS EXPECTED TO RESULT IN TWO IN THE ANTHRACITE DISTRICT. A STRIKE CALLING OUT IR, PARKHIRST 5 0FPOSED T STRENUOSIT Reformer Characterizes It as a Form of Lunacy. rch 6.—"A good r eople ays are affected v new m known as strenuousness sald Dr. Parkhurst, vesterd “They think s lot to be done e only people.on that if we leave ver will be done. In we are indispens- part of infidelity. that he was indis- t the world would left it. Fren- fidelity. Ner- art of Christ e gospel. precipitation we ess is only a vol- man self-seeking e point of moral lun- ing for Christians, t or out of it, to in- live in this state of pace that kills, eir bodies before lite The pace that kills, inches, is suil- s taking life by ragzor.” BOURKE COCKRAN BECOMES GRAND SACHEM OF TAMMANY Function Is to Preside at the Fourth of July Celebra- tion, March 5.—Representa- ourke Cockran was installed Chief e W YOREK, B i wigwan was 1 grand sachem by the thirteen bere of the council of sachems at ceting held nearly two months ago, t since then his duties at Washing- ton have prevented him from attending meeting of the order. 9 sction to the office is for life, the incumbent resigns. The chief function of the grand sachem fs to dom the silk and regalia of office prezide at the annual Independence « celebration in Tammany Hall on duly 4 Operators Will Re- ject Demands of :Men. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, March 5.—From author- | itative soureés it was learned this aft- ernoon that absolute rejection of the demands of the miners Is expected at {the conference here tomorrow of the | presidents of the amthraeite coal earry- ing roads.. This action would mean that a strike in the hard coal fields, affecting about 200,000 men employed in and about the mines, is inevitable. Every move now being made by the operators is in expectation of a com- plete tieup in the Pennsylvania regions. | It is belleved that the impending clash | cannot be averted. Om the eve of the conference at the Jersey Central office |on Liberty street the operators have | sent out orders to their subordimate chiefs to have all the coal that ean be | taken from the mines stored in readi- ness to meet the shortage which inev- | itably will follow a strike. It cam be authoritatively stated that the word has been passed among the lieutenants of the operators in the coal fields that this will ia all probability be the last month in which coal can be mined in Penneylvania, until an-ad, ment . of | the difficuities is reached. The operators have now had a week in | which to digest the demands submitted to | George ¥. Baer, president of the Philadel- phia and Reading Rallway, by John | Mitchell end the sub-committee of seven | appointed to confer with the committee | of operators. No answer has yet been forwarded to Mitchell, as the demands have been congidered by the mine owners as Individ Although the operators | have carefully concealed the plan which | they will pursue, it has filtered out | through several sources that the chief ob- jeetion to the miners’ demands centers in their proposal that the ‘‘check-off” sys- tem be adopted. The “check-off”’ system is a_ scheme which provides that employers shall de- duct a clertain percentage of the miners’ wages and turn it over in bulk form to the unign. It is demanded that this de- duction’ be made from the wages of non- union men as well as those of union mem- bers. As to the demand for an increase of 10 per cent in the pay of all mineworkers, the operators are to some extent at vari- ance, although all of them are unutter- ably opposed to granting the concession. It is sald that some of the owners would be willing to compromise on the wage question, granting an advance of about ong-half that which is asked. 3 No comcession will be made in &h wrangle over shorter working hours, It 1s 'held that business will not justify an eight-hour day for men mot employed di- recily in the mines. ’Ivu'y ) i DEATH OF SON UNNOTICED BY WATCHING SIRE Invalid From California Expires in Railway Waiting-Room, —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, March 6.—For a half-hour today John Brady, 70 years old, stood beside the body of his son, Willlam Brady, 30 years old, without knowing the latter was dead. When told by a policeman who had been summoned to the La Salle-street station to take the younger Brady to a hospital that hi} son was dead the old man was over- come. Together, father and son were re- turning to Boston, their home. The younger man had been suffering from consumption and had passed some time in California. His father was with him most of the time and when it be- came apparent that the son would soon die he started for home with him. To- day they = reached Chicago. The younger man was in a precarious con- dition and before train time his father decided to Have him taken to a hospi- tal. The pélice were notifled, and an ambulance with two officers was sent to the station. In the walting-room they found. the old man anxlously awaiting them. . One of the policemen leaned toward the younger man, discovering as he did so0, that he was dead. He made a fur- ther examination to convince himself and ‘then told the father. Mitchell, as well as the operators, {ndi- cates that a strike in the anthracite field is impending. The action of the leaders of the miners In obtaining assurances of an adjustment in the bituminous fleld be- fore entering into negotiations with the anthracite operators is now recognized as to. | the rival Interests to_those the By keeping step taken recently by President | total number. Traffic Delayed for Hours by Accident to Cars Near Yountville. . NAPA, March 6.—A serious wreck of a Southern Pacific freight train occurred on the Napa Valley line today, delaying the passenger traflic on the road for five hours. The freight train had left Napa and was on its way to St. Helena and Calistoga. When the train reached Tru- body station, near Yountville, about noon, a journal of the axle of an ofl fuel car burned out, letting the truck down upon the track. It plowed along the track for about 150 yards, tearing up the ties and loosening the rails. The passen- ger train on its way to Napa from' St. Helena was unable to pass by and was delayed at the scene of the wreck for one hour and a half. TREACHEROUS WAVES CLAIM A FISHERMAN Youth of Nineteen Drowned While Angling Near Gualala. UKIAH, March 6.—Word has just been recelved of the drowning of Roy Cook at Gualala. While fishing with some friends off the rocks below Gualala he was caught in a swell and washed out to sea. His body has not vet been found. Cook was only 19 years old. He was a good swim- mer and frequently took plunges into the ocean at this place. It is thought that he struck against a rock and was ren- dered insensible. FRESH CHARGES MADE . IN THE DREYFUS CASE Major Cuiguet Alleges that Secret Manipulation of Papers Is 2 Going On. i PARIS, March 5—Major Cuignet has written an open letter denouncing the delay in the Dreyfus case before the Court of Cassation and intimating that the delay is due to official manipulation of the secret papers in the case. - Major Cuignet is the officer who di: covered the Henry forgery while h was examining the Dreyfus documents | at the time. Cavaignac was ster | of War and had a dispute with the late Minister of War, General Andre, about |! some of | papers. He recently was thlrtv”dly:' u—n:: owlng to the publication of a letter : he brought grave charges against - eral Andre. 5 d FLOATING ICE BRINGS X X . FISHERMEN MRS. POTTER PALMER TO MARRY DUKE. CHICAGO SOCIETY CREDITS RUMOR Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, March 5.—Chicago soclety accepts the rumor of Mrs. Potter Pal- mer's coming marriage as a fact. But little else was being discussed in the city's exclusive circles to-day. If Mrs. Palmer is going to marry the Duke of Athole: if Potter Palm'er Jr. really Is going over for his mother’s wed- ding; if the departure of Mr. and Mrs. Honore Palmer for Europe really is sig- nificant of a shopping festival in Paris in which Mrs. Honore would assist her mother-in-law in the selection of a trous- seau, then the famous arbiter, sponsor and chief ornament of Chicago soclety will soon be wearing a title which, m leagth at least, will equal, if not exceed, that of any other American heroine of a European marriage. Mrs. Palmer will in that case be the wife of the Duke, Mar- quis and Earl of Athole (Sir John James Henry Hugh Stewart Murray, K. T.). « - CASH REWARD FOR CAPTURE AL ST OF MosauITo SAYS HEAVEN WILL BE FOUND - BY ASTRONOM to_give any opinion on the subject. From this query, however, it is inferred here that Morales and his followers are determined to obtain control of the mil- Hon or more dollars now accumulated in New York for the benefit of Santo Do- mingo or her creditors. It has been sug- gested that they will proceed on one of two lnes. The first is that, in case the t1aty between the republlc and the United States fail, foreign creditors wily set up a protest against the money being sequestrated any longer, and demand an immediate division. In such event, it is believed. the Morales party will side with them, perhaps for a consideration, but in any event the case will be a strong one. The second course of action, according to the suggestions made here, Is that the Morales party will put up a proposition that there was nothing regular about the collection of the revenues of the republic by the United States or its semi-official representatives, and, since it was only a private arrangement between Morales and Minister Dawson. aided by Commander D...ingham, by Inference the momey be- longs to Morales and should be’ turned over to him. In either event it is recognized hers that it would create very embarrassing circumstances which would not be over- looked by hostile Senators. Commander Sutherland has cabled to the Navy Department from luonte Crist! that both sides of the revolutionary movement at that place have consented to a suspension of hostilities. He re- ported all of Santo Domingo, outside of that town, as quiet. TRAIN WHEELS CUT [ — New Orleans Board|Pastor Believes Dis- of Health Wars Upon Insects. —_— Special Dispateh to The Call. NEW O March §.—Five dol- RLEANS, . lars reward for the capture, dead or alive, of the first stegoimyla mosquito found lurking, within the confines of the clty has been. fl.r.awmnwadml:/’!fo with felogious intent, the tant Star Is Center ‘of . Universe. oS- - F AL Spectal Dispatch to The Call. MACON, Mo., Mdrch 5.—That the New Jerusalem is a real, material city and that astronomers may soon discover the ter of universe, which is the city of s the conviction of ‘Rev. William MECHANIC TO PIECES Reno Stone Mason Meets an Awful Death Near Town of Sparks. Bpeclal Dispatch to The Call. RENO, March 5.—When train No. 2 pulled into the Reno yards yesterday the engine carried on the cowecatcher torn parts of a coat and parts of a blodstained shirt. showing that a trag- edy had fccurred some place between this city and Sparks. Coroner Read was at once notifled and near the re- duction works he found the mutilated remains of a man, which, on investiga- tion, proved to be those of Willlam F. Jones, a stone mason of this city. Thy man had been struck by train No. 1 ‘which-left Reno yesterday morning, and all trains passing the place of the tragedy after that passed over the mangled remains of the unfortunate.