The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 7, 1906, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH - L5 1906. THIEF ROBS THE GUESTS OF PRELATE BurglaT. Visits the Home of Bishop Conaty. Makes Raid as Divine Entertains Friends at Dinner. acks Second Story of the Residence and Secures Loot Werth $1500. CARRIES WEAPON. DIVINE rtland Clergyman Tires of Being Made Victim of T self of 2 L JRIN KS MUCILAGE INSTEAD OF POISON | Would“Be Suicide Tongue- I'ied When Wife Laughs at His Plighs. n The Call. Merch 6.—After quar- Albert de bottle he belleved drank it to com- d not contain e, which fast- tightly that me saving him d what was would not over his predica- man’s anger. . as his tongue e roof of his | e reconciled, 1 > to as- will ever better piano than | FIRE IV CANAL INQUIRY| T0 SWE LIFE | Chairman Shonts of the Canal Board has intimated his willingness to sell his railroad interests. posed to live on the isthmus and urges that the type of | canal be decided at once. He is not dis- i |Says He May Give Up ‘ His Railivad In- terests. Urges an Immediate | Decision as to “ the Type. [Also Favors Federal Cable to the Isthmus. —— WASHINGTON, ‘March 6.—Theodore P. h chairman of the Isthmian Canal mission, today resumed his testimony vefore the Senate committee on inter- eanic canals. Senator Taliaferro had the protest of Hudgins & Dumas ew York to President Roosevelt st the manner in which the commis- » concessions had been granted to Ja- Markel of Omaha, Neb., and urg- ing its discontinuance on the ground that it had been entered into irregularly. The New York firm said the proceedings in connection with the letting of the con- tract indicated collusion and a predispo- sition to award it to Markel. Shonts said the President had referred this protest to him and he read the reply he had made to the President. These documents were made public at the time. The change Hudgins & Dumas made in ids after certain conditions had called to thelr attention, said de their bid higher than that Referring to Shonts’ reply to ent wherein it was stated that e commission had the right to cancel the Markel contract upon giving thirty notice, Taliaferro asked Shonts to t out in the contract the right of can- ation. Taliaferro showed that at the he contract was let there was no celed as long as the concessionaire lived up to the terms of the concession, € said he understood the “right llation” as he had stated in his to the President, but that he had analyzed it from a legal point ot ew *"Was 1t not your duty to do s0?” asked ferro. suppo: stood it it was, but I then under- T sald before,” replied Shonts. however, I had Mttle to do h preparing the contract. That was done by Mr. Ross.” “Do you intend to continue your con- nection as president of the Clover Leaf?" asked Taliaferro. “That depends,” “On what?" INFLUENCE OF RAILROADS. said the witness, ‘“‘the Presi- ke to me about that, and I told that on account of my. large hold- ings I did not want to give up the presi- dency. I talked with President Roose- velt you. I did not want to embarrass him. He d he thought there would be no objection to my holding the place if I replied the witness. served without salary; ‘that is, if I was | merely the nominal president.” yo ““Then do not know what your in- tentions are?” asked Taliaferro. “The President will tell me what he wants me to do, I suppose.” replied the witness In response to a number of questions, Shonts sald that he was now negotiat- Leaf, but he did not know how the ne- ations would terminate. Taliaferro asked Shonts for names of employes and their railroad connections. The witness mentioned himself as con- nected with the Clover Leaf route; Pur- chasing Agent Ross, the Illinois Central; y Benson, the Southern Pacific, hief Engineer Stevens, the Rock —p sland. Taliaferro attempted to show that all of the officlals named had had fntimate relations with transcontinental = lines. sald that the Clover Leaf was not n ¥ way assoclated with transconti- nental lines, but the other roads men- tioned might be.regarded as related to ranscontinentals, aithough they would not be so called In “railroad parlance.” In referring to communications with of- ficials on the isthmus, Shonts spoke or cable charges. “Do you not think the Government should have its own cable between the nearest points of the canal zone and the United States?” asked Morgan. “I do, and I have repeatedly mended it,” said Shonts. MAY LEAVE RAILROAD. At the afternoon session Senator Mor- gan took up the question of Shonts’ con- versation with President Roosevelt con- cerning his services with the Clover Leaf route. Shonts said the President told him the subject of his ‘dual role had been brought up, and tha* it might prove em- barrassing to the administration., The President had asked him what he was doing concerning his holdings of railroad recom- | Interests and Shonts said he replied that he would dispose of his holdings if he had an opportunity to do so without a | saerifice. In this connection Shonts made it clear that the question of disposing of his rafl- road 'holdings had mnot been considered serfously in that Interview. . “If the President asked you to resign the presidency of the Clover Leaf and sell your holdings, would you feel free to re- sign your commissionership? asked Morgan. “I never had it presented that way,” sald the witness. “As long as the Presi- dent wants me to stay. and his agree- ments with me are carried out, I think I should remain in the employ of the Government.” He explained that by. “‘agreements” he which the contract could be can- | sore frankly than I am talking with | ing to get rid of his Interest in the Clover | | meant that the President had promised | him a free hand ih carrying out his poli- | cles and his sympathy and support in.ad- | ministrative matters connected with canal matters, WALLACE’S NAME FIGURES. Former Chief Engineer Wallace’s name was then brought up by Morgan, who asked the witness what he should do if the President told h'm he must move to the isthmus and live there and take the members of his family there and compel them to live there. “I don’t know,” replied Shonts. | man must be just to his family.” “‘Ought not Mr. Wallace to have the same consideration?” asked Morgan. Shonts sald he thought Wallace had the same right to consideration and called attention to the fact that he had never criticised Wallace's action. Morgan and Taliaferro inquired at length concerning the concession to the | Union Ofl Company - of California‘ to lay pipe lines across the isthmus. | Morgan wanted to know if Shonts had 'ever heard that Rockefeller awned the But we want to be entirely in the statement mo has ever heretofore done #o. It is the only piano made the world today that is ld with a lifetime guar antee. Prices on uprights from $550 to $760. CLARK WISE & €O, 126 St. SAN FRANCISCO ons A o e SRR Y ¢ “ THEOD Z & ‘ JHN T | HEAD OF THE CANAL BOARD, WHO WAS UNDER FIRE OF | SENATE COMMITTER. R AR R B0Y. KIDNAPED N NEW YORK Son of an Italian Banker Held in Brooklyn and a Big Ransom Is Demanded NEW YORK, March 6.—Antonio Bozuffi,. the l4-year-old son of John Bozuffi, a leading Italian banker, whose place of business is at Sixty-third street and First avenue, has been kidnaped and is being held for ,-s,000 ransom. The -kidnaping occurred last Sunday, | on which day the bank is kept open dur- | ing the afternoon. The boy, who -was | acting as a clerk, was sent out to pur- | chase $10 worth of stamps and did not | return. Inquiry proved that he made the | purchase. Yesterday the first letter came Today came a second let- | from the boy. ter and with it a letter from the abduct- | ors. The latter was well written in Ital- [1an. The boy's first letter sa.. he was held captive in Brooklyn. After asking that the money be pald the note con- cluded: “Do not advise the police under any circumstances, because if you do my life will leave this world.” One of the letters from the boy's cap- tors contained this sentence: ““Our scope, signor, is not vindictiveness, It is solely the extreme necessity which exists for the possession of the sum in- dicated. Upon your consignment of the money all at once, without default, your son will be set free and safe.” March 8 is the day set for the Payment of the ransom MILLIONAIRE SUING FOR SEVEN CENTS In Another Action He Asks for Five Million Dol- lar Judgment. Special Dispatch to The Call, CHICAGO, March 6.—It matters not to W. H. Condon whether he sues for mil- lions or for & mite. When he belfeves he has been defrauded, be the loss large or small, he does not propose to stana for it. B In a suit re Justice Martin today | he accuses TOny Pacell, a news dealer, of having oyercharged him 7 cents on last month’s bill. Unthinkingly -he paild the 7 cents on the first of March, ¥ Condon asserts that Feb; , to the best of his knowledge and belfef, had only twenty-eight days. The bill for his morning papér, he says, should run like this: Three Sundays, 15 cents; twenty- four days, 48 cents; to?&‘centm One Sunday, Condon €xplains, he failed to get his paper. With all the deliveries made he can’t figure out how the, bill should be more than 68 cents. In a receént suit Condon sought $5,000,000 from the Chicago and Western Indiana ———— Railroad. BRIDGE TRUST OF OHIO /; VIGOROUSLY DENOUNCED Declared by Attorney General of State to Be “Steeped in Crime.” COLUMBUS, Ohlo, March 6.—"I never knew of a conspiracy 8o infamou thoroughly steeped in crime as' the bridge trust,” sald Attorney General Ellis téday in an argument befors the House judiclary commfttee in faver of a bill providing that witnesses in trust investigations shall not be incrimin- ated by their own testimony. “This bill, if made a law,” he d, “will hurt some thieves in public office ‘who ought to be in the penitentfary.” The committee voted to report “the bill for passage. —_— Union Of] Company. : Shonts sald he knew BShonts conclu an ‘earnest ap- peal to the commitiee to determine Woman Dies in Agony at Dowie’s City Despite Deacon’s Pious Petitions CORONER INVESTIGATES Jury Returns an Open Ver- diet, Offering No Recom- mendations or Opinions —_— Special Dispatch to .The Call CHICAGO, March ..—Evidence that the life of Mrs. Anna R. Turner, a follower of John Alexander Dowie, who dfed in childbirth without medical attention, could have been saved, had she been al- lowed the services of a physician, was given today at the Coroner’s inquest in the home of the dead woman, For three days, according to the sworn statements of witnesses, James H. Tur- ner, the husband of the woman, and Deacon J. R. Kellar, one of Dowie's lieu- | tenants, stood at the bedside of the suf- fering woman and offered hey no other than their prayers. They refused to allow any one to Interfere, althsugh they admit that they uad been warned that her life was in danger and might have been saved by an operation. At the inquest both the husband and the deacon said (nat the woman had been in no pain, although a midwiié that attended her de- clared that she had suffered agonies. “We do not call 1t that,” said the hus- band, when asked sf he hau hot known that his wife was in pain. Both he and Deacon Kellar professed to see In the woman's death a victory of their faith. The Coroner’s jury, after hearing all the evidence, including that given by Coro- | lonable district of the West Side. ner’s' Physiclan Rheinhart, who said that | dreds of pedestrians probably passed the he was positive in his belief that death could have been avolded by an operation, returned an open verdict, made no recom- mendations and gave no opinions. —_———————— COUNCIL BLUFFS Iowa, March 6.—A new trial was granted today in the mining suit of James Doyle vs. James F. Burns, Involving shares and dividends of the Portland Goid Mining Compeny of Cripple Creek valued at CHAIRMAN SHONTS UNDER [PRAYER FAILS ROBBERS USE I IZHLURUFI]RMI Chicago Woman Lies Uncon- seious All Night on Steps of a Church Basement ATTACKED BY TWO MEN Thugs Take Her Money and Diamonds in the Heart of a Fashionable Distriet e Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, March 6.—Mrs. Margaret M. Lloyd, 1630 Lexington street, was found early today in a dazed condition, sitting on the steps of a church in Washtenaw avenue, near Jackson boulevard. She was taken to the Warren-avenue police sta- tion, where she reported that she had been attacked by two men, chloroformed and robbed of $173 in money and two diamond ringsjyalued at $250. The attack, Mrs. Lloyd said, took place in front of the church about 7 o'clock on Monday evening, as she was returning to her home. When she was passing the church-a man darted out from - the shadows and attempted to snatch her handbag. She eluded him, but another man ran to his assistance. The latter threw a handkerchief saturated with chloroform over her face and she lost consciousness. It was early this morning when she re- gained her senses and found herself at the bottom of the steps leading into the church basement. Her clothing was torn and her face scratched and bruised. She managed to crawl to the top of the steps, where she was found by a policeman. The place where Mrs. Lloyd was at- tacked is in the haért of the most fash- Hun- church while she lay unconsclous at the bottom of the steps. ————— Names Indicted Men Withheld. BOISE, Idaho, Majch 6.—At Caldwell today the Grand Jury reported a num- ber of indictments:. The names of the persons indicted were not made publie, except in the cases of two minor of- tenders. | SCANDAL OVER BIG CONTRACT Fraud Alleged in the Fil- tration Work Being Done for City of Philadelphia MILLIONS ARE INVOLVED New Public Works Director Takes Project Out of the Hands of Accused Firm —_— PHILADELPHIA, March 6.—One of the first official acts of Thomas L. Hicks, who was today sworn in as Director of Pub- lic Works of Philadelphia, succeeding Lincoln A. Acker, who resigned yester- day, was to annul the five contracts held in the name of Daniel J. McNichol for | the construction of several parts of the city’s fiitration system. The reason given by the director for rescinding the con- tracts is ‘“‘collusion, irregularity and fraud in the procuring and execution of the contracts whereby the city has been wronged and defrauded of its rights and property.” The total value of the canceled con- tracts is $1,976,000. The MeNichol firm, which includes form: State Insurance Commissioner Israel Durham and State Senator James P. McNichol, has already completed contract work .on the filtration plant amounting to more than $12,000,000. The action taken by Director Hicks is the result of an Investigation made by the Board of Engineers, of which Major Cassius E. Gillette, chief of the Bureau of Filtration, is the head. Senator McNichol has turned the mat- ter over to his counsel and declared to- day that he will at once institute legal action against the city to compel the ai- rector to rescind the order. —_——————— Boston Makes Good Showing. BOSTON, March 6.—In the twentieth annual report of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, issued today, it is point- ed out that Boston has re-established herself as the sccond port of the coun- try on combfned values, taking the place of New Orleans. BOYCOTT FAILS T0 HURT TRAE Shipments From the United States to China Expand Despite All Opposition GOOD INCREASE SHOWN Some Few Artieles Suffer From the Attitude of the Orientals Toward America WASHINGTON, March 6—In view of the widespread feeling regarding the ef- fect of the Chinese boycott of American goods, Secretary Metcalf of the Depart- ment of Commerce and Labor today gave out a statement showing the amount of exports from this country to China by months—July, 194, to January, 1905, and from July, 1905, to January, 1906, respec- tively. It appears from this that the to- tal exports for the seven months ending January, 1%E. amounted to 323,432,948, whereas for the seven months ending January, 196, they equaled $28,362,680, or a total increase of $5,429,732. The shipments of cotton eloth goods for the period first mentioned amounted to $12,947,530, while for the seven months ending January, 1906, they were $19,606,348. There was likewise an increase in the exports of copper ingots, the amounts being stated at $1.473,197 for the period ending January, 1905, and 33,195,850 for lha} period ending January, 1908, A decrease of nearly 50 per cent is shown in the exports of mineral oils, the amount of such shipments for the seven months ending January, 1905, being 35.- 232,307, whereas they were only 32,696,086 for the same period of time up to Jan- uary, 1906. The statement shows that the exports of the products named were vastly less in January, 1906, than they were in the month preceding, cotton goods falling off to the extent of 360,000, copper ingots $134,600 and mineral ofls $297,960. —— WASHINGTON, March 6.—A bulletin fssued by the Cemsus Bureau today shows that the bleycle and tricycle industry has fallen o but enormously during the last five that motor-cycle manufacturs is imcreastiy. & Meet'Me at the Art R.ception Room Music Daily ‘cell -and Ellis St. Store) 740 Market Street. In every detail the leading establishment west of Chicago, Two Large Stores. “an Advertised Specials Are’on Sale 2 n 3 % t Boti Stores > Mai! Orders Filled Market, Powell & Ellis. | 4 A dollar well spent An honest merchant invariably gives his. customers the best he can. There are many conditions to make it possible for some stores to do more for their customers than others-—that’s the reason some are larger and busier. spent. fact that every dollar yo J When we call your attention to the fact that we have the largest clothing establishment on the Pacific Coast and the busiest store in Francisco, it is not in a boasting spirit, but rather to show what others think of our methods—our values and our merchandise and to offer as a reason for our great popularity and our splendid business the u spend with S. N. Wood & Co. is a dellar well Suits worth $14 for %87 in in we're siling for $8.75. can they be at such low - prices——and it’s a mighty sensible ques- tion, too. : matter is, they are not $8.75 suits but $14.00 garments. tics—manufacturing these garments in our -own work rooms —eclimigating the wholesaler’s profit—and by sheer perseverance and determination to make irresistibleinduce- ments for your trade, we offer you these suits, which cannot be bought the country for than $14.00. Our price $8.75. You will ask what The fact of the By ‘buying. woolens tremendous quanti- any clothing store in less