The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 8, 1906, Page 1

Forecast for March \runy San Francisco and Thursday; light northeast winds. A, G. McADIE, Forecast Official. yicinity—Fair INE — GRAND—* the Beast. CALIFORNIA—“Whirli-Gigxle."” CENTRAL—“A Tale of Two Cities.”” CHUTES—Vaudeville. Matinee. COLUMBIA—"Strength of the Weak." MAJESTIC—‘The ORPHEUM—Vaudevills. Matines. TIVOLI—"Isle of Spice.” L Sleeping - Beauty and a P o ~ SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, MARCH .8, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HORSEMAN DURYEA IN RARE LUCK Suit for Breach of Promise Is Dropped. Mystery Back of Miss Madden’s Change | of Mind. Turfman Alieged to Be In- volved in the Lou Dillon Case. er abso- wyers rges Lou trot- e mare was Imar. nd George C. den, = Cofiin, red Judge Madden I wish s to me cen- Miss Madden rt time ago and she would not ot conditions. I ned from one of the law , Shéeban & Hatch that 8 it to be taken against the t the case of the Gold Cup atfon, which concerning promi- £ we should ob- s case we would lect it, as we know ons would tie nt's property. Had I wn * before 1 would never n th case. not appear Duryea's attorney, e dropping of the ecase, anted time to investigate ts of Miss Madden i on the stand re- arriage Yers of marriag »unt of Mr. Du the witness sta: o such offers.” to “And my that his client nts to Miss Mad- her ng that caused her to the statement about the Mem- race involving Mr. Dur- bosn.” said Cohen. “He for anything that tach to him.” t Duryea fought the den with the full 34 approval of his wife, s Viola Allen, the well- ress me oc- who was known & LETTER HINTS T A TRIGEDY Threatening Missive Is Sent the President of a Wool Growers’ Association W PENDLE b of v of range tragedies are contained o lJetter recelved by President Perry Gould of the Umatilla County Wool Growers’ Association The letter, R and N. train, is signed by mys- ous “John Johnson.” ing | s case at once | el for the Na- | hhhi | plaintiff avers | to do with the match | POLICEMEN ACCUSED OF BLACKMAIL Fifty of Gotham's | “Finest” Slated for Trial. - Bertha Claiche Reveals Names of Corrupt Bluecoats. Exposes System by Which They Collected Coin in Tenderloin. Epeclal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YULRK, March 7. | least fifty policemen as blackmailers of women, Bertha Claiche, who on Tues- | dzy pleaded gulity to manslaughter in the degree, began today to supply the information which will bring her a nomi- {nal sentence of imprisonment. Of the | names revealed, four at least were impli- | cated directly by the French woman as | men who had extorted money from her. { The others, according to her story, had | preyed upon her friends, some of them upon as many as a half-dozen women. | The majority of them were attached to { the West Thirtieth-street police station, | or were recently, and some were in the | so-called vice squad, abolished by Police | Commissioner Bingham during his first | day in office. The names of the men were | not revealed, of course, but it was said | | the women mentioned were of the class | to which Bertha Claiche belonged. Bertha Claiche begen her confession to- | @8y to Assistant District Attorneys Ely and _Van Diver and will continme “her story tomorrow. As fast as the women appeared in the tenderioin, she sald; they Dbecame the particular prey of particular poticemen. n a woman e | known ks the “game” of one bluecoat the | others kept. their hands offl. Two doHars | per week, with an occasional arrest to | give professtonal bondsmen a chance, was the price each girl paid to a policeman. Every time there came a change of posts, & change of detectives or a change in the personnel of the vice squad 2 woman had | | to pay.a new man. The Claiche girl said she knew these things, because among the women there was no concealment of the facts. She | | @14 not know whether her friends would | | come forward and tell the District At- torney, for it might mean needless perse- | | cutior. to them; but she gave their names | and their addresses as far as she could. | While geclaring that his action had ab- | | solutely nothing to do with the Claiche | case, Commissioner Bingham today sent | twenty-five policemen out of the tender- |10in into other stations, Naming at FEAR STEANER IS IN TROUBLE OFF AREUELLD \Freight Train Crew | Reports Seeing Sig- nals of Distress: —,— BURF, March 7.—The crew of a north- bound freight train reported on arriving at Ban Luls Obispo late tonight that a vessel lying off shore between here and San Luls Obispo was sending up signals of distress. No news of any marine dis- aster has reached here, nor did any one here see the rockets. SANTA BARBARA, March 7.—Word re- celved from Surf by long distance tele- phone at midnight tonight says that all that is known there of a vessel being in distress off the Santa Barbara coast is what was reported by the freight crew of & northbound Bouthern Pacific frelght | Or, March 7.—Djre|train, who is said to have seen signals | age of 70 ngeance and mysterious | of distress from a vessel off shore to- | missed from This night between Surf and San Luls Obispo. ; The raiiroad freight crew reported the occurrence when they reached San . The steamer Santa Rosa left Obispo. which was malled on an|here this afternoon, northbound, and would probably be in the locality at about It warns Gould | the time the steamer in distress was sald as a promoter of the sheep interests that | to have been sigh ted. “We have decided to prevent the herding | LOS ANGELxS, March 7.—A special to f sheep within ten miles of any in-|the Herald from San Pedro tonight says rporated town reads: Mr. Gould, please take notice, we do t mneed any assoclation or fund of ney to Back us, but we have the sym- s y of the commonwealth and we have decided mot to let any sheep be herded » redius of ten miles of any incorpo- ed town or city, 80 take notice lest the d Mountain tragedies be re-enacted, ch took place some fourteen miles h of Baker City in 1804, “We have no desire to punish you on the grounds, but will follow you to the stockyards of Chicago. . The depreda- tions shall be avenged. Yours For Busi- ness.” or eiy.” ——————————— Miss Antheny Improves. ROCHESTER, N. Y., March 7.—Miss Susan B, Anthony’s condition continues improve. Late tonight it was an. nounced that she was slightly better than she had been during the day. The letter ! that the steamer Harold ollar, due at Redondo Monday from Portland, has not yet arrived, and considerable anxiety is feit for her safety. It is not believed that the vessel has been lost, but it is feared that some mishap has befallen her. It s possible that the steamer reported in distress near Surf may be the Harold Dollar. The chief dispatcher's office of the No. 244, which arrived at Surf at about 11:30 o'clock, reported having seen a steamer in distress off the coast hetween Surf and Arguello. This train will ar- rive in Santa Barbara at 2 a. m. tomor- row, when it will be possible to learn further particulars. There is no com- munication from here to any points north of Santa Barbara after midnight. A cor- respondent has been sent out from Santa Barbara on a north-bound freight train. JIL BARONS SURRENDER 10 HADLEY Agree to Testify in Missouri's Ouster Case. L S Lesser Lights to Go on Stand in Place of Rockefeller. Head of Trust Will Be Spared if Underlings Answer All Questions. ———— Bpeclel Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, March 7.—John D. Rocke- feller has not dodged process servers for the last few months in vain. A new turn in the case of the State of Missour! against the Standard Ofl Company indj- cates that he will not be required to go on the stand and let Attorney General Hadley of that State corner him with er- Luirassing questions of the kind that H. H. Rogers refused to answer. Alfred D. Eddy of St. Louls, general Western attorney for the Standard Oil Cempany, Is on his way to New York |for a conference with the company’s of- ficials. It is undersiood that he is armed WTL a proposition to the effect that if I1. M. Tilford, W. H. Tilford and W. M. Var Buren will agree to go on the stand and answer all questions the Attorney, General chooses to fire at them Hadley will not insist upon dragging Rockefeller into court. One . of -the conditions of this proposi- tion is that H. H. Rogers must answer alli of the questions he declined to answer on the occasion of Hadley’s mission here a few weeks ago. % b The Attorney, General ‘helieves-that the Tilfords and Van Buren can be as; useful to him-as Rockefeller would bé. The price of Rockefeller's escape from the ordeal of the witness chair is that they must not try to block the efforts of Missouri to get at the .facts concerning the Standard Ofl Company's business methods in that State. Eddy is sald .to havesbeen authorized to assure Hadley before his departure from St. Louis that Rogers would ne longer dodge the questions put to him and that he would tell all about the Standard Oil's subsidiary companies. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., March 7.—At- torney General Hadley declared tonight that he had mot relinquished hope of hayv- ing John D. Rockefeller subpoenaed to glve testimony in the ouster case against the Standard Ofl Company, but that he had simply stopped efforts in that direc- tion on the promise of A. D. Eddy, at- torney for. the ofl company, that the necessary evidence would be forthcoming from other sources. When seen tonight Attorney General Hadley sald: “After the decision of the Supreme Court of Missouri, sustaining 1y right to take testimonv as to the common stock own- ership of the three defendant companies, the Standard Oil Company’s attorneys in- timated to me that there would be no further resistance to my efforts to secure the evidence. It was further suggested that the witnesses already under gub- poena could give me all the nformation on the subject I desired. “I asked that they fully inform me as to the ability of these persons subpoenaed to give the evidence I wanted and pending the receipt of this evidence from Eddy, who has gone to New York for this pur- pose, efforts to subpoena other witnesses have been temporarily discontinued. If I can gecure the evidence I want from .the witnesses now served, no effort will be made to subpoena other witnesses. Other- wise, every means possible will be used to secure the pregence of<those who know the facts that I want in evidence.” SEVENTY-YEAR AGE LIMIT FOR CLERKS House Measure Provides for Retirement of Veteran Attaches. g Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, March 7.—There -will be a provision in the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill that after 1913 all Government clerks reaching the years shall be immediately dis- service. is intended to act as to old 30 to 19 o luti defe Assembly resolution, 3 ton to That effect inade Stevens, chairman of the mittee on banking. & vote of fused to GOVERNMENT SUES TO BREAK UP 'ELEVATOR TRUST ON COAST. United States District Attorney Robert Devlin yesterday filed suit in the United States court charging the Otis and thirty othet.e]evl- tor companies with pooling interests contrary to the Sherman anti-trust law. The combine is operating west of the Rockies. VIOLATIO Complains Against the Thirty-One Houses. Large Otis Company Heads List of Defendants, | Stifling of Business Competition Is Charged. e Action Is Brought in U. S. District Court. R The existence of a huge elevator trust, a Western mammoth, whose ob- Ject is the crushing out of existence of every semblance of oppesition on the Pacific Coast, and the consequent rob- bery of its ten of lnnocent patrons by the use boosted secale of prices under the guise of competi- tive prices, was yesterday charged in a sensational sit filed by United States District Attorney Robert Deviin against the Otisx and thirty-ome other glevator | companies of the Unfted States. The actfon was flled In the United States court. The United States of Amer- fca is named in the suit as and the following are 1 ‘Engineering . Company, " 1 ‘Blevator C num,\bn- DY, Ay 7 & Pritice Elevator’ Com Y. Elevator Company, WHits Machine Company, Stokes & Parish que:v’uhor Com- pany, Morse, Willlams & Co., McAdams.| & Cartwright Elevator Company; Graves Elevator Company, Plunger Elevator Company, Sprague Elevators Company; Bloomsburg Elevator and Machine Com- pany, Sulzer Vogt Machine Company, Central Iron Works, Moon Elevator Com- pany, Warner Elevator Company, M. J. O'Donnell & Co., Gardiner Elevator Com- pany, Houghton Elevator Company; Gel- ger, Fisk & Koop; National Electric kie- vator Company, Burdette & Roundtree Manufacturing Company, Moline Elevator Company, Samuel Burger, W. D. Bald- win, C. G. Comstock, John Doe, Richard Roe, Thomas Doe, Willlam Doe, Henry Doe, George Doe, Charles Doe, Adam Doe, Hugh Doe and Edward Dog. CHARGES COME FROM MOODY. The charges of high-handed combina- tion and ruthless robbing of the people by this alleged elevator combine ecome direct from Attorney General at Washington. He has looked over the évi- dence presented to him and diregted Dev- Iin to act at once. y ‘Whernce this cvidence come no one cutside Government circles knows posi- tively, although many are to hazard an opinion. Devlin will not tell nor will Moody sive away the secret. It 1= a well-known fact, however, that several companies who are outside of this alleged combination suspected that the trust was |in existence and quietly set about to secure the necessary evidence, Once they found the proofs they sent them direct to the Attorney General and the President at Washington. One of these outlaw companies is belleved to be the Van Emon Elevator Company of San Francisco, recently sued by the Otis Ele- vator Company. It is stated that the evidence shows the existence of the trust; that unfair and illegal methods were used to stifle com- petitors, and that the members of the trust, though appearing to bid on con- tracts, had the price fixed, the work ar- ranged to go to one of the firms, and the prefits to be divided. ~From - the meager reports issued from the Govern- ment offices the elevator trust seems to have been formed along the same lines as was the Addison Pipe Company, broken up in Ohlo several years ago. The news of the alleged trust and the sult has caused a sensatfon in California and the West. This is the first action of the kind ever instituted In this city. In the East suits against trusts have be- come common, but In this Western co try few dreamed that such a thing as a trust existed. P mnl:vm EXPLAINS ACTION. United States District Attorney Robert Devlin gaid last evening, in discussing his action: The complaint filed today .18 against the Otis Elevator Company and thirty other defendants who are alleged to be in one concern and operating con- trary to ine provisions of the: The laint was drawn - CONCERNS ARE Sherman RESPONSIBLE Spite Is the Cause of the Suits, Declares McNicoll. Asserts Government Is| the Victim of Im- . position. According to the statements of Andrew J. McNicoll, president of the A. J. Me- Nicoll Elevator Company of 207-9 Second street, the action of the Government had been Instigated by information .supplied to the Department of Justice by business rivals of- the Otis Elevator. Company. When interviewed -at his residence late last night McNicoll said: “The trouble that is being brought upon.| the Otis Elevator Company has its origin in a bitter fight for patent rights to im- portant and valuable elevator contriv- ances. Some time ago the Van Emon En- gineering Company brought suit in the United States Circuit Court to restrain the Otis Elevator Company from infring- Ing on patents that the Van Emon peo- ple glleged belonged to them. “‘One of the most important patents in question was the push, button contrive ance to signal cars going up or coming down to stop at a given floor. This patent is being uséd extensively by the Otis Elevator Company and also by the Van Emon Company and both are claim- ing that the other is infringing. ' o is little doubt, however, that the Otis Elevator any owns or con- trols the majority of tor companies throughout the country and especlally on the Pacific Coast. Should the patent above referred to be lost to it it would meen that any company could use the contrivance. My own company is await. ing a decision on the point with a view to having the service installed should the Van Emon Company win its suit.” Mr. McNicoll refused to say whether his own company was afilllated with th trust, nelthl:;mn,mnd he “l‘::nhwuz com- panies were attacking the Otis company. The news of the filing of the suits, he said, came as a surprise when told of the reasons pany he remarked that many of the charges could also be made against the inuependent concerns. He sald that the ‘business rivals were gross.y Imposing on the Government to carry on a trade war. Samuel Burger. manager .of the Otls company, is in Portland, Or., on a busi- ‘ness trjp. His home is in Alameda. ENDANGERED BY GALE npmuhl’uflnkesnltof' FE CABINET OFFICIAL AND LOCAL FED L sET THE MACHINERY .OF THE SHERMAN LAW IN MOTION Dl; THIS COAST OF THE SHERMAN LAW IS ALLEGED Attorney General Moody Gives Out Statement. Says Combine Has Been Robbing Patrons. Attorney General Moody gave out the following statement in Washington last night In regard to the action of the Gov- ernment in filing suit against the thirty- one concerns west of the Rocky Moun- tains on the grounds of violations of the Sherman anti-trust law: “The United States Attorney for the PROSECUTOR, WHO HAVE TO BREAK UP THE ALLEGED TRUST OF ELEVATOR BIC WINNINGS AT BACCARAT " BY AMERICANS Takes $200,000 From Bank at the Nice - Casino. Dispateh to The Call. Special NICE, March 1.—':: 8. Armstrong, 3 £ ¥ nightly Casino, where the bank is opened {50,000 francs ($10,000). an average pf 25,000 francs (35000 about $200,000 ahead 4 i % ernoons, returning to night's play, from 9§ o'clock unttr ¢ in the morning. —————————— DIVORCE S TR R A Cheyenne Woman In Previons m“‘. Into | ~CHEYENNE, Wyo., March for sorue time, the wi: residence at Ogden, turned to Cheyenne especially to bring ‘suit for a diyorce.- ‘against them its patents; the suits solely to harass them. e Northern : Distri¢t of California. under instructions from the Attorney General, filed in the United States Circuit Court for the Ninth Circuit a bill of compiaint agalnst the Otis Elevator Company and twenty-seven other companies and three individuals engaged In the elevator busi- ness, charging them with violation of the Sherman "anti-trust law. The companies named as defendants comprise the prin- cipal elevator companies of the United States, but the operations specifically complained of have carried on main- 1y in California and States and Terri- tories west of the Rocky Mountains. “It Is charged that these companies make and sell at least 80 per cent of all of the elevators used in that territory and that they have entered into a combina- tion among themseives fo comtrol and enbance the prices at which elevators are sold; that in order to make the combina- tion effective the Otis Elevator Company has acquired the whole or a majority In- to submit bids, apparently in good faith, but higher than the bid of the company ‘which has been designated to receive the L 3 : g | : : i | i f i I ¥ i i i P | ! i il