The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 16, 1906, Page 1

tORy il I.: %. i ~ A “AST FOR d v the m MARCH 16: icinity—Fair Fri- rning; light NCcADIE L t Forecaster. the Liviaiy: ranciSco CALL K TRA. L PRI | PEa0NG KILLED IN A 5 CHARGED BY FRIENDS Hard Fight Being Made for Mrs. Williams, Her Arrest at Instance | of Morgan Causes a Protest. which her e trying to Clinton ans of Bal- ter part of interested Ive years died twe d the ip of some England In ti acquaint- ofsthe most nd is a rela- e bellef that rger than who med a to meet ng that she was ues, came five years ago w e tion from her P s r interests here. A Jett n from Beron Suf- an audience with J and she asked him for getting her affairs in this roper shape. He then gave to the Waldorf-Astoria and €e debt she incurred there. It tisfy this obligation to Morgan gned to him cértain prop terests in Baitimore, and this of record in the-courts dealings Mrs. Williams has Morgan since is known only nts, which are denied & partners and lawyers. ester S. Taylor of Albany Williams at Bellevue today ase f conspiracy. TINCLEY HOME CHANGES HANDS — e DIEGO, N rch 15.—This after- ed at the office of the deed showing the the entire southwest lot No. 104, located int Loma and diréctly 2 Playa, ey, leader of the Point Loma The- ge, former of the Treasury. The con- ion le given in the deed us $8000. he terms of the deed Gage agree: sell or to otherwise dispose of e property without first securing the of Mrs. agent s also provided that Mrs. Ringley repurchase the property within vears for $8000 if she reneives a 1 request from Mr. Gage to do 0. Gage spent a week at the Point homest as the guest of Mrs. ey several months ago and it is stood that two of his grandehil- 2t the Raja Yoga School, ucted by the Theosophist: be learned .what Mr. Gage intends to do with the property. nearly r of pueblo to English- | his belief that Mrs. Williams | from Mrs. Katherine , Tingley or her author- | \COLORADO OFFICERS GET| ~ VINCENT ST. JOHN. %]dalm Justice Aids i Coup Resulting in Extradition of Accused Miner. | | | ] B — GENTHE 1 UNITED! STATES JUDGE WHO 'HAS GR. ANTED WRIT! 4 s c b TO MOYER, HAYWOOD AND PETTIBONE, MINERE FEADERS At | CUBED OF COMPLICITY IN THE STEUNENBERG . ASSASSINATION.- R 3 THE MINERS' LEADERS AC- & SALT LAKE, Maych 15.—A special to the Herald from Boeise;-Idaho, says thai after the adjournment of the St. John case until tomorrow the court held a special session,” dismniséed ‘the _Idaho charges and turned St. John over to the Colorado officers, who left Caldwell with the prisoner before his attorneys were apprised of the hearing: The atrrest of St._Joln on the.Colo- rado requisition took the attorneys for the defense completely by _surprise. | There 18 no explanation other than the statement that Justice Stovall convened court for the ’specific_purpose *of .dis- missing the case against St. John and without notice to the defendant’s attor- ney, Miller, who was present ‘ at the morning session, when the hearing was fixed for tomorrow afternoon. BOISE, Idaho, March 15.—Vincent St. | John, who was arrested at Burke, Ida- ho, on the charge of-compiieity in the murder of former Governor Steunen- berg, is on his way to Colorado tonight in custody of Sheriff Rulan and Deputy | Sherift Meldrum of Montrose County_of that State. The Idaho ease against him was called in the' Justice court at | Caldwell this morning and continued | until 2 o'clock tomorrow, to await the action of the Grand Jury, which was considering the charges against him. But at 2 o'clock this afterncon the | Grand Jury reported no indictment. The 1daho charge was then dismissed by the | Justice of the Peace at a special session ! of his court, and the county officers | promptly arrested St..John on the ex- tradition warrant. Sheriff Nichols at once turned Mim.over to the Colorado officers, who - left with him at 4:50 | o'clock this afternoon. The charge upon which he was extradited is that of | | murder:during the labor troubles i | Colorado, when St. John was president ;of the miners’ local at Telluride. ( United States District' Judge Beatty | this afternoon granted-the aiternative ! | | by the attorneys for Moyer, Haywood |and Pettibone.. The writs were made returnable on Monday morning, when | the cases will be argued and submitted. A stipulation was entered by the attor- | meys for the applicants and by the | State by which the prisoners will not be { required to be personally present at the hearing. Harry Orchard, who is alleged to, have confessed that he killed Steunen- ‘berg, was arraigned at 2 o'clock. His hands were clenched and he gazed at the floor as the indictment was read. When asked if he desired counsel, he: repled in the négative. The court,| | bowever, appoihted C: B. Cox and L. B. Bryan of Payette to defend him. Ad- journment was taken to give the attor- neys a chance to talk with their client. writs of habeas corpus petitioned for |’ At 4 o'clock Orchard was asked toi’pounds. lplel,d and said he had no plea to make. | dynamite. . CADETS PLACE BAN 0N BRANS Midshipmen at Annapolis Combine to Prevent High Standard of Scholarship WASHINGTON, March 15.—Midshipmen at Annapolis have been conspiring to pre- vent a high standard of scholarship, ac- cording to the statement of Secretary Bonaparte before the House committee on naval affairs today. Brilllancy has been discouraged and a sort of trade-union agreement to hold all midshipmen on a dead level, go far as class records are con- cerned, has been In existence. There has been a téndency to place the men that barely passed on a plane with those hav- ing higher records, and anything like su- periority has been discouraged. ANNAPOLIB, Md., March 15—The Academy Board of the Naval ‘Academy has consented to the resignation of thir- teen midshipmen. — The court thereupon directed the clerk to enter a plea of not guilty. The de- fendant was asked If Harry Orchard was his right name, and replied that it was. No time was fixed for his trial. FRE L FINDS BOMB IN ICE. Cylinder Contalning Thirty Pounds of Dynamite in Heart of Wallace. BPOKANE, March 16.—Following an atte made three weeks ago to blow up the Standard mill, three miles above ‘Wallace, Idaho, a dynamite bomb was found this morning in the ice on the south fork of the Coeur d'Alene _tiver and in the very heart of Wallace. The bomb was discovered by Willlam Schullenberg, who was engaged in clearing away the ice on the stream. Frozen fast in the Ice near the shore he saw what looked to him like a piece of wood. He hit it four times with the reverse end of the pick, when he dis- covered that he was picking away at a bomb and bhurried with it to the Sheriff’s office. It was a sheet lead in- cased cylinder 13% inches long ana 27% inches in circumference. The whole thing weighed. = forty-eight It contained thirty pounds of l S Coaches Take Fire and the Injured Are Roasted. | Trains Gish n Head- End Collision Shortly After Midnight PUEBLO, Colo., March. 16.-~ No. 16 southbound and No. 2 northbound passenger trains on the Denver, and Rio Grande Rail- road collided head on| near Portland, Colo., , shortly after midnight, and it is reported one hundred and fifty per- sons “are killed and a large number injured. The coaches caught firr and most of the victims were roasted to death, Relief trains have been ‘sent from Pueblo and Florence. RUNAWAY CAR CRASHES ~ INTO' TRAIN —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, March 15.—A run- away oil car speeding at forty miles an hour smashed into southbound Santa Barbara local passenger train, No. 98, two miles south of Fillmore, at 5:30 o'clock this evening, wrecking: the oil car and engine and causing slight injuries to several passengers, among them being R. M. Tripp of Oak- land, whose knees were wrenched by the shock. The oil car had broken from a freight train at Piru, and, wita a brakeman trying his utmost to stop it with the hand brakes, sped downhill toward the approaching train. Engineer Stewart, spying the fiying catapult, clapped on the alr brakes, stopped his train and had started to back it to minimize the Impact when the crash came. Both he and his fireman, Carson, leaped just be- fore the crash, as also dld the brake- man on the oil car, all escaping with minor injuries. The wreck delayed the train three hours. STORY OF PLOT ONCY A HOAX Lawrence Rogers Admits That He Faked Details of Plan to Kill Parkhurst NEW YORK, March 16.—It was all a dream—that . plot to assassinate the Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst. This was disclosed today at the John Doe inquiry before Magistrate Wahle. As a result Police Sergeant John H. Shiels and Po- F AN WREGK N GOLORADG HAMILTON SAYS NEW YORK LIFE TRUSTEES ARE CURS LOBBYIST CAUSES Unexpectedly Appears Before Legislative Committee. Bitterly Denodnces Men That Have Turned Against Him. Claim Made That They Author- ized His Expenditures. ALBANY, N. Y., March 15.—Andrew Hamilton appeared before the insurance investigating committee this afternoon and broke the stlence which he has maintalned, except for his statement brought from Paris by John C. McCall, ever since his name was first mentioned in connection with the great sums of money shown to have been paid to him dur- ing the past ten years on account of his legal and legisla- tive work for the New York Life and other insurance com- | panies. It would be difficult to exaggerate the sensation pro- duced by his unexpected appearance and by the speech which he made, or the intensely dramatic character of the ] whole episode. His face flushed and his voice trembling with passion, his arms upraised and his fists clenched. Judge Hamilton poured forth a flood of denunciation and . invective upon the members of the board of trustees of the | New York Life Insurance Company, several of whom were present, designating them as curs and traitors, and paying especial attention to one unhamed, whom he described as “the Pecksniff of three administrations. the confidant of the Beers scandal and author of the Beers pension—who rotates through one administration and another and thinks | that he is going to be an indispensable member of yet another.” “And do you think,” he demanded., “that the man who | held the same relation to Mr. Beers that I did to Mr. McCall could sit for the thirteen years since and not know how the expenditures that were made were to be and were dis- bursed? Yet he and such lltke him sit. not judging me as Beers, but judging me as a conqueror, talking about ‘yel- low dogs.'” Jdudge Hamilton's attack upon the trustees of the New York Life Insurance Company was made only the more dr: matic by the fact that he immediately followed J, H. McIn- tosh, general solicitor of that company, who had béen eulo- gizing the members of that board and challenging any man to give reasons why they should be removed from office, as contemplated by the pending legislation. Loyal to the Late John A. McCall The only name he mentioned was that of. the late Presi- dent McCall, in the reference to whom and to whose death he displayed marked emotion. . He spoke of McCall as a victim, as having been shouldered with the blame—"“the only one, the dead man, killed, that they drove to his grave and deserted’—and declared that the memory of this man had appealed to him “to come down here and say Something for him and just a word for myself.” He declared unequivocally that every payment to himselt by the New York Life was made with the knowledge and approval of the trustees, especlally of the finance and aud- iting committees. He pointed out that if there had been anything the matter with his vouchers for these payments it was their duty to bring him to book for it—yet, he said, month after month and year after year, for ten years, they passed them, “and then, when the cry at last comes out, they say: ‘Well. we did not know anything about it; this is the fellow: this is the man that has done it all.’ When they say they did not know what was going on it excites my laughter and derision.” Hamilton declared again and again that the payments were proper and legitimate, and that he had no apology to make for himself or for President McCall One of his most interesting statements was that, In spite of reports to the contrary, the so-called “Paris ae- count” was actually reported and approved by the auditing committee. Hearers Applaud Scathing Words. The first applause from the big crowd that quickly filled the great assembly chamber as soon as the fact of Judge Hamilton’s presence became known about the bullding broke out with a roar of laughter after his reference to the enthusiasm with which, he said, his victories for the New York Life were received by the officials of the company. “They would come and pat me en the back,” he said with & bitter sneer; “these men who would not know me now: they would come in and pat me on the back and say: ‘You did it " A storm of applause followed his scathing reference to the “yellow dog” as a dog of courage and loyalty. “But the curs who stood around this funeral that has occurred, the curs who knew of these transactions and shrunk into their shoes—they are the curs—and that is the reason that I come before yoy and say that the great inter- est of two billlon dollars of life insurance and $400,000,000 of assets can never be safely intrusted to the hands and ad- ministration of a lot of curs.” This was the ostensible purpose of Judge Hamlilton's STIR AT AL BANY e NEW YOTFK, March 15g-ltais_understood that the man referred to bv Andrew Hamilton 8&s the *“Pechsniff of three administrations’” dur- ing kis terrific arr aignment of New York Life offi- cfals to-dav was Judge William B. Hornblower. FOR YEARS ATTENDED TO THE LATURES FOR THE NEW LOBBYIST W 7' OF LEGIS INSURANCE . COMPANY. ““HANDLINC YORK LIFE object was and what the expense was. I'say this now and when I look around to see their faces before me and I challenge contradiction. » “Let us consider for.a moment the criticisms that have been made in regard to the payments that have been made to me upon my single voucher. Remember, I did not go in there and own this company. I went in thereas a humble little lawyer, a country lawyer—and I got in there becduse I beat Dr. Pecksniff in his Beers pension, and'I*beat- him with all the legion of great names that he had around him: and ¥ beat him single-handed and alone. And when I.won my vie- tory then they said: ‘Well.' we will give you a chance here,” and then I started in to. perform my duties. “It simply excites my laughter when I hear the gentle~ men assert—those who are here and.in.my.hearing, and others—that they did not know that Andrew Hamilton was defending the New York-Life and the insurance inter- ests throughout the United States generally on behalf of the principles which the insurance companies believed to be necessary for their success and for the benefit of the poliey= holders. Always Sent for the “Judge.” “Why If there was trouble and an agent would write from a far-off country and say: ‘If this bill passes It is going to kill our business out here,’ they would rush in, you know, to the president and say: ‘Here's this agent’s lettery for heaven's sake, we will lose all our business out there!’ “‘Wall, send for the Judge. ‘All right,” and the Judge will come. 'Sit down.” Well, what is the trouble? “‘Heavens, If this bill passes we might as well get out of that State.’ “All right, we will have to see what the objections are appearance before the committee—to advocate the pending bill of the committee which would legislate the present woards of directors out of office and provide for a complete reorganization in November next. Judge Hamilton's appearance was totally unexpected by the committee, and he declared before his speech and to | ahead and see if we cannot beat it." friends before and after that it was almost so himself— to it. We will have to agitate; we will have the press do something; we will have the politiclans do something: we will have the agents do something; we will have the policy~ holders do something: ‘we will get men of influence to go And we would beat it. 1 have no excuse bout the methods and the vouchers: that it was only at luncheon today that the impulse selzed | Whatever to offer about the form of the vouchers that wers him to come before the committee and have his say in favor | accepted for the of the bill referred to—with a word for President McCal and for himself. o'clock, sat back in the room and for a time was recog- pized only by one or two newspaper men. The interest was intense as he passed down to the table amid silence, Arraigned Men Sit Near Speaker. Among those who sat near as he began his bitter ar- raignment of the New York Life trustees were the follow- ing members of the board: Rufus S. Weeks, vice president and actuary: T. A. Buckner, vice president; D. P. Kingsley, vice president; John C. McCall, secretary, and J. H. Me- Intosh. “I wish to state,” began Judge Hamillton, “that my re- marks here will be confined entirely to the New York Life Insurance Company and the gentlemen who manage it. For the other companies I have a high and loyal respect, be- cause, so far as I have seen, I have not yet found among them curs and traitors. % “In every administration of a great public concern,” he continued, “there are many things to be done which, in the hurried line of duty and in the desire for victory, cannot always be delayed. But there never was a line or a thing that was done in the New York Life in my administration of my department but that the executive officers. one and all, were conscious of what the purpose was or what the He arrived unannounced not long after ¢ | final disbursements that I made to the various branch agencies. The Insurance world today is the greatest ncial propesition In the United States: and, as great affairs always do, it commands a higher law. In defending its rights and Its property you cannot stop to kick every cur that comes along and barks: and If you could sweep | them out In other perhaps my erious, but honest, ways you are defending and asserting the higher law which great enterprises have a right to command. So I say when these vouchers were given over they were right, anll when the auditing committee approved them then they stand as spom- sors for them. If they did not approve them, then they falled to perform their duty.” Committee’s Work IsAbout Ended. The committee adjourned late tonight until tomorrow, when several actuaries will-be heard. It was postively announced that the-hearings would be concluded tomorrow. A sub-committee still to be selected will meet in New York City early next week, when Charles E. Hughes, counsel for the committee, will go over the mass of suggestions and protests made, and the result will be submitted to the full committee about next Thursday. Chairman Armstrong said tonight that he expected to present the bills in their amended and final form, so far as the committee was concerned. not later than week after next, for the consideration of the Legislature. e e R il the Tombs, to be held to the Grand and later claimed that Robert J. Kelly, liceman John Phelan, who, in affldavits, were accused -of having conspired to kill the clerical reformer, were exoner- ated. secretary of the Citizens’ Union, had, in order to retain the position which he held, induced him (Rogers) to go to Dr. Parkhurst's lawyer, Frank Moss, Lawrence Rogers, who told the-orig- | and to the District Attorney’s office and inal story of having been offered $500 | tell the story of a plot in which he, by Policeman Phelan, acting for Ser-| Phelan, Shiels and Richard Wilson were geant Shiels, to kill Dr. Parkhurst; ad- | supposed to be partie. mitted under oath that every accusa- tion he hud made was falsd. 'S, even went so far as to state that Kelly induced him to make the | Rogers first sald it was all a hoax[false afidavits which were given, de< tailing the flans for the assassination of Dr. Parkhurst, originally and subse- quently to the District Attorney’s office. In view, however, of the fact that Rogers is u self-conf perjurer, his charges against Kelly are not taken seriously. Jerome said that, in view of the evi- Jury. £ —_————— VICTORIA, B. C. March 15.—The steamship Amur from Skagway brought news that salvage work is proceeding rapidly on the wrecked German steam- ship Marienchen in False Bay, and the wreckers are confident of success. They say the vessel will be brought to Esquimalt for repairs. withid thirty days. o —— Eapage T