The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 16, 1906, Page 2

PARTY CAUCUS N STATEHOOD Republican Representatives, | by a Vote of 126 to 35, Stand by House Bill “INSURGENTS” ROUTED e Only Forty-Three in Favor of the Elimination Arizona and New Mexico As the re- two and a gents,” Mondel, t Senate ‘Arizona and sking who op- cting in ac- He twenty were with 1 bill and now vote ppine Colorado o offer a not is -d d favorably from tary affairs a reso chief of t Hawail to Be Granted Mom A {INGTON, Marct 15 1 Territories Hawaii shall ed for public impro bill allowing Hawai t s revenue for twen- iprove length of time. —_—————— Cabinet Crisis in Chile. SANTIAGO, 1 ‘The was or- | Fust 190 member- follows Minister of the Anfonio Orego; Minister dwards; Minis- iral Luis Uribe; blic Works, Enrique Vil- @he b Chas Beilus & Con Exclusinve Figh-Grade Clothiers No Branch Stores and No Agen INSTEAD OF SCATTERING| ENERGIES AND TALENT IN PROMISCUOUS LINES| OF MEN'S WEARING APPAREL, WE DEVOTE THEM WHOLLY TO MEN'S CLOTHES ONLY. EVEN THE BEST TAILORS ACKNOWLEDGE THE MERIT! OF OUR CLOTHES CULTURE. The class of clothes and distinect fabrics which continually offer to our patrons are absolute strangers to most clothiers. The survival of the fittest when you buy clothes— And we stand “pat.” : 120-152 fearny Street Thurlow Hloch we. of | will be PUTS RATE BILL BEFORE SENATE Tillman of South Carolina | Submits Formal Report | on the Hepburn Measure [URGES PROMPT ACTION outherner Warns His Col- leagues That the Nation Will Insist Upon Relief | WASHINGTON, March 15.—The Senate today continued comsideration of the rail- road rate question by listening to the reading of a report on that measure by THIL The report was read at the request of Aldrich, who sald he was curi- ous to hear the opinion of the South Caro- lina Senator. | Brief attention was given to the mes- sage of the President transmitting the letter of the Secretary of War relative to the ent Moro battle. Bacon spukei of (hr killing of the Moros as “slaughte! Lodge deprecated criticism until the facts ahould-be known | The House resolution giving the Inter- state Commerce Commission authority to administer oaths in connection with its Investigation of charges of discrimination mede against railroads was adopted with- out resorting to the formality of requir- Ing its refirence to committee. Stone's resolution directing an inquiry into the office Department rulings on the ad- | of college publications to-the second class matter was also eport from the committee on | n the House rail- views, but the Sen- ot pretend to speak for any 1er member of the committee. The re- | port embodied the first clear and concise statement of the differences concerning court review features and other proposed | amendments that have made a unanimous | report of the committee impossible. With- | out hesitancy the Senator declared it to | be his bellef that the bill should be | amended, but that the amendments should not be of a character to impair or pre- vent the accomplishment of the objects | of the legislation, which are set fr»r\‘h‘ best, he says, in the President's message to Congress. He emphasized the need of | regarding the measure as non-partisan, but predicted that the issue created would | be paramount in the next Presidential election. As fo the effect he said: “Those who are responsible for delay | or inadequate legislation will find that when at last the floodgates of popular | | wrath and in are hoisted there | will be some % Tillman aiso ands’ report *said that | he report on the in sympathy with | r he believed it i complete and fragmentary. He expres his belief that the legislation would ctive as it should be unle: added to the pending measure » for 1 incorporation of erstate commerce, guarding egainst overcapitalization, fi ing with certainty the rates of taxation of such railway property by the States and prescribing a limit for dividends. Such legislation should not ly cover the interests of shippers and common carriers | —it should embrace the interests of labor by providing for an insurance fund against accdents and old age and con- ciliation of disputes between carriers and their employes Nelson addressed the Senate in support of the bill as it passed the House. That review provisions necessary to the completion of the bill, Nelson urged at some length. He contended that a sweeping review would be diatory, if not destructive of the intent of the bill. RS e Compromise May Be Effected. { WASHINGTON, March 15.—If a com- | promise be effected in the Senate on the railroad rate bill, the indications are that it will be in the nature of a time | limit on the suspension of orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Several Senators said today that if they thought a review by the courts be fa- cilitated in such manner as would in- sure protection of the interests of ship- pers. a judicial review feature could be adopted HOU no I HEARS POEM RIDICULING WOOD | Williams Reads Parody on “The Charge of the Light Brigade.” WASHINGTON, March 15.—The House | today solemnly declared itself not guilty of the charge that members had abused the franking privilege. Sibley of Penn- sylvania reported unanimously from the Committee on Postoffices and Postroads that an investigation made under the Sims resolution had developed no_truth in the charges and the committee asked to be discharged from further considera- tion. This action was taken. Williams of Mississippi took the floor to give the Republican party “a little | advice on statehood,” but prefaced this by reading a poem written, he said, by a member, entitled “The Charge of the Wood Brigade, (what the heathen call the massacre of Mount Dajo.)” It was a { parody on the “Charge of the Light Bri- | gade,” and contained references to the | killing of women and childr, Sl s Sesvaduaiin | ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS, WASHINGTON, March 15. — The fol: ’lowmg army orders were issued today: | A board of officers to consist of Major Louis A. Lagarde, Major Rudolph G. Ebert and Major W. E. Purvance, sur- geon, is appointed to meet at Manila for the examination of officers of the medical department. The following as- sistant surgeons will report to Major | Louis A. Lagarde at Manila for exam- fnation to determine their fitness for | promotion: First Lieutenants Patrick | | H. McAndrew, Gideon McD. Vanpoole, George H. R. Gosman, James W. Van- | Gusen, Wallace Dewltt, Robert M. | Thornburg, Robert B. Grubbs, Edmund D. Shortlidge, Peter C. Field and Her- bert G. Shaw. Leaves of absence are extended to Major Frank R. Keefer and First Lieu- | tenant Edgar N. Coffey for one.mqnth. | .Navyorders: Commander 8.Cook,re- tired, will report to the Department of Commerce and Laber at Washington, | March 21, for duty as an assistant to | the inspector in chargeof the Sixteenth | Lighthouse District, Memphis. ——————— | | BSCAPES DEATH THOUGH PINNED | TO GROUND BY GIANT TREE | Redwood Falls Upon Chopper, Inflicting Injuries Which Will Cripple | Him for Life. | | UKIAH, March 15.—Fred Nhlund of | Fort Bragg was crippled for life by a | big redwood tree he was felling last | Wednesday. The tree struck Nhlund and pinned him down in such a man- | ner that when his friends reached him |they thought he was dead. He was taken to a hospital, where it was found that besides being badly bruised and cut his hips were fracturéd. The doc- tors think they can save his life, but he will be crippled for life. | little | the shock. derby hat. . « . THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1906. MARAUDER SAVAGELY ASSAILS/OF INTEREST MRS, MARIE RINGHAMMED. CRIESOFCHILD SAVE MOTHER Woman Struggles With Man in Hall of Home < T _x.r”m”m . o= YOUNG WOMAN WHO WAS AT- TACKED BY A BRUTE, AND HER LITTLE DAUGHTER. -+ Just as her kitchen clock was strik- ing 10 last Monday morning Mrs. Marie Ringhammeo was called to the front door of her little home at 426 Bos- worth street by the ringing of the bell. She left her washtubs and hurried to answer, thinking it was a nelghbor dropping in for a morning visit. As she turned the door key a man whom she had never seen before pushed hiniself into the hallway and stuck a revolver in her face. “I want vou,” he cried triumphantly. For u bare second the woman stood paralyzed by the thought of the deadly peril she was in. Then, terror stricken, she threw herself upon the unknown marauder, grasped the revolver in one | of her hands she tore at his eyes with the other. She screamed loudly for help. Out in the kitchen her little baby, Paula, five years old, was playing in the suds. She had heard the door bell ring anda watched her mother wipe her hands and go to answer. As she sat there wondering who the visitor could be she heard her mother's terrified screams for help. Her little mind grasped the situation, and she ran fly- ing out of the kitchen door, screaming at the top of her little voice, “Help!” she cried. “He is killlng mamma!” ThLe marauder in the front hall heard the screams of the terrorized child. He loosened his hold for an instant upon the mother and looked around him fear- fully. Then, frightened lest help should arrive, he thrust Mrs. Ringhammeo to one cide and ran out of the front door into the street. He reached the South- crn Pacific tracks and disappeared in the direction of Colr:a. DETECTIVES AFTER MARAUDER. Mrs. Ringhammeo did not faint from the effects of the terrible shock, al- though she was barely able to reach the kitchen and fall into a chair. Her daughter, Paula, unable to rai the neighbors by her cries, crept back into the house and found her mother there. Max Ringhammeo, the husband and father, came home from his work at the Hibernia Brewery about 6 o'clock that evening, and he gently put his wife to bed that she might recover from She was not well until yes- terday, and then she reported the af- fair to the Southern police station. De- tectives Graham and Harrison were at once dispatched on the case, and they are now looking over the country sur- rounding for somne trace of the ma- rauder. Mrs. Ringhammeo is able to give a g00d description of the man. ' “I should say that he was about 20 or 2z years old,” she declared yesterday afternoon, “and he looked very neat. He wore a blue serge suit of clothes and a black His back was covered with mud, as if he had slept in the open country over night. His features were straight, and I could notice no pe- culiarity about them. He was about five and a half feet tall and weighed about 160 pounds.” The Ringhammeo home is on Bosworth street close to the spot where the South- ern Pacific tracks cross on an overhead bridge. There are only three houses in the block, and these are separated by board fences. There are many teams passing back and forth along this road and about a quarter of a mile below a gang of men are working on the con- struction of the Ocean Shore Raflway. A marauder could easily enter one of houses and make his way in a few NALSLER PHOTOS o | i | seconds to' the tracks of the Southern | that the man thought I was alone, for the s Pacific and board a freight train, leav- ing no clew to his whereabouts. WOMAN CUT BY REVOLVER. In the little hallway where the ma- rauder made his attacks the breaks in the plaster bear plain evidence of the brave struggle that. Mrs. Ringhammeo made. The plaster has been gouged out in places ‘where thelr bodies came in contact with the wall. “In gne spot a deep hole was dug out ‘by ‘the butt of ‘the re- volver as the woman struggled to get | it. The fore finger on the right hand of | Mrs. Ringhammeo is badly scratched by | this same weapon. She held it until the man wrenched it away and made his escape to-the tracks. Several times she felt her hold loosening, but she always managed to hang on desperately. “Oh, it was terrible, terrible,” she said vesterday afternoon when relating her experience. I was so badly frightened that at first I' could not move. I ex- pected to find a neighbor at the door and this man forced his way into the | hall. I did not know what he might do, but I could tell by the expression on his face that he reant mischief, and so, without thinking that I might be killed, | I jumped on him and tried to snatch his revolver. In the minute which followed | I do not know what happened, except | that I hung on and fought him. I kept wishing that my husband would corfe, but 1 knew that he could not know what-was going on. “It was Baby Paula that saved me. The darling child heard me scream and she ran out crying for help. I think Paula's voice he loosened his hold on me, She screamed again and he tried to push me away. 1 did not know what he was trying to do and thought he might be after Paula, so 1 hung on. With that he jerked the re- volver away and threw me against the wall. My hands unloosened and he ran out of the front door and up to the tracks. I got to the kitchen and waited there until my husband came home.” The neighborhood is greatly excited over the attack on Mrs. Ringhammeo. She s one of the most respected women of the district. Police protection is slight | along the tracks, The discharged pris- oners from the Branch County Jail, near by, continually pass, and the women are afraid of them, as they often stop at the housés and ask for food and mongy. Many of them use threats to obtain what they desire. It is probable that Mrs. Ringhammeo was attacked by one of these discharged prisoners. The police are working on this theory. ——— NEGOTIATING FOR SALE OF THE WALSH RAILROADS Chicago Banker's Creditors Ask More Than Prospective Purchasers Care to Give. NEW YORK, March 15.—Representa- tives of the Chicago Clearing-house committee, which has charge of the af- fairs of John R. Walsh, the insoivent banker of that city, were in conference here today with the heads of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, the Pennsylvania Railway and the Rock Islend Company. The conference had to do with the sale of the Walsh rail- road properties, the Indiana Southern and Chicago Southern railways. No agreement was reached, however, be- cause of the terms demanded by the Chicago creditors. In financial circles recently it was declared that Walsh's creditors had named $25,000,000 as the minimum price they would take for the railroad properties. The offer of the Lake Shore-Pennsylvania-Rock Island combination is said to be near $20,000,- 000. minute he heard e i Against Reduction in Grain Rates. CHICAGO, March 15—The Central Frelght Association today voted against a reduction in grain rates from Chi- cago to New York. The fight was be- tween the New York Central lines, which stood, for a reduction, and the Pennsylvania lines, which vm'e Owold to the measure. | ference. | that indicated the intention of John C. T0 THE COAST War Department May Super- vise Diversion of Water From Sacramento River RAILROADS ALASKA IN Opposition Shown to Propo- sition to Extend Govern- ment Aid to the Builders ——— Epecial Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, March 15.—In reply to his query whether the element in his district opposed to a diversion of the water of the Sacramento River for irri- gating purposes would accept an amendment to the McKinlay bill plac- ing the supervision of the scheme under the War Department, Representative Gillett has received the following tele- gram from Red Bluff Chamber of Com- merce: - “We think the people would consent to a diversion of the water for irriga- tion at such times and in such quanti- ties as, in the opinion of the War De- partment, would not interfere with navigation, otherwise not. Is there need for special legislation to that ef- fect?” Gillett answered that because of the provisions of the California State laws covering the subject he did not think additional legislation necessary. Gil- lett is now waiting for further word from the Chamber of Commerce ex- pressing its approval or disapproval of the proposed amendment. The House committee on Territories in executive session today took a test vote on the general proposition to ex- tend Government aid in building rail- roads in Alaska and a majority was shown in opposition to the scheme. As the Senate committee on Territories has already recorded itself agalnst a similar proposition it is regarded as settled that there will be no legislation in this direction at the present session. Representatives Smith, Needham, Hayesand Knowland attended the “in- surgent” meeting on the Statehood bill preceding the regular Republican con- Messrs, McKinlay, McLachlan, Kahn and Gillett were absent, but it is understood that they.were in entire sympathy with the object sought to be accomplished by the “insurgents” in fa- voring the acceptance of the Senate amendments to the Statehood measure. Senators Perkins and Flint and the Treasury officlals have heard nothing Lynch to retire from the office of Inter- nal Revenue Collector, and the Senators declare they are not considering the question of his pessible successor in that place. After persistent demands had been made by the California delegation and from Brooklyn interests affected by the proposition to build colliers in the Gov- ernment navy yards, the House naval affairs committee today decided to grant a hearing tomorrow to those fa- voring it. Representative Knowland, who has led the fight to have one col- lier constructed at Mare Island navy vard, will probably make the principal presentation of the case. Knowland will address a mnlI meeelnx to be held in Brooklyn mext M to urge the adoption of the propo! on by Congress. The forest service states that the past winter has been extremely favorable for forest planting in California. Since the beginning of the rainy season about 100,000 seedlings have been set out and several hundred thousand more trans- planted, The prime object of operation in Southern California is the improve- ment of watersheds. Levenia G. Meyer was today appoint- ed postmaster at Fairfield, Solano County. The Senate today passed a bill pro- viding-for the holding of terms of the Federal courts at Fureka. Sixteen additional letter carriers have been authorized at Los Angeles, to be- gin work April 1. ———————— DEAF MUTE SCREAMS AT SIGHT OF FLAMES Repeatedly Cries “Fire!” and Then Lapses Into For- mer Silence. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. ST. LOUIS, March 15.—Fear that her home was burning caused Mrs. Frances Maguire of 619 Bell street, Alton, IIl, a deaf mute, to speak for the first time in her life this evening. She ran down the street crylng ‘‘Fire!” as if she had heard and said the word from childhood. Her neighbors were so astonished that they did not go to her assistance for some time. Smoke from a small fire had filled Mrs. Maguire’s home and frightened her. The neighbors who heard Mrs. Maguire screaming “Fire!” s she pronounced the word plainly, but she has not been able to speak gince. KEEPER OF KIDNAPED BOY IS MURDERED Man Who Let Prisoner Es- cape Pays Penalty for Carelessness. NEW YORK, March 15.—The police of this city and of Newark, N. J., are puz- zled over an unusual mystery which has grown out of the kidnaping ten days ago of Antonio Buzuffi of this city, a young son of a wealthy Itallan banker. Tonight the body of a murdered man which was found last Tuesday in the Morris County Canal. New- ark, was identified by the boy as that of the man who had acted as his keeper up to the time he escaped from his abductors. The Newark police had tried {n vain to trace the man’s identity. ——————— WRECKS A FREIGHT TRAIN TO AVENGE BROTHER'S DEATH Michigan Man Opens Switch at Point Where Relative Was Killea Three Years Ago. NILES, Mich., March 15.—To avenge the death of his brotheér, who was killed three years ago by a higan Central train near here, Harry Mere- dith opened a switch last night at the eéxact spot at which his brother died and wrecked a freight train. The train crashed into cars on a siding, but no one was hurt. 3 Meredith was arrested while survey- ing the wreck and ‘confessed, express- ing sorrow that none of the train ‘hands had been killed. It is believed worry over his brother's death has un- balanced his mind. —_————— ‘When You Buy a Suit Case Its just common business mrse to ook for m-unmulh:;-fl':m most for ¥ money: that's what the one for five el will do. Distinet, 'm style. our Kk DI nt. b Trun! rtme: l‘l.born, | ing until late tonight. STORM RAGES STATE COURTS IN COLORADO, ASSIST [ISHER” Railroad Trains Are Stalled |Issue Writ of Habeas Corpus by a Heavy Fall of Snow and Traffie Impeded BUT FEW FATALITIES Mine Near Crested Butte Is Isolated, but No Fear Is Felt for Saféty of Men DENVER, Colo., March 15. — Special dispatches from over the State indicate that the storm which has continued in- termittently since Monday reached its most violent stage today, and is sub- siding tonight. Many snowslides”are reported in the mountains, and it is be- lieved that two miners were Kkilled by a slide near Animas Forks, in South- western Colorado. Neo other fatalities have occurred so far as known. The North Pole mine, near Crested Butte, has been isolated since the first of the month, but the miners employed there are believed to be safe. Owing to the heavy fall of snow Durango has not had a through train with the exception of one from Farm- ington since Sunday night. Both the Rio Grande Southern and the Silverton branch of the Denver and Rlo Grande are closed by slides. On the Colorado Midland Railroad a train from the West, with twenty-five passengers, was stalled all day in a huge snowdrift, a few miles west of Leadville. More trouble was experi- enced today by the prairfe roads than by those running through the moun- tains, some of the trains from the North and East arriving more than a day late. Clint Buskirk, a mail carrier from Red Mountain, accompanied by W. C. Cates and Ben Gaskl, on their way to Ouray yesterday evening. had a thrill- Ing experience in crossing the River- side slide on the Red Mountain toll road. It took them three hours to get their horses over the slide, which had come down ahead of them from the eastern slope of Mount Hayden. Just as they had dug their way through, the Mount JAbraham slide on the other side of the road broke loose three miles above and came down with lightning speed, filling the gulch for 1000 feet wide and more than 100 feet deep, right up to where the three men were standing with their horses. Pt AEETRE SNOW DRIVEN BY A GALE. New York Experiences the First Bliz- zard of the Season. NEW YORK, March 15.—It remained for the last of winter to give to New | York today the first real touch of bliz- zard conditions eXperienced this season. A fine powdery snow, driven before a northeast gale which reached a maxi- mum velocity of forty miles an hour, fell steadily from 2 o'clock this morn- The fineness of the snow, which at times was inter- mingled with sleet, prevented an un- usual depth which might have been ex- pected from such a steady fall, and to- night it was estimated that a Ittle more than five inches measured the mantle the storm threw over New York and neighboring sections. The dryness of the snow made it comparatively easy for the surface car lines to keep their tracks clear ard| traffic was but slightly delayed through- out the storm. Shipping was interfered with but slightly. e Costly Blaze in Tacoma Hotel. TACOMA, March 15.—Fire tonight in the Rochester Hotel, corner St. Helens and Tacoma avenues, caused a loss of | $10,000. Many prominent citizens and their families make their home in the hotel, and for a time there was consid- erable anxiety as to their safety, but no one was injured and the flames were confined to the attic. i | | i | | | | of the State. 10,000 regular troops to take part and Release Bank Officer Held by Senate Committee LEGISLATURE IS DEFIED Prisoner Refuses to Testify at Investigation and Sen- sational Arrest Follow RS ATE S CINCINNATI, March 15.—Thomas J. Davis, cashier of the First National Bank of this city, who was arrested in a sen- sational manner- last night for failing to appear as a witness before the Drake investigating committee, was returned to this city today on a writ gf habeas cor- pus, having been taken from the sergeant at arms of the State Senate at Springfleld and brought here in the custody of Cin- cinnati officers. Davis acted on the advice of the bank’'s attorney in refusing to appear before the committee, holding that the informa- tion which was sought from him was ab- solutely confidential and which he had no right to make public. He was at his desk as usual, even notifying the com- mittee where he could be found if they wished to secure his arrest. Attorneys for the committee, however, sald they feared any attempt to secure arrest in the ordinary way would be a cause of a de- lay through habeas corpus proceedings and the legal contest which would fol- low. For this reason they took the some- what unusual method of arresting him on a written statement and then hurrying him from the city in an automobile before the local courts could issue a writ of habeas corpus and secure possession of the witness. The arrest was made at the close of the day and the officers had difft culty in getting away with the prisone some of the bank clerks who had crowded arourd at one time peeming about to use force to rescue their superior. Attorney Lawrence Maxwell Jr., on behalf of the bank, protested against the arrest as contrary to the power of the committec and immediately secured a writ of habeas corpus from Common Pleas Judge Pfleger, but before it could be served the party in the automobile had been hurried to Sharon, ten miles from the city, where a traction car was taken to Dayton. At that city a train was taken to Spring- fleld and in that city the party stopped at a hotel for the night. Officers from Cincinnati with copies. of } the writ had been sent in various direc- tions and some of these reached Spring- field during the early morning. The ser geants at arms did not resist the order of the court, but gave up their prisoner. The Drake committee had summoned Cashier Davis to testify whether his bank had paid either gratuities or interest to County Treasurer Hynicka as a means of securing the deposit of county funds. The hearing of the House committee was postponed until next Wednesday. Davis was released on his own recognizance. ————— COLORADO SPRINGS PLANS AN ELABORATE CELEBRATION One Hundredth Anniversary of the Dis- covery o! Plkes Peak Is to Be Fit- tingly Comme: COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.,, March 15.—Colprado_Spr! is ing <iak orate plans to celebrate the ome hun- dredth anniversary of the discovery of Pikes Peak, the chief scenic attraction The Government will send in the programme, in addition to repre- sentatives of the various tribes of In- dians with which Pike came in contact on his toilsome march of discovery. Congress will authorize the issue of 100,000 souvenir medallions in com- memoration of the historical im- portance of the event. These will be made at the United States mints. 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