The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 20, 1906, Page 3

CHANLER - SUES COLONEL MANN Former Husband of Amelie Rives Asks for $50.000 From Town Topies Editor SAYS HE WAS LIBELED —_— Published Gossip Cha ing Him With Improper Con-| duct the Basis of Action —Colonel Wil- bel, with damages action filed in the Court by John former husband of hor. volved in a great past few years, inant and defen- tions in the State h have to Court > escaped GRAND JURY SUMMONS CINCINNATI BANKERS Wants an Accounting of All County Funds Deposited With Them. npike says that k, sec- TARIFF BETWEEN DISPUTE AUSTRIA AND SERVIA ENDS Balkaz Coalition Atmed at the Dual Monarch Is Practically Broken. Servia, March 19.—Tha rvian tariff dispute has end- Orders have been issued to admit Austrian merchandise the same conditions A before the tariff war. ns between Austria and Servia strained for a long time past the former’s objections to_a nion formed between Servia which Austria regarded t only adverse to her com- e but as likely to lead league of Balkan states, which contrary to the political in- DE. erests, PLANT OPERATION PACIFIC GROVE GLA SOON TO BE I Company With Capital Stock of $500,000 Begins Construction of Big Faetory. VE, by the Monterey its establishment at expects to make the n the world of win- for which it has wn. The com- res of land and 2 capitaliza- aces are to be Leggats / Beautiful Quarter= Sawed ) fiknrris Chai Q With the Purchase of £100 FURNITURE OR CARPETS 210 Down—382 Per Week BRILLIANT’S anc) 838-340-342 Post St today called upon | March 19. — Work | Monterey sand 1s | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TIjESDAY, MARCH 20, 1906. HOODY ARCUES 1N BEEF [ASES | Attorney General Appears in Federal Court to Sum Up for the Government ?‘\'(,'OI{EH THE PACKERS |Upon Each One, He Says, Rests the Burden of | Proof of His Immunity 1 s | CHICAGO, March 19.—Attorney General | William H. Moody commenced the closing | arguments for tr vernment today in the hearing of t munity pleas ad- vanced by the p The courtroom | was packed to the doors with local attor- neys anxlous to hear the argument of the | Attorney General. In opening his argu- | ment he declared that the eves of the | whole people of the United States were | directed e courtroom in which the | to t being held, and as- | nt X g serted that the Government of the United States was far too much in earnest in the > to pursue, as the attorney eless creation of the law. He 1at if a wrong had been com- Government was seeking the | , not of a corporation, but of breathing human beings that he wrong. The Government people of the ted States, he , would be isfled with nothing tted not that at they are the pleas of immu they were plainl rt of the defendants, th. ntinued: claring that rthought on the Attorney Gen- ise now urged It is my un- of the witness against bim in this indi nding that the ual 1 or a corpo: of Whose property may [ documents. be is then went on to nity had no of the law. —_——— | CHICAGO UNDERTAKERS AND UNIONS AT WAR| Federation of Labor De- | cides to Boyeott the | Trust. [ March 19.—The Chicago : tion of Labor has declared war | ago Undertake: Associa- | ¢ anding the body as “A trust of | the worst order.” open declara- | tilities was made at yester- g of x‘m_ central labor a long discussion of the were arrived to the meeting: = € unfon man shall oFf a Ibearer | tuneral where a non: casket 15 | = | When the services of an undertaker are | needed by a friend of a union man it is his é @ trades unionist to tell the mem- bereaved family how to secure a methode and prices | when a communication from the Wood- workers' Union was read, which cofl- | tained a complaint because of the sup- | posed discrimination of the- under- takers against union-made caskets. A price list was attached showing that union caskets ranged in price from $5 to $40. Undertakers, according to the same information, charge anything | from $50 to $300 for the same caskets. | o reason why the undertakers dis- e 1inated against the union men was set forth, but it was hinted that it was because the workers had suggested a number of professional pallbearers about two years ago. —— FRANCE EXPECTS POWERFUL BACKING |Next Vote at Algeciras Will Show Germany to Be | Without Support. PARIS, March 19.—Officials heres say that France's position is absolute and final against placing Casa Blanca under inter- national command. It is maintained that this §s not a question of detall, but one that 'involves the entire Franco-German | controversy over internationalization of | the police. The changes at the various capitals, the officials declare, another vote will show that France is supported | by Great Britain, Spaln, Portugal and Russla, with Austria doubtful and Ttaly and -the United States abstaining. Aus- tria’s doubt is due to Vienna's wavering in the support she has heretofore given to Germany. The current opinion in official circles is that Germany intends to recede from her position. ——————————— NEW BILL TO PROTECT { THE ALASKA FISHERIES Measure Grants Gratulties to Canners Who Also Operate Hatcherles. WASHINGTON, March 19.—The sub- committee on Territories has framed for presentation to the full committee a bill embodying its views regarding legislation that should be enacted for the protection of Alaskan salmon and | other fisheries. It follows largely the general lines of the bill on the subject introduced by Representative Cushman, and while still considered drastic by coast packers, the latter say it is less objectionable than the measures that have heretofore been before the com- mittee. The main difference between the sub- committee’s proposition. and the other bills is that it provides a scheme by which gratuities or refunds of taxes are to be pald to the proprietors of those canneries who operate hatcheries in connection with their enterprises. e NBAR DEATH BY GAS.—Henry G. Wright, & bartender, was found unconscious in i room at 820 Ellis street yesterday m: He had been overcome by escaping gas. will recoves i BALL PLAYER McLAUGHLIN RESCUES PRETTY GIRL. Plunges Into Ocean and Prevents Miss Hattie Gerlach From Drowning. 23 e IS — " SELF YESTERDAY AT BAKERS B! LY AND DESPONDENT YOUNG GIRL WHO ATTEMPTED TO DROWN HER- PLAYER, WHO PLUNGED INTO THE SURF AND BROUGHT HER ASHORE. EACH, AND WELL-KNOWN BASEBALL Pretty 18-year-old Hattle Gerlach, de- spondent and reckless, was saved from a sulcide’s grave in the cold waters of the Pacific yesterday afternoon by the heroic action of George McLaughlin, prpfessional ball player and left fielder for M. Fisher's Fresno Tigers. The girl had thrown her- self into the ocean at Bakers Beach and had been pounded about by the waves until she was unconscious. It was thus that McLaughlin rescued her from death. McLaughlin was strolling along the beach for the last time this winter, bid- ding it an affectionate farewell. He was | to leave in two hours for Fresno to join his team mates. As he reached a point opposite his home he suddenly saw a piece of dress tossing about on top of the | waves. He looked at it for a moment, and his startled eyes saw that the dress cov- ered a human body. McLaughlin believed that he had dis- covered the body of some one who had been dead for some time, and he was at first inclined to let it drift ashore. But a momont later he saw a woman's white hand and again a delicate cheek above the water. The tide was carrying the body slowly seaward. ‘Without hesitation the ball player waded into the ocean. He was up to his armpits when he reached the body. To his amazement he found that it was alive, although unconscious. He seized the girl, for it was'a girl, by the hair, and holding her head out of the water he struggled toward the shore. The tide was running strong, and it wag ten minutes before he could lay his almost lifeless charge upon the sand. His work, however, was only half-fin- ished. McLaughlin knew from experience how to treat a drowning person, and he began at once to bring the girl back to life. It was flve minutes before she re- covered consclousness and five more be- fore she could speak. “Why didn’t you let me drown? I'hate you,” she said to the exhausted but tri- umphant MecLaughlin. The ball player led the girl to his home, near by, and there his mother gave her dry clothing and sent her to the Park Emergency Hospital. She was soon able to leave for her home. McLaughlin misses hig train to Fresno., Last night Miss Gerlach sald that she attempted suicide because of despondency. She is employed at 1662 Post street as a girl of all work. Her mother is dead and her father lives in Germany. She has one sister, Mrs. SBchmidt, living at 1864 Ellis street. She has been ill'of late and suffered from bleeding of the nose. She declares that she will again attempt her life in a few days. This is the third rescue that McLaugh- lin has made at Bakers Beach. ————————— ARMY ORDERS. WASHINGTON, March 19.—Army or- ders: # Captain Weston P. Chamberlain, assistant surgeon, will proceed to Jack- son Barracks, La., for duty. First Lieutenant Robert L. Carswaell, assist- ant surgeon, now at S8an Francisco, will proceed to Fort McDowell for duty to relieve First Lieutenant Nelson Gapem, assistant surgeon, who will proceed to Columbus Barracks, Ohio, for duty. Captain David B. Case, commissary, having reported his arrival at San Francisco, will report to Major Charles R. Krauthoff, commissary at San Fran- cisco, for duty. Captain Danfel B. De- vere, Twenty-third Infantry, now, at San Francisco, will join his regiment at Madison Bdrracks, New York. —— Bicycle Thief Sent to Prison. RED BLUFF, March. 19.—Samie Zur- a about 25 - years of age, pleaded guilty today to a charge of grand larceny and was sentenced to gerve one year in San Quentin by Judge Ellison. . Zurcher stole a .bicycle from A.Goehring, a barber in this city, about a month ago, - BLACKS ACAN ELUDE CERMANS Efforts to Surround Rebel Leader Morengo in Africa Only Result in Failure —_— BERLIN, March 19.—Official dispatches received from German Southwest Africa today announce the failure of the com- prehensive surrounding movement under- taken by the German troops against Jacob Morengo, the last and most active of the native leaders of the rebels. The movement had been going on for weeks, and six large detachments with field and machine guns participated in fit. Colonel Dimling, In a speech in the Relchstag today, said it was an error to suppose that Morengo was a savage with rings in his nose and ears. He sald Mo- rengo was as hardheaded and intelligent a man as he had met, wore English rid- ing clothes and spoke Dutch from having lived in Cape Colony. Morengo owns a large farm in German Southwest Africa and has a certain amount of generosity, for he gave'a Geérman, whose farm he had plundered, $150 with which to return home in the first cabin. The Reichstag today passed the fourth supplementary--African budget .of $7,500,- 000. The total cost of the insurrection up to date is $150,000,000. —————— BEATTY HEARS ARGUMENTS 7 IN THE STEUNENBERG CASE Reserves His Decision in the Matter of the Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone Habeas Corpun. BOISE, March 19.—Arguments were heard by Judge Beatty of the United States - Circult Court on the writ of habeas corpus for Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone, the leaders of the Western Federation of Miners, who are charged with the assassination of former Gov- ernor Steunenberg. The arguments were largely a repetition of those made before the State Supreme Court, coun- sel for the defense maintaining that the District Court of Canyon County had no jurisdiction to try the defendants, for the alieged reason that they were unlawfully in the State, having been brought here as a result of a con- spiracy. Judge Beatty tok the case un- der advisement. Governor Gooding -announced this evening that he had increased to $2000 the amount of the reward offered for the arrest of L. J. Simpkins, wanted for complicity in the Steunenberg mur- der. The reward first offered was $1000. It is charged that Simpkins, who Is a member of the executive committee of the Western Federation of Miners, was in Caldwell and assisted Harry Orchard arrange for the commission of the crime. ————————— TROOPS SENT TO SCENE OF STRIKE IN FRANCE Trouble Feared at Lens, Where Forty- Six Thousand Miners Have Quit Worls, . LENS, France, March 19.—Many de- tachments of troops, including artil- lery and dragoons, have arrived here in order to be ready for any gventuality [ which may arise as & result of the minérs' strike, - ~About 46,000 men are now on strike and.are towns, carrying red | minor collisions have taken place, 2 . iiasi. Seve:-l_:l. ] AT THE CAPITAL Opposition Develops to the Bill of McKinlay on the Question of Irrigation CALIFORNIA MEASURES Money Is Sought for Widows of Firemen and for Tor- pedo Planter for This Bay Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, ‘WASHINGTON, March 18.—Opposition is manifesting itself from officials of the Central Canal and Irrigation Company to the suggestion of officlals of the reclama- tlon service that the bill of Representa- tive McKinlay of California be amended so that the Government might purchase the irrigation system in.order to extend its benefits to the entire Sacramento Valley. Frank Freeman, representing the company, said today that as that concern gets its water rights from California, the Federal Government has no right to compel the sale at its own flgures. “‘Such a thing would be unconstitutional and we will fight it,” sald Freeman. “Any rights conferred upon us by the McKinlay bill may be taken from us by the Government, but it cannot deprive us of the rights granted by the State.” The President has made the following appointments: Register of the land of- fice at Redding, Cal., Clarence W. Lein- inger; register of the land office at Car- son City, Nev., Louls J. Cohn; receivers of public moneys, Earl W. Tremont, at Carson City, Nev.; Lloyd L. Carter, at Redding, Cal. Senator Perkins today introduced a bill appropriating $200,000 for the purchase of a site for a public bullding in Honolulu. Senator Flint today offered the follow- ing amendments to appropriation bills: For a torpedo planter for SBan Francisco harbor, $150,000; to the widows of Fire- men Dakin and Hennessy, the victims of the transport Meade fire, $5000 each; for relief of the-Mission Indians of Southern California by the purchase of lands, the construction of irrigation ditches, etc., $100,000. Representative Smith today introduced a bill similar to the measure offered by Flint in the Senate providing for the pur- chase of land, etc.,, for the Mission In- dians. Representative Needham introduced a bill today releasing to the city of Monte= rey title and interest to the Cuartel lot. MeKINLEY SEPARATES FROM “LITTLE EGYPT” Man Wanted in Land Fraud ses En Route to Guatemala. MANILA, March 19.—Eva Rowland, known on the Pacific Coast as “Little Egypt,” who is reported to have eloped from San Francisco with Horace McKin- ley, who figured in the Oregon-land fraud cases, is now engaged at a theater in this city. Miss Rowland says that s.e and McKinley separated at Shanghai and that McKinley is now en route to Guate- malz under the name of Foster. —_————— FEES ILLEGALLY RETAINED BY INDIANA AUDITORS Suit to Be Begun by State to Collect Over Hundred Thousand Dollars. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 19. — A specfal Investigation committee, ap- pointed several months ago, to examine the books of the State Auditor's office, reported to the Governor today that J. 0. Henderson (Democrat), who was Auditor from 1891 to 1895, owes the State $91,962, and A. C. Daly (Republi- can), who was Auditor from 1895 to 1899, owes the State $23,667. The amounts represent fees collected and retained illegally, as claimed by the State. The Governor sent the report to the Attorney General with Instructions to bring suit to collect the money. CONST AFFAIRS [IAPAN COVETS - ISAYS THE RATE PACIFIC TRADE BLL IS FARCE Making Strenuous Efforts|Railroad President Mellen to DriveeAll the Foreign Vessels From the Orient AFTER AMERICAN SHIPS Island Government Soon to Blanket China With Policy Akin to Monroe Doctrine Special Dispatch to The Call CALL BUREA POST BUILDING, ‘WASHINGTON, March 19.—A report of Special Agent Burrill, now in the Far East, which has just been received by the Department of Commerce and Labor, glves some interesting data as to the methods of the Japanese to destroy competition and to obtain a monopoly of the carrying trade of the Paclfic Ocean. He says: In 1904 450 steamers carrying the Britieh flag, with 531,815 tons of cargo, entered the port of Amoy, as against one American vessel, carrying 644 tons. Thers were 123 German Tying 3084 tons; 18 Dutch, carrying 37,347 tor 60 Norweglan, carrying 50,232 tons; 23 Jaj nese, carrying 19,516 tons, and 41 Chinese, rying 42,160 tons. In Amoy, ae in all other ports in China, the predominance of British shipping is startling, but thé Japanese have recently sigrified their intention of exerting every effort to securs the coastwise trade of China. They openly declare, according to the shippers of ‘the various ports, that they will carry freight cheaper than any other lines, even though the transaction results in a loss, in order eventually to break down competition. They now have boats in sufficient numbers to handle all the coastwise business, and as they are assisted by a subsidy from the Jai nese Government it seems reasonable to sup- pose that ultimately their purpose will be ac- complished. Two years ago the Douglas line was operating at a profit eight coastwise steam- ere. The company has withdrawn all but three, and these, it s reported, are running at loss because of Japanese competition. A well posted authority on the subject says: The Japanese merchant marine is the most completely subsidized in the world. The Gov- ernment gives bounties of from 38 to $12 per ton for every ocean vessel built in Japan. When in operation it subsidizes them for every hundred miles. And this with a teeming popu- lation just recovering from an exhausting war and the cTieapest of labor. As a result, Japa- nese shipping increased from 150,000 tons in 1890 to 830,000 tons in 1904 It has now afloat in forelgn commerce more steamships than the United States. Incidentally—do the two facts appear related?—its forelgn commerce has ex- panded from $117,000,000 in 1894 to $342.000,000 in 1904. These facts are of absorbing interest in connection with the situation in the Orfent. Few doubt that Japan will some day proclaim a ““Monroe Doctrine’ for China and that China will accept it. Japan has already driven Rus- sia back and gracefully absorbed Korea, which it is now, anaconda-like, digesting. Now, the Japanese are/bidding for what few ocean-going vessels America has on the Pacific Coast. It is mot denied that it has options on our line to Australia and no secret i made by the own- ers that if the subsidy bill fails they will sell. It is generally believed the Japanese havé options on the Pacific Mall steamers. In any event they have bid for them also. The own- ers of the line from Puget Sound to Hawall now declare they will be compelled to withdraw their ships if the bill is beaten. That will leave the Pacific Coast denuded of American vessels, and in case of troubls, In China or the Philippines, where will the na¥y get its colllers and the army its transports? This is what is now giving the officlal= of these departments concern. Those who scout the suggestion of an American merchant marine take the ground that if English, French, German and Japanese subsidized ships will carry our _commerca cheaper than Americans can, let them do so and pocket the money. _But what the War and Navy departments want to is whether in case of trouble in the Far East the Ger- mans, Japanese, French and English will be kind enough to transport our troops apd sup- plies? | To an unprejudiced observer it would appear that perhaps the interests of these natfons might conflict with ours and their ship owners might find that they had other pressing busi- ness to attend to at such a time. Such possi- bilities are not expected to weigh much with the rabld friends of forelgn steamship owners who are apparently determined to keep our commerce in the hands of our competitors, but they may be seriously considered by those who have the interests of their country at heart and who do not g0 on the theory that in time of war, even with our tremendous resources, we can sow a bunch of steel plates at night and reap an auxiliary navy of fully manned and equipped vessels the following day. — —e————— Palma Re-Elected President of Cuba. HAVANA, March 19. — The Cuban Presidential electors formally met to- day and unanimously elected Tomas Estrada Palma as President of the re- public. Believes Its Authors Are Not Acting in Good Faith g PRESENT LAWS ENOUGH Congress Will Overshoot the Mark, He Asserts, if It Pass the Hepburn Measure HARTFORD, Conn., March 19.—Pres- ident C. S. Mellen of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad tonight delivered an address before the Get- Together Club, taking as his subject “The Hepburn Rate Bill.” In discuss- ing it he declared that he considered the bill bad and full of evil possibilities and that he believed the bill had beem drafted with some ulterior motive. He said in part: It is claimed that I favor this bill, while the fact is I regard it in its present form as & most pernicious plece of legislation—one of the worst that has attracted my attention. The bill is 6o bad and is so full of such evil possibilities, regarding which I am disposed to believe some of its advocates have been im- posed upon, that it will probably overshoot the mark, and & careful examination causes me to speculate whether it may not have beenm cunaingly devised by some one opposed to all legisiation. So utterly eubversive is it of all principles of justice, so utteriy s it of all warrant in constitutionality, so arbl- trary and autocratic s it in its provisons re- garding unimportant matters, that it may de well beileved that it was the design to cause disgust, distrust and antagonism among all right thinking and fair minded men. ¢ such a result should obtain it will, in my judgment, be a misfortune to the raliroads as Well as to the-pubiic. The need of additional legislation I have al admitted, have pub~ licly advocated, for the power of the railroads is tog great to be longer permitted to be ez~ ercised without greater restraint in the inter- est of the public. Any legisiation along lines that will accom= plish_ the practical elimination of preferences and discriminations (and the present laws have nearly accomplished their purposes in these re- | epects, amendments to existing laws requiring he books, records examination of and accounts, as in the case of national banks, with the full returns and their publication end_accessibility) will do more good to the public and be without harm to the carriers than any such legislation as is now pending before the United States Senate. Mellen, in conclusion, said that “such a law as this would cover with shame the Czar of Russia or the Sultan of Ture key.” SENATORIAL ORATORS TALK ON RATE BILL McCreary and Heyburn Ad- vocate a Court Review, the frequent Provision. WASHINGTON, March 19.—There were three speeches on the rallroad rate bill in the Senate today. McCreary, Bailey and Heyburn were the orators. McCreary announced his determination to vote for the bill whether amended or not, but said that he would not ob- ject to a reasonable provision for the review of the Interstae Commerce Com- mission’s findings. Balley replied to criticisms of his suggestion for a prohibition in the bill against the suspension of the commis- sion’s orders by courts below the Su- preme Court. He contended that Con- gress had the abselute power to, pre- seribe Hmitations for the couris which it creates and cited a large number of decisions in support of his pesition. Heyburn advocated a review pro- vision. — e —— REDSKINS WHO KILLED CRIFPPLE ARE CONVICTED BY NEVADA JURY Verdiet of Murder in the First Degree Is Returned After Short Deliberation. ELKO, March 19.—After being out two hours Saturday night the jury im the case of Johnnie and Joe Ibapah, Indians, brought in a verdict of murder. in the first degree. ©Only one ballot was taken. Their trial lasted ten days. They will be sentenced Friday morn- ing. The redskins brutally murdered a one-legged white man at Montello last December. 4 dising. . heartiest thanks. An Apology We were prepared for crowds—we expected response, but such an overwhelming, tremendous, enthusiastic multi- tude that crowded the opening of our Ladies’ Cloak and Suit Department was unprecedented in the history of merchan- 2= Naturally, we were. unable to meet the conditions, and to the hundreds who were disappointed and could not be waited upon yesterday we extend our heartfelt apologies. Ample preparations have been made, and you will have bet- ter success today or any day throughout the entire week. ¢ As this paper goes to press we are unpacking more of those $25, $30 and $35 suits, and a fresh supply will be placed on sale today at $15.00. To the general public of San Francisco we extend our The response that you have shown us has never been equaled. The confidence, the belief in our an- nouncements, the enthusiastic applause only spurs us on to . greater achievements, and no effort on our. part shall be lacking to foster, cherish and deserve a continuance of your ¢ generous manifestation. In order to arrange stock, department. will not. open until 10 a. m. In Every Detail the Leading Establishment West of Chicago. Market,, Powell and Ellis