The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 21, 1906, Page 1

‘\\,n vn;v Forecast for March San Francisco and unsettied weather showers; brisk southes A Wednesday District Forecaster. 21: vicinity—Cloudy with rly winde. G. McADIE, | - MAJESTIC — Drury. l ORPHEU! More News Than Any Other Paper Published in Sam THE THEATERS. ALHAMBRA—"Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” ALCAZAR—"'A Modern Magdalen.” CALIFORNIA—"Avenue Girls.”” CENTRAL—'‘The House of Mystery."” CHUTES—Vaudeville. Matinee. COLGMBIA—"Little Johnny Jomes.” GRAND—Primrose Minstrels. “Sweet Nell of Old [—Vaudeville. Matinee. TIVOLI—"“The Isle of Spice.” Matines. i e L-'b-"arv i ;‘ SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1906. ROOT SAYS HAMILTON 1S A LIAR Respects -Paid by State Secretary to “Judge.” Angered by Statement Dragging Him Inte Insurance Row. Denies That He Exerted Influ- ence to Prevent an Investigation. Two more Hamilton pebple ga T L ton to to t to begin 1 and re- ake the y one who'is s aware that I had a ner- reatened seri- M at 1 my if required here. Higgins a pledge that approached on he is a liar a lie out of the ns, passing Atlantic / City, attan Hotel, said does not know Higgil through when what that I 1 Root about agre nt w would not be a session of the untruth.” IRY CORTS Ok CNDCTOR Finds Him Guilty of Sec- ond Degree Manslaughter for Causing a Death et tch to The Cail 20.—For the first criminal history of this has been convicted of in the second degree for ce of life by his negligent ¢ 2 streetcar. This result re Judge Foster in the Court today, when Al- found guilty of hav- th of Bernard Me- W YORK, Marc dea’ was the conductor of a Lex- enue car and employed by the ¥ Railway Company. The Robert Zimur. They r way uptown at 3 o'clock June 1 when k to a woman pas- right for se ost control of the went right along responded to the r him when, at t crashed into a wagon. MeDonald, own to the pave- d to aid the man, but ed that Zimur, on e car, told him to 1 he did_so, sent nd, wh car ahead full speed without g how seriously McDonald was found guilty in short ded for sentence um penalty is years. ment for fifteer HENRY OF PRUSSIA IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT PRINCE Kaiser's Brother Proves a Poor Chauf- feur and Clashes With the Police. SRLIN, March 20—Prince Henry of Prussia, while personally driving an tomobile, ran into a team near the village of Tarp, not far from Schwerin, and badly frightened the horses. The ince compensated the. owner liber- but after he left, the latter tele- phoned to the police at Schwerin, who stopped his royal Highness. He ex- plained the situation, and as they seem- ed to be in doubt as to what to do, Prince Henry proceeded, with the re. mark: “You know where I live"” the insur- | | The bank is in IMnka street, in the | the | told by witnesses, | to run the car. | ACH AL Y ROBBERS 0F BN Raid ' Concern Nets $432,500. 'Bold /Crime Committed ; by Twenty Masked Thieves. | Believed to Have Received |~ Aid From Employe of | the Imstitution. e { Special Dispatch.to The Call. | MOSCOW, March 20.—The ‘Credit Mu- tual, one of the largest banks in Moscow, | was mysteriously robbed by masked men t dusk tonight, the robbers. obtaining $422500. It was an unusually daring crime. The facts already developed raise the question whether the robbery was committed by under the direction of { some one at present or previously em- ployed in the institution. or heart,of the city. The last of tfie clerks had just departed, leaving an inside guard of three men,while under the porte cochere outside were a policeman and the house porter. The street was crowded with residents hurrying homeward. According to the story of the guards, in the twink- link of an eye they were confronted with revolvers in the hands of twenty masked men who had entered silently by, the main door, which had been locked Wwhen the office force left. After a command to the guards to hold up their | WS spoken” The guards were quickly bound and gagged and thrown into a dark corner. The robhers then took up positiops dt all rs were lowered. . The chief of the who directed the ‘operations of )clates” by gestures, and without k showed "thorough familiarity the location of the vaults. When &ll was ready he went to the heavy bur- glar-proof safe, and, with a few whirls or the kned, threw the combination of the lock. The heavy door swung open and the treasyre of the bank ‘was tevealed: plunder, consisting of gold, silver tes, was speedily thrust into sacks. clean haul of the money had e, not a kopek being left, the s departed as sflently as they had making their exit through the main d ing no trace behind They had been in the bank less windi and When a been them. than a haif hour. Twenty minutes later one of the guards succeeded In releasing himself and gave the alarm. The dumfounded policeman and house porter, who had been standing in front of the bank throughout, claimed they had seen no one enter or leave it. An immense crowd was attracted to the scene Ly the news of, the robbery. M. Vilchniakoff, the managing director of the bank, after a hasty investigation, hastened off to consult Governor General Boubasoff. It is the general impression that the key to the mystery is within the bank itself. WAONC CANIE * CHLOROFORMED - BY PROFESSOR EKfll Students’ Pet and | the Boys Sue Him for Damages. | | Special Diepatch to The Call. i |. SEATTLE, March 20.—Charles W. Pren- | tiss, professor of zoology at the Univer- | sity of Washington, bas been made the | defendant In & novel damage suit. | Monday he Killed a dog belonging to the | Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. The fra- | ternity boys evidently mourn the loss of their beloved pet greatly, as their flag | hangs at hailf mast in honor of the mar- | tyr to science. | “Professor. Prentiss states he had no malice in his actions, thinking merely tb ‘!rid the community of a stray dog, and | at the same time secure some materfal | for his zoology classes. He further says the canine made a general nuisance of | itselt gnd he chloroformed him. —_—————————— i’TWELVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ; A NIGHT FOR HIS VOICE ;A.Ie—-ldn Bonmel, the Italian Temor, | Engaged for Fifty Performances { in New York. | Special Cablegram to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyright, 1906, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. ROME, March 20.—Sixty tho: d | dollars ror fifty performances in Amer- ica, extending over a period of five months, is the price Oscar Hammer- steln will pay for Alessandro Bonei. the tencr, next season. Hammerstein has engaged the singer as leading tenor for his season of opera at the New Manhattan in New York, land will first present him 1n October. hands igie ¥ord | the entrances, and the’ curfainsg of the ) Last | {MORGAN'S LOLD PAID FOR VOTES SR SR Upon Moscow| Twenty Thousand Dollars Used in Iowa. Special Dispatch to The Call. DES MOINES, March 20.—"J. Plerpont Morgan gave $20,000 direct to Congréss- PRICE FIVE CENTS. PIONEER LEAVES LARGE ESTATE TO CHILDREN BORNE HIM BY SISKIYOU INDIAN WIFE. e Argonauts in California. = * FLOmA TITUS. MRS, LVZZ\E PHREYS kS man Hull to be used in securing votes to nominate him for Congress in this district two years ago,” declared ex- Secretary of State George L. Dobson today in one of his sensatlonal accusa- tions against the ckairman of the House committee on military affairs in open“ ing his campaign for Congress. Two years ago Dobson was hand and -|'glove with Hull in his fight for the re- nomination, but he claims now that Hull went back on him. “Representative Landis of Indiana and Representative Cooper of Wiscon- sin went to see Morgan and Rockefeller two years ago for a contribution to the national campaign fund,” said Dobson. “‘I have already given $20,000," " de- clared Morgan. - ““To whom?' ” they asked. “‘Let me see, who was it? Oh, yes, the man who built the army post in Des Moines—Hull it was.'” replied Morgan. = Congressman Hull today gave notice that he would sue Dobson for exemplary damages for slander. % “His charges are utterly false,” said Congressman Hull, “but it is entirely useless for us to stand about calling one another names.” EERRE SRR New Breeds of Cotton. WASHINGTON, March 20.—Following a series of experiments extending over several years, the bureau of plant in- dustry, Department of Agriculture, an- nounces it has developed a numl of new breeds of cotton, the seeds of which are ready to be sent out for next season’s planting. The bureau claims that the new cotton will almost double the value of the crop wherever used. The new cotton has been bred from the native and short staple upland varlety, and is from a half to three-quarters of an inch longer in fiber than cotton grown from the parent seeds. | PIONEER WHOSE WILL REVEALS EARLY-DAY ROMANCE, AND — - SAYS DECISION - [BLACKSMITH OF MORROWIS | 15 PRESIDENT NOT DAMACING) OF A VILLAGE = . B T s : . Woestern Pacific’s Presi-| Wins Office on Munic- i 33 9 s . dent Undisturbed ipal Ownership. by Defeat. Ticket. Special Disoatch to The Call. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. - Mareh M_With | MOUNT VERNON, N. Y., March 20.= NEW YORK, Match 2.—With regard to | | MOUNT VERNOTE & T Carel I the declsion favoring the Southern Pa- smith,” was today elected president of cific as against the Western. Pacific, | noren village on a. municipal handed down by Judge Morrow in the | own ticket. The other candidates United Btates Circuit Court in San Fran- | on that ticket were sufcessful, defeating cisco on Monday, 1t was 'today by | the Republican and Democratic nominees E. T. Jeffery, president of the Western | by good pluralities. Reilly, when the Pacific, that the matter simply involved | snowstorm began on Monday, realizing a comparatively small piot of land ‘and | that it would be difficult to get com- was of small importance. .~ - | muters and other residents fo town, got a “The Western Pacific,” 'said Jeffery, | “corner” on all the sleighs in town by Hiring them from the liverymen, and the “has 145 acres of 1and at Oakland, so its terminal faclilities are in no way . | site” rival candidates had to send to New |. By the terms of the will of John Titus, a pioneer who died last week, his estate, valued at over $100,000, is to be divided between seven children born to him By his Indian wife of Siskiyou. The filing of the will brings to light a pretty romance of the days of the “*1 Filing of the Will of Jobn Titus of Happy Camp Brings to Light a Romance of Early Days. A Primitive Marriage in the Sierra Reveals Devotion to Sense of Paternal Duty. A romance that would have delighted Bret Harte was laid bare yesterday when - STEL-A TITLUS. DAUGHTERS BY HIS INDIAN WIFE WHO SHARE FORTUNE. z the will of John Titus, a pioneer of Siski- you County, was filed for probate at the County Clerk’s office. An'estate valued at over §100,000 is to be divided between seven children that were born.to him by an Indian woman.of Sis- kiyou, whom he wedded, as Kipling says, “without benefit of the clergy.” The children who will share the fruits of his frugality are John Titus, Mrs. Flor- ence Blockwell, Mrs. Lizate Humphreys, Mrs. Mary Dividson, Stella Titus, Flora Titus and Mrs. Ida Holby. Mrs. Halby lives at 3922 Twenty-fifth street, in this Titus died at Frultvale last Wednesday. He left Happy Camp, Siskiyou County, where he reared his family and where he amassed his little fortune, about. fifteen years ago, leaving his Indian wife com- fortably provided for. He invested in real estate here and in Alamedd County. The romance goes back into the '50's, when Califprnia was in the rough. Titus joined in the rush of Argonauts across the. plains. - There was the image of a fair-haired girl in.New York to spur him on. He had sworn that he wouald go back with. a fortune and marry her. He arrived in San Francisco in the mad days, when men were. daily. rushing to new camps and new strikes. He caught the fever and went to the mountains of Sis- kiyou with a crowd of hardy adventurers, in his makeup. He was working for that girl in New_York. While the others Rochelle and Mount Vernon far vehicles, | pegan to. letter that had been many weary months delayed in the rough trip “around z Horn.” It was very brief. It him that the girl had grown tired of wait- ing. Y John Titus was left in the condition of* the primitive man who has been cast off from his tribe. He was all alone in Happy Camp. He brooded over his troubles through the winter. Then the spring came and the azaleas bloomed in the canyons. The loneliness of John Titus was lost in a new lonsging. which was that of the first man—the de- sire for companionship. It was the time of the year when the Sferra wore their brightest green, and a palr of robins built their nest in the eaves of John Titus' cabin, when some Indiané from a neighboring tribe came to Happy Camp. Among them was a soft-eyed, pretty girl, who walked with the Hthe tread of a wood nymph. A PRIMITIVE MARRIAGE. . She looked at John Titus with adoration in her glance. He looked at her, and it was as In the days before they kmew what conventions meant. It was love at first sight, the unrestrained, natural love of the primitive man and woman, for the lofty peaks of the Sierra shut them off from everything that was artificial. She came to his cabin after the grave chiefs in eouncil had permitted, and be- came his wife by the laws of the early days, the days of big men and big deeds. John Titus forgot the girl in New York, and all that lay beyond the wall of moun= tains. Children came to the pair, the first & boy, who is now a stalwart man and & prosperous rancher of Siskiyou Coutity. Then came others, all girls. John Titus began to feel that _contentment which comes to those who have done thelr or- ork in the world and 4 the Toug fear that poverty will make drawn end v them, with just a suggestion of the er's race. in the high cheek bones. His family having grown up. and know« ing that they were well provided for, John Titus felt the restlessness of Ulysses. He wanted to see what had been done on the other side of the werld since he had gome into exile. The call of his own kind lured him, and he could not resist it. -« GOES BACK TO HIS KIND. He left the woman who had been faiths ful to him in loneliness, in happiness and in sorrow. But he left her well provided for, and he never forgot his duty to his children. He was proud of them. The son was a man to delight any father, and the ~daughters were women that any natural father would love. When he got down to “the bay” John Titus tried to get in touch again with the things he had forsaken. He invested his little savings in property in this city and in Alamheda County, and settled down to wait the end. Two years ago he was seized with the fear that some one might try to deprive his children of ‘the fruits of his industry, and he laboriously wrote a will leaving them all he had. 5 He was accldentally asphyxiated last Wednesday at his home in Fruitvale They buried him--his children did—and for a while it secemed that his story would be buried with him. But out at the County Clerk’s office, where so man: romances ang life tragedies are laid bare at the end, the story of John Titus came to light when the will was filed. He ramed his daughter, Mrs. Maggie Davidson of Oakland, as chief exacutrix, to act with James Camp, an old comrade of the Happy Camp days. Camp has de< clined to act. E. J. Talbott is attorney for the children. All of the children loved their father dearly. Mrs. Holby said yesterday, “He was so good to us all. He was the best man in all the world.” Were not the years that John Titus spent in Happy Camp well spent? BLAME CAPTAIN OF VALENCIA Canadian Investigators Eind That Skipper Johnson’s Er- rors Led to Awful Wflck VICTORIA, B. C., March 2.—The find- s commissioners appointed to in-