The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 23, 1906, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1006. W Inquisitors and T0PS District VHEN GRAND JURORS APPEAR/MACKAYREPLES Attorney Visit Chinatown at Early Morning - + Attorney entered yesterday When the Distriet and Grand Jurymen Chinatown morning. gambling that scemed $= full blast suddenly ceased. As woom as they had departed A firm of at- early it was resumed. torneys claims to have given the District Attorney the numbers of gambling dens and a list of persons collecting corruption Say Lights Went Out and Clinking of Gold Ceased. Policemen on the Beat Declare It Is All Fairy Tale. i mands Action by Langdon. - Gives List of Alleged rllectors of Bribe Money. LIGHTS BLAZ r t rs who went Langdon ee was cor action of the heart de- the heart nerves ‘When from any se they become weak or ex- sted, and fail to furnish power, the heart flut- cau 1 .,. ters, palpitates, skips beats; and in its effort to keep up its worl ses n and distress, s as s hering spells, sh. breath, fainting, pain ind heart, arm and shoul- ‘he circulation is im- d the entire lack of nourish- rom ies’ Heart Cure makes art strong and vigorous by ngthening these nerves and les. d palpitation and pain around and the doctors said it was e. I don’t bélieve it now, for taking six botties of Dr. Miles' Cure, three bottles of the Nervine hree boxes of Nerve and y cured, and tter than I have for five years, is all due to $hese remedies. 1 to know that your medicines It relieved me from the and 1 kept right on till ‘the iy chest was gone, and I &ept better even after I cuit JOHN H. SHERMAN, Belding, Mich. Heart Cure Is sold by me. Dr. your druggist, who will guarantee that Miies’ the first bottle will benefit. he will refund your money. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind That Man Pitts If it falls 1008 Market St. SanFrixcisco. instrumental and Vocal. Every and Baturdey Afternoons, bet. 3 and §, at ZINKAND’S of Attorneys De-| *| o'clock p. § i | shortl the next day, and MacFarland went ahead ey entered Ross dlley, and, later, were absolutetly daz rrow way was a blaze of er doors of all the gam- es were wide open, and In and out of these doors, in endless files, the' Mongolian multitudes were pass- From the windows above there the balmy. warm air chip and domino, quaver of some the two scouts doubled back and apprised the main body of their discovery. All together they meved upon the place of illicit splen- dor. But when they arrived the splen- ed. dor had vanis The lights were all out, the doors wi d, the windows shutt and the stretched its antless as the street of a plague-stricken city. Bravely the jurors entered some of the dark abodes. A few yawning Chinese, 1fstle sprawled mless games of dom- ino®s, t they found. Mitchell and McFar! rubbed their eyes in- dustriousl the city of gambMng ed to return. It had gone . from 1 to 1:30, the stayed in Ross alley; then they: enticing murmurs of financial activity. POLICE MOLLIFY JUROR It was this report of the my emissary that prompted the vis | Chief Dinan, and it was to this report | that Chief Dinan most strenuously ob- jected. He called it shortly and simply “tommy-rot. A conference, was resolved upon, which took place in the afternoon. Po- licemen Lloyd,. McManus, Rellly and Cullinan svere called upon the carpet. They comprise a special squad institut- ed by Chief Dinan to stop the gambling in the region visited by the grand jurors, The latter were curious to know what the policemen had seen of the sudden-scenic transformations that had astonished them. Also they want- ed to know why they had not seen the | policemen, and why the policemen had not seen them. Lloyd and Reilly falled | to present themselves, but McManus and Cullinan were subjected to a searching inguisition, in which Fore- man Mitchell took the leading part. Both policemen pleaded ighorance as to the shifting of scenes which had in- terested the jurors. They sald that to their knowledge the lights of the alleys had gone out one by one jn ordinary | fashion. They reported having entered most of the gambling houses and ‘to have found only harmiess games in process. Little by little the jurors softened. - McPartland and. Atkins helped the guardians of the peace to clear up some discrepancles as td the employment of their time in which they had fallen in the first stupor of the sudden Investigation. Other things were cleared up. It was explained to the jurors that many of the places lit up were not- gambling piaces, but re- sorts of other kinds. The jurors were evidently mollified, and ended by rec- ommending to Chief Dinan a reinforce- ment of the Chinatown squad.and half- hourly inspecfions of the gambling houses. - The expected scene between Dinan and Langdon did not take place. Lang- don, though very attentive, was silent throughout the sitting, and the Chief bottled up his wrath. CORRUPTION IS ALLEGED. Attorney O'Nelll, hero of the sensa- tional and unauthorized raid of a gam- bling house last Sunday night, ad. dressed yesterday the following letter to the District Attorney: ' Hon. William H. Langdon, District Attor- ney. San ¥rancisoo. Cal.— ar Sir: Referring to the matter of gam- bling in Chinatown, we beg to inform you that all the gambling places in that section of the city have running full blast from 12 m. until morning ever-since last Saturday, evidently with the sanction of per- sone in authority. Immediately after the fssuance of the order of the Police Department, after the raid of Sundey night, to the effect that no attempts were to be made to s gambling without the sanction of the Poiice Commission, the Chiet of Police, captain of the distriet, or the District Attorney, all the gamblers were noti- fied that they could open their places without fear of molestation. This, of course, was the natural result to be expected, and we presume was what was intended by the issuance of such an order, for surely gamblers never be- - | and gave ded their k home. They behind tk however, an emis- When he them again late in the morning this gentleman, whose name has not been divulged, told them that they hardly gone when all the | lights snapped up, doors and windows | reopened, soft-footed crowds once more | thronged the alleys, and again from the upper storles there floated out the | 5;2/7.41-17 IDTCLZLL 1t i | 1 g i3 | CHIEF OF POLICE, DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND FOREMANX OF THE GRAND* JURY. WHO HELD A CONFERE; E_YESTERDAY TO BISCUSS REPORTS THAT GAMBLING IS BEING CARRIED ON IN CHINATOWN, " e e b iy —k — | tore received such a direct notice that ‘‘the { authorities would protect them.'” | . On Tuesday, when the writer informed you that gambling would again go on that night you the numbers of three meparate gambiing houses that would be open, namely 1 and 5 Ross alley and 102 Waverly place, it was extremely unfortunate that no attempt was made that night to glose them, as they and all the other gambling places ran wide open. Last night, when you and the members of | the G Jury visited Chinatown, you are aware, all the gambling resorts were closed immediately, except the place ralded Sunday night, 81 Rose alley, but were opened &s §0on | as you left and run’ until this morning. The | place at 815 Ross alley was filled by Chinese Who had been instructed to play nothing but | dominces and’ who mgde all the nolse possi~ bl as to attract your attention and that of temen with you €0 that you might be make a raid there and find nothing es. The gamblers will probaoly attempt to run this bluff on you, at the advice of those Lehind them, and we warn you of it papers that at Iast you and ' the members of the Grand Jury have admitted the truth of our allegation that gafubling i rampant in Chinatown. We have now given you the evidence, have informed you of the amount of tribute per table paid “for protection,”” the name of the person who collects it,’ and, in view of the #tand taken by you that noné but yourself will be pepmitted to cause the arrest of these vio- lators of the law, we now, on behaif of our clients, Gemand _that . garhbling. We your disposal at any and all times any in- formation or evidence we may have and to render you any assistance'in our power. Regarding the tion of our Mr. O'N the men with the evidence found upon them and expect you to do your full duty in prose- cuting them. We have just learned today that your office has not yet prepared the complaints againet them, but thie lg a matter entirely in your hands, as you have declined to accept Mr. O'Nelll's assletance and is therefore ‘‘up 10_you Yours very respectfully, WEST, DE JOURNEL, O'NEILL & JONES. —_—— ‘Will Ingprove Sixteenth Street. The Supervisors’ street committee yesterday reported in favor of author- | izing the Board of Works to enter into a contract for the improvement of Six- teenth street, from Valencia to Falsom, at a cost of $20,000 out of bond pro- ceeds. The committee recommended that the width of sidewalks on Second street, from Mission to Howard. be fixed at fifteen feet. W. J. Cuthbert- son asked that he be reimbursed in the sum of $200 for his plans which had been incorporated in the plans of the Adornment Association for the beati- cation of San Francisco. Cuthbertson said the association had refused to rec- ognize the services he had rendered and the committee agreed to look into the matter next Thursday. when the repre- sentatives of the association will be cited to be present. SHIRT = means & good deel It stands for good materials, good style, good workmanship and good fit WHITE OR COLOR-FAST FABRICS Leon Cohn, a caterer of this city, yes- petition in bankruptey ates District Court. He are $59 e United St 8 and his asse! “| show, nor did any rec: | 10 HANILTON *| Addresses Caustic Letter to . Lobbyist on Behalf of the- Fowler Committee B HOPES TO TRACE FUNDS Says the “Judge” Alone Can Account for $1,360,000 of the New York Life’s Gold NEW YORK, March 22.—A reply to Andrew Hamilton's letter, refusing to appear before- the Fowler investigat- Ing committee of the New York Life Insurance Company, was given out to- night by . Clarence H. Mackay and signed by him as acting chairman of the committee. The letter, which is addressed to Hamilton at Albany, quotes” fn full certain- messdges and cablegrams that passed between Hamil- ton and the ¢ommittee, . this corre- spondence indicating, the committee members declare, their desire to se- cure an accounting of the large sums of the comrpany's money placed in the hands of the legislative agent. The let- ter to Hamilton declares that at the first meeting of the commitiee after his return to this eountry a registered let- ter was sent him, stating that an action in court for an accounting of the com- pany’s funds had been authorized, and that under the circumstances the com- mittee would not ask him to appear be- fore it; but if he désired to be heard the committee would be glad to fix a time to suit his convenience. The let- ter to Hamilton then proceeds: At the same time the committee requested counsel in charge of the action dirested to be brought against you by the board of trustees to defer the service of papers until you had a reasonable opportunity to reply to this invi- tation. Having waited until Monday, March 19, without hearing from you, it withdrew the request. It must be sajd that your previous' action did not encourage the commiftee in- the hope that you would avail yourseif 0f the op- portunity fa appear before it. The committee, as you wiil recall, hag en- deavored in vain before this to secure through your attendance information whieh you alone can give of the disposition of the large sums of the company's money placed in your hands. The letter then quotes cablegrams dated in January, showing its efforts to get into commmunication with Hamilton. A reply from Hamilton to tHe commit- tee's representative in Paris isgiven, in which the writer says he “must again assure the board of trustees of _the company that I will, just as soon as possible, attend their sessions;” but-that I canmot, because of my nervous de- rangement, comply with their peremp- tory demand to return at once.” The letter continues: The committee desired your presence because It was charged with the duty of ascertaining | not only what moneys you had received, but what you had done with them. That duty was imposed upon it by the mandate of the Arm- | strong committee. The mafn question before | the committee as to your mattérs was what | you had done with the company’'s money, | amounting to about $1,300,000, which in one | way or another had come Into your bands dur- | ing the past ten years. You alone could tell | us 88 to the great bulk of it. ‘ Something over $100.000 appears from your vouchers to_have been pald to you for legal services. Your receipts for the $600,000 or thereabouts received for what has been called your executive bureau were simply receipts in the ordinary form and throw no light on what you had dope with the money. They did not or books of the com- |pany’ show, that there was a legislative or sec: rvice buréau, or that you were. en- gage in any such work. The youchers you | signed for various sums, aggregating $235,000, which Mr. McCall repaid because you did mot, read that you were to account for them. A that time you were acting in a legal capacity | for the company In connection with its real es— tate purchases and mortgage loans. There wae no reason for any one on the auditing com- mittee to suspect that Fou would not account in accordance with the terms of the vouchers, though you have.not done #o. WIFERILLS SPOUSE WiTH HOT WATER Pours Boiling Liquid Upon Sleeping Husband, Scald- ing Him So Badly That Death Follows Shortly MINING CAMP SCENE . OF FIENDISH CRIME Awful Agony Awakens Man and He Rushes to House of Neighbor, Where He Tells of Woman’s Shocking Deed Spectal D to The Call. MERCED, March 22—-A wife poured boiling water upon her sleeping husband, with murderous intent, and he was so badly scalded that he died after two days of agony. BSuch is the central fact of a shocking stoty that reached Merced today from Bear Valley, once a lvely min- ing town in the mountains of Mariposa County, and now a smaill hamlet, which was the scené of this tragedy. The man was James Dedmon, who with his wife had conducted a store in Bear Valley for seven or eight years. His age was thirty- seven years. The wife is reputed to bé quarrelsome and many believe that she is insane. It appears from Dedmon's ante-mortem Statement that his wife arose at an early hour Mcnday morning and aftéer heating 4 big pan 6f water on the stove, went to the bed where her husband slept and de- Hberately thréew the bolling water upon him. Dedmon ran out of the ho to & neighbor’'s, a half mile away and s his wife had tried ‘to kill him. They took him back to his house, where his wife de- ried the charge of attempted murder. A physicla® was not called until 3 o'clock in the afternoom, it being thought that Dedmon’s burns were not serious. From one who saw the body after death it is learned that Dedmon's face and arms @nd the upper portion of the body ddwn.fo the hips were fearfully scalded, there be- ing pieces as large as a hand where the flesh appeared to be literaly cooked to the depth of 2 half inch or more. The woman was arrested and taken to Mariposa, the county seat. A Coroner's inquest was held today, but the verdict has not beén learned here, Bear Valley being thirty-five miles away and feans of communication limited. Mrs. Dedmon/was formerly the wife of | Frank Cavagnaro, who ran a store in Yosemite Valley and also one in Fresno Flats. Cavagnaro was killed by an In- dian in Fresno Flats, and then his widow continued the store in Yosemite. Dedmon was working for the State in Yosemite when he married Mrs. Cavagnaro. She was of a guarrelsome nature and got into troublé with the authorities in the valley and finally Guardian Miles Wallace i closed her store and ordered her out. She and Dedmonfwent to Bear Valley, where they have since conducted ‘& general mer- chandise store. There are four children by the Cava- gnaro union. The oldest, a boy of 19, at- tends school in Stockton. The other three BERING TUNNEL WY BE BUILT Russian Emperor and His Ministry Won Over to the Project by Its Promoters AR‘E READY TO ASSIST Hope an Intercontinemtal Railway Will Strengthen Ties With United States ST. PETERSBURG, March 33. — The sympathy of Emperor Nicholas; Premiér de Witte and other members of the Ministry, v"ll as of powerful influ- ences at rt, have been enlisted by Baron Loleq de Lobel in the project of the. American Trans-Alaskan Siberian Company for the eonstruction of a tun- nel under Bering Strait from East Cape to Kansk and 3000 miles of rallroad to connect it with the Siberfan Railway., and the oppesition of a portion of the bureaucracy, which fought the scheme bitterly because the negotiations were conducted over th@lr heads, is breaking down. The outlook for a favorable de- cigjon is now bright. n addition to the benefits which will accrue to the nation by the develop- ment of the resources of the present waste of Northeastern Siberia. the im- perial family owns an immense extent of land which will be benefited. The national défense committee also consid- érs the project as essential from a strategié. point or view, and. more im- portant stfll, there is in the higher Gov- ernment spheres a distimet disposition to cultivate the United States as Rus- sia’s natural ally in the Far East. It is believed that, by Imteresting Americans materially in Siberia, the po- litical ties between the two countries will be strengthened. A statement to this effeet has been ‘submitted by For- efgn Minister Lamsdar®¥ t0 the com- mission under the presideney of Zlegler von Shaffhausen, Minister of Ways and Communieations, which has been con- sidering the project, which statement really amounts toan important declara- tion ‘of foreign policy, as is evident from the following extract: From the stafdpoint of good policy the project is considered mare than desirable. The investment of foreign capital, and especially American, in an emterprise so important for Russia will ce aconomic. and _pelitical rap- prochement. It will also contribute to the creation of mreater confidence in our forelzn Doliey, which has sensibly suffered by recent events. By interesting Americans we may be able better to combat the injurious aitation aghinst us, Which produced so much harm be- fore the Russo-Japanese war. 1 bglieve the projected railroad would serve to paralyze any agxressive movement against us In the Far Bast. Everything which can heip to place Russia In a more independent pomition with | rezard to Japan and China cannot fail to strengthen Russia both in the Far East and in Europe. Six of the twelve representatives of the various Ministries on the Shaff- hausen commission already have pro- nounced in favor of the project. Gen eral Boldureff, representing the Minis- { try of the Imperial Household, told the commission how much his Majesty was interested, and personally challenged the arguments of Toulinski, who has combated the projeet. e Lo ont ool 0 G Pays $6000 for a Prize Orchid. LONDON, March 22.—A record price —$6000—was paid this afternoon at a { local auction-room for a prize orchid from a ecollection of H. T. Pitt. - or — were in the house when the tragedy oc- curred, but_ they knew nothing of it until the next da; 0 0y's. The o every detail the'l @‘utfiti / =1'3 resistible bargain---a clear saving over our already lowest prices. Suit, Waist, Cap and Stockings Value §4.70 eading st;blishmeni None of these items will be sold separately under the regular prices. This special positively limited to two days. Suit, Norfolk, as pictured, regular price. . $3.45 Cap, silk lined, Norfolk style. ... Waist, “Mother’s Friend” . . Stockings, heavy, spliced heels and toes' .25 Regular price of Ty eee.. $4.20 Special today and Saturday, entire outfit.... ... iiiiiennaae its For boys 6 to 12 years of age you have ==————= the choice of a splendid line’of snappy Norfolk styles as illustrated. For boys 7 to 15-we include the mannish two-piece suits. All of this scason’s newest and best'styles. Our own make— stanch and true. Wear-resisting and full of snap and character. 2,5‘ -an ir- \ \ .50 50 *3.25