The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 24, 1906, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1906. FANTAN MEN POWERS ROW s | Disagreement Between Chief | of Police and Distriet| Attorney Now Extends to| the Police Commissioners s i | HOT WORDS SIZZLE | DURING CONFERENCE Commissioners 0’Grady and Poheim Speak of School- master Run Amuck and of Vote - Getting Raids| R SR Thursday between 1 Chiet of yesterday olice or Police rsonal re- to the or- ssioners king lieu- iness. After stating nands of the Dis- *the Chief swer and con- fon of the Police De- I can see no Attorney the Police the of we are just as perform the on us placed perience in r police th ge of police s Attorney, and for that t'in favor of modifying ited ssioner Drinkhouse inter- of the District Attorney. r O'Grady kept on with “I think it is a great District Attorney to encroach on our power, I have submitted to him— Zor. the we v erated his a until pa- p eases to be & virtue. To use a . rase ‘he is becoming pesty,’ and I “ st that he confine himself to b i we will confine ourselves to scussion then warmed up, Com- | Poheim supporting O'Grady, se and Reagan sided with | Attorney and the littie re- “circus raids” and “school- muck” crackled through the | 1 here. Finally it was de- | i a meeting next Monday at will be, invited. Mean- the District Attorney and the at outs, and the Police | vided half for one, half for | wou seem as if the gam- | laughing up their wide | | JAPANESE ARE RUXN ; OUT OF KERN TOWN White Laborers Object to Presence of the Little Brown Men. E D 2. March 22.—A special | from Kernville, sixty in the Slerras, re- | nesday Japanese, Edison Biectric Com. out of the town by a | laborers under threat of ing 4w art of the camp utens were de- the tent was carried away and Japanese were ordered to leave at e. They started for the railroad, forty « distant, and @re now at Callente, waiting instructions from the compa sficials of the KEdison Company Sheriff Kelly the detalls of the They say they propose to send | apapese back to the wo: and will cmai protection. The residents of nville denounce the attack as an out- | e R Mines Sold for $5,000,000. SEATTLE, ‘March —The Conrad | solidated mines, consisting of ten | claims ofi the Windy Arm, near White | o.se, Alaska, have been sold to Wil- orthern Railway, for $5,000,000 | The deal was closed in Toronto | last week and the final payment nui just been made in Seattie ———— Try the United States Daundry. 1006 Merket street. Telephom South 420. \Gerald Durning Is \Taken Across Bay | o’clock Friday 4 ‘ Explains Proposition Made to | ment respecting alléegations that he had | offered to permit a delegation | Harry | hear your grievances and to prevent any mis- | men were sent here to meet thé State authori- | from Orchard’s and Adams’ own lips that they | Anton F. | between § | died at her home in | after McKenzie, owner of the Canadian | 'ménin, KIDNAPED CHILD FOUND APy WHIE . WANDERING IN OAKLAND on the streets of Oakland. Three-year-old Gerald Durning was kidnaped. from in front of his home at 528 Eddy street in this city Thursday morning and late that afternoon he was found by a pohcemxn & | & Tells of “Big Man” Who Offered to Buy Candy. Now Restored to Mother. and Set Free on Streets. R Little Gerald Dirning, the three-year- old son of Fred J. Durning of 528 Eddy street, who was kidnaped by an unknown mer Thursday morning, was found wan- dering a few hours later on the streets of Oakland by Policeman Green of that ity. At the police station the child was at first supposed to be a girl and it wes not until late in the ‘evening that the istake was discovered. At 3 o'clock yesterday morning- the child’s mother, who was frantically walking the floor,| was notified that her boy had been found. Nothing is known of the kidnaper, ex cept from the stories told by the chil-| who both describe “a big man that bought them candy.” The two children were playing in front of their home on’'Eddy street when, ac- cording to the statement of the little girl, who is the larger, a large man came | along and offered to buy them candy. The children went with him, but at the cor- ner of Clay street and Van Ness avenue he told Ruth to wait on the steps of a| dwelling until he and Gerald went to| purchase the candy. Ruth was still| “waiting” when the postman found the| girl and notified the police, | It was about ten o'clock when the mother missed the children and she im- mediately notified the City Hall' Police Station. It was only a short time after that when Ruth arrived at the North End st She was quickly restored to dren, her mother, who then learned her stmple y story of the “candy man.' The police on both sides of the bay | were notified to keep a close lookout for | the kidnaper, and an accurate description | of the child was given. This had ey- dent]y been anticipated by the kidnap! for he had changed part of the child's| clothing and had substituted a large sun-| bonnét for the neat little leather cap| which the child had worn. J It was no wonder that Policeman Green failed to recognize the child when he found it wandering on the street about 8 afternoon and mistook the liftle boy for a girl. Little Gerald tells in his baby way how the man bought him candy., but when he cried for “mamma” the man struck| him on the head ‘with a broom and told him to keep quiet. He cried all the more, however, and the man, probably fearing discovery, took him on the street and turned him locse. No theories can be advanced by the mother except that probably some one was attracted to him by his beautiful curls and bright answers to all questions. GOVERNOR OF IDAHO DENIES AN INTERVIEW Country’s Labor Or- ganization. BOISE, Idaho, March 23.—Governor Gooding has made the following state- to see Orchard and hear him tell his story My attention has been called to a dispatch in a Denver paper, sent out by & reporter of a newspaper syndicate, stating that I had issued & proclamation addressed to the labor unions of the United States, requesting them to semd delegations to this city, and that I would be pleased to allow those delegations to meet Har- ry Orchard personally, and have him tell his as he told it to Detective McParland. 1 so quoted as saying: ‘*You can remem- ber that I shall have the power as Governor to carriage of justice 1 have issued no proclamation and no such statement was ever made by me. What I did say was that I regretted very much that some of the labor unions had decided to pass such radical resolutions, coples of which have been sent me. 1 stated to the correspondent, as I have to many others, that in my opinion the labor organizations of the country were vitally ested in this matter—that Idaho guaran- lar td the accused men, as well as to all oth- ers charged with orime, a fair trial, and that if they would appoint s committee to . come here and investigate they would find as high a standard of citizenship as in any other place in the United States—that an attempt on the part of any one to prevent a fair trial would be met by indignant and efféctive opposition on the part of the State government and of the people at large, 1 stated that ¥f & committee of laboring ties and came in a spirit of fairness and hon- esty, I would go %0 far as to arrange for them to meet Orchard and Adams In my presence and in the pres- ence of thelr attorneys, and let them hear seeking only the truth, made a confession implicating Moyer, Haywood, Pettibone, Simpkins and St. John in a number of murders, and that no promise of reward or of clemency had been made.them by any one. I wish to state now, very positively, that the story of these confessions will never be told until it is repeated by Orchard and Adams in the trial of these cases. F. R. GOODING. MISSOURI BANK CASHIER GIVEN TERM IN PRISON Mispage Must Serve Years for Embezzlement of Big Sum. ST. CHARLES, Mo., March 23.—Anton ¥. Mispage, former cashier of the St. Charles vings Bank, who has been on trial for two weeks on a charge of embezzlement, was today found guilty and sentenced to two years' imprison- ment in the penitentiary, the minimum penalty. Mispage was convicted on one infor- mation, which - covered the embezzle- ment of sums aggregating $4000. Thir- teen other informations have been filed againret him, the -aggregate amount of his alleged shortage being placed at 000 and;$90,000. Two Death of Noted Physiclan. DENVER, March 23.—Dr. Jessie E. M. McGregor, a noted Scotch physician, this city last night a five days’' iliness of spinal gitis, ————————— Fighring on makfng the weakest link in the chain of your advertising this year as strong ‘as was the strongest link last year, you can figure on your poorest business day this year being as good as your best one last year. TECHNICALITY i = | THE STREETS, TWO CHILDREN WHO WERE LURED FROM HOME ON A PROMISE OF CANDY, AND WHO WERE LATER ABANDONED BY AN UNKNOWN MAN ON SAVES BRUTE Man Twice Convicted of the Murder of His Son Will| Be Given a New Hearing KANSAS CITY, Mo.,, March 23.—“If a man commits a crime so revolting that it shocks tMe morals of the people just to hear about it—then that man can go scott free.” That was the statement made by Judge Wofford in the Criminal Court yesterday. He had before him John Martin Speyer of New Orleans, convicted .in two: suc- cessive trials of having murdered his lit- tle boy, and twice given a new trial by the Supreme Court. Angered at the ac- tion of the higher tribunal, Judge Wof- ford refused to try the case agaln. *“T sat ag Judge twice in this case,” he went on. ‘“Both times the Supreme | Court has seen fit to take a different po- sition from mine.” I will have nothing | more to do with it. T'll call in Judge John A. Rich of the Circult Court of the Fifteenth- Judicial District to hear the case. The trial-will be set for June 28.” Speyer killed his three-year-old boy on July 24,1%02. The man ‘was a performer with a street show. Speyer was in a tent when officers arrested him for an attack on a little girl. He asked for permission to go into his tent a minute. The of- ficers allowed him to and Speyer picked up a knife and cut his little son's throat from ear to ear before the officers could interfere. Speyer was found guilty of murder in the second degree on April 2, 1903, and sentenced to twenty ‘years' imprisonment by Judge Wofford. He was given a new trial by the Supreme Court because Judge Wofford, at the request of the attorneys, had given an instruction to the jury al- lowing it to bring in a verdict of second degree murder. A year ago Speyer was tried again, con- victed of murder In the first degree and sentenced to be hanged. . Two weeks ago the Supreme Court again reversed the de- cision on the ground that Speyer had not been examined as to his sanity. ———————— ST. PETERSBURG EDITOR MUST SERVE PRISON TERM Emperor Nicholas Rejects the Appeal of the Director of the News- paper Russ. ST. PETERSBURG, March 23— Alexis Alexlevitch Souvirin, editor of the Russ, was arrested last night as the result.of the rejection by Emperor Nicholas of his appeal against the sen- tence of one year's imprisonment in a fortre: imposed ‘on January 20 last, for having published in December, 1905, a seditious proclamation. The agitation caused by the execu- tion of Naval Lieutenant Schmidt, March 19, continues. Although Inte- rior Minister Durnovo ordered. the local ; authoritles everywhere to prohibit the |y celebration of masses for the repose of his soul, many requiem masses have been secretly- celebrated. 1 OTCHEKOFF, Province of Kherson, March -23.—Two hundred wreaths _of flowers sent by student organizations haye arrived here to be placed on the grave of Lieutenant Schmidt. . R Ore— Notice to School Teachers. On_April 9th the Banta Fe Ry. will run a special excursion to the Grand Canyon of Arl- zona. This excursion will- be personall; Eeslb e ek rou T e Datr L jatocnin: umm st !n.n m!} should be mad et -2":3-: 3 ceeding to the scene. MURGAN FLEES FROM [TALY American Financier Scared by Rumors That He Is Marked for Assassination Special Dispatch to The Call, ROME, March 23.—J. Plerpont Morgan has fled from Italy in fear of his life. There was a plot to kill him.. He came to Rome to buy antiques and works of art, but before he could unload" his lug- gage he heard rumors that sent him fiy- ing. During the past three days the Roman newspapers have been discussing the flight of Morgan. - They speak of the ru- mors of a plot against his life. The chief of the Roman, police meets the rumors with humor. He says that the plot to kill the American financier was merely a ruse of jealous antiquarians, who wanted to scare Morgan out of Italy. Never did a ruse work so successfully. Friends of Morgan say that when he heard that his life was in danger he gave way at once to fear. His nerves became raspy and in a few hours he had assured himself that Rome was no place for him. He had engaged the whole first floor of the Villa Florence, but his luggage had' not been wholly delivered there before he announced that he would start frontier- ward without delay. Y KAISER PRACTICALLY WINS THE VIETORY American Mediation at Alge- ciras Aids Cause of Germany. LONDON, March 24.—Commenting on the Moroccan situation the Outlook to- day says there is very Httle doubt that an agreement will be reached, in reality, through, the mediation of .the United States. The plan, the writer says, deprives Ger- many of victory in any dramatic form, but means, nevertheless, the defeat of all the original purposes of France and of the British policy on which the Anglo- French agreement was founded. In concluding the article says that Ger- many will be the most influential power at Fez, as she is at the Yildiz Kiosk; that the campalgn against the entente cor- diale will be continued and that Ger- many will endeavor to destroy that com- pact by offering to support France in Moroceo in return for French lupport for the Bagdad Rallway. ¥ “Thére is no Europe and there will be no Europe,” the writer says, tuntil Eng- land, France and Russia are. drawn to- gether in a definite league .to restrain, in ase of need, the one power which holds the threat of war over the hqad. of its neighbors.” o STANDARD OIL LAUIICH X IS LOOTED .Y ?mm Vennel of the Big A-erle.. Conlh' Is Amfie‘ in (m % HONGKONG, March 23.—A hunch owned by the Standard Oil'” Company was seized and looted by pirates néar Canton yesterday. The pirates secured a number of Winchester rifles and a thousand rounds of ammiinition. -The Unitea States gunboat Callao is m- SFVEN D6KD MRE LEFTBY | FAQU BAND Savages Kill Five Members of Family of Presidente of La Dura and Mother . and Son Riding With Them VICTIMS WELL KNOWN IN LOS ANGELES Sonora Official,) His Wife and Three Daughters Are Shot Down in Cold Blood Within Few Miles of Home Special Dispatch to The CalL LOS ANGELES, March 23.—Shot down in cald blood, without a chance for their lives, five members of the family of | Pedro Meza, presidente of La Dura, in | Sonora, Mexico, and the brother-in-law of Frederick A. Hartmann, president of the Willlam H. Hoegee Company of Los | Angeles, were massacred by Yaqui Indians within' a few miles of their home and their bodies left In the roadway between Ortiz and La Dura until a sufficlent num-~ ber of Mexican troops could be sent to overawe the raiding outlaws and bring in | yictims. Mr. Hartmann has received three telegrams from Ortiz telling in part | details of the tragedy and giving the | names_ of- his relatives who were murder- | ed. The names of the slain are: Senor Pedro Meza, presidente of La Dura, rich mining contractor and one of the best known men in the distriet; | Senora Elvira Meza, wife of the presi- dente; the Senoritas Carmen, Eloisa and Pancheta Meza, 18, 20 and 23 years of age, respectively, their three daughters; Mrs. ‘Wenceslas Hoff, an old friend of the Mezas and of Mrs. Hartmann; Theodore Hoff, 24 years of age, her only son and schoolmate of Mr. Hartmann's sons, educated in'Los Angeles and resident of this city; servants of the family ‘and an escort of soldiers, the number as yet un- known. Three members of the Meza family sur- vive. They are the baby son and two young daughters, Mercedes and Elvira. These children had been left at the Meza home in La Dura when the rest of the family drove in carriages to Guaymas for the purpose of consulting a physielan for Senorita Eloisa. Returning. from Guaymas the party stopped at Ortiz and it is supposed that they were joined there by Mrs. Hoff and her son. Here, it is sald, they learned of the presence of a band of ugly Indians in Los Otates Mountains and near Otates Pass, through which they would have to-| travel to reach La Dura. The story of the massacre was brought to Ortiz by an Indlan letter carrier who shortly afterward went through the pass on his weekly trip with mail and who identified the bodles of those killed. When the news was first received the Mexiean officials sought to suppress it, but a friend of the family telegraphed the first infor- mation to the Hartmann family here. A telegraphic demand was sent to the of- ficials at Ortiz and - tonight an answer was recelved officlally confirming the news of the massacre. Mr. Hartmann will leave for Sonora tomorrow. LAWSON SENDS REPLY TO MINERS OF BUTTE Suavely Rebukes Them for Their Denunciatory Telegram. Speclal Dispatch to The Call BOSTON, March 23.—All of Thomas W. Lawson's fluency was drawn out by the dispatch which the Butte Miners’ Union sent to him-and his reply is as smooth as treacle. It is as follows: To the Butte Miners' Union, Frank O’ Connor pr.lldnm., Willlam Malloy secretary, Butte, I (hlnk your union for its prompt and courteous treatment of my statement, which cost your unfon nothing to recelve. I think you are in error In your reference m the Heinz-Cole-Ryan-Rogers gang being bucket-shop gpenlou. They are 'k jobbers all right, e it Rk Girex v S sunk to that depth of all deprayity—bucket- shop operating. 1 am pleased to know you do not_need their help. You are also_in error about my attempting ta depreciate Butte property by attacks om the; Butta banks. gain. you are in error about my wanti t.he lld of your union in any of my work. would welcome the co-operation of your mag- nificent body In any work of mutual Interest i might be engaged in, but at present I om ed in no work which I am not abl h m complete success without the aid d wmlld respectfully ask your union to frame and rteous npv. and if your members do gaze Within twelve months rough that plckied mist which sealds while it latifies T will come to Butte to present mysell to your est unfon for & football or punching o A aifing you oheck for " Gost ot your elegram. THOMAS W. LAWSON. CBN’P‘JHY MINE DEATH ROLL REACHES TWENTY-THREE In Addition a Score of the Employes Are Known to Have Been Injured. PI'!ILIJPPI. ‘W. Va., March 23.—The death 1list of the Century mine disaster has now reached twenty-three, while twenty or more men are injured. Of- ficials, of the company reported tonight that twenty-two bodies have been re- covered and but one is in the mine. A thorough canvass of the district was made by representatives of the coal company today and aM the employes have been accounted for but onme, who is thought to be buried beneath a pile of dubtls in the mine. . POPLAR BLUFFS, Mo, March 2._Curtis Jackson. & negro. was hanged hers today. He attacked a white woman and atter \n‘u arrested was mlfii Iynched by a mob that invAded the jail. POSTUM CEREAL. 'BRILLIANT COMPLEXION and i : HAPPV HEART ;POSTUM»'" blm:l_d | Read “The Road to Wellvllle,” in the pks. 5 COML OPERATORS MAY SOON YIELD Some of‘ the Delegates Are Prepared to Grant the Demands™ of the Miners SESSION WARM GROWS Employers in Quarrél Among Themselves as to-Position on the Points at Issue B INDIANAPOLIS, March 23.—The dead- lock between the coal operators and min- ! ers of the Central Competitive and South- western districts continued throughout the meeting of the two joint dcale com- mittees of the joint conferences today and when the meetings adjourned late this afternoon no agreement had been reached.. Both committees will meet again tomorrow morning. The discussion in the scale committes of the Central Competitive District was confined ‘entirely today to arguments by | the operators on the committee, and radi- cal views ‘were expressed by them. The miners’ representatives were, for the most part, silent auditors. . An effort was made to secure from:President Mitchell of the Mine Workers an - expression as to whether he considered the Ryan resolu- tion in effect. This resolution was adopt- ed by the former joint conference In January and binds the miners not to sign In any district until an agreement shall have been reached in every district. Mitchell declined to commit himself, F. L. Robbins of the Western Penn- sylvania operators was the target to- day for several vigorous attacks on his position in favor of paying the scale of 1903, which would mean an advance of 5.55 per cent in wages In the district and wouid comply. with the demands of the | miners. Robbins stated on the floor that he did not propose to be dictated to by the oper- ators of ‘Illincis, Indiana and Ohio. He said his pesition was fair and just to all interests and the Pittsburg Coal Com- pany, which he represented, was willing to pay the advance in wages asked. He said he was also willing to pay the ad- vance at his own mines in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Ilhnois, and he had received notice from an IlMinois coal company hav- ing an output-of 1,000,000 tons annually that it had Instructed its representative to_vote with him. Robbins sald the country would not permit a general strike upon the causes | shown. He turned to President Mitchell of the Mine Weorkers and said he did not believe the officlals of the miners would dare to refuse to allow: the miners to work where their demands were met. G. A. Magoon, representing the West- ern Pennsylvania independent operators, said if the Pittsburg Coal Compary pald the advance snd operatgd its mines the independent operators of Western Penn- sylvania would do the same. The discussions among the operators became so heated that representatives of the miners were asked to. withdraw for an hour. This was done and at the end of the period an adjournment of the com- mittee was tzKen until tomorrow morn- ing. The operators arranged for a con- ference by States among themselves to- night. After the general caucus leading oper- ators sald tonight that nothing had been accomplished and the situation was ex- actly as it was at the beginning of the joint conference. e e Erie Lays Off Big Force. MEADVILLE, Pa., March 23.—Orders were issued today suspending locomo- tive repair work at all shops on thé Erie system. Five thousand men are laid off. The action is sald to be due to the threatened coal strike. PRESIDENT ASKS FOR LABOR'S AID Requests the Federation to Call His Attention to Vieo- 1 lations of Eight-Hour Law WILL ENFORCE STATUTE Directs That the Matter Be Taken Up Through Depart- ment of Secretary Metealf WASHINGTON, March 28.—Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, today received the following letter from President Roose- velt: My l’nrx Mr. m.a n: Abt“nr interview x‘ufiy Teguastel yeu ta Ming Sy b tehtion any specific violation of the eight-hour law, I would like you to call my attention as as possible to thess and I hall ‘sleo forward them to Mr. Neill of the Labor Bureau, and direct him to investigate them, and reort direct to me. Furthermore, I ehall hersatter direct all de- | ments in control of work to which this aw applfes to notify the Department of Com- merce and Labor when the work is begun and I shall notify the Secrstary of the Department of Commerce and Labor whenever such noti- fication reaches him. himseif to notify the Read of the Labor Bureau, whose duty It them will be to take cognizance of any complaint made as to violations of this law. to investi- gate the same, and to report to me. As you know, I mot only sympathize with you on the eight-hour law, but I intend ae & matter of course to see that that law ls effi- clently enforeed My belfef is that you will find that with Commiesioner Nefll personally supervising the- enforcement of the law, all just complaints will be met. Sincerely yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. At the executive council of the Federa- ation; of Labor it was decided to have complled a list of complaints as suggested by the President. s COAST OASE CONSIDERED. Action Taken on Secession of Sam Fram- cisco Teamsters. WASHINGTON, March 2.—At the meeting today of the executive committee of the American Federation of Labor, President Shea of the Brotherhood of Teamsters requested that, inasmuch as a local union of that organization at San Francisco has seceded from the parent | body, the Labor Council of that city be requested to insist on the seceding local's return to the brotherhood and that it re- sume its duties, otherwise that its repre- sentative be denied a seat in the Labor Council. President Gompers will communicate with Organizer Macarthur of San Fran- cisco with a view to reaffifation of the local union of teamsters of that eity with the Federation, which falling of reafila- tion, that local will be denied represen- tation In the Labor Counecil. —_———————— OFFERS HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR SAN FRANCISCO ADDRESS St. Louls Man Coming to This City in an Effort to Loeate His Brother. ST. LOUIS, March 22.—A. 8. Levi, who has offered a reward of 3100 for the pres- | ent address of his brother, Moses Lennig Levi, formerly of 25 Hunt street, San Francisco, departed today for San Fran- cisco, where he*will personally take com- mand of the search. To his recent advertisement:in a San Francisco paper he has had several re- plies, one from the proprietor of the Tonopah House in San Francisco at 624 Sacramento street, and another from L. E. Peters of 131 Fell street, both of whom clalm to have located the mueh sought | for man. The reward is also clalmed by | Miss Annie Cohn of 11§ Russ street, San Francisco, who writes that she can fur- | nish the address desired. How many blocks do you sec—6 or 71 The original and only genuine porous plaster. Be not deceived by misrepresen- tation. Sece that you always get Allcock’s Plaster and take no other. The choicest and purest gums are used in thisremarkable external remedy. CORN PLASTERS. | 3/ BUIKIG;LA.TII‘- Bunions. For Relief and Cure of Corns and Dailyand Conducted ‘berth only $7.00. R. R. 817 Markst Street, Palace " ’.c.m Are easily reached by the ice of the Chicago, Union Pacific and North-Western Line. . Three daily from California points via the most direct route and over the 6nly double-track railway between the Missouri R:vu- and Chicago. htramsetv- trains Excurslons in Pullman Tourist sleeping cars through i to Chicago without change. Double Choice of routes. '!n- M%mh“* : RITOHIE, F. BOOTH, M_“-.lll-lh. -'H“Ml‘l.lll. Fo. 1 Montgomery Street. 8AN FRANCISCO, OAL.