The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 1, 1906, Page 43

e el s . « 3 FRANCISCO. ¥, APRIL 1, 1906 | Pages 43 t05 l : 1O REPEAT A PLAY ‘ N A WORTHY CAUSE BILL Wi Amateurs Will Girve “The Bachelor’s Bride” UL S CAROLYN BENZON ¢ LL PROTOB) FINDS VIOLIN 5 PRICELESS West Berkeley Watchmaker | Surprised at Result of I'rade With an Itinepant d been placed on and 1he tones it gave forth y tested it were not akin to armonies. e Sooteh 3 proposed a trade at Gentry had in several ban- in his s > the vi the Scotchman rthless, t ing ging od in ted the offe clock in triumph e to cxamine his e discovered the ved the wood. to him the pos- bmitted it sco. These r belief in he way of nd Gentry h tramp * to the tune | gue Holds Meeting. ommittee of the Jap 1 Exclusion League in the rooms of the mma Spreckels build- A J r was read Ing that he had coples of his the House of T nd Kore- The copies will be re- 1éd by the league to different people State who desire them. jeague will hold a convention in Hall, 927 Mission street, this at which time plans will be or & general mass-meeting ——e————— socintion Imcorporates. ncorporation were vester- led with the County Clerk by the t Lobos Hall Assoclation, which is ganized for the purpose of furnishing for political meetings in the nd District. The capital stock The directors are Frank A. Maestretti, John B. Whitney, John F. McGlynn, Thomas E. Atkinson, Oliver L. Scott and Robert H. Countryman. expects to hold on the first | of May, the anniversary of the | | telle Marte Jewell. | will be staged and directed by Mr. Ger- 10 Raise Funds fg(j Mrs. Richardson. L0000 peda Z000mIDIIo0000m N\ MISS ELLEN -_URWEL.LL Ty PAGE. o { ! { | | | { | | { {1 | | | | | | | MRS. Jork 5 PEMPSTER MG KEE® — THRBEE CLEVER AMATEURS WHO WILL APPEAR IN THE “BACH- FLOR'S ERIDE.” ..___.__.l.] endid surprise and treat Is in for those who will attend the performance to be given at the la Club Saturday evening, April e three-act musical farce, lor's Bride,” will be repeat- This was originally produced re- with great success for the Soro- The words and music are ancisco girl, le have store pronounced y tuneful and catchy essing a high order of merit. | 1y cause s to be aided, urgent appeals for assistance having been | made for Mrs. R rdson and her four | children, and v 15 charities have | aided them In the past, but continual { ckness soon exhausted the funds, and | y are now In the hour of thelr direst need. The operetta will have the same bril- | liant cast as at the Sorosis Club, with | one exception, Paul Gerson assuming the role of the bachelor. The following | patronesses have the affair in charge: Miss QJennle Blair, Mrs. William A.| Boole, Mrs. F. E. Birmingham, Miss | LiHa A. Boole, Mrs. George Carr, Mrs. | Warren D. Clark, Mrs. W. R. Cluness, | Mrs. W. A. Davis, Mrs. Watson.D. Fen- | nimore, Mrs. E. Clemers Horst, Miss | Kate Hutchinson, Mrs. Clinton Jones, | Mrs. L. A. Kelly, Mrs. Clarence Martin Mann, Miss Susie McEwen, Mrs. John | Dempster McKee, Mrs. H. M. A. Miller, Mrs. F. G. Sanborn, Mrs. Charles W. Slack, Mrs. Oscar Sutro, Mrs. Arthur E. Wellington, Mrs. James Alva Watt. The full cast is as follows: The Bachelor, ul Gerson; Mme. Grundy, Miss Louise edheim; Sister Art, Mrs. James Alva Watt; Sister Poetry, Mrs. Jobn Demp- ster McKee; Sister Music, Miss Ellen Burrell Page; Sister Soclety, Mrs. Caro- | lyn Van Benzon; Sister Cook, Miss Es- The farce as before son. Tickets can be obtained from any of the patronesses, or at Sherman, Clay & Co., or from Mr. Gerson, 414 Mason str e Robia: Must St Trial T. P. Robinson, agent for Brown & Power, printers, must stand trial on a charge of presenting a fraudulent claim to the City Auditor. His demurrer to the indictment was overruled by Judge | Dunne yesterday.’ He pleaded not gullty | and the case was comtinued till April 7 to be set for trial. ————— Executrix Is Sustained. The Supreme Court refused yesterday to direct the Superior Court of San Joa- quin County to compel Maria Hubbard, executrix of the estate of H. F. Hub- bard, to render a final account. Eliza Middlecoff instituted the proceeding, which was an action in mandamus, {out of his vocationy altogether. “SCALPER” LW S NOT VALID Supreme Court Grants Curb Merchants Authority to Resell Theater Tickets —_— The law passed at the last session of the Legisldture prohibiting the “scalp- ing” of theater tickets is made void by a decision handed down by the Supreme Court yesterday. The brokers may ply their trade at will provided they pay the license fee, and the general public will supply the parasites with financial nourishment. The scalpers have of late years become so much of a nuisance that the theater managers have been kept awake nights endeavouring to discover some way to thwart the purposes of the astute traders of the curb. At the last Legislature the proprie- tors of anfusenient places had drafted the following measure, which was in- troduced by Assémblyman Jones: “Every ‘person who sells or offers for sale any ticket or tickets to any theater or other public place of amusement at a price in excess of that charged origin- ally by the management of such theater or pubiic place of amusement is guilty of a misdemeanor.” The San Francisco Board of Super- visors had also passed a measure im- posing 4 tax of $300 & month oy the “scalperf.” R, F. Quarg did a thriving business with the $300 monthly impost. but the legislative enactment shut him He de- termined to test the law, and “scalpes Orpheum tickets on O'Farrell street. He was arrested immediately and charged with violating the statute. Hlis lawyer carried the case directly‘to the Supreme Court on a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, which was issued yesterday. The court says the law in question interferes with a person's right to ac- quire property with authority to sell at such price as he may honestly obtaln in barter, Nelther public health nor public morals are in any wise affected by “ticket scalping.” The claim that the law is a ‘ust exercise of police power is also held inadequate. The court also avers that the right of theater-going ir not so sacred as to demand legislation in respect to the price of admission. It is pointed out that the theater nianagers, if they so desire, may sell their pasteboards with a printed con- tract like railway tickets, making them non-trantferrable. This scheme may not meet the approval of the proprie- tors, as it would stop the promiscuous sale of tickets on another sort of scalping basis af hotels, clgar-stands and saloons. be limited, according to - view. Quarg is greatly rejoiced over the decision, as It comes just in time to provide plenty of grand opera business. The attorney for the defendant was Leon Samuels. will appeal to the court again on the plea that the $300 license fee is an un- reasonable restraint of trade. The opinion was written by Justics , mittee, Mrs, Kress, Mrs. Hocking and | Shaw, with whom Chief Justice Beatty and Justices Angellotti, Lorigan, Hen- shaw - and McFarland directly con- curred. > —_———— OLD COMMITTEE TO Republican county mmllm.%hmchmm Souniag Is chalrman and T. o rof ine. Koril 2. at & RAIL RATE BE AMENDED R President Roosevelt and Other Friends of the Measure Agree to Accept | CONFERENCE HELD IN WHITE HOUSE Chief Executive Himself Submits the Paragraph to Be Inserted as a Provision of the Proposed Law —_— SHINGTON, March 31.—Friends of (ouse rallroud rate bill, in confer- ence with President Roosevelt at the White House today, agreed upon nn mmendinent providing espeelally for judicial review of orders of the Inter- state Commerce Commission. This amendment will be presented on Mon- day by Senator Long. Senaters Allison, Cullom, Dolliver, Clapp and Long, Attorney General Moody and Interstate Commissioners Knapp and w. late this afternoon. Soon after they as- sembled the President submitted the court review amendment that was afterward indorsed by all present. A number of the conferees previously had seen the draft, but its authorship was not dis- closed. The President announced that he had called the meeting because he desired to ascertain the present state of feeling in Congress regarding a judicial review feature in the legislation. It was made clear that he had not changed his views regarding the pending blll and similar positions were taken by the oth- ers. The President belleved, however, that in deference to the large number of Benators who honestly believed that the bill without such a feature would be un- constitutional, the bill should” be amend- ed if it could be done without a surrender of the purposes of the legislation. This could be done, he believed, by an amendment which he then read. It pro- posed to strike out the paragraph at the bottom of page 14 and insert as a part of section 16 the following: “That all orders of the commission, except orders for the payment of money, shall take effect within such reasonable time as shall be prescribed by the com- mission and shall continue for such period of time, not exceeding two years, as shall be prescribed in the order of the commissi unless sooner set aside by the commission or suspended or set aside in a sult brought against the com- mission in the Circuit Court of the United States, sitting as a court of equity for the district wherein any car- rier, plaintiff in such sult, has its prin- cipal operating effice, and jurisdiction is hereby. conferred on the Circuit Court of the United States to hear and deter- mine in any such suit whether the order complained of was beyond the authority of the commission or in violation of the rights of the earrier secured by the con- stitution.” ; The discussfon continued an hour. The proposed amendment was analyzed to as- certain whether under its terms an order of the commission lowering a rate could be delayed in taking effect. amendment of that character would be adopted by the, Senate the Senators pres- ent said they thought they could promise twenty-nine Republican votes for it and that there was little doubt that prac- tically the ‘entire mifority would sup- port it. It was agreed that the amendment should be offered as soon as possible. Senator Lodge had given notice that he would address the Senate on Monday and amendment and speak upon it. He will say that the amendment meets the de- mands of those who have opposed the pending bill on the ground that without a provision for judicial review the meas- ure is unconstitutional and that it is sat- isfactory to the real friends of the bill Others who participated In the con- ference have pledged themselves to sup- port the amendment. They belfeve that if it i{s shown that there is a majority of the Senate in favor of the measure @s it is proposed to amend it the bill will be adopted practically by a full vote of the Senate. ‘ —_——— CITIZENS TO MAKE FIGHT 2 AGAINST ROCK CRUSHER Residents of Noe Valley to Hold Mass- Meeting This Afternoon to Oppose Nuisance. A determined effort is being made by the residents and property owners of Prouty were called to the White House | When the President asked whether an | therefore he was chosen to offer the ! ipo by the couple. :Empty Vials Found in Room at Lex- ington. ' | e | i Chopper to the Woman. S PR TR Samples of Cyanide Given Chemist to Examine. District Attorney Norton of San Joa- quin-County stole stealthily into town | yesterday morning, accompanied by Sheriff Sibley and a stenographer. The | purpose of Norton's visit here was to | Interview the proprietor and servants | of the Lexington lodging-house, where {Mrs. Le Doux was suppo to have Aattempted to poison dicVicar some | weeks ago. Norton talked with the| attaches of the place, after which De- | tective Charles Taylor managed to lgcate the hardware man who sold Mrs. L& Doux the cleaver. Taylor took Nor- ton to the dealer, and he was also in- terviewed by the Mill City prosecutor, who seems to have assumed also the sleuth end of the case. v | 7t now seems an assured fact that | Mrs. Le Doux attempted to poison Mc- Vicar at the Eddy-street lodging-house i on the night of March 12. The Jupan- ese servant who attends to the rooms there found three small vials on the floor of the room the day the couple left, March 14. He threw these away, |But noticed that one of them boreia ired label and was marked with skpill and crossbones. Captain of Detectives Burnett de- tailed Detective Charles Taylor to help { Norton out when the latter arrived yes- i terday morning. Taylor quickly suc- ceeded In finding the hardware store where Mrs. Le Doux purchased the clea- ver on the afternoon of March 13. This place is located at 235 Powell street, and Is owned by E. Lord. MRS. LE DOUX BUYS CLEAVER. Lord is positive in his identification of the woman. He sald she appeared at his ‘place of business on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 13, and purchased an ordinary cleaver. She sald she wanted it to cut meat with, and did not display any sign of emotion when making the purchase. She was alone when she entered the store, and after paying for the cleaver departed without | attracting any more attention. | Lord thought nothing more of the incident till he read of the finding of the cleaver in the room at Stockton. ‘When Detective Taylor located him and questioned him regarding the woman who bought the article on the after- noon of March 13 his memory was re- freshed and he recalled the Incident without difficulty. After leaving the hardware store Norton, in company with Taylor, went to the Lexington lodging-house with | his stenographer to interview the pro- prietor, Fritz Kleinschroth, and the Japanese porter, Harry Akazaki, who waited on McVicar and the woman, and | whom the latter sent to purchase sofe STOCKTON | Court Review Feature' Man Tells of Selling| tamales. The Jap is an unusually bright lad, and, remembered the inci- | dents of the case thoroughly. He made | the’ following statement to Norton: JAPANESE TELLS HIS STORY. “McVicar and Mrs. Le Doux came here on Monday morning, March 12. I ' showed the couple to the room on the third floor. They seemed very affec- tionate. McVicar appeared to be in perfect health. She appeared to be trying to persuade McVicar to lie down when I left the room. \ The next time I saw Mrs. Le Doux she was at the telephone in the office, talk- iing, I think, to Dr. Dillon. Between 6 and 7 in the evening Dr. Dillon called to see McVicar, and remained in his room until about 7:20. When he left Mrs. Le Doux came with him to the head of the stairs. | At 7:30,0'clock the same evening Mrs. Le The number of ticketd! that may be sold to a single person may j of the Board of Supervisors will visit! the court's’the site of the rock crusher this morn It is likely that Quarg | German lodge of Odd B Atkinson sec- | projl delegates to the California as- been called to mest Tuesday even- . cal W Noe Valley to prevent the Blue Rock ' Doux sent me oyt to buy some tamales. Blasting and Quarrying Company | She gave me 25 cents, of which I spent:20 reopening its rock crusher and quarry- . cents for the tamales. When I returned ing nulsance at Twentieth, Douglass' with them she asked me for a plate and a and Clipper streets. The citizens In fork for each of them. I saw her no more this district are much wrought up over | until the following day, when Mrs. Le the actions of a’'few members of the Doux went in and out of the house sev- Eureka Valley Improvement Assocla- ' eral times in the course of the aftergogn. tion, who went before the.Board of| *“McVicar and Mrs. Le Doux stayed, I Supervisors and indorsed the petition ' think, two days in the Lexington Hotel. for a permit to open the rock crusher . After their departure I cleaned the room plant. The majority of the membersof and found three small round bottles. the association stoutly maintain that They were about the size of a half-burned they are opposed to the rock crusher..cigar, I threw them in the ash barrel‘and A mass-meeting will be held by the, they were removed the following day. I residents of this district this afternoon ' g5 1ot know where they. were bought. I at Plant's upper hall, Twenty-fourth ynink one of the bottles had a.red label and Douglass streéts. They will volce itn crossbones, but I am not sure of this. their sentiments and formulate some ' plan of action against the menace. | ':mmrux r:‘ajmm ’:' ‘:::«Tmmt % The members of the street committee roer Tl by MR SErS. T Doux: T t once concluded that she tried to kill i ‘him while they were here in the hotel, and that the bottles which I had found prob- ably contained pouon‘.." s Walhalla Rebekahs Entertain, “When Dr. Dillon eal say Walhalla. Rebekah Lodge, the only 19 Mra: Lal Daux, that-MoViear, wak mif: ellowship in this fi:‘fl‘ from an attack of stomach -trou- eity, held a very pleasant party in Odd , P& Fe?lows' Hall for its members and|_Fritz Kleinschroth, proprietor of the x Lexington lodging-] , sald: guests last evening. The soctal com: s house, LB R Mrs. Wise, presented the following 'afternoon of the 12th. Dr. Dillon was numbers: Instrumental trio, Miss, called the same evening. When he left Phelps, Miss Hanson and M. Standish; | he told me that McVicar had an attack of recitation, Miss Berry, and vocal selec- | Stomach trouble, Lut that he would tions, Miss Nicholovich and Miss Pfaef- | ably be all right in the ing and make a report of their investi- gation when the beard meets tomorrow. l —_——————— ferle. D:gcn:’t ;;lsll\‘);ved. e - H has_electell I ronn - -excite my 3 roll. : Professor Roy . Rogers, the chem- sembly. ist Who examined McViear's stomach and 3 e Irlt ; morning. I This_lodge | nothing in mkbdnw:gt Mrs. “',""“ ‘ VIEWED THE JAPANES] FIRMED DR. DILLON'S POISON McVICAR HERE. DISTRICT ATTORNEY OF SAN JIDAQUIN ggum. WHO YESTBRDAY INTER- STATEMENT THAT MRS. LE EDOUX CASE — THE LEXINGTON, WHO CON- DOUX TRIED TO McVICAR’S BROTHER - ARRIVES IN STOCKTON “Is This Woman a Tigress?” He Cries as He Gazes on Face of Dead. ’ Speeinl Dispatch to The Call A ————— STOCKTON, March 31.—J. E. McVicar of Cripple Creek, Colo., brother of Albert N. McVicar, the victim of the trunk trag- edy, arrived In this city at noon today and was driven at once to the Morgue. where the remains of the deceased have been held in accordance with telegraphic otders. He entered the room without hesi- tation and at first glance at the face of the dead he exclatmed, “Yes, that is my brother Albert. This will almost kill our poor old mother. She is now nearly 70 years of age and I fear greatly the result of the shock upon her.” McVicar is a brisk, business-like man. He was evidently much attached to his brother. “Somehow I thought something was the matter with AL" he sald. “Up to two years ago we kept up a fairly regular correspondence. Then he stopped writ- ing.. My mother and other members of the family had the same experience and for long periods at a time we did not know where he was located. Albert was a first-rate man, unless he went down hill rapidly in the last few years. What kind of a woman is this alleged wife? —_— —_— discovered the presence of morphine there, yesterday received a bottle of cya- nide of potasstum discovered by the Stockton police in the woman's posses- slon. Dr. Rogers noticed that the acid wag of a pinkish hue and decidedly off color. He said this may have been caused She must be a regular tigress. T could hardly belleve my eyes when I read of the in a Crippls Creek paper. The name caught my eye and I f the worst from the first. I telegraphed at once to your Chief of Police, but it was nearly a day and night before I re- ceived a reply. “I have never seen the woman. We learned that he had married her in Ari- ! but we never got much Information about her further than once or twice he mentioned having married a ‘nice woman." Our family home is &t Wichita. My brother left there and went to Cripple Creek when_the camp began to boom. He entered “the employ of Wells-Fargo and was promoted rapidly. I believe he was agent when he quit there in 180L From there he went to Globe, Ariz, ‘where, I believe, he met this woman. From that time he drifted from us.” Mr. McVicar said he could throw no light at all on his brother's affairs for the last few years. He will have the re- mains embalmed and shipped to the fam- ily home for interment. Mrs. Le Doux is still in close confine- ment, except through her attorneys no word comes of her condition. It is Te- ported that she is in especially good spir- its since the visit of her mother and At- torney Crocker and the assurance they gave her that her defense would be eared for. ————————— Musie at Golden Gate Park. The following selections will be ren- dered by the park band today: March, “St.” Dunstan” (Saldierna); overture, “Calif of Bagdad” (Borldien); waltz from “Babes in Toyland” (Her- bert); solo for flute, selected, Ségnor A. Lombardo: grand selectiom, “Alda™ (Verdi); “Poet and Peasant” (. and _Andaluse” SON BOTTLES AND A CLEAVER GURE IN THE | A Japanese porter, employed in the Lexington lodging-house where Mrs. Le Doux is supposed to have tried to kill McVicar, found three poison bottles in the room occupied A local hardware dealer says he sold the woman a cleaver: OFFICERS HERE