The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 13, 1906, Page 1

. L) San Francisco and Friday; warmer; light THE WEATHER Forecast for April 18, 1806: A G. McADIEN Distriot vicintty—Fatr morth wind. Forecaster. ALCAZAR—“The Wite." ALHAMBRA—"For His Crime."" CALIFORNTA—‘‘Casey and the Green Sod Club.”” Matines. cr;:\;'!'ly\b—“se.nnulhu of & Great Brother's CHUTESVaudeville. Matines. COLUMBIA—"The Lion and Mouse.” 'Who Goes Thera™ udevills. Timidity.” SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, APRIL 13 3 PRICE FIVE CENT 1906 DNANTE S HURLED | INTO CANG RailroadMenFight With High Ex- plosives. ———— Graders for a Big Road Use Deadly Sticks as Weapons. One Man Is Injured by Flying Rock in Battle Between Graders of Rival Lines. E ithout ¥ workers, before labor- the grade beiflg estab- Port and Seattle con ¢ spot where ild resume »ns gathered about i ghts to the prop- to resume work they were | of dynamite e Portland and > have outnum- one ng are . Johnson, t are ai- nes and the fore- to have accused of | and throw- ¢ grad- The two WOULD BARTER i WIFES HONOR Millionaire Hartje Charged With Having Attempted to Bribe White Coachman “ THE CALL ~What is con- = 1 sensation of the Hartje . s sprung here this|? af Thomas Madine came - put statement through the Be ers ace tje and three othiars of g to bribe him with § to sw falsely against Mrs. Hartje in’ a divorce sult siles be entered, and when Madine ges he was then named corespondents in the | ase along with her negro is in Jafl for perjury. ne i a white coachman ved by Augustus Hartje, | the millionaire paper | is wife was criminally intf she took up with Hooe. | 1at he once tried to re- | the influence of Madine, | g0t to the other side | f shed interview | e makes a most bitter and | of this went nd to see hi He dié not see Hartje in Eu- and mot until he was on the Bal- ming he meet with them. e says Hartje was delighted to see him | him into service to look 1gh the sicerage for some girl named | and that Hartje seemed bit- disappointed to find that she had nissed the boat. Madine says he will go , the stand and tell some things never | regarding the divorce caee and | he will make public the plot to him | —_——— | Death of General Edgarton. VINELAND, N. J., ‘April 12.—Brevet Brigadier General Warren P. Edgarton | @ied at his home in Newfield last night, eged 70 vears. Generpl Edgarton en- listed a8 a private in Colonel James Barnett's battery of artjllery in 1861 and served with distinction during the war on General Morgan's and General Sheridan’s staffs. He was captured De- | cember 31, 1862, at Stone River, and was in Libby Prison five months. ck did pressed iEpected ¢ explosion_and a_longla { Quaide, Colonel. Thomas F. SMITH WILL RECEIVE A WARM WELCOME Governor General of Philippines to Be Met ~ by Committee and Military E.scdrt_. INFORMED OF INTENDED ASSASSINATION. 3 e o - % DISTINGUISH AINIA WHO IS COMING HOME TODAY TO JOY A SF F ASSUMING HIS DUTIES AS GOVERNOR GENBRAL OF THE ¥ :: ) — 2 3 e committee appointed by Mayor | Mayor Schmitz: rémarks, Judge Thomas F. Schmitz to arrange for the reception of | General James F. Smith, who is re- turning to California for a short visit before accepting his commission as Governor Generai of the Philippir met in the office of ‘the Board of Su- pervisors last evening agd made the rrangements for the reception a nquet to be given distin- guished guest upon his arrival on the t Mongolia tod clal ar- e been e with the / and navy'people for the use of the Government tugs on the bay, and a military escort will be sent from the Presidio to participate in the parade Saturday evening. ‘By speclal courtesy of the ship owners every ship in the harbor wiil be- decorated “as soon as the Mongolia is sighted, and it 1s hoped by will be the largest given since the ar- rival of the First California Regiment from the Philippines. According to tHe programme the spe- clal committee, composed of Mayor Schmitz, Major Hugh T. Sime, Dr. W. D. McCarthy, Rev. Joseph P. Me- O'Nell and Major Boxton, will go out on the Golden Gate as soon as the Mongolia is sighted.. At 1:80 o'clock the Govern- | ment tugs General Slocum and Lieuten- | ant Harris will leave the transport docks and the State tug Governor Ir- win will leave the foot - of Mission street, with the military band and the genergl committee and the members friends. Special tickets have been is- sued for these tugs and no one wiil he allowed upon the docks unless a ticket is presented. The general will then be taken aboard the Silocum and escorted to the Palace Hotel. On Saturday evening at 7:45 the gen- eral committee will meet at the Palace Hotel and escort General Smith to the Ferry buflding, where a military es- cort of several companies from the Presidio and several Natlonal Guard companies will be in waiting. The pa- rade will leave the foot of Market street shortly afterward, the line ot march being up Market street to the City Hall, where several prominent speakers will address the crowd. A subscription banquet will be given at the Palace Hotel Thursday evening, to which invitations can be had by ap- plying to the committee. The rate will be $5 per plate. The following programme will be given at the City Hall Saturday even- ing: i Music by the band; address of welcoms, - the committee that “this recept(ony 1 Graham; ‘remarks, Professor Bernaid Moses: remarks, Rev. Joseph McQuaide; music; remarks, Jalme Araneta; rémarks, Samuel M. Shortridge; response, General James F. Smith; trusic. At the Palace Hotel. Mayor Schmitz, as chalrman, will speak for the eity; Governor Pardee will represent Califor- nia, Judge W. W. .Morfow will make the response for the Président, Admiral McCallg ‘for the navy,-General Funston for the army, Rev. Father McQuaide for the friends and com¥ades of Gen- eral Smith and an address will be de- ilvered by the Governor Geéneral, ———— GOVERNMENT TO DISMISS THREE HUNDRED PRINTERS | Patent Office Gazette WIIl Hereafter Be Published by Private Contract. WASHINGTON, April 1% — Three hundred printers will be dismissed from the ‘Government Printing Office and the Government: will 'save $60,000 annually | by a decisign of the Commissioner of | Patents to have the Patent Office Ga- zette published by private contract. |“This publication hitherto has been | printed at the Government Printing Of- fice. When Commissioner Alleh was before the House committes on appropriations he asked for an increase in the appro- priation for printing the Gaszette. He wanted $200,000 in all, of which $120,000 | was to pay_for the work done at the Government printing establishment. Questioned about the cost of the Ga- zette, Commissioner Allen declared that it could be published by pri: tract at a saving of 'froxx $70,000. the amount &t the appropriation to $120,000, which wiil be enough to pay for the printing of the ‘Gazette by a yslvlle company. De Wiite Is Ground. ST. PETERSBURG, April ‘12 Aps pearances indicate that Premier de Witte is having the better of the fight with Minister of the Interfor Durnovo, and the downfall of the latter is only a question of a few days. Govern- ment today authorized the holding on May 4 of a caucus of Constitutional Democrats elected to the national Par- lfament. Minister Durnove has been compelled officially to warn the Gover- nors of provinces to e se greater care in the employment 6f troops and police In repressive m Armored Cruiser W Is Speedy. BOSTON, April 132, armored cruiser Washington, a product of ti New. York Shipbullding Company Camden, N. J., successfully eam'ld her official speed trial today, making 22.272 kuots an hour.” The contract rec quires 22. 5 o The committee then reduced- | killed Horace Burnside, and the others, HAS NO LIKING OR CARNEGIE Cincinnati’s Mayor Will Not Assist in Advertising Iron- master as Philanthropist |BLUNTLY GIVES REASON Cannot Admire Man Whose Mitlions Came From Blood of the Toiling Classes SPECTAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. CINCINNATI, April 12.—In accepting the new Walnut Hill Branch building of | the Public Library of Cincinnati a few | days ago, Mayor E. J. Dempsey did not | mention the name of Andrew Carnegie, | who Iiberally contributed toward the | erection of the édifice, The Mayor, | when asked about the incident to-day, | said the omission was intentional. | “I have no admiration for a man who | has made millions out of the sweat and | blood of the tofling classes and who at- tempts to atone for oppression by giv- ing away buildings and then advertis- ing himself as a philanthropist,” said the Mayor. “The place where benefi- cence should have béen begun was in his workshop and the workmen should | have had the first bemefit. “Carnegie is a creation of the systeam of special privileges Which has enriched the few at the expense of the many. I am not at all in accord with his manner of making money, and Scarcely more so with his method of spending ft.” ORAYMEN HEIRS 10 BIG: ESTATE Tiburon Ixpressmen - Hear They Are Entitled to Share [ of Propexty Worth Millions SPECIAT, THEPATCH 100 THE CALL. 1 TIBURON, April 12—Charles William Lewls, the local expressman, and his brother, George Frederick Lewis of San | Francisco, learned through a . county newspaper, containing a communication from London, Ontario, to the San Ra- | fael authorities, asking information re- } | garding their whereabouts, that they are | heirs to an immense estate. They have exchanged communications with Cana- dian lawyers and have been imformed that they are.heirs to the estate of John Fleck, who'died twenty years ago, leaving an estate comsisting chiefly of fmmense tracts of land near Portland and now worth $250,000,000. What their share is and thefr rela- tionship to Fleck the Lewises have not ascertained and are waiting anxiously. Both men are Californians and have spent the prinaipal part of their lives in this' county. €. W. Lewis said today: “I cannot tell what my share of the estate will be nor my relationship to the deceased. I am going to hold on to my express business and handle freight until some- thing more definite turns up.” 00 AEVEALS NURDER PLOT Canine’s Display of Rage Causes Arrest of Man Who Shot Its Owner. e SPECIAL DISPATCH TO'THE CALL. MARGARETTEVILLE, N. Y., April 12.—Horace 8. Burnside of Maryland, a lttle village thirty miles from here, i was wounded while leaving his barn on Saturday evening by 'a man who stood in a dark cormer of a fence and -discharged a shotgun at him. Burn- side’'s dog ran toward the assallant, who shot the animal, but did not kill it. | When Stephen Craft went to Burn- side’s house yesterday the dog, which | had before been friendly to him, went frantic with rage. This aroused sus- picion, and Craft was arrested for hav- ing shot Burnside. Craft confessed and told of a plot to kil the "entire Burnside family. ~ [ 203 Craft said that Gilbert Crouse, Charles Newberry and John Knapp had made dofinfte and careful plans to exter- minate the family. ‘Craft was to he charged, were to have killed Burn- side’s brother and son. - Craft safd he was assured he would be bailed if caught after doing his part ot the job, and while his case was pend- ing the other Burnsides would be taken care of. 'The three men were arrested on Craft's charges and will be given a hearing on Saturday..- April 12.—Last a freight train ublllch} with a wrecking car, del trafic three hours. J. M. was riding on the caught in the jam ahd Palmquist, r Cunningham an J. Ryan and Peter b the wm\wg._v'uy’b'wu ously. JRPITAN ASYLCN FIRE STIRS CHILDREN 0 BRAVE DEED & S = > Fire destroyed the Orphan Asylum of the Ladies’ Relief Society at Alden in the city of | Oakland yesterday. Two little girls performed brave rescues. No one was injured. A ! funeral was in progress at the time in another building of the society close by. ] Little Girls Become Heroines During Blaze That Levels Oakland Institution. OAKLAND, April 12—While the funeral of an aged woman was in progress in ene building of ithe Ladies’ Relief Society at Alden this afternoon fire broke out in the Orphan Asylum of that association and the large build- ing, among whose inmates were four invalid children, was de- stroyed. Two of these children were rescued by little heroines, also inmates of the institution, and the other two reached places of safety unaided. Had the fire occurred at night the lives of sixty-three little ones would have been endangered, bat, as it ‘was, all but four ‘were in the grounds, playing. Not only did the two little girls—Grace Long and - Belle Si themselves heroines, but Miss M. R. Hendricks, the matron, and her three nurses did heroic work in - rushing’ through the burming building to see that no one was left and afterward caring for the excited little ones. Children Become Rescuers. It is supposed that the fire was caused by crossed electric wires. It was 2:15 o'clock when Mrs. Catherine Catt, who lives at 457 Forty-fourth street, observed flames and smoke issuing from the nosthwest corner of the chil- dren’s building.” She _ran to where several surveyors were at work a short distance from the grounds ‘and onme of the men turned in an alarm from box 364. T | mMEZrE_ SILVERITAIY - = ACTS OF BRAVERY IN w TWO LITTLE ORPHANS WHO PERFORMED ING INVALID CHILDREN FROM THE BURNING ASYLUM THAT THEIR HOME IN OAKLAND. g TEA DRINKING TEXAS GRAY 'NOW AFADIN | WOLVES GET " WALL STREET| = 600D NEWS Pierpont Morghn' Jr.|President Cuts Out Introduces: the This Year’s Hunt- Custom. .. ing Trip. R SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. * NEW YORK, April 12.—J.'P. Morgan Jr. | SAN: ANTONIO, Tex, April 12.—Be- e o u:” custom ' of taking | cause” some persons do not consider it rnoon tea ock b dlenife in the office of the bauking firm, which dignified and make more ox;hu adverse bears ‘his. miine..: Many. siembern ;of s the | Comment, President -Roosevelt - will ‘not big Wall ' street banking houses ave again go hunting during his térm of of- adopting the English custom of afternoon | fice. This is the substance of a letter tea and wafers and as a consequence the | roceived this week by Colonel Cecfl Lyon, members of the firm adjourn from the | o Texas member of the Republican na- outer business office to a private room, | 7 3 where the tea is served. 5 < In the London financial district tg’_ tea_drinking amony' generally observed: