The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 18, 1906, Page 1

] TEM‘PORARY OFFICE THE SAN FRANGISGO G) 1651 FILLFTORE ST. PHONE: WEST 9836 SAN TFRANCISCO, FRIDAY, MAY 18 1906. onnumn OFFICE ' i | THE SAN FRAN[JISII]I CAIL 1016 BROADWAY. Business Office Phone: Oakland 1083. : Editorial Rooms Phone: Oakland 7460. I PRICE FIVE CENTS. JIRUNG NOTE OF PROTEST SOUNDED AGAINST BURNHAM PLANS Cancellation of the $12,000,000 of Bonds Voted for City Improvements Is Probable INTERESTER CROWRS WATCHING THE STEADY GJE°WT OF IMPRO SANFRANCISCO DISASTER DEGIDES TYPE OF CANAL Senators Want an Earthquake- Proof Isthmian Waterway. the) would, .at " least of . them, be . |{more than sevent y high and ’ | entirefy un ted on one side, save ; by water. K ved at all the sult would be <ing and so prevent the clos- gates—an injury for which on of a would be usele: for no one could report | Buess the extent of the movement. ’ as sub- | But .the .most likely effect of such N O > vould be the fracture of these repairing of which much or years—might be con- | earth- he s of canal pos- San Francisco, where the water 'es were ‘broken, the disaster was atly - augmented -by this cause, for ater could not be held in the and direc on the flames. What uld happen to - the “aquedust, con- s, pipes and valves, buried in the concrete walls, ueed ‘for filling and s, emptving the locks, cannot .be well ature- in| conjectured.” be begin-| Discussing the advantage of the sea ld not be vel canal to the country controlling That the |1t inié of war, the report ‘says: xempt con-! “If free from all obstacles to quick can have no|transit 100 warships of average size, ! zone will in g in one direction, route clear, from such dis be passed from ocean to ocean in less than a day. All naval com- manders and commercial masters of the | d be sage movement | the world are almost to 2 man opposed the s | unalterably to the introduction of any lock to lift vessels over the low sum- mit that nature has left for Us to re- two or t Gatun,|move.” PACIFIC COAST REPRESENTATIVES GAIN A VICTORY IN THE HOUSE Differential of Four Per Cent Granted on Con- struction of Naval Vessels on These Shores. 7 ASHINGTON. May 17.—After two | the final vote being aves 121, noes 117. ay passec | Amendments having been disposed of, g bill was passed. providing Death of Napa Pioneer. 17.—H. F. Frahm, a pa, passeC away today at his resi- e. Mr. Frahm was 57 years of and was a native of Hamburg, Germany. He came to the United; States at an early ags and resided for | some time in Ennern States.-~ He | rossed the plaing to Cazlifornia in. “|1864 and bad 'cslded in this State for | the last forty- He came to' ars ago. — e Grants Writ to Collins. SACRAMENTO, May 17.—The Su- preme Court in bank in the case of the today s defeated contracis for the bmitted, Prfuu the Peorle against Collins has ordered Haughen of lowa and. Thomas of that a writ of certiorar{ issue, return-, changed from “no” to “yea,” and the Pa- | able to the Supreme Court in bank at : cific Coast delegation read its title clear, | San Francisco on ‘Monday, June 4, tra gates on-hand| great national and private ‘vessels of |- minent and well-known resident of | BRUTAL POLICE OFFIGER SLAIN { | { | ment of a Girl Rev- olutionist, Terrunsts Ire Avenging the Torturing of Maria Spiridonovo, TAMBOFF, Russia, May 17.—Shan- off, a police officer, who participated in the brutal treatment of Maria Spiri- !donovo, was shot and Kkilled on -the streets here today by an unknown per- son. The avengers of the young revolu- tionist recently meted out the same fate at Borissegliebsk to Abramoff, the Cossack officer who boasted of his j cruelty to her while she was in prison. Maria Spiridonovo, the young daugh- ter of a Russian generai, shot and killed Chief of Police Luzheinoffsky of Tamboff. She was condemned to be hanged, but her sentence was com- muted to twenty years' imprisonment. The, girl was terribly treated in prison immediately after committing the crime by Abramoff and another Cos- sack official. iy ARG Al CREW OF DREXEL'S YACHT HELD AT BAY BY MADMAN men to Remain Below Deck While He Reads Bible to Them., NEW YORK, May 17.—Standing at the companionway of the yacht Atreus, owned by George W. Childs Drexel of Philadelphia. tled up at South Brook- | 1yn, John Neilsen, a seaman, suffering from religious mania. with a revolver in hand, compelled the little crew of five men to remain below deck from Tuesday evening umntil yesterday. For eight hours Neilsen, by the light of a |lantern, read passage after passage | from the Bible. The terrified men, un- armed, locked themsélves in the cabin. John Larsen, boatswain's mate, man- aged to make his escape from the yacht yesterday and telephoned the po- |lice. Six officers later overpowered Neilsen, who was sent to a hospital for observation. poBiian B s BT Ay ! Overdue: Ship Arriyes. | SANTA MONICA, May. 17.—The British ship Oranasia arrived at Port | Los Angeles this afternoon, 299 days out from Newcastle. The delay was occasioned by h weather. Orapssia left Cape ’u:w 158 . iag2 Pays Penaltrfilr Maltreat-| Revolver in Hand, He Compels Sea-| The i days BUSINESS MEN OBJECT' TO WIDER Practical Needs Are Set Forth/ Against Beautification. While the Burnham plans com- mittee, headed by.the noted archi- tect from Chicago, was in the midst of its plans regarding the widening and extending of streets throughout the commercial cen- ter of the city yesterday, H. H. Taylor, representing the North Central Improvement Associa- STREETS. would abandon their building plans altogether and invest their money elsewhere. He suggested Washington street be from Kearny street to the ferry. This he claimed would be better | for both the city and the com-' mercial interests. Fle said that one instead that widened senting the downtown business | men, appeared.on the scene to make strong protest against the I stress laid on beautification prob- ilems : and the ignoring of the practical needs of business. Both {argued that the present plans of the committee would work hard- ships on the downtown center and crippling trade. They wanted to know when building permits | would be ready, as millions of | dollars lie idly by, the owners of which are refusing to invest till some plans are made known, they said. The committee did not give the | commercial men any definite an- swer. It explained the situation and urged the anxious business men to have patience till such time as . the plans can . be committee of forty and also the Board of Supervisors and Board of Public Works. : Taylor and Moore were pres- |ent throughout the session and listened with eagerness while-the members talked about extending Montgomery avenue to the ferry, { widening Montgomery street and making boulevards. out of Pacific and Washington streets. Their faces expressed their feelings as the committee recommended the confiscation of millions of dollars’ worth of property, but they kept Isilent till - their turns came to speak. Rebuilding Delayed. i Taylor was the first to make himself heard. He informecd the committee bluntly that -he and the capitalists he represented are against the extending of Mont- gomery avenue to the ferry for 'the reason that it wonuld mean ruination in that district for the ‘ property- owners, many of whom ltxon, and A. A. Moore Jr., reprc—] cut away valuable holdings, thus: as it stands at the present time| drawn up and passed upon by the] PHYSIGAN DS RIORDAN WAS NOT SHOT FROM BEHIND Examination Made by Morgue Surgeon and Right Shoulder. Pertinent Testimony to Be Introduced | in Case of Guardsman Charged | | | Kucich Shows Wounds in Left Side | | | | i With the Shooting. | | ’Co"oner Says That Undertaker Is to' Blame for the Late Date of the Autopsy. The dispute \\hlch arose in the LJSQ of Lawrence N. Bechtel, Guardsman, charged with the killing| of Frank Riordan, as to how the wound | was inflicted, was settled yesterday by | an autopsy on the body of the vie-| tim, performed by, Dr. Kucich of the Coroner's office. The tangle in case was brought about tory testimony in Judg s court relative to the pusiiinn ul the two men when the fatal shot was fired. Although most of the - witnesses claimed that the soldie 1 point blank at Ricrdan, an undertaker who handled the body said that bullet wound s in the autopsy yesterd showed holes, under the left a toward the fr and another front portion of the right should Because of the condi of the it was impossible to ascertain hole was the point of entrance and whether the bullet ranged upw downward. The coun either however, disproves the statement that Riordan’s in the back | turned. [THRONGS ENJOYING THE FASCINATING SIGHT OF A CITY'S BUILDING OVER ITS RUINS. of his clients is waiting 'to spend $1,000.000 on"a building in that {locality and would commence its jerection within the next twenty- four hours if some idea could be tee proposed to do. In a brief speech the Ilatter summed up the opposition made by those interests to the proposed widening of certain streets and the cutting up of others. He said lieve that there is too much dis- section planned. Means a Death Blow. “We do not know what . will happen,” said Moore. “If too many streets are widened it will be a paralyzing blow to the com- mercial ‘interests downtown.” It will mean' that many of the small- er holders will be forced to the wall completely and that the lar- ger ones will become disgusted and simply quit the town. “Then, again, you must take into consideration the and legal tangles that are likely to folllow any such action as this committee has in mind at the present time. Now there are but twelve Superior Judges in this city and county.. Should the city decide to bring condemnation suits in order to gain possession of some of this property it wants, why, forty Judges could not be- gin to handle them. “In the meantime there would be no progress in the building line. Instead, there would be nothing but litigation. The whole commercial district practicallv would be involved, and ycu can| imagine the outcome. I think, for this reason, that this committee should proceed cautiously in this regard and be as sparing as pos-! sible of property downtown.” i ? ued on Fag. 2 Column 3 obtzined as to what the commit-| Taylor was followed by Moore. | that the property-owners appre-| jciated the efforts of the commit-| tee, but at the same time they be-| { Company G were detailed to guard the| three being placed on either | lawsuits } . Prosecuting Attorney Ln i o the extent that he aid not bort 1t and burled the body without | having permitted the authorities to| perform the duties required of them by law. They aliso assert that the Dis- trict Attorney’s office- did not subpena | any of the Morgue attaches as wit- nesses and that the only notice they | had received of the affair was through the newspapers. CLAIM AN ATTEMPT " WAS MADE TO LOOT THE SUB-TREASURY = i Soldiers of the Eleventh Infantry Re- | port Battle at Night With Sup- | posed Robbers. | A daring attempt to loot the United States Sub-Treasury, located on Com- | mereial between Montgomery land Kearny, was day night by soldiers from Com- pany G of the Eleventh Infantry: The | soldlers were detailed to guard Uncle !Sam’s treasure box and they claim that their fire was returned by men who were attempting to loot the safes lin the building. The fight between the guards and the supposed looters took place at 11:30 o'clock at night. Six men from Treasury, side ‘of the place. The men stationed |on the Commerclal street side say they noticed a man attempting to reach the entrance to the puilding. He was or-| dered to halt, but instead started to. run, whereupon a guard fired at him. The bullet did not take effect and he ! continued his flight. Two of the guards | gave chase, leaving their one com- panion behind. Almost immediately the soldiers on the Clay-street side began firing and the one guard on Commercial street says/he saw four men run to the win- dows in the upper story of the Treas- ury building. Guard Hammond was on Commer- cial street. He says he immediately opened fire and the forms in the win- dow replied with shots from their re- volvers. Fully thirty shots were ex- changed In the fray, some of the bul- lets striking the wall of the building 'on the north side of Commercial street. i The men were later seen to come down | the stairs, but-were not again heard of. Attracted by the nolse of the battle | Detective Sergeant Taylor headed a detall of police and commenced a search for the would-be looters. He was aided by National Guardsmen stationed at Portsmouth square. The soldiers and police carried lanterns and stopped every person whom they met selves. URGES THE PASSAGE OF THE CALFORN. 5 PER GENT CLAM Superintendent cf Public Instruction Kirk Asks Support of Western Dele- gation and High Officials. SACRAMENTO., May 17.—Thomas J. Kirk, Superintendent of Public Instruec- tion, is doing ail that lies in his power of Ita secure the passage of the Congres- | sional measure inown as the California 5 per cent claim. s, siceld the measure 'be favorabiy acted upon, the State public National ¥y which The case will be continued on Mon- | foiled on Wednes-‘ in the district, but all were able to| give a satisfactory account of them- | TOINSURE - CREDITOF THE GITY Resnun:es Must N Be Along New Lines. Great Indebiedness Is fo Be Avoided if Possible. the ! ‘Commitiee Now Seking Metiiod fo Do Away With Asi. undertaker's | was | = | ture when it | session with the Ge of sits a nountin; 2action T'»m—n | $5.000,600 voted b: FWith already | teel sale of prope the judgm of \thu legislative I be found impossit dispose of the | rest of the bonc »vided for, should | they be issued, rate of interest | would be nec: e to in- to have now ceased to be of the first ir would le the added debt ard impairing the credit of the city in its present embarrassed | condition. | San Fran ) is and always has | been compar ely free from debt, and | with the $5,000,000 already incurred still {compares favorably with other cities jof the country. The municipality has {always been one imposing = the lowest taxation in the United States, While the committee is .collectively jagreed that the remainder of the pro= ‘posed issue should be abolished, there is considerable difference of opiniom jas to how it shall be dome. It is the | casting about for a method that will |engage the committee behind closed | doors today. { The matter was touched upon yes= | terday ,morning by Gavin MeNab at |the meeting of the joint committee, He said that if the $12,000,000 of the | 17,000,000 bond issue was eliminated it would leave the city with but | 35,000,000 of debt and that If ¢ amount were rescinded so that Stale bonds could be sold In order to ob- {tain money for appropriation te municipal uses it would leave the city without a cloud on its resources. Assistant City Attorney Willlam T. Baggett, who was present, said that the matter was of the utmost im- portance. He added that all citizens agreed, that the additional issue should be canceled. He said that park and playgrounds that have been planned are not now subjects requir- ing immediate attention and that in many cases the proposed State appro- priations would cover the improve- ments planned under the bond issues. He closed with a request for time for the City Attorney’s office to investi- gate all phases of the case. A committee, consisting of Gavh McNab, Tirey' L. Ford and Assistant City Attorney W. T. Baggett. was named by Acting Chairman W. F. Herrin to ascertain in what way the proposed issue may be extinguished. —— i WELL BORERS STRIKE RICH QUARTZ NEAR BAKERSFIELD . Gold Found at Depth of 110 Fest in Locality Where Its Presence Was Not Suspected. BAKERSFIELD, May 17.—At & depm of 110 feet at Edison station the a water well has uncovered a ltnmm ot qurt- rich in gold and the flnd may result in a mining excliement in a ality where it was never sus- pected precious metal existed. The stratum appears to be broken and its thickness has not yet been ascertained. The ore mills four or five hundred dol- lars to the tonm. school fund would receive approximately $1.000,000. In mfi of | Soneph G. Carmon. Speaker of the House tatives, to the Callfornia dele- gation and to Victor H. Metealf Secre- tary of the Department of Comme:ce & Labor, urging their aid in the passage 1 the measure,