The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 25, 1906, Page 3

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THE SAN' FRANCISCO CALL FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1995 ANOTHER REBATE PLOT UNEARTHED| Big Shippers of Kansas City Tell in Court of Many Mysterious Payments Received. PROFESS NOT TO KNOW FROM WHOM COIN CAME bers of | ess firms ad- ial in. the MYSTERIOUS COIN RECEIVED. rivate k said claims was paid to y ber of the Eme ry 4,v\nd~ Company of Ki ed that he had hired Thom- ars at a salary of $590 that time he had re- % and $2000 & year. given him at his office in e one would call him up phone, witness said, and say ery was to be in his office for thing would be sent to him. 2 package contazining money was it. He did not know who had sent it, upposed it came from Thomas. BRSO TRE e 4 MORE TRICK Y REVEALED. Discrimination By Roads In the Soft Coal Regions. PHILADELPHIA, May 24-—Additional evidence of discrimination by the Penm- svlvania Railroad in the distribution of n the soft coal fields was presented the “Interstate Commerce Commission y. John Liloyd, a banker and coal operator of Altoona, who is one of the mambers of the banking firm of Cassatt | pe |and |are ex-officio members of the com- | mittee. & Co., testified that the Columbia Coal Company was forced to sell the Alexan- dria mine because of the shortage of , and George E. Scott of the Puritan Crescent coal companies, declared he paid for the use of railroad cars falled to secure his allotment, that during a period of twenty-three days the railroad had furnished him with only one car. He also asserted that “ chael Trump, general superintendent of r n, had told him the company ded to protect the Berwind- any at all hazards. u ime that Lloyd was on the stand counsel for the commission made <"-’\t efforts to had baen with Presid tt wera (hrau]l‘ CdFFE!l & Co. President att carried a special bank account. A railroad company had r meny years been a depositor with the ational Bank of Altoona, of which oyd is president. ovd also gave testimony concerning organization of various mining rom- es in which he is interested, stating e considered it good business policy railroad men among the stock- f the coal companies rick Vrooman, an assistant train- told the commission that he had gifts of mon n amounts from ) from various coal companies for hat he did not grant mmission today received a tele- m a process server gressman been re- offers of stock s to railroad of- stated that the erve the suppena as the latter locked ise and evaded the serv- ng by the way of the cellar. later that Huff had left erstate Commerce Com- s today in the rimination in cars Frederick tant train- n of the g to do with the dis- asked Mr. Glasgow ; money from coal lest Vrooman named o had paid in amounts ators w us ti city He i NEW SHIP TERROR OF Mine;Strewing Vessel a Part of the Navy of England. Condensed _Earthquakes Form the Cargo of the Craft. ‘Plans of Ie Iphigenia Guarded by the Officials. LONDON, May 24—The Iphigenia, the latest addition to the British navy, carries only light machine guns, and there is nothing about her to convince the ordinary observer that she is a particularly formidable craft, but so mueh importance is attached to her ho went to| | ditions, certain com- | fljct that when I made inquiries at the Admiralty Office I was told that an official embargo of secrecy had been placed upon her, and that under no cirenmstances would any information be given out about her. The Iphigenia warship. She embodies the latest na- val lessons of the Russo-Japanese | War, which demonstrated the awful | destructiveness of floating mines, the best that the British Admlrnhy experts can do to improve upon them. Along each side of her deck aft are | two rows of elevated rails on which are slung the mines, that look like huge balls.” These rails project over the vessel's stern, so that they. can be dropped overboard as she steams along. They contain the most power- ful explosives that science devoted to human destruction can devise. They are, in reality, hermetically sealed miniature earthquakes that heed caly a bump to set them off. And woe be tide the craft that gives that bump! The force of the explosion woula knock a hole in the bottom of the stoutest battleship afloat and send her to ]Wa\\ Jones' locker in no time. compounding ot the explo- ved is one of 1iae Admiral- important one, it is sai by means of which the mines * several feet below the surface. This renders it impo: le to detect their presence by the sharpest lookout, and greatly increases their destructive power, inasmuch as, under such con- the terrible wounds they in- would be some distance below the water line. , is a device EATRA SESSION 1o DISCUSSED Legislation Affecting Sa Francisco Is Re- viewed. n Members of City Delega- | tion Will Be Held Responsible. The San Francisco delegation of the | Legislature of of th California met at the president of the Board of | sioners at 10 a. m. I. Wolfe, the purpose 0 Senators Welch and semblymen Atkinson, I, McGowan, Pfaeffie, n, Strohl Boyle .and Lucy. hairman said the members of co delegation in the mbly had been called conference with ' the nent lawyers :Hmmhml: the sub- nittee extra committee forty. I want| you to consider today is whether you should meet that committee as a body or delegate some one or some com- mittee to represent you.” A motion was made and carried that Senator Wolfe should wait on the sub-committee, on of of the When the committee of forty is ready to mit its recommendations touching measures to be considered at extra ses: nsmitted to n 1e > report will be San Francisco dele- gat Asserrblyman Treadwell that the committee which the dele-| gation at a previous session resolved create should be immediately named. The suggestion. was l’!ul the form of a motion and w ried. Thereupon Chairman Wolfe a pointed Assemblymen E. F. Tread- \\uli. T. C. Atkinson, Speaker pro tem.; Fred Jones and Nathan Coghlan | |and Senators R. J. Welch, George B. Keane and Phil Haskins. Senator Wolfe, as chairman of the delegation, George A. McGowan, secretary, It was said by Mr. Atkinson that the time of the delegation should not be devoted to discussion of legislative topics until the committee of forty had presented recommendations. Senator Weich and others main- tained that the responsibility for the legislation of the extra session of the Legislature on all measures affecting this city would be charged, and prop- erly charged to the San Francisco delegation. It was the general sense of the as- sembled legislators that perfect har- mony would prevail and that the measures receiving the sanction of .the committee of forty would receive the approval of the delegation, but never- theless the people of San Francisco would hold the delegation responsible for enactment of all laws affecting this city. In the talk respecting the extra ses- sion views were expressed to the effeet that the Governor would issue the proclamation within forty-eight hours after the report of the committee of forty was filed and that the -Legis- lature would assemble in Sacramento by the middle of June. Prediction was made that ail the business could be trarsacted in two weeks, | them |of warfare would | serious complications suggested | The floating mine is a two-edged weapon, equally dangerous to friend and foe. Once set adrift, there is no controlling them. Besides, scattering around promiscuously in time be apt to lead to with neutral powers. It is-not expected that they will ever be employed in that fashion b\ lho Brl[l\‘\ navy while it main- supremac \\drf’lre in \\hh h Enzland m t be- come engaged they would probably be employed mainly to seal up the encm; ports. When used for this purpose they would not be set adrift, but would be moored, and in such a way that they would be some fifteen | feet under water. But at the same | time, when equipped with such ve: |sels as the Iphigenia, England will be in a position to play the floating mine game to the limit if need be. :‘(‘Z.\R ACCEPTS RESIGNATION { OF ADMIRAL ROJESTVED S| Commander of the Ill-Fated Black | Sea Fleet Quits the Service of | the Russian Na | ETERSBURG, Ma | peror Nicholas today accepted the res- ignation of Admiral Rojestvensky, which was tendered on the ground of ill health following wounds received in the war with Japan. The Government seems to be hesi- tating about executing the resolution taken a week ago to grant partial am- nesty. The official statement issued last night, justifying the Government in not granting plenary amnesty, seems destined to pave the way for ]a refusal on the ground that in the present circumstances the release of | the political prisoners deserving free- |dom can be left to the local authori- ties. Nothing could be more irritat- ing to the Liberals than for the Em- peror to delegate the discretion of granting pardon to the very men re- sponsible for the wholesale arrests which occurred during the winter, and uch a decision is sure to arouse a | storm in the lower house and increase the danger of a conflict. ot SN VUl | ICE CREAM DIET PROVES TOO THIN FOR A PEDDLER | Attempt to Live Upon Ten Cents’ Worth of Frozen Lacteal Fluid . a Day Ends in Death. LITTLE ROCK (Ark.), May 24.— An investigation by Dr. W. H. Abing- ton of the Argenta Board of Health into the death of A. S. Roberts, a | jewelry peddler, yevealed today that Roberts had tried to live on ten cents’ | worth of ice cream a day and had starved to death. Roberts believed that there was a great deal of mnourishment in the cream. Recently he had‘run short of funds and his income permitted him to spend only a dime a.day,. This he invested in ice cream, O DIES IN HOUSE HE BUILT MORE THAN 50 YEARS AGO Death Severs Bond Which Kept- Two Men Together for Half a 3 c«mnry 3 SAN JOSE, May 24—B. T. Sunlon. a pioneer, died this morning in the house which, with M. L. Gruwell, he had occu- pied for fifty-three yvears. For over h: a century the two men had lived in little eottage on the Saratoga road, whi¢h they built with their own hands in 1853. Arriving here from the East in that year, the couple became fast friends and pur- chased a ranch jointly. They built a sin- gle house. Neither has ever made an: attempt to dissolve the partnership un! death came. - Both ‘men" Were forme: prominent in county affairs. Stinson, w was a Virginian, was 77 years old. Par sis was the cause of his death. = WITTMAN, LYMAN & CO. l’lumb!ug and electrical 815 Polk st., bet. McAllister 'DENICKE THE SEAS s a mine-strewing | plus | SKY } ACCUSED F CRIME Continued from Page 1, Col. 1. with only manslaughter. No' one seemed to know who had fixed the degree of crime.. Judge Shortall said all he knew was that he was asked to accept the bond. .Assistant Distriet At- torney Rodgers said that all he was asked was to prepare the bond and Chief Dinan said he did not know who had made the charge manslaughter. The only other person who was present besides the Denickes was Abe Ruef and it was supposed that he was the one who engi- neered the proceedings. Distriet Attorney Langdon, when he heard the unusual turn of affairs, called upon Chief Dinan and the Chief promised to have the witnesses in the District Attorney’s office this afternoon at 2 o’clock, so that after questioning them the Dis- triect Attorney may fix the degree of crime and get some one to swear to a complaint. Denicke is 29 years of age, a graduate of the University of Cal- ifornia, where he was captain of the cadet corps, which gave him the rank of a retired captain of the National Guard. He is a min- ing and civil engineer and had for five or six years up till Sep- tember last, when he returned to the ecity, been in South Africa. During the Boer war he per- , formed military duty in proteet- ing the dynamite works of the De Beers Company. Since his return he had been following his profes- sion here, with offices in the Union Trust Company’s building, which was destroyed by the fire. At the time of the fire he was living at| the family residence at 1000 Ma- son street, his father being in Paso Robles. Regarding the shooting, his brother made the following state- ment for him: ‘““When the fire threatened the family home my brother saved the women folks and took them to my homé. Then he went to Chief Dinan and was sworn in as a special officer. On the Thursday he attached himself to a company ef the regulars and served with them all that day and night, fighting the fire on Tele- graph Hill and the Latin quarter. He saved the life of a blind man “but in any naval | 80 years of age, who was in a | burning building. On Friday he started in to fight the fire on the water front and tried to save warehouses and other buildings. When the oil tanks and the chemi- cal factory were ablaze he saved the lives of several drunken men | who had broken into a bonded warehouse and were in a drunken sleep on the floor of the Hobbs- Wall box factory. He found him- self surrounded by fire and in- tended leaping into the water to save himself when the tug Gov- ernor Markham hove in sight. He boarded her and the captain in- strueted him to run out the hose lines to save the Lombard-street wharf and to impress any men he saw to help him. ““My brother went ashore and impressed a marine. Just then a man weighing about 200 pounds was seen stealing live chickens and my brother told the sentry to impress him on the hose line. My brother turned his back and had walked back fifteen yards when he heard an exclamation, and wheeling round he saw the sentry trying to drive the man, who ap- peared to be an Italian and very excited, to the hose line. The man grabbed hold of the sentry’s gun and wrested it from him. My brother called upon the man to stop, but he raised-the gun to his shoulder, and to save the life of the sentry, who was a much smaller man than the Italian, my brother fired three shots from his revolver at him. rk, have resumed at and Fulton. ¢ ““The gun dropped out of the man'’s hand and he fell. After re- storing the gun to the sentry my brother asked some passersby to procure an ambulance to take the wounded Italian to a hospital and then returned to . his duties. Neither my brother nor the sentry was intoxicated. My brother did not know that the man had died till he read the story in the morn- ing papers yesterday. He kept fighting fires on Saturday and went to Berkeley, where the fam- ily had gone. He was in an ex- hausted condition and his hair °| and eyebrows were singed. He “| returned his special officer’s star. a few days later. “Hu sent for E. B, !mg. - FLAMES SPARE - “INCIENT il Holy Cross School Is to« Reopen on Next Sunday. trict to Attend Services. A Next ' Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock the Sunday School of Holy Cross Church, Eddy and Scott streets, will reopen, and the pastor, the Rev. Father McGinty, invites all of the former scholars, teachers and all. within ‘the district to attend. The reign of destruction that swept down the beautiful church of the parish spared the old hall, so full of memories and dear to the heart of the pioneer. Just a score of years has passed wince .the congregation wended its way to Mt. Calvary’s chapel to cele- brate the holy sacrifice; since the disaster,” mass has been offered upon the old site, the foundation of the work to God in Holy Cross. Now that danger is removed they have come back to the old building, which six years ago they left to enter the new church. With the taste that Holy Cross has ever put forth, the ancient structure has been transformed into an_Inspiring “house of prayer.” Masses on Sunday will be at 6, 7 8, 9, 10 and 11 a. m. The 9 o'clock mass will be for the children. Sun- day school at 2:30 p. m. Sunday evening services at 0. Devotions for May, each evening at 7:30. Week day masses at 7 and 8 o’clock. FRA T SR FOSS IS RETURNING LADEN WITH RECIPROCITY DATA Bostonian Believes This Country Must Adopt a Maximum and Minimum Tariff. LONDON, May 24—Eugene N. Foss, vice president of the Reciprocity League of Boston, who has been look- ing into the question of maximum and inimum tariffs and reciproeity treaties in European countries, will sail on the White Star line steamship Arabic tomorrow from Liverpool for Boston. During his stay in England, Foss has been studying Joseph Chamber- lain's tariff policy and has had in- terviews with a number of leaders of the movement. As a result of his investigations on the Continent, Foss | believes the United States must adopt a maximum and minimum tariff or enter Into reciprocal relations with other countries. He also believes that the time is opportune to conclude a reciprocity treaty with Germany. attorney, yesterday morning, tell- to the police. by the fire.”” yet been found. WhY! We have AND the streetears (Sixth and from the busy salesmen. AND, OF g e PastoriIfivites all in Dis-| ing him he would give himself up This is a poor re- ward for a man who Tisked his‘ life for four days to save:the lives| and property of people imperiled The body of the Italian has not/ GHINESE STILL ~ OUTOF HOMES B ""Are Forced to Live in Shacks. in Fight Against : Mongo‘lians. Special Dispatch to The Call. PACIFIC GROVE, May 24—There is no change-in the Pacific Grove China- town row, except that a high board fence has been built around the burned part of ‘the' quarter. The armed guards are still being maintained by the Pacific Im- provement Company. The Chinese are being kept out of the burned district and are forced to live in about a dozen shacks. It is said that the Improvement Company will build them temporary houses. An attempt is being made to move Chinatown to a place near the lighthouse at Pacific Groye, where the company has offered the Celestials land and logs from the forest in that vicinity to build their houses. The Chinese Vice Consul of San Francisco was here yesterday to inves- tizate the matter. He will take it up before the Chinese Minister at Washing- ton, who in turn will lay it before the | State Department. The driving of the Chinese from their homes at the point of rifles, it is believed, will cause inter- national complications. A report on the armed force main- tained by the Racific Improvement Com- pany will be made to the War Depart- ment by Colonel Maus of the Presidio here. He has already asked the depart- ment for the use of shelter tents for the Chinese. Yesterday the chaplain at the Presidio went to the Chinese quar- ter to further investigate, and reported that all that the Chinese needed were tents and houses. Yosemite Now Open. Southern Pacific two routes—via Raymond Big Tree: id lovely Wawona and via Merced Yosemite Valley road up Merced River. Stage ride but oue day either way. Ses sny agent. —————— TOBACCO A PROMOTER OF GOOD FELLOWSHIP Episcopal Clergyman Approves the Introduction of Smoking in a Church Club. CHICAGO, May 24.—That smoking was one of the greatest promoters of soclability and goed fellowship among men was the contention of Rev. Ar- thur W. Little, rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Evanston, in an address tonight at the annual dinner |of the men's club in Grace Church, | Oak Park. “I approve of your pastor introduc- |ing smoking in this club,” continued | | the §peaker, “and I am sure Bishop | self is a worshiper of My Lady Nico- | |tine.” One of the objects of the Men's Club is to get acquainted and I know | of nothing that paves the way better | than a good smoke. I heartily agree with your rector, Mr. Shaylor, who | says, ‘It is better to smoke here than | hereafter. " Ao gE SRERRL Policy Holders Unite. ! _call at Policy Holders’ Association, 1317 Laguna street. Tatk Asour MobeRw Stomes A telephone---Park 108. A carpet sewing-machine, busy one, too. An elevator, for freight. AND 52,000 SQUARE FEET OF FLOOR SPACE ALSO Three free buses to earry our customers to and from Mission). Eight large wagons to deliver the goods they buy COURSE Sterling goods at Sterling prices. FOR EXAMPLE ® Extension Tables—From $8.00 up. A hundred ,pat- terns to choose from, and a thousand tables in stoek. Bureaus—Good ones for ones as you are likely to $11.50 and as mueh better want. Hundreds of them— oak, maple and mahogany. Chiffoniers—$9.00' for a gbod hardwood chiffonier. Many better and higher. pnced ones, too. Something for ‘everybody. I.n‘ga Tables, weathered finish, blg drawer—suitable for office use, only $6.50. Not many in stock, but price will remain the same as long as they last. e 10 STERLNG FURNITURE COMPANY SIXTH STREET, FROM KING TO BBRRY CORRUGATED IRON. o mumnmmm WELL PA BUX 2371’!!51' S'l' bet. Howard and Fo!sm, SAN mncnco- EIGHTH ST. and BROADWAY, OAKLAND. | cific ‘Grove Celestials . i‘Stiate May Take a Hand Anderson will not object, as he him- | Ll and Orpheum Last Times of Keno, Waish & Meirose; Caprice, Lynn & Fay, and Armstreng & Holly. MAT. EVERY DAY EXCEPT MONDAY. Evening prices—10c, 25¢ and 50c; Mats, except Saturday and Sunday, 10c and 38c. Downtown box office at Donlon's Drug Store, Fillmore and Sutter sts. Phone West 6000. CHUTES AND Z0O. Open daily from 10 a. m. to midnight. Varied attractions all over the gro Watch for A DAY IN THE Admission, 10c; Children, Se. == | MISCELLANEOUS. NOTICE. JOS. FREDERICKS & CO, HAVE OPENED TEMPORARY OFFICE AND WAREROOMS AT 2200 WEBSTER 8T, Northeast Corner of Clay, San Francisce. STOCK EXPECTED DAILY OF CARPETS, FURNITURE, DRAPERIES, SHADES, ; ., BEDDING AND WALL PAPE:’i" WORKMEN ON DEMAND. 'W.W. Monitague & Co. Mantels, Grates and Tile . ... Our Mantel Factory and Ware Rooms 2251 Folsom Street Not having been destroyed, and hav- ing had a large stock of MANTELS, GRATES and TILE at this location we are prepared to furnish goods In this line at once. Repairing in all it branches. 2251 FOLSOM STREET ‘Mangrum & Otter, Inc. | 540-542 Mission St Near Sccond. Stoves, Ranges, Refrigerators Tin and Enameled Ware, Hotel and Restaurant Outfits, Tiling, Furnace and Steam Heatingy ntilating. FIREPROOF “BURLAP” For Tacking on Walls. UHLBROS., 717 MarketSt. Doing Business at the Old Stand. STOCKTON MILLING (0. CROWN FLOUR MILLS. SCHWABACHER BROS. & CO. ; Offices: P ‘416 JACKSON ST. R. N. NASON & CO0. Glass, Paints and Oils in Stock WORKS AN OFFICES: Utah & Fifteenth Sts. and Potrero Ave. MOORE & sco1'r IRON WORKS -~ 412 MAIN ST., SAN FRANCISCO. . | IN FULL OPERATION. ol 3

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