The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 28, 1906, Page 1

1651 FILLMORE STREET. Phone West 956. B e XCIX, NO. 180. SAN - FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MAY 28, 1906. Phon OAKLAND OFFICE I THE SAN FRANCISCD GALL 1016 BROADWAY. e weseess..Oakland 1083. PRICE FIVE CENTS. RUSSIAN BOMBTHROWERS RESUME ACTIVITY SEBASTOPOL TERRORISTS ATTAGK GZAR'S TROOPS Eleven Persons Killed and More Than One Hundred In- jured by Explosives. Assassins Attempt the Lives of Governor General and Chief of Police of Tiflis. TEMPORARY STRUCTURES TAKE THE PLACES OF -BURLDI DESTROYED BY .. FIRE. " )POL, May 2 Several -bombs. were thrown .here . to- 1 review of troops was being held after the Te Deum in anniversary of the Emperor’s coronation. Three led and several were wounded. Among the wounded inder of the fortress, General Neplueff, who received i the Chief of Police, 'who was gravely injured. Other escaped. Two of the bomb throwers were arrested. STERSBURG, May 27.— Sebastopol bomb outrage during the. review .of ‘troop b on of the anniversary of the Emperor’s coronatio eleven ‘persons were killed, including five childre re than 100 persons were wounded. The dispatch alsc ests were made. Shataloff, warden of the City Prison here, was shot fou yday and mortally wounded by an 18-year-old youth, who wa a socialist revolutionist sentence in revenge for Shataloff’. ment of political prisoners. The assassin, whose name i ed a beggar who yried to stop him, but afterwar our v 27.—While Governor General Timosieff and Chie ff were driving today bombs were thrown at them was 1, but a Cossack belonging to their escort wa: i. The was made in the center of the town, a few rods scene of the assassination of General Griaznoff, chief o: » of the Caucasus, who was killed by a bomb ex 1 January 19 last. Timosieff and Chief of Pelice Martinoff were riding it riages on their way to dttend the coronation anniversary the Cathedral. Two bombs were thrown simultaneous- to explode. Chief of Police Martinoff, whe hand, shot and Kkilled one of the terrorists. Governor General Timosieff’s coachman was lar he Vice: 1 failing g revolver in escaped. ity is agitated, fearmig an armed outbreak. May 28, 1:10 2. m.— | urday’s session to cenfer with the Em- all Russia awaits | veror, and agitated conferences occurred 5 ent > the bold | n_Sunday. ¢ the jower house of Parliament| The Constitutional Democratic = chiefs sa 2y, which in censuring the Min- | are displaying calmness in the face of the | demanding its retirement was| crisis. They declare that, having deliv- e a deliberate slap in the face and a | >red their reply, they propose to go calm- that the Government, to prefer its usual policy and compromise, can ceting ly ahead with the work before them, forc- ng the Government to take the initiative. The strength of their positiqn lies in the conviction that the Russian nation, and 2 hus burned the brid: he peasantry, who are sure to taken the step w itented with the fiat concerning General did when it trans- | the expropriation of lands, is behind Par- rational convention. fundamental laws and nt in its rejection of the Govern- ment’s policy as utterly unacceptable. ra declaring that it proposed to ‘he Government, if it dares to fight,” full pariiamentary rvights, with | %aid M. Kokoshine, one of the Constitu- ible Ministry, it has become ir| tional Democratic members of the hous: ‘can dispérse the Parliament, but the vi ‘r)!’y of the bureaucracy would he only emporary. It would inevitably -be fol- lowed shortly by-a bloody revolution, which would not leave a stick of the present Government stand!ng. . The Em- peror must chooee between a real con- hale of the Government's pol- | Stitutional government and the loss not Jutaly rned. Both sides|©only of his crown, but probably of his and sebjousness af | hea the panie is in the Gov- | CAMPAIGN OF ASSASSINATION. not the popular camp. | The Social Democrats and Social Revo- Corcmykin went to Peterhof | lutionists are delighted -at the turn of after the adjournment ot.sn-l.vuu, believing they supply f the law a revolutionary body, that position there seems no of the action of the house 1 electric shock, the people Wy as greatly surprised as acy at the promptness with ispatches received ‘here con-!| Jjust the | SEATTLE MERGHANT ~CHARGED WITH STEALING S1010 Il e . Ebeacling /Coia Years Ago in New Jersey, 9 SEATTLE, May 27.—William “Mal- olm, who for about four years has reen engaged: in the furnishing goods usiness here, was arrested yesterday >y Detectives Shilbrick and Darbee or he charge of embezzling approxi- nately $150,000 while he was secre- ary of the Passaic Mutual Loan and Juilding Association of Passaic, New Tersey. The alleged crime is said tc 1ave been committed, years ago. The irand Jury at Passaic has returneu ive indictments against Malcolm. One f these charges forgery and the sthers charge embezzlement. Malcoim admits that he is the man vanted. He expressed no great sur- rise at his arrest and added that hc 1ad understood that his troubles had reen fixed up. stimuius needed for the rising they are planning. The terrorists were quick to seize the opportunity for a series of blows 0 widely separated parts of the country, the news 6f which forms a prominent fea- ture in this morning’s newspapers instead of the expected decree of amnesty. The attempts at Tiris and Sebastopol are con- vincing indications of the determination of the fighting organization to resume its >ampaign of assassination with full vigor. The press today almost without excep- Yion is pessimistic, recognizing the ex- ireme gravity of ne situation and the tempest which the denial of the right of forced expropriation of -land wnl provoke among the peasantry. The Reich declares that the Government's reasoning in this respect is false and fallacious, the expro- priation of land standing practically on the same basis now as in 1861 REVOLUTION IS NEARING. Professor Kareieff in a special article says a parailel of the early stage of the Frehch revolution is now complete. He invites the Ministry to substitute for the 1906- events those of 1789 and then to con- sider whether it wishes to continue its present course. : \ The Slovo, the Octoberist organ, falls behind none of ‘the others in sharpness of criticism, declaring that the Government has proclatmed war on Parliament. Orders for tne guard corps to go into summer camp at Krasnoye-Selo: have been countermanded, and ‘it is supposed they will be retained ..ere in readiness to cope with any. outbrea... — ey Prince of Wales in Paris. PARIS, May 27.—The Prince of Wales made 2 visit of half an-hour at the official residence of President Fallieres today, and later the President returned the visit. HEIRESS VIGTIM OF HYPADTIST n Girl Is in PORTLAND, May 27.—Hypnotic influ- | ence exerted over Miss Harriet Frances | Speckart by Dr. Marie , & well | known woman physician of Portland and who ‘'was -one of the Oregon physicians tho went to San Francisco during the disaster ‘there, has caused a turmoll in | Portland in which is implicated more than one well known woman. Such is the power of Dr. Equi over Miss Speckart, who is an heiréess t0 more than $109,000, {that she has succeeded in breaking the :gh‘l'! home ties and disrupting the | Speckart household. Dr. Equl has threat- | engd to commit suicide because of the ex- | posure of her peculiar relations with the heiress. | So strange was the influence exerted (over-Miss Speckart by the ‘woman physi- | cian that the girl's mother compelled her | daughter to leave Portland for a while, ithinklnz that the association between the {two would be broken up. During their | separation, which both. are said to have | felt keenly, daily letters passed secretly | between thie two. The letters written by 19.3?3;"1 could not be delivered fast |enough, and telegrams were received | from her by the yourg woman. | Through the letters the relations ex- isting between the two were discovered. | Miss Speckart's brother obtained the let- ters from his sister by force. * Dr. Equi-and the Speckart family ha¢ ipartments in one of Portland’s mos ‘ashionable boarding houses and it wa: here that a fight between Birs. Speckar:! ter son and Dr. Equi took place whic} esulted in the expulsion of the physicia: ‘rom the house and led.to the discover: hat the woman had obtained an: influ >nce. over the girl which could not, b oroken. Miss Speckart had saved the letters re ceived from Dr. Equi and put her time I poring over their contents, Her brothe liscovered. her actions and endeavored t. orocure possession of the epistles. M Speckart was leaving her apartme: with the letters when her brother ac costed her in the hall'and took them fror: her by force. i Miss Speckart notified Dr. Equi, and tie latter, :nn !l“i: in her heart, went tc the fashionable hotel to regain ior: >t the incriminating 'paper-. S::'::::s%v young Speckart in one of the rooms and ‘hreatened him with death. The youns man made his escape by means of = fire escape. The mother, hearing of the predicament of her son. rushed to his res- cue and was grabbed by Dr. Equi, throwr into a chair and threatened with death ‘unless she gave up the letters. Mrs. Speckart was- rescued by lodgers in the house. The letters were secured by the District Attorney and are in his posses- sion. . Dr. Equi, on a promise from the District ~ Attorney that her prosecution would not follow, signed an agreement that she would not again visit the young woman or correspond with her. The prom- ise was: broken by Dr. Equi, who con- cealéd letters in library books at the city library, where Miss Speckart would go to get them. § The mother gave up hope of rescuing her: daughter, and fearing that the girl would obtain possession of the Speckart' fortune, left for Olympia, where she made application to be made administra- tor of the big Speckart estate. The es- tate consists of California mines and in- terests in Olympia brewerjes. The Speck- art home has been broken up and the | mother is on the: verge of physical col- ;sp-e because of her troubles. —_—— Nine Miners Burned. MONONGAHELA, Pa..'May 27.—Nine men werée burned, two of them seriously, in a gas explosion in the mine of the Braz- nell Gas and Coal Company near Bentley- ville last night. The men were erecting a fire wall to stop a fire that had started from an ynusually heavy blast. v THE PXINT 7Y oF® PRUIY - ANL. 2 SRERRIIENTE blb RAIGE N TARIFF | N JiPaN New Schedfié Arranged to Build Up Home Industries. CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, May 27.—Henry B. Miller, Consul General at Yokohama, has furnished a report to the Bureau of Manufactures on a tariff bill before the Parliament of Japan, which has subsequently been passed with slight modifications. The foremost plan of Japan is shown by this bill to be the building up of the country as a manufacturing and commercial center. Coal is placed’' on tpe free list, as well as ships’ stores, transferred in harbors. Japan prepares for retaliatory tar- iffs against countries discriminating against her vessels and products, and proposes. also to prevent importations of bounty-made products of other countries. The new measure is in- tended to increase revenues several million dollars and substitutes spe- cific for ad valorem duties, which is igreeable to American merchants. ‘The raise in the tariff ‘on wheat ‘rom flour to 72 cents per 133 pounds vill make this food too expensive for he masses and reduce the consump- don of American flour. The wheat -ate is also-slightly advanced, the ob- ‘ect being to tap the great wheat sup- >ly of Manchuria and Mongolia, using fapanese-owned railways and ships to :arry it to Japanese mills. Fish will pay a higher rate of duty, Hut fish gathered by Japanese vessels vill be admitted free. This will pre- rent American ships carrying salted salmon to Japan. While raw and ginned cotton re- main on the free list, there is a gen- sral advance on cotton yarns and cot- ton goods of every nature, but as cot- tons of almost every kind are. speci- fled in the conventional tariff this part of the law will not take effect until after 1910. Locomotive engines and electric motors, of which the imports from the United States exceed $500,000 an- nually, are to pay 15 instead of 10 per cent. Boilers meet with the same ad- vance. : ‘Watches, which now pay 25 to 30 per cent, are to be.changed to 40 and 50 per cent. > Phonographs are ad- vanced from 35 to 55 per cent. Cheap metal jewelry is raised from 10 to 160 per_cent. CHEFU, May 27.—The continued forced circulation of a nondescript Japanese war note yen in Manchuria, which is‘even at a premium over the gold yen, seriously disturbs trade from Chinese ports to Manchuria. Hongkong, Shanghai, Tientsin and other distributing points are over- stocked with merchandise for re-ex- port to Manchuria, which, prominent merchants declare, they cannot move on account of the impossibility of se- curing redemption of the war note yen by Japan except at a heavy dis- con?t. which often reaches 25 per cent. - TOKIO, May 27.—Vice Admiral Togo, General Kuroki and Marquis Ito, with a suite of admirals and gen- erals, will soon go on a tour of in- spection in Manchuria. This impor- tant mision is supposed to be the out- come of the recent state council at which, though the details have not become known, it is believed weighty decisfons were reached respecting the Manchurian raflways, which are in- tended to be permanently operated by BRAFTING IN LARGE f - MAILAOAD o | Conditions May Resemble Those in Insurance Companies. | | | \Pennsylvania Line Now Under the Light of Officials Grow Rich Far| Beyond Measure of Salaries. NEW YORK, May 27.—Disclosures made | before the Interstate Commerce Commi:-l sion by officials of the Pennsylvania Rail- | road regarding graft and gratuities in the | matter of facilities extended to favored | shippers has revealed a condition of af- fairs which has existed for many years| and which, like the conditions in the in-| | surance business, prior to the recent| changes in methods, was accepted by the | public as a scandal without recourse. Coal dealers, independent or unafliated | with the raflroad officials, have testified | that they were harassed by reason of | their inability to obtain cars and their business was consequently curtailed. The | testimony relating to the lack of facli ties, in shipping coal to tidewater at_this | port is a matter which has been discussed | among coal dealers in this community as a seandal which apparently could not be } remiedied. The disclosures of the details have come at a time when tire pablic is inflamed by prévious. ¢ s of a similar na- turé. The outsider has witnessed the wholésale : changes amounting to revolu- tion in insurance companies wherein con- ditions were almost identical. It was asked in Wall street last week | when the coal department of the Penn- sylvania was under fire if the same con- ditions do not exist in other departments of the same companies. It is a matter of common information that many of the Pennsylvania officials, their relatives and intimates have ac- quired wealth far beyond the savings from their salaries could warrant. Where aid they get it? is a question the stock- holder in Pennsylvania is now asking. In view of the expenditure of hundreds of millions of dollars which the Pennsyl- vania has spent in the last three years, it has become an interesting question with stockholders -of the company as to the manner in which the money so freely raized has been spent by its officials. Have | the officials of the company shared in the profits of the contracting companies® is a | question which is being ask=1 nowadays, in view of the disclosures atiending the | investigation of the coal departments. The committee, self-appointed by the di- | rectors to investigate the subject of graft in the coal department, may extend itd work of probing to other depart:nents, and as was the case in the Equitable Life there may be found a Frick among the directors who will bring in a report that | will compel a change in the condition of affairs. It is related that friends of officials of | the Pennsylvania recently acquired a printing plant in New York, and that the great bulk of the printing of the Penasyl- vania is now exclusively turned out by this company. In the case of the insurance companies it was found upon jnvestigation that real estate brokers having affiliation with the managements were the only people whom the coppany recognized in th= matter of mortgages. Insurance supplies were bought through one concern as a result. | Stockholders are asking whsther similar conditions exist with the 1ailcoud com- pany directors which have perpetuated themselves in control. MANY WILL SNIL FOR GITY OF NOM - T0 DI6 FOR GOLD Nearly 1700 Passengers Booked for Voyage to' the North. Special Dispatch to The Call TACOMA, May 27.—An extraordinarily large number of mining operators and workmen are preparing to sail for Nome during the first week of June. The steam- ships Ohio, Senator and Victoria, sailing June 1, will carry nearly 1700 passengers. Over 1500 have already secured passage. One steamship company will carry north 2100 passengers on the first trip of its com- bined fleet. It is ted that nearly 10,000 passengers will be carried to Nome and other Seward peninsula points dur- ing June, July and August. - Steerage passengers will comprise many raiiroad laborers, who will receive $5 a day and board this season, an increase of $2 a day over last year’s wages. This situa- tion results from the present employment in Washington and Idaho of over 10,000 men on railroad construction work. i the Government. This naturally will necessitate the floating of another big loan. Opinions are divided as to the prospect of the railways, but a hope- ful opinien preponderates. \ | \ | | ENNS PLEA SAVES MAN FROM AOPE King Pardons Prisoner Condemned to Die on Gallows. Culprit Sp;;i While on Way to the Place of Execution. Dramatic I—r—lzi-dent Adds to Popularity of Al- fonso's Bride. MADRID, May 27.—The first notable act of Princess Ena of Battenberg since her arrival in Spain to become the bride of King Alfonso XIIT has been to induce the King to pardon Fernando Levera, who was condemned to death after an exciting trial. The dramatic circumstance under which pardon was given as the ecom= demned man was geing to the gallows at- tracts widespread attention and further augments the popularity of Princess Ena. Levera was to have been executed iIn the neighboring town of Badajose, but the population solicited rrineess Ena’s in- tercession, and she spoke to the King, who consulted with bis Ministers, and after a Cabinet council the Government resolved to grant the request, as it was the first petition the Princess had made in Spain. Thereupon the King ssued a . and a telegram announcing this fact} reached the prison at Badajose & half hour before the time set for the ex- ecution. The march to the scaffold was about to begin when a messenger brought word of the pardon. There were remarkable scenes of re= joicing. The townspeople formed a pro= cession and sang the praises of their Queen-to-be. The people of Madrid alse highly approve the Princess’ humane in~ tervention, and the newspapers comment upon the coming Queen’s first act as bew ing one of mercy. The Pardo palace was again the scene of royal ceremonies to-day, the ideal | weather permitting open air religious ser- vices on the lawns of the palace, where the military Bishop celebrated a cam- paign mass. It wis a pretty sight, with the brilliant uniforms of the soldiers forming a background for the royal per- sonages. Princess Ena's inferest in the Spanish uniforms led King Alfonso to summon six soldiers representing the various arms of the service for his bride-elect’s inspection | of their arms and accoutrements. This was a source of especial satisfaction te | the influential army element. Later in the day King Alfonso and | Princess Ena went in an automobile to the picturesque forests of Pardo. On one of Frincess Ena's visits to Madrid _she was permitted to visit the gorgeous nuptial apartments that have been prepared in the royal palace and te try on the wedding dress made here. The Cabinet Ministers have had their share in the prevailing enthusiasm over Alfonso’s fiancee. Premier Mouret ex- pressed his official view while drinking & toast to the Princess. Addressing King Alfonso, the Premier said: “Sire, you have brought us a treasure. May it please God to make us worthily conserve it.”" ' King Alfonso’s presents to his bride are on exhibition znd attract great attention for the beauty of the gems and their vajue, which is said to exceed $1,000,000. They consist of a crown for state occa= sions, framed in gold and set with brils liants; a diadem, two collars, one of pearis and the other of rubies and sapphires; & pair of golden bracelets. a pair of pends ants and a large diamond brooch. One of the curious conceits is a miniae ture diamond automobile. The door of this opens to show the portrait of the King. The Government has shown exceptional consideration for the envoy of the United States, Frederick Wallingford Whitridge, as the palace of the Countess Pino-Her~ mosa, which has been placed at his dis= posal. was the only castle assigned to persons outside the royal houses. The quarters of the American envoy are being sumptuously prepared, the furnishings be- ing part of the Spanish exhibit at the Paris exposition of 19. Whitridge, who is accompanied by Mrs. Whitridge and their two daughters, will have numerous suites, salons and boudoirs and also & billiard room and the rare lbrary 3 | Marquis Alguibas. p R SPAIN'S ROYAL PALACE. Future Queen’s Apartments Adorned With Rich Art Treasures. MADRID, May 27.—The royal palace of Madrid is doubly interesting just both as the piace from which fonso goes to meet his bride future home of the royal couple. suite of apartments designed ture Queen have been la: with the richest art galleries of Spain. But, asl the palace itself is one: of most sumptuous of Europe. It the former site of the Al ancient kings from plans by artist, Giovanni Bettirta The first stone h i t G I | : - f ] R H § F, i y