The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 20, 1906, Page 1

For San Francisco and vicin- ity: Fair Wednesday, becom- ing cooler in afternoon; fresh northwest wind ' WEATHER FORECAST. | [ The Call prints more_ aews thar. + any other paper published i San ! Francisco et ; ! TREASURY WILL DEPOSIT $12,000 3 PRICE J00 WITH SAN FRANGISGO BANKS FIFTY KILLED IN ANTI-JEWISH RIOT IN A RUSSIAN VILLAGE AMERICAN OF BOSTON WILL PAY 40 CENTS ON DOLLAR AND GO TO ITS GRAVE PRESIDENT APPROVES PLAN SUBMITTED BY RELIEF COMMITTEE Bonds of the City \X"i[ Be Given as Security for Funds to Be Loaned for Rebuilding Purposes by the Government. SECRETARY SHAW GIVES ASSURANCE MONEY WILL STAY HERE FOR VEARS House Passes the Bill Granting to the State of California Five Per Cent of the Net Proceeds From the Sale of Public Lands. SCIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. ", POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, June| 1 S of the Treasury co to the amount of s in the dditional de- new financial nds for the rgely upon ents of the peful that further | be granted. never been a matter of can be obtained. Hon. Les- of the Treasury, today conferred with the he Senate with reference to the proposed plan | lesire to give whatever as-| grant, but he was inclined to make no direction without the approval of the Senate’ was made plain to him by Senator Aldrich | committee that no legislation was prac- 1 better abandoned. Thé granting of establish a very bad prece- al and other grounds could not be consid- rittee had received an appeal for aid report that assistance was to ORITY TO ACT. the Secretary of 1 depend 1 and the r ngressional be San | \S AUTH B be S HTA\\' H: the Treasury will take ired the finance commit- hich he proposed_to take as an 1 do this, but in-| give their views to the Secretary regarding take toward increasing the San Fran- already agreed upon. ttee have conferred constantly the adminis- s be | way | 1€ can C lepc ; assistance e and others any deposits What de- g the be re- ESULTS OF MISSION. the following statement: antial purpose of our mission, Senators and Representatives the work, while the committee has provided OUTLINES R Francisco is greatly ebted to our delega- t Congress fo eir splendid services, not only with respect 1o ancia which it has been the mission‘of the « mittee to we are to receive from the Treasury, but for the propridations obtained from Congress during nission is the acceptance by unsold municipal bor for de- ent makes markets of the world. | enable the city to proceed with the re: ildings, 3 pair of our streets and sewers. This is a| the present juncture { ars, as sect Governr This action of the mds salable at par 1 oney nds sale of these such as schools, hospitals, ci c., and i great importance HOUSE PASSES CALIFORNIA CLAIM. 1 “The next proposition relates to the erection of houses for the| 1eless, or such of them as can be provided for in| rination of a corporation in San Fran- llars paid-up capital for building pur- voration will furnish to the national banks such se- urity as refary of the Treasury may prescribe to.secure further deposits with the national banks, not to exceed ten million dollars. We should have preferred to have this proposition written | into the statute book as a law, but could not accomplish this at the final stage of the session of Congress. If placed in an appropriation | ili the provision would have gone out on a point of order, which would have been made, and, as an independent bill, it| involves the f poses. the | nouse, JULIAN ARNOLD BGEWAR " b G [f SPREADING “owsw et JETOR OUF | Hundred Victims of Meb Borne to Graves in Bialystok. Christians Loot Hebrew Homes While Troops Look On. Late Massacre Provoked by Emissaries of the « government. LONDON, June 19.—The Jewi World has received the following dis- patch from Dvinsk (also termed Duana- berg), province of Vitebsk, 110 miles southeast of Riga, dated June 18: | ‘Ffty persons have been killed in the | anti-Jewish rioting at Starosfelsce, not | for from Bialystok. The state of mind of the populace is {ndescribable.” BIALYSTOK, Russia, June 19.—The bodies of more than a hundred Jews were buried yesterday, but the impos- ing array of military force prevented a resumption of the disorders. 3 A press correspondent Chrictians of - the JOWer- w sacks on their backs coming from the desolated Jewish quarter to submit to the examination of the soldiers and po- lice. If the Sacks contained plunder none of it was seized. General Bader, commander of the | garrison and acting Governor General, in personal charge of the troops, hich are so disposed that a renewal of the rioting is considered improbable, The Jews, however, continue in a state of panic. As the correspondent passed through the streets strewn with wreck- age they could be seen hastily barricad- ing what was left of their houses. Many of them adopted the artifice of placing 1kons or crosses on their doors in order to avert the attacks of the Christians. | WOMAN TRIES TO KILL TREPOFF. PETERSBURG, June 1%—A cir- cumstantial report is in circulation to- | day of an attempt on the life of Gen- eral Trepoff, commandant of the pal- Benjamin Ho:vard Friend| of Mrs. Yerkese | Mizner. Disappointed— When She “Makes Up” With | Huimd. i Reported That He Spent Much Time at Her Home, f NEW YORK, June 19.—The suicide of ‘Benjamin Howard, formerly of the Al- { cazar stock company of San Francisco and lately of the “Rollicking Girl™” company, who was found dead on a bench in Riverside drive, was due less to the unrequited love of a certain actress, aecording to Broadway wise- | Aacres, than to disappointment over the | eported reconciliation of Wilson Miz- | r and_ his Efl«. the former Mrs. | Howard, according to his own admis- | And owledge of other the- | ~tatrical péoplé who were welcomed to | '} the Yerkes mansion, was a frequent vis- N {Ator’ there. - He ad a very sweet, sym- pathétic tenor voice, and Mrs. Yerkes | Ju i | Mrs. Yerkes had a penchant for singers, DAE WHO'HAS BEEN AFYOINYED | by birytone and tenor voices floating S, a I* “Howara was the most popular of Berkeley 'Graduate’ W hO unitil. Mizner appeared on the horizon. - ‘érkes’ ‘heart. Howard regained the Goes to Formosa, & Mizner went down to Washington to | was particularly fond of his singing. H. ARNOLD ‘lana her neighbors say that it was not ED STATES CONSUL AT FOR- | from the palmroom of the Yerkes man- {-Mrs.- Yerkes" musicians clientele, and "I The #inger took a back seat when the }eluve to the Yerkes house again sub- {attend to some personal business. When UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORMA GHAD: | inusiah. (o heas popalar ballage sung MOSA. =~ . Wsiam until 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning. wag perhaps her most frequent caller Is Pro{i’cien{ in Chinese, jEiant of the Kiondike lald siex: to Mrs. equent to the marriage. It was when A youth atMizner.returned he found the door of BERKELEY, Jupe 19. by ace, a well-dressed woman mas- | ling as Princess Narishkin. Ac- |the university who in other years was his bride’s home closed against him. g to, the rumor, the woman | ¢ Ath the study of Chinese! Georse H. Crater, a Broadway char- ned_admittance to the palace, and | 0 fascinated wit por acter who wears a diamond setting in appeared she drew a re- | that he painted big Chinese characters,;n. gold fillings of his teeth, is a | it was fired she was | On the ceiling of .5 bedroom and then | prother of the actress, Aileen Crater, is denied by the po- [tudied them as he reclined in bed. i5 | gnce the wife of Wilson Mizner. Al- now reaping part of the reward of hiS| though Mizner and Miss Crater had acre of Jews at Bialystok |intense application to ‘the study of the|geparated and were divorced, Crater ap- has shocked the country and added to |old Oriental tofigue. | peared here practically as manager of excitement, and the reve- | Julian H. Arnold of Berkeley has or best friend under cover of Mizner in | he committee of the been promoted by President Roosevelt|his matrimonial exploits. Crater was of Parliament, sent to in- | to be United States Consul at Formosa. chagrined when the doors of the Yerkes Iystok, is ' He heads the list of such promotions mansion were closed against Mizner be- expected to make, will only add fuel which the President has just sent to|cause Howard had told Mrs. Mizner that to the flames, Congress for confirmation. The list is her young husband had never been di- | Thus far the censor at Bialystok has | made up of student interpreters who | vorced from Miss Crater, and was there- | evidently refused to allow e press | occupy Government posts in the Orient.. fore mnot legally able to marry Mrs. | correspondents to comment on the ac- Arnold was the first youth to’'be ap-| Yerkes. S tion of the authorities. The Golus, a |pointed a student interpreter after Con- Crater sent a hot telegram to How- | newspaper edited by M. Ulianoff. a|gress passed the law in 1902 providing|ard, accusing him of lylng to Mrs. | mmember of the lower house of Parlia- | for such a class of Government officials | Yerkes. Howard failed in his effort to ment, containing an account of the hor- |abroad. He was a student of Oriental | permanently separate the Mizners, and rors and e authorities of l1anguages under Professor John Fryer| when a few days ago the report c ame | 1 chargifig t 3 Bialystok with deliberately Preparing |at thé University of Cali.ornia in the | from Chicago that Mrs. Mizner had re- ouse e the outbreak at voung husband his discom- the riot, was confiscated wherit ap- | foyr years bhefore 1902. and when Con- | joined her peared today. < gressman Hill put his bill through|fiture was complete. Among Itis pro- The news from Kronstadt continues|congrass jn 1902 creating the student fessional associates there is no mystery disquieting. The troops sent to the!lj;ie’nrater class in the diplomatic ser-|Over the motive for his suicide. island are camping outside the City.|yjee: of the country Julian Arnold S T, BTN The Twentieth Century (formerly the | g, eqily saw to it that his name se- Russ) the situation is so danger- |cyreq consideration by the powers at H ous that the breech-locks have been|yyaenington. He proposed to enter the ! removed from the guns ¢f the warships | diplomatic ‘servide. in the hagbor. There was no question of his quality. CZAR’S WORD NOT ACCEPTED. Arnold had learned well the Chinese | In spite of the Government's left- |language under Professor Fryer. He handed denial that it intends to order ;was a brilliant man at college. promi- | a Parliamentary recess, the Rech to- |nent in college activities, president. of | day expressed the fear that a coup |the University Republican Club, an as- d’ectat was imminent and appealed to |sistant of Graduate Manager Ezra De- the country to make its voice heardcoto and the first student to graduate in favor of the dismissal of the Min- | from the College of Commerce at the istry ané a prolongation of the exist- |university. ~President Wheeler ad- ence of Parliament | mired him and was instrumental, with Secret Service Men on Trail| L Vinayer, a miember of the lower |the California delegation in Congress | today received the following in putting his name before the powers | 0{ the Reds Loca(ed dispatch from M. Jacobson, 2 member for appointment abroad. ~ 3 i of the commission sent to Bialystock | Arnold was an under secretary for| n Porlland. | by the lower house of Parliament to | Minister Conger at Peking, and until 4 e | Seize Large Quantites of Inflam- INVESTIGATE. ALLEGED NEST OF ANARGHISTS investigate the Jewish massacres |recently was Vice Consul at Shanghai. there: |Now he goes to Formosa as Consul. “Order restored yesterday. Seventy The university public that k. v eight Jews and six Christians have | in college expbet to see Lim ob far il mable Pamphlets and ! been buried. The majofity of the dead | mount high in the diplomatic service, i were killed with bayonets or rifle bul- | His people still Teside at Sacramento.| Litenture lets. The total of the dead has not|where his father has great flouring in.| \ yet been established. A Cossack yes- terday killed a passing Jew. “The city has unanimously decided that the massacre was not the result of race hatred, but was due to provo- cation and that the troops and police participated in thc outrage. “The reports that the Jews and revo- lutionists attacked the inhabitants are false.” Private 'tere!u. £ H SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. PORTLAND, June 19.—Government | Secret Seryice agents have begun a thorough investigation of the band of anarchists which. is Dbelieved to infest this city. Inspector Foster of the Se- | cret Service Department is in charge of the investigation, and under instruc- tions from Washington City Inspector Barbéur of the Immigration Bureau is e HEXAMETHYLENTETRAMIN CONTAINS NO ALCOHOL Federal Judge Renders This Decision | 107 the Benefit of & New York Importer. NEW YORK. June 19.—Hexamethyl- entetramin does not- contain alcohol. letters veceived here tmm4 | stockholders of the company are all honest persons, { will be in a position to pay 40 cents on the dollar. certainly _ 2 1 Kharkoff predict that the entire south ¢ consideration, | of, Russia wili be in a state of open would have required unanimous consent recei ] e S i ik stion. ‘T this emetpency the S | revolution within a month. “hl(:; w 3 o‘u -j:l}vh‘(‘ que :’,.-a] ‘;f ‘11“ }‘r:lc,;fie.‘l' t‘llv: e(:rct]ary 3(}, e e e T the Treasury, with the approv esicent and upon the ad-| prrLIs, Caucasia, June 19.—The law- vice of Secretary Metcalf, has come to our relief and will also take |lessness in the Caucasus is increasing. care of our mew proposition, the details of which remain to~be | police murder and robbery are un worked ont. Take it all together, we have been successful, and we ;checked in this city. At noon today : F > | fiftcen brigands boarded a car in the have our delegation to thank and aiso Mr. Harriman, who, as a mem- center to CONTINUED ON FAG E 3, COLUMNS 1 AND & ' ~ Contivued 03 Fage § Columm 3. i In spite of the patrolg of soldiers andi of. the city and held up and Judge Platt, in the United States Cir. cuit Court, has decided this for the be: | efit of an importer. The question caus {the customs authorities a good deal of trouble. They said they did not know just what the stuff was. It comes from Germany. Collector Stranahan was con- vinced that it contained alcohol he demanded duty on the basis -| cents a pound. | Hexamethylentetramin is known also Ia- urotropine, aminoferm, uritone and tformin " e of 55 . and | i to render him every assistance possi- ble. With City Detective Mears, Inspector Foster last night visited a residence at 53 Morris street said to be the rendez- | vous of numbers of the local colony o!‘ “reds” and seized large quantities of literature and propaganda believed to be inflammatory character. Pend- ‘translation of the various pam- phlets and documents that were seized by the Government the suspects will be Jkept under close espionage. | - AGENT IS SENT TO WIND UP AFFAIRS R B - Who Caries Foote Chicit 50 Broken Insurance Concern, Makes Statement. Says,_ Pessimistically, That 20 Ceni_s Will Be Paid by Some and Predicts Period of Chaos - . OAKLAND, June 19.—The American Insurance Company of Boston, with & ioss of $1,200,000 by the San Franeisco fire, of which $200,000 is in reinsurance companies said to be shaky, has decided its poli According to R. W. Hos the company’'s rap- resentative, who arrived from Chicago to take charge of its affairs, this insur- Its directors have concluded that the holders 10 cents on the dollar and go out of business T, ance. corporation is practically insolvent s is a miserable 40 per for a company which tes since 1818. cent of the face of the adjusted clain has been in the fire insurance business in ion Hosmer succeeds Charles S pany, in the work of closfng up erans in the Eastern insurance world putation of dishonesty, declaring that th wrecked his company, but caused th the statement that seventy-five insu o manager of the com- icagdan is one of the vet- He defends hi mpany against the im- San Francisco fire has not only ha downfall of many others. He made mpanies would be wrecked by the San Francisco fire. As further defense of the American Insurance Company of Boston and its that the Traders’ Insurance Company of Chicago, which has gone to the being honestly handled: that Attorney Bates, who offered the policy-holders 60 cents, is honest, and that Byron Smith, the company's receiver, is honest, all of which agpeals with much force to the unfortunate poliey-holder who has discovered that in many com- panies insurance is of the kind that does not insure. GIVES OUT A PROPHECY OF CHAOS. Hosmer adds a grain of real comfort to his pessimistic utterances By ane mouncing, with an insurance adjuster’s prophetic eve, that six months hence the insurance conditions in San Francisco will be much more chaoticsthan they are now. Hosmer's definite stand on a basis of 40 cents gives the American of Boston the doudbtful distinction of setting the lowest rate yet announced. The American of Boston sees the “six-bit” companies and goes them several better, or rather worse, from the policy-holders’ standpeint. In explanation of the 40-cent offer, Hosmer said tods “The American of Boston will probably be able to pay about 40 cents on the dollar. It may be able to do a little better with its creditors, but I doubt it. Forty cents will be far more than some companies will be paying six months from now on their 'San Franecisco losses. I look to see several companies pay their policy-holders 20 cents on the dollar, and in doing that tney will exhaust their capital and surplus and go out of business. Many companies are even now insolvent, but are putting on a brave front and striving to weather the financial storm that is sure to wreck n listed as ‘dollar-for-dollar’ concerns are shaky, and it is requiring every effort on the part of their directors and stockholders to keep them from going to the is, Hosmer insist decision to settle on a 40-cent ba wall, few. Even some of the companies that are wall. {IS CONVINCED DIRECTORS ARE HONEST. “It was in 1818 t the American Insurance Company of Boston was ese tablished, and its career has been an honorable one. The present directors and nd will do their best in an honest way to settle with the policy-holders of the company. In doing this every resource that company has will be drawn upon, and it is figured that wel When all we have is turned over to our creditors the American Insurance Company of Bouston will go out of existence. It is too bad to see such an old and honorable business institution retire in such a way, but it cannot be helped. The San Francisco disaster has unsettled the insurance business the world over, and it will be a difficult mate ter hereafter to get people to invest money in insurance companies. People in California do not realize what the disaster in San Francisco has done to in- surance throughout the United States, and particularly in the larger cities. I represented eight companies in Chicago before the San Francisco earthquake, and three of these were so hard hit that they have ceased writing insurance,| and it is only a matter of time when they will succumb. Rates have been ad~ vanced on insurance, the retirement from vusiness of many and because of | companies that is sure to result from the San Francisco disaster insurance will cost more and there will be fewer companies in which to take out policies. SHOCKED AT ATTITUDE OF PEOPLE. “I managed the interests of the American of Beston in Chicago for twentye seven years, and was sent here by the management of the company to assist in settling its affairs. We have just begun to do this. Our losses in San Fran- cisco are $1,200,000. Of this amount $200,000 is in reinsurance companies, and| some of these are ready to quit. “Some of the reinsurance firms were opposed to the American of Bosten granting an extension of time for the filing 6f proofs of loss, but we considered that we owed such a privilege to our patrons, and I have extended the time for filing the ‘proofs of loss for thirty days from June 18. We have received most| of the proofs of loss, but there may be a few stray ones yet to come in. “I am somewhat astonished at the attitude the people and the press of California are taking toward the insurance people. Men who deal in Insurance are not anarchists and should not be held up as such. The people of California should turn back the pages of history to the Chicago fire and learn that after that conflagration seventy-five insurance companies failed. Among these com- panies were three that were incorpogated in this State of California. They were the Pacific, the Occidental and the Peoples. All of them went to the wall and paid about an average of 20 cents on the dollar to their policy-holders. SEES LITTLE HAPPINESS FOR VICTIMS. “I expect that more than Seventy-five insurance companies will cease opera~ tions because of thelr San Francisco losses, and some policy-holders who are now holding out for a dollar will be pleased to accept much less—probably 20, cents on the dollar. H “Many of the companies are in dire straits and need assistance, and that assistance should be given them. Suppose there was such an agitation against the banks as there is now against the insurance companies, Imagine what fair- minded people would do.” Hosmer and E. G. Pieper have taken oyer the work of winding up the' affairs of the American Insurance Company of Boston from Charles Stovel, the former manager of the company’s interests in Talifornia. Hosmer and Pleper are at rooms 37 and 38 in the Albany block. FIFTEEN COMPANIES IGNORE ORDER LISTS OF CLIENTS. TO GIVE Fifteen fire insurance companies having capital aggregating 36,152,375, sura plus of $9,598,985 and losses in California of $17,957,000 have finally falled to' comply with the recently enacted law to compel them to furnish lists of their. _______.____—_—_______! CONTINUED ON PAGE 2, COLUMNS 4 AND S ——opommrar—, e P