The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 3, 1906, Page 1

" WEATHER FORECAST. For San Francisco and vicin- ity: Fair Tuesday; warmer morning; fog at night; fresh | west wind. Th e Call prints more f | news than any other paper published in San Franeisco. VOLUME C.—=NO. 33. SAN FR ANCISCO, TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. PLLANS COMPLETE FOR GREAT ~ CELEBRATION OF THE FOURTH BTG - GEW. mEDERrOA FIETON £S5 PER HEAD 1 P 'ElaborateProgramme of Exercises in Park ; During Day. Entertainment in All | Public Squares in ! r | | the Evening. The stadium in Golden Gate Park| will be the scene of San Francisco's| greatest and most unique Fourth of July celebration. There will be no dis- play of fireworks, but the patriotism of | the people will be stirred by the play- | |ing of bands, the singing of “The Star Spangled Banner” by thousands of chil- dren, orations by eloquent speakers and the struggles of the greatest ath- | DN LIFE OF THE THAWG Married Age; They Had Toured Europe To- gether. Ante-Moi‘k—m— Statement| of Valet Reaches Servant of the Prisoner| Passes Away in New;} ork. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. NEW YORK, July 2.—All the mystery | surrounding the marriage of Harry| Kendall Thaw to Evelyn Nesbit was| dispelled by an ante-mortem statement by William Bedford, Thaw's valet, who | died today. When Thaw and Miss Nes- | bit were returning from Europe to- gether about a year and a half ago the cabled rumor preéceded them that the, had been married abroad. Thaw af-| tempted to engage rooms for the young | actress at a New York hotel without registering her as his wife and was in- | formed that he could not be accommo- dated. In another place he secured two adjolning rooms. ‘here were admissions of marriage, | |letes of the West for honors upon field |and track Eorodiah o 3 i : ‘uropean R uring the evening bands will be European Governments < g |playing in Jefferson, Lobos, Columbia, All More Ex i AT, { Duboce, Hamilton 'and Washington 1 viore Lxpensive EUGENE = squares, at the ref P quares, refugee camp in the Gt Potrero and at the camp of the Rongh to Citizens. oo oo oo Riders of California at Jones and Cal- PERSONS WHO WILL LY IN THE INDEPEN BRATION NEW CONSUL GENERAL SENT HERE BY GHINA Sum See Yee, Who Accompanied Minister Cheng to Washing- ton, Appointed. —Representa Ho Un ‘U-;i apita States, is reasing the expenditures o n our Gov- = o One apparent result of Minister large Cheng's recent visit to this city when considergtio he came West to give attention to'the corndition of Lis countrymen here after earthquake and fire is change in the perform a shall < Po shi The new Consul General arrived at of appro- | the copsulate a few days ago, and reason to |Ching Po Shi promptly turned over to made during his successor all the papers and docu- ments that pertain to the office. for the Demo- | Ching Po Shi said last night that his jve Liy- term as Consul General expired a month rison of -the ex- | 280 and that he would leave on the by this Con. Siberia for the Orient next week. He has been In office In San Francisco for about three years. Sum See Yee was a member of Min- the expendi- the "Congress of f President Me- L] ), when the fig- |}ster Cheng’s entourage when the Chi- a differe of | mese Minister passed through this city g on this show- on his w to hington several . years ago. He has acted as second secretary to the Chinese legation in Washington since Cheng's arrival there. TR et PREMATURE CELEBRATIONS CAUSE INJURIES IN CHICAGO Toy Pistol, Cammon snd Crackers Get in Their Weork Before Fourth Arrives. CHICAGO, July 2.—The Fourth of July harvest is on in good earnest in Chicago. Yesterday four persons suf- fered injuries from the deadly toy can- non, pistol and cannon cracker. Viola- {tion of Mayor Dunne's orders against premature celebration of the Fourth to favored classes |spread through the entire city and “Much of this extravagance grows |scarcely more than ten minutes passed out of the practice of the present ad- |in any of the more populous districts ministration of appointing committees | without the bursting of some kind of to do what Congress ought to do and | noise-maker. what Congressmen are elected for and | The police, despite this condition, d for, thus delegating the powers /made only one arrest, but at the tionally belonging to Congress | various headquarters it was asserted others who have no particular rela- | that a sharp lookout was being kept jons with or responsibilities to the |for violators. public and do not render an accounting | CLEVELAND, July 2.—Six firemen 1o the taxpayers of this country.” | were injured by an explosion of fire- —_—————— | works in the wholesale cigar and con- Engineer Roberts Better. . |fectionery establishment of J. Kraus & ANGELS CAMP, July 2—Engineer A. |Sons on West Ninth street today. The Roberts of San Francisco, who was | firemen had been called to extinguish a slight blaze in the building. The build- | ing was gutted. his sustains the contention that the stands for extrava- expenditures in order avagance as a cloak. for objectionable purpose of ore ning a high protective tariff to the trust combinations and man- ers of the country. ction -of* expenditures, they know, would ¢ompel a commen- | surate reduction in taxation, and to t extent a lowering of the Chinese 11 of protection that now surrounds the great body of consumers, who con- stitute the larger portion of our pop- ulation, and compel tribute from them well 2 E injured in the Sierra Rallway accident and explosion, is now out of danger. .| literdry ifornia streets. At all these squares . programmes have been ar- ranged, while the Rough Riders have foMlowed by denlals, and the final ac-| count was that there had been a pri-| vate ceremony on the other side of the Atlantic and that the church wedding, which occurred In Pittsburg, was mere- ly to satisfy s mother, who is a devoted ch . This was not a secret m , but -the first and only one, to Bedford's de- . After Thaw's indictment for murder elaration. in the first degree after killing Stan-| v was one of the matters in which the valet's te was deemed essential by the pr tion, as he had been in a position to know about Thaw's actions for the last six years. -l Bedford declared that there had been no marriage before the Pittsburg cere- many. Thaw and Miss Nesbit had trav- eled together, Thaw taking his valet and Miss Nesbit her maid, Nellie Leahy. Thaw invariably registered their names separately and always obtained com- municating rooms. While they were in London and Paris everybody knew | that they weré living as man and wife |and they admitted tacitly that the re- |lation existed. 2 | Bedford never carried any messages | to White and had no knowledge of any | having been received from him. There | were no communications of any kind | petween Mrs. Thaw and White, as far as he knew. The Thaws seemed to get along very well together and did not quarrel, the valet testified. Thaw had the revolyer with which he shot White three or four months and usually carried it, Bedford sald, al- though he had not invariably done so. He formerly had and carried another revolver. He was not in the habit of | baseball games, are scheduled at vari-|vears Thaw had not been {n any sani- supplemented their exercises with a|taking drugs. The valet saw him take barbeécue. | pills at times with meals, but never Boat and yacht races, as well as| narcotics of any kind. For the last six ous places across the bay, but San|tarium or institution of any kind and Franciscans will seek the stadium of | had given no signs of insanity. Golden Gate Park to make the day| Private detectives will play a vital a gala one in the city’s history. | part in Thaw's trial, as they will be in Chairman Edwin W. Joy and the a position to show that Thaw’'s hatred Fourth of July committee have com-|for White was of long standing and pleted all arrangements for the cele- |that he had resorted to unusual expe- d b paid " b the Con Generalship, one of Prince the unthinking or Gpeng 2ty TR X gt her s secretaries, Su Se Ve B i i 4 = ries. Sum See Yee, hav-| s for | IDE been appointed to succeed Ching bration. Yesterday the United Rail- roads Informed the committee, through | Miss - Estelle Carpenter, that twenty special cars would be provided this morning to carry school children out to Golden Gate Park for the rehearsal of national sonigs. The cars will bear a sign indicating that they are for the children and will leave the starting | points of all the railroads now In op- eration at 9 o'clock. There will be a policeman on each car to look after the children and preserve order. They will all be carried free of |charge, and Miss Carpenter, who will| conduct the rehearsal, hopes to see at | least 2000 children at the stadium when | she commences the rehearsal this morn- ing. The United Railroads has fu nished the committee with 10,000 fre | tickets to be distributed among chil- | dren desirous of riding out to the park {to take part on the Fourth. Miss Car- penter will distribute tickets to all children who are on hand for rehearsal | this morning. | For the benefit of children and others |it may be said that the stadium is reached by getting off the cars at the | chain of lakes and following the paths bearing the signs “To the stadium.” | The stadium 1s located back of refugee camp 6 and embraces part of the old speedway. The celebration will be Initiated by a parade, which will form at the ker street entrance to the panhandle. It will be purely military in charcater ex- cept for the twenty carriages bearing Brigadier General Funston as the city’'s guest, Mayor Schmitz and city officials, | foreign consuls and notable guests of | the committee. Fifteen hundred regulars from the Presidio, accompanied by two military bands, the naval reserve and 150 cadets from the naval training station at Goat Island, will form the parade. The troops will be in command of Colonel Morris. The committee has conferred the honor of grand marshal upon Supervisor A. M. Wilson, who has selected Ira Barker Dalzell for his chief aid. The other alds are Thomas McCarthy, Marc An- thony, C. L. Ortega, Thomas C. Grey, S. W. Horton and J. Casserly. The line of ‘march will be through the panhandle and park to the stadium, a distance of three miles. The parade will start promptly at 10 o'clock. The literary exercises will commetice at the stadium immediately after the parade i Continued on Page 7, Column 2. | dlents to disgrace him. | Positive allegations are made that | Thaw was willing to spend enormous |sums of money to bring White into disgrace. The mother of a young act- ress Insisted today that Thaw had of- | fered her $50,000 if she would obtain White’s arrest by swearing that he had wronged her daughter. As there was /no truth in the allegation the woman | refused to commit perjury. She says | Thaw made offers of large amounts to | anybody who could find a woman will- ing to make such an accusation. All concerned In thé case agree that no evidence has yet been obtained showing any grlevance on Thaw’s part of a later date than the legal proceed- ings begun against him by his present wife a short time hefore their Euro- pean trip. Thaw thought that White had some knowledge of this matter and had inspired the afidavit that led to a financial settlement out of court. This sult is assumed to be the motive for Thaw's persecution of White culminat- ing in the shooting. ‘William * K. Olcott, one of Thaw's counsel, declared later in the day that he would ask for an immediate trial, as he belleves that Thaw's health will be permanently impaired if he is kept in the Tombs all summer. It is likely that architects and others ELEGATES TOGCONSULT MA. BrYAN Representatives of the Western Democracy - Going Abroad. Will Lay Plans for the Proposed Reception Before Him. Wishes of tie— Nebraskan to Be Followed by Admirers. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. NEW YORK, July 2.—With plans al- ready under way for a big welcome to ‘William Jennings Bryan at his home in Lincoln, Neb.,, on his return from his “round-the-world” journey, Colonel M. C. Wetmore and Moyton Jourdan, lead- ing Democrats of St. Louis, will sail plans before Mr. Bryan and to confer with him regarding the reception planned by the Commercial Travelers’ Anti-Trust League to be given in New York, It 1s the purpose of Colonel Wetmore and Jourdan, who represent the Democ- racy of the West and Middle West, to enlighten Mr. Bryan concerning present political conditions in the country, and to talk with him also of the plans for demonstrations to mark his home- coming. Pending wogd from the sub- sequent meeting with Mr. Bryan it is not likely, it was said tonight, that any plans will be furthered. Plans for the Lincoln reception are going on entirely independent of the welcome planned by the Commercial Travelers' Anti-Trust League. Colonel Wetmore declared tonight that he knew little about the New York plans, that there was no disposition on » part of any of Mr. Bryan's friends W.mh so far as he knew. . he added, all rest with Mr. Bryan. LIGHTNING KILLS BABE IN ITS NOTHER'S ARMS Latter Carries Burden Several Miles Before She Discovers Death of Her Child. little babe of DENVER, July 2.—TIK {Mrs. T. Ira Hall, just 3 months old, was | killed by lightning last night while the fond mother held it to her breast to shield it from the storm. Mrs. Hall did not know the child was dead for sev- eral hours. The Halls were returning to Denver from a resort fourteen miles distant when they were overtaken by {an electric storm. After a blinding flash of lightning the babe screamed and then lay still in its mother’s arms. Wrapping her garments more closely iabout the little one, the mother never suspected the tragic truth until she laid the babe on a bed at home several hours later. There she notiged some blood on the child. and the next mo- ment she saw that her baby, a girl, was dead. A physiclan said later that the flash of lightning caused a hem- orrhage which resulted in death. Mrs. Hall experienced no ill effects from the ver. They, according to the Assistant Dis- trict Attorney, had been instructed by Thaw to follow White to a steamship pier and to engage men to pick quar- rels' with him at the pier in order to annoy the architect. ‘When Mrs. Thaw left the prison to- day after visiting her husband, she said she found him in better spirits and more cheerful than at any time since the tragedy. ¥ “He is as cheerful as one in his po- sition could be expected to be,” she said. - From the prison she went to the office of her husband's attorneys. Allen W. Evarts, counsel for the ‘White family, called at the District At- torney's office today and had a ten- minute talk with Mr. Jerome. This is the first occasion on which the White family has been in touch with the Dis- trict Attorney’'s office in connection with ‘the murder. Former Judge Olcott of counsel for Thaw spent nearly the entire afternoon in the prison in consultation with his client. Much of the time was spent in going over letters which have been re- ceived by Thaw since his Imprisonment. His mail is increasing In size daily, and many of the writers fleclare them- selves ready to disclose certain infor- will make some statement in the form of a memorial for the purpose of call- ing attention to the many qualities of mind and heart which they admired in Stanford White. . That there is no prospect of a speedy. trial for Thaw was announced today by District Attorney Jerome, who returned to town for two days to devote his per- sonal attention to the case. Owing to the fact that during the summer there are only two parts of the Court of Gen- eral Sessions in session and that the mation concerning Thaw's victim which they think may be of use to the de- fense. More than half a hundred let- ters were received by the prisoner to- day, and fully half of these were | deemed of sufficlent importanece to de- mand consideration by his counsel. For the first time since his Impris- onment a week ago Thaw was permit- ted to exercise in the open air today. ‘With about farty other prisoners he was taken to the courtyard of the prison, and together they walked Wednesday for Europe to lay thelir | BISHOP LOSES PN o TOMANTC (OAGHMAN Commission. Fresh Sensation in the |Stevens Placed on the ‘Hartje Divorce Case in Pitisburg. Board to Succee Ernst. Wile of the Millionaire Claims They Are Forgeries. { SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. WASHINGTON, July 2e—Announce- ment was made today at the White | House of the appointment of a new | Isthmian Canal Commission. The bul- |letin from the White House gives the following. information as to members, | of the commission: Theodore P. Shonts | as chairman; John F. Stevens, Charles E. Magoon, Peter C. Halns. brigadier | general U. S. A. (retired): Mordecai T. | trial _in | Endicott, civil engineer U. S. N., and | i Benjamin M. Harrod as members. I e Stevens becomes a member “of the| 3 + | commisston vice General Oswald M L S Ar L s A who resired reom ac. [ LIOVING -Oentiments - Are | tive service in the army last week and i S 3 will hereafter devote his entire atte CO d th tion to the International Waterways niamec 1mn € Commission. Stevens is to continué as | : chief engineer of the commission. The | tters. salaries of the members of the com- | mission will remain as heretofore ¥ 1 The roster does not vontain the name SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE.CALL. of Joseph Bucklin Bishop. At-the of-| PITTSBURG, July 2.—No . sénzation fices of the commijssion it was said which has ever brokeun loase in-a di- | that this omission is due to a provision [ 5’ PE : |in the law which prevents the Presi- Ko tidurg ciuirts {dent from making a recess appoint- |equaled that which developed today in ment of the same person twice in suc- |the divorce suit of Augustus Hartje |cession. Meanwhile Bishop will retain | ugainst his . wife, Mary. Scott Hartfe: | his position as secretary of the com- | With - ¢ 3 { mission at $2500 per yeaf in place. of | With her cheeks paling and blazing | the $10,000 a year which he has hither- | with indignation hy turns Mrs. Hartje to;lngloyed., 4 il 2 er‘“' in -the ‘courtroom and -heard read | shop was a New York newspaper |ywonty letters - which her husband {man. He was first made secretary of| 3 - [the commission at a salary of $10.000.| Saniee ~ the "aoere iariiaan . |a year. The Senate protested against| pa;ijc has named as eb-respondent. | the salary and the Presidert strelshs, | The letters were filled with the most ‘Ca) lmC o P v vame) i{loving sentiments; breatnirg -passion m&:‘um;:‘:;:; °'“;rhe s““:’ held‘“";; in every sentence, assuring him ‘of her fthe appointment. It is understood that | nucuint for hink aad aould nores loge {the President will reappoint Bishop a5 | any one eise. She. wecused. him of Book l‘!le 1“:]‘;‘ hyoat gy S Jheal- |growing cold toward her, but said her | time Bishop ‘will receive a greatly re-|peart was on fire with love- for. him duced salary. | and would ‘always be so:. Interspersed e with all these loving messages was such practical gdvice as fof him to be : careful ubout brushing the horse, to |/dust out his bhair and not to peglect | his bath. . |" The crowd in the courtroom wanted A ELHN H“ I | to laugh, but Judge Frazer suppressed pivh S Pennsylvania Railroad Makesa Report on Its System. . | 2 all levity. He looks om this as a | tragedy, not a ecomedy. The libelant {rested his casé cn the reading of tha | letters and the defense is new. on. After sitting all day hearing those ‘lettor- read Mrs. Hartje went om the | stand, not shaken a ‘particle by" the | terrible ordeal she had just passed through. She denies the authorship of the letters. - Tomorrow the defénse will seek. to prove that theéy are forgeriex.. The case has become more perplexing than ever. Hartje's face was drawn today after the. lettérs -were read more than at any time since the trial. began, and yet the letters, if he proves them genu- ine, will gain bim the libérty he’seeks and the control of 'the children .the woman loves as well as She loves' her lite. . In many .of the' letters there ara sentences purporting té show that John Scott, father of Mrs, Hartje; his wife and her sisters all knew of the al- leged love of Mrs. Hartje for Madine and -.aided . and abettegd _it, but the father's advice was to be. careful until the divorce suit-is eénded .and she gets PHILADELPHIA, July 2.—A prelimi- nary report of the special committee of | | the board of directors of the Pennsyl- | vania Railroad Company. recently ap- pointed to investigate the alleged’ dis- criminations in the distribution of coal | cars as revealed at the hearings of the | | Interstate Cpmmerce Commission, was | submitted today to the full board of the | company. After a short discussion:the | report was unanimously approved. | The committee, after stating that it | had been requested to extend its inves- | tigation to all companies controlled by | the Pennsylvania Rallroad and that it | had caretully. considered the testimony |taken by the Interstate Commerce . | Commission, says that the testimony ’:n:;'l;‘e::“’m"“‘o°;":‘;"i:d‘l':{,‘: w'l:.ll: showed “that of more than 300 opera- = Madine in comfort and seclusfon. SR SRS A SURVEY TO- INVESTIGATE DISPLACEMENT OF CRUST Will Rectify Califomia Data as "'Result. of. Earthquake | tors of bituminous coal.mines situated on the lines of the Pennsylvania Rail-| road less than ten operators in all have | testified that they believed themselves | to have been unfairly discriminated | against either in the @istribution of | cars cr in the matter of sidings con- necting mire workings with the rail-| road lne. “Fifty-one of the more than 123,000 officers and employes of the Pemnsyl vania Railroad Company,” the commit lightning. fee says, “were examined before the In- _f______.___ terstate Commerce Commission, and of | Movement. examined. They were J. W. Rourke, |those witnesses 21 were shown to have | —— ‘William McDonald and Harry Raleigh.|acquired in various ways interests in|. WASHINGTON, .July ° 2.—Seerstaryf coal companies or properties, alleged| Metcaif of the Department of Com+ but not proved to have received undue | merce and Labor has beem much inter and unreasonable preference in the ested by strong evidence presented by distribution of coal cars, or in the con- | the California earthquake commission struction of sidings. Despite the pub- | that horizontal displacement of the lic impression to the contrary, derived | earth's crust has gccurred along the from the fragmentary publications of coast of California.. The suggestion of ‘the evidence in the newspapers, the tes- the commission that the .coast survey timony of the witnesses examined by |investigate the displacements has been the commission does not prove thal K acted upen by issuance of orders to It there has ‘been in fact any undue or|to test the triangulation whose Eeo- unreasonable preference either in the| graphical co-ordinates as prepared for aistribution of coal cars or in the con- | publication may. have been seriously struction of sidings.” vitiated by earthquake disturbance. As The committee says it has received | these geographical co-ordinates form replies from all officers and employes! the basis of all accurate maps and having charge of the distribution of|charts, it has become obligatory upom cars to inquiries made by the commit- the survey to,make this test and to tee regarding car distribution, but until | rectify the data if necessary. Such dis- the company’s records of the dally | placements occurred as the result of movement of cars can be examined the | an earthquake In Sumatra in 1592, and committee will be unable to know in India a revision of the triangulation whether the distribution of cars varied made after the earthquake of 1397 from the rules governing the same. Ex- | showed resulting horizontal differences pert investigation of the company’'s| of distances "as great as twenty-six y reports and other records of their | feet and difference of elevation amount= ribution has been undertaken. |ing to thirteen feet. et SRS PARDONED AFTER SERVING FIVE MONTHS FOR LIBEL L dsst At G s WEAKENED MAJORITY FOR EDVUCATION BILL — { Attendance Clause Carries in House of Commons After a Pro- longed Discussion. I Governor. LONDON, July 2.—Discussion of the DES MOINES, Ia., July 2.—Dom- sixth clause of the educational bill,|inick C. O'Malley, one of the owners of which makes attendance of children in | the New Orleans Item, who was con- elementary schools compulsosy only | victed last February on a charge of during the hours of secular instruc- |criminal libel and sentenced to pay a tion, occupied much time in the House |fine of §500 and to serve eight months of Commons today. The Government| imprisonment in the Parish Prison, succeeded in defeating a hostile amend- | was pardoned yesterday by Governor ment by the small majority of 16 votes | Blanchard. The pardon was recom- and carried the clause by a majority mended by the State Pardon Board om of only 47 votes. afidavits of physiclans that Mr. O'Mal- S ————— ley’s health is poor and that his life | Owner of New Orleans Newspaper Ree leased Upon the Order of the reaches it. A stand has been erected |dq trial would probably last two or three |around the sides of the yard. After two weeks, the District’ Attorney decided|laps Thaw found the sun too hot and not to advance the Thaw case on the |dropped out and sought a shady cor- calendar. Thaw will hardly be ar-|ner. Later he again entered the line ralgned before October. and made more laps, but soon asked The death today of Thaw’'s valet, |permission of the guard to stay in the Willlam Bedford, in the Presbyterian|shady spot for the rest of the exercise Hospital from complications following |time. 3 an operation for appendict removed| It is likely that Thaw’'s request was an important witness from the case. - |not so much due to Mr. Garvan examined today P. ‘| clination to stay in the line as to the Bergoff, a private detective, who says|fact that the windows of every sky- RDIN. GIBBONS WILL will be jeopardized by further impris- o ,o‘-}' Infl’mufl-lfimm onment. He has served five months of | e— ~ |the nlll‘:-ace.h BALTIMORE, July 2.—It was author-| The charge was based upon an itatively stated here today , that his article in the Item abont Mayor Martin Eminence, Cardinal Gibbons” has writ- | Behrman of New Orleans, which, it was ten a letter to the secretary of the In-|charged, Mr. O'Malley dictated. ternational Policy-Holders' Committee, R D New York, withdrawing his consent to Duke Host to Longworths. serve as a member of that committee. LONDON, July 2.—The Duke of Man- o chester gave a luncheon today to Mr. that for many months he was emplo. _around the prison were filled a ee lates by White ti 51 ; the fourth story up with ’ Librarians Homor Califernian. and Mrs. Nicholas .ongworth, who aft- :‘u‘::rd ld..z:p.'lx\ X i u:d with fleld e ’. 'Mpo:::‘ NARRAGANSETT PIER, R. L, July | erward visited Oxford and then went to etectives employed by ‘watching the walking prisoners. When |2.—The American Association of State | Londom, accompanied by Embassador detectives employed by | “5“:,1-‘!- the wh-fimo wall he |Libraries elected James L. Gillls of land Mrs. Reld, to a dinner and dance ' about six curious ones. | California president. glven by Lady Dartmouth. ‘White for