The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 4, 1906, Page 1

| WEATHER FORECAST. ' For San Francisco and Vicin- | ity: Foggy Wednesday ing; clearing during the day; E Fresh west wind. morn- VOLUME Get Next Sunday’s Call containing another beautiful colored picture of the City Burning. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, JULY g4, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GOOD NEWS FOR THE TRADERS' | ASSURED. They May Receive Ninety Cents on the Dollar From the Defunct Corporation ASSETS INCREASING Company’s Liabilities Will Vot Greatly Exceed the Value of the Securities organized policy=holders of the Traders’ Insurance Company yesterday “re- ceived authentic news from Chicago stating that the assets of the defunct corporation will nearly equal its liabilities. The assured will likely receive ninety cents on the dollar i ; I The directors of the L F in settlement. kholders e affairs of any loss to The directors sred of this city ates court to de- » bankrupt, so that 3t can be accom- have been > figures ¢ the defunct decree of Bbte of the that is ose will or Walter neured of the Fire- vesterday that adjusted dollar w meet at 911 xt Saturday afternoon OPERATION FAILS TO CURE | NEGRO KLEPTOMANIAC Colored Youth_Pilfcrs, Though Supposed Cause of Habit Is Removed. EPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. ARDINO, July 3.—Claude bation ward of President | s of the San Bernardino enjoying freedom sentence of five g the ruins of | ted by the local believe he has he terms of his probation and rted to his plundering habits. who 15 a negro, has an in- record. Sent up two years n elghteen-months’ term | dering a score of houses in he served his term and went ancisco, where he was good e earthquake threw temptation ay. He then stole two trunks les and brought, the plunder | He was arrested here. He rated on kleptomania at Hospital and a gathering the side of his was pronounced cured and en his freedom on condition ed good. His reforma- R permanen.. Sunday he a wheel and last week he com- | mitted numerous thefts and with one of the disorderly women of the city| had arranged & flight. Both had their for stole s packed and at the Santa Fe J The woman was not allowed to Jeave. The police cannot find the kleptomaniac _———— ‘ Only the ain's Son Saved. NEW YORK, July 3.—The Dutch tank steamship American, which ar- rived here today from Antwerp, col- lided with and sank the Danish schooner Berthe of Southforeland the night after the American left Antwerp. The schooner went down almost im- mediately and all of her crew of nine, | with the exception of the captain’s son, were drowned. | tried Saturday on a charge of assault | Waco, last night blew down a score | BRYANNOTREADY T0ANNOUNCE | CANDIDACY. Dicates a S;ment Asking the Faithful to Be Patient and Not Act Too Hastily PLEADING FOR TIME Hearst, Bailey and Folk, He Says, Have Claims That Should Be Considered ‘William J. Bryan from Norway y landed at and remaine Bryan de: some wri an went to the soon was be- lay ., Mr. r. Br Stead and of several candidates, ngr nan Hearst, wator Bailey and ernor Folk. o have all rendered conspicuous ser- vice to the party and the country, and their claims should be considered.’ The party is entitled to its most available man. and the question of availability cannot be determined so far in advance. | Circumstances and jssues may strength- | en the claims of some one of the gen- tiemen mentioned and the list should| be an open one until the time comes to choose I may add that it would not be just me to be put in the attitude of an- nouncing my candidacy or admitting the certaint being a candidate. It ore the convention >t willing to sit on a retty that long. I pre- T ition to say what I nk ought to be . .said, write what I k ought to be written and do what ink ought to be done. I am ad- in years and cannot spare two of my life at this time. be glad to return to America, ough every day of my trip has been ble. I shall be glad to meet my after I have and friends in America t them they can do what they think me best on issues and candidates When told that Mayor George B McClellan was London Mr. sald he had not heard he was there. He xpressed his gratification that Mec- n had escaped from the Salisbury ck and sald he hoped to meet him.| Mr. Bryan will speak at the American fety dinner tomorrow night MR. ROOSEVELT. in Bryan ADMIRES La Follette Sayx President Is Only Man | Who Could Defeat Bryan. MADISON, Wis.,, July 3.—Senator R. M. La Follette is loud in his praise of President Rooseveit He is doing splendid work,” sald he. He may be creating new prerogatives, | but with so many others violating | theirs the people will uphold him while he is fighting their battles. As things stand in the year 1906, Roosevelt is the | only man who could defeat Bryan. Two | years from now changes may oceur. I am well satisfled with the work accompliehed at this session of Con- | gress,” La Follette said. “In general results it has been one of the most | important in the history of the coun- try. Much of the credit is due to Pres- ident Roosevelt for his courage, pa- triotism and insistence on the enact- ment of the legislation that the coun- | try demanded. I must say, however, that what was done was largely done rudgingly and that many of the meas- s that went through at the close were unsatisfactory, because due con- sideration was prevented through dila- | tory tactics by hostile interests at the opening of the session.” SEPTUAGENARIAN BEATS WIFE WHO IS HALF HIS AGE| | Gray Hairs of Aged Brute Saves Him From Sentence to the Whipping Post. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. ROSEBURG, Or., July 3.—John Fits- gerald, a wealthy and well-known farmer of Looking Glass Valley, was and battery upon his wife. Mrs. Fitz- gerald is 35 years old and her hus- band is 70.- On the stand Fitzgerald acknowledged that he struck his wife, but claimed it was done in self-defense. Justice Long pronounced him guilty and Fitzgerald immediately rose to his feet and commenced to abuse the court. Justice Long immediately im- posed a fine of $26 for contempt of court. Fitzgerald’'s attorneys apolo- gized for the old man. The contempt fine was remitted and a fine of $50 im- posed for assault and battery. Justice Long declared that all that saved the | defendant Yrom the whipping post was his age. Fitzgerald paid his fine and gave $1000 bonds to keep the peace. SIS A Homes Wrecked by Tornado. WACO, Tex., July 3.—A tornado at West Station,’twenty miles north of of residences. Mrs. Mary Allen was adly injured and a man named Adams suffered a broken arm. | vely | tity. « statements to the contrary are untrue. I WAS MARRIED TO MR. THAW IN EUROPE,” 1S THE CLAIM MADE BY PRISONER’S WIFE NEW YORK July 3.--“I was married to Mr. Thaw in Europe and before the ceremony in this country. All the I have the proof, which will be produced at the trial. If the valet, Bedford, said we were not married I am very much surprised, but I do not think he said any such thing.” This statement was made today by Mrs. Harry K. Thaw. JAMES W. REA WHIPS SLEUTH San Jose Politician Lands on the Jaw of a Policeman. SPECIAL DISPAICH TO THE CALL. SAN JOSE, July 3.—In a short but altercation this morning be- tween James W. Rea, a prominent poli- tician, and James F. Prindeville, a de- tective on the police force, tne officer came out a lame second and i{s now nursing a much battered anatomy. The trouble with the two men, it is sald, has been of long standing, dating back to the time of the laying of the rails of the Interurban Railroad in this city. Each of tne participants in today's fracas claims that .he other was the aggressor and each claims to have a number of witnesses who will so tes- At any rate Rae, who is a heavily built man of unusual strength, succeeded in stretching his opponent on the sidewalk, where he took the count. Prindeville was off duty at the time. As a seque] to the fight Rae was later taken Into custody by Officer Black, charged with disturbing the peace. He was released on $10 bail. The affair is the talk of the town, owing to the prominence of the principals. PAT, BEAR AT IDORA PARK, VICTIM OF CHLOROFORM Succidito: Ascititc During Opefation of Removing a Throbbing Tooth. : N OAKLAND, July 3.—Pat, the big bear at Idora Park, is dead. He expired today while undergoing an operation for the removal of an aching tooth that had bothered him for some time ana made him cranky and surly toward his cage mates, Susle and Nellle. Chloro- form and not the decayed and throb- bing molar was the direct cause or Pat's demise. The powerful vrute haa been roped and stretched hetween two trees and Dr. Tom Carpenter of Ata- meda and Dr. W. L. Willtamson of San Francisco, boiL. veterinarians, were working over the animal paffent with a large chloroform mask made of leather, when Pat's pulse ceased to flutter and the suffering brute passea on to that realm where bears are not subject to any dental aflment. e = LT R 1 Able to Pay Despite Fallure. CLEVELAND, Ohfo, July 2.—Charles E. Denison was discharged from bank- ruptey today. This is one of the last echoes of the failure of Denison, Prior & Co., following the suicide of Leland ‘W. Prior. In the schedule of the firm the liabilities were stated at $2,395,836 jand the assets at $2,754,878. FOR\BFR CgORUS GIRL WHOSE ALLEGED SQUARE GARDENS. LATTER'S DEATH AT THE HAM TION BY STANFORD WHITE OF HER HUSBAND IN MADISON LED earthed Among ST. PETERSBURG, July 3. — All doubt of the existence of an organized military revolutionary league which is inspiring mutinies and uprisings in the army has been set at rest by the dis- covery of the seal and documents of the league during the search of sol- dlers attached to staff headquarters at Vilna. War Minister Rudiger has or- dered a strict investigation to be made of all detachments of troops in order to determine the best'methods of coun- teracting the revolutionary movement. Martial law was proclaimed today at Odessa on account of the ferment among the troops there. An incipient riot is reported to have occurred among the cuirassiers of the guard at Tsarkoe-Selo, where they had been ordered not to read the newspa- pers. Officers of the guard who were questioned on the subject declared that the severity of the measures taken to prevent the spread of the revolutinary propaganda among the troops was arousing such intense resentment among the men that the llves of the officers themselves were endangered. They speak most pessimistically of the spread of disloyalty among the army. A meeting of the Cabinet called by Premier Goremykin after his return from his visit to Emperor Nicholas at Peterhof began at 10:30 o'clock tonight, the Ministers having been unable to assemble during the day, and contin- ued until late in the night. No authori- tative announcement of the reason for the calling of this extraordinary con- ference or its decision is obtainable at this moment, but there is little doubt that it was connected with the change in. the Ministry, although individual members declined to admit this. Hints d by prominent leaders indicate that overtures for their par- ticlpation in a Ministry at the present L DISORDERS SPREAD TO CZAR'S GUARD Organized Revolutionary League Un- Russian Troops. stage have to do with a Cabinet under the leadership of former Minister of Agriculture Amiloff. This, however, is regarded as utterly impossible, but the Associated Press has strong grounds to believe that these members, in spite of their protestations, will participate in a Ministry under Ivan Shijoff, former Minister of Finance, i{f the latter can be induced to accept the Premiership. M. Yermoloff was quoted as saying yesterday that he had been invited by the Emperor to form a Cabinet, and that it was possible he or former Min- ister of Commerce Timiriazeff may be the next Premier if the Emperor, as is altogether probable, declines to make a full surrender to the Constitutional Democrats. The Government's agrarian bill has been finally approved, introduced in the lower house of Parliament and pub- lished in the Official Messenger, accom- panied by a soft of proclamation to the peasants glorifying the Emperor's constant solicitude for the peasants. It attempts to show that the realiza- tion of the Soclalistic schemes for the nationalization of the lands, “with which the country has been deluded,” instead of improving, the lot of the peasants, would resilt in Inevitable misery, as the distribution of all the arable lands in European Russia would glve each peasant less than one addi- tional deciatine, which would be sub- ject to constant diminution owing to increases in the population, and be- sides would deprive the peasants of the opportunity of obtaining work from the landlords, from whom a large percent- age of their income is derived. As finally submitted the Government solution makes the following propo- sitions: TFirst, to distribute upon “favorable terms” all the arable lands in Euro- 'Former Chorus Girl, Sobered by Trag- edy, Bears Up Well Under Strain. 'Hopes to Be of Material Assistance in Restoring Husband to Freedom. Slayer of Stanford White to Go to Tnzl on Simple Plea of “Not Guilty.” . Special Dispateh to The Call NEW YORK, July 3—"Please say that I am not breaking down under ithis terrible strain, and please do not further ‘the impression that | I am fading away. I am not going to give way—I will not; I must not. I | have strength to bear this trouble and it hurts me very much to read in the papers that I am wasting away beneath the strain which has been placed | upon me.” Two big brownt eyes looked pathetically and appealingly from under | the sailor hat shaded by the long brown veil. They were the eyes of Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, which, in spite of her pathetic protest of being alile to stand any strain demanded of her, were darkened by circles wlhiich too | plainly toldyof the struggle this beautiful young girl is having to fight the | battle of self-control, self-repression and endurance. | Clad in the same brown coat suit with a cream colored shirt waist, white | collar and black bow tie, with her hands encased in chamdis gloyes, her | sailor hat covered by the everpresent brown veil, Mrs. Thaw visited her husband again !oday in the Tombs. |GRATEFUL FOR THE KINDNESS SHOWN HER. { "Pcopl: are all so kind to me that I no longer dread the ordeal of | making my way to automobiles, as I did at first,” she continued. “Of ‘course, |it is very unpleasant to be pursued by cabs and cameras, but I undérstand | that the newspaper men are only performing the duties imposed upon thems “1 am feeling quite well this morning, thank you"—this wuh a pathenc little smile—“aithough I am suffering from a bad cold. 1 “No, I do not eat well, but how can I force down food when I hzvc no inclination to eat it? I sleep fairly well, but the fact that I have n‘k- nights is only natural. I am sure any woman in a similar position would not | her head on her pillow and rest calmly till morning. ; ‘weather is so changeable—first hot and then cold, like Saturday— thtlwhvenhmcoldth:ny. It is only temporary, and I would not for the world have one think I was breaking down—you will understand that won'’t you?” b, SUFFERING HAS WORKED A TRANSFORMATION To those who have known of Evelyn Nesbit as the beautiful model and actréss who married mill®naire Harry Thaw while he was in the enjoyment of all his wealth, the picture of the gay butterfly must be changed. The little figure in the Tombs this morning was still the beautiful butterfly, but its wings were drooping and from the brown eyes there looked forth a spirit of womanliness and patient grief that could only come through sincere feeling and sorrow. . The events of the past week, since the pistol of Harry Kendall Thaw brought death to Stanford White, have changed Evelyn Nesbit into 2 woman. “Both my husband and -myself feel very badly about the death of his valet, Bedford,” she continued. . “Poor fellow, he was a true friend.” Mrs. Thaw said further that the valet could not have said to Assistant District Attorpey Garvin that no marriage had taken place in Europe. “I was married to Mr. Thaw while abroad,” she said, “and before the ceremony took place in this country. I have the proof which will be pro- duced at the trial. All the statements to the contrary are untrue. If the valet, Bedford, said 'we were not married I am very much surprised, but [% don’t believe he said any such thing.” PAYS DAILY VISIT TO HUSBAND IN TOMBS. Mrs. Thaw paid her usual visit to her husband in the Tombs today, remaining in conversation with him for a considerable time. She was awaited outside by the usual large crowd of curiosity seekers that gathers each day to watch her come and go. Former Judge Olcott, Thaw's chief counsel, had a conference with his client this afternoon. He was accompanied by a Mr. Keck, who is said to be the attorney for the Thaw family in Pittsburg. When Judge Olcott left he carried with him a bundle of about seventy letters which Thaw had re- ceived through the mails. Judge Olcott said that, owing to the number of letters sent in the mails to Thaw, he would have some member of the law firm open them in the future before they reached Thaw, and thus save tht young man considerable annoyance. Assistant District Attorney Garvin today assumed possession of the reports of the three detectives, Rocke, McDonald and Raleigh, who wer‘ employed by Thaw to watch the movements of Stanford White. Thaw will go to trial on the charge of having killed White on his m'npll plea of “not guilty,” the time limit for interposing any motion or demurrer by counsel having expired today. NEWS IS BROKEN TO MOTHER OF THAW. { LONDON, July 3—On her arrival in London Mrs. William Thaw was driven to the residence of the Earl of Yarmouth, where the news of the tragedy in New York was broken to her. She bore up splendidly under the blow, but has not decided upon her future movements. Extraordinary precautions were taken on board the liner Minneapolis to keep any inkling of the tragedy from her until relatives were able to break the news. Mrs. Thaw, who had been unusually cheerful throughout the voyage, was met by her son-in-law, the Earl of Yarmouth, and Blair Thaw, who went to Tilbury to welcome her, and her face was wreathed in smiles when she landed. As she stepped ashore Mrs. Thaw was surrounded by friends and detectives, the latter being detailed to prevent any stranger approaching her. After landing Mrs. Thaw and her party boarded a special train, from whlch reporters were excluded. As the train pulled out of the station Mrs. Thaw was still smiling, appar- ently being in continued ignorance of the tragedy. She mrrowly escaped hearing the news at the dock. While the Earl of Yarmouth was talking to American press representatives a reporter for an Enghsi newspaper attempted to speak to Mrs. Thaw, but the Earl inter- vened just in time“to save her froth getting the first news from a stranger. Wireless messages containing the news were received on board the Min+ neapolis, bit the captain, having been so advised, suppressed them. t pean Russia to the peasants who have ing to the peasant class besides n‘ not sufficient lands. empting the land from selzure for debt. Second, to purchase for the account Fifth, to assist immigrants to reach of the state the land which private|Siberia and Central Asia and to owners are willing to sell. |them in Installing themselves there, "Third, to sell such lands to the peas- | not only by allotments of land, but by ants on reasonable terms, even if (Ml‘ the bullding of Government roads. invelves the assumption by the state Sixth, to make arrangements for the of the difference in the cost and the sale of the lands the immigrants leave selling price. \ behind them for the benefit of these Im- Fourth, to establish the principle lmlmm the rigorous lmmmt of that new as well as old peasant lands agriculture, cpnoetl-g inequalities are not salable to persons not belong- |in plats of land, e!