The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 6, 1906, Page 1

west wind. C—NO. 36 VOLUME WEATHER FORECAST. For San Francisco and Vicinity: Fair Friday, with fog and brisk Get CALL, Burning. ful colored picture of the City NEXT SUNDAY'S" containing another beauti- B PRICE FIVE‘ CENTS. adjusted loss in these cases i57$84,325 On 166 Losses in Business Section $14,000,000 Is Disbursed. BUYS RAILROAD WARRANTS ISSUE From $19,000,000 About $5,000,000 Is Shaved During Adjustment‘ Nearly One-Quarter Is Lost in the Pruning Underwriters Believe Average Reached Is Quite Accurate One| ve been effected e that aid in $100,000,000 W sers on the face c on losses that FIGURES ON SETTLEMENTS. d, large sum of ng and effected te upon tees appoirted he $100,000,000 lication of f $84,325 by 1221 underwriters say up Prominent that, idering the large number of cases , the average is rea- as it e probl of the city. taken 1 the have losses ment that indicate the of t ore t e in Al st issued yes-| f properties in | n estate is concerned se include the prop-| - 3 434 F 432 and uthwest and Jessie streets, the prop-| street, | Mont- corner of New 173 179 Jessie street, a 148 to 164 New Montgomery street, 6 I i at 607 N corner of Seco to eet, d and i Hotel furniture the Stever e Gr: and the REACH OTHER BIG LOSSES. anies streets, t Palace Hote! con- he Svea, York Un- ireman’s Fund, Ham- Hanover, Niagara, Globe, principa losses are New Liverpool an 3 Hartford and the New York e loss committees have arrived ere they can take up among other import- on the Aronson the corner of Third and the Meyerstein- building and the St- Igna- and College and those of yterian Board of Publica- bbath School Work, Louis P. S. Sperling, Gold- & Co., George P. Ide & Sweigert, Heyneman & Nason & Hogan, Fargo & Co. and Savoy, owned by those Co Hotel Parrott SETTLEMENT IN FULL BY NATIONAL UNION. Stockholders Pay Assessment of 140 Per Cent to Meet San Francisco Losses. Abby M PITTSBURG, July The Na-| tional Union Fire Insurance Com- pa of Pittsburg, which was am rgest losers fire, has 140 per cent ers to make good the in" the San levied an upon cisco assessment stockhold- impeachment of its of assets. syndicate of prominent ,<|orkr] holders and others has subscribed | the sum of $1,050,000, which is 140] per cent of the capital of $730,000, to guarantee the payment of the as- sessment This takes the place of| the previous guaranty subscription‘ of $750,000. 3 Continued on Page 2, Column 6. i | reka , the total being IN STATE OF OREGON Spreckels Interests in Coos|Pittsburg Millionaire and County Now Controlled by Hamiman Corporation OUTWITS ITS RIVALS Coal Bunkers, Water Front Man Who Employed Negro Lands and Town Lots also Included in the Purchase! All the Spreckels interests in Coos County, Oregon, have beenm acquired by the Southern Paelfic Company, a deal involving several million dollars. The property transferred by the sale includes the Coos Bay, Roseburg and Eastern Railway, which operates from Marshfield to Myrtie Point and from Marshficld to Beaver Hill; coal lands, water fromt property, coal bunkers at Marshficld and Coos Bay and the steamers Breakwater and Czar- ina. The Southern Paclfic Company wil extend the line to Drain, Or., and there connect with the main line running be- tween Portland and San Franciseo. It of town lots, is understood it is the Intention the Southern Pacific immediately to begin work on the extension of the railroad to Drain, and when com- pleted it will open vast areas of tim- ber lands that are and agricultural now virgin For bee time the property had option held by James some under an B vice president and general manager of the Western Fuel Com- pany, who had several railroad Inter- ests and was anxious to acquire the property, but the Southern Pacific managed to get control of the situa- tion and make the final purchase. PROPERTY OF MUCH VALUE. familiar with the road and its proposed extension de- clare that the investment excels lent. It is quite difficult to estimate the vast quantity of timber that will be made avallable for market by the extension of the road and its connec- with the San Francisco line. Surveys have been made for the extension and, it is announced, work will begin immediately. Included in the property are 1181 town lots in Marshfield, 620 acres of lands at Beaver Hill and 200 of coal lands on the Isthmus Slough The railroad property at present consists of twenty-nine miles of track, roundhouses, stations, twenty acres of terminal grounds at Marsh- field on the water front and consider- machinery and rolling stock. are also stores, saloons and Those who are tions main coal acres able There | dwelling-houses included. In Southern Oregon there is much land that could not be developed the past for want of railroad facilities It is understood that the @outhern Pa- cific Company will now try to get such branches and extensions as will be necessary for much of this improve- ment. Some of the timber to be made avallable is of a class which is getting scarce in places where transportation has been provided. This includes spars for ships and finer kinds of lumber for manufacturing purposes. RAILROAD TO BE EXTENDED. The branch of the line running from Marshfield to Beaver Hill, it is stated, will be extended down the coast to meet the Santa Fe at Eureka. It i also stated unofficially that there is an agreement between the Southern Pacific and\the Santa Fe that Harri- man shall not bulld south of the northern boundary of California, and that the Santa Fe shall not be ex- tended north of the California State line. According “to a statement recently published In Portland, there is now a survey of the Harriman lines, leaving the Spreckels road near Beaverton and following the Cogquille River to the head of the Coquille Marsh, where it turns due south and passes within a nile of the town of Bandon. It then follows the old wagon road to Port Orford and hugs the shore line to En- with the exception of a point at Humbug Mountain, where it runs in- land around a promotory that raises to an elevation of 1700 feet. The cost of this road has been estimated at $30,000 a mile. P A A L Painter Breton Dead. PARIS, July 5.—Jules Adolphe Bre- ton, the noted genre painter, Is deéad. He was born in 1827 ! in | FOR HARTJE - PLOTIERS. His Alleged Confeder- ates to Be Prosecuted STATE AIDS WOMAN to Besmirch Wife's Char- acter Must Face Trial | SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. | PITTSBURG, July 5.—Warrants have | been issued for the arrest of Augustus Hartje, libelant in the Hartje divorce | case now being tried in this city; John | L. Welshons, president of the Farrar- Welshons Hardware Company, and Clifford Hooe, the negro co-respondent | first named by Hartje in the divorce | proceedings and who is now in janl awaiting trial on an indictment for | perjury. County Detective Robert G. | Thompson charges them with con- | spiracy to destroy the name und repu- | tation of Mrs. Mary Scott Hartje, wife of Augustus Hartje. | The announcement that charges had |been mdde against the three came as a tremendous sensation. Immediately after court adjourned District Attorney | Robb gave out the news that this ac- :tion had been taken as long ago as | April 18 and that, at the request of the court, further action had been de- |layed until the trial of the divorce | case. The warrants were today placed in| |the nands of the county detective for | service. | Hooe was formerly employed by Hartje, having entered his employ some |time in 1903, and was discharged In |1904 for drunkenness. After that | Thomas Madine, the white coachman | whom Hartje now accuses of intimacy | with his wife, became coachman at the | Hartje establishment. | NEGRO TELLS OF BRIBERY. Hooe probably will be called for trial | next week and will plead guilty to the |charge of perjury. He says he was | promised $5000 to give the testimony lhe did. The prosecution will show that during the time he was absent |from this city he received varlous | sums of money. Altogether, according to his own statements, he got about $825. The prosecution will produce a |number of applications for money or- | ders which were made at the Pittsburg postoffice for money to be transferred to Hooe while he was on his travels. As soon as Mrs. Hartje's lawyers prove the letters presented in court the |other day to have been forgeries new | informations will be made against a |new set of defendants on another and | spiey charge. Information for perjury |and subornation of perjury will follow. | Thomas Madine, the coachman co- respondent, was still on the stand to- day for cross-examination. As soon |as court opened J. Scott Ferguson, for | Hartje, arose and demanded that First Assistant District Attorney Stubbs be | excluded from the court, charging that |he was intimidating witnesses. To this Judge Frazer responded that Mr. Stubbs was an officer of the court and had a right to be present at the | hearing of this case. | Madine was on the stand all day. He was put through an examination that would have done credit to a first- class detective trying«o trip a criminal, although attorneys in the courtroom expressed great surprise at the defense ipprmmlns it. STRANGE WOMAN IN CASE. One question which made the audi- | ence gasp as coming from the libelant’s attorney was: iy “Do you remember Mr, Hartje taking a woman to the house during Mrs, Hartje's absence in Memphis?" “Ye: responded the witness, promptly. “Mr. Hartje came out to me at the stable the Saturday follow- ing the day Mrs. Hartje went away. He told me to gét out the depot wagon and put the blinds down. Then I drove him out to Forbes street, near the park. There he met a tall woman. After that I drove them back home, They got out of the carriage and went into the house by the front door. I went around to the stable with the team. Mr. Hartje came out of the back door of the house, walked back to the stable and told me not té say anything, and gave me $10. I put the team away and came to Oakland, when s HOLDS KILLING OF TILDEN WAS A MURDER. Superior Judg_e— Cook Decides That Slayers of Merchant Must Answer for Offense ACT NOT JUSTIFIED Court Cond;ns Orders of Authorities During Days of the Great Conflagration I have read all the testi- mony takenatthe preliminary examination of this case and find that the evidence shows conclusively that unlawful homicide was committed, and the only questions to be deter= mined are the grade or degree of the crime and the defend- ant's participation in it.— From Judge Cook’s decision in Boynton habeas corpus case. Murder, holds Superior Judge Car- roll Cook, was committed when civic guardsmen, acting under warrant of what the court brands as the void and \llegal proclamation of the civil and military officlals, ordered Heber C. Tilden, commission merchant, to stay the flight of his automobile during the burning of San Francisco, and when the order was not immediately obeyed s him dead, The_significance of this decisioh cannot be overestimated, for it Is the first time the acts of the authorities during the conflagration have been ju- diclally ‘weighed and, in this regard, condemned as without authority and outside the pale of law. Judge Cook's decision was reached in the case of Edward S. Boynton, one of the men accused of the assassina- tion of Tilden, who sought his free- dorh on a writ of habeas corpus. In denying the writ the court holds that Boynton must answer for murder, that the degree of his crime may be fixed by the jury that tries him: The court, however, holds that the prisoner is entitled to bail, but in view of the gravity of the offense he is charged with having commited fixes the same at the large sum of $20,000. “I have read all of the testimony taken at the preliminary examination of this case,” says Judge Cook in his opinion, “and find that the evidence shows conclusively that unlawful homicide was commited and the only questions to be determined are: First, the grade or degree of the crime, and, second, the defendant's participa- tion fn it.”” Continuing, sthe court says: PROCLAMATION UNLAWFUL. “That a crime was commited is clear. The deceased was traveling, as he had a right to do—regardless of the Red Cross flag displavgd—in his automoblile; no one had anv right nor authority to stop him without a warrant unless he was seen in the ac- tual commission of a crime. It is claimed that the exigencies of the time —growing out of the recent earth- quake and fire—justified the halting of the vehicle. Such claim, however, {s without any foundation. Martial law had not been and was not at any time during those troublous days de- clared. The State law was at all times ‘ More than $100,000,000 will be paid on fire losses in the business district of San Francisco if the average in 166 cases already settled maintains. ound, of the 166 properties was 000,000. The deductions thus total $5,000,000. The average SALOON DOORS SWING OPEN AND THE THIRSTY REJOICE PERSONALTY TAX BRINGS LARGE SUM First Day of Collection Is! Record Breaker in City Finance. PLEASES THE ASSESSOR Expects but Little Trouble in Securing Entire Amount Due. The collection of taxes on ynsecured personalty began yesterday morning, and when the Assessor's office closed at 5 o'clock more than $15000 had been taken in in cash and checks. As- sessor Dodge, whose force Is taking the taxes, says the collections were most satisfactory for the first day, consid- ering the recent disaster. “We have between $300,000 and $400,- supreme ahd mere orders or procla- mations, whether made by military authority or by the municipal execu- tive, could not make laws; neither was there any law by which the violation of such orders or proclamations could be considered criminal in any sense of the word nor constitute any crime known to the law, elther felony or misdemeanor. No person therefore, whether soldier, police or citizen, had any right to order a citizen traveling along the streets, whether in a vehicle or on foot, to halt. The stopping of the deceased was In consequence an unlawful act regardless of the orders given by tifose under whom the de- fendant was acting, for no officer— military or civil—had any authority to give sueh orders. and a void order is never a justification. “Suppose in case of a strike or any other unusual disturbance the police force even should be sent out with orders to stop every one walking after dark In a direction opposite to thelr homes and send them back. A homi- cide commited by an officet in at- tempting to carry out any such vold and illegal order would clearly be an unlawful homicide. SHOULD KNOW THE LAW. “Every one is presumed to know the law and ignorance of the law is |no defense nor - eéxcuse for crime. where 1 stopped In & pool room until —— i B PN ! Continued on Page 3, Column ¢ Those in authority who gave illegal 000 personalty taxes to collect,” sald Dr. Dodge, “and while we anticipate some delinquencies, we believe that the majority of the people, realizing the great need of the municipality at this time, will come forward and pay with- out delay or quibble. The money we are now collecting is needed for the maintenance of the municipality for the next few months and must be secured. | The collection of $15,000 on the firsy day 1s most satisfactory, but we an- ticipate increasing collections from now on.” The taxes are being collected in an improvised tent’ in the rear of the essor’s office at 2511 Sacramento street. The setting is most plctur- esque and in keeping with the emer- gency, though it is a reminder of the fact that the homes the city provided for its officers have ceased to be. Room in the tent is ample for present needs, but it is belleved that larger quarters must be secured by the Tax Colleetor when the work of collecting on realty is undertaken. —_— Wellman Arctic Expedition Sails. “TROMSOE, Norway, July 5.—The ‘Wellman Arctic expedition sailed on the steamer Frithjof for its headquarters at Spitzbergen today. The steamer King Helg, salling tomorrow, will carry the remainder of the material for the gas- making and erecting dwel:ings. The people of Tromsoe gave the expedition Thousands Visit Gilded Pa!a'cm and Imbibe Cheery Fluit!s: Therein Dmpenid CIGARS T"Eno . OF T SDR INKS NO MORE BUSINESS FOR THE BIIND Fi6: NS REOPEN THEIR DOORS AND THE BLIND PIG RELUCTANTLY K..i[RES FluM BUSINESS. KIDNAPERS MAY STEAL RICH BABE Threatening Letters Receiv- ed by Father of John D. Rockefeller III. MAKE DEMANDS FOR GOLD Guard of Eight Men Now Provided for the In- fant Creesus. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. BEVERLY ARMS, Mass., July 5— There is an awful dread in the family of John D. Rockefeller Jr. that his son, Joan D. III, will be kidnaped. Several letters asking for money and threatening all sorts of vengeance in case of refusal have been received by the father of the youngster. At first no notice was taken of these threats, but the idea gradually impressed itself upon the family that the abduction of the precious boy was not impessible. And so it has come to pass that eight husky, Iynx-eyed young men have been’ hired to act as watchovers of John D. IIL- Three of these men are distributed over the grounds immediately sur- rounding the housé here, which is known as Pitch Pine Lodge, the prop- erty of Otis H. Luke, a financier of Boston. Two other guards are sta- tioned in the approaches to the grounds, and three are constantly on the watch in the house. The baby of the Czar is not kept under more care- ful scrutiny. : —_— % ‘Wynne's Resignation, Accepted. ‘WASHINGTON, July 5.—The resigna- tion of Captain Robert Wynne, United States Marine Corps, was accepted by REUNITEDR S SIS r A0 | | Dnnk Places Rise Above the Debris in All Sections of Hustling City. The eyes of the blind pig opened ygsw= | terday morning, {ut nothing startling! met their gaze. It was prophesied by many that riot and ruin would be fea« | tures to mark the reopening of the sa-« | loons in our midst, but nothing like this happened. The optics of the blind | pig gazed upon nothing more than & | big crowd walking boldly into the en< | ticing " places, not one member watche | ing to see if the coast were clear and | then dodging In by the back door. | “We're up agin a tough layout now,™ ‘sam one master of a hush place to an- | other. “They can all peddle it now i | they are there with the license. W& | g0 out for keeps. Nobody wants to | sneak in through the back door w! | he can stand up at a bar. Us for t | shovel and the brick pile for a while. | A temperance town is the only place | tor us.” This fs the way some of our citizens look upon the present situation. Mlnfl | of them'ruled as true merchant princes while the doors of the thirst destroy= ing palaces remained closed. Now thefs day of power is over and they mus§ devise other ways and means of accu< mulating wealth. ANXIOUS DAYS ARE OVER. For nearly three months the thirsty thousands have watched and walted fos the grand main event that transpired yesterday. No pompous parade or legal holiday or banging of drums marked the all-lmportant occasion, but every man, woman and child in our mids¢ knew that the water wagon was dus | to float once more. They all beheld the smiling purveyor of the cheering stuff as he threw open wide his spa< clous doors when the clock marked the appointed hour. San Francisco has been a big and busy city for many years, but not tilf the 18th of April was it ever known as a togn patterned after the dreams of the prohibitionist. From ocean to ocean our city has been celebrated fos the elegance of its liquid emporfums, its jovial bartenders, its cholce cocks tails and world-renowneéd steam beer. Every tourist swore our steam beer was worthy of such an original city sa this metropolis of the Golden Gate. ' ‘When all our citizens were ed to take a long and rough ride the water wagon last April it bitter blow. The sorrowful spread rapidly and thousands forced to roam the length and of Fillmore street with parched and tongues swelled till they Continued on Page 3 Columa <