The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 9, 1906, Page 3

T HE ‘SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY o Calumet Stockholders Will Pay Fire Losses of Their Company Heavy Asscsament of $250 | English Adjl;;rs En Route Is Levied by Directors to This City to Make on Each Share. an Investigation. Nearly a Million Dollars to,Policy-Holde;-in Three Big Be Distributed Among mpanies Must Await Policy-Holders. Their Verdict. Calumet OAKLAND, July 8. — Policy-holders with claims aggregating approximately 8, 00 against the Commercial Union Fire Insursnce Company of Chicago, linois. San Francisco losses, $000,000. :arnnl Steck 200,000 | 4 ssyrance Company, the Alliance As- urplus 251,133 Compa and the Palatine In- Assessment on stockholders 500,000 Company mercial all of London, and Union Fire Insurance rk, which corpora- Prospective Assets $951,133 The Calumet Fire Insurance Company ¢ ot as yet paid a single cent of Chicagoe has levied an assessment on their San Francisco losses, are im- of $259 om every share of its capital patiently awaiting the arrival here in order to pay its San Framelsco from England e representatives of the s. At the present time it owes| Alliance, Palatine and Commercial about $900.000 im thix city. Its com- Union | bined capital surplus is but $451,133. The forelgn insurance magnates are The assessment upon the sto expected to reach this city the latter| will bring the total resourc: part of the present week, according to $951, C. F. Mullins, who is the Pacific Coast The Calumet can pay every manager for the four companies named, an Francisco losses if its stockholders all of w have the now well known meet this assessment. Word came to “earthquake use” in their policies. this city vesterday from Fred S. James| Thus far none of Mullins’ corpora- »f Chicago. alumet, managing director of the ng that the stockholders had promised to up promptly and that the San Francisco losses would be redeemed in full hix is good news to the humdreds of policy-holders here, to whom mot one hes so far been paid tions have admitted or denied lability their matured risks in San Fran- co, and while the concerns have not ompensed to the extent of a copper a single one of their policy-holders who sustained losses, the companies con- tinue to write new business. They will not accept less than a dollar for a dol- ar on premiums. The es companies pay cent nated loss of the quartet of Commercial is as follows C on of London, $2,800,000; Palatine, $2 cial Union or New York, $250,000. POLICY-HOLDERS MUST WAIT. Owing to the cated demands that were made upon him by impatient pol- cy-holders as to what treatment his npanies would accord their San Fran- co claimants, Manager Mullins {ssued the following notice to owners of ma- tured policies “I am in receipt of a cable from the home office of my companies to the ef- fect that the directors are legally ad- cor ¢ vised that if claims for which sald com- panies are not liable are pald, said di- e rectors will incur lability of a serious character; also that the general mana- of the Commercial Union and the tine and the secretary of the Alli- ance will arrive in this city the middle of July “Until the arrival of these gentlemen the position the companies will take with relation to claims under their San Francisco policies cannot be definitely stated. It is my hope that until then the policy-holders will continue to ex- nce already practiced. es of the companies are re than ample to meet much larger amounts than the total insurance writ- ten by them in San Francisco, and no laim will be endangered in that re- spect by awaiting the final action of the representatives from the home offices.” When asked as to who the insurance men from London were and what au- thority they were coming here with Manager Mullins said WILL MAKE INVESTIGATION. 1 know who the gentlemen are, but I will not at this time give out their TO FIGHT GERMAN COMPANIES. Policy-Holders the Rhine selle of and Mo- Organize. Corporation Po! next Tuesday, course of names. t of the policy-holders on after ation torneys for the will a care- olders report estiga- jons of E COLLISION Fire Breaks Out In Wreecked Cars and Body of Dead Engineer Is Incinerated. ATT nn July 8.—In - on between two freig ain rn and At- seve this ecity, . today, 1 were killed = ther ared W engineer ™ F s Robert Atkin- , y, fireman ming two cars, with cattle, of FEngineer ESTERN UEL CO. 1f I did nearly all the news- paper men In the country would be after them before they reached their hotels. I can say, however, that they ue here in a week or ten days and they are coming with open and prejudiced minds to investigate the for themselyes. s to the authority they possess and what they may decide to do is some- thing T do not know myself at present. ‘Whether the gentlemen from Lon- don will recommend that San Fran- cisco losses of the companies be paid, despite the incorporation of the ‘earth- quake clause’ in the companies’ poli- cles is another question. I am not pre- pared to answer. It seems to me that the ‘earthquake clause, about which there has been so much talk, is a clear stipulation in the policy contract “There should be but little question n the minds of fair thinkers that the destruction in San Francisco was directly due to an earthquake. It may be true the fire caused the greatest loss, but there were no fires before the | earthquake. “Shortly after the quake my son-in- law counted no less than fourteen sep- arate fires in as many different sec- tions of the city. These fires were not in existence before the shake. My | companies insured against fire and not against earthquake. Why then should surance situation they be expected to pay for destruction | primarily wrought by an element against which they never insured?” CANNOT PAY ITS LOSSES. Reports continue to be made by pol- icy holders in the German Insurance vompany of Freeport, Ill, about the | | CARPENTERS DONATE SUNDAY LABOR TO A WORTHY CHARITY BUILD LAUNDRY FOR FOUNDLING ASYLUM ON DAY OF REST NTHROPIC INSTITUTION THAT WAS PHILA’ B CES IN IN NEED OF A LAUNDRY BUILDING, AND SY WORKMEN WHO RESPONDED TO THE SITUATION YESTERDAY BY GIVING ERECTING THE STRUCTURE. LIVED A DOUBLE 1 | | scaling and compromising methods the | managers and adjusters of that poration are pursuing in settling. Some time ago one of the officials Freeport, when pressed for an answer as to what his company was able to | do toward settling with its claimants, | replied: | “Well, if the majority of them are | willing to accept fifty cents on the dol> lar the Freeport may survive. If they demand more the company vill be forced off the face of the earth The German of Freeport was incor- porated in 1865 and advertises itself as “the largest and most successful fire insurance company in the West.” Ac- cording to a statement issued the the German Free- 1906, stood as fol- financial affairs of port on January 1, 340 Steuart St. SAN FRANCISCO ..$6,344,138.00 nee Ist and Market Sts., Oakland | Net suios .00 : - | The officers of the German Freeport |are: President, C. O. Collman; vice- Miners, importers and Shippers of president, Henry Baler; secretary, F. M. Gund; treasurer, D. B. Schulte. Dunsmuir's The German Freeport was a non- board company and its, estimated loss New Weliington Wellington || in San Francisco s 33,400,000 Beaver Kill Comox One of the noticeable results grow- ing out of the division of the insurance companies into “six-bit” and dollar-for- dollar classes is the eagerness exhib- ited by agents to secure the sound companies to represent and the haste with which the brokers are dropping the concerns that are welching on their San Francisco claims. The German American Company re- ports the payment of $13;000 to the San Francisco Board of Education on in- surance carried on school department | property. B b st S AGED GERMAN FARMER IS BURNED TO DEATH | Charred Body of Old Man Is Found in Blazing Outhouse by His e oy (| (OKE e Building Materials Department We are General Sales Agent for STANDARD PORTLAND CEMENT CO. CARNEGIE BRICK and POTTERY CO. CENTRAL BRICK CO. HOLMES LIME Co. Daughters. MARBLEITE PLASTER CO. LOS ANGELES, July 8.—The charredq All Plasts ig Full tion, |remains of Karl Kochling, an aged German, were found today in his barn |near the family home at Colegrove by his three daughters, who were sum- moned to the place by the crackling of flames as the barn burned. Whether the old man met his death by aceci- dent or committed suicide is not Days known. Neighbors state that Koch- » ling’s mind seemed |Lo have been Zf. fected by his arrest last year and pro- OREVErY |, 1ition from selling wine of his gwn Box. 350 ' manufacture without a license [ EEve" Bromo" Cares a Cold inOneDay, &E %t cor- | of the| | | LIFE FOR YEARS. Death of a Kansas City Man - Lays Bare a Scandal in His Life | Maintains Two Homes, “Posing in One as a Commercial Traveler KANSAS CITY, July 8.—Frank C. Lu- ther, part owner of a manufacturing plant in this city, who died suddenly yesterday, lived a double life for six years, in which time he preserved two separate identities without his closest friends or business assoclates being aware of it, according to investigations made by the police. As Frank C. Lu-| ther he lived at 313 West Thirteenth street with his wife. As Frank Hull- man he lived with Mrs. Lillian Hullman of 2601 Montgall avenue, three miles from his Thirteenth-street home. As Hullman he was understcod to be a traveling salesman whoee business took | him away from the city most of the| time. Luther had lived with Mrs. Hullman | as Hullman for six years and was well known by his neighbors there under that name. Mrs. Hullman spoke of him | frequently to one neighbor. She said:| “Frank is a very mervous man. Some- times he gets up in the middle of the night and goes down to the office and works all the rest of the night.” Luther died at the Hullman house | from an overdose of morphine, which it is believed was not taken with sui- cldal intent. At the time Mrs. Luther was visiting a sister at Detroit. Tl s A HEAVY FALL OF SNOW IN COLORADO MOUNTAINS BUENA VISTA, Colo, July 8—This portion of tne Arkansas Valley is now thoroughly soaked, while the main range west of the valley Is covered deep with new snow, the result of the storms of the last few days. Some se- vere electrical storms have occurred, doing no damage other than to the telephone company, which was put to much trouble in repairing a large num- ber of telephones injured by lightning. DENVLR, Colo., July 8.—Cloudbursts and lightning did considerable damage in this section of the State today. In Denver a wall of water ten feet. higir] came down Dry Creek, in the western part of the city, carrying away foot- bridges and damaging the bridge of the Denver and International Rallroad. Two small boys were fishing under the bridge and were rescued with diffi- culty. A bolt of lightning struck the Carnegle library. In Boulder a wall of water six feet high came out of Sunshine Canyon and spread itself over Pearl street and other streets in that city. A mile of the Sunshine Railroad was destroyed and considerable damage was done in the eity. At Florence late this afternoon a cloudburst in Oak Creek undermined a big bridge at Rockvale. A heavy storm destroyed telephone connection between Florence and Pueblo. Fay Powers, aged 17, was killed by lightning near Colorado Springs. ——— No Fever In New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, July 8.—Dr. James A. White, surgeon in charge of the marine hospital service here, issued a statement tonight saying that as far as he was aware none of the marine hospital physiclans at New Orleans had given out any Statement that there was yellow fever in New Orleans, and that neither he nor his assistants have any evidence that the fever now exists ia this city. FORGER IN HARTJE GASE. 13 FOUND. Young Woman Admits | She Is the Author of | Incriminating Letters Says She W;Told They Were to Be Used in Novel or Melodrama SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. PITTSBURG, July 8.—That he will not only prove the letters In. the Hartje case to be forgeries, but will | produce the forger, in the sensational divorce trlal of Augustus Hartje against his wife, Mary Scott Hartje, 1s the sensation promised by George B. Perkins, superintendent of a private detective agency employed by Mrs. Hartje. Perkins sald this evening that he had every hope of getting the for- ger to testify in the case. She is a young woman stenographer, Perkins says. As she is not a resident of Pittsburg she knew nothing of the case, and when asked to write the let- ters she did so with the understanding that they were for use in a novel or melodrama. When she discovered what they had been used for she com- municated with the detective agency 80 on the stand to testify. Professor T. M. Willlams, for many years an authority in handwriting, threw a bomb into the case today by announcing that he had BHeen employed by the Hartje attorneys, but, after ex- mining the letters, had refused to testify for Hartje, as he was confident they had been forged. Despites these two announcements, the attorneys for Hartje maintain they will prove the authenticity of the let- ters beyond a doubt and that when the case is all in the world will be satis- fled of Mrs. Hartje's guilt. The attor- neys for Mrs. Hartje simply smile when this statement is repeated to them and refuse to say anything, ex- cept that they will produce their evi- dence at the proper time. —_— WILL WRITE FROM JAIL ACCEPTING NOMINATION Haywood to Make the Run for Goy- | ermor of Colorado on Soctalist Ticket, 7 DENVER, July 8-—For the first time in the history of the United States, as far as is known, a man will write a letter of acceptance to a gubernatorial nomination from behind the bars of a jall. Yesterday the So- clalist party State headquarters re- celved a telegram from W. D. Hay- wood, secretary of the Western Fed- eration of Miners, who is now in jail at Boise, Ida., awalting trial on the charge of being implicated in the mur- der of former Governor Steunenberg, formally accepting the nomination for Governor conferred upon him by the Socialists’ State conventfon. = Hay- wood's telegram states that he will write a letter of acceptance in a few days. . High School uraduate Drowned. - SACRAMENTO, July ’"8.—Frank A. Kaminsky, aged 18 vears, who ‘was graduated from the Sacramento High School a week ago, was drowned in the Sacramento River here at. 6 o'clock this evening. Salmon Fishing at Monterey o g‘}’&‘.‘.“éfi’: ing. 'nfl'flu“p’:“finfi and they expect her to come here and" | | While thousands of working people and people of leisure were enjoying themselves yesterday at the beach and park or resting at home, a number of unselfish, philanthropic carpenters la- bored energetically all day in econ- Tstructing a laundry for the San Fran- cisco Foundling Asylum, giving their time and work free for the good of a worthy cause. To these men a day's work means more than does a comfortable sum of money to the rich. Their only capital is their skill and time, and this they gave freely. They will return to the work eévery Sunday until the struc- ture is completed. That these men were moved entirely by altruistic feelings is made evi- dent by their modestry in requesting that their nameés be withheld and that they receive no praise. While every man belongs to a union, none came from any special organization, but Native Force Numbering Hundreds Annihilated by Troops in Natal DURBAN, Natal, July 8.---Natal troops have completely surrounded and defeated a rebel body of the Umvoti district. Seven hundred and forty- {seven rebels were killed and few escaped. There iwere no casualties among the troops. PEASANTS BATTLE LOVE-MAD YOUTH'S WITH TRODPS. | VICTIM DYING. Looting of Russian Es- Judge Emory of Seattle tates Due to Famine Lies at Death’s Door in the Rural Districts|- as Result of Wound Desperate A—ttacks I\,Iadc | Friends of ]urist's .-\ssail-, Upon Military Patro]si ant Advance the Belief That He Is Not Sane and Outskirt Guards RG, SEATTLE, ST. PETERSBURG, July 8.—A press| July S.—Judge Gordon correspondent has just completed a tour | Mead Emory, who was shot by a love- of the provinees of Samara and Saratov.| Mmad youth In his home yesterday even- He reports that the drought is finally | In& IS _not expected to survive the broken, but the rains have come too | Dight. One of the bullets from the |crazed youth's gun penetrated both late to/ save the crop and help the peas-j,, . 4 1o Judge's death s expected ants, who are in a pitiable condition. | within the next few hours. Their cattle have either been sold or| The shooting has caused the greatest are starving in the fields. The Govern- | Interest on account of the prominence . | of both families. There are few better | ment reliet granaries were completely | y;oun men in Washington than Judge emptied during last year's famine. Emory, and the father of the lad who The present agrarian disorders, which | fired the fatal shots & reputation can be expected to grow worse, are due as an orator, lawyer and wit that is largely to the necessity of the peasants more than State wide. Chester Thomp- | seizing food and forage to preserve son, who did the shooting, is now in the their lives am® save from starvation County Jail. Friends believe he I8 ine the remainder of their cattle. These | sane. disorders have reached the highest Developments tend to the belief that | pitch in the province of Vorontzh, where | young Thompson was in search of the |the troops and Cossacks, although in Judge's niece, with whom he wa | considerable force, are practically help- | jove, intending to kill her and pos: less and on the defensive. Many peas- | himself. He is believed to have watched ants have been killed or wounded In her home until she went to the home of desperate attacks on military patrols Judge Emory, which is next door, and |and the rural guards. then followed her in, and when the | According to a telegram received here | Judge attempted to stop him fired. Two |from Tambov, peasants on the estate|of the bullets struck the Judge and one | of the Princess Bariatinsky attacked a was found in the door jamb, where It | commissary and a posse of rural po- had lodged. |lice. The commissary and four police-| During the time the boy was locked | men .were seriously wounded. In an-|in the bedroom with the two small | other section of the province of Tambov | children, threatening to kill them if |a body of peasants armed with pitch- | any attempt to capture him was made, forks and spades resisted 2 squadron of | the house was surrounded by 600 peo= dragoons. The troops fired, killing three | ple, and there was talk of lynching. peasants and wounding many others. | He finally surrendered to his father and | ""At Kedabey, southeast of Tiflis, a|was locked up. The mother of young | hand-to-hand fight has occurred be-|Thompson is an invalid and has not as | tween Cossacks and an armed band of | yet been told of her boy's crime. peasants, with the result that seven i o | men were killed on both sides. EMPEROR WILLIAM PAYS volunteers from various associations of | the city. FEach demands from $4 to $5 |Krasnopolsk. in the province of Podolia, a day at regular work and for Sunday | between rich peasants and poor peas- Jabor receive double.pay. . |ants. The poor men were incensed be- They could have put their Sunday to | cause the rich men had sent a telegram profit if they so desired, for the rush to|to the lower house protesting against erect many bulldings requires- work the proposed distribution of land. In evéry day in the week when men can|the fighting one of the wealthy peas- be obtained. They prefer the conscious- |ants killed four and seriously wounded ness of having done good to humanity |several of the poorer men. as a reward for their time instead of There have been grave disorders on money. the estate of Ministér of Agriculture Stichinsky, in Tula province. MANY WORKMEN VOLUNTEER.— Since the earthquake and fire the foundling home has had many troubles, although it did not suf- fer. much -in - the disaster. Re- quests for ald to the headquarters of the rellef organizations failed to re- ceive attention. Local rgelief camps, however, contributed and thus the homeless little people were cared for. Through Mrs. C. A. Hawkins, one of the board of directors of the found- ling asylum and the lying-in hospital, both of which are under one manage- ment, E. A. F. Carson, a carpenter, learned that the asylum was in need of 'a laundry and an isolation room. He ‘explained the needs of the institu- tion to his fellow workmen and there was no trouble in securing volunteers to make the needed improvements. “If the hospital were self-support- ing,” sald Dr. E. G. Harrison, who su- perintends both institutions, “the asy- lum could®get along quite well finan- ecially. ' But our patients there are often indigent and to enable us +to make it pay its own expenses we have applied to the Red Cross to keep us provided at all times with nine pa- tients. We have received no reply yet to this request, but are hoping it will meet with favor. LITTLE ONES MADE HAPPY. “Beforé the earthquake we had reg- ular suhscriptions for the asylum, but our benefactors have lost so much and things have been in such confusion that our receipts are quite limited. One thing that hurts the patronage of the hospital is the misleading opinion many have to the effect that/the chil- dren in the foundling home are illegiti- mate. Very few of our children are from the hospital, in which we are try- ing to get respectable women as pa- tients. “We thoroughly appreciate the kind- ness of these carpenters in doing this work for us. Without their aid it would be impossible to have the laun- dry constructed. It is absolutely nec- essary for the sanftary good of the institution. The carpenters have promised to build us an isolation room when they complete the laundry There are thirty-eight children in the foundling asylum, ranging in age from a few days to 5 years. They are of every color and description and thelr surroundings are véry pleasant. As soon as possible each child is turned over to some family for adop- tion or is sent to an orphan asylum.s For ‘the care of these unfortunate children .the State contributes a small sum, payable twice a year. For the care of babies §6.25 a month is given, while for children 5 or 6 years old $12.50 is allowed each month. TR ) Y R s o GREENE’'S CAMP AT CANANEA A MILITARY STRONGHOLD Governor of Sonora Decldes to Quarter One Thousand Rurales at the Mines. FOR WORTH, Texas, July 8.—As the result of the labor riots last month at Cananea, Mexico, the mining camp of W. C. Greene has been converted into & military stronghold, and hereafter 1000 Mexican rurales will be quartered there. This action was taken by the Military Governor of Sonora to serve as a pre- caution against further outbre&u_ < B: B. Deems of St. Louls returned last night from a trip to the interior of Sonora. Deems says the Yaqui Indian rising in .the State of Sonora is virtu- ally a thing of the past. He says the .| Yaquis are being sent to Yucatan as fast as they are captured by the Gov- ernment troops, and in that way their ranks are being thinned out. ——— Turners in Convention. NEWARK, N. J., July 8.—The bien- nial convention of the North American Gymnastic Association, better known as the Turners, was called to order ‘here today and was addresed by Her- man Lieber of Indianapolis, president of - the executivé committee. EmnN %::hgtu: of Chicago was elected pres- 'UPTON SINCLAIR'S NAME - ON A SOCIALIST TICKET | Author of "T;-]ungle" Likely to Accept Nomination for Congress in New Jersey. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. TRENTON, Jyly 8.—The Socialists of Mercer County will hold a convention here on July 27 for the purpose of nom- {nating candidates for the fall cam- paign. A county committée composed of Louis Pohle, Richard Smith, George Cartlidge, Thomas Dennis and John Richards, all of whom are Socialists, was deputized some time ago to ascer- tain the likelihood of Upton Sinclair, author of “The Jungle,” accepting the nomination for Congress. Sinclair has informed the committee that his liter- ary labors would not permit him to en- ter the political field with the ardor that is his usual wont, but if his com- rades desired that he run for Congress it was not for him to shirk the issue. It is announced on good ‘authority that Sinclair will receive the nomina- {tion. Sinclair lives at Princeton, but he is a prominent member of the Mer- cer County Socialists. e TR R AT Police Save Negro From Mob. INDIANAPOLIS, July 8.—Aaron Mor- ton, a negro, shot and killed his wife on a crowded downtown street tonight and was pursued several blocks by a mob of 1000 persons bent upon lynch- ing him. Morton succeeded in reaching a fire station, where he was given pro- tection. Just as the mob was prepar- ing for 2an assault on the building a detall of police rescued the negre and he was taken to the City Jail. During the pursuit a number of the mob fired at the murderer. There has been a fatal ericounter at VISIT TO KING HAAKON Two Monarchs Embrace Cordially and Kiss Each Other Several Times. TRONDHJEM, July 3. —Emperor William arrived here this evening on the Hamburg. King Haakon imme- diately went on board and the two monarchs embraced cordially, kissing each other several times. They re- mained together in- the state cabin for forty minutes. Afterward they went ashore and drove to the palace amid the enthusiastic acclamations of the crowd. At the palace the Ger- man -Emperor was greeted by Queen Maud and the little Crown Prince Olaf was presented to him At tHe end of this visit Emperor Willlam returned to the Hamburg. He came ashore again later In the evening and at- tended the gala dinner at the palace. The press of Norway comments on | the importance of this visit. i e PASSENGERS IN A PANIC AN D SIX ARE INJURED Disaster Caused Fire Following Collision Between Cars at Coney Isl . NEW YORK, July 8.—F! a collision in Coney I between the elevated rail ire, following train and a local trolley car, caused & panic in which six persons were in- jured, three severely, by being trampled upon. Bound for Coney at high speed. turned the cur Island and going the express had just n the road near the Sea Beach Palace, when just ahead the motorman saw the local, with passengers alighting from It. He was unable to stop his train and it crashed into the local. By the force of the im- pact a fuse of the local was blown out and flames threatenmed the car. The passengers fought flercely with each other to escape. —_— BLACK CAT CAUSES DEATH OF A WOMAN IN ST. LOUIS Climbs on Bed in a Hospital and Claws the Arm of Patient. ST. LOUIS, July 8.+The midnight vise it of a black cat to her ben in a hose pital caused the death of Mrs. Mary Ziegler, according to her physicians. The cat climbed up In the bed and clawed the woman's arm. 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