The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 10, 1906, Page 1

THE WEATHER. For San Francisco and vi- cinity: Fair Friday; fresh west Mayor Becker of Milwaukee, in next Sunday's Call, why young men should get into politics. tells SIS L AU GL'ST Uat3 Hi3 l]r E™ Palo Alto’s Trustees Vio- Solemn Pledge Official Furtt Private In- Ex €IS pe cnse f the board the w W of F Park- » barrels pick- broom, 1 cartage, of Professor Sanford es Parki $1700, or bill, PARKINSON GUILTY BEFORE. three His was of hools has se s nile trustees While he saw an op- e and ity of material were up & Co. 1 on Pro- 1 a quant was mer, Bear- his to sug- s as t what charities are w of help from the Parkinson science fund. The knowledge of edge h s force 25 come so suddenly that been able to g for consideration un- home for ted poli- has not nythi disappoin »n’s partisans have answered graft charge by attempting e legality of the act. They e of the meters. GATLING GUNS READY TO BE USED ON A MOB Attempt to Free Negro Lynchers From Jail Feared in North Caroli BURY, N. C, Aug. 9—While no visible signs of trouble, persistent rumors of the or- are a strong party to liber- he Salisbury jail before iynchers of the three of the Lyerly family. y still guards the jail and e and gatling guns will be mob should it attempt to jafl premjses. R R Pope Is Not Indisposed. JME, Aug. 9.—There is no truth in the report that the Pope is indisposed. #e is enjoying his usual health. Streets, | 1|and his assoc | 10, 1906. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Trustee LV ho Uses Ofi?ce to Promotc st Busme.ss *| | | \ | OUTLAW CAPTURED AFTER A BATTLE. MIDDLESBORO, Ky- Ball, who recent Richmond, Ky., by -, Aug. DA-Fran!H y escaped from jail lt\ was captured late Ufls’ Sheriff Rice Johnson and posse after a battle which raged for one | afternoon hour. Ball some time ago killed Jack| Bolen, a Middlesboro barber. He fled into the but as finally landed in j mond . through the work of the Middlesboro military Not long ago he broke jail s since been hiding in the moun- Wednesday ht Ball was ni; ocated log cabin near Rose Hill, Va. and son and sixteen deputies | to capture Reinforce- | re sent for, as it was learned| and relatives had| Nearly thirty members itary nds gone to the Midd volunteerec spec of horo depu m company left by al train { morning, after a truce, n went to the cabin ani I's surrender. Ball re- fused to capitulate. Late this after- noon fire was opened on the cabin by the Sheriff's forces. After John Lee, one of Ba en, had been killed, Ball surrendered. All will Kentucky penitentiary | 05T BANKER G0ES RRVING MAD. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. A. T, Aug. 9.—E. B. Pat- assistant cashler of the Gila| Bank and Trust Company at| has been f Clifton, ound in the wilds of| the White Mountains of northern Gra- | ham County, a raving maniac. He is| now in a hospital at Clifton 2nd may | recover. Until he does little informa- | tion can be obtained of how he became | lost i Patterson where he ha started from the camp been spending a short| outing for days ahead of his compan- ions that he might reach Clifton and attend to an important business en- gagement. He did not reach his desti- nation and a search party was formed | to look for him. This was five days| ago. When found he was raving mad.| Nothing was left of his clothing but his | shirt. His condition showed he had| been many hours without food or water. WOMEN THE STAKE OF GAVBLERS. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. BERLIN, Aug. 9.—The gambling case in the garrison town of Dienze, Lor- raine, will come up before a court- martial on August 17. This is the case in which a number of Bavarian officers, including the son of the Duke Carl Theodore of Bavaria, are involved. Fresh facts have come to light. It is ~own that balls were given by the club at which the guests were practi- ly unclothed. and at which In cases| st resori the mistreses of the game of 1 blers were the stakes: There is great excitement over the case in military, art and theatrical cir- cles in Southern Germany, _ \ 'BLAMES PRESIDENT | desk and | enterprises which dragged him to ruin.” | | ‘ v | | | could be further investigated. | aividend, although the receiver tonight | |was not in a position to state how| | will be found a sufficient revenue from | of President Stensland. The estate is | valued at $500,000. URECKED BANK'S GASHIER 13 IN CUsTODY, Henry Herring Arrested in Chicago in Connection| With a Million Shortage OF INSTITUTION Explains Method by Which! BigSums Were Withdrawn | Upon Fictitious Secunty HICAGO, Aug. 9.—Henry H. Her- ring, cashier of the Milwaukee- avenue State Bank, which closed its doors three days ago, was ar- rested today and will be refused his re- on bail until his connection with *he disappearance of nearly $1,000,000 of the bank’s funds is cleared up. Paul O Stensland, president of the defunct institution, is still a fugitive, and al- though nearly 100 detectives are searching for him his whereabouts is 1s much a mystery as gver. Herring was arrested this afternoon, two hours after the time he had pre- viously announced he would give him- self up. He was taken at once to the )ffice of Chief of Police Collins and put through a thorough examination to his knowledge of President Stens- | ismanagement of the institu- Herring declared he did not know re President Stensland was and said +t he had had no communication with | bim for over a week. The cashier strenuously denled the | rge that he himself was partly re-| sponsible for the failure of the bank. | Herring maintained that if he was guilty of breaking the banking laws ol‘ | Illincis, President Stensland was re- spon.!xble. Herring declared that he never benefited a single dollar by Presi- den't Stensland’s peculiar system of | banking. STENSLAND'S METHODS. In describing President Stensland's cperations he said: “Mr. Stensland would come to my say to me: ‘Mr. Herrlng.\ please make out a certain number of | nctes (the number of which he would | give me) for these amounts,’ he glvlng‘ me a memorandum of the amounts. l then made out the notes and handed | | them to him or sent them to him in ths | | regular routine of business. | generally the same day, they were re- Later, turned to me duly signed by various people or at least they had the alleged | signatures of various people. “Mr. Stensland then ordered me to place them to the credit of his personal account and would then draw checks on his personal account for the various “Did he ever utilize the names of any of the employes on these notes?’ was asked. “I only know of one instance. Before the last report to the State Auditor there was an overdraft of $26,000 which had to be taken care of in some man- | ner. He got two -employes of the co- operative store, which was the chief millstone around his neck, to sign the| | notes for this amount, and this paper | was used to cancel the overdraft.” MONEY FOR DEPOSITORS. Bank Examiner Jones and Assistant nited States Attorney Gleason were present during the examination of Her- | ring. Neither they nor the police offi- clals were satisfied with the explana- tion given by Herring of his connec- tion with the collapse of the bank and it was accordingly decided to refuse bail to the cashier until the matter Receiver Fetzer reported to the Superior Court today that a dividend of at least 25 per cent would probably be declared to depositors in the bank within the next two weeks. This, it is| sald, will be followed by a second| | | | much of their savings the 22,000 de- positors would recover from the de- funct institution. At a meeting of the board of direc-| tors of the bank this afternoon, a reso- lution was adopted appointing a com- mittee to devise ways.and means for | apprehending President Stensland and straightening out the affairs of the bank. The directors declare that there the assets to pay all the depositors in full. = The Chicago Title and Trust Com- pany at 11 o'clock tonight was ap- pointed receiver of the principal estate | It has been learned that President Stensland loaned the Paul O. Stensland Real Estate Company $1,300,000. Four loans amounting to $91,000 were made to clerks in the Milwaukee Avenue Co- operative Store, one of President Stens- land’s ventures. e O Prominent San Diegan Dies. SAN DIEGO, aug. 9.—John Alexander Sheriff, 4 resident of this city for t :rty years and a factor in the local realty market in years past, died last evening g Coronado in his seventy- vear. | ntght of July jat the hospital, Mrs. Praung applied | other lower, are missing from the jaws | robbery was not the motive, but that AT AWAKENS_ DFFIGHALS 10 DUTY. Victim of —T-hugs Passes Away Before the Police Are Notified of Crime DETECTIVE FAILS TO FIND A CLEW | Negligence of the Hospltal‘ Attaches Makes the1 Task an ‘Arduous One/ RS. MARIE PRAUNG {s dead at the City and County Hos- pital of injurles inflicted upon her by unknown brutes on the 29. For ten days she the hospital fighting for life against her terrible injuries. In the| meanwhile apathetic ~officials at the| hospital looked upon her case as a mat- ter of course. and it was only after she had breathed her last that the police lay in were informed of the crime. No one|’ took sufficient interest In her case to| secure a description of her assaflants, with the result that in ell probability | they wil never be apprehended. | Chief Dinan, when apprised of the| facts vesterday, detailed Detective Gra- | ham jto. make an investigation. When | Graham arrived at the City and County | Hospital the attendants teld him the/ woman had been there since July 29, but they failed to give a satistactory reason why they had neglected to ;l\e‘ | the facts to the police soomer. | According to the story of the clerk‘ for admission on the night of July 29. | She said she had been set upon by three thugs on Shotwell street, between Six- teenth and Seventeentl, and beaten till | she fell unconscious to the sidewalk. When she recovered her senses she made her way to thq nm,lt&l lfld was admitted. An examination by the surgeons dis- closed that the woman had suftered terrible injuries. Four of her ribs werd broken and she was badly hurt in- ternally, which with the shock to the neryous system resulted In her death. | Detective Graham worked on the case x all day yesterday, but as the woman |s! | dead and there are wo witnesses he ll] | without a clew. It was said last night that the un- fortunate woman leaves six simnall chil- iren in destitute circumstances in. & hovel on Seventeenth street, near Noe. GHASTLY MYSTERY OF TEMESCAL. SANTA MONICA, Aug. 9.—All efforts to throw light upon the identity of the fashionably dressed young woman whose body was found in a lonely spot in Temestal canyon, two miles from this resort, yesterday have so far been without result. The body is so badly | decomposed that no identification from the features or form is possible. That it is a case of murder is prac- tically beyond question. The bullet hole in the left temple is still plainly discernible, and on the right side of the head, well forward, is a great ragged hole where the missile tore its way out. It is the belief of the authorities that the woman was shot and killed some- where along the beach and her body taken to the mouth of the canyon in an automobile or other vehicle, and then carried into the dense under- growth to the spot where it was found. Two front teeth, one upper and the of the dead woman. Detectives are scouring the vicinity where the murder was committed, and there may be developments within the next twenty-four hours. Detectives incline to the theory that all valuables were removed from the body for the purpose of giving the ap- pearance of robbery. and to prevent identification. The two missing front teeth had evidently been knocked out at the time of the n!lltn‘, probably to make identification the more difficult.. The Coroner's jury returned a ver- dict that the young woman was mur- dered by persons unknown: Coroner. Trout gave it as his.unquali- fied opinion that the woman was mur- dered. 5 Sheriff White has no record of any missing woman whose. description- fits that of the body found in Temescal canyon. He holds to the mm of mur- der. 5 ¥ Automobile Tax' Obmoxious. BERLIN, Aug. 9.—The aire, the most reant “e newspaper here, complains mg the new automobile tax seri affects warehouses and hotels m & Ger- man-French frontier, as ers, in order to express their d Mg‘“u ,‘ at the tax and to avold its will not bring the a, fl‘lla Germany. The X for a n!aur,i for a thir i all lawful requirements. regularly performed our annual assessment wor HE costs of location have not exceeded $26,500. This leaves the land standing in a profit of $5,273,500 for Yard and bis associates and a LL these locations have been made, as far as I know, in accordance with On the locations that we desired to hold we have k.—Statement by H H.Yard. similar amount for the other parties.—Statement by Mineralogist Aubury. Aubury Figures C (;rabto Be More SEAL PATROL WIL \, BE: REINFORGED. SPECIAL DISPATGB TO THE CALL. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9—President Roosevelt directed today that the num-/ ber of revenue cutters in Alaskan wa- ters be increased, so as to give ample protecticn to the seals, and the Treas- ury Department immediately ' ordered extra vessels to cruise near the seal rookeries. The McCulloch is now in Bering Sea, and has been directed to proceed to the Pribyloff Islands for pa- | trol duty. The patrol will be main- tained as long as the weather will permit. Acting Attorney General Robbris re- ceived today a long cablegram from the United States District Attorney at Fairbanks, Alaska, which is in the na- ture of a preliminary report on killing of the Japanese poachers. It deals particularly with the legal as- pects of the case. Roberts also took under considera- tion the cablegram from Solicitor Sims, who considered that the poachers ‘might be treated as pirates cap- tured on the open seas and their ves- sels confiscated. It was amnnounced at the Department of Justice that the case was one re- quiring unusual care on account of its international aspect. At the State Department it was re- iterated thatrno international compli- cation would grow out of the killing of the poachers. —_— BARS NEWSPAPER ARTISTS FROM THE DIVORCE COURT President of English Tribunal Says It Is Against Public Interest to 4 Exploft Marital Disputes. 5 mxmoir Aug 9.—The president of the divorce court today announced that ‘the court had decided that hereafter ‘newspaper artists shall not be allowed to make sketches in court. since the practice was embarrassing and preju- diced witnesses and because it was not n qp public interest to daraw Itt‘nfloll I S i | | JIOAN AERONAU ENDS HER LIFE. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. FORT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 9.—In the suicide of Mrs. A. F. Crenshaw in this city Tuesday there passed away one of the most daring women in the world, and the last chapter in a remarkable and spectacular play is closed forever. Mrs. Crenshaw killed herself by swal- lowing five grains of strychnine. She came here a few months ago with her | 3 {husband from California, where she was the | known as Nellie Devaughan, published abroad as the most beautiful woman in the country and the first woman in the world to sail a modern airship, which she did at Los Angeles September 25, 1903, ascending to the height of 2000 feet in the Bullet. She was in the air 35 minutes, traveled 13 miles and came very near losing uer life by the break- ing of the airship’s rudder. Later she made a second ascension in Los An- geles, accompanied by her Adolph Crenshaw. Since coming here Mrs. Crenshaw led a very quiet life, but at times seemed exceedingly nervous. Frequently she was in a condition that the lightest noise produced a nervous rigor. Often she spoke of death as a welcome release from all care and sorrow, and more than once threatened to end her life. —_— Georgia Ageinst Bucket Shops. ATLANTA., Aug. 9.—The so-called Boykin anti-bucket shop bill, adopted by the House of Representatives sev- eral days ago passed the Senate today by the decistve vote of 38 to 3 and needs only the Governor's signature to| become a law. This bill makes no dis- tinction between bucket shops and ex- changes, but Dravldn for the closing of all m in Georgla where o -“futures” are bought A.nfl sold. NAUT husband, | ean-Up on Lanc Than Ten Millions ‘Yard Says He Does Not Expect Trouble From Inquiry. Government Commis- sion to Investigate Placer Claims. TATE mineralogist Aubury fig- ures out that H. H. Yard has made at least $35,000,000 for him- self and his associates, at the present price of timber land, by his wholesale making of placer mining | locations in Plumas and Butte coun- ties. Aubury also says that the land not capable of producing any profit, for the greater part, if worked as placer mines, but the timber on the land is worth a great deal of money. The placer locations by H. H. Yard, A. B. Walker, the Diamond Match, Company, Curtis, Collins, Holbrook and others have made so much stir that the Federal Government has duthorized the appointment of a com- mission composed of geologists, for- is | estry experts, surveyors and a repre- | sentative of the Attorney General's office at Washington to make an in- vestigation. This commission will probably arrive in California about September 1 and will go to work im, Plumas and Butte counties at once. If ‘Aubury’s figures are correct the others besides Yard who have been mentioned must have another $5000; 000 in timber by making placer loca-! tions in the two California counties mentioned. Simultaneously they have come into possession of hundreds of thousands of acres of land that is heavily timbered, and the millions of | dollars in sight may increase if the price of lumber continues to soar. |Land Is Better Than a Mint In the meantime H. H. Yard makes | the plea that his placer locations | were all made in good faith. He says that under the lava capping that | covers large parts of Plumas County | there are rich deposits of gold, con-i ¢ | tained in ancient river channels; also that he is ready and willing to prove, the mineral natyge of the land to the. Government's experts when they come along. | If he succeeds in this he will dem- onstrate that he has made even more | money than Aubury thinks he has | by his placer locations, for he cer-| 'tamly has on the land a great value im timber, and if he has a great value in gold under the timber then he has found a California bonanza indeed. As he has more than half a million, acres of Plumas and Butte lands at, a nominal price per acre, as compared' with what he and Aubury say about the value of the acquired territory, the county of Plumas may have a surprise in store for it when it is considered how many vears the lands have been Government domain and no one in' Plumas took them up by any of the several devices that lawgivers have contrived to make land grabbing easy, to the initiated. Figuring Out Profifs fo Yard Aubury figured yesterday om the profits accruing to private persons, and Yard especially, by the placer locations, and the showing is about, as follows: H. H. Yard and those working with him have made 1877 locations. The timber on this land, supposing it to average $20 an acre, is worth $5,300,000. Timber land runs in value.in Plumas County now from| $10 to $30 an acre. Some of the Yard acquisitions are worth $30 an acre for timber. Some is worth less per acre. Probably $z20 | would be an average. The costs of | location have not exceeded $26,500.: | This leaves the land standing in a | profit of $5.273,500 for Yard and his' | agsoctates and a similar amouat for | the other persons, or a clean-up of more than $10,000,000 in a period of | just about four years, dating back to! 1902. To state the case-a little more, | plainly the Aubury showing is that ' the Government gets $26,000 and the land grabbers $10,000,000, and all this beyond what untold sums possibly may lie in the ground in gold z‘ silver. F Assessment Work Is Farcical To have placers utnhlhlfi