The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 30, 1907, Page 1

Two travelers with an automobile have found plenty of adventure in Sumatra, which they tell about in ! The Sunday Call s artists in Many girls a§pire to be artists’ models. Just what it means and offers is told by The Sunday Call “FIVE CENTS Assembly Indorses Primary Law INDEX OF THE FRANCISCO CALL’S NEWS TODAY HENEY REVIEWS RUEF-SCAMITZ * METHODS Detaiis of French Restau- Holdup a Hypothetieal Statement TELEPHONE TE JANUARY WEATHER CONDITIONS YESTERDAY—Cloudy; trace of rain; maxl mum temperatore, 36; minimum temperature, 47. FORECAST FOR TODAY—Clovdy. with showers; light south wind Page 11 EDITORIAL The Southern Pacifc on the evidence of its own freight bills bas been charging for & serv- ice mot rendered. Page § Proposed method of railroad texation. Page 8 rant Given in ' EXTOR Y Expense due to. competition in battieships PLAIN EXTORTION, seems llfl.! i *-mv waste of moner Page § N VER'S FEF | VEGISLATURE NOT LAWYER'S FEE Assembly Indorses Held-Wright direct primary — amengment unecimously and it goes to the Senate Page 1 Senator Curtin defends State rights in speech on Jupanese resolution Page 2 1. mileage 1o committee mem iketing trips Page 2 uces resclution in Senate calling of voting machives. Page 2 [Avaricious Mayor’s Part in Made Prosecutor Conspiracy Plain by Specia for investigation CITY | In the form of a hypotheticnl wtate- Distxict Attoeney, Heney io Juige] ment, Assistant District Attorney reviews the entire bistory of the Francts J. He vesterday outlined ! Page 1 the entire ¥ by which Mayor Rieaints Osaiubies -Eiee he existence of a secret Eugene I nd bis boss, Abe pacific snd th a Ruef, working with the plinnt Pe trath Page 10 Commissioners. held up the French > Commiaiion gtves colors % buave the 58 : t in the town Pege 16 restaurant keepers of this ecity for 56 S L kit £10,000 by threatening to deprive them | 'y Page 16 of liguor licenses. This was the sen- Works Bos tear up debris tracke of sution of the sixty-ninth day of the |S20t2 Fe Company on Spear street. Page 11 City Engineer learns of plan to pay contract- | ‘ nft investigution. ors for street work ,with city bonds. Page b The bistory was ecomplete, the char- Hotel Alexander on Gearr street, near Powell, mcters stood out im relief through the (Wil be restored at cost of $100.000. Page 9 Judges complete list of names from which 1907 thin v of hypothesis with which " > jurfes will be drawn. Page 8 Heney decently draped them, and there b women honor the memors of could be no mistake. Mayor Schmitz, nley on his birthday Pege § Etiotating - The . Aniitsnans -l sdge Seawell faile to find Assistant District S o S ney was rvegularly appointed. Page b finally removing Hutton, who had re-| .. wellie Gordon prefers refuges camp b fosed to change his vote at the caprice home with busband and latter secures i of the “sdministration”; Abe Ruef, tak- 'r'n i g i Page © . Barber complains to t ice hree ing the $5000 from the restaurant men |, o of ,nm”m.z be pn;i K‘\f:‘forh::v ‘:-rm' as the first apnosl installment of the | jowed of brass, Page 12 extorted sum; Jesn Loupy, agent of the | Two boye bold up and rob two men, securing “Big” restaurant mem, and C. Mafl- | m0Y and jewelry. : Page 10 mebusn, the mgent of the “liitle fel | M Mersh makes seomd attempt to sla woman who stole ber busband's affections: but et wounds s peflestrian Page 7 SUBURBAN : Berkeley Republicsn committee dectdes on | open caucuses In nomioating delegates for dy‘ copvention Page Oaklend Graymen claims to have been rohbed | by female footpads. Pago 4 Oukland school teachers organize to prosecute a compaign for ineressed salaries Page & Mayor Mott of Oakland and his adberents win sweepink victors at Republican primaries. rout ing opponents in all wards. Page 7 Dxecutive committee of Assoclated Students of State University ammounces list of fortbeoming Jowa"—tihe cast whns complete, and inte the wery face of Ruef, who ssi mnear Fieney in the courtroom, the prosecu- | tor flumg buck the cunming, protective, | mapacious :emark which Ruef had made e the men whoe came to him to ar- range for the graft payment: “I ecam’t give suy recelpts, boys—I waut cash—me checks zo.” WORSE THAN EARTHQUAKE 1 finished when was urned to t in im- | affairs of the students. Page 4 ed tones cr COAST you mean to tell me that if those | Naval Peymaster Lukesh, who resigned to escape trial by courtmartial, files charges facts exist they fo not mean extortion? | ., iy Captain Gfles. B. Barber, alleging cruel 1 say then: ‘God save § treatment on prison ship. Pago 1 from som that is wc James Roney brings suit to oust Mayor Med.- | end earthqueke, from sc ot dibcng Page 3 | e heve 'with »s now DOMESTIC ‘ S e Bret Harte's @enghter, who s living in poor- 4 ' house in Maine, is wife of Malford Steele, who rday te nswering the was involved in wrecking of Provident Securi mwade om Monday by J ties Company in Boston, and is now in Chi Schmitz and by Henry ——s et | > A e s Harriman extends aid to the Goulds in return port « . eylvania trackage. Twe accepted jurors in concessions made by them concerning Penn- | Page 3 | Thaw case are indictments brought n the French re afters of hetn ol spoken excused by court without explanstion and two | ' A Dew members sre sworn in Page 10 presenting & we Elghty miners killed by an explosion in = slon of the leg West Vig collfery. Pege 7 WASHINGTON The President will hold conference with Oali fornia Congressmen st White House today and Heney followe first entered questions R s o time th row | S niolv and 8 ti the erowd |, ortant parley on Japanese question 1s ex- | forsaken the fitful sunshine |pected Page 1 outdoors for Ju ¢'s court- | FOREIGN room found lttle entert The | French Government will reject proposition of Assistant District Attorney quoteq | Cttbolic Bishops for lessing of cburches. Page 1 legul authorities to overwhelm the con- | ST ORTS Tony Faust wins the Genevieve handicap in a | tention ©of the defense that the state- | gellop st Bmeryville. Page 6 Juck Gleasou is in Mme to veferee the Gans- Britt_fight Page 6 Dick Hyland end Cyclone Thompson will sign articles for & fight here. Page 6 Promoters of the sutomobile show expect an enormous sttendance. Page 7 Jockey T. Sullivan indefinitely suspenfed r ap fscompetent ride on Pury. Page 6 LABOR jments alleged in the indictment di4 not jconstitute the public offense of extor- ftion. Then he suddenly changfd the fmanner of his argument and the drowsy lcourtroom awoke with a start and sat | |t rapt attention HISTORY OF THE GRAFT “Suppose,” Heney began, “that & | Carpenters’ Umion No. 483 decides to erect fman named Constantine ran Tortonl's Dew bome st Vai Ness avepue and Fulton irestaurant and lost his license to mell | *ect Fage 9 MARINE liguor through complaints which were filed aguinest it by two walters, who jewore before the Police Commission | that the place had been conducted in » d@isorderly manner. Then, suppose | thet the license of the Bay State Ree- was about to expire and had Schooper Bessie K, disabled i southeaster, is saved from destruction by the sacrifice of 40,000 feet of lumber. Page 11 MINING More than 40,000 shares of Blue Bell stock sre sold on San Francisco Stock and Exchange Board. Page 15 turant SOCIAL ‘ %0 be repewed before the Police Com-| Engagement of Miss Alla Henshaw and Harry rissioners. Chickering announced to Oakland soclety. Page 4 | p > Mrs. J. Le Roy Nickel is. hostess st one. of arges W Buppsie St ShRrm ere Med| ., urgest whist parties of the season. Pags § | againet the Bay State Restaurant at| pnwe Nous Cotillon Club gives third ball of fthe instance of the Mayor, by one of the season at the Palace Hotel. Page 9 the Police Commissioners, who owes | | fiis appointment to the Mavor and to" ‘ ithe political boss who mominated the, THE ‘ :A I I ’S | | Mayor. And suppose that the licenses | lof bther restaurants had shortly to'be | renewed or the places could mot con- | tinue business; and that the word was | passed around among the restaurant- jkeepers that they had better pay| 110,000 to the political boss, or that| lall would be closed up; and that an| agent of the Mayor &nd the boss sees | sll the restaurant-keepers and tells fthem the same thing, and that they read the fsct in the newspapers. BOSS ASKS FOR $10,000 | “Suppose the restaurant men talked it | over among themselves and one of them | said that it was better that they should | ot do bubiness through the agent of | « boss, but that he would go to the| ss personally. Suppose the boss| s2id: If you pay me $5000 now and promise to pay me $5000 next year I bnight be able to do something for you. BRANCH OFFICES | ments will be received in San |/ Francisco at following offices: || 1651 FILLMORE STREET Open until 10 o'clock every night. 818 VAN NESS AVENUE Parent’s Stationery Store. SIXTEENTH AND MARKET STS. Jackson’s Branch. | | £33 HAIGHT STREET ’ Christian’'s Branch 1096 VALENCIA STREET Rothschild's Branch. 1 1531 CHURCH STREET | George Prewitt's Branch. 3200 FILLMORE STREET ‘Woodward's Branch. Disgraced Naval Paymaster Files Charges Against Captain Giles B. Harber KEPT IN CAPTIVITY AMONG CONVICTS| Secretary Metcalf Is Re- quested to Investigate the Treatment Accorded Him | SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL VALLE]JO, Jan. 29.—Naval offi- zers cn Mare Island who believed that, with the success of their plan to have Paymaster George Martin Lukesh re- sign, all scandal and publicity involved in the accusation that his conduct was unbecoming an officer and a gentleman would be averted, are about to receive a rude shock. And the strangest part of the affair is that no less a personage than Captain Giles B. Harber, the ! Albert M. Johnson Addressing the House Committee in Favor of the LUKESH REPOSED ROOSEVELT WILL GIEVIEWS O PR | Congressmen of California, Are Invited to Conference at the White House Today | PRESIDENT SCORES 1 | RUEF AND SCHMITZ | s ‘ | Treaty Excluding Subjects | of Mikado Is Apparent, Desire of Nation’s Chief ‘ SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. WASHINGTON, Jan.,29.— President Roosevelt sent word today to the California Senators and Representatives, asking them to meet him at §:30 o'clock to- morrow afternoon. He did not indicate what he would have to say, but the Californians look for | an announcement of some kind on the Japanese question. The! Constitutional T | House. THE Assembly sent the Held-Wright direct primary amendment fo the Senafe yesterday with the uhanimous indorsement of the lower It will run the ganilet in the Senafe of organization efforis fo give the people something different. Amendment < Held-Wright Direct Primary ” <+ commander of the zeceiving ship In- | dependence, who has assumed the posi- | treme frankness on this matter tion of censor of morals for the naval colony, may come under the limelight of a threatened Congressional investi- gation. Paymaster Luke: who was arrested some time ago for having been intoxi- cated in the navy yard, after he had come to this station with an unsayory record from the Orient, was attached to the recelving ship Independence. This luckless craft was glven notoriety a few months ago by the escapades of former Lieutenant Edward H. Dunn. Lukesh, because of his riétk, was en- titled to have been confined after his arrest to his quarters in the ward room aboard the recelving ship pending the convening of a courtmartial board to hear the charges against him. In a let- ter sent to Secretary of the Navy Met- calf Lukesh has demanded that, pre- vious to his retirement from the ser- vice next Thursday, Captain Harber be ordered to explain why he was confined in a dungeon in the hold of the prison ship Manila, along with convicted pris- oners of the lowest rank in the service. The quarters are alleged to have been so vile that when Lukesh was trans- ferred to the Naval Hospital on the island he was in a wretched condition. While on the Manila Lukesh had to associate with the ordinary enlisted prisoners. He had no wash stand, but was forced to use buckets to drink from and bathe in. These and various other cruelties are alleged in a commu- | nication sent on to Washington, asking for redress. In addition to sending this letter to the Secretary of the Navy, Lukesh, who was formerly a personal friend of Wil- liafh McKinley .and Mark Hanna, has sent a letter to Senator Foraker asking the latter to take up his case on the floor of the Senate unless the Navy De- partment orders an investigation into the charges against Harber. ——— ENORMOUS BOND ISSUE FOR USE OF SANTA FE TOPEKA, Jan. 29.—A meeting of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe stock- holders will be held here Wednesday for the purpose of authorizing a $98,000,000 bond issue for improve- ments and extensions. There will be at least fifteen of the Santa Fe stock- holders present. President has spoken with ex-| recently, not only at the Gridiron l dinner on Saturday night, but to | visitors at the White House. | The President told several Cali- fornia visitors that if the people of San Francisco would only stop the agitation and agree to admit Japanese children of proper age in schools, he could get a treaty within thirty days excluding Japanese laborers from the United States. To one visitor he is reported to have said: “I am ex- tremely annoyed by the attitude of some of the people of San Francisco. ‘When you are controlled by such men as Ruef '®nd s bassoon player—what's his name?—Schmitz—what can you ex- pect?” It was learned today that overtures were made to certain powerful in- fluences in California some days ago looking to the quiet admission of Jap- anese children in the schools for.a few weeks, during which time the President was to obtain an agreement upon a treaty with the Japanese Embassador excluding Japanese laborers from this country. But before anything could be done in California toward getting concerted action, the Washington au- thorities threw fat in the fire by start- ing suits in the State and Federal courts to compel the admission of Jap- anese children in public schools. Members of the Callfornia delega- tion expect that the President will urge them tomorrow to put a quietus on the anti-Japanese agitation in California for a few weeks in order that he may negotiate an exclusion treaty. They are not sure that this plan would be feasi- ble, even If public sentiment in Cali- fornia could be subdued, which they doubt. x Representative Kahn sald today that California neither wanted nor needed a new treaty with Japan. He said that the existing treaty fully covered the subject. Foragy 2 “Under this treaty,” said Kahn, “we have a right to enuct an exclusion law against Japanese labor, just as Japan has a right to enact such immigration '| exclusion Dbill. D FOR DAUGHTER “0F BRET HARTE BOSTON, Mass., the discovery that Bret Harte's daugh- ter, Mrs. Jessamy Harte Steele, is in poverty and is living in the City Home at Portland, Maine, this city is further Interested to learn that her husband is Milford Steele, president of the Shen- andoah Irrigation Company, which fig- ured in the wrecking of the Provident Securities Company, the failure ot which swept away the savings of thou- sands of poor people in Bbston. During the investigation of this financial ‘tangle Steele had offices in Broadway, New York City, and gave Boston friends the impression that he was living with his wife. He is thought to be in Chicago at the present time. A Boston friend sald today that Steele had placed his wife in a New York sanatorium about two years ago. Mrs. Steele says that she has received no support from him since last summer. Her husband's lawyers,. she said, tried to induce her to join hér husband in New York, but she refused, as she did not want to be sent back to a sana- torium. NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—Mrs. Steele is not to go friendless and destitute any longer. Miss Eleanor Robson, who is playing “Salomy Jane,” the play by Paul Armstrong based upon Harte's story of the same name, is arranging a benefit to be given at the Liberty The- ater during the week of February 11, and in this she is to have the support and co-operation of Mark Twain and the California Society. A A A A A At laws as she may see fit. We could have exclusion of Japanese labor in short order if Speaker Cannon would permit my bill to come up. I don't think many members of the House would op- pose it.” California Senators are skeptical of any improvement in the situation at this session. They do not helieve that a treaty could be ratified in the brief time remaining, nor-do they.see any sign that Congress would listen to any They ‘admitted tod: that they would go to the White House with some misgivings and expecting a lecture from the President on the at- titude of the San Francisco school au- Jan. 29.—Following | FRANGE TO REJECT BISHOPS' OFFER PARIS, Jan. 29.—The proposition which the French bishops, with the approval of the Pope, have now sub- mitted “to ‘the Govergment seems fo offer the first real prospect of an ad- justment of the conflict between church and state under the separation regime. While it involves a material modification of the position taken In the last papal encyclical, the proposi- tion put forward has all the appear- ance of an ultimatum. Whether the Government, in spite of the conces- sions made and making in the interest of peace, will accept a settlement based on the adequate ' recognition of the Roman hierarchy remains to be seen. The model contract which the bishops have submitted provides for the vir- tual lease of the churches in per- petuity to the parish priests by the Mayors, the leases being for eighteen years. The leases, which carry a stip- ulation engaging the communal, mu- nicipal and state authoritles not to in- terfere with the administration of the church and parish, are invalid except on express ratification of the bishop, and become null the moment the parish priest loses the bishop's authorization. The response made tonight by Minis- ter of Education Briand to the declar- ation of the bishop#, was short and un- mistakably clear. He sald: “The con- ditions are unacceptable.” This rejection of the proffered set- tlement was voiced in the course of the debate in the Chamver of Deputies on the new public meetings bill, the first section of which Was adopted by an overwhelming majority. This bill pro- vides for the holding of meetings of all kinds at any hour with previous declaration. The Chamber adjourned at midnight._ ; —— STORK VISITS MACKAY HOME NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—A son was born last evening to Nr. and Mrs. Clar- ‘ence Mackay at their home, 244 Mad- 'ison avenue. Mr. aid Mrs. Mackay ‘have two other children, Katherine, 6 years old, and Blanco, 3 years old. | | PURE PRIMARIES NEARING BEACH OF PEOPLE Held-Wright Amendment Is Sent to Senate With In- dorsement of Lower House WILL JUST ESCAPE FROM COMMITTEE If Twenty-Seven Senators Are for Public Welfare Reform Vietory Is Won SACRAMENTO, Jan. 29. Sent to the Senate with the unanimous indorsement of the Assembly, the Held- Wright direct primary con- stitutional amendment must now run the gauntlet of or- ganization attempts to give ) |the people a decision of the Supreme Court, instead of a ‘w_ilid,' comprehensive, direct |primary election enactment. The Assembly adopted the Held-Wright amend- ment this morning without a dissenting vote, and the clapping of applauding hands sent it to the Senate to meet its fate. That this amendment will probably be reported out by a bare ma- jority of the Senate commit- tee on elections and elec- tion laws tomorrow is no fault of the machine and the men who have innocently enough played the ma- chine’s suit cards. An un- fortunate error on the part of Senator Wright's sten- ographer in the preparation of his amendment and cleri- cal delay in transmitting the Held edition of the amend- ment to the Senate prevent- ed the advocates of the Held-Wright amendment substituting the Assembly resolution for the Sen- ate measure and resulted In delaying final action by the committee until to- morrow, when a meeting will be called immediately after the adjourn- ment of the Senate. PLEDGES ARE CARRIED OUT The passage of the Held-Wright amendment by the Assembly was with- out incident. The few brief speeches were confined to calling the attention of the Assembly to the pledges made by both Republican and Democratic parties in their platforms. Assembly- man Held, the Assembly sponsor for the resolution, laying emphasis on the party pledge, said the passage of the resolutions was not a question of per- sonal opinion, but a duty lying on every Republican and Democrat, all of whom had made their campaigns on plat- forms pledging them to the enactment of a direct primary election law. As- semblymen Stetson, Otis and Lucas spoke briefly in the same strain, call- ing attention to the unapimous report of the committes on constitutional amendments, and Otis to the recom- mendations made In their messages by Governors Gillett and Pardee. The roil was called and each of the seventy members present responded with an emphatic “Aye,” and the Assembly had. so far as in its power lay, made goed the party pledges. N\ ¥ There was not the same unanimity of opinion exhibitd at the hearing given in the afternoon by the Senate com- mittee on elestjons and election laws. For the Held-Wright amendment the arguments were presented by Senator Leroy Wright, the upper house sponsor for the measure; Albert M. Johnson, the well-known San Francisco constitu- tional lawyer; General Manager C. W. Hornick, Managing Editor E. 8 Simp-