The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 11, 1907, Page 1

The butterfly now dictates the colors gorgeous for An gowns, interesting | article, illustrated in color, will appear m The Sunday Call £ Japan's famous tale of the Forty-seven Ronins will be illustrated in color by the Japanese Charles Dana Sunday in The Sunday Call Gibson next SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1907. SCHMNITZ YIELDS T0 DEMAND OF PRESIDENT Hopes to Escape at Graft Trial by in Anti-Japanese Capitulating | Fight THINKS ROOSEVELT WILL ASSIST HIM v | Looks to White House for‘i an Official Statement| That Will Whitewash Him| By Ira E. Bennett SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.| Mayor Schmitz and the San| Francisco Board of Educa- tion spent several hours to-| day preparing a written statement to be submitted to| the President tomorrow. It is understood that the Cali- fornians will also have some written suggestions to offer yes to the scope of the pro- posed arrangements to be de with Japan for the ex- sion of coolie laborers. The indications are that understanding will be between the Presi- Californians in the Japanese proper result ad- 1 1 school age into schools of San on the assurance the President that he will to treaty with Japan his power ne- for exclusion. The make promise at this time cannot an treaty will be signed and submitted to the Senate, } a y the Cali- appeal te to remove the chief [ grievance successit 1S expect 11 nego ations litical existence is ks the outcome of vith the President have great weigl determining nvicted Pres dent that le to « ce Sch playing great patriotism in waiving the school matter for the sake an understanding with ht with the people at home. mitz ‘will go back and face| with some hope that his con- the President has helped to him. But if a treaty is | not forthooming after the school board | has surrendered, it will be all off with | ference wit whitewash Schmitz It was reported tonight that in case | understanding was reached between | Presidefit and Schmitz; a state- be issued from the White House prais’pg the San Francisco del- for its patriotism in back- down In the school question. € mer will for KNOWS JAPANESE TRAITS b | President Roosevelt Is Merely Playing to the Asiatic Gallery | From a Californian who enjoys the confidence of President Roosevelt it was | learned yesterday that the President | and his immediate advisers were nego- | tiating & new tresty with Japan and | thet the conferences were approaching & favorable termination at the time the disturbance concerning the Japanese in the schools of this city came into pub- notice. The terms of the proposed treaty would have been acceptable to Californians, it is said, but the nego- tiations were disrupted by the publica- tions of the school trouble, at which , “gentleman nation,” as President an calls Japan, took offense. Then followed the utterances of the Presi- dent, which California took as & per- | sonal affront. | But the fact is, according to those who pose as spokesmen for the President Contizued ou Page 3, Middle Column 3 | fog in the morning. | pects himselr. INDEX OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL’S NEWS TODAY TELEPHONE TEMPORARY 86 FEBRUARY 11, 1807 MONDAY, WEATHER CONDITIONS YESTERDAY—Cleer; maximum temperature, 60; minimum temperature, 50. FORECAST FOR TODAY—Fair, with light Page 9 EDITORIAL Bar Association’s minimum wage bill should an act to provide bunko spparatus Pege 8| Hearst sus- | Page 8 He makes Page 8 man William Randolph Duffey is a good deal of @ man. the dirt fiy. Vises of the duck dinner as a lubricant or | legislation LEGISLATURE Fear that four-track raflway bill is framed in the interests of the Southern Pacific. Pages 12 Wiles's letter on pure food bill was not writ ten to McCartney, but to Bell Page 2 Members in Legisiature favorable to organized labor may force early action on the Japu Page § school question, Schmitz's surrender being con- | | demned. Page 2 | crry Willlam Maitland, known a< the “Dean of the Press Club,” dies suddenly in New York | hotel. Page 7 Rev. Bradford Leavitt declares in sermo bt f the East expect San Franclio to t grafting. 2 ve will rule upon the Schmitz Ruef ers in extortion ca%es today Page 7| torney W. C. Burnett suc- cumbs to stroke of paralysis. Page 7| ial market experfences sharp up- | as result of reconstruction pros. Page 12 ub members break sod for the new bLome to be erected on th eir old o Post street. Page 7 Russell Lukens returns from the usses attitude of Japsaese ne, ir Senator Orfent and school question Board of Arbitration may render its decision today in settlement of differences between the United Raflroads and its employes Page 12 No surprise would be created if the President | appoigg Victor H. Metcalf to the new hip Page 12 T rong Golden Gate Park and enjoy | Railway while United Railroads of es Street sec ¥ have ordered mgregational Ch t e burned services In edifice in' the ais. Page 12 of San Francisco to observe anniversary. Page 7 ¥ Japanese house-cleaning companies in o dictate prices. Page 12 Funeral of Yee Yesh, leader of Chinese so clety, is marked by elaborate ceremontes Page 12 National Guard will receive large appropria tions from State for armory in Sacramento, new uniforms and for contingent fund Page 9 SUBURBAN dge of Elks will open mew club Page 41 hool leaders of Portland, Ore., will in Oskland on Wesinesday. Page 4| wmore rencher blows out his braius | while despondent bec of iliness. Page & Large sfers of realty in Oakland and Te newed setivity in the Page ¢ Os and newspap rrier held up In day and relieved of smeil sum and new hat. P. 4 sh is imminent between Mayor Mott and Boosters.”” Page 4 nedu detective races in muto after trolley kes it and arrests man alleged to a dog. Page 4 Egan's testimony against C. H 10 be corroborated by jest Page 8 COAST Ste T ane strikes rock and is forced to p Page 2 Weston commits suicide in the of her parcuts in Pe a. Page 3 DOMESTIC Attorney J me the credi b of Evelyn Nesbit Thew as ud t jeal rage and the madness of in Pages 12 z hopes to cscape at graft 1 by g to Pr t on the anti-Japanese fight Pages 12 Harrimaa-Fish railroad war dethrones Mrs. Fish as queen of tbe *Four Hundr in N York Page 1 Clerk in New York Comptroller's office burus $5.000,000 worth of tax stamps on his own re sponsibility Page 3 Members of the Commercial Telegraphers’ Union threaten to strike if men discharged by Western Unlon Compeny are not reinstated. P. 3 FOREIGN tl in trouble with Germany as result of German bankers to return sums of n Government. Page 3 ms a victory in the elections itles of Russia Page 8 Secretary to late Premler Crispl publishes let- ters written by Cardinal Hohenlobe bearing on church affairs. Pege 3 $PORTS Controversy between the universities over the | location of the field meet should be settled at once Page 5 Handieapper Egbert will announce today the weights for the Family Club stake. Pa Manager Riley of the Tonopah Athletic Club announces that the Gans-Britt fight, scheduled for March 18, s off. Page 5 Golden Gate Juuior Temnis Club is arranging for a number of tournaments. Page & Vampires defeat Hornets at assoclation foot- ball by & score of 3 to 2. Page 9 Injury to Walter S. Hobart Burlingame spolls a promising geme of polo. Page 5 Wild Gus, & short euder, scores over Chieyenne in the final at Ingleside Coursing Park. Page 9 MARINE Steamship Siberia encounters terrific storm on her way from the Orfent. Page 9 MINING Strikes of rich gold ore are reported In n pumber of Californfa mines, with large de- posits. Page 8 THE CALL’S BRANCH OFFICE Subscriptions and Adver% ments will be received in San Francisco at following offices: at 1651 FILLMORE STREET Open until 10 o'clock every nisht. S18 VAN NESS AVENUE Parent’s Stationery Store, SIXTEENTH AND MARKET STS. Jackson’s Branch. 533 HAIGHT STREET Christian’'s Branch 109¢ VALENCIA STREET Rothschild’s Branch. 1531 CHURCH STREET George Prewitt's Branch. 3200 FILLMORE STREET ‘Woodward's Branch. brotherd FOUR-TRACKBILL MAY GONTAIN A JOKER | Railway Measure Is One of the Conundrums of the Session of Legislature |LOST IN SENATE BY A MIXED VOTE | Members of Both Houses | Fear the Bill Is in the In- terest of Southern Pacific HEADQUARTERS, EIGHTH STREET. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 10.— | The four-track railway bill is one of the conundrums of the present session. Some gossips say that it is a railroad measure, but it was beaten in a rail- road Senate last Wednesday by a mixed vote. Programmers rubbed el- bows with reformers as they bent over to strike the finishing blow. Tomor- { CALL | 1007 row it comes up in the Senate on re- consideration of the vote by which An- derson’s four-track bill failed of pas- The following day the Assembly will have a final roll call on Transue's bill, which in text is identical to the one by Senator Anderson. According to their piomoters the Anderson and Transue bills merely provide for the condemnation of ten rods of right of way instead of nine, as is allowed by the present law. They give assu that the measure is wholly innocent and that a bug con- cealed within it would die of inanition. sage. introduced nces FEAR OF CONCEALED DESIGN Still members of both houses against whom no chattel mort- gage is known to exist fear that Jere Burke and Walter Parker have framed up the measure in the interest of the Southern Pacific. Some say that the concealed design is to keep the West- ern Pacific from -getting through Niles numerous | Canyon, but this charge lacks verifica- tion. No Western Pacific representa- tive is hiere working against the bill. The measure came up in the Senate | last. Wednesday. No one was paying particular attention to it, and it might have gone through with a rush if nator Anderson had not n\lade a speech. any This is a good bill,” he said. one is opposed to it. of it. “No The railroads are in favor 1 submitted it to the |attorneys of the Southérn Pacific and | ass they red me they were satisfied.” Antirailroad Senators took due no- tice and lined up in opposition. Twen- ty-nine members were present, and the d ion was as follows: Anderson, Anthony, Ay Bell, Belshaw, Broughton, Carter, Cart- | wright, Greenwell, Irish, Leavitt, Mar- Bates, key, McCartney, McKee, Rolley, Savage, Weed and Wolfe—18. Noes—Black, Boynton, Caminetti, | Curtin, Mattos, Nelson, Rambo, Reilly, | Sanford and Walker—10. | Anderson changed his vote, and gave | notice of a motion of reconsider. ; HERRIN CAN FORCE BILL | The second and final test will come | tomorrow. Railroad men predict the | bill will pass, not because it is “pro- }grflmme." but because it is right and |1s erying for more trackage. Whatever | the merits of the bill, whatever its bugs, | the Senate's vote upon it proves noth- |ing. Two of Abe Ruef's boys, Nelson |and Reilly, voted against it. No one | doubts they are for Herrin whenever he needs them. If the bill reappears tomorrow adorned wWwith the ‘“pro- gramme” label they will vote for it. Not allowing for other changes, this would make twenty ayes, one less than the necessary number. The twelve ab- sentees included Hartmann, Keane, Muenter and Willis. Therefore tomor- row will tell (the tale. If Herrin is anxlous to force the bill it will pass the Senate, with several votes to spare. As to the fate of Transue's bill, much depends on what the Senate does with the Anderson measure. KEvidence of a programme in one house will have the effect of the vote in the other. ‘Tran- sue puts his-hand over his heart, ‘and | says the bill is intended solely for the benefit of ‘the electric rallways of Southern California, but Davis of Hol- lister and Devlin of Vallejo, one a Democrat and the other a Reyubllun. are far from satisfied. They want au- thoritative assurance that the measure is nat ‘intended for the benefit of one trapscontinental railway to the detri- ment of rivals. JURY'S PET BILL DISFIGURED Only His Name Remains When Com- mittee Gets Through With It SACRAMENTO, Feb. 10.—“When is a bill not a bill?” asks Assemblyman R. H. Jury of San Mateo. His answer is, “When It comes out of the banks and banking committee.” Early in the session Jury, at the re- quest of the California Press Associa- tion, introduced a bill to require all persons, 'bmg or corporations engaged in lending money to publish financial in line with the needs of a State that | Jerome Will Attack Credibility of Evelyn Thaw as a Witness e : EVELYN NESBIT THAW will resume the stand today and face soon the trying ordeal of cross-examination by District Attorney Jerome. Jerome has prepared to attack the credibility of the wife of the slayer of Stanford White as a witness. He will also endeavor to show the difference between jealous rage and insanity. &+ MLEDFSED & + * 'Thaw’s Trial May . Be the Scene of . Strife Today Delmas to E)mbat | The District Attorney SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL NEW YORK, Feb. 10.—That |the nature of District Attorney Jerome’s campaign against the defense will be revealed first in |an attack on the testimony o1 Mrs. |Harry Thaw was the opinion to- {night of persons who profess to be in touch with the plans of the prosecution. Jerome will seize his opportunity. at the conclusion of Mrs. Thaw's examination by | her husband’s counsel. It was not expected that Jerome would launch his attack tomorrow { because of the probability of Mrs. | Thaw’s absence. As told today, it was the intention of Thaw's |counsel to initiate tomorrowz morning the fight to get in evi- dence Thaw's will, on the night to Nesbit. | | made = of his marriage Mrs. Thaw will ¢ tomorrow. velyn ue her recital » it was rumored woulé the stand to corroborate wife’s narrative, positively not test Harry Thaw, w g0 upon his will These two important questions were definitely decided upon fonight at the most important conference held by A { Thaw's lawyers since the trial begam. ',' _;‘; The conference took place at the /] ;fl‘ apartments of Attorney Delmas in 2 - NN s \-\ N = \ Test Seventieth street, all counsel in the employ of the defense being pres- {ent. It was also determined to settle | at ‘the very opening of the court’s ses- | sion tomorrow morning the question as i!" the admissibility of Thaw's odd will Delmas has prepared a long brief on | this point and is confident that Justice N VAR LENR \NARR NR® NN RIS N N LW\ A ASTSY \ N \ L3 \ANWZ 4 2 7TNWA 5 VAN MRS, CATHERINE, CANE.. DEFENDANT 1IN SENSATIONAL MURDER TRIAL AND “WOMAN OF MYSTERY.” TO WHOM MRS. THAW WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE FLED DMVEDIATELY $FTER THE SHOOT- ING OF STANFORD WHITE. ALI, EFFORTS TO LOCATE THE MYSTERIOUS W \MAN, WHO IS AND EVELYN NESEIT, HAVE FAILED. [ amman-Fish War Dethrones Ms. Fish as Four Hundred” ,"ewe_r'iof’fthe 7 NEW YORK, Feb. 10.-Mrs. Stuyve- upremacy hung in 3 ‘her husband’s posi- tion as president of the Iliinois Cen- tral Railway was in jeopardy during his contest with B, {l Harriman. Har- riman won. Fish lost his presidency and Mrs. Fish is devoting all’ the re- sourceful energiés of an ‘ambitious wo- man to save her social eminence in the deadline and declared that Harriman's daughters must not cross it, she paved the way for the decapitation of her Jhushand. For the last four months New York's smart set has been watch- ing the Fish-Harriman social battle with bated breath. Those who have been keeping count declare lynt the of victory rests with Harriman, ‘and that Mrs. Fish has been dethroned. What Is said to have been the con- ~the r t came . Tuesday night nois Central director: his| | daughters “break into” New York's ! “four hundred.” s ELIEVED TO KNOW THE CAUSE OF THE RUPTURE SBETWEEN WHITE + Fitzgerald will rule favorably to the [defense. The advisability of bringng to the attention of the jury Harry | Thaw’s eceentric bridge whist playing N Y klas a medium to bolster up the claim QW Or | that at the time of the commitment of the act he was of unsound mind was diseussed, byt not Cefinitely settled. If it should be decided upon to subpena witnesses to tell of Thaw’s hobhy for 1n when she gave a dinner at her home in East Seventy-eighth street. Sixty per- sons were present, but not an Astor,|;.igge whist, a game in which he lost Vanderbilt, Goelet, Rhinelander, Scher-{ p o . 1qs of dollars, persons high in merhorn or Wilson, all of whom ""‘d'}mh(y and prominent in clubdom with lnLthe front rank of New York's smart whom he played would be called to tes- se : try. The Astors, Goelets and Vanderbilts are all directly represented in the Iiit-i— It is believed that Jerome will at- !'m Harriman him- | tack Mrs. Thaw's credibility as a self is not a social aspirant, but: he is | arh e ts intensely interested in 2 9| witness and strive to creal the ‘minds of the jury a doubt as to the truthfulness of her story, which paint-