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of its power in The Sunday Call . N 4 . cabal of Paris can make of ruin you. Tell Cleaning Headquarters Who You Are and What You Are vou have a dramatic ambition the Willing to Do—See Page 15 peasant la How California women are aiding the ‘ asting story, which will appear in The Sunday Call > cemakers of Russia is an inter- | v | | | FRANC ISCO DIRECT PRIMARY LEGISLATION WILL BE DECIOE To Submit the Held-Wright Amendment or Postpone Proposed Law SENATE’S WHIP HAND)| Strong Differences Among Assemblymen on the | Needed Reform MUST ACT THIS WEEK]| : By George A. Van Smith CALL HEADQUARTERS, 1007 EIGHTH STREET. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 17.— s week will disclose the fate of di- rect primary legislation. - Either the people of California will be given an opportunity to vote on the Held- Wright amendment, or the enactment of a direct' primary law will be post- poned f The jecision of the question and responsi- for redemption or repudiation platform pledges lie with our years instead -of two. ty ¥ a position th purpose of its back comfortably The exper wurried; in fa is to be permitted s time in which to of repudiate party 1f-accused ready to ee to pre- 1 no wise dis- ntention to prove that arent nsible for to insure of his He g of any tee w ngly there n, which fears e S > cut off their ng the present primary the few communi- | w r ich an extension of It is, however, only fair to se to hat they are - ir in the Senate pro-| y appreciate the dan- g of the situation ose the Ield-Wright there is the faction that ot tional amend- | shelter with an- taken small but honest element behind ent and has the Assembly committee’s substitute for | Stetson bill, which, even should it | would not furnish an excuse | to submit a constitutional held to be necessary by an most unanimous verdict of the bench | 4 bar of the State and advocated by passe failur e Governor. OTHER MATTERS SUSPENDED ortunately for the direct primary forces the Held-Wright measure is not | proposition suspended in thin | to be brought back to legislative | h only through the medium of joint nference committees. There e ot The Senate, refusing to ap- | point a special conference committee | e Held-Wright proposition, cannot W any grace appoint comm‘ttees to thresh out the differences on other mat- With only seventeen legislative s left before the termination of the constitutional legislative period, delays after the end of this week mean legis- tive fatalities. The Senate has the ip, hand and the Assembly will be npelled to bow. 1 Senator E. O. Miller of Visalia re- ed to Sacramefto today to hear for | time the report that he had| deserted the Kings County and the| Coalinga/ district people in their fight r a slice of Fresno County, which has | in circulation since he went to| 2 San Francisco hospital for treatment two weeks ago. That he will not rise a question of privilege tomorrow‘ ing to deny the allegation and| falligator” is due to the pa- - the rules and co! » ters turr first the efforts of the Senators in| this evening, who have either de- | earing the story or assured the Ire solon from Visalia that no one believed it anyhow. Miller announced Jonight that bé Was ready to take up e Continued on Page 15, Column 5 0 00N - | WEATHER conpITIONS | ature, 52. FORECAST FOR TODAY—Fair; light north- west wind. turf event at Emeryville. INDEX OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL’S NEWS TODAY PHONE TEMPORARY 86 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1907 YESTERDAY—Partly maximum temperature, clbudy; west 60; minimum wind; temper- Page 19 EDITORIAL Fate of raflroad trains may be molded by public optaion Page 18 xperiments in socialism are mot injured by criticism from the outside. Page 18 Morals and immorals of the Harry Thaw case. Page 18 The sho session of Congress produces little but appropriations. Page 18 LEGISLATURE Legislature will decide thjs week whether the people will be given an opportunity to vote on | Held-Wright smendment or to postpone s direct | r for four years. Pago 13 | nton’s bill providing for creating new county out of Los Angeles will be mangled by Senators. Page 15 Leavitt has a plan for overcoming the objec- | tion to legislation forbidding riders on | fire | nce policles. Page 15 | crTy zation of army for cleaning day s | rusbed by managers. Page 15 Seumas MacManus delivers address at Knights | cf the Red ach cclebration of ann! of Emmet's bein; Page 14 | Petty thieves and robbers very active Satur- day night sng early Sunday morning. Page 19 reetcar smashes funeral carrlage confuining Page 26 ant Marine League sends out pamphlet s thst the Japanese Government pro T ive every American merchant ship from the PaciSic. Page 26 | Mrs. Caroline Kline Galland of Seattle, who | left vast sum to charity, will be buried bere. Page 26 Members of the Salvation Army and ocialists in a riot in Fillmore street. Page 26 ripts auto ‘ride long enongh Pago 13 United States Deputs Surveror of the Port | Bdgar Mizner trounce his chauffeur. Chauncey M. St. Jobn is requested to re sign. Page 13 United Railroads malms five more passengers as result of car collision. Page 26 SUBURBAN Residents of San Rafael working to make that prosperous place a seaport town. Page 16 Realty in neda County continues to ad- vance in value and large sales recorded. Page 16 Commercial Telegrapbers enroll~many ~uew hers at unfon meeting in Oskland. Page 16 Annexationists of Oakland are grestly en- | by sweeping victory in Fruitvale | - Page 16| Bullding Trades Council of Alameda County | lumber handlers’ strike. Page 18 Temporary Bérkeles home of the H. C. Whit- | ners of Los Angeles ransacked by burglars. P. 16 | Alameda policeman fires five shots at Inno- cent citizen, believing him to be man wanted | for shooting Jemson. Page 16 | Burglar invades sorority house at Stanford | University and screams of girls make him flee | averts Page 16 | Annual eltrus fatr which will open at Clover- | dale Tuesday evening promises to be a grand success Page 16 Rival corporations battling for Vallejo water front rights Page 15 Legal war imminent over million-dollar estate left by §. G. Little, a banker of Dixon. Page 15 | DOMESTIC ! Later reports show that twenty persons were | killed snd 145 burt in electric express train wreck in New York. Poge 14 etary Taft outlines to Congress a plan for building a pew military prison on Angel Isl- and. Page 13 Delmas flays his assoeiates in the Thaw case and mccuses them of injuring the chsnces of their client. Page 13 Secretary Root warns Congress mot to inter- fere in negotiations regarding German tariff.P.22 Wife of rich importer In New York is charged with killing of ber mother with poison. Page 16 Woman's sult against Racetrack Starter Jake Holtman for alimony brings out evidence that she was vever married to him. Page 17 | WASHINGTON May hmitz attends regéption at Lome of Gompers and’ dines with Vice Pgesident Fair- banks Page 15 | Appropriations to be veted by the present Con- gress will aggregate more than one billion dollars. Page 13 FOREIGN Steamer Orianda sunk in collision and fourteen persons drowned. Page 15 SPORTS Alblon Rovers No. 1 defeat Scotias, 5 to 2, and Hornets No. 1 win from Parnells, 2 to 0, in association football cup serles. Page 17 California Derby will be the nmext Important Page 17 Geofge Sharman's greyhounds, Dan Finnegan and Jim Lamb, annex both stakes at Ingleside Park. Page 17 Golden Gate Gun Club opens the bhle!ockl season at the Ingleside traps. Page 17 SOCIAL Outdoor Art League of California Club will adopt plans today for the serving of hot coffee by clubwomen to the workers on ‘‘cleaning dax.” Page 18 MARINE Fleet of twenty-seven vessels reaches port with building material Tor the city. Page 19 THE CALL’S BRANCH OFFICES Subscriptions and Advertise- ments will be received in San Francisco at following offices: 1651 FILLMORE STREET Open until 10 o'clock every nizht. 818 VAN NESS AVENUE Parent’s Stationery Store. SIXTEENTH AND MARKET STS. Jackson’s Branch. 538 HAIGHT STREET Christian’s Branch 1096 VALENCIA STREET Rothschild’s Branch. 1531 CHURCH STREET George Prewitt's Branch. 8200 FILLMORE ‘Woodward's -Branch. | were trying to handicap hinf. | dorte everything in their power to dis- “They agreed to allow me to take sole charge of the case without protest and from that time until the present 1| | the Conclusion of my direct examina- | tion of Mrs. Thaw they began their at- | give me the benefit of all their know- | after the shooting last summer and DELMAS FLAYS HI3 ASSOCIATES IN THAW GASE Says That They Have Tried| to Discredit Him in the Courtroom ATTORNEY IS ANGRY| Declares That Conduct of Counsel Means Death to the Defendai.t ANOTHER ROW DUE| SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. NEW YORK, Febs 17.—The Thaw | trial will be resumed tomorrow as| if there were no jealous controversy! raging among counsel for the defense. So far as known no agreement has been reached and the trouble is likelyi to break out anew at any time. The Call correspondent is able to give the cause of the trouble, viz: Delmas was trecated cavalierly by his | associates, who, jealous of the prom- inent part he had taken in the Thaw defense, concluded to ignore him as far He was not informed of the nature of certain evidence to be given by some of the very witnesses he was going to gross mine, and it | was apparent to him that his associates | It was| as possible. the following statement made by Del- | mas to newspaper men that brought| the trouble to a climax yesterday: “From the first my associates have ridicu-~ said. credit me and make me appe: lous in the courtroom,” Deimas “At the close of the first day of the| trial T demanded that all the counsel meet in my office. When they had come | together 1 told them plainly r con- duct of the case meant nothing less than the murder of thelf<liént.*T said I would be no party to it and unless they stopped where they were and gave me entire charge of the case from that point resignation in their hands. DELMAS PRES my was S ULTIMATUM have been nominally senior c el of | the defense. As a matter of fact I have been no such thing. Beginning with tempts to confuse me and make me ap- | incompetent to handle the I had never seen or heard of in the courtroom at pear case. Evidence was sprung on m a moment’s notice. “Witn es | knew nothing of were called and I was left to question them without having the slightest idea as to what their testimony was. “I stood this line of behavior on my associates’ part until I could endure it Then I called a second con- ference in my office. When they had assembled again I presented my ulti- matum. I told them that either they re to produce before me eyery par- ticle of evidence in their possession and no longer. ledge on point ‘connected with the case or I would retire. They con- sented to this, but did not keep thelr word.” When Hartridge was made ac- quainted with Delmas’ statement he expressed great astonishment and sent immediately for Gleason and Peabody, both of whom were in different parts of the city attending to important mat- ters connected with the trial. After they had learned the facts it was de- cided that they wait on Delmas, de- mand a retraction of his statements or his witHdrawal from the case. HARTRIDGE MAKES REPLY Hartridge said to the newspaper: “McPike, who was A. H. Hummel's rep- resentative in California, a fact I have learned only recently, came here soon every asked me to obtain the services of Delmas. I made no decision at that time, and then Delmas came across the continent and personally asked that I retain him in the case. Again, I made | no positive arrangemént, and he re- turned to California with no assurance that he was to be retained. But he was afterward emploved by me and made ‘of counsel’ McPike never was retained jn any capacity, and has no more’ to do with the defense than any other spectator. To date his chief ac- \ivlly has been confined to filling a chair at the counsel table and doing errands for Delmas.” Late Saturday aftermon Hartridge, Peabody, Gleason and O'Reilly ap- peared at Delmas’ office and attributed to him certain remarks derogatory to them. Delmas denled making them and the lawyers called up a Herald re- porter to substaptiate what Delmas had said. 8 “You are willing to have it appear that McPike was Hummel's representa- | battleships, BILLION DOLLARS T0 BE VOTED BY TH(5 GONGRESS Enormous Deficit in the Na- tional Treasury Is Certain EXTRAVAGANCE ERA Liberality Marks Action on Big Appropriation Measures SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—A billion- dollar session of Congress is assured by the appropriation bills which have already passed the House and the esti- mates of those which will pass during the mext two weelks. The expenses of the Government will amount to more than has been nllowed at any former session of Congress in the history of the Government. As it is estimated that the surplus in the trecasury this fiscal year will not exceed $26,000,000, the expenditures during the next fiscal year will exceed the revenues by an enormous sum. It is believed by some of the Republican leaders in Congress that this will fore- stall agitation for a revision of the tariff. Many of the Democratic members of the House are already beginning to talk of Republican extravagance. in time of peace. They believe they will be able to make it an issue in the next national campaign. They attribute it to the fact that comparatively little care has been exercised by the various appropriations committees of the House in framing the annual budgel\s. They claim that this is due to a desire to | impress upon .the minds of the people that the tariff should under no con- sideratioh be revised, becanse it would diminish the revenues and lead to an enormous defieit. ~iy TIE F On the other hand, Republican mem- bers of the House appropriations com- mittee assert that the only reason why the committee has not gone into the items of the various bills before it with the same thoroughness as last year is that the short session prevents it. Early in the session the safety valve was disabled, and since then there have been many evidences of Congressional liberality. Not the least was the 30 per cent increase by the members of their own salaries. Postal “employes were given increases amounting ‘o $7,000,000 in the postoffice appropria- tion bill, now under consideration. New costing ~ $20,000,000, provided in the naval bill. The largest river and harbor ~biil since the formation of the Government, carrying approximately $8,000,000, has had $1,000,000 added to it in the Senate The army has received a gift in the shape of a new coast artillery, which will cost Uncle Sam $5,000,000 a year. In the foreign service several minis- ters will have their salaries increased 25 per cent. To the $138,000,000 in the regular pension appropriation bill Con- gress hs added $15,000,000 in a service pension act. Another million to the Jamestown Exposition, in order to insure its opening in April. The hungry ones, who have been dis- appointed elsewhere, hope to have their desire recognized in the sundry civi will, which will carry more than $100,- 000,000. ' ars ———— EDGAR MIZNER GIVES BEATING TO CHAUFFEUR MURDERED MAN'S BODY Chastises Mahout After Argument Over Paying for Machine It is too bad that the exhibition was not saved for the automobile show which will open tonight; had it been advertised it would have in- sured the attendance of everybody in- terested in automobiles and -chauf- feurs, to say nothing of the few in- terested in the doings of the Mizner EPUTY to resign from that office on March 1. SURVEYOR of the Port St. John has been requested by the Treasury Department | The demand for his retirement is reported to be .the climax of controversies in the office which arose during incumbency of Charles H. Spear. P 3 i)eputy Surveyor of Post Chauncey St. Joh ks Requested to Re ST ! < T0 ABANDON WHLITARY PHSON_ DR ALCATRIZ Secretary Taft Plan to Build on Angel ° Island SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—A plan for building a new military prison on Angel Island and the abandonment of the prison on Alcatraz Island was out- lined to Congress yesterday by Secre- tary Taft and Lieutenant Colonel Ruh- len. The sum of $250,000 is asked for to pay for material and skilled labor that cannot be furnished by the con- victs themselves. i It is proposed to build a stone prison to accommodate 300 prisoners, which is about the number now contained in the Alcatraz prison. Excellent stone is found on Angel Island and most of the work of preparing it can be done by the prisoners. Prison labor is now being employed to rebuild the barracks on Angel Is_lnndA The War Department also asks for $250,000 for the depot for recruits.and casuals on Angel Island. Secretary Taft also suggested “if it were not to be the occasion for a war scare” he k for $37,500 for a st e has been doled out | Would ask fol $ 8 orehouse at Honolulu. In discussing the nccessity for pur- chasing land at Lobos Creek for an ad- ditional water supply for the Presidio, 1 Colonal Ruhlen testified that the de- partment was paying $1500 a month t6 the Spring Valley Water Company at the rate of 11% conts a thousand gallons. The propofed land purchase Outlines n sign From the Office CAEENWELL ENES NEW PHASE OF YOUNG GASE Says Charges Made by the Bakersfield Oil Men Are Untrue SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 17. — Senator Charles E. Greenwell of Santa Barbara returned to Sacramento tonight and in- terjected an entirely, new phase into the charges made against him by C. E Young, the Bakersfield oil man, who is exhibiting articles of «clothing as evidence of the alleged intimacy be- tween the lawmaker and Mrs. Youns, and on which he is basing a suit for divorce. “The clothing which- Young says he has doesn't belong to me at all” said Greenwell. “It belongs to some other man. The only property in Young's possession which I claim title to is an overcoat and hat. These he got from a rack in the hall. “Some Very incorrect things have and\a pipe line from the Presidio to|pen circulated about that incldent down Fort Mason would cost $250,000. —— - FOUND AT ALUM ROCK Evidence of Fierce Struggle Before the Vigtim Was Vangquished - SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. SAN JOSE, Feb. 17.—Proof of a mys- rious murdenr was revealed with the iscovery today of the body of a man -| in"Bakersfield. On the evening in ques- tion I met George E. Whitaker, a Ba- kersfleld attorney, who invited me to pass the night with him at his hotel. Mrs. Young had permanent apartments at this hotel, and the only time I saw her was about 6 o’clock in the evening. Two other well-known persons, whose names I intend to withhold f®r the present, were with me when I was talking to her. When Young came rushing into the room he was very much agitated and appeared to be under the | influence of drink. He began to abuse his wife outrageousiy and I naturally protected her from his violence. A After left he began to ransack every room ih the hotel and got a man's suit, a pair of shoes and an umbrella, to- tamily. - As the story goes, Edgar Miz. |1 & canvon at Alum Rock Park. The|gether with the oyercoat and hat be- ner is one of the many brothers to dls- | ind was made by C. H. Fuller, a geolo- tinguish himself on this occasion. Wil- son’s matrimonial venture with Mrs. Yerkes has been exploited and Addi- son’s refusal to shake hands with Ape|Passed through the jaw. gist. The head had been-crushed by a horrible blow and a 32-caliber bullet|ihe time comes. longing to me on the rack in the hall The man who owns the clothing and shoes will probably claim them when It will be very easy had entered the top of the skull and|to prove then that they don't fit me Reut in a public restaurant has addeq |every evidence that a fierce struggle to the town's gayety. ow it is re- ported that, BEdgar disciplined nis chauffeur on a public strget. had taken ‘place. 0 R ” The pockets of the trousers had been ‘turned inside out and’ not a single Mizner, it is said, Was out for a|article that might lead to identifica~ spin and had “bubbled” to the Cliff House and back to town. His mq chine was skimming down Sae: mento street when Mizner and his |of the coat had been emptied, and the|p man at the wheel entered in; The body was only A coat and walst- were found near by. The pocke tion was found. waistcoat, while buttoned in front,| body is that of a man possibly of age. The features are un- 20 the feeth are in a urderer There was|and are not my property. I can at- tributé the assault made on my repu- tation by Young to nothing but the action of a.man who is either insane from jealousy or who is not respon- stble for what he does. I have been thinking about proceeding against him through the District Attorney of Kern Jounty for his slanders and the theft +my clothing, but have decided to dgfer action for the present. is ‘the slightest ground for the charges ‘made - aginst Mrs. Young. She is, as every one who is acquainted with her iritimately can testify, a woman of irre- confidence of her friends in this re 2 te and devote his for the rest of - Greenwell intends to take his seat CONTROVERSIES " CAUSE A DEMAND FOR RETIREMENT Washington Takes a Hand in Differences in Sur- 1 veyor’s Office |MUST QUIT MARCH 1 | Treasury Department Acts j on the Report Made by Reynolds | | . | ; WOODWARD EVASIVE | Spear’s Successor Refuses to Make a Positive State- ment Chauncey M. St. John, {United States Deputy Sur- veyor of the Port, member of the Bohemian Club and prominent in social and po- litical circles, has been Te- quested to resign from his office on March 1. It is the talk among local Custom-house officials that the request is the culmina- tion of a series of controver- sieg in the Surveyor’s of- fice, which bean during the incumbency of Charles H. Spear, who was succeeded by Senator E. F. Woodward of Santa Rosa as Surveyor of the Pért. | Those who should be best posted said yesterday that a let- ter was sent to St. John from the Treasury Department\ in Wash- ington on February 12 suggest- ing that, on account of conditions in the office here, it was thought best for him to resign. Some months ago Assistant Secretary James B. Reynolds came to San Francisco on official business and it was rumored at the time that he was investigating the re- ports that friction had arisen hetween the higher officials of the Surveyor's department, but until yesterday's de- velopments the final result of this trip did not take definite form. It is the general impression that Reynolds’ chiéf business at that time was to make a report to his superior at the capital on the feud that is sup- posed to have existed. When Spear was replaced by Woodward it was be- lieved that the controversy had ended. But soon it became evident to those who were in a position to see the inner workings of the office that all was not well. f St. John has been prominent in so- cial affairs for many years, and was in great demand at social functions. Much of his time has been taken up in assisting in the arrangements of balls, dinners and club entertainments on account of his talents in this diree- tion, and his readiness to contribute to their success has made him popular In club and social circles. 5 The announcement that he has been requested to retire from his' pesition under the Treasury Department is a surprise to his associates of the club and the swagger function, as well as te himself. ‘When seen at the Bohemian Club last nigat St. John denied receiving a re- quest for his resignation. He said: “I could not be more surprised by the report that I am to resign if a bomb were to explode over my head. I have received no communication Intimating that such a step was contemplated, and I canpot imagine what could be the basis for it if it were. My relations with Mr. Woodward are most afjable. There has been no friction In the of- fice.” = Collector of the Port Stratton ad- mitted last night that he had under- stood that some communication was to be sent to St. John, but he did not the department had taken action or net. 1t is also persistently reported at the Custom-house that Appraiser Johm T. Dare will resign, although it is be- lieved no request has been made.