The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 25, 1907, Page 1

WHO A A now well-known San Francisco woman, n Tangier, tells a most interesting | story of affairs and people in that troubled city next Sunday in / The Sunday Call ‘ allifornia, Beauty — See Page 12 Five years abroad, and whack! you are no longer an American. Read the story of the effect of an amazing law that is proposed next Sunday in The Sunday Call OLUME RAILROADS ASK THE STATE FOR S1.000,000 BIFT Dredging of Islais Creek Would Benefit None | but Harriman - - OWNS NEARBY LAND Control of Proposed Harbor| Gained by Purchase of Large Tracts { “DUMMY” NAMES USED ngness of the Southern Pa- te expend $1,000,000 | tion owns and would the contem- a posi- | nts of the| yesterday | said the Southern Pacific Company not | merged lands which e of the surround- the State, t was the « Th nd in- vnership was m der the se of dummy pro- E so that as far as the records owed on their face the railroad was t to induce the State 000 cent St bny 5 $1 harbor for the sole benefit | send 000 in the improve- e railroad. Ultimatel would t was as- road be found the approaches to the State might the possessior ves which the con- ISLATS CREEK IGNORED The Pederal committed | holding | Creek to be a nonnavigable | State had established a line which disregarded the resk and was drawn channeiward of Government tself gome years ago to the Islais front e entrance of what was at.that time | ] waterway which even then was | ng up. The Federal Govern- ment. In establishing its harbor lines terward. followed the examples of - State 2 head and 4 made its bulk ead lines without a break outside the entrance to the creek. Later a fill and a culvert were placed at the mouth ¢ the creek and thereafter the rail the Southern Pacific and the Fe— t trestles across the At low tide there is a tract f mud flats covering roughly 300 At high tide this flat is covered ur feet of water. The Federal Government has not in- building of the trestles and culvert.” said Colonel W. H of the United States engineers, he reason that the work was all harbor lines established by which followed the terfered with the Heue n the ‘nited States, te in disregarding the possible navigabil of Tsl Creek. Forty ears ago this waterway doubtless was ok le to scow schooners, but it would be impossible for a skiff to get in there now at any stage of the RAILROADS WORK QUIETLY As far as the Federal Government is concerned, no objection will be made to e State or any corporation improving Creek or filling it in. It fol-| ows that the trestle work built by | the raliroads was neither an encroach- | ment Federal rights nor an ald to the corporations in maintaining control t s on of the basin when it shall have been dredged. The plan was to quietly pro- « the surrounding property and then ; the State to make that property valuable. Tt is asserted that if the| people should vote the $1,000,000 in bonds as provided by the bill introduced at Sacramento they virtually would be contributing that amount into the treasury of the Southern Pacific. There is no question that a fine land- locked harbor comparing favorably with Oakland harbor could be created, bit the State would find that its har- bor was locked by raflroad land, with | the approaches entirely within the con- | trol of the Harriman monopoly. Tt | would not have the constitutional right to condemn surrounding land merely for commercial purposes. | Possibiy the only way to safeguard the proposed harbor from exclusive railroad control would be to perfect an serangement with the city whereby the lendward end of the wharves would abut on a public street, thus insuring free access to the docks. If this were done, it is said, the harbor could not be exclusively controled by the South- | ern Pacific. e WOMAN KIDNAPER CAUGHT MEADVILLE, Pa, Feb. 24—Emma are, charged with hsving kidnaped orge Rhodiis, said to be féeble- minded, at Indianapolis on January 21 and been married to him in Louisville, Ky. was arrested topight at the Todd | Sanitarfum in Cambridge Springs. | Rhodlus, who is & millionaire, was with the woman. | Cleaning-up Dar. INDEX OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL’S NEWS TODAY TELEPHONE TEMPORARY 86 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1907. WEATHER CONDITIONS YESTERDAY—Partly cloudy; rain at night; maximum temperature, 58; minimum tempera- ture, 50. FORECAST FOR TODAY—Showers; fresh soutberly winds. Page 7 EDITORIAL The magnates are deeply agitated. Page 6 Judgments on forelgn fire insurance. Page § | The firtations of Democracy. Page 6 Waste of State funds. Page 6 LEGISLATURE Introduction of bills in the Legislature will come to end today. Page 2 Proposed removal of capital to Berkeley may develop a bitter fight. Page 4 cITy Mrs. Hall goes Into hiding with child of another ¢laims to be the mother. The Southern owner of Page 1 Pacific is alleged to be the the upland surrounding Islais Creek thus able to control the harbor which the State proposes to dredge at that point. Page 1 City Attciney Burke will go to Sacramento today to work for legislation to prevent Japa- nese children from attending schools with white children Page 1 Memorial services beld by the Ancient Order and of Druids. Page T Husband takes shot at stranger be surprises in bis wife's apartments. Page 1 Brick famine tbreatens the builders of San Francisco. 4 Pago 12 Rev. O. Calvert Smoot sars city needs a cleansing not only of streets, but of morals. P. 7 Husband attempts to kill wife because she was @ sister of Charles Molier, who killed him- self last week when a bullet hsd stopped bis fight from Berkeley's chief of police. Page 12 Many paintings of high merit are shown at exhibition given by the Sketch Club. Page § Tenderloin deserted because of fear of more raids by the police. Page 7 Controller on street car blows out, enveioping passengers ip flame, and panic follows. Page 12 Automobile show closes at midnight after a succeasful season which surpassed tbe expecta tione of the promoters. Page 3 Prominent men to do Page 2 SUBURBAN Citizens of Ssn Mateo county wage crusade agaivet nickel-in-glot machines. Page 3 Ockland man drives his wife and from house with razor. Toyal Soms of First Christian land bold anniversary exercises Oakland real estate tarket apd the year may set a mew sales Page 3 Churéh in Oak- enjoys a boom bigh record in Page 4 severe Pags 3 May Farrell, 18 years old, beating by ber father. given 2 Charies Logue, iron worker. Noppe. machinist, badly wounded in fight in Emeryville over affections of waitress. Page 3 COAST Enreka Chamber of Commerce gcores Governor Gillett for striving to control the Humboldt Harbor Pago 2 Herriman and Hill raflroad aystems resch agreement for mutual protection. Page 2 Young Men's Institute holds initiation at Napa. Page 2 DOMESTIC Former secratary of. Stanford White wiil be prosecution’s star witness sgainst Thaw. Page 1| District Attorney Jerome says New York de tectives receive share of the plunder secured by thieves and pickpockets. Page 1 Parcel thrown on President Roosevelt’s train greates a stir, but turns out 1o be flag from an admirer. WASHINGTON Little popular legislation during the present | sesison of Congress. Page 2 Senator Elkins of West Virginia presents a | minority report on the railrosd rate law. Page 2 FOREIGN American doctor held by Mexican authorities for desth of woman patient. Page 1 Troops of Nicaragua invade Honduran terri- tory. Page 2 Archbishop of Paris refuses to submit to the new propasals of the French government, Page 2 SPORTS Oarsmen of the bay cities agree to a plan that will restore harmony among the several clubs. P. 5 Several surprises enliven the competition for Alsmeds county temnis champlonships. Page 5 A. J. Webb does some remarkable shooting in bluerock tournament at Ingleside. Page & Burlingame Country Club poloists defeat Santa Barbara four bendily by 8 goals to 1. Page 5 R. M. Carroll’s greyhound Clyde proves surprise in coursing stake at Ingleside. Page 5 WOMEN’S CLUBS Lecture on the history of war will be deliv- ered before the California Club tomorrow by Rev. C. Calvert Smoot. Page 6 MARINE Captain Matsen of the schooner Charles R. Wilson is thrown into the sea and escapes death by a parrow margin. Page 7 MINING Mines of the State show rich strike of quartz. THE CALL’S BRANCH Subscriptions and A i ments will be received in Francisco at following offices: 1651 FILLMORE STREET Open until 10 o'clock every night, £18 VAN NESS AVENUE Parent's Statibnery Store. SIXTEENTH AND MARKET STS. Jackson’s Branch. 533 HAIGHT STREET Christian’s Branch 1098 VALENCIA STREET Rothschild's Branch 1531 CHURCH STREET George Prewitt's Branch. 3200 FILLMORE STREET Woodward's Branch. work on streets on | - tg:sw?m are proof in themselves thai velyn Page 4| kilied and Peter’| Page 3} THIN N FER OF TESTIMONY OF HARTNUTT White’s Former Secretary | » Is the Prosecution’s Star Witness WILL GO ON STAND Gives Telltale Letters of Evelyn Nesbit to Dis- trict Attorney PRISONER IS NERVOUS SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE OALL NEW YORK, Feb. 24.—The trump card held by District Attorney Jerome is Charles Hartnutt, who was secretary to Stanford White for sev- eral years preceding White's murder. Hartnutt is dreaded more than all else by Evelyn Nesbit Thaw and the law- | yers for the defem’e_. He has turned » |over to Jerome the most valuable evi- dence for the prosecution. Tt was he who armed thq District Attorney with the telltale letters written by Evelyn Nesbit from Paris. Tt was he who told of a hundred things that have proved helpful in the hard task of de- stroying the effect of Evelyn Thaw's At the end of this week, or maybe early next week, Hart- {nutt will go on the witness stand and |tell the jury many things that may |put Stanford White in a better light |ana make Evelyn Nesbit Thaw |look far worse thcn she has yet ap- | peared. |- Hartnutt has turned over to Jerome the letters and notes that Evelyn Nesbit ‘wrots in the two years following the |drugging episode in the West Twenty- | fourth strest house. Tt is declared that wonderful story. may ol ot 150K on Stanford Whife a man who had despoiled her of her rtue and honor, but as a man who had been @ friend and benefactor and for whom she entertained a fond re- gard. COMPLETE ALIBI FOR WHITE From Jerome's office there came a re- port vesterday to the effect that the proseqution will be able to make abso- lute proof that Stanford White was not in New York at the tlme when Evelyn Nesbit Thaw says she was drugged by him. There has been a hint | of this before, but it had no color of positiveness until yesterday, when it was stated that the prosecutlion was able at last to establish a complete alibi for White. | Harry Thaw is in no dasy frame of mind concerning the possibility of his sanity being examined into. For more |than an hour he argued the matter with | Attorney Hartridge today and insisted |that the District Attorney had planned some coup that his counsel knew nothing of. : It is known that Thaw attempted sev- eral times to check Delmas as the latter was adducing in court testimony tend- ing to show that the defendant had in- herited insanity and displayed evidences of it in his childhood. It is stated he foresaw then the possibility. of the District Attorney using this testimony against him, and recent reports that this was Jerome's intention have caused Thaw no little worry. One report today was that Mrs. Wil- liam Thaw, mother of the prisoner, went to Jerome ten days ago and ex- pressed her willingness that a commis- sion in lunacy be appointed. Her own horror of being subjected on the wit- ness stand to the fire of questions which Jerome would ask her and the testimony already wrung from her daughter-in-law contributed, it was said, to bring her to a condition of mind in which she was ready to accede to any proposition that might end the present course of the-trial. After reading all the newspapers this morning, Thaw attended religious ser- vices in the Tombs chapel. The ser- vices were conducted by Rev. John A. Wade, Episcopal chaplain. THAW GROWS NERVOUS Following the services Thaw paced up and down his tier and refused to return the greetings, of his fellow prisoners. It was evident he was suf- fering from nervousness to an unusual extent, and this was ascribed to the publication of reports of the District Attorney’s intention to have his pres- ent mental condition examined into. Some credence was given a rumor to- day that Dr. Deemar and Dr. Binga- man. physiclans of the Thaw family in Pittsburg, would be recalled to the stand at the opening of court tomer- row. It was pointed out, however, that Jerome would find it inadvisable to in- terrupt the cross-examination of Mrs. Harry Thaw for the introduction of other testimony, and it is believed gen- erally that the District Attorney has not nearly finished questioning the prisoner’s wife. . ‘While the District Attorney’s posi- tion was clearly defined in open court last week when he declared he would drop the case at once if he became con- vinced that Thaw was now insane, it is known that he does not to take any drastic action which migHt be con- strued as showing him in the least un- certain as to his ability to secure a even | | | | court tomorrow morning Thaw's wife again on the stande verdict agwinst the defendant. It is ex- | register - pected therefore that the opening of|and ONDAY. FEBRUARY 25, PRICE FIVE~ CENTS LEGISLATURE MAY ~ ACTAGAINST THE 5 POPLS Roosevelt’s Move Is Likely to Be Blocked by Law for Segregation ’ BILL GAINS SUPPORT |City Attorney Burke to Go to Sacramento to Urge Adoption WOULD AMEND CODE —pe All the work achieved by the recent conferences hetween Presi- dent Roosevelt, Mayor Schmitz and the Board of Education may go for naught and the conferees be placed in an embarrassing po- sition if, as expected, both branches of the Legislature sus- pend the rules tomorrow and pass the amendment to the Civil Code including Japanese in the school segregation section, which ' has been pending for several weeks. City Attorney William Burke will leave today for Sacramento to urge the immediate passage of the bill. He said last night that he did not expect appreciable ~ opposition to the | measure, which was held up at the request of the California delegation in Congress on the ground that it would disarrange the President’s conference. The purpose of the amendment is to include’ the Japanese among the chil- dren to be put in a school separate from white children, for the contention ‘has been made that the word “Mongo- lian” as used in the code does not mean the Japanese. If the amendment is an, . Board F usrlwm volce in the matter, but will be foread to make ‘the Japanese attend the Ori- ental school which has been estab- lished, and which is now being at- tended by the Chinese. The amend- ment will be simply $o insert the word Japanese in, section 1662 of the Politi- cal Code, which will then read in part as follows: “Trustees shall have the power to exclude children of filthy or vicious habits or children suffering with con- tagious or infectious diseases. and also to establish separate schools for Indian children and for children of Mongolian, Chinese or Japanese descent. When such schools are established, Chinese, Japanese or Mongolian chil- dren must not be admitted other gchool.” The Oriental School having been es- tablished, it will therefors be man- datory upon the Board of Education and the Mayor to deny Japanese pupils admission to the regular schools. City Attorney Burke feels confident that the amendment will be adopted. He will urge that the rules be sus- pended and that the bill be passed at once in each branch of the Legislature. If his plans materialize Mayor Schmitz and the members of the Board of Edu- cation will find the new law in force by the time they arrive from the East. It is pointed out by those who have been interesting themselves in the question that the contentlon of the Japanese that they are not Mongolians is not backed up by ®ood authorities, for the Americana, International and other encyclopedias include the Jap- anese with the other peoples belong- ing to the Mongolian race. It is be- lieved to be easier, however, to change the law so as to name the Japanese among those who are to be put in separate schools than it would be to establish legally the full meaning of the word Mongolian. Mayor Schmitz and the School Board will probably be home some time this week. A telegram was received from them yesterday morning stating that they had left New York, but it is not known how much time they will spend en route to this city. into any — RS. CLARA HALL, acting under advice of her attor- ney, has gone into hiding with Baby Edna, whom she claims is her child. Dr. Olive Carson, who alse lays claim to the child, is suffering from collapse. | | —— rs. Hall Is Now Missing _Vith Pretty Baby Edna ! | | | Indian, |, | | TIIE BABY OVER A0 THE THG AOHLEIN SEE U PR TINEK Goieg Into Hldlné to Escape Being| .Served With Habeas Corpus Writ Little Edna Hall. or Carson, the beautiful child over whom a bitter legal contest is being waged by Dr. Olive Carson and Mrs. Clara Hall, each of whom is trying to prove that she i¢ the mother of the girl, has disappeared in company with Mrs. Hall. Mrs. Hall is keeping the babe in hiding, acting on the advice of her attorney, until the case is heard by Judge-Seawell next Wednesday morning. Dr. Carson is trying to get possession of the child through a writ of habeas corpus, and the Halls fear that if she succeeds she will disappear with the little one. Attorneys familiar with the details of the controversy declare that it is one of the strangest cases they have ever known. Both | women are evidently sincere in. thelr: + respective claims to the child, and no| As evidence of his fatherly affection matter which way: the court decldes | for the little one, Hall exhibited her| a woman's heart is sure to break. Bach | picture, which- he had pasted in the woman, however, feels confident of | case of his watch. and a tiny gold ring | victory. dangling from his watch chain, which, | Attorney Frank P. Kelly, who repre- | ne says, is the first ring the child ever | sents Mrs. Hall, says that he can prove | gwned. that Dr. Carson is not the mother of Dr. Carson is confined to her bed as the child. He says that Dr. Carson a result of the controversy over the| would not have been able physically |child, and she declares she will be un- { had been | certain LOBBYISTS TOO CONSPICUOUS Work of Parker and Burke Too Much in Evidence to Please Minority - SACRAMENTO, Feb. 24.— Walter Parker and Jere Burke may have to resort to the correspondence school of lobbying if disgruntled members of the minority of the Legislature have their way. The conspicuous methods fol- lowed by the two Herrin caliphs to influence legislation a¥ the present ses- sion have given rise to a lot of criti- cism, and even members of the ma- Jority who take programme admit that they might be more discreet. Parker and Burke openly appear on the floors of both houses and may be seen in con- ference. at the desks of the members daily. by TR e Senator Senford of Ukiah has intro- duced a bill requiring all lobbyists to h y of State | to give Mrs. Hall the medical attention she says she did five weeks before she became a mother herself. He declarés, too, that he will produce witnesses to prove that Mrs. Hall and her husband have pald Dr. Carson $15 a month reg- ularly for the care of the little girl, in addition to furnishing her with clothes. “It was only recently that I was read- ing a scientific article on women,” said Kelly, “in which the feminine love for a child not a woman's own is explained. In stating that a woman in love with anything. especially a child, will take the most desperate chances in order to satisty that love, the article fully ex- plains, in my opinion, the attitude of Dr. Carson toward the Hall baby. “No one denies that Dr. Carson in the five years she cared for the child, was 'ectionate and kind to it, and it is my :511“ that she has gained a love for it that has made her desperate. I truly feel sorry for her, for I can imagine hosw she will suffer when she loses the child for all time.”" According to a statement made yes- terday by Hall, he and his wife would have left the little girl in Dr. Carson’s care for a longer time had they not be- come suspicious of the latter apd feared | able to stand the strain much longer. | She declares she will have the child even if she is compelled to take the law |into her own hands to secure posses-| sion of her. MEXICAN MUTHORITIES HOLD AMERICAN DOCTOR Arrest Follows Investigation Into Death of Wo- man Patient 7 EL PASO, Texas, Feb. 24.—The offi- cials here have been advised that fol- | lowing a close investigation into the | peculiar death of Miss Mary Fanning, a young American woman, who died in the office of Dr. H. C. Rees, a popular American physician of Mexico City. Dr. Rees has been placed ih prison without the privilege of bail. Dr. Rees says that the young woman was suffering from an operation previously | performed when she entered his office. ‘The Mexican authorities hold t.a. had | the operation been previously per- | announcement was formed the woman could not have reached the office where she died, THIEVES ONIDE PLUNDER Wi THE DETECTIES District Attorney Jerome Denounces New York Department HIELD PICKPOCKETS S Prosecutor Asserts There Are Few Honest Men in Upper Office EVIDENCE IS SECURED SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL NEW YORK, Feb. 24—District At= torney Jerome tonight expressed it as his op! m that of the present detee- tive burean not more than three or four of the detectives comnecied with it had failed within six months to divide the proceeds of a larceny with a thief. Edward J. Reardon, a county detec- tive, was detailed by his chief to the lower east side of the ecity to arrest pickpockets who plied vocation under police protection. After his work completed asked in his s in street cars rking under ar- Qetecttv thetr Jerome Reardon if, pocket picking the pickpockets are w rangement with preci Reardon replied: “Not so much with tha precinct de- tectives as with the central offics men. Seventy-five per cent of the thefts in the street cars is with the knowlsdge of the central office men.” Jerome—Out of the total number of piekpockets that are working in the street cars, you believe 75 per cent of them are working under an arrange- ment with the central office men? ~ T Reardon—Oh, yes. Jerome—And there is no doubt about it? &3 Reardon—None. Jerome—Are you positiva? Reatdon—Yes, sir._ - Jerome—Do you know, or have yo® heard about central office men assist- ing the thieves in disposing of the proceeds of their larcenies? Reardon—Thera are tances where thisves and second-story men dispose of their goods, and thers are certain places which ars visited by central office men where they get a rake-off. Tt is also well known that when they bring their stuff to certain fences thers Is not much Mie- lihood of them being arrestad. Thers are other places that it they took goods to them they would be arrested. It becama known tonight that the detective bureau has sent a largs fund to Albany to defeat the measure pro- posed by Police Commissionar Bing- ham for the reorganization of the bu- reau. opinion, there whers . savaral P NP /R o2 MPRISONED STUDENTS » WIN A HUNGER STRIKE Decline to Leave the Jail, However, Until Leaders Are Liberated VIENNA, Feb. 24.—A large number of Ruthenian university students who were arested recently at Lemberg and Imprisoned for refusing to take the oath in the Polish language, adopted a hunger strike, refusing all food or drink. After three days they became so weak that the doctors in attendance declined to accept responsibility for thelr lives, and as a result they were victorfous and the authorities were compelled to liberate all of them, num- bering ninety. Even then the students declined to quit the prison because of the vote of their ringleaders, who we detained, and resisted ejection with furniturel In the meantime there was a great Ruthenian demonstration outside the prison, and finally the ringleadars wers also liberated on bail. Then all the students consented to leave the prison. i ———— WEDS ENGLISH GIRL San Franciscan Travels to New Yorlk to Meet His Lady Love NEW YORK, Feb. 24—When the Etruria arrived at the Cunard Line pier from Liverpool today Miss Marguerite L. Coutts of Sheffleld, England, a dis- | tant relative of the late Baroness Bur- dett-Coutts, was the first to step om the gang-plank. She ran straight into the arms of her flancee, D. A. Davis of San Fran who was waiting on the pler. He come all the way from the Pacific Coast to meet her. Davis and Miss Coutts were married on board the ship by the Rev. Dr. A. A. Gardner of the Seamen's Institute. The bridal couple left for San Francisco today. —_— WILD WED WEALTHY ITALIAN CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 24.—Formal made toaight of of Miss Elizabeth the engagement | Johnson, only daughter of Mayor and Mrs. Tom L. Johnson, to Signor Fred- loflp Mariani, a wealthy Italiame