The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 26, 1907, Page 1

liscusses the the harlequin peer Port tention, The Sunday Call in versus 4. which soon is to claim amazing the qergezmt Brady and the Missing Links, an extraordinary story of the F’h-l.ppme.. which you may believe or not, will be a feature of The Sunday Call S0, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 2%, 1907, - Call’s Direct YOUNG WONAN TAKES POISON N CRONDED A Chooses Restaurant at Em-| | porium as the Place to End Life DRINKS DEADLY ACID| Orders Ice Cream and Im-| mediately Swallows Fatal Draught NAME IS CONCEALED| Dies on Way to Hospital and No Mark of Iden- | tity Is Found After having removed carefully from her person all articles by which her identity could be established, comely young woman 22 years of age entered the cafe in the Emporium, in| Van Ness avenue, yesterday afternoon and in the presence of scores of women patians of the place drank from a vial | of carbolic acid. 'While many of !h:’ women screamed with fright, others rushed fo the assistance of the young‘ ) a woman, but, intent upon self-destruc- tion, she fought them with all the| c!rengtL that she could command. and fifteen minutes later on the Central Emergency deep 2 evidently Her purpose, ress and even h ¥ the Morgue it dentity unknown, but of the girl it was an| everwheiming woe, and to end it she szcrificed her existence "hé young w. i at the drug]| £tore of C. M 300 Fillmore| street at 2 o ay afternoon rom Dr. Wilt a small acid. She =aid that e and desired the drug purposes. She paid for the =tore 2nd purchased bottle of carbol she was a n for medicinal gay. enough, chase and le than three hours that she en- tered the Emporium. She was neatly ¢lad in a black street suit with a tan seemed | her pur- It was more quietly later coat and did mot attract especial at- tention among the great number of =hoppers. She made her way to the cafe and| teated herself at a table. It was after| & o'clock. 2 time when the cafe was| crowded wiih women patrons who drop in for a cup of tea. The young woman ordered a plate of icecream. After she | had eaten a few spoonfuls she slipped | the bottle of carbolic acld from her| pocket, and. pressing it quickly to her| 1ipk. began to drain its contents The girl's strange action and odor of the drug attracted the atten- | tion of several women seated near her. As they gazed, the bottle fell from the gifl's band and she fell with a ‘groan to the table | The entire cafe was in an uproar| instantly. Several women screamed in | their excitement and hurried from the room. The calmer among the women hastened to the side of the girl and| sought to render aid, but she fought| them Gesperately. Frenk G. Andrews, manager of the cafe, sent immediately for medical aid and procuring & bottle of sweet ofl, at- tempted to have the Young woman, now writhing in pain, swallow some of its contents Again she fought flercely. A pbysiclan had arrived meanwhile | with & stomach pump and despite her | struggles @ determined attempt was mede to save the girls life, but it was| in vein. She was placed in an ambu-| jance, but breathed her last while en route to the Central Emergency Hos- pital. A few hours after the body had reached the hospital a woman calied over the telephone and asked if a body had been brought from the Emporium. After the appearance of the young ‘wwoman had been described, she cried in & hysterical voice:; “It is she. I was the | of subtreasary site in this city. | SPORTS INDEX OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL’S NEWS TODAY ’I‘LLEPHDNE TEMPORARY 86 TU ESDAY FEBRUARY 26, 1907. “ E A'I'HER CONDITIONS YESTERDAY—Clear; maximum temperature, | 56; minimum temperature, 48. FORECAST FOR TODAY—Cloudy; cooler; brisk west wind. Page 9 | EDITORIAL Sacramento’s shameless lobbyists. Page 6 A Dew form of sport crested by Jobn D. | | Rockefeller. Page 6 Whither are we dritting? Ask the ghosts. P. 6 | Page 6| .2 | Wiie Said Thaw Beat - Her, Jerome Holds No more Judges needed. LEGISLATURE Direct primary measure is passed by Legisla- ture and goes to Governor. Page 1 Sleepy legislators just miss passing bill ob | poxious to the railroad. Page 2 Insurence committee decides that deposits shall apply to foreign companies only. Page 2 cITY Unidentified girl sbout 22 years of age drinks carbolic scid in crowded cafe at the Em- porium. Page 1 Assistant City Attorney Baggett says city has | right to take over Spring Valley Water plant under forfeiture clause of State constitu- tion. Page 1 Members = of rehsbilitation committee favor plan of eppropriating $1.000,000 for beds in | establisbed hospitals instead of building pew | bospital .with funds. Page 14 Judge Dunne sets early dates for the trials of Ruef and Schmitz and asserts that there shall be no needless delays. State offers belp to street-cleaning commit- tees. Page 14 Supervisors receive bids for $80,000 of muni- cipal bonds out of totsl of $1,573,000 offered for sale. Page 14 United States Marshal this morning will arrest | Japunese student for sending indecent letter to | Amerfesn girl in Mill Valley school. Page 2 Harriman working for Federal ald in addition to $1,000,000 State sppropriation for the Islais Creek harbor progect. Page 14 United Railroads arbitration board will file its findings today. Page 13 California to sbow that it bas the most beautiful women ip America. Page 14 Lillian Gamage secures divorce from busband | o0 the ground of failure to provide. Page T Wife-beater barricades daor against police and puts up u fight. Ipsurance companies compromise claims of polley-bolders who suffered from April ‘fre. P. 18 SUBURBAN Oskland clergyman takes up task of lightening the labors of telephone operators. Page ¢ te Labor Commissioner declares employes of milliners are underpatd. Page 4 | Harry Holly. former Reliauce Club manager. Page ¢ Assessor Dalton and Mayor Mott of engage ip a political battle. Page 4 nla State Eugenles Soclety expels State Page ¢ stand while telliog of relations with ber late m Page 5 | Receiver con- asked for Oregon company. spiracy being alleged to delay work. Page 5| and ‘beat ber. but | tand today to ideniify | ent to that effect Page 1| sult agaiost Sepator Platt and n Page 2| exonerated by “Tcxas Senate; “up charges todas Page 2 H. Harriman gives explanation of gigantic E fivancial operations in railroad stocks by bimself | and associates. Page 5 Idabo prosecutors close the case against the alleged slayer of Tyler. Page 2 WASHINGTON Secretary Root works in the interest of the sbip subsidy bill. which will be passed by Con- gress this weel Page 5 Perkins off: mendment to sundry civil bill, authorizing expenditure of $375.000 for purchase Page & Champion Aufield Mgdel, the world's greatest colife, bought by a Californian. Page 8 Horses queted at generous odds win five of the races at Emeryville. James F. vice. SOCIAL Invitations received for marriage of Prin- cess Lobanoff-Rostovsky and Jerome Rarker Landfield of Berkeley. Page 6 | LABOR ” Final report of relief committee of Typo- | graphical Uniop No. 21 shows that it has dll~ | bursed $26,104/55 since last April. Page MINING Creditors of Sullivan Trust Company will prob. ably agree on plan of settlement today. Page 13 | Sap Franciseo and Tonopah Board resumes business; shares of merger enjoy a good de. mand. Pase 13 Report of the Goldfield Consolidated Mines Compeny €hows a large sum in the treasury and vast amount of rich ore in sight. Page 14 MARINE Liner Mongolia passes quarantine, but her passengers will ot land until this morning. P. 9 A O A afraid she'd do it.” The woman gave her address as 181 Noe street, but re- fused further would call to see the body. However, she did not call at either the morgue or the hospital during the night. address was evidently a fictitious one, as the persons living at 181 Noe street | knew nothing of the incident. The young woman was about five feet in height and Inclined to stout- ness. She was of light complexion, | with’ blie eves and vellowish hair. Her features were face attractive. Small marks were | noticeable on the left side of her face| and on her left arm, and her and two small clasp pins held her walst at the neck. She also wore a gold brooch studded with pearls. She wore 2 neatly fitting black skirt shd waist of good material. Her shoes and stockings were both of black. She had also worn a tan coat of three- quarters length. Her hat was large and brown in eolor, ornamented with the wing of a bird. She had two hat- pins with red bulbs, surrounded by small blue stones. The price mark on her hat read “$7.50.” Page 7/ Page 7y d of enticing Estelle Cunningham from | ren, daughter of Mre. Colton. weeps | information, saying she | The | regular and her | chin | showed a recent bruise. On her left | arm was a plain round gold bracelet People Win First Battle for Honest Nomlnatlons Primary Campaign Results in Victory Amendment on Which People Will Vote HE Legislature shall have the power to enact laws relative to the election of delegates to conventions of political parties; and the Legislature shall enact laws providing for the direct nomination *of candidates for public office, by electors, political parties, or or- ganizations of electors without edonventions at elections to be known and designated as primary elections; also to determine the tests and conditions upon which electors, political parties, or organizations of electors, may participate in any such primary election. It shall also be lawful for the Legislature to prescribe that any such primary election shall be mandatory and obligatory. The Legisla- ture shall also have the power to establish the rates of compensation for primary election officers serving at such primary elections in any city, or city and county, or county, or other subdivision of a designated population, without making such compensation uniform, and for such purpose such law may declare the population of any city, city and county, county or political subdivision. Provided, how- ever, that until the Legislature shall enact a direct primary election law under the provisions of this section, the present primary elec- tion law shall remain in force and effect. N |+ aPRING VALLEY FORFEITS PLANT | | | | | | A NEW POSE BY EVELYN NESBIT THAW B eeh oAf5 BAGGETT Water Rates in Excess of| Those Fixed by Board Are Collected Company Fails to Get Usual Injunction Against Supervisors Assistant City 'Attomey Wil- liam T. Baggett declared posi- | tively yesterday that the Spring| / 1\/'alley Water ®*Company, under ¢ (the penalty clause of the State had franchises and water works. its He | constitution, forfeited | within the power of the San Francisco, by due process of poration, with ‘or without the! consent of the stockholders. Bag- gett based his contention on the fact that the Spring Valley Company had collected water rates in excess of the figures {Hummel to Refute on Stand Today Denial r of Mrs. Thaw SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. { NEW YORK, Feb. 25. —Docnmentarfl | Attorney Jerome at the culmination of‘ | his cross-examination of Evelyn Nes- | | bit Thaw, but not yet absolutely au-| | thentitated, places this remarkable | | young women in the position of having ! Thaw of repeatedly 1beaten her brutally with a cov\hlde | whip. i { It is to,the effect that he otherwise | shamefully. maltreated her while she | ! was in delicate health; that he tore | her bathrobe from her shrinking form and throttled her; that he forced her to join him in taking cocaine stimulant, and retained, when she left him in | Paris to return to New York, much of | her personal wardrobe and jewels. According to Jerome, ail these as-| tounding statements, and others hardly less astonishing, are included in a de-| position which Evelyn Nesbit made and | | signea after having told the story of| | ber i1l treatment to Abreham Hummel, | to whom Stanford White had taken her | during the period of her hostility to| | Thaw. | she! 4 | accused Harry | “I never told Mr. Hummel this,” eried with spirit. Jerome, with the methodical and me- | chanical regularity of a- triphammer. | glanced at the paper in his _hand and then let fall another crushing question from its typewritten contents. “Did you not tell Mr. Hummel that Thaw tore vour bathrobe from your body and took you by the throat and beat you with a cowhide whip?” “Never,” declared Evelyn. As the climax of his long and arduous S i 2 g % fixed by the Supervisors. The paragraph providing a| penalty for violation of the pro-| visions of section 1, article XIV, of the State constitution, as follows: Any person, company or corpora- | tion collecting water rates in any city and county, or city or town, in this | State, | lished, shall forfeit the franchises and water works of such person, company or corporation to the city and county, S L Nesbit Says Sister Lied on Stand SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL ITTSBURG, Feb. 25— “Thaw will gzet all that's coming to bim, even if the jury does free him.” This was asserted by Howard Nesbit, brother of Mrs. Harry K. Thaw, at the Union Depot last night. Young Nesbit came from || O New York Saturday for the avowed | | City or town, where the same are col- purpose of inducing his mother, | lected for the public use. Mrs. Holman, to &0 to New York So far as the State constitution goes, to testify. He claims she could the city and county of San Francisgo glve testimons which would send | | is placed in a lawful way of acqu Thaw to the chal the franchise and “water work He failed of his mission and re- the Spring Valley Company without celved a severe snubbing, Mrs. Holman saying she would not go to New York: that she considered that Thaw was insane when he killed White. Youpg Nesbit was furious. He sald: “After this trial ix over, Mrs. Thaw and Harry, too, will throw my sister downm, and it's all she deserved. To think that she got on the stand and Hed the way she . did s awful Mr. White was a %ood man and I know he never treated my sister the way she says he atd. “0f course, I wanted my mother to go East and tell what she knows. It i a shame that she will not go. Her réputation has been ripped up In terrible fashion, and 1 blame Jerome for it. Thaw has allowed his wife to lie. He must be crasy.” reads ! | law.” The “due process’ the only thing that stands in the way—it is the only defensa left to the Spring Valley $51,000.000 worth of property,.and the company will have to plead the United States constitution in order to attack the constitutionality of the State con- | stitution. TIt, like the Japanese case, is another controversy over Statp rights. BAGGETT IS READY Baggett sald vesterday that he was ready to proceed at law in the prem- ises if the matter were brought to his attention in a way that would warrant the City Attorney's office in taking the initiative. The Supervisors might take | cognizance of it, inasmuch as they will meet tomorrow night to resume con- sideration of the establishment of wa- ter rates for the coming year. Citizens might bring the point to is- sue by preferring complaint—particu- larly those citizens who remember and have the receipts to show for their duel with this nimble-wittea woman the prosecutor flashed upon her sud- denly a document completely incased|payment of a water charge of from 10 nsibly a pho-|to 15 per cent !n\_a;cm of the rate MAY TAKE WORKS \LAWYER UNABASHED| gave it as his opinion that it lay | Super- | visors to acquire for the city of| law, the entire plant of the cor-' otherwise than as so estab-| further cost than the “‘due process of Company to prevent its forfaiture of | Only One Dissenting Vote in Senate % By Governor James N. Gillett | ACRAMENTO, Feb. 25.—I am pleased to know that the Legis- lature has passed an amendment submitting the direct primary | question to the people. The Republican party in convention at Santa Cruz gave its pledge to the people. That pledge is redeemed. | The people may now determine whether they want to nominate public | officers by direct vote or retain the old convention system. | 4= | — Many Declare in Favor Only From Fear of Reprisal by Constituents By George Van Smith _- CALL HEADQVARTERS, 1007 EIGHTH STREET. > SACWTO. Feb. 25—Tke people have won the first battle of Melfiflnbmhmd&fifmudmknhwfifia from the bosses. The Senate by a vote of 37 to 1 adopted the Held-Wright | constitutional amendment, which carries the question of direct primary election legislation to the people for their ranficanon or rejection at the general election, 1908." I saw in the California Senate today a reproduction in miniature of a scene I witnessed six years ago, when the Legislature of Minnesota struck off the shackles of James J. Hill and the railroad combine and turned the | government of the North Star State over to the people | speeches, rather better done in Minnesota, Again: the same where the question of direct | primaries was not so much a mystery to the faithful creatures of the { machine as it is in California; the same damning by faint praise, the same vehement assurances that the votes of the speakers were cast for a bad measure because a misguided people demanded a toy of which it would soon tire, and finally the same virtually unanimous vote. Tt was with nsignificant variations a re-enactment of the legislative crises in Minne- sota, Wisconsin, Nqrth Dakota and Illinois. True, the flnal votes in those States carried direct primary laws or alleged direct primary laws into effect, while the vote in the California Senate [oday’ only carried the question to the people, but they were all generally the same in that they were the first great steps toward the political emancipation of great commonwealths. LEGISLATORS FEAR THEIR CONSTITUENCIES The virtual unanimity with which the Senate passed the Held-Wright amendment when it reached the show-down stage should not be taken as an Indication of any overweening desire upon the part of a two-thirds majority of the membership of the. upper house to redeem the platform | pledges of the parties. The Senators were pledged to vote for the amendment as returned from the free conference, where it went only because of jugglery, and recognizing the fact that they had come to the last act of their little | politico-comedy drama, they voted right, but embraced the opportumity to express thelr appreciation of the horrible consequences that must follow |in the wake of comprehensive direct primary laws. Senators Wright, Leavitt and Anthony were the only outspoken sup- porters of the measure. Wolfe scouted the value of a reform which he falt bound to support because of his party’s pledge to ths people. Caminetti discovered that the Republican party was trying to “whip the devil around the stump.” Carter waxed almost tearful as he depicted the overthrow of the political boss and the enthronement of newspaper despotism, which he |aald must resuit from the enactment of direct primary legisiation. Curtin , | denounced the whole thing as political molasses with which to catch votes, and Belshaw, who fathered the commonwealth club amendment, regretted that.the Leglslature could be dragged away from a really good measure. SENATOR WRIGHT MAKES A SPEECH The Senator from Contra Costa, quite unintentionally, of course. pointed an excellent way in which to defeat the attempt to submit the comstitutional question to the people, as obviously in the few remaining days, the Senate and Assembly could not agree upon a substitute measure for submission. Senator Leroy A. Wright of San Diego, though ill. made his best speech of the session for the adoption of the report of the free conference. He had | hoped to have the report adopted without debate, but the several speeches | in oppesition to direct primaries on principle roused him to participation in the debate in a manner that brought cold comfort to several of the Senators whom' he charged with “damning the amendment with faint praise” .In the | midst of several of the speeches Semator Wright asked the speakers If they intended to vote for or against the amendment, and invariably got an afirma- tive answer from statesmen who were decrying the merits of 3 measure which “party pledges” compelled them to vote for. Senator Wright said his speech was made in fairness to the measure and the people of California who demanded its enactment. He pointed out how the peopls had lost confidence in the stability and integrity of government because of the recognized domination of corrupt bossism. The peopls, he 1 said, had a right to repose the fullest confidence In every department of government and that confidence eould only be engendered by fair dealing om the part of tha public servants. The first great step In this reversal of form, | he insisted, Sas keeping faith with the people in the matter of direct primary 1egislation. | SENATOR CARTER'S PRESS BUGABOO It remained for Senator Carter to shake the press bugaboo at the Senate. The Senator from Los Angeles has no exclusive copyright on that particular scarecrow. It has been exhibited by one or more machine satellites in every Legislature that In compliance with a popular eemand for clean politics has adopted or approximated decent direct primary systems. Carter im- pressively informed the Senate that the people had been deluded by the press to belleve that direct primary legislation was the panacea for all political ills. Because of that horrid delusion, he said, he should vote for the Hela- ‘Wright amendment, but before taking that abhorrent step he wished to i \