The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 27, 1907, Page 1

- American Idea in is the subject of an unusu le n Motherhood,” hich is creating such a The Sunday Call ally inter- NO. 89. SAN FRANCISCO. Wh DN ESD AY FhBR U A.RY on the known T sun. Everybody is talking about the If you want to know about them and what mean read, the article in he Sunday Call PRICE FIVE CEN ]apanese Boy’s Letler to Girl Shows Danger of O/Jen Schools CHRMEN QUIT TO atek POGITIONG WITH MORE PAY Five Score Turn in Badges and Hundreds More Will Follow TERM AWARD UNJUST Father Yorke’s Minority Re- port to Be' Read at Today’s Meeting MEN CANNOT STRIKE Will Abide by Decision Un- tii May, When Con- tract Expires the and have left Railroads, One humdred of the announced will earmen employ is United it that several hundred their badges and elsewhere, prompted the unfavorable award of the board others turn in seek employment of arbitration. which will withhold from them the eight-hour day sand makes but a slight increase in their wages. The United Railroads is thus brought face to face with a condition which mar prove more serious than a more generous award to the men would have been. ncement of the was postp. d the statement w majority and mi- 1ld be filed this owever, a possi- The az post- DECLARE AWARD UNJUST was written by - e and is arred in b M Its terms een part in The T is acceptable to of eard of the ontentions is controvert- e ir to the opinion that it . Discontent has been aggra- z e ra of t union form or T rning the re- = f the on. and irrespective ¢ he e or tice of the ma- jbrity decision, t award will not ake for p NO STRIKE AT PRESENT There no strike at this time, said President Richard Cornelius yes- afternoon. “The men w terms of the award, whatever and abide by at which may be them until time the con- time, several the employ of pany as soon as the matter is settled. The union, as a union, will be bound by the terms of this awar That will not prevent the men who can earn ney in a hundred. other occu- leaving the em- United Raflroads.” LIKE COMPANY ARGUMENTS men look upon the inion and award of the board as a from quietly the of The rather remarkable document, as it said to embody in large measure the| arguments of the company as they were presented to the board. General- speaking. been more sensitive to the considered that the alleviation of a clase of underpaid and overworked men was remote to the legal aspect of arbi- tration. The carmen say that the day of agreements and arbitration is over as far as they are concerned. ago it was announced that the com- pany would not enter into another contract with the men. Now the men say that they have found contracts and arbitration to be fruitless, and at the expiration of the present agreement on Continued on Page 2, Column 4 hundred | the com- | majority | is | . the writer seems to have | property | rights of the corporation and to have | Some time | INDEX OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL’S NEWS TODAY WEATHER CONDITIONS _ YESTERDAY—Maximum imum temperature, 44. temperature, 36; FORECAST FOR TODAY—Fair; fresh npeat Page west wind. EDITORIAL T Two of Jobnson's vicious bills. Page 6 Mr. Harriman's breach of trust. Page 6 Commissioner Wolf's modesty. Page 6 Collis bunting an easy Judge. Page 6 LEGISLATUKE Model of pational pure food bill passes the declares war on re- Page $ ncisco delegation CITY Filing tion which favors the position of the roads is again postponed to epable Father Rs! Yorke to complete his dissenting opinion. P.1 Japanese routh who wrote improper letter to in Mill Valley arrested; public rought > realization of what the open scbool door Page 1 trust absorbs ail independent com- panies in California and fraud is charged. P. 14 0 d Western Pacific may op- Dumbarton atoff and main- ards at lIslais besin. Page 14 e growers of State Imaugurate movement for nations] orange day to advertise fruit. Page 7 If. fatal car aceidents continve the Grand Jury may indic Raflrosd officisls for ;man- aughter in action to take the franchises n the ¢ ation. Page 5 Is Supervisors of increased wt of f ges and electric light and | beavs losses sustained by disaster orporation in the Page 7 pr % %= brooding over attempts »..8de three times in Cits Prisen. Page 7 Conscien ther’s de: at stricken the elief Corporation will go out of existence at | eerliest possible date and may found hospital with surplus funds. Page ¢ Associated Ol Compapy burk contrel of otber Coalinga corporation and ibcreases its land- holdings. Contractors outline the plan of work for clean- ing-up day. ty Kearner. alias Bailer, who with Siem- Daboer attempted to rob H. Behrend, overed in Oregon State prison aud bt here for trial. Page 12 E Arthur, who gained fame as a mes at the Custom-bouse, disappears, and ther fears tbat she bas eloped. Page 3 | SUBURBAN Tbree bundred clubwomen of Oakland work 2s military army to raise funds for clubhouse for working Page ¢ Adelphian Club of Alameda to give card matinee for building fund. Page ¢ hae been provided to develop diamond nines near Ororille. Page 1 Heroine loses life in Los Angeles fire. Page & DOMESTIC Tbe President's policy s not to prosscute | Harriman as lawbresker. but to use. his evidence for edueation of the people. Page 1 w's coufisel plams to close case with bat ters of experts Pages 12 WASHINGTON Senate pades sundry civil appropriation bill | Page 3 | carrving $114.000,000, Chief Engineer Stevens of Panama canal work resigns and the President will have army en. gineers supervise the construction Page 5 De; Surveyor John of San Chauncey St Franefsco will have no wpportunits of resisting | the request for bis resignation. it being in im- perative form and ‘‘for the good of the. ser. vice.” Page 1 SPORTS 1 Santa Barbara stakes for two year-olds. will be run today at Ascot Park. Van Ness wins the Hatasoo handicap at Em | sryville by a bead Pago 8 Cyelope Thompeon and Dick Hyland have been matched by Morrls Lesy 1o fight here fn Mareh Page 8 Eaoch Wishard will frain a stable of thor- oughtibds in the East this season for A. B. Spreckels. Page 8 Pacific Coast Baseball League officials will hold important meeting tomorrow: Page 8. | LABOR Painters’ Union No. 19 supports position of ing Trades Councll in the electrical work- dispute. Page 7 ARINE Liver Mongolia lands her passengers and Is | @ischarging ber big cargo at the Pacific Mail wharf. Page 9 MINING Creditors of Sullivan Trust Company agree to bave their shares and those of company pooled | | until prices rise. Page 13 | | Local deslings in Southern = Nevada shares {lessen in volume and quotations sbow de- clives Page 13 THE CALL’S |BRANCH _OFFICES Sulucnpbom and Advertise- ments will be received in San Francisco at following offices: 1651 FILLMORE STREET Open until 10 o'clock every night. £18 VAN NESS AVENUE | Parent's Stationery Store. || SIXTEENTH AND MARKET STS. Jackson’'s Branch. 533 HAIGHT STREET Christian’s Branch 1096 VALENCIA STREET Rothschild's Branch 1531. CHURCH STREET Geor; Prewitt's Branch. 3200 LMORE STREET ‘Woodward’s Branch. " MURDER THIL be Call's fight for the direet primary. Page 6 | Page 3 | to defend brazen presentation of mey to attaches tbat are nmot | Page 3 f the award of the board of arbitra- | United | Page 9 | Page 9 | Page 8 | NS> MARIE. MAVELOCK - &7/ E_YOUTH AND THE SCHOOLGIRL TO WHOM HE WROTE AN IMPROPER LET- MORAL ETHICS WERE THE A8 IN EXPERT BATTERY 10 GLOSE THAW { Delmas Plans to Put Client’s | | Mother Upon Stand | Before - Finish 'WIFE’S ORDEAL ENDS | e ;Mrs. Evelyn Thaw Steps | From Witness Chair ‘With Bright Smile DELMAS TRIUMPHANT | | SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. | NEW YORK. Feb. 26.—Eve-! i lyn Thaw'’s sacrifice has been con- summated; true or false, the un- paralleled story of shame begun by her on February 7, when she |first took the stand to give her direct testimony, has now been | completed. ‘ Her ordeal was finished by aft- | ernoon, when both the defense and the prosecution in her hus-| | band’s trial for murder announced | | that they had fimshed with her as | SAVES HARRIMAN FROM THUL S I BREAKER Roosevelt’s Pcllcy Is to Use Disclosures to Educate Public MAGNATE IS IMMUNE| His Admlssmns Will Create Sentiment in Favor of National Control ? |AIDS THE EXECUTIVE, SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL { WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.— That E. H. Harriman is now under- | going the pleasant and cleansing pro- cess called an “‘immunity bath” is the belief of certain public men here who have had access to information regard- | ing the investigations made ¥y the | Interstate. Commerce Commission. It is said the commission is in possession‘ of evidence which could be used with | crushmg force against Harriman in | criminal proceedings, but that it is pur- | suing a different course because the | [N | ‘ i | Thr}‘l BELIEVING THAT THE | | | | | SAME HEBRE a witness. She had been on the witness stand throughout six ac- tual court days, three of which were under the pitiless fire of the District Attorney’s cross-exam- ination. When she stepped from the center | of the spot light today with a prim| little nod toward the Judge and a slight smile toward the defendant as| she walked lightly to the seclusion of the witness-room, she looked not a whit more worn and her marvelous nerve appeared even less shaken than when she first faced the jury more than two weeks ago. Jerome had practically finished with hef when the midday recess was ordered. Durifig the afternoon séssion, under Delmas’| redirect examination, he and she did what they could to repalr the gaps opened in her story by the District At- torney's heavy artillery. Dr. Britton D. Evans, one of the de- fense's expert alienists, is to come in for Jerome's attack in cross-examina- tion, and Dr. Wagner, another expert, is scheduled to f3llow the New Jersey alienist in the same role. Dr. Deemer and Dr. Bingaman, for-Y merly family physician of the Thaws, have been summoned by telegraph from Western Pennsylvania. After they have been fully heard the defense plans to place on the stand Harry Thaw's mother. . . Continued on Page 2, Column 3 |in favor of the administration’s poli- . 3 administration believes the public reve- lations made by Harriman will be wof more value than a criminal prosecu- tion, even if it should prove successful. The. admissions already made by Harriman are regarded as highly im- portant in enlisting publie sentiment cies toward national control of inter- | state corporations. All that Harriman divulges under the grilling examina- tion 'to which he is being subjected will be employed, of course, for the educa- tion of the people as to the abuse of corporate power by a few individuals. Nothing better could be contributed to the President’s campaign for corpora- tion control. The very fact that Harriman is tell- ing a part of what he knows of inside corporation workings will operate, however, to prevent any criminal pro- ceedings that might be instituted. He is rendered” practically immune from such assaults when he voluntarily tes- tifies before the commission. It -is argued that a criminal prosecution would have to be conaucted within very narrow lines, and that the moral effect would not be so great as it would be if the commission should succeed in forcing admissions from Harriman him- self and which could be published broadcast. The President, in other words, is anxious to carry into effect a broad, permanent policy, affecting all Dr. Graeme M. Hammond and Dr.|interstate corporations, rather than to _— e B FRANK, MURAL °o N [J 00 — EHAUNEEY ST. JOKN HAS ~ CROVILLE DIAMOND FIELD N0 HOPE OF HOLDING ON TO BE OPENED A¥ OKC * MUKAT YOUTH PLEADS INSULT 34 "JOKE Writer of Note to Child Placed Under Arrest in Mill Valley INDIGNANT Public Brought to a Full Realization of Evils of Coeducation QUESTION OF MORALS The story published in The Call yesterday of the in- terception of an obscene let- ter sent by an 18-year-old Japanese pupil in. a Mill Valley school to a 14-year- old white girl schoolmate has served not only to em- phasize the evil of. permit- ting the young men of the Oriental race, with their dif- ferent standard of morals, free access to the publie schools, but it has also re- newed and increased the in- CITIZENS ~dignation of the people of 'Califomia over an attempt ‘of the Washington admin- istration to force them to tear down barriers that they have found it necessary to raise for the proteetion of their homes. This indigna- tion extends in no less de- gree to Mayor Sehmitz and the members of the San Franciseco Board of Educa- tion, who went to Washing- | Deputy Surveyor Must Get Capital Obtamed to Back|ton to protest against the Out for the Powers Are Against Him SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 —Officials at | the Treasury Department sald today | there would be no difficulty whatever | over the resignation of Chauncey M St. Jnhn as Deputy Surveyor of the| of San Francisco, m»:x»a or not, notwithstanding the ot that he was in the civil will doubtless resign time. Tt was pointed out that the Presi- dent’ had modified the civil rules when an impudent chauffeur crossed his path a faw months ago, by providing that the head of a de- partment may dismiss any employe without trial if he decides that such dismissal would be “for the good of the service.” As a letter to St. John indicated that his resignation was desired for the good of the service, there is no doubt that he will see the advisabil- ity of résigning by March 1, as re- quested. “No charges have been filed against St. John,” said one of the assistant secretaries today, “and none will be needed. The department has simply reached the conclusion that he should resign. We have not protest from him. not cut any figure in the matter, the decision has already been made.” e L PERKINS DISCHARGED Case Involving Contribution of Insur- ance Funds in Campaign Falls ALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 26.—The Court of Appeals decided in favor of George W. Perkins, a vice president of the New York Life Insurance Company and a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., today in the matter | of tlhie charge of grand larceny made against him in connection with the! payment of funds of the New York Life to the Republican national cam- paign in 1904. % The decision is by a divided court, voting 4 to 3. The prevailing opinion holds that there was no larceny, owing to the absence of criminal in- tent. The dissenting opinion holds that the larceny consisted in taking property belonging to some one else, even though for a commendable pur- or whether he | P pr fa service. He on service received any | A protest would | as | Development of Gem Properties SPECTAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL OROVILLE, Feb. 26.—Announcement was made yesterday that the bond upon forty acres of land near Oroville, | which has been prospected for dia- monds, had been taken up, and that active development work would be started at once. Together with this the owners of the property also mdde public the fact that a number of dia- monds of high commercial val ad been found, together with every satel- lite of the diamond found in the South African diamond diggings. Diameond | mining machinery is to be installed at once and actiye ‘work started in de- veloping . the ground. Not only have diamonds been found, but the fathous “blueground,” berlite, has also been struck at a depth of forty feet. This ground has hcon viewed by a number of South Afrh‘an diamond miners, who all pronounce it an exact duplicate of the Kimberly| formations. The discovery of the diamond “pipe” here was made by M. J. Cooney. who for almost thirty years was in South Africa as a diamond expert. A number of capitalists are backing him, and they will develop the ground as a close corporation. TIn addition to the forty acres purchased at Oroville, the company has also bonded 125 acres near Cherokee, where, during the days of placer mining, over 200 diamends were found. This ground will be thoroughly prospected to determine whether the diamonds were in ‘placer there. CHINESE PLOT EXPOSED Honolulu Authorities Get Evidence of Attempt at Bribery by Gamblers HONOLULU, Feb. 18—Chief of De- tectives A.°P. Taylor has been offered $1400 a week on behalf of a combina- tion of Chinese gambling-house keep- ers to allow a certain number of gam- bling games to run. He allowed the matter to proceed as though he in- tended to accede. Finally, after a num- ber of interviews, the proposal was madc definite and in detail by Lee Let, a prominent Chinese merchant. In the negotiations it was frequently stated | to ’l&z‘lor by the Chinese that they had the habit of paying $100 a week less under the preyious police regime. | or kim- | and ended in be- {coming party te the State’s betrayal. The utter impossibility of reconciling Japanese mno- of morality, if they have any, . with Oececidental seruples had a full demon- |stration when Frank Mukai, who was placed under ar- rest yesterday at Mill Val- {ley by Postal Inspector |Coyne for sending an un- speakable letter to Marie Haveloek,- said: ‘““That is {not bad in my country; the {Japanese do those things. IIr was only a joke. I.did not know that it was wrong to write a letter to a pretty girl” What the little brown man said n | his letter to Marie Havelock has been kept from her. The unpublishable let- | ter was intercepted. It was so much of a joke, however, that it bids fair, in spite of President Roosevelt's admira- tion for Japanese customs and manners, |to send the young son of the fighting Samurai to prison; it was so much of a joke that Marshal Staples of Mill Valley says that it would have invited a lynching bee had Its cdntents not been kept quiet; and finally it was so much of a joke that any white parent, whether he lives in the East or Wast, would have gone “gunning” for its au- thor if his dausgbter had been similarly | addressed. DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS WRONG Nevertheless, Mukai is honest when he says that he.was not aware that he was doing any Wrong in writing Marie Havelock this letter. It is net wrong in Japan to send a letter to a little girl containing statements that no American, however lost to decency, would say in the presence of g 14-year-old maiden. Mukai’'s eight |brown companions in the Mill Valley Schoeol sympathize with their friend, who is now behind tHe bars. They do Continued on Page 2, Columa § outrage tions