The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 30, 1907, Page 1

The Paris Lenten festivals, legends of ||| Easter flowers and “two clever short {f _stories are special FEaster features of } morrow’s edition af ) ANCISCO, | | knowing ] about th Perhaps you've yatched the gulls that |f follow the ferry-boats for years without The Sunday Call any of the interesting things || em which are told in SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1907. | SChmitZ Has a | Cornered Bribe Givers DEAD INWRECK N SOUTH TOTALS T OVER SCORE 'Bodies of Twenty-Two| Victims Recovered | at Colton | CARS ALL ABLAZE s | | Eighteen Italian Laborers| and Four of Train Crew Killed | working minority of beard te protect fran- S— | "ORDERS NOT OBEYED) Coroner Begins Investiga-| tion to Learn Who ¥s to Blame S | COLTON, March 28, —The list of thoee | t death in the wreck of the the Southern Pacific sfternoon WwWas dey 3 the search for sdditional bodies supposed to be buried | Blaise. nge 8. e b e i ot the Samotiaiat care| p 0% o atd Hervy win seign Sy important witnesses before i oned ax useless. The cor-(Wek r:'u-:’:“‘:;tho Grand Jury next week st of dead, including two men | goeiet fo lieged isconduct n court 3 2 z e AR TRUBYUE, pr A Spon b e 16 |and his testimony will result . - . -l 3 Chairman of arbitration board in the teleg-|. - . . ese were Ita wage Gispste makes a ruling acverse | Il NEW indictments against n were tmmi-jd0 the opersters o an Francisco. W. Shie. mail Sharpe Valters, Sacramento, Southern Pacific Egan residence believed to| the scene of the disas- Los Angeles His o be due been moved to Los eceded on their ne and were able after reaching Los geles Responsibility’ for the accident will be determined officially morrow evening, when ‘the Cc nquest, which was begun juded. Th ment wa order that the ons of sred emgineer fireman of t might be s nesses examined Nc d. The wit- including the eriand 6 swit crew, 'which has been blamed ng ccident nony deemed of most impor- " | bis manager is thus set at rest. sbers of the crew ation concerr Fur- gh Alvord er than th man testified that ap to the »f its appearance o believed that the overland had alread the swit tuce, Sl AL an FRENCH TROOPS OCCLPY OUDIA PARTS, March The War Depart- ment has re from Gen- cral Disute on of Oud ried out LEAVES CASUALTY COMPANY NEW YORK., March 29.—Robert Armetrong has resigned as president of the Cesuaity Compsny of America. | ! pecause of ill heaith P. ——— WOMAN LEAPS TO DEATH NIAGARA FALLS. X. Y., March 29.— An unientified womsn jumped 1o Sesth from American Falls, Prospect Park, late today. —_— MME. CASSIMIR-PERIER DIES PARIS, March 26.—Mme. Cassimir- Perier, mother of the late ex-Premier Cassimir-Perler, is dcad. 1 { | the - | Company, seeks div - | ground of extreme | emploves insist on increase in wages. Page 10 prices of Nevads miving sbares agein. Page 15 - | socian | carmival of Monday Night Club. INDEX OF THE “IT GOES.” SHD MAYOR OF RUEF'S s 100,000 DEMAND YESTERDAY—Clesr: marimum tempersture, | 60; minimem temperature, 46. | TORBCAST FOR TODAY—Fair; light verth- west winds. Page 11 SAN FRANCISCO CALL’S NEWS TODAY 1 TELEPHONE TEMPORARY S6 = SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1907 Elmer B. Jones of Independ- ent Phone Company to Implicate Schmitz | | EDITORIAL | Scattering of the captains of industry. Page § Galveston experiment in municipel governmest S oamsis gl sieein. Pan 8| “SAW”: BOTH CHIEFS More work for the Grasd Jury. Plt‘l: GRAFT SCANDAL Elmer B. Joves, attorsey for Independent Telepbone Compeny, will tell Grand Jury bow Schmits joined Ruef in trring to bold him up tor §100,000. Page 1 Schmity figures on securing by use of mover Agent Found the Franchise Business Too Strenu- ous for Him chises. Page 1 Corpered bribers attempt to frighten prose- cutors by threstening financisl reprisal Page 1| Grasd Jury tovestigation will center soon oo | bridery by the United Rafiroads and Sex Frin cisco Ges and Electrie Company. Page 2 New Police Commissioner Finm will rm—ui the lewless saloons and the viclous element. P. 2 | A. E Detwiler still in hiding while bis To- | Jedo associates strive to secure bopds for bim Page 2 Member of Los Angeles firm which financed Home Telephone Company burries to the East to copfer with Detwiler Page 2| “‘Reformed™ Boar@ of Supervisors plsn cam WILL BE A WITNESS Attempt of Boodlers to Sell Out Third Time to Be Laid Bare 1 peign of retremchment and reform. Page 3| ~ x e ¥ : | e | Elmer B. Jones, a promi-| Sidner J. Salisbury dles us result of suicidal | nent attorney of Salt Lake | City, is to be one of the most Geed, the cause of which is still a mystery. P. 16 Leon Soeder is hanged st Ssm Quentin prison for of bis brotber-in-law, Jeseph the murder age Angeles sends quots of photos of besutiful " Abe women, and all sections of ibe State are pre- senting favorites Page 18| Captain of Feiire Mooney swraTs oul warrants | several saloonkeepers for vielation of pertition law Page 16 | Ruef "and Mayor, Schmitz. Jones came to San Francisco in the spring of| Good“ Fridey sultably obserred in the ity' S ot e e aernes = ™ ey 8| 125t year to bid in the name A ot Aumets Segims orare 3. | OF the United States Inde-| e P, . Tt sim oo | pendent Telephone Com | - | gang which teryorized Pru murder and robberies, convicted of st in Oskland. Pess 0| Wranpiann H. C. Cowsrd, mansger of the Californis Salt { Francisco. from bis wife on the | roelty Page 10 Oakiland laundries thresten to close doors if robbery after & long con i |He explained his mission to! Brown will tovoke new against Oakland “‘meat Page 10| Music pumbers will ede the addresses be- | ore Alumeds County Teachers' Institote. P. 10| and was at once given the = i t Express at Colton is blamed % s gt Aerspn d |, o B S, T IO, off and went back to Ruef told Jones DOMESTIC Crocker estate and Hubbard sue Soutbers ZAINE Pacitc fo nierest on bopds of & Texas brapch rosd rage ¢ | Salt Lake. Toaw's lawrers copden t commission will r trapsferring Ge: n post is made at bi Page 6| . sacaresur 10/ 000 to begin, 1l drill together | Pace 3 MOt guarantee but was to act as a sort of in-| summer at army posts SPORTS Pitcher Willis arrives from the East to join the Seak *Page B)... .. i The caréioe] and boe and gold fresbmen <t (1012100 fee. Jones called bold second imtercollegiate Srst year meet at | 4 | Stanford today. Pagp 11| Upon the Mayor and received| Favorite players bave a bad day at Ascot Park rece 7| the Tepiy, ““Whatever Ruef] Telémund at long odds comes to life at) 9 Emerrville Fage 7/ SAYS ZOCS. Battling Nelson wires The Call that any club wishing to match bim must make all the ar rangements with Billr Nolan. bis manager. Tbe | talk of lack of harmony between tbe Dane and Page 7 Jones was induced to come| to San Francisco to look into| vason. . |the franchise question by W aver Oouncll dockdes oot o o av. 79| J - Arkell of Manhattan, Nev N oer Abessita s beinging o recers | ATEENl thought it a rood op:| om ey iy Sp—— Feee U portunity for the Indepen-!| Storts in the market, by covering. stiffen the \dent company to obtain 2| voukes - 2 Lo o “m",frauch_isc on the eoast, and! ?age 8|50 advised Jones. The United| |States Independent Com-| pany is a very large concern I PLACE YOUR I WANT AD {Eastern States. Jones had had a good deal |0f expelience, but he hadi inever encountered such al |proposition as Ruef put to |him. Jones talked of the, matter to his friends after! returning to Salt Lake. He will be a willing witness be- fore the Grand Jury. Th testimony will corroborate| that of Dr. Ferdinand But- terfield, who was allied with the United States Indegl;em_l . l .S Where He Kept It Plan to Protect the Stolen Franchises Take Step Toward Inumidation | +* E.E ScumiTZ. E.E SeHMITZ. = #BE RUEF 2! S = a 3 & 3 o . :“ [4 ! l £ - '_- Developments In the Local Graft Scandal Mayor Schmiiz tries fo b some members of the Board of porations. ¥ » * * savings banks of the franchises obtained by fraud. * ¥ % * b orient. 2.8 | Was to go to Ruef. It did the Board of Health, and numer- fraud. the franchise |ous other tax-eaters, to lose their;O'Neill be left ont—acting the parts of good g' e L pany for a franchise in San pervisors to induce them to resign| His experience,in order that he may gain control} was brief but instructive |and save the franchises of the cor-! Sciémes to Secure a Minority of Supervisors Would Pay Some to Resign, That He May Appoint Their Successors Schmitz, who gives no quarter and keeps his violins under the - - . . } ome of his business friends' yr o iou circular sent to the|flooring -of his bedchamber, has hatched a plot to persuade enough places he may have a working minority on the board, and thus save the ill-gotten franchises for his friends who now hold them. Schmitz has an idea that he thinks will please some of the | millionaires who are bound to him by the closest ties. He fears ithat the franchises for the overhead trolley and the telephone | cal wi e rmamed | that it would cost him $100,-| James A. Devoto, attorney for system, secured with so much trouble and at so much expense, This money the Board of Public Works and may be declared invalid on the ground that they were won by With cightcen Supervisors—or sixteen, if Tveitmoe and Indians, he fears that jobs as a result of the retrenchment the ill-gotten, franchises are in danger of being revoked. Those who campaign of the “reformed” Board of Supervisors. % 5 s s The law department of the the privileges. Upnited Railroads will be subject- ed to a searching examination. Company, will figure prominently * * * * Edwin T. Earl, owner of the Los Angeles Even ing Express, Haynes, wealth In the gas rate case the names of Samuel Naphtaly, superintendent, and W . B. Bourn, president of the| !San Francisco Gas and Electric and Dr. John S| v and prominent and O'Neill, would constitute a working minority, {bought Schmitz and the others at an expense of several hundred { thousand dollars to get these franchises are also apprehensive, and | they are willing to throw in a few hundred thousnad more to save | THINKS $100,000 A HEAD FAIR PRICE But wherever the money to put it through is to come from, the | plot itself has all the earmarks of having been devised by the mind of the Mayor, who keeps his violins under the flooring of his bed- chamber. Aware that he could kill by veto any act of the board which ‘lcame to him supported by less than fourteen votes, Schmitz has millianaite!b““ diligently at work for the last two days trying to induce | ithree members of the board to hand in their resignations and allow to appoint three others in their places, who, with Tveitmoe for the purpose him phusician of Los Angeles, bothiof saving the franchises. heavy stockholders in the Home by the Grand Jury. * e Elmer B. Jones, a prominent at- torney of Salt Lake City, whe represented the United States In- dependent Telephone Company ir San Francisco, will tell how Abe Ruef and Mayor Schmitz tried to | As it is generally believed that sueh a bad break on the part with extensive branches ir| Telephone Company, subpenaed|of any of the gentlemen who have confessed their boodling and been | | put on probation would result in their prompt indictment, it is nat- | ural that the Mayor’'s idea must be presented to them with aljure- ments. Men don’t go to San Quentin to please even the most bril- liant plotters. They must be well paid for going to the penitentiary. A franchise that is worth several millions is-obviously worth | more than $450.000. the crooked price paid by the United Railroads. Tn the difference between these sums Schmitz thinks there is money enough to persuade three of the confessed bribe-takers to go to 3+ i COVERT THREAT Working | IN THE WORDING OF-A CIRGULAR Financial “Reprisal” Hinted At by Corruption- § ists IS SENT TO BANKERS | Written Ostensibly Interests of the “People” in | | \ NO NAME ATTACHED Dire Things Quarry Should Show Teeth | Predicts the if The - corporation bribe- |givers have set up a secare- erow by which they hope to {frighten the prosecution into | keeping out of the franchise |field. | Aping the methods of the {railroad magnates who sought to whip President | Roosevelt into line by start- ling panies in Wall street {the ‘“Men Higher Up”” in the {local graft scandals are try- |ing to intinridate the finan- |eial institutions and through {them the depositing eiti- zenry by drawing gloomy !pictm'es of what they claim {to foresee if the Distriet At~ {torney and the Grand Jury of the city to dis-|of the Supervisors to go to San Quentin, so that after filling their : by s g " g : s continue the erusade against advice, ““See Ruef.” Jones credit the prosecutors in the graft! 5 He also saw cases on the ground that a financial| Then he called the panic may follow the cancellation {municipal eorruption. Under date of March 26 |anonymous circulars were {sent to all the bankers and financial leaders in the city, | purporting to come from the iseeretary of a fraternal or- |ganization and stating that |*“as things now stand in this |city the savings of the wid- {ows and orphans and the se- curities of our banks are in jeopardy, caused by the {threat of the District Attor- {ney and the Grand Jury to {cancel all street railroad {gas, electrie, telephone and ’” | other franchis The suggestion is made that ‘‘some evil - minded persons, who have come un- !der the ban of the Grand Jury because the Supervis- jors have held them up” {might wish to make repris- als against those who have contributed to the Grand | Jury expense fund, in which case, it is hinted, the banks would be attacked, causing a panie. ' The letter is as follows: Sir: As a depositor in your in- . . hold his company up fu_r San Quentin. His idea is that three or four men £an be found on |stitution 1 take the liberty of call- $100,000. . e et SR Mr. Phillips of l'l’: Adams. Pl.u. G.u. ny, . which floated the bonds of the wk the board who would be willing to serve a term in str‘ii)es at $100- 000 a head, and. that it fi'oulq be a bargain that would please his FIGURES, _ Schmitz ~ ON BUYING THREE MEMBERS he will need to purchase ing your attention to the emor- mous depreciation in your annual statement, as well as that of all other savings banks, to the Bank reckons that if Tveitmoe and O’Neill, over whom the | Commissioni, caused by the weak and demoralized condition of Continued on Page 2, Bottom I_J ~