The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 4, 1907, Page 1

I 3 San Francisco, and W See Page 9, Bottom Columns mpertinent Questions Vhich is the Ugliest Building in || Ten Dollars for the Cleverest Answers No. 23H "hy? | 1 and 2 VOLUME (1I. THEASURER GONE NATIVE SONG 0 EXAMINE BODKS — ],ahan. 1 Jose Police Board, Missing TO EXPERT ACCOUNTS| ) O Double . Assignment of Sal«.‘ ary Brings First Suspicion STATE nsanity,” Say “Off to Mexico,” Others’ Belief Is e E. Lahan, - San Jose Native are now experting his v Leased ” ire to The Call JOSE, Nov. ~-Thomas E. y of the board of po- secre r, N. S. G. W, and president of the Ancient his friends are the theory of which the missing ponsible. Lahan is a2 young man, but has first water. y. for years. have discov- se Wednes- eve s bound train | ®ing $200 by assigning his| er s to both the City store| 4 George Plyler. | nt was the only | and the presentation of ed an investigation of | Secretary of| FAME| Friends;| missing [ : | torts 1n resolution mmissioners, treasurer | ans, has disappeared e for the condition | me in fraternal circles|’ tor, ashrc\xd politician | inder Multimillionaire James 4R. Keene be- gan his business career in California as a milk peddler. A good illustrated story of his early days in THE SUNDAY CALL INDEX OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL’S NEWS TODAY | WEATHER CONDITIONS TESTERDAY—Clear; maximum temperature, minimum, 5 FORECAST FOR TODAY—Falr; light north west wind Puel NEWS BY TELEGRAPH | BASTERN Joseph Walker. Unlted States sacret service ""”' killed br Dufango miger. Page 8 utenant to sccept challenge to duel issued br son lste United States Senator Caffery. Page 9 FOREIGN Rat admen of England vote almost unani mously to go on strike, but walkont will bhe de. |iaved to await result of conference Wednes- | dar. Page 9| | - coasr T. E n. secrstary of San Jose police boerd. is missing; Native Soms -nmm nr--nr | treasurer's books. kille 15 and devastates fertile )nud »r 1 Cabo, ent destroy the Pacific ruz, a famous landmark. Page 8 cean hou | EDITORIAL The boodlers want McGowan; the people want Langdon » Thb chartar MR REIS Eoviswed. Amendment 16 to ebviate perjurr. | POLITICAL Election of the ebtire good government ticket beaded by Tayior and Langdon, is certain. P 1 Charges against McCarthy by Bullding Trades ated and convineing proof is put Page 7 Matthew Brady and Lonis H. Mooser estimate | tatal vote of 54.600 cast as follows: Taylor 23,000; McCarthy, 17,000; Rrap, 11,000; Requi Page Langdon addrésses 5,000 game at Recreation Page 6 Page 6 ub sre Attorney after the ns =s work dome in office of Comnty Olerk ty's mopey and thréatens validity of all I | dictments returned by Olirer grand jury. P7 CITY Six thousand Japanese thander ‘‘Banzal!” for | their mikado and Theodore Rodsevelt as a_close {of the ceremonies commemorating the 8fty-sixth | birthday of the Japanese emperor at Dreamland rink Page 12 | President Walker of the Californis safe de- ( posit and trust company brings money from east t0 reopen bank; all otber local banks today will begin to receive clearing bouse certificates and these will circulate for a time in lisn of ey Page 1 English xaflor escapes from ship In harbor by | ariving frail ratt to shore during heavr sea o | dense darkvess. Page 13 | 3obapn A. Wister, confidentisl clerk of the | German benevolent societs, has been missing |#ince July 13 with funds” ef the orgauisa- S 4 Page § Steam lumber schooner Point Arens has-dif- | astrous encounter with huge wave. . Page 10 |, Beroard Lund. 15 year old boy, accidentally | i Kilis himsel? with a small rifie. Page 13 Modern Woodmen will entertaia A. R. Talbat, | bead consul of -the order, with reception Tues- | say. Page 9 | George Srazasel. recovering from trphold s | fever, takes 2 walk and is killed by a stfeet- f‘hl! city tomorrow night with relief Page 10| | car Numerous musfeal events - enliven season of barmony fn this-eity. Page 8| Chbild rong to death bepeath wheels of Misston car in sight of home. Page 13 SUBURBAN Member, plored ot order of Tallway telegraphers em- refuse to bandie commercial work after Novem- ber 10, Page 4 Oskland real estate dealers report Srm and active market in sales of business and residen- tial properties Miss Abby McEiroy W. C. 4., city mecretary’ for the Y conducts vesper service in Oak land Page 4 Miss Marietta Havens of Oskland announces engagement to Paul Dinsisore of San Jose. P4 Boat stolen with their provisions on bosrd, two Berkeley bovs decide to play prodigal sons and retorn bome. Page 4 SPORTS Mr. aod Mre. C. W. Clark entertain the mem- bers of the Irish-American atbletic club and thelr friends at their countrs place, E1 Palomar, | near San Mateo, with luncheon and games. P 9 Tex Rickard of Nevads offers a big purse for \ George Glanninf's pacer George Perry estab- | | lished & pew record on the Golfen Gate park ] speedway yesterday. Page s Farewell ball game at Recreation park fs won | by Oakland from Seals, 3 16 0. Page & Darkness ends close doubles match op the | Golden Gate park temnis conrts. Page Bportemen complain that birds are searce and | shooting poor. Page 5 Large crowd aftends coarsing mstches at | Ingleside park. Page 9 | Fifty-foor nominations are mafe for the open- ing bandtcap at Emersrille. Page 5 -~ TO REOPEN BANK Governor Sanders of Louisiana re- | according to confirmatory | Page 9 | | Page 6| Page 3| r Southern Pacific favor agreement to | Page 4| WALKER BRINGS | EASTERN MONEY ——— {President of the California Safe Deposit Company Cheers Financiers CERTIFICATES TODAY { e | Clearing House Bills for $20, $10 and $5 to Go Into { Circulation |AS GOOD AS SPECIE| 1Banks to Receive Help That Will Enable Them to Meet all Ends o- NORTH PLATTE, Neb., Nov. 3.— | | | | ®Baitor The Call. San Fraueclsco: || T am coming to San Francisco to reopen the California safe deposit { | | and trust company. That institu- tion ix absolutelr sound. Tts re- sources are more than ample to | meet all obligations. The inter- exts of the stock bolders and de- | | | positors will be protected. We bring assurances of ald from the east. We ask patience on the part of our depositors and forbearance from the genmeral public. A litfle time will be required to enable us to met the cash essential for the safe conduct of our business. The company has been a prosperous | | one for 25 years and has dome mueh to upbulld San Francisce and the state. The institution || will positively resume at am early date. It deserves the eo- operation and support of ail fao- terests. T sball do my part and will pledge my resources to em- able the company to resume. DAVID F. WALKER. e i The above terse and optimistic dispatch was received last evening from David F, Walker, president of the California safe deposit and trust company, who with W. J. Bartnett, a director of the company, will reach said to. be ample to extricate -the |bank from its temporary difficulties. ;The reassuring tone of the message will do much to strengthen the public | 4 confidence in the only San Francisco | bank which failed to comfortably ride | the wash of the eastern storm wave. | With the issuance today of clearing house certificates which will put a eir- | culating medium into the hands and| | purses of the people, the tenseness of | | the sitnation here will slacken and the | |Camorn1a sate deposit and trust com- pany will have quiet surroundings in which to recuperate. J. Dalzell Brown, vice president of the bank, was on duty yesterday and with a force of clerks was busily en- gaged ip settling up the accounts of the institution. “There has been no change in our isuu-.uan," said he. “Mr. Walker and | Mr. Bartnett ere hurrying westward ’with money to put the bank on its feet. They will arrive Tuesday night. How soon after that date the bank | will reopen 1 car’ not say, but it will open very shortly, that is positive. | The bank examiners are still at work on the books and as far as T can learn they have found deverything in solld shape.” ISSUR CERTIFICATES TODAY show their hands at the polls tomor- temper and in no ‘unmistakable man- ner. The people of San Francisco which they head will be swept into office and S: government after six years of municipal rottenness. The last card of the politicians has been played. The people of San Francisco will|cosimmea on Fage 2 Hattom Cotums 1 row. They have already shown their|mary campaign. That fssue has been ! of the Native Sons are now | MARINE ctees At 10 o'clock this morning, when the ng t this 18 co pleted whether or not a de- sts will not be made public. Jose parlor are over every three months, has succeeded in withhold- s on ome pretext or an- s check stubs Trus- or receipts have been balanced. tee O'Connell said this evening: We are loth to say anything about e affair until the full sion, but it appears parlor's books, and until | is some shortage, | Steamship Istria brings valoable carge from Buropess painte. Page D Schooner Commerce narrowly escapes being wrecked near Lime pont. Page 9 S T A /OB VENTS SPITE ON ~ MANY HINDU HOMES Orientals in Jail Escape In- jury at Hands of 500 doors of the banks open, will begin the cireulation of the city clearing house certificates which are to accommodate San Francisco with sufficlent currency to meet all the demands of trade pend- ing the replenishment of the gold sup- ply. With encugh certificates on hand to meet the needs of the banks the clearing house will be ready. to deliver the paper in such values as the finan- cial institutions require and are pre- pared to secure. But before any bank can get the gertificates it must have on deposit with the clearing house secur- ities greatly in excess of the amount of want good government. They- have had a few weeks of it during the ad- ministration of municipal affairs by Mayor Taylor and the men he has put in office. ‘The people of San Fran- cisco demand the punishment of the men responsible for their city's degra- dation. They know that they can se- cure justice only through the re-elec- tion of District Attorney Willlam "H. Langdon, and their votes will be cast accordingly. The campaign now over, except for such demonstrations as are planned for today and tonight, has been one of the most remarkable political battles ever _parlor who are| Rioters thelr ¢ ave not | R oot comme.| Special by Lassed Wire o The Call ee at the recent big Jjose on Admission | is official capacity handled | TACOMA, Wash., Nov. 3.—At Everett last night mill workers and-laborers rmade a demonstration against the Hindu population. Five hundred per- arge sums. Friends of Lahan now re-|sons marched down the water front a1l that the expenditures of this de-|Shouting and -1::1::; to the ~Hindu |guarters mear the sawmille. Shacks rtment were lavish In the extreme,| ooy pied. by -Eest Indians. were found ere were no books kept, nor bas|empty and the enraged mob wreckad count of this money been ren-|many of the small bufldings. Scour- ing every corner for Hindus, but find- ing none, the rioters gradually - dis- pereed. All forelgners were in ‘the | ity jail for the night, where about 25 |of the East Indians will remain to- |night. Mayor Jones addressed the mob, advifing it to keep within the law. He has wired Governor Mead for authority to call out the militia. The police say this will not be necessary. ol et TWO ITALIANS SLAIN PASSAIC, N. J., Nov. 3.—Ratael Ruf- fano and his wife, . Antonette, were | murdered at Garfleld, N. J,, last night. | Early today a nelghbor found the woman’s body on the walk in front of the grocery which the couple owned. —————— | On the Kitchen floor Ruffano's body was (ol!hnrd on Page 3, Bottom Columna 3| found. Both had been shot in‘the heu. in San to the parlor or the general com- | Afrairs are said to have reached a Wednesday night, when r was honored by a visit man Knowland. The lat- s official capacity as a grand r the order had the privilege of calling for the books of the lodge | 1 aid that fear of such action of the congressman led last ocal P ppear. feature of the affair is sing man left all his be- fought in America. The issue has been clean cut from the opening of the pri- Continued on Page 7, Column 5 [Langdon and Heney Will Tellof Graft in Greatest Rally of Campaign THE campaign againat graft will be closed tonight by District Attor- ney Willlam H.' Langdon, Special Prosecutor Francis J. Heney and' Speeial Counsel Hiram W. Johnson at the greatest meeting of the campaign at the Pavilion rink, Sutter and Plerce streets. ¢ Attorney J. Dwyer, who has been assoeiated with the leaders in the graft prosecution who with Langden, Heney Johnson has assisted in the trememdous prosecution campaign made week, will preside. The story of the graft prosecution from its inception will be told by the three eloguent men who led in the great work. No men can present the paramount issue which the people of San Francisco will be called upon to decide as can Langdon, Hemey and Johnson. ' They will tell what has been dome, what remains to be dome to purge the eity of the stains of unparalleled corruption into which 1t was plunged by the “higher ups” who hought the city from Ruef and Schmits. Mmmumwctmtumapmm- “fiel-tmmmml! end the prosecution through the defeat of Langdon, and show his The Pavillion rink will accommodat. persons. Especial . The doors will l. attention bas beem paid to the seating mqvflo&.mmn.”m,mmw& § =‘. i, = (¢ = = +r good government and the completion of the graft prosecution. It has_ never been divisible and every attempt to separate . the question of completing the graft prosecution from that of| stable government for San Francisco has failed. The republican attempt to put through .a job chasers’ ticket, masked by the nomination of District Attorney ' Willlam H. Langdon, was promptly repudiated by a majority of the republicans of San Francisco and by a convention minority which was but a few votes short of ome-half of |- the delegates who put up the Ryan ticket. SCHMITZ COUNSELS “BIG SIX” Through his “big six” the felon ex- Mayor Schmitz put up his county jail ticket with Frank McGowan, friend and servant of: the bribe giving and machine interests, as his candidate for district attorney. Thanks to the “big six;” Schmitz ‘was able to label his ticket With the name of the party he had betrayed and disgracad. From his conference table at the county jail Schmitz was enabled to nominate Shar- iff Tom O'Neil, who had.been disquali- fled by a judge of the superior court as one who could not be trusted to perform the sworn duties of his office. His debt of hospitality paid, Schmits was enabled to recognize the services of Coroner Walsh, whose disqualifica- tion followed quickly after that of O'Neil and for the same reasons. He ‘gave a renomination to Harry I Mul- crevy, whase bungled records had staved off for a time Schmitz trip across the bay. He did a like kindness to “Budgy” Nelson, the recorder who deserted “on April 18, 1906, the price- hu heuu intrusted to his care. He Taylor and Langdon Are Certain of Being Elected on Tuesday Entire Good Government Ticket Which They Head Will Be! Swept Into Office by Voters of San Francisco By George A. Van Smith - The people of San Francisco will go on record tomorrow for -a continuation of good government by electing Mayor Taylor and District Attorney William H. I.ang-\doubt against the democratic don by overwhelming votes. With Langdon and Taylor the good. government ticket!good government ticket. an Francisco will be assured of decent |servatism is shown in the estimate of I PLURALITY OF 8,000 FOR TAVLOR Brady and Mooser Expect Heavy Vote Next Tuesday ™ Committeemen Report fo Headquarters by Disfricts Total of Ballots Is Estimated at 54,600 ' Good Government Leader | Probabiy Will Gef 23, 000 ‘-S- Committee’s Estimate of Election Figures Taylor McCarthy ..... 17,000 11,000 Vol Rl FRPH R DS ST That Mayor Edward Robe- {son Taylor will receive 23,- {000 out of a total poll of .}54,600 and be elected by a | plurality of 6,000 over Mc- | Carthy, the runnerup in the municipal race, is the kernel of the careful estimate of to- | morrow’s vote made by Mat- | thew Brady, chairman of the | democratic committee on organ- ization, and Louis H. Mooser, chairman of the printing and ad- ‘\cmsmg committee. The estimates made by Brady. and Mooser are based .. their pcrsonal of the ¢ | coupled with the reports made by assembly district committee- | men, which in turn were based on the reports made by the pre- cinct committeemen. Their can- | vass was thorough and pains- | taking. The precinct committeemen were instructed to give the can- | vass ample time to insure thor- | oughness and to weigh every 'r | | | | i | canvass ¥» Con- | the total vote, 54.600 being the smalleat estimate made by any of the men who Watch The Call’s Election Bullefins On Tuesday night The Call will flash the most complete and earliest election returns by stereopticon :on huge screens at the following points in San Fran- - ciseo: At the main office of The Call, Third and Market streets, in front of the Claus Spreckels building. _ At the Fillmore street branch of The Call, Fill- more street bétween Post and Geary. 3 At the Mission ageney of The Call, corner of Twenty-second ‘and Valencia streets. In Oakland The Call will display election returns by stereopticon at'its Alameda branch office in the Bacon block, Eleventh street between .Broa.dwayj and -Washington. Watch The Call’s Tower Signals " Colored searchlight flashes from the tower of The Call building will tell the story of the election on Tuesday night: . Here is the signal code: RED flashes will indicate the probable election of "+ Taylor. GREEN flashes will indicate the probable election of McCarthy. WHITE flashes will indicate the probable election of Ryan.