The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 9, 1907, Page 1

/ the shop girls the prettie Form yo || tomorrow when you see the pict The Sunday Ca st girls in opinion at first hand ures in 11 The Sunday Call of that strange, UHGE A GALL FOR EATRA aEaalON Representative Men Ask Governor to Act Promptly Promises fo Decide Soon Summoning Legislature | Tax Paymenfs and the Charter Amendments First Gillett spent yester- s of conferences in o with state and city bankers and real estate advisability of calling ion of the legislature. local officials and urged with great the 1 session be or- d of the month, announced late last ia en conferred with v believed nfessed t ad commission EXTRA SESSION IS URGED 1 the extra session roblem:; session that fied ' ent bonds for needed | port. ittee of busi- al officials went so a special session was vale residence. tended three sepa- | He the | g the day. of members of the ds of health and | the federal expert, at | at noon to consider It was de- o seek federal afd se of fighting dis- members tation ce followed the mayor’s office. - those | utenant | ate Trees- ontroller | ers cc Hell- | M. Tobin, | . King and | Commission- | | € ourney Senator Welch and ry F of the board of super- onference the difficul- the financial strin- | € considered. | 2 o'clock before the con- | TAXES FIRST CONSIDERED matter considered related | axes. It was pointed out to erno ill become nt on ember and that a fter that date a 16 per cent penalty imposed. The governor asked | ring house certificates could | i by the city treasurer.| reasurer Bantel and State | surer Williams expressed thelr | ss to accept these certificates | 1d be arranged with their | s plan, however, asserting that it Continued on Page 2, Column 3 INDEX OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL’S NEWS TODAY TELEPHONE KEARNY 86 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1907, THER CONDITIONS YESTBRDAY—Southwest wind; clear; maxi- mom temperature, 78; minimum, 54. FORECAST FOR TODAY—Fair, with fog in Page 11 morning: light east winds. NEWS 3Y TELEGRAPH EASTERN Genersl Mansger Schwerln of Pacific Mail s letter to Honolulu chamber of company Wl LS commerce, Page 1 may be withdrawn Commercisl agencles report fewer business faflures and improvement in trade condi tions. Page 2 Two New York benkers in danger of prose- baving employed dummles to secure Page 1 beavy High official of the treasury advises western rs to keep cool and siient Page 1 . in esst is relieved by ons snd money fOWS WeSLWAT] X Page 2 ns. suffer from operated at Pag: n dollar fire destroys Great Northern Wis., and shipping is en Page 2 companies es are t Superior dungered. COAST iver raiiroad Page 1 3 ne town of Keswlck Is ae ought to bave beem set by °s e Page 11 IGN Secretars of War Taft invited to meet kaiser ouse, isle of Wight Page 3 jan takes stand in Druce mysters case in London Page 7| EDITORIAL Governor Glllett should act. Page 8 A strange view of Roosevelt. Page 8 Senitation and federal government, Page8 POLITICAL 2 and MeCabe consider ad ing investigation of ballots Page 1 r with ve men of the eity t and urge the der enactmen: t promises 2 few days and oatlines three. ¢ ant measures he may present Page 1 as Esstland says that elf and other women som were devoid of intent to rymen. Page 1 Japanese soldiers fall before dsadly law Page 18 Plens far bullding ap_armory to houge ua- 1 guard in this city are considered at a eeting Page 12 Valeable dismond plo among the list cf articles Teported to bave beem recently Real estate Lusiness improves and the restoring of co Magor Taglar. Biind son of Blitz Paxton, Santa losa banker, wants father punished for contempt of eourt Page 16 Cavalrymen at Presidio will be taught to play polo. Page 12 Five montbs old baby at children’s agency wants a home. Page 9 Five women and one man seriously injured in a triple collision of Eddy street cars mear Fill wmore, the disaster resulting from an effort to escape from & rumaway cer. Page 16 Secretary Taft at Shanghai investigates Judge Willey’s work 2ud publicly scommends aud in that liners’ on orlental run | nheims will spend $25,000,000 to build £ the head bunters in the islap} of | ADVIGE TO THE WESTERN BANKS 15 "KEEP GOOL” High Official of Treasury | Discusses Complaint | From This City MUST OBSERVE LAW ;Cannot Cash Bonds at Sub- | treasury on Demand, % He Declares |SITUATION IMPROVES | West More Excited Than the| East Over Financial Affairs Special by Leased Wire to The Call WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 — Com- plaint has come from San Francisco against the apparent discrimination in vfavor of New York in depositing gov- ernment money. With plenty of gov-| ernment bonds in their possession and with the subtreasury full of coin, San | Francisco bankers are inclined to re- gard the treasury’s action, or lack of laction, as a discrimination against | them. This was discussed today by a | high official of the treasury. | “New York is the storm center,” he said. “We deposited all the available { money first in New York and then, as | we got more funds, we eased up the | situation in other cities. We have sent money #g most of the financlal centers, including San Francisco. Now we have to deposit in the na- It makes no difference no more money tional banks. how many government bonds a bank may have, if its circulation is already up to the limit and if we have no | money to deposit, we cannot cash bonds at the subtreasury on presentation. They must be redeemed according to law. | “In one cade in San Frapglace. Wwe were able t6 have thessubireasury take 2 lot of bonds in trust and pay over their value tS the bank owning ‘them, the purchaser of the bonds being a New York bank which gave us an in- demnity bond to secure us for the cash. | But this was squinting at a violation of the law and was done only because the bank in question was entitled to de- posit bonds for circulation that had not | been issued. It could not be done other- | wise. It would net be done again un- { der the same circumstantes, unless in case of emergency. { “We have received complaint from | | our disbursing officers that some west- | ern banks have refused to honor checks | stan dutses exery act of the federal jurist. Page 12| 4TAWN upon government deposits in Failure of Mrs. Aupie Moore, owner of He. | those banks. The exéuse given is that vedere botel, follows a series of unlucky eircum- | the hank’s reserves are in New York Page 16| 403 that the New York banks refuse Bogus ges inspector keeps Chinese cock busN | 4o honor drafts upon them. This. ex- while woman thief robs W. B. Schuman's howe | 2 P This ex- | of $2,305 worth of jewelrs Page 11 Cuse Wil not be good after today, in| State, cits and federal chiefs bold meeting | MY OPinion, for the refson that the New York banks will he advised. by the confer with President Roosevelt and ask for | tfeasury department to honor the call federal funds t id in fighting disease at this L . "9 | of western banks for their reserves. and decide to send committes to Wasbington to Page 9 SUBURBAN Students” affaits commitiea of state univer: investigates bazing of college editor and recommend that bazers be expelled. Page & Thieves who travel about In an sutomobile bellered to have been men who entered Frait- Page 4 Oakiand laborers pick up paper bag % $380 and proceed to put the money | west, to refuse to honor the checks of} | We do not expect amy bank, vcast or | | our disbursing offiders on government deposits.” A | This ofcial remgrked that the gen- eral financial situafion was greatly im- proved. The west, he sald, was more excited than the ¢ast. The crisis was over, in his opinign, and the west will . 5 | Greenwas's birthday “dance at the Falrmont The bankers objected to v Page stion. Page 4 Small boy saves mother from prison by ap- pealing to Oskland magistrate. Page 4 become easy as st as the New York banks release thelf reserves. Berkeley faculty contemplates turning over “I suggest that western banks keep the mensgement of etbletic affairs to the | cpol and silent,” he continued. “The | students. Tage 4 bankers have talked too much as a rule. The public 1snot excited and will not withdraw any more money if the bankers keep a stiff upper lip."” DISCOVER COUNTERFEIT Mrs. Edward Brerett of Portlamd, Ore., meets son for first time in thirty years in Oak- land. Page 4 Bieven more restaurateurs to be arrested for alleged riolation of milk law in Osklsnd. Page 4 SPORTS Honolulu Stars defeat picked team at Recten- tion park, score 8 to 3. Page 10 Owen Moran and Frankle Neil will mest in Dreamlsnd pasillon for their international | 3 . battle. Page 10 | California end Stanford Rugby teams wiil ks battie for football hovors at Palo Altn A 2 this _afternoon. Page 10| WASHINGTON, Nov, 8.—Chief Wilkie California jockey elub offers a good card for the opening day at Emeryville. Page 10 Walter de Mara is the star rider at the Orst covery of a new eounterfeit $10 na- tional bank note. The counterfeit is of meet held bere in years on a banked Vells- x Lok Pagge ";the Wells-Fargo- b}w-dn bank of | Francisco and is a poor photographic re- LABOR | production, pvinted on heavy bond paper, with no silk fiber. The treas- ury numbers have been traced over Ladles’ tatlors’ unfon sends notice of its with- drawsl from tbe labor council,” but fafls to assign resson for the action. Page 9 The good government clab of the bollaing | With red ink. 'he back of the note trades councll plans to continue In xist- ence. Page 9 Pvnm"‘ branch of carpenters’ and joipers’ | coloring around the charter number, snlon will bold finks on evening of No-{ -t %y a8 | vember 19, Pages | T IS Mulinge R L M: II:E' R i< McKINLAY TALKS CANAL ner Persla, from the orlent, brings a ship % v s of raw sk valued st more . than | Special by Leased Wire to The Call 0,000, Page 11 ‘Three whalers, last of the Arctic fieet. reach port with bone valued at $230,500. Page 12 MINING Notable rise takes place in price of Gold- fleld Consolidated Mines; several other stocks sell largels. Page 15 SOCIAL Most of this seagon’s debutantes attend Ned | dress delivered to the that when completed, according to an botel. 3 of the secret seryice reports the dis-|. 8an | aceable to the officers of the banks. is petter than ihe front, being a fair|-David Jayne - Hill Succeeds PRICE FIVE CENTS. ‘I" ' Happy Hooligan Hearst ‘ | The Invincible Hoodoo of American Politics | 55 1 e - 7 New York Bankers M’ayi Be Prosecuted Accused of Having Employed Dummies to Obfain Loans Above the Limit Special by Leased Wire to The Call NEW YORK, Nov. 8 — Clearing house bankers expect that criminal proceedings will ‘be brought against two men who were officiais of national ba#nks which were under fire in the re- cent weeding out process. It was posi- tively asserted in Wall - street that flagrant violations of the national banking act had heen discovered by the national banking department, fol: lowing investigations by clearing house committees. The names of the men involved as well as the institu- tions with which they were conneoted were freely mentioned in Wall strest United States District Attorney Stim- ‘son admitted that his office in- vestigating the conduct of certain per- =ons connected with the two banks. 1t was also learned that the head of the bank examiners in New York, Mr. Hanna, accompanied by an expert from the comptroller’s office in Washington, had visited the two institutions in the last 10 days and were preparing a memorandum- for the district attor- ney’'s office. The principal charge against the two men is that ‘of .obtaiming loans from their Institutions much in excess of the limit prescribed by the banking sct. It was found that through dum- mies or agents these officers obtalned the loans which, when thel disclosure came three weeks ago, were clarly e SPENCER G. EDDY NAMED MINISTER TO ARGENTINE Charle- | imitation of the genuine, except the| magne Tower and Arthur - H. Beaupre Takes Former’s Place WASHINGTON, 'Nov. S—Secretary. Root announced that David Jayne Hill, American minister to the Netherlands and a former. assistant secretary of SANTA ROSA, Nov. 8.—In an ad-| state, would be named as ambassador 2 high school|to Berlin to succeed Tower, who is puplls of Santa Rosa tonight Congress- | about to retire on account.6f {1l health. men Duncan E. McKinlay declared that | President Roosevelt first offered the the Panama canal would be completed | position to First Secretary Bacon, who andinoperation within six years. He said | declined. S e 5 Minister Arthur H. Beaupre will be interview he had had with Secretary |transferred from the Argentine repub- Taft, the canal will have cost the gov- | liic to the Netherlands to succeed Hill ernment $240,000,000, more than half of |and Spencer G. -Eddy,.secretary of. the Miss Helen Baker will make her formal bow | WHICh sum had already been appro-|embassy at Berlin, will -become minis- to local society today, Page 8 | priated, 5 5 ter to Argentine ; 5 o 27 4 P Pacific Mail's Line to Orient HMay. End Manager Schwerin Advises the Honolulu Merchanis = That - Litile Profll‘. Is Made Special Correspondence of " The TGl t 1 : HONOLULU, Nov:"2.—~R. P. Schwerin, r N O W ", oW & \’% X O ) W ) Society Women Regré; | Ford Jurl Episode | Mrs. Thomas Eastland Says That Remarks at Fairmont CUTTEN SAYS 0N I RS 'Friends Consider Application of Probe Hope fo Punish Dishonest Officials of the Election Political _Eot Again Is Beginning to Boil Various Organizations Prepare for Fresh Fields By George A. Van Smith Persistent reports of alleged crooked counting of the vote for county clerk and treasurer may result in 2 demand for an investi- gation of the ballots cast in the thirty-third, thirty-fourth, thirty- fifth, thirty-sixth and parts of the thirty-seventh and forty-fifth dis- tricts. The investigation if made will not be instituted with the idea that either McCabe or Cutten will be returned over Mulcrevy and McDougald, elected on the face of the returns, but solely for the purpose of fasféning the alleged 1 crooked work- upon’ its pe-petra- | tars and sencding them across’the ‘ba_v. where they may shine as de- | terrent examples to other elec- Lion officers of crooked tendencigs. A demand for recount templated when first of ! crooked counting were r The {proportions of the pluralities polled by | Mulcravy and MeDougald over McCaba !and Cutten respectively convinced tha | triends of the geod government candi- dates that a recount would not change {the ultimats result and the idea of a recount was abandomed. The re- ports of bad counting were so persist- though, on Thursday and Friday, | that the friends of the good govern- a was con- the reports eived. ent, Were Devoid of Infent | ment movement have taken under con- | sideration the advisabllity of asking 2 i we ever said anything that the| for an mvestigation of the ballots cast | Ford jurymen overheard at the Fair-|in the precincts under suspicion. | mont hotel we are sorry; we didn’t| E. L. Cutten, defeated good govern- mean ything in wha id; nt and democratic candidate for general manager “of ‘the Pacific Mail P, I e sl R : 3 besides I do mot admit having said|{Teasurer. sald vesterday: steamship company, in a letter to the » < | “A recount would not, in my judg- Honolulu chamber of commercs Hints |ANYtHIng, and furthermore I am ad- o P y ‘olects 1 t not to discuss i | ment, resuit in showing my election strongly at the withdrawal of the Pa- |Vised theepisode.” That| =~ " eteald = Mulerevy's jmargin cific Mail liners on the. oriental run. i8 about the gist of Mrs. Thomas| .. y.cabe is, howe much nar- The chamber had asked him for a definite statement of the intentions of -his company as to providing Hawali with a better passenger service, suit- able for tourists. Teo this he held out no hopes whatever, hinting at a possi- ble suspension of the service from San Eastland’s statement concerning the conversation in which she and Mrs. Frederick Kohl, ‘with a party of friends, are alleged to have indulged at the Fairmont hotel about a week 2go in the dining room near the table nmugd which the Ford jurymen were rower and if the crookéd work ap- proaches anything Ilke the propor- tions which I am Inclined to belleve it did from the reports I have received, the succession to the county eclerk's office might be changed. Butithe ques- tion of who is elected !s really second- Guggenheims: to Build Francisco altogether. A part’of his let- ter, which is dated at San Francisco. October 18, says: “There 18 ngt a steamer that crosses | Continued om Pacs 3 Bitton Corme s on Page 3, Bottom Column the Atlantio = ‘that could be main- | 52 o . tained were I fiot for the enormous| | : .|| Impertinent Question No. 24 yubsidy. Deprive these ves- What’s the Matter With San Francisco? business and they e. The only thing mnclle'b;l_h@ 5 business. If this ‘business were killad off it. would be e tne an e vew wwivne| | For the most original or wittiest answer to this ques- :“;Ll Al 1 fase, e :;‘;:::”"‘;{ tion—and the briefer the better—The Call will pay & ; FIVE DOLLARS. For the next five answers : The Call will pay ONE DOLLAR each. Prize and checks mailed to the winners at once. Make . your answer short and address it to IMPERTINENT QUESTIONS,. THE CALL alone the expense ' of operating the agencies,” ¥ Winning answers to “Which is the Ugliest Bullding In San Franclsco and why?” . $5 prize to P. Nelson, 100 Miguel street, city. Mike de Young's new annex buillding—ugly for its square- ness, which is if"strong contrast to the curves of its owner. $1 prize to J. H. Talbot, 706 J street. Sacramento. Hearst bullding. It is not up—to date. $1 prize to Herman M. Levy. 1230 Elils street. city. . The Chronicle—because it is a chronic ill $1 prize to F. R. Wall, 1200 Merchants’ exchange building, city. - The Examiner, because it is all stories without foundation. : $1 prize to Nicholas Lawlor, 124 Clipper street. city. If there'is anything that will skin the Chronicle building in p - any way, show me. 00 2 10 8. I, Livieos, H35 Rady, strgat, ot < The 23 story building at Third and Market, -because the e twenty-third story is on the ground floor. ary. If there was any crooked count- tng, and I belleve there was, it should be uncovered and the guilty men pun- ished. The ballot box should be pro- would ‘cease to 0 that has kept has been the Asi 2 : Alaskan_l_{iilroad Special by:Leased Wire 1o The Call SEATTLE, Nov. 8.—Rastus C. Haw- kins, chief engineer for the Guggen- heims’in Alaska, today returned from New York and confirmed the report that the Guggenheims have entered into a contract with M. J. Heney, the man_ who bullt the White Pass and Yukon raflway, to build the Copper River and Northwestern railway from ‘Cordova to the copper regions on Cop-| |. par river. The estimated cost of thel| |~ road is $25,000,000. The Arst 30 miles is to be Teady for operation by January 1 next year. Heney will sail for Cor- dova-toniorrow with a shipload of men ‘and supplies and Hawkins will follow