The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 25, 1907, Page 1

s San 1s of some st king mday in 1075 10 the r pictures, The Sunday Call artist has i build- which SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, balloon. it gO\ ernme The eyes of the.world are on the war bccn agcomplished with, it. The Sunday Cali Marvelous things have already What our nt is doing told in PRICE FIVE MONDAY, NOVEMBE THER CONDITIONS BANK COMMITTEE THE PRESIDENT | e - E"MMISSIU [ mT[HY f Prominent officials who are investigating death of Frank | | { { Bellows. The upper portrait is of August Vollmer, chief of | V: . police of Berkeley. Below are District Attorney Everett J. | §J J[AI-UUS/ uF N[W VEM-S nfl"[fl flF Brown (left) and Assistant District Attorney Philip Corey. || & s | - HORRIBLE [ | |wea i o i o | sestenDAT—clar; wert wios; masinon | Ewing Has Wrangle With| Reason for Secrecy in Anti- ; temperature, 64: minimum. = : | hv:nr.us'l FOR TODAY—Fair; light north Leavxtt OVCI‘ SCOPB Thlfd Term Letter | wind, changing to west Page 8| | —— & of New Body Unexplained Three Little Girls Dashed Into Sea From Deck Holiday Today ; Y proclamation of Governor James N. Gillett today is de- clared a legal holiday in California. |l {NEWS BY TELEGRAPH |PLAN TO DISCUSS IT State Board Members to Meet to Discover SITUATION IN EAST New York State Seems to Be in Class All ISays Klelanhmldt i Asked Her to Kill Self i Their Status = - by Itself > s’iaHmer fPrefjl'den;SC.edne t - “TH“\--M—M: ohesthil ta Bocetreitie] —— ; y——se 4 S'amps Accused & F'end of Hearfrending Acciden o et 0 L oty edenal of | pp AR OF REFLECTIONS|HUGHES IN THE WAY in Talk With Officials Page 1] 1.3 aw’s second trial for killing of Stan- | . TR B | Children Who Play 4 White o postponed agatn. - Pa%e3|No Stigma Is Cast on Old|Roosevelt’s Plans Include E“MiSS Kerfoot Can Durin g Storm b i Board, 1s - Statewibint Prevention of Instruc- i Lose Lives Flossie Burkman and Schotte Sisters Victims As they danced lightly on the deck the steamer President while it its way past Gray's Harbor three bright le girls, Flossie Burkman and and Ada Schotte, were swept r death by a tremendous wave hed against the vessel during day afternoon, @ FOREIGN termi- Page 9| use of Russian parliament sends nd- zar pledging Ity to tbe govern- intervention being ment soon to b re-established, | Page 3 | | | I | of Committeeman Investigation by the Ilegislative committee on banking will not begin Germans’s navr budget for mext 10 years to- | until February, but already a row has tals more Pripce Pa and pol n a billion dolla Lun prepares measure to give China leaves on state visit to inaugu- mer Kumeric brings report that Viadl ostok mutiny was caused by four girl ed destroyer. COAST anscontinental lines will be double | cked within a few years. Page 1 Avalanche breaks tunnel of power plant near | where mountain is canyon liding into Santa | Page 7| Page 9 | Page3 | Cal Ewing, | | started between the committee and the| . | state board of bank commissioners. secretary of the bank commxsslon, and Senator Leavitt of vho Page 3 | | Alameda, who is mentioned as the most | probable chairman of the new com- Ripler of Santa Fe railroad belleves | mittee, came together in Oakland yes- terday and had a hot interchange of {words over the scope.and functions of the commitee. Today the bank com- misssioners will meet in hastily called tions for Him SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—The gossip, conflicting stories and mystifi- cation growing out of the report set in circulation early in the week that the president had issued an order warn- ing federal office holders not to advo- cate his renomination under penalty of dismissal,” has caused the White House to throw some light on the matter, It now appears that no formal order of this character was issued, but a letter was written and signed by the president announcing that office hold- | Hang Him,” Says Prosecutor ;Bellows’ Fiancee Bioken | in Health by His Death BERKELEY, Nov. Blanche Kerfoot has told the au- | thorities of Alameda county a re- | volting story of her experiences {with Harry Kleinschmidt, the ;Univei'sity of California student p T pes at da A e | s g L ry The parents of the un-| Aged man drops dead In rooms of medium wha | session, It is presumed, to-discuss the iwho is in custody in Oaklend ! e jp |1 sought by friends when veither dead man’s|panking committee and see where they 356 4 P A = S Mette Sli‘:e;n ;h:;: AL e, e Page 7| themselves stand. awaiting the action of District 2 ihe d not until two EDITORIAL On the new committee are Senators | Attorney Everett Proww’ sea an & s 2 e ers | Mr. Schwerin's stupld misrepresentation of | Wolfe, Leavitt and Curtin of Tuolumne prosecute him for the murder of 2 W tacts Page 6 | and Assemblymen Fisher, Stanton of : 3 p z];‘mre Jobnson smoked out. Pfllefl‘Los Angeles and Cutten of Humboldt. Frank Bellows. To Chief of Police s e he elp for the henest corporation. Page 6 o N e t: is- B The feet should stay in the Pacifc Page @ | TD® bank commissioners consider Vollmer of Berkeley and Deputy Dis. SCHOTTES FROM AUSTRALIA men, women and children in small Mission are thrown Into panic by ery but 2il escape injury in the rush fur Page 1 Mysterious death of Florence Chaffin is being Legislative committee appointed to fnvestigate | Fisher, the San Francisco banks and banking lews will not organize until Bank commissioners are jealous of with Senator Learitt. James H. Strond, plopeer fireman and formerly captain of emgine company No. 10, dies at i home in this cf Pinkerton detectives, of 3 let go by is Desk Sergeant Me. Page 7 Three littie girls, e and Secretary Ewing bas R‘urlh. Page 1| | Page 1z | Wolfe and Assemblyman that the appointment of the new com- mittee by the legislature is an insinua- tion against their ability to handle banking in California. They have be- come quite jealous. On the other hand Senator Edward I Charles M. members, sald last night that the bank commis- | sion had no cause for its jealousy. But Ewing and Leavitt, who have been close personal friends and politi- cal associates and camp mates, have Page 12| found a point for bitter disagreement arrested for | on the matter of the committee. “There is no reason for any feeling |on the part of the bank commission,” 3 Cry of “Fire” Causes Panic in Theater ' Hundred Men, Women and Chil- dren Fight to Escape From Building in Mission trict Attorney Philip M. Carey the girl has unfolded a narrative which. in | the apinion of those who are investi- | gating the circumstances of young Bel- i lows’ death, supplies strong evidence that the young Chicagoan was mur- dered and that chinsckmidt commit- ted the crime. | ‘Hysterical to the point of complete collapse, the girl talked with the officers in her home in Sutter Creek Saturday night. The interview lasted for eight hours, and was a long strug- gle with a young creature who ap- peared to have reached the climax of a Schotte children, Reta, aged | e oo, 1l Eile, Flowle Bukmen and Bk | 1011 Sonator Wolfe. | “Thls committes A lively blaze in a 5 cent theater at | long series of heart breaking ex- 4 eled all|steamer President in viclent storm. Page lfwas not formed to usurp any of the 2034 Mission street last night caused | periences. - stralin with their | Friends of “Jack” McEnerney and Miss Kath. | POWers or work of the commission and a'wild panic and stampede among the| ASKED HER TO DIE ALSO =4 Sl 30 erive Corbett léarn that they were married | its appointment is in no sense an in- { nighwaymen secretly three montbs ago. Page 12 After rumning fight policemen ecapture three who had been sinuation that the bank commission- ers have been derelict in thelr duties. - 100 men, women and children present. <+ | They ran frantically for the front an She went over palnfully arfd with much effort her story, culminating in ¢ - sirpriosd whll] <peither. gre. we huatiie- ta Baiks et T TE DOt Bk ielection ss delepnten rear exits, a number of persons werefj heT Meeting with Harry Kieinschmidt ‘ beating and robbing a citizen. Page 7| o o defects in the|TOF the purpose of advocating his re- ree n ul’e ]n “toi fin his own home the day Frank Bel- ? Jemes Nickelson, shanghated and teken to| P2D '"g'l B etre :rek, AL ® | nomination. knocked down' during the mad. rush, | wy pody was found, and with the : ’ < e s et g S ;,“_‘:""; :‘Ord;: :’:‘r;‘:;.\‘:n E‘: r'::de ma:‘mnc:s' Two members of the cabinet in- A ‘8"“ but for ‘the hercic work of Po- | proposition. according to the authori- . 5 espond th a Ccd t P k 2 . K1 hmedt, first, that she Good government club of building trades cun. |shall have a certain reserve, there is| ClTcd correspondents that they ha 1aen 1[] ar ElECien [ Wille na” Gmaniangof MRS Ues. Crue. Kistantustn ) Vo cil plans overthrow of “Tmpertinent Conviet™ | mo penalty provided for a bamk op|MCt Fecsived anything from the presi-| I \fission statlon several persons might|Should Kill herself and folfbw Framk Treitmoe and P. H. McCarthy Page1s| . 2 dent that might be construed as an or- | o | | Bellows’ body to the grave, and. se ship's | bankers who have not that reserve, S | have beerf killed or injured severels o $- s 4 Harper A. Smith and Mrs. Smith now recon-| . b pasentbetibally LT haltevs that der forbidding office holders to exert\M’ a d M C H C Hi d P Blasw wka atarted.b def 'ond that both Kleinschmidt and her- s 1s mot k after divorce and annulment for sake of | | HOVER BATOR N Y e O lated | themeelves for a third term. There is| ¥Hfe n rs. ollier an Y @ defective | ¢ snould end their lives then and % other r children. Page 3| I &8 bank was found to have violate SRR e T R AP R S R de-; film 4n -the moving picture machine. fenced seamen could see were in constant heir mothers and g from seasickness, eful and, not an- ca ey that he saw what looked like els floating near the p two hours before:, ire Mrs otte rushed v asked what ysteric children had been s before and that long since f believed ti stook y refused to believe that the would mever lay | ! jcken people realize that the children | lost to them forever. on board heard even a cry as dren were washed overboard. been ch Contiuved on Page 3, Column \ Two bridges delay opening of Bay Shore cut- off, whose completion s set by raflway officials | for December 15, will begin Page 7 | otficials eay, wi slaying Framk conviet Harry Klefaschmidt of Tows, Page 1 Superfor Judge Waste lectures to young men at First Methodist Episcopal church. Page 4 Thug in botel room knocks ont vietim with pelled to relinquish it at pistol point. Page 4 Romeo Denning. aged 13, escapes from orphan- | age and terrorizes the residents of San An- selmo. > Page 4 | SPORTS AMUSEMENTS Milan opera compeny sings adieu to local musle lovers io melodies of “Il Trovatore.” Page 12 “Rafries’” Is »o realistic as presented at Amer- th last week had a total value amounting to ful trial trip on the bay. Page 8 Debris dock at Mission pler No. 2 is torn down. { as most of clity's fire wreckage bad been-cleared sway. Page 8 1 the officers agree that the \mes)SOCl‘AL e rolling unusually high during the | Club women's, calendars are o filled with fes- tive events that all business meetings are de- ferred to post Thanksgiving seascs. Paze 6 t when regular train lor\-lcn‘ | | | | | the law it could be prosecuted even though the statute does not especially. provide a penalty. mittee start in now it might cause a | feeling that the banks are not secure and needed instant attention, but that is not the fact, and nothing could be will follow out the general line of the Hughes insurance investigation in New York.” Assemblyman Fisher declared that the committee would undoubtedly rec- York situation is fast becoming normal, a conference between financiers and officials of the treasury department having produced a healthy effect. Understand Move SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE'CALL, WASHINGTON, Nov. 24—J. P. Mor- gan’'s visit to Washington is growing in importance in the minds of public ‘men -here. )(orsln and George F.| Continued on Page 3. Column 1 livgred, however, after the newspapers | had called attention to the rather curi- ous situation.. Persons were wonder- The absence of any order on the sub- ject has just about convinced the un- der officials that the report was with- out foundation. Some of them talked away exact coples of it. It is known. that many of the president’s friends regard the whole thing as a great tactical ~mistake. They take the ground that ‘the administration has had the southern delegates in its hands nomination made by the president since Lis election night statement. In considering the republican situa- tion there is a strong belief that in That there is a well defined plan of Roosevelt is given credit fof standing, so far, firmly on his election night pledge, but he wishes to have nominatea some one he considers pledged to his policies. " He will, it is ‘belleved. By many, be Continued on Page 3, Column 3 furnished prisoners in flu,'ca!mtr Jails. Miss Grove in Smashup As a result of ‘a-head-on collision| C. H. Collier, member of the.firm of | the Pacific hardware and steel company, right arm fractured. Mrs. C. H. Collier, possible fracture i wife and’ Miss. Grove wers trav- eling along the miain drive through the park, and as it turned a curve. it met an automoblle driven by W. Harring- ton, a chauffeur for:. the Locomobile SPECTAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL | CHAMPAIGN, Iil, Nov. 24.—Sherman | Cass, a school teacher, has been in jail | here for two mounths for debt, and un- | st him for $1,300. ' Cass could not case pay his -board rafqlgrly uch‘ week. So far they have done so. The, case makes it plain that a per- son'with a grudge against another may by securing. a judgment Keep him_ in jail’ just as long' as'revenge continues to .be worth the price of the plain fare l | Somebody in .crled “fire” and at once a stampede re.| Which Blanche Kerfoot made. the of- | their clubs, the Tear of the theater The -panic was at its height when | the two policemen arrived. Drawing As soon as’ the alarm of fire was, ator, and C. H. Tillman, a 16 year old boy, rushed into the burning machine box and pulled out all iInflammable ma- | they quickly blocked the ! exits and commanded those Inside the | 'there together. | Such was the astounding disclosurs cials declare, and this followed only s 1 Loy i o e i | sulted. Several’ women ana { SR *WAY BY the | Suiptor Hay Patigan returns bearing leurels | o, V| recommend reformatory|, L., ine much talked of order had | petween two ‘automobiles - in . Golden | childrén | . ome of a series of startling stories ot Waves * ris sak fegislation. Tt is not expedient that o 0 ‘'standing near the d 1 1 rol rom Paris salon for bis first work in the old ‘ Ak Rt not been publicly promulgated S0l .ol o Lo i L3 oor were knocked | wnich came from her lips as Vollm: - the ittle | wor Vs X e v little | worls Page 7 | the g ‘t“:r oige until the letter|that office holders would know beyond | L2 e1ast night three per- [down ‘and trampled on by frantic men|and Carey listened eagerly for E the sec- ve will n 7 y v X in the| SUBURBAN Dart of Janusry and will mot et to|d0UBt that the administration pod e e Injured, two of them. serl-|3ng 'boys as they fought to escape from | broken and feebly uttersd words of the p o'clo . g : ary G ously. They are: irl. srte stended to | Fiapche Rerfoot fells revoltiog story whicll. | woyk unti] February. Should the com- | Pusiness 4 Y the theater, distracted gir From $ o'clock in the evening until 5 o'clock yesterday morning the men sat with Miss Kerfoot in her home and patiently heard her wretched story. again, settled | Water pitcher and strips senseless form of val-| gained by hurrying our investigation. for publication in this way. Of course, place. to line up in single file. Some of | She told how she had met Kleinschmidt e usbles aid undersear. Page 4| Gur work will be completed during the | there 18 & lot of guessing to why |of the skull, the more Hot headed tried to rush out|during one of her frequent visits to o of the| GIFl sttacked by man en street tn Oaklang | o T TR R S Gov. | the order was squelched. Even'now it| yfies ‘Syivia: Grove, contusjons and|in Pite of the officers of the law, but Berkeley, how they had become ac- routs bim i fight ard John P 15 Juiled , and while } h the friendship of hisx ral buck- |ay the assallant. " Farne s JulSRlntar | arnor. Gillett in ‘s report anflto tie|DAN-notbeen fosmally IsEued, andiw possible fracture of the skull Afays wene: quickly hebtamsino Me gud pRURTAIRG. tRrsugs Tha SHSHEIN F S . L3 the letter is being shown to a few, no the place ‘was then emptied without father and her people, how they be. ed overboard. He| Two men and two girls who took autemobile | |BiSlature in 1909, with such recom- outsiders have been permitted to carry| ~The machine containing Collier, his|py yor ¢ooie | come engaged in 1906 and how that n Cousins, telling | belooging to Duncan Davis of San Anselmo com- | mendations as we may agree upon. We ‘\ | engagement lasted, in spite of wrongs | siven W. J. Preddy, the machine oper. | 200 Until June 2§ of this year. within a month of the death day of Bellows. NO MERCY FOR GIRL And on that day in Jume she w & Why- Can’t You Manage Your ! r two little girls. She | Boxer Al Kaufmes, who will fight Jack (Twin) | ommend changes in banking laws. 4 | terials, after whicH' they extinguished| again made Kleinschmidt's victim, she nt by Mrs. Burk. | Sullivan on the afterson of Thankagiring day,| “Now the reserve may be only 18| C'™ the star people. | Both drivers attempted to turn, | the blaze with several buckets of water. | told the officials. The situation be- v with tears in her eyes, told | T oe® down from Harbin Springs Pame's | per cent of the deposits,” he sald, “but THIRD TERM AGITATION but falled, and the next instant the-two | Both received burns on the hands and|came revolting. She decldred to the 3 w age & - |, the ofcers ¢ er Flossie had been| o o0 vus woon defeats favorite su aaar| F- V- Anderson and other bankers who| Speclal interest attaches io whe let: | cars had.crashed together. The occu-|arms. ‘s | officers, they safd, that she had deter ng for more than two hours. - | or ciees stake at Tngleside park. Page 8| Were before the legislative committee | te because in 1t the presdent again| ' o 0 0 o g Ll oo | (A fire alarm was turned in£rom box| mined to end all of her assoclations VESSEL IS STOPPED Riding record for the last week at Emeryyille | In Sacramento stated that 40 per cent Tefers to a third term. He makes ft 4 e 141 .at Seventh and Valencla streets, with this. man who had violently at- S TR shows Jockey Ross in the lead. Page 5 | of deposits should be kept on hand in|clear that he does not want federal|out.and both cars were utterly wrecked.|py¢ when the engines arrived the fire| tacked her. But despite the wretched ta ousins immediate 2 . R s S mediately EBAVel e class field will face the barrler in the | certaln cases. The federal laws pro-|Office holders to agitate his renomina- | was out. Damage to the extent of $250 condiffon of affairs, she remained at o é tigation. The ship | Thenksgiving day handicap. Page 5| yide for a 25 per cent reserve, I under- | tion and that those who do may expect 2 & % A was done to. the ceiling and movmg the Kleinschmidt home in Berkeley, 2 P E and &1 giocktn state league pennant winners defeat | stand. We shall probably base our|dismissal. Although there fs stiil more n &l 1or ) ay picture machine. | where she had been visiting. until the M c searchs was inaugurated| st Mars's college at baseball. Page 8| .torms largely ¢n federal banking |OT less mystery thrown about the or- 7z L » ¢ effect. Boats were lowered In| Cogswell and Mo:c;(odhlglb school track teams | 1o o .. der and a very apparent purpose not to N R Be F]'eed x| 3 B wpe of th bodies of e 61 polnts each in dual meet. b S . : = oF "8 5| . The lgcal banking situation was stiil | B&ve too much krown about it, it s cver ones, but this also proved futile Vampires, Alblon Rovers, Scotlas and San 11 cepted by politicians as the | | officers at once came fo the Francisco win at associstion football. Page 5| YeSterday following a quiet and more | Senerally accep 5 = > : R iy ®. bracing week's business. The New |Mmost definite declaration against a re- 3 { Wife? | Husband? the children for the | ican theater thet auditors are tempted to bide ‘es of the federal administration | 9% the laws of the state it is possible | e - thels Aabalibin = Christmas shopping fs .picking up | the eves of the ation re “th t of his| ’ es~ Ware frantic svith ier.| MINING g with the return of confidence lnd“old New York state stands alone, refluirinllf:;e.k"p i o R e g !3 ) FOI the m ongmal or w‘m\answcr to thls qll e parents were frantic with grie ; t and @i : jon— 2 1 the siip, calling piteously to their little | sioring their ore. Goldsel’s shipments. during | MOrgan’s Visit to'Capital e chastised recently. secured judgment PIVE DOREARS . - For/the next ‘five answess o en carried to their death, |5 4000 o Still Puzzling New York strategy Is, in the opinion of man- - and was sent to tlie debtor's ""'! The C&ll will pay ONE DOLLAR each. Pnfle end Bt The President arrived | MARINE e agers of the other candidates, becom. | UBIET theilaw he.can be‘kept impris- W cre yesterday morning id the grief| Xew gascine lunch Taupress makes siccess- | Financiers Not on Inside Cannot|i,: more clearly indlcated each day.|On¢d 38 l1ong as the plaintifts in the | wmmg answers will be prmted next edncsd.y and checks mailed to the winners at once Make. your answet short and address it to - IMPERTINENT QUESTIONS, THE CAL]..