The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 20, 1907, Page 1

s wants an assistant in <3u J"rv* par\.cnlars see le of the first sec- Ther Sundqy Cali What is of more importance in the household at this time than the matter of | frills, frocks and toys for the Christmas i “doll? A pag them in The Sunday Call e pictures and describes | I 20, CIIT.—NO. VOLUME SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1907 PRICE FIVE CENTS. Fmbezzlement of Etate's Securities Chiarged by Grand Jury in Indicments Against Two Bankers. uarreling Democrats Exchange Blows in the House of Representatives | INDEX OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL’S || NEWS TODAY BLOODFLOMS WHEN LIE PASSES ngressmen in Fist eorroriaL- \VEATHER CONDITIONS STERDAY—Partly eloudy; wind; pre. ; maximum tempera west OR TODAY- Unsettled weather rains brisk Co Page 6 T Page 6 Fight on Floor Tee of House J. Bartmett are charges of John Sharp Williams rhcaia st dsoos 2“..’4""7,1;""’,5‘;l= - and De Armond Mix It A el i A e p Page 2 ; ific desires bank's !pe'.'"!' v‘xu:‘: Leader of Minority T sl od <o Page 2 Is Punished by Missourian A. Hages is a candidate fo ted States senate and hopes to Iift | e m Perkins' shoulders uext — w Page 1 € ercial travelers' gress Page 14 Quarrel Staris Over Commitiee Appoiniment ; rs find and ling inacc new survey, already pelago instead ught. Page 14 gets ‘divorce from wife Page 5 demo- e was cut Maddox ang usations de suit against Mary Br Page 5 cross East street at fout of Page 14 who attacked gs bim captive to Page 14 tive f the Page 14 of the Lincoln traffic msso Pacific “get | Page 14| wmokes clgavettes at han les, Page 14 ty faints on the witaes LIS S witness 4 jafl unti presertatwe de Ar- mond of MA_soun. The Mis- : Page 1 €0 arownd the turned the blow 0 by time = g M continued until e made the greatest Cath- I Page 13 sel will admit bis insanity | 1 be sent to an asylum for criminals r New Yor! Poage 3| ds xmerfered. The com- bat, on the floor bf the house, was witnessed by 100 per- sons, who had remained after|* the adjournment of a few FOREXGN n Teberan dlsperse, but gather dom firing. Page 13 say they will welcome the express great friend Mp for Page 3| e £ s X presides at brililant ceremony of noments before. That the e s <Ur y 1 = of Editor Harden. on trial a se surprising scuffie wasin dead Rt e e e & i o rage 13 ly emmest wis. Sviisat s i those who understood the persc Page 2| CEo e fre. CONGRESSIONAL rivalry that has blazed fre-| ot il an sar Wititams ana Davia quently in the last five years, ;) & e oy ““”!,_"‘Q‘; between the democratic lead- |, Cutfomnians are weh aken core of i com important positions. Page 8| r i th ntleman from!' er Sl e SPORTS blic Missouri. b Page 9 C r waged merrily at the local made by selling pla » whetber the Santa Attell seems firmly intrenched as an & to srer Owen Moran. Page § % will fight Jim Fiyon 20 rounds at 14 tonight. Page 8 ny Jones, a four round boxer. takes t nine times and then koocks out Eddie Page 8 Anita race Lennon MARINE mer China comes from the orient with raw $700,000 and a blg shipment of Page 10 coinage, 1 | Accord- e statement ¢ prin- one girls cliarge that they lLave been 5 s TS N | sted by the company since leaving fts Williams defended hw{ S, Page 7 n by declaring he had been| MINING y GoldBield mining stocks make another sensa- 1 advance under heavy buying orders from New Xork, Paze 13 Mr. Booher's colleague, Continued on Page 3, Columa 1 i MINE EXPLOSION ENTOMBS 200 MEN IN DEPTHS All Believed to Be Dead From Awful Force of Blast MANY ARE AMERICANS { | | | |Greeks Saved by Church Holiday, Which Most l Observed RESCUE WORK IS ON Fall of Tunnel Roof Bottlcs; Men in Deadly Fire ~ Damp | JACOBS CREEK, Pa.,, Dec. 19.—An explosion of gas in the Darr mine of the | | Pittsburg coal company today en- tombed between 200 and 250 miners, and there is scarcely a ray of hope | Clara county is a candidate for the HAVES IS AFTER SEMTORIL T06H NOANBYPERKING Santa Clara Congressman Believes Reformers Will Elevate Him { IS LIFTED| Takes Kahn and Other Party Workers Into His Confidence SECRECY TO EVEN OLD SCORE‘S Fight Begun in Santa Cruz Convention to Be Waged to a Finish By George Van Smith Congressman E. A. Hayes of Santa| United States senate. The statesman - ‘Walter J. Bartnett (upper left but not examined by the grand j on two counts for embezzling Colton estate securities. are C. A. Gray (left), one of Bartnett's attorneys, s who testified that no papers in the bank’s vaults were burned. -+ ) and ] Dalzell Brown, indicted | Below | subpenaed | ury, and W. W. Scott, a porter COLTON CASE “BAals OF GIARCES iTwo Counts Against | Bartnett and Brown {No Indiciments Yet j for Wrecking Bank iGrand Jury’s Probe To Go DeeplInto Scandal |Other Officials to Be Placed on Rack that one of them will be taken from from the fifth district thinks the re-| the mine alive. Partially wrecked |form republicans are going to lift the | buildings in the vicinity of the mine toga from the shoulders of the elusive and the condition of the few hodleslpfl-km‘ next winter, and Hayes pur- Indictments charging J. slans for comfort of officers | 5| plosion followed a brief shutdown, the| | event that is what his friends assert.| gires the Pmeryrilie ook | Page 9| found ly in the rescue work indi-| cate an xplosion of such terrific force| that it seems impossible that any one could have survived it. All of the 13 | bodies taken out up to this time are terribly mutilated and three of them are headless. This is the third mine disaster since | the first of the month in the veins of bituminous coal ‘underlying western | Pennsvivania and West Virginia, for the Naom! mine near Fayette City and| | the two mines at Monongah, W. Va., in| which the eariler explosions happened.y are in the same belt as the local work- ings. Today's catastrophe swells the number’ of victims of mine gas for the | |19 days to between 550 and 600. SAINT'S DAY SAVES MANY That today’s disaster does not equal| or even surpass in loss of life and at- | tendant horrors the one in West Vir-| ginia is due to the devotion to x!‘urth!' dutles of a considerable number of the| In observance of the church many of the 400 or more men employed at the mine did not| go to work this morning. Those who | escaped through “this reason . wete members of the Greek Catholic church, | who suspended work to celebrate St.| Nicholas' day | As was the case at Monongah, the ex-! Darr mine having been closed Tuesday | and Wednesday. It was 11:30 o'clock, when the tenth trip of loaded cars had | bfought out to the tippie, thige| there came an awful rumbling sound, followed immediately by a loud report ana -ussion that.shook rearby | buildings and was felt several miles away. At the same time therc came out of the mouth of the mine an im- mense cloud of dense smoke and lust that fidated across the Youghiogheny | river. | Every one in the vicinity knew what |n.a happened and all started for the | mouth of the mine. The river separ- ymu the mine and the homes of many | of the miners, so that only a portion | of those who set out for the scene were iable to reach it, as facilities for cross- |ing the stream were scant. To those who could not cross, the smoke and |dust pouring from the mime’s mouth told a story of seething flames back in the workings, and from this source | came reports that were persistent un- {2l late in the day that the mine was | burning. NO FIRE IN MINE The ventilating fans were Kept in | operation almost without interruption, | however, the power plant having with- stood the force of the explosion, and the rescuers have found mno fire at any place in the mine as yet. Only one man {who went to work this morning es- Joseph Mapleton,'a pumper, emerged from one of the side entrances shortly after the explosion. He had | left that part of the mine where most {of the men were working and was on the way to the engine room for:oil. “I was in entry Ne, 21" said “wher 1 heard an awful rumbling. I started toward the entry, but the next instant T was blinded and for a little time I did not know anything. Then I got to the side entry and worked my way out.” William Kelvington, superintendent of the mine, was not in the mine when the explosion occurred and he quickly organized rescuing parties, starting one force of 25 men, with reliefs at short intervals, in the main entry and a similar force at a side entry. It is hoped to reach the greater part of the Contioued aa Page 2. Calumn @ been co 1 caped. he, | ! | He told thém | HAYES NURSES GRIEVANCE | through with a labor nomination, which iposes to be there or thereabouts when the disrobing takes place. He thinks that the garment, which he is con- vinced, does not look well on Perkins, would drape most gracefully from his own higher shoulders. SECRECY DISPELLED Hayes left California for, Washing- i ton an avowed candmste for Perkins’ place. Any secrecy ‘that may have at- tached to his campalgn was dispelled |, | by the utterances of Representative Julius Kahn, who took several repub- | lican party workers into his confidence. positively and without | qualification that Hayes was out for| the semate. That Kuahn spoke with at least the color of authority was evi-| denced later by his combination with | Hayes against the reappointment of Postmaster Arthur Fisk. | Hayes' senatorial ambitions serve In | a degree to explain his hostile attitude | toward the machine both before he lett | for Washington and since he came out behind John J. Deane for postmaster as against the machine's Insistence | upen the retention of Fisk. | | Hayes has been nursing a grievance for more than a year. He sustained an Injury at the Santa Cruz convention | that left a persistent sore spot. In any They say that Hayes really wanted the'; gubernatorial nomination and that he| also actually believed that Ruef was| “on the square” with him and would deliver the promised San Francisco del- | egation. Hayes was against the ma- chine then. His opposition to Herrin | was so violent that it resulted in at least a tentative Hayes-Pardee combi- nation. The explanations of the dissolution | of the combine offered by the Hayes and Pardee men are by no meaus identical, but the dissolution was never- theless an aceomplished fact. The de- livery of Ruef's San Francisco delega- tlon to Gillett instead of to his friend Hayes is another fact equally suscept- ible of verification. The Oliver grand jury not only verified the delivery, but uncovered an explanatfon for it. Nefther the fact nor the explanation was of a character calculated to endear the machine to Hayes. If his feelings were not wounded, at least his ' sus- picions were aroused, and he refused to accept the republican renomination to congress until after Ruef had come might have gone on another bargain counter. Be that as it may, Hayes was re-elected and subsequently, when Ruef went to jail, there were no sounds of lamentation from San Jose. SHARPNESS OF VISION Hayes, so. his friends and agents say, is a fighter. He is also a good business man, and, applying successful pusiness principles to politics, believes in keep- ing his eye on the “gun.” e saw a place for Louis Montgomery as deputy collector at San Jose. He followed the vision by stalking Jolinny Lynch,,then collector of internal revenue at San Francisco. When Perkins rubbed his eves open Montgomery had the job and Hayes had landed his first return punch on the machine. The same sharpness of vision re- vealed to Hayes the pessibilities of the Lincoln-Roosevelt league when that reform movement was launched. He investigated and quietly snuggled up to the antimachine organization. | of the incident is that he may | endangered the lives of others. The municipal campaign in San Fran- cisco revealed other possibilities to | Continued on Page 3, c-h-nt\ that historic churche | Steals Live! Rattlesnake | Makes Away W:fh Surf Casew Being Carefully Guarded by Two Miners SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL LOS ANGELES, Dec. known sneakthief got the surprise of 19.—An un- | his life tonight and the serious part have | | Two mining men came in from the| a large| desert this afternoon, bearing suit case. They watched it so carefully ! 'that attention was attracted to it and to the men. The thief evidently fol- | lowed them, for when they entered a| | downtown saloon the suit case was| stolen almost from under their eyes. When they discovered the loss they | gave the alarm, not because of any-| thing valuable that had been stolen, | but because of the danger to the thief and to others. They reported to the| police that the sunit case contained not| gold dust) but a big, live rattlesnake, | which they had brought here in the hope of being able to sell it to some curio dealer, | The-thief and the snake have not been found. Dr. Hanna Appointed Coad_jutor NEW YORK, Dec.”%0.—According to a special dispatch from Rome to the New . York World, Rev. Dr. Edward J. Hanna, professor of dogmatic the-| ology Rochester, in St. Bernard’s seminary at | N. Y., has been appointed coadjutor archbishop of San Francisco, in succession to the late George Mant- gomery. I L R INDORSEMENT OF HUGHES DENIED BY NEW YORKERS | Republican County Committee De- clines to Boom Governor 'for | the Presidency NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—By an almost wnanimous vote the republican commit- | tee, of New York county tonight refused to adopt a resolution indorsing Gov- ernor Hughes for the republican presi- dential nomination. | When the resolution was introduced | a motion was made providing that the resolution go over for consideration at | the next meeting of the committee, in January. This motion was adopted with a shout that could be heard outside the committee room. ——— \ MAY BE BURIED IN ABBEY - LONDON, Dec. 19.—The Royal so- ciety, of which Lord Kelvin was' for- merly president, will petition the dean of Westminster Abbey for permission to bury the distinguished scientist in | present. | ! Dalzell Brown, late director and manager of the Califor- nia safe deposit and trust company, and Walter J. Bartnett, former counsel and director of the same insti- tution, with the embezzle- |ment of securities of the {Colton estate were voted upon and filed yesterday |afternoon by the grand T {jury. One indictment was SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL ‘brought against each official WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—Charles J. of thC mlned bank and bal] Bonaparte, attorney general, was ad- vised ‘today that' a boom had been Was set at $200,000 or $100,- started for him. for president. He | 000 Cash for each The ln‘ gasped, fell over a chair and called | for fresh air. The boom started indictments take the place of Chicago,” no one knows exactly how;| but its first effects were noticed ln‘the Complalnts now on fi]e the Chicago Tribune, when it wrought |against the accused finan- sad havoc for a while, according to | advices received here. Then it jumpwdiclersv and Assistant District to . Baltimore, and all of Bonaparte's | Attorney Cock will ask this neighbors. began to feel the poison. J s . s ana |morning to have the criginal Then it ‘reached Washington | complaints dismissed. Bonaparte fell over the chair. The filing of these indictments Later advices, which were demand- ed by Bonaparte, revealed that the is the culmination of the first in- undertaken by the Bonaparte Collapses at News of Boom "Me for Pres:deni"’ He Gasps| and Falls Over Chair, buf Re- vives fo Ask for Details boom was started by certain physi- cians, who believe in the imprison 1 | vestigation ment ' and sterilization of habitual | % < criminals. They had been attractea Wewly impaneled grand jury, and by Bonaparte's declaration that all| prefaces a more searching inquiry criminals should be hanged. This ap- 3 into the affairs of the defunct | California saie depeosit and trust | company, which is expected to ing of true bil paign was to be started for Bona.A_lead_ to the findm_b _L e bills parte for president on a platform de- |against other officials of the shat- manding the elimination of criminals|tered concern. The indictments e ampU e t Brown and Bartnett ac- Bobapacis’. i béaring up’ well- and | AGADS will recover unless a reaction sets in. | cuse them of crime only in con- Impertinent Question No. 30" Why Is the Fleet Coming? For the most ongmal or wittiest answer to this ques- 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 winning answers will be printed next Wednesday and checks mailed to the winners at once Make your answer short and address it to IMPERTINENT QUESTIONS, THE CALL Winuing Answers to “What Is a Financler?” $5 prize to J. McCarthy, 534 Harrison siveet, cify. Twelve thousand five hundred depositors have just found out. $1 prize to Lieutenant John P. Adams, Fort MeDowell A man who drinks champagne and leaves the dark brown taste of the morning after for his friends. $1 prize to E. W. Crocker, Eighth and Clara streets, San Jose. Hands up! $1prize to Mes. B. J. Ardold, 39 West Cantonment, Presidio. A hog on his way to the pen. §1 prize to Mrs. G. Bowman, 519 Seventcenth street, Oakland. A wholesale dealer in lemons. §1 prize to P. Boyd, 2434 Bancroft way, Berkeley. Lucky if he isn’t caught. pealed to them, but they thought per- haps it was too progressive for the According to the story, a quiet cam-