The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 27, 1907, Page 1

is rebuilding. Pages o I3 hcxt new buildi “Cheer Up”/Number of ographs tell the h{'fl story of hr)\v ‘ The Sunday Call f clear plc» appear in HALE MILLION OF 7Y CASH GONE, VOLUME / CI1I UHARGES LEAGUE od Government Body to Investigate Looting by Works Board OFFICIAL IS DODGING| Aigeltinger Puts Blame on President Duffey of the Board WHO TOOK PENNIES?|, ieri Hurries to Pay ,000 Into Treasury as His Holding ncov ndering of the city treasury by board of public e Gallagher finance com- oard of supervisors, and ncial operations of the cation are being investi- works, g held yesterday afternoon to expert thoroughly eports of those two of atter cul- be- work done repancy Gec e board rs of the thiev Ruef them ont of R o pervisors which into office to aid loose fic T don’t think with about have gpt knew not was chiefly ce work on of < affey, the as 24 mat- comtractor, and n, have re- derick, a board Broderick mercial dis- Pacific, contiguous e com vashington, tery and They found th: had been given ad to pay $35,000. ile t wt the city more than th Duftey Gallaghe by te report on the work| cost to the clty -experts , be employed by the league ang| ive investigation made. It is $700,000 or $800,000 was| work that under honest offi- be $150,000 t & THE PENNIES? Eugene B. Schmitz, while ting as mayor and boodler of grabbed the pennies, nickels es sent to the San Franeclsco partment by school’ children duplicated for s 000 P WHO STO! sughout the United States tbr the . itation of the burned school- ses is the suspicion of the Good e Jeague and a thorough States is to be e r ation to secure ec ng of all the money con- ol that pose. e committee on school funds has ble to locate only 000 of the n that was held Superintendent ri of Schools He has been able to the money that has and when he found out was being investigated for ail ! n bank and $15,600 from fornia to turn it over ry That was on De- ri explained his rdjanship of the coin special fund of tie general fund of that it was a part When the plan of appealing to school n in all corners of America to the aid of the San Francisco ool children and give to a fund to] rebuild thse schoolhouses it was esti- ed that $1,000,000 would be forth- ning. Instead only $28,000 has been ounted 1 = nitz as mayor, =ort of repute. e to was sent directly ney g some To get At Contiaued on Page 6, Bottom Col, 1 d Government league.| ™ rge F.| exam- | supervisors. | in{ thdrew $13,000 from the | 1t 1s believed that much | to| who was then en-| THE dome of the Claus Spreckels building is a wonderful panorama. Pictures showing the several views appear next Sunday in The Sunday Call INDEX OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALE’S NEWS TODAY KEARNY 88 TELEPHONE FRIDAY, DEA‘!-:MB CR 27, 1907 WEATHER CONDITIONS YESTERDAY —Southwest wind; rain; maxi- showéts; minimum, 48. FOR TODAY- hwest winds. -Cloudy; probably | ght son Page 10| { EDITORIAL | *Twas an 0ld fashioned Christmas. Page 6| @Proposed taxation of billboards. Page 6| Wa mong the bureaus Page 6| A militant Hoosler novelist, Prage 6| BANK FAILURE + sues to get title to J. Dalzell ¥ estate, on which banker owes 3 Page 2 may indict other bankers and.off- | funct safe deposit company. Page 2 | Brown loses hope of release oo | while attorneys of Bartmett are active, | h little. Page 3 | taling has been chosen to mead | to refinance wrecked institution and bave accepted. Page z, CI TY Good government league to investigate cits's | see where $500,000 looted on books to mprove. L Page 1 of illegal rate making by the Well ess company will be heard by Inte joner Franklin K. Lane s district court to- | Page 14 w of British ship Dybomene believes tlat hurricane which dismantled vessel off Cape Horn was inspired by the batred of & black cat which | was refused refuge when It returned after death | in m of a black cape ben. Page 14 Potn’ e MoV 10 Mpie Ln Jash 8 1« the lighting, power and companies to remove overhe: Page 7 Judge Mogan's court over two checks nance pt compel reveals story of how Law brothers were koed” by ® stranger. Page 5| E. R a watchman, spends McAllister, hos " filled with charcoal fumes snd Page 14 congress, meeting for 5 opposes parcels post bill und & attack on rafiroads. Page 14 dents of Rels tract in Visitactou valley entened with having water supply cut off sn sgreement. Page 5 calls upon Mayor Taylor and estigate the office of Tux Col- Page 2 Miss Mary Dempsey, grand treasurer of Na- tive Davgbters. dying at Sutter creek. Page 3 Abe Ruef is to be removed from his private prison a cell at the county jall on the day svelers’ elect Dolan assumes office. Page 5 ay” McNaugh policeman, to be lec- tured for permitting early morning music on tbe beach, Page 5 Bishop Willlam Ford Nichols confirms the announcement of tbe emgagement and coming marriage of his son, Rev. Jobn Nichols, to Miss Julie Woodward at Shanghai, China. ~ Page 14 SUBURBAN Professor’s daughter routs two burglars whom ehe @nds trying o force entrauce doto kitchen of | Bome in early morning. Page 1 | Woman is found unconscious and dying from | stervation, a stroke of parsiysis baving kept her | from obtaining food. Page 13 { ““Tiger Mahatma,” thrown into jail for assault with revolver. tries to conceal his identity as seeker after Nirvana. Page 4 | Wedding ot rich Robert Grieg of Berkeley to | bis house keeper, Mrs. Eaith Ormand Hazen, s announced, Page 4 | District Attorney Brown declares statement hy Olive Scully’'s counsel is falsehood and Is threat- med with punishment for contempt of | court Page 4 | “Captain” Towne, the waiter who pawned *he is held to Page 4 | Conference committee of Berkeley improvement | clubs to consider plans to check grafting in Ala- | meda county. Page 4 | Nitroglycerin which he made In the university | 1aboratories Blows off the hand of student wiio upon lighted match to demonstrate its | sewelry of Mrs. Park of Alameda, |stue superior court. 2 ties. Page 4 COAST San Jose citizen mistakes his 6 year old chifd for @ burglar and eends 2 bullet through tbe ttle one’s heart. Page 1 Peter Monaben, discoverer of gold on Valles creek. says tbat a fabulously rich camp has Leen Incated Page 3 | Miners’ bead says every weapon will be used | br union to restst’ dissolution injunction if one {15 tssued. Page 3 | EASTERN | Florencio Constantino challenges Caruso for singing contest to decide who is the betier tenor, Page 1 Secret service man ri¥ interrupts romanee of president’s son, Quent Page 1 How William F. Waslker, the defaulting Con- pecticot banker, was fleeced of $295,000 is nar- | rated by New York detective. Page 1 | Judge Anderson scores lax methods of bank | examiners during the trial of Jobm R. Walsh, Page 9 Dogen murders and many more traglc | deaths mark the Christmas celebration In New York. Page 13 Chief Chemist Wfle’ soon will perfect process to cure fruit without sulpbur he tells Repre- sentative Needham. Page 2 Both sides In vaval controversy quote statutes in justification of their clatms. Page 3 Body of murdered woman found near Har- rison, N. J, ®@nd two yachtsmen ar- rested. - Page 3 FOREIGN Mutinous crew of steamship Lonsdale placed in irons by officers. Page 1 Canads helieved to have been tricked in the Japanese immigration treaty. Page 3 SPORTS Deutschland surprises Emeryville crowd by | winning seven furloag sprint. Page 9 ‘ Jockey Walter Miller rides 21 losers in cession and his followers have returned work. % Page 9 Automobile dealers will take steps to pre- vent overcharging for repairs by out of town garages. Page 8 Acrobat lowers the coast mile record to 1:37 3-5 at Santa Anita, Page 3 Scspension of Ralph Rose from amateur stand- ing nfay be followed by that of other noted ath- | letes, Page 8 Open air dog $how at Del Monte attracis en- tries from many prominent keomels. Page 8 Battling Nelson and Kid Sealer agree upon | terms for a 20 round fight. Page 8 | LABOR | T. E. Zant 1s forcibly ejected from building) trades council. Page 7 P. H. McCarthy calls off the strike on the Mills bullding. Page 7 Building trades council discusses dispute be- tween tile setters and brick layers. Page 7 | MARINE German ship R. C. Rickmers, the largest sail- ing vessel afioat, brings emormous casgo of ceal {and has on board 15 cadets, who sre etudying | the world's commereial problems under guldance 10( six learned professors. Page 10 | MINING to Fi / Flurey in Comstocks is exchange feature, other stocks showing little aetivity, Page 13 SOCIAL i Mr. and Mrs. John Martin to he hosts this WALKER VICTIM OF WALL STREET “STEERERS” Downfall of Connecticut Banker Narrated by Detective Enters Into Scheme to Beat Poolrcoms and Loses Great Sums CLEVERLY SWINDLED Finally Left With $20,000! in Pockets in Cuban Gambling House SPECIAY, DISPATCH TO THE CALL NEW YORK, Dcc4 26.—A local newspaper will present tomorrow the first authentic story of the downfall of William F. Walker, the defaulting treasurer of the New Britain, Conn., savings bank, who is under arrest at Ensenada, Mexico, where he is fight- ing extradition. A was in the New York detective bureau under Police Commissioner McAdoo and worked on the case. According to Rose, Walker had already lost more than $200,000 in speculation in Wall street, when he met “Big” Al Whitney, last February in Lathem & Co.’s office at 43 Wall street. one of the most noted steerers in the business and has turned many a shady deal. office of Latham & Co. and was one of the Best customers of the firm. Whit- ney got the tip that Walker was a “good thing,” and the result proved that the tip was “straight.” Walker fell an easy dupe to Whitner, who en- tertained the banker at dlaners, open- ing wine with a lavish hand. ; When the time was right Whitney told Walker in detall how easy would be to beat the poolrooms with the ald of his brother In law, who he sald was Dave Mitchell. He would get the results of a race six minutes ahead of the poolrooms. was to find a place where they could | place bets large enough to make It worth while to take the risk. Walker “fell” for the bait. In the added to his acqualntance *Chicago Dutch,” who posed as Mitchell; Charley Gondorf, Fred Gondorf, Bob Nelson, Mike D. Farell and Johnny Atkinson, by Whitney. Through the medium of several fake poolrooms Walker was then separated from large sums of New Britain savings bank money. His con- like, and it was only when he had lost $125,000 on one race that he awoke. all Walker lost $295,000 to the gang. The gang, after fleecing Walker, took him to Cuba and with $20,000 in his pockets he was left in a little gambling, house about two miles from Havana. PrisonersinChainGang (io on Strike SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE OALL LOS ANGELES, Dec. Z6.—About 100 prisoners in the city chain gang went on a strike today and refused to work when taken out. They obstinately’re- fused to pick up thelr spades and shov- els to resume the grading work on which they were employed. Ten of them were rapidly hustled away and locked up in the dark cell, each with a ball and chain, and put on a dlet of bread and water. The remainder con- ed they would better go to work did so. They did not lke the treatment that they had been receiving from the police. Many Kméd in Riots Following a Strike SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL VALPARATSO, Dec. 26.—According to an officlal statement, the recent en- counters at Iquique between nitrate strikers and police resulted in the kill- ing of 210 men &nd the wounding of about 5). The president and vice pres- ident of the strike organization, who are Spanish anarchists, have disap- peared: : BRING bm- JACOBS CREEX, s Rapid progress Is being made fn the removal of bodies from the All entrles except No. 27 have been cleared and a total of 124 bodles brought from the mine. bodies have been !oa_hl pectea that they during ‘ = MEETS AL WHITNEY, William L. Rose, who tel]s the story, | Whitney | Walker was a frequent visitor at the| it All they had to do' course of a few days the banker had| fidence in the crooks was almost child- | In| Dee.: 26.—| mm‘ S{JEIETY‘MMUEN ROUTS BURGLARG -~ ATTAGKING HOME 'Miss Anita Putzker Leans From Window to Scare Away Robbers TELEPHONES POLICE | . | Friends Congratulate Young Woman on Unusual Fortitude IRESIDENTS ANXIOUS } Patrplmap Allays Feafs of Women by Praise of Girl's Bravery | | | { BERKELEY, Dec. 26.—When Miss | rAmta Putzker was awakened at :2 o’clock this morning by two noily‘ iburglars. who were trying to pry open | | the kitchen door of her father's home | with a jimmy, she did not scream, but. |leaning out of her bedroom window | just over the kitchen, she gazed down| house breakers, and said: quickly I'll drop a pair of hot curling tongs on your neck.” The last words of the sentence were lost on the robbers, who dropped their | house breaking apparatus and fled into | the darkness. the temerity of the men, and donning a dressing gown wen members of the household, but merely called the police station to tell the desk | man that robbers had tried to enter [the home of Professar Albin Putzker, | head of the German department of the university, and that the men had been scared away. Then Miss Putzker re- ned to bediand, sicpt” “Her courage and coolness in such cireumstances have made the young and | popular soctety woman the recipient of congratulations from her friends. Miss | Putzker told them that her only regret | was that she had not tvelephoned\lor the | police before alarming the house break- | ers. After the policemen received her | warning a squad of patrolmen was sent |to search the neighborhood, but no |trace of the fugitives was found. Miss | Putzker's neighbors were more alarmed when they heard of the attempt at | robbery than when she found the rob- bers at work. Some of the more timor- ous of the nearby residents sounded the .| patrolman on' the beat s to the possi- These men were introduced to Walker | | bility of getting a special policeman | stationed in the block. The blue coated guardian laughed at their fears. “Don’'t you know.” he said, “that | burgiars are 11ke Ughtning and seldom | strike twice in the same place. Be- sides, you have Miss Putzker in the | nelghborhood. Do you know, I'd rather have a girl Hke that in the holise than half a dozen bulldogs.” Newspaper Owner Is Whipped in- Street Ex-Senator Paiferson Is Atfacked by Rival, Who Follows Words by Blows SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL DENVER, Dec. 26.—Years of enmity that have caused a bitter newspaper war culminated this morning in a personal encounter between F. G. Bonfils, proprietoriof the Denver Post, and ex-Senator Thomas M. Patterson, the aged proprietor “of -the Rocky Mountain News and the Denter Times. Bonfils, who is one o1 the rich men of Denver and Kansas City, met ex- ‘Senator Patterson on the street, and after a few words knocked him down. ‘When; Patterson regained his feet ho was given a severe beating with a cowhide whip, He was taken to his his injuries, on mooum of his adv-nced age, were serlous. " Bonfils, aged 45, was unhurt. Pat- terson is ranked as a millionaire. He retired from the senate a year ago. The immediate cause of the attack was the publicatlion In Senator Patterson's newspaper this morning of charges that undue pressure has been brought upon butneumom?ot flepver. Unmwn Ship on Fire upon the broad backs of the would be| “Say, if you don’t get out of there! Miss Putzker laughed at | down stairs to tel- | | ephone to the police | She did not think it worth while to- |awaken her father or to alarm other | | | | | | home, where physicians reported Jthat | Miss Anita Putzker, who watched two burglars at work on the door of her father’s house and scared them away. thm ‘Roosevelt- Is Taken From Love Secret Service Man Rudely Interrupts Romance of the President’s Liftle Son SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL WASHINGTON, Dec.;26.—"“The mances of the an addition. Quentin, the youngest son | of the president, has fallen in love and | persists in staying there, despite paren- ro- Challenges Caruso ior a Singing Contest Fiorencio Consiantino Is Willing | to Wager $10,000 That He Is the Better Tenor BOSTON, yhite House™ serles has | stantino has issued a challenge to Ca- ‘ru:o for a singing contest, ‘to back SPECTAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL Dec. 26.—Florencio h imsel' tal disapproval and secret service in-‘““l win the contest. terference. The parental disapproval is| entirely theoretical. not belleved. so material as to be gross. It was not lTong ago that Quentin failed to return from the public school which he at- tends within a reasonable limit of time. A secret service man found him sitting little Miss Colvin, the daughter of Clin- | ton R. Colvin, a malil gcarrier. Quentin surrendered without resist- ance and accompained the officer with- out requisition papers. It is also said that he told the officer all about it though he was warned that what he said might be used agalnst him. What happened afterward i{s not known, but whatever it was it did not change any of Quentin’s plans. Yesterday the ‘White House carriage stopped before the residence of littls Miss Colvin and a liveried White House servant took to the door a Christmas greeting. When Quentin went away to Pine Kmmtod.y he had the answer in hil instde pocket. Mutinous Crew Placed in Irons by Officers ' SPECIAL DISPATOH TO THE OALL MEXICO CITY, Dec. 26.—Detalls of a thrilling adventure, In Which a hand- ful of determined officers and a promi- nent member of the British colony here held In subfection and placed fn chains all the sallors ox the steamship Lons- | dale, who had mutinled on the high seas, has just reached here. When the ship arrived at the port of Sallna Cruz it was manned only by {ts officers, the crew being in irons. ‘Che captain, his under officers, a passenger, A. W.| Donely, all heavily arned, mounted the | bridge and, covering the discontented men, forced them into subjection. HARRISON LO‘I‘O DEAD BOSTON, Dec. 26.—Harrison Loring, wl\o ted one of the first plants in ted States for the building of ~was presi- sportation com- 8 years. “Let him pick any npera. I care not It is not known [which,” said Constantine. that the president disapproves and by both sing the tenor role befora a com- many who know Roosevelt well it is mittee of competent judges. the nights. {eiston is to decide the contest. But the secret service interferénce is can sing on succeeding nights, mailed him a challenge.” The one adjudged the best singer is on the front steps of the house of the|to have the title of the greatest tenor in the world, and receive the side bet of $10,000. RALEIGH, N. C, Dec. 26-By & ma- | Jority of 545 Raleigh today voted out its iiquor dispensary and will become a prohibition city, cloge -at noon sharp tomorrow. the city there were 928 votes for pro- hibition, 381 for dispensary and 2 votes Afgiomsgs. U RALEIGH GOES DRY for saloons. &= s Con- and offers for $10,000 that he “We will Thelr de- We it mo agreed, casting lots for the cholce of To show how sure ¥ am| that I am Caruso's superior I have the dispensary to In PRICE FIVE CENTS SHOOTS BABY % WALKING Ik JLEEP [Man Mistakes His Own Child for Burglar Infam"s Heart Pterced by a Revolver Bullet Dead Wh_en Lights Are Turped On in Bedroom Frightened Mother Is Wiiness of the Tragedy SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL SAN JOSE, Dec. 26— Leveling a revolver at the | white form apparently steal- |ing toward the bed in which |he and hi$ frightened wife lay {at an early hour this morn- , R. O. Summers, a prom- inent contractor of this city {shot and instantly killed his {bright 5 year old son, Robert {Hyde Summers. The tragedy wouurrcd in bedroom of the mmers residence at 1019 Sper- man street. #The boy, who slept m an adjoining room, evidently | was walking in his sleep in search of the tqvs which Santa Claus |had brought him, when his fath- ler seeing him in the dim light, and believing him to be a bur- a glar, fired the fatal shot. The little fellow had been sleeping in the room with his parents, but |last night he wanted to sleep in another bedroom which connect- ed with that his pagents, with a bathroom between. In the dim starlight which filtered through the window Mr. and Mrs. Sum- mers saw what they believed was a the floor. They for some seconds, whispering as the indist'net form upon the floor changed its position. Suddenly | husband and wife heard the footsteps |of the supposed burglar approaching | the bed, and fearing for his wife, who suffers from a weak heart, Summers drew a revolver from under his pillow and fired. Lights were hurriedly procured and the parents were horrified to find the | white gowned body of \their little son lying om the floc Wihd with grief, the father clasped the tiny form to his | breast, striving to revire some spark of life, but to no avajl 'Fhe bullet had plerced the child’s heart. It had en- tered the left side a few inches below the arm pit, passing entirely through the body. The heart broken parents notified Coroner Kell, who held an inquest at the house at 10:30 o'clock this marn- of ! man kneeling upen watched intentl; lmpertment Question No. 31 What Are You Going fo Swear Off—and Why? For the most original or wittiest answer to this ques- tion—and the briefer the ‘FIVE DOLLARS. {:bctter——ne Call will pay or the next five answers The Call will pay ONE DOLLAR each. Prize winning answers will be printed next Wednesday and checks mailed to your answer short and address it to the winners at once Make IMPE.RTINE.NT QUESTIONS, THE CALL Winning Angwers to “Why Is the Fleet Coming?” ~ 8 prise o George N. Lowe, 2004 Shattuck avenue, Berkeles. For very honorable reasons. Thank vou. Yes. ' Banzai! umu&’l‘.lmlfll)(imnwut. elty. Lest some forget. $1 prize to D. W. Park, Haltmoon bay! To play in Uncle Sam’s front yard. $1 prize to Harry Cowell, 2517 Castro street, city. 2 Mayhap The Jap! uuumnmnmms-u-m.em. T bring husbands for our debutantes. ~#1 prize to J. €. Barris, 5303 Telegraph avente, Oakland. Tedsixa way of sqnannx himself with us on the Jap.nae question. -