The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 22, 1908, Page 1

you suppose play the races? 1d you could guess How many San Francisco women do i More than | One of them tells just ‘ why they do it and how they do it in [ 1l | THE SUNDAY CALL Al party of scientists has discovered that Mt. Pelee’s steam vents lead directly down to the earth’s internal fires. 3stonishing story will be found in THE SUNDAY CALL The VOLUME CIV.- SAN FR NCISCO, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1908. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MASKED BANDITS HOLD UP STAGE: SECURE$28,000 Thugs With Revolvers Force | Agent and Driver to Deliver Treasure txpress Box Contained Monthly Payroll for Big Ranch and Railroad Posses Take Trail and Robbers Are Traced Into | Nevada SPE A S ) THE CALL RENO, Nev., July 21.—The stage g between Likely and Alturas, held up by two masked men Monday night and re- express strong box con- for the monthly pay for the crews of the Nevada, Cali- Oregon y company on new branch started to Alturas two weeks ago. It also con- for monthly pay rolls stock ranches in Mo- $28 its about red mone; MARYSVILLE IS SWEPT | BY A $50,000 BLAZE Fire Wipes Out Entire Block and Fourteen Families Are Made Homeless July 21.—Fire t BOYS DECLARE THEY ES Iven Wutila Steals Jewelry andi Is Arrested by Local Police man J. J 1 Mission Harper at streets 1 s city. before Judge r_theft, said ier re- | schoc tted burg- lary, he sa in hope of being sent there to join the chum. Clarence Pren- tiss, the boy who escaped from the jail with Wutila, is at Hayw. and an of- ficer went there to get I ast night. SCION OF FAMOUS FAMILY IS ARRESTED APED FROM JAIL| WEATHER CONDITIONS YESTERDAY —Clear; EDITORIAL n- W.B.BANCROFT'S SECRET DIVORCE SUES SOTHERN BECOMESKNOWN {Clubman Who Charged WiieiPaper;s Are Filed Under Seal in | With Desertion Gets Final Nevada Court to Dissolve Marriage [ Decree :Incompatibility of Temper Be-|Actor Wants Stage Woman's | lieved to Be Real Reason Name Eliminated From His | for Separation Wife’s Complaint {Contest Will Cause Husband to Mention Name of New York Millionaire \Trouble Arose When Former Society Woman Developed Talent for Writing OTERS, have you reg- T istered since the first of the year? If you have not, register at once. Registration closes on July 22. Aiter July 22 it will be out of your power to quali= fy for the primary election of next month. The regis= trar’s office in the city hall is open nights. Secure the SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL RENO, Nev., July 21.—Mrs. Vir- Secret divorce proceedings insti-| | tuted more than a year ago by Wil-| | liam B. Bancroft, a wealthy real estate | | broker and clubman of San Francisco | |and Oakland, against his wife, Gene- | | vieve yesterday when it was learned that 1 An otherwise quiet social set in Reno Sothern, the actor, is plaintiff in a Nevada divorce suit. | granted to Bancroft by Judge Waste | ment, for thus far no one has been VIRGINA HARNED | FORSEPARATION ginia H. Sothern, wife of Edward H. | The papers un- ! C. Bancroft, became public!der seal were filed in this city today. ! ;a final decree of* divorce will be Was rather surprised at the announce- SAN FRANCISCO CALL'S right fo a voice in your H party afiairs by register- | of Alameda county August 30. % Though desertion is given as the | ing today. | % 5 ; > | |cause the general impression among Bancroft's friends is that the marital originated in incompatibili of temper. According to Bancroft his accompanied by the children and most of the furniture, left him without a moment's notice during April, 1904, hile they were living in London. he trouble, it is sald, arose when s. Bancroft developed a talent as a wright and dramatist. On coming —== | into an | family cares, declaring that it was h = | intention to be free and independent ir {the future, and though, according to FBancroft, he has made various efforts troubles INDEX OF THE wife, NEWS TODAY KEARNY S6 1908 WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, west wind; maxim PORECAST FOR TODAY—F fireside, she has refused to do so. is now in London. Despairing of restoring his home life Bancroft came back to the United and since 1906 has lived in Oak- here he has been known as a prominent member of the Athenian club tand businessman. He is connected with e fog She with s west the char. Page 6 {“;f"; o 2d O R :,::::‘ the firm of Breed & Baneroft. ANGEE . | The Bancrofts were marrted July 25, GRAFT 1 and bave seven children. Follow- wlor and seeks | IN their marriage they lived in San | Francisco. Mrs. Ban ft was well cross examine Baby John herself. ransterred to different depart Page 14| known in society. She was the daugh- ter of J. B. Cox, a wealthy railroad con- { tractor, who obtained a great deal of tion | notorfety by shooting Millionaire rles McLaughlin. his is the end of the curse of the id Bancroft in talking friends about the Impending de- ¢ lgague may bave to pe Page 2 McLaughlin families over it. Cox had a large claim a Laughlin which the latter and, angered at thfuking he w defrauded out of h j anes makes full c plot; s brother placed beir at Abe Ruef paid for the crime; | - The 1 of Cox was a long one. While it in the courts his eldest daughter roke down under the strain and died, duveris was Ruef's agent and that the Heney, Langdon, Burns, Older aud s was planned Page 1 award contracts to firms to | Page 13 e 3 |grave. When Cox was acquittea Me- T e o " Laughlin's widow paid the claim, but Pages| Cox did not live long to enjoy his addressing bustherSees | Wealth, and the money passed to his immediate steps to|LWO remaining daughters. The curse S omilnsgnar P g seemed to have followed the inhertt- e ey for Fort Mawm s [20C€, for, according to Bancrott, it came preieffingd between him and his wife and ulti- St cotiton of sute. | Mately resulted in their separation and ivorce. Banerott, wor e 1|7 0f the seven children three are min- foal decree ts| OTS-and are with the mother. One of : Page 1| the b rl, won some fame as an % horses overturn engine, but oo | entertainer. Following the separation = : < | Bancroft wrote to Charles E. Ban- dit? g ”"P‘-“ '“5 croft, her brother in law, stating that %€ 5| che had left her home on account of the SUBURBAN ! incompatibility of temper existing be- Mrs. Issbella J. Mertin tells court she will | tween herself and her husband and that Page 4 | she hoped the separation would be final. Auto dealer, son of wealthy Byron man, Is | beld on charge of grand larceny. Page 4| Hurled 40 feet when struck by train wor | PROHIBITION INJURES es Louis M. Lee Charged With Burglary and Committed to Insanity Ward Louis M. Lee, a young map who is|juage Landis in fning Standard oil aid to be a scion of the famous Lee |§25,240,000. family of Virginia, was committed to e detention home by Judge Cook yes- terday for examination by the insanity commissiop. He was charged with at- tempted burglary and had been found wandering around a house with a lighted candle in his hand. = Dr. Stone, resident physician at the Napa insane im, informed Judge Cook that Lee formerly been an tution and that he is at the present e insane. sccording to Attorney Albert Whe- an, who has conducted some _corre- spondence with Lee's relatives, he 1s a second cousin of General Fitzhugh Lee, —_———— DEAD MAN NOT ADMIRAL BERLIN, July 21.—The announcement m esterday from Bad Nauheim, ;ermany, that Vice Admiral Rojestven- sky, who commanded the ill fated Rus- sian fleet that was annihilated by the panese in- the battle of the sea of Japan, in May, 1905, had died there July 19 from heart trouble is incorrect. A Russian named Rojestvensky did die at Bad Nauheim, but he was not the edmiral. inmate of that | | FOREIGN will spend summer at Sausalito. Movements of Callfornians in Furope. LABOR Janitors’ union decides to fine all members who patronize Jananese lanndries vale experience a deal of trouble ried. |coAsT Santa Barba divoree in Reno, booty of $28,000. fam | trolley cars mear Aurora, TIL church, died at bis country home near New York last might. | of naval experts at Newport today with an ad- dress e of Wales on arrival today, | SPORTS }nmgu in 119 bours 22 minutes. to play in north. from Seals after 12 innings. signs from Aeolian yacht ctub. by stewards st The Meadows. MARINE with searchlight display in midocean. SOCIAL w ge 4| Medo of Fruit- | getting myy- hey elope to San Rafael, where a justice es with only shaking up. Gertrnde Axx and A. F. E EXPORT SHIPMENT San Joaquin Growers Meet to is foally secured to unmite fhem in mar- Devise Plans to Oppose riage. Paged | Legislation Alsmeda supervisors balk at machine primarv | o . 3 % on scheme for separate senatorial con STOCKTON, July 21.—San Joaquin dain g Page 4| county wine growers are to be repre- sented at a meeting which is to be held in San Francisco tomorrow to devise liner Anubis strikes in dense fog near e ok plans to oppose the prohlbition move- nd will be total loss. Page1l| Virginia Harned sues Edward H. Sothern for | Ner. Page 1| contaiging a small amount of alcohol. bandits hold up secure | Shipments of wine from this state have 3 Page 1| fallen off more than 5,000,000 gallons Marysville is swept by a $50,000 fire and 14| this year. les are rendered homeless, Page 1| - The design of the meeting is to form Atlantic battleship flieet will sail from Hono-| @n association to spread the doctrine Masked stage and s [ that the drinking of light wines and lulu todas Page 3| 1 er, as substitutes for stronger bev. EASTERN erages, makes more for temperance | than total prohibition, and they will resist all legislation against the lighter beverages. About 50,000,000 gallons of wine were produced in this state last year, but of this amount a fourth only has been distributed. The rest is still in the hands of the growers, who have | been unable to market it. Ordinarily notable | ¢ this time of the year seven-eighths Page 3 | of the preceding year's ¢rop is market- sustaining | ed. About $15,000,000 that would, under company | ordinary circumstances, have been re- Page 1| turned to the vineyardists of this state, is represented by the wine they have and cannot sell at advantageous prices. 4 According to Colonel Theodore Gier of Oakland this shrinkage in the shipment of wine is caused for the most part by | prohibition agitation. —_— BELIEVES SON INSANE ity John A. Van Rensselaer Will Be Placed Under Observation NEW YORK, July 21.—After spend- ing a night in the Tombs, John A. Van Rensselaer, son of Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, was taken before Magls- trate Corrigan on the charge of threat- ening to do his mother bodily harm un- less she gave him $5,000. A. Russell Peabody, who represented Van Rensse- laer at the hearing, safd he did not be- lleve there would be a question of bail, but one of medical observation. Van Rensselaer was committed to the psych- opathic ward at Bellevue hospital for observation. Forty persons injured in headon collision of Page 3 Henry Codman Potter, bishop of the Episcopal | E Page 3| President Roosevelt will open the convention | | that promises to be a Migher court to render decision N Royal welcome planned In Quebec for prince Page 3 A 1,000 mile relay run Snlshed at Page 8 Portland cricket assoclation Invites Callfornians Page 7 Los Angeles takes the first game of the series Page 7 President Louls Ward, charging unfairness, re- Y. M. .C. Page 8 1. F. Donshue’s bad race may be investigated Page § Atlantic Seet entertains Alameda's passengers Page 9 Mrs. Harold“Cloke and Mrs. George Gardnmer Page 6 Page s state of $5,000 she forsook the 5 to get her to return to his home and The Cox money, according to him, had been responsible for the | orney for grafters, ew-|blight in his life and carried with it | iine to defend Tim Sul- | the curse which fell on the Cox and and Cox's wife soon followed her to the | ment, so far as it applies to beveragesy| found who will admit having met Mrs. | Sothern during the six months she | alleges she has lived in this city. | <Every effort has been made\tol |locate the fair plaintiff, but without, success until learned Reno yesterday. She seen by { John Sunderland of the democratic n | tional committee. A woman answe: ing her description registered at the Hote 3 this evening. It is now was S Singer. e arrived with a party gistered as I. H. Jackson and Mrs. Collins Thursday night. They had s trunks for three days’ stay and | were undoubtedly theatrical people. The party left on train 23 tonight, evi- dently bound for San Francisco. There are a number of persons in this state who oppose quick divorces and they declare that the publicity which will now result from the Sothern case | will cause the enactment of more stringent divorce laws at the coming session of the legisiature. SOTHERN IS WILLING Sothern is here. “1Ie came a Week or two ago, it was reported he was to purchase con- | trol of the Rawhide Queen, one of the big properties of the district. The fol- lowing day he left for Tahoe and re- mained there until last night, retaining his quarters at the hotel. He spent to- day in town and Cheney, Massey & Price, Mrs. Sothern’s attorneys, say the couple met this afternoon and discussed the best plans to carry the case to comple- tion. 1t is understood there will be no op- | position to the proceedings provided | Mrs. Sothern consents to strike out one of the charges in her complaint where- | {in the name of a woman now prominent | | on the stage is withdrawn. If this is | persjsted in it is said that Sothern will | file an answer in which the namé of a | well known New York millionaire will { be mentioned. John L. Ward of New York is entered | as attorney for the defendant. TROUBLE W KNOWN NEW YORK, July 21.—Since the death of Richard Mansfield, E. H. Soth- ern, who has been sued for divorce by | Virginia Harned, has been regarded as the foremost actor on the American stage. Under the Nevada laws incompatibil- ity of temper is a sufficient cause for absolute divorce. Miss Harned's suit is based on that, and Sothern accepted service of the papers in the suit about wo weeks ago. He then left the Hotel | | | | the last year whenever he was in New York. The day before he left the hotel he saw his manager, L. Shubert, and told him he was going to sail for Eu- rope the following day for a long rest. He said nothing about his domestic af- fairs. It is believed Sothern is now in Eu- rope and that he will not combat his wife’'s suit. His autumn engagements do not begin until October 26, when he will open in Pittsburg. Divorce proceedings by one or the other of the Sotherns have been expect- ed for a long time. The fact that Soth- ern and his wife were separated was well known. Sothern and Miss Harned were quietly married in Philadelphia in 1896. PLAYED WITH JULIA MARLOWE Sothern has appeared often in San Francisco and has always been well re- ceived. He played here a short time be- fore the fire in Shakespeare with Julia Marlowe. His Hamlet marked him as one of the leading actors of the coun- try. A few vears before he had pre- sented “If I Were King” and “The Proud Prince.” . Miss Harned has visited San Fran- cisco occasionally. Her last appear- ance here was in “Iris,” a melodrama which had but a short run. NOE VALLEY RESIDENTS FORM IMPROVEMENT CLUB Attorney Stephen Costello Elected Temporary Chairman, Appoints Committee A preliminary meeting was recently held by representative citizens of the western part of Noe valley~for the purpose of forming an improvement club for that locality. Attorney Stephen Costello presided as tempor- ary chairman. The meeting was ad- dressed by Charles E. Tallmadge, for many years president of the Federa- tion of Mission Improvement clubs, sug- gesting, during the course of his re- marks, a general outline that would lead to material results. Following the remarks Chairmgn Costello appointed & number of com- mttees, including press and publicity, 3 ization and bylaws. A public meeting of the ori zation was set for tomorrow night at Plant's hall, Twenty-fourth and Douglass s when the permanent club wi formed. - that Virginia Harned was in| Riverside under the name of Miss | registered at the Riverside | hotel and gave an interview regarding | { his mining interests at Rawhide, where | | Netherland, where he made his home for | Noted Actor and Actress | to Sever Matrifimromal Tie | R RUEFS HAND Edward H. Sothern. SHOWS BACK OFASSASSIN John Claudianes Makes Full Confession of Plot to Kill Gallagher Says Peter Placed Bomb and Told Him Abe’s Coin Paid Price of Crime Pauduveris, Agent of Graiter, Supplies Dynamiter With = Money B ) Greek Says Death of Spreckels, | Langdon, Heney and Burns i Was Planned L3 || - + No Doubt of Absolute| | Quilt of Abe Ruef By William J. Burns | ROM all the facts we have | in our possession so far we have a much stronger case than the published con- fession of John Claudianes would indicate. Furthermore, in Virginia Harned. i]pper Court to Uphold German Liner Wrecke& ' Standari 0il Fine Decision Will Insist That the Trust Pay Over the $29,240,000 SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL CHICAGO; July 21.—The $29.240,000 assessed ags Standard company of Indiana Judge K. M. Landis in the United States court nearly be affirmed at 10:20 o'clock fine the oit tomorrow morning by the federal court of ap-| peals. The original decision will be] affirmed in every particular, the fine| will stand and a new trial will be de- nied. This is the full of wild spectlation and excitement among theyattor the famous c: T court of appeals had cision and was ready as a great surprt thought that the until fall. reached as It had been se_would go over The court of appeals is made up of| Judges Peter 8. Grosscup, Francis E. Baker and Willlam H. is a hint tonight that dissent, but this will not affect the finding, the' other two are sald to have sustained Judge Landis'through- out. Early reports in the afternoon and the evening were to the effect that the fine” imposed by Judge Landis would be greatly reduced, in fact-cut down to the ordinary fine assessed against- corporations, somewhere in the thousands instead of millions. {From an authori which cannot be questioned, however, it is learned that the majority of the court sustains Judge Landls. Pending the actual deliverance of the decision tomorrow, attorneys on both sides ‘decline tonight to discuss the case in any of its phases. |EXPECTS CAR SHORTAGE IN NEXT FEW MONTHS Chairman of Interstate Com- merce Commission Predicts Traffic Congestion WASHINGTON, July 21.—"It is not at all improbable,” said Chairman Knapp of the interstate commerce commission today, “that there will be a great car shortage in 'this country within the next few months. All the railroadmen with whom I talk assure me that busi- ness is getting better. Fewer and few- er cars.and locomotives aré idle.” He explained that during the period of short revenues the roads allowed only the smallest possible mainte- nance and repair appropriations and properties in some degree’ deteriorated. When business increased it would have to be handled all at once with an equip- ment not up to standard. Other officials of the commission de- clared the country is getting ready to see such a congestion of traffic and an inability’ of the roads to handle it as has never before been known. The re- ports of the increasing car movement come from all sections. RECORD FRUIT SHIPMENT SENT FROM SACRAMENTO Sixty-one Cars Forwarded to * Eastern Points From Capital in Single Day SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL SACRAMENTO, July 21.—Today was a record breaker for the number of cars of fruit shipped from this city. Sixty-one cars in all were forwarded from here. The largest previous ship- ment for a single day was made in 1902, when 49 cars were shipped. Four steamers brought the fruit to this city from the down river districts this morning and the orchard products were transferred from the boats to the cars on the water front. A special train of Sacramento fruit ?.‘ of 49 ml left this city for the eastern markets. |Steamship Anubis Strikes in n('l'ierman steamship “Anubis, of the Kos- by | Hamburg, Germany, is ashore in the b a year ago will | Point | tha finalsoutcome’ ofunl Ay | s on both sides of| e fact .that the| a de-| o ratart came |taln Von Salzen, her commander, had | aman. There | e judge will | my opinion, ghere is no doubt of the absolute’ guilt of Abe Ruef and of others whose names we are not at present in a Position to divulge. I positively refuse to give out any details whatever concerning | the unpublished portion of the | confession. Both Mr. Langdon and myself are of the opinion that further publicity would erh- barrass the prosecution and it would be inimical to the inter- ests of justice to make any fur- ther statements. We regret that the confession could not have been withheld longer. Near San_tg Barbara Fog and Will Be Total Loss; Lifeboat Brings News SANTA BARBARA, July ~—~The mos line, bound from San Francisco to three mile channel between San Miguel and Santa Rosa islands, 30 miles oft Concepclon. Tugs have been summoned from San Pedro, Redondo and Port Harford to take off those on 1 - Involved by Confession, be possioid " vor i nmcemez| | Ruef Is Silent have struck a sand bar-lying half way 3 across the channel, and it is probable By Abe Ruef both steamship and eargo will I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY - < prove a total loss. | The Anubis struck shortly after mid- | night vesterday morning during a|% heavy fog and it is presumed that Cep- confession of John Clau- the burden of the e John Claudianes, under arrest been taken out of his course by the on the charge of having been im- current, which sets in strongly toward | .. A the channel between the two islands. | Plicated in the attempts to assas- News of the disaster reached the|g: has Point Concepcion lighthouse last night | SINAte James L. Gallagher, when a lifeboat carrying First Mate made a second confession concern- Johannes Dohren, Third Mate Kakl|, b - Loewe and seven of the crew landed |ing the dynamite outrages differ- after a pull of more than 14 hours in|. i . 3 a choppy sea. They wired Immediately | iNg radically from his first admis- to the nearest port for tugs, reporting | ¢; icti the Anubis as in danger of breaking|Sions and even contradicting them up within a few hours. lin ial 5 ety solant < DR, e | Lt o | Tt co'tres!)ondmg b;‘)ardxwheril the lifeboat departed. At| with the statements in his letter that time the captain had ordered that | . - . an attempt be made‘to’ lighten the ves- | tO his brother Peter on which his sel by putting overboard a portion of S her cargo, Which consisted. principalty | 2TT€St Was based. of grain and was valued at $110,000.] The second confession was The vessel was valued -at about the e 2 same amount. The Anubls, the mates| made last Friday night to Man- said, was leaking badly and h B g b remrataba b, v "'”;agmg Editor Fremont Older of The Anubis is of steel construction, | the Bulletin with the object of claim- serew propeller, of 4,763 gross tonnage, | 3,307 -mep.; She 15382 Yeet. lang;>46.3| 5 the Teward of §1.066 effered. by feet breadth and draws 26.2 feet of|that paper for information concerning water. * | the crimes, and was supplemented by : | a confession Monday night to District Captain A. F. Pillsbury, surveyor for | Attorney Langdon. In this second con- the marine underwritérs, left here yes- | fession the prisoner asserts that Peter terday for the scene of the wreck. Tugs ' and not himself was the actual perpe- will be held in readiness here and a, trator of the deeds. This tends to bear wrecking outfit got together to be dis- | out the charges contained in his letter patched-to the Santa Barbara channel to Peter, and the statement through- if_in Captain Pillsbury’s opinion there out Is far more logical than the orig« will be anytiing left to save. Collector | inal one. The new Continued on Page 3, Middle Columna 3| dlanes throws pertinent Question No. b1 s What’s the Most Useless Thing On Earth? For the most original or Wittiest answer to this briefer the better—The Call will pay FIVE DOLLARS. For the next five answers The Call will pay ONE DOL- l LAR EACH. Prize winning answers will be printed next ‘Wednesday and checks mailed to the winners at once. Make your answer short and SEND IT ON A POSTAL CARD to ! IMPERTINENT QUESTIONS, o F Prize Answers to “What Are You @pd Fort™ $3 prize to D. Jones, 1263 Eleventh avenue, clty. I don’t know yet; there are several things I haven't tried. $1 prize to James L. Williams, Alme, Oal. A drink—after I've had it. 5 $1 prize to Charles C. H. Baler, 413% Oak street, city. For nothing—my wife told me so last night. ! $1 prize to W. W. Keunedy, 857 Fifty-fourth street. Oakland, Cxl. For nothing—I don’t have to be paid to be lood.. $1 prize to Mrs. Willlam Adams, 632 Ninth avenue, city. For all the work in the house that the hired girl won't stand for. $1 prize to Mrs. J. Kilroy, 341 Twenty-fourth avenue, city. It doesn’t pay to be bad.