The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 3, 1910, Page 1

| ) 1 “When Wild: Tarkey Shooting Is a California Sport.” | i Read the Article in ’l | The Sunday Call Next Sunday VOLUME MT. TAMALPAIS HAS SNOWFALL 3 INCHES DEEP Low Temperaiure Causes Crys-| tal Covering to Remain on CVIL—NO. 34 INDEX OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL’S NEWS TODAY TELEPHONE KEARNM JANUARY 3, 1910 THER CONDITIONS ERDAY+Nortbeast wind; partly clondy. , FOR TODAY—Fair; killing frost; EDITORIAL Ridge and Slopes The comiog water bosd clection, Page® —_— Volume of business increasing. Page§ T - Mr, Taft's most difficult job. Page 6 Visitors Engage in Battle and| cucaas ioviting a tarter war. Page 6 Enjoy Unusual Experience |CITY Ned ¢ way to leave for Europe in gearch With Elements of latest society ideas. Page 1 Low rates for water made by Spriog Valley e where competition is feared. Page 5 11 ) - 2 0 a to be perf d fort e Killing - Frost - Prolidinl- This| v o e s ¥ anno ces be will take office Satar- McCart Morning With Fair but Still | > Colder Weather s nce appointees Fridsy. Pages ing and threats of prosecution Page 1 smuggle revelver and rasor s of W ker game. n new year delivered in many STORM PASSES OVER c £ city to large congregstions Page 3 - e ¢ oew “unsipkuble” target dissppolnts d rfecting Pavama-Pacific ex- —_— position on to be taken. rage 7 McAd has Visita valley dents celebrate christen nue 1 g and later fight f Page 7 a He Active campaign is waged agalmst plague a ening bfected ground squirrels; Page7 2 3 SUBURBAN 2 y Deputy coroner held up by two armed bandits 3 groes | ava robbed 1n Oakiand street. Page S 3 este Osklsnd spesds more than $1,000,000 on 3 The weather will be fair work during the year. Prage s but considerably colder, he Auxiliar t water fire protection system 2 = a a apce by Oakland. Page s $ There will be a killing M Tk W) e s o s frost in the mornings and | 2 School children to appear in bemefit play for the cold will be biting all | el Pages 1 day. The storm is still hover- | . S - aaitg S0 M ing over morthern Arizona r Jannary, Pages and Utah, but has passed by the Pacific const. »f 12 marooned on island in raging < Santa Ana river Page 2 pecial Dispaich to The Call) Transcontinental trains delayed by suowstorms P TAMALPAIS, J o | 1p Rockies. Page 2 oes of Jdiposaurus are nneartied in M Snos n es asep ers =iy s b se society women plan outings for poor 2 aay as afforded gr s rage 3 a large o . w on Mt. Tamalpais and ev. Sa sco ax ted for today. Pagel s Los Augeles to take - & feathery | pe Page 3 dicon £ stea i this is found desd in smail mountain ot of W . Page 3 a Pacific train begins direct run from : trees a few hun. | Setttle fo San Prancisco. Page 3 dre re covered with a sil- | EASTERN nd the view from here| agnes Booth, actress famous years ago, dies é . most beautiful ever seem |of heart disense Page 1 . this pol New marer announces his appoint So s ments 1 says good word for Temmany o ¢ Page'4 oSy = Southern Pacific decreases its capital stock 2 o | and wipes out preferred stock. Page 2 B TUW, o | Boston society woman to become professional r e gr | barefooted dnncer. Page 5 oday there is n Halr at eaten in United States not in wing on the summit pect federal or state suthorities. Page 2 Battle of Snowballs ge thst news print mills are in combine general Page 2 . g parties from Mill Valley ives fire of incendlary origin in 1 City Page S Island’s Goiden State limited irai acks, but few are nurt. Page 3 W. Morse taken to Atlanta prison to o year term. Page 2 4 presidents to visit Taft and discuss am nts to interstate commerce law. P.38 e Decrease shown in the imbound livestock & movement for last year. rage s Congress will bave busy session fiom| now on. Page 3 Heavy orders piaced in iron and steel trade r | 8t close of year Page 3 | FOREIGN after collision in Irish chan- sailors perish. Page 2 re the followin | 12 bn J. McDowe .,hg, of: V. E. Maywoed, ‘ China declines arbitration in dispute with Por- H Walker, G. S. Millberry | tugal over Macao. Page 2 D. Dorp, all of San | British peers and unionists active in political k. Washington, D. | campaign. Page 2 J. C. Mor, Newark; | s Varie Van Atta, | SPORTS C. Van Atts, Miss | Olymplc club members begin New ¥ear casino w. all of Mill Valley. | tournament tonight. Page 9 00 visitors were here Corintblan yacht club members make merry at t many did not registe feast st Belvedere. Page 9 . i /i S y | Coach Sta insists that American football will Train Loaded With Snow Bbemighos—ion s MILL VALLEY, 2—The steam Jeft respiug a golden harvest from his current m the summit of Mount Tamal- | geteuo’s Paie s bromghs & ad of snow here this Jsck Johmson ecowed by five policemen after orning and every one turned o trunks were attached. rage® ke part in the throwing of snowballs. | t a snow man The small| Nelson sidetracks European offers in hope of weeting Wolgast here. Page 9 Hester may get Welsh io take place of the | { to| | ne of the trainmen bu | on the rear of the engine. ter, bors of the town zre pelting u.er_vI’“"“"" . SuEe fzen ” | Thistles Rovers battle to three goal tle in passing citizer | same at Onkiand. Y Cold Stops Hunting San Francisco greyhounds divide bomors on NVERNESS, Jan. 2.—Three inches of | eow coverea Hollister Seld. Page 10 Paseige night, most of which | Catholic school basket ball teams ready for . e nd. There je | 1es6ve tournes. Page 10 2 th | Crack Swastika basket ball team defeats Mis- tle hunting going because of the | e 3 tv 37, ! Page 9 Residents of this section are| pgu.. or 1010 season to be given their first enjoying the sports of an eastern win- | race today. Page 9 1 | | sbell Moond and Dentscher Kreiger clubs be- | gt 10 shooting season. Snow on Sfdge Road stn 1910 i Page 10 b oes /. i Borus’ saccerites win second Sacramento ABERTY /San. 2—The stage road| cWmF FCRErUEs el Bolinas and the entire upper valley| p jrejang returns best ngt score of Pre- covered with from two 10 three | sio clgb medal play. gt es of snow. Fortunately the stage Ruu-Clark team wins six day bleycle race Rafgel does not run today, as|in Berlin e orses would experience great dif-| Olymple club members take annual New Page 3 making the hills. The 5‘ Year's tramp and dip in surf. | Prestdio tennis tournament for Splinalo eups estooned with g gt 3 e 9 forests are er nd cattle on the ranges are seek-| g gy, gprinter Pajaroita sets new five & shelter in shed and barns on the | rurigng mark at Juares. <L ous farms along the road B MARINE St sowiall im Nort G Steamer Falls of Orchy forced to burn cargo {EDDING, Jan. 2.—Northern Cal-li cet 1o o] e i Pelee Not in Eruption PORT DE FRANCE, Martinique, Jan. 2.—There has been no eruption of Mount Pelee, and Soufriere is also in- active. . —_— OVERCOME BY GAS—F. C. Nichols, a lalcrer, living ta 456 Third street, was found uncon- scious o his room yesterday afternoon from the effects of gas escaping from the jet, evi- dently torned on by accident. He was taken to the central emergency bospital, where Dr. F. H. Zumwait saved bis life by injectiog a salt solution into his veins, nia, as far south as Vina, is covered blanket of fresh, dry snow fell last night. The average depth is about two inches. KAISER CONSENTS TO BETROTHAL OF COUSIN BERLIN, Jan. 2.—The emperor has neented to the betrothal of his cousin, rince Friederich Wilhelm of Prussia, son of the late Prince Albrecht, regent of Brunswick, to Princess Agathe von Ratiber ung Corveye C00K'S WIFE MAY LEAVE Page 18 | Page 14 | SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1910. THE EXPLORER Will Demand Return of Money Advanced to Him Since Their Marriage Woman in Hiding Under As- sumed Name; Disgusted With Spouse’s Conduct [Special Dispatch to The Call] NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—Mrs, Frederick A. Cook, wife of the discredited arctic is hiding New York under an assumed name and explorer, in the vicinity of awaiting an opportunity to make a | financial settlement for money vanced to Cook since their marriage. She has in her possession, it is said, the most valuable part of Cook’s dairy, accumulated on his last trip to the frozen north, which she intends to re- tain until a satisfactory arrangement shall have been made, A reporter located the two little daughters, Ruth and Helen, at the Hamilton Institute for Girls, No. 3 l“"e!t Eighty-first street. The children | were placed in the institution a few days before Cook disappeared. Mrs. R. O. Stebbins, wife of a promi- nent member of the Arctic club, who is one of Mrs. Cook’s closest friends, says the wife of the explorer is thoroughly disgusted with Cook’s conduct and may ieave him. “Mrs. Cook told me her husband never contributed a penny toward the support of his family from the day | their Jittle daughter was born. She had not only supported the family, but had given him funds for his hunting sald Mrs. Stebbins. “When Doctor Cock made some money | well understand that she would wish out of his recent lectures 1 can {to be reimbursed. From all that I have learned he did not give her any- thing out of this money. Ailso I can {very well understand she may have some of his most valuable: records which she intends to withhold until her claim has been settled.” Will Explore Polar\Sen NEW YORK., Jan. 2.—John R. Brad- ley, the sportsman who put up money for Doctor Cook in the explorer's dash north two vears ago. telegraphed from | Augusta, Ga., last night that he is in communication with Captain Otto Sverdrup regarding an expedition to the arctic next June to explore the mysteries of the polar sea north of land. The real object of the expedition is supposed to find “Brad- 1and,” the polar continent that Cook he saw on the Crocker ley Doctor horizon. Doctor Cook 1old of having found a | great waste of land up there, all un- cultivated. He had hit upon the idea, he said, of naming it after Bradley. | Friends of Bradley argued that this says |was all wrong, that Cook had in Brad- ley Land rediscovered Laputa, the | country of quacks and fake scientists, which Jonathan Swift's “Gulliver” telis | about in his veracious travel narratives, and Bradley realized this in view of Dr. Cook’s pretensions. PRELATE GIVEN PICTURES WORTH QUARTER MILLION Archbishop Glennon Receives Copies of Tissot’s Works | [Special Dispaich to The Call] ST, LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 2.—Archbishop J. J. Glennon learned today that the boxes labeled “pictures,” which were received at his home on the occasion of his recent silver jubilee and placed in the cellar, were world famous paintings worth about $250,000. He made haste to order the treasures un- packed and brought to a place more worthy of their beauty and value. The boxes, which, were sent to the archbishop by Herman C. G. Luytles, contained 144 paintings by Lemercies, a Parisian artist of note. They were copies of the series on the life of Christ, which was finished by J. J. J. Tissot in 1896. They were brought to America by Louig Horchitz, who commissioned Le-~ mercles to copy Tissot’s entire bible series, consisting of 296 Old Testament subjects and 144 from the New Testa- ment. YOUNG WOMAN’'S BODY WASHED UP BY WAVES Believed to Be School Teacher Who Disappeared SANTA' MONICA, Jan. 2.—The body of a young woman about 30 years of age, was found today at a point on the ocean shore 27 miles above this city, and in an isolated part of the Malibu ranch. The description of the body in a tel- ephone message telling of the discov- ery, closely followed that of Miss De- line Borde; a school teacher of San Louis Obispo, who came to this city wto months ago suffering from a nervous breakdown, and she disap- peared two weeks ago and has not been seen since. It will be Tuesday ,at the earliest before the body can be brought here. 4 G POKER GAME T0 HAVE POLICE COURT SEQUEL Aiter Dinner Recreation Involv- ing Stakes of $1,500 Leads ad- | to Threats of Prosecution Charge of Welching Is Made by Local Man Against Two Los Angelenos A “friendly” game of poker, involv- ing charges of welching on stakes amounting to $1,500, and played in the quiet of J. Hardman's richly furnished apartments at the Hotel Alexander, promises to culminate in the courts | this morning, as “Billy” Engstrom, a book maker and owner of racehorses, declares that he will swear out a war- rant for the arrest of Ralph J. Leavitt, wealthy automobile dealer of Los An- geles. Leavitt, and W. E. Slaughter, also of the southern city, Engstrom says, the game, but the Los Angeles banks, according to Engstrom’s attorney, re- fused to send the winner any cash for the paper pledges. Payment was stopped on the Slaughter-check, and the other was marked “Not sufficient funds.” Will Prosecute Leavett Engstrom has placed his case in the hands of Attorney James P. Sweeney. It is their aim to proceed against Leavitt under section 476A of the penal code which makes it a crime for any one to issue a check on a bank in which he has not sufi- clent funds, unless it ecan be proved that the action was but an oversight. Both defeated poker players are in Los Angeles now, hut Engstrom will make an effort to have Leavitt brought here for trial. Meanwhile Leavitt is having trouble from another source. Not long ago he was charged with manslaughter in Seattle after having run down a street sweepar in an automobile. Giving $1,500 bonds he went to Los Angeles, and the Seattle officers sent to extra- dite him returned without their man. Now the Seattle grand jury is investi- gating the cause for the officers’ failure to bring Leavitt back. The poker game ‘r Mardman's room at the Alexander was played during the holidays. Hardman had enter- tained the three men at dinner in his apartment, and aftef the meal one of the trio .proposed poker. Hardman excused himself, but Slaughter, Leavitt and Engstrom played, Engstrom de- positing $500 in the cigar box used for a pot and the two Los Angelenos put- ting up two checks for $500 each. Leavitt drew his check on the Broad- way bank and trust company of Los Angeles, Checks Are Returned The game was short, for Engstrom won everything in sight. He kept the checks for a few days and turned them over to the Metropolis bank and trust company here for collection. Slaugh- ter's check came back marked ‘“pay- ment stopped,” and Leavitt’s was re- turned with the statement that there was not sufficient funds to pay it. And {at that Engstrom felt his anger rise. Leavitt's check was sent to his father, whp conducts the National bank of Daleville, Texas, so that the parent could understand the action his son had taken. Then Engstrom called on his attorney, James P. Sweeney, and it was decided to apply for a warrant this morning. “The action taken by Slaughter makes it impossible for him to be brought under the law,” Attorney Sweeney said yesterday, |"but Leavitt will be charged on a warfant to be se- cured tomorrow, morning. sl b T4 AGNES BOOTH, ACTRESS, ANSWERS DEATH'S CALL Heart Trouble Hastens End of Once Famous Performer BOSTON, Jan. 2.—Agnes Booth, fa- mous actress of two decades or more ago, wife of John B. Schooffel, manager of the Tremont theater, Boston, died today, aged 63 years. She had been ill for nearly a year with heart trouble. Born in Sydney, Australia, Mary Agnes Land Rookes, made her debut as a dancer when a child. She made her first appearance in New York in 1865, and soon after became leading lady with Edwin Forrest. .She starred also with other prominent actors of her day and won laurels in various countries. ' She was married three times, her first husband, Harry Perry, an Amer- ican actor, dying in 1883; Junius Booth, her second husband, died in 1883. She was married to John B. Schoeffel in 1885. BONES OF DINOSAURS DISCOVERED IN UTAH Believed to Be Oldest Speci- mens as Yet Unearthed PITTSBURG, Jan. 2.—The director of the Carnegie museum today an- nounced the discovery In Utah, by a Carnegie exploring party, of the bones of three specimens of the sauropod dinosaur. There is every reason to believe these speclmens of the giant dinosaur are older than the famous dipledocus on exhibition here. A de- tafled account ‘of-the discovery is be- lost two $500 checks to him in| To To Expedite Business, Save Time, Trouble and Worry, Use I CALL CLASSIFIED ADS Fu rope for dreenway | SeeRs Latest Culiure L | San Francisco's Ned Greenway as will be when he comes home & P . he is, and the variety of him as he - PANAMA SHAKEN. IS RUMORBY WIRELESS Unsuccessful Efforts to Obtain Confirmation: of Report of Earthquake Y {Special Dispaich to The Call] NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 2.—Wireless sta- tions along the South Atlantic coast tonight caught a message saying that Panama had been shaken by an earth- quake. Efforts of the United Wireless telegraph company to obtain afirmation or denial of the report were unsuccess- ful. Not much credence is given the report, but operators say it sounded genuins, No Damage in Yucatan MEXICO CITY, Jan. 2.—Although-twe earthquakes were registered by the seismograph at the Tacubaya observa. tory here yesterday morning, followed by reports that the shocks were severs in Yucatan, telegrams from there today are to the effect that no damage res sulted. Officials of the observatory calculated that the shocks were from widely dif- ferent centers, the first being, they compute, at least 4,000 miles - from Mexico, and probably in the Pacific ocean. The second, much lighter than the first, it is belleved, is that which ap- parently centered in Quintana Roo, Yu- catan. Slight Quakes in Jamaica KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jan. 2—Two earth tremors ‘were recorded here today. They were of slight intensity, and not sufficient to cause damage or alarm. The stronger shock was recorded at 10:20 a. m., but showed only a small movement on the seismograph. Recorded in Great Britain LONDON, Jan. 2.—Prolonged earth shocks extending over two hours were recorded on the Isle of Wight and at the observatory at Laibach on Satur- day. They were estimated to be about 5,600 miles distant. The West Indlan cable company reports all well in the islands. . No Shocks in St. Thomas ST. THOMAS, D. W. I, Jan. 2—No earthquake has occurred ‘here, or, so far as can ba 1-_-:*_‘.1:1 any other. SOCIAL CZAR TO SEEK NEW IDEAS Greenway to Leave for Europe . on Hunt for Latest Things in Fashionable World +Ned Greenway, czar of San Francisco soclety from the time since the average 1uuu's grandmother was a debutante, {arbiter elegantiarium, rex et impera- i tor, flossiest kingpin in all the flossy crowd, leader of coellions, is going to |leave San Francisco for Europe. But | he will return, and when he does it will |be with a bagful of everything that is latest, best and most fashionable in the world of things as they ought to be. He has fixed upon May 10 as the date of his departure, and as it will be his first trip abroad he is preparing to make the‘most of it. He is going after the. latest .things in culture—so- clety culture and refinement. Greenway has long had an ambition to wander through the sacred precinects of some of the London clubs. Many times he has fawncied.that he would not | ming potting a few grouse in York- | shire and’even sedately following the | hounds at Mudbury-on-the-Sludge, He | has had a.desire. to discover just how far a footman bends in handing Milady Evelyn Violet . Harduppe, her * awfternoon tea. He longed to observe thesc soclal amenities with his own eyes. instead of having them passed to him second hand by more fortunate travelers. Recently when Mrs. €. O, Alexauder appeared on his particular fleld with one or two twists to a dance of which he was ignorant and there began springing up around him a succession of rivals, younger and more up to date, he decided that it was time to take the plunge. His chance came when E. J. Mazzu- chi, one of the partners in the Mumm vineyards. passed through San Fran- cisco recently on his way to the orient and proffered him a trip to Europe. Greenway, despite his 50 odd years. accepted with alacrity. Great are the expectations when he returns. He will observe everything that is ripping and shut his eyes to that which bears the stamp of the bounder. He intends to give San sco a renovating socially and he . Friday night really should be. - | Fitznooks-Chalmers- ! PRICE FIVE CENTS. - BUYPLANT | —— | | McCarthy Bitterly Assails Pros posal to Purchase Spring Valley’s Equipment Building Trades Committee Adopts Resolution in Favor of Mayor Elect’s Stand Hetch Hetchy and Lake Eleanog Projects Meet With Full Approval ;g - ‘Overloading of City Given as the Reason for Opposition to | Buying Water System 4 AYOR ELECT P. H. McCARTHY last night declared himself to be squarely in favor of the Lake Eleanor and Hetch Hetchy waters bonds and advised the voters to adopt them, but declared himseif to be as un< | compromisingly opposed to the acquisie |tion of the Spring Valley water comi= pany property, particularly under the ;proposiflnn to be voted wpom at the | bond election January 14. He made his | statement in the building trades tem | ple hall at a meeting of the joint com= | mittee of 30 of the building trades | council and the San Francisco labom jcouncil. By unanimous vote the com< { mittee concurred in McCarthy's recome mendation. | Speakers Oppose Project | With but one exception every speake {er sided with McCarthy in his de- { nunciation of the Spring Valley water | proposition. Andrew J. Gallagher, sec< |retary of the Sam Francisco labor | council, advised a’further considera- {tion of the Epring Valley question 2nd, while he agreed that the Spring Valley water property was mot worth the $35,000,000 provided for it by the bond election, if it sheuld carry, he stated that there were other consid- erations which might move the voters to authorize the purchase at this time. McCarthy bitterly criticised the out- going administration and accused the board of supervisors of sharp prac- tice. His main argument in opposi- tion to the Spring Valley bonds was | that if ¢ should be voted, along with the Sierra water bonds, which he | reiterated must be approved. the city | would have exceeded its bonding ca- pacity by $11,000.000. Spring Valley's Argument He also argued that if both bonds passed the Spring Valley “will at once take the position that the Spring Valley bonds, being within the limitation, should be declared legal, and secondly, that it being an existing wutility it should take precedence in the matter.” { The mayor elect read his speech, but he took the floor several times during the course of the discussion and ex- pressed more extensive views, and add« ed to the force of his original remarks. However, his chief argument was con« tained in his written speech. In his peroration he summed up his stand on the question. He said: “In view of the foregoing we can not be honest with ourselves or with anybody else if we argue or vote for both the Lake Eleanor and the Spring Valley, when we know that by doing sa we will get Spring Valley only for $35,- 000,000, and deprive ourselves for all time of the opportunity of securing for our people water from Hetch Hetchy, It, therefore, devolves upom us as good citizens who have the best interest of our city’s weifare at heart to vote for the Hetch Hetchy and against the Spring Valley proposition.™ Resolution Is Adopted Supervisor elect John O. Kelly, pres< ident of the San Francisco labor coune ell, presided. McCarthy was the firsg. ':mker. Willlam H. Urmy of the building trades council committee introduced the following resolution, which was voted | upon and unanimously adopted: | “Resolved, That it be the sense of ! this meeting that we concur in the opinion and recommendation set forth in the document read by Brother P. H. McCarthy, president of the buliding | trades couneil, to the effect that we go { on, record as Leing heartily In favor of Hetch Hetchy propesition and epposed to the Spring Valiey propesition.” It was alwo decided that the cam- paign committee meet in executive | seasion tomight at the building trades council to consider the fight to be | made in the course it advocates. TRAIN WRECKERS AT WORK NEAR ANSONIA Knickerbocker Special Runs Into an Open Switch Jan. 2— BELLEFONTAINE, O, That the wreck of the Big Four pas- senger train No. 18, the Knickerbocker special, at Dawn Station, O. near Ansonia. last night, was the work of train wreckers is the opilnon of rail- road officiais today. The lock on the p n switch and the switch lamp, both of which had been removed, were hey { y well show the old town what | found today in a corn field some dia- tance away,