The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 8, 1910, Page 1

The Call’s News Index Hereafter Will Be Found n the Editorial Page T \ THE WEATHER YESTERDAY—Clear;: west wind : maximum " fegiperature, 56; minimum, 48. FORECAST FOR TODAY—Cloudy, with “ occasional showers; high north wind, chang- ing to southwest. )LUME - CVIL.—NO. 70. FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1910. / PRICE FIVE NTS. LEAGUE FAIS 10 AGREE O Executive Committee Splits Amicably on Belshaw and vis for Governor Deadlock Hiram Johnson to Accept Follows Refusal of Indorsement UTHERNERS FEAR CONFERENCE & d ARE CONSIDERED es I s S Fran- v stent e nhmes ganiz Ma ¥ Oakland = e z . M & Stockton KIDNAPING CASE SET BACK BY GOVERNOR Arizona Executive Refuses Extradite L. B. Adams to ing eact eing hurried other into side or SALT LAKE ELKS ARE VISITING LOS ANGELE Antlered Herd Received With Fitting Ceremony | 8ix hundred | . E ke City lodge of | ks arrived in this city tonight and | ere received with f ceremontes | ybers of the local lodge and mu- | here on their Pacific | st. and will remain un turday | . when they will go jo San Dlegoi and thence to Tia Juana, Mex, | for 30 years, froze to death last night |in Comet May Kill All Earth Life Says Scientist 1inogen _G—as Around T 1e Wanderer—Clash Among Astronomers [Special Dispatch to The Call} BOSTON, Mass., 7—A tel- § | am received here today from | y observatory states that t spectra of Halley's comet 3 | ws very prominent cyanogen yanogen is pres- d impreg- possibly inasmuch s of almost ation, and repelled by ORNERSTONE TO PLAY CIRCUIT, IS RUMOR | | Base Block Mys-| Hall teriously Carted Away | Music Where where, is the cornerstone | t American musical hall? No! repose on the E d by Harry Lauder and screech of street gpipes \as gone and only loose s k the spot. Rumor has it lishing stone, crated by e to do service else- | is vaudeville syndi- rcuit like the bonny | | s been proceeding slowly on ouse. The Morris peo- ing as rapidly | permit ; stone that Harry | placed’ tenderly on the sand.| vas beautifully engraved with the| “American Musical { 1910.” William Morri: mself was present at the ceremony. and | he voices of January 12, and > cease were music speeches akers were stilled, the wine was drunk—and now the stone is gone. Sk £ ilpia i WILL COMBAT ATTACK | ON SULPHUR RULING | California Congressmen Uphold Referee Board | [Special Dispatch to The Call] | WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Members of e California delegation will appear | fore the committee on expenditures | e department of agriculture to | combat k being made oh the Remsen referee board i < essman Needham, whose dis- | dries a great deal of fruit and | s use of sulphur in the process, at Wiley is not justified in rul- 1t the percentage of sulphur shall o 125 per cent It is impossible, Needham says, to | the amount with such mathemati- | a ety, and anyway Needham does phur is injurious S LEADS YALE | S IN SCHOLARSHIP Graduates in June and Has Won Many Prizes [Special Dispatch to The Call] EW HAVEN, Feb. 7.—Rob- Taft, son of the president, voted the Conn., A has e most scholarly man in class at Yale. Young Taft gradu- ates in June and has taken many prizes oughout his course, He follows nat- ly in the way of his father and | grandfather. Judge Alfonso Taft was | the head of his class and President ond in the class of 1878, PERESSRnT O ] AMERICAN TO BE S_ENT TO PRISON IN MEXICO Judge Announces Intention to Sentence Train Conductor | GUADALAJARA, Mex., Feb. T.—Judge | Palafox said tonight that he would out the recommendation of the | prosecuting attorney and sentence James A. Cook, an American train con- to two years and ten months’ The prosecuting attor- claims Cook is guilty of criminal carry imprisonment negligence. AGED RECLUSE FOUND FROZEN TO DEATH Woman's Corpse Discovered in Bed by Neighbors Feb. 7.—Mrs. Elizabeth 71, who has lived alone! TOLEDO, O'Neill, aged 0. bed at Miami, a village near Her body was found today by a neighbor. P AL S ARBITRATORS REACH AGREEMENT Chi. cago, Febh, 7.—The board of arbitrators in the wage controversy between the Illinols Central railroad and uniop telegraphers reached an agreement today. The finding will nat . be made public until tomorrow, her a here. S | severe ever DEATH STALKS IN STORM ON VALDEZ TRAIL 'Four Dead Peoplz in Roadhouse Greet Travelers From Nome Alaska in Grip of Severest Win- ter Known and Fear Felt for Men on Creeks EATTLE, Feb. Nome merchants who have just arrived in Seattle, 7.—Three Nome to Fairbanks and snowshoes and by stage, report that| the winter in known. They left Nome & i having traveled from| Valdez on| the north is the most| | i - Mount Tamalpais. Mrs. Eleanor L'illlefielcl, through whose information the police may be able to trace the identity of the woman murdered near the summit of | i | o ler, proprietress of the roadhouse, who had to pneumonia. At point on trail aged man named Franz Giebel had been while driving toward Valdez with a one horse outfit. The Nome men said that winter gold min- ing their neighborhood had been highly successful. Newspapers received from the Yukon valley tell of miners losing hands and feet that had been frozen and of fears men snowed in on the succambed ano6ther the frozen to death in entertained for creeks- with insufficient supplies. gun work January 11, but could net start out. After a brief respite the blizzard is raging again, according to cable ad- vices. The Copper River railroad has been tied up, and August Anderson has been found dead on the trail between Chitina and €opper. Center. WOMAN IS MURDERED AND BURIED IN CELLAR Husband Vanishes and Police Start Search YORK, Feb. 7.—Beneath the of the basement of an up town apartmént here today was found the body of a woman who had been strangled to death after her head had been hacked with an fce pick or a similar implement, The woman is believed ‘to have been the wife of a janitor of the apartments who recently moved away. He was known both as Paterson and Tamson or Thompson, - A.girl found in his hoxqe tod.y‘m ‘man’ ‘named Pierre Loisel were deulned.’ NEW concrete floor an | The | | census enumerators were to have be- g i Detective William R. Proll of the San Francisco polite examining 1 the watch of the murdered woman vesterday in San Rafael. * Proll found | some additional marks onsthe case that may.lead to the discovery of its | owner. . December 7 and encountered continu- | often 70 degrees below zero. On the Valdez trail they reached Mil- Jer's roadhouse_just before the climax of the storm, and on entering the house found four dead people laid out—roe King, an ol ‘miner, frozen to death;| Mre. H. A. Rockefeller, a middle aged . cgpib 4 woman, well known in Nevada, who C{)ufl Orders Flnal DlStrlbUtlon died on the stage from heart affection of Property, Including Local due to the cold; an old man named Taylor, frozen to death, and Mrs. Mil- .Real Estate [Special Dispaich t6 The Call] STOCKTON, Feb. 7.—Judge C. W. | Norton today made an order for a final distribution in .the estate of the.late James H. Budd. The property was awarded to the widow, Irez . Budd of this city. It consists of cash amount- ing to $11,331.50, office: furniture, li- braries, personal effects and valuable pieces of redl estate in San’ Francisco. SWEDEN’S KING UNDER KNIFE OF SURGEONS | Gustav Is Operated On for Ap- pendicitis STOCKHOLM, Feb. 7.—King Gustav _was operated on tonight for appendi- citis. The official reports given out state that the operation was a success. The king has-been suffering from continual internal pains since early Surday evening. It was not until this evening that the physicians ‘diagnosed his case as one of appendicitis, requir- ing an immediate operation. YALE GIVEN $250,000 . " OLD “.IME “GRADS” Laboratory of Mechanical Engi- vairitito Pl bl - NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb. T.—A gift of $250,000 from George G. Mason of New York' city and’ Willfam. §. Mason of Evanston, IIL, both of the class of 1858 in the Sheffield scientific. school, >was, announced at’ Yale University to- nay The money is to be used for a lsbornory of macb-nlukewn'eerlns. 'RIVER DEEPENING L] 1 | i E3 PROJECT ASSURED $4,000,000 to Be Allowed ior‘ Sacramento Contracts May Be Let at Once | | i | | | | | | i -[Special Dispaich to The Call] WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 rivers and ‘harbors committee the bill' for the Sacramento appropriation of $1,000,000 a four \'e,u-s was asked. Instéads of ‘appropriating $1,000,000 each year,jhowever, a sum of $4,000,000 may beivoted in order that the work may be carried out Represenitatives McK “I feel sure ~The will approve dredging which deepening and river, for an year for entire | at once. | | lay said today: the Sacramento project will sbe ' approved’ by the rivers and harbors committee. Instead, however, of $1,000,000 a year being appropriated as requested, a lump,sum of $4,000,000 will be appropriated, enabling the contracts for the‘entire projeet to be let at once, and the'work to be finished carliet than was expected.” i oS s MYSTERY VEILS FATAL SHOOTING OF SLEUTH Companion Held Pending Police Investigation PORTLAND, Feb. operative of a detéctive agency in this 7.—A. T. Barnes, an city, is dead as the result of a revolver shot. Charles Mapes, a fellow, employe. is detained without bail by. on the order of the 'district pending an 1 inte the circum-| | stances surrounding: the . shooting, | ’Whi(‘h occurred late today, used as a lounging place by employes of the agency, where Mapes and Barnes | had been playing cards. | The weapon which was the cause of | the police attorney inquest in"a room Barnes' death is an old fashioned single | action revolver of large.caliber. Ac-| cording to the story téld by Mapes to| the police, Barnes wds twirling the re- | volver by the trigger guard, when it was suddenly discharged, the bullet; | striking Barnes just below the nose and | | ranging upward into the brain. The police detectives say that they | cannot see how it would be possible for a single action revolver to become discharged in the manner described by Mapes. | ot DR L S PITTSBURG BANKERS i AND OFFICIALS INDICTED | Grand Jury Returns True Bills Charging Bribery | PITTSBURG, Feb. 7.—True bills were | retutned by the grand jury today charging conspiracy, bribery and per- jury against President E. H. Jennings and former Vice President A. A. Grif- fin of the Columbia national bank; | Charles Stewart, former select coun- cilman; Max Leslie, county delinquent tax collector, and F. F. Nicoli, a capi- talist. : The indictments were found upon a confession alleged to have been made by Griffin to the grand jury. The cases involve the alleged pay- ment of bribes to councilmen in 1908 to. secure their votea for an ordinance designating ‘city depositaries, of which the Columbia national bank was one, | 82014 | the firm of Littlefield & Co., | murdered girl. | closely, WOMAN IDENTIFIES REMAINS AND GIVES CLEW TO MURDERER Declares Slain Girl Studied Hair Dressing San Francisco and Was Under Domina- tion of Man Supposed to Be Her Sweet- heart Whom She Feared and Who Is Suspected of Killing Her. “WHITE SLAVE TRADER"” MAY BE ASSASSIN Theory That Companion Sought to Have Her Lead Immoral Life and That Refusal Resulted in Death Advanced by Detectives as Explanation for Murder. Partial Solution of Mystery Elates Officials and Hunt for Suspect Will Be Prosecuted With Vigor. ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD The (all ($1,000) for exclusive information that will will pay a reward of one thousand dollars lead to the identity of the woman murdered on Mount Tamalpais, the apprehension of her murderer or mur- derers and his or their conviction. Clews to the identity of the victim of the Tamalpais tragedy may be secen in a window of The Calls business office. A who was under the domination of a German, distinguishing feature was a particularly heavy, was the woman murdered on Mount GERMAN girl, who came to San Francisco from the north by beat, and 45 years of age, whose mos dark brown mustache, Tamalpais. She had described the man as her sweetheart. Mrs. Eleanor Littlefield, a manicurist of 630 Mar saw fragments of the girl's garments in the windo%s of The Call business office vesterday morning, and straightway went to San Rafael, where she identified the remains as those of a young German girl, 23 years of age, who had studied hair dressing under her in the Westbank building at Market and Ellis streets about eight months ago. The girl might have been, according to Mrs. Littlefield, death. striving to escape from a “white slave trader” when she met I {IDENTIFIES JEWELRY WORN BY DEAD WOMAN Mrs. Littlefield said that she could not remember the name of the girl that she was always referred to as “Dutchy.” was able to remember the jewelry which the girl wore, and But with woman's instinct she and to identify the ,pieces in the Marin county coroner’s office, the photographs of which were exhibited in The Call window While Mrs. Littlefield thought Thirteenth street, Oakland: that her mother. Mrs. or Miss Bracker might know the name of the The police are looking for these women possibly Nellie Evans, Mrs. Rhodes, her former partner in Detective Sergeant William Proll of the San Francisco police department exhaustively interviewed Mrs Distriet Attorney Thor Boyd and Coroner F. E. Sawyer of Marin county also examined Mrs. Littlefie but they declared last evening that the manicurist did not know ti name of the victim. DESCRIPTION OF GIRL’'S SUPPOSED SWEETHEART The police are how seeking assiduously for the man. who was frequently seen in company of the girl, who was killed by blows in the face with a heavy instrument. The man is described as follows: Age about 45. Nationality, German. Height, 5 feet 6 inches. Had a large, unkempt, brownish mustache. Teolerably well dressed. Had the appearance of a “cheap sporting man.” At first the girl had said he was her “uncle.” Later she said he was her “sweetheart.” He had the girl completely under his domination when he was with her. When they were separated the girl seemed to be obsessed with fear of the man. It was the conclusion of those who knew the girl, according to Mrs. Littlefield, that the man was seeking to place the girl in a house of disrepute, Littlefield yesterday | but that she rebelled with all her strength against the dishonor and shame. STROVE TO WIN GIRL TO WANTON IDEAS It is the theory of the police that the man, striving to dominate the girl for his purposes, took her to Mount Tamalpais to have her alone, that he might more strongly endeavor to exert his will. On the lonely side of the | mountain, out of sight of any human being, though within view of the placid town of Mill Valley, the girl’'s companion strove to win the girl to his wanton ideas. When he saw that he was failing in his purpose, that he had gone so | far that he had antagonized her to the point that she was able to break off her association with him, he killed her. | GIRL SEEKS INSTRUCTION Mrs. Littlefield’s story, as told to District Attorney Boyd, Coroner Sawyer and Detective Proll in the district attorney’s office at San Rafael, is as follows: “Eight or nine months ago [ was conducting a hair dressing and manicure parlor in the Westbank building, Market and Ellis streets. [ had a partner. We also taught the trade of hair dressing and manicuring, and we advertised in the newspapers for pupils. “About that time, eight or nine months ago, a girl came to our place and applied to ¥ partner for admission into the school. She said that she wanted a full course in hair dressiug. __ “She was evidently a German girl, and she spoke with a strong accent,