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The San Francisco call., 1905-02-06
ACCUSED SENATORS MUST.
FACE INVESTIGATORS.
COMMITTEE Is IN SESSION
Subp6ndS viii Be Issued if Alleged Brib6fs
Decline to Appear and Give Testimony.

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 5.-If Senators
French, Emmons, Bunkers and Wright
fail to volunteer as witnesses ,on their
own behalf they will be subpenaed by
the committee before which they are
now on trial. The committee met to-
day 10 discuss this feature of the case,
and though no announcement was
made that it had been definitely decid-
ed to subpoena the accused Senators the
following facts were pointed to:
When William Corbin made his
charge before the Senate that Emmons,
Bunkers, French and Wright were
guilty Of bribery each of the accused
got up in turn and, after Indignantly
denying the charge. demanded that a
committee be forthwith appointed to
investigate the affair and examine
every person directly or indirectly in
volved in the scandal These state
ments in themselves were confession
Of willingness on the part of the ac-
cuseo to appear and testify and it is
presumed that after making them they
will not want to be subpenaed, but will
appear and, OF course, deny they are
guilty.
The committee announced last Thurs
day that it was its desire to hear every
person having any connection whatever
with the alleged offense. There is only
one way the committee can accomplish
its desire. and that is If any one refuses
to testify TO compel him to do SO or
send him TO jail for the term of the
Legislature for contempt.
The news that Detective Tichenor
had thrashed Senator French in San
Francisco was widely discussed here
to-day. All, even the friends Of French,
admit that he has greatly injured his
case by his belligerent actions, and the
opinion is equally general that French
will now abandon his expressed inten-
ton to slap Tichenor's face every time
he meets him.
The avowed willingness Of Joseph S.
Jordan, the man accused Of passing
money to the four State Senators, to go
before the committee Of investigation
tomorrow night has led to considera-
bic speculation as to the attitude he
VIII assume upon his appearance in the
Senate. However, one thing positively
asserted by Jordan is that he will not
turn States evidence.
1t is expected that evidence will be
introduced before the case is concluded
10 the effect that several Of the marked
bills have been recovered by the prose-
cution. 1t is claimed that this will have
10 be done If the case against the Sen
ators is to be clinched
Considerable Of the time tomorrow,
night viii be taken up by the defense
in putting witnesses on the stand for
the purpose Of attempting to discredit
The witnesses who have already ap-
peared for the prosecution.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-06
WOMAN DRINKS
CARBOLIC ACID
Mrs. Rebecca Eklund Puts an
End to Her Troubles With
Draught of Deadly Poison
DISAPPOINTED IN LOVE
Squanders a Large Sum of
Money ON a Man With
Whom She Was infatuated

Mrs Rebecca Eklund, a divorced
streets, committed suicide last night
about 1880 o'clock in front OF Thomas
j. Morton's livery stable at the corner
of Geary and Leavenworth streets. A
few moments before. the unfortunate
woman had been elected from the
stable by Fred Jackson. a carriage
washer, with whom she had been asso-
ciating.
Half Intoxicated, Mrs. Eklund brood
ed over her treatment. She went to
p. Flatow's drug store at Geary and
Jones streets, purchased 10 cents worth
Of carbolic acid, went back in front Of
the stable and drank the poison. By
ISLANDERS heard her exclaim in a loud
voice as she poised the bottle of dead
ly liquid, You shall pay for this, Fred
Jackson" Before she could be de-
TERED, the woman swallowed the acid
and sank on the sidewalk.
George Kreplin, a grocer across the
street, poured a bottle of oil down the
dying womans throat and called for
the ambulance. Before she could be
taken To the CenlTdl ELlcISeHCy l1OoPA-
tai she was dead.
She had been drinking for some days.
Her mother, Mrs. George w. Edwards,
says she gave her daughter some
money to pay a doctor for an opera
ton which she had to have performed,
and that Rebecca spent the money.
All day yesterday the mother searched
for sthe girl without finding her.
Mrs. Eklund was seen to enter Nor
toms stables and a moment later come
out crying. Jackson, the man with
whom she vas keeping company, said
she came in to him drunk and he threw
her out. He denied that he had been
going with her or had any relations
with her. People in the neighborhood
say that the woman was always
around the stable with Jackson or
some Of the other men employed there.
Mrs. Eklund was left considerable
money by an old man. roomer in her
mothers house. who died recently.
This her mother says she squandered
on the man with whom she was in
fatuated.
The dead woman was about 2S years
of age. The body was taken to the
Morgue.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-06

AS the date approaches for the pro-
duction Of the German comedy Frau
Koenigin," which is to be given for the
benefit of the library fund Of the Ger
man department of the State Univer-
sity, local German and society circles
are manifesting unusual and active in
terest in the undertaking. The play is
set for Saturday evening, February 25,
at the Alhambra. The performance is
under the direction Of Herr Arthur
Becker.
BY GRACE LLEWELLYN JONES.
Franz Koppel- -Elfeldt, to whose
poetic genius the charming verses of
this comedy owe their form, has been
so well known for years at the Royal
Theater of Dresden that he needs no
introduction. His play Of THE Renais-
sance" brought him renown not only in
Germany, but among playwrights the
world over. Schoenthau, too, the col
laborator is known in America through
a translation of Die Beruehmte Frau"
brought out by DAILY in New York, un-
der the title 1.-The Great Unknown" 1t
was Baron Won Berger, the noted direc-
tor of the Deutsche Schauspielhaus, the
close friend of the Emperor and his
honored adviser on all dramatic affairs,
who first brought out this comedy Of
Frau Koenigin" in Hamburg. In the
title role Frau Won Hotenthal, once a
celebrated member of the Imperial
Theater of Vienna, made notable sue
cess.
Almost simultaneous with this pro-
duction was the one in Berlin at the
Lessing Theater, under the able direc-
ton of Oscar Blumenthal. The very
argument of the play, being the tanning
of a capricious and perfectly charming
girl wife, started much literary discus
sion, and parallels were Immediately
drawn with the treatmentof the sub
ject in 1.-The Tanning of the Shrew' and
in the Spanish comedy of Moreto's lei
Desden con ell Desden." The Spaniard
portrays an exquisitely refined woman,
whose nature responds to poetry and
music. but, like an oversensitive in
strument, yields only discord at the ap-
proach of any ruder touch. He brings
to the caging of this wild bird as re-
fined and elegant a tanner as alone
could accomplish so delicate a play Of
opposing wills. The manners Of the
tanner are far removed from the sturdy
Elizabethan methods of Petruchio, and
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-06
FAVOR NATURE STUDIES.
Additions to School Courses Provided
In Two Measures.


SACRAMENTO, Feb. 5.-Nature
study, agriculture and kindred sub
jects are being advocated by legisla-
tors here as desirable additions to the
regular courses of the public schools
of the State. Senator Muenter has
introduced two bills relating to this
subject, one of which has been fa-
vorably reported upon by the Com
mittee on County Government, the
other being under consideration by
the Committee on Education.
The one favorably reported pro-
vides that County Superintendents of
Schools. whenever petitioned by ma
jority of the trustees of each district
of at least % per cent of all the pri-
mary and grammar school districts of
any county to make the appointment,
shall Immediately appoint super
visor of nature study, agriculture and
related subjects for the primary and
grammar schools of such counties.
The supervisors OF this work, it is fur
ther provided. shall be persons who
had been duly accredited by the State
Board Of Education.
The agricultural sections of the
State are strongly in favor of the
passage of the bill, and in all prob
ability it will go through without op-
position.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-06
DEATH BLOW TO RACES.
Measure Prohibiting Pool-SeIling Be-
fore Public Morals Committee.

Measure Prohibiting Pool-SeIIing Be-
fore Public Morals Committee.
SACRAMENTO. Feb. 5.-Members
OF the Assembly who are laying for
the chance to vent their eloquence on
Espy's anti-pool selling bill are going
to demand, probably tomorrow, that
the Committee on Public Morals,
which has had it under consideration
since January IL, report it in. Just
what complications have been holding
the bill In committee for almost a
month a majority Of the lower house
is unable to understand, and an ex-
PLANTATION Is in order.
The bill lis intended to stop all pool
selling upon the result of any horse
race within or without the confines of
any racetrack. and IL it passes it will
mean a death blow to the racing
game ON the coast. 1t is apparent
that powerful influences will be di-
rected against the bill, but the Assem-
bly, as a whole wants to hear 1t dis
cussed from every standpoint, and
hence a demand will be made that Ii
be reported out, either favorably or
unfaVorab1y.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-06

the lady is from the land Of more illu-
sive charm.
Around the theme the two German
dramatists have thrown the pleasant
disguise of n distant epoch and a ro-
mantle settling. The time is that be-
loved of German love poets, the days
of the "Minnesaenger," when those
splendid legends of Parsifal, Lohen-
J grin and Tannhauser were still fresh
in the hearts of their poet-knights;
when the love lyrics of Walther Won
der Vogelweide and Heinrich Won
Veldeke were as near to the people as
Burns and Byron to our day and gem
GRAFTON.
Through q series of scenes of comic
affectation and the worship of a SYM
bolic and disembodied love, which has
turned the head of the little wife,
there runs the song of the nightin-
gale and the lyric note of the true
Minnesaenger-whe in the old days
Mime meant both memory and love.
If she had to be shamed like a child
into the final shattering of her false
gods, still there Is no ungentle touch
in the steady hand of her tanner, who
returns fresh from battle to find her
in the glamour of a court of love,
| under the new and dangerous charm
of dattery.
With only two acts at their disposal
the authors have succeeded in pre-
senting to us not only a romantic
setting from the old days of the trou-
badours. but truly universal comedy
of the human heart; the entangle-
ment of the most candid of natures in
web of pretense and affectation, and
the final disentangling by it's own in
nate strength and purity. With no in
volved psychology of analysis or sit
uation. In the greatest simplicity, we
understand simultaneously the mo-
tive and the action that translates it.
There is no problem and no mystery
of symbols. We have no need of a
commentator to explain the exegesis.
l believe we shall really welcome the
chance to enjoy true bit of German
drama, wherein walk knights and
ladies, peasants and retainers, of real
flesh and blood, who can move US to
natural laughter and perhaps to some
very gentle and refreshing tears. And
all honor to the tireless energy and
really ambitious effort OF the we'll
known stage director who is to bring
out Frau Koenigin" on San Fran
cisco stage.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-06
MAY LOSE SALARIES.
Assemblymen Absent without Excuse
Are likely to Be Docked.


Are likely to Be Docked.
SACRAMENTO Feb. 5.-The AS
sembly was called to order this morn
ing by Speaker Prescott under the rule
that provides when there are not
enough present on one legislative day
10 constitute a quorum, the Legislature
shall meet daily thereafter at $50 un-
Ill quorum is in attendance There
we're ten members present The House
will convene again tomorrow at $3.50
Under the rule.
II the avowed intention of several
members of the Assembly is carried
out, some OF the Assemblymen who
absented themselves Friday and Satur-
day without permission will lose their
salaries for the time they were absent.
Those Of the lower house who live at
a distance and cannot go home when
an adjournment is taken are wroth at
the absentees, because they are COM
PEELED to remain in Sacramento and
are anxious that the work go on while
they are here. Under the rules a for
feiture Of salary may be had.
There Is a strong possibility that
there viii not be a quorum at the hour
Of convening Monday morning and the
msmbers present viii have to daily
along until enough Assemblymen
come in to make UP sufficient number
TO do business.
Houser Of Los Angeles is leading the
movement to make those who absent
themselves without excuse suffer loss
Of pay for the days they are away.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-06
CEREAL COMMISSION.
Bright Prospects Of Measure of Inter-
est to AgricaIIturists.


SACRAMENTO, Feb. 5.-AIl of the
talk about the lack of gluten in Cali
fornia wheat has had its effect and
Senator Diggs' bill providing for the
establishment of the California Cereal
Improvement Commission is going
steadily on toward final passage. The
bill has been favorably reported back
by one committee TO which 1t was as
signed and re-referred to the Finance
Committee, which now has it under
consideration.
The bill provides that IL shall be the
duty of the Governor within thirty
days after the passage of the act to
appoint three Commissioners who
shall constitute the California Cereal
Improvement Commission. 1t shall be
the duty of the commission to make
such Investigations under the super
vision of the Agricultural Experiment
Station of the University of California
as it may deem best in an effort to dis
cover improved methods of cereal cul-
ture that Will not only increase the
yield. but that will increase the per-
centage of gluten in the cereals of the
State.
The bill also provides that the COM
mission shall receive no compensation
for its services other than travelling
expenses actually incurred.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-06
ICE JAM OFF NEW YORK.
Floes Garry on Buoys, Making Navi-
CATION Dangerous.

F1oeS carry Om buOys, Making Navi-
CATION Dangerous.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-Ice foes
completely filled New York harbor to-
day. rendering the passage of vessels
into and out OF the port slow and diff
ficult. In the Narrows the ice pack
was so dense that even the powerful
transatlantic liners had trouble in
forcing passage.
One of the serious results Of the
presence of vast foes in the lower bay
during the past four days has been
the breaking and carrying away Of
great numbers Of buoys in the various
ship channels. Captains of coastwise
steamers and Sandy Hook pilots have
reported number Of narrow escapes
from grounding, caused by the dis
placement of buoys. Captain Shepard
of the lighthouse board said that the
displacement Of buoys by ice during
the week was unprecedented in the
history of the department and that
the conditions of navigation into and
out of the port are the most danger
Gus that have ever existed.
All the steamships Of the Sound
fleet arrived safely to-day, although
several hours late. Their captains re-
ported that heavy ice was encountered
throughout the Sound and that navi-
cation was barely possible. On sew
eral occasions the fleet of New York.
bound steamships was compelled to
unite and attack the ice In the wedge
formation. Owing to a change in the
wind the North and East rivers were
comparatively clear of ice during the
day and the ferries were operated
with little interruption.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-06
BOLD BURGLARS
WORK QUIETLY
Residence Is Entered During
the Early Evening and
Two Rooms Are Ransacked
OCCUPANT NOT WARNED
Crooks Break Into Home of
Henry Meyers on Lombard
Street and Take Coin

Henry Meyers of 25s1 Lombard street
reported daring burglary to the police
at the Central Police Station Saturday
night. 1t was committed early Saturday
evening and without the knowledge
of Mrs. Meyers, who was in the house
at the time. Bureau drawers, trunks
and closets in two rooms were ran
sacked. but the thieves got only s22 in
cash for their work
According to the story Meyers told
at the Central Police Station, he left
his home about o'clock In the even
ing on some business and promised to
return about Z. His wife was alone at
the time. After keeping his appoint
ment Meyers came back at the ap-
pointed time. Soon after his return
nc had occasion to go into one Of the
bedrooms, where a condition OF dis
order met his view Bureau drawers
had been pulled out and their contents
scattered over the floor. Trunks had
been broken open and searched The
thorough work of the thieves was
everywhere In evidence Meyers found
the same state Of affairs in an adioin-
ing room and discovered that from a
drawer In one OF the tables S22 In coin
had been stolen
Mrs Meyers said she heard no
sound, though she was within a few
feet of where the burglars were at
work. She knew nothing OF the rob-
berry until the discovery was made by
her husband. How the thieves entered
the house Is a mystery, but 1t Is be-
lieved that they used a skeleton key
on one of the side doors. The windows
were all tightly fastened and there
was no indication that anything had
been disturbed Had Mrs. Meyers
come upon the crooks while they We're
at work she would probably have been
killed. As soon as the house was
placed in order, Meyers went to the
Central Station and made a report of
the matter. Detectives are at work on
the case and are said to have a clew.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-06
STORM CUTS OFF SOUTH.
Wire Service Paralyzed and the Rail-
roads Crippled.

roads Crippled.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Feb. 5.-Tele-
phone and telegraph service over a
wide range of the South was almost
completely crippled by heavy sleet to-
day. Railroad service also suffered and
in some towns the lighting and street
car facilities were suspended. The tie
UP was the most complete in many
years, and although the telegraph COM
panies and railroads have large forces
of men at work, 1t may be two or three
days before normal conditions are re-
stored.
The storm, which covered with q
thick icy coat Kentucky, Tennessee,
Arkansas, Oklahoma, Indian Territory,
Mississippi. Alabama, Louisiana and
Georgia prevailed fntermittently for
three days and the wires broke under
the accumulated ice. Service from
Louisville to Memphis, Nashville
Chattanooga and Birmingham was but
little interrupted. South Of these cit
les to the gulf only two or three wires
snow and sleet varies from one to three
inches.
For several hours Atlanta and New
Orleans were cut off from the rest Of
the country All wires were down
from Memphis to Natchez and New
Orleans and the telegraph companies
sent messages for those points to New
York and down the coast, but even
then the service was interrupted for a
time. Two hundred poles went down
in Mississippi.
In Chattanooga the streets were filled
with broken wires. The lighting and
streetcar currents were turned off to
avoid danger to pedestrians and line
men.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-06
RIVERS INSPECTION.
Legislators Invited to Join Excursion
ON Sacramento River.

SACRAMENTO. Feb. 5.-An excur-
sion down the Sacramento River is to
be given next Sunday, which members
of the Legislature and State officers
will be invited to attend. Colonel
Heuer and Rufus P. Jennings, A. p.
Antron and all the members of the
River Improvement and Reclamation
Association Of California are expected
to be present A large steamer, cap
able of carrying 700 passengers, will
be chartered for the occasion. The
trip will include visit to all the lower
parts of the Sacramento River, giving
a view of the levees and the over
flowed lands of the Yolo Basin.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-06
VISITS SAN QUENTIN.
Institution Is Inspected by Assembly
Committee ON Prisons.

SAN RAFAEL, Feb. 5.-The Assem-
bly, Committee on State Prisons an l
Reformatories, headed by Chairman
McKenney, visited San Quentin prison
to-day for the purpose of inspecting
the institution and looking over plans
and specifications for many needed i'm
provements. The committee spent the
entire day at the prison and will pass
the night there. The committeeman
are Assemblymen Bliss, Olmsted,
Lynch, Amerige, Ellis, Boyle, Beckett
and Wickershan.
Senator Carter and Assemblyman
Jones OF the Ways and Means Com
mittee were also with the party.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-06
FREEZE TIES UP TRAFFIC.
vessels Held Fast in the Ice on
Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 5.-An al
most complete suspension of the coast
wise trade out of this port has fol-
lowed the general freeze-up Of the
harbor. There are number of vessels
here, but none will take charters un-
til there is some probability Of being
able to get out of the Delaware River.
which is impossible at this time. Very
little coal is being received at this port
in consequence Of the extreme cold in
the mining regions and great delay is
being experienced by steamships under
charter for the West Indies in getting
their cargoes.
More than fifty vessels were held in
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-06
BEL lLBOY DODGES FORTUNE
WOMAN WOULD GIVE HIM
Wealthy Idaho Widow Looking for
Youth Who Refused Her Oner
OF u Home.

DENVER, Feb. 5.-A bellboy,
known only to the woman who is
seeking him as the "Kankakee Kid. -
Is being sought by Mrs. H Adams. a
wealthy widow of Boise. Idaho, who
is now in Denver. She met the boy in
Chicago several years ago and be-
cause of his kindness and thoughtful
ness offered him home in Idaho He
declined, but she has resolved to try to
persuade him once more.
The boy left Chicago and came
West, but is not here now. He is well
known here, but only by the nickname
given, he always having been reticept
about his family. Mrs. Adams wants
to start him In business and make him
her heir.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-06
RAILROAD FIREMAN
CREMATED IN FURNACE,
Thrown Into Firebox by q Collision
and Il Burned to
Death.

EMPORIA. Kans.. Feb. 5.-At mid
night last night freight train No. "a
and an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
switch engine collided in the west end
of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
yards. Daniel o. Holman. % years
old, was burned to death. He was
shoveling coal into the firebox when
the collision occurred and was thrown
into the furnace and Moderated. The
engineer, d. E. Gan, escaped with a
few bruises. The engineer OF the
freight train. Mcclure. and the fire.
man. Barker. were uninjured. The
wreck caught fire and burned.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-06
SIXTY DAYS ENOUGH.
Movement Started to Adjourn Legis.
lature Within Statutory Limit.

SACRAMENTO. Feb. 5.-Members
of the Senate and the Assembly are
starting movement to secure an ad-
journment of the Legislature at the
end of the statutory sixty days.
whether the files are cleared or not.
Both branches of the Legislature are
being sounded on the project and if
the pledges of enough members can
be secured the project will be carried
out.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-06

the ice at the lower bay to-day. and
a number of ocean steamships, which
attempted to force their way through
the obstruction at the Delaware Capes.
were compelled to return to sea and
anchor for the night
on Billingsport. N. j., fifteen coal
barges are held fast in the ice. They
belong to the Reading Railway Com
pany, and are inwardbound from Bos-
ton.
The San Francisco call., 1905-02-06
STEAMSHIP FAST IN ICE.
Passengers Marooned on the Iowa On
Chicago Harbor.

O1NCdSO HdTDOf.
CHICAGO, Feb. 5.-The Goodrich line
passenger steamship Iowa, which left
Milwaukee early to-day, is fast in the
ice two miles outside the Chicago har-
Dor. Twenty or thirty passengers are
supposed to be on the vessel, but the
officials of the company said tonight
that they were In no danger. The Iowa
is surrounded by an immense field Of
Ice and so far a tug has been unable
to reach her. The Iowa has been max
ing daily trips between Milwaukee and
Chicago all winter