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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
Evidence OF Graft Is Complete
in the Trolley Scandal
Iurv Will Act
on Insurance
Matters

Realizing that in addition to putting
grafters into jail there is other work
which Grand Jury may do with profit
to the citizens, the members of that
body met yesterday afternoon and went
at length into matters of great impor-
lance to the city. AS a result of the
conference resolutions are to be adopt
ed committing the jurors to campaign
to secure lower fire insurance rates for
this city to replace the criminally ex-
orbitant schedules now in force; the
demand is to be made that property
owners place fences about excavated
lots to protect paSsersby from falling
into the pits; houses of ill-fame are to
be forced from the residence district;
the movement already begun to level
all walls will be energetically contin-
ued, and a strict enforcement of build
ing ordinances is to be insisted upon.
Every member of the Grand Jury is
on the assessment roll and is q prop
erty owner, and they all fully appre-
ciate the burden of the premiums de-
manded by the insurance companies.
Those concerns are endeavoring to re-
coup their capitals by setting almost
prohibitive rates on buildings. The
rates are entirely incommensurate with
and an appeal will be made to the
State Insurance Commissioner and If
necessary to the Interstate Commerce
Commission to have equitable charges
established for San Francisco.
The death of Mrs. Maud Braun, which
resulted from fall into an excavation
for a building at Suffer street and
Grand avenue early Wednesday morn
ing, has aroused the Grand Jury to a
realization of the danger of open lots,
and all property owners are to be
forced to place fences along the side
walk lines All walls will have to be
RACED Immediately, the Grand Jury in
tending to assist President Duffey of
the Board of Public Works to its fur
thest power in making property own
ers minimize all danger, and a rigid in
vestigation will be made of buildings
beng constructed
The question of houses of evil repute
existing on blocks in which live re-
spectacle families has been called to
the attention of the Grand Jury, and
that body is determined that this
shameful condition must cease to exist.
If necessary to enforce the law, a series
of raids will be made by the forces of
the jury to close the illegal resorts.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
Case Will Soon
Come Before
Grand Jury

The evidence in the trolley graft is
complete and is ready for presentation
to the Grand Jury. 1t is SO positive
that Abe Ruef, Mayor Schmitz and a
majority of the Board OF supervisors
cannot hope to escape Indictment. The
case will not be placed before the
Grand Jury until pending matters have
been cleared up.
The money paid to Abe Ruef by the
United Railroads has been traced to the
bank in which he deposited 1t. In
tracing this sum it was discovered that
Ruef is a heavy depositor in almost
every large bank in San Francisco.
Ruef has nearly 100000 on deposit in
the financial Institutions in this city.
The evidence shows that in with
drawing the Doodle money from the
bank Ruef exercised the utmost eau
ton to avoid suspicion. He made a
large payment to Supervisor Gallagher.
who, in turn, handed the money to
those members of the board who were
in on the deal
Ruef will set up the claim that he
was employed as special counsel by the
United Railroads at the time of the
transaction. This claim will be COM
pletely shattered by the evidence to be
introduced.
1t has become known that the matter
was placed before Ruef by the corpora
ton some months before the fire. He
was to engineer the deal by which the
city was to be sold out. Everything
was in readiness for its contamination
when the outburst of public wrath at
the suggestion of the blanket franchise
frightened Ruef and he decided to post
pone the deal The fire gave him the
opportunity for which he had been
waiting, and he handed over the city to
the corporation under the cover of ur-
gency legislation.
Important conferences have been
held this week in the offices of the
United Railroads at Oak and Broderick
streets, at which the trolley scandal
has been discussed. Thornwell Null
lally has been the leading spirit at
these sessions.
Following the trolley scandal the
telephone deal is to be placed before
the Grand Jury. Several attorneys will
be summoned to give testimony in this
connection, among them George Hat
ton. He is in the national capital,
whittier he went at the opening of Con-
gress. He will be asked to return to
go before the Grand Jury.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
DENY THEY KNOW
OF BRIBERY
Belgian Officials Declare
Colonel Kowalsky Acted
Independently of Them
sHORN OF HIS JOB
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.--Consul Gen.
eral Whitley, local representative of
King Leopold, gave out this statement
today:
II do not know of the existence of the
lobby. In so far as Colonel Henry /.
Kowalsky's connection goes, 1 am not
prepared to say. He acted independ-
but twice, and the last time was two
years ago.
Il must say also that Colonel Kowal-
sky had his own instructions delivered
to him and signed by King Leopold.
Colonel Kowalsky's duty was to offer
suggestion, not to purchase opinion, to
whoever needed 1t, regardless of his
station. He was free to give 1t to
statesmen as well as to private indi-
viduals. Obeying the spirit of instruc-
lions given him, he was to do nothing
but present the Congo question in it's
true light and from the standpoint of
the Congo government.
Colonel Kowalsky remained in that
capacity for one year. 1 do not know
If he had been appointed only for that
length of time, or If he voluntarily re-
signed or If he was called upon to re-
sign. His Office, believe, was In New
York, and business often called him to
Washington"
Baron Moncheur's latest statement
after going over practically the same
ground as that covered in the Whitley
interview. says:
IF Colonel Kowalsky or Mr.. Wack
ever did any lobbying or bribing they
did it without the consent or knowledge
of King Leopold or his officials. Colonel
Kowalsky was at one time engaged as
attorney for King Leopold in this city
and this country. He is no longer en-
ployed by the King"
NEW YORK, Dec. lathe American
says: The following extract is taken
from a notebook of one of Leopold
trusted advisers. who did not fail tic
see the humor of the situation:
They summoned kowalsky to Brus-
sells and suggested that, as he had
done some lobbying in Washington, he
should now grab his pajamas and hustle
off to Nigeria. Kowalsky did not
know where Nigeria was situated. On
inquiry he learned that 1T was an
English possession, full of germs and
malarial fever. He saw the game
which he firmly believed was to get
rid of him in the Nigeria swamps.''
Here follows a long extract from q
letter written by Kowalsky. The
spelling and grammar are Kowalsky's
own. The following is an excerpt:
LONDON, May 1. 1905.
My Dear x: My efforts are not ap.
preciated, nor recognized, but are
pushed aside by 1ntreague' of a few
self-serving liars and traitors to theil
own King. The plot of Washington
has succeeded. 1 am to be vanished
to Neugerar."
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
Oman Is Given
Thousands for
P rejection

Il have paid Chief Oman total OF
$500 as protection money" is the re-
markab1e statement made by A. An
drefu, the witness against the ADMIN
istration in the cases involving dlsor-
derby houses. Andrieu has been ar
rested upon the order Of Oman and
Ruef. He says he recognized at once,
after he was summoned in the gra1t
cases, that two courses were open to
him. He could either protect the ad-
ministration and risk an indictment
for perjury. or tell the truth and ex-
pose Dinan and Ruef. He chose the
latter
When the cases come to trial he
will take the witness stand and state
that he has paid protection money to
the administration for number OF
years, in fact up to month ago
Andreiu was always classed as safe
In the administrations list of victims
He had been held up so often that he
had learned to expect Ruefs hirelings
to swoop down upon him with de-
mand for money every time he
launched one of his disreputable en-
terprises. He sought to avoid the
Grand Jury, but when the detectives
of the prosecution paid an unexpected
visit to his place at 712 Pacific street
and gathered in the books in which
were recorded with full details all OF
the boodling transactions, he recog-
nized that the jig wa- up. 1t simply
remained for him to corroborate the
written evidence.
While the administration has sought
to intimidate Andrieu, it has adopted
somewhat similar tactics toward
Graney. Charges have been filed with
the police commission against Graney
as the result of the fatal encounter
in his saloon at Fillmore and O'Farrell
streets on Monday evening. The &C
cusation states that Graney endeavored
to obstruct the administration of JUS
tice by refusing to aid the police in
their efforts to solve the mystery. The
charge was filed by Captain of Police
Mooney, based on the report of Ser
geant Birdsall.
1t is said that this complaint will
be used by the administration as q
club over Graney's head to keep him
from saying too much on the witness
stand before the Grand Jury. Graney's
liquor license can be cancelled at any
time This fact may serve to keep the
blacksmith in line
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
MIND NOT SOUND,
SAYS WITNESS
Mrs. Colton's Housemaid Is
Sure Mistress Was Not
Rational During Illness
AIDS THE CONTESTANT
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.


SANTA CRUZ. Dec. 1S.-In their ef-
forts to prove that the late Mrs. Ellen
M. Cotton did not have a sound mind al
the time that she signed the document
purported to be her last will and teSta-
ment. Attorney Riley and Henley Tor
the little 5-year-old contestant for hair
of the mfIlion-dollar Cotton estate.
have read in evidence the dispositions
of the washington physicians who at
tended Mrs Cotton during her last III
ness. and witnesses from Spain ana
Washington have been called and ex-
amined during this weeks proceedlnss.
The testimony and dispositions or all
are singularly harmonious, ana cor
roborate the stories told oy Johh
Clapes. Mrs Colton's butler. VINO re-
cited instances to prove that Mrs.
Cotton was irrational during her last
illness, when the will was signed
Mary Espino, who served as a maid
and as cook in the washington
household of Mrs. Ellen Cotton, was
witness in the case this morning Her
story was that Mrs. Cotton was very
i'll woman from the time she first at
tended her. and rallied but little while
under her care Her mind was I'M
sound and wandering. her speech was
disconnected. These symptoms were
well marked on the 5th of December.
1904, the day the will was made, but
the witness was not in the room during
the entire time the will was being
made.
Attorneys Slack and Cert Of San
Francisco for the proponents made an
effort Tuesday to prevent the deposit
lions of the washington physicians
being offered in evidence, but their OBJ
jections were overruled. The case went
over until Monday morning.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
KAISER D|SSOLvES
THE RE|CHSTAG

BERLIN, Dec. 13.-Emperor William
dissolved the Reichstag today and or
dered new elections in consequence of
the defeat of the Government by
17S, to 1853 votes in connection
with the bill authorizing what the
Ministry contends is an adequate
number of troops to end the insurrec-
ton in German Southwest Africa and
hold the colony against recurrence
of the rebellion.
The clericals, socialists, Poles and
one wing of the radicals voted against
the Government, while the conserva-
tives, national liberals and moderate
radicals supported the Government.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
MURRAY ACQUITTED
Of MURDER

PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. 13.-It re-
Quired the jury in the State Circuit
Court forty minutes today to acquit Or
lando H. Murray of the charge of muir
dering Lincoln Whitney, on November
8 last. Murray shot Whitney to death
in obedience to the ''unwritten law, -
after Whitney had persistently refused
TO marry Murray's sister.
Notwithstanding that just before the
jury announced its verdict Judge Gan
tonbein forbade all forms Of applause
when the clerk read the words mot
guilty" there was enthusiastic
handclapping- Following this Murray
was surrounded by personal friends
and others who warmly congratulated
him.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
DESPoNDENT FROM ILLNESS
AGED SHOEMAKER SUICIDES
Is Unable to Secure Work and
Prefers Death to Life of
DeueudeuCe

Despondent from long Illness and
unable to obtain work at his trade
of shoemaker, Charles Cederquist, a
native of Sweden and 65 years old,
committed suicide yesterday afternoon
by drinking carbolic acid
Cederquist had been living for the
last two years at a rooming- house con-
Quoted by Mrs. Alice Henderson, atk673
Kansas street. He retired to his room
about o'clock and was found dead
about an hour later by his room mate.
Louis Sutherland, lying in bed, fully
dressed, with an empty carbolic acid
bottle lying on the floor
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
PRESENTS DARK PICTURE
MonSfEnor Montagnfni Tells Anxious
POntif of Situation I'm France

ROME. Dec 13.-Immediately after
his arrival here today Monsignor Mon
tagnini. the expelled secretary of the
Papal Nunciature at Paris. went to the
Vatican and conferred with Papal Sec
rotary Of State Merry del Val and Mon
signor della Chiesa and Monsignor Gas
parri, the assistant secretaries, and
made them long report on the situa-
ton in France.
Immediately afterward Monsignor
Montagnini went TO the Pope and pre-
scented to the pontif rather dark pic
ture of the situation, saying he be-
lieved the present French Government
would not be- induced to change the
attitude which il had assumed toward
the Vatican.
Monsignor Montagnini remained at
the Vatican, and it is expected that he
viii not leave there until the acute
stage of the Franco-Vatican crisis has
passed.
The Vatican in addition to a semi
official statement made last evening in
the Osservatore Romano says:
To make the applications as intended
by the French Minister Of Worship,
NJ BRAND, would mean submitting TO
a moral and material situation which
is unbearable to the clergy of France,
especially as the churches, places con-
secrated to God, would be regulated in
a worse manner than the dance halls
and officiating priests would be reduced
TO the humiliating condition of being
simply tolerated. These unjust and
dishonorable regulations are aggravat-
ed by those regarding the episcopal
residences, presbyteries and semina-
ries, and therefore accepting the terms
of NJ. Brands circular would have
meant betraying the vital interests OF
religion.
The Holy See ordered the clergy to
refuse to make application prescribed
by the law Of 1881 not on account of
the application itself but because of
the other regulations in NJ. BRANDS
circular
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
RAIL WAY DESIRES
To WIDEN MOLE
Southern Pacific Applies
to Government Ignoring
the Rights of the State
HEARING TO BE HELD

The Southern Pacific Company has
made application to the War Depart
ment for permission to widen it's Oak
land mole. The mole at present covers
fifty acres and the proposed addition
would increase it's extent by twenty
seven acres. The matter has been re-
ferred by the War Department to the
United States Harbor Line Board of
San Francisco for report Major Will
lam w. Hart of the Engineer Corps
will conduct public hearing on be-
half of the board at the rooms of the
California Promotion Committee in
Union Square on January s at IL
o'clock.
AS the proposed extension is beyond
the bulkhead and would affect naviga-
ton. 1t was necessary for the Southern
Pacific to apply to the federal authori-
ties for permission to undertake the
work. The railroad company has failed
to take into consideration the rights of
the State of California. The tide lands
which the company proposes to grab
are owned by the State
year ago, when the Southern Pa
cific first displayed a disposition to
seize the land in question, Mayor Mott
of Oakland published letter of pro-
test. Governor Pardee took no &C
ton. nor has he. as far as is known.
taken cognizance of the railroads APP
plication.
1t will be recalled that when the
Key Route Company, understood to be
affiliated with the Santa Fe. requested
permission of the Government to fill in
Its trestle in the bay, the Southern
Pacific lodged a vigorous protest, and
succeeded in defeating the Key Route
project Now the railroad seeks a
privilege similar to that against which
it protested.
Major Hart announces that all per-
sons interested in the matter will be
given hearing at the public session
on January s.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
CATHOLICS THRONG
PARIS CHURCHES

ments say that wherever mass was
celebrated charges were drawn UP and
summonses issued
At Chalons the Able Panaudin claim
ed that the church bells were not rung
and that no person was invited 10 mass
and that therefore the assemblage had
not the character of public meeting,
whereupon he was compelled by po-
lice officer to inscribe his protest upon
the summons.
At the final meeting last night of the
diocesan council here il was decided
that neither the ecclesiastical residence
nor the seminaries should be abandoned
except before a show of force.
II Is officially stated that the letters
of Monsignor Montagnini, the expelled
secretary Of the Papal nunciature here,
show that the majority of the trench
bishops favored observance Of the law
Of 1881 and bowed with reluctance TO
the papal decree The official state
ment ADDS that the inviolability OF the
diplomatic correspondence OF the nun
ciature was scrupulously respected be-
fore the rupture be.Ueen the Vatican
and France.
Summaries BEING CLOSED
During the day summonses were is
sued charging illegal assemblies IN the
case Of sixty-nine churches of Paris
The Official Journel announced today
that only eighty of the Catholic cult
ursl or diocesan associations formed
were legal. while 90S Protestant and
seventy-eight Jewish associations con-
formed with the law
About fifty seminaries which refused
10 comply with the terms OF the law
are being closed.
It was rumored during the afternoon
that the Government was instigating
this course in order to insure keeping
the churches at the disposal of the
clergy and forcing the latter into the
position Of deliberately disseminating
public worship.
The abbes of the Church of St Pierre
du eros Gallon. ST. Augustin and St.
Roche. are being prosecuted under
the law making il an offense to utter
in places of public worship words cal
culated TO provoke resistance to the
lawful authorities.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
PRESIDENT AIDING
THE MORM0NS
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noble. magnificent contest. They have
abandoned all hope of political prefer
ment and suffer financially in their
unequal struggle for American princi-
pies. President Roosevelt throws the
weight of his mighty influence against
the Americans and for the Republican
Mormons in Utah led by President
Smith and Senator Smoot He demands
in Utah an Endorsement of Smith and
Smoot."
At the end of his speech Senator
Dubois paid further tribute to
woman. He read a letter signed by
Mrs. Frederick Schoff and Mrs. Mary
Dye Ellis as officers of the National
League of Women's Organizations,
which, they say, represented a men,
bership of 100000 women. The let
ter criticised President Roosevelt for
participating through Secretary Taft
in the political campaign in Idaho.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
Geographic News

TAMMANY SHEET QUITS-New York, Dec
13.-The New York Daily News Company today
suspended publication. The cause. given was
that the other papers of the city had superior
facilities.
SHOOTS MAN, ENDS HER LIFE-Nampa
Idaho Dec. 13,-Thomas Daley, mill opera
tive from Winslow, Ont. was shot In the aldo
men and probably fatally wounded by Grace
Davis in resort here today The woman then
killed herself. firing bullet into her BRAIN
RAILROAD CHIEF NAMED-Omaha, Dec 49,
Announcement was made today Of the appoint
ment of Frank Walter general manager of
the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad in Ne
braska. South Dakota and Wyoming. in the place
Of g. F; Bidwell. who has been assigned to spe-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
JURY RETURNS yERDIcTs

A Coroner's jury returned a verdict
yesterday that Joseph Rheinhart. a
plumber, came to his death while
working in a building at Stockton and
Broadway, which collapsed from the
effects of the severe storm last Mon
day The same jury found that the
deaths of Charles Larson and Daniel
D. Hurley We're accidental and that
James ohourke. who died from in
juries received in the park, came to his
death through his own carelessness.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
H. NJ. LA RUE DIES
At SACRAMENTO

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 13.-H. NJ. Larue
died in this city at IL o'clock last night.
He was a native of Kentucky, rs years
of age, was an ex-speaker' of the as
sembly and had served a term as Rail-
road Commissioner. He leaves a wife
and three sons.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14

PERMIT IS REvoKED-The Supervisors
health committee revoked yesterday a permit
heretofore granted to M. Flannery to maintain
a stable on Dolores street, near Fifteenth
Father Cummings who. 1t was alleged. had
Withdrawn his opposition to the stable on be-
half OF the Sisters of Notre Dame. informed
the committee that he had not done so.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
SUES FOR LOSS OF ARM

VALLEJO, Dec. 13.-Charles c. Sui
lenger, now resident of Alameda, has
begun suit for $4,000 against the
Southern Pacific Company for the loss
of his right arm at Calistoga on De-
cember 10, 1905. while employed as a
brakeman. Negligence of a fellow
empioye is alleged to be the cause of
the accident.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14

OAKLAND, Dec. 13.--County Superin-
tendent of Schools Crawford announced
today that the money for the payment
of teachers warrants will be ready
Saturday morning.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14

Radke & Co. are showing the most
exclusive line of toilet articles in San
Francisco Send us your order by mail,
and it will receive prompt attention.
Bush st. and Van Ness ave.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14

BOILER PERMIT DENIED-The Supervisors
fire committee denied the application of e. 7.
Boyce to maintain boiler in premises to be
used for planning mill Twelfth street, near
Howard
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14
INSURANCE SUITS F1LED-suits -,

filed yesterday by the American
Can Company against the Commercial Union
Assurance Company of London for 1901 Al and
by the Pabst Brewing Company against the
North German Fire Insurance Company Of New
York for S5000.- 80"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14

II you don't like Schilling's Best tea
and coffee they cost you nothing.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-14

Buy your awnings, tents and wagon
covers at f. Thom's, 1909 Mission st. =