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VOL. XXXIV.
NUMBER 362.
WARSHIPS
REACH PORT
CRUISER BQUADRON ARRIVES AT
SAN FRANCISCO
FORMS ADVANCE DIVISION OF
MIGHTY FLEET
Need of Coaling Stations on Pacific
Coast Emphasized — Committee
Welcomes Admiral
Dayton
Bj Aisoclated Press.
BAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 27.-The first
division of the Pacific fleet, foreguard of
the American navy, which Is to assemble
In Pacific coast waters by order of Presi
dent Roosevelt, steamed t hrough the
Golden Gate at sunrise this morning. The
four armored cruisers passed the heads In
file formation, led by the flagship West
Virginia, flying at her masthead the two
starred flag of the commander of the
fleet, Rear Admiral James H. Dayton.
Five hundred yards to the rear came the
Colorado, followed at like distance by the
Maryland and the Pennsylvania.
The arrival of the four big sister ships
marked the end of a 36,000-mile cruise,
which began at Newport, R. L, last Sep
tember.
The squadron was sighted outside the
heads at daylight, steaming at half speed
out of a coast fog. By bringing his ships
to anchor off the city front, a few min
utes before 8 o'clock. Admiral Dayton
fulfilled his promise by wireless the night
before to "arrive some time in the early
forenoon."
Greeted b;- Thousands
Thousands anticipating the event were
gathered along the water front and on
the hill tops commanding a view of the
bay. Oblivious of the fact that they
could not be distinguished from decks,
they signaled their welcome to the huge
white and buff fighting machines by wav
ing hats and handkerchiefs. As fleecy
puffs of smoke rose and drifted from the
mouths of the six-pounder saluting guns
of the West Virginia, they cheered.
San Francisco never greeted a home
bound fleet with better weather. The
light fog outside the heads lifted and
blew away as the cruisers emerged Into
the Golden Gate at 6 o"clock. • As the
squadron passed In under the guns of
Fort Mason and Fort Baker the flagship
fired a salute. Passing Goat island, the
West Virginia took on a momentary holi
day dress by running up successive
strings of trlght colored signal flags,,
which were answered frdm the naval
tualnlng station there. Ferryboats
crowded to the rails with early morning
commuters saluted the squadron by triple
blasts of their whistles, the admiral's
ship responding In kind.
Opposite North beach the cruisers
slowed down to allow Chief Quarantine
Officer Hobdy to come aboard. In quick
succession the West Virginia, Colorado,
Maryland and Pennsylvania submitted
their health certificates, and were given
clenn bills, and allowed to proceed to their
anchorage* a mile farther on, passing
some of the other cruisers of the fleet on
th« way. . *
Admiral Swinburne put off from his
flagship, the cruiser Charleston, as soon
as the West Virginia moored. On board
the latter vessel the rails were manned,
and the band struck up a lively air as
Admiral Swinburne stepped to the quar
ter deck to gVee the^ commander-in-chlef
of the fleet. The brief formality over,
the two admirals shook hands warmly
and at once retired for an official confer
ence relative to the departure from this
port of the cruisers California, Charles
ton and St. Louis for target practice at
Magdalena bay. Captain J. B. Milton,
commanding the West Virginia, received
a score of n.wspapermen who had been
waiting In launches for an hour to come
aboard.
Committee Welcomes Admiral
At 1 o'clock this afternoon a joint com
mittee of about 100 men prominent In
political, business and social life of San
Francisco and nearby cities boarded
the West Virginia to greet and welcome
Admiral Dayton and the officers of the
fleet. It *ad been arranged that United
States Senator Perkins make a brief for
.mal address of welcome.
San Francisco and California are keenly
alive to the importance of the arrival of
Admiral Dayton's squadron as signaliz
ing the coming mobilization In these
waters of the greater part of the Amer
ican navy. It will be by way of an of
ficial notification to the world that the
central government recognizes as never
before the huge growth of the indus
trial and commercial life of the west
and the vast part of the Pacific coast
is destlrfed to play in securing aro. main
taining for the country at large a fair
share of the trade of the Orient.
It Is predicted that the assembling of
sixteen battleships and ten or twelve
cruisers In California, Oregon and Wash
ington waters will do much to secure In
congress the enactment of the long de
ferred ship subsidy bill, for the lack of
Which American commerce is carried
largely in foreign bottoms.
Need Coaling Stations
A serious problem to which immediate
and urgent attention will be called by
the mobilization here of the fleet Is the
right of the Pacific coast to have ad
ditional coaling stations, shipyards, navy
repair shops and commodious drydocks.
The suggestion has been made that the
lack of coaling facilities In these waters
for such a naval centralization as 1b about
to be carried out under the orders of
the president, may give Impetus to the
experiments already being made in the
conversion of war craft from coal burn
ere to oil burners.
California is weak in her native coal
•upply. but remarkably etrong In her
capacity to supply crude oil In unlimited
quantities.
Orders were received at the Mare Island
navy yard at Vallejo this morning to
place the cruisers Cincinnati and Raleigh
out of commission. These vessels arrived
froTi the Asiatic station during the past
month and are » need of extensive re
pairs. Their crews will be transferred
to the cruiser California, which is now
short of men and any surplus will be re
ceived on the South Dakota, expected
here from the Union Iron works to be
commissioned.
The St. Louis will come here for coal
and provisions and will rejoin the ships
now at San Francisco.
ADDITIONAL WORK NECESSARY
ON EVANS' BATTLESHIP FLEET
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.-As the result
of additional changes found to be neces
sary in the battleships of Admiral Evans 1 ,
fleet, now under orders to sail for tho
Pacific, it has been found that an addi
tional period of sixty days must be spout
tCOBtIMU.d OB !•¦*« TWO.)
Los Angeles Herald.
PRICE OF MEAT MAY
SOAR EVEN HIGHER
Eastern Housekeepers Complaining of
Excessive Cost of All Beef
Products — Dealers Try
to Explain
By Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 27.— Housekeepers
throughout this city are complaining over
an Increase in the price of beef and beef
products. There has been an Increase in
the cost to the retailer of 1 cent a pound.
It is understood among the retail dealers
that the price will go up within the next
month half a cent If not a cent more. The
wholesalers give many reasons for the In
crease in prices. One of the principal
ones is that the farmers have had Mo
fatten their cattle on grain Instead of
grass as usual at this time of the year
owing to the long drought last summer.
On the other hand, it is contended In
some quarters that the price of beef has
been raised by the big western packers
because of the renewed agitation of the
question of government prosecution of
big corporations. The prices for lamb,
veal and mutton are practically sta
tionary.
LEASED WIRE MEN
TO REMAIN A T WORK
SMALL REFUSES TO CALL OUT
OPERATORB
Contracts Must Be Respected, Is De.
cislon of President of Teleg
raphers — Thinks Settle
ment Is In Sight
E> Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 27.— National Presi
dent S. J. Small of the Commercial Teleg
raphers' union, who is here to confer with
Commissioner Neill and officers of the Or
<ler of Railway Telegraphers, said:
"The leased wire operators under con
tract will not be called out. The action
in New York Is based on a purely local
condition, and was referred to the execu
tive board of which I am chairman. , It
Is the sense of this board that all con
tracts must be respected.'*
President Small said also that an agree
ment with the companies would be
reached within the next three days and
the strike ended. He said he was not at
liberty to disclose the details of the peace
plans under way.
CHICAGO, Sept. 27.— Three members of
the national executive board of the Telegr
raphers'* union declared today that they
voted against calling a strike of the union
operators employed in broker and news
paper offices, in which event, being a ma
jority of the board, the request of the
striking New York operators will be re
fused. No official actipn has been taken
for the reason that no communication has
yet been received from the New York
local. The members who oppose the
strike are M. J. Reidy, S. J. Konenkamp
and J. M. Sullivan.
CHICAGO GAMBLERS
TARGETS FOR BOMBS
Another Attempt Made by Mysterious
Assailant to Blow. Up Mont
Tennes' Place of Busi.
ness
By Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Sept. 27.— Another explosion
—the ninth— was added last night to the
mysterious series of violent occurrences
credited to the feuds between factions of
Chicago gamblers. This time the ex
plosion occurred In the down town dis
trict.
A concussion as mysterious in nature
as its predecessors shattered the rear
windows and doorway of the Morrison
building at 123 and 125 South Clark street,
the greater part of the ground floor of
which is occupied by the "cash register"
business of Mont Tennes. The explosion
took place in a bl^nd court running to the
rear of this and adjoining buildings, and
opening out of an alley. The court was
littered with splintered wood torn from
the doorway and window casements. A
rickety stairway leading up to the rear
entrance of the premises apparently was
the spot at which the explosive was
placed, and this structure was partly
demolished.
This Is the third attack on Mont Tennes.
Since the beginning of the campaign of
bombs there have been eight other at
tacks aimed at gamblers.
200 RAILWAY CLERKS
DECIDE ON WALKOUT
Employes of Six Lines Strike at To
ledo, Ohio — Demand Working
Agreement with Cor.
porations
By Associated Press.
TOLEDO, Sept. 27.- J -T wo hundred rail
way clerks representing six roads, struck
today, demanding a working agreement
with their employers. More than that
number remained at their desks.
An effort will be made to have freight
handlers and teamsters Join the ranks.
TWO NEGROES- ARE HELD
FOR MURDER OF WOMAN
Chicago Police Arrest Suspect, Who
at Once Lays Blame on An.
other* — Second Also Is
Taken
By Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Sept. 27.— Richard Walton,
the negro man arrested In Springfield for
the murder of Mrs. Lillian W. Grant, In
formed the police today that another ne
gro named Marcus H. LeMoyne was the
actual slayer of Mrs. Grant. LeMoyne
was arrested late in the afternoon.
. Figl t In Saloon; One Killed
By Associated Press.
SPOKANE, Sept. 27.— James Cahill, a
contractor's foreman, was shot and fatal
ly wounded by Larry Cavanaugh, an el
derly mining man, following a quarrel In
a saloon here today:
. SATURDAY MORIS ING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1907
PROBES OIL
TRUST PROFIT
PIPE LINE COMPANIES ARE
UNDER FIRE
CONTROLLER QUESTIONED AS TO
BIG LOANS
Action Against Standard Company Is
Resumed in Ohio — Vice Presi
dent of the Octopus
Is 111
By Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 27.— George Chese
bro, controller of many of the subsidiary
pipe line companies of the Standard Oil
company, took the stand today in" tho
government suit against the Standard Oil
company of New Jersey to give testimony
regarding the operating costs and profits
of the pipe line companies. Mr. Kellogg
questioned the witness regarding the
Buckeye Pipe Line company.
"I notice the following loans made by
the Buckeye Pipe Line company to the
National Transit company, as shown by
the balance sheets of the Buckeye com
pany:
In 1899 $3,817,141
In 1900 6,261,287
In 1902 5.638,618
x In 190T 8,115,133
In 1904 6,515,488
In IMC J..S. 3,389,326
In 1906 4,616,514
"What were these loans?" asked Mr.
Kellogg.
"They represented funds on deposit with
the National Transit company." replied
Mr. Chesebro.
Carried as Asset
"You carried these loans as an asset?"
"Yes, sir."
"Why did you deposit these funds with
the National Transit company?"
"We used the National Transit company
as a bank and we could call for the funds
whenever we wanted them," replied the
witness.
"I notice that in 1906 the cost of the
Buckeye plant is carried at $9,999,967 and
the net earnings were $7,028,508 for that
year. Is that correct?"
"Yes, sir."
"I notice that $2,231,901 Is carried on the
books as an oil purchase contingent fund.
Why is duch a fund as that carried?"
"To cover the loss by shrinkage in the
carrying of oil," said Mr. Chesebro.
Mr. Chesebro said that such a contin
gent sum was carried because the* ship
ping might call for the shrinkage funds
at any time. The witness said that the
Standard Oil company qswns the pipe line
which was run under New York, and
previous to 1905 leased it to the New York
Transit company.
Mr. Chesebro testified that the New
York -Transit company sold the pipe
lines from Unlonvllle and Center Bridge
to Bayonne to the Standard Oil com
pany in 1906. He could not recall the
purchase price. Mr. Kellogg asked the
witness about loans shewn by the balance
sheets of the National Transit company
to have been made to Messrs. Foiger and
Payne, but he had only heard of them.
Can't Identify Him
He was unable to Identify C. M. Barns
dale, to whom the company was shown
to have loaned $270,541, and did not know
whether he was connected with the
Barnsdale Oil company of Indiana.
Charles S. White, assistant secretary
of the Standard OH company of New
Jersey, was called.
He said he held positions with various
subsidiary companies of the Standard Oil
company. Mr. Kellogg asked the witness
to produce a list from the records of the
Standard Oil company of New York of
all stockholders votinte at all meetings
from 1892 to 1900 and a list of those hold
ing trust certificates not voting, also for
the same information concerning all the
companies with which the witness was
connected.
Mr. White said the books of the Stan
dard trustees and llquldtalon trustees
were not In the office of the secretary
of the Standard Oil company of New
Jersey. He searched for the books but
was not able to find them.
Adjournment was taken until next
Thursday.
Henry M. Flagler, vice Dresident of the
Standard Oil company, is seriously ill in
the Mt. Washington hotel, Bretton
Woods, N. Y. His condition is understood
to be sjft-lous. His personal physician,
Dr % Dlnan, and nurses are In constant
attendance.
Symptoms of a general nervous break
down appeared and about a month ago
he was taken to Ahe White mountains.
Every posslble'effort is being made to
keep his mind from his business affairs,
and it Is not considered probable that
he can testify in the government suit
against the Standard OH company, now In
progress here.
Prosecuted In Ohio
FINDLAY, Ohio, Sept. 27.— Arguments
were begun before Judge Duncan In
common pleas court today to quash cer
tain portions of tile allegation filed by
George S. Phelps against the Standard
OH company, seven of Its subsidiary
concerns, John D. Rockefeller and other
officials of the Standard Oil company.
The complainant prays that the char
ters of the corporation named, except
those of the (Ohio Oil company and the
Standard OH company, be adjudged to be
Illegal, fraudulent and void, and that
each of the defendants be perpetually
enjoined from doing any act In said cor
poration, name or form and that a re
ceiver be appointed with power^to wind
up the alleged Illegal corporations.
L. B. Williamson, recently arrested on
the charge of attempting to bribe a
Juror in a Standard Oil case, has been
placed under $3000 ball.
'Eight Hurt In Train Wreck
By Associated Press.
HARRISBURG. Pa.. Sept. 27.— Eight
persons were injured in a wreck on the
Pennsylvania railroad at Jeanetta bridge
In Duncannon today, when the Altoona
accommodation collided with a freight
train. Lloyd Ward, an express messen
ger, was the only person seriously in
jured.
Stanford Site to Be Sold
By Associated Press.
SAN JOSE. Sept. 27.— Superior Judge
Hyiand today granted the Stanford uni
versity trustees permission to s«l the site
of the Stanford mansion in San Fran
cisco at the corner of Powell and Califor
nia street, the money from the sale to be
invested In San Francisco real estate for
the benefit of the university.
Purchase of Alton Approved
By Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. 27.— The directors of
the Toledo, St. Louis & Western railroad
today approved the purchase by that com
pany of a controlling Interest in the
Alton.
MAY FINES S. P.
TWO MILLIONS
RAILROAD AND STEAMSHIP LINE
INDICTED
United States Judge in San Francisco
to Issue Summons for General
Managers Calvin and
Schwerin
By Associated Prets.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 87.— The federal
grand Jury today returned five indict
ments of 124 counts against the Southern
Pacific company and tho Pacific Mail
Steamship company, charging violations
of the interstate commerce law. These
Indictments, If followed by convictions,
are sufficient to render the corporations
liable to fines aggregating from $124,000
to $2,480,000, the minimum fine prescribed
by law on each count being $1000, and
the maximum fine $20,000.
The defendant corporations are accused
of secretly cutting to $1 the published
rate of $1.25 on through shipments of mat
ting from Kobe, Japan, to San Francisco,
and thence throughout the United States.
Two indictments of s eight counts each
were returned against the Pacific Mall
Steamship company, which transported
the cargo from Kobe to San Francisco,
and ope Indictment of eight counts and
two indictments of fifty counts each were
returned against the Southern Pacific
company for forwarding the cargo in
broken lot shipments from this olty east
ward. The published rate for such ship
ments, at filed by the defendant corpor
ations with the interstate commerce com
mission was $1.25, but the grand Jury
charges that the Pacific Mall and the
Southern Pacific accepted these goods
from Joseph Wilde & Co., Taylor,
Cooper & Co., and Smith, Baker &
Co., all merchants of Yokohoma, for
$1 the hundred pounds. The shipments
are alleged to have been made In bulk
September 11, 1904, via steamship Mon
golia.
Summons will be Issued tomorrow by
Judge De Haven and they \*lll be served
by the United States marshal upon E. E.
Calvin, vice president and general man
ager of the Southern Pacific, and R. P.
Schwerin. manager of the Pacific Mail
line. The indictments returned against
them are similar In form' to those re
turned in the Standard Oil-Alton rail
road rebate case. 'The corporations only
are named, but the highest officers mus^
appear in court.
MANY CHINESE PERISH IN
FIRE SET BY INCENDIARY
By Associated Press.
HONGKONG, bept. 27.— Hundreds of
houses and many boats were destroyed
today by a fire at Wu Cnow. It is feared
that the loss of life was heavy.
The conflagration is said to have been
due to incendiarism growing out of the
recent establishment of a new interior
customs station at Wu Chow, the in
habitants of which are bitterly opposed
to extra taxation.
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The Milk Trusi
LITTLE YELLOW DOG
TIES UP RAILROAD
Canine Runs Into Dispatcher's Office.
Operators Think Animal Is Mad
and Flee — Trains Blocked
Five Hours
CONNELLSVILLE, Pa., Sept. 27.— A lit
tle yellow dog which happened to be
frothing at the mouth held up the entire
Connellsvllle Bectlon of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad yesterday afternoon for an
hour and a half, and it was not until
five hours afterward that the trains on
the road began to make their regular
schedule.
The dog darted Into the dispatcher's
office at White Rock, a mile above the
city. The train dispatcher just took tlmo
to hold up every train on the division
and then he and the operators vacated
the office. Word was sent to this city
and a policeman— John Lowe— was hur
riedly sent to the office.
The policeman reached there about an
hour afterwara, looked at the dog, de
clared that it wasn't mad, chased it out
of the office, the dispatcher and the op
erators returned and the railroad re
sumed business.
NEVADA RAILROADS
TIED UP BY STRIKE
ALL ENGINEERS AND TRAINMEN
Qurr work
Las Vegas & Tonopah Employes De
mand Higher Wages — Passenger
Coaches Are Held at
Beatty
Special *o The Herald.
BEATTY, Nay., Sept. 27. -The train
crews on the Lus Vegas & Tonopah rail
road went on a. strike today at both
Las Vegas, the junction point on the
San Pedro- & Salt Lake railroad, and
Beatty, th)e «nd of the present northern
haul.
The trainmen demand a wage scale
equal to that paid by the Bullfrog At
Goldfleld railroad for like services, known
as the Tonopah scale, which is, for con
ductors ?170 a month, brakeman $130, fire
men $1.60 for eight hours and engineers
tyi for 100 miles.
As the roads parallel each other through
southern Nevada -and In two weeks the
Las Vegas & Tonopah will be In Gold
field the trainmen refuse to operate at
their present wage for conductors 1115,
brakemen $85, firemen $2.85 for twelve
hours and engineers $3.90 for twelve
hours, irrespective of mileage made.
The mall car and Pullman from Gold
field have been tied up at Beatty all day.
The train crews offer to take out the
mall car, but refuse to handle any pas
senger coaches.
As both roads Interchange traffic at this
point everything is tied" up tight in
southern Nevada tonight, as no answer
has been received from the Salt Lake &
San Pedro, the controlling company of
the Las Vegas & Tonopah, looking to a
.settlement or compromise.
PRESIDENT ENTERTAINS
LORD BISHOP AT DINNER
By Assoclsted Press.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.-Presldent
Roosevelt tonight entertained Right Rev.
A. F. Wlnnlngton Ingram, lord bishop
of London, at dinner. Besides the presi
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt, the Invited
dinner guests included Secretary and Mrs.
Metcalf and others.
Veteran Hurt; Identity Lost
By Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 27.-Wtlliam Kerr, a
Grand Army veteran, aged 74 years, who
has been missing from his home since
Sunday, was located today in a sani
tarium. He fell on the pavement as he
alighted from a car and was rendered un
conscious. He was taken to the sani
tarium and his identity was not discovered
until a description of the missing man
was read by his nurse.
CTIVT/^ T 17* ' rVir>Tl7'Q • ; DAILY. B CEWTS 5©
MJNljrJUiil V"-*- JLJCjO . ; SUNDAY. 8 CENTS
Prom the Washington Star
600 JAPANESE
DIE IN FLOOD
GENERAL KUROKI AND OMORI
IN DANGER
River Overflows Banks and Sweeps
Through Town — Troops Hasten
to Aid of Panic-Stricken
Residents
By Associated Press.
VICTORIA, B. C, Sept. 27.-Advice« of
a terrlb'.e disaster due to great floods
prevailing in Japan have been received.
The overflow of the river Otonashigawa,
running through the town of Fukuchl
yama, near Kyoto, caused the loss of
more than 600 lives,* the sjlver rising more
than fifty feet.
The barracks of the twentieth regi
ment and tenth engineers' battalion, sit
uated on heights near the town, escaped
damage when the town was overwhelmed
and the troops were hurried out to ren
der what assistance could be given to
the survivors' and to rescue drowning
people.
The population of the town was over
12,000. Hurriedly fifty or more sailing
Junks were secured and dispatched to
the scene, soldiers manning the junks
and saving many persons. The police
ftiave recovered 600 bodies, and others
are believed to have been lost.
Gen. Kurokl and Gov. Omori of Kyotoft
were in the city, the former being en*
gaged In inspecting the troops and is
said to have narrowly escaped.
HUNDRED LIVES LOST; CROPS
RUINED BY FLOOD IN SPAIN
By Associated Press.
MADRID, Sept. 27.— The government to
day announced that the wine crop in the
valleys of Andalusia has been ruined by
the floods. The official figures place the
number of flood victims »t seventy-two
drowned and sixty-eight injured.
MALAGA, Spain, Sept. 27.— A renewal
of tho rain today caused fresh inunda
tions and a suspension of the rescue
work. About one hundred bodies have
been recovered.
WOMAN RECLUSE HURT:
LIES FOUR DAYS IN YARD
Wealthy Margaret O'Brien of San
Francisco Falls and Is Injured.
May Die of Expo.
sure
Br Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 27.— Mrs. Mar
garet O'Brien, a recluse, reputed to be
wealthy, was found today In the yard of
her home at Washington and Cherry
streets, where she had lain In a semi
conscious state since last Sunday, when
she fell from the steps of the house.
She was severely bruised, and being
weak from illness she was unable to rise.
It Is not expected that she will survive
the exposure.
RAILROAD MEN INDICTED
AS RESULT OF WRECK
Engineer, Conductor and Train Dis-
patchers Are Accused of Man.
slaughter — Held Respon
sible for Collision
By Associated Press.
RALEIGH, N. C, Sept. 27.— The grand
Jury has returned an Indictment for man
slaughter against Engineer W. Ripper,
Conductor CM. Oakley, Chief Train Dis
patcher B. P. Ketcham and Train Dis
patcher Victor Parvln of the Durham di
vision of the Southern railway for the
deaths of three men killed In the headon
collision on the Southern railway near
Auburn September 1.
PROVE FORD
DREW $2OO,OOO
HENEY TRIES VO FABTEN GUILT
ON ACCUSED
BANKER I. W. HELLMAN TAKEB
THE STAND
Director of United Roads Says He
Once Advised Retaining Abraham
Ruef as Attorney for City
Railway Corporation
By Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 27.— Following
the lines laid down in his opening state
ment in the trial of Tirey L. Ford, charged
with bribery, Francla J. Heney, assistant
district attorney, today began the intro
duction of testimony calculated to show
that the defendant in person had at dif
ferent times become the custodian of
$200,000 deposited in the United States
mint to the credit of Patrick Calhoun,
president of the United Railroads.
After forcing every member of tho
board of supervisors with two exceptions
to admit having received various amounts
In connection with their votes upon tho
overhead trolley franchise, the prosecu
tion placed on the stand in rapid succes
sion several officials conected with the
mint and sub-treasury, all of whom re
called the occasions upon which the de
fendant, Ford, presented the telegraphic
orders of Patrick Calhoun for two pay
ments of $30,000 each and a third for
JIOO.OOO, all of which, according to the tes
timony, were paid in currency at th« re
quest of the defendant, although on at
least one occasion the gold originally ten
dered in payment was exchanged for cur
rency that chanced to be oil httim in tli*
relief fund for the stricken people of San
Francisco.
Two directors of the United Railroads
summoned to the stand admitted knowing
nothing of this transaction, although one
of them, I. W. Hellman, recalled an in
stance, when the United Railroads had
another president, when he had advised
the existing administration to employ
Abraham Ruef as an attorney for the
corporation in order to Insure peaceful
relations with the labor unions.
Rogers Questions Merrory
Practically all of this testimony stood
as 'submitted, although in several in
stances Earl Rogers, attorney for the de
fense, made a determined effort to im
peach the memory or the motives of the
witnesses.
The list of exhibits was swelled by tho
addition of telegrams and official records
of the mint, through which Heney was
able to establish that while the first
money sent to the credit of the United
Railroads from the east was payable to
Thornwell Mullally, assistant to the pres
ident, and was collected by the treasurer
of the corporation the second fund of
$200,000 was made payable to Patrick Cal
houn, and that the latter visited In per
son the director of the mint in order to
make possible th« collection of this
amount by Ford.
During his examination of the two
directors of the United Railroads, whose
testimony closed the week's session,
Heney Intimated that this line of exam
ination would probably be pursued next
week.
Mamlock First Witness
The trial of Ford, charged with bribery,
was resumed in Judge Lawlor's court this
morning with former Supervisor Max
Mamlock undergoing cross-examination.
Having established that the witness had
borrowed $1500 from Supervisor Wilson,
Earl Rogers of the defense endeavored
to show that the money had actually
been borrowed from Supervisor Galla
gher. Mamlock, however, contended that
the money he received from Gallagher
was an advance payment which he used
to purchase automobiles required in his
business. Mamlock concluded by affirm
ing as an electrician that he had always
favored an overhead trolley system and
that he would have voted for the United
Railroads' franchise in any event. Heney
contented himself with eliciting from the
witness the statement that he had not
talked over his testimony with any mem
ber of the prosecution since his appear
ance before the grand Jury.
Former Supervisor W. W. Sanderson
was the next witness. His direct exam
ination established nothing beyond the
usual admission that he had accepted
$4000 for his vote. On cross-examination
Sanderson testified that while in Los An
geles the witness had made an appoint
ment to meet Assistant District Attorney
Heney at Palo Alto, where Sanderson
made his confession. Witness denied that
he was then aware that he was the first
supervisor to confess.
Sanderson as chairman of the police
committee said he had considerable to
do with the permits for prize fights grant
ed by tho board. Witness knew nothing
of how the so-called fight trust was
formed, but admitted that the first
money he had illegally received came
from this source.
Approached by Gallagher
Former Supervisor Patrick W. Mc-
Gushin was the next witness called.
MeGushln declared that he had first
been approached in the trolley matter by
Gallagher, whose manner, the witness
said, showed "considerable reserve."
McGushtn went on to explain that while
he had generally opposed public service
corporations in their applications he, had
already made up his mind to vote for the
franchise regardless of the fact that Gal
lagher had told him he would be.remem
bered.
Having called every member of the for
mer board of supervisors except one, the
prosecution placed upon the stand Frank
A. Leach, director of the San Francisco
mint.
Asked to review the financial conditions
that succeeded the fire of April 18, 1906,
Mr. Leach stated that the secretary of
the treasury had arranged for the trans
fer of moneys to any person in San
Francisco by depositing money In any of
the country's sub-treasuries and that
notice was sent to the witness by tele
graph.
Mr. Leach identified a series of letters
from the national treasurer certifying to
tl]e receipt of certain money intended for
people on this coast, and Instructing the
payment, among other sums, of $50,000
to Thornwell Mullally, assistant to the
president of the United Railroads, on '
April 28, another sum of $75,000 on May 1,
another sum of $50,000 on May 6 and an
other sum of $200,000 on May 22, payable
to Patrick Calhoun, president of the
United Railroads.
After introducing these letters in evi
dence Heney elicited from the witness the
fact that of the first 160,000 received sent
to Mullally the latter, accompanied by
Ruef, had drawn $5000 in currency and
given $2000 to Ruef, the latter remarking
that he wanted the money to pay off
with. Witness stated that Mullally asked
Ruef if he wanted any more. Mr. Leach
then identified receipts showing: that Mul
lally had withdrawn in installments $60-
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