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Miss Carson of Chicago J 9 Fifteen thousand horses will -be worked to death in two years to get new Francisco ready for the painters 1 Read this unusual article in The Sunday Call VOLUME CL— NO. 113. Mayor Schmitz Offers Confession for Promise of Immunity Thirteen Indictments Voted Against Abram K. Detwiler SHOUT OF JOY GOES UP ALONG THE SACRAMENTO River Begins to Subside After Great Breaks in Two Islands WORST HAS PASSED Rich Farms Sacrificed, but Widespread Disaster Is Averted AID FOR HOMELESS Boat to Be Sent to Relief of Those Who Were Flooded Out 'SACRAMENTO. Mtrcli ::.— A *\g\\ of relief, went up from the down-river districts all the way from Oourtland tt Isleton tonight \u25a0when Phfrmnn and Tvitchcll Islpnd w»»nt under and the «Bt«r liesrsn to fn M above, '.oeseninc the *traSn on tiie levees. All point* r^nortfco 1 the rtUr both in the r!v«|r »nd in the overflow as dropping and the dier«strhrs received wrre of a most • T'tiniietl'- Ti2lure. The belief rst gen- vi-«.|]y *• a pressed that the worst wa* ->ver; that the I*vees not already Vroken would hold «*nd that the dis trict* not alretdy flooded w*rV- *Af« and that the river would soon subside to it? normal *t&ge. While the river was falHrg rapidly late. torijrht. 1t wtt at down-river point* still from one to two feet higher than rv»r before knwn, and all places wher* levees are at all likely to hrcek are more zealously srusrded then ever now that there U every hope of ravine the. land* thus far success fully protected. Farther south, however, conditions are far different, with ih« fertile acres of fcherrctn and T^ritdhteli islands un der several feet of water. There are many breaks Jn the levees of both islands. The flood waters are now rushing over rlr-h farming lands. Many dint rising scenes are being witnessed along the low^r stretches of the rivrr. Men, women «n<J children. to say nothing of horses, rattle and sheep, have take.n to the levees for protection from the flood. Jn many placet and are in precarious positions. Si-, appalling is their condition that Governor /Sillett has authorized Alden Anflereon. president of the Chamber of Commerce, to dispatch a boat to the relief of those who are marooned on the islands and levees, and at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning the swift river steamer Fruto will start on a mission of relief and rescue. In Tolo County the water has risen hlgrh over the, Lisbon and Glide, dis tricts, where the levees broke early thl» morning. There is a new break at Bryan's Landing 250 feet wide, and the whole country around is rapidly filling up. Down on the San Joa.qu!n River Un ion Island and Clifton Court, a rich district of 4000 acres, are under water. SUNSHINE AT STOCKTON Flood Waters Have Receded and Pumpt Are Busy STOCKTON. March 22.— The water is receding In all -direction* and -normal conditions are rapidly being established throughout the city." Today the sun was shining and ev erything wore a cheerful aspect Ex cept for a Fmall portion of the city in line with the escaping fuel oil. Stock ton was never cleaner than It was to day. Th« flood waters *wept away all the mad that had accumulated during the particularly severe winter. Gas engines wpre operating centrl 1 upftl pump« on all tsldes and flooded 'basements were speedily cleared of the flood water*. LONG ROUTE TO CITY Portland Train* Sent Via Ogden to " San Francisco PORTLAND, March 22. — Train com munication ha» been re-e«tabll«h«d be tTrecn Portland and Ban Francisco/ but instead of traveling direct via the Southern" Padflc Railroad paßsensers C«ntlßne4. •\u25a0 r««T* -4, Column S The San Francisco Call. INDEX OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL'S NEWS TODAY TELEPHONE TEMPORARY S6 SATURDAY. MARCH 23. 1907 I WEATHER CONDITIONS TESTEIinAT — Ita!n at nijrht; maximum tem j prretur*. 52; ciinlream temperature. 42. . | fokecast tor today— Cloudy; blsh Boutbvett viudf. diminlthlnff. Fat* 11 EDITORIAL. City, coTcrnment ii awkward, but net at all Cfßgrroat. Tig* 8 Abraham Buef la •worth a barrel of 'ser mon*. Tist 8 ; PtaofisriJ Oil people are seriously alarmed. tnd they hure Tfa«on to b». Par* 8 : The Tnolnmoe water rights -bill. Paje 8 GRAFT SCAXDAI, Mayor Srhmlti offer* to confets if granted Immunity *cd sllcwrd to remain ia office.- Pace 1 j'hlitoen indictments voted arainst Abram K. Petiriler of Uome Telephone Company. P»fc"« 1 Commitiee of citizen* ; to »upeiTise city sot ernment. Mfjror to be ousted. Faje 1 Jem** I>. Ptielen tella borr Schmitz attempted to tnm relief millions orer to tie boodllng Su- Sail Fram-isco Labor Council adopts rcso lntlona repudiating grafting municipal offl } ciale. ' • Fife 4 OITV ! A. A. Moor* n4mit* that Southern Paciflc can I r«T '•<• telegraphers wbate»er may be • «!ti"l»1. Face IB WilHam Sbarpe. l« tailed Into coort to. account i for wtate «f aged and Infirm wird. Face 16 ; Alice Neilsrn prorea a rbartHnit Mml Id JiobTnc"" »rii v crerir*! a OJOJt fa»M«Mitile auiil^rce at the Chute«.- Pace 16 r»rnth of Juliet Croisby. taJented actre*». c1o»*!y foll«»red by vndilen paaainc cf it. E. -Marcr of the Alt axsr. Pate b SIBUIBA.V .Nirholaa Murray Butler. pr«-i«l»ot of Coluni- W« irri-rcrrltr, to <JrlUrr Cbartrr day iOTtcm ; toflay «t TJnlTersll.r of CaUfornla. Pice 7 \u25a0 Tbl»Te» tnrtterlouslr loot tbe etudio of *sllbb drace Moafcley at IVrVeley. Pace « -A. M. yon Krazman. who it- declared to be f-v of an Austrian nobleman, commits enlridr In. Oak land. • - Face 7 Si«er of Oakland* Mayor fights fire *«cce«a fiilly In tb* fumJly r»>#l'lence. Fa^e 7 i Mlsslftn*ry icctltute opens its inference in j A laroeila. Pac* 6 John Clay TTamptfm. member «f prominent Oaklani] family, pacces away. Face 7 Many prominent m*n and «rtm»n - attend le reptlou In Berkeley to Nicholas Murray BurW end biide. . P&se 6 J COAST ' BreaViajt of l»T*es on Sb»raan and T^itcbell ! inlands lower flood la Sacramento Rlrer and general aniiety 1s reliered. Gr»at storm races In Northern California and shortage of pro vislnD* tbreatenwi. Rail connnunlctitl<»n be t»wi Eacrnmento and Oakland re-p*tablUb<^ by way of Trary and Stockton. Two trains are *tart*d Eaet. Face 1 O>r»rnor Gillett slrn* lar«e mraArr <>f WUn. aroona: them that prorlfilnic for front bond>. ~ ' Pace 6 Exerutor of tZZb.r*** estate -in lx* Anirelei I* a<ru*ed of raUtreatment of gtrl «erd and JurrlfDp ••yopnts. Face 6 SPORTS Efcort *p#ll of sunshine welcomed by the auto mobile dealer*. - Pace 10 SbarprbooUra make a klllirr by tbr defeat of feur farorite* at Emeryrille. Pace 10 St. Orloff at 20 to.l wins at Ascot, wb#re. the track is •' sea, of mad. t Pare 10 Oxford .trains cany . rictary orer Cambridjre In annual athletic meeting at Q,u*en> Club. Face 10 Willie O'Neill,. Australian ; featier-weight boxer, electrifies epectatoni In a bout with Danny Webster at Dreamland Tarilion. Face 10 MARI.VB Wner Coptic from tbe. Orient brings on^ pas \u25a0"•nfT from Hooolaln. who pays fine of $200 for breaking roast cblppifiS law. Pape 11 Attempt of J >bort» <f to cvrer and Col4fi»ld orders prescrre the tone of mining eharen mar ket. Pace 0 Eastern men pay $350. Ci0 for twenty Oreen water copper daiaia. Pace 9 Sailors' union increases does (1 a mnntb for a total disability fund. Pace 8 6OCIAL , - Mrs. Frederick- Kohl entcrtalna in formally at luncheon at tbe Talace. Pace 8 Place Your Want Ads "for the THIS MORNING ' Send them to Main Office or through Branch Offices— or telephone them. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, MAKCH 23, 1907. Day's Important Developments in the Local Graft Situation 1. Mayor Schmitz offers 1 to confess if granted full immunity [and al lowed to remain in of fice. \u25a0',".\u25a0..".•. \u25a0\u25a0.>"\u25a0\u25a0.;. ! 12. Thirteen indictments voted against Abram K. Detwiler, Ohio capi talist, for bribing Supervisors for Home Telephone Company. 3. Citizens' committee to be formed to supervise city government. The Mayor to be ousted from office.. Home Telephone Capitalist Skips Company 's Handy Man in the Graf t^Net • , : ; When the seventy-five indictments against Ruef and Theodore V.' Ilalsey wer,e returned by the Grand Jury AVcdriesday afternoon there were thirteen others which had been voted, but which were not returned. These thirteen true bills are against Abram K. Detwiler, a rich Ohio man, who bears the same relation of outside agent to the Home Telephone Company that Theodore V: Halsey bears to the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Company. • . ; :R<^ These indictments were not returned because Detwiler cannot be found. Every effort has been made by the prosecution to locate him, but so far without success, and Detective ' Bums is :of the opinion that he has decamped. Detwiler, according to the confessions of the thirteen Supervisors who received money for their votes favoring the granting of the Home Tele phone Company's franchise, was the man who. paid the $62,000, through Ruef, into their hands! \ The evidence against the^Ohio- capitalist is considered by Hency and the grand jurors to be conclusive of his guilt and sufficient for conviction. It had been intended by the graft prosecutors that all of the eighty-eight indictments which were found should be returned at the same time Wednesday, but at the last moment those against Detwiler w-ere withheld for the rcasj^n that he had not been located, and only the. sixty-five against Ruef and ten against Ilalsey .wercV placed on file. These are the only indictments that* were voted by the Grand Jury prior \u25a0to its -report on Wednesday, the investigations of the other bribery cases not having reached the , point , where - indict ments could be directed over Ruef 's head. Detwiler is a capitalist of Toledo, Ohio, arid one of the iii corporators ' of; the Home TelepHone Company. Although -not publicly known .'as >an active official of the company, he has been ; closely identified with its various deals, secretly holding the position of "outside man," witH duties of/ the same shady nature to perform as tliosewhichfled to the finding of the ; indictments against ll alse}'!^ Prior to and at - the time of the passage .of ftHc* Home Telephone /Company's^franchise through" the -local Board of Supervisors he in ad c' scveral^trips yto "[Saii Francisco from Los • AifgclesV and ; was' in and around this city much of the time. CO>TIN UBD » O.V • PAGE i 2,*. COLUM.V,*B Cleaning the City Body of Citizens to Take Control Supervisors Ordered to v Oust MayoK The city -government of San Francisco is , to | be. supervised Xyy a citizens' committee, -if-the plans of Assistant District Attorney Heney rand; other representative men of the city are regarded ' with favor by the people. The intention is to render impossible a repetition of the* recent carnival' of graft. The citizens' committee is to be in reality a-;people*s lobby. In order to make its work more effectual the intention is ;to make jt a; regularly incorporated body. It will place arrepresentative in- every municipal office, - vvho will act as a sort of auditor of accounts. Any discrepancy or irregu larity will, be noted and reported, and the ; official called to account. A representative Avill "attend every meeting of the Board -of Supervisors and wifr investigate its acts. The record of every man Avho appears as a candidate for office will be, made public. The' national administration has offered to; co-operate with the 'local reformers, and \u25a0 Secre tary Straus -of the . Department of Commerce - and Labor is assisting- the movement. No cliairman. has been chosen for the citizens' committee, but Rudolph Spreckels has been urged to accept the position. \u25a0'. \u25a0"".'.' . ' ' - . ; The citizens' committee, immediately^ after- its orgap i zation , will proceed to map out a . programme for the. reconstruction of the city; One of the first acts will be the adoption of a general scheme for street improvements. The last vestiges of , the April fire will be removed and the thoroughfares of the city cleaned 'and pavejd. This is considered one 'of -the 1 primary needs of the municipality. Plans for other civic . improvements will be; out iined'ahd held in readiness. The way will bepre pared; for tlic '\u25a0< speedy, ' reconstruction' of San , Fra ncisco. Question after question will be taken up. The sanitary" nceds^of the city,.'the, gambling, prob lem,' the saloon- question, will each 1 be considered in. turn; There is "no desire to make San Francisco a : ;PuVitan 'townlibut^ 'the - widespread ramifications off municipal, dishonesty will; necessitate a civic housecleaning fronv cellar to garret? \u25a0 '\u25a0;>As preliminary' steps toward the consumma-. tionlo^ theCprogramme, the piresenti^Boarcirof^Su pery isbrs is to be retained in : of fice for. a time. -'It rwiil^act'-.'as'. directed/ bypthc; District^. Attorney's office. ' . This *is considered necessary to = a succcss ful'outcome;of the v project. Supervisors will ; be obedient^ score jtherc can be ho doubt. •"- CONTI.M'ED'O\.; I'AGEfS,; COLt'MX 1 Ruef refused to deal with Supervisors individually, insisting thai Gallagher distribute the bribe money. 5. Confessions of members of the Board of Supervisors cover only four of deals in which they participated. 6. James D. Phelan tells of how Mayor attempted to turn relief mil lions over to boddling Supervisors. Boldly Requests He Be Kept in Office terms of Surrender Rejected Schmitz has oifered to confess. The Mayor whose "history began on April 18" is willing to furnish Heney and Burns with a full account of Yesterday afternoon an emissary from Eugene E. Schmitz was closeted with the officers of the graft prose cution. He came with terms of surrender. The terms were rejected. "Of course I am not vested with authority in this matter," explained the cautious emissary. "One must be discreet in such affairs of state. It isa time to be cautious -^-very cautious. \u25a0 ' : The^emissary was met with encouraging smiles and "What I want to know," he said, "is whether you fellows will let Schmitz serve out his term as Mayor if he will tell what he knows?" There was a silence, which the emissary interpreted "If he gives you the name of every man who has come through with boodle— l mean, with the amounts? "Of course I have no authority,- myself, but if you are willing to do business on those terms Mr. will see you and arrange for everything." The^Call is not at liberty to disclose the name of the individual who was named as go-between, with authority. He is a man who holds no office under the present admin istration and is not known as an administration man. When his name is published it will be a surprise. The emissary paused and listened earnestly for an answer. \u25a0 : He was politely informed that the prosecution was not able to discover any merit in the proposition. He was shown the door. =- The news that Schmitz was willing to turn State's evidence, and duplicate the performance of the Super visors,- did not come as a surprise. Schmitz is the only; one surprised in the matter. He imagined that he could: purchase immunity— even be allowed to strut out his term in office—perhaps^settle other international difficul ties with Theodore Roosevelt— if he said the word that would put a few of his millionaire business associates in San Quentin. But he can't. The prosecution holds that it; is fully furnished witH e\4dence; against the men who paid' Schmitz and Buef when these two sold the city to the United Railroads, the telephone companies and whatever other corporations felt inclined to take the risk of buying: a 'Mayor who- would turn against them to save himself. Schmitz one time sought to break into society. Very soon he; will experience the full fruition of his desire. He will be /locked up with a v very respectable portion of society. They will all look very much alike. .The, man who had a brilliant opportunity as labor's Mayor to make an honorable name for himself and his ;posterity has come to the end of the chapter. Like a rat in a hole he squeals and is willing- 1 o bite. .No Mayor of ; San Francisco ', was ever so "praised througli the, country. In the East they took his second re-election (as:a^ remarkable personal triumph. After the firejlie. had a chance that comes to few men to make a record of honor that would not^ soon be forgotten. "What Delmas Has Done to Jerome." Here is an intimate story of the Thaw trial, which every CaHfornian will find of intense interest. See it in The Sunday Call PRICE FIVE CENTS. « COATLMED ; OX PAGE 2, COIAJyiXS'Z A>"D 4