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VOLUME CIX.-NO. 126.
HERRIN REMAINS
PRESIDENT OF
ASSOCIATED OIL
Old Board of Directors Is Also
Re-elected at the Annual
Meeting
Report of Sale of Southern
Pacific Holdings Not Denied
by Official
Profits for Last Year Amount
to $2,300,000, Exclusive
of Sinking Fund
{Special Dispatch to The Call]
B-KSRB7IELD, April 4.—WWle it
i.<= a fart that the Southern Pa
cific, company's holdings in the
Associated oil company, amount.
• ing all told to 300.000 shares out
of the entire capitalization of «ftO.
. ; 000 share?, are to be sold, if they
■ have not been sold by this time, the
stock holders in annual meeting here
today re-elected the board of directors
, and officers who governed last year,
.thus perpetuating for the time being
the control of the Southern Pacific com
pany in the affairs of this corporation.
William F. Herrin. president of the
and O. Scribner. assistant
general manager, both declined to dis-
Urn reported sale further than to
declare that if it has been made they
: have no knowledge of it further than
: the information that has been presented
by The Call.
To Keep Within Law
On the other hand, one of the other
directors said today that the Southern
Pacific, company is compelled to dispose
of its holding !n the Associated oil
company in order to keep within the
regulations of the Interstate commerce
commission, which prohibits a carrier
from competing for the sale of product
Jiiined from the earth, which question
■was lately decided against the railroads
In the coal cases of Pennsylvania. While
admitting that negotiations for a sale
are pending, this director could give no
information as to the Identity of the
parties Involved."
The annual report of the condition
of the company to be submitted to
the stock holden at a future date
. shows that the company's net profits
for the year, exclusive of $1,000,000
cbvering the figurej depreciation and
♦he amount applied to the sinking
fund for bonded indebtedness, was
$:.300,000. This, President Herrin de
clared, was a very gratifying showing.
The company plans to continue Its
operations along the plans now being
worked out and will further develop
its properties in the localities where
"work is now being conducted.
Same Officers Chosen
But one change was made in the per
sonnel of the directorate. Paul Shoup,
•who was made a member of the board
last year when the Southern Pacific
company assumed control of the affairs
of the Associated, was displaced by
, Ouy V. Shoup, owing to a change in
the connections with the former, who
la now associated with the management
of the electric, lines of the Southern
Pacific, company in the southern part
cf the state.
officers and directors as elected
mre, William F. Herrin. president; W. S.
Porter, general manager; O. Scribner,
assistarit general manager; R. p.
Rchwerln, Guy V. Shoup, .7. A. Chanlor,
Burton K. Green, Frank H. Buck, T. T.
TJumgle and Rudolph Spreekels. Miss
-idan was re-elected secre-
M»<?tings of the subsidiary companies
of the Associated, the Amalgamated and
Recruit oil companies were- likewise
held and the same officers and directors
re-elected.
KANSAS CITY WINS
BALLOON RACE MEET
San Francisco Rejected Because
a Sea Coast City
NEW YORK, April 4.—The next in
ternational balloon race will start from
Kansas City, October 9, under the di
:i of the Aero club of America.
The national consul of the Aero clubs
Of America selected the place at a
meeting today.
Kansas City was chosen as the start-
Ing place because of large grounds.
H'-cessible to spectators and more
ient to the gas supply, which
carried the day against Omaha, its
closest competitor. San Francisco was
rejected as a sea coast city
has had the race twice and no
< ompetitors were seriously con
sidered.
WOMAN JUMPS ON
BOBCAT AND KILLS IT
Animal Had Entered Yard
Where Baby Played
ALBUQUERQUE, X. M., April 4.—The
man who fights wild cats with his bare
hands took a back seat yesterday, when
Mrs. Samuel Edwards of Mountain Air
killed a big-bobcat with her two feet.
She discovered the animal In her farm
where her little baby was at play.
*■ Tnarmed, she took a running Jump at
the beast, landing squarely on its back
and breaking its spine.
THE San Francisco CALL
Corespondent of
Gilpin Divorce
Marries Secretly
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
NETV YORK. April 4.—lt was
'learned tonight that Nance
Gwyn. the actress, who was
named as corespondent in the
sensational Gllpln divorce pro
ceedings, has been a bride for
several months.
At the Waldorf-Astoria, where
Mis Gwyn. who in Mrs. Arthur
Pauncefote Williams, is staying,
she said her reasons for keeping
the marriage a secret was that
she was under contract not to
remarry, and also that notice of
her having done so might inter
fere with her theatrical career.
She will sail from this country
within a week to Join her hus
band, who is at Monaco.
BANDITS HOLD UP
INTERURBAN CAR
Thirty Passengers Near Los An
geles Hand Over Valuables
to Robbers
LOS ANGELES. April 4.—An incom
ing Glendale interurban car was held
up by two men tonight and 30 passen
gers and the motorman and the con- \
duetor were robbed. The passengers
were then ordered to l^ave the car and
the motorman forced to run the car a
mile into the city, where the robbers
left It The robbers are said to have
secured several hundred dollars and all
the watches from the passengers.
SOCIETY SMUGGLER IS
TRAILED TO THIS COAST
Loeb Sleuth Tracks Woman Across Continent Who
Failed to Declare Paris Gowns Valued at $60,000
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
SAJf DIECO, April 4.—Harvey Kll
patrick. chief of the secret service staff
of William T. Loeb, collector of port
of New York city, left here hurriedly
this afternoon for Los Angeles on the
trail of a -woman -who Is suspected of
having smuggled gowns to the value
of $60,000 through the customs house
at New York city a few months ago.
It Is Impossible to learn the woman's
name, but It is known her home is at
Lenox, Mas?., and she is one of the
most prominent in the exclusive so
cial circles of the east. She came to
Coronado two weeks ago and Klrk
patrick followed a few days later. For
10 days he shadowed the woman, wait
ing for her to wear one of the contra
band gowns. He planned to take her
SWEETHEART PROVES SISTER
AND GRIEF KILLS THE MAN
[Special Dispatch to The Call]
CLEVELAND, April 4—Shock and
grief caused by the discovery that his
sweetheart. Anna Neumeister, aged IT,
was his,half sister is believed to have
caused the death of John Ott. who died
on the street yesterday, according to
the coroner's verdict today
Tho body of Miss Neumeister wa»
taken from Lake Erie a short time be
fore Ott died. The discovery of the re
lationship had prompted her to take,
hher life.
SACRAMENTAN ENTERS ARMY
DISAPPEARS, ESTATE $87,000
[Special D'upakh to The Call]
SACRAME>rrO, April 4.—The ap
praisement filed today on the estate
of Thomas E. Dwyer shows It to be
worth $87,000. Dwyer at one time was
a prominent Sacramentan. He en
listed in the army years ago and was
STOCKTON BRIDE WEARS
HAREM SKIRT AT WEDDING
{Special Dispatch io The Call]
STOCKTOX, April 4.—-It has remained
for Mabel Elizabeth Lower, & Stockton
girl, to put the harem skirt to a new
use. She has gone other wearers of the
novel garment one better by using It
for a wedding gown. The ceremony
WAR VETERAN IS ARRESTED
AS "GENTLEMAN BURGLAR"
[Special D'upakh to The Cell]
LOUISVILLE, Ky.. April 4.—Lying in
waiting for a "gentleman burglar,"
seen on several occasions when operat
ing In stylishly cut clothes and kid
gloves, officers early today arrested
SAN FRANCISCO. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1911.
WOMAN IS FED
ROUGH ON RATS
BY FOSTER SON
Robert Nichoils Tries to Kill
Father's Wife to Hide Al
leged Thefts
Los Gatos Boy of 11 Will Be
Tried in San Jose for
Attempt
[Special Ditpakh to The Call]
LOS GATOS, April 4.—Robert Nich
oJls, aged 11, wil be brought before
Superior Judge B. F. Gosbey in the
juvenile court at San Jose tomorrow,
when one of the strangest stories of
juvenile crime that has ever been car
ried to the ears of probation oftVprs of
this county will be investigated. The
lad is accused of administering "rough
on rats," an arsenic poison, in a syste
matic manner to his foster mother,
Mrs. Mary Bazus.
The supposition of the woman's friends
is that the lad was impelled to kill her
through fear that she would discover
that he had robbed her of |200 that she
had received recently as damages from
the Interurban railroad company on ac
count of an accident.
That Mrs. Bazus was not killed was
probably due to the fact that the poison
was given in small and graduated doses
and that her system became fortift>d
against the drug, although it is believed
that she was fed the greater part of
two boxes.
The expose of the condition of affairs
Continued on Page 2, Column 6
into custody, search her apartments
and confiscate the other Parisian
dresses which she Is known to posses
and on which she failed to pay the
duty. She learned that she was being
shadowed last night and left hurriedly
this morning. She purchased a ticket
for Los Angeles. From there she plans
to go to Santa Barbara and may pos
sibly change her itinerary and go
through to San Francisco.
Knowledge that the woman smug
gled the gowns was gained by Loeb as
a result of the woman's boasting of her
achievement. That she did not wear
any of the gowns here is due to the
fact that she did not attend any of the
social functions at the fashionable
hotel, although she was invited to at
tend a party tomorrow night.
Ott bcame a boarder at the Neumeis
ter home reecntly. Sunday the mother
found him making love to Anna. • She
then informed the sweethearts that
they were relatives.
Ott left the house and was seen no
more until his body was taken to the
morgue. It was at first supposed that
he had committed suicide, but the cor
oner could find no evidence of poison.
Miss Ofeumeister left home Sunday aft
ernoon. Yesterday her body was found
in the lake.
never heard of again. As his estate
had no guardian he wag recently de
clareJ legally dead, having been un
heard of for seven years. Sixty-nine
thousand dollars of the estate Is in
cash and the balance In real estate
and stocks.
was performed by Justice A. C. Parker.
The bridegroom is Jack White of San
Francisco, aged 26 years. Deputy DU
trict Attorney Ed Van Vranken and
Mrs. J. A. Vanable were the witnesses.
The bride is an attractive young
woman.
Corporal Parker Hall, of the local
army recruiting office, alleged to have
been caught In the act of opening a
safe in a Main street cigar store. Hall
Is a veteran of the Spanish-American
war. He is « native or New York.
TORIES OF 1776
EXISTING TODAY,
ROOSEVELT SAYS
Speaker Compares Conserva
tives of 1911 to Revolution
Opponents
California Complimented for
Having Broken Away From
Corporations
SACRAMENTO. April 4—Former
President Roosevelt arrived in Sacra
mento this morning at 7:55, one hour
behind schedule time. He was taken
at once to the governor's mansion,'
where he breakfasted.
A large crowd greeted him at the
Southern Pacific depot and cheered
him when he alighted from the train.
At 10 o'clock h<» aJdressed a large
crowd from a stard in Capitol park.
T'ndaunteii by clouds and dashes of
rain upward of B.o<io people turned out
to greet Colonel Roosevelt.
Never has a speaker in this city been
given closer attention or a warmer
reception than was given the distin
guished visitor.
Talked 45 Minutes
■While it had been announced that
Colonel Roosevelt would speak but IS
minutes, and such was his intention,
when he stepped on tl->e platform so
favorable an impression was made upon
him by the sight of the audience and
so enthusiastic did he become in talk
ing that he quite forgot the train leav-
ling at 11 o'clock that was scheduled to
bear him away eastward and talked for
45 minutes.
He was introduced by Governor John
son. Roosevwlt said in part:
"I have not come here to try to teach
you anything. I have come here today
to thank you for what I have learned
from yon. Here ir California, after
having been for over a generation un
der control of gieat <-s:>rporations, at
last we have seen you definitely take
control yourselves and make this really
in fact and not mer«!y in name, a gov
ernment by and for t^e people.
Just a Word ,Ab< at Babies
"Let me say just o ■> word Of greet
ing to the c'tlzenß carrying .-mall chil
dren. You know my views on the baby
question. I like your stock and I am
glad to see it kept up.
"To return. Now. you will meet a
great many men who say yes to the
proposition of having it a government
for the people. They say certainly, we
ought to do everything we can for
them, but there are still men in this
country of ours who feel frightened
and shy off from the proposition of
having a government by the people.
"The proposition on which this
country was founded—on which for a
century and a quarter it has proceeded
—is that we have a people lit to
govern themselves—that our people can
themselves control their own destinies.
"And I would like to call to the at
tention of our reactionary friends who
protest agrainst the new movement
against the movement to give the peo
ple real control —that the arguments
they make against us of the pro
gressive side today are exactly the
arguments advanced against republican
government as a whole a century and
a quarter ago. Fundamt-nuuiy, tne
argument of the latter day tory—the
reactionary—the conservative of 1911
—against giving the people full control
is the argument advanced in 1776
against establishing a democratic re
public on this continent."
UNIVERSITY OFFERS
TRAINING FOR SCOUTS
Instruction to Be Given in
Camping Out
BERKELEY. April 4.—The scarcity of
trained men to teach the boy scouts the
elements of their craft has led the Uni
versity of California to offer a new
course under Prof. Walter E. Magee,
head of the department of physical cul
ture.
The course will consist of lectures on
scoutcraft, campaigning, camp life,
tracking, woodcraft, endurance, life
saving and other subjects dear to the
boy scout.
Prof. V. V. Ligda, assistant to Pro
fessor Ma«ee, will give the lectures, the
work of the first half year being theo
retical and that of the second semester
practical. Tramps over the hills for
practlca.l work will be arranged.
WOMAN TESTIFIES FOR
DIVORCED HUSBAND
Man on Probation Is Released
for Good Character
■ : OAKLAND, April 4.—On the strength
of testimony in his behalf given Iby his
divorced wife, Charles Cramer, a con
tractor, t was': discharged from custody
today by Judge / Brown. ; He was ar- i
rested f.->r violating probation by drink- ■
Ing. Hf3 former-wife gave him a good i
character. Si^sluiSfwSpfS&MHl
**, It wm also* shown that the evidence
of j his having broken probation con- 1
sisted of :an ■ anonymous letter and of
the statement of = his former partner,
G. L. ! Spauldlnjer, with ■; whom , h«r" had
quarrelled. _• h \ . •'•
: Cramer, was found guilty of; forging
a check. He was placed on probation
with i tbe , understanding that !he : should
refrain", from '*• liquor. -* ■ "' / , % ;
>
CHANGE Or TIME LOST-Detroit.. Mich., April
~'i*. —In ye«terd3T I« I *lectl«mvlB- r thin -city th«
;..- proposal .to RutwtStutP pastern In place; of eta
tral standard time was lost by.. a 2 to l.Tote. ;
Army Wife Involved
Attach on Affinity
Mrs. J. C. le Sage, wife of army officer who purchased revolver to
shoot hotel clerk with whom she Was desperately in love, but who failed to
return her affection.
BURGLAR RETURNS
JEWELS HE STOLE
Valuable Gems Left on Back
Porch After the Police
Are Notified
\Special Dispatch to The Call]
OAKLAND, April 4.—Having broken
into Mrs. M. Fontaine's home at 852
Isabella street this forenoon, obtained
diamonds and other jewels worth sev
eral hundred dollars and escaped, a
burglar was seized by fear of detection
and returned the valuables.
He placed the gems, wrapped in a
paper, on the rear porch, where Mrs.
Fontaine found them this afternoon.
Mrs. Fontaine was away when th#
theft was committed. She informed the
police on returning to her home. De
tectives searched the premises and had
been gone for several hours when the
woman found the paper containing her
valuables.
Among the things taken by the bur
glar were two bracelets, a breastpin
set with 20 diamonds, diamond set ear
rings, a gold watch, a solftaire diamond
ring, two pearl rings and a ruby ring.
COUNTY DECLINES TO
REFLOOR BRIDGES
Federal Government Asked to
Make Necessary Repairs
OAKLAND, April 4.—According to
Deputy District Attorney Leon Clark
and Supervisor Bridge, who conferred
last nigrht with Captain Welden Willing
of th« United States engineer corps, the
federal government will have to replace
the flooring of the bridge across the
tidal canal at Krultvale avenue before
It is accepted by Alameda county. The
supervisors received a communication
yesterday from the government advis
ing that the flooring be replaced at the
expense of the county. It has not yet
been accepted by the county.
MRS. SALSBURY DIES
AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Was Wife of Prominent Real
Estate Man
OAKLAND, April 4.—Mrs. L. M. Sals
bury, wife of L. M. Salsbury, trustee of
the Sather estate, and well known real
estate man, died this morning after an
Illness of two years at her home, 902
Seventh street. She was the daughter
of Amna Maxweli and the grenddaugh
ter of Dr. C. Clark of New York, and
sister of Mrs. Gk C. Bruce, Mrs. Frank
Dean, both of Oakland: E. G. Maxwell
of Elmhurst and C. W. Maxwell of
New York. She was 55 years old.
MANUFACTURERS WILL
HOLD ANNUAL BANQUET
Berkeleyans to Gather at Yearly
Feast Saturday Night
BERKELEY. April 4.—The Berkeley
Manufacturers' association will hold its
annual banquet at the Hotel Shattuck
Saturday evening. A. Fallon will act as
toastmaster and S. Borkheim is chair
man of the committee of arrangements.
jpT A Tfe Vm THER
; &J£TEliDA¥^Mghcst temperature, • 56; s
sj^-s^^«M^^cVJj^n/, 50.
iJ^ORJEcS&rrPOR rOD/IV— Cloudy, un
'"'weather,' with -showers; brisk south
.'wind changing to west.
OFFICER'S WIFE
IN NEAR TRAGEDY
Mrs. J. C. le Sage Purchases
Revolver to Shoot Hotel
Clerk Affinity
An army officer pleading by mail and
cable from the far off Philippines to his
absent wife to rejoin him. her mad in
fatuation for a hotel manager and her
refuctance to break off the relations
and de-part on a waiting transport, wt|
the near drama in real life behind the
alleged attempt of Mrs. Jean Le Sage
to shoot W. L. Clark in her apart
ments at the Hotel Exeter early Mon
day morning.
That is the substance of the story aa
it reads after the statements of the
principals, divested of their chaff, are
pieced together with those of the police
and friends who know the circum
stances behind it all. In detail it reads
like a romance.
Tn 1904 Julius le Sage, scion of a dis
tinguished West Virginia family and a
lieneal descendant of "Light Horse
Harry" Lee of revolutionary fame, tired
of the life of the idle rich and entered
the army as an enlisted m an. His ad
vance was rapid. In three months he
was advanced to the grade of corporal,
within a year he wore the stripes of a
sergeant, and when inducements we;*
offered by the government to noncom
missioned officers to take the examina
tion ha became a second lieutenant of
the Filipino scouts. Then it was that
he was ordered a post in far off Min
danao. ,
Leaving his troop in Texas, he came
to this city to embark for the islands.
While -waiting for a transport to sail
he was entertained by friends of his
boyhood and it was at one of these in
formal affairs in his honor, so friends
say, he met the beautiful girl, who be
fore the transport sailed became his
wife.
It was a Whirlwind courtship, but the
soldier lover proved the most devoted
of husbands, and in the long trip across
the Pacific, so feUow passengers say,
was her devoted slave. Arriving at
Manila they journeyed up the Pasig
river, reached hi& post and started
house keeping.
For a time everything went as
merry aa a wedding bell. .Suddenly the
bride was stricken with a fever and
returned to San Francisco for expert
medical treatment. That was last
August. In September she was dls
ch.arged as cured from a local sani
tarium and prepared to rejoin her hu«
band. She haj her ticket, her trunks
were packed and with a cablegram
from her husband in her purse, who,
during her absence, had been advanced
in rank to first lieutenant, she took
apartments at the Hotel Exeter and
Continued on Page 2, Column T
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
HOUSE PUTS
CLARK IN
CHAIR
Congress Begins Extra Session
Under Shadow of Presi
dential Contest
NEW SPEAKER WARNS
DEMOCRATS TO BEHAVE
Senators Prepare to Resist the
Plans of Bourbons for Re
vision of Tariff
DIFFERENCES LIKELY
TO CAUSE DEADLOCK
First Day's Events of
Sixty-Second Congress
Democrats take possesloa of
house and pnt Champ Clark In
speaker's chair.
Consideration of new rules de
ferred and republicans prepare
to tight.
Independent democrat member
from >>n York sita on repub
lican side.
President's message, dealing with
Canadian reciprocity alone, to
be read today.
Senate organises ■>: with IT . new
members, 12 democrats and 5
republicans.
Republican senators bold ■ caucus
- at conclusion of the day's ses
aIonTBBBMBH
WASHINGTON, April 4.—
The sixty-second congress
met in extraordinary session
today. What the session will
bring forth or when it will adjourn
were matters of conjecture here.
The democrats took possession of
the house and put Champ Clark in
the speaker's chair. In his speech ac
cepting the honor he warned the
democratic members that the eyes of
the country were upon them, that the
party was on trial and that it had an
opportunity for the first time in 16
years to prove its woethiness for a
still higher expression of confidence.
Throughout the day the shadow of
the coming presidential fight hovered
about the capitol, and there can be no
question that maneuvers for political
advantage will play an important part
in the affairs of the house and senate
in the next few months.
William J. Bryan of Nebraska and i
Governor Harmon of Ohio were lead- i
ing figures on the- floor of the house.
Had Governor Woodrow "Wilson been !'
present, th© line of generally accepted f
democratic . presidential possibilities
would have been complete.
Senate's Opening Sedate
The senate's opening .was; sedate, as
usual. ■ While the leadership of the
upper branch remains. In republican
hands, the change in the personnel was
almost as marked as in the house. Aid
rich. Hale,' Beverldge and others .of
both the . regular and progressive fac
tions were missed.
, President , Taft's - message, dealing:,
with Canadian reciprocity alone, will
be read in congress tomorrow.
The democrats of the 'house, however,
have formulated an ambitious program,
which includes the revision of . sched
ules of the Payne-Aldrich tariff laws.
" Republican leaders of the senate have*
announced- that there shall be- no tariff,
legislation. They declare they are "rjot
alarmed at the threat of the democrats
to hold back reciprocity action is
secured on tariff bills.
Prospect ;of Deadlock •
This difference, promises Boon to briny
the two branches Into conflict. A legis
lative -deadlock: is predicted and the
length of the ■ session seems to depend
on how long the democratic house will
bombard the republican senate with;'
general legislation bills.
- From a political standpoint it is like-,
ly that, one .of the;, most important
things the democratic house will do will
ba to order an investigation of the de
partments and branches of the govern-■■
ment service. - The democrats say; that '.<
there have been no such investigations
for: 20 years and that a saving to* th»',
people ./win -result. >■' >. :
.--■ The house session was < devoted to>
the work of organization. The adoption
of the new rules was put over. until to
morrow. '. The * republicans will make
their first flght on these. They resent
the : action of : the democrats in increas
ing the ■> membership 'of committees,
without a increasing; the percentage *of .
minority^ representation. -\ ;.
Insurgents Independent
The republican insurgents in ; th«
house j indicated ;. their purpose to act;
independently; by; declining to vote' or j
Mann for speaker ; and by giving their
support to Cooper, of Wisconsin.
JThe Insurgents " : gained a member
when Akin, of New York, elected a*.