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HizhcM Temperature Yesterday, <>s. Lowest .Snndar "Mrht. ."»«>. lor details mi the Weather See Page 9. Building Operations The building operations in -vi Francisco indicate that 1913 will be a banner year. VOLUME 114. —NO. 52. TWO DETECTIVE FORCES REOPEN THEATER BATTLE Employes of J. T. Turner and Fred Dahnken Twice Attempt to Recapture Moving Picture House Taken From Them by Emil Kehrlein, a Partner CLUBS ARE WIELDED IN DARKENED HALL Doors Smashed In by Invad ers. Who Sought to Serve Injunction — Combatants Finsllv Ejected by Police: Three More Under Arrest or the theater, a pitched battle wagod m the darkened interior of the play -c.se and the final ejection of the com batants from the place by the chief of ••".<■ laarkad a three hours' strvgg'e • ? «• ft?~noo'» for the possession of '' f.i motion picture theater be ,> forces of J. T. Turner. Fred T ' • i >n snd Kmil Kehrlein. To a!Tra<- of today was an aftermath of the capture of the Oakland Photo and Lyric theaters yesterday by Kelir ' attended ' \ riots which blocked "r\TEn pop RAt'tl '"ehrleis still in possession of tie Lyric, wit'i Turner and Kahnken in undisputed control of the Oakland T'.e troubie today w?s started by the a '.tempt of Phil M. Walsh, attorney for Turner and Dahnken. to ser\in.iun"- l -pirper*," granted fins lfmrning tn • c superior court of San Francisco, upon Oliver Kehrlein. left in charge of The injunction gave the theater into ( c possession of Turner and Dahnken and restrained Kehrlein from interfer ing- with them. Kehrlein refused to receive the papers and ordered Walsh out of the place. T!i;s was shortly before 2 o'clock. Several employee of Turner and Dahnken then attempted to enter the tl eater and take possession. They "ere repulsed by the detectives hired by Kehrlein. nxn ri.trF closed When Turner. Walsh and a large fol lowing of employes and "strong arm" men returned at 4 o'clock they found the place closed. Every door was locked and barred with timbers from tiie inside. Employee of Kehrlein were busy boarding up the windows. Every rear door and trap entrance had been nailed up. Taking advantage of the admission of a Kehrlein employe through the door on the right the Turner and I'ihnken men made a rush and forced tiie door wide open. More than a score "ntered the place ?nd quickly overcome the few guards ««f the Kehrlein forces, throwing them headfirst into the foyer. Clubs were m: ri;< n yes \rb fstf.d Patrolman Fleming then arrested A. P. Adv. head of the detective force em ployed by Kehrlein. and two of liis men, <;. W. Johnson and Linden A. Brown, on disturbing the peace charges. Brown was so roughly used by the invader* that he had to be taken to the receiving hospital to be treated for abrasions of the head. No member of the attacking force v h s arrested. Young Kehrlein and two of the oper ators took refuge In an office on the mezzanine floor, barricading the door. Lieutenant William Woods, with a squad of patrolmen, after dispersing the crowds, broke into the inner office. Kehrlein refused to leave the play house, claiming the Turner and Dahn li"n forces bad no right to break mto the theater. CHIKfr I PHOIO" KCHUI.FIV Chief Petersen, who had hurried to the scene when he learned of the clash, upheld Kehrlein. He said that no one but the sheriff had a right to serve the order of court. Walsh insisted that any person who cottM legally serve a process order was entitled to handle this particular order, but Chief Petersen stood upon his own decision. Early in the afternoon W. L. Hanell, manager of the Oakland Photo theater, had seized possession of the box of fice Ly breaking the glass top and climbing through. Turner and Dahnken had a large number of employes guarding the Oak land Photo theater tonight to prevent any attempt being made by Kehrlein to recapture it. The cases of the six men arrested last night during the near riots were continued in the police courts for an other day for the tiling of complaints. WOMAN DIGGING FOR LOST MINE Miss Frances Leighton of Oak land Working A lone in Can yon Guarded by Hounds 'Special Dispatch to The Call! PASADKN'A, July 21. —A young and pretty woman, said to be Miss Frances Leighton of Oakland, la now and haa for some time b«?en digging from 1? to 1;"> hours a day tn the deep canyons of the Sierra Madre range, hack of Mount Wilson, in an effort to locate the lost gold mine of her grandfather. John East on. Kaston. who was killed in 1819. left a half made chart showing where his mine was located, but search from that time to this has resulted in failures. Now Miss Leighton, daughter of C P. Leighton of Oakland, says she will find it unaided. She has erected a log cabin with her own hands, and in this, with two great wolfhounds, the is living alone. She says she is enjoying life immensely and will never Quit until her efforts are successful. CHORUS GIRL'S SLAYER GIVEN TEN YEAR TERM Judge (a ban ins. Sitting in l,o« Angeles t'oiirt. Pronounces Sentence on ,fame« f.. Mnrphy LOS angi:les. July ?L—James L. Murphy, convicted of second decree murder for the killing of Mrs. Irene Mattie Smith, a chorus girl, was sen tenced today to serve 12 yeais in the penitentiary at San Quentin. Sentence was imposed by Superior Judge George Cabaniss of San Fran- The casf in which Miss Stella Moore. Murphy's niece, was charged with hav ing been the con*-icted man's accom plice in the slaying of Mrs. Smith was dismissed. COBB RESIGNS U. S. BERTH Abftlstnnt Attorney General Will Prac tice Law In Xew York WASHINGTON. July 21 —Assistant Attorney General Charles W. Cobb of San Francisco, who has been in charge ot legal work in the interior depart ment, has tendered his resignation to the president. He will remain at his post until September 1" and will then tike up the practice of law In New York. RAIN STALLS RAILROAD Siorm Demoralises Train*' Hfi«ccn '[>- hachapl nod >loJave BAKERSFIELD. July Sfc—Fifteen hours of lain beginning last midnight demoralized traffic today on the South ern Pacific between T* hachapi and Mo jave. At one point bou'.ders weighing half a ton rolled down the mountain side and piled on the tracks. On the California railroad east of Mojave the track was washed away. CANAL OIL SITES READY liovernment A wait* Bids for Storage Ground at Pnelfle End «■ PANAMA, July 21. —The canal com mission has announced its readiness to make assignments of land at the Pa cific end of the canal for oil storage purposes under revocable leases. A similar announcement with regard to the Atlantic end of the canal will be made soon. TELEGRAPHERS MAY QUIT Northern I'nelflc Wire Employe* Tak ing; Vote on Question 'Sp»r'a! nispatch to Tbe Call) ST. PAUL, July 21.—Sam Johnson, chairman of the Northern Pacific Tele graphers' grievance committee, ad mitted today that a strike of the tele graph and telephone force of that rail road is possible. The employes are now voting on the question, he said. FLOOD HALTS U. P. TRAIN I - -. . - - i Transcontinental Passengers Held Up la Rawlins \ RAWLINS. Wyo„ July 21.—Two I transcontinental Union Pacific trains .are tied up here tonight as the result )of the washout of all bridges between here and Ferris. The storm pelted j hailstones a foot and a half deep , around Ferris and the lower part of I Rawlins was flooded. $75,000,000 FINE IS ASKED! Penalty Is Sought in I nmerger suit tgainnt Mississippi Rnilroado JACKSON, Miss., July 21.—Attorney General Ross A. Follins announced to day that lie would file in Coahoma county tomorrow a suit in chancery court against the Illinois Central and Yazoo and Mississippi Valley railroads, alleging an unlawful merger- and ask ing penalties approximating $?.">,000,000. FIREBUG IN JOHN D.'S PARK Third Blnr.e in Three Weeks Convinces ~itle* of Incendiarism TARRTTOWN, N. v.. July 21.— Flames were discovered under the stairway in a cottage on the Rockefeller estate at Pocantico Hills today—the third fire on the property in three weeks. The town authorities believe Incendiaries l have been at work. JUDGE SUCCEEDS HANFORD Long Content Over Onsted Jurist's Place Is Closed WASHINGTON. July 21.—A long drawn out contest over the western Washington federal judgeship ended today when the senate confirmed the nomination of Jeremiah Netcrer of Bcllingham, Wash., to succeed Cor nelius Hanford as judge of the district. THE San Francisco CALL "The People's Newspaper" CHINA FAGING CRISIS; STATES ARE SECEDING Situation in Northern Prov inces Looked Upon by Authorities as Criti cal One PAID NAVY WILL BE LOYAL TO NATION General Chu Pi Kai Killed by Soldiers Who Join Rebel Forces LONDON*. July 22. —A Peking ills patch to the Daily Telegraph says the position Of the northerners fit Kiu kiang. In the province of Kiangsi, is becoming precarious. The sixth division virtually is sur rounded and northern reinforcements' are unable to cross the Tang-Tse- Kiang. which Is dominated by the southern guns. Eve* \ tiling hinges on whether the Kiukiang forts and thestjll loya l troops go over to the southerners.- If they do f he dispatch adds, the northerners face Paid Navy Remains Loyal Shanghai. July 21. —Tiie govern ment has secured the loyalty of the navy, by arranging with the five power group of bankers for the regular pay ment of the crews. The southern geneial. Chee Pi Kai. has been assassinated near Kiukiang l»y ids troops. 3,000 of whom have joined the northern troofis. Eukien Has Seceded FL'CHOVV, China, .luly 21.—The r>ov, ince of I'ukien proclaimed its inde pendence today. * - Troops Going North WASHINGTON. July 21. -The lega tion at Peking reports tiiat tlie local government of (."anton ii»- Kwangtung province proposes to send 15.f>00 troops north within a wetk ttr>hgage the gov ernment forces. The provincial assembly lias con firmed Chen Chiung Ming as military governor of Kwangtung province and appointed htm commander in chief of the army which is to proceed against the northern forces. MOTHER KILLED IN LEAP FROM AUTO TO SAVE BABY Reno Woman Jumps Out of Machine When Child 1h .lotted From Her Lraas ' iSpecinl DiSOStcn to The Call! RENO, July 21.—Mrs. Fred S*rvel, wife of a leading member of the French J colony, was killed today when she i leaped headlong from a flying automo bile to save her 2 year old child, which had been jolted from her arms when the machine struck a rut. Her husband, two children and Mr. ! and Mrs. Jai Quea Miramont were re turning with ber from a vacation. j Miramont. driving for aid, was un hurt when his machine turned turtle. ALMONDS TO BE LUXURY; ONLY QUARTER OF CROP Chico Shipment* Not More Than Five < ar« This Scumou—l ntiMiinl Weather Blamed flip*' lal pispsfcea to riie Cillt CH ICO. July 21.—Almonds will be lux uries this year. Frank L. Martinette. local expert, said today that owing to unusual weather conditions only one quarter of a crop would be harvested. Four or five cars is all that Chico will siiip. Every other season between 15 and 20 cars were sent east. The grow ers will realize between 11 and 18 cents a pound. OHIO RIVER DAM BREAKS Fifty Men Working in Basin Hnve Narrow Escapes HENDERSON, Ky.. July 21.—The re cently completed cofferdam at govern ment dam No. 46 in the Ohio river near here gave way before 22 feet of water today, filling the basin, upsetting sev eral small craft and damaging con struction machinery. The loss is esti mated at $150.000. United States En gineer c. h. West and Bf> workmen narrowly escaped. TRIP MENACES CHARLTON IJoetors Sny He Is So Stek He'll Never Reach Italy Alive * JERSEY CITY, N. .).. July 21 — Porter Charlton, who is in jail here awaiting extradition to Italy for trial for the murder of his bride in Lake Como three years agp, is so sick he never will reach Italy ali'e, accord ing to a statement by physicians who saw him today. He is a victim of pul monary tuberculosis. FIVE STORE FLOORS FALL «.ollapne of i pprr Story Sends All to Cellar PITTSBURG. July 21.—The fifth floor of Kaufmann Brothers' department store, one of the largest in Pittsburg, collapsed tonight, carrying several workmen in the crash, which ended in the basemeji*. Six men were injured and four others are missing. SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1913, ANOTHER BUNKO RING IS UNDER INVESTIGATION Waldorf Club Alleged to Have Enjoyed Protection at Hands of Police While 'Trimming Suckers" DISTRICT ATTORNEY WORKING IN MATTER Duxbury, Accused of Rob bery, Threatens to Give Inside Details The existence of another bunko ring, exceeding in viciousness tiie $300,000 gang recently exposed, and receiving j even more effective police protection I than did the latter, is to form the sub j€ i of an investigation to be made by I the grand jury, the police commission land the district attorney's office. I Already District Attorney Fn kerfs stai'l is busy working up the evidence, and last nigh: tiie police com mission j ordered a supen* issued for Millard | Duxbury, the man who, it is believed, • can throw mm h light upon the opera tions of tiie members, and tell about | the protection that it is alleged the I gangsters recelvsjo from men liigh in I police circles. one of the w;iuesseii before tiie police commission next Wednesday will be former <"hief John Martin. A supena lias been issued for him and lie will be called upon to testify as to what he knows about the alleged corruption in the department. One other subpena for a man for merly prominent in the department has jbeen issued, bul the commissioners are ! not willing to disclose his identity, j SPOT LIGHT OS WA t.DOHF The spot light for the present is thrown Upon tlie Waldorf club that was recently closed by the police after start ling disclosures made by Mrs. Beatrice Atchity, whose husband, it is said, lost all his mtwiey gambling there. Accord ing to i < vclat ie 1-- made by Duxbury and others,* the Waldorf was the hang out for a gang of bunko men, just as f.tt Broadway was the rendevouz of Mike Gallo, Maurice De Martini, Frank Dubois and their associates. Tt is as serted that men were fleeced remorsely in the Waldorf while policemen wan dered in and out; that at least one member of the police force was a mem ber of the club. Duxbury, who Was convicted last !Wi ek in Judge Lawlor's court of rob j bery, claims that lie is the victim of a j frame up by gamblers and their pro tectors to get him out or the way be fore he could "squeal." lb- came up in court yesterday morning for sentence, but action was postponed, and it seems probable that he will be granted a new trial. Which will give him an oppor tunity to tell on the witness stand just how the game at which he lost his money was worked. 1)1 \I11R» IV KOBBbIRV Duxbury was convicted of robbing a | man named Sparkman of $1,900. Tie 1 • iaims, however, that he and Spark man were engaged in "trimming a sucker," and that he, as a member of the part nership, was supposed to lose his money to Sparkman. This he did. but Spark man, he says, refused to divide the profits, so he followed Sparkman and relieved him of the cash at the ! point of a gun. I He insinuates that Sparkman deliber ately led him to commit the robbery with the intention of having him ar rested and put where he could not re veal the crockedness that he says was | going on in the Waldorf club. BARMUBI'RG PROTECTED Duxbury has testified that John Barneberg, proprietor of the Waldorf club, boasted that he was so well pro tected by the police that they would not molest him for anything short of murder. Barncberg's trial on a charge of keeping a gambling house comes up this afternoon. Another man Whose testimony is ex pected to prove valuable is Klbert Ken nedy, who is now in Oakland. He claims to have been drugged and robbed of $1,900 in money and dia monds In the Waldorf club. Barne berg, a man named Smith and one other were arrested by Detectives Riehl and Prolb but beat the case in the police court on a technicality. It is claimed that at that time the gamblers threatened to "get" Kennedy, and later he was a''rested on a framed up charge, but the case against him was dismissed. "lird" Kelly's application to reopen the Midway- In a new location in Co lumbus avenue, which was so vigor ously protested against last week by Father Terence Caraher, was again postponed for a week. ('MARGES OF \KI» I.F.CT Charges of neglect of duty against Special Officer Joseph Mier and Pa- j trolmen Harry F. Walsh and John J. j Masterson were dismissed a hear- j ing of the cases. T. M. Springer had complained that | four men set upon him in Cooper al- j ley July fi. and that he was able to j escape only by slipping out of his coat. I tn trfe coat lie said he left some pa pers, a Watch and $4,').60. Meeting Mier a tew minutes later at Grant m venue and Pine street, lie asked him :•> go back to help look for the coat, but w?s refused. The case failed to rtand up when put before the commis sion. "An Independent Sews pa per* "LIES," U. S. GRANT ASSERTS Denies Bride's Age Is Over 32 Mrs. U. S. Grant, who denies that her husband gave her his for tune before their recent marriage. Hero's Namesake and His Second Wife Will Honeymoon Beneath Southern Cross * "There is just one tiling that I want denied, and that is that Mrs. Grant is 33 years old. She is not. She is only 32." Tins expressed the only worry in the mind of U. S. Grant Jr.. son and name sake of the hero of the civil war and the White House, when he arrived with his pretty bride in_San Francisco yesterday on the start of their honey moon around the world. "We have it on President Wilson in one way," put in Mrs. Grant, smiling at her husband, "'for a president's son doesn't get married every day." Both declared that no family dis turbance had been caused by their recent secret marriage in San Diego. DENIES ACTOR IS EXPLORER'S SON, AS HE AVERRED DYING C. W. Dow Furnishes Facts and Figures to Disprove Claim Made by Jack Stanley LA CROSS K, Wis., .Tuly 21.—Denounc ing as ridiculous and obviously untrue the story that Jack Stanley, a vaude ville actor, gasped with his dying breath in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., last week, when he professed to be a son of Henry M. Stanley, the famous African explorer. ('. W. Dow of this city .today fur nished facts and dates, taken from his diary during a period when he was in timately associated with Stanley in SSa&zfbar, Africa, tending to disprove the tale. "After an absence of nearly two years in Africa, Henry M. Stanley again appeared in England in April, 1574," said Mr. Dow. "Here is where the in consistency of Jack Stanley's story ap pears. "Stanley claimed he was 39 years old at the time of his death last Tuesday, also he must have been born prior to July IS, IST 1. '•Henry M. Stanley arrived in Zanzi bar, where 1 was representing a New York importing house, in August, and organized an expedition to find tiie source of the Nile, and to complete the work Livingston bad starred. •He told me about his life, and at that time admitted that he was en gaged to be married to a young woman in New York and showed me her pho tograph. I am positive that Stanley, did not have a family In England in the seventies; he was a man of high j ideals and strict morals. ' TFEATHEIfc FORECAST: * flondy today; fog; brisk southwest wind. GAIN l £* than any other San 1 newspaper. "We have a few enemies in San Diego, and most of the reports that we bad aroused the enmity of my son and other members of the family have come from such sources," explained Mr. Grant. IS THRICE BRIDE U. S. Grant Jr. is the son of the former president, and this is his sec ond marriage. He is now CO years old. When the first Mrs. Grant died she left a large estate tied up in trust, not having great faith in her hus band's business judgment. The present Mrs. Grant was Mrs. America Workman-Klms-Wil), the last two names being those of her first Continued on I'age Column 2 TEXAS ACCEPTS HALF MILLION AS TRUST'S PENALTY Of 24,500 Shares in Petro leum Company, 21,596 Are Transferred to Trus tee Agreed On GREEXVILEE, Te,v.. July 21—Half a million as a penalty and the transfer of 21,596 of the 24.500 shares of stock in the Magnolia Petroleum company of this state from the individual control of H. C. Folger Jr. and John D. Arch hold to a trustee mutually agreed upon, was accepted by Texas today in set tlement of the state's $102,000,000 pen ', alty and ouster v suit. This action was Instituted here re cently by the state attorney general against the Magnolia and Oorsioana Pe troleum companies of Texas, the Stand ard Oil companies of New Jersey and New York and 2S individuals. Judge F. A. 'Williams of Austin was named as trustee for the stock in question. The penalty was paid under tele graphic instructions from the Standard Oil MHiumny of New Jersey. The agreed verdict holds the Mag nolia « onipany. the chief Texas interest in the suit, now guilty of anti-trust law violations. It is privileged to continue business, with the proviso that the stock own«d by Folger and Arch bold shall be administered by the trust un der guarantee by the trusteeships of complete and independent operation of the con; pa ay. , The t'orsbana company also receives] the right to continue operation. The penalty assessed is based on al- ] teged violations of the anti-trust laws prior to 1909. »v | nrr cents. HUERTA NEAR DOWNFALL IS RUMOR HEARD AT CAPITAL White House Officially De nies Statements Ascribed to President Predicting Crisis and Refusing Rec ognition of Provisional Government — Washing ton Administration Ad mits Keenest Apprehen sion Toward Situation — No Additional Steps Being Taken for Intervention AMBASSADOR WILSON SPEEDS TO MEETING No Policy Will Be Declared Preceding: a Conference With Him —To Avert Contretemps, the Officials Stipulate That Informa tion Divulged Does Not Reflect Their Views — State Department Hears Demonstration for Japan ese Minister Is Forbidden WASHINGTON*. July 51. —Report? of renditions surrounding 1 the Huerta govefnment in Mexico have put ad ministration officials in an attitude of keenest apprehension toward the situa tion there. Advices, which officials be lieve to be absolutely trustworthy, seem to indicate that the strife between the Huerta regime and the revolutionary elements is nearing a point where some definite conclusion Is to be reached. Information of this situation, when permitted to become known today, was coupled with the authoritative state ment that the United States was mak ing no additional naval or military preparations. Reports of an impend ing collapse of the Huerta regime are being talked over freely in official cir cles, though no official of the admin istration will permit his name to be coupled with them. All information made public was with the exact stipu lation that it should not be represented as reflecting the views of the admin istration. BRYAX TO RETURN Meanwhile President Wilson is awaiting the coming of Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson, hurrying north from Mexico City to make a first hand report on conditions. His reports wi'.l be compared with those President Wil son has received from other sources Secretary Bryan, who lias canceled some of his lecture dates that he may return to Washington Thursday or Fri day, will participate in the conferences. Ambassador Wilson was in Havana today, and one indication of the desire to hurry him to Washington was seen in a request by Secretary Bryan to Sur geon General Blue of the public health service to expedite the ambassador's passage through quarantine in Havana and Key West. Wiille the first intimation of the ad : ministration's apprehensive regard for i the latest development tame early to j day, there was no additional informa tion to supplement the semiofficial an nouncement from high quarters that this government considered the situa tion a very grave one for the Huerta regime, and looked forward to the de velopments of the next two weeks with the deepest interest. RUMORS DE.MED So delicate is the Mexican situation onsidered in official circles that the White House issued the following statement tonight to clear up misrep resentations: "On Ills attention being called to the following statements, appearing in cer tain afternoon newspapers: (1) That the president had stated that he would not recognize the Huerta administra tion and that it would not last a year; (i) that the president had stated that this country would establish a protec torate over all Centra! American coun tries to guard the Panama canal. Sec retary Tumulty stated that there was absolutely no foundation in truth for cither of the above statements and em phatically denied that the president had expressed any opinion today or at any other time regarding the Huerta ad ministration or 4ts stability, or stated any intention as to its recognition." jcOXSILS REBUT REBEL Refusal of foreign consular repre sentatives to hold ■ parley with Gen j eral Urbioa, the Mexican revolutionary | leader, before his attack on Durango, .is given as the reason for the outrages ; against residents, irrespective of na : tionaiity. following the recent rebel oc ! cupancy of the city, according to state I department advices received today. [ General Urbina sent the consuls word jof his intention to besiege Durango and ; sought a conference with them. As a j retaliation for their refusal to meet I him, it is said, the city virtually was