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SAN ntANCISCO EX-MAYOR. WHOSE CASE IS ORDERED TO
TLIAL AFTER FOUR YEARS' DELAY.
DECEMBER
If cold December gave you birth
The month of snow and ice and mirth
Plaee on your hand a Turquoise blue,
Success will bless whate 'er you do.
IS
FOR FREE CANAL
That Tells
And Place
The Gtock
TheTime
Judge Lawler Gives ex-Mayor
of San Francisco and
Prosecutor Surprise.
Opportunity Declared Open to
Increase Annual Trade
by $75,000,000.
TRIAL OF SGHMITZ
ORDERED
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DISMISSAL HOPES FADE
( nnrt Demands That Case He Heard
a Soon a Arrangements Can
Be Made Accepting Bribe
Is Charge . Made.
SAV FRANCISCO. Tee. IS. After
mn than four years of comparative
Innocnouanrif, the Indictments rcu
In ti-Mayor Euene Pchmlta of brib
ery In connecl Ion with the municipal
erandaf that swept tMa city ahortly
after the fire of 10. were given re
newed Importance today, when Judge
V. r. Lawler ordered that the defend
ant he brouaht to trial aa aoon aa Dis
trict Attorney Flckert could prepare
the evidence.
Tit the order of the conrt came aa
a surprise, not only to the defence,
but to the District Attorney, wii evi
denced by the demeanor of Jchmltx
lawyer ar by Assistant restrict At
torney Berry. The latter asked for a
few days In which to prepare his case.
The Indictments on which Bchmlta
will be brought Jo trial, unless the lla
trlrt Attorney conrncea the court that
there la no possibility of a conviction.
wr returned by the grand Jury In
May. 147. There are 11 Indictments,
hased on the trolley and gas esses,
field Tola la riled.
In the trolley case fchmli Is ac
cused of hartnK accepted ISO. 000 In
rold coin, asserted to have been
snipped here from the East by offi
cials of the t'nited Kallroads for the
purpose of obtaining from tne men
Mayor a permit to cperate cars by
overhead trolley.
Aftr these Indictments era re
turned the usual motions were made
and denied and the run continued
from time to time, neither side maa
lr- more than perfunctory objection to
the cortlnuancea. Wednesday. Iecem
Wr (. Schmlta Informed the court that
he was ready to go to trial, and the
case waa continued until today, the
general belief being that the court
would order the Indictments dismissed,
aa baa been dona la the majority of
the other numerous Indictments re
turned In the graft scandal.
Caact Kreeo geksslta.
Thrse Indictments have nothing In
roromoa with the Indictments that re
sulted In the conviction of Ochmlta and
Abe Ruef. political boss at the time
fchmlts waa Mayor. Both men were
sentenced to It years aa the result of
the conviction on what was known aa
th French restaurant extortion cases.
Ituef Is serving a sentence, but the
State Supreme. Court freed fchmlta on
a technicality. Recently Indictments
against fatrlck Calhoun, president, and
other officials of the I'nlted Hal I roads,
were dismissed on motion of the Dis
trict Attorney, on the ground that con
victlon was Impossible without the evl
drnre of "Big Jim" Oallagher. a City
Xupervteor at the time the graft scan
dal started and th state's principal
witnesa.
Cases Arm Dtasalsaed.
This dismissal was made after the
Supreme Court had ordered that the
Wendanta be brought to trial within
days from the time they announced
that they were prepared for trlaL
After this ruling of the blither court.
S.-hmlt waived this eO-diy right until
Weember
It was said today that probably Abe
Ituef would be brought from tbe peni
tentiary to testify against Hchmlta. tba
supposition being that he had direct
knowledge of tbe alleged I'nlted Kail
roads' bribe and also of the gas com
pany bribe, the accusation In this lat
ter Instance being that Pchmtts accept
ed lls.60 to influence Supervisor to
violate th pledge to the people to en
act a TS-cent gaa ordinance. Galla
gher. It waa said. Is not a material
witness In these cases.
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EICEXE E. SCHMITZ.
HYDE JUROR CLEVER
Hope of Returning Missing Man
to Trial Box Wanes. .
DEFENSE CLAIMS POINT
should Present Jurj lie Pleiulaaed
IleaveieaJ of Charge Against Al
leged Swope Murderer to Tie
In-clsrvd Illegal.
the neat Issue of the magazine, at
.which time we will take our readers
fully Into our confidence."
The other reference to the McNa
mara rase are along lines' similar to
those followed during recent months,
and some of them tell of efforts being
made to raise funds to obtain for the
McNainaraa "a fair and Impartial trial."
EJ-ECTjilCIAX IS SfMMOXED
Former Emploie of J. J. McNamara
Called Before Grand Jury.
FITTPBt'RQ. Dec 1J. Arthur Mey
ers, who has recently been employed
by a large electrical manufacturing
company here, waa aerved with a sub
pena today to appear tomorrow before
the Federal grand Jury fnvestlgatfng
an alleged Nation-wide dynamite plot
at Indlauapolla.
Meyers, it Is said, was employed for
some time by John J. McNamara. ex
secretary and treasurer of the Inter
national Structural Iron it Bridge
Workers' Association.
LARGE TRAFFIC IN SIGHT
DEMOCRATS WIN STATE
ARIZONA VOTE PROMISES
ELECT ENTIRE STATE.
TO
FLEMING DENIES MURDER
Railroad Policeman Trial. Enter
X'pon Tenth Week.
REDDING. Pal.. Dec. IS. Daniel
Fleming, charged with the murder of
Oeorge Valller. fstlfled In his own de
fense today In tbe trial which yester.
day entered upon Its 10th week In the
Shasta Superior Court. Fleming, at
that time a railroad policeman, la
rharged with having assaulted the
youth because he Was "beating his
way."
Fleming declared that he first learned
of Injury to Valller and bla companion,
tlohle. when the train had left Kennett
and a passenger told him that he had
heard groaning on the top of the car.
At Copley he got oft and saw two hu
man forms on the roof of the coach,
hut the train started before he could
Investigate further. From the time the
train passed Keswick, he said, until it
came to a stop In Redding, he rode In
the vestibule of the car.
BOOKS ORDERED PRODUCED
T?!nt1d VTm Ktrat
urgd that, since W. Cooper Morris had
spent more than three weeks fraternis
ing with the attorneys for the state,
the prosecution should bow bo able to
furnish him with full description of
the securities In the embexallng of
which he la charged with having been
an abettor.
wervtw t salt lleve .teled.
In presenting the affidavit Mr. Ma
Urker referred to District Attorney
cnerone alleged statement to the
Counjr Commissioners that the atate
had to treat Morrla right to get de
sired Information front him. Mr. Cam
eron Is alleged to have preaented this
aa an excuse for having allowed Morris
to live at the Carlton Hotel Instead of
lodging him In th County Jail dur
ing his stay In the city.
A couple of weeks ago the attorneya
rr the defense obtained from Judge
Getens an order allowing thera to ex
amine all the books, paper and other
document of th Oregon Havings
Trust Company In the possession of the
state and Receiver Devlin. They said
In court yesterday that they had ob
tained little satisfaction from the ex
amination and declared -there Waa a
l:rositlon on the part of the prose
cution to hinder and render their In
ilgatlon null and void. They had
bn unal'lc. they eald. to find the
rwoks and documents they really
wanted.
The trial of Wilde la set for Janu
ary (. a continuance of six day nav
Irg been granted recently.
KXSSXB CITY. Doc II. No trace of
Harry W. Waldron. th runaway mem
ber of th Jury that baa been hearing
the second trial of Dr. B. Clark Hyde,
alleged slayer of Colonel Thomas IL
Swope, has been round.
Hop that Waldron will' b found
soon, virtually baa been abandoned by
Prosecutor Conklln and Judge I'orter
Ceid. The feature of the case that la wor
rying th state'a attorney la the In
tention of Hyde's attorneys to assert
if thla Jury la discharged that th life
of the defendant cannot again De
placed In Jeopardy on the charge that
ho killed Colonel Swop.
.ew Cheers Mite.
That th wife of Waldron. who es- one member In the House of Represen
caped early Monday morning, has had tatlvea. a Oovernor In the State Capitol
word from the missing Juror Is th be- Bt phoenix, and. unless present Indies
lief today of the deputies In th county , tlons are materially changed, they will
prosecutor's ofne. who hav been try- , make a clean aweep with their state
mg in vain w cau """" i ticket, aa a result of the first state
oi a firango man. wno rnicrm m
horn of Mrs. Waldron last night and
held a whispered conversation with
her. baa aroused suspicions tn the
minds of the officers, who have dls-
George Hunt, of Globe, Is Elected
Governor -Republicans Concede
All Except One Office.
PHOENIX. Aria.. Dec, 11. The Demo
crata of Arisnna will place two mem
bera In the I'nlted States Denate, and
election, held yesterday,
Tbe State Legislature, from present
Indications, will be more than three
fourths Democratic, insuring the elec
tion or Henry F. Ashurst. of Frescotl.
pelled the belief that Waldron la men- , ,nd Mrk gmUh of Tue fo fc
tally "d wandering, or thi Vnlt9i 8tmt ,n.tfc Car, Hayden. of
ho has killed himself. It Is Vh1onh ; Phoenix, waa elected to the House of
th stranger brought news of biro. , Kenresentatlvee. n.nrr. w i ,
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of Globe, waa elected Oovernor.
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There la but one chance that a clean
Mrs. Waldron appeared happy afterward.
r error r escape neponrw. sweep will not be the Democrat) nor.
Waldron's eacape may not hav be I tlon of thIi electlo nd , tar
thj office of Secretary of State. Cleve
land. Republican, la running strongly
the first time he has evaded Jury ser
vice by senaatlonal methods, according
to today's developments. Hla alx-year-old
daughter. May. casually remarked
that twice he father had got away
from th Jury service In Koswell. N. M.
A telegram from Roswell. where
Waldron formerly lived, -said that a
man by the name of Harry Waldron
escaped from serving on a Jury In 1S.
As th remaining 11 Jurora filed Into
the courtroom thla morning to answer
rollcail they showed plainly the effecta
of th perplexity' that the present sit
uation haa thrust upon them.
and may defeat Osborne, of Phoenix,
for this position.
Chairman J. J. Bird, of the Demo
cratic state committee. Issued a state
ment tonight claiming tbe election of
the Democratic candidatea by majori
ties ranging from lSuO to 2000. He
alao declared that every county In tbe
atate except two would return Demo
cratic majorltlea. Apache and lima are
conceded to the Republicans small
majorltlea.
Secretary Hayes, at the Republican
state committee headquarters, conceded
WHEELS OF DELVE TO MOVE herV.? cVeXnrdts-.t,n"nr.tdn'a'
' chance to win.
continue J rrotn rirt Pa. Returns from none of the li cnuntle.
are complete, and It may be tomorrow
before the exact vote can be given.
proaecutlon of the McNamara brothers,
but declined to comment on It. .
Herbert S. Hockln. secretary of the
Iron Workers' Association, returned to-
day rrom m. iouis. wnere, u wa re-
ported, he had conferred with Presi
dent Frank M. Ilyan. Hockln de
clared Kyan went to Chicago and said
he would return here tomorrow.
!tegrrber te Be Called.
Almost th first witnesses to be
called. It waa learned, would be sten
ographers who were employed by John
J. McNamara when be was an active
official of the union. Mlsa Nora Haley,
formerly stenographer to J. J. Mc
Namara. arrived today from Chicago.
Then evidence gathered by agent of
the National Erectors' Association, a
defensive organisation of "open-shop"
contractors; papers seised In a raid on
the Iron Workers Association head
quarter, or voluntarily turned over by
Ita officials, and detailed confessions of
McManigal are to be submitted. Many
witnesses have been aubpenaed from
cities In which explosions have oc
curred.
The Iron Workers' Association, from
th headquarters where John J. Mc
Namara as secretary-treasurer bad bla
office. Issued today, through one of
Ita publications, the first statement It
has made since the McNamara confessions.
t ale Paper Csaaseta.
The Statement follows:
"Just before going to press the sur
prising news reached this office that
J. J. McNamara and J. B. McNamara
hbd entered plea of guilty In the Su
perior Court of Loa Angeles County.
In view of these pleas, part of tbe con
tents 'of this Issue may seem odd te
the readers, but all of It was written
at a time when we had Implicit faith
In the Innocence of these men, and w
have, therefore, concluded to- let this
matter go out In Ita original form.
"Wa have no detail concerning the
confession other than thoee contained
In th newspapers, but hope to be more
fully acquainted with the facta before J
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9000 VICTOR RECORDS
received this week. Our wholesale
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t'prlght pianos rented, tt to IS per
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Kohler. and many other popular makea.
All rent paid can apply on purchase
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Transcontinental Railroads, by Rea
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Will Gain Instead of Lose
by Liberal Policy.
- WASHINGTON. Dec. 13. (Special.)
John Barrett, director-general of the
Pan-An.erlcan Union, continues to be
enthusiastically In favor of no tolls
on the Panama Canal. In the Decem
ber bulletin of the Pan-American
Union, under the heading, "The Pan
ama Canal Free to the Shipping of
the World." he aays:
"The Panama Canal, to prove of the
treat est nractical usefulness to the
United States, should be free to the
shipping and commerce not only of the
T'nited States but of the world. The
United States Is not constructing the
canal to gain revenues from .the tolls
on traffic. It Is building It purely for
commercial and strategic reasons. A
free canal. In addition to increasing the
commerce of the United States tn ten
years to B0 times the cost of opera
tion, and Interest, will absolutely de
stroy all possibility. In any shape or
manner of monopoly In interoceanio
traffic."
This Is Mr. Barrett'a personal view
on the question and Is not officially
sanctioned by the Pan-American Union.
he says he has made the statement in
answer to numerous inquiries from
members of Congress, commercial or
ganizations, editors, and heads of
steamship companies requesting that
he give hla unprejudiced opinion on
the subject.
Caaal Question Studied.
Mr.. Barrett's views are based on his
study of the Panama Canal and of Pan-
American and Pacific commerce, ex
tending over IS years In which time
he haa aerved as United States Min
ister In Asiatic and South .American
countries. Including Slanv Argentina,
Panama and Colombia, and has alio
held his present position as head of the
Pan-American Union for five years.
The union la an international organiza
tion, devoted to the development of
Pan-American commerce, friendship
and fraternity. Mr. Barrett says:
"Legislation for a free canal by Con
gress, at Ita approaching session, would
Insure the Immediate, complete and
permanent success of this waterway , a
a new route of International and Na
tional commerce. It would Inaugurate,
upon the day following Its approval,
the greatest activity In preparation for
the canal the world has knowg In the
history of shipping and commerce. It
would end at once all doubts and dis
cussions as to tolls and the grave prob
lems of preferential treatment of the
American vessels, aa they affect our
treaty obligations to other countries.
"if the United States would experi
ence the largest beneflta possible to
Ita foreign commerce from the Pan
ama Canal, it will make this Intor
ocanlc waterway free to the ships of
all nations. The only valid reasons for
rharglng tolls are to pay the cost of
operating the canal and Interest on
investment, and to protect the trans
continental railways from the compe
tition of a free canal. If. then, cor
responding and compensating advant
ages In each case will result from a
free canal. It should be made free,
Coaeomer Vjltlmately Pays.
"The increase of the trade of the
United Statea through a free canal will
be so much greater than that through
a toll canal .that this Increase in the
first year would equal the revenue
front tolls for five years, while in ten
years the Increase resulting- from a i
free canal over that of a toll canal
would pay nearly twice over the orlg- i
Inal cost of the canal.
"The basis for tolls will be the cost
of operation plus interest on the in
vestment. The official estimate of an
nual cost of operation Is $3,000,000. In
terest on the outside approximate cost
of the canal. $400,000.1)00, at as low
a rate as 3 per cent, would be $12,000,-
000. Tolls should therefore bring In an
annual Income of $1 j.OiiO.OOO. Upon a
conservative estimate of trade experts,
the actual traffic in 1915 will aggre
gate 10,000.000 tona, which means that
every vessel must pay $1.50 a net ton
for each passage. On an average meas
urement of 3000 tona per vessel, each
ship would therefore pny -a tax or toll
of $4500 per trip, which In turn must
be added to the cost of freight and la
ultimately paid by the consumer. That
this $4o00 tax on a JOOO-ton steamer
engaged In commerce may be a serious
burden Is realized from the fact that
that sum would probably pay. In the
case of the average low-speed freight
carrier, the entire wages of the captain
and crew from the trip and that the to
tal of different payments for such trips
in a year through the ranal would be
equal to the legitimate Income of the
Investment represented by the shtp.'and
this anount paid out In canal tolls
might therefore prevent the vessel con
tinuing to engage In the commerce of
the canal.
Free Canal Mean Big Trade.
"A free 'canal, at a conservative es
timate, baaed on the data of trade ex
perts, will carry In the first year $75.
OO.noo more of the products of the
United Statea than a toll canal. At
this rate for ten years, without even
counting the natural growth from year
to year, the increase for that period
will pay for the entire original cost of
th canal and liberal Interest on the
Investment, or $750,000,000. Stated an
other way, will the United States de
liberately throw away an opportunity
to Increase the . sale of Its products
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$750,000,000 In ten years In order to
save $75,000,000 in tolls? A direct an
nual tax of $13,000,000 on ships and
tonnage means a loss of $7i.0OO.O0O
and more, each year, for the commerce
of the United States.
"The United States Is constructing
the canal to provide a new and short
sea trade route between the Atlantlo
and Pacific, and to be able to protect
readily and effectively with its Navy,
in case of war, real or threatened, both
Atlantic and Pacific Coasts. All ves
sels will be or will not be allowed to
pasa in the event of war, tolle or no
tola. Tolls have however, everything
to do with the commercial phase.
"A free canal will encourage every
ship company or individual In the
world to use the canal. It will
keep rates between the two coasts of
the United States at a minimum and
develop an Immense traffic between
the Atlantic and Gulf ports and those
of California, Oregon and Washington.
It will Improve to the largest degree
the possibilities of trade between the
United States and the West or Pacific
Coast of the 12 Itin American coun
tries reaching wltji vast potential re
sources for 8000 miles from Mexico to
Chile. It will bring to the ports of the
United States and Latin America ves
sels of every flag, providing them with
abundant shipping facilities and add
ing greatly to their prosperity.
"It will, in short, mean the differ
ence at the very start between a busy
canal doing a great business, with con
sequent profit to the industries of the
United States, and a dull canal doing
small business, with disappointment
everywhere tn the United States that
so little Rood is belnr derived irotn a
waterway costing $400,000,000.
"As to the railways, the argument
that a free canal will seriously Injure
their business Is not well founded.
Added to this is also the Inevitable
an .1 rapid growth and development and
additional prosperity of the Pacific
ffoast and Central West resulting from
the canal which will reflect on the
railroads and more than make up In a
few more years for any previous loss
of business through the canal."
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1 Am Thinking of a Haberdasher
rllS fellow Is up-to-date. I won't write his
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hla business. I don't promise to make It neces
sary for him to build a ten atory building to
take care of Increased business. But he may
have to put op a few extra, ahelvea In a month
or so.
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