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Siiii JFitanmro Chiton id vol xon BAN FRANCISCO CAIir WEDNKSDAY FEnitUARY 231910 NO no FICKERT ASKED TO INAUGURAT dt STARTLING GRAND JURY MESTKM ION Jo sv 11C icfr CRYPTIC MESSAGES BEARING ON THE GRAFT TRIALS FOUND IN PRINT Marin County Sheriff Thinks Tiamaipais Mystery Is Solved Pre Wi WyWPBaWTB 1W JggWgggwwsioai i 3 gfef sgWsgi 7Htxrf2xrrr XsW HKfaVlKHWHtSMlJlKt4 13gggaaaaaaaaanBKL i mKMmKwJmmSMi SH wt9wkwNmkimwS ii ngEgjvii acf RJg McKay believed lo be the woman murdered on Mt Tamal pats and James Tunzi now sought by Marin count official and who had been in Rote McKay company for month previous to her disappearance from description of the two furnished by witnesses who lpiew them The watch and other effect of the murdered woman and two Marin county official who are responsible for bringing the new fact in the case to light are also shown Rose McKay Known as the Wife of James Tunzi a Gardener May Be the Viclim WORl 5 ORKINO upon clews furnished the jeweler markings on the watch found with the re tnslna of th woman discovered on the outh elope of Mt Taraalpala Sheriff William Taylor of Marin county believes that ha baa at Isst found a so Jutlon to tha mystery That tha woman whoaa bleaching ona ware found beneath a mansanlta buah naar tha Hogback trail waa Miss Rosa McKay formerly of Mendocino county latar of Kureka than of San Francisco and lastly a aarvant In tha houaa of Mra Leonard Russell Tuttla of Mill Vallay ha ballavaa eartaln Ha obtained poaltlre Identification of tha woman a clothing from Mra Tuttla mora than a waak ago but alnca that time has been aecretly searching for James Tumi a former Eureka aa loonkeepeV apd later a Napa county foreman of construction work who la known to have been the aaaodat of the woman Aa man and wife tbey were known at tba Bwlae Amerlcan Hotel 110 Broad way In thla city and at tha Tuttla home In Mill Valley where Tunrt waa employed aa a gardener and tha woman aa a domeetlc Sheriff Taylor hopea lo find Tumi to get at tha real facta In tha care The gardener wae tha laet person seen with the woman and It la believed by tha Bherlfl he aiay be able to throw some light on the mystery THU tUKHIPfra BTATCMKJVT la making the announcement yesterday of tha Important information ha ha aacured In tha case Bherlff Taylor aald ha no longer considered secrecy advisable By making public Ike facta at this time I hop to rind thla man Tunsl or i oue who knows his present where Bouts aald tha Sheriff I had hoped ta And tba man without first making public the Information I have secured but now It seems that It la almost Impossible to trace him and tha mora publicity tho case geta bellere tba easier It will be to locate tha man I tin now certain that the woman nose McKay Every ldentloca tKn and piece of corroborative In formation point to that fact Mra Tuttla la euro of tho woman watch and the waist ah wore The plo tur In the watch waa also reeog nlted by Mra Tuttle She told ime the picture which la now ao faded that It la nearly unrecognisable la that of a child which aha be levee waa Tumla She knew tha McKay woman or aa aha knew her Mra Tunsl wore that picture in her watch The first clew to the Identity of the woman came from Eureka Frank Wansky repaired the watch found with the woman remains for James Mckay who I learned la a brother of Rose McKay She went to Portland In ltOI at which time I believe aha purchased tha suit she wore when killed The ault waa bought from Bpeneer Company She returned to Eureka In April lit and soon after met Jamea Tunsl Ha Is a Bwlss Itsllan and at one tlm conducted a saloon In Eureka WEST TO MILL VALLKT In April of 1M7 they went to Mill Valley continued tha Sheriff where they aacured employment at the home of Mr and Mrs Leonard Tuttle lie worked aa gardener there and aha aa a doineatlo until May 21 101 whan ah was discharged for repeated drunken ness Sh bad acquired tha drinking habit alnca aha met Tunsl Tunsl and the woman made frequent trlpa to Ban Francisco together She went to San Francisco for a time but returned to Tunsl They were laat seen at Mill Valley about July 1 ll She disappeared after that Tunsl had left at the Belss Amerl can Hotel two boxea containing Mr relics from San Franciscos Chinatown He left them tbera when he dlssp peered about July 1 101 Ha again appeared In October of 101 and told that ha had been on a visit to his bam In the old country Ilia two base of relics ho still left In tho Bwlss Amerl can Hotel He nsit appeared about two mnth agh when ha aald he waa working a a foreman on soma construction work la Napa county A week ago on Tuesday February lith be again appeared at the Swiss American Hotel on Broadway and asked for one of tb buslnes card of tho bouse sstd he was Ceatlaaed rag Cei ITGUN LAW TO HOLD RICH OIL Squatters in McKittrick District May Have Scored a Good Point Sperlsl rH trh to the Cbranlrle WASHINGTON February II Talea of squatting and tha maintenance of rights thereof by shotgun authority have coma to Washington from the McKittrick oil district In California Tha declaration of Secretary Bellinger that the withdrawal ordera of President Roosevelt had no law to support them and that legislation by Congreas such aa la now pending waa neceeeary to take publio land from tho open rolls of entry have been seised upon aa justification for asserting claim to oil lands It Is reported that thousands of acres have been located upon In thla fashion chiefly by oompanlea that have tho means to maintain forces of armed guarda and await tha outcome of a test of the legality of tha Prealdentlal withdrawal ordera According to Bellingers rlews expressed In tha past It would appear that the squatters have acored a good and mighty profitable point on the law Preeldent Taft never went ao far however as to ssy tha arbitrary with drawala by tha President were without wsrrant at law but he recommended that Inasmuch as the question waa raised It would be better to enact a withdrawal law to clarify tha altuatton The Public Lande Committee In favorably reporting tha new withdrawal law to the Sen ate added an emphatic statement that It believed the withdrawals of Roosevelt and of Taft war supported by law but it too deemed It best to make sure by speclflo enactment trail in i PHILADELPHIA RIOTS City Af Brotherly Love Has a Day of Tumult and Fighting BOY SOLDIERS ARE USELESS Dynamite Used at Car Barn and Much Damage Results i TO FIGHT THE CAN TRUST IN THE WEST Iperlsl Plepetrs tb Ckraelela PITTS BUBO February 11 Tha signing of a coutract for 100000 boss of tin plate to be delivered over a period coverlog ten years by the Continental Tin Can Company today brought out the story that thla tin can makthf firm which I on of the biggest competitors or in American Can Company or the can trust ha de cided to go after the Paclflo Coaat canning trade which for year ha apparently been at tha mercy of the trust The Continental has arranged to break ground for a new plant at Cao oasburg Fa Just outslda of Pittsburg and ha closed the contract for plat with tb Standard Tin Plat Company whoa work adjoin tb new plant site This will do away with the heavy freight rate on tin plate to the can mill and tbu permit tb Continental to have an advaaag over It trust ri val The plat I to be delivered at tho rat 1010ft bos per year and It understood that most of tho can ar to shipped to tb Pacta Coast PHILADELPHIA February THre boys were ahot and probably fatally Injured and several received less severe wonnds today In riots that followed tho resumption of service by tha Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company The shooting occurred In attack on cara In tha northeastern section of tbe city Market street tha principal business thoroughfare wae the acene of disturbances all day Cara were stoned and two policemen were roughly handled by a mob of several thousand persons A dosen arrests were made and the prisoners were placed In a trolley car Thla waa stormed by the mob and two of the prisoners escaped Preparations were made by authortlea to call upon tha entire fore of the State militia If the police tomorrow wer unable to cop with tha situation OKBTERAb grill KB THREATENED President Murphy president of the Control Leber Union still regards a general atrlka of all tradee unlona In tho city aa Inevitable although Organiser Pratt Is said to oppose thla move Murphy haa communicated with the presidents of all local trades unions affiliated with the central body aeklng them the advisability of calling a general strike In connection with the etreet car men Murphy thla morning stated that a general strike had been ordered but he modified thla later After passing tha night In a cell Pratt was given a hearing and held In tlOOO ball charged with riot Inciting the riot and conspiracy Fifteen policemen quartered In the barn of the company at Ridge avenue and York street narrowly eacaped death tonight when the entire northeaet cor ner of the building was blown away with dynamite The explosion occurred Just aa Pratt was about to address a meeting of carmen at Ridge avenue and Dauphin etreet How the dynamite waa placed In the car barn Is a mystery The Btata Fenclbles after being har assed and beaten all day by a mob of thouaanda of atrlke sympathisers wera withdrawn at nightfall Tha rallllU had been powerless against the mob but a half doien mounted police had ridden up and down driving the rlotere before them In the afternoon Only two cars were run on the Le high avenue line In the afternoon Both wero badly shattered by stones Policemen In thla district were fired upon by a strike sympathiser who had concealed himself In 8t Simons Church This enrsged the guardlana of the peace and they returned the fire hitting VT Colllne In the groin CONSTABULARY TO COMET NEXT Director of Publio Safety Clay said tonight that should outside assistance be required he would ask for the state conetabulary before calling for mtlltla II expreesed himself aa satisfied with tho way the police have handled the moba up to date Following a conference with Governor Stuart this afternoon Mayor Rey burn held a consultation with heads of the varloue city departments and decided to prepare to call on tha Governor for the entire State mllltla In cas the police tomorrow ar unabl to cop with the rioter The crucial point In the situation promises to develop tomorrow The company It Is underetood will attempt to elart cara on the regular schedule and If the police do not give adequate protection will demand that the Mayor forward to tbe Qovernor a requeet for troops The general etrlke ordered by Preeldent Murphy may also materialise Pratt national organiser for the street tar men after his release on ball today held a conference with President Murphy at which ha I reported to havo urged the Inespedlency of a gen oral atrlke but Murphy at the close of tho conference said that he still be lleved a general atrlke Inevitable Of the 10000 or more members of labor unloaa In this city 10000 already have voted to go on strike according to the aecretary ot tho Central Labor Union Whether leadera who are opposing a general strike will bo able to deter a walkout tomorrow la problematical A delegation of labor leader lf for Waablngton thla afternoon lo urge Besator Penrose to use his Indus fc toward peaceabl settlement STORY OF GRAFT CASES i CRYPTIC MESSAGES BELOW are sorne of the more inteKting and important of the cryptograms that were published in a daily paper in this city between May 23 1908 and August 4 1909 during the progress of the graft trials together with the translations Holzberg was a Venireman in the Calhoun case who was challenged by the prosecution after he had beer temporarily passed Dinner was one of the two jurors who voted for the conviction in the Calhoun case The other translations speak for themselves The key to the cryptograms consists in reading only the first letter of each word Have increased sales Can our new verification verification include customer The interest on new notes established can establish Southern sales agency Rode yesterday A new offer They have refused moneyand a good advance Zone increased north cast sure include my interest Last account read like yours Make a round key each day Sent a marked envelope Plans leaving after course ended I neer have offered to entertain less Furniture useless Lost last inventory Never said that route useless Can they include pur notion sales His conviction necessary Another magazine similarly marked same place in hotel full instructions Translation Have only learned zither better entertainments receipts good big interests at stake Holzberg bias Translation Better invest now New enterprise rushing Binner Translation Telegraph east Letter later Have informed municipal ity to hurry authorization Telegraph information first men nurry luistern journey Urging reconciliation Yesterdays deliberations on neutral territory looks suspicious now Dont come at later hour Tell him that if the jury dont land Calhoun a bomb will Translation His actions very eccentric Censure only useless remains there immovable not consistent liability uncertain Decide early Saturday provided every comfort interesting attractions listed longer itinerary scheduled The investigation not through Have indications rich discovery various experts now impressed rather enthused Have court include special list in third venire Translation A NAME Nurse in New Orleans Hospital May Be a Former San Franciscan Special IHpatrh to tbe Cfamnlcle NEW OnLEANS La February 2 Speculation aa to the Identity of Elisabeth King now delirious In the Charity Hospital waa accelerated by the assumption that the unfortunate little woman might be Mis Mamie King a trained nurse of Los Angeles and San Francisco who haa been miss ing from home since 1000 Stanley King of II1 East First street Los Angeles writes to the hos pital here that be read In a Loa Angelea paper ot a Miss King a trained nurse of Loa Angeles being arrested here and he bellevea ahe might be hie lost sister He eaya that his alstsr wae once HI In Los Angeles that she worked In a hospital at Point Richmond and that on the death of her mother Mlsa King and another nurse left for parte unknown with 1000 I am too sick to talk I cant remember where I worked said tho alck woman today when an eSert waa made to tell bar the letter from Htsnloy King 1 worked a nurse In 8aa ftanclsco yss but I ran remember now where or at what hospital I have no relatives living at til WIRES CUT BETWEEN No Communication With the Capital for Many Hours SAN JUAN DEL BCIfa Nicaragua February SI There has been no communication between thl city and Managua th capital alac laat midnight A near as can be determined th telegraph wire has beep out at Na dalmo an Interior town southwest of tho town of Oranada and about tbrty mils south of Managua Julian lrtas who waa formsrlyPrlro Minister In th Oovernmenl of Preeldent Zelaya ha been appointed Civil and Military Governor of tho depart raenta of Oranada Massaya and CaraiO These dsprlMat adjoin the provlno Managua at tb soul A RUSH AT YALE One of Those Officially Killed and He Also Gets a Black Eye Special Dispatch th Caroelcje NEW HAVEN February Wll Ham Averill Harrlman aon of the late Edward Harrlman got his first black eye as a Tale man today He waa one of the freshmen who etormed th sophomores and took aeats on the hletorlo fence In defiance of Yale tra dition Toung Harrlman and Dutch Bo melstern both of the freshman squad were In the front rank of the 113 attacking party who tried to capture seats on the fence In the snnual Washington blrthdsy cane rush Harrlman got his hands on tbe fence only to be pulled off by two husky sophomore football guarda who toesed hire over the fence and Into a mud puddle According to the rulea of the Tale war game thla put him out of the rush He was officially dead and covered with mud with hi cheek cut and his nose peeled ha retired to his dormitory fer a bath The freshmen won the annual rush through superior number CIPHER CODE IS IN 1 PERSONALS Forty Six Cryptograms Convey Some Important and Vital Intelligence HONEYCOMB GRAFT CASES Apparently Refer to Gallagher Dynamite Outrage and to Biggys Death CALHOUN IS THREATENEL Jurors Are Called by Name and Their Biases Printed in Advertisements TO REIMBURSE httbs OF JULIUS JACOBS BperUI Plspatek te tbe Careelcle WA8HINUTON February Senator Perklna bill appropriating 15000 to reimburse the helre of the lets United States Sub Treasurer Julius Jacobs passed tha Senate today The bill recites that the sure waa paid by the estats to the United Slates Treaeurer In satisfaction of the loea ot 11000 taken by parties unknown from the vaulta of th Bub Treasury while the same waa under guard of United Statea troops during and after the ffre of April 1100 IT WA8 learned yesterday that Patrick Calhoun has caused to be placed In the hands ot District Attorney Flckert a series of cryptogram that appeared in the San Francisco Examiner during portions ot 108 and 1909 with a request that ho investigate them the relation ot tho graft prosecution to them and particularly the relation ot the Court to them Tho cryptograms which number torty sU permeate nearly all ot the many ramifications of the graft eases From the dyhamltlnx ot Galf laghers house to the suicide of Flynn historian of the prosecution there if scarcely i phase of th graft cases that is not drafted into the cryptic messages From the conviction ot Abraham Ruet to tho disagreement of the Calhoun Jury there Is hardly an important legal action concerning which the cipher correspondence does not carry intelligence Threats against the lite of Calhoun are mingled with communications that appear to relate to the death of Chlel of Police Biggy Jurors in th Calhoun case are freely mentioned and their biases set forth Instructions to secret workers and agents are guardedly given The whole series together with the translations and th events that were concurrent form on of the most interesting and fascinating studies in intrigue that history records XAXES MLMI0ED The names ot persons prominently associated with the defense and tho prosecution ar made use of and Calhoun Spreckels Heney and others frequently appear Even the name ot the Court la dragged into tho crptograms Behind It all appear a secret cabal that has never been known but that has frequently been suspected from some of the happen ings in connection with the graft cases This Is the Information that has been placed In the bands of the District Attorney itb a formal request that he bring the matter to the attention of tho Grand Jury He has th cryptograms and their translations He has the manner of their discovery and the fact that members of th prosecution have been cognisant of tbe cryptlo messages for many months lie also has a formal request that every person mentioned la the cryptograms as a possible participant In the events that they Include be Investigated for his connection with them Ha has moreover a format request that the connection a Pas a Cel KILLKD BY OXVGUM K3 PLOSION NEW TOItK February An oxy gen tank exploded In a garage on East Seventy fourth street this afternoon Arthur Cornmler a mechanic was blown pieces sad his brother Henry was so severely Injured that may die i ii in NO OLIvU OIL I SAIIDIMt BOSTON Fehrusry it A consignment of Ji00 boxes of ssrdlnes haa been aelsed under order ot th pure food bureau of tho United SUtee Department of Agriculture here it 1 1l that th bases are labalad aa pah talnlng sardine put up In ollv otl butt contain bo ollv SWAN GIN TUB IWT HOLLAND GIX INrOHTED CHARLES MEINECKE CO Aaeala Pacta Coast 111 SACBAXCXTO STBKET.