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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1906-10-19, Page 20.34earlonagiaausm••••• Alma*. COM 1SSIONS ON .AND DEALS. rive Thousand Dollars Divided by Montague Syndicate. ,Hon orable Geo. ;� W.. l?13ss Gives.. / Idtence, Order to Insure ,Mr. fowis,'s Appear- ance Asked for. A Toronto deep:itch: 'the echo irf ti,e .court rcw.l Wt.; the 0:,1 rate else w1tn11 lathe name of Mr. t:e., to W. l-owle . M, P., was called by lir. Shepley at the see- .r$ion of the insurance 1' ax,n,:: •; , t yeet[ 1 • day mar litlg. i-ub-erin; nt.'. .lir, :4•1 1 ley applied for a fennel order to insure Mr. Fowler's nplx.aranee, but :he :nateer was allowed to eaend nutii to -day. 'rut, 'time Wa$ Ipeltt ill .sup:de-Ing miseing ']inks in the ;•'fain of 1+'=limouy. 11011. Geo. W. Roes, who 1vue a witness. had no -recollection of tiny tlLicna;inu by the :board of the 1,-uion Trost C'clnpany of the proposition to surrender the }tonus stock in the (treat West. Land Company. Neither wee, there any trace in his mem- ory of a resolution with wlhit+ he was credited in the minutes, -11r, Foster, notwithstanding the testimony of Lieut. - Col. Davidson and Ilan. teen. W. Rose, still held that the minutes were eorreet rind in aeenrclauee with itis recolleetinn of the facts. .lir. foster also gave evi- dence in regard to the borrowing by the Union Trust Company from the bank; of large suets for investment in storks, the ealling np of unpaid suck. and the issue of atlditionnl capital stork. Mr. Pieter also gave evidcnee of the payment. of reluttes 00 sales of land to the. Montague syndicate. which Was' between Dr, Oronhyatcklta, Lieut. - Colonel .1, t, Mettillivray, 1)r. llon- tag a and himself, who votuposed the syndicate. A forfeit of x110,000. which the Union Trust Company as trustee for the syndicate received for an in- tending purchaser was. Mr. roster con- tended, the private property of the syndicate, and would have to be ac- counted for by the Trust Company, with the exception of $2,000, which had been paid to Dr. Orouhyateklia at the time on aeount of his share of the pro- fits. Hon. Geo. W. Ross Gives Evidence, Hon. (leo. W. Ross was the first witness, and etat.ed that he held $1,000 in the Union Trust Company, for which lee paid. a premium.. 1Ie was not aware that the Union Trust Company receiv- ed 2373$ shares of stock in the Great West Land Company by way of bonus lor having financed the transaction, or that Dr. Oronhyateklia held 100 shares received under sintilor -circumstances. He was not aware either that the Union Trust Company first took stock for the money advanced to the Great West Land. Company or that afterwards the security was changed to the form of a mortgage, and the stock was sur- rendered. Mr. Shepley referred to the minutes of the directors of the Union Trust Company, ,fated November 7, 13 and 23, 1903. 1'' all three of which Mr. Ross was 1`-' •,.t. The minutes of one ;meeting set .'rid1 that, after full dis- eussion it ,• : c',f-eided to surrender the stock held ".e." eti company and take a mortgage . •e ''le amount advanced. Mr. Ross said h ' had ne recollection of any discussion about "benne stock" at all, and thought he would have remember- ed if such a discussion had taken place. The minutes of Nov. 2?: set forth that at that mectinoe the -solicitor of the company, pursuant to instrnetions of the board at the meeting of Nov. 7, read the agreement and mortgage between the Union Trust Company and the, Great \Vest Land Company. After some diocusion it was moved by Hon. Geo. W. Ross, seconded by Lieut. -Col. Davidson, that the form of agreement as submitted by the solicitor be adopted, Mr. Ross said he did not remember such an agreement being placed before the board and diseused, or that he had moved the resolution referred to. He thought he would have remembered an agreement which called for the surren- der of stock. Mr. Ross said that ultimately an agreement was made with Hon. Dr. Montague to dispose of a block of over 100.000 acres of land. Mr. Ross' recol- lection of the practice was that the directors' attendance Intel: was signed by those present, but he could not say that this was invariably done. In reply to questions nut by Mr. Shep- ley at the request of Mr. Wallace Nes- bitt, K. C., counsel for Mr, Foster, Mr. Ross said he tools no particular inter - cat in the Great West Land transaction, which originated before he became a member of the board. Sometimes the views of the board would become crystallized in a resolution at the time by the manager. without mentioning any mover or seconder at all. Some- ¢rimes a resolution was prepared and handed to a director to move. He could t•emember mare about the Montague trattsnction than the others, because it '.vas more recent, The allele purport Of the discessinn and. policy of the diree- tors was that they ellonld turn their lands into money, as it was not advis- tlble to carry so mach land. Hon. Glen. 1'1, Foster was re- called,'end, eon:lich e from memory, ex- pressed the opinion that notices for the adjourned meeting of Nov. 13 were not • tent out, but that those directors in town were kept informed by 'phone of the meetintl•. • - In reply to questions Mr. foster 'said , ant he hast stlt!f?•rstctl that as he only itecelved a small salary he might re• - (circ a coma! -i=w upon the 1in,,iulctis• hr broi‘..71,1 to the 1)11un '11•tt4 Coiu- 1) 1V, The ,limo' arc deel=led in the negative. and he etiteotert the decision, 'rhielt Hats arrived at nater dieens„ion. There were two matters of policy upon lvhieit the riireet.nrh= were agreed. that tilt, uultnrer -hnnhl ani.reeeire cont n'i=si.ins in en1111 retina oath trang- :tetions et' the enmpeny. and that in- divi,lnnl :lireetors shupld not rceeive . elle- finiteei,r1 aesisitlnee from the • oom. piny in their nuder1akinne. He drew %L i11-11?.'llt>n, heweYe1', between two or t hl r rlir,.•t u•=, borrowing ars indin- r,doai-: or pariners. and a corporate commune a� int •,ell of c1ireeiors,- which, ne r moo nee 11•ae net envered by the r'sa'u1hoe Monteeee Syndicate Not Covered, Mr, Foster said he did not think tree• rule against hewing money- to directors or uft]et re applied to floe transaetian with the Mani:tete sy2tie.tle, which he wive ietereeted i 1. Ile eontentled that the eye:B ate did not borrow a dollar from the 1-eio11 'frust Canteteny er from the 1•'or:+=ser:; to gain Ilii Stock v}ih.1i they 1:.'.1 in thesyndicate, and which they distributed et•cording to ngreemcnt. Ilia iern;le. ti. n of the transaction with the Montague syndicate. 1v]t14:ill •a r.' cont - posed of lion. 1)r. Jlontngue, I=ieut,-Col. �kili1 v y, Dr. 1)ronhyatekha. and 1ni eolf, was sh;i,stantially the same ns given by Dr. Urouhyatekhe. lie con- tended that he u,•eupied a different po- eiti0n to the other nlontbersof thesyn- dicate. fns=nnnrh ee the had no conneetion with the 1. 0, F,. ant therefore had a perfect right to borrow- money from that organization. He admitted that he was Maimed, net willingly or graeefully-, to yield, but. had never given a written re. nrntncen:cnt of his rights. and nt the behoof of his heart he thought he had rights and x111 interest in that trans- action, but whether he would OV or push for it he did not knnw. Commission Was Divided. Mr. Foster then c;•i:e- the details of the various purehttees of lend ]nada by the Montague syndi; ;rte which were tak- en over aS fru-tee fo the ,y,tdi,ate by the Union Trot Company-, which arl- vancrd the looney for the purchase and took a mortgage a; security. There WOW avast p.treets p1 t.lated. 111•. Foster was .4111tjet'ted to ,t eta vet) in;; ex- amination by Mr. Shepley with reference to his unr}erstandittg• of what was behind lhr. \\7litlalr. frnl,h whom at large block was bought. Ile fu -ed to admit that ho had been t td.1 who the person was, and Jr. Shepley dropped the matter fur the present. Another Cermuission Received. lir. Foster • tiluitted receiving a Olegcu .for $2,4130 as eominteeion on the purchase of n. small block of 9.020 acres from one Whitlow, for whom Mr. 7. 'tV, Pritchard, of Winnipeg, was agent. This was a rebate of 25 cents per acre, one -.half the agent's commis- Bron, and Mr. Foster said he was hold- ing this money for distribution be- tween the members of the syndicate when the accomitS were finally- ad- justed. Another item in the syndicate's ac- count as spread on the books of the Union Trust Company was a forfeit- ure of y00,000 deposited byGreen Sc Field, who failed to complete their offer to purchase the lands of the syndicate. Of this amount« $2,000 was paid to Dr. Oroniheeatc'kha on ac- count of his share of one-fourth of the ;profits, and $7i000 was expended in taxon and interest. Mr. Foster con- tended that .when the syndicate sur- rendered the lands to the Union Trust Company for the Foresters the surren- der did not include the SIO.000 forfeit; that the Trust Company had no share in that amount, which belonged to the syndicate, and than there would have 10 bean -accounting for it, He prom- ised to trace up the cheque for $2,- 480 and let the commission know in the morning •where the money is now. WIFE OF A CHINESE, Mrs. Howard Gould's Sister is Said to be About to FIee From the Coolie. San Francosco, Oct. 15.—After a brief period of living in a shanty amid the ruins of Chinatiwn as the wife of Sun Yue, a Chinese coolie, it is reported that the sis ter of Mrs, Howard Could, who in her girlhood was known as Ella May Clemmons, has determined to forsake her oriental bridegroom. It is said that Sun Yue, who has been working at clearing away the ruins caused by the recent fire and earthquake at daily wage of $2, , failed to provide the poetical existence for his bride that she expected. How- ever that may be, the fact remains that all is not well in the Sun Yue house. hold. Miss Clemmons that was became the bride of Sun Yue not long ago. The couple were married according to the laws of China. They did not trou- ble about a Christian clergyman or a civil license. Mrs. Sun Yue had been a missionary worker in San Fran- cisco's Chinatown, and in the course of her work met and fell a victim to the charms of the man who later be. cane her husband. HEAVY TRAFFIC. LOOKS LIKE A BLOCKADE ON RAIL- WAYS AT CHICAGO. Chicago, Oct. 15, --The congestion 'of freight traffic has increased so fast within the last few days that railway officials fear they are soon to face a blockade. With the approach of winter the movement of coal has grown heavier, aggravating the eongested conditions which already existed, A line belonging to one of the big eastern systems yes- terday had orders for 4,235 cars which it could not fill. MR. ROBERT MATHESON, M. A., Principal of the Belleville Deaf and Dumb Institute, who has been appointed Supreme Secretary of the Independent Order of Foresters, in succession to Lieut. -Col. McGillivray. UCH TO REFORM. SAYS DR. CARP/IAN, JUDGING FROM RECENT DISCLOSURES. Board of Methodist Temperance and Moral 'Reform Department Regrets State of Affairs in New Ontario— Scope of Department Extended. A Toronto despalrh: The work of the General Conlercuce Board of the Depart- anent of Temperance and Moral ltefortn of the Methodist Church during ,the 1aet EIGHTEEN HOURS IN JAIL FOR four years was reviewed by Rev, I)r. A. Carman, the Chairman, in an address at • the morning session or the board, which I he ea do cel all following the example of the C. N. R., ishiclt recently leased its terminal ole- vatnrs to Port Arthur to the British Am:'riean Elevator Company. For a number of years the C. P. R. resisted :toy attempt of private people to even build an elevator of their own at the latke frtmt, hat the way was Ili all •op- ened by the Empire ]elevator Company. and now the Western Elevator Company is doing the same. It is certain that the - ('. P. 11, fnl]y intends to go out of the elevator bnsincss at Fort William. FARM ARRESTS AT BUCKINGHAM. Strikers and Company's Officials Charg,ed With Homicide. Bitter feeling Continues; Military in Oliitref. Belanger, the Dead Leader, Accused of Shooting Picard. Buokinghant, Que., despach: A. detach- ment of fifty Royal Canadian Dragoons from St, John's, Que„ arrived here late this evening to assist in preserving or- der. It is feared there will be an out- break by the strikers when the attempt is made again to bring down logs to the Me elaren Comperty's mill. So fax, how- ever, perfect, order has been maintained, and the strikers have behaved quietly. A sensation was created hero this af- t.ernono when the arrests began. The first was that of Hilaire Charctte, one of the strikers, and two others who aro lying wounded in the hospital-••lsedore Renaud and Adel.erd lltmetin. Then news got about that the strikers had re - talia ted. At the instance of .1'. Gagnon, a relative of rhe dead leader, Belanger, seven men were arrested t0tigbt on a charge of murder and attempted lour - cier. They are: Albert and Alexander Mitelaren, Lvro of the partners in the lumber company; James Kernan, broth- er of the Chief of Police; J. E. `Jitilalet, Mayor of Buckingham and General Men - ager for the Maclaren Company Phil - mon Fournier of .Buckingham, and llert Cameron. a special constable. The t=ri- soners wtaken to Hu11 to -night by Wright\ Y Sheriff and Chief Provincial De- tective McCaskill. They were released on their own ret ognizances, ns had born before they left Buckingham the prison- er Charette, In the afternon a meeting of rate- payers was held, and some bitter con- demnation of the disgrace brought upon the town was expressed. It was decided to ask the Minister of Militia who was responsible for the fact that the town was under martial law. A committee Y'S SENTENCE. tionwas appointed to deal with the situa- . fe me ret 01 fol in ar sio An th a an en Po functions of the department have been enlarged to cover the whole scope of sociology and economics. The appointment of a Field Secretary to assist Ur. Chown was left over. A resolution called for sympathy of the Church with publie men, and regretted tliat in sew Ontario that success was not being realized along temperance lines that from the promises and engagements of the Government they had a right to expect. It said there was an increase in the number of licenses, some being issued contrary to the specific provisions of the license law. The Finance Committee fixed the sal- aries of the officers, placing that of Dr. Chown at $2,000 and house rent, Dr. A. D. Watson was re-elected Trea- surer, and the following were chosen as the Executive Committee: Rev.. Dr. A Carman, Iter. • Dr. S. D. Chown, Dr. A. D. Watson, Rev. Wm. IT,ettlewell, Rev. U. H. Hineks, LL.B., Rev. T. Albert Moore, and Messrs. Alex. Mills, John George, (Port Elgin), and J. J. Mason, (Bow- rnanville), te 0, WHAT'S THE USE ? MANSLAUGHTER. Brunswick Man Mistook William Kencaide for a Moose and Killed Him—Strong Recommendation to Mercy Accompanied Verdict. John, N. B., Oct. 15.—Before Judge ry in the Queen's County Circuit rt to -night Stanley Fanjoy was id guilty of manslaughter and sen - ed to jail until 2 p.m. to -morrow, a od of about eighteen hours. Last ember Fanjoy, while tracking a nded moose in the Bounty woods, at a moving object, thinking it was me. Instead it was William Tien - and he was shot dead. The Crown ,there was no malice, but that there was negligence and this and also the fact that Fanjoy held no license to I shoot moose, decided the Crown officers to prosecute Fanjoy and Ile was found guilty, with strong recommendation for mercy. Long Days of Work Made Her Try to Die. St. Louis, Oct. 15.—Because she had to work nearly every day in the year since she was 11 years old, Carrie Tacks, 17 years old, of 1,226 South Sixth street, took laudanum on Monday in an at- tempt to end her life at the hone of her parents, where she lives. She is recovering at the city hospi- tal. "Life is just, dull for me," she said on Tuesday. "I have thought u. long time about taking my life, and deeid- ed on Monday while everyone eves away from home that there wasn't anything I cared to live for. "It isn't the work I mind, I'm used to that, but I just get to thinking, 'What's the use/'" OUT OF THE • BUSINESS. C, P. R. Will Lease Its Great Elevators. Fort William, Oct. 15i, 11 is generally understood that the C. P. 11. intends to go out of the elevator business at the lake front, and will lease its five great elevators, with a joint capacity of 12,- 000,000 bushels, to a company believed to be sow in process of formation, and composed ,of Montreal end Winnipeg• grainy dealers. The C. P. R. la in this OVER 100 DEAD. RECENT FLOODS IN MEXICAN PROVINCES. Twenty-five Families Were Lost in the Santiago River and Fifteen Were Drowned by the Capsizing of Boat Crossing the River. Mexico City, Oct. 155. --Recent floods in the southern part of Jalisco and Colina have resulted in great destruction of property and loss of life. The number of fatalities from drowning along the iMainzanillo extension of the Mexican Central Railroad is 123. Thousands of tons of earth and rock descended in great landslides from the mountains. The steel railway bridge be- low Tuxpan was destroyed and a steam shovel weighing 26 tons was borne by the torrent for a considerable distance, In one place the water rose 60 feet. Many houses were destroyed by floods in Tuxpan dud Sapollic. Twenty-five lives were lost in the Santiago River; fifteen were drowned by the eapsizing of a boat while crossing the river. 1]A were natives. JUSTIFIED, DECLARES GRAPHIC. Morning Post Says Better Armaments Wanted. London, Oct. 15,—The Daily Graphic declares the fisheries arrangement has fully justified the intense indignation with which it is regarded in Newfound- land. The allegation by the Foreign Of- fice, that there was no earlier opportun- ity of'dealing with the question, must be a mistake, because the present crisis dates back to April, 1006. Referring to the Newfoundland oriels the Morning Post again insists on the necessity of the colonies being equipped with armaments sufficient to give their diplomatic requirements the necessary backing, and odds that .Canada has still much leeway to make upin the snatter of defenee before she could insist on such prominence being given to her interests as night be secured by the appointment of a Canadian Secretary at Washington. Charette's Examination. After Charette's arrest it was decid- ed to go on with the case at once. To this counsel for the strikers objected, but the Magistrate eventually ordered that the evidence of one witness be taken and the trial postponed. Accord- ingly Chief of Police Frank Kernan was examined. He affirmed that the strikers had opened the firing. Mr. Henry Ay- len, K. C., questioned the witness, and his method of suggestive questioning was strongly resented by the counsel for the prisoner. For instance he asked the witness' opinion as to what might have happened had the police not fired. The question of the riot act not hav- ing been read, though the Mayor 'wee out the side of the strike-breakers, is still a strong plank in the unionists' platform, and it is believed here to make a seri- ous case against the authorities. Twenty special constables have come up from Montreal, and the town is en- tirely in the bands of the officials. Says Belanger Shot Him. All the patients are reported this morning to be doing as well as can be expected. Detective Picard is muoh bet- ter, though the bullet in his side has not yet been extracted. Ile said to a report- er this morning t}tat Belanger, the strike leader, was the man who shot him, This is confirmed by another of the Montreal detectives, who stood by Picard'when be fell. Belanger's revol- ver when found had three empty shetle. Picard seems particularly cheerful, When told this morning that Detect- ive Picard had stated that he WE shot by loader Belanger, Mr, Lamontaino, the men's lawyer, described it thus: "That's a lie; we eon prove that Belanger had no revolver at all." Quebec Government Acts, Ottawa despatch: Premier Catlin, and Deputy Attorney -General Lanctot, who are at present in Ottawa, have taken prompt steps to investigate the Buck- ingham riot with a view to punishing the parties responsible and' bringing a satis- factory issue out of the present trou- ble. As soon as word of the riot reach- ed Premier Gouin he ordered Chief De- tective McCaskill to Buckingham, which place the latter reached last night. To- night Mr. McCaskill arrived in Ottawa to make a report. Mr. Edmund Guerin, Crown Prosecu- tor, Montreal, was also instructed to proceed to the scene of bloodshed, and act for the Government at the inquest which inay be held at once. At the same time the Government is anxious to bring the existing dispute as to wages to a satisfactory settlement, and with this object in view Hon. Mr. Weir, Minister of Public. Works and Labor, this morning asked Mr. Me rvie, inspector for the Board of Conailihtion and Arbitration of Quebec, to go to the town and use his good offices in en- deavoring to bring the struggle to a close. PASTOR TO SUE CHURCH. His Salary of $boo a Year Cut and He Objects. St. John, N. B., Oct, 15.—Rev. Mr. Townsend, pastor of the Baptist Church at Si, Martin's, has notified his congre- gation that he will take legal steps to collect his salary of $600. Recently the church made a cut in his salary. There is a faction opposed to him.