The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 15, 1897, Page 1

g VOLUME | Tragic Death of the King of the Kaffir Dia- mond Mines. JUMPED FROM AN OCEAN STEAMER. Was Returning to His Home in England After a Visit to South Africa. RIMARKABLE CAREEFR OF THE MULTI-MILLIONAIRE, From Humble Origin Barney Isaacs Became One of the Richest Men In the World. LONDON, Exa., June 14.—A dispatch to the Central News from capital of Madeira, savs t hat Barney e well-known Sou millionaire, while ret from South Af jumping overbo: g to B ica, commi from stea which he was traveling. His body recovered. Later reports state that the vessal upon which Barnato was trave hip Scot, from 2 was ng at the Hote! Vendome in e is a sister-in-law of ws was cabled b , who is in I — CAREER OF BARNATO. From a Very Humble Start He Became a King in Diamond Mining. her sister, Mrs. Bar. n. conflic ere are many the early life of Burne: Barnato, the mod- ern Monte Cristo, whose great wealib coused “hfm o “be styled the *Kaffir King” upon b 10 London about | e H five years ago. name at became known in all the mon markets of the w nd m fantastic stories were c ed co im. Some de- 4 bim as an il e and unscrupu- s rer, and others »s an agree- | @ mauly person, enor- m was exceeded by his good z only Barney Barnaio had an ity rey. accounts of Ba In London it is common ieved that he was the son of a pc b:ew schoolmasier in the East E his real name was Isaac: a cab-driver and after a peddler of hand clothing; that he was subsequently d-marker, and that two years after scovery of diamc outh Africa he emigrated to il with his brother, who had been cheap Tis was in 1872, if Whitechapel ioes moterr. Thetwo young cs bad exhausted their capital in pas- y, but they made $100 on the a by entertaining their ship- around passing the hat. ed in the new country Barney and rother struck out for the diamond fields, where they be-an a new life and took a me—Barnato. erent, howe 1 some cial j is the story vears ago in urs Jad paid Here is the sto 1 in London on son of Ilsaac er's side is connect; vorid, but h drum cids and pa tures new” In on his twent rom London o Afr.can vent TLXXXIL--NO, 15. 1000, = € v Funchal, the ar- h African multi- gland ed suicide by rer on was the Capetown, e was received by cable y by Miss Alice Holbrook, who is this city. hato and the ng versions of persons xtraordi- ato’s origin He- d; that bat he was once econd- It was inti- handsomely vde who was well 1 Master of boyhood in te scholastic Atan early "PRICE FIVE CENTS._’ of three years he owned diamond m'nes in the neighborhood of Kimberly, and in 1881 he s0ld these mines 10 & company for §575,- Soon :fter Barnato’s return to London it d:d noi take long to discover that in South Africa he had been a power. He was the shrewdest of speculators in tnat tant region. When diamond-mining being overdone, when mines were multiplying and competition was bring- ng prices down with a run, timid men lost heart and abandoned or cheaply sold their claims. Barney Barnato had the foresight to acquire what the weak ones were glad to be rid of, and when Cecil | Bhodes appeared with his Napoleonic plan for amalgamating all the giamond-min- ing interests of South Africa in order to control the output and the price, it was aiscovered that the industrious Barney owned a large tract of “‘claims” in the best part of Kimberley. Barnato reached England on the crest | of the South African tidal wave. He was | the first millionaire from that distant realm. He owned some thirty mines— some 2500 “claims.” The properties in which he was interest d produced a reve- nue of $25,000,000 a year. They were pay- ing 24 per cent interest on their capital. Tuey promized io pay sor per cent in the near f passed from excitement into a fever of greed. There was a great rush to gamble in the shares of the Barnato companies. Then came the inevitable reaction. In place of the praises there were curses for Barnato and all his trive of South Af- ricans, It does not follow that because Barnato dined at the Mansion House, and because e sat opposite the Prime Minister at a certain Guildhall banquet on Lord Mayor's day, that he became a personage of dis- tinction in soci ‘ty. But he determined to | estabiish himself in the West End and to const in Park Lane. In emed to enjoy life and ,and he liked to gave pleasure to his hing like 40 ure. London ict & mansion London represented R imberley ature, but he had little vote to politics. His mining in- e constantly increasing and soon necessitated the establishment of a London bran This took the form of the Bank, with a capital of £2 500,000, res at once com- manded tw par value, and its | dividends, like those paid by his mining | porations, huve been of almost incred- B to married while in Africa nd had three children, two sons and a ughter. ible size. o close estimate was ever made of Bar- o's foriune. Some months ago he was cted with fever, and it is barely po-- sible that be committed suicide while bis mind was tempo CROWDED WITH V.SITORS. London Streets Are Already Assuming a Hol.day Aspec’, Bemng Thronged With § ghis.ers, LONDON, Exa., June 14.—The influx of 1o attend the jubiles war. zaza he t time to-day. The streets, especially those through which the royal procession will pass, were thronged all day and until late at night with crowds of The supply of omnibuses and cabs was inadequate to the demand. Offic al vreparations are still incom- It is growing apparent ihat the feature of the celebrations will be 1blic and official honors to colonial rs. The welcome extended them in ! quarters is enthusiastic. The press 1d Government are giving every encou ment to the jublee a great lemonstration of the insugural of a new mperial policy of the closer union of the colonies and the mother country, — - SMOKED 4 CIGARETTE, make Myrs. Chant T an FExperiment That Wa v *ucers ful. LONDON, June 14 —Mrs. Ormis- ton Chiz vell-known social reformer, has smoked a cigarette. This momentous onicled prominently by press. The British public is discuss: the matter for the n that Mrs. Ch t has been te ideal of British virtue de against the London music halls. he has explained that she smoked the aretite when de ned in the urkish ies, whitlier she went for the Red Cross the since h pangs of bu uplete su e experiment b cas . but now she sympatiizes with those who have a fondness for tobacco. SRR WURDERER BUTLER ON TRIAL. He Is Cool, and Claims 7That Captain Holley Committed Swicide. SYDNEY, N. 8. W., June 14 rank arrested on the Swanhilda Febru- pon arrival at San Francisco and ved with murdering several men in Australia, was placed on trial to-day to answer for the killine of Captain Weller. T'he prisoner was cool and unconcerned. The defense is that Weller committed sui- cide. cha: BARNEY BARNATO, the Ciamond King of South Africa, Who | | o |Flames Sweep Over Ellis | e boat P % “THESE ARE THE COLORS OF LIBERTY.” Hon. Horace Davis Presents a Silken Flag to the Pupils of the Ladies’ Protection and Relief " Society. - | in area. The unfortunates were forced to | | crouch far on the oater edge until the | bous errived, At 1:30 o'clock the ferry-beat John G. Carlisle arrived from the island with 200 emigrants and all the sick patients from the hospital there. As the boat got to the | pier a crowd made a rush for her. The police charged on the great crowd and fought their way to the boat, the officers of the boat standing on the upper deck | screaming, *We've got sma'lpox patients | | FEDERAL BUILDINGS N RUINS aboard! Go back! go back!” The crowd retreated precipitately. The Carlisie’s patients were accompanied by | ail the nurses employed on the island and { by Mrs. White, wife of the resident phy- | She said that when she boarded she had not heard of any one being injured, and thought all the emi- its got out of the buiidings safely. of the officers of the boat said the | fire originated in one of the towers of the | main building. At the time it started all the emigrants were asleep. The watch- EMIGRANTS RESCUED BY | 1\ ounied the e belere ther e | TUGBOATS. that way it zot such a grest headway that | sician. Island Doing Great | Damage. i the in- | +in order to see if itwouid allay | SMALLPOX PATIENTS There were cer- | asant sensations not unusual in | | | | | | Exciting Scenes During the De- by the time they could turn their atten- | tion 10 it it was sweeping throuzh the ram- | | shackle buildings utterly beyond control. Thrilling Experience of Many | The fire was first seen In the umlhwe\l; Parsone: Justilanded in | corner of the building, which is the de- the Country. tention building, by Captain W. J. Burke, | who is in charie of the night wA‘.rh.i Burke said all the rcoms in the building | | are nected by an electric alarm, and | that quickly as possitle he rushed to the main office and rang the alarm in a the rooms, | This alarm, he said, summoned the eleven men and two women under him. | There were at the time 140 - migrants in | the main building. Bv the time these | people got out the whole building, from tower to tower and side to side, was a nass of swirling flames, which shot hun- dreds of feet in the air. Within a few minutes after the fire started the miserable water supply on the island was almost | completely cu: offfy bthe bursting of vipes | which run along inside the main build- | ing, so that when the first detachment of | police arrived it was impossible 1o secure | a stream of water with enough force to have anv effect. Just directly north of the main buitd- | | ing stood the hospital in which were | even patients. The admirable dis- e of the nurses and medical staff TAKEN FR(M THE HOSPITAL. struction of Government Prop- erty Valued at Nearly a Mililon. NEW YORK, Y., June 15.—A fire started in tue biggest of the Government buildings at Eilis Island at 12:30 o’clock this (Tuesday) morning, and, spreading with frightiul rapidity, was at 1o’clock sweeping over the whole island, snd it seemed almost certain that every building would be destroyed. | Telegraphic and telephonic communica- tion was cut off, but the fire had lit the whole bay and every tug with fire ap- paratus on board started for the island. | showed itself and the fifty-seven patients By the time the police had started a great | were quickly wheeled or helped out of the | crowd had gathered at Battery Park. The | pujiding. . One woman who was nursinga | flames were then shooting a nundred fret | cpild snddenly 1emembered she had left | in the air, and by their light hundreds of | yor baby behind. She beat the air with people could be seen on the island rush- | her handsand then tried to rush back | ing hither and thither. into the flames. She was beld back by There are usually more than 1000 per- | tnree attendants. Presently the nurse sons, most of them emierants, who sleep | came around with the baby in her arms. on the island. The customs officials| Every official a reporier saw on the thought the number there when the | igland said positively that no lives had fire broke out less than 1000, most of | been lost. Ail the emigants were brought whom arr ved on three ships yesterday. |10 the barge office for the night. Com- The officials thought the boats and men | missioner Senner said he would person- | sent to the island were enough to handle | aily furnish a place for all sick emigrants, the immigrants who escaped from the | and tne city hospitals would not be asked burning buildings, no matter how scared them. they might be. Dr. Senner says the buildings burned At1:15 o'clock s great crash was heard, | cost the Government $780,000. He does and a moment later there was another | 5t kuow what accommodations can be tremendous shower of sparks flying nto | grranged for the receiving of emigrants the air. When it bad cleared a little it | ynyi) (hey are rebuilt. was seen that two walls of the main | building had fallen in. For two minutes after this crash the | crowds that had been seen on the island rushing around were lost sight of, but when the smoke cleared away it couid be teen that a hundred or more tugs had reachea the island and were taking the people aboard. Atthis time every build- ing and every shed seemed 10 be burning, tmen Beaton in the War. ATLANTA, Ga., June 14 — Colonel | Cook’s order barring ou: bicyelists from | | Fort McPherson has been approved by the War Department, as has his defense of the sentry who bayoneted voung Hop- kins. Hopkins will swear out u warrant tor the sentry's arrest, but Colonel Cook ays neither the State or municipal authorities have any jurisdiction over the Is Reported to Have Committed Suic de. and there was absolutely no shelter for the people anywhere. The heat was in- tense. The whole island isjonly six acfes inmates of the fort except in case of murder, and that there is no way in which the gentry can be prosecuted, - | office; Somberg’s general store, Mrs. Prewett’s bakery, Kruncis’ saloon, the | Pioneer loaging-house, Joseph Sherrer's shoestore, Blakeley’s barber-shop, two | meatshops and three saloons. Nothing is left of the entire business portion of the town. The losses ageregate $125,000; in- surince of about a fourth. The stricken town state of coafusion. Telegraph and tele- phone lines were burned out and all com- munication cut off from the outside world | until late this evening. Manager Tittle of the Auburn telephone was early on the | scene and his wires will be workiug before morning. Hundreds of people from the surround- | ing towns of Greenwood, Coloma, Taylor Georgetown Swept Out|mine, Pilot Hill, Garden Valley, Placer- 2 | ville and Auburn have flocked to the place of Existence by @ |and are rendering all assistance pos- 3 sible. It is indeed welcome, for a late Conflagration. message states that there may be more deaths before morning. The disaster re- sulting from the explosicn is even more terrible than that of the fice. is still in a fearful | | of the children on i | | EXPLOSION ADDS TO THE DISASTER The origin of the fire is still a mystery. Georgetown is & place of about 800 people located in the E! Dorado foothills, and only a few miles distant from the historic town of Coloma and the where James Marshall washed out the first nugget of gold in 1848. Although William D. Newell Loses His| Life and Others Are Fa- tally Injured. the lead for sometime past the indusiry of mining in that section has revived won- derfully in the last vear. The inhabi- tants are a happy and contented people, most of them still clinging to that old *49 LITTLE RESCUED FROM THE FLAMES. custom of always leaving the latch-string outside the door. The many who have S s enjoyeda their hospitality can doubly sym- pathize with them in their affliction. Homeless Famllies Spend the e Night In Tents and Impro- vised Shelters. MINRCVIA FLAME-SWEPT. | Portion of ihe Business Center of =k | Viilage Cleared by Flamss of the AUBURN, CaL., June 14—Georgetown, Iis Buildings. a mining town twenty-five miles above| POMONA, CAL, June 14.—A good part Auburn, and the second in importance in | of the bu<iness center of the pretty little E! Dorado County, was totally destroved | village of Mourovia, in this locality, was by fire this morning. Of the prosperous | destroyed by fire at about 2 o’clock this place scarcely a vestige remamns. To- | morning. A breeze was blowing from the night the people are camping in tents and | west, and. there being very poor means hastily improvised places of snelter, many | for fizhting the fire in Monrovia, it seemed bavivg saved from the flames but little | more than the clothing on their backs. | distric During the piogress of the fire giant| A:1: vowder exploded in Jacob Somberger’s | found a fire burning in the rear of Dr. store, causing a frightful disaster. Wiiliam | William Stewart's store on Lemon ave- D. Newell was killed instantly,and Mrs. | nue. It had gained such headway that Nancy McLain, aged 76 years, was fatally | nothing could be done o check it when a injured. Clinton Hulbert, the 18-year-old | crowd of excited citizens came runuing to son of Editor Hulbert of the Guzette, suf-| the scene. Then the fire spread to the fered fractures of a leg in four places, and | Postoflice building, and before much of the limb was so badly lacerated that it| the furnishings and mail matter could be will have to be amputated. Severalothers | saved from it that also was in flumes. were quite seriously injured by fiying| By this time several hundred men had missiles. arrived, and all worked like Trojans to The explosion must have been terrific, | check the spreading flames hy taaring for all the windows in the residence por-|down buildings in close proximity. Not- tion of the town were broken, and those | withstanding their efforts the fire spread portions of buildings which had not teen | o Holland's merchandise store, to Charles wholly destroyed by the flames were | E. Bell’s market, to B. F. Crew’s drug- razed by the explosion. The large iron | store and to L. G. Newlin's notion-store. doors on the California Water Company At last by a change in the wind the building, 300 feet away, were torn from | flames were whirled squarely against the their hinges and twisted nearly double. buildings owned by Dr. M. E. Adams, D. The fire broke out in B. F. Shepherd’s | E. Ford and George Cook. An alley runs drugstore at about 9:35 o’clock. A high | there and the citizens bhad prepared to wind was blowing and the flames spread | cneck the conflagration at that point. both ways, totally destroying buildings | They were successful. with a frontage of 400 feet in a couple of | All of the buiidings heretofore named hours. The entire business portion of the | were completely destroyed, and but little town was consumed, the line of fire ex- | of the stocks of goods was saved from any tending from the American Hotel on one | of them. Three families were asleep in side to the California Water and Mining | the second story of these buildings while Company on the other. | the fire was progressing. The escape of The buildings burned include B. F.|James Baines' family was sensational. Shepherd's drugstore, D. Jarret!’s general | They fled from the burning structure with- merchandise store, Mrs. L P. Jackson’s | out time to don their outer clothing. grocery, 0. Orellis’ undertaking parlors, | The total loss is $47,000 and the insur- the postoffice and Wells, Fargo & Co.’s | ance $22,000, would be burned. at one time that the whole of the business | o'clock pedestrians of the street | | famous spot | fruit growing and agriculture have taken | | Where once was petty desire now reigns pat: | taith that knows no CHAPTERS ROM OLD 10 YOUNG Presentation of the Stars and Stripes to Boys and Girls. TELLING TOKENS OF THE COLORS. Behind Them Was the Memory of Heroes Who Gave Life for Country. A GOOD OBJECT LESSON IN PATRIOTISM. Fiag Day Appropriately Celebrated by the Sons and Daughters of the Revolution. It was flag day yesterday, and the event was appropriately observed in the cere- mony of a presentation of a silken banner to the Laaies’ Protection and Relief Soci- ety by the California society of the Sons of the American Kevo uti The home Franklin street, be- tween Geary and Post, was decorated and prepared for the occasion. Every pupii wore a bouquet of sweet peas and had (0od words to say for the suggestions of the day. General J. C. Currier acted as master of ceremonies, although the post of exercise be.onged to Hon. Horace Davis and Rev. Wiliiam Rader. The silken flag was presented by Mr. Davis after a formal opening of the exer- cises by the pupils of the institution sing- ing “Forward, Christian Soldiers.” Gen- eral Currier then unfolued the beautiful en banper and presenting it to the chief of the boys’ briga id: This banner is given to your class and the boys in general on behalf of & nobic cause. Igive it 10 you to-day ou behalf of the Soclety of Soms of the American Revolution—in be- nalf of the grestest humanity the world has everseen. Around thisflag has grown tragic memories, and even something better tnan that—love of country. fometimes in the busy events that occupy the drama we call human nature, an action or an effort on the partof a individual in his land is misconstrued. After & time the world changes its judgment. otism. Before you stands the emblem of bravery and purity. This flag and this banner has changed a world that once fed on traditions, and the echoes of a king that fed on might and what right he could get by fair means or foul. The love of country is here organized. The meaning of these exercises to-day is that one great vatriotic sociely comes to you with its gray hair and asks you to take up the cause it must leave off. The old men leave off the fight to the bo Rev. William Rader rose in response to bless the flag and say a good word on be- heli of the boys: May this emblem and this banner, with ihese children, be baptized into the great power except peace, and no humiliation exceot right. The singing of ““The Star Spangled Ban- ner” the children followed. Hon. Horace Davis then said, In unloosing the flag: me this is the pleasure of my life. Boys of the Brigade, stand fust to the banner that i3 unwaved here. In intrusting to you this flag I intrust a great trust to you. We keep alivo the memory of men by this flag. We keep alive | the memory of the men who died for a causa the greatest human emotion has ever recorded. Oue hundred and twenty-five years ago our country had to put up with a British umpire, and you remember that the mother country treated us s & child. Instead, we responded as men. The official ceremony of accepting the flag was then performed. Short addresses by Rev. William Rader and Almarin Brook Paul followed. “There must be one flag in this coun« try,”” said Mr. Rader, “and all aspirations to aispute this right must be given Amer- ican treatment. This right to Americans is inalienable. *It belongs to Americans as citizens of this country. o alien speech shall de- fame us. No spirit of a usurped monarchy and a usurped freedom shall come to us and make us forget the good actions of our forefathers.” Mr. Paul, in closing the exercises, said: It is my fortune to come from a country that has founded a republic. In the name of La- fayette I tend my compliments over this band of boys. There may be better boys than La- fayette before The exercises were closed with a rendi- e. | tion of “*America’ by everybody present. NEW SUITS TO BE FILED. Ksntucky Officials m No Mood to Be Trifled With by ihe Southern Poc fiz FRANKFORT, K June 14.—Attor- ney-General Taylor went before the State Board of Assessment and Valuation to- day and asked that the board fix a tax on the Southern Pacific Railroad for the years 1893-97 inclusive, in order that he might bring suit under the new revenue law for the accrued taxes, which the road has failed to pay. After a lengthy confer- ence Auditor Stone promised that he would bave the assessment forthcoming in a very short time, General Taylor will therefore bring suit for the amount. The road has shown no disvesition to conform to the law, ard the suit now pending for $139,000 for penalties for failure to revort will be supplemented by a suit of double these figures against the big corporation. Itis said the State administration will lead the fight for the repeal of the charier of the road before the next Legislature.