The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 4, 1897, Page 1

VOLUME LX PRICE FIVE CENTS PRESIDENT MCKINLEY GUARDED Detectives Turn Out at Columbus in Full Force. LETTERS CONTAINED THREATS. But the Whole Scare Is Re- garded Only as a Hoax. 4 THE VISIT OF THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE. Enthuslasm of the Raception Spreads to the Children at | the State Fair. CHICAGO, ILL., Sept. 3.—A spe(ial1 from Columbus, Ohio, says : | A threat to assassinats the Prrsi-i dent of ‘the United States for appointing | Terence V. Powderly C Immig mmissioner of ion -alarmed Columbus to-day d urged the police to extra diligence. Two letters, signed with cabalistic char rs and giving no clew to the were received—one by Mayor Black and the other by a well-known t who turned the matter over to ice Department. The one ad»} = dressed to the Mayor is written in pencil, bears the Columbus postmark and reads as f “Be on against McKinley to make away with him, because he appointed Pn\\'defiy.} s plot is not in favor of anarchy; | y're for organized labor and against The Mavor was at first inclined to re- } gard the matter as the production of a | %, butstddenly remembered that the | sassination of rulers is quite the thing these days. The local police and detective force, as- | ted by detectives of Pittsburg and oth- | , were instructed to watch every move- the President daring his stay in | the city. Detectives were stationed at itervals along the overhead bridge | iding from the' President’s train to the ting-room of -the new central passen- | ger station, . -Others were placed along pon-which the train pulled in. dent reached the station | airly swarmed, almost crowd- | ng out the. reception committee. When the procession started south on cet; for the new Great Southern | many. detectives and Chief Kelly n-clothes walked close to the car- riage. This extreme care was maintained throughout the day, covering the Presi- dent’s every movement. When he left t ment of the officers 1e hotel for the State fair grounds it was by the side . exit, driven along a side strest. When the President returned the detec- tives were still with him, watching the crowd which thronged the hotel, and he will be: under "constant surveillance until he leaves the city at 10 0’clock to-morrow. — . % RECEIVES AN OVATION. President McKinley’s Visit to Co- | lumbus Causes Creat Enthusi- asm Among the Res dents. COLUMBUS, Onio, Sept. 3.—President McKinley and party arrived at 10 A. a. as guests of the Obio State Board of Agricu!- 1nre. James Wilson joined them here, With the President came Mrs. McKinle; Senator and Mrs. Hanna, Secretary and Mrs. Alger, Colonel and Mrs. Myron Her- | rick, Web C. Hayes and othar personal friends. It was variously estimated that between 00 and 100,000 were gathered on the £ fair grounds this- aiternoon to greet President McKinley, but only a fraction s of this number were able to hear the brief | was chil- | eech which he-delivered. It dren’s aay at the fair, and little folks were scattered through the | c-owd. 'Fhe Presidential party arrived at | the grounds ut 10 o'clcck, where the Seventesnth. Regiment, U. S. A, Fourteenth Regiment, O. N. G., acted as After visiting the Grant cottage the Presiderit held an informal levee in tue office of Secretary Miller. There was great cheering when ‘the Presidentand | bis party appeared on the balcony atthe east side of the main exposition building. After the applause which greeted the President bad subsided the Fourteenth Regiment Band played ‘‘America,” and the vast assemblage took up the jamiliar | sirain making a great chorus. Mr. McKin- ley first expressed the.pleasure experi- enced by him on his return- to the capi- tal city of his State after an absence of eighteen months. Then, marking the yresence on the grounds of 40,000 school children, he congratulated them on the exceptional opportunities for education aiforded by the State Government ol Ohio. Continuing, President McKinley saia: *God bess the school children of Onio, God bless the school children in America and guide them to inteiligence and viriue and morality and patriotism, and witn] these elements dominaling our citizen: escort. lows: | your guard; there is a plot | and the carriage was | thousands of | and | [ % | to make the journey oy the one and return This he has done, end with a disptay of pluck and enerey not often to be found in a young man accustomed to the Much praise and the thanks of all future are most certainly hia due. quailed. 1y . {‘ s by the other. softer work incident (o city newspaper life. overland travelers to the Yukon goldfields ‘While 3000 or 4000 men, presumably intent on reaching the Klondike, strungalong the few miles of good road between Skaguay Landing and the tirst ridge, were hesi- tating to attempt the rugged and dangerous journey beyond and waiting for a pack train to help them across, Hoffman shouldere | his pack, containing a sufficient quan- tity of provisions to last him through his journey, a small tent and other necessaries, and started out alone io dare where but tew had beiore ventured and thousands had E: s ly covering the four miles of good road out from Skaguay, he crossed the river ana began the arduous part of his journey over a muddy, boggy road, which led for either man or beast. BIRDSEYE VIEW SHOWING TAIGA INLET, WHITES AND CHILCOOT PASSES and the Lakes Beyond, With the Route Covered by Hal Hoffman, the “Call’'s” Correspondent, on His Remarkable Journey From Skaguay to Lake Bennett and Back to Dyea. That the readers of THE CALy, and the public ganerally might have an accurate re- | him to the foot of the first ridge, the journey over which he describes as a scramble port on the respective merits and demerits of the two trails from Skaguay and Dyea over Whites and Chilcoot passes, Hal Hoffman, THE CALL's representative, undertook Over this ridge and down the equally bad other side, then up and over Porcupine, he followed the narrow, slippery trail, hanging over the sides of deep ravines, to the Box Canyon, through this and across the river beyond, a most dangerous passage. to the foot of the climb to the summit of Whites Pass, 2006 feet above Skaguay, and then to the much-coveted top. Bevond the summit the trail grew better. Passing Summit Lake, Beaver Mead- ows, Middle Lake, and wading and climbing around tne end of Shallow Lake for a couple of miles, he struck off to the northwest on the trail to the foot of Lake Linder- man, which he reached after another tough tramp of eight or ten miles. Not over thirty men had ever made the journey before him, and most of them took weeks where he took days. Resting one day in the camp, he started on the 19th of August on his return over Chilcont Pass to Dyea, where he arrived on August 22, having been the first news- paper man to give any account, from actual experience, of what a trip over Whites Pass means. ship, our institurions are safe and our republic may be, glorious forever. Ithank vou and bid you ail good afternoon.” [Great applause]. At the conclusion of the President’s speech he was the recipient of an ovation from the school children and assembied multitude. The President was interested in the cot- tage in which Grant was born. Itisin- closed in a building of steel and glass and |is the property of the farmers of Ouio, | being permanently located on the fair | grounds. | Tue letter warning the Mayor against | plot to assassinate the President, “‘pe- cause he appointed Powderly,” is re- | earded by the Mayor and director of pub- | lic safety as a hoax. They both atate that | it was never considered seriously. Gen- | eral Alger to-night declared the publica- | | tion of the letter was an outrage. AGAINST THE AFRIDIS. V] Large Force of British Troops Will Be Sent to Subdue the Hill 1 ribes. LONDON, Ex6., Sept. 3.—Confirmation * |'has been given 1o the report that the Gov- | ernment has sanctioued the sending of a large expedition against the Afridis. It is reported that Geueral Lockhart, com- mander-in-chief of the Punjab, will be recalled from Italy, where he has been on a furlough, to command the expedition. | General Lockhart left Brindis), Italy, to- | dav, on his way to India, where he will arr.ve in goud time to command the expe- dition, wuich will be ready to move a fort- night hence. General Lockbart’s reputation and mili- tary ubility and skill in their order of | warfare will, it is belicved, tend to over- | come the tribesmen who have taken part in the upristng. BOMBAY, Inpia, Sept. 3.—Little news has been received regarding the frontier. The expedition to the Tirah will invade | the country of the Afridis by several aif- i ferent routes. The tribesmen in the vicinity of James are increasing in num- bers ard are ihreatening an attack. gt g ol W.LL DISARM 1HE 1UKKS. roreign sdmirals Propose Punich the Keekless Gunuers. CANEA, Crete, Bept. 3. — In conse- quence of the tiring of several volleys by Turkish regulars at the Italian man-of- war Sardenga, off Candia, on the night of August 31, the sdmirals of the foreign flet propose to disarm the Turkish ir- je:ulars. If permission 1o carry out thi< measure is refused oy the commander of the Turkish forces in Crete the admirals will demand his recall. RS Dovid Fowell Dead. LONDON, ExG., Sept. 3.—Dav d Powell, ex-governor of the Bank of Eng.and, dead. He was born in 1849 The to isl MANY MEN AND HORSES . ARE MIRED Disgruntled Gold-Seek- ers Return From Crowded Dyea. FEARFUL STATE OF THE TRAILS. Carcasses of Dead Animals Sufficient to Cause a Plague. VIGILANTES ARE ACTING PROMPTLY, | One Man Who Drew a Gun During a tquabble Fined Heavlly by the Committee. VICTORIA, B.C., Sept. 3.—In spite of the threats made by customs officials at Dyea, the steamer Danube arrived back this morning and brought another batch of disgruntied and disheartened miners. Engineer Lauderdale of the Danube, white the vessel was at Skaguay, took a walk over the trail to satisiv himself as to the exact state of affairs. He says travel- ingon tie trail is slow, and the trail is so narrow that pack-trains cannot pass one another. In the event of a hitch in ad- vanced trains it means that those behind must patiently wait until difficaliies are straightened out. A few days ago as many as 250 horses and #s many men were at a standstill for several hours owing to a horse in front becoming mired. New trails have been cui, but they are 80 bidiv cut upin a aay or two, owing to the state of the weather, that they are soon as bad as theold trail. Thae awful stench fiom the rapidly decomvosing bodies of dead horses scattered aiong the trail would cause a plague. Among the miners, he said, there is a general tone of harmony, and each is willing to heip the other. Work on the trail had been sus- pended, but it was resumed shortly before the Danube left, under direction of Scovell, the correspondent of the New York World, who has just returned from Juneau with two tons of dynamite, with which he proposed to blast the dangerous portions of rock on the trail. The committee, which was organized recently at Skaguay, will not permit any pack trains 10 go over the trail until the work is completed. About 1000 men have agreed to work on the trail, and it is thought it will be ready in about ten days. G. E. Gorgensen, who had been survey- ing the White Pass for the line of railroad to be built by the Duke of Teck’s com- pany, was 8 passenger down, havinz com- pleted his work for this season. Snow fell on the summit of the pass on the 20th of August. The vigilance committee at Skaguay has got down to work, having bad two cases before it. In one case the committes im- posed a fine of $150 on & man named John- son for having drawn bis gun on another man ina dispute over the purchase of lumber. A theft of $1400 in gold was also reporied to the committee, but up to the time of the sailing of the Danube no trace of the culprit had been found. On the tripdown the C. P. N. boat passed the river steamer Eugene that hasgot her- self into so pretty a tangle with the Cana- | dian customs authorities end is now on her way to the mouth ot the river. After her little grandstand piay in dip- ping her flag the Eugene ran ouc of port in the firm belief that the Bristol would follow and pick her up. The Bristol’s skipper, however, telegraphed to his owners for explicit instructions, awaitine which he is still Iying at Union wherl, His fear was that should he take the river boat as a consort, as originally intended, he wonld render himself liable tc severe penalties. Without the Brisiol the Eugene is about as helpless a craft as could be imagined in the rough waters of the north, particularly as she isin a con- dition that has already necessitated two dockings for repairs since leaving Port- land. The tug Hope was sent in pursuit of the Eugene from Union, but no results were known when the Danube left that place. el WIII Bulld a Hotel. CHICAGO, ILL., Sept. 3.—Seven men, most of them skiiled carpenters, left for the Alaska goldfields last night under the leadership of Captain Barber. The men will build a hotel at St. Michael for the shelter of miners during the coming win- ter. The North American Trading and Transportation Company, which is send- g the men, expects the hotel to prove a very important -stopping-place on the route to the Yukon. TW0 FATAL EXPLOSIONS [N MINES At the Old Sunshine Pit Twelve Delvers Met Death. BODIES OF VICTIMS MUTILATED. Physicians Hasten to the Scene of the Disaster to Care for the Wounded. TRACKS ARE BLOWN UP AT CRIPPLE CREEK. Dispute of Ral'ways Over Right of Way Leads Up to a Mysterious Affray. GLENWOOD, Coro., Sept. 3.—A coal- dust explosion in one of the chambers of the Sunshine Coal Company, the pr perty of the Colorado Fuel and lron Company at Sunshine, some sixteen miles southeast of Gienwood Springs, killed eleven Ital- ians and one American to-night a few minutes before 6 o'clock. The men were preparing to leave the mine on the day shift when the disaster occurred. A shot had been fired, and, instead of its being a directexplosion, it was what in miners' parlance is ealled & ‘*‘blowout’’; that is, the powder created a flame, which shot backward and csught the dust that had accumulated in the chamber instead of dislodging the seam of the coal as in- tended. At the time of the explosion there was a barrel of gunpowder in the chamber, which ignited and aided " the disaster, Continued on Sccond Page. PLUNGES TO DEATH FROM A PULLMAN W. Russell Ward Closes a Career of Wild Dissipa- tion by JUMPS FROM A Suicide. TRAIN AND IS MANGLED TO DEATH. Strange Actions and Telegrams Indicate That the Desecrator of the Bradbury Home Had Become Mentally Unbalanced. CHICAGO, ILn, Sept. 3.—W. Russell | Ward is dead. The desecrator of Million- aire John Bradbury’s home flung himself | from the window of a train on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad in Iowa early | this morning, and was instantly killea. } The Eunglishman had undoubtedly be- come insane brooding over the disgrace of his sensational elopement with young Mrs. Bradbury and the latter’s subse- quent desertion and return to her forgiv- ing busband. Ward’s body was picked up a short distance from the little town of Wheatland. It was clad only in a night robe. It is now on the way to Chicago, and will be held until relatives or friends are heard from. Ward boarded the train at San Fran- cisco at 5:30 o’clock on Monday evening, and was immediately assigned to draw- ing-room B, car 2, After being given pous- session of hisapartmentin the Pullman car Ward remained away from the other ‘passengers, and spent all his time in his own apartment. Early yesterday morning he becan to sbow signs of insanity. He flourished two revolvers on the train severa! times and almost creaied a panic among the other passengers. He told the conductor of the train who he was and acted in a very pe- cuiiar manner. At nearly every stop the train made he would getoff and send tele- grams. One of these messages he sent to a resi- dent of Los Angeles, saying that if Mrs. Bradbury wanted him she could come to him, but for the present he would have to go to England and visit his wife. He remsined up ail uightand refused to retire until 3 o’clock this morning, when he apyroached the colored porter and told bim he was gomng to sleep. Ward then went into his room, and when De Kalb, | Ili., was reached the porter knocked on the door of Ward's room, but could get no answer. He made several efforts 1o get into the room, but without success, and then abandoned the idea. When the long line of cars pulled into the Northwestern depot this morning De- tective Broderick leaped on board, met the conductor and produced the following telegram, which had been received by Lieutenant Haasat5o’clock last evening: ‘‘Please send a reliable man to drawiog- room car 2. east-bound overland, arriving Chicago 7:30 o’clock to-morrow morning, without fatl, C. & N. W. R. R.” The telegram was dated from Fremont, Nebr., but bore no signature. The detec- tive and Conductor Roundy then endeav- ored to gain an entrance into drawing- room B. The door, however, was securely locked on the inside and efforts to gain an entrance were without avail for the time. However, the train crew finally managed toget into room B through the annex, and when the detective was admitted tae room was found to be empty. A pile of clothing which Ward had worn was found scattered about the room, but no trace of him could be found. It was soon decided that he had leaped through the window, and all his effects were taken in charge by the Pallman porter and taken to & room in the Union depot building. In the meantime the police and officials of the Northwestern Railroad proceeded to find out the man’sidentity. They learned he had given the name of Ward to yer- sons on the train, but they were not aware of his true identity. Conductor Rouncy told Broderick that the telegram received by Lieutenant Haoas had been sent by the passenger who had occupied the drawing-room and that the passenger had disappeared. He discov- ered it when he went to check up his train between Geneva and Chicago this morn- ing. The train dispatcher’s office took up the inquiry by wire and ascertained that at 5 o’clock this morning the dead body of a man, clothed only in a night dress, had been found lying beside the Chicago and Northwestern tracks at Wheatland, lowa. The identity was established when the station agent at W heatland wired that in the pocket of the night dress were found a draft for $450 made out to W. Russell Ward and a San Francisco hotel bill made out to the same person. The overland express passes Wheatland between 3 and 3:30 o’clock in the morning and is thought to have been runningata speed of between fifty and sixty miles per hour. Porter Callaway related his story to his FROM GAY ELOPER TO TRAGIC SUICIDE. W. Russell Ward, vho gained some notoriety and a cell in the City Prison here by eloping from Los Angeles with Millionaire John R. Bradbury’s wife, leaped from the window of a palace-car was instantly killed. in lowa early yesterday morning and That he was mentally unbalanced was shown by his peculiar actions in this City after Mrs. Bradbury rejoined her husband, and by the many telegrams he sent from the train upon whicih he was ticketed to New York.