The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 13, 1897, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXIL—NO. 105. PRICE FIVE CENTS. STRIKERS SULLEN AND VENGEFUL Grave Situation Confronts the Officials and Residents of Hazleton. MINERS MAY CLASH WITH THE Y General Gobin Will Prevent a Demonstration| MILITARY. at the Funeral of Those Slain by Sheriff Martin’s Force. HAZLETON, Pa., Sept. 12.—The situa- | tien here to-night is graver than at any | tim= since the bloody affray oi Friday af- ernoon. There is strong t between the str ason to fea rs and the mili- dthere is an indication that from 5000 t0 7000 more miners will join the mal- a contents. ng continues high against Sheriff rtin and his deputies and the intensity tion is such that a sudden turn ad or a word spoken above the brings a runreing crowd. are watchful and reaiy for the the | astate woich may easily be- nic. emergency, and people of S nt of ugly omen occarred dur- funeral of three of the v'ctims this While services were being b St. Joseph’s Church about the igners were congregated the docrs. A number of them i their voicas and it is declared by nesses that a policeman stationed door became undu'y officious. | stantly an ominous muttering followed mingled with scowling looks and clenched 5 “ord was immediately carried indoors ie Rev. Father Austin, who hurriea o the door and bundied the man w ed most quarrelsome in >rds of counsel to irther demonstrations. n tne air, and if it is to come will b from the words used by ( wder of the Third Brigade. g miners have made elaborate preparations a demonstration at the neral of ten of the victims, which is fixed for 10:30 o’ciock Tue milit authorities are determined that nothing of the kind shall be per- mitt ball be no marching of any character whatsoever, whether during. funerals or otherw This resolution is not generally known, and the miners are going on with their arrangements. General Gobin talked over the telephone to Governor Hastings for an hour or more this afterncon. He said be had merely made a formal Teport to the Gov- ernor of the situation. It is apparen ver, that the commander is n d by the outlook, althouzh he says be thinks there will be no further turbu- lence. He would not say when the troops were likely to be withdrawn, and he has olv d to act with the utmost rigor. rthermore, he made a revelation 10 to the church. 1e others pre- few w i t time r commar which pu tion. This was that the house of the r of No. 3 colliery had been broken into last night by six masked men and the engineer, who is a cripple, unmercifully | beaten. There is no clew to the identity { f the assailants. Theonly work the man has been doing lately is the pumping nec- essary to iree the mine from water. The general has also received a formal of the Audenreid cutrage of last day night, when strikers broke into 136 of Gomer Jones, superintendeut of the Lenizh and Witkesbarre Coal Com- in the moruing. | | mite. | eral Gobin assigned a guard of the | up to 18 o’clock at pany. Jones, whose unpopularity with the miners was one of the rirst the strike, was not there, but the 1 lit- raliy wrecked the interior of the house, and then attacked a mine powerhouse near by and stole therefrom a quantity of dvna- As soon as he heard of this, Gen- hir- te b Regiment to remain at Audenreid. The addition to the strikers’ ranks, made, will be the men at Cox’s mine, and should they go out, the last big thracite company in the region will be idle. It was not known until {o-day t the 2000 men, employed at co'li held 4 mee ing =t Stockton last n drew up a petition to the operators, de- manding an inerease of 10 per cent. will be presented to-morrow, and of refusal they will strike. 1t is accepted as a fact that if these men £0 out a!l the others employed by Demp- sey will join them, making a total num- bsr of between 5000 and 7000 from these mines alone. The Cox men had airead been offered an increase, but rejeciec on the ground that it was sull jower than paid by the other operators in These men had been work ing steadily up to this time, and of late ight. To all intents and purpotes Hazleton 1s under martial iaw. Genera! Gobin de- clared to-night that in spite of warrants issued no constables nor ecivic authority would be permitied to arrest thedeputies. Le said that vhe Sheriff was an executive officer, whose cuty it was to preserve the peace, and he, Gobin, and the troops were -morrow morning. This | reeily subordinate to the Sheriff at this neral | tim beine engaged in belping him to perform that duty. Under these circum- stences he would not permit interference with the Sherif’s officials so long as the | miiitia was here. In spite of tuis fine distinction the com- | mander’s decision on this pointis accepted ed, and that from this time on there | ts a startling aspect upon the sit- | p e s superseding the civil authorities by the military power. The events of to-day were the death of another of the wounded, Jacob Tom- ashanto, the 18-year-old boy who was shot ihrough the head; the announcement was made this afternoon by the doctors that six mor- will die, several perhaps before morning, and the funerals of four of the victims, These were Andrew Yurek, Steve Yureich, John' Fula and Mike Cheslek. Tan more will be buried to-morrow, and here the trouble is likely 10 occur. It has bren arranged that the ten coffins shall be carried on the shoul- ders of the strikers fro.'the undertaker’s shop to the front of St. Joseph’s Chaurch. In front of the church a platform is to be which the ten coffius will be Theu addresses in Polish, Lithu- anian and English are to be deliversd by priests and others; the boZies will be car ried inside and pontifical high mass will be celebrated. After the services the procession will go to the Polish cemetery, where eight of the coffins—those containing Poles—will be placed in one large grave. It is the pur- pose to acquire by subscription sufficient funds to erect over this a monument bear- ing the names of the victims and a brief history of the event. Seventeen societies, all but one made up on canses of | an- | This | in case | ! the Solemn Function. Scene at the Imptrssi\;c Ceremony cf Laying the Ccrnerstone of the Sacred Heart Church at the Corner of Fillm:re and Fell Streets. His Grace Archbishop Riordan Presided Over ARE BAST \\ \ A\ N \\A \ \\.\\ ‘h‘ \ DESERTING SKAGUAY | \ |Despairing Gold Seekers Turn Back From the Trail. EXODUS BEGINS IN of Poles, Hungarians and others of the Siav races, and one of Irish, are to march in the funera) procession. 1f General Gobin executes the intenti he exoressed to-night this whole pro- gramme will be upset, and it is feared that t e men will resent any interference with the disposition of their dead. Dr. H. P. Lewandoski of New York, rep- resenting the Polish societies of that city, arrived here to- He is empowered to assist the strikers in every possible way; to help them to gain their demands from the operators, and to arrange for the prosecution of the Sheriff and deputies. Later in the day- he said he had received word that a check for $1000 from the National Polish Alliance, which recentiy met in Philadelphia, had been sent on for the aid of the miners, and that he had promises of large additional subscriptions | from New York and other cit.es. There are many Poles in the United States. A number of Polish priests from New York, Buffzlo and other places are also expected to arrive to-morrow. Dr. Thorodovitch, secretary at the Aus- trian consulate at Pniladeiphia, partici- pated in a meeting to-night to consider methods of prosecuting the deputies. He obtained affidavits from a number of the miners who were in Friday’s affzir, which throws new light on the shooting. They declare, in substance, that on the morning of that day a messenger arrived at Har- wood and asked the foreigners to come to | Latimer, as the employes of colliery No. 1 at that place were about to strike. Later a second message to the same effect ar- rived, and then the men started -over to Latimer. At Hazel colliery, so the sffidavits con- tinne, Sheriff Martin met them and warned them not to go through Hazelton, but to e 1 | View of Skaguay Settlement, Which Is Fast Being D.serted by Gold-Seekers. | order to £0 round the other way. They did o, but, arriving at the fatal bend in the road near Latimer, they a.ain found them- | selves con'ronted by the Shenfl, this time packed up by an army of deputies. As soon as they reached the spot, it is acclared, Sheriff Martin stepped out and roughly grabbed the foremost man by the coat collar, With his other hand he thrust a revolver into his face and he used abusive language. The miner knocked the Sheriff’s re- volver from in front of his face ana tried to wrench himself from the oflicial’s grasp. Almost instanily, the aftidavit says, the fire was given. The deputies were lined up in a hollow square, the fourth side of which was formed by the body of strikers. This would possibly ac- count for the fact that so many were shot in the back and side. Stories of violence on the part of the strikars long before the outbreak of Fri- day are coming to light. I:issaid thatin their marches from mine to mine they used brute force to make individual work- ers join their ranks. In the office of the Lehigh Traction Company is a brown cutaway coat whici one of the men, now dead, wore on Friday last. There are three bullet holes in it, one through the front, one through the arm and a third throush the tail. Inan inside pocket was found a cheap nickel 32.caliber ‘“‘bulldog’” revolver. This had not been used in the riot, because the chambers contained neither empty nor loadea shells, and it could not have been fired before the man was shot, because he would have had no time to reload it. 1t is established that this is the only weavon found in the whole mob of miners, and the conditions 1indicate that the first shot conld not have been fired from their side. Ther~ were three companies of dep- uties, and one of these was made up of men who have served as mine police in the past and had much trouble with the strikers on previous occasions, and were said to be in a revengeful mood againsi them. All was quiet in the camp througbout the day, several of the bodies, inciuding the city troop of Philadelphia and the Governor’s troops, taking practice drills. Clement Plopslack, one of the strikers who was injured in F:iday’s riot, died late to-night, making the twenty-third death. During the day rumers were current that the deputies had left town. A re- porter made search and located ten depu- ties. FAFOR A SEITLEMENT. ers? Execw'ive Committee to Mine- Nork: ¢ deaue a Cireular. CINCINNATI, Ouro, Sept. 12.—A spe, cial to the Commercial Tribune from Co- lumbus says: The executive committee of the United Mine-workers will issue to- morrow a circular anpeal to the miners to accept the terms offered by the operators on the basis of yesterday’s resolution. Died in the M S8T. LOUIS, to the Republic from Quincy, IiL, says: Charles D. Nichols, a brother ot Delancey F. Nichols, the noted attorney of Brook- Iyn, N. died in the workhouse last night trom sunstroke. N.chols was serv- ing a term for vagrancy. His brother's address was learned from a letter in his pocket. vicho Mo, Seot, 12.—A special | EARNEST. Returning Vessels Cut Rates! and Are Crowded With Passange:s |THE KLONDIKE A BURST p BUBBLE, | Ninety Per Cent of the Argonauts Glve Up the Attempt to Reach Dawson.;} JUNEAU, Arasga, Sept. 7—(By steam- ship George E. Starr to Seattle, Sept. 12).— The much-vaunted Skaguay is a “‘busied’’ | commnunity. Her glory as the gate to the Klondike has tumbled to earth even as the columns of Carthuge and Rome have fallen. Even hope has left the city of tents, and despair, which has hovered with wild eyes over the scene for weeks, has taken possession. An exodus from Skaguay has begun. The Klondikers are flocking in all direc- tions. The steamship George E. Starr, now lying here for a balf hour taking in water, is crowded with returninz Klon- dikers. Before she left Skacuay notices readirg, “‘Excursion rate of $20 to Seattle by this ship,” were posted on her sides and on Broadway and other conspicuous thorouchfares. This is just half the regu- lar rate from the he.d of Lynn Canal to Puget Sound. This was the kind of a chance that the disappointed Kiondikers had been waiting for, and they focked aboard the Starr and tarned their faces | toward homeward. The Starr got most | of the passengers booked for the steam ship Willamette at $30 a head. The Wil- jamette met the Starr’s cut and will leave | Skaguay io-day, returning by way of Sitka. Steamships which bave been busy all season and loaded to the gunwales with Klondikers are now busy carrying them back again. The Starr came in here with the passengers shouting from the decks witk evident satisfaction: “The bottom has fallen out of Skaguay. She is a busted town.” Others are flocking to Dyea and will make a plunge to get over the Chil- coot Puss. They have realized the availability of the Dyea trail too late. They canuot pos- sibly get their outfits over and build boats at the lakes before the season closes. Only the men who have money are swarming from Skaguay to Dyea. Hundreds are stranded at Skaguay without a dollar, un- able to leave the place and unable to get to the Klondike. Many of the men have mortgaged their all or spentall the money they could raise to find tbe 1and of gold, | still as far away as when tney left home. ! Many a strong man, finding himself in that position, has been moved to tear:. Some bhave gone back from the trail and wept in silence and alone; others did not attempt to hide their bitter disappoint- i | and | $utheastern Alaska | Starr and Willamette. | zet over the pass aand frankly admitit. for the winter. The first comers wiil be successful, but the others cannot find ac- commodations here. v i An outfit of two of supplies on the summit of White whizh cost with the packing added $750, was sold for $150. Representatives ot Juneau merchants, ot salmon canneries of stamp mills working quartz in are buying up this s'uff at from 5to 10 cents on the dollar. Thousands of men on the trail are trying tp sell tneir outfits for any price they can get in order to raise money 1o return home for tue winter. There 1= hardly a man on the trail that does not realiz: now that he was badly iooled in coming to Skaguay. He doe not know just how it was done, but that it was done is now forcibly apparent to him. The fair-minded ones biame themseives for not using a sufficient amount of obser- vation and discriminating between Dyea and Skaguay when they first arrived weeks _ago. Ii they hed gone to Dyea probably half of them could bave by this time been at the lakes or floating down the river to Dawson. Hundreds among those leaving are looking for somebody to blame. Their pride wil not permit them to ucknowl- edge that they are responsible for their situation. Bankers and merchants with plenty of ons | money are returning on the steamships Trev could not Their horses died on the trail and much of their provisions was ruined by rain. H. K. Struve of Seattle lost his entire pack train of seven horses and wascom- pelied to leave an expensive outfit and re- jturn empty handed. Hesaysthat bevond Porcupine Creek foriy-tive dead horses are lying in one ~pot in the cauyon. The reason, in brief, for the death of so many horses 1s the im possibility of pack- g sufficient feed in over the trail for the hor-es along with the outfits, and the horses drop from exhaustion. Hundreds also are lying dead along the trail, having beer shot to save them from starvation. The Kiondike is a broken bubbie to 90 per cent of the thousands of men who have crowded in here since the middle of July. The roof is on, but work has suddenly stopped on the new three-story hotel at Skaguay, the erection of which was begun about a week ago. Some of the gambling apparatus following the crowd to Dvea. Nearly every man who returns home has lost from $300 to $2000 in his fuiile attempt to get to the Klondike, Har Horryax, is NEW STRIKE NEARE DAWSON, Bonanza Discovery Made by Miners on Aulphur Creek. SEATTLE, Wasm., Sept. 12.—John E. Light of Chicago, who arrived here yes- ierday from St. Michael on the steamer Sout Coast, reports that on the evening of his departure from Dawson a rich strike was made on Sulphur Creek and that it prom sed to prove a veritable bon- anza. Su phur Creek is tributary to Do- minion treek and Indian River and is in tibe very center of the gold nelds. The first prospectors and ‘locators did exceedingly well and a~ hig: as $54 to the pun was taken out. The fiist prospect- holes proved very rich and some of the origzinal locators more than earned wages while conducting simple prospect work. The news of the strike came 0 Dawson about the middle of August and there was an immediate rush 1o the creek. A large number of claims had been located when Light leit Dawson. Light expresses the opinion that the cresk will prove one of the richest in the disirict and add to the millicns that it will produce this winter. S G GOULD 0 GIVE AWAY. Mys. Hendorson 1eils of Some of the Strties Near Dowson. TACOMA, Wasu,, Sept. 12.—Mrs. Hen- derson, the first newspaper correspondent to make the trip to Dawson City, who re- taurned on the steamer Cleveland from St. Michael, is visiting friends in this city. Haid she to-day: “Taik avout my report of the finding of the $383 25 nug-et, the largest yet dis- covered in the Yukon country, which N.ck Knutson picked up on 36, £l Dorado, and is bringing to San Francisco on the Ex- celsior, has increased the excitement which a calm view of the danger side of the grub question had partialiy allayed. When the ment, but wept on the highway. All the small steamersrunning from the head of Lynn canal to Juneau are crowded with men looki ng for beard and lodging Excelsior, with its reported, but probably exaggerated, cargo of nearly a million of Continued on Third Page, S GRACE MADE GLAD THE PARISH Sacred Heart Corner-Stone Laid by Archbishop Riordan, THOUSAMDS ~ OF SPECTATORS, An Immense Crowd Viewed the Impressive and Beautiful Ceremonies, SERMOY BY FATHER P. R, LYNCH, The Preacher Says Good Citizens of All Religions Should Be Proud of the Edifice, It was an immense crowa which wit- nessed the laving of the corner-stone of Sacred Heart Church yesterday afternoon. Consérvative estimates ranged from 10,000 10 17,000. The enure foundation of the edifice in course of erection had been floored over and chairs were crowded everywhere. Fillmore and Fell streets, at the iniersectirn of which is located the church property, were crowded far outside the range of possible hearing and the alevation on Fillmore street, immecdiately opposite the edifice, was scarce large enough to accommodate the members of the marching societies which were sta- tioned there. The ceremonies were announced to com- mence at 3 o'clock, and it was only a little after that hour when the multitude upon the elevated site where the church is to be saw the head of one of the most im- yre-sive processions ever witnessed here swing into Fell street from Van Ness avenue and, with the League of the Cross Cadets marching company front, com proudly en toward the scene of the festiv- ities. From the church site the view was a beautiful one. The phalanx of superbly drilled young men, handsomely uniformed and with glittering swords and accouter- ments, could be viewed from the elevation for nearly a mile. Rehind them came the purely civic societies, the members march- ing iour abreast and the somber aspect of citizen dress relieved by gay badges and beautiful banners. The Knights of the Red Branch Rifies gave another military touch to the great cavalcade, and the whole was an inspiring sight, which filled the loyal members of the church with pride and all with ad- miration and wonder. Colonel W. P. Sullivan Jr. of the League of the Cross Cadets had succeeded in turning out the full company force of the regiment for the occasion, including two companies firom O.kland, and the young men never showed to better advantage. The other societies parading were: The Iunatian Council No. 35 Y. M. L; the Cathedral Counc! 9, Y. M. L.; coun- cus No. 37 and 129, Y. M. L; St Rose’s Conferen St. V. de P.; Loyola Assem- bly, Y. M. C. G Golden Gate Council, Y. M. L; Knunights of Tara; St. Peter’s Conference; Kaights of the Red Branch Rifles; Phil Sueridan Councii No. 72, Y. M. L; awisy 20, A. O. 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