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

NG, SEPTEMBER 15, 1897. “PRICE FIVE ATTEMPT 10 CRACK THE SAFE SanFrancisco Crooks Go After Big Game at §t. Michael. DAYLIGHT PREVENTS SUCCESS. Tamper With the Stn;ong Box of the North American } Company. THEY COME CLOSE TO A VAST SuUM. Officers Follow Two Men Who Formed a Scheme to Sacure From One to Three Mililons. SEATTLE, Wash., Chuzclili of the N ed Po- lice and Detective Edward Cud:hee of the local poiice force have been working for several days in the hope of locating two recently at- ransportation and Trading Michael. The sa‘e-crack- ers are thought to be San Francisco crooks | r.ason they failed 1o success- on the company’s safe was ylight came too soon, upset their plans and compelled them to abandon their work just as they were about, to de- stroy the last barrier and get acce's to a sim of money estimated at from $1,000,000 020,000 urchill savs that the crooks would undonbted!y been successful if givan hour more time. While Churchill tixfed that two men who returned to | from St. Michael on the | oust are the safe-crack- | direct evidence against if the men are arrested me cannot be legally fastened on | | might at first thougnt be imagined. ®ld ouf by Frank Cryder, and old Yu koner, who came out on the Humroldt and who to-day gave out an important interview concerning the country. Cryder has been in the north for five years. He | does not belicve there will be any deaths ‘ from starvation, though he agrees that | food will be scarce and the average miner’s | table will not groon under a tempting | variety of dishes. Lack of shelter he con- | siders even more to be areaded this winter | than famine. As to the mining outlook, he decleres trat $25006,000 will be taken out this| winter from the claims on Bonanza and | El Dorado creeks, while from the Birch, | Miller and Munook districts will be | washed about §200,000. This is the esti- mate of a man who has been north long enough to have a clear idea of what he speaks of, and his conservatism on gen- eral subjects would seem to indicate that his calculation of §25,000,000 would fail | short rather than be above the realization. Cryder has an interest in a claim on the | Upper E' Dorado, and on his way out this | fall located claim No. 54 on Hunter Creek, | Munook district, and secured two town | lots in Rampart City. “There is nosense in becoming alarmed over the prospect of a food sho: Kio he said to-day to TuEe CaLn corresponaent. “The fact that the com- pany stores in Dawson have been closed | has not such an awful significance as | They only closed for a few days, and are prob- ably oven now. They were shut up with the idea of checkmating speculators who would attempt to make tfertunes off the sate of provisions at fa ous prices. A man could o into a st nd buy 00 worth of grub. When bunger vegan to make the miners desperate and the stores | haa nothing to sell the speculator could nave things his own way. Itis not proposed to allow this, The miners have determined that any man seiling food | must do o at company pri These are | fixed and will not be allowed to go hig Where so many people are togethe can iniercbange, food goes a 1 n outfit that would last one man out can be made to hold eighteen montbs by judicious trad Do mnot stand that I am advis any one to | Lam siply stating | under go there this winter. these facts lo encourage those who have friends in the north. Lack of shelter, will, in my opinion, be ‘responsible for | more suffe in the Klondike than will famine. It costs $1000 fcr a fair log cabin already built, and ihe time and labor in constructing a new one would amount to about the same. There were not over 100 houses in Dawson when I left, while in the 000 peonle. In the guiches are ing built huts to shelter those who labor | the mines. Where the newcomers | in with their light outfits and empty pockets will lay their heads is a mystery to me. | { “The transportation companies- have been vary severely censured for bringing in whisky in preference to provisions. W hile they have unquestionably brought | in lots of liquor, I do not believe tney | | from Cook Iniet, Al the district once ex'olled asthe land of nave sacrificed grub for that purpose. It must be rememuered that every barrel of whisky set down in Dawson City means $1000 and sometimes more, That means a good deal, but it must be considered that meals are $1 50 and everything else in proportion. “Atsuch a profit the temptation ot the | compasies 1o carry liquor is easily under- stood, and tihey bave not been guilty toa greater extent as to tieir credit, The Canadian Government is reaily disp osed to be very liberal with Americans in the Klondike country. The officers try 10 be as liberal as possible and yet get tho reve- nue. The mining laws, as heretofore en- jorced, are perfectly satisfactory. Gold Commissioner Fawcett is well. liked. Americans are willing to conform to the ws when understood. They know noth- inz of an attempt 1o withhold alternate sims for the Government, nor has any- thing been ~aid of collecting & royalty on gold. The only collection made is $100 on a claim in the second year.” g sy Miners From Cooks Inmlet. SEATTLE Wash., Sept. 14.—Twenty- | | five miners arrived here this morning on | e schooner Stelia Erland, sixteen days ska. All have left zold to go to th= Yukon, and each treas- ures a small sack of dust which is to pay the way to the land of promise. Sums in the ds of the Erland’s passengers ag- gregate $20,000. One miner has seventy- six ounces, and others hoid sums varying from $500 to §i000. >, Sailed for Skaguaw. TACOMA, WasH., Sept. 14 —The steamer City of Seattle sailed to-night for Skaguay, Alaska. She will carry northward ninety or more passenge twenty cattle and a fair list of freight. . White of Tacomu goes north on the Seattle with a bakery outfit for Skagus Were Seviow ly 1y jured. CHICAGO, Irt, Sept. 14.—Two electric | . urban ‘Electric Railway collided this morning while running at along the stretch of single ¢ fall_speed ! track on Harlem avenue, south of Harri- n stree: in La Grange. The accident happened just before 7 o’clock, when traffic was heavy, and nearly all the passengers with whica both cars | were crowded were injured. The motorman, J. M. Murphy, and John Jamison, will die. The following were seriously injurea: Conductor J. E. Harvey, August Manetz, John Dennelly, Louis Groodel, Frank Bratty Richard Schaudel, Wiiliam Ot.o, Roy Bloom, Thomas Robert, Eliza Mere: cith, W. §, McKee, Cnarles Wuitsell, W. yan, Augustia Tupel. account of a heavy mist which hung over the tracks the motorman of the southe bound car, which was to have passed the north-bound car where the double track ends, failed to notice that he had left the double track. Beiore he could reverse his | trolley and run back the north-bound car came along at full speed, the cars collid- force. ing with' terrif; them. local poiice are interested m! finding the cracksmen, because it is prob- | able that they operated with success on | ceveral safes in this city. Churchill has | been working on the case with the hope of | fastening the crime on the men. | ‘L'he story is that two men arrived at St. | Michael on a steamer from San Francisco. | They announced that they were amongi the army of gold-hunters bound for the interio No more attention was paid to | them than to the hundreds of others then at St. Michael. They bad no outfits, but it is beiieved each was well supplied with | safe-cracking tools. The men loafed about | St. Michael, presumably waiting to getup | the ‘river, but in reality, Churchill says, | spent their time.learning the ins anu outs | of the transportation company’s affairs. Shortly before the steamer Cleveland Michael on her recent trip to the left § sound the store of the North American Transportation and Trading Company was entered at night by cracksmen, and when the Si. Michael representatives ot the company put in an appearance in the morning they found the big outer doors of the safe open, and saw that zood prog- | ress had veen made toward opening ihe inner doors. Drills had been used, and | the work was that of experts. Those who investigated the case say there 1s no doubt that daylight interfered with the work of the cracksmen and com- | pelled them to depart without the fortune. Hed they succeeded in getting the inner door open there wou.d have been gold | galore for them. How thev would have | zotten away with it is a mystery. Church- ill says that suspicion fell upon the two san Francisco men. Their presence and | actions had excited some suspicion, and | alter the safe was cracked they were watched night and day. They told several men who talked with them that they had | chanved their minds about going to Diw- | son City. They took passage on the South | Coast for the States. Churcsill came down on the Cleveland and at once notufied th~ local police. | Since then a search for the two men has been in progress. The matter has been kept remurkably quiet, and it is now thought that the work of the crooks was in a measure responsible for the departure for St. Michael of Charles H. Hamilton, secretary of the North American Trans- portation and Trading Company. He | vent on the Portland. — WORSE THAN FAMINE. An Old Yukoner Says That Many at Dawson Will Sutfer From Lack of Shelter. BEATTLE, Wasn., Sept. 14.—Hove for thoso who have friends in the Klondike is MRS. M. A. HAMMELL OF NEW WHATCOM, WASH.,, Who, accompanied by her husband, was the first woman over the Skaguay trail and over White Pass. money to go to the Klondike. The couple sold their home and all their furniture to get Mr. Hammell was lucky enough to buy a boat, promised to another man, the day ‘they reached Lake Bennett, and they are now well on the way to Dawson City. AUSTR MAY NAK DEMANDS Will Seek Satisfaction for the Killing of Subjects. |AMPLE INDEMNITY TO BE SOUGHT. So the Slaughter of Strikers May Assume International Importance. TROOPS REMAIN ON GUARD UNDER GOBIN. Meanwhile the Work Refuse to Return and Rep=at Their Demands. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 14.—A special to the World from Vienna say At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to-day, when an inquiry was made of the chief Men Who Quit | incident of the day which partook of the nature of a demonstration. At Latimer this atternoon a largely attended and decisive meeting of strikers was held to receive the answer of the company to their demands. With a large body of strikers gathering in the open space before the company’s store, Superin- tendent Blake came to tne door and rave tbem their answer. It was short and to the point, and it was met with exaction equally ss decisive. The demands had been formulated as follows: “‘We desire and wish the privilege of buying our provisions where we think proper, instead of being forced to buy at the company's store; we want a 20 per | cent advance of all classes of labor; we demand the dismissal of all parties who | took part on last Friday, September 10, in the snooting affray; we demand that all | classes of labor be paid the same for rock work as for coal on idle days; we demand that no man shall be discnarged for act- ing on this committee.” The company’s answer to this was, first, that the men are not and never have been obliged to buy exclusively at the company store; second, that the advance would not be granted, tecause the com- pany was paying the average rate of the region; third, the company absolutely re- fuses, without assigning any reason, to discharge anybody who participated in the shooting; fourth, that the men sus- taking some other person’s place, thus tween rock and coal work, and fifth, that no man suall be discharged for acting on the grievance committee. Superintendent Biake made a short | to work and arguing that they could gain nothing by remaining idle. “What do you say?’ **Will you come back ?” There was a moment's buzz and a chorus of *no” went up. Tke superintendent at- tempted no further persuasion and the men dispersed. The mountain journey of the cavalry | to Eckley, although pointed of its purpose, effect in that it deeply imvressed the he concluded. WATER FR LONG of the department as to what steos the Austrian Government proposed to take in reference to the killing of its subjects at Hazleton, that official replied: that Hungarian workmen were fired upon without provocation and several killed. When further detailed reports arrive our Government is resolved to demand satis- faction for the violent, causeless killing of Austro-Hungarian subjects, together with severe punishment by the American tribunals of those responsible, and ample indemnity to the wounded and families of the killed.” HAZLETON, Pa., Sept. 14.—Despite a variely of alarming rumors and a morning movement by a body of miners which looked formidable to-day passed without serious disturbance in the strike region. Matters wear such an unceriain aspeoct, however, that General Gobin declares that the removal of the troops or ary portion of them has not been contemplated. The strike itsell is spreading with great rapid- ity. Exact estimates of the number of men who have quit work are hard to ob- tain, but conservat've figures place it close 10 10,000, with indic:tions that in a short time every colliery of importanee in the region will be idle. Although some dis- position has been shown by smail bodies of strikers in the outlying districts to make demonstrations they have been of a rather feeble character, and the majority of the men are docile. The First City Troop of Philadelphia, which was dispatcbed at an early hour outbreak at Ecklev, found nothing for it to do when 1t reached that place, about 3 o’clock this afternoon. Several hundred miners from Buck Mountain marched on the Kckley mines and brought out the men there. A few of the men who showed a dis- position to continue work were roughly bandied and the mine superintendent, fearing trouble, wired to General Gobin for troops. He also sent word to Drifton, and seventy deputies from that place and Roan Junction, near by, were sent over. They kept themselves under cover, how- ever, at Eckley, waiting developments. Nothing turther bappened. Meanwhile the cavalry troops were sent by General Gobin anit had a wearisome march over the mountains, only to find everything at Eckley peaceful. The day had scarcely opened before another annoying story came to brigade headquarters by telephone. It was to the effect that a gang of miners from Drifton had marched on Colliery No. 5 at Jeddo, with the expressed intention of bringing the men out. Upon reaching the colliery, John Markle, the superintendent, met them and, after a conierence with the men at the mines, succeeded in turning them off without trouble. This was the only / ONT LANDS 78 7a/zm55// p WHARS _qolE / 8 “Our | legation at Washington has cabled only | this morning to the sc2ne of the reported | / by the Supreme Couit. vendea on idle ¢ays have the privilege of | making good the difference in rate be- | | speech to the men, urging them to return | agreeably disap- | had a salutary | Cap! Steytler struck at Colonel Rend. The latter stepped forward and with the paim of his hand struck Captain Steytler | a stinging blow on the cheek. Captain | Bteytler was dazed by the blow, and aiter he had recovered his hat he started to- ward Colonel Rend. The guests at the hotel then went between the men and | hostilities ceased. Captaln Steytier said he intended to have satisfaction. He started for his | office, pre-umabiy to get a *'zun,” saying ;ue proposed doing some shouting when he returned. Colonel Kend went to his room and from his grip took a revoiver, which he placed in his pocket. He then returned to ths lobby of the hotel. When Captain Steytler returned Colonel Rend suggested that they go outside on the wharfand that there he would give Captain Steyller all the satisfaction that he desired. Cap- tain Steytler was unarmed, and after friends had talkea to him he arologized to the colonel. | | STOVED R <I1RIKERS. Une Miner Fecwin . injuries 1hat Will Fesult Fatally. PITTSBURG, PA., Sept. 14.—The Darr mine, on the Youghiogheny River, oper- ated by Osboru & Saeger, of Cleveland, Ohio, was the scene of a riot to-day which will probably resuit in the death of at | least one man. The machine miners staried to work on Monday, and to-day a mob of diggers who were opposed to the men working gathered ut the pit to give | the workers a hot reception whea they came out of the mine. As the miners began coming out they | were stoned back into the pit, and several shots were fired into the pil’s mouth after the retreating men. One man, whose name cannot be learned, more daring than the rest, ventured into the open ana was stoned unmercifully. He will prob- | ably die from the effects of the abuse. | ALIVE WITH FRZE GOLD. | Ore From a Cripple Creek Mine That Will Assay $100,000 to the Ton. COLORADO SPRINGS, Coro., Sept 14.— Celonel H. 8. Ecvay, president of the | Cripple Creek Consolidated Mining Com- pany, returned from Cripple Creek to- night, bringing with him a viece of ore | weighing over 100 pounds, which is literally covered with free goid, ana which will carry values aggregating fully $100,000 to the ton. | Tne ore was taken from a new find | Q". i S5/ E/BRACE! /Z;’ia- b5 /862 ONLY BOUNDARY LINE INTERPRETEL mcememm== BOUNDARY LINE, LINE OF UNDER ACT .OF 1852, AS HERETV! OF /8562 AS DETERMINED SUPREME COURT DEC/IS/IN e LINE OF Ok TIDEALONG THE OAKLAND WATER FRONT. , = HIGH TIOE ALONG THE DAKLAND - - FREED (F SHACKLE Its Entire Water Front Virtually Thrown Open to AlL VAST INTERENTS WERE INVOLVED. Effect of the Recent Decision of the State Supreme Court, HEAVY LOSS TO A COEZPORATION. It Has Been Divested of More Than Ten Million Dollars Worth of Property. No event in the history ot Oakland takes rank in importance with the water-front decision rendered by the Supreme Court Monday. Few people outside of the attorneys en- gaged in the case and others directiy in- terested comprehended the exact signifi- cance of that decision on the day it was handed down. It was generally believed that inasmuch as some of the water front had been granted thereby to the Oakland Water-front Company the decision was a victory for that corporation. The facts of the matter are that the Oakland Water | ¥ront Company gained a technical vic- tory and only a shadow, while the city of Oakland really carried off the spoils of the loug-drawn litigation. Under this decision the corporation mentioned will have its title confirmed to but a tenth of what it has heretofore claimed. On the basis of what the cor- OFX OAKLAND eE OAKLAND UNDER\AC? BY THE 5 0F OAKLAND WATER FRONT. HOW THE DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT AFFECTS OAKLAND’S WATER FRONT. All the area between the old boundary of Oakland and tbe line o' low tide was declared to be the property of the State The Oakland Water Front Company was awarded on.y the land between the high and low tide lines. miners with the extent of the military power. At Drifton the officer visited the main office of the Erie company and Superin- tendent Smith told them of the attempted raid on the Eckley miners yesterday after- noon. He said the only violence wasa threat by the marchers to throw one worker, who declined to go out, into the breaker chute. He, as well as the other meh at the mine, promptly quit work. There were no additional deaths here to-day, Four or five men who have been hovering between life and death ever since the shooting were unchanged, but all of the others were doing well and many al- ready have been discharged from the hos- pital. The funeral of Jacob Tomashontas, the lad who was shot through the head and lingered until Sunday, occurred to- | day at McAdoo. It was attended by one of the largest gatherings seer since the outbreak of the trouble. There was no demonstration and the service passed off quietly. Guards are still being placed around the houses of several of the mine superin- tendents and during the day a sheriff’s deputy was seen about the streets guarded by two soldiers. S BATTLE. Colonel Rend and Captain Steytler En- ~age in Hostilities. CHICAGO, ILL., Sept. 14 —A special to the Inter Ocean from tisburg says: Colonel William P. Rend, the wealthy Chicago coal operator, who hus been such a prominent fizure in the coal strike, and Captain John J. Steytler, the Mononga- hela River coal operator, to-night had an exciting altercation that for a time threatened to result in bloodshed. The affair occurred iu the lobby of the Monongahela House, which was filied with coal operators and guests of the house. Steytler said that Colonel Rend had been snubbed by the Philadelphians, and in a loud tone declared he liked to see cne miilioraire snubbed by another. Colonel Rend called Steytler a liar. COAL LAKON v made Saturday on the May Qicen claim, and is in many respects the most sensa- tional ever made in Cripple Crezk. The rich rock was uncovered at a depth of | only six feet and bears more free gold | than ever found in the oistrict. Immense vieces of the rock exhibited show the sides thickly covered with the dull yellow metal, and the gold is so thick that the entire mass takes on a yellowish hue. | The rock is a granite quariz; although the | vein is not yet in piace, every part taken out as development proceeds continues rich in gold. Considerable excitement has been caused by the find, as the nature of the Cripple Creek formation has all along been thought to be of such a nature | as to preclude the possibility ot gold existing in the country rock. Another i strike has been made on the Geneva and on the claim lying next to the May Queen. | | The ore will run fully $1000 to the ton all the way across a six-foot vein. R RS MEERCULKY GUES UP, Fierce Heat and Suns'rvokes in thea Mis- sisaippi Valley. CHICAGO, [LL, Sept. 14.—The mercury took another fl ght to-day and Monday’s beat record was surpassed by a maximum | ol 91 for the day. The humidity was also greatly increased, and the indications are for no better weather to-morrow. There were several prostrations to-day. CINCINNATI, Onio, Sept. 14 —Reports from the valiey show the hottest Septem- ber weather on record. The temperature bere for the past eight days has aver. aged over 90, according to the Weather Bureau, the hottest weather in September | for many years. There have been two fatalities and ‘several prostrations during the past week, BELLAIRE, Osu1o, Sept. 14.—The public schools here have closed to-day on account of the heat. Several children fainted during the morning and there was no school in the afternoon. The schools will not opea tili cooler weatker. poration has obtained for parcels of land previously sold the total valuation of the entire area in dispute is between $12,- 000,000 and $13,000,000. It will thus be seen that the Oakland Water-front Com- pany has virtually been divested of prop- erty worth between $10,000,000 and $11,000.000. . Though the title to the land of which the Oaklana Water-front Company has been deprived is not vested in the city of Oakland, but in the State, the advantages to that city will be equilly as great as if it had been doclared the owner of such property. By the decision the entire length of the water front of Oakland is virtually thrown open to any transporfa- tion enterprise that may seek to enter that city from the bay. Among other de- velopments that may result from the changed status of Oakland’s water front is the entrance of the Valley road into Oakland and the inauguration of a com- peting ferry line between San Francisco and Oakland. W. R. Davis, ex-Mayor of Oakland, who was the leading counsel in the case on be- half of Oakland, gave his views yesterday on the decision as follows: “The striking feature of the decision is that the court in the great body of iis Weight Has Increased. Was Run Down by Hard Work But Sirength Has Returned. ‘1 wasrun down by nard work until I weighed only 6914 pounds. My biood was impure and 1 took a few bottles of Hood’s Sarsapariila. My weight basin- creased and I am now feeling well. I rec- ommend Hood’s Sarsaparilla to every one as an excellent medicine for building up the strength Mgs. A. A. ArLen, Loth- rop, California. Remember Hood’s Sarsaparilla Isthe bfl!‘!l’l fact the One True Blood Purifier. Hood's Pills cure all Liver Ills. 23 cents.