The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 29, 1897, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXIL—NO.. 121 SAN FRANCISCO, WE NESDAY MORNING, D SEPTEMBER PRICE FIVE CENTS POSTTVE PRODES (F CANNIBALIS = | | i | | | [ i Secret of Greely's Camp | Revealed by Ghastly Relics. WHATPEARY'S PARTY | FOUND. { | Carved Frozsn Remains of a Man’s Thigh Discovered I in the Snow. | THIS HBASTILY BURIED BY EXPLORERS. There Can No Longer Be Doubt That Famishing Men Fed on Human Flesh. i Any | BOSTON, tant Er MAsS., sailors kn hat the Greely party d had 3 ard time of it .no one blamed them for keeping alive any way they could. up there, and reached only the Assistant Stew cker was asked 2d one or two |abtout the trip to Greely’s camp. He a 2 Lt oRthe ed going into Greely’s camp, but - | would only say that old clothing, buttons, Before going ask | o § | a bit of wood, empty cans, surgical ir f the p was told to ex | 2 > £ % struments and other things were some oreeable t d me disagreeat t i prepared to keep silent, forever, “What e the other t ”? was ,as tow vas asked. to the proposition, the ““Ask Lieutenant Peary: he knows,” and the search began. When it returned | was Bracker’s answer. That was all he would say. 1 lot of cast-off clothing, Lieutenant Peary was then seen at cal instru- 4 5 dra it 3 Parker’s. He was very angry over the and a bit of board bearing | . = 5 I tot | matter and denied that Knight knew what i man,” the ice pilot | & | he was talking about. He said: ‘‘His o died in Brooklyn, N. = storv is only a sailor’s tale, and nobody | should believe it. This is very aggravat- e ing to me. | have said | found nothing. s =% | That should settle the matter.” i b A | The Hope was scheduled to sail from The most important owever, was | 2 4 Const ari this afternoon, but it was buriad |, . is doubtful if she go=s to-night, the load- These things were room of the Hope to ile Peary took some other thin /., a few vears ago ~ anein t on board, It consisted of the frozer Sl )’ T0Zen | ing, etc., having been delayed by the remains of a an right thigh that was | 3 emain a human right thi. Vas | crowds of visitors. d in the snow outside t -— proper, near that place used as a ind by the Greely party. This part a limb was taken from the bedy at the Arralgns the Edlior of an hip joint, the separation having evidently | Evening Shee'. been made by | RED BLUFF, CaL. CONNELL’S LETTER. | A Survivor of the Greely Expedition of he use e knife alone Sept. 28.—Maurice 1 leg of beef, € the hip r about a foot from | Connell has issued the following open : letter: the hip joint down the bone was bare, the ‘ : - < ! | Editor Evening Bu'letin, San Francisen, Cal h having apparently been cut away as | s The following appears in the editorial a butcher cuts : | co of the Bulletin of the 27:h iust: “Ii L ant Peal only went north to prove This is in f the story told bv Knight | (hat the members the Greely exp:uition to-day to a CALL spondent in an | ate each other he might have sp nmself feron iy B 2 | the trouble, because the world nus known that Atlant avenue tes Kn'znr at {allaiong. The complaintis made that the first was loth to discuss the matter of the |dia not finish the job while they were sbout it.”" For the above utterance I brand you a liar ana a coarse blackguard. In uitering this slander sgainst men who brav { thousand times iu the service of were brought to dire uec ie incompetency of some biuude. been told of. Then ““When Cape Sabin who was much pleased to far, decided to put a party ashore. h g officials how the sensibilities of the brute and the indness of the ruffian. This ave gatten so | those who lived in the n and one or | which it is the proud=st act of my be A ol | been one, showed more humau kindness in wo of the crew, includir sistant t ng Assistant | ;e minute under circumstances the would Steward Bracker, who had b-en north | have bureft Socrates of his will power tnan before, went toithe island. They found | YO0 have stown in your whole cateery from your guili-driving cubby hole to the free lunch Greely's camp without any trouble, and then Peary gave orders for a search of the place. Everything was coverei with snow, and it was hard work to find any- Some littie tim= was spent before hing was found.® The first thing to brought up was an old hat. and cockwail route. I krow, sir, that you will never be accused of this crime with which you charge others, ior the very reason that you are 100 cowardiy (o venture away Irom your pres- ent occupation of squirting squid fluid on pedple who never harmed CoNNELL, “xpeaition. vor Gre | CEATRAL .MtRICAN REVO:UTION, Then some buttons and the remains of a sur- geon’s outfit were located. All these things was found within the camp proper. “QOutside the camp at some little dis- | Three Suspects Arrive and It Is Thought That Aid Is Being Sought in This Country. NEW YORI, N. Y., Sep'. 28 patch from Washington, coupled tance was the spot used by Greely’s party as a graveyard. Some of the party t found nothing vent of importance. . St th- men bepas rck arrival of three <uvpos a revolutionists I nen began searching | on the French liner La Champaene, has | nearer the camp, and in a snow bank | set the ¢ yms officials, army people and | capital erested 1n Central American | projects somewhat on the alert for news found part of a human body. ““The attention of tre scientists was | of the Central American revolutionists. called to the matter, and they said it was | The Was ingion disputch stated that beyond doubt part of a humain thigh. It |some of the revolutiorists in Ceniral had been separated from the body. at the ‘"‘“""’;"A g ”;‘ sndedvoting 10 Dro- / | cure aid from the United States. It 1s 1 soienon€ the Bone being b e ¢ without the ‘r{ _P' g broken ,O‘f also said that the Uzited States Govern- f the scientists said the man who did the | ment has reason to believe that a filibus- tting knew his bu ss. The lim> | !“ring exvedition 1+ preparing to leave below the knee was missi Part of the "::\ :;«rv‘r‘l :;‘ :.;e Atlantic coast for the flesh was missing for about a foot from | 7pis information led the customs offi- the hip joint. It looked as though it had been cut awav like a leg of Leef is cut. The whole tning was frozen solid, and it probably was that way ever since left there, thirtesn years ago. This thing was not brought aboard. It was buried some distance from the camp. “The things that it was decided to ing aboard were divided into two parts, the one that needed drying being taken to the engine-room, the other to Peary’s cabin for the time. Just where they are now | don’t know. Ev:rybody on board has been warned to say nothing about that trip several times, but | don’t see any harm in telling of it. Every one of | cials ana army people to become inter- {ested in the arrival Sunday of the three men on La Champagne. he men are | known to ve interested in the revolution- ary states of Central America. One of | them admitted that he was on the way | there. One of them was on the passenger list as Garman Etrellano, but his real name is said to be German Arrellano. He said that he is interested in the Nicars | gua revo'ution, but 10 what extent b | wou'd not aumit. The second man is M. Lopez Pacheco, who admitted he is on his way to Guate- mala. But he refused to state what bis business is there or when he intends start- ing for that country. The third man is unknown as to his name and destinati n. In fact nothing is known about him ex- cept that he is with one of the others. as PLOTTED 10 SLAY THE G2AR Socialist Conspirators Betrayed Only by Accident. | UNDERMINED A WAR- SAW STREET. Masons Summoned to Prop the Tunnel Notified the Police. ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY ARRESTS MADE, Among Those Taken Into Custody Were Four Disgulsed German Otrficers. WARSAW, Russiy, Sept. 28.—Though an otficial denial will be forthcoming it has leaked out from oflicial circles in such a manner as leaves no room for doubt | that tnere was a deliberate and deter- | mined plot against Emperor Nicholas at the time of his recent visit to this city. Its success was only frustrated by acci- dent. Several weeks before tbe arrival of the imperial party a number of persons, sup- posed 10 velong to the German Socialist party, undermin>d Norvy sevs, the prin- | cipal street in Warsaw, between the Goy- ernor-General’s palace and the roval castle. As the tunnel, which had been under- taken from the cellar of & beer house, ap- { proach=d completion tha conspirators be- came apprehensive of a coilapse of the roadway, and called on several Polish masons to build supporters. Tne muasons, whose suspicions were | aroused, notified the police, and 130 ar- i rests followed. Among those in custody |are four disenised German officers, | either on leave or belonging to the Land- | wehr, who had heen ac.ive in tbe actual | work of tunneling. A number of mer- | chants and manufacturers from the town | of Lodzey, Poland, are als» implicated. GREAT SUFFERING IMPEND.NG | Mussulman Notables of Crete Send an Appeal to the Embassadors and the iu.tan | CANEA, Cretk, Sept. 28.—The Mussul- man notables have sent the following tel- egram to the Em bassadors of the powers at Constantinople and to the Sultan: “Onr position is becomirg unbearable, Winter is approaching and we are without shelter, almost naked and living on a hec- togram of flour ver day =.ven us by Mussul- man charity., have burned our oliv:s and the island will soon be denuded of timber. {ginsin October. If we donot return to | our homes how can we live next season? | Public charity has already expended 5,000,000 piasters, and it is doubtful if that | source of reliefcan support us another month. We, too, are God's creatures. Iu the name of humanity put an end to our desperate position.”” i Denied by Rockefeller's Agents. CHICAGO, Inu, Sept. 28 — The re- ort that Joun D. Rockefetier iad se- | cured full control of ali tne wood pnlp paperm:ils in the United States, having | been led to put his money into ihe ven- | ture, not primarily in hope of gaiu, but to enable him to squeeze weak newspapers ana convert them into organsof the Oil Trust and other standard ventures, is posi- tively denled by representatives of the oil king. Oar Christian com patriots | Sowing be. | VANTONLY SLAIN BT DUTLAWS J. R. Barnett Murdered on a Highway Near Ukiah. BANDIT® FIRE UPON A STAGE. fRuthless Killing of a Passen- | ger After the Coach Is ( Robbed. | | | DRIVER SURRENDERS THE | EXPRESS. | Death at a Mob's Hands the Prob- | able Fate of if They Are Caught. ‘he Slayers one of the besi known stage contractors of | tuis State, was murdered to-day by stage | robbers on the highway betweer: this city | | UKIAH, CAL, Sept. 26 —J. R. Barnett, E | i The shootin: occurred | and Booneviile. about six miles southwest of Ukiah and | | within a quarter of a mile of where G. W. | Hilton robbed the coast stage three years | | ago in compary with “Deacon’”” Oldham. | Barnett and ¥. D. Berryhill were pas- | sengers on the coastbound stage which | left Ukiah at 2 o'clock this afternoon. When at the scenc of the former nold-up the stage wae stopped, a man calling to the driver to rein in. He accompanied the order with a command to throw out | the express boxes, which was promptly | complied with. Barnett ana Berryhill were sitting with- in the stage on the back seat. As the stage | stopped Barnert ran his hand into his | pocket in which he carried his money, | |and rtaking therefrom his money sack | | threw it under the seatin front of him. As ne did 8o a shot was fired by a com- panion of the man whostopped the stage, and Barnett feil over dead in Berryhili’s lap. | The stage driver was commanded to| | drive on. He did so, stopping at the El- | ledge ranch, shout amile further on,where Barnett's body was taken from the stage | and brought back to town. The driver | continued on with the stage, A six-horse team was being driven along not over 30 feet behind the stage, | but the dniver did not see the robbers, nor ‘aid he see them take away the three ex- press boxes which were thrown out and | | subsequently removed by the robbers, | The bul'et entered Barnett’s bedy in the | upper part of the right shou'der and near the base of the neck, ranging downward | and sbautering th: sp.nal column. An | inquest was held this evening. Suspicion | points toward c°rtain rough characters who have been seen in this part of the | country for some time past The officers have considerable evidence which has not | yet been made public. The contenis of | the express boxes cannot be learned. There are strong threats of lynching to- | night should the highwaymen be appre- | hended, as the dead man was a very popu- | lar man in this county. He leaves a larze family, one of his sons, John Barnett, | being an attorney of San Francisco. | 1 Cvocker's New Duwslling. 1 NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 28.—Mrs. | Helen N. Kuickerbocker has sold to] George Crocker, the California million- aire, a f ur-story, mansard-roof brown. ' | stone dwelling on Fiith avenue for about $250,000 Itissaid that Mr. Crocker will remove the present building and putupa fine residence on the site for his own use. | schooner Hueneme, | boat | while furling the outer jib. | ATTORNEY McENERNEY Cross-examining the Mayor at the Hearing Before Commissioner Searls. STORIES OF GULD AND DISASTER News Brought by the Cutter Grant From Unalaska. TREASURE IS COMING ON THE PORTLAND. Survivors of the Hueneme Picked Up by the Steamer Dora. WRECK OF THE SCHOONER IN A DENSE FOG. Two Sallors W shed Overboard While Furiing the Outer Jib and Drowned. PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., Sept. 28 — The United S ates revenue cutter Grant, Captain Munger, arrived this afternoon from Unalaska and brought the latest ad- vices frum St. Michael and surrounding country. The steamer Bertha arrived at Unalaska September 12 and reporied two | inches of snow at St. Michael. Mayor Wood's party had their boat nearly com- pleted for sailing up the Yukon and ex- pected ‘o leave St. Michael September 14, They will go no farther than Munook Creek. There are lots of supplies at Mu- nook for the winter. Lhere wil! be a biz crowd of returning miners on the steamer Portland and itis estimated that she will bring three tons of gold. Aboara the Grant are Caotain Peters and crew, in all’ nine men, off the which left Seattle August 16 for 8t. Michsel with lumber for building boais for the Yukon River. At 10 o’clock on the night of September 7, in a denze fog, the Hueneme went ashore on Uninik Island, completely wrecking berself and cargo. All on board | escaped to land by means of lifelines thai the sailors carried ashore bv jumping overboard and swimming. Eight days later the captan took turee men in a small and rowed from the wrick and started for Unalaska. After pulling three days in an oven boat they were picked up by the steamer Dora and taken to Unalaska where they were transferred to the cutter Grant that started for the men left on the island. Afier se- ;curing tbem the cutier started for the sound the next day, September 20. The next day out from Unalaska two ‘sailors, William Hood and Qtto Severn, were drowned by being washed overboard Their bodies were not recovered. Hood was from this place, where his paren:s reside WILLI.MS FOR GOVERNGR. Massachusetts Democrats Hold a Koisy | Convention and Indorse the Chicago Flatform. WORCESTER, Mass., Sept. 28.—George Fred Williams was to-day nominated for Governor of Massachusetts by the Demo- cratic State Convention on a platform that squarely indorses that adopted by the pational convention at Chicago last summer. The other nominees follow : Lieutenant- Governor, Christopher T. Callahsn of Holyoke; Secretary, C. D. Nash of Whit- man; Attorney-General, John A. O'Kee'e of Lynn; Treasurer and Receiver-General, T. A. Watson of Boston; Auditor, J. L. Chalifoux of Lowell. The convention was so disorderly at’ times as almost to require the interven- tion of the police. George Fred Williams | was the principal figure in the conven- | tion. There was no ovposition to his | nomination for Governor, but his insist- | ence on the turning down of old party | leaders< who were lukewarm in support of | bimseif and Bryan last fall created a | tumuit at the outset before permanent | oreanization bad been effected. Congre-sman Fitzeerald was ordered to | his seat when he dttempted to speak, and his adberents at one time threatened to | sustain him by force. Finally order was pariially restored, and after a speech by Mr. Williams a recess was taken. — TO BUILD hEW DOCKS. !M///ians Will Be Spent by the Gov- | ernment at Mare Island, Goat Island and San Pedro. | WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 28.—The | statement was made to-day by an official of tbe Navy Department that large naval docks will be constructed at Goat Island, at Mare Island and at San Pedro. | The cost of such improvements will ag- gregate about $4,100,000, but the sauthori- zation of Congress will be required before such a vast sum is spent. The dock on | Goat Island and that to be located at San | Pedro will be similar. Alluding to the importance of the docks on the Pacific Coast au official said to- day that so far as tbe dock at Puget Sound concerned it is an excellent structure. *But one of our battle-ships,”” he con- tinued, “in case of accident would have to trust to providence that the accident might occur when near that dock. With adock of a draft of thirty feet over the | blocks at balf-tide it would not be a dfficult matter to get a ship in when |1t had the margin, and at high tide, no | matter how great the damage, provided she could keep ufloat she could be got |into the structure and repaired. San | Francisco barbor would be just the place | for such a dock.” The docks at Goat lsiand and San | Pedro will cost $1 500,060 exch and that at | Mare Island $1,100,000. SUFFOCATED IN A MIKE. | Five Men Meet a Horrible Death From | Black Lamp Near Rend- ham, Pa. SCRANTON, ra, Sept. 28.—Five men this gfternoon met a horrible death frcm black damp, the after accumulation oi a fire in the Jermyn No. 1 mine near Rend- bam. The dead are: Isaac Walikins, fire boss; Will Tompkins, Joseph Smith, John Gallagher and William Franklin. The bodies of all but Watkins were ais- ! covered at 5:30 o’clock by a gang of men | who went down 1nto the mine with sup- | plies for combating the fire. At mid- night the remains of Watkins had not | been found. Since last Tuesday the fire ;hns been raging in the mine. The men who lost their iives represented one shift. They went on duty &t 3 ¢'ciock, and no- | body knew of their death until the dis- covery of tbe lifeless bodies. In the case of eacn body the head pointed toward the shafi, indicating that they had groped and struggled toward theshaft and fresher | air while suffocation was overtaking them. They weie found from one to three rods apart. is — PAID A KICE COMPLIMENT. | But the Women Summoned in a Kansas | Court Are Not Permitted to Serve as Jurors. | FORT sCOTT, 3 3 | E. Ros, Mrs. A. W. Doug.ass, A | Kaufman and Miss Cors Wheeler, who were drawn on the district jury and are | the first women ever called for such serv- | ice in Kansas, responded to the summons | to-day, and all but Miss Wheeler expressed a willingness to serve. | The question of their eligibility was raised by Judee Biddle, who cited a Washington Supreme Court opinion to show that they were not com- petent, and Judge Simons found that under the constitution and Supreme Court decisions a qualified elec- tor must be a male. He was unwilling that the women should serve in civil cases and paid tbem a nice compliment for their willingness to do so. SR — General Dow Dying PORTLAND, Mg, Sept. 28.—General Neal Dow, the veteran prohibitionist, is at the point of death at his home in this city. THEY TRIED 10 PROVE CONSPIRACY 0ld Board Attorneys Make a New Issue in the Supreme Court. MAYOR PHELAX WAS ON THE RACK He Was Asked Why He Ante- dated Appointments of New Supervisors, 0IS HONOR ANSWERED CHEERFULLY. After Explaining the Situation He Told Why He Called Upon the Police to Assist the Board, Commissioner Niles Searls of the Supreme Court sat through the morning of yesterday listening to the evidence pre- sented by the learned men who represent the rival boards of Supervisors. The surging crowd was not present, and the Commissioner opened the proceedings . by throwing out a searchlizht for tacts. Facts were all that was desired and facts were presented by the basketful. There was nothing particulariy sensa- tional about the testimony taken yester- day. The attorney of the old Board of Suapervisors trie« hard to disconcert Mayor Phelan, who was the most import- ant witness of the day, but this signally failed. The whole effort of the attorney for the ousted Board of Supervisors seemed to be centered on showing that the ousted board had performed its duties and was only prevented irom the continuance of such duties by forcible ejectment. Judging from the questions propounded ‘o Mayor Phelan by Attorney Garret Mc- Enerney for the old board, it would seem as 1t it was the intention of theattorneys for the late eight to charge that its oust- ing was the result of a conspiracy. It is not at all unlikely that Mayor Phelan and Governor Budd will be charged with con- spiracy when the Morton petition to man- cdamus the Auditor to accept the tax levy fixed by tue old board comes up for argu- ment this morning. The vroceedings of yesierday were not particulary interesting. The representa- tives of the old board questioned John A. Raussell, clerk of the Board of Supervisors, at length. They made him tell all abtout the proceedings of the new board since its appointment by Mayor Phelan and Gov- ernor Budd and asked him about every detail of the proceedings. The old time clerk, however, did make some statements that filled the hearts of Messrs. McEnerney, Pillsbury and Garber with joy. In response to ques- tions as to the now eventful afternoon of September 20, Mr. Russell said be did not see Britt spill the new Supervisor, Mr. Biggy, out of his seat, but he saw him ejected forcibly by the police. Further on be said the police eniered the caam- bers of the bosrd, and, in answer to the question as to whather or not they were jorcibly ejected, said Captain Wittman tapped ex-Supervisor Rivers and others on the shoulder and ordered them to vacate their seats. The same attorney, by close question- ing, made 1t appear positive that the ser- geani-at-arms had made an attempt before the police entered to forcibly eject ex- Supervisor Delany from his seat. Deputv County Clark Frey and Notary R. D. McElroy testitied to unimportant matters and then Mayor Phelan was called to the stand. After the Mayor testified as to all the mstters leading up to the appointment of the new board, and of its proceedings since appointment, Attorney McEnerney started Lo examine bir The appointments of the members of the new board by the Mayorand Governor were in ev.dence, but McEnerney wanted to know when Mr. Dresbach’s name was mentioned. This started the most interestingexami- nation of the day. McEnerney had learned that although the appointment of the new Supervisors was considered by the Mayor, Governor and other prominent citizens on the night of Beptember 15, no decision as (o avbpointments was reached until aiter midnight. He wanted to know wien Mr. Dresbach’s name was considered. Tue Mayor stated that it waa considered with the names of a number of other gentiemen named and he could not state the time. The subsequent questions propounded to the Mayor showed tbat McEnerney was leading to an admission of the fact that the appointments were made on the morning of September 16 and that the Mayor pad dated tne certificates of ap- pointment as having been mude on Sep- tember 15. When he asked Mr. Phelan why he so dated the appointments the Mayor an- swered him that as the session at which the appointments were made commenced ou September 15 he thought the certifi- cales should be so dated. In response 10 a further question as tothe reasons he dated the appointments September 15 he answered, in a jocular way, I presume [ did so because 1 am not accusiomed to sitting up a!l night, and thought of the meeting havinz tagen piace on the day it began.”’ The Mayor laughed after an admission There is Danger to Health and Es- peclal Need of Pure Blood. Disease germs arising from decaying vegetation ana sudden changes from heat toco'd threaten the health in the fall. By keeping the blood pure with Hood’s Sarsaparilla every one 1s well protected against tlese changes. Sarsa- HOOd’s parilla Isthe best—in fact the One True Blood Purifier. Sold by ali druggists, §1; six for $5. vet Hood's. Hood's Pills cure indigestion. 25 centm