The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 1, 1897, Page 1

e e e 2 VOLUNME LXXXIE=NO. 123. PRICE FIVE CENTS HOT DOWN PASSENGERS AND HORSES Two Bandits Rob Three Stages Between Angels and Milton. WOMEN NOT SPARED BY THE ROBBERS. After Holding Up Two Carryalls the High- waymen Kill Two Passengers in Main Horses and Wound Stopping the Coach. STOCKTON, CAL., Sept. 30.—One of the boldest hold-ups in the history of the stage line between Angels and Milton oc- curred this forenoon, when the stages were abont eight miles this side of Angels, going down Kossuth Hill. There were two stages or carryalls in advsnce, and the large stage or baggaze wagon was about twenty minutes in the rear. When the first of the stages reached a pile of | rocks on the hiliside the driver and the passengers wera startied by 2 man who jumpea from the roaaside flourishing a pistol. His order for all hands to be held | up was quickly complied with, especially asanotuer highwayman appeared at the side of the road with a shotgun. The lat- | ter kept partly concealed from view be- hind the rocks, however, and allowed his companion to do most of the talking. The man with the pistol was so dis- guised that those who were held up can- of Cherles Ackerman, a jeweler of Angels, who was on his way to visit relatives in Petaluma. The next shot went through the wrist of an Arabian peddler, who was on top of the coach. The horses ran for over 100 yards and then fell. As they did so the passengers abandoned the coach and started over the hill. “Let’s get the box,’’ said one of the ban- dits, and with this the man behind the rocks emerged and the two mede for the siae, where the horses were dying and the passengers were ng. Ihe man with the shotzun carried a short-handled rusty ax. With this he broke open the Wells- Fargo box and took what wa« in it Then they made off over the hill and no one attempted to follow. The robbers had not been long gone up went to the assistance o! those on the not give any accurate description of him. All they could see of his regular garb was | his black slonch bat, as h:s clothing and even shoes Were covered with sacking, | while his face was hidden bebind a masx | made of some sort of dark-colored ma- | terial “You drive over there and tie up,” hé said to the first driver, and as the latter went to the side of the road and tied the team he made the driver of the second stage, which was close bebind, hitch the V‘ horses to the rear of the first one. Then | the passengers and drivers were made to alight at the point of a revolver, and the highwayman who did the talking for the bandits ordered all to keep their hands in ‘e air while he searched them. The high- ayman went about his work deliber- .ely. His 44-caliber bulldog revolver oroved very persuasive, for al. were de- cidedly docile while he relieved them of their valuables. There were three passencers in the front | c-ach, and they auickly complied with the nand of the robber to alightand deliver r possessions. Among them was L. Blewett of Livingstone, who was | sompanied by his wife. As he told the ory this evening to a CALL reporter the aan with the pistol was about as deiib- erate as a highwayman could be. He took what little money the driver of the first stage had and then turned his attention to the others. Ashe started to go through Blewett's pockets the stage-driver turned to watch the proceedings. “Keep your face the other way,’” said - the robber, shifting his gun from where it had rested on Blewett’s stomach toward the stage man. The latter prom ptly com- slied and the work of searching the pas- engers was resumed. The man from Livingstone was relieved of $20 and then his wife came in for her share of the ban- ’s attention. ‘‘She has no money,’” said her husband. ‘You shut up,”” replied the bighway- n, feeling the woman’s pockets and «ning his hand up and down her arms see if she had any purse concealed. “Maybe you have some money in your scking,” he said, and with this he made search. The other passengers stood assively by while all this was going on, as the man behind the rocks at the edge of the roadway had them covered with his shotgun. From another the man with the pistol secured $27, and the passengers gured aftar the affair was over that they ad lost alltold something like $70. The most exciting part ot the affair was * to come. | The passengers of the first coaches Vere ordered back into their s and toldunot to move on penalty of sth. They loked for the big stage to me at any Rinute. That is what the bbers were walting for, too, for the man th the revolvenpatrolled the road until hove iu sight. o the men in the stage- ! aches it seemed fopurs, but it was in real- but twenty mimtes after the first two | »aches were stoppél when the big coach | vein sight over thitop oi the hiil. There H ‘e four horses attaded to this, and when | 1in about 200 vardy of the scene of the | . hold-up the ma with the pistol | .sped toward the ajproaching coach, srandishing bis gun md yelling for the civer to_hold up. The latter was in an rimated conversation with a passenger d did not see the hithwayman until e one yelled that thire was a robber nt. Then the driver attempted to p, but the horses bedme frightened started to run. \ Hold up, there,”” called the banait, ‘ut there was no stopping the excited snimals, {'8hoot the horses!”” yelled the bandit Ind the rocks with the sbotgun. At A 2 big siage. Those who had run from it were cailed back and the two wounded men cared for as well as possible. The two borses shot soon died and the other two had to haul the stage to Mi!ton. There Ackerman and the Arabian were examined, but as they had 10 ca'vh train for San Francisco no effort was made 1o extract the bullet that had lodged in Ackerman’s side. When he arrived hisre he took the 3:40 train for Ssn Francisco, where he wili have the builet teken out. The Arabian’s name could not be learned, but he said iie lived somewhere on Jessie street in San Francisco. Wells, Farzo & Co.’s agents here claim that there was little or no treasure in the express-box and that abont all the -obbers got was taken from the passengers. To-night Sheriff Cunningham was in consultation with Express Messerger Me- Connell, who was not on the staze a( the time, and with other officers regarding the hoid-up. Some are of the opinion that the bandiis are two men who left Stock- ton the day before vesterday, while the others are inciined to the belief that the men are the same who stood up the Ukiah stage recently. S S THREE VICTIMS ARRIVE. They Relate the Circumstances of the Rald on the Stages, the Shooting and Robbrry. C. N. Ackerman, Abraham Aloff and Mike Narvelli, three of the passengers on the third stage held up by two robbers be- tween Angels Camp and Milton yester- day morning, arrived on the train from Siockton at 7:15 o’clock iast night. A temporary couch bad been made for Ack- erman out of seat cushions, ana when a CaLr revorter and an ariist boarded ihe train he was partly under the inflaence of opiates. A great hole in his coat showed where the bullet had entared his back to the right of the spinal column, while the blood-soaked clothing told of the severe hemorrhage that had followed. When the train arrived at the Oakland mole Mr. Ackerman was assisted on to the boat, when he related his exciting ex- periences of the day. Slowly and pain- fally he talked, his thing being litile more than ga<ps, while™ay times his fea- tures were distorted with the agony his wound caused him. “‘I was sitting on the front seat with the driver and another man,” said Mr. Ack- erman, who is a jeweler at Angeis Camp. “We were all talking as we came un over the crest of the hill, about nine miles this s'de of Angels. The first we beard was an order from 8 man who stocd beside the road, revolver in. hand, to “top the stage. Atthe same instant he fired at the near leader, which was almost abreast of him. The horses started to run and he | fired two more bullets at tne leader and one at the wheel borse. Then as the stage swung past him he fired the fifth time. “Tue builet struck a man sitting insiae | in the right wrist, passed through it and the front of the coach, entering my back and lodging under the skin in my right vreast. Toe horses ran about 300 feet, where the two animais that were sh. dropped, bringing thz otbers to a stand- still. 1 jumped from the stage and start- ed to runm, for I had considerabie money, which I did not propose to let the robbers get if I could help it “After running a short distance across the country I became so weak from loss of blood that I was compelied 10 slacken my pace to a walk. Isoon reached a house the occupants of which did .l they could for me. ‘@ then started back to the road and he dri with the assistance of the other passengers and those on the first the man with the pistol leveled at the leader, firing three shots into the 4l and another at the near wheeler. © coach Avas getting away from him bandit fired twice aeain at the men two stages that were held up, had suc- ceeded in getiing the harn off the two horses tha: had been killed, he hitched the other two to the pole, and we came on to Stockton. “I did not see the robbers after I oD of the coach. One bullet went | ——————— *.-£0ugh the top of it and entered the side % :, Continucd-on Third Page. from the scene when the people first beld | tie | Oakland Boat While Coming to This City. |WOUNDED VICTIMS of the Milton and Angels Stage'Robbery as They Appeared on the SHGASTA 10 SUCCEED ACARRAGA Resignations of Spain’s Ministers Accepted by the Queen. LIBERALS TO TAKE UP THE REINS. But Their Policy Will Not Have Any Effect on the Cubans. AUTONOMY WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Antlcipating a More Lib~ral Policy on the Island, Caprain-Gen- eral Weyler Resigns. MADRID, Sraix. Sep of the intervieas ( As a result neral Azcarraga, the retiring Premies, a Gereral Polavieja have had with’ the Qu-en Regent, her Majesty has bter convinced taat it is im- possible to reunite the Conservatives in order to formi a strong Ministry., There- fore she has accepted tue resignations of the Ministers. The opinion is general that General Sa- gasta, the Liberal leader, will succeed General Azcarraga. Many of the Prefects, Under Secretaries and Directors General of the departments have also resiened. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 30.—General Julio Sanguiily, who was arrested in Cuba, tried, codvicted, pardoned and re- leased at the request of the United States Government, said to-day, discussing the Spanish crisis: “1 do not beleve the formation by Bagasta of a Liberal Cabinet will bave any effect on the Cuban nsurgents. The efforts of the previous administration bave come to be looked upon in Spain as the wrong policy. and the feeling now Is forany honorable methox or means to end the war. Sagasta has been sounding prominent Cubans in Paris and in this country as to antonomy for Cuba and has solicited them to work with him for that end. Sagasta really believes that with Liberal provisions autonomy would be acceptable to the Cubans. Heis very much mistaken. “The Cubans have gone too far to ac- cept the autonomy. They are in a better condition now to fight to the end for abso- lute freedom than ever before.” -— WARFALE IN CUBA. Betwren RBattles the Spaniards Find Zime to Murder Pacificos. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 30.—A special to the Sun from Havana says: At Cayo Julia, near Manzanillo, Santiago de Cuba, a Spanish battalion of San Fernando in an engagement with insurgents lost five officers and forty-one soldiers. At Risco de Esperanza, Pinar del Rio province, the Spanish guerrilla forces of Guanajay had anothersharp engagement yesterday with Cubans. The losses on both sides were beavy. Heavy fighting is going on among the Purgatoric hills, Matanzas province. The insurgents, under General Betancourt, are | ucing dynamite largeiy. | In a recent engazement there the Span- ish losses were so great that Havana news- | papers charzed the Spanisn officers with | the responsibility, asserting that the m..} | | diers were not allowed to fight to the best | aavantage. | On the border of Matanzas province fit- | | teen pacificos bave been assasatnated by | | Captain Cosso of the Spauish guerrillas, | Among the victims was a woman 79 years old. Carlos Gonzalez, another insusy*nt, who surrendered to Gene; Molina ic Ma- tanzas, has been assassinated by the | Spaniards. The Spanish report of the capture of a recent expedition from the | United States is officially denied by the Cubans. General Gomez has issued a proclama- tion rejecting once more the “home rule offered to the Cubans by Spain. | A large herd of cattle bound for Havana was captured by insurgents yesterday near San Jose de ias Lajas. The ecarcity | of meat and other provisions 1s still felt in the capital. | | | S e | WELYLER H S KESIGNED, Anticipated the Placing of a Liberal Cabin-t 1 Power. NEW YURK Y., Sept. 30.—A special {10 the Herald from Havans, via Key West, says: [ am informed on high au- | thority that Captain-General Weyler has sent his resignation to Madrid to take ef- fect as soon as practicable. General Weyler's resignation is one of the re ults of the resignation of the Azcar- raga Ministry, and is due to his belief that a Liberal Cabinet will be placed in power in Spain. CRISIS N GREECE'S CABINET. Premier Ralli Refused a Wote of Con- fidence by the Legislative Assembly. ATHENSE, Greecr, Sept. 30.—The Boule | (legislative assembly) met to-day to con- sider the peace trealy with Turkey and the political situation in general. The galleries were crowded, and the proceed- ings were followed with juterest. M. Ralli, the Premier, mounted the tribune and, after reviewing the events leading up to the beginning of the peace condi- tions, invited the Chamber to vote confi- dence in the Government. He proposed a resolution to that effect. Amid great excitement the Chamber de- feated the resolution by a vote of 93 to 30. This defeat precipitated a crisis. It is deemed impracticable for M. Ralli to con- tinue in office with the Cabinet as now constituted. The Delyannists are a large majority of the Chamber, and no Cabinet could con- .duct public business without their ap- proval LONDON, Exc., Sept. 30.—The Athens correspondent of the Times says: M. Raili, when presenting to the Chamber the preliminary treaty of peace, took strong exceptions to its terms, auributing to Germany-all that had been done agamnst Greece. He declared that be would not submit a resolution approving the treaty because it was executory and therefore did not re- quire approval, and also because such a step would be contrary to the sovereign rights of the state and the crown. M. Delyannis expressed his apprcval of this position, but blamed the Government for again asking for a vote of confidence and said this should have already been accorded. Therefore, bresuming that the Government was actuated by other rea- sons, M. Delyannis said that he wonld witubold his support. The vote was then taken. —_—— Dr. Careolas Leaves Bellevue. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 80.—Dr. H. Careolas,head of medical ward in Bellevue Hospital, resigned this morniug to ntnxn‘ to his home in San Francisco. Cenrval Bequedino Dead. SANTIAGO DE CHILE, Sept. 30. . eral Bequedino, commander-in« of the Chilean army, is deads DRCLARES I AL NNSENSE Explorer Peary Objects to the Cry Against Cannibalism. THAT CAPE SABINE TRAGEDY. Conditions That Would Have Forcea Men to Eat Human Flesh. MATTER FOR INDIVIDUALS TO DECIDE. Lieutenant Peary Says He Would Eat the Bodles of Dead Com- panions if Necessary. NEW YORK, N. Y. Sept. 30.—Ex-| plorer Robert E. Peary, who was here to | meet the Arciic steamer Hope to-day, | which arrived with the big meteor, said: *I found no evidences of cannibalism at | Camp Clay or Camp Sabine. 1 have said this repeatedly. I did not look for proofs or indications or evidence, or anything which would again open this terrible epi- sode of Arctic adventure. Idid not zo to Cape Sabine to obtain proof t'at men with Greeley had their natural feelings over- come by the agonies of starvation. It seems to me, however, that this talk of cannibalism is unnecessarily revived. I think it bas been conceded that the tragedy of Cape Sabine forced men into conditions which could not have existed under other circumstances. It seems to me it would have been a violation of the laws of nature to have compelied the liv- ng to perish when their existence might ve been sustained by food which was y'ore them. I: would be, . 041y & mude. for an individual to de- cide, whether he would partake of the dead or die. 1t wouid be different if lots were drawn aud an unforiunate being made a victim of the lust or appetite of his living murderers. Nothing of that sort has been even imagined of the tragedy of Capr Sabine. “The living in order to sustain life. may bave been tempted. In fact, 1 believe it was decided that they had preserved their lives in this manner, but as for taking an part in any ghoulish searcn, that I did not. “There's no sense 1n all this outery against cannibalism. Why, if I were ever piaced in such straits tbat I could save my own lifs and the lives of my men by eating the flesh of dead companions, and in noother way, then I would do it, and commana my men to do likewise.’’ - GENERAL E-ELY IKDIGNANT. P P Emphatic Oenial That Men of His Farty Committed Cannibal ;m at Cape Sabine WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 30.—Gen- eral Greely is indignant at the statement attributed to an officer accompanying Lieutenant Peary’s recent exvedition, in which it i« alleged that evidences of can- nibalism were feund at Cape Sabine, in- cludin: mutilated portions of a man’s body and a box of medical instruments, ppo<ed to be used to cut it into sre: neral Greely has to face many alle- gations rince h s rescue by the Schiey re- hef expedition in 1884, having been | charged with all sorts of fiendish acts. On his return in the Bear, and when 1t Continued on Third Page. S A “CALL” CCRRESFONDENT, Who Sends an Interesting Letter Giving the Latest News From the North, seems to | NORTHERN NAVIGATION RETARDED Shortage of Coal Is Now Reported at Una~ laska. MAY DELAY VESSELS BOUND SOUTH. Return of the River Steamer Charles H. Hamilton to St. Mich.el. WENT ONLY UP TO FORT YUKON. Threatened Disturbance at St. Michael Checked by the Timely Arrival of the Corwin. UNALASKA, Arasga, Sept. 20.—The steamship Portland anchored in Duich Harbor at 3 o'clock this afternoon, a little more than eignt days from Seattle. This is considered a remarkably short run, in view of heavy svells, headwind and heavy seas. Captain Wililam Kidston steeret his vesse! szfely through Unalga Pass through a dense f¢g in such a manner 28 won for kim woras ¢f commendativn from all the maritime mea in the port. The oid Eliza Anderson, wi.ich made a unsuccessiul run for $t. Michael, is tied up in this port, ccndemned and pr ticaily worthle: It is the intention ® | have her remain here ali winter, w! it |is problematical as to wnether she ever leaves this port. The winter winds aud the beavy scas will in all probability complete her towl destruc ion. One of her belated passer atiributed her scape from the sea and the safety of her passengers more to a miracle than to good luck. The steamer Dora from Sitka resched here last night and brings the story of the wrecking of the schooner Hueneme, This schooner was under charter 10 t o North American Trausportat on aid Tra.~ ing Company and was one of four tuat { left Seattle ‘reivnied with merchandise and fumoer for &1 Michael. Sle had on board the Iumber for two river steamers, one lighter and a steam launch complete, the machinery for these boatls being on the steamer Portland. In consequenc of this loss the forty workmen under charge of Moran Bros. on the Portland en route for St. Michael will be practically without labor this winter. They bave been en- gaged under a five months’ contract to put together these boats and to have them in readiness as soon as navigation opens on the Yukon 1n the sprn . The Hueneme was wrecked on the even- ing of September 7 at e east side of the entrance of Unamuk Pass, approaching Unamak Island. For twelve days tne crew oi eleven men endurrd much hard- ship and sufferinz in their eiforis to reach a harvor of safety. It was avout9 o’clock on a night thick with fog and beavy wita rain that the schooner approached too close to the rocky shore and as a result now liea with her bottem knocked out and utteriy worthless. For several hours Cap- tain Peterson endeavorea to pilot her safely througi. the passand in turning around to heave to ihe disaster occurred. The crew remained on board during the night, but in the early morning were forced to seek safety on the barren shore. Toere for two days their signal of distress remained unheeded. It was finaliy de- cided that the maie and four of the crew should take to a boat and endeavor to reach Unalaska, about seventy-four miles distant. The weatber was against them, and after drifting for two_days they were compelied to put bseck to Uaamak Islena. They waited again for three day~ ior aid to relieve th:em from their distressing situation. The captain, mate and three seamen again provisioned the boat and startea out upon what proved 10 be a moie suc- cessful expedition. Scarcely heeding na- ture’s den.ands for sleep and food, they bravely struzgied with the oars for five long, weary days and nights. They hoped to be overtaken by a vessel or possibly reach this harbor. When food had run short and their exhausted energies could scarce make further effort, the steamer Dora bove in signt. At this time they were but twenty-two miles from their starting point. Captain C. H. Anderson, master of the steamer, lowered a boat and went to tbe relief and rescue of the struggling saiiors picking tbhem up last evening and bring: ing them on to Unalaska, where he ar- rived a couple of hours later. Captain Hooper, commandant of the Bering Sea fleet of United Siates revenue cutters, was immediately informed of the disaster. The cutter Grant was about to steam for Seattle and Captain Munger was given orders o pick up ihe six unior- tunate sailors, who were then holding vigii and waiting on the beach at Unamak Island. In accordance with this order the Grant left last nignt and in tie course of a day or two expects to have these un- fortunate seamen aboard her. Captain Peterson was also taken on the cutter to pilot the way to the exact location of tha wreck and wiil (hen accompany the Grant on her homeward voyare o Seaitle. The mate and tue ihree rescued senmen will depart on the cutter Rush for San Fran- cisco to-morrow morning. An unexpected difficulty confronts the Portland and all other ships that arrive in this port in a sbortagé of coal. Unless speedy assistance in the arrival of a coal- laden ship shall soon come, & most serious condition will exist here. The North American Commercial Company has but 390 tons of coal in their bunkersat Dutch Harbor. Every ton of this fue: has been contracted for by the Government to sup- oly the cutters Corwin, Bear and Grant cn their homeward 1rip, all ex;ecting 1o leave here for the south within a few weeks. On hisdownward trip Captain Kid- ston had also arranged with this company to furnish him with 300 tons of coal. Upon arrival here to-day he was con- fronted by the information of a shortuge and an inability to furuish him with a supvly. The Alaska Commercial Company, with bunkers located here, two miles across the hills from Dutch Harbor, finds itseif un- able to come to the rescue of fuel-needing gers 3