The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 24, 1897, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1897. FATAL CRIEF | OFBALLINGTON | BOOTI'S WIFE The Talented Woman Is Dying From a Broken Heart. | g S | Worry Over Troubles]| Causes the Rupture of a Blood Vessel. Shocks Incident to Estrange- ment Between Her Hus- band and His Father. GETS ANONYMOUS LETTERS KLONDIKERS RETURN T0 VICTORLA Both Food and Work Are Scarce at Dawson. The Call’'s Advices Reit- erated by the Latest Arrivals. Nearly Every Man Coming Out Has Worthless Claims for Sale. WARNING.TO THE PUBLIC. | | | Drastic Provisions of the New Mining Law—Property Will Be Easily Forfeited. Special Dispatch to The Call. VICTORIA City advic B. C., Dec. 23.—Dawson up to November 1 were Evidences of Hostility That Have Broken Down the Noted Christian Worker. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Mrs. Maud B. Booth, wife of Commander Balling- ton Booth of the American Volun- unteers, is said to be growing weaker brought her | the steamer to-day by passengers on City of Seattle from | CAPTAIN DAVID L. BRAINARD, Who Will Command the Klondike Relief Expedition. and there is but little hope of Mrs. Booth is said to be Nor is this wourly recovery. g of a broken heart. of a blood vessel the doctors diagnose s case, Sped and shock incident to fect that a ruptur of the heart b Boott was ez the by tense g miunderstanding between Ballington Booth and his fathe hich resuited in Ballington Booth’s withdrawal from the d their subse que s in January 1896, that n oth ordered his son and daught v from Ameri- ca. The next month they withdrew from the army. Since then, the volun- teers say, Mrs. Booth has been the v tim of most nant personal at- tacks. On top of this, her friends say, every mail brought to Booth anonymous lett some of the most | yviolent nature—telling her that she was Trespo! for estranging her husband from his family and that she *had shortened the life of General 3ooth, commanc chief of the Salvation Army, T tions. These lette and other eviden of hostility have been taken greatly to heart by Booth. Commander Salvat ing stater tude of the Mrs. Booth “While re moment to enter 5 Booth - Tucker of the ence to the atti- ng that this is net the into anv argument, versy or defens ot in ca )n should be misunderstood, and of the statement made by the am constrained, on behalf ¢ > our contr pos! in press, I our people all over the world, to s that there is but one feeling in our arts regarding the illness of Mrs. Booth, and the consequent sorrow and anxiety through which Comman Ballington Booth is passing. t feeling is love, which would find ex- Pression in unceasing prayer. el 1 Mrs. Booth-Tucker has been fn constant communication with the hospital and with Commander Bal- lington Booth, expressing her sym- pathy and proffering assistance within | her power, while General Booth has cabled from London the assurances of his pra The Yale-Cornell Controversy. ITHACA, N. Y., Dec. 23.—The delay in bringing about an agreement be- tween Cornell and Yale for a race be- twe the crews of these two univer- sities is creating a feeling here that after all there may be no race. Even the most conservative members of the council are becoming antagonistic to Yale. It is believed that another con- ference should be held immediately and the matter settled at once, so that a feeling so dangerous to the most im- portant negotiations may be nipped in the bud. of speech, if the | 1d by Mrs. Booth's t intimat It is to the 1ed the follow- | Alaska. John Lindsay of Olympia, who left Dawson on November 2, al- | leges that provisions and employment | both are scarce, and adds: “Worthless | are offered for sale in great | numbe; Nearly every man coming | out has one or two to dispose of to the | gullible public, which should be fully | warned against these wildcat | schemes. The new law which is designed to prevent men from holding claims for | speculative purposes will go into ef- fect January 1. s of | this law no ow ve | | claims working season wo hours. If he his right to the | even he forfei | claim. Mr. Lindsay reached Dawson on Oc- | tober 15. With the Yukon piled full of ice in great ridges many feet high, Mr. Lindsay s, travel over it is an | utter impossibility. He s: , how- | ever, that 100 men in six weeks cut a roadway thsongh the ice ridges, beginning at the Hootalinqua, | where the rough ice fine road will thus be made and sup- plies drawn by ho | put down in Da days from Skag: Mr. Lindsay fajor Walsh on the trail, and the Canadian Commis- sioner said he did not expect to reach Dawson before the 1st of February, | owing to the difficulties of travel. Ma- jor Walsh also confirmed the report | that in place of reserving alternate | claims the reservations will be in | blocks of ten. e St REINDEER DRIVERS VOLUNTEER. | One Hundred Sturdy Men Would Aid the Relief Expedition. ASTORIA, Or., Dec. 23.—The follow- telegram, sent to-day, speaks for itself: To the Hon. R. A. Alger, Secretary of War, Washington, D. C.: The As- toria Commercial Association has a list of 100 resident Astorians, hardy natives of Norway and Finland, who are ex- perienced reindeer drivers, and would be glad of an opportunity to accom- pany the Government relief expedition to Alaska. Astoria is the point of de- parture for a weekly line of steamers for all Ala: n points, and the reindeer drivers can leave here as soon as ar- | rangements can be made. ASTORIA PROGRESSIVE COMMER- CIATL. ASSOCIATION. | ALBERT DUNBAR, | E. J. SMITH, Secretary." |KIRK 1S BOUND FOR KLONDIKE. President. | “ King of the Dudes™ to Outfit a Big Party in This City. NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—A Herald spe- cial from Philadelphia say. dere Kirk, “King of the Du recently figured in a New York police court, and who has been named as co- respondent in the Mandelbaum divorce case, was in Philadeiphia last night, bound, he sald, for the Klondike. In San Francisco he will make prepara- tions to take a large party of men to | OO0 O DOOOOOOOOOOOOAQOOOOOOOCQ HORORCHOROSOHORH RO ORCHORORCHOSICROROCH® - THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING IS IN THE EATING. With a force numbering almost an army, with additions made daily, with a trained corps of men able to cope with larde crowds—even with all this have we yet been unable to cope with the throngds of mankind that kept filing in our big house—on our Overcoat Floor, on our Suit Floor. They have come, they have seen, they have pur- chased—they have taken advantage of our hidh- class offer of Suits and Overcoats, equal to any- thing in town at $18 and $20, at miw LY. . Opposite we pictureto yow a very dressy | Overcoat ; it's one of those { Kerseys, in i either blue, ! brown or black; noth- @ ingintown at $10will hold & a candle to it. These are the overcoats that we place be- 3 fore yow to-day, and your pick from a floor of ’em at You have a pick from a floor of Over- coats—the loveliest lot of dentlemanly Over- | coats ever seenin this & city; sarments fairly & alive and revel in high-class tailoring. & Understand ws—a @ pick from a floor of 3 Overcoats—more | Overcoats than con- tained inall the other | stores in San Fran- cisco combined. This floor of Over- coats at ; $9.85 b4 3 OPEN TO-NIGHT TILL 11. Opposite we showyou that dressy Cut- away made from those ¢ fine English clay worsteds in black; a § real swell { dress-up gar- ment; can’t touch its like in town der $18. This is the kind of suits that are of- 1 fered to you to-day at wi- | [ | o | o | o | %0 * | o 1 FING PINSTIOR the gold fields. Kirk was in the gold mining busin out in Colorado some years ago. Kirk told his friends that he had found fifty persons in New York who wanted to go to the Klondike, and who considered that in view of his min- ing experience he was the proper per- son to conduct them there. Rach one of the fifty, Kirk said, had paid him which is to leave San Francisco about 2000. He has already chartered a boat, Tarch 15. CAUGHT PURLOINING A POLICEMAN'S CHICKENS. Exciting Chase and Capture at Night of a Well-Known Young Man of Eureka. EUREKA, Cal, Dec. 23.—B. McGar- raghan,awellknown young manof this city, was arrested at an early hour this morning by Policeman Frank | Barnum and locked up on a charge of | McGarraghan was caught | in the act of stealing the policeman’s | burglary. chickens, but an accomplice escaped. | The officer chased McGarraghan sev- eral blocks, clad only in his under- shirt and firing as he ran before get- ting his man. In the police court to-day the case against McGarraghan was continued until to-morrow, and he was released on bali. Late this afternoon Harry Rask, a barkeeper, was arrested as McGarraghan’s accamplice and also charged with burglary. The known as the “One Night Club,” com- posed of well known young men of the city, who found robbing hen roosts a great source of amusement. g Blazing Sugar Plantation. LONDON, Dec. 23.—A dispatch re- ceived here from Havana late this evening says that the flames of a large sugar plantation, ignited by the insur- gents, are plainly visible from the city. raids | were the outcome of an organization | NEW TO-DAY. FOULLY SLAIN - BY JAPANESE | |Fate of Two Americans in the Port of Na- gasaki. One of the Marines Displayed a Roll of Bank Notes While Ashore. { Commander Stockton Tells of the Crime and His Efforts to Find the Assassin. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEWPORT, R. I, Dec. 23.—Com- mander C. H. Stockton, U. 8. N., who commanded the Yorktown at the time when the two sailors, Frank Epp of New York and Seaman Montgomery, attached to the Asiatic fleet, were killed by Japanese at Nagasaki, had Jjust returned to his home here. Com- mander Stockton said to an Associated Press representative that Montgom ery was a landsman on the Yorktown. He was the boat’s deck cook, and had been restricted to the ship on account lof drunkenness. Commander Stockton from memory then recited these inci- dents of Montgomery's death as fol- lows: Last August, in company with a ma- rine, Montgomery left the Yorktown without permission, while the ship was in the harbor of Nagasaki, Japan. The men swam to the shore. Two days later Montgomery’'s body was found by Japanese boatmen in the water, and it was taken to the police Commander Stockton was notified and he sent a petty officer ashore to iden- tify the body, accompanied by the sur- geon of the ship. Finding marks of violence upon the body, Commander Stockton ordered a board of officers to hold an inquest. From investigation of the case and from all evidence obtainable, the of- ficers came to the conclusion that Montgomery had died not from drown- ing, but by violence at the hands of some person or persons unknown. Commander Stockton reported the case to the United States Consul at Nagasaki, to the polic uthorities on shore and to the Navy Department, through the admiral of the Asiatic squadron, and also held an interview with the Chief of Police of the district and disabused his mind of the idea that Montgomery had died from accidental drowning. The evidence given by the marine who accompanied Montgomery shows that the latter had not drunk to ex- cess and was seen at 11 o’clock the night of the murder with a roll of Japanese bank notes wrapped in can- vas in his hand, and displaying his money to his shipmates. No trace of Montgomery's murderers was found up to the time the Yorktown left Naga- saki on September 15 last, the vessel then being under orders to sail for home. Montgomery's body was found in a shallow part of the harbor, and the circumstantial evidence showed thau he was knocked on \he head ana thrown overboard. station. | i | I | # * 0—0—0—0—0—0—0—0—0—0—0—0—0—0—0—0—0— HR WK O-11-1313 KEARNY SI. g that are offered to Opposite we picture a Nivery swell ! < Top Coat in | those tan ‘\ Covert cloths; the same in D black lined I with sitke—a ? coat that can- not be dupli- cated in this town wnder $20. i Your I | pick The suits are all of : the dressy sort. Our big corner window is & filled with ’em—suits & ' that yow can’t dupli- cate in this town un- der $18 to $20. These are the sort yow to-day at $9.85 OPEN TO-NIGHT TILL 11. Our picture ! brings toyour & notice a very fashionable & single-breast- ed Sacl Swit / with dowble- § breasted vest, in those high- class Worsted Cheviots,very | dressy, very swell, abso- lutely correct; nothing in town at $18 % will hold a candle to’em. 1 These are the kind of Suits offered yow to-day at 9-11-13-15 KEAR LAKEPORT IN A | STATE OF TERROR Two Incendiaiy Fires Occur in thé Town in Une Night. Citizens Are Aroused and a Crusade ‘Will Be Made Against Worth- less Characters. Special Dispatch to The Call. LAKEPORT, Dec. 22:--The fircbug made his appearance last night, and, as a consequence, this usually quiet town is all excitement. Yesterday notices bearing a skull and crossbones, with the words ‘“to- night” underneath were posted in four places—Brown's store, Allen’s | saloon, the fire engine-house and the | window of a vacant store in the Levy block. As soon as they were dis- | covered the more timid anticipated | trouble, while others thought it was | a joke, but the events of last nlghl‘ prove that an attempt was made to | burn down a portion of the business | houses on Main street. The fire was first discovered in vacant storeroom two doors north of the Lakeview Hotel. As soon as no- | ticed an alarm was given, and Mar- | shal Mitchell, with the assistance of Howard Williams, rushed in and ex- tinguished it. They found a pile D(‘ old newspapers saturated with coal | oil and covered with dry-goods boxes. The building is an old, unsightly af- fair, and is so situated that if a fire | once got a good start in it all those in the block would be destroyed, as | visiting here. | story. they are all ancient frame structures, with the exception of the Lakeview Hotel and Mantz's store, and the water supply is of little use in such an extremity. Several hours after the first excite- ment had subsided another fire start- ed in the same building, and was also put out before getting under head- way. The hoodlum element has been car- rying things with a high hand lately, and vigorous measures will now be taken to suppress it, as the law-abid- ing citizens have banded themselves together and raised a purse, which will be given to the person furnish- ing information leaaing to the arrest and conviction of the miscreants. FRUITLESS EXPLOIT OF SAN JOSE FOOTPADS. Attempt to Rob a San Franciscan Is Baf- fled by His Screams and Sprinting. SAN JOSE, Dec. 23.—An attempt was { hold up Mr. D. J. Jones of 511 Golden Gate avenue, San Francisco, who is He was passing through the Normal School grounds when two men leveled a pistol at him and or- dered “Hands up.” Jones raised a mighty scream and dashed off like a fleeing deer, continuing his screams and flight until safely landed at the central station, where he told his No trace of the men could be found, as they had evidently given up pursuit in disgust. sbdouiixiTe s Petaluma Child Scalded to Death. PETALUMA, Dec. 23.—Marie Paula, aged two years, died here to-day after suffering greatly from a scalding re- ceived while playing with companions at her’home. A large vat of boiling water was placed in the yard and cov- ered with planks. The child climbed on the boards, which became dis- placed. She died in terrible agony. &