The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 25, 1897, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25 189 The steamer Valencia, purchased by Captain Charles Goodall for the Pacific Steam Whaling Company, and the Curacoa, purchased by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company in the E ast. The Valencia will run between San Francisco and the Copper River, while the Curacoa may be put in the Mexican trade. In that event the new steamer Senator, now being completed at the Union Iron Works for the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, will be put in the Alaskan trade. "THOMAS LINDSAY IN ORDER T LIFE ) FIRED HAT HIS OWN [IGHT BE SPARED A Terrific Street Battle Fought to a Fin- ish at the Cor ner of Powell and Ellis. James M. O’Rourke Mor-| tally Wounded in a Quarrel. In His Dying Statement He Says | i That He Was Wholly at Fault. ROUGHS ASSAIL A CITIZEN. =ne Oceurred on Powell 1 Was Witnessed by | ied Spectators. It was a terrible battle that Thomas | , H. Lindsay, & Ha life veste of chivalrous act deeds of the knights of King Arthur’s rou table. Not until fighting for at least fif- teen minutes three ailants, armed with deadly weapons, and after being driven from one street corner to an- other the onslaughts of combatants, did Li ¥, in order to save his own life, shoot. Nor was the shot fired un- til he was corraled between a streetcar and a garbage wagon, where he had no opportunity to escape from who ght hiz life and thirsted for his blood. Possibly a more thrilling scene was never enacted in the streets of San Francisco than that which was wit- ed near the corner of Powell and erday morning. The assault on Lindsay by three ruffians was almost equally atrocious to the of liguor firm of Lind- 1lis street, had for morning. In point 1 JAMES C’ROURKE, n it is worthy of the | enemies | morning with unstendy step and unac- companied he entered an Ellis-street resort, where he displayed, in his hi- several twenty-dollar pieces. man and James M. three hangers-on at the racetrack, » present and saw the gold. It ed their cupidity. The gentlemen, after taking a drink, left the saloon and entered that of Lind: & Harris, several doors below. He was followed by the trio. En- tering the resort he met Lindsay, who ate watch, and the ba ¥ was on the 1 keeper, both of whom he knew. gave them $25 to keep for him. Do and O'Rourke followed their would-be victim into the place. “We can take care of -him,” said Dovyle, seizing him by the arm. Linc being acquainted with \eir character and knowing that their ives were unholy, objected. Doyle to compromise matters by ng. do not want any of your class of answered Lindsay, taking and O'Rourke gently by the arm them to the door. They orously, and Lindszy was vle in the face. Fie suc- in getting the men out of the saloon. On the sidewalk they fhet Seaman and the three held a consultation. Doyle and O'Rourke re-entered the aloon and became very abusive, call- Lindsay many opprobrious names. | was repeatedly hit by the ‘ men in his efforts to get them out of | the saloon, and hi: e last night bore | evidences of their ions. |~ The men finally were forced from the . Lindsay, believing that Wi looked s not in front of the saloon. He saw Doyle | pick up a basalt block. Fearing that | the rock might be hurled through the | window, Linasay slipped a revolver | into his pocket and went out on the idewalk. Before he passed into the a hackman had taken the stone Lindsay was O'Ro <aulted by Doyle, and ke and he used the butt end of | | his pistol in beating them back. I The basalt block was retained by the Wound:d Man, murder of Mrs. Mary A. Clute. It was unwarranted. It had no jus-l!- fication. Lindsay became offensive ) to his assailants, because he prevented them frem robbing a highly respectable citizen, who was in his cups. ‘This happened four hours be- foré the shooting took place, or at 3:30 o'clock in the morning. The commencement of the quarrel occurred at this time. A prominent uated by the liberality of n and wishing to make home happy and his friends joyous, had - early on Thursday evening started out to purchase Christmas presents. His “purse was plethoric and his bounty “iarge. He met friends. Wassail flowed and sparkled. At 3 o'clock in the Lindsay, he intending at the time to7] report the occurrence to the police and secure the arrest of the ruffians. At 6 o’clock Lindsay went off watch. He looked for an officer for some time, but failing to find one, lie concluded to take the Ellis street car and go liome. About 7:15 he stood leaning against the post at the northeast corner of Powell and Ellis streets, when he saw Doyle and O'Rourke approaching him from Gunst's cigar stand,on the south- east corner. Seaman, the third man, was on the southwest corner, in front of Pein Bros.’ store. It was then when the terrific street scene occurred. In speaking about it later Lindsay said to a Call reporter: “The men came on me unawares. Had 1 been apprised of their coming 1 | with 1 | would certainly have evaded them. am not a coward, but I believe in the ‘0ld adage that discretion is the better part of valor. They came on me with a rush. Doyle and O'Rourke fre- quently struck me, while Seaman en- couraged them by cheering words. “I pulled my revolver, and with the butt end of the weapon tried to drive morning. I struck Doyle or O'Rourke, I don’t know which, over the head and the bone-handle came off, leaving me practically defenseless without shoot- ing. “I did my best to stand my assail- ants off. They came like the wind and we battled up Powell street to in front of Wyman's jewelry store. At this point Doyle. picked up a brick and hurled it at me. I dodged and the missile struck my hat, knocking it I continued the battle for my life, knowing that if I fell I would be beaten to death. “By this time we were at Hilbert's corner, known as the Coronade. them back as I had done early in the | The | a dea and Sezman as a | witness. All the members of the trio assault- ly weapon, ing Lindsay are tough charaoters. O'Rourke has been arrested several times. He has a bad reputation. He was ejected from the track at Ingle- side two months ago and subsequently was arrested at that place for creat- ing a disturbance. He assauited two men. He escaped with a light fine. He has been stabbed in a saloon row and he is thoroughly tough. Doyle enjoys the distinction of being a bad man. Many witnessed the shooting and all contend that it was justifiable; in fact, they marvel that Lindsay didn’t shoot before he did. A CHANCE TO COMPETE. Local Merchants May Bid on Klondike Relief Supplies. On Thursday John L. Howard, vice- president of the Chamber of Com- THOMAS H. LINDSAY, Who Shot James O’'Rourke in Self- Lefense. GOLD-CARRIERS [N DEMAND Captain Goodall Says Few Suitable Steamers Are for Sale. He Purchased the Cottage City, Curacoa and Valencia While East. Robert Wige Makes an Attempt to Murder John McGrath on the Schooner W ebfoot. Captain Charles Goodall of the Pa- cific Coast Steamship Company re- turned from the East yvesterday. The compan; experience with last sea- son’s rush to the Klondike showed them that they could not hope to handle next season’s business with the D et. Accordingly Captain Goodall accompanied by his son Harry and Chief Engineer Lacey of the Uma- tilla visited New York and Philadel- phia to have a look at the vessels for sale and to purch; might be suitable for the Alaskan trade. The Cottage City and the Cura- purchased for the Pacific ast Steamship Company and the Valencia for the Pacific Steam Whal- ing Company. The Cottage City is now several weeks on her way to San coa were Francisco and the Valencia sailed on | member some one shouting, ‘For God’s sake, don't shoot!’ ** ‘Take these men off,” I answered. “We then in our death struggles ere d Ellis street and fought down Powell to in front of the White and La Grande laundries. With oaths upon their lips they exclaimed as I passed between a garbage cart and a streetear: ‘We've got him now!’ O'Rourke came for me with a wild rush. Exhausted from my long tussle, I fired and he fell.” As Lindsay said this his eyes filled tears and his voice betrayed great emotion. Lindsay's face hore traces of the conflict. His cheeks were swollen and bis upper lip enlarged. Al the fingers on his right hand were torn from grasping the handleless revolver. Officer Coleman was the first to ar- rive on the scene after the shooting. O'Rourke was taken to the Receiving Hospital and Lindsay walked to the Central station and surrendered him- self. Dr. Fitzgerald, -assistant hospital surgeon, examined O’'Rourke’s inju- ries. The bullet entered the left chest ranging downward and lodged in the abdomen. The doctor pronounced the wound to be fatal. A pathetic scene was witnessed in the Receiving Hospital, when O'Rourke’s dying statement was made to Otto Heyneman, stenographer for the Police Department, in the presence of Policeman Coleman and Deputy Sheriff Fitzgerald. Extending his hand to Lindsay, he said: *“I was wi in fault. If I should die you won' me buried as a pauper, will you Tears coursed down Lindsay’s cheeks as he faintly, owing to nis emotions, answered “no.” O'Rourke’s dying statement is as fol- lows: “Believing I am about to die, I here- by make this my last dying statement, and declare the same to be the truth, the whole truth, so help me God. “My name is James M. O'Rourke. I am a horseman. I reside at 214 O'Far- rell street. “I was born in Ireland and am 29 years old. I am all to blame in this trouble. I started the quarrel. I don’t know what it was all about. I recognize this man Lindsay as the man who shot me. I brought it all on ‘myself. JAMES M. O'ROURKE.” Lindsay was charged with an as- sault to murder. He was placed under $5000 bonds by Police Court Judge Con- lan, Luke Battles and Joseph Goddard qualifying as his bendsmen. Doyle and Séaman were lodged in jail, Doyle on a charge of assault with merce, sent to Secretary of War Alger a dispatch which was in the nature of a protest against the action of some of his subordinates in giving to Chi- cago outfitters and provision com- panies the contract to furnish the sup- plies for the relief of the miners now destitute in the valley of the Yukon. The dispatches from the East gave the local merchants the idea that San Francisco had been shut out of the op- portunity of competing for this con- tract, which will amount to several thousand dollars. The fact that this State produces the finest condensed foods and at the lowest rates did not seem to cut any figure in the arbitrary order to give the order to Chicago peo- ple. The only excuse given was that the Pacific Coast cities are in a state of rivalry for this trade. In Mr. Howard's dispatch to Secre- | tary Alger he said: “Can it be so ar- ranged that our coast merchants will have an opportunity of bidding for these goods?” Mr. Howard was hard- ly in his office Yesterday morning be- fore the following telegram was hand- ed to him from the office of the War Department, which shows that his dis- patch of the previous day had not been in vain: ek = Vashington, D. C., Dec. 24. John L. Howard, Chamber of c(‘?)‘m- merce, San Francisco: Captain D. L. Brainerd will advertise for supplies as soon as the proper proportions of dif- ferent kinds of food are made out and amount we can send In by first expedi- tion determined upon. All goods must be delivered in Dyea, because of the un- comfortable rivalty between ports of shipment on the Puacific Coast. It is the custom of the War Department to ad- vertise for everything the Government purchases. R. A. ALGER, Secretary of War. —————— Pay or Go to Jail. Ex-Captain Charles A. Jenks, not he of the horse marines, but the fellow who was sentenced for starving a lot of horses that belonged to Troop A., N. G. C., has begun to feel the weight of the law, for the Supreme Court has re- fused to grant his petition for a writ of haoeas corpus. Police Judge Conlan sen- tenced him to pay a fine of $00, or in default of rayment to be confined in the County Jail for a period not to exceed six months. The appeal to the Supreme Court was taken on the ground that the sentence Lmrosed was in confliet with the law; but the court evidently took a d:‘ftererx‘u view, for it declined to issue the writ. The Rosy Freshness [And a velvety softness of the skin is inva- riably obtained by those who use Pozzonr’s Complexion Powder. - Francisco the 20th and the Curacoa on the 23d inst. All three steamers Baltimore and bring from that port a load of coal for San Francisco. “There are plenty of steamers for sale in the East,” said Captain Good- all, “but very few of them are suitable for trade on this coast. All the vessels that are of any account are engaged in regular trade and only those that are superannuated are offered for sale. We looked at dozens of g steamers whose engines and boilers were from seventeen to twenty years old and the repairs on them necessary for a voy- age around the Horn would cost almost as much as a new ship. The Curacoa, Valencia ¢ Cottage City were the vessels most sulted for business on this coast and they were accordingly pur- chased. The Curacoa has accommo- dations for thirty-four first-class and about thirty steerage passengers. At the present time she averages ten knots an hour. Ou her arr the Howden forced draft will be put in we anticipate that the steamer will have no trouble in averaging twelve knots an hour. We have not yet de- cided whether to put her on the Mexican or Alaskan route. Should she g0 on the former run her present passenger accommodations would be ample, but should we send her to Alaskaadditional accommodation would have to be put in. The new steamer Senator now being built by the Union Iron Works was intended for the Mex- ican trade, but should we decide to put the Curacoa on that route then the Sénatcr will be sent to Alaska. “The Valencia purchased for the Pacific Steam Whaling Company has a speed of ten and a half knots an hour and accommodation for thirty- six first-class and twenty-five steerage passengers. She will be overhauled and her passenger accommodations com- pletely remodeled and increased. In a measure, she will take the place of the steamer Jeanie, now ice-bound in the Arctic. She will run between here and Copper River, her passengers making their way to Klondike over the Copper River trail. She will also act as a tender to the canneries and will, there- fore, be of use after the Klondike sea- son has closed.” The Valencia is a sister steamer to the Caracas, which went ashore at Ya- quina Bay shortly after her arrival on this coast and became a total wreck. She is in command of Captain Lord,who —_— NEW TO-DAY. I CURE HIS ‘When Isay 1 cure I do not mean merely fo stop them for a time and then have them re- turn again. I mean a radical curé. I have made the disease of FITS, EPILEPSY or FALLING SICKNESS a life-long study. I warrant my remedy to cure the worst cases. Because others have failed is no teason for not now receiving a cure. Send at once for a treatise and a Free Bottle of my infallible remedy. Give Express and Post Office address. Prof. W. H. PEEKE, F.D,, HcHURN'S 4 Cedar St., New York. ELIXIR OF o The pure essential extract from the native drug. tains il the valuable medicinal properties of Opium withiout s nosious eiements. No sickness cf sto; 10 Yom:.ng ; O costivences ; no headaclio. All ase whatever ones | called at | PIUM v also brought the Caracas out here from the East. The Pacific Steam ‘Whaling Company have also pur- chased the Excelsior and chartered the Alliance for the St. Michael trade. There was almost a tragedy on the schooner Webfoot yesterday. Robert Wise, one of the sailors, beat John McGrath, the watchman, into insensi- bility and then attempted to throw him over the vessel's rail. Had it not been for the opportune arrival of a seaman named Evans, Wise would have a charge of murder against him. The Webfoot is on the Merchants' dry dock and last night Wise went on board drunk. He went into the fore- castle and called to McGrath, who was on watch on deck, to bring him a drink of water. McGrath refused and ‘Wise, going to the water butt, filled a tin dipper and ordered the watchman to carry it to his bunk. McGrath again refused and then Wise, picking up the dipper, beat the old man over the head with it until he was insensible. Then the drunken man picked up the'watch- man and attempted to drop him over the rail to the floor of the dock, twenty feet below. It was then that Evans appeared on the scene and prevented the murder. McGrath was taken to the Water Front Receiving Hospital where Dr. Zabala had to sew up half a dozen wounds on his head, while Wise was taken to the Harbor police station, where a charge of assault to murder was placed against him. A man named Peter Diggins had a narrow escape on the front yesterday. He was driving a wagon across East street when a Folsom-street car ran into the vehicle and threw Diggins out on his head. He was knocked insensi- ble and was badly cut about the head and bruised considerably about the | back. He was carried to the Receiving 1 Hospital, where Dr. Jordan dressed his wounds. Of all the vessals that were supposed to come here from the East to take part in the Klondike rush only five are on the way. These are the Cot- tage City, City of Columbia, Curacoa, Valencia and the Brixham. Besides these there are the steamers Senator and St. Paul now nearing completion at the Union Iron Works and the Ex- celsior and Alliance, which have been built up into first-class passenger boats, so that when the season opens in a few months there will be at least nine new vessels here to carry the in- coming thousands to the Klondike. NEW TO-DAY. The only genuina Hunyadi Water. Eunyadi Jinos BEST NATURAL APERIENT WATER ——FOR—— CONSTIPATION, DYSPEPSIA, LIVER COMPLAINTS & HEMORRHOIDS **The prototype of all Bitter Waters.” Lancét. “Speedy, sure, gentie.” BritishMedicalournal | CAUTION: Sez tbat the labels bears the signature of the firm A ndreas Saxlehner. 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