The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 9, 1898, Page 1

Call "VOLUME LXXXIII.—NO. 40. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 1898—THIRTY-TWO PAGE PRICE FIVE CENTS. TWO MEN BURNED AT THE STAKE A Mob’s Awful Vengeance Upon the Slayers of a Woman. Indians Taken From Their Home to Expiate in a Most Hor= rible Manner a Most Horrible Crime. LITTLE ROCK, Ark cial to the Gazette from Justice in a m than that meted out to Harr Paris, Tex.. r mob on the day night to Palmer Simpson. says: was a Oklahomn Marcu two e living in C volting one an hed in a Buck memt hanged at Fort Smith two and mutilation d the neigh- the entire populace to hunt down and punish parties. The trail led the the home of McGei town in the their E McGeisy's hou: ot leave until they saw f his earthly possessions reduced The prisoners were then carried back anro the line fnto Oklahoma Terri- , and near the scene of their crime uted by Judge Lynch t horrible manner t and human hands could were burned at the stake. ans met their doom with the After life extinct the mob allowed the fires down, and they then quietly dis- al hom No secret was made of the fact that Indians had been burned to death, his morning their charred bodies, d beyond recognition, were found he ashes of their funeral pyre. re ¢ r in th mo to a persed t6 their seve Everybody in the vicinity seems to cnow that the Indians were executed the murder of Mrs. Simmons, but verybody appears to b rant of the individuals the mob. Information was received here of the entirely igno- who composed terrible affair from persons who saw the charred bodies the Indians. eat un exists along the Ok- lahoma border, and the impression pre- vails that much more bloodshed will follow the work of the mob. This is the third ins: ce of mob vio- lence reported in the Indian Territory | saved. in the last twenty-five years, and by a singular coincidence the meh in each case came from points outside the Ter- ritory. RAILROADS SWINDLED BY A CONTORTIONIST. SHE 18 T0. WED AGAIN, RUMOR SAYS The Prospective Bride Florence Blythe- Hinckley. William Denman Is Said to Have Secured the Prize. Gossip Keeps the Social Financial World on the Qui Vive. and ANNOUNCE NEXT MONTH. | A Public stitute Declaration Said to Con- a Formal Engage- ment. | Rumor has it that Mrs. Florence | Blythe-Hinckley is to wed again and | that William Denman is the unusually lucky fellow upon whom she is to be- Trick of a Clever Athlete in Dislocating a Hip in Falling Upon the Platform of a Car. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 8.—Railroad officials here are blue over news re- ceived from Virginia. Two months a; a man fell on the platform of a train about five miles out of this cit His heel caught in the crack and his hip was dislocated by the fall. Three sur- geons examined him, including the company surgeon, and all declared that the man would be a cripple for life. The man was paid $2200 and his lawyer’'s fees. In addition to this he was furnished with a baggage car and transportation for his lawyer and nurse to go with him to Chicago. The railroad officials felt they had made a cheap settlement. The other day a man fell on the platform of the Nor- folk and Western in Virginia and worked the same old story of a dislo- cated hi But he had been seen on the previous day hunting for a place to catch his heel. A traveling man was present and recognized him as. the man who had been paid by the Indian- apolis road. An investigation re- vealed that the man was a professional contortionist, and could dislocate any part of his body without pain. He has swindled several road: ABOUT TO START ON HER LONG VOYAGE. Revenue Cutter McCulloch Will Sail From Baltimore To-Day for Duty in the Bering Sea. BALTIMORE, Jan. 8.—The ‘Blue Peter” flies at the foremasthead of the United States revenue cutter McCulloch as she tugs at her anchor off Fort McHenry, and to-morrow morning she will start on 000 miles by the to the Pacific. She is an Franc » about the middle of May. The McCulloch is intended for duty in the Bering Sea. Little Town of Keeler (Nev.) Burning. RENO, Jan. 8.—Keeler, on the south end of the Carson and Colorado Raii- road, is being burned, and it is doubt- ful if any part of the town It is a small place, and there is not much to burn. expected to | | MRS. FLORENCE BLYTHE-HINCKLEY and WILLIAM DENMAN, Whose Names Are Joined by Dame Rumor. — - arY BT i can be | UNLOADING THE HANGED BY AMOB AT MIDNIGHT Murderer Swung Out of a Courthouse Window. Speedy Job Performed by Masked Men at Colfax, Wash. Vietim Known as “Blackie,” and His Crime a Cold- Blooded One. “DAKOTA SLIM’'S” ESCAPE. | Baffles the Lynchers and Saves His | Life Through His Courage and Ingenuity. | Special Dispatch to The Call. { ., Jan. 8.—A mob of | ed men hanged from | COLFAX, W twenty-one ma: From a photograph by Sam W. Wall. STEAMER WEARE ON IN THE YUKON. stow her heart, her hand and her mil- | the courthouse window at 1 o'clock this ; glanced at him hurriedly and fled. | lions. | Lo eeny %e YUeano0s00” Since the death of Fritz Hinckley Dame Gossip has been diligently searching, and, unsuccessfully, though with rare good taste, selecting a wor- thy spouse for the fair young widow. But all these good offices went awry without even gaining that sup- port upon which rumor alone can thrive—public credence. At last, how- ever, the worthy dame has hit upon | one—a story that all honor by believ- ing and which lacks only the unquali- fied confirmation of the distinguished and interested parties. Mr. Denman could not be found yes- terday. He spent his day “across the bay,” which rather indefinite term covers also the spot where the charm- ing Mrs. Hinckley makes her home. But if Mr. Denman was not at home his mother was.. Mrs. Denman pro- fessed entire ignorance coneerning the engagement of her son and the weal- thy young widow, of whom she spoke in terms of highest respect, love and admiration. “I.have heard nothing of an engage- ment,”” Mrs. Denman said. “I know that my son and Mrs. Hinckley are very intimate friends and that is all, Continued cn Second Page. morning “Blackie,” alias Chadwick bloody one. The mob had no difficulty | in obtaining entrance to the jail and to | the cell where “Blackie” lay sleeping. As he sprang, startled and but half awake, from his couch he cried: | “Don’t hurt me. Before God and| |man I am innocent.” Then he sank to | the floor, unconscious from a blow on the temple from a heavy revolver. The rope was placed about his neck and he was half dragged, half carried | to the courtroom of Judge McDonald, on the floor above. There the end of the rope was made fast to the narrow beam that separates the two windows, and the unconscious, bleeding and al- | most naked body was hurled out. The feet touched the top of the windows on | the floor below, but never moved. The | man slowly strangled to death. His | only attire was an under and an over shirt. { | At 3 o'clock this morning the body | | was cut down and turned over to the | | Coroner, who held an inquest. The | | verdict of the jury was that Marshall | | came to his death by hanging at the | | hands of a mob, the members of which {are unknown. The body lies at an un- dertaker’s, where it has been viewed | by thousands to-day. Robert McDonald, alias “Dakota | Slim,” the partner of “Blackie,” was | more fortunate than his mate, and saved his life not through any efforts of the Sherift’s officers, but through his own courage and ingenuity. When the mob had hanged “Blackie” it returned to the jail and entered the corridor where “Slim” was confined. They found the lock to the outer door of his X A R X R R g cell stuffed with paper and wood, placed there through the bars by “Slim” himself while they were at their work upstairs. As they tried to pry out the mass “Slim” appeared at the grating with a caseknife tied to a mop handle and with this frail weap- on drove the mob off. From a distance one of the mob fired at him.- He groan- ed and fell to the floor. A portion of a bullet, spattering against the.wall, had struch ‘him in the breast, inflicting only a scratch, and another ‘ portion had pased throuzh his sleéve. He was | Marshall, the self-confessed murderer | say. | of Orville Hayden. It wa executed crime, but, nevertheless, a | Who composed the mob no one will J. B. Hayden, father of the mur- a quietly | dered man, was in the city yesterday and was doing considerable telephon- Continued on Second Page. ® & & & & ps practically ’uninjured, ' ‘but’ feigned | § death and deceived the mob, who Q999990009 000000 009000 NEWS OF THE DAY. Weather forecast for San Fran- cisco and_ vicinity: Fair on Sunday and cooler, with frost at night; brisk northerly winds. Maximum temperature for the past twenty-four hours San Francleco . Portland ... Los Angeles San Diego . FIRST PAGE Rumor of a Notable Wedding. Two Indians Burned Alive. Hanged by a Washington Mob. Missing Yukoner Turns Up Alive. SECOND PAGE. French Tandem Riders ahead. He Beats His Benefactor. House Talks Civil Service. THIRD PAGE. Shipped on Ice While Al Kaiser's Bad Bargain in China, Kidnaped by a Lunatic. Leszynski Is a Fighter. Guilt of Dreyfus in Doubt. Blanco Wants to Meet Gomez. FOURTH PAGE New Laws Needed for Alaska. Fight in & Lassen Court. Creditor Holds Up a Stage. Moses P. Handy Dead. FIFTH PAGE. Hanna Certain of Election. SIXTH PAGE. Editorial. Complete the Work This Time. Heed the Plea of the Weak. A Battle for Calfornia. A Shameless Boodler. Our Jubilee Edition. “With Entire Frankness,” by Henry James. Stories From the Corridors. SEVENTH PAGE. News Along the Water Front. Lawrence Held for Libel. Durrant Made No Confession. EIGHTH PAGE. Hypnotist Wins a Bride. England Wants the Soudan. Kaiser William's Naval Fight. Juckson Day Celebrated. Lives Lost in a Coal Mine. Los Angeles School Scandal. NINTH PAGE. To-day at the Churches. The Governor’s Latest Appointee. A New Home for Girls. ‘)@99")999@9@’99?@99304@99 P090000 0900900600060 @@@@% @ ® & & ® & o & & & @ kS & @ P & @ & S ® » e @ " e @ b S ® ® & & Ld & @ @ P @ ® @ ® @ @ ® ® ® & L4 ® & @ ® ® @ From a photograph by Sam W. Walil. THE SUBURBS OF DAWSON. MYSTERY OF THE | MISSING MINER ~ NOW CLEARED Letters Received From John W. Horne, Reported to Have Been TACOMA, Jan. 8.—The police forces lot several cities, including San Fran- | gcuco. Spokane, Seattle and Tacoma, | | have of late been in a state of much uncertainty and disturbance concern- | ing the mysterious disappearance of | John W. Horne, an Alaskan miner, whom they credit with having dropped out of sight having in his possession a snug little fortune amounting to $25,- 000. His disappearance is detailed in a notice sent out by Chief Lees of the San Francisco Police Department. Sev- eral northwestern papers have printed long and exciting stories, going to show that despite the efforts of the best de- tectives on the coast Horne could not be traced from the day last September when he left San Francisco by steamer for Tacoma. It came to light that Horne is alive and well and has been quietly attend- ing to his business in entire ignorance of the commotion his supposed disap- pe: nce was causing, or of the fact that some believed He had been mur- dered for his money. On his return from Alaska last summer Horne vis- ited his brother, H. G. Horne, a car- | penter here, and later made a flying trip to San Francisco, depositing part | of his money here and part there. While Horne was in Alaska his mother, who resided in Racine, Wis., died, and Horne during his stay in San Francisco concluded to go to his | mother’'s home and settle up her es- Pe00000 000000 00000006060 | ®® NEWS OF THE DAY. NINTH PAGE. Police Court Rules. A Christmas Festival. Chinese Slave Girls in Port. TENTH PAGE. Working for the Jubilee. Ruined by a Woman. Bunko Men Arrested. Peters May Lose His Star. ELEVENTH PAGE. The Bulletin Sued for Libel. Racing at Ingleside. FOURTEENTH PAGE. Fire in Lincaln School. A Photographic Fake. FIFTEENTH PAGE. News From Across the Bay. SIXTEENTH PAGE. Found the Burglar's Bullet. SEVENTEENTH PAGE. Chinese Enemies of China. BIGHTEENTH PAGE. “If T Had $1.000.00 to Distribute.” Most Rem PPPPP9PPPPPIPPPIPPPPPPD S TWENTIETH PAGE. The Terrible Torpedo-Ct 's ““Vortex Theory. TY-FIRST PAGE. Died From a K! The Story of Ruskin and Millals. TWENTY-SECOND PAGE. Books of the Week. TWENTY-THIRD PAGE. At the *“Woman's Shelter.” TWENTY-FOURTH PAGE. Raising Plants With Electricity. Society. TWENTY-FIFTH PAGE. Newest Fashi m Parls. TWENTY-SIXTH PAGE. Boys' and G age. TWENTY-SEVENTH PAGE. Review of the Drama. TWENTY-EIGHTH PAGE. Public School Department. Fraternal News. TWENTY-NINTH PAGE. Lovely Pasadena. THIRTIETH PAGE. Personal News From Along Coast. THIRTY-FIRST PAGE. The Commercial World. THIRTY-SECOND PAGE. News of the Mines. Whist. the RO R RO TR X TR RO R R R ROR R AR R A R R A A A A A s S s s s S S X4t @ & ® & & & & ® & & & & ® @ 04 ® S kS @ @ L4 @ @ ® @ @ kS @ L e @ @ L4 & 3 4 @ 0d 04 @ 04 * O] | here himself. Murdered and Robbed of a Large Sum. tate. He accordingly came back to Tacoma, prevailed upon his brother here to accompany him East, and the two left for Racine. No secret was made of their movements, and when The Call correspondent to-day inves- tigated the facts he learned that sev- eral persons knew . all about the brothers” trip East and that Horne's carpenter-shop and tools are being cared for by a friend here until Horne’s return. Both brothers are daily expected to rveturn here, and since their departure have written to several friends telling of their trip and experiences in Wisconsin. Horne's latest letter to a friend here, written about two weeks ago from Racine, announced that he wouid reach Ta- coma within two weeks from the date of writing. His friends expect him daily to arrive and personally disprove the murder and robbery theory ar- rived at by the San Francisco and Ta- coma detectives. The local police force does not seem to have given Chief Lees’ inquiries the attention they deserve, for a look in the directory and a consultation with friends of the brothers residing here would have cleared up the mystery. The Golden Gate detectives apparently believed that a thorough search had been made here and consequently con- cluded that Horne never reached Ta- coma. Horne had friends in San Francisco who knew of his good fortune and that he had taken considerable money to San Francisco with him. When he left town quietly they thought he had dis- | appeared and requested Chief Lees to | set detectives at work. In October Horne'’s relatives in Iowa wrote here for information concerning him and the search’ was -nominally renewed. This week came another letter from his nephew, George W. Scott of Eldon, Iowa, suggesting that he might have returned to Dawson. The police were preparing to act on'this thecry when informed to-day that Horne was due It is understood he will return to the Klondike early in the | spring. — BOATS FOR THE YUKON. Contracts for Two Vessels to Ply Between St. Michael and Dawson. PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 8.—A con- tract for building two sternwheel | steamboats for use upon the Yukon River has just been completed between he Willamette Iron Works and John A. Magee, Jr., of San Francisco. The contract price is between $80,000 and 90,000, and includes the complete con- struction and equipment of the two beats. Mr. Magee is working in con- junction with a San Francisco compa- ny, who will put on two ships between the latter city and St. Michael. From St. Michael the two steamboats, to be built here, will run to Dawson City, and, with four barges, handle freight and passengers which will be delivered by the steamship company. James Lotan of the Willamette Iron Works returned from San Francisco to-day, and in speaking about the mat- ter said: “We will proceed at once with the construction of these two boats, and will have them ready to be towed north by May 15. They are each to be 175 feet in length, with 36 feet beam and a depth of 7 feet. They will draw, when loaded with 400 tons, but 3 feet. They are tc have forty staterooms, and will carry upward of 300 passengers.: They will be very com- plete steamboats, including an electric light plant, steam capstan for ‘lining’ @ 00000000 000900 9009 @O@ | over bars, and all else required by mods