The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 20, 1898, Page 4

1 ‘"THE SAN FRANCISC KILLED BY d SHOTGUN MESSENGER Bandit Slain in an Attack{ on the Santa ' Fe | Overland. | Brave Fred Blakeley Defends Wells-Fargo’s Gold From a | Pair of Desperadoes. Nov. 19.—The special which took officers to arned at 10 o'clock to- SAN BERN ARDINO, t night's hold-up at Daggett ret: of the lead highwayman was brought in, and an in- i S held on Monday afternoon. | The dead man was ide >d as isler. He had been | seen about Parstc 1d Daggett the week past. He never seemed to i said he expected to get work on the steel gang. Eisler was seen wandering up and down the track, evidently Jocating the most favorable spot for the robbery. He was armed with two 4l-caliber pistols when picked up dead. The other robber had a rifle. Those who talked with Eisler prior to the hold-up said the man was well educated, speaking several languages. Who his companion was is not positively known. Officershave what thev think is a clew, and have a man at Daggett under surveillance. Sheriff Holcomb remained on the ground. Fred Blakeley, speaking of the hold-up, says he failed to put out all the lihts in the car, and the robber saw him. He says that as the engineer came up from the tender he called: “Don’t shoot, I'm here.” Blakeley answered: ‘“All right, but look out for yourself.” Just then the robber shot, and the flash located him. Blakeley fired, killing his man. eley said he did not want to repeat Mott's experience in the Oro G e robbery and shoot the engineer, so he walted before firins uatil he had located both men. have any % % % kK ok % ok ok ok kK | | | * * * - * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ® ok ok ok ok Kk Kk ok ko ok R EEEEEE TR R EEE R R R 19.—The Santa ; made no effort to open the express car held up two|and did not speak to the messenger. | | They seemed to be rattled. { “While-the robbers were dilly-dally- ing around the engineer slipped away | | from them and crawled under the car | | side of the train. T | na- | nger, ’slurnfmg in the door s-Fargo me > of the outla i as Ig Blakelev. the We shot and killed o gun in his hand. As soon as he Bunnell he ordered him to throw up his hands. Bunnell said: | Don’t shoot; I am the engineer.’ on escaped, as did the ho, however, took the train having ey “‘Well said Hutchison, ‘come up reaching them. | here where I can see you.’ | train was delayed only | “Bunnell did so, and as soon as the | messenger saw that it was really the engineer he jumped out of the car. The two then lay behind a pile of ties beside The robbers obtained This was the second hold-up that has | 1o then 1ay P S i T s rack. They could hear the robbers ;‘,f“f’_‘f“fi"' ed e e h[;‘;“f talking on the other side of the car. | ransdn. tasenash months. | after waiting a few minutes Bunnell | At the eral offices of the company | anq Hutchison crept up to the engine, | and, jumping into the cab, started the train. “Fred Blakeley, the messenger's helper, then threw open the door. He was greeted with a shot from the re- | volver of one of the robbers. The bul- let came within six inches of his head, | ed through a heavy packing case | the new er the train its way ed ¢ ard mail y over had pullec t on to Los the rear platfo They quickly made their v car. the tender and climbed into the engine, | and fell on the expr car floor. Then | covered Engineer Bunnell and his fire- | Blakeley fired at the robbers with his | man with and compelled | Wi er. The robbers were about | them t down from their cab. The | twenty-five yards away and the train enginee i then left | was under way, but Blakelev said that of one robb: the other | he was sure that he saw one of them | d to hi fall. Seven or eight shots were ex-| eye on the folks. Blow | changed. The fireman had hidden be- | them both i s | side the track, but when the train | a move. Our two [ started he jumped into the engine. | here. I'm going afte “There were only a few passengers in This robber, descr 3 the chair car. They heard the shots, of the two ¢ , then sta; but did not know what was eolng on. | the w the fireman e The passengers in the other cars did not know anything about the hold-up until they were told by the train crew.” ROBBERS’ PLANS MISCARRIED {RDINO, Nov. 19.—The Santa Fe overland last | night was a heavy one. It left Neadles While rado car. go toward the expres de attention of the other temporarily distracted caped from under the revc guardian. This fact so nettied the rob- ber that he permitted the engineer also to get away. The desperado who had thus been outwitted started in pursuit of the engineer. It was then that he went straight into the jaws of death. s All of the Santa Fe's overland trains | , : now carry gun guards, as well as |l two sections. The first contained the | fi messenger % guard on this train | express, mail and baggage cars and | ve Blakeley. The . regular | the San Francisco coaches, while the T. G. Hutchison. Both known in Los Angeles, where they have resided for years. Blakeley's run is only to Barstow w Hutchison comes through to this city. Blakeley had realized that something Wwas wrong soon as the train was brought to a standstill, and had a bead on the approaching robber ready for service at a second’s notice. He fired | at the right time exactly, his shot kill- ing the desperado in his trac The train then pulled into Barstow, where it arrived at 1:30 this morning, twenty minutes late. As soon as the train arrived at Dag- | gett the unsuccessful hold-up was re- ported. The engine which had brought in train No. 1 was at once dispatched back to Daggett. The body of Eisler second had the tourist and Los Angeles | leepers. Section No. 1 ran ten min- utes ahead of the second section, in | ' | charge of Conductor Beale and Brake- man Fred Harris. The two robbers | must have boarded the first section at | Daggett, knowing nothing of the sec- ond section, for when Fish Pond, about | three miles this side of Daggett, was i reached two masked men crawled over | the tender of the engine, covered the \ongineer and fireman and ordered the | former to stop the train. The engineer applied the emergency brakes and | brought the train to a stop with a jerk. | 1t is customary when the emergency brake is applied for the express mes- | sengers to extinguish the lights in their was found near the. track and Was | car, in order that persons outside may | Bernardino County. not have an advantage. Messenger | 3 Hutchison and Assistant Blakeley, | The scene of the robbery is an open country entirely, and railroad and ex- press people say they are confident that all the robbers at large will soon be in custody. A special train with a posse on board left San Bernardino for the scene of the crime. The posse is in charge of Santa Fe detectives and the Sheriff of San Bernardino unty. Wells-Fargo Messenger T. G: Hutch- {son reported the facts of the attempted hold-up o Superintendent Pridham as soon as the train arrived bere. Hutc! ison’s story is that when three miles cut from Daggett the train was stop- ped. Blakele his guard, opened the door of the express and, peering out into the darkne w a figure ap- proaching. The robber noticed him about the same time and opened fire with a Winchester. His marksmanship was bad and did no damage. Then Blakeley had his inning and began picking up their short-barreled shot- | guns, slid open the doors on each side and took up positions in the| shadow. Blakeley was seen by a robber | on his side, who shot at him, the bullet | passing within six inches of his thigh. | Blakeley retaliated. His aim was won- derful in the darkness, the bullet strik- | ing the robber in the left eye, Kkilling him instantly. The other robber fled. Incidents in connection with the hold- up leads to the belief that the two rob- | bers had accomplices along the track | and missed connections. When the train stopped the bandits fired two shots, evidently as signals. Two armed men passed after the train had puiled out again and a bonfire was seen close | to the track farther on. This was to mark the place for the bandits on the train to stop at, but they missed calcu- lations, halting some distance this side O CALL, SUN 1898 THE TROUBLE IN THE PHILIPPINES. | View of the City of Iloilo, Panay Island, and a Part of Yuimaris Island, Just Opposite, W ith the Charleston and the Concord in the Straits Between. ONE SOLDIER KILLED AND THREE WOUNDED Assailed by Filipinos at Manila. RESIST NATIVES ARREST SERGEANT PRICE OF THE MIN- NESOTA REGIMENT SLAIN. - Disastrous Encounter the Result of an Attempt by the American Military Police to Check a Dispute. Special Dispatch to The Call. MANILA, Nov. afterward became engaged in a dis- pute with the driver regarding the fare. Some members of the American mili- tary police attempted to arrest the na- tives, but the latter resisted, and Ser- geant Price of the Minnesota Regi- ment was stabbed and killed and three other American sold —Maher, Mont- gomery and Hoyt—were wounded. Maher shot one native dead. and the others were arrested. The Spanish cruisers Isla de Cuba and Isla de Luzon, which were sunk during the battle of Manila, have been oated and docked at Cavite. The United States revenue cutter McCulloch has left Manila on her way home. The Philippine provinces have suf- fered from the. severest typhoon in vears. Malados, the headquarters of Aguinaldo, has been damaged and many villages destroyed. The merchants of this city have de- gided to establish a chamber of com- merce, which by Spanish law they were previously precluded from doing. WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—Neither the War nor the Navy Department has any information concerning the fight between the Filipinos and Amer- jcan soldiers. The muster rolls of Company E, Thirteenth Minnesota, show the names of Sergeant Jay C. Price and Privates Linsley Hoyt, Harry T. Montgomery and George Mahar, all of whom enlisted from 8t Paul. Some of the last named given in the Manila dispatches are duplicated in other companies, but the probabili- ties are that the names given herein are those of the men concerned. IN HANDS OF INSURGENTS. MANILA, Nov. 19.—It is reported that Tloilo, capital of the island of Panay, is in the hands of the insurgents. The United States cruiser Charleston and the United States gunboat Concord have gone there. MADRID, Nov. 19.—An official dis- patch from Iloflo says the situation in the Visayas Islands is less grave than aileged. The insurgent attack on Iloilo is denied. ONLY ONE DEATH AT MANILA WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—The {fol- lowing has been received at the War Filipino | natives last night hired a carriage and | pumping lead, killing his man at the first fire. Conductor C. R. Perry gives the best | account of the hold-up. The story he related to The Call correspondent was as follows: “The first section of Daggett on time at about 12:25 o’clock this morning. As we were pulling out of Daggett two robbers mounted the front platform of the malil car, which was next to the engine, but they were not detected. Soon after the train got the train left | out of town the robbers climbed over | the coal and covered the engineer and fireman with revolvers. were masked. “One of the outlaws ordered En- gineer Dan Bunnell to stop the train at milepost No. 740 and kept him cov- ered until the post was reached, when the engineer did as he was told. The engineer was then ordered to get out of the cab and accompany the robbers. The robbers overlooked the fireman and made the engineer carry a big package of dynamite. The three went back to the express car and cne of them told the engineer that they must have passed their partners, but that the latter avould soon be on hand. They The robbers | | of the bonfire. At Barstow Constable Medlin of Dag- gett was telegraphed to and a switch engine was sent out for the remains, which were brought to Barstow, where they were identified as those of Igna- tius Eisler. By the side of his body were found several sticks of glant powder. Constable Medlin telegraphed to the authorities here and at 10:25 a special with Sheriff Holcomb, District Attor- ney Dajey, Coroner Keating” and sev- eral deputies left for the scene of the hold-up, ninety miles away. Tkey ar- rived at Barstow shortly after 2 0'clock and immediately started out. Unless the robbers had horses they will have little chance to escape. Water is scarce on the desert, and traveling slow and difficult. P Train Robbers Convicted. 1.OS ANGELES, Nov. 19.—Lorenzo D. 1ail and Albert Casner, on trial before Judge Wellborn for conspiracy to rob the United States mail in connection with the Oro Grande train held up on April 20 last, were this evenhixfi’ found guilty by the jury. Judge Wellborn has et fixed the date of sentence. Lot Department: “MANILA Nov. 19.—Adjutant Gen- eral, Washington: Following death since last report: November 14, Jay Smith, private, Company G, First South Dakota; apoplexy, following malarial fever. TIS.” The War Department officlals say that the report, showing a small death- rate among so many soldiers, Is ex- tremely gratifying, and indicates an improved condition at Manila. That only one death should occur among 20,- 000 soldlers in a week or ten days is very surprising. The department be- lieves that there is great improvement in the health conditions in the Philip- pines. Will Not Visit Spain. MADRID, Nov. 19.—Count von Rado- witz, the German Embassador, has offi- clally notified the Spanish Government that Emperor Willlam has abandoned his intended visit to Spanish ports, “‘owing to the change 'In temperature in ' the Mediterranean.’” e ‘Advances made on furniture and pfatios, with or without removal. J. Noonan, 1017-1023 Mission. | | ESTERHAZY MAKES NEW REVELATIONS Declares He Was the Tool/of the General Staff and Left France to Escape @Assassination. seconds when he challenged self. R e g PARIS, Nov. 19.—La Liberte publishes this morning ex- tracts from the advance sheets of the first part of Count Esterhazy’s book, entitled “L’Affaire Dreyfus,” in which the writer declares himself the victim of Cavaignac (recently Minister of War), whose enmity for him, he says, arises from the fact that their fathers were political enemlies. Esterhazy reasserts that he was the tool of the general staff; that it was the general staff who always dictated his conduct; that by their orders he struck Lieutenant Colonel Picquart, and that it was the general staff who selected his with “exceptional and irregular means” of defending him- He left France, he asserts, being driven to suicide like Lieutenant Colonel Henry.” B R b o e R e o S o e e e A s R e R S Picquart and furnished him to “escape assassination or P R S s STATE TREASURER GREEN'S REPORT System of Depositories Favored. INTEREST ON PUBLIC FUNDS| BANKS COULD HANDLE THEM ON AMPLE SECURITY. Plan by Which, the Official Believes, Nearly Four Hundred Thousand Dollars Could Be Saved Yearly. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, Nov. 19.—In his re- port to the Governor, State Treasurer Will 8. Green makes several valuable recommendations. The report was in part as follows: I feel that I would not be doing my whole duty if I did not call attention to the fact that California is still following the method of collecting money semi- annually from the people and storing it up as old junk, when the object and only object of money is circulation. We also pay large sums for the transporta- tion of money to and from the treasury, which is a most useless proceeding. When I took charge of this office in the latter part of April last—just before another taxpaying time—I found $2867,- 251 66 in the vault, and after the June settlements there was $4,068,419 11 on hand, and 1 found that the monthly balances for the fiscal year ending June 30 last averaged $3,383,772 55. When I considered these ures, together with the large amount# continually in the county treas- uries, 1 could not help thinking that it was a condition which called for a rem- edy, and 1 set about maturing a plan that would make the people perfectly safe, put the money in circulation, and make i a source of revenue Instead of expense, as at present. Upon thorough consideration and investigation 1 am of the opinion that a system of State and county de- positories ought to be established. lll’l‘aklng up the matter of State money rsi— I would advertise, asking banks to re- sly. stating how much money each bid- er’ would handle and how much interest would be paid on daily balances, for the amount proposed to be taken. mini- mum bid should be fixed, say, at 2% per cent. In considering bids ' preference should ‘be given to localities in ‘which are located State institutions so as to avoid transportation, and where bids are the same a proper disposition of the money between bidders should be made lo- cality should also be considered. Bach depository should be required tto deposit bonds of the United States, this State or some county or municipality in the State to maximum amount of the money deposited with the depository, as security that the checks will be pald when resented. The Controller should draw | office. 3 ‘warrant ?n the Treasurer as at pres- ent, and the latter draw his check on ths proper depository, keeping In view as ) nearly as possible an equal distribution of the amount drawn. To make home bonds ual to Govern- ment bonds the amount of taxes paid on bonds deposited should be deducted from the interest to be paid. A board of de- posits should be created from some three of the State officers—sey Governor, Treas- urer and Attorney General—who should supervise the letting and settle all mat- ters of dispute that might arise. The county system might be almost the same except that there could be but lit- tle use for a County Treasurer. The Audi- tor could draw his warrant direct on the depository, and the Tax Collector could pay into the depository, or the offices of both Tax Collector and Treasurer might be consolidated, thus doing away with one Did I expect to be active in politi- al life I should hardly dare suggest a decrease in the number of offices, for it is not a popular suggestion. I am, how- ever, trying to, tell the people how money can be saved. /| The Supervisors might be the Board of Deposits for the county, but it should be the duty of the State Treas- urer to supervise the amount and kind of securities presented and where necessary the State board might have supervision of any matters arising out of the matter of deposits. To save the cost of so much transporta- tion a system of checking should be ar- ranged between the depositories and this might well be left to the State Board of Deposits. The law should provide that in case of municipal or county bonds those of coun- ties or municipalities that had a debt greater than a fixed percentage of the assessed value of the property should not bel takemt t am of the opinion, from balance: taken from the books of the county treas. urles—I did not get all—that the monthly alances in the counties will u; over §5,000,000. A I have no means of determining even afproxima. ely the cost of transnortation of money, but $15,000 per month is a con- servative estimate. If we abolish one county office we will have a saving of about $125.000. The inter- est on the State's mong&’o at 8 per cent would amount to over $100,000, and the county money at the same rate to §150,000, maki; a grand total of $390,000 per annum saved. There are many millions of dellars of bonds a..oat in this State on which mno taxes are collected, and yet when they are sold every bid is made with the assump- tion that the Assessor might get hold of them, or that the wear and tear of con- sclence in making false statements under oath is worth something. The plan pro- posed would “make a demand for this class of bonds, and the price would ad- vance, making another materal saving to the people. Neither would there be any loss on account of remitting taxes, for we do not get any taxes on them now to speak of. But great as the savings ap- ear, I do not regard them as of as much Inportance as letting the money out into free circulation, interest on money to all people. Hoping that I might not be alone on these ideas, I addressed a letter to the sev- eral State Treasurers Alklng‘ each what System was in vogue in his State. I was pleased to find that several of the States were moving up to this point, and that some have nearly reached it, and in those where a deposit system has been inaugurated perfect satisfaction has been obtained. Missouri comes nearer to my ideas than any of them. There money is let out on bids, and bonds are required to be de- posited as security, but she only gets 1.62 Fe cent for her money—Sessions Acts, 895, page 276. Minnesota permits the State Treasurer to deposit money in banks at 3 per cent on individual securlt{. and the Treas- urer's bond is also llable—General Statutes, section 344. North Dakota makes deposits of money in banks and requires deposits of securi- ties. She gets 4 to 5 per cent—Statutes Michigan makes deposits on ‘“good and ample security, to be approved by the reducing the vault, but the Treasurer has recom- mended to the General Assembly that met in November that depositories be estab- lished and that deposited bonds be re- quired as security. Florida makes de&msits in banks on per- sonal security, an ets 24 per cent. (Chapter 4586, laws of Florida, 1397.) Rhode Island makes deposits on mort- age security, but requires no security rom national banks with a paid up capi- tal of $500,000. (Title 6, chap. 33, ( Wws. Kentucky has established depositories, and requires a deposit of bonds as secur- ity. She gets 2 per cent. (Acts 1891, 2 and 3.) As all the States did not answer my let- ters, I that there are others doing the sam but here are quite an array of States riking out, as I think, in the right direction. Several have been doing so for a number of years, and ail express satisfaction with it. I do not find that any of them have carried the system into the counties, but there seems to be fully as much reason for the counties as the States. ORDER OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE. MADRID, Nov. 19.—The Spanish Gov- ernment has received dispatches from Senor Montero Rios, president of the Peace Commission of Spain at Parls, de- tailing the investure of President Faure with the Order of the Golden Fleece, bestowed upon him by the Queen Regent, and giving further particulars regarding the peace negotiations. President Faure has conferred the grand cordon of the Legion of Honor on the Queen Regent. eneral | ARBITRATON QU7 OF THE OUESTION Spain Cannot Get Third { Party’s Aid. {MUST GIVE UP AT ONCE ! | | NO WAY IN WHICH SHE CAN RE- TAIN 1HE PHILIFPINES, | As President McKinley Prepared the ! Peace Protocol He Alone Claims the Right to Inter- pret It Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Nov. 19.—The Washing- | ton correspondent of the Herald sends the following: Further instructions | respecting the character of the note to | be presented to, the Spanish commis- sioners on Monday next were sent to | Judge Day to-day. The authorities de- | cline to state specifically their nature, but I was told that they relate merely | to minor points and were brought up by Judge Dav in a dispatch which he sent to Secretary Hay this morning. Secretary Hay received this morning from the cipher experts of the depart- ment a translation of the synopsis of the Spanish commission’s note recefved on Wednesday. The cablegram from Judge Day settin> forth the contents | of the note was so long that the last of it was not received until this morning. In the concluding paragraphs the | Spanish representatives suggested that some competent person be selected to interpret the provision of the protocol relating to the Ph.lippines to determine whether or not the United States had a right to demand their cession. Such arbitration is otut of the ques- tion, and Judge Day and his associates have been informed of the attitude of the administratic on this point. The authorities still insist that as the Presi- dent prenared the protocol and Spain accepted it he only is qualified to de- | termine its meaning, and he will not | permit the entrance of any third party | | or power into the discussion. It was reported this afternoon that the American commissioners will pre- sent an ultimatum to the Snaniards on Monday. It was officially stated that the report is untrue. As the Herald has explained, what will be done will be that in concluding their note the American commissioners will declare that there can be no further discussion of the rights of this Government to take the islands; that Spain must re- | linquish them without further discus- sion, and that the President expects that the work of preparine a treaty of peace shall be concluded without | further delay. It Is expected the Span- jards will make every effort to get every cent possible out of this Govern- ment, but it is not believed the Pre dent will be willing to pay Spain mor than $25 000,000 or $30,000.000. VENERABLE PRIEST'S DEATH. PITTSBURG, Nov: 19. — Rev. - Father Luke Baudeneili, the oldest priest in the American province of the Passionist Or- der, died at St. Paul's Monastery here to- day after a lingering illness. Father Bau- denelli was a member of the order fifty- two years. The interment will take place in the monastery cemetery on Monday. 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