The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 17, 1899, Page 1

This Paper not to be taken from + 444 the Librar S Y. L The ’ e VOLUME LXXXV—_NO. 16 SAN FRANCISCO. WEDNE DAY, MAY 17 PRICE FIVE CENTS. SAN QUENTIN GUARD STABBED BY CONVICT L e e e O o e e = 1 | JACOB OPPENHEIMER FATALLY WOUNDS JAMES McDONALD Slashes Again and Agdain in His Murderous Frenzy. @ +| . R4 PS . 12 1 b T ‘ o ® . . © > . . & | © 03 & . -9 | | | | i g e ot S DA DU U PR U DU SD S U S S0 S U W S 11 > & ¢ .| P = /), ft‘\ 7 + . 7 ames B\ ! 3 MCEDONALDY » | . . - .‘ @ /;" * 65 . * B + PS * s 7 A ) S : S $ s 7 D 6 IS . & fe e e - TIIE FELON'S SECOND TRY AT TOMICIDE . e Not One Chance in a Thou- sand for the Recovery of the Vietim. S AN QUENTIN PRISON, May 16. S On a cot in the hospital depart- lies Guard James McDonald of San Rafael, with his life slowly ebbing, as the result of seven ghastly wounds inflicted at 7:45 o’clock this morning with a d wielded by a murderous convict. of Dr. Lawlor, the prisox physician, that McDonald’s chances of living are about one in a thousand, and he may be dead before the sun arises again. ment foot and chained e wal »enheimer’s ith hu ed to the 2 ago, and sen His remov: impr from Folsom to in Febru- San Quentin took pl was only yesterday that Oppen- er was reported to W. D. Leahy, hief of the jutemill police, for a v son rules and the mur- as due simply to a de- or being reported e, the motive and the umstances all combine e of murder fiendish in the extreme, a tale fully justifying the assertion of Warden Aull at the time Oppenheimer escaped the noose for the murder of Ross that the day would come when somebody would have cause for re that the prisoner was dealt with-so lightly. The is divided into two sec- tions 2 the men in each have separate | atory. Those in the east- e permitted to visit only lavatory in the building, while working in the western section use of one about thirty feet from western entrance. The prisoners v in the western section are avored because their lava- tory is so constructed that a whiff or two can be taken from a cigarette on ccasion of every visit. .rday Oppenheimer, who was ed at breaker No. 4 in the east- ern section, was discovered in the out- gide lavatory by Guard McDonald and made to return to work. His violation of the rule was reported to Chief Leahy, but when Oppenheimer summoned to appear before that official he vigorously denied that he was the detected by McDonald. To-day heimer was missed from his post )TH". again found in the forbidden spot by McDonald. Taking him by the arm the guard started back to the jutemill, eaying as they went: ou denfed that I caught you yes- those ke is the opinion T 3| was | i [ 3 . . ® . > ! + ¢ ® . 5 & ° 3 0 © . . @ © . . ® L N ® * . . - . . g 4 - B sieioi i edeieiel® v and T intend to prove I was t this time.” he convict hung back and had to be ged along until the two were just inside the doorway of the mill, wher Michael Pow the guard on the wall could not use his gun. Then Oppen- heimer sprang on McDonald without a word and drawing an eight-inch dirk on manufacture sank it into the d's bosom. Weakened by the sh victim turned and feebly attem apple with his murderous assail- - Placing his arm around McDon- 1's neck Opp imer stabbed him again in the region of the heart. At this ‘blow the guard to one knee, while the convict kept up his thrusts. The scene as witnessed by another amuel t, who Tan up to Guard and told him that one of the being ki Yoho turned e McDo atch hold of bla of the was ked through his hand, ver- that member ing the fifty fe n the f space between him wrist. Cl the terrible scene as fa e could, Yoho was forced to witn, knife again descend and pie Donald's body under the left arm. With one blow from his heavy cane de of the head Yoho felled ‘nheimer to the floor in an insen- condition. He staggered a few feet falliig and was followed ore the knife. It was picked up by a conv rushed to the viclnit and was found in the lavatory by a guard. In the meantime McDonald had man- aged to regain his feet, and with up- lifted cane rushed at Oppenheimer. Yoho held him and said, “Don’t hit him, Jim; I have given him all he can stand. dropped and t, several having evening in the Chief Leahy was notified, and under | the direction of Warden Hale had Op- penheimer placed in the dungeon. As- sisted- by Yoho and Leahy, the injured man walked to the hospital and Dr. Lawlor was hastily summoned. He found seven wounds. There were two in the breast, which had pierced the lung tissue and the wind whistled from them at every breath. Another fearful wound was under the left shoulder. A deep wound had been made in the left thigh, and one of a shallower nature in the left calf, while the fingers of the left hand were nearly severed. The wounds were dressed and a strengthening potion given McDonald, who was soon able to receive the last rites of his church from Rev. Father Sheehy, who had been summoned from San Rafael by Captain Birlem. Then Mra. McDonald and the three little children of the wounded man were ad- mitted to see him, but the poor woman was hysterical and had to be excluded. As she was assisted to leave the hos- pital by her friends, weeping and moan- ing, with her little ones clinging to her and crying in affright, it made a scene ! the dying man. by | Yoho, whose desire was to lay hands | f the struggle, | + et ebebeieisieig | that brought the tears to the eyes of the most hardened witness. McDonald’s statement of the affair, which v substantially as given in the foregoing, was taken by District At~ to: v MclIsaac and afterward signed. O he! a file of ar v then brought in by guards and identified by es, that's the-man who “stabbed | me,” he exclaimed, “and 1 hope he'll hang.” Oppenheimer scowled in a forbldding manner, refused to say anything and was led back to the dungeon. Dr. Lawlor gave it as his belief that it will be a m f McDonald is alive to-morrow t Fhe unfortunate sufferer was resting easy this evening, noon. but is growing weaker all the time. If he dies Oppenheimer will surely hang, but in case he recovers his brutal as- sassin can only be placed in the “soli- tary” cell and kept there at the discre- tion of the Warden. It is asserted on ‘ 1 sides that in case McDonald fails to nvict murderer will never rmitted to stand trial. | had all I could do to control my- iently to keep from hitting Oppenheimer two or three times and settling him,” said Guard Yoho this :ning. he fiendish grin on Oppen- er's face as he drew the Kknife through that defenseless man's fingers and saw his hand drop to his side with the blood spurting three feet simply maddened me. § it was I hit him hard the smile congealed on his face and did not leave it until he had r covered consciousne The other con- rere greatly excited, but kept er and we had no trouble with vhatever.” | nheimer is one of the most des- e and thoroughly rusted con- t San Quentin. Tho h only ) | years old his career of crime has been : It began in San Franc Telegraph Company as -mes- In May, 1892, he and a com- named panion | Monahan, another me: ployed in the office at 83 | and because they got only | nearly beat Monahan to death. Oppen- | | heimer was sent to the House of Cor- rection for eighteen months for his crime, and three years later was con- victed of robbery in Alameda, and with a companion named Barr Harland | | Wi n sent to Folsom pri for fifty | On September 30, 1898, he stabbed a convict named Walter Ross to death because he believed the latter’s brother | had been istrumental in his conviction | on the robbery charge. He received a life sentence on conviction, his neck be- ing sed by the testimony of a number | of his gang that Ross was the assail- | | ant. He was removed to San Quentin | ince proved a | soner. | on February 1 and has | savage and intractable p |QUEEN VICTORIA IS NOW ALMOST BLIND | Oculist Decides That an Operation | Must Be Performed on Her Right Eye. / YORK, May 16.—A cable to the Queen Victoria is almost She has completely lost the sight says: | of her left eve, and that of the right eye is nearly obscured by a cataract. This | alarming condition of the Queen’s eyes has been d wered by Dr. Pagenstecher, | the famo German oculist. He has ad- | | vised an immedlate operation upon the | Queen’s right eye. An operation is said | to be the only thing that can prevent | total blind That Queen Victoria has been made to appreciate the gravity of her condition is | evident from the fact that she wore spec- | | tacles yesterday while driving at Ken- | sington. It is contrary to the custom of | the Queen to appear in spectacles, and the | sight of -them caused considerable eom- | | ment among those in state attendance | J upon her. Now, as Dr. Pagenstecher has | so strongly advised an operation, it is be lieved that it may be accomplished with- out serious results. He has ‘assured the royal family he would not have advised it unless convinced that it would be per- formed successfully. -summon the army from the Philip- | maks | “this attempt to degrade a great LAWTON CAPTURES SAN ISIDRO One More Filipino Strong- hold Falls Before the Boys in Blue. —— AGUINALDO 1S GONE e His Followers Deny That He Has Fled Before the Approach of American Armies. Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1893, by James Gor- don Bennett MANILA, May 17.— San lIsidro was cap- tured this morning by | Lawton’s advance United States gunboat Concord, stationed at the mouth of the harbor. The Charleston also spoke the United States gunboat Wheeling | at Lingayan. All was quiet there. | The Filipinos deny the state-| ment that Aguinaldo is a fugi- tive, and declare his retirement to the Carbollos Mountains is part of his strategic plans. They | say the mountains are almost in- & 1 + & % kS + ks | ® S ¢ 2 i€ ¢ L 1 k3 + k3 . PLOT TO OVERTHROW THE BOER REPUBLIC o : )¢ 3¢ 3 * ® * L3 ° ® RUSSELL SAGE AGREES WITH HUNTINGTON e | Too Much Education Is Not a Good Thing for the accessible and are inhabited by | Masses savages who use poisoned ar-| ; rows, and that it is absolutely —_— impossible for the Americans| .. £ EX-GOVERNOR BOUTWELL | SCORES M’KINLEY | BOSTON, May 16.—Ex-Governor | Boutwell, president of the An(i—lmpvr-l jalistic League, was the chief speuker‘ at the meeting of the league here to- day. Mr. Boutwell denied that the | league was engaged in improper deal- ings with the army in the Philippine “It is the purpose of the league,” he aid, “to bring the army out of the| Philippines by the quiet influence of the American people at home, acting | through the ordinary channels of in- tercourse and communicatio; failing in that effort, as n we propose to So act fail as v of the votes of the Americ and without | thought of :quences to men, to the administration, to political par- | pines by th | ties or to questions of domestic con- cern. “If the opinion of one person upon the question of whether the President of | the United States or Aguinaldo is in | | the right is of any value to the advo- | cates of imperialism, I am prepared to answer. The President * asserts | the right to govern others, a right| which has never been possessed law- fully by any one, and which has ever | been exercised through fear, fraud, force and war. “As between Aguinaldo and the Pres- ident, Aginaldo i8 in the right and the President is in the wrong. “Aguinaldo can only bring the war to an end by the surrender of all right to self-government in himself and in his people and by a recognition of the right in the President to govern and | to tax 8,000,000 of Filipinos in whatever manner shall to him seem expedient.” Taking up Secretary Long’s intima- tion that the Philippines might be given a government similar to that of the Territories of the United States, Mr. Boutwell enumerated some of the priv- ileges which Territories enjoy and asked | what the reply of the American citi- zens would be to a proposition to en- dow 8,000,000 of Malays and their pos- terity through all time with a right of | competition and equality ? Mr. Boutwell held that the iniquity of imperialism was bearing a harvest of evil in many quarters, in support of which he cited recent events in Samoa and Hawaii. The only possibility now for peaceful conditions in the Philip- pines, he declared, was the abandon- ment of the claim to jurisdiction and tendering all aid without positive obli- gation in the establishment of an inde- pendent government. The league adopted a resolution de- claring that the ‘‘punishment of our criminal aggression against this brave, betrayed a-d unfortunate people is al. | ready evident in the ominous usurpa- tion of illegal powers by the President, in unjustifiable censorship of the press and in the threat of prosecution for treason of ‘an eminent and patriotic citizen who was acting strictly within his legal rights.” 3 Another resolutfon protests against re- public into a great empire, to destroy its moral leadership of the world, and to make it succumb to ideas and prin- ciples which it was born to oppose. The New York Millionaire Says Boys Should Begin to * Work Earlier. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, May 16.—Russell Sage said to-day that he had read carefully | the speech of Collis P. Huntington in | which he declared that the masses were being over-educated, and that he ® | thoroughly agreed with the San Fran- millionaire's sentiments. “Mr. Huntington's speech ‘is full of common sense from start to finish,” said Mr. Sage. “I am in favor of edu- cation just as much as anybody. I have given money to colleges, but I don’t believe in over-education, mind you. “I quit school and went into business at eighteen. T have done very well. I think that a young man should be able to start in his life work by the time he is eighteen or nineteen years old. Life is too short for the period from four- teen to twenty-one years of age, as Mr. Huntington says, to be used up in filling the mind with mere book knowl- edge. “If young men could only get the idea that business life is just as hon- orable and respectable as professional life more of our bright boys would go into business. To make it short, I be- lieve a young man should be thorough- 1y educated in the business he intends to follow, rather than have general and surface knowledge of a great many things. These are the days of special- ties, and unless the machinist and en- gineer or banker knows his business well he will not succeed. Young men | ought to be able to see, too, that a per- son who understands the mechanical | department of a big business can com- | mand a better salary than a mere clerk | or bookkeeper. There are openings for | the most brilliant minds in the gigantic business world of this country and the | sooner our young men recognize it and act accordingly the better it will be for them.” | REUNION OF WORKMEN. | s | Bay Lodges to Hold a Picnic at the Garden City. SAN JOSE, May 16.—The reunion and | picnic of the Ancient Order of United | Workmen at Agricultural Park on Thurs- | day promises to be a gala day in the | history of that order. The lodges of San | Francisco, Oakland and Alameda will be present, and it is expected at least 10,000 | Workmen will_enjoy the outing. "One l hundred and ™ty gate prizes will be dis- | | tributed and games and athletic sports of | all kinds indulged in. Grand Master J. M. Collins of Fresno will be president of the day. All grand officers will be pres- ent. A musical and literary programme will be presented. B o O o O I e S i e e o O B B R e R SR SR SRR 1 > - column. f ANILA, May x6.—! i Messrs. Carrick and | : | Holmes, the American|eo | civilians captured at the Calum-| ? 1| pit rice mills, have been released ? 4| by the rebel General Luna, who ¢ ¢ saw them through his lines with | ’ : | several Englishmen, who re-|4 ¢ | ceived forty-eight hours’ notice| ¢ ‘ | to leave rebel territory. | :, 6| The United States cruiser|+ Y Charleston has arrived here from | § : Hongkong. She touched at| 0O0M PAUL KRUGER. ¢ Aparri, communicating with the * L e O e e = B S a s e - ) CUBANS T0 LAY DOWY THEIR 4RV e | i Soldiers and Officers Con- | clude That Peace Is Bet- i ter Than War. GOMEL IS WILLING Money Is Left in Ameri- can Hands. ‘ The P S| pecial Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. - Copyrighted, 1599, by James Gor- don Bennett. e HAVANA, May 16.—The situation of affairs here is much clearer. The Cu- ban leaders are reconciled to the ar- rangement for the surrender of arms | to the civil authorities, but still believe that all the officers are entitled to any residue remaining from the $3,000,000 grant. They will make no objection on | these grounds, but will issue notice to their soldiers to give up their arms, when ordered by General Brooke, to | the civil authorities, as recommended | by the assembly. | General Gomez worked on his mani- | festo all day and will issue it to-mor- | row. He told me to-night that it would | contain advice to the soldiers to give | up their arms to the Mayors and go to work. The soldiers will probably be | allowed to give up their arms in a | body and afterward will receive their | money. z | General Brooke's new order drawn | up to-day revokes the previous distri- | bution order and appoints American | commissioners only. Lieutenant Col- | onel Rafferty will have charge of pay- iing the Fourth Corps of the Cuban army in Santa Clara and Matanzas; Colonel Randall will. pay the Fifth Corps in Havana and Matanzas, and Colonel Bisbee will have charge of the Sixth Corps in Pinar del Rio. The | commissioners are. instructed to con- | sult with the civil authorities of these districts and arrange for reserving arms. The Mayors are instructed that | where the arms exceed five hundred stands they shall appoint Cuban sol- diers as armorers. American soldiers will accompany the commissioners in the distribution. The order says nothing in regard to paying officers, but the understanding between Brooke and Gomez is that needy officers shall receive the residue. The commissioners will begin their work ‘immediately. —_— Lawyer Terrill Arraigned. SAN JOSE, May 16.—Attorney S. B. Terrill, who was recently extradited from Arizona on a charge that hel embezzled $300 from the Christopher Faull estate, was _before Judge Lorigan this morning to plead to-indictments of embezzlement and forgery returned by the Grand Jury. These two charges are based on allega- tions that Terrill fleeced Mrs. Clara A. Fread out of $3%0 by means of a bogus mortgage. The point was raised that the proceedings of the Grand Jury were ir- regular, but_this was overruled. A mo- tion was made that the indictments be set aside on the ground that Terrill had not been served with a copy or arraigned on | able, | evening considering the arrests, the charge. This will be argued on A Wednesday. ———— TRANSVAAL SAVED BY 00M PALL —— Eight English Officers Ar- rested by Government De- tectives at Johannesburg. e PROOF OF CONSPIRACY e The Men in Jail Had Planned to Invade the Country of the Boers. e Special Dispatch to The Call. For the second time Oom Paul Kruger has apparently nipped in the bud an effort on the part of Englishmen to seize the Trans- vaal and overturn the Boer repub- lic. That he will succeed, or that those who come after him will suc- | ceed, m preserving the indepen- dence of the country, 1s not prob- The Uitlanaers are too strong and the Transvaal too rich. RETORIA, May 16.—Eight offi- cers formerly in the British army have been arrested at Johannes- burg, charged with high treason. The arrest has caused intense excitement here. The prisoners were brought to Pretoria by special train and after they had been lodged in jail they were visited by the British diplo- matic agent. The arrests were effected by a de- tective who Jjoined the movement which, it is asserted, was for the pur- pose of enrolling men in order to cause an outbreak of rebellion. The officers arrested are Captain Pat- terson, formerly of the Lancers; Col- | onel R. F. Nicholls, Lieutenant J. Tremlott, Lieutenant C. A. Ellis, lately a privaté detective at Johannesburg; Lieutenant John Allen Mitchell, for- merly of the Horse Artillery; former Sergeants J. Fries, R. P. Hooper and Nichols. one of them have been in the employ of the British South African Chartered Company. It is said that the Commissioner of Police, v'ho had the affair in hand, had been wo king up the case four months. Mr. Beatty, the detective who effected the arrests, received his instructions last week and secured the necessary warrants yesterday. The executive council of the Trans- vaal is sitting in secret <cession this and several additional warrants have been issued. It is asserted that the officers already arrested were also preparing to organ- ize a corps in Natal, the British colony between the Orange Free State and the Indian Ocean, to assist the projected movement at Johannesburg. The char; against the prisoners is that, while ring in the Rand pri- vately, they are really engaged in en- listing men for the purpose of rebel- lion when they were ready to give the signal. It is said that the enlistment roster included 2000 men and that a number of incriminating documents were found at the time the arrests were made. The British Agent and Charge d’Af- faires, Cunningham Green, had an in- terview with President Kruger this af- ternoon and expressed regret that men who had worn the Queen's uniform should be concerned in such a move- ment. President Kruger replied that he would not believe the prisoners were British officers until it has been proved, adding that he hoped the affair would not interfere with the proposed meet- ing between himself and Sir Alfred Mil- ner, Governor of Cape Colony and Brit- ish High Commissioner for South Africa. SALISBURY AFFECTS OFFICIAL IGNORANCE LONDON, May 16.—The arrests at Johannesburg are probably connected with the mysterious dispatch received at Johannesburg from Pretoria on May 12 saying a special train fully equipped with Boer artillerymen, guns and a searchlight apparatus was being held in readiness at the capital of the Trans- vaal. The statement was then declared without significance, but to-day’s news throws a more serious light on the movement and it is certain there will be a great sensation in London when the news of the arrests becomes gen- erally known. E The afternoon newspapers to-day print special dispatches from Cape Town saying eight men have been ar- rested at Johannesburg and have been taken to Pretoria. The Government of the Colony, it further appears, is con- sidering the matter secretly. The news has caused great excitement through- out South Africa. The Standard and Diggers’ News, the | Boer organ in London, has a dispatch