The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 29, 1899, Page 1

to be taken trom the Lbrary- v vas VOLUME LXXXV—NO. 180. The SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MAY 29 1899, PRICE FIVE CENTS. TREACHERY OF NATIVES OF NECROS e Display a Flag of Truce and | Then Fire Upon Landing | MISSIONITES DENOUNCE THE FRANCHISE STEAL Indignant Citizens Applaud the Intimation That a Good Stout Rope TORNADO'S PATH TRACED BY THE DEAD LT Father and Six Children in One Family Lose Their b Would Fit the Case of the “Solid Seven.” i CAPT. TILLEY MISSING. o e COUNTRY LAID WASTE e Malay Seamen From the Cable Shi Recorder Taken, Beaten and Then Cut to Pieces. | | p5Banded Togéther, Three Hundred Strong, They Will March To-Day to the City Hall to Vigorously Protest Against the [ R R e S i e aaan | S e i Sl o R e S OSSR S Buildings, Orchards and Grain Lev- eled by a Twister in Nebraska and South Dakota. — . — —_— e Proposed Infamy. . o i k. o LA, May 28 > cable ship = % CHAMBERLAIN, §. Dak., May 28.— r king up the A Word reached town this evening of a € lands of f B e e e e S e e SIS disastrous and fatal tornado which t to the s the list of those who | . passed across the country in thevicinity - have !Jartexed their n?ortal souls | | of Bijou Hills, twenty-five miles south a- party for coin. Are the solid seven of ¢ | of this city, vesterday afternoon, re- the com- the Board of Supervisors ready | sulting in the death of seven persons P | Ly veral of to complete that roll of infamy to |+ | and the serious injury of two others. ge P © | The killed are: who wa the cable had been walted until d then treach- volley illey and one of hemselves into on observe of truc ship tc A flag rebe erous he Recorder, date by adding their names to it? It looks like it. They seem to have sold themselves, body and breeches, to the Southern Pacific and the Mar- ket-street Railway Company, and those corporations are accustomed to exact the limit omce they pay the price. The limit in the present case consists of a double track franchise for a steam railroad from Third and CHARLES PETERSON. SIX CHILDREN of Charles Peter- son, ranging from 3 to 15 years of age. Peterson’s wife and two other chil- dren were so badly injured that they may dle. The tornado formed on a section in plain view of hundreds and moved in a southerly course, the first place reached being that of Arthur Coden, i H it fv-;’v:} {he bani Townsend streets to the county line 32;—:? n‘:;s d(::ltg(:lyl d:lStrrxnyoi- :he 1 yut off from 5 2 5 aeiie E stroyed a church and a { m capture by the rebels, | 224 & blanket franchise for 1 schoolhouse, after which it reached the s was fall- The sec- the dup b sh > that the street railways, to defeat for fifty years the operations of the new char- ter and shut out competition. recommended the passage to print of the resolutions, and to-day the B Peterson place, where the execution was simplv appalling. The dead and in- Jjured were strewn about the premises, was sinking, but was & They asked for these things Mon- all being bruised and maimed in a that the last he saw of Captain | day a weel ago. Three days later the shocking manner, while the buildings 1 r was swimmi feebly | Street Committee of the Supervisors | were crushed into splinters. After doing its worst here, the tor- nado passed into the range of hills bt hose on t | Se that the | isolid seven” stand ready to do the skirting the Mississippi river, where it = ina then cuit to bdding of the corporations. i o gty 5 returned to Tloilo, The ‘“‘solid” seven” has never been stroyed. 'J;he pa;h (‘nver»c.{ .;;"r.h: tor- .'“ AN = f'"““““ knaw_n _to do anything for nothing, |nado was only about twenty-five rods s¢ £ the at- | ang 3¢ is mot probable, at this late wide and about three miles in length. o ool Seiisa day, that they would change their The wind was accompanied by a heavy i = .. rule. The haste they have shown to | |fall of rain and hail elved a cablegram y n at Manila re- do what the corporations required would imply that they are not only “out for the stuff,” but that they have received it. In their eagerness S S U S R S S S S S D i This was the first tornado that ever appeared in this section. OMAHA, May 28.—A special to the Bee from Central City, Nebr., says: Probably the most destructive tornado to deliver the goods they forgot even i that ever visited Nebraska passed to give such semblance of good faith | :' | through the northern part of Hamilton dateareds ey | to their acts as to allow the usual | ¢ | County last night at 7 o'clock, destroy- Morot courage and ‘e to elapse between the application | 7 | ing from $75000 to $100,000 worth of : {ors placed him in fOT an important franchise and its 3 [ ‘property, including fifteen dwellings, < of subordinate offi- full consideration. That is why they | | L ‘, A A < cané: | one church, one schoolhouse, two iron \tions referred to | propose this afternoon to rush the | 4 ‘!“J‘J ethissiii A“\ & € Geo- [insiee acrass &ife Kby s shumus caine . o1 Gy Biit | resolitiony fo metaE ) A §24 | crx;s,gtoox:tk buildings, orchards, fences ste tension Cable Com- N | % z YE i 4 and stock. ke ,{, i ;h‘ ,».‘p:;,- al_’ihes{]:;’:;lézt :: :]01 brazen as they | @-o-¢—4-4-6-5 4045604645 4040404-0404 404040400 4000 +0-+0-0-0-+0-+0-00+0+0 CEH_TEQ | The funnel-shaped cloud first struck bles in the 4 3 they have proved i + | the farm of Peter Jacoby on section 8, Soubticts ac. | themselves, without a protest that SCENES AT THE INDIGNATION MEETING IN MANGELS HALL ¢ Sl B e A i \ s the repre. | Will make them quail. At a meeting : . + house, barn and other buildings. The o ited States, the su. | held yesterday three hundred citizens | franchise grab, already so well kKiown| “We have his assurance,” continued | life and limb. Probably .00 people | < | cloud N atpse an U nof sl eraoh llacs afd | of ‘the Msaion a - [to the citizens of San Francisco. He | Slevin, “that he will act in our behalf, | Cross and re-cross these tracks daily, | ¢ | strike the ground for two miles,. when e e e b tf}gi:“::‘;;:: ;""‘fie told how last Monday the double-track | not aliowing it to go before the board | thousands of whom are children, Alsd | o |it again descended and caught the NE s e et il resolution had . been hurried to the |to-morrow by reason of the fact that |- o all the main thoroushtares leading | + dwelling, barn,outbuildings and wind- b SiETaL itors needed a Street Committee of the Supervisors |the committee will not report on it. | out of the city, from Fourth and & ill of W. P. Lantzen, leveling them reported in rnn\ ‘3“1'7 rope,” and they pledged themselves to and had come before it on the succeed- | This will glve us the opportunity we | Townsend to the county line, are com- | [ 'rll‘lhe )("f‘fii(l(fl.n(‘é q;;ld «'l\lll;ui{hlingsgnn e s appointed from Call- | descend this afternoon on the Super- |\1& Thursday. At that time, he said, | desire of iprotesting-to the Street Com-'| “ pelied. 10 cross these tracks ['farm of William Steel, C. R. Eastman visors, protest against the contem- fo ur members of the Mission and'Pot- | mittee next Thursday.” | The' Strect Committee of the Board [ R R R S R St o i o ) HELENA, Mont, May 28—Captain 3 4 A rero Club went before the committee | The chairman’ then calléd - upon | of Supervisors, Without consulting the i WA and T. L. Clothier were leveled to the George P. Tilley, yorted bably plflt:ejdd infamies, plead with the unrlluskul ‘h")l[ cars «ir!mu.n& ot t]he George L. Center for a statement of the | ' peaple hl)terested, or giving them an 51‘,’]|§,h<;;;'14;;§3 rg(r’nn%r::!g ‘{2;3}?’(} n:l;‘iesrtr; | grouna. : pliottios. at Bscalante, Island | “sordid seven” n is thi resolution might be postponed in order | cas i ble-track fran- |« ODportunity.to-be heard—as they prom- ] ssured 0 . S tamils Killed by Filipinos at Escalante, Island i . mot to do this thing, | {20007 10 50r the. Mission might:be | oo o, concerning ithe double tratk tran | A havey: recommendad . tHat sthie. . | ABLHtShdd ro ftention of remaining; |, On the Clothier place the family hag Negros, had been a resident of Hel- | and, finally, if the betrayal was com- | heard in protest against its b o) B R A Ts steam franchise be granted for an in- and made application for a right of | taken refuge in a cellar. An old-fash- ena since 1884, He was an expert teleg- | pleted, to storm the chamber with | print. Supervisor Aigeltinger. he sald, | oo the following, which had been pre- | * gefinite time, thus making.a nu way along the: bay shore. ' The rail- |joned hay knife stuck in the wall by : bt 1 h | print. Supervisor Aigeltinger, h , | pared for the occasion: S Bilies o bellove:to e temporary’ roid was granted a right of way in | ide" o' Al Clothier’s Read. e rapher and el n, and a man of | their indignation. then assured them that there would be | Thaiithct onnliraasonssiwiiy s thio manent. L\ru: aln‘n;é said bay shore, and was also | the side of . othier's head. e finest charae 1 hux;‘ a ,X.m The “solid seven” may even stand :;;:I"v:u-:nulwfl '1; !l:mm;r;f ;‘l]"l‘“r::;*t‘r\ixr‘;i“ double-track steam railroad franchise veihis action in. the r;?)(;fv:fpty};:\rflf‘& {’“fmf;,"a"v‘e{}ho‘f\lig% CERE B ik"".e] \\;\snblm‘\\x_\ g:m;hhg\s]"rf:gi If);.":}n? veteran, still lives. Tilley enlisted they complete to date the list that | could have a hearing. The club repre- | has not nor never had a franchie |. j0eo% perpetuate this steam nulsance replied time and time again to the pe- |next one visited. All the buildings were oY s o | InoasileanaP sentatives left with this assurance, but | from the ety for (8 rovte, from o through this thickly settled portion ‘of {tions for removal that they would |jeveled to the ground. The familv had in the war with Spain as 1 et 2 they had hardly got beyond the door | (iraots. Whatever rights it may the city, so far as they are concerned, & aid. eooon. asitheir bay ghore line Kk . in t ellar, A whil the Signal Corps, and was promoted| hund : of the committee room ere Aigentinger | have, have grown out of usurpation. for all time. Electricity as a motive o g opm;fletkd. The bay.ahore ' | taken Tefuge in the cellar, and ‘while soon after reaching the Philippines for| " undred residents and prop- |and his associates, eager to do the bid- That the railroad passing through ower has now advanced to such pell'- s ms“neu\qerangerl con’:l;?encpm Now | there a horse was blown in. The horse vomsplcuous able service. He had been €'Y MOlders of the Mission, voicing the | ding of their new master, had recom- | sald district passes over and along on AL o never abandon sald road. They hie | was killed, but none of the family were further recommended for promotion to indignation of the citizens of that pop- m in one case for a dis- elghty feet, making it ended the passage to print of the : sidewal tance of ov people to live along its route on ac- of the city. no franchise to operate from Sixteenth were injured. e ulous tion, will march In a body this | ordinance. Mr. Slevin said:that four S i 5 These elected guardians:of the peo- street to-Valencia, and it is only rot On the farm of Mr. Liebhart, one of brevet major. afterngonito. hEN Gty et b 3,”( members of a committee had called on | o5 Impossibility to improve the prop- | jiesTights seem’to regard these rights - for Mr. Foulds to say that thecity has {ino finest in Hamilton County, the = — = S ST 4 protest | o pervisor Attrldge Sunday morning | . improvements already exist, on ac- as their own individual perquisites to !%S ]t: right to its streets because of 3 = Gy = DREYFUS WILL NOW Yool bresence against the passage | ;g talked with him about the ad- | count of the dust, sfoke and noises be bartered away for thelr own per- |. 1o en&th of time intervening since |house, barn, corncribs, granaries and to print of the resolutions recommend- | yysability of re-referring the ordi- | at all hours of the'day and night, it is f;g#ala‘ge?;gt.wo’rlg gré}x;;fl'x‘))nnllsfim“olv; s f:hef:ag%udfil;ercz]t‘tgdn;? (linlns outbuildings were smashed into kind- HAVE A NEW TRIAL €@ by the subservient Street Commit- |nance to the Street Committee so that | 2lmost impossible to rent houses or for | {O0& Bre the PCOPS BONE 0 ST 10 its rights to its streets, ~ o' 5% |jing wood and a large oichard ruined. Arrangements Made to Transport the Devil’s Island Prisoner Back tee granting a.double-track franchise to the Southern Pacific Rallroad Com- pany and a “blanket” franchise to the the citizens of the Mission might have th test against its passage. I count of the nuisances caused by the trains. It is also detrimental to land values and exceedingly dangerous to e opportunity to make a formal pro- they going to do about it? Chairman Slevin called attention to the fact that the company had made | Now the present railroad {s & nul- sance. It operates throngn a thiceiy settled portion of San Francisco—set- tled, unfortunately, by poor people. Cottonwood trees nearly two feet in diameter were stripped completely of their foliage, some were uprooted and | Market Street Company for its lines | an entire change of front concerning | We say unfortunately, for it seems to rs” twisted off. Many hogs, two ~_to France. | Gver the streets of the oty A eperin | GHOHDHDIE+O+ 0+ 6 +D+D4040+ CHOHO4040+0+0+ 04040404040 | the double-track road since Its attempt | e pretty well defined ‘that wealth naa | ooers Lo o o e LONDON, May 28.—M. de Blowi ¥ 42 to pass a franchise through the Super- | More claims upon public officials than orses an: g ) the law.” certain, abroad. srrespondent nne, cap- had billty of us to. France, thoroughly minutes, the val f the I the the | | “solid seven,” but there is no telling | | place if the seven carry out their| ly appointed committee of ten will put “shame on them,” point the finger of scorn at the traitors who have earned their thirty pieces of silver. No ropes will be taken to the City Hall, as has been suggested by more than one, and no aitempt will be made to string up any member of the what exciting incidents may take avowed purpose. “Do not betray us! Do not betray HE citizens of the Mission have risen to protest against the cut- and-dried infamy of the Solld Seven of the Board of Supervisors. In mass meeting assembled yesterday they denounced them as traitors to the people, and planned to descend upon them in a body to ery out against the delivery of the city, bound hand and foot, to the Market-street Railway and the Southern Pacific. At the indignation meeting in Mangel's Hall the following protest was adopted and signed by all present: SAN FRANCISCO, May 28, 1899. To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco: We, the residents and property owners of the Mission, do hereby protest nst the proposed granting of permission to the Southern Pacific Com- ag: pany has been in undisturbed posses- ston so long that no power this side of the Attorney General of the State could disturb it. In line with these remarks of the chairman, the secretary. read the fol- lowing communication, which had been prepared and a copy of which will he presented this morning to each Super- visor: SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 29,1899, To the Honorable the Board of Su- ervisors of the City and County of an Francisco—Gentlemen: In order that you may understand the position of the residents of the Mission district has_poverty, trains. The result of all this is that property has degrech.ted in_value in our midst, and though the Mission is favored by nature, still the Southern Pacific Company, through means only known to God and the Boards of Su- pervisors, ingfsts on maintaining this nuisance, In European cities such a nuisance would not be tolerated. Rail- roads should be operated in sections of cities away from the residence por- tion thereof. The contemplated action of you gentlemen in granting permis- slon to lay a double track simply means that our homes will be lost for- ever to us. No one desires to live along the route of the railroad. No property owner can now dispose of his cattle were killed. Parls correspdndent of the Times, com- | ted | I R DEN visors a year ago. ‘At that time, he even though there may menting upon the steps about to be ulk"; the lir':llwtl into form and ask that the I I sald, Attorney Foulds had contended "%33\,‘3'nf.?x?'lfr“pfé'pé’rxf““g“. day. The residences of Peter Herningsen, by Sk Oguth oF Ceaption In the case,of | proposed tresson be not consummated. | that' by reason of the fact that the line | daily annoyed by this raiiread: there |Hans Luff and A. R. Buck, with all S Ihis b adshan: htthe cours | L.t jthe ace orhmmS. the solid seven MAK E A PRO |'ES‘|' was marked on the official map the city |- sands of ehfldren daily cross its'tracks | outbullaings, were scattered to the dop! he ¢ usion of its reporter it |vote to betray the people the three had granted permission to run the line 0 the great danger of their lives; |winds. revision of the case and will |hundred present will arise, and, crying across and along its streets. Now, said ;P‘n_gu::n;xgs gt siy.k and nervous persons The Danish Lutheran Church, togeth- a fresh court-martial | Slevin, Foulds contends that the com- njured by the noise of passing | er with a schoolhouse, parsonage and large barn belonging to the church, were wrecked. Rev. Mr. Strandskow and family and the family of Nels An- derson, nineteen persons in all, took refuge in a cellar under the parsonage. A large steel range dropped into the cellar, but fortunately no one was in- jured. Every monument in the ceme- tery adjoining the church v either turned over, broken or destroyed. A little north of the eHurch the storm- crossed Blue River, taking the iron bridge, carrying it a hundred feet or more and twisting it into a tangled mass. super- 1 e . % pany to lay a double track for railroad purposes from Third and Townsend sed granting b roperty. Within th 5 Other residences destroyed were the bante “m] lfi ;he e et jtxce i Piroets to the sourtherly boundary lne of this eity and county along the e, G outhatn. Bacifc Company Jears F}operty. on acepunt of theirti. |those of R. Olsen, Chris Hansen, Chris Wilk be_por. | ared, and poult jbe dndeed &, deflant present route now pursued by sald company and for grounds of protest and of permission to lay a double trac road, has depreciated in value 5 per |Rasmussen, I. C. Anderson, C. P. Nel- e, which will |lot of Supervisors to face the storm objection name the following: along the present route of said com- cent, and this double track means |son and George Cayahan. Cayahan touching at Cayenne. S LW¥ele. Withgut | that is prepared to break at the finst | That the benefits conferred to this municipality will be more than offset §|. pany extending "“{.‘:J"EA{,‘L(’"““ES‘%{?; simply that property valuations will |was slightly injured. A. P. Johnson's Wil be invisible to the cre - allers nlone | Sign of treachery. The cry was volced by the deterioration caused to the property of the adjoining owners through §i2ewf{r§e:utf)m:gfor our O Aadration Wo m;&om“n’l;ml peemt ; place was the last in the track of the gt itn % by the | ot vesterday afternoon by one of the |4 the nuisances created in consequenc of an additional number of trains being TR Toticwing. tacta: zens and taxpayors to staod by il |storm to meet with loss. All his build- Government ’41\!;;.?[?3‘. | speakers at an indignation meeting of run than at the present time, resulting in the undermining of foundations, First—The, San Francisco and San You are our servants. Over '2.5300“5& ings and much stock were lost. r re for dis- | aitizen: nd property owners of the pollution of the atmosphere, greater and enhanced alarm of fires from sparks Jose Rallroad Company possessed a us are to be affected by your action to- The track of the storm was sixteen Yeatd 1 France I w. citizens & P £a9% and an increase of fire insurance rates to said owners, detention and delays Tight of way and og%rat a railroad day. We elected you to office, and we |miles in length and about 100 yards in Mission at Mangels Hall, and it was |% ¢ iect cars at crossings, the hazard to life and limb of citizens, and also a from 1854 to 1868, The route of said | want you to serve our purposes. Let |width. During the blow a little rain TELLS OF DISTRESS ON COPPER RIVER Prospector Robinson of Oakland Says| The meeting was held at the call of | Death Has Been the Portion of Many. SATTLE, May 28.—Among the arrivals y from the Copper River is T. P, /inson of Oakland, Cal., Who is. return- home crippled and enfeebled. One »f gentence tells a distressing story. everywhere in_ the Interior of in the region of what i known as the Copper River country. There are cighty men I know of who are probably lead not dead, will dic in an effort lization." | | Club, and long before the hour when taken up by three hundred velunteers, who raised their hands in pledge of their intention to join the march to the hall. the Mission and Potrero Improvement Chairman T. B. Slevin called it to or- der standing room was at a premium. The men assembled were solid. citizens of the district and they were not slow once they got down to business to voice their views of the shameless “solld seven'” and the franchise steal their votes were purchased to legalize. In calling the meeting to order Chair- man Slevin recited the history of the | \ i O+0+0+0+0+ OH0+0+040 + 0+ 0+ O +O+OHDHO+THO+O4040 + O+ 0+ O +0+0+040+ condemnation of homes erected by the people of this city which have made the Mission district a district of homes convenient for themselves and to their places of labor. That no occasion for this change exists, as the Southern Pacific is owner of land along the bay shore where a roadway leading to our principal depot could be constructed, thereby facilitating greater convenience to the public in general and less damage to our people. Wherefore, the cltizens and property owners of the Mission humbly- pray that your honorable board will faithfully représent your constituency by re- fusing and denying this unjust request of the Southern Pacific Company. 1t was decided, also, that copies of this protest would be left at various places in the district for such citizens as wished to sign up till 2 o’clock this afternoon. The places selected are: H. F. Wynne's drug store, Twenty-second and Folsom; George Mangel's grocery, Twenty-fourth and Folsom; Mitchell Bros.’ grocery, Twenty-fourth and Harrison, and John Green's grocery, Twentieth and Harrison. 40404040+ 0+ 040+ CHOHOI0+04CHOH040+ 040404040+ O +0 + 04 OHO+0404D +04040404 O+ O +CHOHO+OHCHO4CI0H040+ 040404 CHO404040 " railroad extended from San Jose to San_ Francisco, and its terminus was at the junction of Market and Valen- cia, streets. Second—The Southern Pacific Com- any was granted a franchise along ‘ownsend street in 186—. 3 Third—In 1868- the Southern Pacific Company purchased the stock of the San rmc?aoo and San Jose Railroad under permission of the Legls!amra They owned repair shops at Sixteenth and Harrison streets, and Mr. John Center, who, then owned the greater portion of the Mission, which was In those days large fields, granted to the Southern Pacific. Company temporary ermission to lay a spur track from ghent fifth and Valencia streets to the sald repair shops. In 1870, when the residents of the Mission section learned that said rallroad was likely to become permanent, they protested nothing swerve you from your duty. Let your motto be the greatest good to the greatest number. Stand upon vour rights and the rights of your fel- ow citizens. Do not betray us. Re- member the lot of the traitor is unen- viable. No traitor ever vet was re- spected; no one desires his company— no, not even the persons who have purchased him. e no Judas Ts- cariot and sell your master for thirty feces of silver, but be true to what s expected of you, and your fellow citizens will reward you with that most cheering of all human rewards, *“Well done, thou good and faithful servant.” Gentlemen, do not permit a double track to be laid In our midst. A resolution, word for word with the Continued ca Seventh Paga. immense hail- case the fami- fell, accompanied by stones. In nearly every lies sought shelter in cellars. While there Wwere many narrow escapes, strange to say no one was seriously in- jured. The loss to crops will be slight, but groves and orchards were ruined. A majority of the farms were insured, but it will be impossible for several days to get the amount of individual losses. Household goods and clothing were all destroyed. Probably 5000 peo- ple viewed the scene to-day. BEATRICE, Neb., May -28.—A severe hailstorm visited Beatrice early this evening. The storm came up suddenly and hundreds of people were caught while driving. Several runaways oc- curred, iz which many people were in-