The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 8, 1899, Page 1

to be taken from the Library.**+** LTS 1 ap=- VOLUME LXXXVI-NO. 8. THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1899. PRICE FIVE CEN Se MURDER MYSTERY IN MARIN PETER LORRAINE VAN- ISHED FROM EARTH. HILLS DIER, THE ACCUSED MAN, PROTESTS THAT HE IS INNOCENT. - P e S S D U P S 0. Cabin in the Marin Hills, Showing the Miss- ing Man Standing in the Door and Dier, His Partner, on Ground Outside. * e O . > myste Marin ry, and County 1at an- the the to sift Lorraine’ disappea : bottom. The 1 suspicious circy ) | connected with French- Pete | it highly impr says, that the i chopper has ited himself volun-* tarily. In the place it is argued? that he would not have bought the? viv flour to make his bread had he decided® oo to leave the camp, and in the second+ ed that he place he was without funds, and there-o was the fore could not have secured tr: i i s tion on the rail Then ag s : raine had at his cabin, Becr ). the his fellow workmen say that he would | _ canyor at day. )t have left camp without his pet |Jail he the ever line under any circumstances. The | With it walking along the cat still hov close to his misging | Enos, t cabin, which is situated about a mile |master's late abode. While The Call re- | think i sve the main camp. The man porter and artist were standing at the | Ploodst ed unusually happy and he chatted | door of the cabin to-day the cat scram- | 33Y or os about a place he had dis- |bled down from the side of the canyon, | MaY- .4 where the timber was of plaintively meowing at every step. His | B fine quality. When they | gaunt sides and lean limbs and general- | Vill fin of the woodchoppe ly ated appearance showed that | CRPloY ine got off the wagon | Lorraine’s pet had not been fed since |L2med : Enos inside to have a |his master disappeared. The missing |>2isun: e a drink of wine. The young [man’s clothing and personal effects | DUri accepted his fellow work- | were found in the cabin, indieating that | S22TP s o\ tion and together they |their owner had no intention of leav- | ' went into the cabin. James Dier, who |ing. The most important find, which | >Pere. oo adjoining room of the |bears out the theory that Lorraine has | C. ‘f‘]' cati returned from his gday’s | been foully dealt with, was his tobacco ‘“" s Jabor ir sat talking' over |pouch, filled with tobacco. Had he pre- “'{’\“P""] hers | meditated departure from the camp he | o " s had been to Encs’ | Would have surely taken this with him lr"‘"lh i cabin the Sunday previous to punhd- » |as Lorraine was an inveterate smoker “Well. AT and tobacco is a scarce commedity in S the young man that | the denths of Marin County's “Black | " pyar, his weekly supply | Hole.” the She: of bread ng. When Enos| The detectives whom Chief Lees | arreste left Dier wa neing to busy him- | promised to send to the assistance of ‘ the Woc gelf prepar e That was | Sheriff Taylor did not arrive this morn- he is v perhaps th ne Lorraine was |ing as expected, so the propoged trip to | ment t seen alive best of young Enos’ | the camp was postponed until to-mor- | tion. knowledge, is absolutely certain {row. Sheriff Taylor went over to the |had ev that nobody else in the camp save his | city early in the afternoon to consult murderer—if he was murdered—saw the | with Chief Lees. The Sheriff is some- missing woodchopper r he did on |what of a detective himself and he in- that evening. | tends te devote all of his time to fer- When She T | ng out the mystery. raine’s cabin yesterd | verybody in the canyon bel Dier under arrest he found evidenc: | that Pete has been murdered,” said | adjoini the shar several loaves of baked | Savin Johnson, one of the woodchop- | view. bread, which bears out young Enos’|pers who saw Lorraine on the wagon | story with young Enos. “His absence was| URC There i§ not a single man in the not noted immediately, as /e some- | Special whole lumber camp who entertains any | times do not see each other up in |lusf fxf?x:. y other than the one that “French | country for weeks at a time. One day | RIO was foully murdered by a (-.,‘.\A}m, partner and myself were talking | give a The excitement over |about Lerraine's disappearance, ‘when | standin lopments of yest Dier jumped up and excitedly ex- | The al bloody | claimed, *‘What are you worrying about | murders that have occurred in Carson | Pete for? It is not any of your busi- | '¢gardi Canyon and gone unpunished have ag- |ness if a man goes away. fhetive gravated the residents of the county to| “I am sure that Pete has not been | Ministe the extreme, and it is the avowed in- tention of Sheriff Taylor and the sub- murdered,” sald James Dier to a Call | reporter who visited him to-day at the R @ R ANl @y oei i think if you look in the hospitals you | appeared very | took refuge in the reply, | ing_giv, | mercial lucts. Sheriff Taylor "Bolivian Minister here, on the que: 3HIS PARTNER JAILED § FOR KILLING HiM. D e L3 k3 o e b o e O m— ve Jorin Enog— * o e 0ie® “If he has I had nothing to do He had a quarrel with John he hoss of the camp, but I don t t was serious enough to lead to ied. T saw him last either Mon- week of and I Tuesday in the first Pete was a sickly fellow, nd him. Previous to my being ed by Enos I worked for a man Miles, who keeps a ranch near 1g the interview Dier shifted his blue eyes from side to side and nervous. When asked ed previous to his coming fornia Dier meditated a minute, t for an answer, and then he I lived in Oregon.” he i n Sheriff Taylor reminded Dier | did not appear to be telling the he suspect blurted out defiantly, I don’t have to tell you, any- knowledge in this respect led riff to belleve that he had been d before, as a man who lives in ,ds all his life rarely knows that not compelled to make a state- before his prelimins examina- asked Dier if he been arrested before, and he “No, not for er lor pressed the prisoner for efinite answer, and he jumped xcitedly from the cot on which he cated and sought refuge in the ng cell, thus ending the inter- le Sams Aid as a Reward. Cable to The Call and the New York 1d. Copyrighted, 18%, by James Gor- Bennett JANEIRO, June 7.—Para papers full account of the alleged under- between the United States Min- Bryan, and Senor Paravicini M. T nding between Brazil and Bolivia ng the ownership of territory on ‘Acre Para. - The papers say that an_promised to help the Bolivian T, the aid of the United States be- en as a reward for certain com- advantages for American prod- | Gene BARBARITIES PRACTICED AT WARDNER e Editor Walker Alleges Great | Cruelties Under Military @ > & \: TO WlN SULUS ERCRORORORORORO CRORRS SCHURMAN VISITS ' SOUTHERN ISLANDS TO TALK WITH LEADING e e e o e o e e . e e e o U i i i S S o OO&"\)@) PEACE MESSAGE <'> oo 0% @® @ & 666 NATIVES. > oeie e @ * * Government. : ? $ e s ¢ : * @ TATITO T T ’ . [NOUEST ON A DUMMY ’ SR k3 'S > * Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Down $ Prisoners in the “Bull Pen"if |¢ ¢ They Flee From Fire. le ® Y * —— > = S 3 €5 Disnateh The ( e PS Desprie the military censorship o i something that has rather more )¢ ; ihe semblance of truih than any- . . thing that has been sent out so * b far, 1s beginning to come from o ® the Coeur d’Alenes. 2 b There are two sides to the * . story of the minmng troubles 5 there. It appears labor feaders |+ 1 assert that the Miners’ Union has |, ® not been clways and altogether to , 3 blame. 6, | M 5 rd- | 5, s SRRl ,-,,;"13 M:Zf;:r s/;:’:}'"thzcgfw . Effect of a Ten-Inch Shell Fired From the Monadnock on Priest’s § has gone greatly beyona even what : House at Malabon. S Beieioiosioteee DREYEUS WILL WEAR CNIFORM military necessity would marcate in the suppression of riot. A gen- eral order to shoot down men if they should seek to escape death by fire can hardly be justified by anything that has occurred in Idaho so far. BOISE, Idaho, June 7.—W. J. Walker. editor of the Freeman's labor journal and an or; for Western metee tell pretty tough story concerning al Merriam and Governor Steun. | 9eems t0 Be in Good Health enberg’s military rule in the Coeur | | d’Alene country. Mr. Walker, being one | and Refuses to Talk { of His Case. | nizer labor, of the principal leaders in labor mat- | ters in the Northwest, is kept posted | on the progress of affairs in the Coeur R d’'Alenes, and he says he knows where- speaks in the assertions he | Special Cable 1 and the New York Herald 18%, by James Gor- : 9 don Bentiett. “The manner in which things are |done in the Coeur d'Alenes under the + ¢+ 4+ + 4+ + + + 4+ 4+ + 44+ 44+ pretended authority of martial law is | 4 + scandalous. It is worse. Tt is a dis- |4+ PARIS, June 7.—Mme. D + grace to the American Government,” |4 fus has received the follow + 1iid Mr. Walker in an interview to- | 4 telegram from her husband: <+ day. 4+ ‘“Leave Friday. Await with + “I will tell you a few things that have 4 joy moment I kiss you.” K been done under the orders of General | 4 + Merriam, which I am red onthe 4 4+ 4+ 4444+ 44444444+ highest authority are absolutely true. I am informed that the inquest held on |- FORT DE FRANCE, Martinique, (via the pretended remains of James Smith, | Hayti), June 7. — Although Captail the union miner who was said to have | Drevfus continues to maintain hi been killed, was held on a coffin full | Usudl impassive attitude he has de- S d The military could not get | ¢ided to resume wearing his uniform of possession of the body, and knowing | an artiller ptain on debarking from | Sfax at Brest. ible to obt the French cruis It has been impos no one would dare to raise as to what was in the hox, a question ] they filled | in an | a coffin with rocks and proceeded to | interview with the famous prisoner, | hold an inquest on the imption that | Who is now under guard of Captain the proceedings would stand any way. | Cacheux of the gendarmerie and Fourth “During the inquest they went to the | Gendarme: wife of one of th S in the ‘bull | Dreyfus seems to be in good health, | pen’ and made her induce her husband | although his features are somewhat to give evidence. The woman was in a | drawn. His face, after the first mani delicate condition. They knew she | festation of joy at the moment when he | needed the attention of her husband, | received notification of the judgment of and told her the only way she could | the Court of Cassation, resumed an as secure his release was for him to give | pect of tranquility and impa; evidence for the Government. They | nor has he since betrayed any told her they intended to hang at least | either joy or xiety. He is perfectly fifty men under any circumstances, and | mute on the subject of the new court- the only way she could save her hus- | martial with his guard, and he does band was by making him tell what he | not seem to be preoccupied with any- knew. The woman, thoroughly fright- | thing else than his wife and children. ened, went to her husband, but he was | He has responded to the telegram of innocent of having done any wrong and | congratulation from his wife, express- was not afraid of the threa He re- | ing his great joy in the thought that fused to have anything to and tried | he will scon embrace their children to allay her f but did not succeed. | and members of the Dreyfus family s, The strain was too much for the sick | again. There was not a word in the | woman. She went home, was taken | dispatch about the new trial. Since | critically ill, and the chances, I am in. | the gendarmes under Captain Cacheux, in the name of the military authorities, | have accepted the custody of the pris- | oner the lle du Diable has been with- | drawn from the control of the prison | administration and by a decree of M. Mouttet, Governor of Cavenne, it has beén declared military territory. The verdict of the Court of Cassation has | caused a very favorable impression in | Martinique and in French Guiana. e e formed, are greatly against her reco ery. This placed that man in just this position: He was required to swear to a lot of lies to save his wife's life. “In another case a disinterested citi- zen was arrested as a witness. He had seen men who took part in the demon- stration in which the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mills were destroyed, and as | the wiheers when arrested that ne know | ZOLA TO WRITE NOVEL ON THE DREYFUS CASE eight or ten of the men well enough to identify them, which he would do. Ac- | e ey LONDON, June 7.—The St. James | Gazette publishes an interview between its Paris correspcndent and M. Emile Zola, in the course of which M. Zola is reported as having said re He was unable to recog- nize any of them, and another fifty was brought out. He knew none of these, and thirty-five more were marched out. Again he was unable to pick out a man 5 42 ave entered the lists. I am a | he remembered, and told the officers to| . 1 have en ; keep marching them out, and if there | Sladiator. I am fighting a great fight, which is by no means ended. 1 cannot were any he remembered he would identify them, but bécause he had not been able to recognize any of those he | had seen they came to the conclusion that he did not want to identify any | one, and threw him into the ‘bull pen,” where he still remains. With him it was a case of identifying some one whether he knew him or not or go to jail. “One day a fire started in the ‘bull- pen.’ One of the men smoking had dropped a svark into the straw given the men to sleep on, and knowing the danger there was of a recurrence of such a fire, the men asked the officer in charge to report to General Merriam and ask to have better water facilities put in. In response Merriam issued an write anything until the case is over, but then I intend to write a novel on the Dreyfus affair, summing it all up and drawing from it additional conclu- sions which cannot be clearly and con- | vincingly stated yet. “This is my duty. I do not intend to seek any financial advantage in per- forming it. 1 am perfectly safe here in Paris, for, despite the nonsensical state- ments of some anti-Dreyfusard papers, it is impossible to arrest me. We shall see whether a French jury will again condemn me for speaking the truth. I intend tc appeal against the verdict of the Versailles court and then the whole mattgr will go before another jury, I | do not think there will be a complete solution before the end of the summer. The innocence of Dreyfus has been recognized, but there are certain guilty persons who must be punished, if France is to recover her self-respect.” Continued on Second Page. | Riea | has given ‘them until Thursday at te think the matter over and give | and A - MCARAGUA WILL FIGHT COSTA RICA —_—— Central American Republics About to Engage in Wer. Speclal Call MEMPHIS, T 7.—A special to the Commercial-Appeal from New From advices received om Bluefields via the steam- which sailed from that 1, Nicaragua and Costa Orleans to-night ship Sunniva, port on June Rica are on the brink of war. The Times-Democrat correspondent, under date of the Sunni ling, wr ““The other day Torres left Bluefiel for the interior, via San Juan del Nort with 165 soldiers and forty-one p oners, the Costa Rican authorities on the San Juan Rive that river passes through Costa Rics and up which stream it to go im order to reach Managua, fusing to allow the force to pass through. As a consequence, the sol- diers and prisoners were left in Gr town, and Torres went on into the in- terior to report the matter to Zelaya. As yet no action has been taken. Troops ‘and supplies, it is said, are be- ing rushed to the border by both Costa and Nicaragua. All Kkinds of rumiors are being circulated in Blue- fields. ‘This conditicn of affairs lends sig- | nificance to a gathering held in Blue- fields on Tuesday, May 30, when Gen- eral Estrada called a meeting at the palace of the merchants and business men of Bluefields. ' In opening the meeting he read a telegram from Pres dent Zelaya, it was the purpose of the Government to retire all the paper money and to put' the country upon a silver basis. wherein it was stated that | B SRS S o =1 ] HALL'S BRIGADE AN ADVANCED [PON TATTAY g No Open Opposition, but In- surgent Sharpshooters An- noy the Boys Greatly. ANILA, June 7, 4:40 p. m.— Professor Schurman of the United States Philippine Com- mission sails from here on Friday on board the United States gunboat Benningten for a three weeks’ trip among the southern isl- ands. The gunboat Petrel has also been placed at the professor’s dis- posal, and he will visit Iloilo, Cebu, Negros and Sulu. He expects to in- vestigate the local governments and have talks with the leading natives. He will sail for home in July. The other members of the com- mission will remain here for some months longer. General Hall’s brigade left Mo- rong yesterday, marching along the lake to Taytay. The troops encoun- tered practically no opposition on en- tering several small towns, though a few insurgent shaipshooters nung about the flanks of the brigaae. Morong, which is an important port, will be garrisoned temporarily by the North Dakota Regiment and the Fourth Cavalry. DEPARTURE -OF TROOPS FROM THIS PORT WASHINGTON, June 7.—Acting Secre- | tary of War Meiklejohn the follow- ing order to Major General Shafter at The general then proceeded to explain | that it would be . necessary 1,000,000 soles on the Atlantic coast. He said he had called the meeting to con- sult with the business men of the coast and to get their advice as to how the money could be raised. He expects to raise the loan from the merchants, and m. their answer. It is said the Nicaraguan | Government is retiring paper money at the rate of 30,000 to 40,000 soles a month. The demand for silver money is be- p. | to raise | | | me | mains will g0 on the San Franci troops for co regarding the Manil ou will send a battalion of the Fourth departure of Cavalry If their horses can follow at an early date, or talion of the Four- enth Infantry, as may appear to you t desirabl, W hiche °r battalion re- Penn \l‘kl’;]'lt which ;i should arrive about the 10th. he signal | detachment and recrults w e the loading of the Sheridan. Th. r bat- talion which you wi i ail on the Penn r of the rear: Nineteenth Infantry will sail on |ln next transport arriving from Manila after the departure of the lieved to be created by the pending war. | her de and outs caragua needs munitions paper money will be worthl of her own boundaries. LOS ANGELES MEN WOULD SUPPORT BULLA Has Received Several Offers of Sup- | port in Case of an Extra Session. LOS ANGELES, emblyman L. H. Valentine with considerable heat a recent s that in the event of an extra se would vote for D. M. Burn: statement also had Assemblyman N. Conrey in the Burns column. Senator Bulla has received several offers of sup- port should he desire to be again a can- didate in the event of an extra session. In ‘conversation to-day Bulla inclined to the opinion that there might be some resent ground for the recent talk of an extra | P session. He based his statements upon the public withdrawal of U. S. Grant fram the Senatorial contes unting Grant to been correctly quoted in recent in- terviews, There is no doubt that in the event of an extra session the largest part of the ;Los Angeles County delegation, now that General Barnes has withdrawn from the contest, again would be for Bulla so long as he might desire to be a candidate. June 7.—Senator Bulla | | | | Pennsylvania. General Shafter replied he would send two companies of the Fourteenth, 200 men 3 h Cavalry and 1300 recruits who was rec ntly or- will probably ail on the dered ll- Manila, Pennsylvanis RULING WHICH WILL SILENCE CRITICISM V YORK, June 7.—A Washington to the Herald says: dent McKinley has put an interpretation on one of th graphs of his recent civil ce order which removes or of the cipal grounds on which criticism has been based. The President's order amends rule 8 of the Civil Service regu- ling this languag: section pointed, in_th pointing offi The g amendment w Giscretion of proper onstruction givi t would to this ‘mit the transfer to the classified service of all persons_ given tempora appointments under the inc of force made neces- sary by the war with Spain. Secretary Gage brought the matter up in the' Cabi meeting vesters E the President d the [cmpnr.h ffected wer de to fill place ments been service for which the mission had no eligible list and could cer- tify candidates. The: are few such mc s, and the amendment therefore af- eus only a handful of persons.