The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 12, 1899, Page 1

y VOLUME LXXXVI—-NO. 1 2. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1899. PRICE FIVE CENTS, “VIVE LOUBET!” CRIES THE PARIS POPULACE President Loubet | @+ 4 o oo oo oe has I s revanche for last| ¢ s s at ' Auteuil. | ¢ \ I ve to Longchamps | ¢ attend the Grand|g x t hero of a great | o tration, expressing it- | 4 or another the | ¢ the Elysee palace to it k3 T quarter of an |4 st witness the'| o hav T tulated B . spe ) s rgans | t0 be traver 5 usands of | m Mont- Smiidis, working route and th i with | a de no y t 1 have beer hin t nue des C 1 to ng yfices « escence along the 1 5 the traffic is much impeded. A police char, were necessary in vicinity of the office | of the Libre Parole. The only grave incident of the day oc d after the President had re- tyrned to the Ely at one of the parden restaurants, the Pavilion d'Ar- < in the Alleecc de Long- champs. About a quarter past 5 o’cloc vhen the establishment was 11l of jjectionable remark The people took ued. and ut. the same time a crowd ing “Vive la Republique.” lled the chefort’s concerning o on ach en heavy denoting the diers military squad- an guards the course. were 23 o M. Du- ial the box nthusiasr iden turn etort. party was so com- y guards nd po 1 impossible en yards of e dispersed lemonstrat- hamps Ely be making g for the Presi- army. Several arrests derly sc: of th paper. hly han- £ there is customers, somebody made an the sides and a of Socialist onstrators arrived in the vicinity . hearing that a row was In prog- , 1aid siege to the restaurant, shout- The throng MR a et o e e e e e e e e e e s *o-oP v oo @ © 2 . ¢ . 3 . PRESIDENT LOUBET OF FRANCE. D¢ P |@ecoioioivitosiecsieisdeieseioneiededed PARIS, June Yesterday was an anxious day for M. Loubet and >4 M. Dupuy, but except for a few frothy demon: ions ou of one or "} two newspaper offices during the even everything passed off ge [ | far as possible, be liberated. mated before to bed with an e mind. The anti-Dreyfusite papers v a frightful anarchistic riot. The & Prix of Anarchists and Police midnight, are : L0 o | be it further $ Loubet manufactured by the police with the assistance of the an- & | “Regolved, That our charter he draped | archist It declares that the country is paying dearly for a President % |in mourning for thirty days, that a copy who needs an escort of 35000 scldiers and policemen whenever he | of these resviutions be spread on our s the Elysee, s minutes and a copy be given to the Mullan There is no .dc earof aisc s kep! S ootaty: x | Mirror for publication. There is no doubt that the fearof disorders kept many society peo- Jfor hukleadon s Longchamps. were ple away from tuels,” which Prix SONTRONR D% O % LR ORORON quickly swelled to and the struggle wa Finally the mounted pearance of the Fourth of July than the Grand Prix. It was a great tri- & umph for M. Loubet and an indication of the change in public opinion. &8 o 2008 ORONORORONONONGNCS | several thousands, |seized the horses and maltreated the The 'ws of the cafe were smashed | occupants, whose clothing was torn, The Windows of the coe Mwaad within, | and they would have suffered more had toe arrived, DOt several sympathizing Socialists police arrived, | orjeq out, “Leave the aristocrats ring the neighborhood and closed | alone.” At this the carriage was al- the restaurant. injured, including a number of police- men S members of the Chamber of Deputies who attended the races are unanimous in praisins the calm atti- tude of the populace there. The Social- ist leaders were the first to exhort their nds to display moderation. M. more - than once - interfered to developing into disorder. ‘We' for- ferences here,” he said, “to around the President of the republ One of the features of the day was an | unusually large gathering of Deputies and municipal functionaries at Long- champs, less to witness the races than to testify their adhereence to the exist- when g ty persons arrested’only a all number havebeenretained in cus- y. M. Loubet expressed a wish that who had been arrested merely on count of seditious cries should, so Two policemen were injured by de- ere trylng to rescue One, a detective, roughly used. His clothes ere nearly torn off his back and his r and vas very olv howeve solated incidents. Just before midnight another de- monstration took place outside the office of Libre Parole. In the scuffles with the police several persons were injured. . Inquiry at the prefecture of police at a late hour elicited the Informa- tion that about thirty arrests were made during the day and ten policemen were more or less seriously injured. The predominant cries were °* Loubet” and “Conspuez Rochefort. After the riot at the Pavilion d’Arne. { nonville the mob marched to what it supposed was the residence of M. Rochefort, but not knowing the num- ber of the house, the demonstrators hooted outside another person’s 1 dence. There was considerable mani- | festations outside of the offices of I'Intransigeant. M. Rochefort, in fact, | has entirely lost his popularity with the | Socialists on account of his attitide in the Dreyfus affair. The Jockey Club held a meeting on Saturday and resolved wunanimously that M. Loubet, being thefr guest, must be treated courteously. Lots were drawn and Vicomte d'Harlcourt was selected to present a bouquet to Mme. Loubet. On the other hand, the club decided that none of the women mem- bers of their families should attend the races. The attendance, therefore, was smaller than usual. The admission to the course produced only 230,000 francs, as compared with 341,000 francs last year, while the takings at the betting machines were greatly reduced. During the disorders at the Pavilion | @’ Arenonville, the gentleman whose re- marks caused the trouble got quietly out with the lady accompanying him. But they were recognized in their car- riage by the crowd, and in his terror, the gentleman ordered the coachman to whip up his horses, trying to pierce the crowd at a gallop. The mob, however, the enthusiasm of his follow- | All the Ministers were loud- | ng and returning. | satisfactorily, and now, at 1 a. m., the boulevards which were v beginning s inly try to magnify a fe ir, Agents” 2 dent,” seeks to make out that the whole This is shown by the receipts in the “mu- 1,330,000 francs below those of last With no less than 15,000 men under arms the city had more Several persons were |lowed to depart. | | v brawls into & B S S S JENOUNCE THE DEATH OF DEVINE Improved Order of Red Men | Protest Against “Bull Pen” Methods. BAD FOOD. SUPPLIED | Prisoners of the Militarv Authori- ties Declare That Only Starving i Men Can Eat the Stuff. SR BY HON. PATRICK REDDY. Special Dispatch to The Call. WALLACE, Idaho, June 11.—The feeling in this community over the in- human treatment of M. L. Devine by the military authorities is expressed in | the following resolutions adopted by the Improved Order of Red Men at Mullan: Whereas, Michael L. Devine, an hon- | | ored member of the Improved Order of | | Red Men, was unjustly ayrested by order | of Dr. France and General Merriam and | incarcerated in a filthy guardhouse, the | result of which was the fatal {llness and | death of sald Michael L. Devine, and, | ‘Whereas, The dying request of Brother | Devine that he be allowed to go to Provi- | dence Hospital at Wallace and die a lrrflo‘ | man was denied him by Dr. France and | his satellites, and | Whereas, The religious rites of his church were denied Brother Devine, and he, although accused of no crime, was | held a prisoner and dled through the neg- | lect and incompetency of physicians, and Whereas, Brother Devine yielded up his " | life surrounded by bitter enemies and no | friendly face being allowed at his death- bed to console him and help to prepare | him to meet his Maker; therefore be it . | Resolved, That Flathead Tribe, No. 11, Improved Order of Red Men, denounce in unmeasured terms the harsh and brutal | conduct of Dr. France and the military authorities In doing to death our de ceased brother and the un-Christian spirit xhibited by them in denying the conso lation of his church to an expiring man; and be it further R solved, Th though Brother Devine 7 | was not a member of Flathead Tribe, No, to empty, and Pa BOINE & |11, yet this tribe in common with the | tribe to which the deceased belonged mourn the death of an honorable man, | August, when h2 shot her father through the | police headquarters to implore the protec- | the scene almost as suddenly as he ap- | lieved by the police, if he is not soon found, | CHEESEMAN PROBABLY BELDEN'S ASSAILANT Frank Cheeseman, self-confessed mur- derer and escaped lunatic, believed by the Oakland police to be the man who made the bloodthirsty assault Saturday night on H. K. Belden of that city, paid a visit yester- day to the Potrero of San Francisco. crying for human blood. Revolver in hand, he paraded the streets of the district, proclaim- Ing his identity and announcing his purpose | of killing the woman he failed to slay last heart. The woman, who was Miss Etta Payne is now Mrs. Fred Knick, the wife of a laborer at the Union Iron Works. She re- sides with her husband, whom she married shortly after recovery from the murderous atlack of Cheeseman, at 909 Illinois street. That she was not killed yesterday is due to the good sense of an acquaintance, who heard the bloodthirsty lunatic announce his intention of “‘tinishing that —— woman,"” and hurried as fast as his legs could carry him to notify the Knicks of their peril. They fled from the house for their lives and notified the police that Cheeseman was run- ning amuck. In a short time half a dozen patrolmen were scouring the district for the fiend, while Knick and his wife were hastening to tion of the Chief against the sanguinary madman. They were escorted to their homes by officers and guarded last night, while the search for their persecutor was con- tinued. | Cheeseman, however, had vanished from peared, and up to an early hour this morn- ing had not been heard of. His mania is such, however, and he has proved himse.f so persistent in his hunt for biood that it is be- D e O it S TMMETHPES S by a headline: such d “A Very pensive P o §* | Michael L. Devine, who was murdered by ¢ | Dr. France and the military authorities at | ¢ | Wardner on the 1st day of June, 1899; and “A Grand si- | the Hole in the W | that they were closely pu rse were stolen: These, | | panied | p 1 demonstration in favor of M. year's Grand the ap- - PICQUART HONORED, MME. DREYFUS FAINTS| PARIS, June 11.—M. Trarieux, for- merly Minister of Justice, gave a dinner and reception last evening in honor of Lieutenant = Colonel Picquart. Among those present were the Prince and Princess of Monaco, Mme. Dreyfus, M. Mathieu Dreyfus and others prominent | in the movement for Dreyfus’ re on. M. Mathieu Dreyfus threw himself into . Colonel Picquart’s arms, while Mme. Dreyfus was so much overcome that she fainted PRICE ON THE HEAD OF EACH OUTLAW Army of Man-Hunters to Invade the Wyoming “Hole in.the | Wall.” CASPER, Wyo., June 11.—The Hole in the Wall, for yvears the refuge of outlaws, promises to be cleared of its desperate in- habitants. The daring robbers who looted the Union Pacific express at Rock Creek recently and escaped to the fastnesses in 11, in spite of the fact sued over plain and mountain, ar ystematical hunted to their death.” To this purpos the several railroad managers with inter- ests in this State are organizing posses, and -the outlaws will be given no rest. It is expected 200 men will be engaged in the big man hunt. The State and the express and railroad com- panies have offered an aggregate of $300 each for the heads of the members of the band. In addition to this head money, in the event of succegs, men whe are arranging for this chase will be armed and fed by the corpora- tions and big cattle companies of this section during the time they are engaged. Thus the companles are enabled to enlist a typical band of rough riders, every man of them a dead ghot, Many of them are cowboys, others are old frontiersmen, who have fought Indians in the same territory over which they will now pursue the bandits, and still others are the trained detectives of the big corporations, The various bands of man-hunters will be accom- by Indian trailers, bloodhounds and ack trains. The men are all to be sworn in as Deputy Sheriffs and will be in ch: e of offi- counties in northwestern cers of the severdl Wyoming. A gorge so marrow that two horses cannot and the end of the outlaw relgn in the Hole There are paths over the granite for men, but not for beasts. Leading in from Montana there are two or three obscure routes that eventually enable one to reach the rendezvous of the out- laws, but they are known to but few trailers and Indian fighters. The man hunters in this case, however, who have been hired for an in- definite time, will utilize the known trails and the end of the outlaw reign in the Hole in_the Wall country is belleved to be near. The six road agents who looted the Union Pacific express box will not oppose the small army of the allies alone. It ls estimated that at least fifty men on whose heads there are prices set and who are wanted in many States are to be found hiding there. Some of them are following the peaceful pursuits of farmers and ranchers and seek only to hide thelr iden- tity. Many of these men are canvicted crim- inals and some of them are under sentence of death. 1t is commonly reported that ‘‘Bob’ Taylor, the condemned Missouri murderer, is living ‘there, herding cattle for another mur- derer—George Balk, who killed his wife at Cheyenne. Japanese hflddi:s at San Diego. SAN DIEGO, June 11.—The Japanese | become intoxicated with power, E. P. V. WHELAN, CHARLES D. WHITE, Committee. have and instead of suppressing an insurrection, which was the excuse for calling on the President for troops, they are oppress- ing the people, imprisoning men expression of opinions and confiscating clair and the military seem to icize their actions. Such outrages have never before in America been perpetrated under the guise of martial law. _ Men who. have been liberated from the “bull pen” deny the statement of Sinclair that prisoners are well fed and treated, but assert that the food is of such a disgusting kind that none but a starving man would try to eat it. ‘Witnesses are intimidated and bull- dozed and threatened with capital pun- ishment and imprisonment if they do not identify persons supposed to be implicated in the riot. As was proved yesterday, even the insane are not allowed to escape the brutality of the military. The shooting at Johnson was an out- rage which would be tolerated in no community on earth except one where the man who ordered it was above all law. i PROTEST OF LABOR AGAINST THE OUTRAGES SAN FRANCISCO LABOR COUNCIL, 1159 Mission Street, SAN FRANCISCO, June 11, 1899. Editor of The Call—Dear Sir: The hor- rors of the Wardner “bull pen"” and the unconstitutional, and in the history of the republic, unprecedented, stretch of military authority as exercised by Major General Merriam in the Coeur d'Alenes, having aroused the citizens of San Francisco to the danger the rights of all are exposed to by such actions, the Ban Francisco Labor Council and the Building Trades Council Pave decided to hold a menster mass- meeting on Wednesday night at the Met- repolitan Temple to protest against the suspension of the right of habeas corpus in time of peace, to denounce the suppres- sion of the right of free speech and free press and to call upon all trades unionists of the country and upon citizens in gen- eral to hold similar mass-meetings, so that the methods for the subversion of civil liberty now pursued in Idaho by Gov- ernor Steunenberg and Major General Merriam be checked and American free- dom preserved. At the meeung_ol the committee of ar- rangements held® on Saturday night it was decided that unions be requested to march in a body to the meeting, carrying their banners. The Brewery Workmen's Union, which met that night, has already decided to do so, and others have prom- ised to take like action. The trades union- ists believe that the military authorities in Idaho are trying to establish a prece- dent, by the ald of which in the future “the right of combinations” will be of no value to the working Yeople. That these are no idle fears, the follow- ing verbatim coples of the applications mfners in, the Coeur d’Alenes must si; for “leave” to seek employment amply prove: 5 APPLICATION FOR LEAVE TO SEEK EM- PLOYMENT IN THE MINES OF SHO- SHONE COUNTY. To Dr. Hugh France, State Representative— Sir: 1 hereby make application for issuance to me of a permit allowing me to seek employment in the mines of Shoshone County. 55 I am a native of. pation. citizen of the United Si by oceu school ship Hiyel arrived here from Ban Francisco to-day. She will remain a week. at the mine in . My shift boss was ve not bee years a member of any miners union. I took no part, either actively or passively, in aiding, Continued on Second Page, Governor Steunenberg, Bartlett Sin- | for | the property of those who dare to crit- | | B R S R R e AR be e De e PS : V24 e ETTA PAYNE © < NOW. + (; MRS FRED KNKW & - O+ 0000 ebebebeie® some person will fall a victim to his re- volver. His appearance in this city so soon after the attack on H. K. Belden in Oakland, taken with other clrcumstances, is almost conclusive of the fact that he aimed the ax at the head of the Oakland capitalist. Satis- fied yesterday In that opinlon, even before they heard that Gheeseman had made a sen- sational appearance on this side of the bay, Detectives Hodgkins and Shorey and other police officers made a vigorous search for the blvodthirsty maniac, but could find no one that saw him. As soon as they heard yesterday afternoon that he was run- ning amuck in the Potrero they put strict watch on all the avenues of entrance Into Alameda County, and feel certain that they will bag their man the moment he crosses the bay. T has been expected on any of the days since his escape from the Napa asy- lum. The police of Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley have kept a particularly sharp flookout for him, it being thought that he would return to the vicinity of the home of his parents and the scene of his former crimes. It was hardly ex-] HE reappearance of Frank Cheese- man in a bloodthirsty frame of mind —— Maniac Again at| Large. | Sought to Kill Mrs. Knick ! the announcement of Cheeseman. He hes- itated not an instant. Going cross lots he made for the house, where he found Mr. and Mrs. Kni He told his story in a few words, warning them to get to a place of safety, emphasizing his words by the additional statement that Cheese- man was even then on the way to carry out his murderous design While Knick busied himself in securing his wife in safety at the house of a neigh- | bor, Cameron rotified the police at the Yesterday in This i City. | e pected, however, that he would pay a visit to this side of the bay, although he had manifested his suicidal tendencies in this city more than once. While the police of San Francisco were aware that the murderer had escaped from the asylum, they did not know that | the girl, whose rejection of him had caus- | @+t 0-+0+0-+@ | ! r | I G e e S s RO 2 FRANK CHEESEMAN. . > . ® * THE SUSPECT. ® + kS 3 e S S o > > * Qe e0s0eoeoeoes i e®| ed the murder of her stepfather and near- 1y resulted in her own death, was in this city. Cheeseman was better informed. He not only knew that she yas .in San Francisco, but he knew the locality in which she lived and the name and place of employment of the man she had mar- ried. Filled with a desire to complete his former murderous effort, he came to this city yesterday to kill her. The girl, who was Etta Payne, is now M#s. Fred Knick, the wife of an employe of the Union Iron Works. She lives with her husband at 909 Illinois street. It was about 3.30 o’clock in the afternoon when the presence of Cheeseman in her vicin ity became known. The man himself was in a saloon on Kentucky street with sev- eral other persons. He had taken num- erous drinks quletly and would not have been noticed had not the old suicidal manla seized him. “Hooray!” he yelled, jumping to his feet and flourishing a long navy revolver. “My name is Frank Cheeseman and I'm going over to kill tl d—d woman. I killed her father over in Oakland and now I'm going to finish the job!” This sudden outbreak and the sight of the formidable weapon in Cheeseman’s hands caused a quick scattering of the few in the barroom. The mpurderer did not appear to notice it. “It'll be all day with you, Mrs. Knick,” he continued, whirling the revolver) around his head. “It'll be all day with you when I find you.” Another flourish of the revolver and an unearthly yell and he was gone, the few persons who had fled from the saloon to the street making way for him as he started in the direction of the Knick home, several, blocks away, emitting un- earthly yells as he went. There was no attempt to stop him, as those near at hand rightly guessed that such a pro- ceeding would mean death. Luckily for Mrs. Knick one young man in the crowd named Cameron, who is em- ployed at the Union Iron Works and knows her husband and her history, heard | murderous assault Satu dotrero station of the presence in the vicinity of the murderous maniac. Patrol- men were sent at once to the scene of the excitement, and for hours hunted high and low for Cheeseman. o trace of him had been found at dusk, and under cover of night Mrs. Knick and her husband Journeyed to the office of the Chief of Police to implore his protection. Mrs, Knick made no effort to conceal her fears that Cheeseman would suceed in killing her. almost on the verge of and wept bitterly. Upon her plea and convinced that Cheese- man meant to carry out his threat, two patrolmen were detailed to accompany her to her home and stand guard during the night. A This sudden appearance of Cheeseman gives color to the belief of the Oakland police that he is the man who made K. Belden at his re: streets, facing Lake ) ner in which the assault was made is al- most exactly that in which Cheeseman attacked Henry J. Brooke. The descrip- tion of the man who aimed the blow at Belden’s head answers that of the es- caped lunatic. His appe: > in Oak- land was expected at a and the attack justifies the belief of the police that he was the man. ‘When t news of Cheeseman’s escape from the Napa Asylum reached the Oak- land police they notified the peace officers of the surrounding towns in_Alameda County to be on the lookout for him. They Sarticularly cautioned Marshal Lloyd of erkeley that the maniac would be iikely to make his appearance in that town, where his parents live at 2022 Otis street. Lloyd has kept a sharp lookout and is certain that Cheeseman has not called on his_parents. They said yesterday they had either seen nor heard of him since his escape and seemed to be under the imgression that he was on his way East, where he has a rich uncle. Cheeseman’s ! H[ T bl i i I z | father said that even were his son in the | vicinity he would not let him know of it. | ““Although the Alameda County peace of- | ficers have not been able to locate | the murderous lunatic they at once decid- | ed, after they had heard Belden's story, that the man they were looking for had started out to kill. The similarity of the | attack on the Oak street capitalist to that last August on the Brooke home was at once recalled. At 9:30 o'clock on the night of that trag- edy Cheeseman rang the bell on the door of the house of Henry Brooke at 16 Sev. enth street, Oakland. In the house at the time were Henry J. Brooke, his wife and his stepdaughter, Etta Payne, to whom Cheeseman had been paying attention. At the summons Brooke went to the door and threw it open. Without a word the murderer shot him dead, then leaping rate body he went into the Miss Payne and Mr ’ Brooke, having heard the shot, were run. | ning to places of concealment. | . .Cheeseman came first upon* the giri. | With pistol leveled at her head, he ad- vanced till he could have touched her, she standing paralyzed from fear until the maniac pressed the trigger. At that instant, by a superhuman effort, the girl | struck at the weapon, knocking it down | as it was discharged, the bullet entering | her thigh. As she fell Cheeseman caught | sight of her mother, who was endeavoring | te hide®herself in a closet. He fired at | her, but missed. the bullet merely cutting a hole in the skirt of her dress. Appar- ently satisfled that he had murdered the | entire family, Cheeseman ran_into the | back yard, led the fence and made his | way downtown, where he was captured | several hour: ater. | _The attack on Belden, though lacking | the motive, partook of the other peculiar- ities of the descent upon the Brooke household. If Cheeseman made it, the | members of the Belden family can con- | gratulate themselves that his first aim missed, else the head of the house might have been foully murdered and the beau- tiful home on Lake and Oak streets turn- ed into a veritable shambles. Mr. Belden did not get much more than a glance at his assailant, so sudden was | the attack and o dim was the light | thrown from the hall room on the mur- derous visitor. His description of the | man, however, tallies in a general way | with that of Cheeseman, which was called to his attention yesterday morning by De- | tectives Hodgkins and Shorey of the Oak- Jland department. The momentary glimpse he got of the ax-wielder between the opening of the door and the descent of tue weapon upon his upraised arm revealed to him a young man, dark complexioned | and tall. This would fit Cheeseman to a | dot. Whether he could recognize the man | again if he saw him Belden thinks is | doubtful. ““It all occurred so quickly,” he said yes- terday, “that I didn't have time to take a good survey of the man. Then again, when I went to the door, I was expecting a telegram and not an ax. When the rin came to the doorbell I had just retired. poked my head out of the window and asked, ‘Who’s there?. A voice, the pos- [*sessor of which I could not see by reason of the intervening porch, answered: ‘Here’s a telegram.’ As it is not unusual for me to receive telegrams at almost any hour I went to the door at once. ‘‘Had I been suspicious I probably would have played into the man’s hands more than I did. Instead of opening the door cautiougly and sticking my head through I flung it open and stood back, fully three and a half feet from the threshold. A small light was burning behind me and by it I had just time to notice the figuse