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

VOLUME Y:\ XXVI \() 38. PRICE YIVE CENTS 020N 0% 0% N 0N u N el e wofeels 'G TO THE RELIEF OF @t ti et oo i etetietio%o%kotet o fiotietietie e Yy 2020205 NeP FLOOD SUFFERERS RN ~ a0 e 3 i 10T et0 a0 e et et otieti o2 eI NN B e e e 0N 0@ \ GROES STUNNED BY THE CALAMITY 0. 5} ietieti et et @t MOV *H e e e eb et e eded SRR o | e e G S SO SR i Sloie o 2 U o o 2t IN THE TEXAS FLOODED DISTRICT. the Brazos River, a Short Distance Below Sealey 34 NN e Ge e aec s S o s o T s b s, N B OTR as R s : S > VIANY WILL DIE uosdegnite Jripeme 0 IS PENNED ON ISLAND ‘; BEFORE o0 fhe | 2 WITH HELP CAN COME 3 4 to higher ground i ¢ VENOMOUS SNAKES There Are 10,000 & Hunger-Stricken Refu- & Starving People to rmation was received fi & gees Are Bittenand & Be Cared FOF : Lo eaan s May Die. RE I At BoTOBIDOOID S G5 OHDITEDS > pe ibutions from all was 000, part n of the War Department % L v 2 At has been called to a peculiar effect of | - = the recent flood in the Rio Gran River. The former channel of the e d within a few nd the as to for the am ]z pump- afford ATIT s in condi 1 the 1o wo ' od subside | present chan The pumping si rapidly refugees will have no op- | ywas not for such an e - portunity of making a crop, and the | sney as thi the water supply at planters whose places have suffered | the post is now cut off until some’ other h destruction will have no Work to | means of obtaining it can be devised them until next season. I the | The Internaticndl Water Boundary time the unfortunates must not | Comimission will be called upon to in- wed to starve. It will take a | vestigate the question of the rightful mount of mon to tide them | poundary hetv n the two countri at gh t} next several months. that point. al stagnati —_— REL‘EF COMMITTEES h they cocked and aimed their Hu rifles at the prisoner and med a wor ¢ ARE WELL ORGANIZED | firing attitude. Simpkins was then told track and 1 the former reg- g | by Burch, the superintendent of the n 1 service on several of the affected o by Bunker Hill mine, that it was well ; . lines fore o eyt he Aratiais|wc Al EERON, ek /i ~The sit- | known that he (Simpkins) could iden- = 5 et St. Louis | Uation in the Br: is rapidly Sadaiaaeln The river is falling. There o is mfirmed rumor that five lives I diths ollon re lost {x)r-aw' Sartartia in F‘nr! Bend X This Sl The report sent out Wednes Andit o 3rook: Walter Coun ‘ Felipe, Austin WalleniCoun were lost ther now ap- 2 pears to be an error. Those who wi rom the | supposed to have been drowned pe: ! 1 are need | jn making their reappearance. are re dc ve all imittees are gan At BrooKshire mittee has opened a c s a half ration pe ve been taken so th now the relief com- nmissary and capita. us nals mong The the e used ¢ rving shall get these i > shipme 'i“ therefore the committee s reached Richmond | p1apter for all the tenants he had when 1d th f distribu- | 4he 50a came. needy D. §. Cagent, a prominent citizen of gun. A number Brookshire, has ordered a carload of rnment boats M\mlz the ws cotton seed which he proposes to give rescuing the gees and taking | ¢, who will plant and undertake to supplies to the mes, cultivate the crop. He says, moreover, | 1 by Governor | that crops of cotton, hum, Kaffir | ritable peopls | corn, June corn and potatoes can 1 tant parts of the coun- | raigsed now if the people had the se ndering financial aid to the flood l'n‘ 1'h~,\ have 'n"ltllh"; seed nor money, | s of the State. Frank Gould of | And he suggests that contributions of rk City wi e would enable them to live until the be- have | araw on him for $5000 andito apply the 1ing of next year, when they would : sum where it was most needed. Pr ble to draw supplies from the mer- he dent Richard McCurdy of the M nts from the prospective erops tual Life Insurance Company and Col- | The re rations enough at Brookshire lis P. Huntington of New York each | PORSISIOTIA W el or I Along the = SGi0e feaey H. P. Hollins & ( alone it is estimated more than 10,600 negroes have Jost everyvthing. The v drowned horses, mules and cat- omething enormous. N rk contributed $1000. A St The total | New Y Louis firm contributed $100. MINERS REPORTED TO | EarTle Bt e o hat (imewas_mun: | ANNUAL MEETING OF HAVE DIED OF SCURVY i’ et x\,»?’?fi:‘;‘x‘“ l'r’}:!-:‘l?iz\’(\‘vré:' VALLEY ROAD DIRECTORS ] In 1839 he moved to News Reaches Dawson That a Score | R 111, and jn 1847 to Mon- | E. P. Ripley to Succeed Claus Spreck- of Men Perished at Wind o w h‘,f" st puuine els as President Ten Days River. M me t iforr Hence. ing winte San expected in this vicinity some time e Hotel to-da L T0LD N A | AFFIDAVITS % | law to hold the crtizens in subjec- | 2 | for instance, makes affidavit that | ATLE TUYSE s cuncon -y me to Southern (¢ Manager W. G. f f oD 525 s retired life sin s been advised t 1 ) have arrive I ATS ag0 to-dfy Mr | that the annual meeting of the stockhold- bt ite rep ated their golden wedding | ers in the San Joaqui Raiiw that rom scu the shore, and they | will he held at San Francisco on July atav. b gt e Deel G | at which time E. P. Ripley will be ckr su 8 s. They had no 1y and their mine to. succeed ( Spr presic Tist I they . report tdoor life and are | of the new line. ‘Other changes in keeping the £ g ck king ahead to the | with the Santa Fe's absorption of the R ¥ N, Chicago f their diamond wedding an- [ Valley lines will then be made. s aahi J. A. Barr, the new third vice president of the San stem, whose ¢ |HAS NO COMB NATION New York was reporte | a stranger to Los Ange vwa! WITH GOVERNOR PINGREE | Mr. Barr is. however, known to locs I i road men by reputation. He will be in tried | p rge of the operating department of | nce of | Alger Denies a Story Concerning His | the system, which has never hefore hiad a cled to Candidacy for the | esident at its head '\ H "nt vice preside | hegan. | ol Benates | the Narin os! his back W YORK. July 7.-General Alger,| Western ar 1 o g | Secret of W who was at the Fifth | ne of the North Pacific \ emphatically denies mphatically. denl ugust on a tour ) re(!d(nl Illhlf‘\ of inspection when visits the Pacific Coast - ORDER IS RE-ESTABLISHED. MAN AND WIFE FOR SI;(TY FOUR YEARS| ¥ politi | terih 2 and Govarner Pingrs igan with reference to h the office of United S asked about the recent conferénce n himself and Governor Pingree counts of which were published recently al combination be- f Mich- | v for | When | be- DIEGO. iBnrcelcna Has Resumed Its Normal | | Aspect. | he said: - : 5 7. > AR fal Cable to The Call and the New Yo “I'here was jus! gh_truth in the re- i p ey AR i G ports of th alled conference between | - Mol o o bY James Gor- Governor Pingree and_myself to start a | = N July | BARCELON combination ex- | T—Order is com- ical story. it} - pol | | ts between Governor Pingree and my- | pletely re-est blished, tramways are run- m. 1 1 self. T was opposed to the election of ning, theaters are open and the city has present. thouglh fhere are two B e Govarmor and he nad T | Seauientryty mormal’ espect:s: Hribsel Ag»d couple Tiving in Tilinofs. | not agree upon some very important| wounded during the disturbances nul and Lucretia |'doing well. ’ Smith were | points. TORTURED BY NEGRO SOLDIERS An Innocent Miner Prodded With Bayonets in the Bull Pen. | Story of Indigmtles Heaped Upon Men Who Would Not Consent to Give False Testimony. ; Spectal Dln_p.;h_t; The Call. | As the irials proceed at Wal- lace of the men accused of com- plierty n the dynamiting of the | Bunker Hill and Sullvan mining | properties, more of the methads | employed under so-called martial | tion are revealsd. One miner, | © DO0HOV0S DIDELHOHVILICUO QR © GOV O O & VSRS LIOXXS0S Lk YSTERY FADES INTO O u OB cre L ePu Olu R u S e 3w Clm Ot G S HODIOI0INH TN A DOMESTIC SCANDAL @TIVITIL & UOLBDOVPOIVON O LS FOOOUONO STORDOTIVOL & ROV LOVS 00 Q Miss Florence Campbell’s Melodramatic Plot to Capture Rathom From HIS Wlfe. Divorce and Not Murder Was the Purpose of the Clumsy Scheme-—Renewed Rivalry for the Husband’s Smiles. COCOLS and received them. The letter was one which Miss Campbell d written to Mrs. Rathom and which was returned upopened. M Rathom had written upon the letter the name and address of Miss Campbell. The package was a »blong wicker basket of unusual make HE melodramic mystery in which , Scheib is more than ever convinced that | John R. Rathom and Miss Flor- |a dose of mustard is not a love talis- | ence M. Campbell figure as prin- | man even by pr Mr. Scheib is splut cipals has practically been solved. | tering in a sea of his own contradic- The ‘affair possesses no more in- | tions and Mr. and Mrs. Rathom are terest now than attaches to the dis- | debating the propriety of Kissing and mrecable recital of an illicit associa- | making up. As far as public interest tion between a man and a woman. The | concerned the last curtain has been | and filled with perhavs seventy-five case has developed simply into the ex- |Tung on a domestic drama that has | preserved cherries. The basket had pose of the woman's shame and the | €nough of seriousness in it to make it | been bought at one place and the cher- man’s dishonor, coupled with the | comic. ries at another and neither had been The life threads of Mr. Rathom and | purchased at a candy store. The most woman’s clumsy scheme to retain her | he was prodded w.th bayonets by negro soldiers to compel him to | bear false witness, and upon his | reiterated refusal was threatened | wth death. Freedom, i the | seur d’Alenes, seems to consist | . in the freedom of those i power | to do as they like, regardless of Miss Campbell crossed at Santa Cruz. | rigid inquiry Was failed-thus far to re- lover's affectior and fo him to acrifice his wife. The police have in- | Rathom is a newspaper man and at the | ve; 1 where the purchases were made. vestigated the matter thoroughly and |time of the meeting Miss Campbell was | Miss Campbell opened the ket and have found nothing to warrant even a | an ambitious novice in the field of | saw contents. There was neither sicion that an atte to commit | newspaper work. She sought encour- | address nor message in the basket, but sus murder was made. There is nothing to indicate that poi- | npt ated no curiosity in the mind of She saw the handwrit- and recognized it as agement and Rathom gave it. She | asked instruction and Rathom supplied s Campbell. ing on’the 1ed candy was sent through the |it- The association reached a climax cover mails nor is there a single fact to show | that appears to be not unusual. Mrs. that of Mrs. Rathom. The address was that either Miss Campbell or Mrs. Elsie | Rathom learned of the affair and tried | Written on an envelope w hich had been in a woman’'s way to win back her hus- | cut. It will be remembered that Mi Scheib was poisoned. That they were | Poned < | bana Campbell had several of these add the righis of others. ill there is Ho question, but that their | Pand. . Sk Htes g At | iliness wastheresult of theirown efforts | She went to Miss Campbell and | ed envelop Shiefdeciared dn ansver | there appears to-be ample proof. Thi | begged her to be decent. Miss Camp- | to an inquiry that she knew the persoa ALLACE, Idaho, July 7.—| Gl Samp e meo & e irs : : s had se e box. She said it w = ; . facts in the case indicate that the ab- | Pell pleaded that she had been deceived, | who hac ent th X. She said it was The methods employed by the | (B0 0 8 (888 (00 O € e e Scheib | claiming that Rathom had represented | a lady friend living in Oakland. When State authorities, aided DBy |, .} 014 with the purpose of assisting | Rimself to her as an unmarried man. | she said this she knew that the address the military, to obtain testi- | :\‘i;\_ lorence A Gampbellito socve | In this assertion Miss Campbell said|was in the handwriting of Mrs. mony against those accused | \© % what she knew to be untrue. She re- | Rathom, who did not live in Oakland. of participating in the riots of April 29 were br it to the attention of the court to-day in the trial of Paul Cor- coran. defense filed several affidavits in a motion for continuance, on | that the defendant The support the ground could | not have a fair and impartial trial at | this time because of the intimidation practiced by the military. authorities upon witnesses in his behalf. The affi- davit of a miner named Simpkins, re- cently released from the bull pen, was among those filed, which-set forth that affiant shortly 1fter his incaxceration | had been taken by tour negro soldiers to a remote corner of the pen and made to stand : gainst a fence facing the soldiers, who then prodded him sev- mes with their bayonets, after a monopoly of the volatile affections of Rath Miss Campbell was becoming vers Miss Campbell offered some of the cherries to Mrs. Scheib and to the voung dressmaker in the establishment. Somebody said that it was dangerous ceived many letters from Mrs. Rathom during the negotiations for the pur: chase of a husband. Several of these letters were sent by messenger and not Rathom | He | knew that weary of her. | | “hh((llt;;'dli):x x'\.flvr”;,‘;n‘::']‘\,li;',,h,',’:p:;;;f through the malls, a fact which is of | to eat candy so sent and particularly Bation ot Miss Camubell Rathom haq | ETeat significance in connection with | by an unknown person. Miss Camrbell | tried time and again to rid himself of sur_panur-nr events. Up to this time |laughed away a reference to the Botkin i istrese o had siven her mones | neither Rathom nor Miss Campbell had | case and ate a cherry, although she ¥ { met the Scheibs. | was absolutely sure that her own un- to leave the city and go to her home. e : : 5 Shat The newspaper man and his mistress | opened letter had just been returned by He had promised his wife i l Froge e Bl 09;;‘95 were living at 610 Ellis street for a |a woman who has every natural right \liés Campbell knew all of this an:i while and then m d. In December | to hate her and the box of cherries had Rt il . roy' they returned and again sougiit odg- | been addressed by the same woman tetermined to prevent, if poss he |, thed ki 3 Meerminnd (o uuvens, W pospin, They tound a new landlady in | and enemy. Miss Campbell appears to loss of her lover. 9 o S While the police have not established | ' "'1”"’? i\i”'(t Fa!.“?ks' h‘zi’h'H ‘é‘ = geheid the identity of the person who sent the | 12d lived at Turk and Hyde sireets. be an intrepid woman. Mrs. Scheib also ate some of the cher- renting three rooms from Mrs. Ella | ries and then Miss Campbell left the .-l-vH«'—X-—I-v'—-r—l geifeelelefefofefi-j-i~-@ | Parker. In December Mrs. Parker re- [ house. She went immediately to a X ceived a stroke of what she believed to | drugstore on the corner of Ellis and be good fortune. A very dear friend of | Larkin streets, and complained that hers, who has served with distinction | she had been poisened with arseniec. 0 4 - * . : : tify many of the rioters, and that if he did not tell all he knew regarding the occurrences of the 29th he would have to suffer the consequences. Simpkins says he expected to be shot, but refused to perjure himself, and maintained that he knew nothing of the riot or of those who participated in | unsuccessfully attempting in mony from him, to escort it. After this way to extort tes Burch ordered the soldiers back to his quarter: ys for the defendant also filed the affidavits of Willlam Mitchell and John Chidester, who stated that they met Paul Corcoran, the defendant. on the road near his home a short dis- tance from the town of Burke between the hours of 12 and 1 on the <day of riot, and that it would have been im- possible for him to have been at Ward- ner on that day. Chidester and Mitchell state that they were employed at the Standard mine on the day of the riot and shortly afterward were arrested by United Continued on Second Page. PRRBRIRI R IR EI) o 3 Forence (] S CHARACTERS AND IN- CIDENTS IN THE MYSTERY WHICH DEVELOPED INTO A DOMESTIC COM- EDY. | upon legislative committees of puhliui morals, had!been elected to the State | Senate. Mrs. Parker believed that an era of prosperity had da-vned and she | % MRS, ELSIE SchErm @bttt @ She described the drug as green and bitter. It happens to be neither, a fact which Miss - Campbell possibly forgot. Nothing more was heard of her until midnight. She bore her sufferings until then, when she sent for her paramour. When he arrived Miss Campbell was DN R RATASM oiee! | candy through the mails, they have a | mordl conviction that it was sent by Miss Campbell to herself and was not poisoned. There is everything to indi- | asked Mrs. Séheib to.oive up her rooms. B 3 . cate that the Scheibs were parties to | Whether or not Mrs. Parker was justi- ::L;:J\rh(::::pw?:u:.r‘ = S(\!nnh:nltflrna: the piot and were animated by a de- | fled in her Jopes by the realization is | 0 0o P R0 L .h:‘] ::a‘:k 1; lf:md o ¢l 3 o A 5 S Sig | X . s sire to clear the way for an unimpeded | another story, but perhaj s Senator Sig | (PUFf e W SHC - SEART polsoned Bettman can, tell. At all events, Mrs. Scheib movedl. She went to 610 Ellis street and | shortly after received Rathom and Miss Campbell as lodgers. play of Miss Campbell’s affections upon Rathom. The Rathom would fall into the net, by arsenic hidden in some cherries. She declared that Rathom's wife had ent the poison through the mails. The 1dy from Oakland had disappeared. schemers believed that accuse clumsy thoroughly the relationship existing be- tween Miss \Campbell and Rathom. The dressmaler knew that Rathom had deserted (his wife and that Miss Campbell wished to make the deser- tion permaneng. After leaving 610 Ellis street Miss Campbell called there pe- riodically for hjer mail. On Thursday afternoon a week ago directed, and was politely recommend- ed over the telephone to mind his own business. The next afternoon Mrs. Scheib re- ceived the attention of a physician, but was not ill enough to require a second visit. Rathom had the cherries ana- iyzed, and the chemist said that there was enough arsenic in each cherry to if Mrs. Rathom would leave the State and sign a document admitting that she had deserted her husband and was willing that he should accept the law’s redress in divorce. Meanwhile Mrs. Scheib and Miss Campbell were rapidly recovering from a dose of mustard, which is disagreeable but not danger- ous when taken internally. Rathom | his wife of attempted murder and sink [ Mrs. Scheihp and Miss Campbell be- jic campbell then had a vivifying | gratefully into the expectant arms of | came great {riends. They were Very ..., of recollection and told | Miss Campbell. When the melodrama | thick in thel company of each other o o that Mrs. Scheib had | was at its height the male Scheib, igno- | and N Cafnpbell assures the public | 1., partaken of the chersies 1t of the possibility of publi that Mrs. ScHeib is not only her friend | ;3 j¢ would be wise to warn her exposure, informed Rathom ths but her beneffactor. In April Rathom | i, take an antidote. The cherries had crime of poisoning the female Seheib|and Miss CAmpbell left the Scheib | p.) heen in process of digestion for and Miss Campbell would be condoned | household. he Scheibs understood : over five hours. Rathom did as he was | ! refused the bait and an unenviable no- | a package and)a letter for Miss Camp- | k1] a person in a very few hours. The | torfety followed for all concerned. | bell were deliviered by a postman. On e | Miss Campbell has lost her lover, Mrs. | Friday afternopn Miss Campbell ‘called Continued on Second Page. Y A P ~-