The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 16, 1899, Page 1

The Call XXVI-NO. 46 VOLUME LX SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JULY 16 1899 -THIRTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WAR CLOUDS GATHER OVER THE TRANSVAAL. +O--O¢d o+ e B CALIFORN 0TS Wil - SION ST i e R R e e e Y ) 3 Tall Bridge Across the Vaal River at Newcastle. b ¢ From a Sketch Made by J. Harrington.) e e A SXC - STRONG POSITION ° ON VAAL RIVER o> +> sted that the text startling telegram the impe the rnment might make in f peace. 1sal President Kruger to d here 7 served to jest is regarc ront, and onl Dr. ive ho has heretofore the e genius of the Transv and who continues to delude the Trar with the dange: Leyds, the Eu- Trans- ned, authorita- ¥ the hope was nd of the qu 1w foundation for t nd in the fact 7ednesda the whereby * * ¥ XK RN NN KO X K YO XK XXM XY NN Y XD MISS ANNIE E. WHEELER. A Member of the Red Cross Who Accompanies Her Father to Manila. * P T SRS R R R SR R e R R R Y Ok K ek ok ok ok ok ok sk ok ek ok ok ke ok ko ook ok okok | [T 2 et st sd s s s s asssssssssssssssssssd B alialaiafofialotaRilaiofollo Bl ol B BB R B B R 8 B B R B R R R ‘Are Going on Board Transports-at | Negros. ‘ ELAYED BT TYPROON . It Is Expected Now That{ They Will Get Away | Promptly. | R R e 2 e @ : GENERAL ALGER SNUBBED Miles in Charge, but Has Nothing to Do With Philippine | Campaign. [ P h to The Call. ALL HEADQUARTERS, WEL- | LINGTON HOTEL, WASH- iNGTON, July 15.—The War Depart ment has received the following | cable: | “MANILA, July 15.—Adjutant| General, Washington: Twenty inches | of rain fell in July, attended by | typhoons, and made the leaving of | the transports impossible. At Negros | it has been impossible to unload the | Sixth Infantry until the last day or two. The California regiment-is now loading. The Colorados leave to-| morrow on the Warren and the Ida- hos, North Dakotas and Wyomings t week, as soon as the transport P @ P8 0080050060600b 00 B t can be coaled. OTIS.” COMMISSION MADE General Miles, as Acting Secretary C of War, did not get opportunity to act OUT FOR MRS. HEARST T, ,.".ny very important papers. Se y Alger saw to that yeste Final Proceeding in Her Appointment | da re he left on his visit to Vice- as State University President Hobart. He left instruc- Regent. .| tions to have all mail requiring his ), July —_Governor | Signature held over until he returns on Monday In view of the Secrotary's well-kKhown antipathy to General Miles, it was rather embarrassing for subordinate officers to know what to do under the circumstances, but they soon learned that the President had no desire to re- voke Alger's orders, and at 3 o'clock this afternoon a small batch of pap were taken to the general for his s nature, Up to that time, although t Mexico’s Commissioner. knew he was legally in charge of the | ICO. July 15—The Gov- | War Department, nothing had occurred | appointed Engineer | to show whether he would have the op- ilif);r:mmfltf\n— ty of exercising that functio but he de- ssued a nmission to Hearst as regent of the | Mrs. Hearst was ap- | Governor Budd for nd Governor Gage ppointment from the together with others nted her for th A st Martin, term 1t withheld the commission. Hearst was absent from the ithdrew State Senat Subsequentl portu on Celis I Continued on Third Page. | @* B R e | city | confiscated. @0 Bem Desperate Criminals Removed 5L GO0 Doetoe B OGO HIGIBEDITHTNRINTNN G U DEDEN0S D0 ST LTINS D O HE0IG 0000 CITY PRISON INMATES e P e ke R a g R e TR e LR e ST e K L R 2w P w n L e SR e R e R w E m b a S P iR SR L R e R ] ] 'HATCH A BOLD e e e e e O = R =X XL Fa PLOT G000 | Vto the County Jail---Knives and Pistols Confiscated by the Police. +o-+o D am an TS B S S e D eI et e e B e e O R e ] e B B R B JRCE SRR = B S T R T = e—;«t+94—e~o—&0—@m Criminal Leaders in the Attempt to Liberate City Prison Inmates. HE local police authorities are deeply agitated over what they | was a deliberate and | believe well-planned attempt to re- Prison some of -the most desperate criminals who have been recently arrested and are now awalting trial for the offenses of which. they are accused. knives, which were smuggled into the Prison, have been discovered and conspirators lease frem the City One of the Kk rkkk kT T T i e W R R T 5T Ak ok ok ok ok B T kA Ak Ak Ak GENERALWHEELER ARRIVES @k kkkk kK kT I I R I kkkkkkkx@ /) ENERAL a hero of two W s and inction a cavalry leader of di j in twenty brilliant campaigns, arrived in San Francisco last night en route for act! duty at the | front in another campaign. He was ac- | companied in his journey ross the continent by his daughter, M E. Wheeler of the Red Cross £ his aid de camp, First Lieutenant Frank C. Boles, Sixth United States Infantry, and Samuel Garratt, secre- tary. General Wheeler is a wiry, active sol- dier of 62 years. He seems in fine condi- tion physically for another tour of act- ive work on the battle line. Mentally he is alert. In mind and body and soul | he is an American and a defefder of the | old flag. General Wheeler said good-by to President McKiniey last Monday. He left Washington at 3 o’clock p. m. the following day and came throuvh to California without stopping over on the journey. At many places along his | route of travel across the continent he received personal greetings and assur- of high esteem from his fellow ci Among the agreeable incidents of the | journey mothing was more delightful | than the greeting which he recefved at Sacramento from General G. B. Cosby. At West Point when General Wheeler was a cadet General Cosby was his in- | structor. Since the days at the Point| | each served in the “old army,” and when the civil war came both gained | renown in the Confederate army. They | exchanged many warm reminiscences of the old times on the run from Sacra- mento to San Francisco. On a Sout FA KK AR K KKK KA ok ok ek k T T T T e K T P 0 T T Kk k ok Ak Ak Aok kA ok | ern . Pacific schedule time i no ol ject, hence these old soldiers had lei; ure to recall the past and speculate as to the future. Stories "of Stonewall Jackson's piety and gallantry and traits | of Kindness which distinguished many of the great leaders of the Union and | Confederate armies were dwelt upon. | General Wheeler is not shy of news- | paper writers and artists, but he en- joins that the interviewer shall not quote him as saying what others In the party said, and expects that the | picture of another man shall not be | | produced to represent himself. Speak- | ing of his Congressional career General | Wheeler remarked: T have served ten terms in Congress. l There is not a Democrat in the House who was there when I first California members, * Senators Stan- ford and Hearst and Representatives entered | Morrow IN THIS CITY. | Bhkkhkkkk kI T I e TS T T ok ko ko B M N I T ok kkkkkk k@ JOSEPH WHEE- | @X XX Ak k kA Z B 72 M M ks EETE T Ahkhkkkhkk*@ * BRIGADIER GENERAL “JOE” WHEELER. Who Arrived In San Francisco Last ‘Night-on the Way to the Philip- pines. ©% ¥ XX ¥ XX ¥ .50 GG 50 GC ai N T N W G0 G 0G0 A0 XX XK AXNNNE and McKenna and English. Congress, and there are only three or | No, I was never before in California. four Republicans. I knew well your | In 1860, as an officer in the Third Pistols and | has been induced to expcse the plot of his criminal associates and to confess the part he played in the scheme. | He declares that several of the trus- ties, who are serving terms of compara- tive comfort in the City~Prison through the influence of political friends, smusg- gled knives and pistols into the prison, made duplicate keys of the important cells and the prison door and prepared to liberate several of their desperate friends at the expense even of murder- ing the turnkey. The plot was exposed by one of the trusties who was not consulted in the scheme. He learned of the desperate plans of his associates and informed | Captain Seymour. An investigation | was immediately made. The arms were found, two prisoners were transferred to the County Jail and a third was placed in the “tanks” to be questioned. | This third prisoner has confessed his knowledge of the plot and has admit- ted his participation in the desperate scheme. It is upon his admissions that the authe s base their belief of the plot to accomplish a delivery and lib- eration of prisoners, even at the cost | of death. The police authorities began their in- | vestigations with well founded misgiv- | ings that the story that the City Prison | delivery might have been the dream of | an opium smoker, and the police were recital. When they investigated, how- ever, they revealed a startling condi- | tion of affairs. They were told to | amine the “bunk room” in the City Prison. They did so and found two pis- | tols and several kniv formed that a robbery | mitted in the very pr | investigation demonstrated that the in- | formation was correct. | The authorities are not eager to ad- | mit what they discovered, but the fact | remains that a robbery was committed | in the City Prison by some incarcerated public offender. H,‘:l()l machines, which were seized by | the police some days ago, have been H | btoken into and their contents stolen. B The room in which these machines were stored was locked. The key was | placed where only the desk sergeant of | the City Prison and the property clerk k| | of the Police Department could find it. §<The room is near the desk sergeant's | desk and apparently is within the | range of his vision. But it has been fli robbed and nobody seems to had P B G GC C B ¥ XXX XXX XN KRN know | lock of the door has neither been forced s | nor broken. The door was still locked s | when the authorities made their inves- * | tigation. But the nickel-in-the-slot | machines had been rifled and their con- tents stolen. Armed with this corroboration of the informer’s confession, the authorities took immediate action. On Friday morning they examined the “bunk room” of the prison.. The “bunk room” is reserved for the accommodation of | trusties, the favored petty criminals | who escape imprisonment in the Coun- litical pull.” The pistols and knives were found, but no trace of the dupli- cate keys was discovered. The police claim, therefore, that no such keys : were made. The authorities belie their own de- nial, however, by their actions. They accepted the theory of their informer and made a raid upon the prison over P e Continued on Third Page. which they have control. They have | removed from their quarters three of | notinclined to give muchattention tothe | They were in- | been com- | n itself and the | Several nickel-in-the- | | how the theft was accomplished. The | | ty Jail through the influence of a “po- |. | the most desperate criminals that were | inmates of the City Prison. Two of | these - men were sent to the County | Jafl. ‘They are George Graham, a | scoundrel satile in many fields of | evildoing, and George Abernethy, an accomplished burgiar. The third of- fender, who is given by his associates the evil credit of an informer, was | locked up in the tanks. He is known as “Bill” Curley. although he has half | a dozen ot a | He was closely questioned last night and declared that Graham. Abernethy | and himself planned to liberate several | of the men who are detained in the City Prison awaiting trial for serious of- | fenses. Curley said that a trusty, who was recently discharged, smuggled the pistols and knives into the City Prison | and secured impressions of the main door key and also of the keys of im- portant cells from which to make dupli- cates. These duplicate keys were made, but the authorities have not been able to discover thy At a given signal, Curley confesses, one of the trusties was to open the cell doors and another was to look after the turnkey, even if it were necessary | to kill him. This scheme, it was ar- gued, would have been feasible at a moment when a trusty would take a | newly arrested prisoner to the cell as- | signed to him. The betrayal of the plot by another trusty ended the whole affair. Aber- | nethy and Graham were sent to the | County Jail and Curley is in the tanks. Captain Seymour and Sergeant Wolf closely questioned Curley last night, but were unable to learn from him any further details of the plot. The rifling of the nickel-in-the-slot machines will probably remain a mys- te! The fact that the machines were stolen cannot be denied, but for ob- vious reasons the police authorities will not admit that any well-defined plot was hatched to make a general exodus from the jail. In conjunction with this | denial the police have found it extreme- | 1y difficult to explain the discovery of | the pistols and the knives |CHARRED BODIES FRO i THE BURNING PIT | Details of the Terrible Disaster at the Toyokuni Coal Mine | Last Month. | VICTORIA. B. C., July 15.—Particulars of the catastrophe at the Tovokuni coal | mine, Kyiushu, on the morning of ths | 15th ult.. have been received. A tremen- | dous scund, accompanied by violent quak- ing of the earth. was experienced by peo- ple living adjacent to the mine. Instantly they rushed out of doors and saw a col- umn of dense black smoke issuing from throwing pieces of wood and ticles high up into the air. | A party of rescuers—for there had been some 200 men and women working in the mine when the disaster occurred—essayed to go into the pit from a side entrance, but were driven back by the suffocating gas that filled the pit. Steps were at once taken to ventilate the gas-laden pit. It was, however, some time before the peo- | ple could go into the shait. Up to the night of the 16th only five bodies had been recovered, charred and with terribly in- jured limbs. The work of recovering corpses was still going on when the steamer Olympia ailed. Miners’ sheds have been changed into big charnel houses, where the ghast- Iy operations of washing blackened bod- fes. coffining and cataloguing them are taking place by a large number of min- ers who have come from other mines. In Some cases whole families have been an- nihilated, excepting the infants and aged people.