The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 17, 1899, Page 1

R | NO. 47. PRICE FKFIVE CENTS. REFUSES TO ARBITRATE THE GREAT STRIKE President ;Rossitfer Defiant. Brooklyn Trolley Cars May Be All Tied Up. gOO [ 1] - 9000009 : NEW YORK, July 16.—President to-night that the ® ® Br 'm:\' Rar officials w e the st difficulty 4 ® nothing to arbitrate ssiter. “The men wha @ b ut came to X ar I showed them that ¥ v had subs v and wou raighten ghting mood and were not disposed E on s is morning?” 1000 at the run ed with uccess every nost unparalleled 1 Gates, Halsey clock to-night inued running Rossiter said le that of to hours, >per for many the result » greater part of the day was in con Boar were n and children d leg y Wickes was one of the t to run te the man's asststance and h was fi rescued from the mob. T ANDREWS ~ RESCUED IN | PASSENGERS - MIDOCEAN OF A STAGE Lone Navigator Fails to Runaway Causes the Wreck- Cross the Atlantic in | ing of a Coach Near His Cockleshell. ‘ Lake Tahoe. PICKED U@HAUSTED DRIVERFATALLY HURT St INJURIES T0 The Little Doris Is Turned Adrift | Four-Horse Team Becomes Unman- and the Daring Voyager Car- | ageable While Descending ried to Liverpool. | : a Hill ; Special D! Mflf.fh:'rhc Call. A and Spectal Dispatch to The Cafl. - TRUCKEE, July 16. age was tipped over July 16.—The British | Captain 5 LIVERPOOL, 1 Sherlick, steamer F wrecked from New York July 1 for Manchester, evening by a runaway which arrived here to-day, picked gp big hill five miles this side of Captain William A. Andrews, known Tanoc. Twelve persons were on the s the “lone navigator,” whe left At- | stage. Driver Sam York is probably lantic City on June 18 in a little craft fatally injured; Anton Hentzleman of | named The Doris, barely twelve feet In | the Cleveland Faucet Company. of Sa length, to attempt to cross the At-| Francisco is badly bruised about the lantic. Captain Andrews was found legs, but no bon are broken; Fergus exhausted on July 12, about 700 miles | Burns of the Western Hotel at Sacra- from the Irish coast. His boat was| mento and his wife and boy were left adrift. badly shaken up, and Mrs. Burns has a : g = sprained arm.. One man had a small Captain Andrews when he left At- | ot 0% (00 o b cn Phue declines to | fc City took an easterly course and Three ladies have his name published. headed direct for the Azores Islands,|,re glightly bruised and scratchcd, but where he expected to stay for a few | gpe mot serfously injured.. York was | gays to reprovision his larder. He | coneidered ono of the safest drivers in hoped to make the voyage to England | iy, mountains, .but h# team became sixty days. The British steamer unmanag: able WOULD HAVE KILLED Camperdown spoke him on Ju Captain Andrews at that time was WILL SEARCH FOR A ‘James B. Crosby, a Wealthy Manu- NORTHERN CHANNEL |**“facturer, Uses a Revolver in G His Home. Dr. Stein to Sail With a Party of ma e ssis MARIOX Geographers and Naturalists by, a wealtt anufactur ion Next Week. tempted to his wife and family HALIFAX, N. §., July 16—Dr. Robert, to-day. 3 4 ; United States Geodetic Sur-| Mr. and Mrs Crosby separated last Ja C. B., arranging to sail | UaTy. Previous to the separation ( rosby nd in company | had transferred tc ste o taxi. | Crosby Paper Mi an jn | Strawboard Mills, which are both owned lc obser. | Py him, that he might better fight the expects to land at | American strawboard tfust. Auter de- : fea the trust b manded imp where ¢ turn of his S to surrender visited his wife’s home to-day she and her six children were eating df nnel leading to the sea | & chair and the father attempted to shoot the west of Ellesmere- | Next spring they propose to con- off. pursued his father down the street, but he steamer THE hope to be picked up there by next summer fail SAYS GOLD IS If for any reason they S0t conrieat with Dr. &tein pro o GREAT AMERICAN IDOL the jireeniand coast | Havana Newspaper Say: That Cul- st exploration ture Is Entirely Lacking in This s ven “1': Coumry. by HAVANA, July 16.—El Didrio de 1a Ma rine sa if the human ideal is material CALIF PIONEER DIES IN NEW JERSEY four-horse descending n | | - | th and again demanded the stock refus d he pointed a revolver at her <t and pulied -the trigger. The cartridge ] failed 1o explode and he tried the second lasts they will ex- | Mrs. Crosby ran from the house. Her ore by boat In search | son attempted to strike his father with him, but -the revoiver amuin fédled to go The son segured two revolvers and the exploration of the northern and | was caught and held b neighbor. rn on the ice trace the Crosby was arrested pre- | ) Cape axtreme | liminary hearing and ra porti heavy peace bond. A board to examine yileHEr atiine nto his sz will be appointed to-mor- y will ther irn to Cag row et LOSE LIFE [N A QUEST FOR WEALTH ; Eleven Prospectors Drowned | in the Waters of the Yukon. SCOW HITS A ROCK. Not One of the Party Aboard Sue- ceeds in Reaching the Rock- bound Shore.- i Special Dispatch to The Call. D VICTORIA, B. C., July 16.— steamer Roanoke of the Alaska Trading and Transportation Compa passed Carmanah Point at 7:30 o'clock this even- ing, bound for Seattle. She re- ported that there was over three millions in gold from Dawson on board. - 4 + ¥ + + + + + + + + + S - + + - - + 3 + s o + - R R R S S SR S R T VICTORIA, B. >., July 16.—The steamer Tees, which reached here early this morning with sixty-one miners | from Dawson and $150,000 in gold, | brought news of another tragedy on the | treacherous waters of the Yukon about J(“” weeks ago. Through the wrecking | Monday. of a scow on which they were journey- ing to Dawson eleven prospeetors found a grave in the waters of the northern | river. i The story of the casualty was told by | arrivals from Atlin. They say that on or about July 8, a party of eleven, after | a short stay in the almost barren gold fields of the Atlin District of British Columbia, left for Dawson on a hastil | thrown together scow. All went well | until Taku Arm was reached. and here strong winds which csntinually p across the waters, drove the scow on a rock. It broke up in an incredibly short time, and the eleven men were thrown into the water. Their struggles to reach the shore | futile, for the fast running cur- ept them from the rocks. None | reached the land, the whole party find- | ing death. Of the dead gold seekers the names of but,five could be learned. The | r were unknown. Those arrivals by the Tees sW were nainder known to the were: MR. AND MRS. MILLS of Van-| AT EC . CLUNIE AND DAUGHTER. | who recently kept the Cripple Creek | Restaurant at Skaguay. | HARRY HOWARI known. RETURN WITH GOLD FROM THE KLONDIKE | residence un- Twenty Dawsonites Reach Vancouver | Aboard the Steamer Cutch VANCOUVER, B C., July 16.—The | in a defiant and thr: | met in Tront of the store by an excit CLAMOR FOR THE LI FE OF AN ASSASSIN Residents of Birds Landing Threaten to Avenge a Shooting. UISUN, July 16.—Peter Olsen, pro- | prietor of the Union Hotel at Birds Landing, was shot and per- | haps mortally wounded at 9/ o’clock this morning. His assail- ant was Harry H. Burtt, a recent ar- rival from Rio Vista, who leased the hotel part of the business from Olsen. The shooting took place in the street near the store of Bird Dinkelspiel, and witnessed b n or eight persons. Olsen received four wounds. one through the body below the stom- ach, two flesh wounds on the hip and a bullet in the knee. The weapon used was a cheap self-acting revolver that carries a 38-caliber cartridge. There was some misunderstanding between Olsen and Burtt and the concluded to terminate his lea A dispute arose over the d position of two sacks of coal and Olsen took offense at the remark made by Burtt that there was ‘nothing but thieves in Birds Landing.” He shook his fist in Burtt’s face, and, according to the version of an eyewitne: “‘was shot down like a dog.” Immediately after the shooting and while his victim lay ble and groaning on the ground, Burtt walked coolly across the street to the hotel. porch, drew a new supply of cartridge: from his pocket and reloaded his smc ing weapon. During the few minutes that intervened Henry Bird rushed into the store and called the operator at Col- linsville by telephone, telling him to send Deputy Sheriff W. C. Jones there at once. Hardly had Mr. Bird concluded message when Burtt, with pistol hand, rushed through the small crowd on the street into the store and took possession of the premises. He stood atening manner, warning those outside not to step in- side the door. He then walked to the rear of the building, took down the telephone and called up the She ffi's of- fice at Fairfield, telling the officer that he would surrender to nobody but the Sheriff. While he W calling first on office, then another on the line. Officer was his in | Jones was speeding en.his.way to the scene of the tragedy and just four- teen minutes after leaving Collinsville he arrived on the ground, having run his horse the entire distance. He was i had incre crowd which by this time ed to about twenty-five. | Lynching was freely talked of, but Mr. Jones, who is known throughout succeed- a fearless office the State | ed in quieting the villagers temporarily. Despite the protests of those without. he walked into the store without even displaying his own revolver and took the desperado into custody. He placed handcuffs on Burt wrists and at the on all sides and when the priso led out to the bu Burtt g coolest man in the crowd. Jones lost vas no time in getting his prisoner away from the excited residents w the attention of most < the crowd was attracted toward the assail- ant, Olsen was not neglected. Imme- diately after the shooting he was car- ried to his home, about forty yards down the street, and as soon as the telephone could be reached Dr. W. Makemson of Rio Vista was summo: ed He ived sho after noon. Everything possible to relieve the unfortunate man ration the ailed to locate in his body. Dr. Makemson ch Mr, principal danger T oning will r It from the y wound. Peter Olsen has ident of Birds Landing and vicinity for the past bullet ing that boc re pois- been a fifteen years and stands well in the community. He has a wife and two children, a girl eight years of age and a hoy of four. Shortl- after being placed in the County Jail, Burtt was se by The He refused to make regard to the shoot- Call e any statement in ing, his only reference to it being that it was done in self-defense. He said his full name was Harry H. Burtt, that he was a native of Anderson, Shasta County, where his parents resided, and that he was thirty-one years of age. Burtt is a married man. He refused to . his photograph taken, saying he did not wish to have any additional notoriety. He is a person of slight build, blonde hair and mustache, is five in height and weighs 135 pounds. His complexion is very sal- low and he has the appearance of be- ing addicted to the use of opium After his arrival in Suisun Officer Jones gave additional facts in regard to the man. He said that during the two hours' ride together Burtt had little to say about the shooting or the causes that led up to it. In regard to his past he seemed somewhat communi- cative, and told of having been arrested in -Stockton on. a charge of forgery cotnmitted in Woodland. -He also spoke of having had some trouble in Sonora while conducting a saldon in that town, but would not give any details. He re- marked to the officer while on the way t six inches histo: to the jail: “You acted very funny, Jones, to come into the store without.a pistol in your hand.” hes answered ol to tak little ereupon Burtt remarked am a dead shot and can a man’'s eye at twenty Burtt is a spis “I did not need a ow like you,"” hit the vards.” pers ved a ¢ s says ths ble ner Ve