The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 18, 1899, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1899, RAILWAY TOBLAME FOR THE EWMAN WRECK THUS DECLARES A CORONER’S JURY EWMAN, July 17.—The Coroner | of Stanislaus County to-day con- | [ B e e e R e e e e ] ] cluded the inquiry relating to the | THE VERDICT. B Newman disaster. The d)n\'«:;u-!i ? B =3 S nstrate a gation clearly paas s D e - ped the Southern Pac vateln of 1“5'* ¢ NEWMAN, July 17— ¢ naling by semaph and Faniste |y SiEd e ted should be instantly revised. To oneen-| & The jury A b 8 o'cl e -8 gineer a white light, changed from red | brought in its verdict. £ to white, means a clear trac k, and to o . e 3 % 4 another it means something else. It is After reciting in tvh.e usual % a source ition that the !U'”!" form the age, nativity and 2 : persons connected s 2 2 Lo % e Pacific responsible x.esulenu of the t\\.n vic 3 for the train dispatcher | tims and the cause of death g s V. E = A I P whose orders were vague and an en in the collision between 3 gineer whose experience was limited ; are held accountable for the crash. trains 245 and 1721 of the & District Attorney of g SHECISTE e i 5 e o Southern Pacific Railroad, ¢ morning, accompanied the findings conclude: 3 Dennett Deputy Coro- Leek, official v. The the Hall grap impaneled mediately er was convened at clock. The District witnesses, except be excluded from joined to give testi nen were Informed ti nd privilege . L ¥, princip; who had ch was t the ¢ ool, rsion party, He ribed how the car w fron wrapped arc designated th thelr Southern Pacific ed to having an autopsy killed. Mrs. Thomas’ s Harris was killed by con- ht watchman and de) doubled mas’ wa rble washstand. Miss Harris timbers and clothing. The positively that e of the special ng and the \Swer to r- argeon, no caboose ere were no w st anc sver the Train e e t got orders west of know the time that th here. 1 could only time that it left Tracy. . being a regular train, had main track, and the e ached slowly. sted the District At- jury rule 80, which | ins to slowly ap- coaling stations. ed. The wit- phatically it low down. xtra b appri I the 1 showed white s a train at the gnal was showing the extra was heard. disk for an instant, white. | ere the conductor train? | was entering register. 1 do - 1 heard the entering m d the stopped and | Tt ply told the extra that th W | safery {ing ¥ | must ha “And further find that caused by the indefinite orders issued by the train dispatcher and by the further fact that the en- gineer in charge of train 1721 was inexperienced and incompetent for that reason.” A. M. WILLIAMS, Foreman. C. IRBETS. INIS STURGEON. JACOB BLUM. J: NOCSTUHR: GEO. H. CROW. S D ODD: P CRANE. C. L. LONGMIRE. BEN-LEVY. G. SCHORRICK. we collision was said vague and S OGP OID I & O D 5 2 s o 5 5 5 5 QTOTRLOVITS DO GOVSLOTIVI0OQ GADOBHIGIN 05 FIGOOINI0 100 GHIVL I DDIT S D S DOL ST IDITILD o e DD signals specified that fact. My correct. The regular train had th main track. The services of this alled Into requisition except tc nals, which were ¢ ctly displayed. stions by Jurors C: the witness nds we The eply to qui fams and 8 '\Y‘»lhrv als. four 11 upon the operator to bia. . Poland, tr: pier, was 11 had been in the service of t P. eighteen years and h T at Oakland pier fc He goes on duty at 11:3) p. m. at_the post until § a. m. The wit- produced a memorandum as follows of orders given to four trains, which or- d were repeated from Tracy to the MONDAY, July 10, '8 ow, Ac 1721, m 1 will run extra Tracy 1 Eng. 1717 and neer as a re- ceipt of order. Resuming his testimony, the train dis- patcher sald: The conductor of the extra withi ing Newma Hartwell an to Volta to pass should ha: white signal stmpl cated that he could g train had gone on. might be construed red while there is a t conductor of the ape t in_under full c to. signals. The conduc the freight, should have had a h a hand signal, There is no Iine. There is no fixed 1 the signal is red. Tt as in this case, should h: neer. He should have approaching dangerous grou me over the wire that 245 w before the fore. I told him to hur ¢ that 245 could get Then Hartwell said: ‘‘They have 3 Hartwell was not able to see the conductor of the frelght to hurry him | Responding to general questions by the | attorney as to the umber of hours that the trainmen had been on duty the wit- ness id that no man was ever sent out who said he needed rest. Train Dispatch- er Poland said there was no rule requi ing a baggage car to be placed between the engine and the first passenger coach. It was customary to so make up trains, but it was not a regulation. J. D. Moflitt, conductor of freight 245, was the next witness. He has been work- for the Southern Pacific fourteen vears. He arrived here time—; a. m.. July 10. He tes I had no orders to remain here. A white sig- on | nal was given to me when I came In. I stopped |to take water. I knew there was a special following. When I stopped I sent my rear | brakeman back with a red light to flag the | extra. I judge the specal was running at a gh rate of speed. I had the tail lights out the rear of the train. 1 heard first the whistle; thén I heard one long histle, and then I heard two short whistles, which I supposed was an answer to my flag. In reply to District Attorney Walthall, the witness could not tell from his or- ders when special would overtake him. He expected the special to stop and | take the sidetrack at Newman. Question—Whose duty is it to open the | switeh? Answer—It is not anybody's duty. It may fall on esther train. 1 told my brakeman be- fore we got here to permit the extra to pass | on the sidetrack. It was unsafe to throw the | switch for & train coming at the speed the | spectal was moving. It was running faster than irty miles an hour. The flagman got back as as he could—I think about as far as the The signal lights should have been far switch. seen a mile G. Swart, a brakeman on the freight train, was called. He said: 1 started right back to flag the special as soon as I got in. I signaled right across the and kept going toward it and swinging light. They answered with two blasts of whistle. They were going thirty-five miles hour when the engine passed me. The tch was about 400 feet from the rear of my | train. I hopped off the track just at the switch | end the special went by. I had no time to throw the switch. | A. P. Allen, engineer of the special, tes- tified that he had been working for the Southern Pacific since 1885~ Said he: | working in the shops and run- | We left Sacramento at 11:07 p. m. i | d here at 2:38 a. m. 1 had orders to had no orders to pass tand that the freight 5 when oyertak int. 1 ung here or g0 on. At the whistling post | mile out I saw the first signal, I was | | ng thirty-five miles an hour. I saw the | e. I expected it red, as I| »uld be orders. 1 whistled and e me red and changed to whi After | he board white I did not expect to stop. e or allows me to close up within thi ten minu or 1 never could pass them. After 1 got the semaphore white I started to 80 | through hen I got a violent signal to stop—a lantern the track. I was then only eight 1 from the fretght. I applied the . opened the sandbox and started to reverse ne. The semaphore light I saw d but the lights on the rear of the freight m that I could not see them. The nore indicated to me that there was no on the K ht was clear. After getting signals that there were no or- ders 1 aid not expect to stop. If I had not re- | ived the clear board I would have kept slow- down. roner—To the best of my knowledge, 1 twenty miles an hour when I met I was awake to the fact that vas four minutes ahead of me. When a red light on the semaphore 1 was ut to st Then the white was shown, | ich told me that the track was clear. o Juror Crow—I would have stopped if the red signal had been shown. The signals de- ived me. The change from red to white a clear board. t, conductor of the special, hiad been in the Southern Pacific service since 185. He was on the | train when the collision occurred. He | said: The orders to pass a train give me a right to | n ahead. It is u o point than a station. The ame orders that 1 had. We ¢ the freight at Newman, [ held. The semaphore tion signal. It is to keep apart. 1 intendeg to stop lers rt was called and testi- | that he swung a red lantern to warn | cial. The freight, when it came | pped at the water tank and did not 1til struck by the special. A bag- mo gage car instead of a caboose was at the r of the freight. Just as the freight stopped he got off and ran back as far as | he could. Four minutes after the freight arrived the special struck. The District Attorney questfoned ‘the | witness as to what he was doing during | re | the four minutes, as it took only two minutes to run back. S. W. Creigh, fireman of the special, | testified that he was on the engine when | the_collision occurred. | "“We slowed down considerably coming nto vman,” said_he. “The engineer 1id nothing to me. I did not attempt to off. We were going fifteen or twenty an hour. 1 was not hurt.” Responding to pointed questions by the District Attorney, the fireman admitted | that he had been interviewed by Superin- | tendent Agler and Assistant Superintend- ent Thompson since the disaster. He was still in the service of the company and nothing was said by them regarding his no knowledge that the company the blame on any one,” he de- s disclosed in the preceding testi- at Engineer Allen jumped before . engineer of the freight, testified: We looked back and saw the special coming. We were taking water. I had a heavy train of thirty cars and could not get out of the way. Conductor Moffitt of the freight train | was recalled and testifled that he walked at a fair gait from his train to the tele- | graph office ¥. J. Cavanaugh, brakeman on the freight, was on the tank taking water. | saw the semaphore at red and saw it | | changed to white, . B. Nash, brakeman on the rear end of | the special, ‘testified that he heard two | whistles in answer to a signal. M. B. Mangon, brakeman on the special, | testified that he saw a brakeman with a | white light near the wreck. Deputy Coroner Bowker advised the jurors to consider all the facts, and if they found that the disaster was due to negligence or carelessness upon the part | of the Southern Pacific or its employes It | was their duty to So report in the ver- | dict. The room was then cleared and the | Jury began its deliberations. | BY TWO MASKED ESPERADOES - et Bloody Hold-Up on San Bruno Road. SRR JAMES RAVINO THE VICTIM o S TRIED TO REPEL THE ATTACK OF THE ROBBERS. oy The Brave Man Wounded in the Arm, Thigh and Chest While At- tempting to Disarm the Pair. g Wearing long linen dusters and white masks which covered their faces two des- perate robbers shortly before midnight last night entered a grocery store kept Ly David Lavari on San Bruno road, near Fifteenth avenue. They were armed with revolvers, and as they entered they fired several shots in the cefling, presumably to intimidate the proprietor, who was standing behind the counter. There were alsq present Lavarl's wife, thelr six-year- old girl, James Ravino and two other men. After firing the shots, ane of the men, pointing his revolver at Lavari, ordered him to give up his money. Ravino quick- ly grabbed the man and attempted to dis- arm him. The companion| of the robber then turned his revolver om Ravino, shooting him in the chest, srm and thigh. As ho stagggred pack, mortally, wounded, the murderous robber struck head with the butt end of his revolver, infiicting an ugly scalp wound. Without walting to empty the till or to secure whatever valuables were in the store, the desperate pair, after firing sev- ‘more shots over the heads of the stricken victims, dashed from the nd ran down the road. ri lost no time in_ tele the Seventeenth-street police station and informing Captain Gillin of the bloody | hold-up. ~Gillin, accompanied by D tives Fitzgerald and Graham, immed repaired to the scene and proceeded make an investigation. Shortly after they had left the statio: the propfietor of the store telephoned tha n t the robbers had boarded an electric car bound for this ci The sergeant at the Seventeenth-str station immediatel dispatched two officers to watch the in- coming cars. Jus they reached® Twen- ty-sixth street th aw a man seated on the dummy of s with his clothes covered specting he was one of the robbers, the police- hailed th and. drawing their re ed the suspect,to surrender. e feebly replied that he was shot and was on _his way to seek medical assist- ance. The man was Ravino. He was bleeding profusely from the wounds in- flicted by the robbers and begged the officers to assist him to the City and County Hos He was taken to the Seventeenth 1, where he was placed in the patrol wagon and rapldly driven to the hospital. The doctors found that the wound in his chest {8 extremely dangerous. They think that the bullet ranged upward and lodged in a vital part. The wounded man, in giving his versi of the hold-up, said that he 5‘35 conve ing with Lavari and his wife when the masked robbers entered the etore. y immediately started to shoot,” he said, “and thinking that they intended to kill us I seized the nearest desperado : attempted to take his revolver from him. He shouted to his.companion to help him, and as I had him up against the wall hi$ accomplice fired three shots at me. The third bullet struck me in the chest, and as 1 was about to fall to the floor ha struck me over the head with his pistol, rendering me unconsclous. When I re- gained my senses a short time afterward they had disappeared, and I conctuded to seek medical attention. My clothes were covered with dust, and I presume that ‘he wvigilant policemen, thinking I was ona of the robbers, started to arrest me. After T explained to them that I was mortally wounded by resisting the attack of th desperate men they had me conveyed to ,,Egvf;omn for. L(verpo:ll.' e P“,m'" the City and County Hospital UEENSTOWN—Arrived July 17—§tmr Pa- Ravido says ihet the e, - s, from Boaton for,dversooly Bays ihat m over the | masks, which completely covered their | honing to | ely | to | features. | this morning Captain Gillin had | an available men searching in the | | vicinity of the hold-up for a trace of the | robbers. It is believed, however, that im- | mediately after the shooting they boarded | a car and came to this city. The ser-| vices of several detectives at the Central | Station were also enlisted, with instruc- | | tions to do all in their power to appre- | hend the murderous pair. F Lavari describes the man who shot Ra- vino as being about 5 feet 10 inches in | height and welghing about 1% pounds. His companion was a trifle shorter and | did not appear to be quite as heavy. In| | case they are arrested he says he will not | | be_able to identify them. | There is a suspicion among the police | that the men had carefully planned the | | hold-up and expected to make a big haul. | Their object in firing into the cefling when | they entered was to intimidate the pro- | prietor, they think, into givng up his | money and valuablés without any resist- | | ance. .. TROOPS FOR MANILA. Two Battalions _l;;ve Camp Meade | for San Francisco. *‘ | NEW YORK, July spectal from Washineton says: The War De- | partment to-day approved the proposition of General buafter to send only a part of the Nineteenth Infantry on the new trans- | port Tartat to Manila. The Tartar wiil | carry two battalions of the ivineteenth, | and the Ohlo and Newport wili each carry | two companies, together with a large B | number of recruits. Two battalions to sail from San Francisco in the Tartar left Camp Meade to-day for San Francisco. Thé third battalion will get away from | Camp Meade on Wednesday or Thursday. e L PR e LATE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVED. Monday, Juiy 11. Stmr Arcata, Reed, 4§ hours from Coos Hay. Stmr Alice Blanchard, Hall, 51 hours from Coos Bay. DOMESTIC PORTS. SEATTLE—Arrived July 17—Stmr Roanoke, from St. Michael. Sailed July 17—Stmr Pro greso, for 'San Francisco; stmr Gedney, for —. TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS, PHILADELPHIA—Arrived July 17—Stmr Bel- genland, from Liverpool via Queenstown. NEW YORK—Arrived July 17—Stmr Amster- dam, from Rotterdam and Boulogne. HEAD—Passed J | trouble nor give | to have killed three or four men. FIVE MEY KILLED IN 0T BATTLE Deadly Outbreak of a Bitter Feud in Clay County, Kentucky. BREWING TWO YEARS Trouble Between the Philpots and | Griffins Leads Up to a Fierce | Encounter. e Spectal Dispatch to The Call. LOUISVILLE, K July 17.—A special to the Courier-Journal from London, Ky., tells of a report reaching there of the outbreak of another feud in Clay County, by which five men lost | their lives to-day. The dead are said | to be :o»¢¢¢¢¢++¢¢¢+o¢+t‘ ROBERT PHILPOT. ED FISHER. AARON MORRIS. JIM GRIFFIN. HUGH GRIFFIN. P D o o e e e R These fatalities resuited from a pitched battle fought near Little Goose Creek, three miles from Manchester. The feud dates back nearly two| years. On Christmas, 1897, James H. Philpot was killed by Aaron Morris, | but before he died he shot and killed William Bundy, a friend of Morris. The Morrises and Griffins are closely affiliated. Since then the two factions have been very bitter, and the enmity has been aroused recently by the ‘White-Baker hostilities, The Philpots, | who are the strongest faction in the | mountains and number about 750 voters, openly espoused the cause of | the Bakers, while the Griffins took | sides with the Whites. The ory that reaches here !rom‘ Manchester is that Bob Philpot was ar- | rested this morning by Deputy Sheriff | Wash Thacker. While very circum- | stantial in other respects the report does not show clearly the origin of the the reason for Phil- pot’s arrest. It is said that while Thacker was taking Philpot’s bond the latter was shot from behind by a mem- ber of a crowd that had gathered. This ipitated a general fight with Win- and revolvers, which was participated in by George Gran- ville, Robert and Peter Philpot and Ed Fisher on one side and Aaron Morris and Hugh, Jim and Green | Griffin on the other. The battle began | at about 9 o’clock and raged fiercely for ten or fifteen minutes. When It was | over it was found that the five men- | tioned had been killed outright. Three of the belligerents were seriously | wounded, while Pete Philpot was the only one on either side to escape injury. Granvllle Philpot is said to be one of | the most serfously wounded. He is a Union veteran, having lost a leg at Stone River. He is an ex-member of | the Kentucky Legislature, and is said | Ed i | | Fisher, who is reported dead, was an- | other man with several nicks in his | gun. He was but 23 years old, but was | said to have Kkilled three men. | The story of this battle caused con- sternation here, notwithstanding the fact that serious trouble has been ex- pected to break out among the moun- | taineers of Clay County ever since the | assassination of Tom Baker several| weeks ago. | An effort was at once begun to secure deputies to go to the seat of the trou- | ble and attempt to restore quiet, but up to a late hour in the afternoon there | had not been enough responses to make up a force that would com- mand respect. The situation at Man- | chester is deplorat Since morning the place has been In @ state of terror. scarcely any one darirj; to venture out of doors. Business is suspended and the residents are momentarily expect- ing a renewal of hostilitles | LASHED TOA THEE T0 AWAIT DEATH Round Valley Man Foils Assassins. | —— I Special Dispatch to The Call. | E | | | COVELO, July 17.—Excitement Iis running high throughout Round Valley to-night and fears are entertained that another war of factions is about to break out. Authoritative reports have reached here that Sheriff Bergen of Trinity County is now on a still hunt not twenty miles away from Covelo, and that numerous arrests are to be made in connection with the Littleflield | lynching of several years ago. These reports were substantiated to- day, when Augustus Zaccarini, a busi- ness man- of Round Valley, returned from a hunting trip twenty miles north of here, just over the Trinity line. Mr. Zaccarini brings news of the compul- sory retraction of a statement made by a witness in the lynching case. Frank Doolittle and Walter Clark, two half- breed Indians, were the chief witnesses | against Joseph Gregory when he was convicted of complicity in the Little- fleld lynching. Gregory is now serv- ing a twenty-year sentence in San Quentin. Zaccarini says a man named M. J. Brophy and two others, whose names are unknown, were spending a few days hunting and fishing on Red Mountain Creek, near the .Doolittle homestead, ostensibly for an outing. They made numerous visits to the Doolittle household, making purchases of milk and eggs, and in this way es- tablished an acquaintance. On Saturday last Brophy urged Frank Doolittle to join them and act as guide to their party .as far north as Mad River, and offering to reimburse him liberally for the trip. Doolittle accepted, and they arrived at a desirable camping ground on the north side of the moun- tain, near Mad River, at 6 o'clock. ‘While Doolittle was engaged with the duties about camp the conspirators withdrew a short distance from camp and separated, each approaching the camp from different points. ‘When Brophy was within a few feet of Doolittle he presented a loaded pis- tol and demanded that Doclittle attach his signature to a retraction of all his testimony offered in the case wherein Gregory was convicted. Doolittle ex- claimed that he could not do such a thing and be a man. Brophy cocked his revolver and prepared to fire. AUTOMOBILE MAKES SOME RAPID TIME. RUNS FROM ALBANY TO AMSTERDAM. LBANY, July 17.—Fair skies favored the transcontinental automobile party to-day, and the start westward this after- noon was made under the most encour- aging auspices. All through the morn- ing an interested crowd of business men, manufacturers, bicyclists and oth- ers surrounded the carriage and kept the machinist busy answering questions | about its mechanism. A large number of electric carriages are in course of construction here, and their advocates were greatly interested in the makeup and working of the auto- robile. The opinion was freely ven- tured that American inventors would soon outstrip all others in this line of work, and the belief was apparently strong that Mr. Davis would cross the continent without either serious trouble or inconvenience. “An automobile that can get the bet- ter of the mud road between here and Hudson can do anything,” said an ex- perienced stage driver who dropped in to watch preparations for the start. “This carriage will just fly when it hits a boulevard.” The auntomobile did fly, as predicted, 2lthough Mr. Davis made no effort to | get a speed record, as did the Hinton | party on its way here, and was satis- fied to run along at a medium gait which would land him at Amsterdam in the early evening. The start was made from the Hotel Teneyck at ex- actly 3 o’clock in the presence of a cheering throng that was thoroughly | representative of the Capital City. “Good luck!” they shouted, and Mrs. Davis waved her hand in reply as the automobile sped around the corner into State street and began the serious business of climbing a heavy grade. Qe eoeb0beoeoese@® NSTANTLY __ NOYED BY [RAMPS RiDInG 'HE BRAKE-BEAM. s, - S e o R SROR SRR S o SRCRY SCR SeCE Sl o 2 ol d B S i B O o O o D e 0060000 ebe>e0 P R R R $ BEST RUN OF THE JOURNEY BY JOHN D. D AVIS. AMSTERDAM, N. Y., July 17.— ‘We have made the best run of the journey to-day, so far as the working of the motor is concerned. We started late from Albany, as Mrs. Davis was thoroughly fa- tigued. We ran most of the time at from twelve to fifteen miles an hour, but at times when we struck a fine piece of road I let out the speed up to twenty-seven miles an hour. People were out in every farmhouse and hamlet. ‘While entering Amsterdam it looked as If a circus had struck town. The roads have been ex- cel'ent at times, especially when approaching Schenectady, where we found the surface as smooth as a floor for six miles. Between Schenectady and Amsterdam the road was fair, with an occasional poor stretch, and then a good one. R o e e o R R R R e e R R 4+ DR R R e The carriage ran as steadily as an Em- pire State express locomotive and went by the capitol amid the applause of many spectators. The granite pave- ment of Washington avenue was speed- ily passed and the viaduct crossed that leads to the smooth brick-paved thor- oughfare opening on the handsome boulevard. Over this fine macadam road the au- tomobile did its best work, and medium speed was reached at 4 o'clock. Mr. Davis took the precaution to have du- plicates of all the uncertain pieces of mechanism made while here, and the automobile party will not suéfer from any more long delays if a nut should jar off or a pin give out on the trip. A bulletin received here this evening announced the safe arrival of the au- tomobile at Amsterdam at 6:45 o'clock. The party will remain there over night. AMSTERDAM, N. Y., July 17.—Au- tomobilist Davis reached Amsterdam at 6:45 o'clock this evening from Albany. Leaving Albany at 2 o'clock over the boulevard the touring cart was paced by a large number of bicyclers, many of whom tired after a few mfnutes and dropped back, while others kept in the van for several miles, and the machine over the finely macadamized road at- tained a speed of twenty-seven miles an hour. Some of the pacemakers led Mr. Davis astray by taking him on to Lathams Corners, and the error was not discovered until two and a half miles had been traversed. The auto- mobile was at once turned about and soon regained the lost road, but this little slip caused a delay of twenty-five minutes. Mr. and Mrs. Davis took luncheon at a farmhouse, occupying forty min- utes. They were also delayed a like period, forty minutes, by a heated pis- ton. Coming down Union street, Sche- nectady, which is asphalted, a speed of twenty-two and a half miles an hour was reached. When about two miles out of Amsterdam the piston again be- came heated, necessitating a stop of fifteen minutes. It was given a touch of oil, which was allowed to gum, and then the journey was resumed. One of the Albany pacemakers accompanied the carriage twenty miles. The exact running time from Albany here, thirty- three miles, was two and three-quarter hours. The automobile is running nicely now, there having been no mishaps to-day. The report from Albany that there was an accident to the brake was untrue. Mr. and Mrs. Davis will leave Am- sterdam at 5 o’clock Tuesday morning and will go to Utica, some sixty miles, before night. Both are feeling well. Mr. Davis is a trifle stiff from his re- cent fall and constant operation of the carriage. Em i CHARRON LEADING IN THE TOUR OF FRANCE RACE PARIS, July 17.—Charron is leading in the “tour de France” automobile race. M. Controle yesterday was at the little town of Amberielle-En-Bugey. Le Matin’s correspondent telegraphs: “Charron having reached Lons de Saul- nier at 17 minutes past 11, it was cal- culated he would arrive at 5 minutes to 1. He dashed into Amberiem at full speed at 12:53: The two front springs of his automobile were broken, but he repaired them at once, and amid the applause of all started again for Aix- les-Bains, 75 kilometers (about 461 miles) further away. M. DeKnyff, who had broken a spring, was obliged to stop on the road and repair it, and ar- rived at 1:15:21, followed 7 minutes and 4 seconds later by M. Jamin. The first motocycle to arrive was that of M. Gleize at 1:44.” e as b bl b b et ] — 5 U N Sy we Have EncounTeren BA WEATHER AND ROADS - - -~ a oavis-— e e L SRS SRORS SRS SRR SCES SRS SN . 1 B R S R R B IR d : i t ; i ing the document over quickly he noted that it was as much a death warrant as a confession of perjured testimony. The retraction opened with a confes- sion that Doolittle had sworn the life of Joe Gregory away and that remorse was guiding him to self-destruction. He takes leave of his family affection- ately, asks that they take his last word | in life and believe his confession, and when they read it he would no longer be living. Any search for his body would be useless. After the signing of the confession the conspirators bound him hand and foot and placed him among the camping traps near @ clump of pines. Leaving him thus, they withdrew some distance and engaged in earnest conversation. Doolittle, making up his mind that death was coming soon, looked quickly about for some means of escaping. He felt close to his hands. which were lashed behind his back, the camp hatchet. He succeeded in working it in such a way with his pinioned hands that he severed one of the cords. free- ing one hand, and soon liberated him- self. Then began a wild race for life, in which he outstripped the gssassins. Brophy is a relative of " Gregory’s father and undoubtedly is an instru- ment in the hands of interested persons who are seeking Gregory’s pardon. Doo- little is en route to Weaverville, the county seat of Trinity County, to con- sult with the authorities there. MOB THREATENS ROSSITER'S LIFE Continued from First Page. strike and its probable outcome, Chief Devery said: “This strike should never have occurred. The men will surely lose. They are not organized and 1 think the whole matter will be adjusted inside of twenty-four hours.” Police Commissioners Hess and York were at the Municipal Building shortly after noon and were soon joined by Commissioner Sexton, Chief Devery, Deputy Chief McLaughlin and Presi- dent Rossiter. Commissioner Hess, in addressing Mr. Rossiter, was very plain spoken in his remarks and reit- erated his statement of yesterday as to the advisability of considering the | strikers’ claims. The State Board of Mediation, to which the grievances of the strikers were presented last, week by the exec- utive committee of the Knights of La- bor, held a long conference with Presi- dent Vreeland to-day. After the con- ference the board issued a statement in which it said: tion makes it clear to the board that it will not be possible, in the present | status of affairs, to have recourse to ar- bitration, and the board does not, there- fore, deem it advisable to take further action at this time.” dema e sl SECOND STRIKE ON THE CLEVELAND LINES Trouble Caused by Union Men Re- fusing to Work With Non- TUnion Employes. CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 17.—The inauguration of a second strike by the employes of the big Consolidated Rail- way Company was a complete surprise to the public this morning, and nearly so0 to the company. Ever since the men returned to work three weeks ago un- der an agreement prepared by a com- mittee of the City Council and signed by representatives of the strikers and Then | of the company there had been frequent “Mr. Vreeeland’s posi- | the company was not living up to the agreement. Several conferences were held, the latest about a week ago, and it was then announced that everything was satisfactory or would be as soon as the company had been given ample time to adjust schedules and arrange the runs. The presence on cars of the non-union men who were retained after the settlement of the strike was still a bone of contention, however, and a crisis was reached yesterday, when, as claimed, a number of union men were discharged for refusing to go out on cars with non-union men. A meeting followed last night, and at 3 o’clock this morning the decision to strike was reached. All the lines were tied up from 5 o'clock until after 8, when the operation of the Euclid ave- nue line with non-union men under po- lice protection was undertaken. Cars were run at five-minute intervals on that line until evening, but no attempt was made to move cars on other lines. Henry A. Everett, president of the company, issued a statement this even- ing in which he said the terms of the agreement with the strikers had been strictly adhered to, but that it was im- possible to inaugurate all the reforms promptly because of the continued in- terference with the non-union crews, and he holds the union men directly responsible for this. He attributes the present strike to a feeling of disap- pointment on the part of the unio® men because the non-union men have not been mobbed and beaten out of the company’s service. He says that he will operate the cars if he is given police protection. Protection has been promised by Mayor Farley, and it is said that the militia will be called out if the police are unable to preserve order. There has been little disorder to-day, and nothing of a serious nature. STRIKE OF DECKHANDS ON UP-RIVER STEAMERS Men Demand an Increase of Salary and Shorter Hours of SACRAMENTO, July 17.—The deck- | hands on the up-river steamers Red Bluff, Jacinto ‘and Varuna, belonging to the Sacramento Transportation Company, struck last night for higher wages. They had been receiving $40 a month and board and now want $50 a month. They claim that their hours of labor are too long. As a result of the strike those steamers are laid up. The company’s agent here says he will be able to secure other men to take the places of the strikers. The strikers thus far have been quiet and orderly and this morning were paid off. The steamer Dover is expected to arrive from up the river to-day and it is be- lieved that the strikers will attempt to induce the deckhands of that vessel to join them in their demand for increased wages. There is also trouble on the Southern Pacific steamer Apache, which is moored to a wharf below this city on account of the low water. The deck- hands would have quit last night, but | were induced to remain over until this morning. Some of them have already left and the outcome is a matter of con- jecture. The men have not made a de- mand for any definite increase in wages, their principal cause of com- plaint being that they are overworked. The Apache will be able to leave for San Francisco with the men who re- mained at work. Besides the steamers tied up when the strike was declared, two others of the San Joaquin No. 2, have arrived and | their hands joined the strikers. It was rumored late in the afternoon that an attempt would be made to take the Jacinto up the river with a crew from Stockton, but if such was the in- | tention it was reconsidered. A barge belonging to the company and loaded with sacks of grain stuck in the middle of the river this after- noon and an offer of, it is said, four cents a sack to transfer them to an- | other barge found no takers The difference between the men on the steamer Apache and its owners has, it is said, been adjusted and the crew returned to work. Theirs was not a demand for more wages, but for shorter hours. The striking deckhands are having a | glorious time. The water front is lined with drunken men and individual and free fights are of common occurrence. As yet nobody has been seriously in- jured. ‘Whether the strikers will gain their point or whether they will return to work on the old schedule can only be surmised. The Queen of Yukon, a down-the-river boat, is here and is do- ing a big business. Eastern Bigamist Caught. SANTA BARBARA, July 17.—Dr. R. W. Gwynn, wanted at Fall River, Mass., for bigamy, was arrested on Sunday at Los Olivos by Sheriff Stewart and returned here. 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