The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 21, 1900, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1900. He was a Turk among Turks—taciturn, energetic, with an fron will. He never wrote dispatches, his reports to Constan- tinople consisting merely of 4 few words. His uniform consisted usually of a jacket with a broad facing of dark cloth, long waistcoat of Louis XV style and tight- fitting trousers, with knee boots—a dress | presenting a contrast to that of other | Turkish generals. He generally wore a | loose blue cloak, with no apparent mark |on it to designate his rank, and a red |fez. In camp he never wore a sword, but | invariably had a pair of field glasses slung | over his shoulder. From the military | academy at Constantinople he went di- | army corps command in the Servian war. AWFUL NATURAL PHENOMENON IN SAN JACINTO MOUNTAINS Graphic Description of the Breaking Down of a Once TU H|S H[ST | rectly to the Crimean war and rose to an ——— | Death’s Hand Laid Unon the1 Gallant “Hero of | Plevna.” i FAMOUS TURKISH WARRIOR | Check He Inflicted Upon Russian In- | vaders One of the Most Bril- liant Military Feats in History. | ).—A dispateh | says that merciful. He has deprived e i e e doei ei ese@ - L 4 . ® THE LATE OSMAN PASHA., ¢ e e most friend and , tru ic corps the resi- e of Edhem Pasha, els of the 3reco- Pasha Turkish gen- reserve force of great measure suspicious at d rendered me to time, paid who inflicted on e greatest check Defense of Plevna. Splendid g of Grand Duke Osman Pasha as ender. Prince « u General Sko- y acknowledged the gal- se. The Turkish gen- fields created a for four the Russians. In overcame the ians 170 offi- days’ stub he clos 144 days | Osman tempt to cut e was of the urs of bayone urks being driven | r of Plevna sur- nors of war.” ‘ Was a Man of Iron Will. 3 us), confer- had not been h subject for nearly appearance, though not | stature, Osman Pasha | ald, with a superb head. | | “and there {& nothing, humanly speakin REUNION OF THE IRISH NATIONALISTS SINCERE Bighty-Six Members of Parliament Will Labor Together in Erin’s Cause. LONDON, March 20.—At a Nationalist banquet at the Hotel Cecil in London this evening John Redmond, leader of the Nationahst party in the House of Com- mons last nine years of public life in Ireland as a hideous nightmare. “Our reunion is sincere,” he continued the eighty-six Irish members of Parliament cannot obtain from the exi- gencies of the British parties. It is in- credible that English statesmen can be so blind to the teaching of history as to agine that serious practical grievances n be mitigated by a royal visit to Ire or by a.British ¢ of St. s day. bration Edward Blake, a member of Parliament | for South Langford, who proposed the toast “Ireland,” a Nation,” was greeted with hostile cries. A disturbance ensued and the police were called in to restore order. -— HIGEWAYMAN ARRESTED. James Starr Charged With Having Robbed the Milton Stage. STOCKTON, March 20.—Sheriff Thorn of "alaveras County to-day arrested at Cop- opolis & young man named James E. arr and charged him with being the highwayman who vesterday held up ‘the tage running between Miiton and Cop- peropolis. The Sheriff says he has a good ase against the prisoner. Starr near Miiton and is well known ta residents of that section. His parents »d tnere many years and a short time ago separated. Heretofore he has borne a good reputation RED-COATED BULLY SCORED BY OR. JORDAN Aristocracy, Militarism and Imperialism De- nounced. PRS- R Only Race Degeneration Ever Known Is That Due to One or All of the Above-Named Causes. g e NEW YORK, March 2.—Dr. David Etarr Jordan, president of the Leland Stanford University, was the speaker at 2 meeting of the Patria Club held in the banquet hall of the Hotel Savoy to-night. His subject was “The Blood of the Na- tion.” Dr. Jordan began by saying that it is recognized that the of a nation in & large degree determines its history, 1 that, in a similar fashion, the his- ation determines its blood. He » part: Iy way in which any race as a whole has improved gh the preservation of itg best and the loss of its worst examp! jon which favors thi fore the law, or the condition which pportunity and gives to each man the or fall on the powers God has e degeneration ever known is one or all of de- aristocracy, four tyrants »f which appears m, milit of human politics, ut the others. y of the individual is quite another as its own series of causes. A lot of crazy painters, drunken musicians, maudlin and sensation hunters on the boulevards sve nothing as to race degeneracy. Any any race may.degenerate in an envir- of vice, disease and absinthe, but he may leave his race all the cleaner for his de- generation. War may the hot P inherited. an seem to make men strong when ms are on, but hot passion is not ieast of all when the warrior is slain and leaves no inheritance. War can only waste and corrupt. If war is good civil war must be best. The virtues of victory and the lessons of defeat would be kept within the na- tion. It would protect the nation from the tempration to fight for gold or trade. The rem- edy for most ills of men is not to be sought in war, not in whirlwinds of rebellion that hake the world, but in peace and justice, equality among men and the; cultivation of e virtues we call Christian, because they have been virtues ever since man and soclety began and will be virfues still when the era of strife is past and the redcoat bully in his g s no longer hides the march of man from s BEGINNING OF THE MANSFIELD LIBEL CASE Prominent Society Women of Hollis- ter Will Appear on the Wit- ness Stand. Special Dispatch to The Call. HOLLISTER, March 20.—The sensa- tional Mansfield libel case was commenced in the Superior Court to-day before Judge M. T. Dooling. District Attorney Hud- ner and N. C. Briggs represented the peo- ple and 8. G. Tompkins of San Jose and A. M. 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I had been trying to fight it away for several days, The A Pain Pills stopped my fever in a few minutes and the Nervine made me feel so good I could go to sleep the first night. In four or five days the dizzi- y head was all gone, my appetite was good, my nervousness had disap- that tiine on I grew stronger every day, ¢ Dr. Miles' Nervine not only cured the grip, but also my head- Dess it peared and 1 felt like 2 new man. From and I found ache and neuralgia which I bad had for years.” CHAS. J. SVEJDA, 350 National Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. Dt. Miles’ Nervine Is sold at all drug stores on a positive guar- antee. Write for free advice and booklet to Dr. Miles Medical Company, P Elkhart. Indiana. who presided, said he regarded the | was | b E ® . i . ¢ . ® * ® + b3 + ¢ . PS . . * ® 3 ® . ¢ 1 ¢ t & + * * ® . Bl R R SNCER SRS 0N AN JACINTO, March 20.—The fact | that a mountain has recently fallen is turning all eyes, scientific as well to San Jacinto. This mountain or spur of the San Jacinto | peak has already been visited by hun- of local people. The camera fiend | here by dozens, and newspaper corre- | spondents drive in daifly. To show the ex- | tent of this great natural catastrophe it | is well to understand that the San Jacinto peak Is 11,000 feet above the sea level, and that the fallen spur had | an altitude of 4000 feet until Christmas | day, when the great Christmas temblor | shattered its moorings, and now it lles, a | fallen giant, 200 feet below the jagged | peaks it was torn down Was it the result of gravitation or was | it a direct upheaval from the earth's| bowels beneath the huge mass of earth and ite? Question for Geologists. This Is a question for learned geologists | to solve, but in the meantime the mind is | staggered when contemplating the 600 to of « , split across with bot- . small canyons lost en- | tirely under millions of tons of earth, and s tipped to the east when once they | undulated to the west. | It is not unlike climbing the Swiss | alns to reach the sunken tract. Twelve miles from San Jacinto the road | reaches a bridle path or forest rangers’ | trail. There one's nerves must be strong, | as the trail is precipitous and as one as- | cends the eye gazes down hundreds of | feet of perpendicular foothills, | On Sunday the trail was black with peo- | ple anxious to see the fallen mountain. It | requires an hour's hard riding to reach | the mountain’s broken rim. Fully 150 feet’| below lies an upturned grove of manza- | nita trees. Long furrows of fresh earth | attract the attention, and there is be- held a jumble such as might have existed | period. during the formative slanting side of blue sl edge of the basin indicates plainly where | the mountain shook itself loose and | hurled itself, at an angle of forty de- | grees, into the space where valleys and | canyons had béen since time immemorial. Thus the underground explosions, which oceurred after Christmas and which were | heard every few hours for two months at San Jacinto, In conjunction with strong seismic tremors, which were always from | the direction of Mount San Jacinto, are | now to a certain extent explained. May Be Volcanic. When the guide calls one’s attention to | R i ok o ol S o o 2 PRI " View of the Country Wh re About 600 Acres Have Sunk (From photographs taken by The Call's special artist.) | ful power he can but breathe prayers of | | existed beneath High Mountain Peak Jumbled Fragments Whence Gases Escape. Into Huge Special Dispatch the acres of volcanic ash that shift be- tween some of the fissures one wonders if an extinct crater existed under this great mountain and if by external® dis- turbances those gases found a vent through the old chimney, blowing the top while the resulting 'explosion quick- | refilled the valleys with tons of the superstructure of the mountain. The long zigzag fissures, ripped across, caused £0lid granite to slide from one end of the | £00 acres to the other, indicating what ter- rific forces were at work, and as the spec- tator contemplates the result of this aw- thanksgiving that no human beings were living on this particular spur. Three miles south of the scene of the | disturbance are several bee and stock ranch which had a miraculous escape. Earthquakes have been continuous ever ginee the temblor that shook all of San Jacinto’s brick buildings to the ground on Christmas day. Two slight shocks have occurred In the last twenty-four hours. The general feeling here is that the vol canie action is not near enough to this city to do any greater damage, although at Sage, sixteen miles southeast, the ground has trembled almost unceasingly | and roaring sounds and temblors occur every few hours It is the genera! opin- ion of the forest rangers, who travel con- tinuously over these mountains, that the mouantain in questicn did not fall until six days after the Christmas quake. At that time a terrible roar came from that spui and the shock created small crevasses in the trail three miles to the south. It is a novel sensation to tread over cracks and ssures of a recent upheaval and to feel that the gtound is unsecure wnder one’'s feet. But a few moments of this novelty is €nough. It is believed that no tract of land of such colossal proportions has fallen into the earth in the history of this race, at least on the American continent. In an interview Grant A. Taggart, For- est Supervisor of Southern California, said: t is my Jdea that an immense cave the mountain and the Christmas earthquake caused wide fls- sures in its roof. The fissures emitted | gases, which blew up portions of the mountain ard in places gave way until there was a general collapse and gravity drew the millions of tons on top Into the o “How do. you explain the fissures which | now plerce the tops of the solid moun- tain?"” “I would call that a spreading over of the top crust to adjust itself to the in- numerable holes and caves below.” “Would you think from the nature of the fissures that they were all caused by the spreading?” “Yes, or by the gases coming to the surface, this causing a breaking up and jumbling of the entire 600 acres.” Continumg Mr. Taggart said: “I do not think the earthquake of. De- cember 2 originated in the San Jacinto Mountains. Gases might have followed to The Call. A e e S e S o S S & [ e e e e R e e o ol o o o i o o e o the fissures in the earth and finally found | San Jacinto group of mountains cover an | a vent in this particular mountain flnd.' blowing up, have caused the earthquake. | “1 was of the opinion at first that most | of the falling in of the mountain occurred a week after Christmas, but I am con- vinced now that one of the greatest slides occurred only about three weeks ago. When I first saw it the blue shale would mold together like putty. A week's ex- gfsure to the sun renders it very brittle. r. Rouse, who lives near by heard deep | internal rumblings, but no shock, prov|ng that it was the explosion of gases an not the settling of tons of earth that caused the seismic vibrations. There is no appearance that it was merely a land- slide. It could not have been a landslide alone. A landslide would have been higher where it began.- This is lower at the eastern edge and where it recently parted | there comes a jumbled ridge broken with | crevasses. Concerning the constantly re- curring earthquakes feit I think it pos- sible there are other caverns filling up and the gases are finding a vent. There are no evidences of an internal volcano unless the opening of these vents will allow a collection of more gases. In that case there may bé more earthquakes.” Jules Waterman, merchant, when inter- viewed had theories worth considerable. He sald: Gases Exploded. | ““When I visited the mountain I noticed | fendant. After an all-day session but five | jirors were secured out of a special venire and Sheriff Croxon is mow out scouring | the county for jurors. The defendani, Mrs. Minnie Mansfield, wife of B. B. Mansfield, one of the wealth- est farmers of the valley, Is being prose- | cuted for criminal libel in having written anonymous letters concerning a neigh- | bor, Mrs. Mattle P. Conrad, who is noble grand of a Rebekah lodge of Odd Fellows. The letters were of a scurrilous nature and were received at intervals last sum- mer by the society leaders of Hollister. Suspicion being directed to Mrs. Mans- | field, that lady_commenced receiving let- ters herself. She was indicted on three counts by the grand jury after a search- ing examination, during which Experts Kytka, Ames and Eisenschimmel testified. The défendant denies her guilt emphati- cally and threatens to expose a conspiracy that will drag many prominent names in the mire. Every lady of any prominence in the valley is undér subpoena and all will appear on the witness stand before the case is over. = Both the Conrads and the Mansflelds belong to wealthy families and the matter has developed into a reg- ular vendetta. District Attorney Hudner is besteged with telegrams asking for re- lease by the handwriting experts in the Fair case who are under subpoena to this court. Some have notified him that they will refuse to attend, but Sheriff Croxon will produce them when required. i e ELIZABETH STRUBLE IN'A COUNTY JAIL Pleads Guilty to a Charge of Sending Obscene Literature Through the Mails. Spectal Dispateh to The Call. SIOUX FALLS, 8. D, March 20— Through refusing to pay a fine of $200 imposed upon her by Jud&e Carland of the United States Court, after she had pleaded gullty to a charge of sending ob- scene literature through. the malls, Mrs. Elizabeth Lois Struble was this afternoon remanded to the custody of a United States Marshal and is ngw an occupant of the County Jail. . ‘The priconer is editor of a monthly publication. Her arrest was caused by an article which appeared in the January number. Mrs. Struble is prominently con- nected at Portland, Or., belng a daughter of J. H. Jones, a well-known pioneer lum- ber man of that dtz. At the expiration of lhlr‘tz days agem oubtless mummw make the poor debtor's oath and thus TOCMEe kel £ eimnnd, WFE-MURDERER WILCOR SEES HI LIBEAT! [ e mat de s o od b o e e e e e ] : .4‘-0+0+0+¢+0+......... Special Dispatch to The Call. ™ ANTA ROSA, March 20.—George F. ‘Wilcox, the self-Zonfessed wife-mur- derer, appeared -in Department 1 of the Superior Court to-day before Judge Burnett. ‘Wilcox was attended by his father, a white-haired old man, and by his brdther. In appearance the prisoner was haggard and pale.and he was nervous and rest- throughout the proceedings. Ex- GEORGE F. WILCOX, the Self-Confessed Wife Mur- derer. District Attorney Emmet Seawell ap- peared for the defense. A large number of spectators were present, but the de- fendant did not enter his plea as was ex- pected, for the court took under advise- ment until to-morrow a motion by Attor- ney Seawell that the information charg- Ing Wilcox with murder be set aside upon the ground of error in the commitment. Sheriff Frank P. Grace, Deputy Sher- iff Serafino Plezzi, Court Reporter Scott and others present at the preliminary ex- amination of Wilcox testified regarding the proceedings, after which Attorney Seawell made his motion as stated and the prisoner was taken back to his cell in the County Jail. AWFUL RAVAGES OF PLAGUE IN INDIA Nearly Five Thousand Deaths Occur in Bengal in a Single’ Week. CALCUTTA, March 21.—The bubonic plague is fast increasing. In Bengal 4725 deaths occurred last week. These in- cluded 74 in Calcutta and %04 in Patna. e Viceroy, Lord Curzon of Kedlestone, yesterday visited the medical college, which is in one of the infected districts of Calcutta. SYDNEY, N. 8. W., March 20.—Two fresh cases of the bubonic plague have been officially reported to-day. Burglars at Petaluma. PETALUMA, March 20.—The homec of Mrs. John Ward at San Antonio, south of bere, was entered by burglars Sunday night. Coin and jewelry were Other houses in the neighborhood ere also visited. The thieves are supposed to have started for San Francisco. L - S Miller Pleads Guil BANTA ROSA, March 19.—Rush Miller entered a plea of gullty to the charge of and larceny. He ltols.gle 375 wheel of gubler Burris of the ta Rosa Bank The prisoner will be Crevices in Soiid Granite 30 Feet 1 eep and 3 Feet Wide. |a Masses of the crevasses that I saw all leaned to the outside. This convinced me that the outside edges of the mountain had fallen outward, the force of gravity pull them into two caverns lying at either side of the 600 acres.” Mr. Daggett, a merchant, saild that he was certain that the Christmas earth: uake was caused by the falling In of this mountain. He sald: ‘‘Consider the force of an accumulation of gas great enough to burst through mil- lions of tons of earth a mile square. Why would it not vibrate the State from San Diego to San Francisco? The gas ac- cumulated after great stores of water ‘were pumped out by the numerous pump- ing plants here and at Perris. The dry years have also robbed the surplus. Yes, the Christmas quake had its origin right under that fallen mountain, but was not of volcanic origin.” Professor Davidson’s Views. Professor George Davidson is familiar with the general characteristics of the San Jacinto Mountain. He said yester- day that he would not like to enter upon a discussion of the happenings recorded as 1aking place there because he did not really know a.ng of the facts by personal ividently there observation. been a disturbance on a large scale. San Jacinto Mountalr. was 10, feet high. He was once advised to go upon the mountain to make observations, but he considered the mountain too steep to e it possible to carry a large telescope to the summit, consequently he located for his observa- tions upon ~‘“‘old Grayback’’ Mduntain, which is twenty-four miles distant. The steepness of, San Jacinto Mountain has a bearing in considering the recently reported disturbance. It was concelv- able, Professor Davidson said, that a huge landslide should have swept down a vast mass of matter from the k. He had seen the path of a landslide in Alaska that was an eighth of a mile wide an half a mile loflfi_l e rocks and left m bare. Concerning the earthquakes he sald that_he, of course, knew nothing. ~Nor could he explain the report about the igneous rock. It would take a mineralo- glst and geologiet to speak with authority as to whether the rock mentioned were really igenous. The be said, lles between San Mountain and San Jacinto Mountain. The M area of 190 square miles and are a very rugged range. San Jacinto stands out by itself and is a lJandmark for long distance. Professor Davidson also said that he had seen a landslide on the Diablo range that covered a quarter section. As to the crevices and the caverns he wished to get more facts be- fore he expressed any opinion as a scientist. An earthquake might sent huge masses of earth down the mountain side or moisture might have caured the same effect. -1 It had uncovered solid | San_Gorgonlo Pass, | Bernardino | B R I o S e e o o B X 2 2 Mountain | have | into meotion | ISSISSIN OF COEBEL WAS A NULATTD Evidence Alleged to Have Been Given by Sergeant Golden. —— e CULPRIT GOT SAFELY AWAY S Supposed to Be Hiding in the Wilds of One of the Mountain Counties of Ken- tucky. —_— LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 20.—The stor. fes growing out of the conference betweern | Sergeant F. Wharton Golden of the Bar- boursville company of State militia and the attorneys who are managing the in- vestigation of the assassination of Gov- ernor Goebel have caused a sensation throughout the State. Golden will be placed on the stand by the prosecution in the trial of the persons already arrested for alleged complicity in the assassination, but information as to the exact naturs of | the testimony he is expected to give is lacking. Attorneys Campbell and Pos- grove naturally decline to discuss the matter, and Golden will say nothing. Spe- cials from Winchester say Golden is still at that place in company with his attor- ney. The two spend most of the time about the hotels. They see all callers, | however, and talk freefy on all subjects | except that of Golden's reported confes- sion. “I will do all I can for my friends all the | time,” Golden is repo: as saying, “but | I must first be true to myseif. n | the time comes I will tell all I know. Whatever else may be said about me, I don’t think I can be accused of being a liar, a coward or a Democrat, and I want it distinctly understood that I am not here under guard.” The story is published that Golden has divulged to the attorneys the name of the man who fired the shots that killed Gov ernor Goebel. The person mentioned is a mulatto, who formerly lived at Winech ter, was prominent in the French-Eve: feud and is known as a dead shot. Tha man is now supposed to be in the wilds | of ohe of (he mountain counties. Evidence that he was in Frankfort at the time of the assassination was found among papers taken from W. Coulton, a clerk in the Auditor's office, when the latter was arrested a week or so ago on | a warrant charging him with being an ac- cessory to the murder. Among these papers were receipts for board _bills | amounting to about $3% incurred br elghteen men who were in Frankfort for some time before and at the time Gdv- ernor Goebel was shot. In one of these receipts the name of the mulatto men- tioned is given. The receipt in this case is for money recelved from John Perkins by Bettina Pittman for the board of three ;\pn. Perkins is a porter about the Staie | House. - GOLDEN’S MYSTERIOUS VISIT TO LEXINGTON LEXINGTON, Ky., March 20.—Sergeant F. Whartonr Golden, the man alleged to have made incriminating statements in the Goebel murder, arrived here, in com- pany with his attorney, Smith Hayes, to- night. They came from Winchester. Their movements have been kept in the dark and their presence was not known until several hours after their arrival. They did not register at the Phoenix Hotel, but it is sald Golden went through the rear door of the Phoenix and subsequently to his room In the hotel. Another and most probable story is that they were met by | a carriage and driven to the home of a Goebel Democrat in the north end of the city. As the hotel clerk knew nothing of ;hp;lr arrival efforts to find Golden proved utile. Many rumors are flying. One is that he is trying to get away from Goebel Influ- ences but is closely watched. It is prob- able that he has given them the sifp. An- other rumor s that he is here for further | conference with Goebel attorneys to- | morrow. SHOOTS HIS PLAYMATE. BAKERSFIELD, March 20.—John Shan- | nonhouse, aged 11, to-day accidentally | shot Hugh Atchinson, aged 13, with a twenty-two caliber target rifle. The boy: | were hunting on the river and the weapcn | was discharged while being cocked, the bullet entering Atchinson's back at the shoulder blade and making its exit from the left breast. The wounded lad Is in | great pain and it is feared he is fatally } injured. A popular suit at a popular price That is a fitting descrip- tion of our $10 blue serge suits. They are good suits as well as popular. = They are made to give satisfaction in style and wear. Single and double breasted. 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