The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 21, 1900, Page 1

VOLUME L."XX\'II'—\'(). 152, SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. EXPOSE MADE BY THE CALL KILLS THE CRIMINAL TRAFFIC IN CHINESE NATIVE-BORN CITIZENS Collector Jackson ISecidéé That the Federal Courts Must Determine All Further Cases of Ngtlve Sons. AWFUL LEAP OF A WOMAN - WOOING DEATH Plunges From the Middle Span of Brooklyn Bridge. S 28 T A RIVER TUG . PICKED [P B es Are Broken, d Internally Be Suicide Will Rec SRR city. m a carriage in m from the bridge tower o rk end and dropped to th picked up by the cr which was moored she had no mo: to be driven to a n where she is not known to belleve suicide was a hackman, gives the f the woman's act. She on Broadway and re- her to 112 Fulton ke said Moss, “and I would lose my luded to take the t ) the ticket taker no money to buy a ring from her man as se- e it. 1 was bring her back, my horse, when money when we So 1 paid the toll nd going at e calling. e door of the she had ar hole be- down. She hearing the a moment k the water after the first down stream, car- € Tacoma put nsclous, and removed to the installments and dispossessed _on house that Audin were street. Since melancholy and time. On September 6, 1835, a Mrs. jumped from the bridge and w; slightly injured. She B her room most of the | MRS A S e o o o o S S R SR I S e was discharged | @+ 049494004000+ 000+ nembers of the ring. The first in- ation of trouble came on Thursday er the ring of lawyers dis- that Chief Dunn of the Chinese Bureau was not sending any more re- | ports to the Coilecter of the Port re- garding Cl e who ciaim a right to land at this port. The Call has already explained, “ollector of the Port, in consider- ases, acts ostensibly upon tions from the Chinese bureau is an expensive ! governmental machin- to test the claims of coverec nding * known as 1 checke: proved there rpreters and stenogra- | employed. Testimony is ta- ted and transcribed 11, weighin makes rec nst the appli these recommendations which supply t ubt the e incing with his refusal the mber rformation that Special e which th Treasury Chanler was making an investigation of the records of the bureau and that no further rec- dations would be made until the v was concluded. The members upon the people of this were dumfounded. Their | be compell mate criminal trafic had been | > serious th ht to a standstill. Their ill-gotten | And the evid s were cut short h to prove the guilt of in the nd thorough in ring the facts to the United States Grand |f There are on the Pacific Mail dO(‘k" moring for a landing. Thelr | ad found it easy to break | 1 the barriers of the law, and the | newcomer s 1 of a could not understand why | 1 deal which h going on | there should be delay their cases. ity for over two came | se coaches are jabbering instruc- thunderbolt from a c nd warnings from the dock, but or a residence. | ¢ 1 declined to make on Thurs- | 4 . the coolie-laden wagons are not rush- now in bond at least 120 claim to be na- tive-born citizens of the United States, having been born, according to the out- rage of perjured testimony, in San Francisco. Of the Chinese detained on the dock eighty-three have retained Colone} George H. Pippy as their attor- COLLECTOR JACKSON, WHO SAYS HE WILL LAND NO MORE COOLIE “NATIVE SONS.” e e S R S - B R S S S rs - FUROUL WAN- | @ ¢ 9 004-04-040S04040400 94540405+ 040+090@ | Iney. These facts need no comment. A the Nippon Maru over 500 Chi- |ing into Chinatown. Of the 500 coolies | man who has no right to practice in the | | United States courts is employed to land eighty-three Chinese coolies that arrived within a period of twenty days. Consternation ruled in the camp of the lawyers when the announcement of | Chiet Dunn was made, but it was not [a contention of prior residence on the | native born citizens of the | until yesterday, when Collector Jack- Secret Investi son made his unexpected decisfon, that their discomfiture was complete. The lawyers, Pippy, Bell and the Port as usual. delay. It was then Collector Jackson quietly informed them that he would have nothing more to do with “native-bo: cases. He declared that not only would he not land any more, but that he would not consider any more cases, and if the attorneys wanted to test the right of the coolies to land they must g0 to the United States courts for writs of habeas corpus directed not against him, but against the transportation companies. The lawyers pleaded and begged. They advanced argument after argument, but Colle Jackson was obdurate. “I have been readin in the last few day he said. “The Call has taught me some law and I have eome to the conclusion that I have | no business with Chinese ‘native-born’ | cases. You will have to take them to the courts.” No argument could change that de- cisfon. The traffic in “native sons” had collapsed. Expose and a plain state- ment of startling facts had worked a remarkable change. The lawyers In- sisted that the law provides that a writ of habeas corpus can only be obtained after the Collector of the Port has re- fused to land a Chinese. The point was not by any means well taken. The con- dition that the Collector must first re- fuse to land a Chinese before a writ can be issued was introduced in the writs simply to please the late United States District Judge Hoffman and to cover They wanted no more considerable law part of the applicant. Collector Jack- others, | | met in the office of the Collector of the gation of the Chinese Bureau Begun by a Treasury Agent. | son has decided that if incoming Chi- nese want to land here as native born citizens of the United States they ask | a great deal and must prove their ‘flaim in the United States courts, which { demand something more than perjured | testimony as proof. This decision of Collector Jackson, rendered unfortunately after 3000 coolle citizens have p 1 through his hands, practically destroys the traffic in na- tive sons. The clique of lawyers that is now controlling the outrageous busi- ikely to face the would cost them ness is extremely t scrutiny of a court. It teo much. The Pacific Mail Company, famillar as it is with violations of the law, is not likely to dare to release the coolies n in custod It is probable, therefore, that at least 120 “native sons” will journey back across the Pa- | cific Ocean at the expense of the Pacific | Mail and other steamship companies. A | triumph the value of which can hardly be measured has been won. But the fight to uphold the exclusion act and to prevent a repetition of the gigantic | frauds which resulted in the landing of 10,000 coolies at this port in thirty-four | months is not by any means at an end. | The Call is in a position to prove that the grossest frauds are still being prac- ticed by this corrupt ring of lawyers in connection with the landing of “mer- chants, students and tourists.” The proof of the fraud is in the most recent | records of the Chinese Bureau, in doc ments flled within the last few da: The officials will not have far to search | to obtain it. With this phase of the evil suspended but not killed, it is a | matter for the deepest congratulation | that the startling expose of The Call | has destroyed the gigantic evil which | made of the dregs of Aslatic civilization United | States. AT A TR TR TSR SR @ AT AR WARRANT FOR TAYLOR M@Y HAVE BEEN ISSUED left FRANKFORT, Ky., Aprll 20.—Tt is reparted that Governor Taylor T A ATk < * TWashington last night to join his family at Louisville and that he may ar- here to-morrow. There is said to have been much communication by - cen here and Washington. Friends of Governor Taylor say he is o meet any charge that may have been brought against him, but they { don't want him incarcerated without bail, which they say he can give in any (/ * T able amount * = clerk of the court insists that there is no record on file of any Tay- ) lor indictment, and all the other indictments returned yesterday are on file * office. The Circuit Judge can hold an indictment until the ¥ | warrant has been served, and such is belleved to be the case in this () | » ce. Current reports are genc-ally credited that the warrant even has 4 A sued ready for service on the return of the Governor. A Q1 @ * SRR TR A TR TR TR TR T AT A TR S A AT AT-Q in a Police Court. On|near the village of Kawkawlin, this coun- | same year, Mrs. McArthur | ty, was blown up this afternoon, killing tempt 10§ but Was. three men. The de: toy bridge polic WILLIAM WEVER. i | EDWARD HALLIGAN | WILLIAM VANVLASSAR. DYNAMITE PACKING A1 et young widows. and . children, | eir bodies were torn to shreds, only Th enough being found to fill a bushel-basket. Great trees were uprooted or torn to splin- ters and houses and stores in Kawkawlin were wrecked by the force of the explo- sion. H. H. Thomas of Bay City is the owner of the works. It is belleved the HOUSE EXPLOSION Three Men Blown to Atoms and Neigkboring Buildings Reduced to Wreckage. explosion. which is the fourth in_seven RS 4 __ | years. was ci y one of the men BAY CITY, Mich., April 20.—The pack- | dropping a pailful of dynamite on the g house of the Ajax Dynamite Works | floor. The financial loss is slight. R T R e S S Sy & % 1 : e - S ; : § . : I § - ) 4 4 * ) § + o © 3 : : 1 o ® PY * * o [ § * JOHN L. OWENS, THE CONFESSED MURDERER OF AGED DANIEL H. WILSON. | % | : NURDERER CORFESES Owens Unwittingly Tells the Story to a Detective. I JEALOUSY WAS THE MOTIVE, gt ot Apparently Unawere of the Fact That His Wife Was About to Leave the Home of the Aged Rancher. Special Dispatch to The Call. UISUN, April 2).—The mystery sur- rounding the killing of Daniel H. Wilson, the Sulsun Valley orchard- | {st, who was assassinated at the door of his home on the night of Oc- tober 9, 159, has at last been cleared up, | and the murderer is behind prison bars, with enough evidence to convict him of the foul crime. John L. Owens is the man who took Daniel Wilson's life, and ail sus- picfon of a doubt as to his guilt was re- moved to-day when he confessed to the crime. Owens was taken into custody yesterday on the ranch of J. 8. Jones, about one mile from the town of Madison, Yolo County, Sheriff George H. Savage of Solano Coun- ty being the arresting officer. District Attorney Frank R. Devlin of Solano and Sheriff Frank P. Grace of Sonoma County | were with Sheriff Savage at the time the arrest was made. The officers and pris- oner drove to the jail at Fairfield, arriv- ing there at dusk last evening. After be- ing placed In jail several ineffectual at- tempts were made to induce Owens to make a statement regarding the murder, but he remained firm, and outside of a few minor admissions would give the officers no information further than what had been obtained by them from other per- sons. This morning, however, Owens fell into the trap that had been set for him and told what will probably send him to the gallows. Charles James, employed by Curtin's Detective Agency of San Francisco, is the man who obtained from the prisoner this morning the statement that was necessary for a convictlon. The conversation be- tween the two men was overheard by Deputy Sheriff Fred Clark, who was se- creted in an’ adjoining cell In the jail. Later in the day the murderer was taken to District Attorney Devlin's office, where he made a complete confession {n the presence of that official, Sheriff Savage and Court Reporter T. H. Hyatt, the lat- ter taking the statement down in short- hand. Confession of Owens. The killing of Wilson took place on the evening of October 9. It occurred shortly after 8 o'clock. Owens sald that he left his home at Healdsburg on the morning of that day with the intention of killing ‘Wilson. He tool with him a double bar- rel muzzle-loading shotgun. 'He drove to ‘within one mile of the Wilson ranch and tled his horse, walking the remainder of the distance. He went to the house and after walting a while Wilson came out- side and he shot him. He left immedi- ately after the shooting, retracing his steps to his horse. He then drove back to Healdsburg, reaching his home the next day, driving his horse 128 miles in twenty-four hours. Owens stated posi- tively that his wife did not know who a1d the shooting. He said he killed Wilson because his ‘wife was there and he belleved that Wil- son was using his influence to keep her { MANY SdACKS money for “‘absent treatment.” very large. turned to the writers, Office” at Washington to be opened. ters will be returned to the writers. O RS SRD RSP R away from him. He was shown the gun which the officers had secured, and he | admitted that it was the one with which he killed Wilson. While Owens denied to-day that his wife knew that he was connected in any | manner with the killing, he had previous- | Iy asked on wife had given him away. Just after the murder of Danlel Wilson was committed, B. F. Rush, who was the Sheriff at that time, was of the opinion that the house- keeper, Mrs. Lucy Owens, or her hus- band, were either responsible for the | crime or in some way connected with it. | In this opinion Mr. Rush was opposed by | the other offictals, still he placed Mrs. Owes and her brother-in-law under ar- rest, but they were soon discharged for ‘lm'k of evidence. Mr. Rush’'s subsequent | efforts to connect Owens with the crime were of no avail. | Trailing the Murderer. | Relatives of the murdered man were ar- | rested In January, 1899, and after their discharge attention was once more direct- ed to the Owens family. It was in Oc: tober of that year that District Attorney Devlin obtained a clew upon which he could work. A month later he secured the first positive information connecting John Owens with the crime. the form of a statement from a man who was in possession of important facts. Mr. Devlin employed Detective Curtin of San Francisco and Sheriff Frank P. Grace of Santa Rosa was also taken into the case. The latter worked up all clews fur- nished him and worked vigorously in con- nection with the other officials. Two months ago Mr. Curtin detailed Charles James, a member of his force, on the case. James went to Healdsburg and soon won the confidence of Owens. He pre- sented himself as an ordinary laborer. For several weeks the two men traveled in different parts of the State together, most of the time sharing the same beds. They have been In several mining coun- ties and worked here and there. Owens secured work at the Jones ranch, near Madison, last Monday, his supposed part- ner remaining in town. It was then that the arrest was planned. District Attorney Devlin consulted with Sheriff Savage, and on Wednesday Sheriff Grace was sent for. As has been heretofore stated the arrest was made Thursday afternoon, and while en route to Fairfleld James was met on the road, as had been prearranged. He seemed much surprised and displayed in- dignation at Owens’ arrest, and agreed to follow the latter to Falrfield. Coming here by train a sham arrest was made and James was placed In jail. Prisoner Is Calm. Having become firmly convinced that the officials were in possession of the facts of the shooting Ow.ns told james this morn- ing that he did kill Wilson. Owens was calm throughout. He still shows no signs of nervousness nor does he know the part that James played in the case. John Owens, the slayer of Danfel H. ‘Wilson, is a man about 50 years of age. He i{s medium bullt, about 5 feet 7 inches in height. He was at one time a resident of Fairfleld, and before going to Healds- burg in 1802 lived temporarily in Suisun Valley. He has relatives living In this vicinity. His own family consists of a wife and two children, one a son of 17 and a daughter two years younger. It is a peculiar fact that the very night of the murder Owens' wife had decided to leave Wilgon, so that the slaying of the e .:wnn to have bunn: useless on the part of the wronged husband. of the jail officlals if his | O XTI R TR TR TR TR Q¥<MMQ4<}W¥MQ’ OF MAIL FOR “HEALER” TRUTH 3 * BOSTON, April 20.—Twelve sacks of mall addressed to Francis Truth. the (/ divine healer, who was arrested recently charged with fraud, have been im- % pounded by the Uniu & States Government under the usual “fraud order.” 0l Many of the thousands of letters contained in the twelve mail sacks carry Truth's usual charge was $5 for absent treat- ¥ ment, so that necessarily the amount of money contained in the letters is () The twelve sacks of malil will be opened by the postal authori- 4 ties. The letters which bear names and addresses on the envelopes will be re- A The other letters will be sent to the “Dead Letter What money is contained In these let- ¥ | FTHT AT AT AT A TSR T A TR TS T AT AT A TAT AT TR T @ | EXCURSIONISTS WERE i ABANDONED BY CLARKE Members of the Ill-Fated Party Left in Europe and Many Are Penniless. Special Diepatch to The Call. BOSTON, April 20.—The steamer New England, which carried the ll-fated party of wealthy excursionists from all par ! of the country to Mediterranean port: under the management of F. C. Clark. arrived in Boston from Liverpool to-da with some of the stranded party on board. Among the original party were many California people, including Miss Hall B. Childs, Miss Sarah D. Crosby, Miss Sarah Coleman, John B. Luther, Rev. James F. | Nugent. ' In addition there were people from Pasadena and other parts of Call: fornia. It is not known where any of these are now i The members of the Clarke party who returned to-day denounce in emphatic terms the conduct of F. C. Clarke, who, they clalm, abandoned them in Romé | when_he knew that they had been in- fected with smallpox, and that they were without resources owing to his assurances | that for the sum of $500 or $600 a head would pay all the expenses of the trip, | take with them on cymm:‘;xI enough for | tipping purposes. Captain McAuley says | that he had to leave Naples to eseape costly quarantine upon the discovery of smallpox symptoms among the crew. It is understood that the management of the party asked the captain of the vessel to conceal the presence of smallpox on board and to continue the trip as it had been planned originally. is Captain | McAuley declined to do. Four of the pas- | sengers died of the disease in Europe and a large portion of the party is now scat- tered all over the continent, many of them probably infected and some of them, it is feared, penniless. S e D’ARCOS PLACATED. Chicago Mayor Satisfactorily Ex- plains Dewey Invitation Incident. CHICAGO, April 20.—The Duke d'Arcos incident arising from the Dewey Invita- tion was closed to-da following communication recelved by | Mayor Harrison from the Spanish Min- ister at Washington: It was very kind of you to send the letter received this morning. From the first moment I felt assured that all about the Invitation was a mistake and that there was no intention whatever of an offense. At the same time I felt that I could not drop the matter unnoticed. Now it is a closed incident and I thank you again for your very courteous answer. “I thought the explanation I sent was sufficient to convince the Spanish Minister that the matter was an oversight,” sald the Mayor, “and this letter shows the Duke is satisfled with the outcome of an incident that is to be regretted deeply.’ sl el Sk DENVER'S PROTEST. DENVER, Colo., April 20.—The hearing before Interstate Commerce Commission- ers Fifer and Clements In regard to the lllef!d discriminations In freight rates nst this city by the rallways was con- cluded to-day. The attorneys were given until June 5 to flle their briefs and a dec! sion is_promised soon after that date. . H. Hart, a sewing-machine jobber, ave testimony <tn-dnuhowln¢ that con- itlons are such that ‘nver jobbers can- not compete in Montana, Wyoming, Utah or any Western States with en.hernSmh; K t! Missourl River ht trafiic ghlch o'hmu: ‘nion fic in detall the rates to lons have been‘made. The ers go from Denver to he | , according to the | i NORTH DAKOTA TOWN SWEPT BY FLAMES | Two Lives Lost and Many 1 Families Are Left Homeless. ‘DESTIT['TIOX WIDESPREAD it Property Damaged Amounts to Four Hundred Thousand Dollars. Relief Measures Must Be Promptly Taken. EDINBURGH. N. D. wiped out the entire business portion of this city to-day. Property to the amount | of 3400000 was burned, and two women perished In the flames. Smoldering ruins and burnt debris are all that remain to mark the location of this heretofore pros- perous village, entire families are without homes and many will be compelled to spend the night out of doors. The food supply Is short and the hemeless ones will undergo distress from hunger. Mrs. Jacob Lindall, wife of a former | prominent merchant and a bride of but a few months, Mrs. B. B. Bjornsen were burned to death. They occupled rooms in a two-story buflding and at- April 20.—Firs It was In|and that the excursionists would need to | tempts were made to get to their apart- ments, but without avail. The origin of the fire was in the rear of Dormstead & Co.'s drug store, and sup- posed to be from spontaneous combustion. The Robertson Lumber Company lost its | entire stock and buildings. Five general imerchmdlse stores, two drug stores, two | hardware stores, three implement houses, one bank, two hotels, two livery stables | and many other bulldings were burned. | Two elevators containing several thousand | bushels of grain are also burned. The irulmad tracks are destroyed for some dllstance a(nd trains will be delayed some time. . ORGAN GRINDER TO | BE EARL OF POULETT | | 1 Viscount Hinton Wins His Fight for | a Title and Large | Estate. | LONDON, April 2.—The Daily makes the following announcement: “We learn that an arrangement is_on the eve of, conclusion, pormitting Vis- count Hinton, the organ grinder, to be- | come the Earl of Poulett, the younger | son by the late Earl's third wife abandon- | ing. claim to the title, but receiving annuity to be paid out of the estate. i FRENCH NATURALIST DEAD. | g | Alphonse Milne-Edwards Suddenly | Passes to the Beyond. PARIS, April 21.—M. Alphonse Milne- Edwards, the distinguished French nat- | uralist and director of the Museum of Natural History, died _suddenly at | o'clock this morning, | his sixty-fifth year. Mail —_— Gomez at Santo Domingo. | SANTO DOMINGO, April 20 (via Hay- | tian cable).—General Maximo Gomes ar- rived here from Cuba to-day and met a | brilltant official and public reception. He lapded under a salute fired from the fort and was met at the landing, the streets were decorated In his honor and he was serenaded this evening. i, s v il Famine Spreading in India. uxml.”!ndh.l A,:HI 2.—The “:mn- SO0 the penpls spreading 5,800,~ Telief.