The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 9, 1900, Page 3

SAN FRANCISCO CAL L, MONDAY, JULY 9, 1900, B Aged Negro, Whose Wife and Son Have Fallen Vic- tims to the Bloody Feud at Colma, Says He Is Pre=| OO0 104 Q4 O O OO T DT DD 000 . COLMA, July 8, 1900. o HE confession it is alleged 1 have made is a lie out of @ whole cloth. Yesterday afternoon a young man ne to me and said he came from Sheriff Mans- eld to arrest me, but he would not take me to-might if I 11d tell the truth about this trouble. He said that Ehlers o i Lemoscher had confessed to the shooting and that they P ad said I was the cause of it; that I had said to them I wanted to get the niggers out of the way, and that if I had not insisted on it they would not h: killed them. I said that no matter what they had said the truth is 1 Then Mr.. Bruns 1 Exa never had any such tro cognized the man as : im of lying about Mrs. Bruns. The man went and did not come back. This is all the con- had with him. 2 orning he came to Mrs. Luhr ner reporter, and told her that ied to force her to fession to him and he t ia right to arrest her. Mrs. Luhrs ac- le a c« Q) OO OO OO O OO 1O OO O 10 1O O-HO- nd he went away ANTOTA TIMSAND. Witness: JOHN LUHRS, MRS. LUHRS. CHOLOHDC DT OO0 d Lemoscher, which ofe Ot Signed) ¢ OAD 1O O O 010 104 OGO OO 2 RING OF LOCAL LAWYZRS REAP A RCH HARVEST BY | ROBBING INTESTATE DEAD INUED FROM PAGE ONE. Rogers de Miss Hel- srner These | order distri by Judge J M. 4 last In open court and ad- sons for whogn he aj rs or in any way re- »h S an and that ‘there- missed his petition a ed that the estate be given to John Sulli- ed that the cross the world offices of Mr. Rog irs, Mr. Rogers sa fortunate J Troutt th son Pawarded the the bog The conspiracy complete to shameful success, The st off the onily ¢ Judge Troutt se Lon- ACCIDENTAL DEATH 1 distributi The attorney de- nal Taken to Drive Away en opportunity to and he asserted. He Insomnia. prove the fign of F. A, Mc- | Skook d that th ter street, die e in three 1 his mother, 106 C nine he p ed the court | tz ym an overdose of sul- ¢ ate to the bogus | phonal, taken to induce sleep, peared in the | The young man had been troubled with insomnia for some time. Yesterday morn- ir s of the sharks’' | Ing he went to his room at 9:30 o'clock, caval which threatened A asking his sister to call him at 5 p, m. Final distribution | When Miss McNally went to call her was not made on May 3, the | brother she found him unconsclous. Dr. : i chosen. The law- | F. E. Hughes was calle! and did 1t business down | his power for the patient. McNally never mysterious John Sulli- | regained consciousne sing away e to appear in Judge about midnight. He been ning. Buc_the | strong medicine for sness day. A marvel-| O o will determine the death. low come pver James Ti cause of his B he said ihis €505 :}P;’l The deceased was 34 years old. He was S 2 s Talse on ey & he John | engaged in the real estate and insurance & w smposter on April | business, and had a host of friends in thig | Executive of Gold Coast Colony ' and only helr on | city. | | —_—— | r s who were the | [ - : ph Sulltvan and | W on rs ril 3 were not heirs Many More Bruised. van on May 4. CHICAGO, July 5.—An open switch at James Ta: was taken pared to Die, | | B e e o A e S o g plia to the man - @ - PS . ened by the boy off and injured in hip LATEST NEWS FROM NOME BROUGHT BY THE NELSON Work Plentiful Alr;g Beach and Men With the Crudest Appliances Are Making Money. consent- | from Nome brought Fiedler, named Ward. Fiedler, Haute, wishes work cz Succumbs to an Overdose of Sulpho- o or Centennial or five mile at i@ hustled | \tional cuts no figure with our commun inaugurated San Mateo Cou Was Distorted. aione in this world tement published in the E T is not a confession and tended as suvch. I have made | inating eménts and do not inte Frank Sieve! | get i and two—the | ailed for that des- from Nome, Senator and Aberdeen tir having left there June 26. She | and a man he believes that Nome is just as good as It has been re- | On Peny River, w men with the crudest ap- shing out from $4 to $20 a day 4ys that on the beach he offered men $4 an hour to handle freight of them laughed at him. me down to purchase machinery | reports that im made the trip in good shape and | a great busi- The Centennial had | | ments are of rare gorg her steam la ngers report that ! d down the water front * to mine on ac- | ing piled up a unt of buggage the s creeks are fabulously rich. Dr. Smith, who returned on the Nelson, charterers of the bark which went | in Cape York the crew deserted and Indiars were substituted in their places. ter got drunk, tried to loot the ship and v with ing | wi and it lumber was dispo: ose. The | profit. GOVERNOR HODGSON SAFE. as one of Northern her cargo of a handsome Reaches Akwebus, CAPE COAST CASTLE, July 8.—A let- CABLE CAR WRECKED. | ter from Sir Frederick Mitchell Hodgson, p o Governor of the Gold Coast Colony, dated related o cither John Sul- | Eight Persons Seriously Injured and 4¢ Akwebus, July 1, has been received here announting his safety. EUMSLU, July A~The column under com- 1 s Tay- | mand to make these the intersection of Roby street and Mil- | mirthing to the relief of Sir Frederick strange contra- | waukee avenue caused the derailing of a | Hodgson, has arrived here. Hard fighting ¢ from the place | crowded south-bound Milwaukee-avenue 'is expected L0-mOITow. Mrs Josepm IMsSANGS ICADED IN HIS CABIN WILLIA - MITCHELL PREPARES FOR THE WORST L T e R R e e R L e e S o . R e R R R 3 | & . - @ i MITCHELLS ; . ARSENAL | . ¢ & $ B 1 ¢ THREE LEADING FIGURES IN COLMA TRAGEDY AND MITCHELL'S : 3 CABIN FORT. ® ¢ . Do ei e eieiei ebeiesteieieiedbededeiedoededeieiedsiedsiodedel® instructed by his attorney, Judge F. | say anything further, as my attorney has had a long talk. He says she never gave and he is trying to ob vice to the letter. He let the opportunity pass without stamp- ir the atement "made in a yellow journal that he had made a confession of guilt a falseh d that he knew be atement was dict 1 representative Call ‘I know Mr. Ehler they try to put the crime « ather suffer for him. ‘The ok the statement dow Mr. Ehlers wi 1pon mys: wrong id Ehiers w han had ¥ AT THE THEATERS) “A Contented Woman,” according to Mr. oyt, was greeted by a lar udience st evening at the Californiz pre- ted to the echo the almc rit- cisms with which t abounds. ut why coons look that classic i cf ire on the fair sex?” *“AN like to me,” or any old name would be equally applicable to the P Contented Woman The play 1 Old Woriad flavor—trie world of Judge and Puck of the “dear, ion in beyond recall,” and ally 10us in its disparagor sible woman® in com- on with the later lances whose tar- the “eternal feminin Things did not go with the usual snap of the Dunne & Ryl last night. The horn of the prompter was heard on (ke air too frequently. It will be “‘better next time,” as Ha ays, and Aliss Whalley can materially ass:: illusion by_not piaying invariably to the audience. M Whalley looks charming, her gowns ave dreams—one at least—but she cannot act. Matthews has a good part, well taken, in Benton Holme. Bulger takes ali the small | opportunities in Brighton Betis. Bessi: Tannehill does fine work as Aunt Jim and the rest of the cast iv acceptably filled. The most artistic work of the evening w: done by Tony Hart, who gave an exce! lent rendering of the senile Uncle Todie. The speciaities were not remarkably new, but the sextet “To Althe gave much pieasure, as also Mary Marble's and Miss Gunning's songs. e Henry Miller and his company appear in “A Marriage of Convenience this evening at the Columbia Theater, and Miller, as the Comte de Candale, has a splendid role. Miss Anglin will play the Comtesse, and Miss Dale the French maid, and the old French costumes and appoint- Jusness. o Henry Arthur Jones' “Dancing Girl” | is the week’'s bill at the Grand Opera house. Wilton Lackaye will appear as the Duke of Guisebury, Keith Wakeman as Drusilla Ives, Mary Van Buren as Sybil Crake, and Warrington Reynoids as David Ives. 'The run of the play is limited to one week. i S The popular “Geisha” is still running | at the Tivoli, its third and last week. Next week “Wang” will be revived, and after that grand opera, with Salassa, Ave- dano, Repetto, Anna Lichter, Frances Graham and other distinguished artists in the company. _ | The Orpheum list of attractiogs for the week Is a long one: The favorite Quaker City Quartet, Clayton White and Marie B(u’urtq. the four Cohans, Barrere and Jules, ‘Smith and Fuller and others help make one of the best bills of the season. a5 The third act of Flotow's melodious and ever popular “Martha” will be sung in English at Fischer's Concert house this week by Miss Armanda Corcoran, Mme. M. Morell, Charles Thrower and John de ten deputies scattered thmughout. the | Witt. Deets and Don, a novelty duogand | county. “itzpatrick of Redwood City, not to talk, his counsel's ad- »uld not, however, 1id positively that tatement wholly In the pres- ted expressed satire on the fair | | Southern | named_will give the system through lines | advised me not to. When the time comes we will prove our innocence. Did Not Get $20 From Widow. Lemoscher. further said, despite his aration that he would talk no further, 1t he had not read the alleged confes de by Mrs. Imsand and that she 10t make it known to him that she aled for publication when she was 1g the afternoc He said not redd English wit therefore might not have I n to the statements made in the paper He wanted it u tood that Mrs. In vith which to buy he never accentes the woman for th her laughe lled on during the afte w with Lemosch over the . Imsand that him any money with which to buy a rifle and prever mentioned to him the matter of buying weapons. ILemoscher Knows that even if such a thing were true no ne woman would make herself an ac- cessory to a murder by stating it publiciy. am now vinced that Ehlers w ith Lemoscher when the last nam: 1t the rifles from m h him, but 1 I know it was not know who lers. Another is th emoscher did tgun from nor did the All that was bought was and the ammunition. Funeral of the Vietims. f the victim the u th him as they were concerned, *re was something in the 1. the husband and turned away from the two ) under which his wife and son rested side by side that made spectators think that “finis” has not yet been reach- ed in the bloody history of the Mitchell- and vend the old man stood at ed and broken, he lis- ¢ Dolliver, a clever child will make their first Isabelle Underwood, a vorite, will ¢ selections. ————— CONSOLIDATION OF | THREE BIG ROADS| Chicago and Alton, Kansas City and | Union Pacific to Be Under One Management CHICAGO, July 8.—The Chronicle to- morrow will say: It is now reported t the Chica nd Alton. the F and the Union Paci systems gamated and placed under are to be | one management. | Stewart Knott, who recently resigned | tem, | : president | the vice presidency of the Plant it is said, has been elected a vi of the Alton consolidated systems instead of the Alton alone. This position, it further rumored, will be only a tempor: one, and that before New Year's he will | be elevated to tne office of president of the | Harriman roads, President Fulton of the{ Alton going to New York to assume the | office of chalrman of the board of directors | of the three companies. Mr. Fulton has been in New York for some time confer- ring with Mr. Harriman. The coming together of the three roads from Chicago to Portland, Or., and to Port | Arthur, on the Gulf of Mexico. il JAPANESE DRIVEN FROM ‘ THE QUICKSILVER MINES | \ | Trouble Likely to Ensue if the Com- | pany Persists in Putting Them to Work. HOLLISTER, July 8.—Eighteen Japan- | ese were sent to work in the New Idria | quicksilver mines last Friday. On arriv- | ing at the mine they were met by a del- egation of miners, who said if the Jap- | anese were to get the same wages as | whites, $1 75 to $2 50 per day, they could | go to work. The Japarnese are under con- tract at $1 25 per day. The miners turned the Japanese back under severe threats. The _ Japanese | struck out overland for the Fresno fruit | orchards. The miners are very deter- mined about the matter. Trouble is likely if the company persists In sending Jap- anese. ordber S SEG Hunter Arrested. Special Dispatch to The Cail | Joseph Merac SAN RAFAEL, July 8—-Game Warden Robertson of this county to-day arrested ignatz Rolinger on two charges of vio- | lating the game laws. Rolinger, who had | been hunting near Point Reyes, was re- | turning_home on the train, where he was arrested. He carried a choice assortment | of birds, ranging from doves and quail to | a tame duck, %ell peppered with shot. Rolinger will be prosecuted by the | authorities here, who are making every effort to stop the killing of game out or[ season, To-day Warden Robertson had FATALLY STABBED WHILE PLEADING FOR MERCY i, a Window Washer, Assaulted by F. Cognacci in Sacramento. Special Dispatch 40 The Call CRAMENTO, July S.—Joseph Mera- chi. a window washer, was stabbed about 9 0'cldck to-night by P. ( . a shoe- maker. It is belleved that Merachi will iie. The assault was a savage one. The men met at the corner of Second and J streets and some w passed between them, when Cognacel was ‘seen to take a rom his pocket and make several his victim. Merachi, crying for mercy, ran out into the middle of the street and fell on his knees. While he was in this position gnacci ran up to him and planted his dagger In_ the man's back. Then he threw the knife away and ran. Two blocks away, on the river front, a fruit-packer brandished a hatchet in front of him with such good effect that the crowd of pursuers soon made the cap- ture. At the prison Cognaccl said that | he assaulted by Merachi, but his | not borne out by the condition of v. It is thought the wound in | Merachl’s back may prove fatal and an | ante-mortem statement has been taken. P PROSPECTORS RETURN WITH A RICH FORTUNE Three Miners Dig Over $200,000 in the New Gold Fields in Lower California. CHICAGO, July 8—A special to the Record from Hermosillo, Mexico, says: Martin Hulen of Aspen, Colo., T. B. G. Gedine of San Francisco and James Cra: ford of Benson, Ariz., prospectors, ha arrived from the new placer gold flelds in Lower California, about fifty miles south of Camp Companis, bringing with them over §200,000 in gold dust. This sum represents their earnings for a period of eight months. The prospectors state that the placer | fleld embraces a tract of gravel about 225,000 acres in exten e | STRIKE M..Y BE RESUMED. | ST. LOUIS, July 8.—The executive com- mittee of the local branch of the Amal- gamated Association of Street Railway Employes of America to-night decided to call a mass-meeting for to-morrow morn- ing at 10 o'clock to consider the rela- | tions _existing between the St. Louis Transit Company and its employes. It is asserted by the executive committee that the agreement signed by President Whit- aker of the Transit Company and Chai man Edwards of the strikers’ grievan committee, whereby the strike was de- clared off, has been violated by the former. President Whitaker, it is charged, in- stead of hiring the men on the list fur- hlahed. according to the agreement by the grievance committee, is taking on 1 new men. | The Rev. Mr. | Brown Ex- cites Colored People at the | Funeral by Prayer for Vengeance, tened quietly to the solemn burial ser but wt t clod fell with = thud oaken casket cont . body ¢ had worked by o and k bittern of . his long | struggle agai an unreasoning prejuc | his bent figure straightened. His thoug | then were plain to every byst harsh Old Testam motto, * " evidently n e fon of the milder doc exelu: o nati At 1130 o’clock vesterday (afternoon the rooms at the undertaking_establishment were fllled with Africans of many ings. The parlors are divided int In the back room t by side. When Willlam Mit | the room he seemed very ol | He was accompanied by his both tall, strapping fellows daughters. The latter were crying two s Rudolph and Henry, looke passive. Willlams' face was twitchir and when his eyes fell on the two bla coffins he seemed about to cry cked himse d sat dow Ze near the window wit Then last rites began himan Brown and the Rev Grimes, both of the African Episcopal Church, read the serv impressive voices. Dramatic Scenes at Services. Rev. Mr. Brown's marked impression upon ent. His voice was raised and his manner betoken fervid excitement that wo emotions of the color meetings. When he retribution upon the I derers, the kneeling at the black caskets with strai moaned. His plea for young m | together was responded to by tions 2 s from the w ty was re hem str the principle announced Henry, “Give me liberty death.” Then those in the room ene. Mitche! been sitting qui threw himself on his kp ap coffins. In a bre nd sobbing praye on his wife, a to t too. The old man’'s grief was | cont the who - | ing_self-control whe | their father gently | resistance. Then the doors of the hearses cemetery by the stream his beloved pain that w sk ist as the shovelers were about to first earth into the open old man broke white flc bunch and flung it down wife. Once me to break out. His fa arriage. Then the cle Mitchell will stay Baden for a works for t wiiling to provide But William > weat and his expr no doubt that e bitter end. ADVERTISEMENTS. JUST RECEIVED- Another New Invoice FINE SUMMER SHOES! LADIES" PATENT L plain toes, LXV ai THER LACE SHOEs, e 5,00 LADIES' BLACK KID OXFORDS plain heels $1.50 ¢ LADI PATENT LEATHER OXF LXV heels IPSRaT " 7 LADI TAN OXFORDS, n e 1 #3200 MEN'S TAN and BLACK VICI KID LACE SHOES . cernrencenne SBS0 §3.00 MEN'S TAN and PATENT LEATHER OX- T e Y #5.00 POPULAR PRICES. = % - > B30-832-834 MARKET ST., S. 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