The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 22, 1900, Page 31

B 44 bbb 4444440 . € + 4 * ¥ -+ : (\ Voo : g ,;....u{«womw”qu all, e eamasazasis s s st s s S o Pages 31 10 40 +t44 444440 Gttt tttie® FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JULY 22, 1900. STAGE BEAUTY FINED FOR COCKING HER CAP Cost Connie Powell Five Dollars to Wear Headgear to Suit Herself. | | e e e e D O R R SO SR RO SO Y ra she @idn’t.”" chimed in cry for a man who whiskers on his chin 3 gets mad v _one’” went Bly ‘was dread- ¥ off two nights. >s docked her for complained he was losing $500 Connte wears and h Cripps rough are gett agerial Pawell, a Dun- " resa best of them s why I su But < ates m I ¥ )tte par excel- teeth. . itching “D—n ation , say about the X her 1se she T we : nd insubordinate. She . and pays no attention to m the is clever and capable, but her endeavor to make her- nspicuous.” 1 the district is not ques- should never lose t th Senatorial D iet. which i »w Teprese John Feeney, Demo. | erat. Fac among Republi « have been e of their past | defeats. There 't of harmony lican candid; 23 Richard s, and { i A. Glover | Martinoni. Several Democratic | aspi are alread wounced, and B 3 them are Ja Reilly. J. J. " C J. J. Lynch, Dr. T. B. W. Le- | Michael Hernon Byrne in publicans May Win Four of Five San Fran- cisco Districts. Assemblyman in 189 a His friends his behalf. Stone, chairman of the Central Committes inst : st next Tuesday even- el — n Tub is making prepa Bear Club Preparing to Parade in| 53007, 0% 1o 10 i hine B Honor of Colcnel George Stone’s b ANty o el {'“' . ) rom the committee. | Return and Eddie Con- i b the State should roy’s Retirement. election clgses Tuly. 3. Evers: Re- ‘ Rl publican in California should participats {in the primary election. Delegatiors to | . cing creditable | o ,the _nom ons | » P of the five | Qught i s o - e i o Fyap. | Miiseushin. ~Worki as me- o - | chanies, merch awyers, doctors, . Many of the Demo- | farmers and otk géd in industrial | o support the best | pursuits, shot epresent the — e of party. OId line | people. The old rounders. political para- Bou ats who never voted any | sites and grogshop loafers should he ex- - g raight out Democratic | cluded from the conventic The small o H Dt | Posses cannot pass out proxies as of yore. ke K bubonic as only delegates elected by the voters oan t ; ) register this year | gerve. v pted to vote for Re- Fortieth District Club Plans. pu 2 President ¥dmund Tauszky of the For- s s ‘()1:'!:}r;'r;.,:r!ibjr:l-\‘;;j tieth District' Republican Club has an- e for ofios .Jx]d-'e Dibble nounced assthe executive committee of the . e e D ucly | club_the following: John F. Kennedy work ‘ the Republicap momi- | Charies L. Fields, A L. Rosenbers. “E. e r the Assembly, believing that| Masinnis, J. G. Gelsting, Herbert Fleish- e pre national election and the | acker, B. H. Webster. Harry Baehr, M. D. Levison, E. A. Bullis, W. %. Tiftany, uls McKinley &nd Roosevelt 3 5 rough. The Repabifean | A- Morris. A. D. Cross, D. S. Davis. John ns yers of the district can | Henderson, William Dodson. J. B. Whit- oty electing & sotid | ney. John F. McGlynn, Charles R. Han- Kis ‘ Seniiination. lsfin and John J. Cassidy. sed to other leading citi.| The executive committee met Friday may agree on & cAn- | evening at 1230 Geary street and clect a delegation op- | ganized by “electing’ Edmund Tauszk chairman and D. L. Fitzgerald secretary. It was decided that each member of the executive committee should present two npames as candidates for delegate to the municipal convention and one name for delegate to the Congressional convention, lications of a liv y-third § succeed Sidnc cy and _Orator T. W. are among the Democratic aspi- yants_for nomination. It is presumed | From the names presented the committee That Hickey has the support of ghe Fhe- | will select at its next meeting the set of jan civil service gang. Republifans aik | delegates 1o be balloted for at the primary of nominating John J. yrrell, whose ' election. on | are making an | will | HUMPBACK The Leviathan P S P S S SR S SR S S S S R S S -y SEENE ON > O+ oo ILOT-BOAT Bonita was struck by a whale six miles southeast of the Farallones at 9:30 p. m. July 20, and sank in fifteen fathoms of | ater at 3:38 a. m. July 21. ptain Scott and crew of the cked pilot boat brought to the city on the collier Wellington, arriving at 70'clock yesterday morning, and the abo¥e notice of th was immediately posted at the excl news vast a nt of discussion and were not wanting those who derisively de- a e yarn of the vessel having I tory the par leaked out all were res the Bonita had been every British ar captain in port h known ves i a story to tell of well- t had met with similar | m « r astle, the man- aging owner of the Bonita, is satisfied that a brecching w > is responsible for the loss of the | Captain Castle Explains. “The mammal w unting had a great mouthful of smai! fish,” said Cap- | tain Castie. “Tt w Ling 10 the surfac | 2 rate of a mile a minute with its { prey and just as it was ready to breech i » air it collided W the Bonita. it, the Bonita is now fifteen fathoms miles southe of Faral- pilot hLoat. lone The pllot boat Bonita w ay morning with ¢ t to sea last ptain George Cap- rightfeld 1d the three sail- ramed Olson, An- steward ors in the derson and Jacks | | i | | | i Captain Freeman was sent aboard the [ bark in the Bonita’s vawl. On his way | both he and the two men who were row- ing him nearly lost their li An im- mense school of small fish surrounded the hoat and, attracted by the lizht which the pilot was holding in his hand, they began Jumping into the yawl, For a few seconds it looked lRe swamping. but ! Pilot Freeman id the light d made his boatmen ston rowing and in few maq- ments the dinger was passed. The ap- | proach of the Relief and her tow drove the fish away. | Came Like a Thunderbolt. Pilot Freemtan’s adventure took place at 7:2 p. m., and two hours later the Bonita was making her way slowly in the direction of the lightship. Without a | moment's notice and like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky something struck her |'on the port quarier and a few moments later she was waterlogged. For six hours Captain Scott and two of the crew stood the sinking schooner, and then she ent down bow first. After putting Captain Freeman aboard the J. C. Pfluger we started for the light- ship,” said Captain Scott. “The sea was comparatively smooth and the wind hight. We were making about two knots an hour and there was nothing in sight. I I saw something rising up in the water ongside the vessel. It butted us on the port quarter and then seemed to re- bound and gradually sank out of sight. Perhaps there was no rebound the case of Mr. Whale, and it was simply our boat being rushed through the water by the impact, but it seemed to us that the whale bounded back and then sank out of sight. Could Not Keep Her Afloat. “A brief exaniination showed that the Bonita was badly stove below the water line and was sinking. I got the pumps to. work, but we could not control the in- rush, and fifteen minutes gfter the acei- dent the water was up to the lockers in the cabin. I got the crew on deck and had the boats put in the water. At mid- night we kedged the boat, lowered all the sails.and prepared to leave.JI sent Cap- tains Swanson. Wallace and Miller and Steward Lannon and two men to the ‘Grncle S, which was near by, while . the in THE--PILOT B S R = On *Friday ev Bonita sighted the lights of the tug Re- lief with the dismasted bark J. C. Pflu- | | ger in tow. T 1c k t was hove to was just in the act of going below when | WHALE SENDS PILOT BOAT.BONITA TO THE BOTTOM Strikes the Schooner on i 05~0<~/0¢‘r0~?0®0‘\i’0\90©0:)0‘@0\‘/0@09.@'90\90000*4; BOAT BONITA AFTER THE WHALE STRUCK HER. G+-000-0-6-00+00d000@ i boatkeeper, a sailor and myself stayed, .\rrprism] lot of men you never saw in the ship. | ybur life when they heard our story. or a couple of hours we hung on to | About 3:40 a. m. Captain Scott came | the ma eet, and then as it looked aboard and gave us the news of the sink- though she might go down at any mo-|ing of the Bonita. Soon afte hos ment we cast Off, At 3:10 a. m. she was | the Wellington, and yestesday afio in her death throes. She took a list to| I boarded the Colon and came in port, gave two or three heavy rolls, then | more whale sto in mine. One ad careened to starboard and final ettled | ture with a leviathan is enough for me.” down head first. The last thing 1 saw| pg = v of the _onita was the end of her main | ots Have Many Close Calls. | boom, and was king straight up| Since the pilot service for the Golden like a mast. | Gate began there have been many pilot “*After the Bonita went down we pulled | boats wrecked, and no one but the pilot to the and got aboard her at themselyes can tell how many “clos. a. m. Soon afterward the steamer Wel- | calls.”” No matter how hard it blows, the on hove in sight and I went aboard | pilot boat has to be cut, and a dozen times phile the crew of“the Bonita | a month the pilot takes his life in his along as passenier ptains | hands while s g to board an ine : Miller and Wa Tained | vessel. S e s U aboard the Gracie S to fin r cruise.” | Away back in 1853-34 ‘the pilot boat Sea Witch’ was wrecked on Arch Rock. She ran on the spot in a dense fog, but luck! Second Experienc: With a Whale. | This is Captain Scott's second experi- | o] e o % i iy ence with a whale, TWenty years ago he | Sownonds Were saved before she went | was outside the Heads on the tugh 5 o e % | Donald and than came up £0 | - piws,ine Dancing Feather went ashore breatne juse as U cked the | Hor crew was saved, - - oL sonita did. Luckily it came up alongside, | 6 = by T Ly but gave the Donald a stroke with 1ts tal] | nirer pecn® pauia disappeared and has that, ’lrrlnkc‘ every dish in the pantry and | pilots had boarded off and a schooner in ‘Uru‘)"t(‘ ‘J:;-rfl‘-‘l\f my:;;r"” e T | distress coming along the boatkeeper and glate vesterday aftefiioon Captain Alex | a sailor went out to her, leaving the Julia S e trom Panama. Hie account | inattended. A freshening breeze started of the affair adds many detaits to the most | ROr “SY ANty an Sy From hor nv;fn'\tl\z-gnl*:»l, that ‘has ever ocou | pursuers and has never been heard of off the Golden Gate. Since the pilot | trom t v to this. The general sup- jce was inaugurated nine pilot boat: position is that she was caught in a squall “been wrecked. but not one of them compare in graphic details with the lo of the Bonita. “Up to the time that whale struck us, aid Captain Swanson t s one of the | an off the Farallones and went down. i Lost With All Hands. d went down with all hands. B R I o e o o 2 | the Relief was swamped on| h0st ordinary cruises I had ever been y S ahd a crex ton \\I.vln-n port W sday Inllnxmn;: ShosRE sud & ceawiof and not a blessed thing hove in sight un- Taleb Curtis wa s 4l after the Bonita was wrecked Friday | on the ‘bar and all hands were drowned. night. We bad been playing a game of | Luckily the pilots had all boarded off, s0 cribbage, and getting tired of the sport | ohly the crew lost their lives. Afterward yere sine - wavallace was nearly | the Caleb Curtls was raised and refitted. Sadre “was resting on the | [y he was sold to a sealing firm. but lounge and | £0ing into the Pantry 10 | the captain who went out on her s e zet a mouthful to eat. while Scott Was | in‘Japan and ran away. > iS now sup- oming down the companionway to see | polad to be a yacht in Chinese waters, Tow el s O 3‘;1"‘;;!:;, In 1569 the . Conseus went on the of a man ng on-a xylophone, Every | ll‘(,f.: an e Togsarn e tolal boat seemed to have been | timber {; -k In 1850 the Confidence ran on Mile Rock | | str nd Orth | and went down in a few minutes. Th ve o « a fe s. e i e "“»;"‘]‘ | crew was saved. | aves'; that f D In 188 the T. H. Allen was run down have éver ;""A_n’"»‘“l"}“‘_"_“.j“, my life. She | 2n4 sunk by the bark Wallacetown. Sev- tight a little craft " sailea | ‘era) of the crew were injured, but no reific as faster t Vs ,H‘{“‘f “" lives were lost. Now comes the most comfortable a_boat | thrilling and pecuiiar of all the disasters It though she were singing her own requiem as man ever set foot on. emed —the Bonita's encounter with a whale. The Bonita was one of the handsomest pilot boats ever seen on this coast. was 78 tons gress burden. 81 feet long, 2 | feet beam., 9 feet 6 inches deep and w { built at Port Blakeley in 152, | Later on s putting on getting into’ my st, while 1 was 100Kir g arcund for some. thing to cover my suspenders, there did not seem so much poetry in the situation. Was an Old Gravback. | *As soon as the shock came I rushed on commission in June ‘of that vear. The s the on at once. America She oss, as Captain Jordan ready to go into comm! | deck and saw an old grayback whale com- < R aes dry docked on Monday morning ling up. For a second or two it seemed to | Will be dry Ty MmO wallow around as though stunned, and | 22d Will go, out Monday night to relleve | Then It ransed up alongeide. For a few | the Gracie S. seconds ft was motionless, and then it | started away with a .-u<yl| that left a EL CAMPO, | phosphorescent streak a mile long behind | * ppp POPULAR RESORT. “When 1 got a chance to look around | The Californiz Northwestern Railway | | Captain Scott g up to his knees in ‘:\;:‘(::hfiellln;: the pump ready. Seeing that | to-day. The fine steamer Ukiah leaves nces of saving the the boat were | desperate, Wallace. Miller and I weat A"le many times during the day for the grounds, which are the most beautifui in ward and got the men’s things out of the | forecastle while they were at work on the | the vicinity of the city. There is overy- { pumps, By the time we had done this and | got_back to the cabin the water was up to the lockers and the Bonita was doomed, We got into the boats and pulled away | but as she did not seem to sink in the | | water we went back to her and saw by the | {light in the cabin, that was still burning, | | that the water was up over the cabin ta- . | ble. We secured the compasses, glasses, | speaking trumpets and anchor iight and then lowered the sails. She began mz‘". reen soon after the sails were lowered, and everybody deserted her once more. | *“Captain Scott now decided that more | pilots should ba at watch on the stations, |so he told Captains Wallace. Miller and i myself off for duty on the Gracie S. At this time the Gracie was six miles away, kedged two miles outside the lightship. It took us two hours and forty minutes to row to her, and when we came alongside they took us for a lot of pirates and or- | be held at Schuetzen Park. near San Ra- dered us.away. We found Captains Ers- | fael, September 3, reported at a meeting kine and Korts in the cabin, and a more | held last night that everything had been wiii have their usual picnic at El Campo | heart of the picnicker. ~Good bathing. large and shady groves. splendid dance platform—it is a place wherein one can forget the fret of business. —_—————————— Charged With Embezzlement. Ed Bowen, bartender at Kapp & Street's saloon, was arrested yesterday afternoon on a warrant charging him with misde- meanor embezzlement. The complaining Witness is H. C. Koehncke of the Enter- prise Brewery. Bowen, who was released on ball, said he was accused of selling a bottle of whisky and retaining the money, — e St. Patrick’s to Picnic. The committee of arrangements in charge of St. Patrick’s parish picnic, to She | going into | pilot service will no¢ be crippled by her | thing there which can bring joy to the | AWFUL FATE OF CHINESE CRIMINAL the|Sister of San Francisco Police- . Port Quarter and the Little Vessel Sinks a Few Hours Later Near the Farallones. B e S T S e Sl o e man Sends Photo That>Tells the Tale. i $ | T e A SR B o o ad e a g Ve e® & . & ® > + & > . . © o & THE CULPRIT IN THE CAGE. 3 ¢ HE sister of Police Officer Hurd has written a letter to hi * 04 Shanghal, telling of the atrocities of the Boxers and inclost pe . tograph of a Chinese criminal who was tortured to de Pe & treating a young girl. After referring to the Boxers the la writ & Last night we were all in a great state of excitement. There were 5 that some Boxers w in the immediate vicinity of Shal. I sent for m & Russian Consul, and he put all my fears at rest. Don't you worry about me, as ? is absclutely nothing in the way of danger here. I know that the papers will be ful * | ® & lot of stuff, but don’t believe it. - I am sending a photo of a man who was captured in the Chinese city and put ina ¢ & Wwooden cage, the top of which is of solid wood With a hole in it large enou r his & P to go through. If you will look you will see that he is standing on stone and . h day they took so many nes from under his feet v final % no support for his body and eventually strangle or rather hang by his > 4 to mention that they gave him no food. He was exp d to live from five to seven @ & days, but luckily for him, he died on the third day If T told you this you would no & o+ doubt disbelieve me, so I send you the photo taken b 1f to comfirm it pY A This man was a perfect flend. He assaulted a Nt vei of age a also ® gouged the eves out of two Chinamen with his thum mmitted & number of ¥ 4 horrible offenses. You can imagine what Chinese punishments are lfke. . & > L e s s e e o o S o S -] done to make the affair a grand succes: Willlam J. Flynn of the games commit- tee informed the meeting trat many | amusing and novel track features had | been arranged for. The committee on | souvenirs reported that an__original memento had been designed. The Rev. Mr. Cummings and the Rey. Mr. Heslin are working hard to make the picnic the biggest and the best the parish has ever held. EX-SOLDIER CANAVAN ATTACKS TWO CHINESE ~ APPEARS IN AN - UNSAVORY ROLE {Admits Receiving Various Runs Amuck Among the Boxers and | Is Subdued by Guusmith Bachman. Sums From Angelina James A. Canaven got drunk yesterday afternoon and ted on a campaign M. Abbott. against the Boxe On Clay street, a few doors west of Kearny, he saw L —_—— Gong standing in front of a store. Cana- van darted forth his strong right arm and struck Gong on the forehead, knocking him to the sidewalk. Ah Qui, a friend of Gong, blew a police whistle, whereupon Car smote him on the nose, drawing a stream of blood. Prosecution Closes Case and Defend- ant Will Probably Try to Prove That She Was Attacked First. va Gunsmith Bachman, whose place of business is near by, came upon the scense | of Angelina and upset Canavan, throwing the fighter ault to mur- upon his back on the cobbles near the | ger e cable track and kneeling upon him until | ;b W00 Do B~ - the police came and arrested the anti- | G0 CORCITEC B o The prisoner said that he had been a | sranted till Tues of ex- hting Forty-third,” | yudge Graham, the he t's attorney. member of that he was “loaded” and glad r;‘t it. and | Clinton was up again for cross-examina- expected to be dis t OUrt. | tjon, and he had to admit that he had re- e ‘was chargec o batteries and : - o > He was charged with two batt a § Gt T ficie (hi Galuidant one vulgar language, and protested that it was no crime to beat a Gong in China- town, that all Chinamen were Boxers and the $#0 in Omaha. registered package con he sent him a & $40 to Jop~ ought to be swept off the eagth. |:.—, Mo., hough h was pre= —_———————— duced for the d there RACCOON STRAITS ARE That he aet DRAGGED TO NO AVAIL | B0 700l g o mother wa: i, Ox Search for Bodies of T. J. Kelly and Miss Warren Will Be Aban- doned. All yesterday morning Wrecker White- met Miss Ab- was a Sunday this eity Clinton on June i\ rst gged Raccoon Straits for the T of Toblas J. Kelly and Miss Bessie | with her to her room and there told her Warren, bit without result. | tneir relations must cease, as was a Two skifts were towed up and down the | wide chasm betwe them. As he was stralts while a line from which hung a | SUURS (S, and she satd: . “Put this row of weighted grappling irons dragged ' qiamond ring on your finger. If you have behind them. A diver was on hand on | it I know you will return to me.” He o0b- board the launch Jennie C ready to go | jected. 5o he said, but she insisted, and ha 4 ey Fpul 5 o » | Bnally permitted e ring on § B B e e oo | M Nage _Ne n_ nis cnaur { anything, but rothing hooked and | jjj the following Thursday nt_it as no need for his serv At 12 | back to her pecial me Ho the outfit left the straits. No s¥s- | 4150 sent a > that p se he will be made to-day. _ again. She had called at the theater On Tuesday and Wednesday next, when | previgus night in a drunken condition and the bodies are due to float, it being. the | made a sce He put her on passing cars ninth day from their disappearance, boats three or four time h will patrol the straits at either end. Littie | jumped oif and co hope. however, is now entertained for the | disagreeable for hi recovery of the bodies. | him.” The next nigh TN e & T PR N | him. He admitted that b Banqueted Delegates. ‘;lnm;\;lj;u;m“.dfi:rr when he Last Thursday night the members of | A letter itten by th - Piedmont Parlor, Native Daughters of the | Clinton after she had received back the Golden West, gave a banquet in honor of | Fing was introduced for identification. It two of its members in Loring Hall. Oak- | W;;: ”:‘r;f"‘x'l\{!in'z?."r\” t I(Hw’:‘.vug:.‘”m?i hd. One of the honored guests was Miss | 1oF making the werest 1n testified t. Amanda Hammerly, who was elected | yoiver from the defend grand marshal of the Grand Parlor, and | Her hair was disheveled, buj, they saw no marks on her the other Miss Emma Vorrath, who, like | . £ 0. NSt o A s Taanerly. wke & delegate-to: the | vat. sUhodaR 1hry sdmitted thew il Grand Parlor. fense is that Clinton grabbed th ung Tl woman by the throat befo shot him. How Do You Do Will be the password to-morrow at the as- signee sale-of shoes, so come and be wel- come to a pair of those ladies’ fine shoes that are stylish and worth $250 for only | $12 a pair at the assignee sale of shoes, 775 Market et, near Fourth. B e Annual Hop of Troop A. Troop A of the National Guard Cavalry will give its fifty-first anniversary ball at the Armory Hall, 1327 Market street, on Friday evening, July 27. The affair is under the management of .ieutenant C. F. Wells and Lieutenant Ingle. e ——— WILD TARGET PRACTICE. Shell From Sandy Hook Proving Grounds Nearly Hits a Steamer. NEW YORK, July 21L.—Captain Burg of the Savannah line steamer City of Bir- mingham reports that when passing Sandy Hook yesterday, boufid in from Savannah, a shell, which was fired from the Sandy Hook proving ground: ruck the water between his vessel and the shore, about 130 feet from the vessel, and ricocheting passed over his vessel about midships. There was great excitement aboard the vessel about what was considered a nar- row escape, and many of the passengers were very much frightened. Scotland has sixteen co-operative bak- erles. *