The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 31, 1900, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, ~y {PERT SAYS Al THERE WAS AO PLACUE HERE Bo-rd of Health Tries ard io Suppress His Report. ——— ILAS MOUSER ———— Judge Cabaniss Threatens to Im- . prison Him Again, But Finally Takes T[latter Under Ad- visement Till To-Day. Y PR loyed by Board He Files Docu- | * ment Showing That No Bu- b4 bonic Germs Existed in PY San Francisco. - ® . al n furnishes a PS . ® + r . - « bers that the | ¢ what co- | & R : w iy WMARREETL = Monwer OF | $ " 1bo; > en him | ¢ - rm: o which Dr. - one of the | ¥ v E ENTERTAINMENT IN AID OF LABOR TEMPLE Eloguent Speeches Will Explain s e of the Plans Next Sat- Evening 2] arged. vick Disch: at Thom Pacific —————— Cricketers Win m, w left the city on ch against the 1b Cricket Club on to returned The the Pacifi~ eleven proved the y & margin of twenty-four runs. ague scare - BRITISH COLUHBA San Francisco | of Albert Tanzer, an old man who dled in ame was pretty close, | San Francisco a few weeks ago leaving ks to the excellent batting of | an estate here valued at $32,000. ANSWERS FROM @+ 0004000000000 000000000000 0000000000 d no jurisdic- was now be- effect that the court I the subject-mat he was an he replied Jetober 17 have any earing contesting f John Sullivan in Joseph Sul- prey. w minutes and i asked him if question rstood the sir.” rer and after Row s follows Directly Declines to Answer. Rogers Balks On Rogers neernin ns with ce More. declin ation and with |BARNEY CONFESSES T0 BLOWING UP A POWDER MAGAZING | FISHERMEN YIELD T0 THE CAXN ERS [Men Are Ou} Again in the | Half-Witted Yrourtih of Moun- Boats. and Militiamen Have Gone Home Disgruntled. tain View Wrecks Prop- erty to Avenge a Fancied Wrong. > The Call Special Dispatch to The Call SAN JOSE, July witted young to-day confessed to Sk he blew up the pow: heimer & Sons ;nf of weeks ago, wife aped being : e lement \bor 0.—A. J. Barney, a years old, gford that 1 runtain View a couple | esc wreckec mey has | :onvinced of the gford and Constable S DL, in of Mountain View that Lhey mpany has retrnned to 1 the man’s arrest on a charge of are having a big row | yg y in order to hold him. July 18 & d helf the battalion | the Justice of the Peace at Mountain to resign. The View sentenced Barney " 20t enlist to fight | days for vagrancy. o ntrym 4 ettt his gulit. PLLL somen g to protect ¢ | heimers had refused him credit at the | se. They freely assert that a | gtore, and his act was one of revenge. taken place they would have laid | He says he simpl powder magazine wanted to wreck the nd injure property be- | longing to the Weilheimers. He pried | open the door to the magazine, punched a | hole in a keg of black powder and insert ed a fuse. After inserting the fuse he their afraid he would not De able to get the next enough, and so he removed | ¢ ck powder from where it Jor leader | was stored near two cases of pow- der to the door. after the e sion returned. The fact that Barn of biack powder from de vented an expl edly would have wrecked as It ma powder ¢ . broke large plateglass win- way and did considerable He then ran away, and pr w town, for, v the keg of now be charged with a offense, but owing to his more being half-witted it is not known just ‘me will be done with him. He has an would | azed mother residing at Mountain View. his men o S m up if he | | manstration Arrested for Horsestealing. nd the | gpecial Dispatch to The Call. 1Lof ] LOMPOC, July 3).—George Texerla of incident, | Alameda has been arrested here by a . ng a team of horses without however. a “onstable for D4+ 444444444444 400 04444 i — from (lhiu Espada ranch, heinngimi'1 to W, Sudde >xaria was ma s wa CLAIMS THE ESTATE Borth Tl ey Sue. mhiles from, Hhis pINcs where the teffin was stolen. He also had pair of pinto ponies, a bay colt about two years old and several boxes of giant powder and fuse, which it is thought was OF A RIGH SANTA ROSAN Virginia Hutchings of San Francisco | SLoien {fom the raiiroad construction Wants the Property of the | o Late Albert Tanzer. | Signs of Oil at Morena. - SANTA ROSA. July 30.—Virginia | Special Dispatch to The Call SAN DIEGO. July 30.—Reports brought in from Morena t 'r’]I‘ng are that the well drill is working a feet in black shale and that the sand pump brings u; me oll each time it is withdrawn. ofl, it 1s explained, through the shale, and as the formation is.compact it i8 the opinion that e om0 Sy W0 o Maes Hutchings of San Francisco filed a peti- | tion in the Superior Court to-day asking ! for letters of administration on the estate The peti- Tanzer has known. tion caused surprise here. never been married, so far as ¥ te., as to wh iminal or Gives Reasons in Detail. The reasons f ete., @ ther srney therein had been ASSISTED BY JUDGE CABANISS, EUGENE DEUPREY TRIES TO WRING JAMES TAYLOR ROGERS. D e S o o 2 d-+dedeiebeteieie@® s admitted that ald case w or my refusal now to testify are First—That by reason of the people having u v) subject matter of the al- en 5 i | abmitted t ged crime to the estate sep ncluding the p nt. forge! ge, to the Grand Jury for con- derati s court has lost jurisdiction yw has no power to conduct this Such_ quest! pertinent to the forgery in the chain of on and_section 13 nstitution of Californt npelled in any ness against hims: roc His Character Not an Issue. question | tendency “ourth—That an answer to suc! of the vilege ng s testin nd Ju HURDER ON A BOAT IN THE YUKON BY Shoots and Kills a Man Who Had Arovsed His Temper. Special Y)ls:u:h The Call. VICTORIA, B. C., July 30. The answer to this question and othe: might be made the foundation of a crim- n against myself or furnish one or evidence agalnst And under the fifth amendment of the | Alexander King Deliberately News of a deliberate murder on the Yukon on July 16 er magazine of Weil- | Danube. o Y to Hu a tated the old man. | Davenport. tim w is given by arrivals by Alexander King, 65 years of a srmerly a_resident of Sacramento, ork. Davenport had been engaged as ‘master Dawson from White avenport had run the scow on | nd bars and this had irri- | L On the morning of the 16th, when the scow went on another bar, to serve siXty | ying said: “You have bamboozled us fel- | -day Barney broke down and told of | 10WS long enough. Davenport, and I'm About a year ago the Weil- | going to kill you.” ) take orse. D number of s scow to the steamer ge, | Cal., that town narrowly | shot and killed Herbert Davenport of New | in selecting a jury, and when court King reached for his rifle and covered {tnesses to the crime. town, however, they told the police of the al ‘murdnr and King was arrested. was hidden The body of Davenport ong the bank of the river. SACRAMENTO, July 30).—Diligent in- uiry fails to elicit any knowledge by resi- | dents dering a man on a boat in nts of Alexander King, accus the iver. d of mur- Yukon Q4444444444444 0 4440444400 '$ BROOKS’ COMET SIGHTED FROM MOUNT LOWE LOS ANGELES, July 30.—At half past 12 o'clock this morning Pro- fessor Lewis Swift of the Mount Lowe Observatory picked up the comet discovered July 23 by Pro- fessor Brooks of Geneva, N. Y. It rises above the mountain at about midnight. It was observed with the four and a half comet-seeker. It is moving nearly north. The center of a line drawn from Alpha Aristies to Alpha Persel will be about five degrees above the comet, or about right ascension 2 hours 50 minutes, declination north 8§ degrees by esti- mation. Gttt +4+ 4444444404444 44444 and others like it are | under investiga- nor be de- liberty or property without due “Don’t shoot,” cried the vic- | King fired, the bullet entering Dav- | enport’s heart and killing him Everett and Lester Kneuff, assisting in | taking the scow down the river, Charles | were | King covered | | them with the rifle and made them swear that they would say on their arrival at| | Dawson that Davenport had met death | by accident. When the scow reached that | | with Lennon on the night in ques | discharged, JULY 31, 1900, | A A e e S o o b4 bd| pe ® ¢ 1 ¢ - % ® + . > he @ . L 4 the said defendant John M. Chretien, or his . George H, Perr by the witnesses Rauer and Robert thorp, who have, belief, rated delfber- e er! in eph Sulli- by them gainst me and { such a | using thi » accomplish its wicked pur- | pose : | Court Has Jurisdiction. After Rogers had finished the Judge sald he would dispose at once of the ob- jeetion that the court had no jurisdiction. On the others he would like to hear from Deuprey. : Deuprey asked Rogers to point out in what way an_ answer to the question “The law doe: out in what way “Did the defe: any information allegation that John tire me to point y.” replied Rogers. ndant Chretien give you on which to base your Su n was not a was the next iv brother of Joseph Sullivan? question. swered Rogers. whether or not you held 3 with Mr. Chretien in re- gard to your appearance on behalf of these three Sullivans named in your no- | tice of appearance and as to withdrawing your claim, and whether an offer of any | amount of money was de for your withdrawal therec or did you discuss the amount? Rogers declined to answer the question Irea for the rea iven, and a long argument nding in Deuprey ituting the question: “After you ap- d for the three Sulliv: state whether or not Mr. Ch you any money to withdraw Rogers declined to answer, as it would tend to incriminate him. LENNGN’S SLAYER AGAIN ON TRIAL | AT REDWCOD CITY John Fitzgerald Will Proba.-i bly Be Arraigned [or the Second Time To-Day for Murder. would you ien offered AN OLD CALIFORNIAN | ROGERS, DRIVEN TO BAY, FIRST SHOWS DEFIANCE, THEN BECOMES EVASIVE Still Contends That He Can Plead Fear of Incrimination. “Would the answer,” asked the Judge, ‘be liable to convict him of a felony?” After argument the Judge said he would pass the question and give his decision as to whether the defendant should answer it to-day. “Did not Chretien after your appear- ance in the matter, and before the distri- bution of the estate, offer you $30) or $400 to have you withdraw your application on behalf of your clients?” was asked. Attorney Barnes for the first and only time interposed an objection, that the question was irrelevant. incompetent and fmmaterfal, and it was sustained. “Did you not refuse the offer of $300 or $400 and ask for $300 or $1000 to withdraw?” | Rogers declined to answer the guestion. The Judge s he considered it his duty to protect the witness, and that he need not answer it. Threatened With Jail Again. “Did you not as a matter of fact, at the time of the hearing of the application for the distribution of the e remal mute and allow the decree of distribution to go to John Sullivan?’ was' the/next query. Rogers declined to answer, Judge passed the question until Rogers denied that he was in cou day, but later aid he was M May 3, the day before the dect: tribution was made, and also on morning of May 4, in Judge Troutt's chambers. He did ee John Sullivan in court. ver was stat- ed in ope relatives, ways, ar Rauer. They and found it was so. He did who made the statement In cou “Was Chre Rauer in t “I suppo replied Rog “After g with Rauer to the Hiber- nia Bank, what induced you to with- ed to answer and the ques- passed for decision to-da “After vour sit to the bank with Rauer vou didn't aj . did you? appeared Judge “Did you press you 90 Iy, “I decline to answer,” said fiantly, “and will stand upon “Would your or tend to de Henley i the witness s for the oth “Show m Judge ‘If vou gives ~Tan ald Rog for contempt tutional rights. There was a pause and the Judge said, “Well, wh ANSwWer you give Forced to Give Specific Answer. #1 decline to answer,” replied “because it might be used tion for a criminal char ag: I will restate the other grou founda T direct you,” said the Judge, “to give answer to the n as to will tend to i nate you. . or no?” 3 again urged Rogers to answer “Yes, and on other grounds.” “I decline to @ 2 ogers, “‘be. d R a caus mat me The Judge thought satisfled with t “Have you takel the distribution?"” *“Ni the re r for an “WI1il you state that you took no action by reason of the money given you by Rauer?" Witness declined to answer. Rogers said he was not present at the taking of a deposition of the alleged John Sullivan in Notary Knox's office and re- ceived no notice that such d to be made. He did not k th position was w who in- n had been s identit This closed for the prosec tinued till th n 2 o’clock, when the Judge le whether Rog- ers will be compelled to answer the ques- | tions pass 'SEVERE CENSURE OF THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC CONMPANY Drastic Ve;dict o-f Coroner’s Jury in the Case of the Killing of a Pioneer Special Dispatch to The Call. REDWOOD, July 30.—The second trial of John Fitzgerald for the murder ot John Lennon, December 24, 1569, commenced | here this morning before Judge W. P. Lawler, sitting for "Judge Buck. The en- tire morning and afternoon was occupied | journed eleven men were sworn to ! the case. It is probable that the jury be completed in a shortstime to-morrow morning and _the taking of tes commenced before noon. The jurymen so far cho: Greeley Charles’ A. Orth, Horace Nelson, George | P. Ellig, Victor ello, Christian Beck, George F. Adalr, Aldrich Fenner and R. C. Holmquist. Several days will be con- sumed in hearing the evidence. At the previous trial the jury disagreed, though none voted for acquittal, the only difference existing in the minds of the jurors belng as to the degree of crime, part standing for murder in the first de- gree and the remainder for manslaughter. Fitzgerald is accused of killing Lennon at the latte: house near Colma on Christmas eve of last year, at which place both men had been living for a long time. When found Fennon was lying on the kitchen floor dead and a discharged rifle_belonging to Fitzgerald was found in the adjoining room. Fitzgerald could | not be found that night, though, as the | cvidence showed, he ~was seen coming from the direction of the house shortly after the shooting occurred. He was ar- | rested in San Francisco on the foilowing | day, and his fzce showed at that time that he had been subjected to rough | treatment at the hands of some one at a recent period. The defense upon the former trial was | accident, the killing being admitted. The defendant testified that he had a quarrel | n are: George John Blggio, David S. Jackson, ) ! ion and that a struggle occurred between them over the gun, in which it was accidentall the bullet piercing Lennon's breast. Both men had been drinking. ————— Drill of Troop C in Rough Country. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SALINAS, July 30.—Troop C, N. G. C., now on a route march, worked a greater portion of this mornlng in the Gabilan r Mountains.- The troop broke camp early this morning. and the baiance of the fore- noon was devoted to skirmish drill and other maneuvers In a rough country. To- night the troopers are camped outside of Hollister. It is expected that they will leave to-morrow for Gilroy. ——————————— An Art in Itself. The proper and appropriate framing of pictures has within a few years become an art in itself. Only recently the styles of framing materials have been miade in such harmonious effects as to suit all tones and colors of pictures. The very l&nm moldings, all styles and widths, also ted and colored mat boards, at Sanborn & Valil's, 741 Market street. . at Suisun. Spectal N;ar;h ;; The Call. SUISUN, July 30. California pioneer, killed at 2 overland fiyer at the crossing on the west road leading into Suisun. Mr. Miles was riding in a top buggy and had almost reached the main track be- fore being discovered by the enginéer. The cowcatcher struck the horse, killing him instantly, and_hurling his body man: feet ir. Mr. Miles was throw, onto the engine, and when the train was stopped about 30 yards from the scene of the accident life was found to be ex- tinet. Two men who witnessed the accl- dent said that Mr. Miles drove slowly across the track, seeming unconscious of the approaching train. The deceased was a native of Tennessee, 78 years of age, and had been a resident of Suisyn Valley for half a century. A Coroner's inquest was held over the remains this evening and rendered a ver- ch in part was as follows James L. Miles, was rul a down and dict w] We find that no personal blame be at- tached to the engineer or freman of said train, number 5, for the death of deceased, but this jury does find that the Southern Pacific Company is guilty of eriminal negli- gence in not affordizme better protection for the lives of the tra 1& public within the 1imits of this town. further demand that the Board of Trustees of this town pass an ordinance compelling the Sou cific Compan Saftey gates up within the town limit . INTERESTS THE COAST. Postoffice Chnng;s ‘and List of Pen- sions Granted. Special Dispatch to The Call WASHINGTON, July 30.—Postmasters have been appointed as follow: Oregon—Delena, Columbia Count Meserve, Vi M. Worderly, resigned Washington—Lapash, -Clallam Count Carl Black, vice T. A. Smith, resigne L. R. Port Crescent. Clailam County, Carra ia von Jennings, vice H. Delanty, signed. ensions issucd — California — Original: ert B. Burns, Veterans' Home, Napa, $6: Christian Otterback. Sacramente Henry Jewell, Oakland, $. Increase y, Paso Robles, $8; Austin Slagle, diers’ Home, Los Angeles, $8. Reissued— Sanford Hamlton. Escondido, $24. with _Spain—Isabella Winfield, mother, San Francisco, 1 Oregon—Original: William H. Miller, North Yamhill. $; Charles Gibbs, Wood- burn, $6. Washington — Original: M. Smith, Long Beach, $8. — . — Anthony REDDING. July 30.—General Manager Krutt. | schnitt of the Southern Pacific, after inspect- ing the Shasta division, has ordered 130,000 new ties put in between Dunsmuir and Red Bluff. The ties are to be scattered next week. Work will be given to 150 men besides the regular section crews. o’clock this afternoon by the | fark Sol- | War | AUTHORITY 10 SEARCH HOUSE DENED THEN Mrs. Bessie Smith Refused Permission to Enter Townsend Home. SHE IS NOT TO MRS. MURRAY'S LIKING —— Diverced Husband Preparing to Spring a Sensation—Justice | Barry Will Preside at the Inques S Qi 1 | Mrs. Bessle Smith was not-allowed to ater the Townsend home yesterday to out the secret panel behind whic it is believed the last will of Mrs. Almira S. Townsend may be Judge Dunne yesterday mor d Hugo Asher’s petition for an court giving Mrs. Smith the e late home of the udge J hat he mpany arch pre: fri is Miss Ratt n har fiss R to expla to keep he Toward the rtati d_husba » far for publ Ay, w to explain what plans will cause lication In a not_a for letters of ad mi ext week Asher w nent of Mrs. Mur- ray is not a re: der rneys for Mr: bt however, of this one entitled to succeeds” said | livan, “may be appointed to_ad- | minis It we fail to prove that Mrs. urray Is a resident, then the Public Ad- ministrator ‘will be granted the letters of administration. And as Coburn is not en- titled to succeed. 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