The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 17, 1900, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1900. '‘WHALE IN TERRIFIG BATJLE WITH FIERGE THRASHER AND SWORDFISH Yachtsmen Sailing. Off Point Bonita Light Witness a Gom- bat to the Death Between Jhree Monsters of the Deep. g ¥ t turne it t ell head firs Whether it had r some time t upon the ed with i upon s sion’ of smbodi and the thrasher w chtsmen was not lesse 3 edge of what their fate would be their blind rage. h catastrophe did not happen, how- sound, only to be forc ¥ face by the thrusts of t t Every time he cam the great al would send skyward a fountain 3 That same instant a effects of the thr: umn of W would be suddenly rown upward, as if by an explosion be- R No Fish Story This Time would thrasher or fox-shark, spreading its tWo | yowed to say nothing about it for publi- ge, wing-like fins. The thrasher | cation. If I alone had seen it I would would turn in the air like a diver and fall never have mentioned it even to my most .zzle first upon the whale and the two | intimate friends. They would have said o ben. he surface together. | it was a fish story too wild to be any- e SR TRDEE & thing but purely a creation of an over- Fought Half an Hour. stimulated imagination. But witnesses Fifteen times or more was this spectacle | Were numerous. It was before luncheon, and no man's powers of observation the tack | r o battie of | U » For half an hour the bat -t were at all clouded or stimulated. «t fighters of the ocean went on, We had just e DM mete ng and plunging and darting south of west, and were probably three ' ers keeping the surface along :\nd a )m_llf lyl\lllru off Point Bonita light. eir track beaten into a foam. At in- | We were leading the Tramonta rials of two or three minutes, whenever j“{*}r‘;yti:_“m"::h f us, when I whale showed his back out Of point probably he foaming surface would sudden- |and a little nort me a maelstrom as the ferocious N s0 th it was rather fall upon his foe. I thought it was a e, with Commodore John D. |thén protru General W. H. L. Barnes, dore Sprec . A. Sanderson, Henry §. Fort- |shark. Tt W i as we look: Reid. T, H. Willlams Jr. and |28 We looke hale, but its fins ck into the vater and me rush- wake aboard, was returning from ce | length above the water, his white belly. t 1 by the d the giants dash against their ves- | ever, and the whale began 10 Show the sher's terrible hammer- | ing. Its final struggle and sudden sink- | inert, rolling mass, was not the we-inspiring of the features of the | the surface, and in that column | «rhe battle was certainly awful,” Gen- appear the gray body of the| era] Barnes sald last evening. *I had | which | rise from the water at a | ) or 400 yards back of us | rer to Simpkins' yacht. The object | o poised perpendicularly, like a huge | would hurtle twenty feet Into i,y poct sticking up out of the water. | ed above water, and Commo- | ¢ls recognized it s a thrasher | plainly. Usually we saw but elght or ten cogniz white as mil hining in the sun as ive upon the back or hes We could white if it had been an alb: those monsters battling » and to see the enormous power of thra ringboard thing was_the va The The battle w: rk must have - fifteer a_foam. The , but : > whale becs its flight less frantic, the tween vacht and combatants in. Whale Gives Up the Ghost. it again and then suddenly go down ered ship. The 1 lost. Th y of the foe as 3 hale was a mor in length, 1 should sa match for his savage foes. I would not ve missed that battle for a thousand it ter—elgh dc “T understand,” Judge Sanderson said, “that lighthouse keepers occasionally see such combats, rather close in shore, but | that seafaring men may go to sea a’life- | time and not be so fortunate. The shark | was apparently about thirty feet long, | the whale about eighty. They glere mon- sters. I should say we were within 200 yards of them. We would see a commo- tion in the water, then a foaming, splash- ing column of water would shoot into the | air, and above it would rise the grayish | body of the shark. “It was a running fight, and the shark gnd swordfish were driving the whale inshore, The wonderful tblll{ of the shark to throw itself out of the water twenty feet into the alr was most as- tounding. There is no doubt that the whale was vanquished. It turned belly up as It rolled and sank into the depths.” Prize Fight Not a Marker. This is the way T. H. Williams Jr. de- scribed the combat: “It was worth all the prize-fights I ever saw. I'd choose it before any slugging match that could be arranged. There was no faking, that's dead sure. It was a fight to the finish, with no Horton law in_the way. “General Barnes saw the shark first. Then the whale came up and spouted. All of a sudden, whish went the shark clean out of the water and came down whack on the side of the whale. “I think we must have been 40 yards away, but we could see the monsters fect of the back of the whale when he 2 | came up to spout, rolling like a porpoise. ce as if in desperate | “The thrasher kept .right after the morning s eruise. About 1:30 o'clock, fight. and threw a silvery spray high up | whale, and the swordfish was evidently when off Bonita light, the new yacht Tra- into the air. | making things lively from beneath. The a nopenred and coming about gave | “Svddenly we saw a column of water | thrasher's head looked square-muzzled, . ely R e wind. |rise, exactly as if there had been a sub- .:u.;'u‘:',;.\ ‘}ix?r;“:hpu{,)' of -guests |Warine explosion. aboard the trim craft and the two Water ”f’”" lmh;' a huge body, certainly groups of yachtsmen became deeply in- |twenty feet In length at the very least inthe impromptu race that fol- The Lurline tacked to a south of - That Tonn&r rose Out of the water et & = like- | twenty feet an inch. It w the most Vi hTrer ot o o miles”| stupendously surprising thing T ever saw. that tack both sachts aame about and | Then the great thing turned with the |with its square, hammer-like head first, upon_the back of the hunted whals, and both disappeared. wind. t then General Barnes on fih:‘"bur | " the “watst '}:»»:-T;jxwl}.u':.:im ,,,'}’.’fl | *“when the whale appeared again it was {he etern of the vessel and some- | gvident that there was trouble for it be- t nearer the Tramontana. ow, and presently we saw what was Sk at that whale” he shouted, but | causing it. A swordfish. missing its mark one else £ald it was too small for a | s it lunged upward at the whale, showed e and another of the yachtsmen of | half nbg:;l the water and then sank back cst_experience at sea saw the fellow’s | horizontally, fins and ¥ g ed 1t ‘hrasher, “The whale came up and spouted again s :rk,n u]:";rr]h:‘.lg'c- deldlllelst th;y.” o and then up shot Mr. Thrasher a second The Battle Begins. time, shrouded as he came with the col- umn of water churned into a foam by his 4As they looked the thrasher sank into mflm-flf‘fl.mflmfllhawfin‘tufl with great fins spread out like wings. | like the head of a hippopotamus and Out of that column of | seemed five or six feet ficross. “The fight lasted all of twenty minutes, with the shark leaping into the air every minute or two. I wanted to get in closer | and_wanted the commodore to bring the | yacht about, but a delicious clam chow- | der had just been served and the commo- that tack both vachts came about And | ;e ‘of 4 diver and came down | dore sald the soup would be spilled if we came about. ‘Damn the soup,’ I said, “let's see the fight’ But the commodore was In command and we didn't come about. Leake and I kept pumping away with our rifles at the shark, but we were too far away to know whether we hit or not. “After about fifteen rounds of the fight it was evident that the whale was losing interest and he seemed willing to call it a draw. The thresher was game, though and hung right to him. The whale to lumber -.loni. not ug to his s by any means. dead heat would have satisfied him. But he couldn't N % ¢scape those Fitzslmmons’ punches of the | He Fires Three Shots, One of Which Contribution to Science. Pt The spectators of the fight feel that, not | Assallant. only were they witnesses of a rare spec- but that they made a_contribution see him as he left | column of foaming wa- | ) | as beyond expression terri- | her to rise and turn for all | » world like a diver poised in his leap | or the thresher; upor observations; dentition is much too although by put a herd ses to flight like . Gunther had ev second-hand of such attac| ak to bite through tan hile the | appeared on the sc ally we saw the whale rise and | feet | but_he was no | last man had been drinking heavily for some time, and was despondent. he had some work to do. The unfortunate ut on the ni himself laced a tube leading fr is mouth. He was discove: our later by M. Hurley, the night Hurley at once notifle neer E. C. Jones and Dr. entlemen came to the scene and | MEXICAN WOMAN MURDERED. PHOBNTIX, Ariz., Sept. 16.—Some time during last Tuesday night Fermina Ochoa, a Mexican woman about 5 years of age, was murdered in a horrible man- ner at Yuma. Her body was found the following morning in front of the house | hard for two hours in an attem; to restore respiration, but were \mau‘t’:E was taken to the Moy rown and Donahue. e was about 3 years of age, with his wife at 652 Mission street. Mkt Niciine Is essential to the weak and ill, and equall The fact ‘that the At n prepares it i{s a Erickson and resided beneflcial to the well. heuser-Busch Brewing A: guarantee of its merit. the members of his company to a Larkin- street restaurant, where a banquet had d_for them. Those present | % Nelson, Louise C;]_réer- Miss | Hig coat cuff was saturated with blood M. 0N obd, M AUT NN 8t, Wal- | and it Is belleved he was implicated in fer Thompson, F. C. Thompson, Fred Me. ohn' Abbott, C. E. b Charles Brown, Robert Southcomb, Harry Siervert, K. Anderson, Ed Clisbey, Willis Cannon and Thurston, Jack Crawford. — e Exploding Lamp Caused Fire. Last evening a small fire broke out in | switch engine in the vards here this even- the residence of J. H. Broshein on Van | ing. Brown was dragged Ness avenue. It was caused by the ex- (yards and mangled frightfully. How he plosion of a lamp, and was put out by the Fire Department. ——— e Register! Register! Registration closes September 26. Pro- entitling him to a six months’ cinct registration Saturday, September |from the home for disabled volunteer sol- ember 22. Office In the cerficate Tulare was named ’tlmunum‘p. fl?fia&m POLICE OFFIGER (RIGHT SWINGS BATTLES WITH | WERE SERVED THREE CRODKS Succeeds in Killing One and Wounding Another. ‘Lively Fusillade in Seattle as Result of Attempt to Rob Chinese Store. A R Bpectal Dispatch to The Call. | SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 16.—In one of the darkest corners of Gloomy Black Chapel, in the lower part of town, was fought a pitched battle about 3:30 this morning between P¢ . Officer Fred A. Ribbach and three armed and desperate breakers. As a result Edward Morse, Edward Moore, s Jack Baker, a alia ) , former nesota shingle weaver, who went to Nome and there wandered from | the paths of honesty, lies in the Morgue with a bullet through his heart, and Jack Mansfleld; alias Jack Dougherty, another of the cell in the city jail. Harry Aus the third man, was ded in the arm captured throug information gained from a surgeon to whom he applied for treatment. A fourth man was seen with the gang during the , but he cannot be found. Ribbach, who fought until his revolver empty, sending the last shot into Morse's heart, escaped without in- jury. 4 ¢ Alfhough less than three blocks from the polic ., many crimes have been committed in that neighborhood. va- cant lot lies between a saloon and a Chi- nese store. Ac the front of the lot 1is a high billboard. There are no alleys entering the block and no way in which light from the street can penetrate it, and in this black hole Ribbach faced = and fought three desperate men. The three and their companion, who { was not mixed in the melee, had been | seen prowling around that meighborhood | for several hours. The owner of the Chi- ore complained to Ribbach that were trying to enter one of his 1ne policeman kept close nd about 3 o’clock saw the thre2 men going into the lot through a small | door in the billboard. He followed with- ! out hesitation, and as soon his eyes ! became. tomed to the | darkness d E forms of the men. He 1ce accosted them and de- | manded to know their busine Recelv ing an insulting reply from one of them, he attempted to seize him, but the man, I -d to be Morse, grappled with After a truggle Morse aking refuge behind a wag- stood in the lot. the officer drew his L [ on, which | followed fired al s ¥ the wagon. The officer eturned the fire and ac sillade was kept up, i which one of 1 ” d. the firing brought other | officers hastily to the scene, and upon | their approach two of the desperadoes | took to their heels. Just at this moment | Ribbach with the last shot in his gun | killed Morse and turned to pur the | others. He succeeded in captu | field, but the other man got away. | But little is known of Morse by the lo- | cal police, save that during his sta he has been regarded as a suspicious | character. He d to have come out from Minnesota. 2 a year ago and joined the rush to Nome. He returned from the northern camy hin the last month. He wa: 3 Mansfield, | fuses to talk. He bad record with the police, having been arrested for va- ancy several times and under surveil- ance as a suspect for other offenses. Austin, who is 18 vears of age, con- fesses to the criminal intent of himself and Morse, but seeks to exonerate Mans- field. He says Morse learnes the Chinese merc] whose place they were trying to enter. had just sold a big lot of opium and had the money concealed about the store, SRR | POLICEMAN MARSTON SET UPON BY RUFFIANS He Believes Struck an - »sterday morning. He was treated at the Harbor Hospital by Dr. Victor E. Putnam for concussion of the brain and severe abrasions of the body and back. Marston was patroling his beat on Steu- It | art street, and when on the corner of Mission street at 3 a. m. he saw a man coming along with a sack on his shoulder. The policeman accosted him and the man < | ran as if for his life. Marston ran after As Genera; | him. Aenerd | “ihie policeman was just in the act of as weapons. simply hammered at the whale swordfish lunged with its sword. PLACED GAS TUBE IN o e : HIS MOUTH ‘AND DIED | putied his pistol Gna- fired three shote | grabbing the fugitive when two more men ne. One of them hit Marston over the head with a rope’'s end and then all three of the rogues jumped onto the police officer. He was kicked in the ribs and face, rolled over and beaten with their fists. | He thinks he hit one of the men, as he ed Bernard Smith, a young man, on sus- where she had taken lodging the night Guillermo Lisaldo, with whom she had night before. Part of his clothing was are making energetic efforts to arrest him. partner of Lisaldo has been arrested. the killing. Soldier Killed. ‘aptain | Speclal Dispatch to The Call. FRESNO, Sept. 16.—John Brown, a member of the Second Regiment of Volun- teers; was killed by a Southern Pacific over seventy-five Was struck is not known. The fact that he was under the wheels was not discov- ered until the e;lslneb::g‘pped w):)en x';.u seen by a eman. On 5o3Y man's body was found = furlough n during the furlough pe- |nia Tennis Club grounds yesterday. | ing department 2 the wagon a | ye 3 unger man, re- | | which he contributed on the subject to a {included in ‘the criticisms hurled by the | imp: | clev | Whitney to a set or setto. The outcome of this {Champion George Whitney and one of the J. §. Marston, a well-known member of | the Harbor police force, came near meet- | edition of the | 2 ans es lopedia Britannica Dr. Alhert Gun. | in& death at the hands of ruffians early fchythyologist, in an article on “Sharks,” has the folowing to say of Alopecias vulpe: | heard some one exclaim, “My God, I'm F. Erickson, janitor for the San Fran- | Shot.” cisco Gas and Electric Light Company at 415 Post street, committed sulcide The men ran away when the policeman | shot at them, and half an hour later | Marston was found on the sidewalk and | night by inhaling illuminating gas. The | taken to the Harbor Hospital. Later in the morning he was removed to his home | f i T the Sorodkk hls | o8 ere ho 15 now doing well o “rest | n & small room in e g v COmPAnNy’s | “Tast evening Detective O'Dea and Po- Erickson was seen to enter the buflding lice Officers Sullivan and Donovan arrest- about 8 o'clock. When asked why he came to the place so late he replied that | Saulted Marston. When arrested Smith | had Ln hllfnv.?se!ul%n usck c?lntunlng a number of feet of chain, which he i closalls the Qoo of ‘hix ‘stare= | S E A e stolan.. Hath ouar it e in every particular one of the men who red®ay | assaulted the policeman. He will be held atoh- | Until the latter has a chance to look at ef En- picion of being one of the men who as- TUTORS FIRST ELECTED WILL OVER THE NET BE REASSIGNED Robert Whitney Hit H. Priority of Serviee to W. Crowell on ‘ Govern in Their the Jaw. Promotion. Tennis Experts Played a Hot| Chairman Mark Says That Game With Fists at | Favorable Reports Are Local Courts. Potent Factors. —— — e The There was a hot contest at the Califor- made by Chairman d in yester- 1 order of teachers -assignment to Racquets were not but enough no itement was engendered to satisfy ardent lover of such things Robert Whitney, brother of the cham- pion, and a tennis expert of no mean abil- r ity himself,*brought on what proved the | gogues who w sensation of the day. Ing to the rec Robert struck H. W. Crowell on the Mr. Mark was face with his clenched and the ter, disregarding the rules of the pe: ay with interes 1 »w landed _in: game s d by Mr. Whitney Mr. of being a perverter truth and no gentleman. Mr. could not permit this assertion to go in challenged before the large gathering present, so he denied the gation. He | threw off his coat and the )Lu:\- Whitney cording to R re- and landed on the jaw. | 1 ve veary for Cro- | th an over- | rly lobbed turn making it 15 well. The I hand_strol by Whitney. again and | his time his fist landed on Whitney’s eal- the score stood 30—15 in_ Crowell's favor. Robert sid round the court for a fe with a straight drive v the ear, evening the score with 30 all. Gore began to flow and the spectators be came too interested to interfere. George W scoring the game, forgot himse > nonce and began to advise Crowell how to defeat brother Bob. ay_being resumed, Cro- well returned a volley and sent a'cork- screw left to Whitney's c dnd the sc 0od 40 v and furious. Both men = led time and again and fell short and | then Whitn h a2 mov t would | ai happy. landed flust teeth and the game deuce. There was vantage on one | e and then the other and when the game was called both players in this fistic comedy resembled who had pulled through a threshing machine y were covered with gore and dust and 1 8 nted a very dilapidated ] pointed bec: principals of the re teachers whose dates are M 1871; Mr: return cor the spot. The match was brought about throu, Robert Whitney's eriticism of W. D. C < H.“\V\. h r'\wcllrhnnv}‘ hi]s brother, = el favors > F. itney. The three last nam aceivaldl No IRvCERbIS KU, o were members of the committee which ar- | ¢ipals must await their turn on o ranged the tennis tournamnt held at Del’| batch of appointments. . . . . Monte last week. In former years the | According to Chairman Mark, it is pos- hotel management has contributed 320 a few of the teachers on the t for prizes as an Inducement to the rac list will be overlooked whe wielders to play their champlonship | appointments are made on accoun games on the ground of the hostelry. | favorable r-'wrl*_madv'h.v princt This year but $60 was contributed by the | by reason of their recognized inetficie hotel people, but the latter agreed to pay | In that case the teachers on the day un- the railroad expenses of the committee | assigned list will be w nlpmn to re- and board its members free during the | place the substitutes promoted tc -""“,“" tournament. This offer was evidently ac- | cles. Mr. Mark says the board will then cepted and did not meet with the approval | be able to select some of the new material of impetuous Robert Whitney. During |in the pedagogical line. The unassigned the contests at the local court yesterday s of the following named: Robert indiscreetly made audible com- ments, which, in addition to an article s'made and accepted on - Date of Appointm . G. Sullivan. January 12, local Rewspaper, fanned the flames in the breasts of Brother George and Mr. Crowell. The latter took up the quarrel and within a few minutes hot words were being hurled across the court with greater speed than a tennis ball manipulated by racquets in the hands of experts. When the lie was passed Crowell made a jump for Whitney and the battle ensued. It is thought that Mr. Collier, who was | Miss B. Millhon joned Robert, and who plays a game with his fists, will challenge s 1. Hemingwa A. E. Bryani match has aroused more interest than a championship contest between Hardys. 3 B = 3 1509 The N. S. G. W. drank Rainfer beer |> e v 3 e | while in San Francisco. N dei WALLBR 05 ;1598 e Gl Gt Ffightened — “It will be our earnest desir said Ed Penington, coloreg, created a com- “to observe the priopty motion in Chinatown last night by pok- | of service plan in the promotion of teach- ing a pistol under the noses of inoffensive | ers. We, however, reserve to ourselves Chinese. He was taken into custody by |the right to determine the efficlency of Officers Nelson and Olsen and locked up | the teacher to be selected for a particular at the California-street police station. vacancy . 1893 September 14, 1595 Here is one of the new desk styles we are showing. HE above shows very faithfully as to de- sign the new ladies’ combination desk | before. Her skull had becn fractured by | & blow on the forehead and a_ piece of | cloth torn into strips and twisted into a | rope was tied around her throat so tighi- | ly as to produce strangulation, and there | was also a deep Knife wound in the body. | by all druggists. | ~Suspicion_was at once directed toward Sealen s Banqueted His Company. been living for a long time and with | Captain Jack Crawford, the poet scout, | Whom she had come from Fortuna the | closed a successful two weeks' engage- | found in her room. Evidence before the ment at the Alta Theater last night and | Coroner's jury showed that the woman at the closing of the performance invited | had considerable money, and it is be- lieved Lisaldo killed her to secure this. Lisaldo is still at large, although officers we are selling this week. It is of quar- tered oak, golden finish—a handsome combi- nation of desk and book case. Always useful, always orramental. As low a figure as $9.50 has probably never before been quoted for such a bit of furniture. It is only one of a hun- dred of our 750 Mission-street bargains. We make a profit on it, too. Our carpet department is quite as gogd a shopping place as the furniture part of the store. janapolis Furniture 750 Mission St., San Francisco.