The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 29, 1900, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1900. MOB BRUTALLY |ALMORA'S CREW BEATS CHINESE BATTLES WITH AT GASABLANGA FIRE AND GALE, Coslies From Tents Bark Is Hopelessly Adrm; Takes Them to the While Fiames Rage in | | 1 | River Bottom. Her Hold. TEREE ARRESTS ARE MADE CAPTAINS ACT OF HEROQISM | P Enters Storeroom in Search of Pro- visicns for Starving Crew and Nzrrowly Escapss As- phyxiation. BOOM N WASHINGTON w Dem: TRAINING 7SHIP GOES DOWN. when GLENTUREET'S ROUGH VOYAGE Seas Wash Over the Vessel and One Boat Is Lost. T TOWNSEND, D mship Gilenturr d. according to reports of Japan an ¥thing movable over. d more than twenty-four g that time the vessel and for a time it was a h those on board. Her it was the most furious gaie nced. She was sent to| quarantine station for fumigation RANCEER MURDERED AND CABIN RBURNED Indications are been committed by Indians. The re- < m Moore, a rancher, who X aione on the east fork of Carson River, have been found in the ruins of his cabin. Some of the bones bear bullet | marks. Every indication points to the | house baving been looted and burned. H e Attempts to Rob a Safe. SAN JOSE, Dec. 25 —Burglars made an ttempt to blow open the safe in the Red Star Laundry, on West Santa Clara street, | early this morning. but after two failures | gave up the job. The Enterprise machine | shop, a few doors away, was robbed of | | the tools used. The knob of the combina- | tion was knocked off the safe and a| | broken punch in the door showed an at tempt had been made to force it. An at- | tempt was then made to blow the door| off. A hole had been drilled through the | steel and fire clay and a charge of black | powder used, but the door refused to| | yield. —_—— { Mackay Will Rejected. i SACRAMENTO, Dec. 35—In a decision | in the Mackay will case to-day denm: ! | the of the will Judge Joseon W | H stated that he did not believe the | signature to be that of Mrs. Mackay, al- | though Lawyer Frank B Josephs had | testified that Mrs. Mackay signed the will in his presence in pencil, and that | ture in ink at her T =aid he believed | | =1 believe I owe my life to Dr. Pierce’s reme- & d beve long feit # my duty to acknow)- c*:'v.'l’u !ruefifimhpr Plerce’s LAST RAIL LAID ON PiCTURESQUE COAST LINE BETWEEN CITIES SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES The Eighty-Mile Gap Is Closed After Fifteen Months’ Labor, and the New Road Will Be Opened for Traffic in the Latter Part of January or Early in February — | ; 1 LINE BETWEEN SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES, N CLOSED, THUS COMPLETING THE ROAD, WHICH LLY passing <. stone the oak dot been completed, but it I 0 broken at I the entra or three through trains will be run over form the ! of the exhilarasi _the sea. | the line dafly. e Q ONPERENCE /SAY THRY MUTINED 7 PACEG GROVE 10 SATE THE VRSB Change in Time of Holding It Proves Examination of Barney Wilson and Beneficial, as the Attend- Harry Sanders of the Free ment Tug Cormorant and the ance Is Very Trade Is Begun at | Men at Once Taken Ashore | and Quarantined. e e sia 'THRER PLAGUE CASES - ON THORSTAY ISLARD Disease Discovered on the Govern- STODENT ¢ Special Dispatch to The Call VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec. 28 —Plague is reported from Thursday Island in ad- vices brought from Australia by the steamship Miowera to-day. Three cases were discovered aboard the Government tug Cormorant, which arrived from Eng- EUREKA amination of Ban terday upon the charge commenced before United tates Commissioner Henry L. Ford to- day. The men who col tuted the fore- mast crew of the littl sel took the management of the schooner in their own a antined at Thursday fear is Island, and great expressed that, owing to the large Asiatic population on Thursday Island, the disease may obtain a foc At Niuva Foou, in the To earth kes have occurred at interv since last August. These disturbance: threw—up immense waves in the island lake, and the eruptions became so severe that all the natives have deserted their villages and are living on the peaks of the highest hills on the island. The New Zealand Government has de- cided to invite tenders from ship owners for a service of steamers for two year alling at five colonial ports and at least three ports in South Africa. The_ Russian ship Occident, coal laden. from Hamburg to China. caught fire near Fiji through the overheating of the coal. The crew could not extinguishe the flames and so abandoned the ship. The water around the vessel was rom the Navigators claim that if the log hich by Seaman Sanders, howing . is cor- ect the Free Trade would have been in the breakers in a few moments had the rs not taken charge. The vessel cisco. at treatment he received, knocked down In the scuffle fo of the wheel, and then imprisoned. Cap- tain Anfinson was in command of the schooner Caspar when she was ed onvention will em- s of college life and hat of training the students £ in _organ! on Saunders Reef off the Mendocino coast | intense heat given out by the hull. Christian work in their respective insti-| Gctober 27, 1397, and all hands but the cap- | Tonga is divided in opinion over the | tutions—will be carefully and thoroughly | fain and the cook wers drowned. question of annexation to New Zealand. carried o numlw}n:u_‘l‘)etya- e e L'nu‘l! Im!.el’r y nearly lll“t’.hz residents fa- e t of E. T. Col- i > nga retaining its native govern- = secretary of the | INAUGURATION . 1‘:::(, bg( the native government s = Association. and AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION Gorgeous Csremonies and a Monster o a number of promiuent professional men cf the Pacific Coast and elsewhere will t is said to have acted so unwisely of l.sle‘,flplndn‘ address the conventicn. Among them are | annexation even with New Zealand, Rev. Dr. E. R. Dilie of Oakiand, Rev. | Procession Are Arranged for [g“"“ e ahl ot o et D‘r, Frjd;;ic; “:&o'i'“;m\l'(e :IYE:& Fran- | New Year's Day. [lot with the coming iwealth of cisco, Jo : t of N - - eral secretary of the World’s Student| VANOOUVER, B. C., Dec. Z—In con-| 4 Christian _Federation), Rey. Dr. H. C.| nection with tha inauguration of the Aus- e Minton of San Anselmo, H. J. McCoy | tralian federation gorgeous ceremontes DEMOCRATS IGNORE (general secretary of the 'San c1500 | pave been arranged for New Year's day, REQUEST OF BRYAN X M C oA yaTipbard of the Tnl | according to advices brought to-day by — versity of Wisconsin, lGeOhYER Wd mfl}t‘ traveling secretary of the student vol-| {:nl»,er movement in North America). ! various State Governors, Premier and ; sued for a meeting of the Illinois Demo- The convention Is particularly fortunate | Ministers of the crown will take place as | cratic State Central Committee, to be held in securing the services of John R. Mott, | the central ceremony of the elaborate | and iz is believed tha: this, the first visit | celebration. to the Pacific Coast| A monster procession, represent! all the Miowera. The swearing in of the | CHICAGO, Dec. 38.—A call has been is- 7. The issuance of the call for the meet- of this eminent ma: Gonterence, will ean much to future | the Australian colonies. and, indeed, ail | InE On that date renders practically cer; work_among the colicge men throughout | of the various portions of the empire, will | {210 2 R he Nl the West. | take place, headed by Eari Hopetoun, the | Bk Otieaiitios T S eacefully preparel programme will be | hew Governor Gemeral. One of the most | carried out, comsisting or class and de-ls arches of this procession be | Commit faction has ment work, platform addresses and | fo of unpressed bales of wool, vaiued | date, athletics of various kinds, and several actual tion of the | at $40.000. The i Fell-known colleze athletes will compete | Australian commonweaith will go into ef- in the various contesis to be held. | 1 The convention opened its nuhmmry! —_— e session to-night, but active work will not | LYEUTENANT FREEMAN until’ to-morr commence until to-m e AL To Eat Opossum. RENO, Nev., Dec. .—Lieutenant Gor- | e th | SAN JOSE, Dec. 28 —Colored society of | don Freeman, late of the First Nevada ol &nJoulavl’mflD&Y ,for-hkvmm:-mcavm.vmdfimhmm mm&l bake New Years eve, and & Pt ol A it st pofledc: number of opossums from Mis- | hlowing the top of his head off with a e, e e Zouri for the feast. The occasion wiil be | Winehester of the order of an old time plantation | 'Yjeytenant Freeman was subject to fits jubilee. Besides the colored “400” a nm-i ber of prominent white citizens are to be | manja. He was the soul of honor and invited After the dinner there will be"mu’. respected and loved by every oue i 1 ot ] plaptation songs game ;: nl_:emn]nery-tv‘?"'yho composed his com- s iy - Pocudfvem, oo mm{ 0il Company Freeman was a native of Missouri, aged ‘M‘::I EUREKA, Dec. 35.—Articles of incorpor- | 3 years. RS A ation of the Arcata Ofl Company were Mall Bervice Poor. 3 filed with the County Clerk this after- 3 noon. The company incorporated for a| SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 33.—The people term of fifty years, with a capital stock | of Dawson held a mass sol- of $250,000. of which 119 shares have been | ber 19 to protest against the slowness of Af- subscribed. The stockholders are all| the mail service between the Klondike had wealthy men of Arcata, and their pur-|and White Horse, the only method of now pose is to bore for oil near that town. communication with the outside world. with the supply Fer-s Cobd-Su the St ..~ | e e 80 io. the ‘bad condition {heir Bouse Bas eosincersd 4 # | of the trails over the ice, s, e g2 — Ll i land. The patients were landed and quar-| at Springfield on the evening of January | (UAKER DOCTOR PASSES AWA! UNDER ARREST O | AFTER A LONG - SERIOUS CHARGE AND BUSY LIFE | Dr. Burner IS Accused!John Bailiff, a Pioneer of of Obtaining Money ' Sonoma County, Dies Fraudulently. at His Home. {ALLEGED VICTIM A WOMAN DZATH RECALIS A TRAGEDY ‘ Some Years Ago He Shot and Killed James T. Noon, a Young Arrest the Result of an Investigation by the Pastors’ Union and the County Medical Society. and Promising At- torney. | l Spectal I Dispatch to The Call SAN JOSE, Dec. 2—-Dr. H. Rus: ner, who has been travell the charge of The : the ly from | sectic is stated] Isi the accused f Mrs. J. Webb of thi: that on December 3 las loniousiy, falsely and rraudulently tained the money from Mrs ting he was a Quaker 4 and his associates were ail he Scelety of Friends. M states that the doctor toid her medicipes he prescribed bhad pec rative properties, could not be proe: from others ‘and were wnclly prepared b the Society of Fri After getting Mrs. res the doctor fa Webb's money. . but fivaily accepted $150. urner was arrested and arraigned Justice Rosenthal. A hearing w: r Janua id the defendant & 2 a certified ck for $MW9 to sacute appearance in court. The arrest of Dr. Bu ation of an i masquerzding =s Quak: Burner appeared before the Pa: jon when he first came here, ke was a minister of the Frienc investigation J. W. Smith correspond BURGLARS POINTED. Blow Open Unlocked Safe Containing Nothing of Value. BIGGS, Dec. 2—This morning a heavy report startled the town and upon # tigation erra Lumber Compe demolished. perintendent that the burglars got noth- . as he never keeps money fact, it was not locked, for books. SHORTENING THE ROUTE OF NORTHERN PACIFIC Plans for Lind-Ellensburg Cut-Of Prepared and Contracts Will Soon Be Let. TACOMA, Wash, Dec. 3.—The North- | ern Pacific Ra it on ex- hibition a de! L the con- n of the Lind-Ellensburg cut-off State preparatory receiving ing of any in the safe LAWY m_Ame EXTORTION. Attacks Jack Adams’ Motives in San | Jose Justices’ Court. SAN Dee. 2. —Somewh: sensa caused in Just thal's court this morning when the cha of conducting a gambiing game agai JOSE, e complainan: similar cases failed to appear to prosect Lou as he to uring on them. This cut-off will be about ninety miles long and the mest import- b or ant one of several which the rallroad | for ¥, e to build in the mear future. It | Would abandon the orten the main line eighty _or | Rumerous compla ninety miles, enabling the Northern Pa- cific to maintain faster train schedules twin cities and the coast than It is yet undecided act will be let for the ropositio & per month for refraining to prosec Justice Rosenthal sa as the complaint w ng | appears for mercenary mc , he wou dismiss the case. He taxed the e« Adams. short line before nmext nd Idaho grain crops are ready to move. The next cut-off to undertaken will be from Lewiston, Idaho, | Phienix and ula, Montana, through the Bit- |~ oo " Northern Pacific | ter running lines | of Grays Harbor to | Straits of Fuca, east | Such a road, when | e i Poles Torn Down. PHOENIX, Ariz, Dec. 23 —The eit o e Phoenix Street Ra surveyors are from Copalis nor lle on Flattery Olympic peninsuia. a region rich in tim- ber, mines and agricultural resources. It will be constructed within a year or two, | ployes. The company sec connecting with the Grays Harbor line | tlon restraining the officers from from Tacoma to Hoquiam. | fering further and asking $1000 damages. | ADVERTISEMENTS. |