The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 3, 1901, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXIX—NO. 34. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1901, PRICE FIVE CENTS, MARTIAL LAW N FORCE I CAPE COLON Boers Continue the Advance Upon British. Reoceupy Jagersiontein and aten to Invest (Other Places. ses are footsore and there great antry is barren the c as the Boers are ng the line. General Thor- roft and Colonel Delisle are continu- chase, but their horses and mules very tired Many Dutch residents funeral of a Boer killed-in placed wreaths upon his coffin, ptured and destroyed the ber. NAVAL BOARD OPPOSES sv}amnm BOATS Value of the New Craft Is Held by Majority to Be an Unknown Quantity. WASHINGTON, - Jan are ettended ection & The Boers mails due D 2 —Submarine by Congress during the present session 1f : ews of majority of the on construction are observed e board considered to-day a letter m Representative Foss, chajrman of ¢ House committee, regarding a ending, duthorizing the construction of enty additional submarine boats. By vote of four to_one the decision was ainst the new vessels until their value demonstrated Naval Constructor oodward representing "Rear Admifral chborn, chief constructor, was the dis- ng member. In making its decision © majority took into consideration the reperts of Admiral Dewey, Rear Admiral arg others corhmenting favorably upon the boat's performance. ats for the Navy will hot be aythorized Naval | bl | har, Commander N. E. Mason, and | | sands. | cago sixteen yesrs ago. 'LORD ROBERTS IS DOUBLY HONORED BY QUEEN VICTORIA UPON RETURN TO BRITAIN Sovereign Endows Him With an Earldom for Serv- ices in South Africa—Marches Under an Arch of Laurel on Landing -at Isle of Wight SAR WITH RE SEN MARY AND RSION ) MARSHAL LORD ROBERTS, WHO HAS BE OF THE ADA EDWINA N CREATED AN TO HIS DAUGHTERS, TITL the Roads front was | decorated ting, and masts with festoons adorned House, at the en- crected a unique trib- appreciation of the in the shape of an | the first time arch had ever'a there in subject of Her Majesty. stow earldom on | with ial remainder 1so made a peared an a spe ers. He was a ywd of people awaited Lord 1 at Trinity Pier and land- i Marshal landed from the | m., which was the signal shouts of welcome. Prin- in her capacity as Governor f and the Duke of representing the Queen. Lord Roberts, whose arm was a sling as the result of beinzg from his horse in South Africa warmly greeced and .the party in royal carriages for Osborne The route was' lined with troops 4 thronged with cheering sightseers. Lord Roberts stoppec on his way at the 1 of East Cowes, where eulo- es of weicome were present- to him He then resumed his drive. | gion when Lady Roberts visited Windsor entered the grounds of flrl\r"r‘n(‘ Castle a few s before she safled for | se by the Prince of Waleg' entrance .the Cape, to hand her a small parcel, say- proceeded up the noble, troop-lined | ing: to Her MaSesty's . Ial~ of Wight |: Here n; gnr_mwhxn]z 1‘ h:\\}filnml up m;;; " | my own hands, and that T beg you wi After arty reception in | o4 ooen until you get home.” the council chamber by a number of | yaqy Roberts found that the parcel con. Princes and Princesses, Lord Roberts was | tained the Victoria Cross worn by her red into the presence of the Queen. | dead son. | an hour. s His audience of Her Majesty was quite private Replying to the Hall, Lord Roberts ldresses at the Towr said he regretted that his return was not accompanied by im- mediate peace; but, ne added, while he feared hostilities would continue for some time, he had fmplicit confidence in Lord Kitehener and had no fear regarding the outcome. He concluded with a eulogy to the magpificent armv of Great Britain, all the components of which, he pointed out, pulled together splendidly. When Lord Roberts reached Osborne House he found that the Queen was out driving and he conversed with several of the Princesses while waiting for her to return. The audience iasted a quarter of Lord Roberts was then taken to Southampton by the royal berta and went on board the where he will spend the night. Canada. “Remainder,”” as referred to in the dis patch from Cowes, is *“‘a provision for the passage of patent of nobility to a special successor or line of succession, of male holder. The only Lieutenant the dled December 17, ceived in the son of Lord Roberts, Hon. F. 8. H. Roberts, 1899, of a wound re- engagement at the Tugela River. For gallantry in attempting to rescue the British guns abandoned on that occasion, he was recommended for the Victorla Cross and the Queen, as a mark of appreciation of the young man’s valor and the services rendered by. Lord Rob- erts to his country previously to his de- parture for South Africa, took the occa- HUSBAND GETS POISON INTENDED FOR LOVER Trying to Wreak Vengeance on Fickle Ad- mirer a Woman-Kills the Wrong Man. Epecial Dispatch to The Call NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 2—The key | to the Rathbun polson mystery, according | to the report of the Coroner, has boe.n‘ found in the unfaithfulness of the vic- | tim’s wife. Her husband, however, was not her intended victim. It was John F. Hart, her sweetheart, who innocently handed to Rathbun the deadly draught | intended for himself. This statement is | | embodiea in the finding Coroner Elf Mix | filed to-day with State Attorney Williams. Mrs. Rathbun was arrested on a war- | rant charging her with murder. She will | be given a preliminary hearing in the City Court to-morrow. Hart was also form- GEORGE V. HANKINS SUES FOR DIVORCE | CHICAGO, Jan. 2—George V. Hankins; | famous the country Over as a saloon- | keeper, turfman and gambler, has filed a | bill in the Circult Court for divorce from | Effie 8. Hankins, who is almost as well | known as her husband. The ground for divorce is desertion, and it s stated in | the petition that since October 20, 187, | she has refused to live with her husband, She has been living in New York, w!-,ubl she recently filed a petition in bank=3tay. | with liabilities in the hundre’s,of thou» The couple were married in Chl«l ally arrested on a warrant charging him with intimacy with Mrs. Rathbun. It is said his arrest is partly for the purpose of keeping him for a witness ngalnn Mrs. Rathbun, The Coroner in the report says it has been established that Mrs. Rathbun and Hart had sustained improper relations for seven years; that two months ago Hart began to pay attention to another woman and Mrs. Rathbun became jealous and de- termined to kill Hart by pofsoning the | eoffee in a lunch which she prepared for him. Through some mistake the poisoned coffee was put in Rathbun’s dinner pail and Rathbun instead of Hart was ‘killed. L o i i 2 o B e S o o o ) | PRESIDENT ACCEPTS GLEAVES’ INVITATION WASHINGTON, Jan. Jan. 2—United States Surveyor General Gleaves of California called at the White House to-day and in- vited the President to attend the annual banquet of the Ohlo Soclety of California | on the occaslon of his visit to the coast to attend the launching of the battleship Ohio. The President assured Mr. Gleayes that he would attend if nothing intervened to prevent, Representative Slayden of Texas also called and invited the President to visit San Antonio, Tex., on his California trip, The President will probably do so, and if able he will also visit Austin, Tex. | been printed. | | | | i | before. vacht Al- | WHOLE FAMILY OF MR, CUDARY 1S THREATENED Another Letter From the Alleged Kid- Tapers. Demand for the Withdrawal of the Reward IS Renewed. The Abducted Boy Fails to Identify J. J. Crowe and He Is Re- leased From Custody. S A aE OMAHA, Jan. 2—Another letter, printed with a lead pencil, was received by E. A. Cudahy this afternoon, demanding the withdrawal of the reward offered for the kidnapers. The fact that the address was printed in simflar style to the former one gave rise to the suspiclon before it was opened that it was from the same | source, but Mr. Cudahy stated to-night that it was & rank imitation and sald he aid not attach the slightest significance to it. It was malled in the postoffice about 8:30 o’clock in the afternoon. He showed the letter to a reporter and sald it was evidently patterned after the fac simile of the former letter that had been printed. He stated that it was of the same class as several others that had been recelved from various points, except that it had He pointed out that there was a marked dissimilarity between it and the one recefved from the kidnapers, both in the shape of the letters and the | general wording of it, as well as In the spelling. Apparently every word that was possible of misspelling was mis- spelled. The letter demanded the with- drawal of the Cudahy offer of yeward and of the city’s offer as well under penalty | not only. trouble for the children, but | the destruction of the entire “Cudahy | family.” The epistle closed with an in- | junctton to “heed this warning.” | ward A. Cudahy Jr. failed to-day lni | | identify J. J. Crowe as one of the men who kidnaped kinf. Cuduhy appeared =t the City Jail and confronted Crowe in | the Bertillion room. After looking at the | suspect five minutes or more young | Cudahy remarked: “I never saw that man | He is not the one who stood | guard over me, and if he had anything | at all to do with the kidnaping, I did not see him.” Crowe was then released. Secret Service Agent Witten to-day stated positively that he saw Pat Crowe | in St. Joseph, Mo., the Friday after the | Kkidnaping. He does not think he was | one of the kidnapers. | A Chadron (Nebr.) special says: It was | who were reported to have captured Pat | in default | issue on the aeath of a present | Crowe, the alleged abductor of young Ed- : ward Cudahy at Omaha, while endeavor- ing to make good his escape across the Pine Ridge country vesterday, were | 3 | thrown off thelr guard by Crowe's friends | and sympathizers, many of whom live | near the agency. Crowe's friends are | | satd to be spiriting him away to the ““Hole-in-the-Wall” country in Wyoming, | was released on proving his identity. | When any of it is attempted to be passed where he is to join an old-time friend and cattle rustler and may enter a secluded life a y from the reach of officers of the law. The officers yesterday ran down a Beston curlo hunter named Dennis, but he - T0 BE PUNISHABLE BY DEATH. Bills Relating to Kidnaping Intro- duced in the Legislature. LINCOLN, Nebr., Jan. 2.—Senator Ran- som of Omaha Introduced a bill in the Senate to-day to make kidnaping, under certain (‘A)r\dl(lnn*l punishable by death, Other bills bearing on kidnaping and not much different in phraseology were also introduced. The present Nebraska statute on this crime is regarded as larhe, and good authorities question whether for abduction alone a conviction would be possible. Ao e CUDAHY MARKED THE MONEY. Banks Receive a Description of the Cash Paid Kidnapers. DALLAS, Tex., Jan. 2—All the banks in Dallas to-day received descriptions of the money pald by Mr. Cudahy at Omaha for the ransom of his son. Tt is clalmed that marks were placed on the money. the arrest of the person or persons offer- ing the marked money is to follow. Banks throughout the United States and Canada and Mexico have recel\ed similar notice. HAD CBOWE FOB A CLIENT. John L. Boone Is Sure He Once De- fended the Omaha Kidnaper. John L. Boone, the patent lawyer, of this city, Is certain he once had for a client the same Pat Crowe who Is charged with the kidnaping of Eddie Cudahy at Omaha. Boone knew the man he believes was Crowe as A. C. Evans, and he defended him before Judge Cabaniss from the charge of selling adulterated drugs. Boone took up Evans’ case last March. The man was sent to him by a friend and Boone and his friend went on Evans’ bond so that he would not have to remaln in prison. Soon after they heard Evans was preparing to go East, so they surrendered him. He then put up $50 of his own and was released. The man was convicted before Judge Cabaniss, but he told Boone if he would appeal the case he could have the bail money. Boone appealed the case and got the man off, but he never got his money, for a woman claiming to be the sister-in. law of Evans got the receipt and she would not give it up. It was as late as last July that Boone | School. IREV. LE BARON JOHNSON AND MISS MARY HOFFMAN HAVE NOT BEEN LOCATED Two Weeks Have Passed Sinece They Strangely and Mysteriously Disappeared, but the Pecu-| liar = Affair Still Remains to Be Solved MISS MARY HOFFMAN, REMAINS TO BE SOLVED. WHOSE STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE .FROM NEW YORK ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO IS A MYSTERY THAT STILL EW YORK, Jan. 2—More than| two weeks have passed sincc | Rev. James Le Baron Johnson | left the private asylum at Wat- | kins, N. Y., where he had been in confinement, and the same time has | elapsed since Miss Mary Hoffman of San | Francisco left Bellevue Hospital Training | Yet neither the Watkins asylum | authorities nor the Bellevue Hospital authorities when asked for information | by The Call correspondent to-night could | give the slightest clew as to their where- | abouts beyond what has appeared in the telegraphic dispatches from Montreal, | Canada. The Call correspondent at Mon- treal by means of a picture printed in the | reported this afternoon that the officers | Herald 106y tiTed Ar: Johosgm A% 8 naxiy | who engaged passage for Europe cn Tunisian, but the landlady at whos: .WWH‘H‘H‘F.\ | straltjacket house Rev. Mr. Johi s female com- | panion lived for a few days was not so sure of the identity of the lady In connection with the story that Miss Hoffman left the hospital in order to avold being a witness in connection with | the brutal treatment of patients there a new plece of information is here. Mrs. Edward Hughes of this city, but formerly of Pittsburg, Pa., made a statement to-day to the effect that her husband, who died in St. Luke's Hospi- tal about a year ago, lost his life be- cause of injuries recelved in Bellevue Hospital. She says she saw him in a and made to trot up and down a corridor in the Bellevue Insane Pavilion while an attendant flogged him with a long strap ad been fractured. 'WOMEN THREATEN FORCE TO RESCUE MRS. NATION Temperance Workers Declare the Quaran- tine of the Jail Is Spurious. Epecial Dispatch to The Call WICHITA, Kans., Jan, 2.—Unless Mrs. Carrie Nation, the woman who wrecked | the Carey Hotel saloon last Friday, is re- leased soon she may-be taken by force ( from the County Jall. Members of the| local temperance union threaten to release | her. This afternoon Dr. Brown, attorney for | Mrs. Nation, appeared before Judge O. D. | Kirk in the City Court with a bond, which | she asked to be pu-!e(‘upon County At- [ eaw his man Evans, and he s sure he can be no other than Pat Crowe. The squint and the general appearance of ¢ the plctures of Pat Crowe that have appeared in the local papers have all been so strik- ingly llkke Boone’s client Evans that the lawyer recognized them as soon as he saw them. FEvans' brother, Boone says, lived in Omaha, and Evans tald Boone once that he owned a drug store in Omaha and that he lived there. Both the Evanses are known to the po- lice here. They were known by various initials, and when A. C. Evans was tried for selling adulterated drugs he was tried under the name of W. G. Wyman. He told Boone he had been in some crooked work and therefore he had to go by’ the alias Wyman. He was Interested in sev- eral bunko schemes, and his brother, or the man supposed to be his brother, was also in the bunko business. There was a warrant out for R. C. Bvans, the sup- posed brother, for bunkoing a man out of $100, but he left the city and the police say he is now In Omaha. The other Evans, known as “Chipple Bob,” 1s in the city row. The police say that it is the Evans now in Omaha who was Boone's client. The man with the squint, they declare, is ““Chippie Bob,” who had no hand in the drug case. Quietly Married. KANSAS CITY, ‘Jan. 2—It was an- nounced to-day that Miss Celeste Fine, daugtter of Mr. and Mrs. B. 8. Fine of Virginia City, Mont., and Wilson 8. Webb, eashier of the Missourl Savings Bank of Kansas City, were quietly married here yesterday. The announcement was made wheu the couple reached St. Louh where they had gome to secure the forgiveness of Mrs. Fine, who is visiting in that city. Mr. Fine is a of the Montana Legislature. torney Amidon argued that the matter of passing on Mrs. Natlon’s bond no longer rested with Judge Kirk. The Judge ac- cordingly referred the temperance people to Sheriff Simmons, who approved bond, but refused to release Mrs. Nation because of the smallpox quarantine now existing over the jail. The temperance people say this quaran- tine is spurious. make threats to release the prisoner. [ CHILE REACHING OUT FOR TRADE o g | Desires to Furnish Central American | Republics With Products in Op- position to California. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec. 12.—Chile | is making active efforts to sell to Nica- ragua and other Central American repub- | les flour, wines, horses, hay, etc., in op- position to California and other coun- tries. Chile is taking this action in view of now having low freight rates by the British line of weekly steamers of the | South’ American Pdcific Navigation Com- pany, plying between Chile and Central America, also to the low freight rates by | the semi-monthly line of German steam- ers operated by the Kosmos Company, | which enter Chjlean and Central Amer- | ican ports“twice a month en route from Germany to California. Chile gives a subvention of $100,000 per annum té the | English company’s steamers. The Government of Nicaragua 14 urging the Pacific Mall Steamship Company and the Pacific Navigation Steamship Com- pany (English) to operate four mail steamers per month, instead of three as at present, to Nicaragua's Pacific Ocean ports. This would greatly benefit cor- respondence and commerce between Eu- rope and Nicaragua. g o7 Saitieg San Franciscan Weds at Napa. NAPA, Jan. 2—Mr. Charles Grant of San Francisco and Miss Mabel Lyle of Napa were married here to-day. Rev. Richard Wylie officiated. The wedding was very quiet on account of the recent death of a relative of the groom. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lyle. published | tipped with metal. | the | Later it was found that seven of his ribs | the | This has incited them to | HOW HARRISON WORRIES THE ADMINISTRATION General IS Ambitious to Be Republican Leader. Utterances on Porto Rico { |1 Causing Very Bitter Comment. Ex-President Is Actused of Desperately Striving to Defeat the Policy of the President. Special Disvatch to The Call WASHINGTON., Carlisle’s brief in J 2 —Ex-Secretary the Porto Rican tariff | case, now before the Supreme Court, was submitted to-day and is regarded as very strong legal argument against the power of Congress to ignore the provision of the | constitution. The argument is said to be |® forceful reply to the brief of Attorney General Griggs and the Department Justice is harassed for time to reply, as arguments in the case are set for next Monday. It is freely asserted that op- posing counsel have withheld their brief for this purpose, and coming as it does sbout the time of General Harrison's magazine article on the same subject is made public it has added to the ann ance feit in administration circles. Harr son's article is regarded as supplementary to Carlisle’s brief. This magazine article and the ex-Pres- ident’s several speeches, and newspaper interviews are the principal subjects comment in Cabinet circles. The columns | the ex-President has contributed to tho cussion of the constitutional power of Congress regarding new are sources of irritation to m-mb rs of the Cabinet, if not to the President There is a well defined imprédssion in the Cabinet that Harrison Is doing what he can to influence the opinion of the Su- | preme Court on this great question, his | magazine article being spoken of as a brief for the complainants against the | Porto Rico tarifr. F | Some members of the President’s official household profess to belleve that Gen- eral Harrison is ambitious to again be- come the Republican leader and imitate Grover Cleveland in trying to discredit the present organization of his part as to take the lead in a new movement They profess to belleve that Harrison is deliberately aiding the opponents of the administration’s policy, doing all in his power to create public sentiment against that policy. as well as to Influence the opinion of the Supreme Court. They sus- pect It is an effort with a view to make | Harrison the Republican leader in 1304, who will find a way to have the consti- tation and flag both in the Philippines without doing violence to either. There are rumors that the Supreme Court is divided on the question now be- fore it with a majority against the Gov- | ernment’s contention that the constitviion does not follow the flag into new terri- tory, and it is asserted these rumors, | whether well founded or not, have per- | suaded Harrison to take the.course he has n the matter. The ex-President has, however, many friends in Washington who indignantly deny the right of the administration to find fault with him because he Is exer- cising his right an American citizen to discuss a grave constitutional | tion in which is interested | This defense of the ex-President does not satisfy the administration people that he has not some ulterfor purpose in devoling | so much attention to this question at this | particular time. Harrison is booming the | 1gsue, and should the Supreme Court de- | clde against the Government's conten- tion it will iIn Washington be regarded as a victory for the ex-President as well as a ‘defeat for President McKinley ) as ques- ev one YOUNG MAN ARRESTED ON A SERIOUS CHARGE | George Howard, a Consulting Engi- neer, Accused of Having One | Wife More Than Law Allows. NEW YORK, Jan. 2—George Howard, a consulting engineer of < Boston, who | came to this city about a year ago as the | representative of the Whitney-Elkins- ‘Widener syndicate, and who has made his home In this city since that time, was arrested at the New Amsterdam Hotel in this city to-night on a warrant charging him with bigamy. Howard had offices in this city and has been a prominent figure in social circles of Brooklyn. Last Sep- tember he married Helen Hawkes, daugh- ter of Deputy Highway Commissioner Henry Hawkes of Brooklyn. After the | ceremony the bride was presented with a handsome residence by her father, and after the wedding tour the couple re- | turned to their new home. Howard, however, for alleged business reasons, brought his wife to this city and they put up: at the New Amsterdam Ho- tel. It is sald he frequently pleaded press of business and went to Boston, remaining | away Friday, Saturday and Sunday. ‘The | young wife's parents became suspicious and employed a detective to shadow their son-in-law. The detective says he secured the evi- dence on which to-day’s warrdnt was is- sued. . —— Ten Germans Killed. TIENTSIN, Jan. 2—Ten Germans were killed and nine wounded at Lelehu, Jan- uary 1, through the firing of a salute with a defective cartridge.