The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 13, 1901, Page 13

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LSOHN, nd internal mgarden, m being rden, ear Mollie Richter, < an, aged S, in- Bessie Kissman, aged 6, d 10, left pan, b T £ llie Frank, aged § Annie t ein, Fannle Mark Fa n and T was in Yiddish, and the audi- . t past women w Hebrews. hall 3 s populated distriet. g for the safety s of the build- a when set for a rush were the e excited people d over the chairs direction, t of the hall ex- at only one % women and from the stairway, toward the exit was t once to throw ling to the floor, dren fell into the throng and were Three of who were thrown d trampled by the x T thelr lives. inder foot ¥ wing the chil many of the women ng from the balcony upon the crowd ow others, swinging over, their hands before they dropped. railing of the balcony was broken f a dozen places by the brought against it by the mad- crowd. mw in floor the crush was much n the balcony. The main ex- the only ones known hose who frequent the {n the south end of um, that open upon which elght steps down der flight leading to he Twelfth-street front. doors a frantic mass of women and children was struggling fiercely to force r way down the stairs. At the land- re the two flights of stairs wind- 4 from the main hall unite, a wo- , stumbled and fell. In an instant a score of people were down and before the was over three lives had been hed out in a space four feet wide by six feet long. five minutes after the beginning « panic it was all over, and the police firemen who came hurrying to the ie of disaster were called mpon to do hing bevond carrying away, the dead injured and keeping back the thou- of people who tried to force their to the bullding. soon as the mews of the panic had = throughout the district, which scemed but a very few minutes, all the ¥ we from that part of the city rushed to the place bent upon learning the names of th and wounded. Men and women rust fougiit desperately with the officers in their efforts to enter the bullding and ! ny of their loved ones were ¢ the dead. The crowd was so great, d and so unmanageable that sev- were sent fer additional officers &nd firemen before it couid be restrained. The alarm of fire was false, there hav- irg been no blaze at any time. Hall | se farther end | WOULD LYNCH I ASSHLAY 07 WONEN Negro Spirited Away While Jail Is St_og@d. |Attempt at Daring Crime | That Arouses People of Leavenworth, Kas. | Police Prevent Summary Vengeance | by Removing the Prisoner to ‘ « the State Penitentiary. LEAVENWORTH, Kans., Jan. 12.—Miss Eva Roth, a well-known young woman of this city, was assaulted on South Broadway, the fashionable residence street of the city, at 6:40 p. m. by Fred Alexander, colored, who had followed her | for a distance of twelve blocks. Alexander | | fatled to accomplish his object, was ar- | rested #hortly after the occurrence and | taken to the office of the Chief of Police, which was quickly surrounded by an | angry mob, numbering nearly one thou- sand, breathing threats of vengearice. Miss Roth is employed at one of the large stores and wa supper. wa ! She soon became aware that she followed and within a few blocks of k. Alexander kept on and Miss Roth again started home, and when at a point nearly opposite the r: Evans of the High School she was met by Alexander. who seized her around the n at and bore her to the ground. falling his fingers slipped from her throat long enough to ensble her to give a ery This cry was heard by Professor ans, who responded, when the assailant for help. E left the girl and Sed. A crowd had gathered, among them a young colored girl, who told who the as- | sailant was. The police were notified and Officer McDonald gent out. When at Seventh and Cherokee streets the officer raw Alexander and upon undertaking to rrest him the negro attempted to escape, but a blow from the cfficer’s club reduccd him to submission, when he was taken to | the station. News of the attempted assault spread like wildfire and in a few moments the streets around the station were filled with a mass of lynch Alexander if he could be obtaingd. The police in the meantime spirited the man away and ‘when - the doors were s golng home to her | r home entered a neighboring house for the purpose of throwing the man off her ence of Professor excited men, demanding to | ONHPERS BLD DEED Y ILLNOS Disappearance of a Rich Farmer’s | Son. —— Young Man of 21 Is Probably Held for Ransom. Leaves Homs for Town and FEis Horse Returns Without Rider and Bridle. | ROCKFORD, T, Jan. 12—Frank G. Thompson, aged 21, son of G. W. Thomp- son, a wealthy and prominent farmer liv- ing three miles southeast of Steward, has disappeared under most suspiclous eir- cumstances, and fears that he has been kidnaped for a reward have prostrated his | mother and driven his father almost to distraction. Thursday evening the young man left home on horseback, telling his | mother he was going into Seward and | would he back in a short time. Several | hours later the horse he rode returned to the farmhouse without rider or bridle. The neighborhood was Instantly aroused and search for the young man instituted, but up to this hour no trace of him has been found. saw him after he left home. The whol» country for miles around is greatly exer- cised over his disappearance and search- ing parties are scouring the country in all directions. His parents are almost insane over the matter, and a reward of $1500 has been offered for his return or for informa- tion leading to the discovery of his whereabouts. Frank G. Thompson is a grandson of the late centenarian, Father Isaac Thompson of Alto Township, who dled in Steward a few months ago at the age of 103, G. W. Thompson, lhg father of the miss- ing young man, is one of the wealthiest farmers in Rock River Valley, owning over 400 acres of land and reputed to be | Frank is'the only son | and idol of his parents, whose hoves are | worth about §50,000. all centered in him. He is a young man of especially good habits, gentle and lov- ing and very fond of his home. He was happy and contented and there can be no reason assigned for his sudden disap- pearance other than he has been kidnaped | in pe or reward. All towns in the vi- cinity of Steward have been visted by searching parties. Telegrams to railroad | conductors have elicited no information He never reached town and | no one in that vicinity can be found who | broken open no ohe was found. Alexander | which might lead his father to believe he | was taken.out througi an alleyway by the police, placed in a hack and driven to the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing. | He will be kept there until the officers | Geem it safe to bring him to the eity. Miss Roth recognized her assailant and identified him to the officers.. Alexander has been watched by the police lately, as he is the suspected murderer of Miss Pearl Forbes, who was assaulted and killed November §, three blocks west of the scene of to-night’s assault. | cASE oF MRs. NATION IS GIVEN A HEARING | Famous Kansas Saloon Smasher Wins a Slight Victory in the | First Inning. TOPEKA, Kans., Jan. 12—The case of Carrie Nation came up in the Supreme Court this morning. Attorney Allen, wh: | 1s Mrs. Nation's coursei, argued the ap. plication for a writ of Lhabeas corpus. | The court ordered that a further hear- | ing of the application shouid be continued | untfl Wednesday, ths 16th, and that if a trial is allowed in the city court of | Wichita on the 15th the petitioner be | admitted to bail in the sum of $200. | If the quarantine stl! stands against | the petitioner a renswal of the applica- tion may be made Wednesday, the 16th. This is a decision in favor of the peti- | tioner, but it gives the city court ample | time to allow a trial and declare the quarantine off, if it ~an be done, before the Supreme Court will hear the petition for the writ. | GUESTS GATHERING roim WEDDING Dinner Given Those Who Will Attend the Vanderbilt-French Nuptials. NEWPORT, R. L, Jan. 12.—Although the marriage of Alfred Gwynne Vander- bilt, one of the richest Vanderbilts, to Miss Elsle French does not occur until Monday, a large number of the guests ar- rived to-day. Their arrival created quite a stir, but the feature of the day was the elaborate dinner in the evening which the bridegroom tendered to the members of the wedding party, including the brides- maids, the ushers and intimate friends. The dinner was given at the home of the bride at Harbor View. At the conclusion of the dinner a num- ber of the most costly and beautiful gifts, which had been conveyed during the day from one of the local banks to-the house, were shown to the guests. The evening’s festivities were closed with an informal dance by the young people. nearly corhpleted. The ceremony will take by Delmonico at the French residence, oot 4 o Will Carry Electoral Vote. SALT LAKE, Utah, Jan. 12—The Re- publican Presidential Blectors to-day se- lected C. E. Loose of Provo to take the electoral vote of ibe i.tate to Washington. Preparations for the wedding are now place in St. John’s Church Monday noon, followed by an elaborate breakfast served took any train from these points. ‘. OF OIL IN TEXAS | Spouts From a Six-Inch Pipe in & | Solid Stream to a Height of Seventy-Five Feet. AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 12.—There is wild Yexcitement throughout Southeast Texas | over the wonderful oil strike that has just | been made three miles south of Beaumont. The well is owned by C. W. Lucas, who to-day succeeded In making a test of the flow, showing that the output for one hour was more than,700 barrels. At this rate the well has 2 flow of 15,000 barrels per day of twenty-four hours. It is the greatest oll strike in the his- tory of that industry. The oil spouts out of a six-inch pipe to a height of seventy- ve feet In a solld stream. The pressure | 18 so great that no cap can be placed on the well and nearly 0,000 barrels of ofl have flowed Into the ravines near the well. These ravines are being drained as rapid- ly as possible, but many thousands of bar- rels of ofl have already gane to waste. Prices of land in the vicinity of the well have gone soaring skyward. One tract of ten acres sold for $50,000. Fabulous of- fers are being made for leases on pros- pective oil lands of that section. —-— . MOUNT PARDONS WILLIAM W. KENNEDY Man Convicted of the Murder of David Baker in Indiana Is at Last Free. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 12.—Governor Mount. who retires from office next Mon- day, to-day pardoned Willlam W. Ken- nedy, who was sentenced to prison for life in 1885 for the murder of David Baker at Greensburg, Ind. Kennedy was paroled in 1867 and has for several months been attached to the sanitary service in Ha- vana. The case attracted national attention because of the efforts of Kate Kennedy, the convicted man’s sister, to secure his pardon. Since his conviction she has ap- pealed to every Indiana Governor, but without avail until to-day. Miss Ken- nedy, in man's garb, traveled over the country, in an endeavor to locate the real murderer. She tramped her way and never missed an opportunity to interview tramps and criminals with the view to ascertaining the whereabouts of the man for whose crime she claimed her brother was suffering. MR RAPID SPREAD OF LA GRIPFE IN NEW YORK Hospitals Are Filled With Patients and Dispensaries Thronged Night and Day. NEW YORK, Jan. 12—The wet weather of the past three days has increased the number of cases -of the grip. . All the hospitals are congested and some have notified the superintendent of the outside poor to send no more cases. The dispen- saries r are crowded. from morning to night and the entire force is at work pre- #rip. . DARING SPECULATORS PLANNING A GIGANTIC WATER MONOPOLY IN THE DIVISION OF SANTA CLARA Politicians, Eastem' Promoters and a Cattle King in Powerful - Combination—Line of Division Craftily Drawn to Place Vast Water Supply in ’ — Speclal Dispatch to The Call AN JOBE, Jan. 12—The people of the entire northern part of Santa Clara County — farmers, mer- chants, bankers and orchardists— are up In arms against the pro- posed division of the county at this session of the Legislature. This widespread protest has not yet cry- stallized into any definite action, but prominent citizens are agitating the ne- cessity of Immediately holding mass meetings, educating public opinion and importuning the Legislature not to inflict the most serfous injury of its history. The people of this city particularly are in deep interest, and already a sensation has developed in the affair. It is charged, and there is much to support the accusa- tion, that in the division of the county Eastern speculators and promoters have water supply, which Is one of the most essential resources, if not absolutely the vital ona, of the county. This water sup- richness of the county, proposed division, be taken out of the county, can be converted into a monopoly and may be piped, if occaslon demands, to San Francisco. This very scheme has been tried before. The men who first attegapted it are again | In the fleld. Tf success rewards thelr ef- forts they will gain absolute control of | an enormous water supply which may serve them in a variety of ways. If Santa Clara County loses this supply, which it now enjoys, an irreparable injury, it is clatmed, will be worked to the splendid orchard lands of the county. To lose this supply, the objectors to division insist, means ruin to Santa Clara County. And | it 1s significant that the line of proposed | dtvision is drawn just so as to place the tremendous water supoly within the northern boundary of the new county. PLOT OF THE POLITICIANS. But Eastern speculators are not the only men leagued to secute a division of the county. There Is nct the glightest ques- tlon that a powerful political combination i In the scheme not only to secure ad- ditional patronage for a clique of poli- ticlans which has operated in San Jose for many years, but for future political contingencies which may arise and which may make a new county government an extremely valuable adjunct for success. So far has this political phase of the | scheme gone that it is common gossip in San Jose who are to fill the most im- portant offices in the new county. And there 1is still a third element in what the people of the northern part of the county belleve to be a mammoth plot to ruin them, destroy their orchards and farms and immeasurably injure San Jose | as a depot for the products of the county. This third element is represented by Henry Miller, the cattle king, who thus far has been the only avowed and open advocate of divisich. Miller, has abso- lutely no concern for the orchard and farm land of the county. He owns vast tracts of land In the southern part of the county and uses it for Its only available purpose—dalry land. He has clashed time and again with the authorities of Santa Clara County over the manner in which he has conducted Eis cattle business. Many of his catye have been condemned and he has been put to the recourse of expensive litigation. He makes no secret of the fact, therefore, that he wants a county consisting almost exclusively of dairy lands'and in which his vast interests will be protected and considered as he wants them to be. His new county he would call Las Anjmas. These three powerful Interests, it is claimed—speculative, political and com- mercial—are in a great combination to divide the county and bring ruin to the entire upper part of it. Before division is made, however, a most stubborn fight will have to be made. Opposition will be agitated from now on until the proposed measure, which has not vet been intro- duced, has been defeated. This contest, which has interested more people in San Jose than any other In years, promises to provoke a serles of sensations. The most serious aspect of the whole proposition: of division is unquestionably that In which Santa Clara County s threatened with the loss of the tremen- dous water supply, which has been of such immeasurable benefit to the county. If the division of the county is made as proposed this entire water supply will be locked {n the new county of Las Animas and will be lost to Santa Clara County. Speculators may use It as they please, even to piping it to San Francisco as an adjunct or as a competitor to the Spring Valley Water Company as conditions may dictate. It should not be understood that the vast water supply, which is threatened by the proposed division, is the drinking water supply of the county or of San Jose. The drinking water supply of San Jose is obtained from Los Gatos and wlll in no way be affected by the proposed di- vision. The supply which is thre is that which feeds the orchards and farm lands, being absorbed into the rich alluvial soil. ENORMOUS WEALTH IN WATER. The sotirce of this supply is the Coyote Creek, which has its headwaters near Mount Hamilton, runs south and turns to a northerly direction near Madrone, Con- tinuing north the creek passes through San Jose and continues until it empties into San Francisco Bay. Two and a halt miles south and east of Madrone'is a deep glen, about a-mile in length and a hait mile in width with precipitous sides that rise to a helght of 500 feettn manv nlansa. | schemed to secure control of a gigantic | i | | | upon the county what they believe will be | | PI¥, which now contributes vastly to the | will, under the | This glen, which is known As Glen Willis, 1s a natural reservoir. J In it three creeks meet and merge inio one, which leaves the glen and continues its northern way as Coyote Creek to Al- viso Bay. The streams which contribute in this glen to the Coyote are Packwood Creek and Las Animas Creek, the name which it is proposed to give to the new county, It is the Coyote Créek which #ivés to Santa Clara County in its north- ern.part its wonderful water supply. This creek has an enormous watershed of the best possible quality of 275 or 300 square miles. Throughout the year this creek, with Its contributions from the Packwood and Las Animas, pours its tremendous volume of whter into the upper Santa Clara Valley, feeding the soll, sustaining it and enric ing farm and orchard lands. Exdperts have estimated that only one-fourth of the wat- er of the Coyote passes into the bay, the other three-fourths being absorbed by the lands through which the creek flows. There {5 no controversy as to the tremen- dous value of the stream, nor have specu- lators been blind to its commercial value as a monopoly. PLAN OF A GREAT MONOPOLY. Twelve years ago Arthur G. Field and Dan Murphy saw that Glen Willis, the ravine In which the three big creeks meet and become one, was a stupendous nat- ural reseryoir, in which millions upon millions of gallons of pure water from an inexhaustible source could be stored. All that is necessary to make this reservoir 18 to construct a dam at the northern end, and there would then be a gigantic res- ervoir a mile in length, half a mile wide and at least 150 feet deep. Murphy and Field saw this splendid opportunity to selze upon a great monopoly. They could take away the water of the Coyote Creek from the upper Santa Clara Valley, pipe it and sell it at a certain figure for each acre to farmers and orchardists. Work was at once begun on the dam, but it was never completed, and foundations and bridges tell now by their ruins in the glen of the work that was never finished. But the tremendous value of Coyote Cresk as a water supply did not escape other eyes. Colonel E. G. Wheeler, whose present address is 1 Broadway, room 18, New York, saw an opportunity to make a stake. Colonel Whecler is a promoter and speculator interested in any scheme which promises a profit. Wheeler began his operations on Coyote Creek at the lit- tle village of Coyote, which is eight miles north of Madrone and about twelve miles south of San Jose. The result of these cperations was instantaneous. Wheeler ditched and dug and discovered a practi- cally inexhaustible supply of water. He thought he had found a bonanza. That was five years ago and it was his purpose to tap the creek, pipe the water, securs from - the Supervisors of Santa Clara County exclusive rights and sell the water of (Covote Creek to farmers and orchardists for the comfortable sum of $7 an acre. ‘The scheme was a splendid one for Wheeler, but the Supervisors of Santa Clara County could not accept his view of the case, refused him the request- ed privileges and condemned this particu- lar “promotion’’ of the Eastern speculator to failure. Wheecler picked up his traps and went awa¥. But he came back a few months ago under conditions which ex- cited the gravest apprehensions in the minds of those who do not care to see the waters of the Coyote dlverted as Wheeler wished to divert them. SECRET OF THE SCHEME. eand orchardists of the upper Santa Clara Valley and the citizens of San Jose know the tremendous value of Coyote Creek. They have been dum- founded, therefore, at the announce- Santa County from the proposed New County PROPOSED LINE OF DIVISION FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA. . 4 new county of Las Animas shall be drawn east and west through the countyand shall pass through apoint about one mile north of the village of Coyote, the place where Wheeler struck an inexhaustible supply of water, which he sought to sell to farmers and orchardists for $7 an acre. x This dividing line will take away from Santa Clara County the enor- mous benefits it has received from the Coyote Creek. This line, so sig- nificantly drawn through this point, will place in the proposed new county of Las Animas the enormous natural reservoir of Glen Willis and the great subterranean stream at Coyote. The new county government could give to tage in his faver, for the position of Sheriff of the new county. These are facts which have given the people of San Jose and the upper Santa | Clara Valley food for very serfous |lhnughtA ‘With Eastern speculators op- | erating to securs a monopoly of water, which is of vital moment to the county; with peliticlans scheming for new power and patronage, and with a cattle king Whose only natural thought is for his own. best interest, the plot for division has as- sumed dangerous proportions and has ex- cited the people of the upper part of the valley and the county to the necessity of doing something at once or bearing the burden of what they belleve will be an injury from which they cannot recover. SUIT TO QUIET TITLE TO QUICKSILVER MINE Litigation Over Property Which an English Syndicate Desires to Purchase. SANTA ROSA, Jan.J2.—Suit was begun here to-day by Alexander Warner of San Francisco to quiet title to property known as the Socrates Quicksflver mine, located in the Cinnabar district, in the northern part of this county. The property has been bonded for $400,000 to an English syndicate, and if the title is satisfactorily adjusted a big plant will be put In at once. The mine is located on a 68-acre tract of patented land. Some interesting developments are ex- pected when the case comes to trlal. The suit is brought against John Lloyd, as as- signee of John Robinson. As soon as this suit is decided another one is to be Insti« tuted by a third person, who clalms his | title is better than the other. The high price quicksilver now commands, together with the large sum offered for the mine, makes the property a prize well worth whomever it pleased a monopoly !fi_ working for. this water and the owmers of the water could use their possession to their best advantage, to levy tribute upon the farmers and orchardists of Santa Clara County, to act as con- tributor or competitor to the Spring Valley Water Company of San Fran- cisco. And to add to the excitement which these facts have produced in this city and in the valley, it is known that Colonel E. G. Wheeler has been here since the proposition of county divis- ion was made and has had surveys made of Glen Willis, the great natur- al -reservoir. It is known also that property in the neighborhood of the glen and which would naturally af- fect water rights has been placed un- der bond. THE CATTLE KING’S CAMPAIGN. These facts have created serious con- sternation among people who realize the grave consequences which must arise from such a division. More particularly is this the fact since It is notorlous that the machine politicians are heartily in favor of the scheme of division. John Mackenzie and Jim Rea, the local bosses, are as one upon this subject. They see in division many material advantages to themselves, and are urging that in the scheme a part of San Benito County be taken and added to the proposed county of Las Animas. So far has this plotting gone that it is common gossip on the streets of San Jose that State Senator Oneal, the friend, as- sociate and beneficiagy of John Mackenzle, has already been -lsxa for the important position of SBuperior Judge of the proposed new county. Mackenzie is now in Sacra- mento. It is also freely asserted that El- mer Rea, a brother of Jim Hea, will be thrawn into the fleld, with every advan- [TWO FUNERALS CLOSE A SAN JOSE TRAGEDY Bodies of Robert B. Stolle and His Murdered Daughter Are Interred. SAN JOSE, Dec. 12.—Two funerals from the Morgue to:day supplied the closing scene of the awful tragedy enacted by Robert B. Stolle early Thursday morning. The bodfes of the suicide and his mur- dered daughter, Bertha, were consigned to adjoining graves in the same lot at Oak Hill Cemetery. Two' separate funerals were held. The first that of the uncatural father. No friends gathered, no ssrmon was preached and the body was carried out to Oak Hill and interred. At 2 o'clock this afternoon the funeral of the girl was held. There was a large attendance. Several floral pleces wers on the casket. Rev. T. 8. Young of the Bap- tist church delivered a sermon. A num- ber of carriages followed the body to tho cemetery and it was lald to rest besids that of her father who had taken her life. —_— SANTA CLARA COUNTY'S CARNIVAL OF ROSES SAN JOSE, Jan. 12—“The Carnival of Roses of Santa Clara County* is the name decided on for the biz floral fete to be given in honor of President McKinley during his visit to Caiifornia next May. Good progress is being made by the vart- ous committees, and a programme that will atract thousands is being rapidly for- mulated. The carnival probdbly will ex- tend over three days, during which great floral pageants, dances and receptions will be the features. s Adolph Greeninger Las been chosen for director general. A general committee, of which Mayor Martin is chairman and Major H. 8. Foote secretary, has charge of the carnival. The planting of flowers for decoration purposes has commenced.