The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 6, 1901, Page 1

The VOLUME LXXXIX—NO. 68. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS. HEAVY LOSSES OF BRITISH IN “SOUTH AFRICA Death Roll Foots Up Nearly Thirteen Thousand. Led by Blake Report- 0 Be Threatening urenzo Marques. — r ed L + ! 0 6.—The War om command American and emi-officlal e report that the Boers r Lourenzo Mar- the local Portuguese au- s were asking for British gssist- ed anck se frontier. here that BSritigh g rapidly toward the s dispatch from Cape Town Dewet, according o is to annex-va- “ape Colony and then to ] , alt b watch the all nding of mercenaries of , all the guns blile, wrecked mberts bay, have been Rand deserted. The armed Boers ss on one of ths At a meeting here to-day, at- ristian PHOLDS THE C BRYAN v ACTION OF VAN WYCK er, ork in fai, tter of courtesy. n Wyck presented a fense when he cited the fail- s tribute to Joubert as a € on a public bullding tribute to the memory fed in freedom’s is not extremely important He 1 quee who are ® to monarchs than of free men.” urges e the to good people of t on the road po government, we an by droppir the pl — ; SERIOUS DISTURBANCES REPORTED IN BOLIVIA Trouble Is Caused by Questions Re- garding Management of India Rubber Properties. >out ops to restore order, a rubber properties of the dis- —_———— To Retire as Grand Master. LONDON, ¥ 5.—It s stated rd h that n brother, the Duke of Con- it, it is said, will succeed him. h | Peru, Feb. 5.—Advices form Bo- | serfous disturbances near | troops were ambushed by Yaqui Indlans twenty-one miles from |in the mountain passes east of Ures and Bolivian Government has | fully 100 were killed and wounded before The origin | they could extricate themselves. The bat- = not pelitical, but concerns | tle occurred in the most rugged portion £ out of the management |.of the mountain range, not i [ [ | | !l ot Cape Colony | resolution | Did Right in Refusing pn » action | TWenty-four years ago, he says, he lived serious ques- | holy | MARTINELLI WILL BE CREATED A CARDINAL Letter Sent by the Vatican to the Apostolic Delegate in the U Him of the Eleva nited States Notifying tion Coming to Him ARCHBISHOP MARTINELLI, THE UNITED STATES, WHO WILL BE COMING CONSISTORY AT ROME. l | APOSTOLIC DELEGATE IN THE CREATED A CARDINAL AT THE ARIS, Feb. 5.—The Rome Eor-l espondent of the Temips says a | er from the Vatican has been | osted to Archbishop Martinell, rm | delegate in’ the Stelling nesPUrg | United States, notifying him that he will 1 gazetted a Cardinal. The corresponde adds that other let- ters will shortly be dispatched, as eight | or ten new cardinals will be created at | | be created EUGENE WELL CLAIM 4 WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—While it is generally -believed here that Archbishop Martinelll will eventually be created a Cardinal, thé officials of the Apostolic Le- gation have nothing to make public on the subject and say the discussion of the | question is at this time premature. A con- | sistory of cardinals in Rome is looked for In the near future and if the Archbishop is to receive the new honor referred to his appointment may be announced at that time. TERERERRY THAT HE IS CHARLEY ROSS CHICAGO, Feb. 5.—Eugene I. Gowell, Britain to | who says he is the famous Charley Ross, | walked er comman- | gnd requested the police to look up his d | family tree. Gowell, who*has been travel- e promoters | into detective headquarters early ing about the country and is now living in Chicago at 77 Sangamon street, says he has dim recollections of living In diz- ferent and more comfortable surroundings a house by the side of a little brook. As to the circumstance surrounding his or the kidnaping episode, Gowell vs nothing, but accounts for this by explaining he was drugged at the time and the drug had left his mind a blank. with Mrs. Clara Robbins in Los Angeles, who he was led to believe was his mother. arried Willlam or John Gowell, he They are now llving in Los Ange- The man sald he has been informed by his brother Clarence that he was the adopted son of Mrs. Gowell. Some years ago he left the Gowell home in Los Ange- She m: sa; les and since then he says he has traveled | about the country. Recently, he said, he made known his claims at Logansport, Ind., and was placed in an insane asylum. Since then he has hesitated in relating the circumstances. The police are not inclined to take Gowell’s claims seriously. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5—Nothing 1s known of the Gowells in this city. The name of John Gowell or Willlam Gowell is not in any recent directory or great register. : CHINESE GOING HOME TO INHERIT MILLIONS DENVER, Feb. b5—Five Chinamen, ago and engaged as cooks, except Charlie flag be required to pay tribute | members of one family, were passengers | Lung, who started a laundry. There are some | for San Francisco on the Denver and Rio more | Grande train this morning on the way In Canton Sing Queng, the merchant head of the family, recently died. He had | to the home of their fathers In the Ce- | accumulated millions, but before his great levoted to a |tion of the ion is pav- | years or more have been Cantonese mer- Cuba and he | chants. The members of the Queng fam- lestial empire. Generation after genera- ng family for-a thousand | fly were many, so many that several of“ them came to California to dig gold and | 1 begin no | earn enough money to set themselves up | | excuses and | as merchants on their return to Canton. cdges | Four of them came to Denver three years O A e e estate can be divided the heirs must as- semble together at the family altar in Canton. The Six Companies of San Fran- cisco was appealed to to locate and send to Canton the scattered relatives in Amer- ica, and Charlie Lung and Wu Fang were intrusted with the responsibility of taking them home. The 8ix Companies sent the money, charged against the Queng estate, for them to pay thelr way. i@ 'VAQUI INDIANS AMBUS . PURSUING_ MEXICAN TROOPS s decided to abandon his | 500 men arrived. These proceeded to drive i master of the English Free | the Indians back, but the Yaquis retreated POTANE, Mexico, Feb. 5.—~The Mexican 'ar from the main camp of the Indians. Friday morning & band of about 150 In- dians appeared at a fortified ranch and attacked the small garrison. The Mexi- cans sent for reinforcements, and at noon slowly and an incessant fire was kept up. The soldlers pursued the Indians all night | | | | and at daybreak were well mountains. It was near noon when the soldlers halted in a dry canyon of considerable depth. While the troops were resting in the canyon the Indlans atfacked them from both sides, and A such effective work that more than 100 were mowed down be- fore the command succeeded in effecting its escape. As soon as army headquarters could be communicated with a large num- ber of reinforcements were dispatched to the spot where the fight occurred, but when they arrived the Tndians and their wounded had disappeared. Many of the dead had been mutilated, A up in the KNS MO LS THE CHLD Jilted by @ Woman, A. M. Robinette Slays Otfspring. Confesses Murdering Daugh- ter of Mrs. Colburn AfterShe WedsRival. Special Dispatch to The Call. SEATTLE, Feb. | dead. I killed it as I sald I would do. 1 | will not tell where it s, but her mother will never see its face again.” Goaded to desperation because the wo- man with whom he claims to have once | 1ived and rendered reckiess by intoxicants | A. M. Robinette, a printer, who claims tc have been at onme fime employed on the Sacramento Record-Union, made this statement at police headquarters to-nigh! to the distracted husband of the woman | whose child he claims to have both kid- | naped and murdered. Though repeated attempts were made Lo force him into the admission that the lit- tle girl, which he ciaims is his, is yet liv. ing, Robinette steadfastly adheres to his original statement and Mrs. Colburn, a bride of less than twenty-four hours, liss prostrated at her apartments over the loss of her little one, whom she kissed good-by early v | | | | | return only to find it gone. The facts leading up to the tragic sequel | which culminated yesterday afternoon { the dramatic meeting between the newly wedded husband of the woman whom Robinette avers deserted him and the self- confessed abductor of her child were ob- tained through' Police Officer Crane, who, while placing Robinette under arrest in a First-avenue saloon, had to overpower and handcuff him in order to prevent him from firing point blank at the man who yesterday wedded the mother of the ab- ducted child. The principals in the affair are Robi- nette, Mrs. Clara Colburn (nee Kava- naugh), A. ). Colburn and the foul-years old child of the former. According to the story of Robinette, who formerly conducted a hotel In Everett, he met Mrs. Colburn over four years ago and they lived together for a considera- | ble length of time. | Recently Robinette came to this city to | live. Not long since he claims to have | become apprised of the fact that A.°D. | Colburn, 2 mechanic, who resides in Sno- | homish, was a suitor for the woman's | hand. Colburn came to this city yesterday and ‘proce(‘ded to the County Recorder’s of- | fice, where he obtained a license to marry Mrs. Kavanaugh, and they were shortly afterward made man and wife by a local minister. Little suspecting what awaited them, the newly wedded couple returned to their lodgings. Mrs. Colburn found a letter writen in lead pencil and signed by Robinette, in which he told her he had abducted the child and warned her that she would never see its face again unless she came to him in person and without the entanglements of a husband. It was broadly intimated that the child “would suffer should the warning be ignored. Mrs. Colburn Immediately placed the note in her husband’s hands and he turn reported the affair at police head- quarters. Officer Crane was detailed on the case, and together he and Colburn began a sys- tematic search of the city to locate Rob- fnette. After several hours, during which time they called at Robinette's room at the Vendome Hotel, they finally located Robinette in the Dilier bar on First ave- nue. Colburn had no sooner pointed the man out to Crane than Robinette, seelng his rival, reached for his revolver. Crane sprang upon him and wrenched the pistol from his hand, and rang for the police patrol wagon. Robinette was taken to Captain Wilkard's office, where Jailor Corning attempted to search him. He re- sisted, and it became necessary to use force. An examination of his pockets re- vealed, besides the revolver, a viclous- looking razor, carried i an upper vest pocket. Robinette was plainly under the influ- ence of liquor and soon became very volu- ble. In answer to a question by the offi- cer he stated that yesterday afternoon he found that Mrs. Colburn had married Colburn and that he had made good his threat to do away with her child. “What d@id you do Wwith it?" asked the officers. “Killed it,” he answered. Hesitating a moment Robinette finally continued: ““Yes, the child is dead; I killed it, as T sald I would do. I will not tell where it is, but her mother will never see her face again.” Detective Powers and Captain Willard attempted to get from Robinette the ad- mission that no harm had befallen the little one, but he insisted that such was not the case and entercd his cell repeating the words: “I killed it: I killed it.” Robinette clalms that he is the father of the child. The police doubt -the truth of this claim.. Not Robinette, the Printer. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 5—The man ar- rested at Seattle cannot be Robinette, the printer, for, he is dead. The prisoner is probably the Robinette who was employed several years ago as a clerk at the Sut- ter Club. He got into some trouble with ithe club and left town three or .four years ago. His name was Allen Robin- ette. He did not work in a printing office and never worked for the Record-Union. “Yes, the child is | sterday morning when | she left home for tne marriage altar to | in | viemas ar a b7y | + 'MRS. NATION CONTINUES TO WRECK SALOONS AND GAINS ADHERENTS Given Police Protection After Smashing the Fixtures in One of Topeka’s Principal . *'Joints’’---County Officers Arrest Liquor Sellers---Parties Interested Form Sides and Violence Is Feared 6/’5¢ 7ve” goyy” A T SCENE OF RECENT KANSAS CY- CLONES, THE SALOON SMASHER AND HER MEEK HUSBAND, tion retrieved vesterday's setback to-day when she and three follow- ped joint In Topeka. She did more, for she galned the first police protection given her since she started out on, her saloon- smashing career at Wichita a month ago. The police followed up her raid of to-day and arrested the proprietor of ‘“the Sen- ate"” and two men who were guarding the place. Mrs. Natlon was promptly released, Mrs. Nation and her wreckers, armed with hatchets, sallied forth at daybreak and caught the jointist napping. They forced their way past a negro who guard- ed the door and in less than ten minutes had strewn the floor with broken“mirrors, bottles, slot machines and splintered bar fixtures. The negro fired a shot of warn- ing into the ceiling, but it had no effect. Presently a policeman stalked lefsurely into the room and said: “Well, Sister Nation, I guess we will have to arrest you again.” Mrs. Nation had just smashed the last bottle ard was ready to go. .“All right,” she responded -cheerily; vou just came when I wanted you to.” « She turned back when she reached the door and inquireéd, “Everything cleaned up, ladies?” The Police Judge was glad to release her when she appeared for trial, and after administering a tongue lashing to that of- ficlal Mrs. Nation soon walked proudly down Kansas avenue, free again to smash and preach. Michael Wagner, supposed to be the owner of “the Senate,” made the best of his opportunity and promptly secured a quantity of liquor to supply the thirst of the crowds that poured into his place to view the wreckage that.the Nationites had wrought. During the afternoon two deputies from Sheriff Cooke's office ralded the place and arrested Wagner, Shep Little and two guards and took charge of the stock of liquors. Warrants had been sworn out only for "agner and Little, but one of the deputies was so angry when a guard struck him that he arrested both guards. After Mrs. Nation had wrecked the joint this morning, the porter. who made an ineffectual attempt to hold the place against the smashers, ran for help. Soon the chief proprietor, “Shep” Little, was found and the joint was opened for busi- ness. People who had heard of the smash commenced to drop into the joint, just to see the wreck. In a short time the crowd had become so large that it required four bartenders to wait on them. By 9 o'clock the crowd numbered nearly 200, and from then until the police raided the place it fluctuated between 200 and 250. Among those present were advocates of temper- ance, who' wished to, see the work of the crusaders. The crowd around the bar de- manded souvenirs, and the bartenders gathered up bits of glass from the broken mirror, giving away a small plece with every glass of beer. A man statloned him- self at the front door and cried, “Souve- nirs with each and every glass of beer.” Those who did not drink begged for souv- enirs. Small pleces ¢f glass sold for § cents. At 10:30 a. m. Chlef of Police Stahl, fol- ers wrought damage to the extent | of $1500 in ‘“the Senate,” the finest equip- arrested, but | OPREKA, Kans., Feb, 5.—Mrs. Na- ylowed by Sergeant Donovan and two po- i licemen. entered the place. was dispersed and The crowdi Bartender Waggoner | was arrested. The other bartenders quit | work. A pump and four bottles of beer and two bottles of whisky were captured. Later Chief of Police Stahl, in an inter- | view, said: 1 “I do not care if Mrs. Nation smashes | every joint In Topeka. I sympathize with | her. I Lope she will close up the saloons | of the city. As an officer of the law, | though, it is my duty to arrest her every time she creates a disturbance or destroys | property. 1f we had the right kind of | State officials it would not be necessary | for Mrs. Natlon to do what she is doing.” | There is a great deal of talk of plots to hurt Mrs. Nation. It was learned m-? day that several salocn men have charged | the house with glass bottles with tremen- | dous pressure, so that an explosion will | follow upon being broken. She is not at all disturbed by these storfes.. - To-day Mrs. Nation dictated an appeal | “to the children of the high schools of | the United States,”” in which she request- | ed every one to smash saloon windows with rocks. CARRIE NATION IN COURT. | Answers Charges Against Her and | Arraigns a Police Judge. TOPEKA, Kans,, Feb. Irs Natlon | appeared in court to-day to answer the | charges of “disturbing the peace” an “smashing a joint,” and the result was a bad half hour for Police Judge C. A. Magraw and Chief of Police Stahl. Ths | first charge was dismissed, notwithstand- ing the crusader demanded a trial, and a hearing on the second charge was set for | Thursday, the prisoner being released without bond. “The charge of disturbing the peace I3 dismissed,” stated Julge Magraw, as the prisoner stood at the rafling. The charge followed her arrest yesterday after her fruitless attempt to wreck the Unique restaurant. | “I object to the dismissal,” exclaimed | Mrs. Nation, “I was arrested wrongfuily | and deprived of my itberty.” | Mrs. Nation demanded to know who had | been the charger and when told that the | City Attorney was responsible for that | sald: “Then I want to see that City At | torney.” But that official could not be | found and Judge Magraw continued: “There is another charge against you, | Mrs. Nation—a charge of smashing a | Joint." | “I plead gullty to that,” sald Mrs. Na- tion eagerly. “I rather think I did smash | . Aed The prisoner again demanded that the City Attorney be brougnt in and be com- pelled to give cause.for arresting her yes- terday. The Police Judge tried to ignore her and the Chlef c¢f Police refused to listen to her demand. Then Judge Magraw besan to read the | law touching offenders who create a pub- | lic disturbance or cause riot. Mrs. Nation interrupted the reading several times. “I was not violent, but peaceable,” sha exclaimed. “You might as well read a | novel to me as that stuff. It doesn’t cover | my case.” The Judge was indignant and Chief Stahl threatened to have the Marshal put her out. “That’'s what you wish he would . do now, T am sure: so I'll keep quiet,” an- swered Mrs. Nation. Chief Stahl finally informed Mrs. Nation that she would be deprived of her liberty until she had furnished bond, which the Judge would fix. ““Very well,” said she, “I understand all that.” But Judge Magraw had ro desire to hold the prisoner and permitted her to go an her own recognizance, to appear next Thursday for trial. Mrs. Nation thanked him, shook hands and departed, a crowd of people following ! in her wake. Mrs. Nation was arrested to-night on a warrant sworn out in the City Court Kelly & Little, who owned The Senate. She is charged with malicious destruction of property. Her bond was placed at 5100 and she was released until Saturday, at which time her trial will take place. S AGAINST METHODS USED. Temperance Women of Sacramento Who Do Not Uphold Smasher. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 5.—The Capital C Woman's Christian Temperance Union, composed of some -eighty well- known women this city, has unani- mously declared itself in the following resolution$ against the methods employed by Mrs. Carric Nation of Kansas: “Resolved, That as members of the Capital City Woman's Christian Temper- ance Union of Sacramento we do not ap- prove of M Carrie Nation's method of closing saloons. We regret exceedingly that she, with others, has strayed so far from the true Christian principles of tky ‘Woman's Christian Temperance Unlon.™ The -meeting at which this resolution was adopted was largely attended and was enthusiastic. There is another branch of the Woman's. Christian Temperanecs Union in this city, known as the Sacra- mento Union, end also embracing a large membership. In a public statement this union declares thaf it is not as a body prepared to denounce the acts of Mrs. Carrie Nation, and that each member must answer for herself as conscience dic- tates, but that the untbn does not know but that in order to accomplish a victory over this persistent traffic, that cares not fof or heeds laws, desperate remedies might be required. = SR AR VIOLENCE MAY BE EXPECTED. Mrs. Nation Has Supporters and Peo- ple Are Lining Up on Sides. TOPEKA, Kans., Feb. 5.—The success of Mrs. Nation in the attack on the joint this morning has had an extraordinary effect on the people here. One of the most important effects of her rald is the arcusing of the county officers. When Sheriff Cook, with three officers, went to the Senate this evening the jointists put up a hard fight in the hope of overcoming the officers, but were arrested and are now in the County Jail on the double charge of assauiting an officer and run- ning a joint In violation of the law. People are lining théemselves up on op- posite sides of the question, and some interesting developments are expected in the joint situation. Violence may be ex- vected. Special correspondents are arriving here from many of the metropoiftan news- papers of the country. They will make an exhaustive study of the situation. A committee of the leading ladles of Harper visited the joints there this morn- ing and insisted that they be closed at once. It is sald that Mrs. Nation's tac- ties will be resorted to if the request is wot granted.