The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 9, 1901, Page 1

"YOLUME LXXXIX—NO. 71. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MURDERS HIS WIFE AND THEN ENDS HIS LIFE WITH A BULLET Frank M. Seely, a Former Railroad Conductor, Hunts Down Mother of His Child and Shoots Her Through Heart Kills Himself as Police Arrive on Seene of Tragedy in Home of Woman's Brother,With Whom She Was Living went away, “Blood is thick- water, and this young fellow, if will stand in with his hat reason has he to look us up?' sister “ere married on much against the Seely was 36 and and, although he was wecll » was dissipated and we did not r to marry him. It was only a ter they were married that Mary a m the prese re i once protected her fr tack, Frank M. Seel mes up, and T of 1883, She at once left him and .came me. From that time she loathed him 4 never willing)y lived with him. Seely lowed her here and madé all kinds of back with him, but they were never happy ether after the first disagreement. Whenever Seely was drunk he abused her and frequently threatened her life. August she determined to endure it no longer and came down here again. her into my family and since my own home was broken up last November, she has kept house for me. ' Last week we moved over here, which was the reason in the found his wife en- | a Pull Car | that Garletz and Seely had trouble in b = After some words | inding her. ster worried about her little girl whom she had been compelled < a 1y a pistol and Before the door he f the leave went slone to Oregon and got the hots and the 2 tha ew and q 1 jce whistles | After that she knew and frequently Policemen | that Seely would kill her at the first op- the ran to himself. said P g portunity.” mother sent the little one to a his afternoon. If Garletz knew his meditated murder he would not last night. He said: here to get the child. I did but t to come over this evening, nsisted I should. Then it was was to see his wife and ere could not be some compro- fixed up. They had not yet been but there was talk of a 1 knew my grip that he brought with him, | but aia not know he brought it to Oak- {1anda to-night. 1 would not go in the | house with him, so after I had pointed | it out to him as we walked by the place, I left him and went up to the corner and waited.” called said She “No. Isaw 1 —. and nlate he ran out, fol- t outside the then I letz knew more of his uncle’s intentions than he is willing to admit. The brother ded: 1 1g ing nge that Garletz should and within a very armed with a big uld show up. Mr. Wil- d of mine and my sister, asked e began Seely Mrs. Seely short time un the le & Schosl avy revolver sh a frie him + ek wiascton Mia withe ng a warm interest in our affairs. It o y is most unfortunate that his name should have been d ged into the affair, but he B S is not to blame in the least.” he did think Seely but he believes the hus- not son ognized him, h d would 1t ve “I heard Seely an1 his the door before 1d him who w Wilson. heard wife talking out- they came in and o s there,” explained “Drummond and I have often her express fears he would kill her.” E. Bs Southard, who occuples the upp of cottage, heard the shots, hed out his front door and downstairs. He heard Wilson cry that Mrs. Seely had been shot: Harry Asher saw Seely run down the alleyway aicngside of the house with a pistol In his hand, but did not fol- low him Beely was 43 year: old, a native of Illi- is. He has two sons by a former mar- the Mrs. Seely v had H meda Compa- ast thing T e to go »w, Mary, | k out dev- | riage residing in Portland. He was for rv.' This m came from | years a rallroad conductor, later a Wells, See a on the 6th, that | Fargo & Co. messenger on the Oregon t night for Baker City. letter I said, I don’t believe he | Railroad and Navigation road from Port- land to Astorfa. Two years ago he lost a leg In an accident and had to retire. the £ a »' Another thing | Mrs. Seely's parents are Mr, and Mrs. J. p) ¢ believe a plot was on foot | H. Drummond, res:dents of Cloverdale, a v that Garletz, Frank's | suburb of Portland. A sister, Mrs. D. B. er seen before, | Ladd, resides at San Jose. The Coroner as he said, merely | has charge of the case, having removed Iy errand. I told both bodies to the Morgue. e PRINCE CHARLES’ FATHER IS HOOTED AT MADRID s morning Spaniards Have No Love for Count of Ca- serta Because He Is a Carlist. ID, Feb. 8—The Count of Caser-| of Prince Charles of Bourbon, | ter, Senor Campos. and was driven to the residence of the Duke of Calabrey, when \ 1 marry the Princess of the Astu- | a crowd assembled outside the station and rias on February 14, met with a hostile re- | howled and hissed. The hostility was due e his arrival here to-day. He was | 10 the speeches made recently by many | poiiticians and to articles in the news- papers against the marriage on account In( the part the Count took in the Don the crowd, and there were cries n him t was met by the Infantgs Isa- Jalie and the Forelgn Minis- Carlos uprising. The police had to inter- fere m-day and dispersé tic crowd. Believes Lancaster Is Alive. 1 not responsible for his condition or long EEATTLE, Feb, S—Mrs. Lancaster,;sllence. “I know nothing more of the wite of Joseph S, Lancaster, the Daw- | case than is known here and in Dawson,” mom Sty + whose strange disappear- | Mrs. Lancaster sald. *J. C. Calderhead, ance in this city last August has baffled | my husband’s partner, has been conduct- the Seattle and Yukon polige, arrived | ing the search from this end. I believe, from Dawson to-day on the steamship | however, there are no new developments. ctorian. Mrs. Lancaster is en route to | Just what has been done in regard to the ) e c:u‘: 1 ;‘:unl\ot tell until I have conferred wit! r. Calderhead. My husband's Mrs. Lancaster can throw no light | friengs have all been very kind in the the case. She inclines to the belief, | matter of the search, but we cannot find however, that her husband is alive, but | him.” nver, the home of her husband’s par- vered him making love to a house | promises of reformation. She finally went:) Laat | T took | in Portland, and in December she | | child. | ng Seely would take the child from | sep- | ungle had a pistol | Drummond insists that he belleves Gar- | lled him if he had | daughters Said to ONDON, Feb, 8—~The rumor of a week ago that a marriage had been planned between the Ger- man Crown Prince and one of the late Queen Victoria's grand- daughters is pretty well settled. In con- sequence the gossips, high and low, are busy selecting the bride, At the first whisper of rumor the popular presump- tion was strong that Princess Margaret of Connaught was destined to be the next Empress of Germany. She is a very charming, pretty, clever and exceedingly popular princess, This match, no doubt, | | { / | RINCESS i MARGARET | OF CONNAULGHT | B3 = would be extremely popular in Germany, where the Duchess of Connaught is still affectionately remembered as the daugh- ter of the Red Prince. No sooner had the gossips settled on the Princess Margaret than attention was | called to the fact that she was five | months older than young Frederick Wil- attentive the Kaiser had been to the Duke of Connaught during the obsequies of the | late Queen decided that the Princess Vie- toria Patticia of Connaught—not Princess Margaret—was the lucky girl. She is 15— T MOHAMMEDANS | TO CREAT Accept Deman PEKING, Feb. §.—The foreign envoys met this morning to- consider the edict presented by the Chinese plenipotentiaries regarding the suspension of examinations officlals gullty of not helping to suppress outrages upon foreigners. They objected to the wording of the cdict which made it seem that the troubles were entirely due factory in other respects, it was altered to suit the views of the envoys and was | then returned to the Chinese plenipoten- tlaries. 20,000 Mohammedans have reappeared in Peking during .the last four weeks with the object of creating disturbances dur- The Germans have accordingly issued an order to their troops that no one shall| walk alone and no one go unarmed. The order directs the German troops to search . Y NEW YORK WOMEN HOLD A BIG MASS MEETING Take Action in the Fight Being Waged Against the Protection of Vice. NEW YORK, Feb. §.—If the Tuxedo, at Fifty-ninth street and Madison avenue, this afternoon the second of the women’s meetings for the suppression of protected vice was held. The meeting was attended by a large number ot women, represent- ing fifty women's organizations of this city. Calls had been sent out to 170 or- ganizations, reform societles, soclal clubs and others. It was decided that women would seck to arouse public opinion by holding a Jarge mass-meeting in an uptown hall, preferably Carnegie, on some Sunday afternoon early in March. To this meet- ing all women will bc welcome, although admission is to be by ticket. Distribution of tickets is to be véry free and tickets are to be used only with the idea of ex- cluding small boys and other persons hav- ing no proper interest in the proceedings. 1t was decided that a mass-meeting shall be called by as large a committee of representative women as can be got together for the purpose. Leaders of the movement advocat: a committee of two hundred women, who shall come Irom | heen fighting for, and when it was passed | it was those who contested the right of every class and be representative of New SELECTING A WIFE FOR CROWN PRINCE One of the Late Queen Victoria’s Grand- as ‘a Suitable Bride for Frederick William R S R R AR [1tam. Then persons who had noted how | |Geneil Belief That Chmese Court Will Not for five years and also the punishment of | to the actions of native Christians. Satis- Tt is reliably reported that more than ing the Chinese celebrations at New Year. | Have Been Selected CROWN PRINCE FREDERICK WILLIAM AND FOUR PRIN- CESSES, ONE OF WHOM MAY BE- COME HIS WIFE. four years younger than the Crown Prince. In spite, however, of strong Indications that the Connaughts have captured ll_:e greatest matrimonial prize in Europe, there is still a bellef that nothing is defi- pitely settled, and that at least two other Princesses of the tdood are beiag con- sidered as possible consorts of the first son of Emperor Willlam. The younger of these, Princess Beatrice Leopoldine, is the fourth and only unmarried daughter of the late Duke of Saxe Coburg-Gotha. She will have completed her seventeenth year next April. Princess Alice Marie only daughter of Queen Vie- roungest son, the late Prince Leo- pold, Duke of Albany, Is looked upon as | having a strong claim, in view of the { fact that she was not only a great fav- | orite of her royal grandmother, but of the entire court. She will turn her elghteenth | year this month. IN PEKIN G E DI DISTURBANCES ds of Ministers. jall Chinese and never under any con- sideration to enter Chinese private house i on invitation unless in considerable num- | bers. 1 The more widely known the demands of | the foreign envoys are among the Chinese | the more the belief spreads that the court | will not accept them, especially the de- mand for the punishment’ of Tung Fu Sfang, who practically controls the entire |.Chinese army, apart from the troops with the court, and who is now in the province of Kansu. With Prince Tuan he would |be able to hold out for an indefinite period. The opinion is gaining ground among | the generals that possibly a spring cam- | paign against the province of Shensi will | be _necessary. No answer to the latest communication | for the foreign' envoys is expected from | the court before Tuesday next at the earlfest, but the envoys hope the reply | will be satisfactory. B e o e Y ) | York's best womarhood. Three new members were appointed to the, working committee, making ten in all. The new members are Mrs. (harles Russéll Lowell, Rev. Phoebe Hanaterd and Dr. Mary Hussey. SERLEI Vetoes Anti-Vaccination Bill. SALT LAKE, Feb. 8—Governor Welis to-day vetoed the anti-compu'sory vacci- | natfon bill passed by tne Legislature last week. After giving his reasons for veto- ing the blll, the Governor offers a substi- tute bill, which would grant to State and local boards the power to enforce vacei- nation or other protective means In case of an epidemic. ————— Are Rapidly Recovering. SAN RAFAEL, Feb. 8.—The two young daughters of Mrs. L. L. Baker of Mira- monte, Ross Valley, who were injured yesterday by the overturning of their car- riage, are reported to be doing well. ————— Divine Healers Safe. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 8—The Hasson bill to regulate the practice of medicine in this State was amended in the Senate to-day | in such a manner that its penal provis- fons do not affect any one practicing the healing acts not by the medi- cal fraternity, unless. such person shall claim to be a doctor. This is practically all the opponents of the measure have i there was much satisfaction shown. | and the Bertha had all she could do to | TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE OF TWO GOLD SEEKERS IN THE FROZEN NORTH C. A. Lindblat's Hands Frozen While on a Desolate Trail, and Peter Olson’s Leg Is Crushed and Amputated Steamer Bertha Is Buffeted by Fearful Gales and Narrowly Eseapes De- struetion Among the EATTLE, Feb. 8—The Alaska Commercial Company’'s steamer Bertha, which has been overdue since January 26, reached Seattle this afternoon from Northwestern Alaska with a cargo of salmon and sev- - PRINCESS VICTORIA I\PATRICIA oF CONNAUGHT e eral pagsengers, two of whom are in a ter- rible condition from exposure and acci- dents in the Cook Inlet country. Contrary to expectations, the Bertha did not bring any Nome passengers, but reports that there are probably twenty-five of the resi- dents of the big gold camp waliting at Illama Bay for transportation to Seattle. A boat had been sent for them, but the Bertha left Kadiak on January 27, before they had time e arrive. The passengers and crew of the Bertha are delighted to reach civilization in safety. They experienced the roughest weather on record, and would not have ‘een surprised any moment If the stanch eraft had Been crushed In'the Ice floes or thrown a helpless mass on the barren and rocky shores of a desolate coast. Captain Johnson sal he weather was the most terrific I ever encountered.” Not only di1 the Bertha have to fight the elements on her trip north, but also coming south as.well. Tkere was hardly ary let up. The weather was very cold all the time, the thermometer averaging | 10 degrees below zero at the water's edge. | On January 2 there was a terrific storm | keep off the shore. Two anchors were thrown out. and with engines working at the full capacity the steamer headed for the open sea. Then she struck the ice floes and was in danger of being crushed. The huge waves would throw the fce| | against the boat with great force, threat- ening to not only crush but swamp her. Durlng the critical time one of the pro- | eller blades was lost. This compelled the beaching of the steamer. ' Among the passengers was C. A. Lind- blat, who tells a story of privation and | suffering that would sicken the hardest heart. Sunrise City had been without mail for a long time and Lindblat volun- able trail. Lindblat had the misfortune in crossing a small stream to fall into the water. Without thinking of the conse- quences he removed his mittens in order to wring the water from his clothing. In less than a minute his hands had frozen Stff. That night his hands pained him a great deal more. After that it was a serfes of hardships he will never forget. The road was hard to travel and his hands being almost useless, he could hardly prepare his meals. Somehow the next few days passed and | he reached Resurrection Bay after twelve -days of hard traveling, a week of which was nearly unendurable from pain. On arriving at Resurrection Bay, finding there was no mail, he sent word back t Sunrise and took the Berthx, which was | in port, to Valdes in hope of getting his hands attended to. “This trip was useless,” he continued, “for the army post hospital at that place sald it was against regulations and re- fused to take me in. By this time the condition of my hands was something awful, they pained me night and day. I returned to the Bertha, and with the help of several friends did the best I could for my hands and came to Seattle. I guess I .will lose both. It is barely possible, however, that I will only dose fingers, but there is not much hope. Lindblat is a native of Buffalo, N. and it is understood has returned almost penniless. He is a man of excellent physique and has a strong constitution, which is probably all that kept him from giving up in absolute despair and dying on the trafl. The case of Peter Olsen is remarkable. Last summer he went north to prospect for gold in the Cook Inlet country. His efforts meeting with little success he adught employment as a grader with the Cook Inlet Coal Fileld Company on a railroad seven miles long, extending from Homer, in the inlet, to the company’s coal mines. September 27 while riding on the engine he became entangled in the draw- bar between the engine and.the first car. He was caught In such a manner as to have nearly all of the flesh torn from the left leg from a point midway between the body and the knee to the foot. While the bones were not broken the limb was frightfully tofn and lacerated, the bones being laid bare in many places. It was | nearly two weeks later, October 8, before the sufferer could have a surgical opera- tion performed, and a rude operation it was. Dr. Bemist for his surgical instru- ments had only a carpenter's saw, an ordinary butcher knife and a chisel. With only these tools Dr. Bemist, who is the Cook Inlet Ceal Flelds Company's sur- geon, amputated the leg half way above the knee. Strange to say, Olsen came from under the chloroform used In re- | markably good condition. Olsen blames no one in particular for his misfortune. He is a poor man. “I have about enough money to buy me a cork leg,” he said. “When T get the leg T will have nothing left. I came to Seattle for it A Olsen is about 36 years of age. He has but one relative, a cousin, Pete Peterson teered to go to Resurrection Bay, 30¢|of Everett. Washington, in the United miles away over a desolate and unhospit- | States. 'MANY PERISH IN GREAT NAPHTHA FIRE AT BAKU Revenge of Discharged Employe Costs Scores of Lives and Loss of 6,000,000 Rubles. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 8.—Dispatches from Baku say all the available hospltals are filled with people injured by the naphtha fire, while the sheds on the fair grounds are filled Ly those made home- less by the conflagration. The fire broke out in the evening at meal time and spread so rapidly that many people were unable to escape from their homes. Thc fire also cut off th: retreat of the spec- tators, thirty of whom perished. It is believed the conflagration was started by a discharged employe for the purpose of revenge, and it is further re- ported that the naphtha reservoirs had been previously filled with water, which in overflowing carried the flaming fluld over the town, involving all the houses as far as Police street. The stream of fire was several yards high. Numbers of people were seen atiempting to escape while burning like ‘orches. Advices from Baku this evening an- nounce that the fire has been ex- tinguished. ‘I:en faciories and five depots B PRUSSIAN LEGISLATOR ATTACKS THE JEWS Charges Minister of Justice With Breaking the Constitution by . Appointing Hebrews. BERLIN, Feb. 8.—In the lower House of the Prussian Diet to-day during the debate on the estimates of the Ministry of Justice Herr Cruegor, Radical, charged the Minister of Justice (Dr. Schonsted) with infringing the constituticn and im- perial legislation in regard to the appoint- ment of Jews as assessors and notaries. *In replying, the Minjster declared that the King to fill all appointments in the were burned. containing altogether 35,000,- 000 poods of naphtha and naphtha refuse. It is estimated that the losses will ex- ceed 6,000,000 rubles. Nine charred corpses have been recov- ered. One hundred and sixty persons were Injured by burning. forty-one of these severely, and six-have succumbed to their injuries. Many victims are s under the ruins and the search is pro- ceeding. It is not known how many of the spectators perished, but a hundred persons are still missing. A committee has been formed by the Casplan and Black Sea Comparny to regis- ter the losses of lif= and property and to provide shelter for the homeless. The Rothschilds® firm has applied to Paris for material assistance for the sufferers. A hundred homelcss families are being distributed and housed in the neighbor- hood. Bread is given to the employes at the expense of thc authorities and the house is subscribing generously to the re- lief fund. B s ] administration who were gullty of a breach of the constitution. In regard to the criticism that his term of office had been marked by a super- abundance of charges of, lese majeste, ths Minister said that while Emperor Willlam was above such attacks, It was the duty of the authorities to .enforce the law agalnst systematic @ndeavors to under- mine all order and the respect due to the sovereign. The number of charges of lesa majeste in Prussia had been unly 134 in 1900 as against 301 in 1898, Herr Pordish, Centrist, sald thll all who disagreed with the Jews were not anti-Semites, but that it was still a fact that an overwhelming majority of the people strongly desired to live in a Chris- :xp-l;r:"countn-. governed In a Christian jee Floes, | | ! | | | communication, BOBS WOULD DISARM AL INHABITANTS Pield Marshal's Plan to End Strife in Transvaal. Meanwhile the Boers . Are Active and Hold Up a Natal Mail Train. it LONDON, Feb. 9.—Public attention has again been turned to South Africa by the dispatch of reinforcements and the publi- cation of Lord Roberts' mail dispatches. Rumors have been in circulation that Mr. Chamberlain had reconsidered his South African policy and was contemplating a round table conference with John Morley and Sir Willlam Vernon Harcourt, and the recall of Sir Alfred Milner. The Daily Mall, however, says it is able to assert on Mr. Chamberlain’s authority that the whole story is a fabrication and that the Government retains the most absolute confidence in Sir Alfred Milner. “Mr. Chamberlain flatly denles,™ the Daily Mall, says “that he has had any either oral or written, with any member of the opposition on the subject of the wa Lord Roberts’ dispatches are not re- garded as giving any further elucidation of the conduct of the war, but they are interesting as proving that throughout the campaign he never had sufficient men, horses or supplies to cover such a vast fleld of operations. Lord Roberts erted deliberately that the permanent tranquillity of the republie “depends upon the complete disarma- ment of their inhabitants, a task difficult, I admit, but attainable with time and patience.” . Looking at all the circumstances, Lord Roberts says the campaign !s “unique In the annals of war,” and he pays the high- est tribute to the gallantry of the troops. declaring that “no finer force ever took the fleld under the British flag.” There is a general idea that the dls- patches have suffered considerable exor- cism at the hands of the War Office. They do not throw any further light on the summary retirement of General Col- ville or any other matters regarding which the public is anxious to hear. The appearance of bubonic plague at Cape Town seems likely to add to the difficulties of the situation.. The author- itles there have decided upon a whole- sale extermination of rats. Should the disease spread it will necessitate changes in the military arrangements. To-day Sir Alfred Milner makes another earnest appeal to emplovers to allow as many men as possible to enroll In the Colonial Mourted Defense force. From Delagoa Bay it is reported that the British have occupied Ermelo and Carolina, which lately were Boer de- pots. Fhe Boers held up a Natal mafl train near Vlakfontein. The few soldlers on board exhausted their cartridges and the Boers then robbed the passengers, after- ward allowing the train to preceed. Lord Kitchener roports to the War Office under date of Pretoria, February as follows: > The British column destroyed supplies at Petrusburg and brcught 300 harses and cattle. Dewet is rcported still north of Smithfield, moving castward with a de- tached force which crossed ‘the line at Pompt siding. Methuen reports from Lil- lifontein. east of Vryburg, that he scat- tered the enemy there and captured twelve wagons and cattle. French is near Ermelo.” A special from Cape Town says: Al- bert Cartwright. editor of the South African News, who was arrested ster- day, charged with criminal and seditious libei, contained in a 1étter accusing Gen- eral Kitchener of secretly instructing his troops to take no prisoners, was formally arraigned in the Police Court here this morning and remanded in £2000 bail. g TO OFFER ARBITRATION. Belgian Statesman Anxious to Ter- minate Boer War. BRUSSELS, Feb. S—In the Chamber of Deputies to-day a petition inviting Bel- gium to cffer to arbitrate between Great Britain and the Transvaal was debated . at some length. The Forelgn Minister, M. de Favereau, said the Government did not object to the petition being referred to a committee, but they considered the authors of the petition mistook the mean- ing of ‘articie 27 of The Hague convention under which it was desired to act. “At present circumstances do not offer such an opportunity,” continued the For- eign Minister. “We must not forget that one of the principal powers guaranteeing our indepéndence 's taking part in this conflict. We do not think that we have sufficient authority t offer our mediation. Another power, the United States, offered mediation at the outret of the war. Eng- land responded that she|did not desire it at any perfod. M. Deleas#s, on behalf of France, made similar declarations. Vir- tually the same deciaration was made in the German Reichstag. and the Govern- ment of The Netherlands has not con- sidered that it had fallen to Hoiland to taKe the initiative in mediation. The Chamber, therefore, will appreciate the assurance that the Belgian Government cannot undertake such an engagement.” M. Jansen proposed a motion approving the conclysions of the commission dealing with the petition. M. de Favereau rcpeated that interven- tion by Belglum was impossible and that the motion was superfluous. The Chamber, however, adopted M. Jan- sen's motion unanimously.