The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 12, 1901, Page 1

A e A "YOLUME LXXXIX—NO. 7 3000 FLOWS AT PRINARES N ST. LU Heelers Tai@ a Hand in a Batile at the i Polls, AN £33 press thelr tions voting the ward & o reet ng place became the scene Every man drew one of Ryan ran shot squarely at ng upon the booth, gun under Sergeant Quin- r rioters. at- e s arrestine George ed the attempt to Quinlivan was n to his as- , and in the & fire wrapped a e sergeant’s wound- w of blood from a emen were on the spot within 1 quelling 200 negroes ¥ in the restored it was x had been stolen. d been at the ing the fort he back way behind them. es were polled District of the x from - ARE REPEATERS ARRESTED. St. Louis Police Gather in Twenty- Five Men Imported From Chicago. ST IS, Feb. 1 Post-Dispatch e who say they > arrested to-day were brought to ers in the prima eached the police Sunday a large party of men had left for St. Louis with the expressed intention of taking part in the primaries According to the terms of their egreement, so the police were Informed, were paid 3100 each before the icago and were to receive he conclusion of their day’'s he opening of the primaries, it they were to be supplied with inition. Their instructions, were to vqte at the prima as often as told to do so, and to use force with dy who interfered with them, w er police, election offi- | clals or p worie: The police s bringing the m the arrangements for St. Louls were made by two candidates for nomination to the H Acting upon the ad- vice of the Chicago saloon keeper, the en- tire detective force of the Police Depart- ment was sent out to locate the men this roing, resulting in the arrest of twen- ve of the supposed gang. The photo- of some of the men are said to he collection of the National lden- se of Delegates, graphs WRECKAGE FOUND ON NEWFOUNDLAND COAST Eelieved Disaster Has Occurred Re- sulting in Loss of a Steamer and Her Crew. ST. JOHNS, N. F., Feb. 11.—The Gov- trnment bas received advices that wreck- ige, apparently part of a steamer, has frifted ashore near Bacalieu, a small isl- and northeast of the Avalon Peninsula. Other wreckage is reported at different along the shore. It is believed that A ““me serious marine disaster has oc- “urred, resulting in the loss of a ship and 3er entire crew. David Perry, a saloon keep- | 4 DEATH OF FORTIER RULER OF SERVIA | Passing of the Notorious King [lilan, Whose i Vices Caused His Exile From His | Own Country. | FORMER KING MILAN OF SERVIA, WHOSE RECKLESS EXTRAVA- GANCES CAUSED HIM TO ABDICATE THE THRONE IN FAVOR OF HIS SON AL ANDER. 1.—Former fa is dead. He night and was unable to take sufficient nourish- ment. The remains will be interred at Kron- chol, a sacred monastic shrine in Syrmia, +-Blavonia, with the honors due to a mm»‘ ber of the reigning dynasty. Last even- | ing Milan received Adjutant Popvias, who had been sent by King Alexander. The interview excited him somewhat, but he | recognized and talked with the adjutant. From that time his strength failed rap- 1dly, and the difficulty of breathing ren- dered further conversation impossible. At noon to-day he again recelved the adjutant. He was then in full possession of his faculties and seemed to have no idea that his life was in danger. was retained until within a quarter of an hour of his death,.which | came quietly in the presence of his uncle, | Colonel Constantinevics, and his friend, Count Zichy. Milan's iliness began with influenza. He left his bed too quickly and the result was pneumonia. The doctors also found fatty degeneration of the heart, which was the actual cause of death, as the danger im- mediately arising from the lung trouble had been overcome. Fearing a fatal issue, the doctors caused messages to be sent King Alexander and former Queen Nata- le, but aithough Milan desired to see them and himself sent messages request- ing their presence, neither came. Natalie's reply, which was to the effect that she would come if her presence was really de- sired, reached him just before death. Emperor Francis Joseph, who sent an aid-de-camp to the deathbed, has ordered sclousness a military funeral, as Milan was formerly | | the colonel of an Austrian regiment. It was Milan's written wish that he should be buried at Syrmia. He sald he had been greatly disappointed at the absence of his son, whose Ingratitude has pro- voked much comment in Vienna. Accord- {ing to the Neue Freie Presse he said to his physician: “I feel that I must die, but 1t is very ead to be compelled to die at 47.” | CAREER OF KING MILAN. At the royal palace at Topchidas, a | suburb of Belgrade, the Bervian capital, | a remarkable picture is shown to visitors. | It represents a tall, broad-shouldered | man, with a dark face, thick dlack beard, black eyes and jet black hair falling down |in a brald between his shoulders. It is | the picture of Milosh Obrenovich, swine- | herd and brigand, who freed Servia from | the Turkish yoke and became the founder of the present dynasty. The tales told of | tge crueity of this semi-barbarous Prince :arc legion. He once learned that his | brother Yephrem had wronged a peasant girl and the offender was sent for. *‘Open your mouth!” commanded Milosh. Yephrem obeyed. Milosh took a pistol | from his table, fired it into his brother's mouth and Yephrem dropped dead. Yephrem was the grandfather of the late Milan® who succeeded Milosh on the | throne of Servia. Milan was educated at Paris. He succeeded his greatuncle Mi- losh as ruler of Servia in 1868, at the age | of 14. In 1875, shortly beforethe war with | Turkey, Mjlan visited Russia. At the city of Kishineff in Southern Ruseia he was received with great honors. The Gover- nor gave a reception, which was attended by all the nobility of the province, and it was on that occasion that Milan first met Natalle, the charming and highly accom- plished daughter of Colonel Koshko, a rich officer of the imperial army. Milan had even then shown symptoms of the reckless living that afterward was to be his undoing. Natalfe would, as the only daughter of the colonel, be entitled to a large fortune, and by winning her hand his coffers would be replenished. A Rus- sian alliance would prove of value to him aiso politically.” The courtship was a Con- | King | brief one and the wedding a great event | | in that part of Russia. The Czar and all the nobility took a deep interest in the | welfare of the pair, and the presents that | came pouring {n were estimated at twenty | million rubles in value. The newly wed- | ded couple visited the principal cities of Russia and were met with boundless en- thustasm everywhere. Wanted to Be King. Soon after Milan's return to Belgrade the war against Turkey commenced. Thousands of young Russian students en- listed in the Servian army, Russian offi- cers volunteered to fight in the ranks and in every Russian town money was col- lected for the Servian treasury. The first success In arms was in favor of the Servians, but disasters followed one after the other until finally the crushing defeat | of Slivitza, in which Alexander of Batten- berg carried off such laurels, caused the | Sservians to beat an ignoble retreat. In August, 1876, a son, Alexander, the present King, was born Natalie. Milan wanted to be elavated from a Prince to a King, and for that purpose sounded the Czar., He received little en- couragement, however, and In his disap- pointment sought the ald of Francis Jo- seph of Austria. Here his efforts were more successful. Austria lent her aid, and in March, 1882, he was proclaimed King of Servia. During all these days, | however, Milan was giving himself up to dissipation. Crown Prince Kidnaped. | “In 1887 Natalle left Servia, taking her | son with her. She spent some time in the | Crimea, where agents of Milan endeav- | ored to abduct the Crown Prince. From | the Crimea she journeyed to Italy and | thence to Wiesbaden. Here, at the com- | mand of Bismarck, the German police foreibly took Natalie's son from her and turned him over to Milan's agent, by | whom he was taken to Belgrade. v In October, 1884, Milan secured his di- vorce, but his political troubles then com- | menced in earnest. The internal affalrs of the kingdom were in disorder and there seemed no means of bettering things. The King, perplexed, afraid, storm-tossed be- tween divided counsels, suddenly an- nounced his intention to abdicate in favor of his son. After kneeling down before Alexander and swearing fidelity to him as a subject Milan betook himself off for a tour of Europe, where he could enjoy himself, leaving the little boy and his guardians to extricate themselves from a complicated position as best they could. Three Regents were appointed and acted until Alexander attained his majority. A well known writer, in speaking of the character of Milan and how it was devel- oped, says: “His guardians sent him to school in Paris, to the Lycee Louls le Grand, where neither masters nor com- panions could assimilate with or hold in check the wild, obstinate boy from the barbarian east. He was considered an fll-tempered, malicious, stubborn child, not lacking withal in native parts. In Paris the bdy all too early came in con- tact with vice. -He was corrupted in mind before ever he was mature, this walf thrown without gulde into the waters of Vte. An orphan, it was the great mis- fuctune of Milan's life that he was en- tirely educated by men, and these men professional politiclans. Of moral train- ing he received none. Clever, not i1 read, in the main kind-hearted, King Milan never learned the elementary lessons of self-control, purity and respect for oth- ers. In short, it was a miserable training he had and accounts for many of his fail- ings. He knew this himself. It is told that his Ministers once respectfully remonstrated with him for some plece of duplicity, upon which Milan answered: ‘Well, gentlemen, I am what you have made me. If you wanted a higher moral- ity in your King you should have brought | | | | | { | | me up otherwise.” " SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, FEB to Milan and | SPAN FACES (S THIT LS SEROLS Demonstrations Due to Coming Royal Weddin. Senor Sagasta, the Liberal Leader, Sees Great Danger Ahead. —— MADRID, TFeb. 11.—Count Caserta, father of Prince Charles of Bourbon, | spent the afternoon yesterday in the grounds of the palece. The Countess did | not leave the palace precincts. In an interview to-day Senor Sagasta, the Liberal leader, said he disapproved of | the noisy demonstrations, but recognized that they were the outcome of the exist ing situation, which was aggravated by | the Ubao affair. He thought the presence | | of Count Caserta in Madrid was unneces- | | sary and that Le ought not to have come | | to the marriage, as he might have fore- seen his presence would create trouble. | Senor Sagasta severely condemned the brutality of the police, declaring that no law authorized the Government to order | the police to club the crowds, even though | they raised subversive cries. The offend- ers ought to be arrested, he said. “The Government,” added Senor Sagas- ta, “hopes the agitation will cease the day |tof the wedding, but I doubt it. A car- nival is often the occasion for disorders. 1 am astonished that many people do not | | attach importance to these events. It is | impossible to foresce what the future has | in stofe. We know how events begin, but | | we never know how they will end.” | The Imparcial says that a lieutenant | and two soldiers were among the persons | | arrested yesterday. The lleutenant was immediately released, amid cheers for the The disturbances of last night, which | were more menacing than those previous- Iy occurring, left a decided spirit of un- | eastness in official circles. The day passed without a startling incidest. But the crowds fncreased duriag the day. The idle classes have been wandering in the streets, apparently walting the cover of night to give vent to thelr hatred of the aristocracy. The Puerta del Sol (a large square in the center of the city) was the principal gathering spot. Mounted civil guards pa- trolled it all day long. With the fall of night the assemblage increased, until the | square was black with people. The single | cries and low-toned murmurings were be- | coming louder, vntil the outery almost be- came a roar. At 7 o'clock the guards cleared the | space and their numbers were increased, ! | for the carriages of the higher class of people, diplomats and others, had to traverse the square in going to the ball at the palace. As the Papal Nuncio's car- | riage was stoned yesterday evening it was feared other diplomats might suffer. MARTIAL LAW IN VALENCIA. | Anti-Clerical ~Demonstrations Re- sumed and Monks Stoned. MADRID, Feb. 11.—The students to-day presented themselves at the gate of the university, and finding it closed protested against the holiday and marched to the | Prado, shouting “Down with the Jesuits!"” Martial law has been declared in Valen- cia. The anti-clerical demonstrations were resumed {n Valencia to-day. SARAGOSSA, Feb. 11.—During an anti- clerical demonstration here to-day the students stoned several monks. They were dispersed by police and gendarmes. Dem- onstrators carrying a republican flag fired on the gendarmes, and a sergeant and several peoplein the crowd were wounded- The troops are now confined to bar- racks. Captaln General Borrearo was greeted with cries of “Long live the republic!” having reference to his repub- lican antecedents. ST. CYR IS SENTENCED TO DEATH BY HANGING Dawson Jury Finds Him Guilty of the Murder of Miner . Davis. DAWSON, Feb. 6 (via Seattle, Feb. 11).—George T. 8t. Cyr was yesterday found guilty of the murder of H. Davis and sentenced to hang. The jury reached a verdict after a few ballots, St. Cyr's attorney will attempt to obtain 4 new trial, falling in which an appeal will be taken. The crime of which St. Cyr was con- victed was committed In a cabin at Hootalinqua in December. Davis and St. Cyr had a disagreement and St. Cyr armed himself with a gun and went to the cabin of Davis and shot him as he lay in bed. St. Cyr's defense was that the gun was discharged accidentally. St. Cyr comes of a good family and pre- viously bore a good reputation. His brother, Arthur St. Cyr, is a Dominion surveyor, who recently located the Inter- provincial Yukon-British Columbia boun- dary line. Arthur St. Cyr did not go to the assistance of his brother. ——— HIGHWAYMAN MAKES i AN OPEN CONFESSION Member of Prominent Iowa Family Admits Having Held Up and Shot a Man. ALGONA, la., Feb. 11.—Jack Robinson, son of a prominent family, has confessed that he was the foot, who shot Fred Foster Saturday. Foster is likely to dle. The confession has caused a sensation. RUARY 12, | Alameda County Jail | obeyed the writ of supersedeas issued by 14 Wil e ol i 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS. McKENZIE MUST SERVE YEAR IN JAIL FOR HIS CONTEMPT Nome Receiver and His Patron, Judge Noyes, Excoriated From the Bench by the United States Court of Appeals, Judge Erskine M. Ross Delivering Decision. Alexander o Appeals yesterday adjudged Alex- ander McKenzie guilty of con- tempt of court and sentenced him to one year's imprisonment in the for' having dis- the court in the Nome mining cases. The opinion of the court was read by United States Cireuft Judge Frskine M. Ross, sitting with Judges Gilbert and Morrow. «The most interested and disappointea person in the courtroom was Alexander McKenzle, six feet six tall, broad-should- ered and deep-chested. There was an anxfous look upon his face as he leaned forward in his chair to hear the opening words of condemnation directed against himself and his friend and patron, Judge Noyes of the Alaskan court, and as the reading proceeded the expression of anx- fety gave way to one of pain. Judge Ross paid no heed to the require- ments of rhetorical euphony. He called things by their true names. *“His shock- ing record” was the term he applied to the transcript of the evidence presented before Court Commissioner Heacock. The following scorching words are a fair sample of the tone of the decision, and | they made the Canadian glant writhe in his chair: ‘High-handed and grossly illegal proceedings initiated almost as soon as Judge Noyes and McKenzie had MEKen zg'e! ¥ HE United States Circuit Court of L extension of our national domain, for all per- sors, whether restding in remote regtons or nearer home, to rem:mber that courts which Tespect themselves and have a due regard for the administration of justice and the mainte- nance of law and order will mever tolerate any disobedience of their lawful orders, writs or judgments, wherever committed within their Jurisdiction. “It s iuherent in the nature of Jjudictal authority,” suid the Supreme Court of Florida in the cass of State vs. Johnson, supra, ‘‘that every court may protect and maintain its jurisdiction under the law. and that it shall protect itself against all attempts to resist or thwart or overthrow its authority. Without the power to judge of its Jurisdiction, it Is practically without jurfsdiction. Without the power to enforce its judgments it has no Judicial authorfty. That it be made the play- thing of whomsoever may choose to deride its judgments or its process and ignore its ex- istence and its acts, because the opinfons of the judges and the judgments of the court may not meet the approval of counsel upom the one side or the other of a controversy, or L 4 kX — THE RECEIVER WHO MUST SERVE A YEAR IN PPISON ANDS THE JUDGE WHO YESTERDAY RECEIVED A VERBAL CASTIGATION FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS. - | directing its marshal to proceed to Nome, en- force its writs of supersedeas, arrest the of- set foot on Alaskan territory at. fending recelver and produce him at the Lar Nome, and which may be safely and fortunately said to have no parallel in the jurisprudence of this country.” “It's rough on me,” was all that McKen- zie hall to say after he emerged from the courtroom in custody of United States Marshal Shine. His attorney, Thomas J. Geary, gray and grave, had no words of legal consolation. The Supreme Court of the United States had decided that the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth District had jurisdiction over the subject matter, and that point having been deter- mined there was no longer any hope. Alexander McKenzie, chief stockholder in an Alaska mining company capitalized at $15,000,000, slept last night in the Ala- meda County Jail and will remain there for a year, just the same as though he ‘were an humble laborer, unless the Presi- dent of the United States shall see fit to commute his sentence. The following are extracts from the peroration of the decislon: The evidence taken upon the hearing of these proceedings 18 to the effect, and we find the fact to be, that the respondent McKenzie thereupor. refused and continued to refuss to restore, in accordance with the requirements of the writs of supersedeas, the gold, gold dust and ther personal property received by him under the orders of the trial court, and tbat fact being made to appear-to this court e ¢ this court thereupon made an order of this court. * * */ We also find the fact 10 be that McKenzie at all times had it within his-power to comply with the requirements of the writs of supersedeas issued out of this court, that he contumaciously refused to re- store the gold, gold dust and other rersonal property to the defencants as required by * those writs. The circumstances attending the appointment of the recelver In these cases, however, and his conduct, after; as well as before the ap- pointment, as shown by the record and evi- dence, so far from impressing us with the sincerity of the pretension that his refusal to obey the writs issued out of this court was based upon the advice of his counsel that they were vold, satisfy us that it was intentional and deliberate and in furtherance of the high- handed and grossly iliegal proceedings inftiated almost as soon as Judge Noyes and McKenzle had set foot on Alaskan territory at Nome, and which may be safsly and fortunately sald to have no parallel in the jurisprudence of this country. , Angd it speaks well for the good, sober sense of the people gathered on that remote and barren shore that they depended solely upon the courts for the correction of the wrongs thus perpetrated among . and against them, which always may be depended upon to right, sooner or later, wrongs properly brought before them. And it is well, in these days of the rapid + may not be In accordance with the opinions or the wishes of subordinate officers, canmot be allowed without surrendering the judictal character and confessing the impotency of this department of the governmemt. Courts eom- mit errors and partier may suffer from the improvidence or corruption of their judges, yet the remedy for these is not In individual re- sistance or In a. resort to private judgment. Every court will hear the appeals of those who concelve themselves to be wronged or threat- ened with injustice by. the execution of its decrees. If its errors be made apparent It will do justice to itself by dealing justice to parties without fear and without hesitatfon. There is no excuse for resistance of the orders of the courts In this country, where thelr doors are wide open and where every human being may be heard In the presence of the whole people.” In the refusal of the respondent McKemsle to obey the writs of supersedeas issued out of this court, as hereinbeZore found and stated, it is now here considered and adjudged that he di4 commit contempts of this court, and for the sald contempt so committed in the case entitled Melsing et al. vs. Tornanses it is now here ordered and adjudged that he, the said Alexander McKenzle, be imprisoned in the County Jail of the county of Alameds for the period of six months, and for the sald contempt so committed In the case entitled Rogers vs. Kjellman that he be imprisoned in the jail of the said crunty for & lfke period of six months, making cne year in all—the sen- tence imposed In the last mentioned case to commence immediately upon the completion of the term of imprisonment under the first sen- tence herein. [ marshal execute this judgment 1% Ith. 'l-l-i'l"l-l-l-fi'l-l-” will KENTUCKY MOB LYNCHES A NEGRO ACCUSED OF ASSAULTING A WOMAN PARIS, Ky., Feb. 11.—George Carter, a negro, who was in jail here charged with having assaulted Mrs. W. E. Board about three weeks ago, was lynched by a mob early this morning. Shortly after 2 o’clock about thirty determined men appeared at the jail door and demanded admittance of Jailer Kirser. He refused, and the door ‘was burst open. The jailer was overpowered in an in- stant, the keys secured and in less than five minutes Carter was in the hands of the mob. He refused to make a state- ment. It was only the work of a minute to place a rope around his neck, and he was then half-dragged to the entrance of the courthouse. Py The was then thrown over the iron arch to the entrance, and while several pulled in the rope, otkers lifted -1 his body He dled by strangulation. The mob then quietly dispersed. During the whole affair there was not a word spoken. Scarcely any one in the town outside of the immediate participants knew that the lynching was to occur. The electric lights had previously been extinguished and the town was in total darkness. Before the men dispersed they pinned a card on the body of the negro bearing this inscription: “This will be the fate of all negroes who assault white women."” The other occupants of the jall who are colored were greatly frightened and their cries and moanings could be heard for several blocks. 'Half an hour after the lynching the streets were deserted and the lifeless body of the negro was sway- ing in the wind The crime with which Carter was charged was a most atrocious one. Mrs. Board, who is the wife of 'W. E. Board, bookkeeper at the Deposit Bank In this ecity, was on her way home about & o'clock in the evening with her little son. when she was assaulted by a negro. Her cries and those of her son attracted the attention of some men, but the assailant escaped. . Constant efforts were made by the police to detect the negro. but without avall. until last week, when Hessle Smoot of Ruckerville caused a warrant to be lssued for George Carter, her brother-in-law, on a charge of assault. A photograph was secured of him, which, it s said, Mrs. Board identifled as being that of her assailant, and at the dentifled County Jail her little son also hmo