The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 17, 1901, Page 13

OeronesiisrPEITONG KON SEOXORIRORID Wmummmouung 3 : S ‘TN S P Pazes 13 10 22: @all, B energ tETENEIIAS SOX SROROXSOXQ - : . FORLIROLER 64 SLORILIXININIS “VOLUME LXXXIX—NO. 79. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1901—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. JERLAND LTINS ARE BEYOND HOPE ¥.y-One Men Perish in the Colliery s Being Flooded to he Flames Under Control. S b—t PACIFICATION OF THE BOERS STILL IN DIM DISTANCE n Capture of Dewet Would Not Materially Hasten the End of Hostilities. Eve - — e COLONEL PLUMER, WHO IS IN COMMAND OF ONE OF THE BRITISH ENGAGED IN THE PURSUIT OF ROERS LED BY THE NG GENERAL DEWET. the perfection will eventually reward Generdl patience, as it daid In the But in private conversation they ONDON, Feb. 16.—The hopes that th t of the war in | within sigh Sou frankly confess that it is utterly impos- an. importance to isolated British victories. Even the capture of Dewet, they now think, would only in a small degree hasten the paeification of the -annexed terrirtory, which is in such a hostile condition. When the republics become in fact, In- stead of in name, colonles of Great Brit- ain,” General Kitchener will be the man who will get the credit and upon whom the rewards will be heaped. General Kitchener, telegraphing from De Aar, Cape Colony, under to-day’s date, says: “Dewet’s force crossed the rallway at Boardmans Siding, north of here, before ght February 15, closely followed by Plumer, Crabbe and armored trains, They engaged the enemy while crossing. The Boers, hawever, cut the lines north and south of the place of crossing. ““We captured over twenty wagons, Britain's War Department ow any more than the public, | the stern, laconic commander | s in South Africa is busily en- | ematizing his huge forces for | :nded campaign. In him they trust and no amount of taciturnity | waver, though they regret articles leading the pub- wve that the Boers are likely to 1 out by one or several en- During the months General Kitchener has had the command in South a he has bee: pplying his energies to prepare for events six months hence rath ling emergencies of | many of which were loaded 'with am. m St Broderick, and his fellow | mungtion, .and. also a Maxim, twenty binet Ministers believe the same | prisoners and over 100 horses. The troops istless progress which comes only by | are still in close pursuit.” 3 et ettt @ upper seam, several of the rescuers were | PAT CROWE CONFESSES [ TO AN IOWA EDITOR tic measufes had to be taken to revive | £ % | £ every minor detall of the | the Boers, sible. to speculate on the time which slow matter, which must elapse before the end is achieved affect but!and it is quite wrong to attribute undue | them. “Two of the men were in a critical | overcome by flames and foul 2ir and dras- | Kidnaper of Yo\;n?Cudlhy Says He EXTAA SESSION OF CONGRESS - TOBECALED Must Meet in March 10 Act on Cuban | Affairs; ‘President McKinley Decides to Pass Responsibility to Legislative Body. | Special Dispatch to The Call CALL BUREAU, | W., WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—The Sena- tors and Representatives who have been insisting that there was no occasion for an extra segiion of Congress and’ there would be ¢, have been convinced the President, who is the sole arbiter of this auestion, holds a contrary view, and he will call the fifty nth Congress to- gether in extraordinary session about the ‘middls of March. In fact, the President | tola some of his Congressional callers to- | day that he would in all probability call an extra session for March 15, the same date fixed for the extra session of the | fifty-fifth Congress four years ago. | The President believes the Cuban con- vention will complete its work within the | ana justify Wm in calling an extra ses- siofl of Congress so that the consti- tution may be acted upon without de- lay. The President belleves Governor General Wood will be able to show Cu- ban leaders that they should make some constitutional provision for close and enduring friendly relations with the | United States, and their constitution will | not be objectionable to this Government. But he will express his views in a mes- | sage to Congress and leave the question | with the legislative branch of the Govern- ment. He desires that all causes for sus- picion shall be removed at the earliest possible date and Cubans be allowed to | proceed with the organization of their government with the least possible inter- ference from this Government. But he | destres the questfon of Cuban relations to | the United States be now fixed 8o tijere may be no causa for misunderstanding on either side. =% - Constitutional lawyers in the Senate who two weeks ago thought they could meet the question by a resolution provid- | ing conditions under which the President shall withdraw the United States troops | from Cuba, are now corivinced the Presi- | dent’s course is wiser, and it will be bet- | ter to have the constitution submitted to | Congress at an extra session. | The objections urged against an extra session are largely sentimental. President is trying, however, to keep all | pledges to Cuba without jeopardizing the | peace and prosperous conditions of this country. He is as desirous as the cham- pions of independence to see a free gov- | ernment in Cuba which will permit the Cubans to control their own affairs. He does not, however, mental government in Cuba should have license to interfere with the powers of this Government under the Monroe doc- trine, which has been recognized by the whole civilized world for half a century. 146 G STREET, N. | next two weeks, and conditions in the fsl- | The | belleve an experi- | Marvin Ford, a Comm LOSES MONEY IN GAMBLING ~AND RESORTS TO HIGHWAY ROBBERY IN BROAD DAYLIGHT ercial Traveler, Seeking to Con- ceal His Evil Habits From His Wife and [other, Commits a Bold Crime. | | | | | | 11 1 | | I N COINS. | VICTIM OF RACETRACK GAMBLING, DRIVEN TO DESPERATION BY. HIS LOSSES., FELLS A CHINAMAN TO THE GROUND ON A CROWDED STREET IN THE AFTERNOON AND THEN ROBS HIM OF A BAG OF GOLD once preyed upon Sa: public and the pulpit. that it is necessary for Francisco and wi HE Board of Supervisors will be asked to-morrow. to reopen Ingleside - track, to re-estabjish | horserace gambling :in, this ‘city and to rehabilitate the forfunes of a criminal class that driven ‘out by the united force of the press, the yor Phelan, who is espousing the Francisco to have a month of ga: S — X se of the gamplers, declares ling dissipation, and omn the Did Not Intend to Harm [ORM NY very eve of the day when ‘an attempt will be e to give to this city this iegalized debanch- | o sy st | ery an unfortunate man ‘tells what it means. Driven to the last limit-of despair through his fascina- DISCOVERED IN PARIS| tion for the racetrack, this ma% .sacrificed everything he possessed in life, even his honor, and yes- terday afteérnoon when he was placed under arrest for a horrifying crime he declared: “I was ruined Trengh A“umfld:: :Otnli)i?u; o ':; nycetuek gambling. It was the curse of my life, and I wish that some one had killed me before I Interf:r;flW; ; e committed this crime to-day.~-I am not a criminal. -This is my first offense. I planned it all out of o gham Young, love for my wife and mother.” 5 » EAIP. ehi vt~ Mormen 6 o, hag “This in pathetic sternmess i | condition Jast night. X The next rélief expedition was lowered | the Boy. P 125 feet. The timbers were so badly.shat- | WATERLOO, Iowa, ‘Feb. 16—Isaiah w and large tered that further progress was considered | Van Metere, the veteran editor of a week- Iy newspaper heré, publishés in this | weelk's issue of his journal a story that ‘Pal Crowe had confessed to him that he had kidnaped BEdward A. Cudahy o imposstble. dow and two c SEVEN MINERS LOSE LIFE. g I I he dissipation that Mayor Phela; d his representative, Super- | merrifi Occurs in an Ari- p ¥ Terrific Explosion Occu | Jr. Van Metere, who enjoys a good repu. | just been discovered in Parls, with a <isor Tobim, intend to give San:Francisco. On the very eve of the day that they intend to perpetrate 8 | zona Mine. tation, says that Crowe was sheltered and | témple in a private house. The male this outrage upon the city a humilidted citizen who was once honest confesses thai he owes ats- y TUCSQN, Feb. 16.—Seven men &T8 T |1y ¢ nig home on Tuesday night last, | Members number sixteen, having fifty- honor and his imprisoument to ihe racetrack evil. He is but one amons thousands who have met ported to bave been Kkilled by &0 €X-|pn, expiaing that he did not detain and | €i8ht wives. One man has seven wives the same experience, and when the Supervisors meet to-morrow to considér the re-establishment of berman, leaves a recelved at Na- r and party are has been n in the burning mine hope is the complete morning yes- m escaped. were made to are out of that | is feared. | 50 great | ). 5 shaft were feet. On the top pipe, scrap m several | . some being | n, the whole mass of twisted nearer the top, »f to the pull where hout injury. r Brothers' trav fmo to-day from Main street in Cum- the explosion occurred, He ble, debris and | g thrown two or three hun- | e alr. | the resident manager, | explosion occurred summoning men as hours after the ex- | cages had been re- ’ atthews and volun- end.” The guides on ving been shat- | t get down more than i afterward the upper | but thé raging flames 5. Water was turned in work near the was’ t Japanese, and | ;o aay shit | that all perished explosion oc- | picsion &t Commerce, & small minIng | surrender the fugitive because Crowe had camp at Ash Peak, in Graham County, at | saved his Lfe about twelve years ago. In the alleged confession by Crowe, an ex- | planation is made that he had no inten- { tion of harming young Cudahy and would not have done so if the money had not | been delivered, ‘and that he had $20,000 planted waich he wishes to get in order | to be able to leave the country. noon to-day. J. W. Twomey, manager of the Boston Company, who is developing gold and sil- came to Tucson this morning noon received a message that the powder mégazine had exploded and seven men were supposed to hawe been killed. | 0 . Mr. Twomey said that there were seven Van Metere declines to discuss the mat- men aside from the foreman engaged ‘to | ter further than he has outlined it in the It was thelr custom-to go|article he wrote for his paper. He is one to the magazine at noon to get powder |Of the oldest editors in Iowa in point of for the afternoon blasting. He believes | continugus service. He is an intimate and at | ported the latter in politics. WINES AT A MAID AND GETS WHIPPING Prominent Oculist of Paducah Is | . Assailed by Muscular Mary The report which comes from the camp says that the magazine was so completely. demolished and blown to shreds that it is impossible to find more than small fragments of human bodies, and zhez are blackéned by powder. The men killed were American minel with the exception of one, who was a Mr. Twomey says that the Murphy. e el g et el PADUCAH, Ky., Feb. 16.~C foreman of the day shift probably wast ¥ ‘onsiderable excitement = was created last evening killed with the rest. He will leave on the [ qpo "o Yot U4 EC ¢ p first train for the camp. e e | assaulted Dr. W. M. Cowgill, a promi- OHIO MINERS IMPRISONED. | nent oculist, in front of his office on So% | Broadway, with a tiding whip, claimin, Forty Men Fight the Flames for Four i Hours. he had winked at her. Dr. Cowgill got possession of the whip after being struck CANAL DOVER, Ohilo, Feb. 16.—Forty Several times. He claims he had never miners were imprisoned for four hours last evening in a burning mine at Linden | seen the girl before, i o de! Tree, near here. The fire was started by | JUMPS FROM TRAIN the explosion of a barrel of gasoline, | INTO SNAKE RIVER which set fire to the timbers in the mouth s ? | Colonel W. Thomas Hart -Commits of the mine. KEgress was cut off and the mine filled with smoke. For four hours Suicide in a Most Sensational Manner. the forty men carried water in their tin | buckets and threw it upon the flames. In| BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 16—Colonel W. the meantime a rescuing party had been | Thomas Hart committed suicide this organized in the village and fought the morning by jumping from a freight train flames from the outside. All were finaily | into the Snake River while the train was rescued without being injured. | crossing a bridge near Huntington. Col- ——— onel Hart was one of the most widel x s Oxford Wins. | known mining men and promoters in thz LONDON, Feb. 16.—The Oxford-Cam- | Northwest. He was about 65 years old, bridge Assoclation football match was | a native of Georgla and an ex-Confed- played at‘the Queen's Club to-day, Ox- l erate colonel. His body has not yet been ford winning by three t5 two goais. found. 1 . friend of former Governor Boles and sup- | with one child by each. Another has three wives and sixteen children. All the Paris Mormons are respectable and tndustrious citizens. Though the authori- ties have been prosecution is intended. The marriages being strictly religious, with no eivil for- | mality, the polygamous wives are viewed by the state as having no legal status, although their children can be legitima- | tized without entailing marriage with the | mothers. ! —_— | CHICAGO COMMERCIAL i MEN COMING ‘TO COAST Thirty-Five Members of the Club Signify Their Desfre to Jour- B ney Westward. CHICAGO, Feb. 16.—Arrangements for the excursion of the members of the Com- mercial Club to the Pacific Coast were practically completed to-day at a meeting of the sub-committee. Thirty-five mem- bers have signified their desire to make the journey and the party will leave Chi- cago March 4 in a special train over the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road. The club will return to Chicago March 27. The detalled itinerary will be decided upon Monday at a conference between the com- | mittee on arrangements and the railroad officials. BUILDING TRADES STRIKE IMMINENT AT PITTSBURG ‘Workmen Demand a General Increass in Wages and Thousands of Meon Will Be Involved. PITTSBURG, Feb, 16.—Unless. the master bullders of this eity comply with the demands of the Bullding Trades Coun- cil a general strike will be declared which will involve at least 150,000 workmen. Nearly every mechanic in the city is de- manding an advance of from 5 to 20 per cent. The date upon which many of the building trades’ scales commence is April 1 and unless the master builders grant an ance the'indications are that there will be a general suspension in the bullding trades informed, it is said no | ors men who: this evil in San Francisco they may take his words as an indication of what they deliberately mean to give to this city. In presenting an ordl f . of this city will vote to make erimindls out of men who should not Be and to give to young purpose is to do right a curse from which they cannof recover. The'issue is one of the atmost seriousness to the people of this city and the Board of Supervisors will pyrobably mever be called upon to perform a stermer duty in which their reputations and the welfare of the people of San. Francisco will be more deeply involved. ce that will reopen Ingle e racetrack the pervis- P RIVEN to desperation when his | last cent had been lost at the racetracks and poverty stared his wife and mother in the face, Marvin Ford, a commercial trav- eler, yesterday committed one of the boldest and most unprecedented highway robberies ever placed or record by the Police Department of this city. In the light. of noonday “he held up Lee Long, a Chinaman, on Sacramento street, near Montgomery, and took from him a bag containing $216 in coin. The crime was accomplished by first knocking the Mongolian senseless with a plece of iron pipe. The deed was perpetrated in sight of hundreds of people passing to and fro in the commercial district. Ford is now In the City Prison repenting the error of his T downfall is a pa The story of Ford’s down! s - thetie” one. He has been married but three months. Although he renounced evil habits at the time he miade his maf- riage vows, his propensity for gambl overcame his better resolutions, and on Friday he found that his ldst dollar had been bet and lost. His bride and his aged mother knew nothing of his financial plight and he wished to keep them in ig- norance of it. Solicitous for their happi- ness, he sent both to a matinee yesterday afternoon while he executed his bold plot to replace the money. he had lost and provide for those he loved. He stationed himself in front of a bank walting for some one who might have more than his share of gold. When the Chinaman passed out with a bag of treasure Ford marked him for his. victim and followed him for a short distance, then used his ‘weapon and secured the coveted gold. Marvina Ford has been on the m Coast since 1892. He resided with his mother at 641 McAllister street. He was an expert salesman, and for a long time held a position with Nolan Bros., shoe dealers, soliciting country trade. Easily at first he spent money in gambling. He played the races and fortune favored him. His winnings amounted to thousands of dollars. Eventyally luck turned agalnst hinr and he lost everything. Three months ago he married. He promised his wife he ‘would give up kis evil habits and save his money. f Ford's home since his marriage has been one of happiness, although his prom- ise was not kept. He took his weekly sal- ary to the racetracks, but the horses that he placed his coin on were invariably be- hind when the wire was passed. Still the bride and mother lived in comfort. Each week an amount equal to their quota of Ford's salary was given them, but it was not the money Fi had received from his employers. It was money he had borrowed to keep up his deception. Friday Ford visited Tanforan track. He purchased pools with the few dollard that remaiped in his pockets. As usual, his choices lost. With nothing more than a return railroad ticket he boarded the train and ruminated on his unfortunate positicn. He knew there was but 60 cents in the house to provide food for three people for a month. He had berrowed money and his creditors were pressing him while there was not a dollar in sight. Then he thought of means by which he could ‘‘raise” the amount he had lost and- liquidate his debts besides providing for his family. Highway robbery seemed to him the best plan and he resolved to L . 10 JWNeE. o 'omuwm_r.pm -+ E played the races once in a while when he had a day off, and we thought, he might have gone yesterday to one of the tracks.” That is the explana- tion and the only one that can be given for the commission of another crime fn this city and the disgrace of another fam- fly, and to-morrow the Board of Super- visors will be asked again to legalize in San Francisco the ganf® which makes such dishonor and such diggrace possible. Frank J. Gavan, nicknamed “Hennes- | ¥, a stenographer In the employ of the Santa Fe Rallroad Company in the freight |depot at Spear and Harrison streets, is among the missing. So also fs a large sum of money due various employes of | the company, who entrusted the young man with the collection of the checks re- | celved for their monthly wages which | they received yesterday morning. In actordance with a custom which has prevalled in the yards for some time Gavan was handed the checks of a num- ber-of employes. Just how many he re- cefved is not yet known. as those most Interested in the matter have not yet re- ported to the malin office. Gavan took these checks to the Bank of California and cashed them about 11 o'clock. Since tMat time he has not been seen or heard from. The amount that he received on the checks is estimated at about $550. Detectives and employes who have lost their money searched the ecity for the missing cashier last night, but were un- able to locate him. The young man has been in the em- ploy of the Santa Fe in this city for the past five or six months. He was trans- Continued on Page Fourteen