The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 18, 1901, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1901 MRS. NATION LEADS ARMY OF SMASHERS: | | Fcllow the Crusader in 2 Most Sen- ‘ sational Raid, To- the ex- g was h Mrs. Na- eld. s MOrrow morn- will not clock, 3§ the hour, Mrs State Ho the plans of the ver on who com- they All th the electric lights st and day began to Nation N be was answer could i prom- Nation Leads he ¢ smashing, h an ordina: never had occ The Man who cannot be touched buckwheat cake, —crisp, short and tender — is not worth bothering about. ¢wierr DR. JORDAN'S oncar F ARATOHY ll-.l.--m (2 2N 'DR. CROSSMAN'S SPECIFIC MIXTURE o the cure of GONORRHOEA, GLEETS, STRICTURDS and analogous compiaints Orgaus of Generation. ¥rice 31 @ bottle. For sale by druggists, Topeka have as the h of the Assump- and wom- and moved on account of d. And when I woke up did not hurry, as the our slow. But we 1 begin work at in line there, men i women. We must. go {about the Lord's w Get your | hetchets reac 1 : And they ¢ the re- doubtabie 5 e leade | 2nd the g \ foliowed ! her slight wish wo by two, witn no | exeitement, we r hey moved out on th re on each side d_with one < er hand they w hatchet that had m £ on by Mrs. hey e wome ms’ drugstore, I wanted which has ch liquor city. Mrs her plans and meant She gave the order tc d the crowd followed her d to stop again. but Mrs. t yet reached her starting wd then turned the corner ached the front nable joint. t. the commanded tones to stand Smash!"” t pay any called out attention em Boys Use Battering Ram. T t s Vs with the battering ram came o thousan of fragments. men then rushed on the build- i with their axes and soon had rindow frames cut entirely ralsing her it through a window d yet been left. men managed to recover from e by s time and to grab Mrs. They started off with her to the She waved sent saders ng words of rve them to all the fron e lights. A case o % in_the room and it was The policemen danced hither and to keep the crowd from property, but their efforts in ¥ The doors of the s w smashed in, but no uor was found. During the night | been removed to a e of safet In Need of a Leader. | that there was ndth- e crusaders left the | they found once more to lea State their need of a arched to the never would go out The earnest ed the m on a rald wit plete e tour, rushed the crowd to d purpose, telling them that was now awake and that n would be useless. ged in Bar Fixtures Wrecked. But while this was going o i more interesting scene was another part of the ci Mrs. Nation had bes » city prison as released s she was started, out T about | her | that nad not fol- | we:,, back | nd” com- led_the some bars stable, where he was met_at etor, who assured h nothing of the kind in th She demanded 2 looking ilege two or contents, giving 11in a little room back e th b that had been d for the f intists of tne and never used. Picking up a leg of t was lving near by, she im- | rashed the mirrors and other- | i the bars. | had my hatchet here,” she it if I can’t get it the leg | ir will do just as well.” Raid on the Storage Plant. Nation then led tk v to the nt, where the been in the habit ock. Only a few she was deter- this be_treated the | Joints. Mrs. tion man- aged to enter the cold fodnd herself in the pouitry room. then tried anoth en B N storage plant, but She . and got into ths time Sheriff Cook Stahl came upon _the aced her under arrest. This | time she made quite a scene, and was taken to_the County Jail in the patrol wagon. Her arrest this time was on o county warrant sworn to by the cold torage people charging her with break- ing a lock. ~ When Mrs. Nation was again taken | downtown she was confronted with an-| | details of the dramatic happeninks wero | was addressing an immense mass-meetin: why re. Shontz stopped talking. Mrs. Nation, whom most of the audience | thought was yet in jail, was walking | | gayly up the aisle. | and again with the cheers of the admirers { of the woman who had led her followers | to victory in the morning. She was helped | { | i | of the her at the close of the meeting. Sho was i other arrest. This time it was for enter. ing the Murphy joint. By ttis time tk neople of the city had began to wake up, and soon the streets were full of eager seekers after the latest news. Extra is- sues of the mMOrning papers contajing the erly purchased. | rs. Nation thus gained one triumph in the morning, but another was reservei for her in the afternoon.- | Crusader’s Second Triumph. | Mrs. Eva Marshall Skontz of Chicagn | e of men and women In the First Christian Church when she all at once stopped with the remark: *“‘Well, I guess “here is no use ®f me trying to speak any more.” The people looked toward th> main en. | trance of the church and saw the reason The eéntire audience | arose, and the sacred edifice rang again | to the rostrum, and here she bow her acknowledgments to the ovation she re- ceived. Mrs. Nation raid she was going to re- main “right here in Topeka” until after the city election, so she could help in the election of the Mayor. ° The meeting then adopted some resolu- tions protesting nst the ding re- submission resolution {n the lature, and as_the meeting adjourned Mrs. Na. tion asked the Home fenders to meet g0ing on another smashi EBut her plans were ds tour. ned to be fruit- Nation de- | nother notorious place | door to | it takes to | e glass windows were | were | removal of rged forward | a match and then | Siot ines, cigar | 1 s, ch: counters and | )ves were smashed to smith- | spondent of th nt to ascend to the | o | humanity. collected by the State. within the specified time. efefogoteiel b defolelelefoltools dele August, Russell Sage expressed an opi m e than twice that sum. during the lifetime of Mr. Huntingtt Huntington miliions are investéd has Gates. lished. Investments were held by Mr. in the following corporations: Brook Raiiway, Metropolitan Trust Company It w s said to-day by an attorney round figures 700,000 shares. ool fefolonfolo e sl e ool el filed for probate in the Surrogate's Huntington fortune was divided thu { street, stable, horses, trust, $500,000; the testator’s criages, furni total, $45,400,000. Henry Southern Pacific stoc! | bequest in trust, $25 s Gates, brother-in-la principal bequests, $68,050,000. dred thousand dollars. WILLNOT OPPOSE ISTHMIAN CANAL Buitrage's Views as to the Attitude of Colombian Government. | CE, Feb. 17.—In view of the cable | from Washington stating that the Colombian Government had sent its Minister of Foreign Affairs to Washing- ton to difcuss the question of the Trans- isthmian canal, an interview was had with -Senor Bultrage, the wel Colombian political writer, who is spepd- ing_the season here. 5 1 do not know exactly the object of the mission of the Colombian Minister of Foreign Affairs,” he said, “but have in mind previous declarations of the Colom- bian Government. 1 believe that he is golng to assure the Americans that Co- lombia will not offer any difficulty to the opening of the Pangma canal by the Gov- ernment of the United States. “Cotombia will not, of course, sell the territory through which the ' Panama nal is being constructed to the United States, nor will she abandon her rights of sovereignty over that territory. No Government in Colombia would dare to do so. But Colombia is willing to do vervthing in her power to facilitate an understanding between the new French Panama Canal Company and the Ameri- can Government in order to complete the canal in her territory. “In my opinion, and T have said so sev- eral times in different articles, the Nica- raguan canal has always been a humbug and a bluff, in order to oblige the French Company to sell its works cheap. I think the real feeling in the United States is, as has beengthat the best way, the cheapest shortest and most practicabie is by way of Panama, with the advantage that the work is so far advanced that littie effort will be sufficient to carry it to comple- tion."” DANISH GOVERNMENT BREAKS OFF NEGOTIATIONS 18, 'The Danish Gov- the Copenhagen corre- Dally Mail, “has suddenly with the United the sale of the Danish s is due to a satisfac- ma: by the Danish East amship Company to assist and LONDON, Feb. ernmen t Indies off. Asian St |in the future to administer the islands. The American Government has been no- tified as to this decisfon.” L e e e e e : less. Deputy Sheriff Lawson was waiting in the vestibule of the church all the while, and when Mrs. Nation came out he stepped up to her, with the remark that | he had a warrant for her arrest. Mrs. Nation smiled good-naturedly. nother warrant.”’ she exclaimed. “What n that be for? They have served three pon me already to-day.” “It's for defacing property said the officer. Z, “Let's see it,” sald Mrs. Nation. “De- facing property! Why, I defaced no prop- erty—I just destroyved it. I never defaced any property. That is a ridiculbus charge to bring up agains. me. But came along, Mr. Officer, I am not :l‘rnld of L‘ jralafl,n} ve iderable gxpcrience Wit em 1}:.31(;1;0:;11: 1 have been about the Lord’s work.” Turning to the eager crowd of wonder- ing people she sald: S fher have just got another warrant for me, and I'm going to jail again. I will be right out, though, women, and so g0 on making your arrangements. Arrest Causes Great Excitement. Fully 2000 people followed Mrs. Nation | and the officer as they started to the County Jail. The officer was obliged to draw his pistol to keep the crowd back. It was with the utmpst difficulty that the jall was reached. All along the way Mrs. Nation was in, the best of humor. The route to the jaii.- was through the most| aristocratic part of the city, and as the Dl T e of 8 great mob filing ‘b strange s Topeka avenue on a qulet Sabbath after- noon they were met with smiling greet- ings from Mrs. Natlon. Young men pleas- € | antly nodded and tipped their hats in the | most gallant manner possibl €. The news of the arrest of Mrs. Nation had reached the downtown district by | this time and as the officer hove in sight with his prisoner he saw the street in front of the jall one seething mass of Further up the street hun- dreds of others, men, women and children were running to the jail as fast as their, feet would carry them. If the interest in Mrs. Nation had at any time been latent, it had now broken out with fever heat. The Chief of Police, with a detail of of- ficers, was soon on the scene, it took much’ hard work, together with the vig- orous use of clubs and threats of worse treatment, to get an o] nms{m the crowd sufficient to permit Mrs. Nation to be taken into the jail office. It was a erowd bent for the most part on curiosity, but there were many turbu- lent spirits there, and for a time it looked like serious trouble would ensue. Nobody knew any reason for a riot; but the riot- ers were there and a riot was narrowly averted. At no time was Mrs. Nation in the least alarmed. She remarked more than once that it was a very nice looking lot of EW YORK, Feb. 17.—The executors of the estate of Collls P. Hunt- ington have deposited with Controller Coler a certified check for §700.000 to cover the amount of the inheritance tax which wiI be The deposit indicates the worth of. the estate at the time of the testator's death to have been approxi- . mately $70,000,000, making the present value $30,000.000. The action is taken at this time to save 5 per cent by ~making the deposit Much comment will result from the size of the check, which indicates that the Huntington estate in value will more than double the estimate placed upon it at the time of his death. When the will was filed for probate last fall short of $30,000,000. The executors have indicated that it would amount to Owing’ to the rise in railroad securities during the last six months the Huntington estate-is now worth almost if not quite $10,000,000 more than it was when the will was offered for probate. As the inheritance tax is based upon the value at the time of the death of the tesfator, the estate would now seem to be worth approximately $30,000,.- 000, a sum far in excess of the most liberal estimate ever made of his fortune are"Mrs. Arabella D. Huntington, the widow; Charles H. Tweed and Isaac E. That will become public when the Detroit Gas, Fuente Coal Company, Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railroad; Guatemala Central Railroad, Gulf, Louislana and Western Railroad, Manhattan Raflroad, Morgan’s Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company; ws Light and Water Company, New York, Texas and Mexican Railroad; Old Dominion Land Company, Old Dominion Steamship Conipany, Oregon and California Railroad, Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Southern Pacific Com- pany, Southern Pacific Railroad, Union Trust Company of New York, West- ern Texas and Pacific and Western Union Telegraph. the executors that the Huntington Southern Pacific -holdings These are believed to have passed’in the recent transfer to the Interests controlling the Union Pacific. upon has not been told, but the markét value of the Southern Pacific is now about $46, the par value being $100. By the terms of the will, which was ourt in this thirds of the testator’s Southern Pacific stock, ‘worth $15.400,000 ; residuary bequest, estimated at $28,0000¢; house at Fifth avenue and Fifty-seventh estimated at $14,000,000; total, $21,100,%0. Princess Hatzfeldt, adopted daugh- ter—Specific bequest in trust, $1uwm0; Archer M. Huntington, adopted son— ; Edward $100,000; Hampton Institute, Other bequests increase this total several hun- This- will make, it Is estimated, the value of the es- tate upon which inhegitance tax may be collected about $68,500,000, though from this $5,000000 may be taken as the value of realty. known | HUNTINGTON'S ESTATE : WORTH EIGHTY MILLION Executors File a Big Check to Cover the Inheritance Tax. : nion that the Huntington fortune would on. No accurate idea as to how the vet been made by the executors, who appraisement has been ‘estab- Huntington at the time of his death Rapid Transit. California Pacfic, Western - Texas and Pacific; Metropolitan Street Rallroad, Newport Mexican International whose information came from one of aggregate in The price agreed city August 24, 1900, the Mrs, Arabella D. Huntington—Two- ture, etc., $1.500,000; specific bequest in E. Huntington, nephew—One-third of worth $7,100,000; residuary bequest, H. Pardee, nephéw, $100,000; $100.000. Total of oot DUAL OBJECT OF M. DE WITTE Seized the Opportunity to Mobilizs Russia’s In- dustrial Army. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 17.—Shréwi observers in St. Petersburg belleve tha: the Russian Minister of Fnance, M. De | Witte, in imposing a discriminating ducy | on American manufactures of iron ani | steel, was not animated solelv by a de- sire to protect sugar producers, but was eager to seize an opportunity to mobilize Russla’s industrial army, with a view of proving its ability to stand the test of a tariff war. It is believed, moreover, he desires to impress Germany even more than the United States. The Russian press agent does not give any particular approval to the experi- ment. The Boerse Gazette, usually influ- enced by the Minister of Finance, warns both sides against Implicit faith in th Bismarckian theory that tariff wars do not disturb good political relations, point- ing out that experience has shown the op- posite to tbe the case, as a rule. “We hope the friction will be as quick- ly removed as it arose,” continues -the Boerse Gazette, “since the nolitical re- lations now existing between the two powers are the best they have known. Both are playing the game of the tertium gaudens, which is preparing a bitter blow against both. “Doubtless American public opinion wiser than the sugar producers and is the Government that 1s aciing in their inter- e Novosti, correctly representing ian public opinion as to the Russian Government's sugar policy, demands t abolition of the domestic tax and of a devised to enable a few lazy system pense of consumers. Russia’s export policy, the Novosti con- tinues, is designed principally to support high domestic prices. It is well known that one of the chief obstacles to tem- perance work in Russia Is the price of su- zar, which checks the consumption of tea. The Novoe Vreyma reminds American.; that they are the principal commercial beneficiaries of Russian railway enter- prises in Eastern Asia, and exoresses hope that the United States Court will decide in Russia’s favor. people and that she much. g There was some delay in getting a bond for Mrs. Natior, and in the meantime she enterjained the lawyers and newspaper | mén present in some of her characteristic ways. Mrs. Nation soon became anxious about her bond. “Oh, now 1 see.” she sald, “why they are keeping me here this way. * They knew I was going about the Lord's work this afternoon and the devil put it into their heads to keep me here so L could not do it. ‘‘Oh, say, Mr. Sheriff Cook,” she added, “there’'s something rotten in Denmark this afternoon. hy are my bondsmen not sent for? Oh, ‘there’s a method in all_this madness. ‘It will be here soon,” sald the Sherift. ‘Please be quiet, Mrs. Nation, But the bond did not come Mrs, Na- tion then went out on the f. _at steps of the jall and for somebody to sign her bond. Nick Chiles, a negro joints ist, came in and signed it and soon Mi Nation was free. She was followed up the avenue by thousands, but at last reached her lodging place. The city is excited more ralds are expected until to-morrow. e mtlen: “CARRIE NATION COCKTAILS.” New Drink That Is Delighting Sacra- mento Imbibers. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 17.—All the sports of the town have gone wild over a new mixture known as the Carrie Nation cock- tail, which appears to b2 the orthodox compound so familiar to the public with a dash of sherry wine added. Most of the saloous of Sacramento have their mirrors decorated with legends formed of soap- written_letters and reading, * our Carrie Nation cocktail,” with the outline of a hatchet surmounting the words. e LATE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVED. Sunday, Fel Nor stmr Bergenhus, Bvend-enh“::"d‘:n from Hon; £ 2 g days from Yokohama, days from Kobe. 50 hours from San Diege’ OCEAN STEAMERS, ~EW YORK—Salled Feb 17—Stmr Potsda for Boulogne. Arrived—Stmr Pretoria, from LIVER led Feb 17—Stmr Tau for New York; stmr Bovic, for New York OVILLE—Arrived Feb 17—Stmr i f--m New York, for Glasgow. GENOA_Sallel Feb Ii—Stmr Auguste Victp- ew Rotp: QUEENSTOWN-Salled Feb 17—Stmr Etru- s, trom Tivermoal. for ow York. | 1: Tunisian, from Liverpool; stmr Peruvian, fro Glaszow. loved them very L e o o o e e e R e B B S e o B S S R manufacturers to make profits at the ex- | a| Supreme | to-night, but. no | - am. to my Colliery and Hope parties are to-night penetrating the Cumberland mines to begin the work of recovering the bodies of the victims of Friday's explosfon. The first attempt to enter the mines since the pit mouths were sealed was made to-day and parties are now descending, following the large volume of | air that is being driven into the mine. If| their efforts continue as successful as at | present the miners expect to be able to| take out some of the bodies to-morrow, if the explosion did not cause the mine to cave in. The mines had been sealed since the last explosion, which ‘occurred on Satur- day morning at 4 o'clock. When Hon. James Dunsmuir, the mine owner, In- spector of Mines Morgan and McGregor and a staft of officials arrived this morn- !Ing the covering was taken from No. 5| shaft and the big alr fan started. In its ninety revolutions each minute, this fan drove 100,000° cublc feet of air Into the | mine. This volume of air was driven in | for three hours and at 3:30 p. m. the maa- | ager and inspectors, together with eight | others, started down, a Davy lamp hav- ing been lowered first to make sure there | |wu no fire damp. The men were down two hours before they returned, and, some apprehension beifig felt for them, | two miners were sent to see that all was | well. These miners found the party re-| turning in safety. Those who descended went along the workings well on to where the mine con- nects with No. 6. They saw no signs of | smoke or fire, d plain indication that the streams of water poured into No. 6 haye extingulshed the fire ‘there. The bottom | of the mine in which the explosion oc- | curred was deluged with water to a depth of forty-twe feet before the water was | tugned ‘off. | When the fans have succeeded in dpiv-| | ing out the fire damp and gas, which they | | are expected to do to-morrow, this water | will be pumped out and workers will e: deavor fo take out the bodies of the sixty- | | four men—twenty whites, nine Japanese |and thirty-five Chinese. ~None of these | men, it is believed, lived for more than a | few seconds after the explosion. Those | who survived the concussion were prob- | | ably at once killed by the gas and after | | damp. | The official list of dead is as follows: WILLIAM WALKER. aged 48, married, | leaves wife and four children. WILLIAM WALKER, 20. GEORGE WALKER, 18. JOHN ALLISON, 20. ROBERT STEELE, single, 30. ROBERT FLECK, 40, marrfed, wife and | six_children in Scotland. WILLIAM DAVIS, 4, single. JAMES HALLIDAY, 45, married, wife and family at Lethbridge, N. W. T. DUNCAN MUNRO, 40, married, wife and six children. 1 JOHN WHYL, 42, married, leaves wife | and five children. THOMAS LORD, 33. single. | WILLIAM SNEDDEN, 40, married, wife | and family at Nanaimo: was going down into mines to get tools to proceed to Nan- aimo to bury a dead child. DUNCAN McINNIS, 3, widower. | GEORGE TURNBULL, 22, married. | JAMES GROSETTI, 36, married, wife and family in Turin, Italy. : CHARLES DONA’ %, married, wife and 1 ily. | “LOTis SIMONDI, 5, married. SUNDAY TOILERS QUTWIT MILLER n and Teams Begin Fill- ing Panama Slough in Bakersfield. leaves | | | Special Dispatch to The Call. “BAKERSFIELD, Feb. 17.—This has been ! an eventful day in the history of Bakers- | | field. Last night at 12 o'clock a large? number of men with teams, plows undi | serapers belonging to the Kern County | | Land Company began filling up Panama | | 8lough. The outfit has been busy ever | since, and in consequence a large quantity of clean earth has been leveled into the old disease-brecding run that winds its filthy way through the heart of the city. The object of beginning this good work at such an unseemly hour was to avoid being stopped by Henry Miller through | | the 5id oF an_mjunction. It was desired to get in one day’s work unmolested. Mr. | Miller is here, and it is expected that he will ask for an injunction to-morrow. ! The people are eager to see the slough filled. For some_ time the land company has been engaged in cleaning off and lev- | | eling the margins of the slough, but no | | one suspected that it intended to fill it. | and lhege!ore all were greatly surnflutd" at the sudden turn of things this morning. Panama Slough has figured in two exten- sive law suits hetween Miller & Lux and the Kern Cdunty Land Company. ‘Another event of the day was the open- ing of the new electric street railway be- tween Kern Cify and Bakersfield. The cars have been busy all day, ‘‘loaded to the guards.” The line extends from the Southern Pacific depot to the Santa Fe depot. ROOSEVELT INDIGNANT . AT HAIR-RAISING TALES COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Feb. 17.— Colonel Theodore Roosevelt is in Colorado Springs and is the guest of P. B. Stewart, who was one of the members of the hunt- ing party in Rio Bl#nco County during the first three weeks of the hunting. Colonel Roosevelt is in excéllent health and spirits and_ will return tp the East in perfect condition for the arduous duties upon which he is to enter so soon. His time until the inauguration will -be taken up with attending to his vast correspond- ence, the accumulation of six weeks. A public reception will be tendered him in this city to-morrow afterndon at 5 o'clock. He expressed the desire that nothing in the nature of a banquet be held, and the reception will be simply a public informal han haklnfi occasion granted to the eople of Colorado Springs by the Vice President-elect bacause of the friendiy feeling_that has sprung up between them. Colonel Roosevelt {s much annoyed over the hair-raising stories that have been circulated concerning his hunting experi- ences. To a correspondent he gave the following statement to-day: No correspondent of any newspaper, no man who wrote or gave any information to any newspaper ‘was within forty miles of where 1 was hunting at_any time during the five weeks 1 was out. The sensational stories, such as those describing adventures with bears and wolves were deliberate and willful fabrications written by men who of of where the entire trip. Aside from I game our hunting was confin so-called _mountain_lions or panthers. fwelve of them. 1 never enjoyed a holiday more. 1 have never been out with a better hunter than John Goff. His hounds are with- out exception the best 1 have ever seen for their work. As I obl! to go East in view of the nearnmess of the inauguration, I great regret, unable to address the Colorado Tegislature in accordance with their extremely kind request. . Blackleg Among Cattle. REDDING, Feb. 17.—Blackleg, a disease peculiar to cattle, has broken out in the Bald Hills country. Stockmen fear it may become epidemic. M. P. Hildreth received word from his drover on Saturday that several animals in his large he had carcasses have been cremated in the hope of staying the progress of the disease. Inoculation is being resorted to. DELVING FOR DEAD IN CUMBERLAND MINE Searching Parties Penetrate the Fire-Swept Sixty-Four Victims To-Day. - Special Dispatch to The Call. NION, B. C., Feb. 17.—Searching ) PETER BARDISONIA, 35, margied, wile to Reach Bodies of and five children. ANTON MAFFADIO, 2. single. The following story of the accident was given out by officials here to-day: C. C. Winton, the paymaster, sald he was sitting in his office, 50 feet away from No. & shaft, on Friday morning at 10:50 o'clock when' he heard the explosion, and, swinging arourd in his chair, saw that No. 6 had blown up, and there was a column of smoke and dirt going at least 100 feet in the air. He rushed to the tele- ghoss and called up No. 4 and instructed Weighman Kamsay to call in the men at that mine and bring them to the rescue. He inquired for cie underground man- ager. John Matthews, and found that he had gone to No. 5. He telephoned there and caught Matthews just going down that mine. He informed him that No. § had blown up, and, leaving David Walker there to arrange foi ihe rescue parties, he ran across to No. 6. There they found that the force of the explosion had blown the fan door down and disarranged the fan, but a carpenter was soon at work, and the fan was gcing again in twenty minutes and putting air down. At No. 5 the rescuers had a hard time. They went in quite a distance toward No. } 6 when forced back, owing to the fire having broken out in No. 6. They tele- phoned to this effect to Mr. Clinton at the head office, and he told them to in- vestigate if it was smoke or fire that barred the way to No. 6, and if smoke to endeavor if possible to drive it back. They replied that it was fire, the flames having been seen when they endeavored to brush the smoke back. All the men were then ordered out of the mine, and the mules removed also. There was nothing more to be done there in safety to the rescuers, who, as it was, had a narrow escape in getting out, for two were overcome and artificlal respiration, had to be used to bring them to. At No. 6 Manager Matthews took charge of the rescue party, and many de- termined efforts were made to get down. The rescuers found one cage at the bot- tom, held fast, and the other cage was at the top, having been blown up to the top of the superstructure, some seventy feet above the pit head. The wires were taken from the whole of the fast cage and fixed to the one at the top and then a descent was made. On proceeding down, Matthews says, he found that the mid- wall had been blown up for 210 feet. It is 614 feet deen. They repaired the midwall as they went | down until obilged to stop, within seventy feet of the bottom, owing to the great | heat from.the fire at the bottom. They were at that depth when a_slight explo-1 sion occurred, which caused the men to come up. and none too quickly, for on ar- riving two were exhausted, and their feet had to be rubbed for some time, hot bricks tied to their sides and other means | adopted to bring them to. | It was thought unsafe to make any fur- | ther efforts, | arrived, about 10:30 p. m., with General and the train having then Manager Little and several experts a con- | sultation was held in the company’s offic: at which the experienced miners connect- ed with the workings said they could not | see how any one would possibly be still alive. Not wanting to abandon the efforts to rescue the men bufore flooding the mine, another ¢ffort was made The fan was closed at No. 5 znd started at No. 6, by which action, if there was any then in No. 6, it would draw the gas and there would be an explosion. When at 4:2 a second explosion occurred all hope was abandoned and the mine was flooded, both pitheads being sealed until the effoits of to-day s g NINE MEN BREAK JAIL AT SPOKANE Arthur Spencer, a United Sta2s Prisoner, Leads the Band. pt R U Special Dispatch to The Call SPOKANE, Wash., Feb. 17.—Nine pris- oners, at the head of whom was Arthur Spencer of San Francisco, the spurious Chinese inspector, bigamist and confi- dence mah, early to-day bound and gagged the jaller and escaped from the County Jail. None have been captured. The escaped prisoners are: Arthur Spencer, United States prisoner, impersonating an officer and obtaining money under false pretenses; Joe Harri- son; Luke McGluke, alias Frank Moran, allas® Mac McLeary; Philip Anderson and James Morarity, all United States prison- ers, wanted for counterfeiting; Edward McGuire and Robert McAlpin, for Ha- walian fobbery: John Manning, burglary, and Edward McGuire, sodomy, both of WILL RESINE OPERATIONS I WESTERN CHlh Von Waldersee Asks for All Available T_r_@. Condition Brought About by Unsatisfactory Nature of Negotlations. ———— PEKING, Feb. 17.—A few days ago Count von Waldersee wrote to the gen- erals under his supervision notifying them to have all their available troops ready in two weeks for an expedition lasting eighty days. To-day General Chaffee and | General Voyron, the French commander, received letters asking for their co-opera- | tion and expressing a desire to know what forces they can spare. In commencing his letter to General Chaffee, Count von Waldersee says: “Owing to the unsatisfactory nature of the negotiations for peace and also to eir cumstances rendering such a course desir- able, it will probably be necessary to re- sume military operations on a large scale, especially toward the west.” It is not thought likely that General Chaffee will agree to such a plan without instructions from Washington. Th French commander, however, is expectes to do so. Count von Waldersee's plans | contemplate offering the command of the | expedition in the first instance to Sir Al- fred Gaselee, the British commander, but it is believed that In view of his recent {liness, General Gaselee will inform Count ven Waldersee that he is unable to accepr the command. In that event it will be offered to General Voyron, provided the French fall in with the arrangement, Wwhich Count von Waldersee believes wiil be the case. Such an offer to General Voyron would have the effect, it is thought, of overcoming the differences which have existed between the French and Germans, because it would be a dem- onstration of Count von Waldersee's con- fidence in the military ability of the | French contingent. Ere long an ammouncement is expected that the destination of the proposed ex- pedition fs Sianfu. The foreign envoys belleve its object to be to compel the Chi- nese to accept the terms of the powers. It is thought that when it becomes known that the expedition has started the- im- perial court will hasten tq comply imme- diately with all the demands of the joint note. | The military are much elated at the prospect of active service. Many believe the Chinese army will strive to the utmost to protect the province of Shensi against | Invasion. | @ tefeiottete et b b e whom are under sentence to the Wash- ington penitentiary. Fhe' Ten overpowered Chief Jailer Thompson, who was the only officer in the jail. After choking him into insensi- bility they bound and gagged him and stripped him of his revoiver and keys and made their escape. Spencer is said to have crawled from his cell through an opeping seven by eleven inches, through which food Is passed. He hid behipd the door and when the | jaller opened#the cell door seized him | trom behind, while the other prisoners from the inside rushed out. e jailer | lay insensible fifteen minutes, and then spent as much time working free from the ropes placed on him. He promptly gave the alarm. Then, hatless and coat- less, the jaller tore out of the building after the first man he saw. This man, a peaceful citizen, thinking he was up against a crazy man, fled. whila after him | sped bullets from the gun of the jailer. appily none took effect. . As soon as possible a large force of deputy Sheriffs and deputy Marshals be- gan a search, so far fruitless, for the prisoners. The counterfeiters were leaders in a ging on whose capture the secret service officers worked for months. Spencer is the Californian who robbed eoast Chinese 'of thousands of dollars, pretending to be a Government official. *'McAlpin is a San Quentin man, a desperado, well known to the coast police. Eaaa———— TRANSMITS POWER MORE THAN A HUNDRED MILES VALLEJO, Feb. 17.—The Bay Counties Power Company to-day made its first trial of its long line for the transmission of electricity., supplying power to the Vallejo Electric Light Company. This is the longest power transmission on record, the source being the Yuba River, 12 miles from this place. The test was suc- cessful. The Bay Counties Power Company has high towers erected on both sides of the Carquinez Straits, on which its line is to be suspended, and by April 1 power wijl be supplied to Oakland. | | for $10 When we say a good suit we mean that it contains good cloth, good lining, good can- vas, good sewing, good tailoring and we can go further and say it is as good as the usual $15 suit that you see about town. We can knowingly speak of the goodness. of the suits as we make them to order. and surely we know what we are.giv" ing you for your money. The first step in securing one of the suits is to call and get our samples of the cloth, which are freely given. Out-oftown orders filled—write for sam™ ples or selfmeasuring blank. SNW00D 5/ 718 Market St. and Cor. Powell and Eddy.