The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 21, 1901, Page 13

Pages 13 10 2 1 f’ | | @rroxoronen | | | ) PHOHPROAS X (. Pl (1] [t - @all, * $ VOLUME LXXXIX—N 142 SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 1901 —=THIRTY-TWO PAGES WMMMW Pages 1310 22 Sonere PRPUOAPESH | l PRICE F1VE CENTS. MIDWAY MEN RESTING ON GLAZE IS CONVICTED OF MURDER IN FIRST DEGREE AND PENALTY IS FIXED AT LIFE IMPRISONMENT| THHH AHMS%SIayer of William Trewhella at Windsor Hotel Is Unmoved on Hearing Verdict---Antecedents of Vigilantes Are Expected | to Make a Second Attack. Two Men Wounded in Thurs- | day Night’s Battle Will Die. 0il Locators Banding to Put an End | | to Indiscriminate Claim- Jumping. b e« Special Dispatch to The Call. BAKERSFIELD, April 20.—The war | cloud still hangs ominously over Midway ofl district. The second clash of arms Slayer and His Victim and Story of Crime that appeared to be so imminent yesterday 614 not take place last night. The vigl- lantes either ugh or withdrew to r plan of campaign. The‘ i still hold their ground and npparently are ready for eventualities. They expected a renewal of the attack last n or mot any now foretell, but the Thursday night's bat- The Mount Diablo r land and they mean the jumpers—the Superior equal force that Wounded Men Will Die. The wounde T. Walker and G. P. Corne ill living, but are moment, so terri- g were taken view of did not get catch the train for i from McKittrick this be very low. Sheriff and Nevada. him say he is a fine d reputation. His vble kas pot yet isfactorily. Some of set people, who came in t of the conflict, say 2 visttor to the camp, while expe ted 1o d know set men, who are fn a hazy idea imate that Cor- nd they cannot to how Walker where.” They de- a terrific fusillade. rain of lead. The .claim- pers were expecting an assault, yet were all but surprised. Not the Work of Vigilantes. declare that the attack | etrated by the Mount | not by vigilantes. They 0w who thelr assaflants were | there were about twenty-five of | of whom are prominent citi- sno and Los An- very dark when the fight day Cornell, when visited identified him Boust replied: | a dying man a liar, much mistaken.” | men do not deny be- | battle when it some weapons expect to be arrested. pe Judge Cl erable vehemenc 1l bring crim- more blood will | hold the fort and de- | he bullets flew | nd water tank show the | = = o of Robert E. Glaze, who killed his i partner, William Trewhella, at the Wind- sor Hotel on the afternoon of January 14 last. During the {iwo weeks’ trial neither | Glaze nor his wife betrayed the slightest emotion as they sat in court and listened | to the mass of testimony presented by the prosecution. The scathing denunciation delivered by Assistant District Attorney Greany yesterday did not cause Glaze to wince. He sat with the same immobiic countenance he wore during the whole trial. | Not even when the VERDICT of murder in the first degree, with the punishment fixed at life imprisonment, was returned returned its | verdict did Glaze betray his feelings. He | was quickly hurried to the prison van and taken to the County Jail.* Mrs. Glaze and her two young daugh- ters and son gave no sign when the ver- | dict was returned. They took their leave of the condemned man, but there was no outward manifestation of sorrow. The family of Trewhella, the murdered man, were not in court when the jury returned | 1ts verdiet. Denounced in Scathing Terms. ‘When court convened yesterday morn- ing Assistant District Attorney delivered the closing argument for the | prosecution. He reviewed the evidence in | detafl and characterized Glaze in scath- ing terms, claiming that he had com- mitted one of the most cold-blooded mur- | ders in the annals of crime. Judge Dunne took half an hour in deliv- | ering his charge to the jury and elaborate- ly explained the law of self-defense. The jury received the case shortly before 1 p. m. and Judge Dunne allowed the jurors to be taken to luncheon at that time. They em,” and then hur- District Attorney. | 4 the men would be | Some & existence of vigilantes on the west side, while others declare | there is such an organization and it/ to stamp out the deplorable prae- | . One of the Mount | nen said to-night, when asked if | re going to give up the fight, knew what was going on you nk so.” Over Another Claim. conflict on 26 is going on e a similar nature tak- the next section. A Fres- by City Attorney Lan- claimed, is try- was driven y, it is i 5. The party off by men with rifles and brought to town. They Fresnoans will not get the sey “have to wade through n in Midway and other por- rest Side at present is prom- med confiicts. The first loca- ng desperate. They say to meet the ‘emergency demands. 2 NOME COAST BLIZZARD CLAIMS TWO HUNDRED VICTIMS | »—and this in the immed! told the story of the | fortunates who circumstantial story of the calamity. In the camp at Cape Nome the loss of life is said to be not as heavy To-day these men | JRIA, B. C., April 20.—Two hundred miners, prospectors others are said to have been frozen to death at Cape result of an awful blizzard that swept the Bering Sea early this year. Three arrivals at Dawson from Cape with details of the finding of great numbers of dead on. snow drifts and in the huts and cabins of the mines graphed to Skaguay, whence it was brought by ube, which reached port to-day. No names of the un- et death are given, but the Nome men tell a startling were brought back to the juryroom at 2 p. m. and brought in their verdict at 4:20 p. m. When the verdict was read the at- torneys for the defense made no motion | for a new trial and Judge Dunne set May 4 as the date for sentence. | Glaze was a well-known figure in the hotel world. For three years previous to the destruction of the Baldwin Hotel he was chief clerk -of that hostelry, and it was there Jiimet Mrs. Shelly, who is now his wife. e was a guest of the hotel, having her two daughters and two scns with her. She was reputed to be worth much money. After the hotel was de- stroyed by fire Glaze and Mrs. Shelly were married and went to Honolulu. their return to this city Glaze and a man | named Janes purchased the lease of the J Windsor Hotel. How Glaze First Met Trewhella. The prospects of the mew firm looked | bright. Janes, however, desired to sell his | interest, and early in 1900 William Trew- hella became the partner of Glaze, buying | the interest of Janes. Trewhella was a pminer, a Cornishman by birth and had lived in Nevada for eighteen years, where he had amassed a snug sum of money by | hard work. There were frequent differ- | ences between Trewhella and Glaze, and i the matter culminated in January of this jate vicinity of the Arctic camp— blizzard and its harvest of dead. by the jury yesterday in the trial | Greany | on| was heaviest. el oLk PHOTOLRAYLS | | i | | j SENTENCED TO SPEND THE | REMAINDER OF HIS LIFE IN | ’ PRISON. | s L7, - vear with the éetermination of Trewhella | to either buy Glaze out or be bought out | by his partner. On the night of January 13 Mrs. Glaze bad a violent altercation with Mrs. Trewhella and was ejected from the latter's apartments by Trewhella. The next day Glaze Lad his revolver repaired, purchased cartridges and, on meeting Trewhella in the old bakery of the hotel, shot him. | SUSPECTED SOCIALISTS | ARRESTED BY COSSACES Officers of the Czar Run Down Per- sons Thought to Be in Con- spiracy. | BERLIN, April 20.—Dispatches to the Vorwaerts tell of a demonstration at the funeral of a Jewish mechani¢ in Wilna, a city of Russia and capital of the govern- ment of that name. A number of persons were charged by the Cossacks and sixty- seven arrests were made. At Mink, also in Russia, twenty-five houses were searched and eight persons arrested for supposed complicity in a plot against the Russian Government. At Niesbing, near Kieff, secret printing presses belonging to a party of revolu- tinnary socialists have been seized by the police. FLOW OF OIL AT BOLINAS. Strike Made in the Harvey Well cn the Gargoli Ranch. SAN RAFAEL, April 20.—A flow of oil was struck yesterday in what is known as the Harvey well, on the Gargoli ranch, at Bolinas. This development places Marin in the list of oil producing counties, as the flow is said to be considerable. For the past few weeks boring has been done on several wells in that locality. At different depths ofl was encountered. but not in paying quantities. The strike yesterday justifies the predictions of expert drillers that ofl would be encountered at the prop- er depth. . all must wait with a hope for a speedy | comfort and health are at the mercy of DISASTROUS FLOOS ARE WIDESPREAD Vast Loss to Property| in Several Eastern States. e In Pennsylvania There Is "Danger of Repetition of Flood of 1884. Lives Have Been Lost, Trains Stalled, and Damage May Run Into the Millions. PITTSBURG, Pa., Avpril 20.—This ecity is the center of a widespread and disas- trous storm. For a radius of 150 miles in Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio and Northern ‘West Virginia rain or snow has been fall- ing almost without’intermission for three | days. Mountain streams have become tor- rents, creeks are swollen and out of their banks and the big rivers are oceans of turbid water. Flood records, it is expect- ed, will be broken before the water sub- sides. The financial loss cannot be estimated. In addition to hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions of dollars it will cost to put large manufacturing plants in com- mission again, tens of thousands of skilled workmen are thrown out of employment and lose their wages just at a time when all the iron and steel mills are rushed with orders. Living in Upper Rooms. To-night thousands of people are living in the upper rooms of their water-soaked houses, without heat, light or food. ‘Where gas fuel is used the pipes are flooded and cut off. At Schoenville, the home of the Pressed Steel Car Company, the little town is completely surrounded by water. The workers and their families constitute a community of several thou- sand persons, Wheeling, W. Va., fears the most dis- astrous flood in its history. The weather- wise say the river will make a new high | record at that point. The mountain streams of the State are gushing down | the hillside with resistless force. Behind this comes the flood tide of the Ohio, fed by the Monongahela, Allegheny, Beaver and other tributaries. From 45 to 50 feet of water is feared at Wheeling, which means an immensé 1oss of property. Heaviest Snowstorm Ever Known. In many parts of Pennsylvania and Ohio probably the heaviest snowstorm ever known at this season of the year has been rading for two days. At Oil City the oil exchange went out of business tempo- rarily because it was impossible to secure quotations from New York, Pittsburg and other noints. On one railroad in Ohio passenger trains are stalled, and engines sent to their as- sistarce have been buried with snow, and turn of the weather. In the meantime the passengers must depend upon near-by farmhouses for. sufficient food to keep them from starvinz. Business, religious services to-morrow, the storm. Several narrow escapes from death have been reported, and it is prob- able that when the flood subsides it may reveal a number of bodies. Steam and steel railroad tracks are buried under thousands of tons of earth washed down the hillsides, and in some cases the tracks have been moved. Where the snow and sleet prevailed the tele- graph wires and poles went down under the burden and costly railroad and other bridges have been washed away and their piers weakened. The big manufacturing plants in this city have suffered severely. The cost of repairs is but a small item in comparison to the delay in filling the orders with - which all the plants are crowded. 3 River Mills Are Submerged. The iron mills along the river were early afflicted and one by one were compelled to shut down, the water putting out the | fires ‘and submerging the works. Mrs. Mary Patterson, 80 years old, liv- ing in River avenue, Allegheny, in the submerged district, died " of excitement this evening. Four Hungarians are re- ported drowned near Sharpsburg, but the report cannot be vérified at this hour. At midnight Frank Ridgeway, local offi- cial forecaster, issued a bulletin to the effect that the Allegheny and Mononga- hela rivers would probably reach the 29- foot mark, while the Ohio would reach thirty feet, or four feet less than the dis- astrous flood of 1884. The marks in the Monongahela River at midnight were 28.6 feet and the river was rising at the rate of three and a half inches an hour. In the Allegheny 28.5 feet was the reading on the gauge, with the water coming up| about two Inches an hour, while the Ohlo | River gauge showed twenty-five feet and ! rising a)uut six inches an hour. RAIN AND SNOW IN SOUTH. Much Damage Done in Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 20.—Roaring ’ as in the surrounding camps and on the trails, but the camp did not go unscathed during the storm. Hundreds were carried to the hospitals with frozen limbs, and others were left suffering in their huts. It was in the surrounding parts of the district that the death record Not until after the storm had passed was the extent of the calamity realized at Nome, for it was not until then that searching parties came upon bodies of victims. Some were found in tents, whose thin canvas afforded no shelter; .others in huts of boards and tar pa- per, and, in many instances, without even the tar paper to protect them from the cold; but the greater number were found half-buried in the drifted snow on the open trails, where they had fallen exhausted. The story of the two “mushers,” as told at Dawson, 1S not so com- plete as that which Clerk Reed, who left Nome after the storm, gave JOHN . SABIN IS SELECTED AS PRESIDENT OF CHICAGO TELEPHONE COMPANY THAT HE MAY BUILD UP BUSINESS OF THAT CORPORATION Will Continue to Be Executive Head of San Francisco Company, but Is to Make His Residence in Chicago, Where He Will Receive a Salary of $40,000 a Year and Is to Institute Coast System, Which Has Been So Successful o+ e OHN I. SABIN of this city, presi- dent of the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Company, has been Jffered and has accepted the presi- dency of the Chicago Telephone Company. He will, however, remain the chief executive officer of the Pacific Statés Company. One comfortable fact connect- ed with this move, so far as Mr. Sabin is concerned, is that he will receive an an- nual salary of $40,000 for his services. While the annotincemént will oeccasion some surprise, it has long been known among the initiated that such a move was contemplated. The Chicago company and the Pacific States Telephone and Tele- graph Company, together with most of the other telephone companies in the United States, are controlled by the American Bell Telephone Company, which owns a majority of their stock. Being, therefore, connected with the Bell Com- pany when he worked to develop the busi- ness on this coast, the officers of the pa- rent corporaticn long. ago marked Mr. Sabin for promotion. The Real Significance. Attorney E. S. Pillsbury, who has been intimately acquainted with the business of the telephone companies, said last even- ing that some years ago Mr. Sabin was talked of in connection with the presi- dency of the American Bell Telephone Company of Bocton. John E. Hudson, who was then the president of the Bosten cor- poration, thought very highly of Mr. Sa- bin. It was also proposed at one time that Mr. Sabin should be made the exécutive head of the telephone business in New York. ‘““All the significance there is to the move,” said Mr. Pillsbury, “is that it is desired to have in Chicago a system as good as possible. The fact is that San Francisco, with a population of 350,000, has in service 24,000 telephones, while Chicago, with three times the population that S Francisco has, can show only 26,000 tele- phones in use i1 the city. There is no new: combination of companies in view, for the majority of the shares of stock are held by the Bell Company, which is, therefore, in present control of the properties. It president. } E | | | HEAD OF THE SAN FRANCISCO TELEPHONE COMPANY, WHO HAS ACCEPTED THE PRESIDENCY OF THE CHICAGO CORPORATION IN SAME BUSINESS AT A LARGE SALARY. —f may be that small companies will be amalgamated at Chicago as the companies on the Pacific Coast were when the Pa- cific States Telephone and Telegraph Company was formed, in which move Mr. Sabin was a leading figure. He will re- main the president of the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph Company, at least for a time. It is probabie that Louis Glass will be appointed first vice president and general manager of the Pacifie.States Company.” Mr. Sabin’s Career. John I. Sabin has worked hard from the beginning. He was first known for abil- ity during the Civil War, when he served in the field under General Thomas T. Eckert, since presilent of the Western Union Telegraph Company. After the war he came to California In connection with the business of the Western Union Tel- egraph Company. He was identified with ° the local telephone business soon after it came into existence and served under George S. Ladd, whom he succeeded as He is in the East now, where . he went to talk over business with the principal men in the great Bell concern. In Chicago Mr. Sabin will have a larger field than he has had on the Pacific Coast for the increase of business. He has made some telephone inventions since he be- came connected with the business, ome of which is an appliance on a switch board. The graded rate system for pay- ing for telephones Is attributed to him. In the East there is a flat rate, which will probably be succeeded by the Pacific Coast system. Louis Glass has recelved a dispatch from Mr. Sabin in which It Is announced that he has been offcred ‘“central,” whici is understood by Glass to mean the presidency of a combination of several of the large Eastern telephone companies. In this dispatch the information was brought that the salary will be $40,000 per annum. The majority of the telephone pecple of this city were surprised at the news for they had nc advance intimation and there had been no news of any pre- liminary negotiations. B e i sl ] streams, continued high winds and heavy precipitation of rain and snow were the | conditions to-day in many of the States of the South. Little damage was done by the winds, though it is feared that in some localities .young crops have been stunted or Kkilled by the frost or cold. At | many points, particularly in Eastern Ken- tucky, Eastern Tennessee and Virginia, the temperature was lower than known In a decade at this time of year. Revorts were recelved by the local Weather Bu- reau to-day from fifteen - cities or towns in Kentucky and in most of them | the minimum temperature for last night ranged between 30 and 34 degrees. The maximum for the entire State was 38 de- | grees—at Erlington, in Western Kentucky. The coolest section was in the Blue Grass district in and around Lexington. This is the best fruit-growing part of the State and here, It is feared, there was damage by frost to not only fruit but to vege- tables and tobaecco crops. In the mountains of Kentucky thesnow- & fall was unbroken and this afternoon fourteen inches were reported at Liondon and Middlesboro. are bank-full and general preparations are All the streams there | | all places heard from in the Upper Ohio | being made to vacate the homes in the valleys before the thaws and expected floods come: fering among the poor mountaineers. Around Louisville there has been no dam- | age of consequence. Frost s again pre- dicted for to-night. Reports from Bristol, Va., this after- noon were that a danggrous flood was rag- ing about eighty miles east of that piace. | A 40-foot bridge on the Norfolk and West- ern Railroad was washed away near Wyetheville, Va., and for eight or ten miles the track is from two to six feet under water. ported and several trains were annulled. At last reports snow was still falling at Bristol. The Big Sandy, Twelve Pole, Guyan- dotte, Tug and Mew rivers are at flocd and many tons of piles have been swept to the Dawson correspondent of the Skaguay Alaskan. Reed, who is en route to Washington, D. C., on"official business connected with the troubles of Judge Noyes and the Washington Government, is the au- thority for the following dispatch, which was wired to the coast paper under a Dawson date of April 13: “The town was startled when Reed announced that just before he left Nome 200 miners were frozen to death there during one of the storms for which that camp is noted. The mercury dropped to, 50 degrees below and a wind such as a white man never before encoun- tered blew for weeks. The dogs which were left outside over night perished, and carcasses of frozen animals were strewn all oyer the town. The newcomers, living in single-board and tar-paper poorly put together by inexperienced hands, suffered untold agony lives were saved. There has been much’ suf- | away. In West Virginia over a foot of smow has fallen in the last thirtv-six hours. Similar reports come from nearly Valley. Near Blacksburg, S. C., a town on the South ‘Carolina and. Georgia Extension | Railroad, the track was undermined by Many washouts were re- | | | the high water and to-day a combination freight and passenger train ran into the washout. One trainman was badly hurt and the other is missing. The water in all the streams about Blacksburg Iis higher than has been known. in tweaty years. . Throughout the entire Southeast the tcl- egraph and telephone services are in & badly crippled condition. At Atlanta, where high winds have been prevailing for days, the maximum was reached this morning, when the velocity recorded was fifty-six miles an hour. The mercuty has fallen nearly forty degrees Continued on Page Fourteen. from the cold, and it was with the greatest difficulty that hundreds of Medical skill was called on many times and the hos- -pitals were full of people who were frozen on scme part of the body. The capacity of the St. Bernard Hcspital was taxed to its utmost, and too much credit cannot be given to Mr. Elliott, who is in charge, for his care of the sufferers. the coast. been identified. they were found.” nties, “On the occasion of the storm in question a blizzard was blowing, and when it abated the bodies of 200 miners were found lying all along Some of the unfortunates had gone to Port Clarence to stake properties, and those whose bodies were found near St. Michael had gome there to secure supplies. Of the 200 dead, only a part have Most of the bodies were interred near the spot where