The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 27, 1901, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AFRilL 27, 1901. FAMINE SPREADS OVER PROVINCE OF SHANSI AND MILLIONS AFFECTED Li Hung Chang Sends an Appeal to Aid the Hordes of Starving Chinese, While Boxers Prepare to Renew the War Against the Christians, and Raid Many Villages —The follow- eived by Tec g over the Over 11,000,000 relief nec i Mark of looting in China. s returned from China re- onary awaited w terest. Boxers Raid Villages. LONDON —The Reuter Tele- as received the follow- n Peking, dated yester- stimated at 1000 3oxers 0 ma re the , many of whom for refuge. since the town was of troops by the ex- 11, is n want- nrest s of the pop- rs believe that the y only waiting e foreign troops to of extermination ted active in ; s the worst c . They prefer and they are red desperate r homes, by hav- y the of without interference. Continues to Gro w. The state it was three grow eficient se to deal s to grow this _mi to the Chi; . 18 of undertaking returns to Pe react Ty, btful t is drowning his rescue Iy help. It is the Many a time the z hose condition is ? you'd begun in time you have be cured. < especially true when the dis- 1 Delay is danger- > timely use of Dr. Pierce’s edical Discovery will result in cure of deep-seated coughs, is, and weak lungs. Even when ges have been frequent and “Golden Medical Discovery” 1sed time and again with the perfect and permanent cure. suley, of Leechburg, Armstrong 1 eighty-one hemorrhages, r medical aid had failed y cured by the use of 1 Discovery,” substitute for *Golden Med- » There is no other med- good for *weak ” lungs. when 1 comeenced of €, = son C®, Ind. rt, and lung troubles. Was ork. 1had a severe cough e of the lungs, but after using while I tommenced to gain in d stopped coughing right bout six bottles of the ‘Golden very then, and last spring I had d on my lungs, leaving me I had the doctor, but he p me any; so I commenced gain and took three or four Discovery® and two vials of Dr. and that straightened me up. rent person. I gladly recom- e 1o all sufferers, for I know he Dr. Adviser, paper covers, is sent free on re- ceipt of 21 one-cent stamps to pay ex- ierce’s Common Sense Medical ense of mauiling only. Address Dr. R. . Pierce. Buffalo, N. Y. fles south of Pao- | e villages with- | among | | se : PRINCIPALS IN A CONTRO- VERSY THAT INTERESTS CHINA MISSIONARIES. <+ dencies, and it is not altogether approved v the foreigners here. EMPRESS A.PPBINTS BOARD. Would Shift Responsibility but Stiil Retain Control. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W. WASHINGTON, April 26—In order to escape responsibility the Empress Dow- ager of China has appointed a Board of ational Administration, which will here- after pass upon internal and foreign mat- ters affecting the empire. While this ac- tion is considered significant, at the same time it is apparent that the Empress Dowager will remain 1 supreme control. Mr. Squires, Charge d'Affairs in Peking, who cabled news of the oppointment of the board, stated that its composition in- | cluded three members of the cabinet now | with the Empress t Siangfu, and Prince Ching, 11 Hung Chang and Prince Kung, @ e DESCENDANT TO HAVE RELICS OF WASHINGTON President McKinley Directs That Cherished Heirlooms Be Restored to Marie Custis Lee. WASHINGTON, April 26.—Senator John W. Daniel of Virginia several days ago addressed a letter to President McKinley, indorsing the application of General George Washington Custis Lee, submitted by him in behalf of Miss Marle Custis Lee, his sister, for restoration of the relics of Gerieral George Washington, of which he (General Lee) became owner upon the death of his mother, who was the wife of General Robert E. Lee. President McKinley has written Senator Daniel a letter setting forth that the s were turned over to General Me- Dowell, then in command there, by a servant of the Lee family. The general them to the Patent Office for safe- keeping, whence they were transferred to their present place of deposit, the Smith- sonian Institution. Says the President: “All the Government did was to accept the trust of their custody at a time when the owner could not protect them and they were consequently exposed to the risk of destruction. The need for such protection having ceased, and the trust voluntarily assumed having been dis charged, it will afford me great satisfa tion to give direction for the restoration sent head of a historic family of rished heirlooms of the Father of his Countr: e CHARGES CONSPIRACY IN MAYORALTY ELECTION Former Candidate Meriwether of St. Louis Gives Notice of a Forth- coming Contest. ST. LOUIS, April 26.—Notice of contest was served to-day on Mayor Rolla Wells by Lee Meriwether, the Municipal Own- ership party’s candidate for that office. In the notice of contest Meriwether as- serts that he 1ecelved a majority of the votes cast for Mayor on April 2, and that from 2 to 150 ballots cast for him in each precinct were counted for Wells. He further charges that there was no legal election, that 15000 names were fraudu- lently placed upon the registration books and voted by the judges and clerks and hired repeaters, and tnat a conspiracy to steal the election existed between the Democratic managers, the police and the Jefferson Club. — sed Murderer Arrested. NEW WHATCOM, Wash., April 26.—A man supposed to be J. E. Gallagher, who is wanted on a charge of murdering Jos- eph E. McMahon in Taunton, Mass., No- vember 23, 1899, and for whom there is 3500 reward, has been arrested here. | Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese Minister, has ac g . One of the cabinet at Siangfu is Jung Lu, leader in the re- volt against foreigners last summer, and is rather lukewarm in his forelgn tenden- cles, and the third perannuated and is besides an obium eater. At the same time they are likely to use their influence against any progressive recommendations that may be made by the Chinese repre- ng. Before final action Dowager must nec- e oval so that she is in a position to avoid responsibility by placing it unon one of the members of the board and of punishing him if the foreign Governments insist upon it. The British embassy has been informed that Sir Robert Hart has cabled to Lon- don that in his opinion China can pay an indemnity of $200.000,000. Germany is the | only power which is insisting upon full payment of her claim and her attitude is preventing the adoption of the American suggestion that the claims be scaled to the estimate made by Sir Robert Hart. received a dispatch from Li Hung Chang suggesting that the powers permit China to pay the indemnity in installments rather than immediately. This would en- able China to deal directly with each of the powers instead of negotiating a loan with interest at 5 per cent. This sug- gestion is not acceptable to the officials. who_ believe that some of the powers would desire to occupy territory until the | last cent of the indemnity had been paid. WOULD SEIZE THE COURT. Plan of French Officers to End Hos- tilities in China. PARIS, April 26.—The Gaulois affirms that General Bailloud and Colonel Mar- chand, some time ago contemplated an attempt to seize the Chinese Empress and court. General Bailloud apprcached Col- onel Marchand and asked him if he would undertake a certain enterprise which would very probably hasten the end of | hostilitie: The colonel - replied that he | was willing and General Balilloud and Colonel Marchand drew up a plan, the | execution of which was venturesome but feasible. The diplomats, however, op- | posed the scheme and it fell through. FOR COMMERCIAL AGREEMENTS England Would Decrease Pecuniary Demands on China. LONDON, April 26.—Great Britain is not relaxing her efforts to induce the powers to decrease their pecuniary de- mands on China and substitute for a por- tion of their claims commercial agree- ments. The latest advices from the Brit- ish Minister at Peking do not indicate any degree of success so far, owing, it is sad, to opposition on the part of Ger- many, which continues to insist on the payment in full of the large indemnity she claims. - Rockhill, the American Spe- clal Commissioner at Peking, and Sir Ernest Satow, British Minister at Peking, are sad to be working on identical lines. DOUGHTY CASSIUS CLAY STILL HOLDS FORT Aged Kentuckian Drives Away Offi- cers Who Try to Serve Papers on Him. WHITEHALL, Ky., April 2%.—Aged General Cassius M. Clay to-day drove the officers from his house who were trying to serve on him notice of an attachment suit filed by his daughter, Mrs. Mary B. Clay. Mrs. Clay to-day attached $1500 belonging to her father, an action forced by his refusal to surrender her furn which he is holding in his house, - C" The Sheriff's officers who tried to serve the papers were refused admission to Whjtehall and had to shove them under the door. - Should General Clay decide to appear in court and figh: would cause a sensatlon.g At —_—— BLOODHOUNDS SEARCH FOR MISSING TEACHER Colorado Woman Mysteriously Dis- appears and Arkansas River Is Being Dragged for Her Body. PUEBLO, Colo., April 26.—A local sen- sation is caused by the mysterious disap- pearance of Mrs. Mertje Buerger, who for twelve vears has been a teacher in the Pueblo schools. Bloodhounds followed a trail from Mrs. Buerger's house to and under a bridge over Fountain Creek, a shallow stream. The Arkansas River some® distance ~further on, has been dragged without result up to this time. STRIVING TO RESCUE FIVE ENTOMBED MEN SPRINGFIELD, Mo., April 2.—The Rosebud mine at Aurora caved in to-day and burfed five men at a depth of 119 feet and seventy feet from the mai Their names are Grant and Elmer Bt Willlam Shane, John Gilland and Andrew Fuster. At 7 o'clock to-night the men were_alive. The sound of their tapping on the steel ground ralls gave thelr friends that assurance. Several hunared men, working in relayss are striving to rescue the entombed men, but it will take at least three days to reach them. —— e LATE SHIFPPING INTELLIGENCE. OCEAN STEAMERS. ~NAPLES—Arrived April 26—Stmr Hol 4 lern, from New . York, via Gibraitesssog Genoa, and proceeded. CHERBOURG—Sailed April 2%—Stmr Fuerst Bismarck, from Hamburg and Southampton. for New York. % ‘QUEENSTOWN — Arrived April 26 — Stmr Campapia, from New_ York, for Liverpool; stmr Rhynland, from Philadelphia, for Liver- Dool, and_both’ proceeded. EW YORK—Safled April 2%—Stmrs No- N ‘madic, for Liverpool; stmr Scotla, for Genoa. | HORROR MARKS BANDIT'S DEATH Gallows Rope Severs Black Jack’s Head From Body. Notorious Outlaw Meets a Frightful End in Clayton Jail. e CLAYTON, N. M., April 26.—Thomas E. Ketchum, alias “Black Jack,” the notori- ous outlaw, who had terrorized the people of the Southwest for the past fifteen years, was hanged here this afternoon for the last of his many crimes and his head | was severed from the body by the rope as if by a guillotine. The headless trunk pitched forward toward the spectators and blood spurted upon those nearest the scaf- told. ‘When Ketchum mounted the platform at 1:17 his face was very pale, but his eyes swept out over the crowd coldly and bold- | ly, as if he had no fear. A priest stood at ! his side as the rope was put around his neck. The condemned man had consented to this at the last moment. Ketchum declined to make a speech be- | fore the noose was put arou his neck. | He merely muttered “Good-by,” then said: “Please dig my grave very deep,” und finally, “All right; hurry up.” His legs trembled but he kent his nerve. When the body dropped through the | trap the half-inch rope severed the head ! as cleanly as if a knife had cut it. The | head remained in the black sack and dropped into the pit. Terrible Scene at Scaffold. Some men groaned and others turned away, unable to endure the sight. For a | few seconds the body was allowed to lle half doubled up on its right side, with the blood issuing in an_intermittent stream from the severed neck as if the heart kept on with its mechanical beatinz. Then, with cries of consternation, the officers rushed down from the scaffold and lifted | the body from the ground. | The drop of the body was seven feot, | and the noose was made so that it slipoed | easily. Ketchum was a heavy man and the weight of the body, with the easy run- | ning noose, caused the rove to cut the head off. Dr. Slack pronounced life ex- tinct in a little over five minutes from the time the body dropped through the trap. It is stated that too much of a| drop was given for so heavy a man. Sher- iff Salome Garcia superintended the exe- cution and himself let the trap drop. Ketchum spent the greater portion of the morning in reviewing his past life. Ile displayed perfect control, frequently re- ferring to his momentarily expected death | in a jocular manner. He cursed the rail- | road and express companies and their offi- cers who were instrumental in his con- | viction and the people of New Mexico In | general and their laws. He acknowledged that he planned and led a gang in many robberies accredited to him, including the | robbery of the Southern Pacific at Steens | Pass in 1897, and that on the Colorado and Southern near Folsom in July, 1898. He sald he knew who killed young Herstein | at Liberty, Texas, in 189, but would give | no names, claiming the guilty parties were | alive. He also said that he knew who killed A. B. Powers in Tom Green County, Texas, in 1895, and that Bud Upshaw, who is accused, had no knowledge of = that crime. Ketchum declared he was not the orig- inal “Black Jack' and said that outlaw was still alive and enjoying his liberty. The Other “Black Jack.” “There are dozens of men in Souther: Arizona,” said Ketchum, who will swear | that I and ‘Black Jack’ are two different | persons. But he was the cause of my be- coming an‘outlaw. Lee Dow, the officer, saw ‘Black Jack’ at the Deer Creek tank | affair and in 1888 he told me that if I was ever tried for ‘Black Jack's' crimes I would never get free, for I looked too much like him. I thought if I was gomng | to be hanged for another man's crimes I | might as well have some of my own. The real ‘Black Jack’ got the name because | he was very dark and on the Erie roundup | in Arizona there were two Jacks. They called him ‘Black Jack’ to know him! from the other. He held up the Nogales | bank and was in the Wachuca siding af- fair, when the soldlers’ monev was taken.” Ketchum said -that Frank Herrington, the conductor who shot him. causing him to lose his right arm: L. C. Fort, the ‘Wells-Fargo. attorney, and W. H. Reno, ‘the Colorado and Southern Railroad de- tective, who effected his capture, will be killed within a vear. “I smuggled a letter out of the prison at Santa Fe,” he said, “‘and those three are marked men.” Ketchum was the most noted desperado of the Southwest. Although he was credit- ed with having taken the lives of some of | his fellow-beings yet he finally pair the forfeit with his own life for an at- tempted train robbery in which nobody was killed. Fight on the Railroad. This erime was committed near Folsom, . M., on August 16, 1899. Single-handed “Black Jack” held 'up a Colorado aud Southern passenger train. He ordered the | engineer and fireman to uncounle the en- | gine and leave the train. The conductor | and mail agent opened fire on him, which he promtly returned. He received the con- tents of a double-barreled shotgun in his right arm, but, quickly changing the rifle to his left shoulder, succeeded in wound- ing both conductor and mail agent. He then escaped in the darkness, but was captured the next day. He was tried for assault uoon_a United States mail agent and sentenced to ten years in the peniten- tiary. Then in September, 1300, he was tried on the more serious charge of as- sault upon a railroad train with intent to commit a felony. He was also convicted on this charge and was sentenced to be hanged in November last. The execution was stayed until March by an appeal to the Territorial Supreme Court, which af- firmed the finding of the lower court. In Mareh a reprieve was . granted until April 2. R R For Murder of Sweetheart. CLINTON, Ky., April 26.—Thomas Cole was hanged here to-day for the murder of Emma C. Rice, his sweetheart, with whom he had quarreled. On the scaffold Cole expressed sorrow for the crime. Toribio Huerta Executed. LAS CRUCES, N. M., April 26.—Toriblo Huerta was hanged here to-day. He mur- dered and robbed a laborer whom he met on the road. MAY NOT RETURN TO PEKINC. Adminjstration Said to Desirs Con- ger’s Retirement. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, April 26.—Indirect comment on the Chinese situation by Min- ister E. H. Conger has strengthened the conviction of the administration that his return to Peking would be inadvisable. Conger has given expression to statements which should have been reserved, in the opinion of the authorities, for the ears of the President and Secretary of State. His interviews are believed here to have been due to his desire to bid for the aid of the voters of Iowa favorably inclined toward mission work in the far East. The Min- ister has been the champion of the ex- treme missionary view, demanding execu- tions and heavy indemnities on the theory that such demands would prevent a repe- tition of the outrages of last summer. It has been left to the administration Lo throw the weight. of its influence against indiscriminate slaughter and huge indem- nities, and its attitude has thus far re- suited in_preventing wan internal revolu- tion in China and increasing the danger of partition of the empire. N The administration hopes Conger will et the Governorship. It would surprise ew persons here to learn that a quiet hint has been given to Iowa Republicans that the President wpuld be glad if Con- ger could be thus removed from the diplo- matic corps. Crispi Endangered by Fire. LONDON, April 26.—Francisco Crispi, the distinguisned Italian statesman, has just had a narrow escape from serious in- jury. According to a dispatch from Rome, he upset a lamp in his study. The flames spread rapidly and tne servants rescued him only with the utmost difficulty. EDWIN H. CONGER SPEAKS FRANKLY ' REGARDING HIS LEAVE OF ABSENCE Departure From China Taken on His Own Motion---Not the Slightest Hint Conveyed by State Department That Such Leave Would Be Acceptable t o the Administration o+ DWIN H. CONGER, United States Minister to China, had anything but a restful day at the Occi- dental Hotel yesterday. During thé hours of the forenoon his rooms were not vacant for a minute. Callers were going and coming all the time. Early in the afternoon he started out to find a stenographer and later in the day settled down to consider the work ahead of him. He did not attempt «Before leaving the Orient I received a message asking me if 1 would accept the nomination for Governor. I replied in the affirmative. 1 consilered that Iowa had done everything for me and therefore could not decline to serve the State. sequently 1 received messages to t. effect: ‘We understand that you are a candidate for Governor. Is this true? I replied in the negative. I am not a can- didate.” Mr. Conger was asked if any peculiar political conditions existed in Iowa at this o R MR.COMGER GOES OVER - HIS MAaiL (i | [/ Vi aomn.n / AND THE UBIQUITOUS REPORTE UNITED STATES MINISTER E. H. CONGER RECEIVING CALLERS IN HIS ROOMS AT THE OCCIDENTAL HOTEL, AT THE SAME TIME ENDEAV- ORING TO ANSWER A FEW OF THE TELEGRAMS HE RECEIVED. €2 i s to answer two hundred or more letters and telegrams relating to his rumored candidacy for Governor of Iowa. Mr. Conger leaves San Francisco at § p. m. to-day for Council Bluffs. He goes via Denver and expccts to reach the Mis- souri River Wednesday.morni About the time Minister Conger arrives at Coun- cil Bluffs a special train from Des Moines, bearing many of his friends, will reach the same place. Evcrything has been ar- ranged so that the first demonstration of greeting on Iowa soil will take place in contest resulting in Gear left traces of bitterness. No Suggestion From Washington. Regarding his own leave of absence from China Minister Conger said that all the stories to the effect that suggestion of the leave emanated from the State De- partment were pure liction. “T avoplied for the leave on my own mo- tlon, with the expectation of returning to China and joining in the resumption of negotiations. No flag was held higher than ours in_China, and the story that President McKinley and the Secretary of State were disappointed is pure invention. If you say anything in The Call on this topic publish the fact that the President and Secretary of State sent the United States Minister a telegram of congratula- -+ e ~ , time. He reviewed recent -events con- and was told by the Secretary to pay no 3 nected with the appointment of Mr. Dol- heed to such statements. lver to succeed Tnite tates Senator DICTATING Gear. 'He remarked that the Sematorial No Truth in Rumor. LETTERS the choice of Mr. _“I know,” remarked Mr. Conger, “that stories are afloat stating that President McKinley is not wholly satisfied with my official conduct In China, and in order to relieve the situation of embarrassment to myself and the administration has hinted to Federal officeholders that my election to the office of Governor of Iowa was de- sirable. Nothing could be further from the truth. The President would never countenance such action. We are friends and served together in Con He knows me, and knows that if I suspected that his confidence in my judgment was in the slightest degree impaired I would instantly resign.” Reappointment of a Collector. WASHINGTON, April 2%.—The_ Presi- daylight. tion. I was advised that reports might dent to-day reappointed George R. Bid- “T ani not a candidate for Governor of be published that friction existed between well to be Collector of Customs for the Towa,’ said Mr. Ccnger last evening. the State Devartment and the legation, District of New York. = 2 = A Great Labor Leader Speaks. EDWARD CARROLL, Former President of the National Building Trades Council, Is Well Again. Left in a Wora-out and Exhausted Condition by the Grip, His Kidneys Became Seriously Affected, But He Was Completely Cured by That Wonderful Remedy, Warner’s Safe Cure. All Persons who are suffering from after efiects of the Grip, or whose kidueys are diseased in any way, should go to-day to the nearest druggist and get a bottle of Warner’s Safe Cure. Free Sample of Warner’s Safe Cure sent on application. . Rochester, N.Y. Warner’s Sare Cure Co., Gentlemen: Safe Cure certainly deserves a word of praise from me, because I have been benefited by it to an extent unlooked for when I began using it. The effects of the “Grip” left me in a wornout and exhausted condition, affecting my kidneys, but two bottles of your medicine made me feel so mmuch better that I decided to use the third, which practically completed a cure for me. EDWARD CARROLL, Ex-President National Building Address Sample Department, Warner’s Safe Cure Co.,, CHicaco, Feb. 26, 1g01. Rochester, New York. I feel that Warner’s Trades Council.