The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 20, 1901, Page 1

VOLUME XC—N E). 20. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1901. PRICE FIVE' CENTS. OAKLAND WELCOMES HOUSE COMMITTEE ON RIVERS SEES CRIME IND DEADS AN ASSHSS ‘WomanatLookoutGives Some Startling Tes- timony. Declares That She Followed the Mob of Modoc Lynchers. Bemains Awake for Nights, Revol- wver in Hand, to Prevent At- tempt at Murder. ALTURAS excited the last night when 2 Perry Summers of I testimony amaging before regard- ing the Lookout Mrs. Sumn this morning that es v given before the 8 Jury vesterday would compel her ve Lookout in order to save her life. ame known that she had of the lynch- ts of the mob, the 1y essed the whole h erted e nigl hers to s statements are she has sat up the lynching, for fear she would 1 probably adjourn esses have been ex- It is thought less than e home ments will be found. Nothing EDINBURGH STUDENTS STAND BY CARNEGIE Express Their Sentiments During a Debate on the Millionaire’e Plans. The first express univer: “arnegie’s plans i was given to- Tniversity de- result of the offered to the t ed pprec e w pro- ng " ¢ ds of deal- | the bar. Gaibee had slyly pulled his sf z W IS en racterizing | shooter and held it behind the sombrem,! st the hi; Hprns thought Gaibee was after him and pulling his gun opened fire. Galbee was pr g shot several times, but lying on the floor DENMARK MUST SELL OR FORTIFY ISLANDS Demand Contained a Note Sent by the United States Govern in ent. Copenhagen 1 cables his States has in the ma West I regarded seriously here, ot dream of ndertaking nd the would fortifications e of garrisons, which al millions TEXANS RUNNING DOWN THE SLAYERS OF GLOVER Killing of Another Mexican Who Resisted Arrest Is Reported From Benavides. GONZALES, Tex., June 20.—A dispatch has been received from Deputy United e officers is close on the This is probably report that a posse of £ of rio Cottez. of confir vesterday’s the neighborhood of Alice, San wgers had killed a Mex- s, who resisted arrest. e of the opinion that the be to one of the gangs killing Sherift Glover. Fails for Four Millions. ~Among the dis- the United at of William nd formerly a member . with lia- of $25 cash. unsecured ¢ or was the z, Cal., for $332,000 for jcan near V Officers here E. Coffin, broker of the firm of Cof lities of $4,150,907 d to say at the | e of her knowledge of | .| ing the saloon Gaibee at once recognized i | near Fresno, Cal., Burns was sent on the s Mar: Wiltiam Hansen, stating | work was required because he did not ome of the slayers of Sheriff Glover | know fear. On the border he engaged in been captured and one killed, and | many shooting scrapes with rustlers and d officers continue to scour the nd Benavides in search of the|the cowboy. He was known all over Ari- s suspected of murder. Late last | zona, and his fate is regarded as the in- hal Noland received infor- |evitable result of the life he led. At Will- DANGE. UPON - GOFFIN OF A bUN FIGHTER Cowboys Have a Revel| Over Death of Tom | Burns. ‘ |“Bad Man” of Arizona Is| Killed After a Long | Quarrel. | One of the Men Who Hunted Evans | and Sontag Dies With | Boots On. [ Special Dispatch to The Call. TUCSON, Ariz., June 19.—In the San; Pedro country yesterday Tom Burns, | notorious throughout Arizona and South- | | ern California as a gun fighter, was killed | | by a cowboy namea Wallace at Tom Wil- | ranch. Burns had been punching | cows for Willis and could not get along with Wallace. Burns on several occa- | sions had jumped off his horse to fight: { Wallace and threatened his life. Yesterday Wallace and Burns were dis- | charged because they were quarreling all the time. Burns went to the éorral and saddled his horse. Riding up to the house | he swung out of the saddle and said he | was going to kill Wallace before he went | farther. Wallace, who was in the house, he: the threat and securing his six- | shooter opened fire on Burns as the latter entered the door. The first bullet killed the gun fighter. | Burns was unpopular with the cowboys | in the San Pedro country. He was feared | because it was known that he was a crack | | shot and fearless. He had engaged in a number of shooting scrapes in which he always came out without a scratch. | Filed upon his six-shooter were thirteen | | notches, which meant that that many | men had been killed by him. | Buried With His Boots On. The body as seen by the Coroner.and an inquest was held. ~Wallace was-axon~ | erated and Burns' body was given over to the cowboys employed at the Willis | | ranch for burial. On the way to the spot | selected for interment the cowboys jumped upon the box coffin and danced, shouting, | “We'll dance him into hell.” buried as he died, with his | Burns was { boots on. To be buried in boots is re- garded as a worse fate than death ftself by cow-punchers. The punchers kicked | | their s into the side of the coffin as | they rode on the top of the bcx to the | grave, showing the disrespect which they held for Burns. A few ars ago Burns engaged in a heoting scrape with a Mexican desper- ado known as Galbee at Mammoth. Burns was behind the bar In a saloon, | the bartender having urged him to take | the place, as Gaibee was in camp and | | there was stire to be trouble. Upon enter- | | Burns and, pulling off his sombrero, held | | it in close to his body and walked toward of the saloon cleaned out the place. He | recovered and the cowboys believed that | Burne had taken an unfair advantage of | Gaibee, which turned them against him. | Chased Evans and Sonntag. | Burns for years was employed as a shot- | gun ssenger for Wells-Fargo and did | a great deal of detective work among the | desperadoes of the Southwest. He was regarded as a fearless man and would | tackle the hardest characters in the coun- | try. Seven years ago, when the Southern | Pacific express was held up and robbed trail of the robbers with a posse. It was | through his efforts that the robbers were | captured. Burns was one of the men who | shot Sontag, one of the robbers. Evans, | the partner of Sontag, is serving his sen- | tence at Folsom. | When the reward money was divided there was shooting between Burns and a man named Wittey. Both men fired, but neither was hit, and the fight created some sensation at the time, Returning to Arizona Burns was en- gaged in running down cattle rustlers. He fcllowed a horse thief from Florence, in Arizona, to New Mexico and killed him, bringing back the horse to its owner. He engaged whenever any desperate was smugglers, the last one having occurred but two years ago. During the past year Burns had been punching cows in Tonto | Basin and the San Pedro country. He was about 40 years old and a good type of cox Burt Alvord, who is now a fugitive from justice, attempted to kill Burns, who was then securing evidence against the gang which held up the Southern Pa- cific at Cochise over a vear ago. Alvord was a member of the hold-up gang, al- though at the time he was serving as a copstable at Willcox. Powers to Meet in Conference. | BERNE, June 19.—The President, M. Brenner, announced to-day at a meeting of the Bundesrath that most of the signa- tories, including the United States, had accepted an invitation to a conference of |'the revision of the Geneva convention. | He hoped the delegates would meet in 1902, | [#- AND HARBORS AND POINTS OUT NEEDS OF WATERWAYS GUESTS SAIL ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO BAY AND LUNCH WITH THEIR HOSTS AT'THE GOLF CLUB'S HOUSE | 5 e . ; Status of Improvements Required Fully i Defined for the Benefit of the Public That e P Has Large Interest in Coast’s Commerce g on‘dl"l.f.rm/ | HE status of the Oakland har- tidal basin and thence 300 feet wide and 13 feet Representatives of Three Cities Help Visitors to the Information Sought for Future Service in Legislation at Washington AKLAND received the visiting members of the House Commit- tee on Rivers and Harbors yes- terday, entertained them hand- somely and exhibited to them the harbor of Oakland and the beauties of the Athens of the Pacific Coast. From all points of view, the Oakland day of the Congressmen's itinerary proved to be a success. The net result was' that the Rivers and Harbors Committee be- came personally conversant with the con- ditions across the bay relating to com- merce and shipping. The Oakland people were pleased at the opportunity to extend to their distinguished visitors open-hand- ed hospitality and to have their needs thoroughly explained and comprehended. The entire proceeding was creditably businesslike, even to the return to this city, which was sharp on schedule time. Ia addition to the tour of the Oakland waterways by steamer and an inspeetion of the San Leandro Bay end of the tidal canal to connect Brooklyn Basin with San Leandro Bay, the Committee on Rivers and Harbors had a ride through Oakland and Alameda in carriages and a luncheon at the Golf Club house at Adams Point. Chairman Burton made a speech after the luucheon that vastly pleased the Oakland people present and they rewarded him with their cheers. Congressman Burton said that the wel- come the committee had received was am- ple reward for coming thousands of miles acrosy deserts and to desert after desert. The members of the committee and the ladies accompanying them were pleased to meet and to become acquainted with the people. He spoke of what nature has done for California and also of the pro- gressive and enterprizing spirit of citizens engaged in commerce and transportation. He congratulated the people upon their magnificent geographical location. Cali- fornians had been particularly energetic as purveyors of the world’s wants, he said. Representatives of seventeen States included in the committee extended greet- ings and congratulations. The hope was voiced that California might stand in the fcrefront of progress. “We shall give to every recommenda- tlon,” sald Congressman Burton, “our careful consideration.” Y LARGE COMPANY AT . GOLF CLUBHOUSE There was no attempt at formal speech making. Mayor Barstow, who presented Cengressman Burton to the company at the request of Chairman James P. Taylor of the joint Oakland committee, expressed pleasure at the presence of the visitors. L3 L INCIDENTS DURING INSPEC- TION OF OAKLAND AND ITS WATERWAYS. 3 ES A large assemblage was present at the lvrcheon. Inaddition to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors there were pres- er Mrs. Reeves, Mrs. Acheson, Mrs. Morris, Mrs. Alexander, Mrs.” Tongue, Mrs. Reames, Mrs. Davidson, Mrs. McCulloch, Mrs. Ball, Miss Anne Richardson, Stenographer Hencke and Arthur Criste; Senator Perkins, Congressmen Metcalf, Woods and Coombs; the committee of ladies who received the guests at the club- house, conbisting of Mrs. Victor Metcalf, Mrs. Edson F. Adams, Mrs. H. C. Taft, Mrs. T. L. Barker and Miss Viva Nicholson; Chairman ‘Willlam M. Bunker of the San Francisco ¢om- merelal committee on reception; Secretary Scott and H. H. Krusl of the San Francisco Cham- ber of Commerce, and the Oakland and Ala- meda committees. Following are the committees: Alameda Trustees—E. J. Holt, George Plum- mer, C. A. Hooper. Alameda Board of Trade—F. N. Charles Magagnos, A. Rosenthal.: Oakland—Supervisor John Mitchell, I. L. Re- qua, Louis Schaffer, Craigie Sharp, F. S. Strat- Continued on Page T?ru. Delanoy, bor improvements f{s, possibly, less generally understood than ought to be the case. For gen- eral information The Call pub- lishes a resume. In 1900 Colonel Heuer of the United States Army Engineer Corps made a sur- vey and examination of Oakland harbor and submitted three plans of improvent, which are summarized as follows: First—Main channel 500 feet wide, 20 feet deep at low tide from Bay of San Francisco to Fal- lon street, thence 300 feet wide, 17 feet deep, to tidal basin (Brooklyn Basin), thence 300 feet wide 13 feet deep up and around basin. Esti- mated cost $646,203. Second—For channel 500 féet wide and«2 feet deep, from bay to Fallon street, thence 30 feet wide and 25 feet deep up to and around the ba- sin. Estimated cost $1,657,818, Third—For a channel 560 feet wide and 25 feet deep from San Francisco bay to Chestnut street, thence 300 feet wide and 25 feet deep to Fal- lon street, thence 300 feet wide and 17 feet deep to tidal basin (Brooklyn Basin), thence 300 feet wide and 12 feet deep up and around basin. Es- timated cost §963,203. Each of these items includes §55,900 for exten- slon of south jetty, 550 feet westward. After deliberation Senator Perkins and Congressman Metcalf agreed that the thir@l plan was more likely to be favorably reported by the Rivers and Harbors Com- mittee to Congress for action. The bill that failed to pass contained the following provisions, which were embodied in an amendment submitted by Senator Per- kins: A channel 500 feet wide and 25 feet deep from San Francisco bay to Chestnut street, thence 300 feet wide and 25 feet deep to Fallon street, thence 300 feet wide and 17 feet deep to the deep around the tidal basin. The cost was to be $363,203. Senator Perkins and Congressman Met- calf have decided to renew their work at the coming session of Congress in favor of plan No. 3, as described in the fore- going resume. The Oakland Board of Trade has issued a statement concerning the matter, which is as follows: The appropriation which our Semator and Congressman succeeded In getting into the river and harbor bill, after & very hard fight, was the third estimate of Colonel Heuer, 968,203, providing for 500 feet wide and 25 feet deep to Chestnuf street, thence 300 feet wide and 25 feet deep to Fallon street, thence 200 feet wide and 17 feet deep to Brooklyn Basin, thence 300 feet wide and 12 feet deep up to and around the basin. Owing to the failure of the passags of the entire river and harbor bill this appropriation fell to the ground. But it is the belief of our Senator and Congressman that they can secure similar recoghition in the mext river and har- Tor bill, but that it would be very injudicious to attempt to change the ptan of work to which consent has practically already been obtained with great difficulty The Board of Trade, while recognizing the @esirability of having further improvements in depth ‘and width of channel and petitioning therefor, also recognizes the difficulty and un- certainty that always attend the Eetting of ap- propriations and concludes that it is the wise course to accept the appropriation as proposed in the bill and heretofore agreed to by the river and harbor committee, as in the main it meets the pressing immediate requirements, and think it wise to leave the securing of bet- terments to future efforts rather than attempt to secure at this time amendment to the Bill already proposed which would increase the ape propriation, which 1s already large. thus tme periling possibly the entire avoropriation.