The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 8, 1901, Page 1

VOLUME XC—NO. 38. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, JULY 8, 1901. PRICE FIVE CENTS. WILLIONAIRES TROOP TRAIN T0 BE TRIED | CRASHES INTO FOR FRAUD TWD ENGINES Senator Clark and the Serious Railroad Wreck Daly Heirs Face at Black Butte Prosecutions. [ Summit. | A7 S T Government Will Fight for One Man Killed and Sev- Vast Tracts of Land eral of the Passengers in Montana. Injured. B = Six Suits Are Already Filed and | Frompt Action of a Conductor Pre- Other Actions Involving Mil- vents the Lozs of Many lions Will Follow. | Lives. - "he Call : Special Dispatch to The Call, HI 7. —Senator W.| SISSON, July 7.—A disastrous wreck, A New York, | causing one death and injury to several mi e esta of Marcus | persons, occurred at Black Butte Summit, | Daly s Company and | & sldetrack station eight miles north of e Bitter R X pment Comp: this place, at 6 o’clock this morning, when | the Shasta express on the way south | collided with a northbound troop train. On the latter was a battery of regular sol- diers returning to their Eastern stations after service in China and the Philippine Islands. | The southbound train had two engines cour s ght w bis | and was (pming up the hill at a good rate s 10 acres of | of speed. 'The engine in front was almost | — ts, includ- | completély demolished, as was also the g e named, | north-bound engine pulling the train- s the De-|load of soldiers. The baggage car overy of land a box car containing the ef- r alleged to|fects of the soldiers were thrown | m G ment land in | on top of one of the engines. The baggage and prop v of the soldiers was badly erests are not the | broken. Much of it consisted of valuable | On undred and two cent trouble. The collision was caused by ne which ded it of e timber the sidetrack at Black Butte Summit. When the conductor saw that the train t | was being drawn past this track he pulled | the bell rope. The speed was decreased s G nment has|and when the trains came together the | G gular one containing the soldiers was running | s in Mon | at the rate of about ten miles an hour. | saved a great many lives. The engineers and firemen of the south- bound tra tayed with their engines un- til just before the collision, when they | jumped and saved themselves from injury. | | Henry Wentz, the engineer of the north- | | bound train, was badly hurt and was his home in Dunsmuir. ed that | taken to 1} title and several | Three men whose names are unknown | - en arrested. | were riding on the blind baggage. One was | in Mon- | jnstantly killed, one has an arm and a leg broken, and the other escaped injury. A e rear Pullman of the Shasta wife of the proprietor of the tel at Ashland, Or., was badly Several other pas- woman e head about the articles gathered in China during the re- | the engi- | neer of the northbound train running past | This action of the conductor doubtless ! HE body of the late Professor Jo- seph Le Conte, whose sudden death in the Yosemite Valley on Saturday morning brought grief to thousands, arrived at Oakland vesterday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in charge of his daughter, Mrs. Davis, and Dr. E. R. Taylor, dean of the Hastings Law College, who were with the beloved teacher when the final summons called him from his sphere of usefulness. The rough pine box containing the re- mains_of the_great educator had been brought from the Yosemite Valley by stage and train, and as simple had been the life of Professor Le Conte, so«was the last journey from the mountains he loved to the bay shore, where for so many years he had lived and worked. There will be public funeral services in honor of the memory of the late pro- T hurt. | sengers were slightly owing to the | NOTED PHILANTHROPIST ANSWERS DEATH'S CALL Passing of the Original of Churehill’s | Mr. Brinsmade in St. Louis. ST. LOUIS, July 7.—James F. Yeatman, a well-known philanthropist, died to-day, ARREST | MURDER SUSPECT | t State’s Silent ess in 2 Colorado | Wit aged $4 years. When the Civil War broke | | out Mr. Yeatman endeavored to maintain | I of Thom. | Peace and labored earnestly to that end..| P brler His sympathies were with the Union, and | e Jast Friday | When the war could no longer be avoided | St ¥ dac be (he | he became one of the Commissioners sent | St from here to cxplain the local status of affairs to President Lincoln. \ o ik 'L In 1864°the Western Sanitary Commis- | s % marked wasx | $10n Was called into existence by General | murdeer when he fireq | Fremont, and Mr. Yeatman was appoint- | ; after | ©d president of the commission. The com- | mission established hospital steamers, sol- | r did not s’ homes and relief bureaus, and Mr. | featman’s work won him the highest | se from members of all parties. ‘ Although a slaveholder before the war, ‘ he devised the organization of the Freed- | Cu men’s Bureau, and made an official re- | : port to Washington in which he advised iy the leasing of abandoned cotton plant tions to the frcedmen. | g For many years he had not been active- Iy engaged in business, but was identified | . = the | With numerous charitable movements. Mr. | g st tman is believed to be the original of | X character Mr. Brinsmade in Win- ston Churchill's novel “The Crisls.”” ‘The rthropist and the novelist were great g ove friends = bl GASOLINE TANK EXPLODES | 3 s n ' | IN A COUNTRY HOUSE President of Milwaukes Drydock Company Is Killed and His Coachman Is Dying. is kn B - s JAPANESE FISHERMEN | PREPARE FOR A BATTLE| MILWAUKEE, July 7.—As the result of y .| the explosion of 2 gasoline tank in the + 1 th Shotguns They Will Begin| .. ¢ the country house of William Work and Officers Are Fear- ful of Trouble. | OUVER, B. C., July \éry strike at Stcvenson occur at daylight to-mor- | The Japanese to the num- | Fitzgerald, at Lake Nagawickd, late Sat- urday night Fitzgerald was so badly burned that he died at noon to-day. His coachman, Willlam Grunwald, is in a dy- ing conditi Fitzgerald was president of the Mil- waukee Drydock Company and managing director of the American Shipbuildihg Company. He was well known along the —The crisis decided to go out fishing will carry shotguns and with ammunitio fishermen’s union have 3% | .,o.¢ jakes, and among business men of nd will turn back the | nywankee he commanded a prominent ¢ them back to the| oo, f at ssible. The authori- | Fitzge followed by his coachman, oo -| was walking thirough a passageway lead- FOREST FIRE DESTROYS | ing to the cellar, trying to locate a leak MUCHE VALUABLE TIMBER |I" the #as plant. The coachman picked {up a lighted candle from a table and had ;..".,mx the cellar before hearing Fitzger- hensive of trouble. Is Spreading Rapidly and tens to Wipe Out a Colorado |ald’s shout for him to go back. ng Camp. ! 3 T R A TA, Colo., July 7.—A forest Denies Buboaic Plague Story. west of here has destroyed| RIO DE JANEIRS, July 7.—There is no s f dollars’ worth of | n for the rumor circulated in the b mining camp of i States that a bubonic plague scare ath of the fire and is in ir casesof the dis- mnge wiped o It is imp > Deen reported, but all were sible to g - definite news from there | brought from Oporto. The general sani- o-nigh X he fire 1 s dition of Rio de Janeiro is excel- kg an " rap Hall IN THE NIGHT STAGE BRINGS BODY OF LE CONTE FROM THE MOUNTAINS WHERE HE DIED Escorted by His Daughter and a Faithful Friend the Remains Are Conveyed to the Shores of the Bay, the Scene of His Work. — ofo— fessor. They will be held Thursday after- noon at 3 o'clock at the university. The obsequies’ will be held either at Hearst or rangements for the public services have been placed in charge of a committee of the university, composed of former Presi- dent Martin Kellogg, Professor Frederick Slate and Professor A. C. Lawson. These representatives of the university will have complete charge of all the details concerning the public demonstration to the memory of the revered dead. The se- lection of the officiating divine is left with the family of the deceased sclentist. Searching for the Son. The late day for the funeral has been selected in the hope that the son of the e professor, Joseph N. Le Conte, who s row on.a wedding tour at the head- waters of Kings River, in the high Sier- ras, may be reached. Thursday will be the carliest day that the young man can arrive at home in the event he can be found. Special couriers have been dis- patched from the Yosemite Valley to carry the news of his father's death to the young man. Every possible effort will be made to. locate him, £o that he may be in attendance at the funeral. The final arrangements for the serv- ices will be made during the next thirty- =ix hours. So far as the public funeral is concerned, the university committee will conclude the plans. The private service will be left entirely within the family’'s control. Harmon gymnasium. The ar- | No ceremony marked the arrival of the body of Professor Le Conte at Oakland. President Wheeler, Professor Clarence Cory and Julian Le Conte, a nephew of the dead man, awaited the arrival of the train at the depot at First and Broad- way. When the train arrived there were but four other persons on the platform of th, depot. The trainmen who removed the box from the baggage car handled their burden with reverence as they car- ried it to a waliting hearse. Professor Cory, who is an intimate friend of the L> Conte family, conducted Mrs. Davis to a carriage and escortea her to the resi- dence of her deceased father. She was almost in a state of collapse, due to the journey she had taken ‘in bringing her father’s body from the Yosemite Valley. Dr. Taylor, who had traveled with Mrs. Davis and the body of Professor Le Conte from the mountains to Oakland, went to the ferry and crossed the bay to San Francisco, proceeding directly to his home. Wheeler Half-Masts Flag.- President Wheeler and Julian Le Conte accompanied the body of Professor Le Conte to an undertaking parlor in Oak- land and then proceeded to their re- spective homes. The body remained at the parlors of the undertaker last night and will be taken to the family home to- day. In Berkeley yesterday the death of Pro- fessor Le Conte was discussed on all sides. There were but little outward | | | | | | | !of claims filed by | claims which submit estimates PRISONERS INTIL BOER AR EAS America.ns»Ca.ptured by British Will Not Be Released. London Declines to Comply | ‘With Request of This Goverment. f Holds That Foreigners Who Aided the Patriots Have Lost Their Nationality. e Special Dispatch to The Call, | CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, .\'.[ W., WASHINGTON, July 7.—Americans | fighting in the Boer armies who were | made prisoners by the British will have | Yo endure their captivity until the close | of the South African war. Great Britain | has declined to comply with the request | of this Government to release an Ameri- | can now confined on the island of Ceylon, | and this declination probably will prove a bar to further representations by the | State Department on behalf of Americans | | captured as belligerents in South Africa. | The test case was that of a naturalized | | American named Morgan, who claims a | residence in Virginia. | British High Commissioner in South Af- Sir Alfred Milner, rica, disapproves of the release of for- eigners who fought with the Boers, He has announced that a person who served as a belligefent with the Boer forces loses { his nationality and must be treated as an | enemy. This view is concurred in by the | legal officers of the State Department. The department is satisfied from the in- vestigation mage by American Consuls and British authorities that the reports that the British are ill-treating their pris- oners are without foundation. Tke only hardship that the Americans captureqd in | South Africa will have to undergo will be that of confinement until hostilities cease. | In order {o obtain a prompt settlement | Amcrican citizens for personal and property damages sustained | in South Africa as a result of the opera- tions of British troops the State Depart- ment has officiglly requested all claim- ants. to submit memorials setting forth the facts in cornection with their claims, which w 1l be transmitted through Embas- sador Choate to the British Claims Com- misslon, now sifting fh Londdn. The de- | partment is in receipt of complaints from | numerous persons claiming American na- tionality, but the records are not com- plete ‘and in mang es the citizenship | of the claimants is not established. The of the damage suffered amount to several hun- dred thousand dollars. The department | does not see how it will be possible to obtain a settiement of claims arising out | of damages following upon the acts of | the Boer Government, as that Government | ceases to exist. In the case of claims to bIAL DROWNG IN TORRENT AT YOGEMITE The Treacherous ‘Rapids ‘Whirl Frail Boat to Disaster. Young Man Strives in Vain to Save the Life of a Companion. — No Trace Can Be Found of the Body of the River Victim. —_— YOSEMITE, July 7.—The body of Miss Sadie Schaffer, one of the waitresses of the Sentinel Hotel, lies in the rapids of the Merced River, near El Capitan bridge. At about 2:30 o’clock this afternoon a party of three, consisting of Miss Schaf- fer. Miss Sadle Young and John Van Campen, left the Sentinel Hotel for a ride in Van Campen's boat. This is a frail craft and canvas-covered. When pitching it into the stream they were warned of the treacherdys waters of the Merced, but they jokingly bade their friends good-by. At about 4 o’clock they reached the com- of the raplds above the El Capitan bridge. There they landed, Miss Young going ashore. Mi Schaffer and Van Campen, however, concluded to con- tinue through the rapids. A short distance below that point Van Campen saw that they could not do this with safety and so pulled toward the shore, catching hold of a root. At this moment Miss Schaffer, in a spirit of fearlessness, took one of the oars and shoved the boat again into the stream, saying that they would shoot the rapids anyway, at the same time dropping the oar into the water. In a moment the boat became unmanageable and upset, throw- ing the young lady out on one side and Van Campen on the other. For a moment both held to the upturned boat. Then the boy caught the girl's hand and floated down with the current 100 or more feet. Then they struck a large bowlder and be- came separated, both going under the water. When Campen came to the face he could find no trace of the girl. Two men were on the riverside a short distance below, but they did not fee the giri’s body float by. Her hat was found about balf a mile below the scene of the accident. A large force of men dredged the river, but at dark they abandoned the search. It will be resumed again in the morning by Guardian Stevens and a force The young lady was an expert Her parents are dead. She has Oklahoma Territory. mencement of men. swimmer. a sister living COMBINATION FORMED TO HANDLE COAL OUTPUT | Pennsylvania Railroad and Vander- bilt and Morgan Interests Control Every Avenue of Transportation. PHILADELPHIA, July 7.—The North Sl S SEPH LE CONTE LIVED AND HOUSE "WHERE PROFESSOR JO- | | THE PLACE WHERE HE DIED. | £ signs of grief or mourning, for all felt | that Professor Le Conte would not have | desired a display of “trappings of woe¥ could he have been consulted. | At the home of President Wheeler the | American flag flew at half-mast, but on the campus the flag was not displayed. The widow of Professor Le Conte was informed vesterday morning of her loss and she bore the sad news with the forti- tude becoming the lifelong helpmate of a noble man. Miss Caroline Le Conte broke the news of her 'father’s death to her mother. Mrs. Le Conte has been in frail health for some time arf her relatives and friends feared to tell her of Professor Le Conte's death on Saturday. She was in- formed then that he was 111, but she real- ized that sadder news was to come later. ‘When Miss Le Conte told her mother yes- terday that Professor Le Conte was dead the widow bowed her head and silently murmured a prayer. The, bereaved wife and_the daughter_were left alone in their sorrow by the many loving friends gath- ered in the house. Mrs. Davis, daughter of Professor Le Conte, and Dr. Taylor rode beside the driver of the stage coach on the long drive from Camp Curry in the Yosemite to Raymond. The start was made at 3 p. m. The stage company had supplicd a special stage, and relays of horses were on hand at various points. Instruetions were given to bring the stage and its precious burden into’ Raymond on time to connect with the train for Oakland. Night Trip From Valley. As the sun went down on Saturday evening behind the mighty crags of the Yosemite, the special stage bearing the body of Professor Le Conte was hurried along the mountain roads. Wreaths of oak, pine, fir and other forest leaves were fastened to the rough casket. They were the tributes of affection from many grad- uates and students of the university who were in the valley. The wind sang a re- qulem over the body of the man who had loved every inch of the marvelous gar- Continued on Page Two. American to-morrow will publish a story | when they shall have been established. mining rights it is possible that the Brit- | ish Government may allow the claimants the privilege of recourse to the civl courts ———— ALLEGED BOER ATROCITIES. British Correspondent Declares That Wounded Are Put to Death. | LONDON, July 8.—The Daily Mail gives sensational prominence this morning to | mail advices from Vlakfontein, which at- | tribute to the Boers inhuman atrocities that the censor would not allow to be | described by cable. | “A couple of Boers,” says the Daily ondent, ‘“‘who were armed | walked around among the dead and dying. Some they turned | over to see If they were dead. If it were | otherwise, then one or the other of the Boers shot them as they would shoot an | ox. I saw four killed in this way. One youngster pleaded for his life. I heard him say: ‘Oh, Christ, don't! and. then, bang! went the rifle. That is what hap- pened.” | The Daily Mail protests vigorously | against the suppression by the censor or} such details. | BELIEVED WAR HAD ENDED. Boers Lay Down Their Arms Under a Misapprehension. | PRETORIA, July 7.-Blockhouses are being erected and everything possible be- | ing done for the protection of traffic on | the railway to Pietersburg, but the diffi- culty: is enormous owing to the fact that | the line runs between mountains, with | thick brush on either side, affording ex<! cellent cover for the Boers. Lately the Boers surrendering in this | district were driven to the border. They | were afraid to enter their own territory. | When they surrendered they said they | thought they were the only omes still | fighting. They showed surprise upon find- | ing the war was continued in other parts | of the country. | An enormous number of cattle and| sheep are trekking from the south to the Government farms near Pretoria. Martinis TMPORTANT WORK BEFORE THE PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD MEXICO CITY, July 7.—The Presbyter- ian Synod is well attended. The purpose is to organize a Mexican synod which will have direct charge of the work in Mexico. There are in Mexico about 100 Presby- terian missions, with not less than 5000 communicants. Those missions are under the direction of the Foreign Missionary Boards of the Northern and Southern Presbyterian churches. Many of the mis- sions in Mexico have become self-support- ing and it is proposed to place them on an independent footing. The boards of the church in the North will withdraw their superintending power, but will continue their substantial support to ‘“a weaker missions of the country. to the effect that the entire coal trans- portation east of the Mississippl River will be divided among the railroads con- | trolled by the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Vanderbilt and the Yforgan fiterests. The Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt lines will carry all the coal produced in the bitu- minous regions, while the Morgan roads will control the entire anthracite trans- portation. This combination, the article goes on to say, will bring about the con- solidatioft of all the bituminous interests north of Tennessee and east of the Mis- sissippl. The work of consolidation has been go- ing on for a year, and every avenue of transportation of coal is in control of these three interests. Among the bitu- minous group are the Pittsburg Coeal Company, the Iliinois Coal Company, the latter representing all the coal properties in Illinois and Indiana, and ‘the Fair- mount Coal Company of West Virginia. The total capitalization of the bituminous interests s estimated at $340,000,000. —. FINDS HUSBAND'S BODY DANGLING IN DOORWAY Wife of a School Janitor at Watson- ville Makes a Startling Dis- covery. WATSONVILLE, July 7.—James Nell- son, a janitor of the Watsonville Gram- mar School, committed suicide yesterday evening by hanging himself with a pieca of baling rope. The act was committed in the school building. Neilson left home some time during the afterncon. As he did not return home at the usual time, his | wife started in search of him. She went to the schoolhouse and upon entering the building through the rear door was hor- rified by coming in contact with the life- less body of her husband, which was sus- pended from the transom of the door. From the position in which the body was found it was evident that Neilson had squatted down until his hands had almost touched the floor. Death was caused by strangulation. His domestic life was not unhappy and the deed is thought to have been due to excessive use of liquor. RIFLE THE POCKETS OF ABANDONED CORPSE LOS ANGELES, July 7.—An unknown man was struck by a train of tank cars on the Buena Vista street bridge this morning. His skull was fractured and he died in a few minutes after the accident. Employes of the Southern Pacific placed his body on a quiit and summoned the Coroner. The dead man was then left alone and when the Coroner arrived he found his pockets turned inside out and rifled. Nothing was found upon him by which he could be identified. He has the appearance of a laboring man, and 2 p. lice officer says he has seen him at work on the Salt Lake road’'s new bridge near Elysian Park, o