The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 23, 1901, Page 1

The et S e cain® VOLUME XC-—NO. 53, SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1901. ADOLPH STRECKER IS UNDENIABLY THE CHAMPION KING SHOOTER OF THE MARKSMEN'S WORLD AND LOUIS P. ITTEL IS CLOSE SECOND STEPHEN T. GAGE WILL BE GIVEN A PENSION OF FIVE HUNDRED A MONTH BY THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC e : Will Be Retired in ormer Right Hand Man of Stanford and Huntington| Accordance With Agree- ment Made When Property Changed Ownership annou: ced in The Call last phen T. Gage, who was Leland Stanford r was president of Pacific Company President Hunt- e service of the Mr. G lowed He will for the remainder 0 a month after that flimore. The circular ouncing the retirement Stephen T. Gage will be President C. M. Hays very after the Ist of A nection with the rallrpad that he helped to bulld will save for the drawing of the pension s retiring of the veterans of the or- iginal Cen 1 Pacific Rallroad Company is sald to be a part of a general arrange- ment that was entered into between the original holders of the stock of the com- pany and the new managers. President Heays desired to surround himself with his own men whom he knew, but it was [ e e e ) HIGEWAYMAN IS SHOT WHILE TRYING TO ESCAPE Two Bobbers Intercepted by Police- men While Preparing to Raid & Saloon. of tssued by shortly, and ugust Mr. Gage's con- cease LEAVENWORTH, Kans, July 2-A highwaymen, giving his name as Wil Jones of Bt Joseph, Mo, was shot through the base of the spine to-night while escaping from Police Officer Titel. His companion, giving the name of Mur- | phy, captured and landed in the cornty jail. Bunday night the men held up Morley Sherman by the officers to-night they were preparing to rzid Brady's saloon near the 8o Jones' condition Is erit- wi ldiers’ Home. T T Not Morally Qualified. WASHINGTON, July 22.—The President ¥ dings of the Naval the case Lieutenant Armin holding him not to be morally for promotion and recommending s 3 ved the one year's pay. Lieu- h was appointed to the Na- from Mic an, and his re- ce ¢ has been on the Philadelphia. ed on insobriety. Drowned. ena Boy A ank W. Harri ¥ | decided that those who had helped to bulld the road and had given the best | vears of their lives to its success should | be retired upon pen The first to be { affected under this agreement was Man- | ager 3. A. Fillmore and the second Steph- |en T. Gage. The first was the head of | the operating department and the second the head of the internal political machin- ery of the company. The services of Mr. Gage during the last few years have been purely nominal,, but there was no man who was ever nected with the Southern Pacific Com- con- pany and the . Central Pacific Railroad Company, not even - excepting Stanford and - Huntington -themselves, who did more work for- those corporations than Stephen T. Gage. He has but a very mod- est fortune and he is devoted to his fam- ily. While in perfect physical health, Mr. | Gage is well along in years. His wife died some years ago, since which time his life has centered around his children, { to whom he 1s a most devoted father. | It is sald in this connection that J. A | Fillmore is not in the best of health and that it is doubtful if he could have stood the strain of another year's work In the position from which he has just retired. PULLMAN PALACE CAR RUNS AWAY DOWN GRADE Collides With a Train and Several of the Passengers Are Badly Injured. EL PASO, Tex., July 22.—A serious ac- cident occurred on the line of the Mexi- | can Central near Montezuma about 11:30 a. m. {o-day. Several passengers on the southbound train were severely injured, some of whom are expected to dle. A Pullman palace car which had been sidetracked to allow another car to be coupled to the train got beyond control of | the brakemen and started down a steep grade. The train backed up to catch the fleeting car and on reaching it a collision | occurred. Although the car was not de- | raled, the passengers within received a | terrific shock and the car was conglder- | ably damaged. A northbound train ar- rived here at 9:15 p. m. bringing the in- | jured, who were taken to a hospital. wtcne s datats Senor Crispi Sinking. NAPLES, July 22.—Senor Crispi is now lin a state of exhaustion. The members | of his family and some of his best friends and political followers have been sum- | mcred here, as it is feared that he will J die. Not since his attack of influenza last | winter has he recovered his former vig- | | orous health, and he has been compelled | to undergo five operations for cataract, which, while disturbing his system, have not restored sight. | | | coq 9 o Fryo _pacoss 3 LRy 00 o°° %00 gm0, a,,vc°°°°°a o %00 & PRICE FIVE CENTS. — MASON'S ONLY CHANCE TO WIN THE KINGSHIP RESTED UPON HIS OWN POOR ARITHMETICAL WORK e 00 009! 000000088 LY ©%%%90asnce. == 8 Sosq %o o N \ LD ADVANGE BY THE BOERS UPON BRITIaH bl Special Dispatch to The Call CAPETOWN, July 2.—A number of Boers who are invading the Cape Colony began an attack on Aberdeen one evening last week. They obtained excellent shelter in Donga, but their fire was in- effective. The militla, a portion of the town guard, advanced steadily under heavy fire and drove the Boers from their position, the burghers retreating pre- cipitately. 5 1t is reported that General Delarey has informed the Klerksdorp commando there is no longer any chance of European in- tervention, and they must fight the war out to the bitter end entirely on their own account. w A new column is being formed to work in conjupction with other columns oper- ating in the colony. MRS. KRUGER IS BURIED. Former President Much Depressed as Result of Wife’s Death. PRETORIA, Sunday, | July 2L—Mrs. Kruger, wife of former President Kruger of the South African Republic, who died Saturday last of pneumonia, after an illness of three days, was buried here this afternoon. HGER FO I ORFGAL I Special Dispatch to The Call. BOSTON, July 22.—Rear Admiral Wil- liam T. Sampson, commandant of the Charleston navy yard, was asked to-day if he had ever read and criticized any preofs of Maclay's Naval History, and he replied he thought he had. “I would welcome an investigation of this whole matter by Congress or the Navy Department, but I see no hope of it being taken up. I hardly belleve Con- gress will do anything about it at the next session. h “Schley’s first statements regarding the battle of Santiago—those given out just after the fight, I mean—were moderately correct. “If you look up an interview purport- ing to have come from Schley and pub- lished, I belleve, on January 6, you will see that it was entirely incorrect. If he was correctly quoted, he most certainly has made a misstatement of facts. “Soon after this interview appeared In print he came aboard my ship and told me that he had never given out any such statement and that he had been in- correctly quoted. The reporter to whom the interview was granted was a friend of mine, and he afterward told me that | he had published Schley’'s words practi- cally as'they had been spoken.” FIREMEN FAL 70 BET BACK L PLAGES fad T Bl Special Dispatch to The Call. WILKESBARRE, Pa, July 22.—The strike of the stationary firemen was jointly called off at a joint meeting of the strikers and the executive board of United Mine Workers to-night. The Traders' Coal Company, it s said, refused to reinstate its old firemen unless they consented to work for. a. decrease in wages. Th= officers of the Stationary Firemen's Association made a powerful plea for the engineers and asked the United Mine Workers not to consent to a settlement of the strike uatil the engineers were ta- ken care of. State Secretary J. A. Ger- rity, in behalf of the firemen, sald the calling off of the strike under present conditions would be a disgrace to the TUnited Mine Workers. 3 President Fahey replied warmly @ for the United Mine Workers. He said that if a mistake had been made the blame could not be placed on the United Mine ‘Workers. A resolution was then offered requesting all strikers to report for work to-morrow, and if they are refused by any of the companies, then the United Mine Workers will take up their cases. The resolution was adopted by an almost unanimous vote. A motion to declare the strike off was then passed by a large majority, + Convention of . Delegates HE third- National Bundes Shoot- ing Festival will crown Adolph Strecker of San -Francisco the king shooter of America. His 394 points for 200 shots on the point target will stand as the work for a na- tional kingship for at least three years and there is no- telling for how many fes- tival lusters after that. - Louis P. Ittel of | Pittsburg brushed :arms with the local | I'shooting wonder ‘and his . Score of 3% points records even a more phenomenal shoot than that of Strecker's. In front of his eyves were those 3% points and the kingship. It is no easy matter for a man | |to shoot against a new world’s record, | and such a_towering one at that. Tttel's nerve was consummate. He is easily the | greatest rifle performer at Shell Mound, and although he will not wear the crown not one of the shooters at Shell Mound fafls to recognize-him as a man of iron nerve and self-control far beyond that of | any marksman who has ever shot pub- licly in this or any country. MASON’S ARITHMETIC NEEDS CORRECTION Strecker and Ittel are the exalted, the men whose names rise from the glasses after every toast. F. E. Mason has been toppled over. Since his eventful perforra- ance on Friday last, when his steady nerve, keen eye and imperturbable cora- posure at the butts brought him into view as a strong candidate for the purple, both Mason and all his friends have labored under a grievous mistake. Mason was only a king by the charity of his own false additiop. At no time since Friday night did he have the glimmer of a chance to top Strecker's score. When he finished shooting on Sunday afternoon Mason had to his credit 295 points, and not 312. Fur- thermore, instead of having four full strings left he had but three and six shots of the fourth. He wound up his strings vesterday morning, getting on the four tickets respectively 20, 17, 16 and 23. Ma- son’'s complete score is 371. Even as it was, he went to pleces. Racked with the tension and strain, he fell from shooting grace and, dropping back iIn the ruck, fin- ished below others whom it was thought he could not help but surpass. So the Mason cry died on the lips. Arithmetical aberration was Mason's claim to the king- | ship. EASTERNERS GLORIFY THIRD BUNDES FEST The shooting at Shell Mound is tape:- ing off and to-day it will close and the lights will go out on the great third Na-| tional Bundes Fest rifle revelry. All the marksmen of big local and national repu- tations have had their say in the shoot- ing sections, but there is a number of | |and these are | honors and the prizes. lesser lights who will shoot string after to the Third National Bundes Festival Decides Upon New York City as the Place for the Fourth National Gathering string this morning. The end was in the air yesterday. Men who have hugged a kicking rifle for seven days and shot hun- dreds and hundreds of times at the black spots on the buff sat around the tables and passed confidences, told of other shooting festivals and how incomparably superior this was to any and all of its predecessors. On the faces of many sat bleak disappointment. The fortunate ones in the work at the ranges looked happy and contented. To them the prizes they will carry away were the only burdens dens that will bring nothing but pleasure to the happily op- pressed. Medals, gold and silver, flashed on every side. It was an army of men with shining chesty decorations. Completely satisfied with their West- ern trip, the visitors of the third Na- tional Festival would like to return to #an Francisco three years hehce on just such a similar occasion—not entirely be- cause the hospitality and courtesy of the local clubs have been so warm and genu- ine and freely given, but also because the conditions for good shooting are more pronounced. Dave McLaughlin entertained a small coterle in the shooting gallery yesterday with tales of the New York festival three vears ago. He told how the lightning played up and down the gun barrels of the shooters and how the heat was so oppressive that the men dressed decollete above the waist and in the thinnest of duck below. He was used to full clothes and could not shoot in a net ‘undershirt without its usual dress covering. So he suffered the heat, but shot with coat, vest and shirt. Thecdore Geisel and Harry Pope semed to steam under the recollec- tion of it. Yes, they all agteed California was the best place for a shoot, and as an exempiar they ran over the records of the shooting. VISITING SHOOTERS WIN SEVERAL HONORS On the standard American target Theo- dore Geisel distinguished himself yester- day and will probably carry off the first prize. He shot 49 out of a posible 50, and as he has two 48 cards and one 47 to back this score up, there is little likelihood of any one else coming in to steal away the Adolph Strecker has 49 also, but he is not backed up by any such big scores as those fet agaipst Geisel's name. A. H. Pape has 49 backed up by 47. Dave McLaughlin has 4 back- ed up by 4. On the man target Harry M. Pope shot three twenties and one eighteen. This means 78, and but one man tops it, C. M. Henderson, with a score §f 7. s Continued on Page Four, —