The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 7, 1901, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNES DAY, AUGUST 7 1901 LOOTING OF ELEVEN HUNDRED' POUNDS OF GOLD MINT NOT GOOD MARKET FOR STOLEN BULLION Superintendent Cannot Be Forced Leach Says Infortation From Sellers, but That ““Crooked’” Gold Always Excites Suspicion E can't force a man who| comes here to sell builion to | go to the Government to tell where it came from, but if | any man brought ‘crooked’ | gold to = mint something would cause sus- [ picion to be aroused before he went cut. | In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred | where men steal any great amount of gold they are caught.” This is what Superintendent Frank Leach of the United States Branch Mint | in this city said yesterday when question- as to the chance the men who robbed e Selby works had of disposing of any their plunder at Uncle Sam’s coining hments who not ha was asked of the don’t have to. answer the ques would naturally arouse e keep a book of records that shows where all gold comes from. This is kept among other purposes. is, we know about all the pply and where the Consequently if a n brought in a large supply of gold, ecially if it was refined, we would be fous at once, and if he couldn’t tell a story as to where he got it we be suspicious. If he refused to a ail we would be doubly to be bring gold here re th ve to tell you whe: r suspicion ncipal mine wou swer questio suspicious. Crooked Gold Brings Suspicion. © man ever tried to dispose of ‘crook- gold who have something about him tk roused picion. o | = to dispose of goid the receiving clerk, o w t go to s their names, the weight of the data as to where it wa ob- Then the metal sent to the 11 deter- plugged or anything else—preventing us, from being given a ‘gold bric s it finer, as foreign sub- Then the bullion goes mines fine- | er the owner | . STRIKE LEADERS TILL MISSING Vigilantes Say the Men Will Never Return to Tampa. | | | | TAMP4, Fla., on to Aug. 6.—The strike s ght is one of bewilderment upon t others are marked, n may take place at a ng Was Well Planned. i 1 night - had reat open air meet- ged at which all the had been invited, the been | Jail, where they rem de under guard for ious rumors have been cires it being most g were take this city to-day, eported that they lf in an unknown All de- were Spaniards and Cubans. Several Sub-Leaders Deported. | It developed tc e more | strikers who we were a i gs during the day se- e conferred with a num- ers with a view of taking No one would take the T ve also appointed new com- mittees to nd in the | case of each different ones were created, so that when one is | taken away another will take his place. | A proclamation was issued here this af- ternoon signed “The People of Tampa.” It says in part: | “To the anarchists and professional la- | bor agitators: We say that your days in Tampa are at an end. We cannot and will not permit you to destroy this prosperous city. If you have regard for your will safety ke its dust from your feet. . we notify the manufactur- movement of citizens is not out in the interest of the | Strangles Himself in a Room. WILLIAMS, Aug. 6.—A. Zeller of Wil- lows, en route to Cooks Springs, eommit- | ted suicide last night at the Williams | Hotel. After disrobing he tled a handker- | chief around his neck, looped it over the | door krob and strangled himself. He was | fou t noon to. He was 50 years old. Messages From Ships at Sea. NEW YORK, Aug. 6.—The Herald an- mnounces that its wireless telegraph station | on Nantucket Island, Mass., will be ready | 1o receive regular message from ships at | sea beginning August 16. i | reached Xt | and loss of 1! of the bullion has deposited it at the Mint he is paid its value in gold coin. Theo- reticaily the bullion brought us is coined into money, which is handed out to the owners. In’ reality Uncle Sam only buys the bullion, which is in some cases not coined for a long time after its receipt.” ! “If a person can deposit gold and get its equivalent in coin within twenty-four hours _ afterward, the Mint officials | wouldn’t have much chance of working up a case against any suspected person, would they?” was asked. “We'd notify the Secret Service agents as-soon as the suspected person had left the Mint,” was the reply. Would “Harg Up” the Money. _ “But if the man who left the bullion | couldn’t be forced to answer questions as to where he got it and could walk away with his money at the end of twenty-four hours, there wouldn’t be time in which to secure evidence upon which he could be held, would there?” 11, said the Mint superintendent, | “we'd hang that money up on some pre- text or another until we found out | whether or not we had received ‘crooked’ gold.” E"Couldn'l bricks be cut up into small (‘hunkf and sold to pawnbrokers and rs?’ - but all sources of gold supply are known that when chunks are ndled illegitimately suspicion is aroused.” “Supposing the thieves took the gold from the Selby Works to some Mint in another part of the country—to the one at that at Philadelp Couldn’t easily dispose of it?” o easier than they could here. They'd arouse suspicion. No, the fact that the | gold was refined wouldn't necessarily | show that it was stolen from a smelter, | though the smelters pay the owners of | ore in coin and not in bullion, for some | mines melt the gold. These are better known than any others, too. “Yes, the mén who stole the Selby bullion could remelt the bricks that are stamped if they could find some place where they could keep a fire golng for the;r"apparmus without being discov- ercd. CHIN efeiefeloleioioid @ Eat RAISE REBEL FLAGS Threats Made That the Aliens Will Be Destroyed. SIS AR, VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 6.—The steam- | ship Adelaide ings news that the Tien- chaunluf rising is growing. A report has the French force in Peking from Chengting-Fu to the effect that a large number of defeated soldiers of Tung Fuh | Siang have concentrated in the Govern- | i | ment premises of Shenchow and have un~ £y banners with the motto eep China and - destroy aliens” on | n. | ‘On_the receipt of a report that Tung Fuh Siang has started a rebellion and is arching upon Sian,” says a Shanghai paper, “the Chinese court has enlisted many braves in order to prevent him, the number of the Imperial Guards being in- | adequate to meet this force. of the two provinces of Shensi and Ho- nan have now gathered and their number has reached some fifteen or sixteen bat- talions alrea but t are devoid of | good weapons. The Governor and other officials of the two, provinces are therefore T t t to procure arms for 3 kkaido, Japan, news was re- he murder of Otto Schroeder, | 22 years of age, of New York, on the haling bark California by a shipmate, m Stuart, 21 vears of age, of Los Stuart_was hel. on board, a the Hokkaido correspondent, tes Consul at Yoko- | nese Consul declined to | c Faulkner, aged 40 years, killed in a in the boat re being held. | f life has occurred in Ja- In the Iowasaki sons were drowned pan becau: collie -nine pe: e is also reported from many places, as well as destruction of property. WOMAN DECAPITATED BY A RAILROAD TRAIN Bakersfield Lodging-House Employe Meets With Terrible Death on the Track. BAKERSFIELD, Aug. 6.—A decapitat- ed woman was found last night lying on the Santa Fe tracks near the junction with the Southern Pacific about two miles east of this city by a switching crew of the Santa Fe. The body was to-day identified as that of Maude Raymond, who was employed in a lodging-house in this city. She was intoxicated last night. The body was lying between' the tracks while her head lay outside the rails. One arm was pulled out of its socket while the other was completely cut off. An inquest was held this afternoon and the jury returned a verdict that the woman came to her death by being run over by the cars. Pugilist Injured by a Train. SPOKANE. Wash., Aug. 6.—Jack Dow- ney, who claimed to be a pugilist during his stay of a year in Spokane, is dying at a farmhouse near Garfield with both legs cut off. Downey left Spokane this afternoon for Napa, Cal, where he has relatives. While under the influence of liquor he wandered to the platform be- tween the day coaches, lost his footing and fell between the cars, the wheels passing over both legs between the thighs and knees. He was taken to a farm- house near by. The physician says Dow ney cannot live, as he was injured in- ternally. Downey is not his true name. If so, let us Market street, makes of cele b cannot call wri Just as well as Take notice t retall plano w. 1l be conne: occupy at 933 will quote prices that will Are You !nterested in | PIANOS? invite you to call at our office at 923 and we will take you up in the elevator to our whoiesale warerooms on the sixth floor of the building we occupy and show you twenty different rated planos which we handie, and we reatly surprise you. If you te, for we €an sell you a piano by mail if you were here in person. hat on January 1 we will occupy, as a areroom, the large and commodious store now agcupied by the San Francisco Shoe Com- pany, at 981 Market street (opposite Mason), to which wil our office apartments wlich we now ket street. THE WILEY B, ALLEN CO,, ‘Wholesale and Retail Piano Dealers, 938 BMlarket Street, San Francisco. BRANCH—951 BROADWAY, OAKLAND. The braves | 3 was | n accident, a sperm whale stav- | n and large Budd- | 3 INTERESTING VIEWS IN CONNECTION WITH SENSATIONAL ROBBERY. EiEARLY MORNING CRUISE OF NAPHTH A LAUNCH CONNECTS A MYSTERIOUS SCHOONER WITH THE ROBBERY HE mysterious departure of a schooner from her anchorage In | the bay off Sausalito may fur- nish the first clew to the where- abouts of the men who'robbed the Selby bullion vault.’ The | schooner was anchored off | | Sausalito for several days and but little attention was pald to her, as it was thought that she was kept there until an | opportunity was afforded the owners to | place a non-union crew.aboard. Since the discovery of the robbery, how- ever, incidents connected with the sailing of the ves&el have caused a suspicion to arise that the schooner was not anchored | in the bay near the Sausalito shore be- cause of the strike, but because she was to be used by the thieves to carry off the | gold bri The schooner attracted the attention of John Hayes, night watchman of the pool- rooms at Sausalito, and of Paul Truett, PROFOSED GRANT IN AID OF TRANSVAAL DISCUSSED Sir William Vernon Harcourt and Others Criticize the Govern- ment’s Measures. IONDON, Aug. 7.—The House of Com- mons last night discussed a vote of £6,- 500,000 as 2 grant in ald of the Transvaal and Orange River colonies. Sir Willlam Vernon Harcourt and others severely crit- icized the Government’s measures. Cham- berlain, replying, said he quite agreed that the Government's first duty was to the royalist refugees, and he declared that money would not be spared for that pur- ose. & “It is also a matter of imperial policy.” said the Colonial Secretary, “to give the necessary support to those of our enemfes who come into our hands. One miilion of the vote is for extra rolling stock. A large sum will be devoted to reinstating the Boers on their farms and an experi- ment will be made in the direction of ag- ricvltural settlements. “There is no intention of confiscation. We have had offers of land at reasonable prices, and a_ portion of the vote will be devoted to the purchase of such lands with a view of enabling men who volun- teered for the war to settle when the war is aver.” 2 Chamberlain dwelt at great length upon | the native question, which he described as “most difficult and delicate.” He declared | that anything in the nature of slavery | ought not to be permitted; that a revision | of the “cruel and arbitrary native labor Jaws” was necessary, and that although the natives must be taught to work they should have just and humane treatment. Prussian Officials Are Worried: 1 | BERLIN, Aug. 6.—Prussian officials { take sericusly the statement from St. Pe- [tersburg that Russia will forbid Russian farm leborers to -cross the frontier for ! summer work in Prussia. It is considered | probable, the Berliner Correspondenz as- | serts, that the Russian Government is | taking this step as retaliation for the | German tariff bi it S ‘ Fire Destroys San Jose Houses. SAN JOSE, Aug. 6.—Three cheap woed- en dwellings on Market street, near San Antonio, were gutted by fire this evening, the total loss being about $2000. The occu- | night watchman of the town, both of whom watched her closely. Both of these men witnessed the incidents which serve to_connect her with the great robbery. Night Watchman Hayes in discussing the departure of the vessel last night said: “Both Truett and myself watched the schooner for several nights, as we were anxious to know what success the owners would meet with in getting a crew for their vessel. We knew of nothing else but the lack of a crew owing to the strike that wculd cause them to keep her an- chored where she was. Since we heard of the robbery of Selby’s vaults, however, we have thought of several incidents which cause us to think that she was connected with the bullion steal. “Monday night two men, clalming to be the captain and mate of the schooner, came to Sausalito on the 12:15 boat. They had a small boat at the wharf and jumped into it and pulled out to the vessel. We thought they had been across the bay searching for non-union men and of course did not pay much attention to them. NOTED GOLFERS ENTER DEL MONTE CONTESTS Strongest Players of Northern and Southern California Will Strive for Open Championship. Tt is now certain that the open competi- tion for amateur and professional golfers to take place August 24 at Del Monte will be a very interesting event. T. P. Gower, the secretary of the Pacific Coast Goif Association, announces that the follow- ing amateurs, who rank among_ the best in the State, 'will take part in the event: E. R. Folger of the Oakland Galf Club, winner of the first championship of the Pacific Coast, John Lawson, C. E. Maud, Orr, champion of Southern Cali- in 1900, H. M. Sears, N. Wilshire . M. Fitzgerald, W. P. Johnson, C. P. Hubbard, and probably R. H. Hay Chap- man, president of the Southern Califor- nia Golf Association. It is hoped that ‘Walter Cosby, one of the strongest golf- ers of the south, will enter the contest. Among professionals there will be F. J. Riley of the Burlingame Country Club, Alexander Bell of San Rafael, W. J. Bradley of Sacramento, Robert Johnson of the San Francisco Golf Club and James Melville of Del Monte. Whether Harry Rawlins of the Oakland Golf Club wiil enter is not certain. A suggestion has been made that a match between teams of golfers repre- senting Northern and Southern Califor- nia_would be a popular and interesting event, and the contest will probably be successfully brought off during the golf- ing week at Del Monte. Such events take place regularly at the tournaments of the Southern California Golf Association, the teams usually consisting of four men from each of the associate and allied clubs comprising the association. But few regular entries have been made so far for the ladles’ competition for the Poniatowski cup, but it is expected that a good number of players will take part in the contest. Mrs. R. Gilman Brown of the San Francisco and San Rafael Golf clubs and Mrs. H. H. Sherwood of the Oaklan Golf Club, are already practicing on the Burlingame links, and several ladies from the etouth are expected to come up for the event. fornia R. L En e R LA BAKER €ITY, Or., Aug. 6.—A forest fire broke out in the ‘mountains back of the North Pole mine near Bourne this | pants were Mrs. Mary Pacheco, Willlam | Huey, “Dr. Frank,” a Chinaman, and Jim | Lee, a leundryman. %Fhe fire originated from a lamp explosion, afternoon. It is now burning fiercely and threatens the mine property and a large body of fine timber. The fire is supposed to be the result of carelessness on the part of campers. “About 3:30 a. m. we saw a naphtha launch coming down the bay §rom the direction of Alcatraz Island. heading for | the schooner and immediately came to the conclusion that the scab crew was on board. The launch tied,up to the schooner and remained for some time. The next sign of life we observed was the launch pulling ahead of the schooner, evidently towing her. “Both craft went right out to sea and we thought no more of the incident until we heard of the great crime.” Inquiry along the water front brought to light the fact that there was but one schooner anchoregd off the Sausalito shore waiting to secure a non-union crew. This was the schooner Occldental, and_she left | | a large dose of carbolic acid. the harbor yesterday morning. Arrange- ments had been made with the Red Stack Company to tow her out this morning, and a_tug was cent over for that purpose. The Occidental, however, was not at her anchorage, having taken advantage of the tides and sailed out of the harbor on her voyage to Humboldt. L e e e e e e e e e RS AR Y ‘WOOD FILES HIS CLAIM TO PROPERTY HE DREW | Selects Entire Length of the Town Site of Lawton on the South Side. FORT SILL, O. T., Aug. 6.—John Wood of Weatherford, O. T., who drew No. 1 in the Lawton land district, created a sen- sation at the land office to-day when in filing his claim he chose 160 acres running the entire length of the townsite on the south. According to the Government the two most valuable sections in the whole | reservation were made to adjoin the town- site on the south. Miss Mattie Beals, the Wichita, Kans., telg‘phnne girl, who had drawn No. 2 from the wheel, had counted on selecting one of these, but when Wood made the Selection noted she had to con- tent herself with 2 tract south of Wood's and two sections away from the townsit Wood's claim is valued at about $50,000. ‘Will Sue for the Office. SACRAMENTO, Aug. 6.—E. D. McCabe, in whose place as Building and Loan Commissioner Governor Gage has ap- pointed C. M. Shortridge, is evidently dis- posed to fight in the courts for his place, and particularly for the emoluments that g0 with it. To-day, turough his attorneys in San Francisco, McCabe filed with the State Controller a_formal demand that that official drawg his warrant for $93 35, the balance allefed to .be due him for July as 2 member of the commission. The Controller will not comply, and a suit is expected to follow to determine the rightful possessor of the office. Catarrh Is a constitutional disease. It originates in a scrofulous condition ot the blood and depends on that condition. It often causes headache and dizziness, impairs the taste, smell and hearing, af- fects the vocal organs, disturbs the stomach. It is always radically and permanently cured by the blood-purifying,~alterative and tonic action of Hood’s Sarsaparilla This great medicine has wrought the most wonderful cures of all diseases depending on serofule or the scrofulous habit. 1000’8 PILLS swe the best catbartic, T_ SUPERINTENDENT VON DER ROPP ON UPERINTENDENT VON DER ROPP of the Selby Smelting Works sald yesterday: “The rob- bery was certainly planned and carrfed out by some one who knew the customs 1;: bffi{ce oncernin, the depositing o ullion fn'the v!;.ult, Around the first of the month we have more bullion in the vault than at other times. The hole was drilled through a section of the floor which is seldom or never covered with metal bricks. Had the holes been drilled several inches farther back the plece of I GRY HORSE BITES A GIRL The Maddened Animal Frightfully Disfigures Its Owner. Specfal Dispatch to The Call. REDLANDS, Aug. 6.—Miss Amie Swartz was bitten by her driving horse yester- day and disfigured for life in the pres- ence of 200 people. The young woman was tying her horse near the corner of State and Orange streets when the animal became fright- ened at some plumes on her hat and be- gan to back. The young woman was an- gry and struck the horse with the strap she was tying him with. She had no more than done so when he jumped at her, rearing in the air. Miss Swartz was so badly frightened she was unable to move as the animal sprang upon her. The brute's jaws closed with a snap on her face, and her jaw, lips, nose and brows were fearfully lacer- ated. here were within an arm’s length of the girl, but none realized her peril in time to save her from the brute's furv, although he was thrown to the ground and held pros- trate by twenty captors before the faint- ing woman fell to the pavement. Surgical assistance was at once called and every effort was made to compose Miss Swartz's features in a way to prevent the most serious disfigurement. The attend- iag physicians fear lockjaw, but say that if this does not set in the young woman will recover from the shock of her dread- bear the marks of the horse’s teeth on her face. GREAT WALL OF WATER FLOODS MONO CANYON Extraordinary Spectacle Presented by a Storm in Northern Santa Barbara County. SANTA BARBARA, Aug. 6—Ranger Carl Stoddard of the Santa ¥Ynez reserva- tion and Joseph Hildreth, a well-known mountaineer, made a report to-night of one of the most terrific natural disturb- ances ever known in California—a great cloudburst at the head of Mono Creek, in the north of this county. Although it oc- thing ever known in winter months. For a week it had been damp in mountain, and on Sunday there was a light sprinkling of rain,_ Stoddard and Canyon, a gorge fifteen miles long, but very narrow. Suddeniy an intense roar like thunder was heard from the head of the mountain. At the head of the can- yon a white line of foam came rushing down to the valley. It was a solid and irresistiple wall of water of eight to twelve feet high. The roar of the flood was terrific. It rushed down between rocky walls over a dry bed. In its wake, grinding, tumbling, smashing, came thou sands of bowlders. The rush of waters lasted for twenty-four hours, delaying the men from returning to their cabins, because no one could cross the creek. Stoddard says there were several camp- ing parties on Paine Mountain who must have been drenched. Arthur Alexander of this ci homas Linmore of Monte- cito and eight men from Carpentaria were in the region. Hildreth went to search for them to-day and Stoddard came in | with the news. e et Ends Her Life With Poison. | 1LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6.—Mrs. Ann!e] Anderson, an English woman, 33 years of | age, killed herself to-night by swallowing | She was | the wife of an architect named W. J. Anderson, who is said to have deserted | her here about two years ago and to have gone to San Franeisco. many men almost | ful experience, though she must always | curred in August it was greater than any- | the | Hildreth were where they could see Mono | | Stockholm to_the THE ROBBERY Says Men Were Familiar With the Lay of Things-—The Plans Were Thought Out Long Before the Final Effort Was Made steel would have been forced out by a plle of silver bullion. T should think that a gang of at least five men operated this robbery. The oval plate of steel was pushed in with the aid of a jack, as It is bent and shows pres- sure from underneath. The robbery w. not the work of a single day. Many weeks | were consumed in the planning. You will find rust on the borings. “They had a hard task to pack that bul- lon away and I think that the robbers have taken it inland. They will not get away with it, though, for it will be found and the thieves caught.” fefefnfenfoefooffrefesfeeim ittt e @ SETE AN IV WAREDLSE Eight Thousand Boxes Taken by Force From Selma. A S Special Dispatch to The Call. FRESNO, Aug. 6.—The ralsin merchants in this city are much stirred up over the forcible seizure this morning of $000 fifty- pound boxes of raisins stored in the W. 8. Hoyt & Co. packing-house in Selma by the officials of the Pacific Coast Seeded Raisin Company. About two weeks -ago the California Raisin Growers’ Associatlon sold its | earry-over of last season’s raisins to the California Raisin Packing Company. This company made the purchase with an agreement that the Pacific Coast Com- pany would take the contract off its | hands. The deal having been consum- mated the Pacific Company demanded the raisins, but the holders refused to de- liver them, claiming that the sale of the raisins had not been legal and that the growers outside of the “big five” com- bine, or the Pacific Company, were en- titled to the raisins. Accordingly yesterday morning about 4 o'clock Lee Gray, Frank Gray, Thomas Lynch, Henry Pratt and Samuel Samuel- son, representing the “big flve,” left Fresno with a force of workmen on a special train of seven cars and went to Selma. There they forcibly entered the Hoyt house and commenced to load the raisins on the cars. A watchman was charge of the building, but he was asle: | and did not wake up until two cars wer loaded. He immediately swore to com plaints charging the men with burs! and all were arrested. They were relea: on bonds of $1000. The work of loading continued and the train returned | Fresno about noon with all the raisins Considerable litigation 1s expected to re- sult from the affair. | To-day the Pacific Coast through its attorney. | menced suit against the J. B | Company, to recover possession of | pounds of raisins valued at $31.947 1 damdges to the amount of $5000. If del of the raisins cannot be had plaintiff judgment for the value of the goods | Sultan’s Mission Starts Homeward. | | VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 6.—The steamer Queen Adelaide brought news to-day that | Envoy Pasha and suite of the Turkish | ina have left Shanghal to return home via Vladivostok and the Trans-Siberian Rallway, thus ending the | fiasco. The Sultan of Turkey was per- suaded by the German Emperor, says the North China Daily News, to dispatch the mission “to pacify Mohammedans in the | northwest provinces of China in the event | of their causing the authorities trouble.” When Envoy Pasha arrived at/Shanghal | he found that in the first place there were no Mohammedans handy to be pacified, and in _the second place that the name of | the Sultan of Turkey was not a name to conjure with in China. = - Steamer Meets With Accident. PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., Aug. 68— The steamer Victorian, sailing from here Sunday morning with ninety-four pas- sengers for Skaguay, returned this even- ing, having met with an accident to her machinery, the brazing on a steam pipe | giving way in the narrows this side of She returned under her own ‘Vancouver. | steam and will transfer her passengers | to the City of Seattle, which sails north in a few days. | Sweden Will Have Electric Railways. 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