The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 26, 1902, Page 17

WOHOROTITOEIF GRPXP 20X S XOHOXONOXCQ 020 Pags cneneronely | ; ‘0!0'0;0?000 OHOAPUIKO XS mm-mnmm"mong Pages 020 HOHORO W * PDOXOXSFOXOARIBOXIRS XSRS ROXIRIRNIRGD VOLUME XCL-—NO 57. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 1902—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. DETECTIVES SEARCHING FOR MINNIE RANDOLPH, CONFEDERATE OF OFFICER ROBINS s handling of criminal cases. ON'S MURDERERS GOVERNMENT AND INSURGENT TROOPS MEET IN FIERCE BATTLE WITHIN FEW MILES OF BOGOTA Attack on the Capital of Colombia Is Prevented and the Liberal Forces Are Defeated With a Loss of Three Hundred and Sixty Killed. OGOTA, Colombia, Jan. 25.—The Government has made a success- 1 effort to prevent the revolu- 2 attacking Bogota. battle was fought ego at Facatativa, y s from Bogota. After long fight- oops repulsed the of their number f the Govern- Antioguia = sending troops b ucceeds the late itary governor of Monsglvo and Re- White and re for Panama The ned an interview in the course of t ok Amaya, The Colombian Government and the couraged because of the death of General Alban The ermy, on the contrary, will newed energy to avenge Gen- General Alban’s death There are plenty end able to fill his oy the same measures that General Alban 4id, and shall try to e office which I have as- to be firm and merelful, and to be no murderer. It will be a cam- paign to pre: republic of Colom- bia and not to murder. more troops from Barramquilla if I need them.” ’ Small Bands Are Routed. Small bands of insurgents who were g in’the wvicinity of the Panama line have Meen routed by the Government troops. By a recent decree issued at Barran- lla, Department of Bolivar, Jose Mut- o, & prominent Italian at that place, has been expelled from the country for taking an active part in aiding the Liberal cause, 4 General Samper, his | I can obtain 2000 | | two countries are severely strained, and THE LATE MILITARY AND CIVIL GOVERNOR OF PANAMA, WHO WAS KILLED LAST MONDAY ON BOARD THE STEAMER LAUTARO DURING THE BATTLE WITH INSURGENTS IN PANAMA BAY. All the Italians and mgny Turks in Voll- bar are openly accused of Liberalist sym- pathies. — EXCLUSION OF M. SECRESTAT. Intensifies the Feeling of Francs Against- Castro. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2%.—President Cas- tro's refusal to permit the landing in Venezuela of M. Secrestat Jr., despite the Tequest of France, will undoubtedly in- tensify the feeling of the Parls Govern- ment against the Caracas dictator. Technically President Castro has amplo Jjustification for his exclusion of M. Secre- stat. Frelinghuysen, when Secretary of State, in & letter to the American Minis- ter to Banto Domingo declared that the United States “cannot contest the right of foreign governments to exclude, on po- lice or other grounds, American citizens from their shores.” From the point of view of the authorl- ties here, therefore, no objection can be raised by France to the action of Presi- dent Castro. The relations between the in declining to comply with the request of France to permit M. Secrestat to land Castro has acted In a manner which will undoubtedly provoke feeling. France is not expected to attempt to force Venezuela to admit M. Secrestat, but she will hold that country responsi- ble if the property leased to his father by General Matos, leader of the Vene- zuelan revolutionists, is damaged. France now holds claims again the Caracas Gov- ernment, and it would not surptise offi- o7 clals should she forcibly collect them after Germany has obtained satisfaction. CHILD VIOLINIST PLAYS FOR THE PRESIDENT Bright Young Protege of Secretary Gage Gives Recital at White House. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—Before a dis- tinguished audience composed of Pres dent and Mrs. Roosevelt, the ladies of the Cabinet and a number of other specially Invited guests, Florizel Fabrice von Reu- ter of Chicago, the 10-year-old protege of Secretary Gage, gave a violin recital at the White House to-night. His rendition of the different numbers selected for the occasion was marvelous, revealing com- plete mastery of his instrument. Secretary Gage discovered the boy in Chicago several years ago and sent him to the Geneva Conservatory of Music, from which he graduated in 1%01, under Henry Marteau, having received the high- est honors within the gift of the insti- tution, a diploma in the class de perfec- tlon, together with the prix de virtuosite in the shape of a magnificent instrument. Blizzard Rages in Nebraska. OMAHA, Jan. 2.—One of the heaviest blizzards ever experienced In Nebraska is raging, seemingly at all points ‘in the State, to-night. Reports indicate that the loss to livestock will be heavy. All trains due from the West are from three to sev- en hours late, and passengers arriving upon them tell stories of frightful gusts of heavy, clogging snow, whith threat- ened time and again to prevent further progress of the trains. Zero temperature is being experienced in this city, where two and one-half inches of snow has fallen. DOSEVELT'S DOLE'3 DOOM President Wants Resig- nation of Hawaii's Governor. Colonel Sam Parker Slated as the Territorial Executive. Letter Written by Secretary Hitch- cock the First Feature of Sensa- tional Programme in Af- fairs of Islands. SR 2 Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G:STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—According to the present administrative programme Sanford B. Dole, Governor of Hawall, is to go and Colonel Sam Parker is to be- come his successor. Colonel Parker was the last Prime Min- ister of Queen Liliuckalani and is pfob- ably the richest man in the flands. He is the father-in-law of Prince David, who, | under the monarchy, was an heir to the throne. The first formal step toward carrying out this arrangement was taken to-day when a letter written by Secretary Hitch- cock, at the President’s suggestibn, was sent to Honolulu intimating to Governor Dole that his resignation was desired. It will require a month or more to carry out the proposed change, but a radical digression from the present policy, which has been attended with much factional party strife in the last two or three years, is decided upon. T TR The present Sécretary of the Territory, Henry E. Cooper, recently acting as Gov- ernor much df the time because of Gov- ernor Dole's illness, is also to be dis- placed. George R. Carter of Honolulu, a graduate of Yale College and son of the former Hawailan Minister, will succeed him. Harold Sewall of Maine and also of Ha- wall, where he was stationed as United States Minister for several years and a national Republican committeeman for the Territory until a few weeks ago, when he resigned in favor of Colonel Parker, ' is understood to have had a hand in these changes. He has been, with Colonel Par- ker, in consultation with President Roose- velt. e BEARERS OF, RANSOM NEARING THE BRIGANDS Stone Will Soon Be Fres, but Turkey Is Not Pleased, SOFIA, Jan. 2.—The semi-official Bul- garia announces that the American dele- gates bearing the ransom for Miss Stone, the captive American missionary, have arrived at Jumaya, and Miss Stone and her companion, Mme. Tsilka, will be re- leased within twenty-four hours after the money is pald. VIENNA, Jan. 25.—The Politische Cor- respondenz, a highly reputable paper, publishes a dispatch from Constantinople declaring that the Porte has received se- rious reports accusing Miss Stone of connivance with the Macedonian Commit- tee in allowing herself to'remain a pris- oner in order to Increase the ransom for her release demanded by the brigands, the bulk of which will go to the committee. The dispatch says that Miss Stone is at present Hving in a Bulgarian village in the disguise of a peasant. TR PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD PLANS A GREAT ROUTE Company Is Anxious to Develop the Coal Trage With Foreign Points. PITTSBURG, Jan. 2%.—From Montauk Point, L. I. to Milford Haven, England, in the Pennsylvania® Rallroad's own steamer, and from Milford Haven to London over the London and Northwest- ern road is the great International route which has been mapped out by the Penn- sylvania road for service as soon as ar- rangements can be perfected. It developed to-day that the trip of President A. J. Cassatt and his assistant, Robert Pitcairn, to England last summer was largely for the purpose of completing plans for this route. Few details of the plan are known, but it 1s a well known fact that the Pennsylvania Raflroad has been aiming for some time past to develop the foreign coal trade, and this movement is believed to be a part of the scheme. i s BDARK DRIVES ASHORE ON ATLANTIC COAST CAPE HENRY, Va, Jan. 2.+The weather bureau officlal at Drinkwater, Currituck Inlet, N. C., reports that the Italian bark Vergine Delta Guardia, in sand ballast from Barbadoes for Philadel- phia, Captain Salvator Lubramo and a crew of twelve men, stranded half a mile south of Washwood life saving station at 7:30 to-night during a dense fog. The crew with their baggage were safe- 1y landed by Captain Corbel and men of the Washwood station. The vessel is leak- ing, but may be saved if the weather con- | tinues favorable. Iliss DRDER ofALS | lice have learned that the mysterious woman confederate of the thieves whose plots led to the murder of Patrolman Robinson was Minnie Randolph, the wife of one of the Turk-street gang. Detectives are looking for her and ion known as “Ida,” in the beiief that they know the secrets of the fugitive criminals. The Grand Jury has taken cognizance of what it terms the “reign of terror” existing in the city, and it urges upon the courts a more expe~ The Superior Judges contrnue to give footpads heavy. sentences. GRAND JURY ASKS PRESIDING JUDGE TO FACILITATE TRIAL OF PRISONERS IN COUNTY JAIL Overcrowded Condition of Prisons Delays Proposed Round-Up of Criminals---Courts Give Footpads Heavy Sentences. 5 ES o -— 3 HE mysterious woman with whom | HE Grand Jury has asked that the the police have to deal in nearly Presiding Superior Judge assign every puzzling murder case has four. additional Judges to try appeared in connection with the | crimnal cases in order that the foul slaying of Police Officer County Jall may be emptied of Robinson. Her name s now prisoners awaiting trial and room known to be Minnie Randolph, and Cap- | made for others whom the police are anx- tain Seymour's detectives have been |jous to round-up and put in safekeeping tracking her from one haunt to another, but she has managed so far to slip through the meshes of the net spread for her. The Randolph woman has a companion | named “Ida,” and she, too, could give the police some valuable information about the foul - plots and nefarious schemes of the gang of thugs who shot down the brave policeman. Neither woman has been seen since the crooks abandoned the Turk-street house and hastened to cover. Minnie Randolph lived with H. B. Ran- dolph, said to be her husband, in the room’ upstairs over the den where the thugs lived. She was the guardian of all their secrets, and when Jack Wade fell into the hands of the police she, with Randolph, “Kid” _Goucher, ‘“Brownle” and Coffman, beat a hasty retreat from the house to which they knew the police would surely track them.. About three weeks ago Randolph and Goucher and the woman, all of whom had been stealing from various stores about town, visited a tallor shop on Fourth street. “Kid” Goucher and the womar: remained outside the place, en- gaging the proprietor in conversation, while Randolph went inside and stole several pairs of trousers and some trouser patterns. Guarded Secret of Lair. Randolph was arrested for the petty Contjnued on Page Eighteen. before they take advantage of present conditions to commit more serious crimes. The grand jurors came Into Judge | Cook’s court yesterday morning, and aft- er they had been seated the foreman, | Charles Sontagg, arose and handed the clerk - of the court the indictment re- turned Friday against Patsy €arroll, Martin J. Lane and Edward Sutton, the faro players, charged with tricking A. G. Mellor out of §1500 at the Palace Hotel on January 2 Foreman Sonntag then sald: “If your Honor please, the Grand Jury would ask you, as Presiding Judge, to as- sign four additional Judges to try crim- inal cases. There is a relgn of terror throughout the city. Men are being bru- tally beaten and robbed, and some mur- dered, and a more expedient and speedy handling of crimnal cases is absolutely necessary, as the County Jall is over- crowded with prisoners awaliting their trials. It is in order to relleve this conges- tion in the County Jail that we make this request.” “I am' trylng to arrange,” replled the Judge, “for as speedy trials as possible of all criminal cases, but it is not possible for me to do what you ask. There are only three Assistant District Attorneys and the District Attorney, so that one other court only could be assigned in the way you suggest. I have already taken action and have assigned criminal cases to Judge Graham’s court. Have you any- thing else to suggest?” Foreman Sonntag replied In the nega- tive and the grand jurors left the court- room. e Gt FOOTPAD WHOM JUDGE DUNNE SENTENCED TO THIRTY-THREE YEARS AT FOLSOM. DWARD DAVIS, the accomplics of Frank Nelson, who was sen- tenced to be confined at San Quentin by Judge Dunne Friday, was sent to jo'n his partner in crime yesterday by the same Judge. Dayls, however, must remain be- hind the bars of the pententiary at Fol- som for six years after Nelson has re- gained his liberty, for Judge Dunne gave him as punishment thirty-three years’ im- prisonment. They are both footpads and thelr heavy sentences are due to the fact that both are known as hardened crimi- nals. In sentencing Davis yesterday Judge Dunne spoke of his desire to give him all that the law allowed as punishment for criminals of the prisontr’s kind. He gave as his reason for giving the senterice as he dld that if he inflicted a life imprison- ment Davis would be able to secure a pa- role at the end of seventeen years. By giving Davis a fixed term of imprison- ment he prevented this comparatively early release from prison, and made it im- possible for him to get out of the peniten- tlary until he had served at least twenty years, and to cut thirteen years off his sentence Davis must behave himself in a manner strange and almost impossible to a man of his characteristics. Judge Dunne said, when Davis stood up before him to receive his sentence: “In pronouncing judgment In cases of this character I do not think it serves any good purpose to read moral lectures, be- cause good citizens do not need to have moral lectures delivered to them and it certainly serves no good purpose to read them to persons who have been convicted of crime. Under the theory of the law a man.who will hold up another man on the streets at night with a pistol is at heart a murderer. The streets of this city should be as fres to walk upon at 3 o’clock In the morning as at 3 o'clock in the after- noon. Escapes Life Sentence. “It 1s not pleasant to impose long sen- tences upon persons convicted of crime, but I say right here that it is only a con- scientious scruple that prevents me from imposing the fullest sentence that the lgw permits for cases of this character. “Therefore, Edward Davis, it is the Continued on Page Eighteen.