The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 1, 1902, Page 1

JOLUME XCL—NO. 63, SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1902, WOMAN JOINS THE BIDDLE BROTHERS IN FIERCE PRICE FIVE. CENTS. - BATTLE WITH. THE PURSUING POSSE OF OFFICERS AMERICAN NAVAL MEN THADE 15 - PROTECTED Maintenance of “Open Door” Policy in China Assured. | This to Be Achieved by Nego~| tiation With the Peking | Government. | United States Is Making a New Com- | mercial Treaty in Which the “Favored Nation” Clause Is Respected. Epscial Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 146 G STREET, N. | W., WASHINGTON, Jan. SL—Though the United States failed to secure the insertion the Chinese protocol of & provision Insuring the mAinte-| nance of the “open door” -in Chi-| this result will be achieved, it learned, by the negotiation of a new treaty with the Peking Gov- in Peking, Special Com- ockhill, under instructions Secretary Hay, made an t to induce the powers to the negotiation of & joint com- eaty with China. Europe was 4, however, to co-operate with States, and it therefore be- | to negotiate separate angements. In the new ne, = necessary be incorporated a pro- oFFicERS v I read something like or this } THE Protecting American Trade. { g maa That whatever privilege, exemption, | | 5 antage that is already or| | be conceded by China to | esentatives or to merchants, | | citizens of any other country their persons, property, r occupaticns shall be at the ended to like offictal repre- r s and citizens of the the lowest rates of | . ges imposed upon personal | les of international com- reign national origin shall ble to a like arti- in, and no other or re- o cacs.nan AEHEEMEN.“ Tfl States than n exports of the most T privileges, rights, ex- benefits now or hereafter | of any other heir cargoes or offi- be equally enjoyed | of the United States. It is fully ‘ bod by both high contracting par- ed States, citizens there- | d personal rights | ina shall continue to | e most favorable terms e to any foreign nation | RAISE RAT Atlantic Steamships crease Charges on Freight. ES foregoing pro Secretary Hay is co Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, Jan. 3L—It was definitely announced to-day that the various-steam- | ship lines whose fleets ply between Amer- | ican and English ports had reached an| agreement - regarding outward freights, and that the neW rates would go into ef-| fect to-morrow. Although only three | classes of shipments are affected by the | ision is so iron-clad | nfident that it | the T ed Stat to enj hte and privileges of what- be accorded to ult of the diplom- Hay, this Government declarations from all the powers 1 and ag! during the Boxer revolt ognizing enable of Becretary e “‘open door,” but the pro- | freight pool rates into which all the lines sion which it is proposed to incorporate | Plving between England and America | the projected commercial treaty will | Seem to have entered, these three are the | make more difficult the evasfon of this | most important of all the outward car- | goes and include grain, flour and provis- fons. On each of these the freight charges | have been increased greatly. grain being | advanced from %d a bushel to 1%d. Flour | moves from 6s 3d to 7s 64, and ‘provisions | from 7s 6d to 10s a ton { Although denfed by every agent who | was questioned to-day, this agreement re- 1 troi and a new adjustment | §arding rates is generaly believed to! v &n effort to secure | have been directly connected with the re- | na to such a provision | cent arrival here of several forelgn repre- The attitude of Secretary | sentatives of various lines. These came by changed rega the White Star liner Celtic a week ago, J and ever since their embarkation at Liv- erpool the cables were kept busy with | | rumors as to what was bringing so many | of them to.the eountry at the sa e time. These denied to-day that their ap; ‘rance had anything to do' with the new agree- ment, but in well-informed maritime cir- much significance is attached to the | fact that this new pool should have been | ! formed so soon after their arrival. | S0 far as could be iearned to-night no | 2 f interests regarding passenger cabin or steerage, has been . but with the establishment of this vast community of interests as re- gards freight charges, some other and r alliance is confidently pre- | with the com- s are given in the re- as Special Commissioner | y of which was btai f k It is ex-| pected that the commercial treaty will| & provision for the abolition | ed Rockhi Ohject of Revision. ofia rey on equal r produced t 'he inequal pplication to Goor’ is | should > sell duties shippers of grain, | visions wHl hereafter have, the increased charges demanded ep at home. Every Britig and American line been brought into the combination, while it s possible | that some of the German companies may | compete, it is-believed these, too, will be- | come signatories to the agreement as soon | ictivenese. Special the wer on riai occ »uld ground be & vored e it ricted, if not wholly as the two irectors of the Ham- st and uniform | burg-Amert and ‘the North Ger- n uted, and | man Lioyd e now on their way to| v uld be had | New York, reach this port. | I powers in the | But even should t refuse to enter ti fon. allowing | agreement such refusal would not appre- on foreign cargo to China, atively aff freighters of t the situatior, as the | hese two companies, numer- | > that no udditional duties | ous and capacious as. they are,-would be | e sed foreig. goods or do- | wholly urable to carry the vast amount | Joiued or certified for ex- | of It which annually moves eas i ward from this country. LINES ENTER | FIND SMALLPOX VIETIN HIDING N A CLOSET Kern City Health Officers Search Home of Dr. McKenzie. Special Dispatch to The Call. BAKERSFIELD, Jan. 31.—For the past ten days Dr. McKenzie has been in - ing in a room of his residence in Kern City, a sufferer from variolold. It had been said by the members of his family that ‘the physician had gone to Los An- geles for his health. He had been suffer- ing, they declared, from bilious fever, but had gained sufficient strength to make the southern trip. Friends of the family were daily visitors at the home, little thinking that a varioloid patient was in the house. During the last day or so, however, a rumor was circulated to the effect that Dr. McKenzie had not lert his home. Be- cause of this the Kern Health Board called \for an investigation. Health Officer Williams and Dr. Booth, who has had charge of the epidemic in Randsburg, told Mrs. McKenzie they had ome to search the house. ~While sur- prised, she made no objections and the searching party, after going through ajl the rooms, finally discovered the physi- cian in a erouching attitude in a closet adjoining a bedroom. “What do you think i the matter with me?"’ sisted to his feet. “It is not a time for thinking.” Dr. Booth. “You have varioloid.” The physician's face was broken out with the disease. The offigjals, after fumi- gating themselves, made their. report and the McKenzie home was at once quaran- replicd Dr. McKenzie, who lately denied that a niece and nephew, who have since re- t ed to the East, were afflicted with smallpox, despite the diagnosis of other physicians to the contra is severely censured by his friends and neighbors be- cause of his peculiar actions. His condi: tion is further proof that his relativos were afflicted with smallpox, and. it is supposed the doctor did not let the pubiic know of his condition for the reason that | be would thereby be found to have érred | iz his diagnosis. asked Dr. McKenzie as he was as- | BELIEVE CONDOR SANK EFORE BOATS COULD BE LOWERED ICTORIA, B. C., Jan. 3L.—The arrival ‘of the Grant and Egeria from the west coast is being awaited with considerable interest, for it is probable they will have found along the Vancouver Isl#nd coast, the graveyard of the Pacific, some tangible evidence of the fate of the missing war- ship Condor. Ahoygsett by Indlans. The Egeria is bringing back the boat picked up. near This boat, which may be the only thing belonging to the Condor given up by the sea; was evidently swept from its lashings on the warship by the high seas Naval men say the fact that the iron gripes were still in place shows that the sailors did not have time to launch the craft, for had they done so the gripes would have been removed. The boat, without doubt, was carried away from Its lashings, which are securely fastened when the warships leave for sea While the theory of a possible collision between the lost Matteawan and the Condor has been advanced, it is far more likely that the warship was swamped by heavy seas and foundered during the storm off Cape Flattery. On the night of December 3 the gale blew with terrific violence from the southeast, and at the same time there was a heavy southwest swell, making a confused sea which would be dangerous to a well-decked vessel of the class of the Condor. If her decks filled, as they would when she labored in such a storm, the large well deck would hold several tons of water, which would prevent her rising to meet the next high sea which might sweep aboard. Then, too, the heavy guns might have broken from their lashings and rolled about the evér tilting decks. Captain Ress of the collier San Mateo, now at Nanaimo, reported to-night that.on his last trip from Nanaimo, about January 16, he met a boat in' the straits which he believed was that of a warship. It was painted white and had a square stern. There was no name on it and it was empty. He is strongly of the opinion that it belonged to the Condor. When the ‘now missing British sloop of war Condor was at New Westmins- ter last October her commander, Captain Selater, is said to have been quite out- spoken in his criticisms of the seaworthiness of his ship. as saying that the Condor's construction was poor; deck and forecastle and her high bulwarks and well He is now reported that with her high poop decks it would go hard with her if one of her larger guns were to break from its lashings, as ‘did one of the 9-pounders of the flagship Warspite in the heavy gale of December 3. S THE MISSING BRITISH SLOOP OF WAR CONDOR AND A GROUP OF HER OFFICERS, WHO ARE BELIEVED TO HAV.E GONE DOWN WITH THE VESSEL DURING THE TERRIFIC STORM THAT PRVAILED OFF CAPE FLATTERY EARLY IN DECEMBER. _— % UNIONS FEAR WAR HAS BEGUN N MAGHINISTS Many Railroad Employes in Nebraska Lose Positions. Spectdl Dispatch to The Call. OMAHA, Jan. 3L.—The machinists’ unions of Nebraska have begun an in- quiry into the discharge of eighty union employes at the Union Pacific shops in this city and to the westward. Included among those dispensed .with are four officers in the unions and many cther prominent union workers. The men Lave been dropped from the rolls gradu- ally during the last three weeks with a statement that a slackness existed in the work. The unfons fear that the company's ac- tion' fs the first step.in the discharge of all the union machinists on the system | and they will make a desperate effort to secure the reinstatement of their fellows. It is believed that the unlons' trouble with the company has its rise in the use of the immense compound engines which i the Unfon Pacific has recently been add- ing to the service from the Baldwin Loco- { motive Works. It has been found that three engines have been tampered with as they were being put in condition at the various sheps in the West. The men have looked upon them with small favor inas- much as non-union workmen had con- structed them. The machinists’ unions have protested that they were In no way responsible for injuries done the locomotives. Commit- |tees are now laboring with the Union Pa- icifig officlals in an effort to exonerate the | unions. LEAVE GHINESE VIGTIMS BOUND - T0 THE WALLS Thugs Invade Mongolian Quarters in Suburb of Seattle. Special Dispatch to The Call. SEATTLE, Jan. 31.—One of the most daring crimes that has been committed in the suburbs of Seattle in some time was reported to the police this morning. Ten Chinese gardeners were assauited, bound and robbed by a gang of six or seven highwaymen. There is no trace of the thugs. Last night, after the Chinese had fin- ished their day's work, they repaired to their. house, a rude shelter built near their gardens in the vicinity of Van Asselt, six miles south of Seattle. It was 10 -o’clock . when “they became settled around their fire and began smoking their long pipes. Suddenly the door flew open and in rushed six or seven men, all armed. - They attacked the' Chinese and, bore them to the floor. There was little resistance. Those who attempted to ex- ercise ‘their vocal organs were quickly silenced by blows on the head. The Chinese were securely tied with ropes to nearby objects and the thieves proceedgd to “‘go through them.” = With the small change in the gardeners’ pock- ets and a little ‘store hidden away, the thieves managed to get about $80 in cash, together with a watch. With this they made their departure, leaving the Chinese tied to the walls of the house, in which ‘condition they were discovered this morn- ing. GAIME N SHE OF FRANCHISES 5 THE CHARGE Prominent St. Louis Men Are Taken Into Custody. Special Dispatch to The Call ST. LOUIS, Jan. 8l.—Harry A. Foulk- ner, meémber of the present House of Delegates from the Twenty-third Ward, and Julius Lehmann, former member of the House, were arrested to-day on bench warrants issued by Judge Wood at the order of the Grand Jury, which is Inves- tigating the charges of alleged corruption in the municipal assembly. The two men arrested are charged with bribery in connection with the suburban street railway franchises. It was report- ed.that another bench warrant had been issued late this afternoon, but this could not be verified. The Grand Jury will adjourn to-morrow. Its report is awaited with intense intery est. Circuit Attorney Joseph Foulk Is authority for the statement that the next Grand Jury will take up the bribery in- vestigation where this one leaves off and will go into every detail of the alleged corruption in the municipal assembly and | elsewhere in connection with street rail- way and other legislation. China Seals Sold at Auction. LONDON, Jan. 31.—The seals which ars alleged to have belonged to the Dowager EmpreSs of China and to have been looted at Peking, to which attention was called in the House of Commons yesterday, in an effort to prevent their sale, were soid tat auction to-day =nd brought £33, WARDEN'S WIFE USES TWO GUNS Mrs. Soffel and Escaping Murderers Finally Shot Down. Daring Desperadoes Riddled With Buckshot and One Cannot Recover. Irfatuated Dupe of the Jail Breakers, After Being Wounded, Fires a Bullet Into Her Breast, but Corset Saves Her Li: PITTSBURG, Jan. 3l.—Edward Biddle is dving in the jail at Butier: John Biddle is riddled with buckshot and in a pre- carious condition, . an irs. Pete: . Soffel is lying In the hospital with a seif- inflicted bullet wound in the breast. This the sequel of the sensational escape of the Biddle brothers from the Allegheny County Jail, 1 by Mrs. Soffel, wife of | the jail warden, on Thursday morning. The close of the Biddle tragedy came at 5:43 o'clock this afternoon in a snow= covered road, two miles east of Prospect, Butler County, near Mount Chestnut. The exact place was at McClure's barn, where two double team sleighs, filled with eight officers, three of them Pittsburg detec- tives, John Roach, Albert Swinehart and Charles McGovern, met the two Biddles | In a one-horse sleigh, stolen at Per ville, and at once opened fire vn the trio. Biddles Return the Fire. Tie Piddles returned the fire after jumping out of the sleigh. Mrs. Soffel was shot in the breast. Edward Biddle was shot in the left arm, in the breast and in one leg. John Biddle was riddled with buckshot in the breast and head. The Pittsburg officers were met at But- ler this afternoon by Deputy Sheriffs Rainéy and Hoon and Officers Frank Holliday and Aaron Thompson, the latter under command of Chief of Police Robert Ray of Butler. The officers were certain that they were on right trail and it was only a question of time when they would overtake the escaping condemned murderers and their guilty companion. 5 The Biddles and Mrs. Soffel ate dinner at J. J. Stephens, at Mount Chestnut, five miles east of Butler. They had made a detour of the town of Butler and after going seven miles east turned north and then went west. The Pittsburg officers, only a few miles the rear, took the wrong road for about eight miles, but when they found their mistake they made up lost time by telephoning and (tele- graphing ahead for fresh horses. Officers Escape Injury. They reached Mount Chestnut not more than half an hour after the Biddles and Mrs. Soffel. At this point William Wat- son, storekeeper, had fresh horses wait- ing for them and the chase for life began anew. The two sleighs carrying the eight offi- cers met the Biddles and Mrs. Soffel at McClure's barn, two miles from Mount Prospect. The Biddles, having learned that they were almost overtaken and tak- ing what they considered the only chance they ‘had drove eastward and met their doom. The Pittsburg and other officers were armed with Winchester rifles and revolv- ers of large caliber. They shot to kill, and their alm was perfect. The Biddles tried to kil to the last of their string, but not one of the eight officers has a wound as a result of the battle. Woman Shoots at Pursuers. When the detectives got within about sixty yards of the fugitives they opened fire. The Biddles promptly answered with shotgun and revolvers. Mrs. Soffel, too, stood up In the sleigh with a revolver in efther hand and blazed away at her pur- suers. When Ed Biddle fell and when she saw that she ‘was about to be captured she fired a bullet into her breast. An ex- amination of her wound shows that she will recover, a: tne bullet’ was deflected by her corset anu the wound is compara- tively slight. Edward Biddle got a bullet in the breast, which penetrated his right lur and will probably end his life before morning. John Biddle May Recover. John Biddle may recover, as his wounds, though numerous, failed to reach a vital spot. The escape of fhe officers is miraculous. The Biddles have demon strated on several occasions that they are good marksmen and why they should have failed to-day to bring down their men is a mystery. After the Biddles fell to the snow-cov- ered ground the officers picked up the ap- parently lifeless bodies of Mrs. Soffel and the Biddles and tcok them back to But- ler, where they aJso fook the stolen sleigh, and patched up the harness and worn-out horse that the trio had made their flight. The story of the fight as told by one of the detectives.follows: Story Told by a Detective. The Biddles were sitting on the right side of the cutter. Mrs, Soffel was on the left side. When Detective McGovern calied to them to Hold up their hands and surrender EA Biddle in use of in 1 Continued on Page Twe