The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 22, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCIL —NO. 84, SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, FEBRU ARY 22, 1902. Call, PRICE FIVE CENTS. WU TING FANG SHAKES HIS FIST IN FACE OF EX-MAYOR PHELAN DURING PUBLIC ROW e RIVAL LIBERAL LEADERS o o v : » A/ SEPARATION MAY CAUSE A UNION-IMPERIAL COALITION / / / 4 LN-TA LY. TR o 3 + | f P | | T . . . wt errible Fire in | | New York H | v e ki | 1138 " ! E One Million Dollars Is Lostin the Flames. Famous Hostelry and Mili- || tia Armory in Great | & ’ Blaze. ; OF THE LIBERAL I 5t i | PARTY THE HOUSE OF | NEW YORK, Feb. 22.—Fifty per- | LORDS AND IN THE COMMONS. | sons perished in a fire that brdke out | e EOL LR early this morning in the armory of | I the Seventy-first Regiment, N. ¥. N. | BANDITS HOLD I | | @., at Park avenus, Thirty-third and | [ | | Thirty-fourth strests, and which 0” To Mo”[y | | |cpread to the Park Avenue Hotel. | The damage to property is estimated A”D cAPT/VES at over $1,000,000. | One woman, a guest “of thé hotel, | jumped from the fifth-stéfy window and b | is believed to_ be fatally. injured. . Four No Explanation of the De-| bodies had been taken oiif up Rl e - e I “ | morning, - but..4] «Se far t1- /e ' | fled is said to-be that of Colonel Pepper: lay in Releasing the | | of Loulsville, Ky. IS8 /i | s At 4 o'clock - Fire Chief Croker an- MISSIonary' 4 i+ | nounces that he believes there are fifty | % dead in the corridors and stairways of the Park Avenue Hotel. i the Bngands Hare Faied 10 IROSEDETY and Campbell-Ban- |t s m Keep Fasth, Their Extermina- | eV ufad per Th:flSev:my-fl::!t ’ egimen rmory, a magnificent granite won Wil Be Demanded. | MEVMan Part C ompany. |Emm T H & city, was destroyed. | Th b f the M litan Street - Feb. 2.—1t 1s P»‘”-: ONDON, Feb. 2L—Lord Rose-|the Times in its support of the present Rm;;::f ;,m:nu ad;uim::o‘:‘(::m:: v:::e; State Department | bery’s announcement of his|Covernment. Something of this is visi- | momentarily threatened with destruction, | have now elapsed | final separation from Sir Henry | ble in the Globe's editorial article this aft- | but for hours the good work of the fire- s Stone’s ransom i Campbell-Bannerman’s - section | crnoon, which, while congratulating Lord | men saved them. The armory covered an > ‘”d agents of the of the Liberal party forms a | Rosebery on his ‘‘emancipation,” dilates | five da vs have elapsed xed in the stipulation to the hands of her friends. nation of the delay. adverse weather, here has been a breach of faith on t e brigands, but even if this wor for having trusted them. the United States Go been adverse to paying ran- re appeals from e to antly to with the brigands. Howeve i turns out that the brigands have broken faith and they | have taken the ransom money and i the captives aw again, or that hem, then there will be attempt to deal with s on the part of the United States Government, but its entire power will be éirected upon Turkey procure the swift and certain extermina- tion of the brigands, regardless of cost or effort. Encounters That May Prevent Miss Stone’s Release. LONDON, Feb. 22.—Cabling from Ceres, European Turkey, under date of February 21, the correspondent of the Daily Graphic says that Miss Ellen M. Stone, the cap- tive American missionary, was seen last Baturday, escorted by twenty-five armed brigands, in the Bozdagh Mountains, at the southern extremity of the Perim range, thirty miles from Ceres. M. Gargioulo, the dragoman of the Ameri legation at Constantinople, is still here, continues the correspondent. | He fears that if the foregoing be true there is likelihood of an encounter be- tween the brigands and the troops pa- trolling that country, in which case it is doubtful whether the brigands would al- low the captives to escape alive. Cenditions in Macedonia are most crifi- cal, says the Daily Graphic's dispatch. The authorities admit that 200 Bulgarians have invaded that country and that en- counters with the troops are occurring frequently. The brigands killed three eolGlers at Ligodatch last Sunday. The FBulgarians are reported to be armed with Mannlicher rifies. Eighty Bulgar- fans are reported to have been wounded during the recent attempts to cross the line of demarkation. Spring has come end the snow on the mountains is melt- ing. Italian Cabinet Resigns. ROME, Feb. 21.—The Cabinet has re- signed, owing to the faflure to-day of Bignor Villa, the Government candidate for the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies, to secure his re-election. It physical conditions, such as | may | ure to secure her de- | s are loath to believe | re 50 they do not regard themselves as | authorized Mr. | and Bulgaria to | fruitful topic for editorial arti- cles and for discussion in all quarters of | Great Britain. One of the most notice- |‘able phases is the curious effect the let- ter produced on the wording of the Times’ editorial on the subject. Its friendliness to the ex-Premier might easily be ex- plained on the ground of Unfonist delight 2t a definite split in the opposition ranks. Its declaration that “what the country Wants is not a brand new set of princi- ples, but a new set of ten capable of re- | Placing the present set without upsetting the policy of the empire,” precedes the significant demand that Lord Rosebery’s party must prove that they can be trust- | d to infuse business energy and capacity imperial pol- | into the prosecution of the icy. “I£.” the Times concludes, | of efforts in that direction “the fruition may seem to | sconer than anybody expects.” | RUMORS OF COALITION. | This utterance has started rumors of a | new cocalition between the Unionists and ilmperh] Liberals under the leadership of the Duke of Devonshire and Lord Rose- ber: besides the possible defection of | .WW%‘:’WHW%. DECREE OF DIVORCE SATD TO BE FORGERY | United States Special Agent Discov- ers Some Peculiar Evidence in the East. LAPORTE, Ind., Feb. 2l.—An investiga- tion instituted here by a United States special agent has developed the fact that | @ decree of court supposed to have been | granted in 1879, divorcing W. J. Ashley of Colorado from Mary Ashley of Cali- fornta was a forgery. Ashley, a veteran, disappeared and his wife later obtained a widow’s pension on supposed proofs of her husband's death. Subsequently the Pension Department lo- | cated Ashley living with another woman to whom he claimed to be married, pro- ducing a decree of divorce from the La- porte County Circuit Court as proof. The pension of the widow was stopped and she protested, claiming to have no knowl- edge of the divorce. The department ther began an investigation, which re- sulted in to-day’s disclosures. | Hay Gives Them No Passports. CHICAGO, Feb. 21.—Dr. and Mrs. Hiram W. Thomas of Chicago were re- fused passports to visit the South African concentration camps by Secretary Hay of the State Department at Washington to- €ay. Dr. and Mrs, Thomas intended to E0 to Africa to distribute money for the use of the camp prisoners. Secretary Hay, it is stated, gave as his reason for refusing the passports that President Roosevelt would object, and consequently he would not make application for them to Lord Pauncefote. th | € Temote, we can only say it may come | entire block and was occupied also by | the Second Battery and the First Signal Corps. The fire was discovered in a window of | the armory on the Thirty-fourth-street side, and by the time the firemen arrived 5 the flames had completely enveloped the | bullding and appeared through the roof. | Shortly after 2 o'clock a thousand pounds | of powder in the cellar exploded and the walls of the building were thrown out- ward. By this time the people living in the neighborhood had been driven from their homes by the heat and were sheltered in the car barns nearby. Many escapes were witnessed and heroic work was done by firemen and spectators. The guests of the Park-avenue Hotel, numbering about 600, were aroused as | quickly'as possible, but not without panic among the women and children. The fira- men poured eleven streams upon the side of the hotel nearest the armory, but in spite of this the third floor caught fire and the flames, eating along the walls of the hotel, spread to the roof. The fire- men ran ladders up on either side and at. tempted to work their way through the hotel, but were driven back by the dense volumes of smoke again and again. A little ‘after 3 o'clock the four upper floors of the hotel were a mass of flames and the fire was spreading rapldly down through the structure. It was then ap- parent that the hotel was doomed. Notwithstanding the fact that every- body in the hotel had ample time to get out, a large number of women were car- ried down the ladders by firemen until it was thought everybody had been taken out. Just at this time & woman in her night clothes appeared at a window in the fifth floor, and before warning could reach her | flung herself headlong to a portico over the main entrance. It is believed that she will die. Two bodies were found on the fifth floor by the firemen and two more in other parts of the building. It is feared several other bodies will be found in other parts of the building. At 4 o'clock Chief Croker, who had been inside the building, said that he believed a large number of dead were inside in the halls and corridors. Among those who escaped were Bishop Ludden, Monsignor Kenny and a number of Catholic priests from Syracuse, N. Y. b T ADMIRAL MILLER DYING. NEW YORK, Feb. 22.—Admiral Joseph Miller, U. 8. N., retired, who had a room on_the fifth floor of the Park Avenue Ho- tel, fell unconscious in his attempt to es- cape from the burning building. It is stated that he cannot recover. Admiral Miller went through the Windsor Hotel fire and the Murray Hill explosion un- scathed. « 4 Two men whose names have not been learned attempted to escape from ‘the Park Avenue Hotel by going to the roof. Both of them jumped from the roof later and one was instantly killed. The other was fatally injured. :Lc 4:15 a. m. the fire was under con- tre 35 / | strongly upon the pettiness of the differ- ences between his policy. and that of the | Unfentsts. ¢ The Pall Mall Gazette follows other opinion in declaring that ‘“a man that ican write a letter =0 as to reply to Sir { Henry Campbell-Bannerman has the grit which the empire asks of those who | lead it The Westminster Gazette, hitherto di- | vided in its alliance, comes out for Sir | Henry Campbell-Bannerman, but sorrow- | fully admits that Lord Rosebery's letter I'means another term of government for | the Untonists, while it fears Lord Rose- bery's group may be liable to absorption {in that party. GLADSTONE'S PROPHECY. E. L. Godkin, formerly editor of the vening Post of New York, writing to the Westminster Gazette with reference to Joseph Chamberlain, the Colonial Sec- retary, says that when Chamberlain de- serted the Liberals he (Godkin) asked Gladstone, through a correspondent, for information anent Chamberlain. Glad- stone’s reply was: “Chamberlain is the first politician we have had of the Amer- ican type, and he is destined to give a great deal of trouble.” {E PROTEST OF THE CONSUL RELEASES AN AMERICAN Action of Petty Officials in Ecuador Is Stopped by United States Representative. GUAYAQUIL, Feb. 2L—Strenuous ef- forts on the part of the Anferican Consul here, strongly supported by all residents of that nationality, have averted another outrage on an American citizen by petty officials. Manager Smith of McDonald & Co. re- fused to pay a judgment obtained against him under the peon law last Monday and was arrested. The Consul bestirred himself in the matter, with the result that the officials receded from their posi- tion and Smith was released to-day. -Last November the Guayaquil agent of McDonald & Co. was compelled to seek refuge in the consulate to escape the blackmailing operations of officials. —_— TIDAL WAVES CAUSE DEATHS AT SALVADOR Natives Along the Coast Are Terror- ized by the Strength of the Sea. PANAMA, Colombia, Feb. 21.—The Her- ald’s correspondent in Salvador reports that tidal waves on the Salvadoran coast have killed more than fifty people and caused the partial destruction of seven villages. Native tribes and superstitious inhabit- ants of towns along the coast are in a state of terror, fearing a repetition of the tidal wayes ! MINISTER IN TEMPESTUOUS MOOD OVER WESTERN MAN'S STAND ON CHINESE PROBLEM * - bOW’ZdO?f of a Gotham H otel Scene of Encounter. 'EW YORK, Feb. 21.—"“You are an enemy of our country. You are hostile to Chinese. You are trying to keep Chinamen out of the United States.” Trembling - with excitement and deep feeling, Wu Ting Fang, Chinese Minister at Washington, thus denounced James D. Phelan, former Mayor of San Francisco, in the corridor of the Waldorf- Astoria. Raising his voice until it rang through the lower floor of the hotel, the diplomat thus began a colloquy that last- ed for twenty minutes, and was marked by bitter sarcasm. So great was ths crowd that gathered around the dispu- tants, that the hotel managers ordered the employes to clear the corridor. Minister Wu said he should haye been consulted about the Chinese exclusion bill, and threatened that China would re- tallate by keeping Americans out of the Flowery Kingdom. Minister Wu's indignation had not sub- sided when he was seen to-night at the Broadway Theater, where he occupled a box. At the mention of ex-Mayor Phe- lan’'s name he broke out: “I made him go away back off the earth and sit down. 1 shook my fist in his face. I pitched into him. I.cornered him. He couldn't answer. I deny that he shook his fist in my face.” CAUSE OF DISPUTE. Phelan is one of the Commissioners ap- pointed by the Governor of California to represent the State before the committees of the Senate and House of Representa- tivés that now have before them the bill which re-enacts practically without change the Chinese exclusion act. He and his assoclate Commissioners have been glving testimony before a’ committee at ‘Washington relative to the bill'and in fa- vor of its passage. He came from Wash- ington to-day on his way back to San Francisco, and stopped at the Waldor?- Astorla. Phelan was conversing with a friend from Chicago, near the hotel of- fice at 3 o'clock, when Minister Wu, ac- companied by several friends, came tap- idly through the corridor toward- them. Minister Wu was dressed in Oriental cos- tume with wonderful dlamond ornaments on the front of his head dress, which sparkled as he walked. Phelan’s friend was acquainted with the Chinese Minis- ter. Wu smiled broadly and extended his hand to him. “Your Excellency,” said Phelan’s com- panion, “permit me to introduce to you my friend, Mayor Phelan of San Fran- cisco.” The hand that the diplomat was about to give the new acquaintance shot up to- ward Phelan's face, and shaking it furi- | ously Wu delivered the quoted salutation. His voice trembled and his face reddened as he fairly shouted the words. Phelan was nonplused for the moment by the turn of affairs, and then he broke in upon the Minister with a declaration that American. labor must be protected, and said there would be an invasion of Cni- nese coolies if there was no bar to keep them out. At the mention of coolles the Minister ralsed his hands as if in expostulation, and he looked as if utterly weary of hear- ing the word. “The coolle is a man who carries a bas- ket,” he said. “‘He is a menial—the low- est of our race. If you mean to keep him from coming here I agree with you. The coolie should be kept out.” WU MAKES THREATS. “But we refer to all Chinese laborers as coolies,” said Phelan. “We must protect our own. We must maintain our majori- ties.” » “Majorities,” shoutéd Wu. *“I know what you mean, Mr. Phelan; you want to be elected again.” *'Oh, no, I don’t,”” Phelan shouted back. “Five times as Mayor are enough for me.” Then he mentioned the hated word ~ Continued on Page Two. P " 4 CHINESE MINISTER AT WASH- INGTON AND A FORMER MAYOR OF SAN FRANCISCO. R R L 4 GIVES DETAILS IN COURT OF A CRUEL MURDER |Charles Woodward Con- fesses Killing of Sher- iff Ricker. 1 ‘{Fm/mg to Heed the Pitiful Plea of the Dying Officer, the As- { sailant Fled. IASPER, Wyo.,, ~Feb. 2L—Charles c“‘oodward, the murderer of Sher- | iff Ricker, confessed on the wit- | ness stand this afterncon and told |of the crime in all of its horrible | details. In brief his confession was as follows: Woodward went to his ranch and found Sheriff Ricker and posse there. Going to_the barn he secured a fresh horse and was about to ride away when Sheriff Ricker came from the house. He first asked if Harry Woodward was in the barn. The murderer replied “No,” “Oh, it's you, | | whereupon Ricker said: Charlie.” ‘Woodward immediately drew his revol- ver which he secured at the Casper stock- yards when he broke jail, where it had | been placed by a friend. ' He fired and | Ricker yelled “Oh,” and fell to the | ground. Regaining consclousness in ten minutes he cried out to his deputies at | the house to come and get him. Woodward thought the officers were coming and fired several shots at them, the deputies returning the fire. A few minutes later, after the firing had ceased, Sheriff Ricker called to Woodward, say- | tng: “Won't you come and carry me to |the house? Ob, my poor wife and | babies!” ‘Woodward sald the pitiful cries of the Sheriff nearly caused him to give up, but hearing the deputies coming, he saddled | another horse and escaped. He said the Sherift died before he left. He did not | steal the officer’s money. but his gun was lying on the ground and he took it, hav= | Ing secured the scabbard and belt. ‘Woodward then told of his long ride to Arvada, thence by train to Billings, his capture by Owens and Burkheimer, etc. The feeling against Woodward is at fever heat to-night, but there is little talk of a lynching, as it is believed he will be quickly sentenced and executed. Two Ycung Girls Are Asphyxiated. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 21.—Marle Ro- jahm, aged 19 years, and Lizzle Klosteron, | 27 years, employed in the restauramt of | Jacob Hess, 291 Germantown avenue, | were fourd dead in bed this morning. bav- ing been asphyxiated by gas. The girls roomed together and the gas escaped from a rezister In the room. ~