The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 31, 1902, Page 1

= — VOLUME XCI.—NO. 121. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1902. DIG OUT FORTUNE IN A DAY Thunder Mountain| Miners Tell of New EI Dorado. ' Offer Golden Proof| of the District’s Richness. Great Stampede toi Follow Opening | of Trails. , Special Dispatch to The Call. { BOISE, Idaho, March 30.—Excitement s | at fever heat here over reports brought out from the Thunder Mountain gold fields by returning miners.” Frozen dirt | has been washed out in snow water and panned in ordinary prospecting pans, $50 | & day to the man having been obtained in that manner. Decomposed quartz, pound ed in 2 mortar, has ylelded as high as 5200 a day to two men, one pounding and the other washing. Rich finds on Monumental and Mule creeks have been made, the ore assaying | from $100 to $2700 a ton. In an Indian grave were found the remains of an In- dian skeleton. At the side of the bones was & pile of more than $3500 in gold nug- gets, arranged into grotesque ornaments. | Nuggets of about the same purity and be- | ing similarly imbedded in quartz have been found in the gold fields at other | points, indicating the source of the In-| dians’ wealth. The rush to the Thunder Mountain gold | fields continues unabated. The stampede | for wealth has taken a great many of the | crowd into the district proper, but, ow- | ing to the great danger of traveling hl1 the mountains at this time of the year the hardships incident thereto, the ity has located in a fringe of towns to the gold fields—Boise, Weiser, um, Lewiston and other places. | ndreds of men, attracted to the | Here b new gold camp, are waiting till the trafls shall have been worn down by the more i hardy and fearless ones, whom no argu- | could keep out. Some of the lal-! | men ter have just come out for provisions. They relate stories of the richness of the district that sound like romance, but | which are borne out by samples of ore, | nuggets and gold dust. These stories arel supplemented by letters from men who would fiot veturn, TERIAMANE 08 SNOTE ras tions to work their claims. ] | BIG VOLCANIC DEPOSIT. The entire section, something like forty | miles squi ickly mineralized. It s an immen anic deposit, something of the character of which is revealed by developmen the Dewey mines, told by Jonas Lawrence, who has just returned. He sald: | *“The shaft is now down 180 feet and the grows richer with the depth. ore Cross- cut nnels have been run nearly 200 feet both ways from the bottom of the | shaft, and the same values continue in | both directions. There is a pay streak in | the mine, which runs from $2000 to $10,000 | & ton. At the 18)-foot level the pay streak | is four feet wide. rich On either side of thlsi re immense bodies of ore that | $20 a ton. It Is all free mill- | the outnut can be limited only vein assay ar ing ore and by the number of stamps that can be worke: advantage.” Th J. Carter, just back from the gold , says: “Most of the surface rock fs decom- posed and can be readily handled in sluice | boxes. I addition to this decomposed | quartz, there are rich placers, the two | combining to make the camp very attrac- tive t e poor miner. The placer sea- | son is shc however, owing to the scarc- ity of water, ten days to two weeks being | the limit at most points. Last spring the | man from whom I bought this ground | took out, w the help of three others, | $22,000 in elght They had the dirt, | which ran as high as $196 a pound, piled | along the sluice boxes, and when the | snow, water = it in day and night u to run they dumped 1 the water supply gave out. We prospected some dirt a few days ago which was frozen so we had to thaw it. We meited ow water and made & test in a small rocker. Ir = as rich as that we more than $500 to the yard DEMAND FOR CLAIMS. all the ground ed, it will run “Most of those who dared the elements this winter to get into the camp have | reaped harvests by selling claims., In| many instances snow locations have been | sold for $1000 to $000 each, the buyers merely taking chances on the general rich- ness of the gold fields.’ ! The greatest drawback just now is a | scarcity of provisions. Packtrains that started several weeks ago have not got through. The weather is moderating however, and it is belleved the shortage will be relleved in the course of ten day One pack outfit became snowbound for two weeks. Most of the mules died, and the provisions were stored in W Cuv the men in charge of them returning on improvised snowshoes, getting back yes- | Scores of Persons In- | neck broken and instantly kiiled, CHURCHES COLLAPSE IN A GALE Roofs Crash Down Upon Easter=Day Worshipers. jured in Pennsyl- vania Towns. Immense Damage the | Result of Tornado’s Sweep. Special Dispatch to The Call. PITTSBURG, March 30.—One of the fiercest windstorms ever known in this section struck the city to-day just before | noon. Almost incaiculable damage was | to property many people | were injured, some of whom may die. Scores of houses were unroofed, many rees were blown down, mill stacks top- pled over and telegraph and telephone wires were disabled. The most serious accident was the un- roofing of the Presbyterian Church Knoxville, occupied by about 600 persons. | While the minister was in the midst of | his sermon the wind blew down the large | chimney and lifted a portion of the roof. Bricks from the chimney crashed through the roof anc carried a luge plece of the hardwood ceiling down upon the worshipers. A panic ensued and a frantic rush was made for the doors and done and in windows. At least forty persons were caught by the wreckage and more or less hurt. Of this number five may not recover. The more seriously injured are: Dr. R. | J. Phillips, aged 40, may die; Curtis Ray McKnight, aged 4, probably fatal; Clar- ence M¢Nulty, aged 17, may dle; Fletcher Byron, seriously; David Smith, aged 32, seriously; Joseph Adams, 21, badly crushed; Albert Schmidt, aged 14, both arms broken and head cut; John Meyer, aged 17, head and face cut; Thomas Mechlin, aged 18, arms d face cul Evans Jones, aged 2% rious; Mrs. | Rachel Schultz, aged -25, arms broken. | The towboat Belle McGowan was over- turned by the wind on the Ohio River and completely wrecked. Her crew was res- cued. SPIRE CRUSHES ROOF. As Rev, J. W. English, pastor of the Robiriken - Run - TRites " Church, near McDonald, was raising his arms to pronounce the benediction, light- ning struck the church spire and it top- pled upon the roof, crushing it and injur- | ing a number of worshipers, two of whom will die. The injured: Robert Patterson, aged 11 | years, will die; Leon Averill, aged 11, will | Mrs. John Patterson, mother of Rob- | Mrs. Mary Patterson, Miss Mary G. Wallace, Mrs. Averill, mother of Leon. | At Jamestown a tornado tore out one end of the United Presbyterian Church | while Rev. J. M. Jamison was preaching. | He was buried under a mass of brick and | timbers and fatally injured, The congre- gation escaped unhurt. The Nobelstown Presbyterian Church | midable party was unroofed. The Forest Oil Company had between | 200 and 300 derricks blown down in fits McDonald region and considerable dam- | age was sustained by its plpeage system. The offices of the Monongahela connect- | ing rallroad in this city were destroyed | by fire during the afternoon, because no alarm could be turned in, the wires being down. The Armstrong Cork Company’s plant was unroofed and much damage | done to machinery and stock. All rail- roads suffered more or less from broken telegraph poles and crippled serviée. TWO XILLED IN CHURCH. A Wellsburg (W. Va.) report received | late to-night says: “The storm which | visited the Ohlo Valley to-day amounted | to a calamity here. The historic Franklin | Methodist Episcopal Church, four miles | east of this place, is in ruins, its vener- able pastor is seriously injured, two mem- bers of its congregation are dead and | several others are injured. The Rev. Mr, Alishouse had reached the peroration in | his sermon on “The Resurrection” when | suddenly the gable end of the church was blown in. The falling timbers and debris struck him and fell all about him. The | congregation was panic-stricken, Many | had reached the outside and others were ot in the edifice when the gale’ lifted the roof off and it fell among the people, The dead are: STELLA BRADY, 16 ycars of age, “ROBERT GIST, aged 10, internally in- jured; dled while being taken home, he Injured: Rev. Allsheuse, cut about head, serfously Injured; Melvin Harvey, gashes in head, arm broken; Ruseell Gist, wounded about head and body,” HAVOC IN MANY TOWNS. More than 2500 lights of glass in the Phipps Conservatory, in Schenley Park were broken and much of the. gorgeous Kaster flower display ruined. The Montana Apartment House and the Idaho uilding, which adjoins it, were partially was terday. The rush has assumed such pro-| gegooceq ! portions that Bolse and other places are | \ted reports trom ncarby towns up“ now crowded to the limit by strangere, | o mianight show that the wind played | who came on believing they could. get| havoc at every town In -ts track, At | into the fields at once with ease. Hotel | Mingo junction, Ohio, two big structural accommodations are and prices | ore bridges of the National Steel Com- have Jumped skywerd in all lines | pany's plant, valued at $50,000, were lwmed“ on account of the boom. Miners now | jnto shapeless masses of iron. At Belle | here send word to their friends not | Vernon, Pa,, the American Window Glass to come for at Jeast a month, but|Company's plant was unroofed, several every train wswells the number. When ! blocks of houses belonging to the com- the tralls are opened the stampede will | pany were wrecked and other damage was be one of the most sensational in the his- | done. At Greensburg, Pa., nearly nine vy of mining in the Northwest. News was telephoned from Counefl this cvening that a letter just recelved there | stated that a crowd of claim jumpers had | arrived at Thunder Mountain and were | Sumping claims as fast as they could. | a thousand feet of roof of the Keeley & Jones plant was carried away and the great cupola of the First Presbyterian Chureh was toppled into the street. ‘At Jeannette, Latrobe and New Alexandria a number of houses were unroofed. | churches as the leading remedy to save world came to me and told me that on the | | lapel, Furthermore, a band of 100 pleces | MAY BE HIS LLAST MESSAGE Pope’s Easter Ency- clical a Remark- able Missive. Tells His People That He Is Near to Death. Urges Union of Chris- tians to Oppose Atheism. Special Dispatch to The Call. ROME, March 30.—The most remarkable message ever issued by a Pontifi to his people is the Easter encyclical of .Leo XIII, published to-day in His Holiness’ official organ. The Pope, realizing that his days on earth are numbered, states the fact that this encyclical will be perhaps his final word of advice to the clergy and mem- bers of the Roman Catholic church. The holy father therefore says that the mes- sage may be considered as his testament to his people. Union of all Christian churches to op- pose the attacks of atheists is urged, and the co-operation of other religions than the Roman faith to save society is im- pressed upon all believers in God. That the world is passing through a perilous time is insisted by the Pontift, who desires that this encyclical—practi- cally his dying words—will by its warning arouse all Christendom to a sense of the danger that confronts it. The growth of divorce and the resultant easy loosening of marriage ties are condemned. = Lib- erty and disorder in social relations are sald to make the people drift farther from God. 3 Wars and great armaments are held to have a tendency to make the poorer fear oppression and anarchy and soclalism are the results, until now organized bands seek the lives of all rulers. MISERY OF HUMANITY. The Pope says he would encourage Catholic Bishops throughout the world to continue vigorously to resist persecutions which now afflict the church. These per- secutions would continue, but they would not affect the spread of the light of Christ among infidels. Hig Holiness views with alarm and sorrow the conditions now ex- tant and declares: “Never has humanity found itself in . eordition than at present. There is disorder in all social relations and especially in family relations, Ex- cessive liberty has been created, which has fostered soclalism and anarchism. “Unjust wars are belng waged by strong nations against weak and feeble people. “There are exaggerated armaments among great nations, the effect of which is even more disastrous than war. “All these things have creat®d world- wide disquietude. SPREAD OF ANARCHISM. “Unceasing troubles and misery have provoked people to anarchism, which henceforth promises to constitute a for- of malefactors leagued against Emperors, Kings and Presidents of all governments. These governments must adopt decisive measures for the de- fense of genuine liberty and must enforce the teaching of religion.” The Pope invokes a union of Christian soclety from violent attacks of athelsts and Free Masonry. He maintains tHe necessity of upholding the temopral rights | of the church and counsels an active spread of Catholic workmen's socleties. The Pope deplores the spread of athe- ism, which he finds invading all depart- ments of state. In urging Catholics to combat doctrines contrary to religion, the | Pontift condemns the forthcoming insti- tution of the law of divorce in Italy. ORDERS A REMARKABLE FUNERAL FOR HIMSELF Chicago Man Wants Band to Play Ragtime and Mourners to Wear Red Neckties. CHICAGO, March 30.—A spirit has told Edmund Wodicka, proprietor of a barber shop on the West Side, that he will die on the 15th of next month. With the spirit's words ringing in his ears, Wodicka visit- ed the undertaking rooms of John O'Brien and gave instructions for funeral services tnat are to be unique, “John,” sald he, “a spirit of the other 15th of next month I will cease to exist | on this earthly sphere and I want you | to conduct my funeral, “In the first place, I don't want any slgn of mourning. Let everybody be joy- ous. Don't let any one go unless he! wears a red necktlfe and a bouquet in his | fs to lead the way, and under no circum- | stances let it play any dead marches. | Let it play ‘A Hot Time in the Old Town: To-night,’ and when the cemetery Is reached and my remains are belng low- ered to their last resting place let the band play ‘Down Went McGinty,’ “Bee that every one who attends the | funeral has a good time. Stop at e'very; resort along the road and drink to my future happiness.” O'Brien told his friend he would carry out the instructions. Wodicka, his friends declare, has always been a person of | mystery, and, although popular with the people of his neighborhood, has been voted for his eccentric ways, 5P Steamer Goes Ashore in a Fog. ‘WOODS HOLE, Mass., March 30,—The steamer Indian, from Philadelphia for Boston, with passengers and valuable car- | 80, went ashore on Cuttyhunk Island ear- ly this morning during a heavy fog. The vessel lles in a dangerous position. The | 1oss of many lives. passengers, four in number, were landed safely at 6 o'clock this evening. PRICE FIVE CENTS. THE DEAD ESCORTS THE DEAD ACROSS THE PACIFIC'S TIDE On a Soldier Ship Come the Bodies of Colonel Pope and His Widow, Who Died of a Broken Heart. Sad Scene Witnessed When Sons Meet Transport. ITH her flag fluttering at half-mast, the tramsport Kilpatrick arrived yesterday from Manila, bearing the body of the late Colo- nel Benjamin F. Pope, assistant surgeon general of the army and chief surgeon in command of the Philippines. The start- ling news was also brought by the trans- port that the wife of Cclonel Pope had died on board the vessel on March 19 and that her remains were beside those of her husbar4d . No more pathétic scene has ever Becii witnessed at quarantine that the one that took place when tlie transport tug Slo- cum steamed alongside the Kilpatrick. On board the tug were two sons of Colo- nel and Mrs. Pope, who went out to re- celve the remains of their father and con- sole with the grief-stricken wife and mother, The young men were all-Impatient to board the transport and greet their mother, and when they learned that the grim reaper had taken her from them thelr anguish moved many present to tears, Colonel Pope died in Manila on February YOUTHS ThY TO WRECK A TRAIN FOR REVENGH Freight Engine Strikes Obstruction Intended to Derail a P genger, & TRENTON, Mo., March 30.—George Busch, aged 16 years, and George Young, aged 20, sons of respectable parents of this city, made an unsuccessful attempt late last night to wreck the eastbound Chicago, Rock Islard and Pacific pas- senger train No, 12 about flve miles east of here. The track at this polnt is on a high ' embankment and a derallment could scarcely have occurred without the Both boys were ar- rested and one has confessed. Thelr motive seems to have been revenge for having been put off a freight train. Dime novels are also belleved to have played a part. Busch and Young had gone to Prince- ton yesterdey morning and, returning home, tried to steal a ride on a freight train, The conductor put them off and they walked to within five miles of Tren- ton, where they piled several tles across the track along which the passenger was due to pass soon. Fortunately a jate frelght train, pulled by one of the 1400-ton class engines, ar- rived at the spot a . few min- utes ahead of the passenger. The weight T e { el S B ¢ W XN — H. Pope, a promising young man who had reached his majority. SON SUDDENLY DISAPPEARS. About November 13 last young Pope was missed from his lodgings in this city, and though his_brothers have kept up a per- sistant search and have spared no ex- pense, absolutely no tidings of the missing young man have been secured. On leaving Lowell High School young Pope, in September last, took the entrance examination at Stanford University. He was dissatisfied with the showing he had made and returned to San Francisco and took a room at the Winchester House, om Third street. He then sought employ- ment. Dr. Saxton T. Pope of Watsonville was the first to discover that his brother had disappeared. He cdlled at the lodgings of his brother only to learn that he had been missing from his room for ten days. The young man had left all his clothing and possessions in his room. It was learned that on November 14 young. Pope had drawn a remittance of 35 from the bank, sent to him by his father. Charles S. Pope, a civil engineer, em- ployed by the North Shore Rallroad at Sausalito, also joined in the search for his missing brother, but ‘without avail. With the realization that no trace could X | | | | | | o x 4 LATE CHIEF SURGEON OF MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF PHILIP- PINES, "WHOSE WIDOW SUCCUMBED TO GRIEF WHILE BRING- ING HIS REMAINS HOME, AND PORTRAIT OF THEIR MISSING SON. N 14 last, and his widow started home withtragically. She was suffering from a trop- the body on February 27. She had with her two of her children. In addition to her great sorrow Mrs. ical ailment that sapped her strength, and this with her grief brought death. Fate was at least kind in keeping from Pope was in {ll health when she began Colonel and Mrs. Pope the news of the her homeward voyage that was to end so mysterious disappearande of their son, R. L e e e i e o o e B e e e e T e e o i e e S S Y ) TURKEY OR BULGARIA MUST PAY INDEMNITY United States to Demand Redress for the Kidnaping of Miss Stone. ‘WASHINGTON, March 30.—Secretary Hay expects to recelve this week a full report on the Stone case from Minister Leishman at Constantinople. This report will be used as a bagis for ggpresentations locking to obtaining ipdeémnity from either Turkey or Bulgaria. The Becretary instructed Mr. Leishman Immediately after Miss Stone’s release to gather Information 'to enable this Gov- ernment to place responsibility for the outrage. In advance of the receipt of this | report the authoritles are unwilling to give their view as to the nation which will be required to pay the ransom hand- ed to the brigands, and, in addition, com- pensation for the injurles suffered by the American missionary, but it is evident that they belleve the Sublime Porte should. be required to satisfy the indem- nity demand. Bulgaria will not, however, escape scathless. As the Macedonian committee is known to have had some connection with the kidnaping, Bulgaria will be called upon to take measures for the pun- of the engine and the high rate of speed at which the train was going pushed the obstruction off the track without any damage belng done. Word was teie- graphed ahead to arrest Busch and Young and they were taken as they en-/| terzd Trenton. ishment of its members. Bulgaria's com- plaint against Mr. Dickinson, the agent accredited to her, will be investigated. Nc expectation is entertained by officials that it will be possible to apprehend and pun- ish the brigands who captured Miss Stone. RAILROAD DETECTIVE TRAILS WRONG MAN Discovers His Mistake After Arresc- ing the Suspect in a Moon- shiner’s Stronghold. HOT SPRINGS, Ark., March 30,—Chief Detective Crowley of the Southern Pacific to-night went into the moonshiners’ stronghold, the Ozark Mountains, and, after a clever and daring bit of work, placed under arrest a man whom he sup- posed to be the noted Joe George, who, with Chreen, held up the Southern Pacific mail in January, 189, at Wilcox, Ariz., and robbed tie strong box of $3000. Chief Crowley has been vn the track of Joe George for seven years, and during the last two weeks has been among the Ozark Mountains here disguised as a miner. When he got his prisoner into the light after the capture to-night all marks tallied, even to the amputation of the forefinger, but the nose of George, the desperado, Is flattened against his face, ‘while that of the Arkansas moonshiner perfectly acquiline. Both Georges have lived in Arizona and have sisters In Eil Paso. This state of facts led to the mix- ing of the identities of the two men. Crowley leaves for San Francisco to-mor- ToW. b Rt vl Medical Student Commits Suicide. CHICAGO, March 30.—Covered with snow and with a revolver clutched in his hand, the body of Howard R. Miller, a student at the Keokuk, Ia., College of Physiclans and Surgeons, was found in Lincoln Park to-da; It is belleved he ‘was despondent on account of over-study. = be found of the missing young man, Charles wrote to his mother in Maniia, telling her what had taken place. WAS SPARED MORE SORROW. Before the letter arrived in Manila news was received here of the death of Colonel Pope, and the fact that his widow had started home with the remains was made known. Dr. Saxton T. Pope and Charles 8. Pope went to quarantine yesterday to under- take the task of telling their mother the news of her son’'s disappeurance, but they found she had passed away. The two children of Mrs. Pope were kindly looked after by the ladies of the transport after the mother’s death and were turned over to their elder brothers after the Kilpat- rick passed quarantine. The bodies of Colonel and Mrs. Pope will be landed to- day at the Presidio, where they will probe ably be interred. Colonel Pope was born in New York fifty-nine years ago. He served during the Civil War as assistant surgeon of vol- unteers. He entered the regular service in May, 1857, and ‘went through stages of promotion until he became colonel and deputy surgeon general of the army. On the outbreak of the American-Spanish war Colonel Pope was stationed at Angel Island. He was appointed chief surgeon of the Fifth Army Corps and served through the Cuban campaign. In May last he was ordered to the Philippines and succeeded Colonel Greenleaf as chief sur- geon of the medical department in the islands, where he died from Bright's dis- ease, BROTHER OF THE SULTAN IS REPORTED TO BE DEAD Mohammed Rechad Is Belicved to Have Been the Victim of Foul Play. LONDON, March 3L—A report has reached here from Constantinople, cables the Vienna correspondent of the Daily Mail, that Mohammed Rechad, the Sul- tan's brother and his presumtive succes- sor, Is dead. The report says foul play is suspected. i tavl i Chinese Mining Regulations. PEKING, March 3.—The Government has decided upon mining regulations, une | der the terms of which concessions, may be granted to foreigners in any part of China. These regulations provide that the Government shall receive 25 per cent of the profits; 25 per eent of the output of diamonds and other gems: 15 per cent of the eutput of gold, silver and mercury; 10 per cent of the output of copper, lead and zinc; 5 per cent of the output of coal and iron, besides export and likin duties,’ These royalties are regarded here as alto- gether prohibitive. . i X Will Try to Crush Small Dealers. LONDON, March 30.—It is reported that the Imperial Tobacco Company, through | Messrs. Salmon and Gluckstein, Limite ed, tobacco manufacturers, has decided to open a number of retail tobacco shops in i London and the provinces with the ilea of crushing the small dealers whe refuse Vits terma.