The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 11, 1902, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1902. BLOOCHOUNDS O THE HEELS OF FUBITIVES Capture of Tracy and Merrill a Question of Hours. Convicts Commit Deeds of Outlawry While Racing for Liberty. Boldly Hold Up a Citizen on & Street of Salem at Night and Strip Him of His Clothing. who yesterday killed low prisoner and gon penitentiary, a They were seen early this | eighteen miles north they took possession of compelled the occupants | to supply them with breakfast. The fugi- tives rode th is, but there their after breakfast took to the woods on foot. Sheriff urbin of Marion County, with a posse | and bloodho , arrived at Gervais at | afternoon and started on| | the | t Gervais the trail The bloodhounds soon picked up trail of the escaped convicts and pmsedi them so close they ran ‘White and men of Gervais, And buggy and wat at 9 o'clock to-night | , held up Dr. C. S.| rd Dupuis, two business | took the doctor’s horse | ve away. The Sherifl's | bloodhounds, was only a e behind. The convicts » was fenced and team and took to tie a large field half a mile vais. The posse is close on | the fugitives are exhausted. , it is believed, is a question | time. nd last night the men shortly before h the center of othes from him, | and then took two| e mpear town and | The officers in Salem | esence in Salem of clothing near t 10 o’clock last errill and that they if he gave out the | orning. several attempts were the hounds on the track | . but each time the scent | ounds were taken to the | where Tracy and Merrill | , and were put on the | Clothing. They followed | from which the horses re it was lost. ize the desperate char- d it is not likely he wiil a battle. they t able was arrest- ting Tracy | the horses from the — - f | TREACY’S CAREER OF CRIME. j | Twe Previous Jailbreaks and a Mur- der Charged to Him. AKE, Utah, June 10—Harry| David Merrill, shot and hile escaping from the | , Or., yesterday, has | tah penitentiary, but with four other m have ever been | is well known to the po- | 1 1897 Tracy was sen- year for burglary, son only two months. | the work gang which | ary, he held | a revolver, | got away. ken out as usual | k in a rock were under an Stetter, The guard | led shot- | e from the | devices were resorted | to divert the attention all were fut Tracy’s | n mending | , 100 close | shotgun. evolver from vered the guard | guard | . king his uniform of the prisoners, pt the guard il they passed searched the coun- he men was ever found. quarry, the escaped con- | Tracy and a conviet 1 the direction of Par- y held up a man and driving in their direc- | their buggy, escaped | killed 2 young | captured by | in jail, but guards into | ken and kept 3 when he again escaped after almost killing a guard by clubbing him on the he: Since his sec- escape nothing was heard of the man til he became notorious by his crimes in Oregon. Among h! in custody achievements was the leader- torious ““Hole-in-the-wall s connected with “Butch” | e other notorious criminals that organization in most of the worst crimes of which they were | He left that company, however, | ymerate on his own account. | Fire Claims Many Homes. >, June 10.—As a result arted vesterday after- e section of this e homeless and des- s were of $10.00. | ion had track s | | all winter, and it | friends of Nicaragua in the House are of quarreled. } — DOOM SETTLES ON CANAL BILL Probability of Legisla- tion Is Now Very Remote. Conflict in Congress Almost Certain to Prevent Action. Soecial Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, June 10.—That the adoption of the Spooner substitute in- | structing the President to negotiate for the Panama canal instead of the passage of the Hepburn bill means no canal legis- lation for,the present session was made plain to-day by expressions of opinion by prominent members of the House that the Jower branch would stick to its own canal bill and that the matter would die in con- ference This is the view repeatedly expressed by | Senator Morgan and Senator Harris, who have been leading the fight in the Senate is known that the the same opinion. Representative Hepburn, by whose name the bill is known, is now out of the city, but those who are familiar with his | views say that he would never yield if the Spooner substitute comes over to the House. who has been an able lieutenant of Hep- burn in the House, said: “It is a question of a canal or no canal If the Senate should adopt what is known as the Spooner substitute the House, which passed the Hepburn bill with only two dis ting votes, would not yield. It is a desperate fight between legislation and no legislation and I do not think that the Senate fully appreciates the situation. Nicaragua means certainty of completion. Panama means uncertainty of beginning. Nicaragua means a clear title and free- dom from scandal. Panama means legal and diplomgtic clouds and the possibility of almost endless scandal.” It is pointed out by friends of Nicar- agua in the House that Senator Hanna in his argument for Panama misrepresented the attitude of the House by saying that it passed the Hepburn bill before an offer of the Panama Company was made. They said that while this is strictly true so far as a formal offer is concerned, the Housa took action several days after the news that the Panama Company had voted to make an offer had become known. If the advocates of the Spooner substi- tute are altogether sincere in their desire for some canal, the friends of Nicaragua inquire, why is it that all of the Senators who for years have opposed any canal across the isthmus are joining in their support. RAILROAD PREPARES FOR THE ROBBERS Armed Guards Will Prevent an Ex- pected Attack on an Overland Flyer. CHEYENNE, Wyo., June 10.—Superin- tendent Whitney of the Union Pacific Railroad has gone to Rawlins to direct ar- | rangements looking to the capture of a gang of bandits, who, the officials have been informed, will attempt to stop one | of the overland fiyers near Table Rock, between Rawlins and Green River, in the Red Desert. Armed guards have been placed on all trains and a special train, equipped with arms, ammunition, provi- sions, horses and saddles, is in re iness at Rawlins to chase the robbers in case an attempt is made to rob a train. A posse of picked men is ready to board the train at a moment’s notice. A train was held up at Tipton, near Table Rock, about a year ago. The rob- bers dynamited the express car and s cured considerable money. Officers gav chase, but the bandits eluded them in the Blue Mountains to the south. iy Rt LEADER OF BRIGANDS IN THEIR COUNCIL Delegates Hold a Secret Session to Dispose of Ransom Money. SALONICA, Roumelia, June 10.—The Stroumauj, a newspaper published at Kostendit, Bulgaria, says it has trans- pired that a secret congress of delegates from Kostendit, Dubnitza and elsewhere met in Sofia at the end of March and ar- ranged for the disposition of the money received as ransom for Ellen M. Stone, the American missionary, and her com- panion, Madame Tsilka. Karapeoff, alias Tchnerpeoff, the leader of the brigands who captured the mission- among the delegates, who de- . Wi cided to send the bands into Macedonia on a secret mission. NORTH CA}DHIIANS LYNCHW TWO NEGROES Tifty Masked Men Break Into a Jail and Hang Alleged Mur- derers. CHARLOTTE, N. C., June 11.—A mob ¢ about fifty masked men broke into the jail about 1 o’clock this morning, secured two negroes, took them to the outskirts of th city and hanged them to a tree, riddling their bodies with bullets. The negroes lynched were Harris and | James Gillespie, charged with the murder of Miss Cornelia Benson in Roan County, on Monday. Governor Aycock had order- ed out the Salisbury military company to protect them. Central Pacific Elects Directors. SALT LAKE, Utah, June 10.—After ad- journing at two-week intervals ever since April 1, 1901, the stockholders of the Cen- tral Pacific Railway held their annual meeting in this city to-day and elected a board of directors for the ensuing year. In all there were 672,722 common and 120,- 000 preferred shares voted. Five new d rectors were chosen. The new directo: are: Harriman; David R. Gray, general agent for the Harriman _lines in Salt e; Jonathan C. Royle, Salt Lake; W. H. Cheevers, gen- eral freight agent for the South- ern Pacific at Ogden, Utah; and J. 8. No- ble, general superintendent of the Salt Lake division of the Southern division, with headquarters at Ogden. Besldes these the board consists of Thomas Mar- shall and Charles H. Tweed, New York; H. E. Huntington, Los Angeles, and Da- vid B. Hempstead of Salt Lake, Utah. President Starts for West Point. WASHINGTON, June 10. — President Roosevelt and party, who are going to yest Point to attend the centennial cele- bration, left here at 11:20 o’clock over the rivania Raflroad. They occupled a train. The President will return > the eity Frida Noteworthy Facts. Seles in 1901 exceeded the Enormous 1900 Figures—28,000,000 bottles Apollinaris “THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS.” Bottled at, and the ‘Apollinaris Spring, Rhenish Prussia, Germany, Vcharged only with its imported from, Representative Mann of Illinois, | SENATE PASSES THE NAVAL BILL WHICH CARRIES MANY MILLIONS Stricken s Perkins of California Makes a Strong Argument for the Building of Some War Vessels at Government Navy Yards, but the House Provision to That Effect Is Out of the Measure | | | | i CALIFORNIAN FOR BUILDING WARSHIPS IN FEDERAL YARDS. WHO ARGUED e od Perkins Urges Use of the Navy Yards in Building Warships 11 ASHINGTON, June 10.—An- other of the big supply bills of the Governmént was dis- | posed of by the Senate to-day, the naval bill, carrying more | than §78,000,000, being passed. It includes | provision for two first-class battleships, two first-class armored cruisers and two | gunboats, but strikes out the House pro- vision that one of each shall be built | at Government yards. | _ When consideration was resumed on the | Isthmian canal question, Turner delivered an extended argument in support of the Nicaragua route. He maintained that the | new Panama Company could not pass a clear title to the Panama Canal Com- pany’s rights, franchises and property to the United States, and that if this Govern- ment purchased it, it would be with all its incumbrances. Soon after the Senate convened, Car- | mack of Tennessee introduced a resolution | directing the Committee on Civil Service | and_Retrenchment to investigate the case of Rebecca J. Taylor, a clerk in the War | Department, who was discharged for the | alleged reason of criticising the adminis- | tration’s Philippine policy in a communi- | cation to the press. The committee was | directed to investigate the reasons for her discharge. The resolution went over un- der the rules. Consideration of the naval appropriation bill was then resumed, the pending amendment being that providing for the construction of two first-class battleships, two first-class armored cruisers and two | gunboats. ARGUED BY PERKINS. | Perkins of California, a member of the | Committee on Naval Affairs, argued that | some of the vessels of the navy ought to | be constructed at Government yards and {he urged that the admirably equipped | Government yards ought to be utilized. | This policy, he sald, was demanded by the | labor unions. Platt of Connecticut asked if this was a demand or a request on the part of the abor unions. | ,“I meant that it is a request,” replied | Perkins. ““They maintain tnat it is to the | interest of the Government that the navy | yards belonging to the people should be | @ el b @ JIHIKERS GIE THEIR REASONG Information About Mine Trouble Ready for Roosevelt. NEW YORK, June 10.—The information called for by President Roosevelt about the coal strike has been secured and will soon be presented to him in the form of an official report by Carroll D. Wright, United States Commissioner of Labor. The report will touch at the root of the difficulty and will explain the “real causes” leading to the great industrial | conflict, which causes have been jealously guarded by both sides. Wright will not ‘nl\nke any suggestions or recommenda- tions. The information sought was obtained In two interviews, which occupled in all but four hours. Monday night at the Man- hattan Hotel President Mitchell made a presentment of the miners’ controversy. Late to-day in_the office of the Delaware and Hudson, President Oliphant of the company, President Baer of the Philadel- phia and Reading Rallroad and President Thomas of the Erie Company discussed the strike from the standpoint of the operators. “I have practically completed the official investigation,” said Commissioner Wright to-night, “and will present my report as and was treated courteously by the rep- g0_to the coal fields.” o expressed himself as follows: i violating their agreement and thus put This action would put the unions on the thus far was bound by contracts.’ OWN Natural Gas quickly as possible to President Roosevelt. 1 have secured the information I desired resentatives on both sides of the contro- versy. It will not be necessary for me to Speaking of the prospect of a strike of the miners Commissioner “If the soft coal men who havi contracts should strike lheyaweu\:l‘gngz their unions at a decided disadvantage and forfeit the sympathy of the puafi:. defensive in every arbitration th: follow the outbreak. None of th::t;fi‘e‘:‘g President Mitchell returned te barre to-night. 2 wmm\ I e URGES ENTIRE STATE TO GIVE AID TO VALLEJO Svecial Dispatch to The Call. ALLEJO, Cal., June 10.— While the idea of aban- doning Mare Island Navy Yard seems pre- posterous, sacrificing as it would $25,000,000 in Govern- ment property, the situation is so merious that prompt and active measures should be taken to forestall the plan, not only by Vallejo but by California generally. It is a coincidence worthy of motice that, simultaneous with the resolution intro- duced by Senator Hale, comes the first news of the consoli- dation of private shipbuild- ers throughout the country. In other words, we will have a shipbuilding trust as well as the beef trust, coal trusts, and other like combinations. I firmly believe that the pri- vate coutractors, realizing that they have dangerous ri- vals in the first-class navy yards of the country, are de- termined to dispose of them, and Mare Island is first on the list. Senator Hale asks if n first- class _ battleship has ever been to Mare Island. Noj neither has there been the necessity for sending one, as the present dry dock could not mccommodate the Town or Wisconsini but the new dry dock under course of conutruction will be able. Did ‘Senctor Hale ask the same question concerning the Norfolk or Portsmouth, N. H., Navy Yard? Had he, the answer wonld be the same as that in regard to Mare Island, as no first-class battleship has been at either of those yards. Perhaps he will ask this question concerning these wyards at the next session of Congress. T understand that an appropriation of $750,000 has been made this year for dredging the approach to Portsmouth yard. And still the strongest point made against Mare Island is that some dredzing is necessary. I would have absolutely no fear of a commission com- posed of such men as Ad- mirals Miller, Glass, Kemp or Coghlan or, Captains Cotton or Phelps, able officers and sallors who have spent years in =and about Mare Island and know its desirability as a navy yard, but I would fear a com- mission appointed through the influence of those hostile to Mare Island. I cannot understand the action of President Newhall of the San Franeisco Cham- ber of Commerce in indors- ing Senator Hale's resolu- tion. It appears certain to me that the passage of the reso- Jution would mean that Cali- fornia would never have an- other mavy yard worthy of the name. FRANK R. DEVLIN, President Vallejo Chamber of Comimerce. i g utilized for building war vessels.” Perkins discussed the depth of water at various shipyard docks in the country, showing that the depth at the Govern- ment yards was greater ordinarily than at private yards. He maintained that, with conditions equal, the Government yards, “having been entirely emancipated from politics,” war vessels could be built at such yards as cheaply as at private yards, and certainly within the contract price. He maintained that the increased cost of construction in Government yar on account of the eight-hour law, was more than offset by the immense salaries paid the management in private yards. GOVERNMENT PROTECTED. In his opinion the Government could be protected from excessive cost of ships by the utilization of the advantages of Gov- ernment yards. ‘At the conclusion of Perkins’ speech, the committee amendment as to the building of two each of the battleships, cruisers and gunboats was agreed to. An amendment offered by Mallory of Florida, providing for a $100,00 fireproof building at the Pensacola Navyyard, was opted. W’:thout further debate the bill was passed. The London dock churfes bill was taken up and after some minor amendments had been agreed to Hale presented objec- tions to the measure. e fundamental trouble with the bill, he said, was that men who ought to know their own busi- ness should not make shipping contracts, It was an attempt to legislate against | men making their own contracts. He be- lieved the lumber men who were forcing this bill could take care of themselves. 2000 SETS OF Have Arrived From the Drexler New York Office. Our _expert dentists make them up (guar- anteed) for $4.00; this price good for twenty days. The same plate usually costs $15. $10 gold crowns for $3.00. and teeth ‘without place (our specialty), $3.00." crexter Painless Dental Co. of New York S. F. PARLORS 1104 MARKET STREET, Corner Turk. e G 0 — o 3= % w MAINE STATESMAN WHO OB- JECTS TO LONDON DO€K CHARGES BILL. C Favoring Completion of the Big Drydock HE State Board of Trade yester- day authorized the sending of a dispatch to Senator Perkins at Washington urging that the dry- dock in construction at Mare Island shall be hurried to completion, and setting forth that ‘‘we deprecate any movement to minimize the importancg of making the Mare Island yard first class in all respects.” In the same dispatch was included the text of a resolution adopted by the board yesterday, which was as follows: Resolved further, that this board reaffirms at Mare Island Yard| BOERS CHEER WITH BRITONG Peace Permits Frater- nization Between Late Enemies. . Fighters of South Africa Shower Praises on Americans. e SR L PRETORIA, June 10.—Boer commandoes arriving here bring reports of fresh in- stances of fraternization between the Boers and the British troops. The sur- render of a commando at Balmoral, Transvaal, was followed by a bis ‘“‘sing- song.” The British soldiers stationed at the blockhouses between Balmoral and Pretoria in some instances held up the train and proffered coffee and tobacco to their late enemies. The Boers generally hold unfavorable estimates of their foreign allies except the Americans, whom they declare to be crafty and great fighters. A prominent | commandant said: “‘All the Germans are fit for is to give horses sore backs.” ALIWAL NORTH, Cape Colony, June 9.—Commandant Fouche, supervising the surrender of various Boer commandoes here, said the Boers had been good citi- zens of their own country and they would be equally good citizens under the British Government. BROOKE IS REFUSED ADVANCE IN GRADE House Committee Votes Against the Proposition to Make Him a Lieu- tenant General. WASHINGTON, June 10.—The House Committee on Military Affairs to-day voted against making a favorable report on the bill which recently passed the Sen- ate, authorizing the advancement of the senior major general of the army, General | Brooke, to the rank of lieutenant general and his retirement with that rank. The vote, which was 7 to 3, was not on party lines. Members of the committee said that the adverre action was due to the course taken by the House against the ~ bill advancing Surgeon General Sternberg, and aiso because of opposition within the committee to retirements at advanced grades. © il O its unqualified approval of the Nicaragua route for the Isthmian canal. The first part of the telegram was called out by the action of the Chamber of Commerfe, through President Newhall, in telegraphing to Washington as follows: ‘We believe the best solution of the navy yard question will be reached by building a new drydock in San Francisco harbor, capable of docking the largest warships, with facilities for painting and cleaning and where, if large repairs are necessary to be made, vessels can | be dismantled and taken to Mare Island for permanent repairs, thereby maintaining the ex- tensive shops and improvements now existing. There was great interest in Vallejo yes- terday over the telegram from President Newhall, and the secretary of the Cham- | ber-of Commerce of Vallejo came to San Francisco to inquire into the real attitude of the San Francisco Chamber of Com- merce. He interviewed men prominently connected with the chamber and returned to_Vallejo to report. Since the first dispatch was sent over the signature of President Newhall, an- other has been sent to Senator Hale, chairman_ of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, and Senator Perkins, who is a member of the same committee. In | the second dispatch President Newhall expressed regret that there shoula be any complications, and earnestly requested that no commissioner should be appointed to locate a new navy yard. The comple- ltion of the drydock at Mare Island as soon as possible was also urged. HENRY SCOTT MAY HEAD THE NEW COMBINE United States Shipbuild- ing Company Will Incorporate. Union Iron Works Among the Concerns Included in the Scheme. Capital Stock to Be Twenty Million Dollars, Not Including Bonds to the Amount of Six- teen Millions. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, June 10.—Articles of in- corporaticn of the United States Ship- building Company will be filed in Trenton, N. J., to-morrow. It will have a capital of $20,000,000, not including bonds to the amount of $16,000,000. The president of the corporation will probably be Henry T. Scott, and the vice president will be Lewis Nixon. These two officers may possibly be interchanged, Nixon being made presi- dent. The following companies will enter the combination: The Union Iron Works of San Francisc the Bath Iron Works of Bath, Maine; the Hyde Windlass Company of Bath, Maine; the Crescent Shipyards of Elizabethport, N. J.; ‘he Harlan and Hollingsworth Company of ‘Wilmington, Del. It is understood that the Cramps of Philadelphia will be closely allied with the new combination. Nixon could not be seen in this city to- day for the reason that he was in Phila- delphia. From a man connected with the firm of Alexander & Green, who will be general counsel for the combination, it was learned that the Trust Company of the Republic will finance the United States Shipbuilding Company. Common and preferred stock will be issued, each to the amount of ,000,000. It is planned that not more than $9,000,000 of the bonds will be issued at present, $7,000,000 worih being retained in the treasury. All of the papers have been signed, and everything is now in readiness for the filing of the incorporation papers, which will be done by Nixon. Other officers than Scott for president and_Nixon for vice president have not yet been selected. To Visit San Francisco ‘Without seeing the Diamond Palace would be like visiting Europe without seeing Paris. It is a leading feature of San Fran- cisco. It is a marvel of beauty and ele- gance and is unquestionably the most magnificent jeweiry emporium In ths world—the splendid conception of a mas- ter mind, a controlling genius. Artistic taste and skill challenge competition here. To be appreciated it must be seen. Every visitor and resident should go and exam- ine the marvels of genius at No. 221 Mon gomery street. A. 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