The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 17, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCH-—-NO. REBEILS GAINING VICTORY The Rule of Castro in Venezuela May Soon End. Government Soldiers Suffer a Severe Defeat. Seventy Killed and Many Wounded in One Battle. Epectal Dispatch to The Call. ! PORT OF SPAL . Trinidad, June 16.— | Owing to the news of an exodus of a large number of President Castro’'s sup- porters from Venezuela, coupled with re- cent defeats suffered by the Government, | the revolutionists are hopeful of over- | throwing Castro in the ensuing month. | Four hundred Government troops Who} landed at Soro for the purpose of retak- | ing Quirra were completely defeated by | General Corcega. The Government lost seventy killed and many wounded, be- | ®ides 10 prisoners taken. General Matos' | army, which is marching on Caracas, has | reached Carines en route to Guarico where reinforcements are waiting the rev olutionary leader. Guarieo was recently | occupled by a large body of revolution- | ists, & portion of whom are now invading | the Carabobo district under commapd of | Ger Pe Cond¢. Barquisimeto district is aimost entirely in th ssion of the insurgents. Gen- eral V n Perez has sent 400 insurgents by of Barralcas. General Alexander way Ducharme is marching from Maturin with lerge force to strengthen Ciudad Boli- which i var is still in the hands of the The insurgents have held June 8. General Avala en in Ci has been besleged Rierra | ATTACE AND BOMBARDMENT. ! WILLEMSTAD, Island of Curacao,June ived to-day announce ielan revolutionists at- the port of Caracas, 7. - The -Government an- ng Maimquelia, 2 suburb from the forts ashore and peaceful women were killed. a]l houses at Le Guayra eiazy pr the Bombardme tants were panic-stricken. e revolutionists; who num- ut 40 men, were repulsed. They d the bridge at Boqueron, on the Caracas (Engli for tw hours. TI also cut the telegraph wires. were thrown into and every ‘ome began apprehensive of ve uela as these ad indicate that a crisis is | end the German t Curacao to-day for La MAY SEND WARSHIP. ASHING 16.—Another day g ng the situation in t the State Depart- of asking that E it is the ezuelan Govern- a the V t off communication and that is unable to reply to ell-inf liplomatic quarters that the rev. nt threatening ela Is perhaps that h= few years e revols movements to ept from the ion, such as lencia, it is there is no possibility the opponents of the of Castro a istratior | Senor Augustus Pulido, the Venezuelan Charge d'Affaires, has not recelved any | mdvices from his country touching the | progress of the revolutionary movement, | In his last mail he received a letter from | the Venezuelan Becretary of State, Senor Ferrera, declering that re\-olutionnryl committees are using cable connec- tions at Trinidad and Curacas to mag- | minor insurgent victories'into cver- | whelming defeats of the Government | arms. COLOMBIAN REVOLUTIONARY | LEADERS ARE DISHEARTENED | Chi#f Commanders Escape From the | Pursuing Troops and Arrive in Venezuela. PORT OF SPAIN. Trinidad, June 16.— The overthrow of the Colombian revolu- ists appears to be complete. i The leaders of the revolutionary forces, | incl Generals Uribe, Phoelon, Soto | and other chief commanders, have arrived in Carscas, Venezuela, disheartened, after | escaping f the Colombfan troops by | the Meta River. They were pursued for Gaye. They went first to Ciudad | Bolivar and hurried thence to Caracas, | where they hope to obtain further assist- | @nce for President Castro. Marries Widow of a Dutch Count. LONDON, June 16.—Rutherford Stuy- wvesant of New York, a brother of Mss. H ¥ White, wife of the Secretary of the United States Embassy here, and the Comtesse de Wessenaer were married to- day. The ceremony occurred at St George's Chapel, Albemarle street. Uni- ted States Embassador Choate and Mrs. Choate and members of the- embassy staff and their wives, besides several of the bride’s relatives, attended. The bride s the widow of a Dutch Count. | | ding m ¢ Ting his ‘welght ¥pon the ride rope, he Gied 17. COMMITS SUICIDE | IN JAIL Youth of Mill Valley Gives Way Under Disgrace. Mother Causes His| Arrest for Staying Out Late. ‘ Even Refuses to Re- ceive His Body Af- ter Death. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. MILYL: VALLEY, June 16.—Carl Borger- son, 2 well known and well liked young man of Mill Valley, committed suicide in the local jafl early this morning by hang- ing himself to the crossbeam of the jaii with a rope made of strips of blanket. Borgerson was arrested at an early hour this morning at the instigation of his mother, and after it was found out that he had killed himself Mrs. Borgerson would not look upon the face of her dead | son or even ailow the body to be brought into her home. Borgerson had several recent quarrels | with his mother about coming home late at night. Yesterday she informed him that if he came home late again she Despite the warning Carl went to San Francisco last night and did not return home until about 2 o'clock this morning. ! He found the door locked, but succeeded in forcing an entrance through room window. When the mother arose this morning and discovered him in bed | she went downtown and swore to a com- plaint, charging him with disturbing the peace. A constable went to the house and arrested the lad. SON PLEADS IN VAIN. Young Borgerson, surprised and humili- | ated, remonstrated with his mother, urg- ing her not to send him to jall. She was vnrelenting and ordered the officer to lock him up. He was taken to the town jail and incarcerated. About an’ hour after locking up the lad the officer returned and found him dead. He had taken tie blanket off his bunk, cut it into strips about two inches wide, the Venezuclan warship Miranda. | and then, tying the strips together, placed | | une end over a rafter of the cell and fast- ened the other around his neck. Throw- of slow stransulation. Coroner Eden was telephoned for and | hurried from San Rafael. An inquest was | held over the body. h) rajlroad. and stopped | present, but would not look at her dead | son. After the investigation as to the cause of death, the Coroner informed the mother that the body could be taken to her home. She refused to allow the re- a | mains to enter her house, and as a re- | sult the; were convered to the Morgue in San Rafael. . SOLE SUPPORT OF MOTHER. Borgerson was 19 years old and was the sole support of his mother, sister and brother. Mrs. Borgerson was divorced about four years ago and since that time | Carl has earned a livelihood for the fam- fly by working in the transfer business here. He was highly respected and was considered an_ industrious young man. That his only reason for committing sui- cide was that his mother subjected him to the humiliation of arrest is the general opinion of Mill Vallevites. SAVES LIFE BY SHOOTING AWAY PORTION OF HAND Rancher Bitten by Rattlesnake Re- sorts to Peculiar Method of Surgery. ALLA WALLA. June 16—There are srious expedients for the cure of rattie- snake bites, but it is not often that a man has to adopt the herofc plan of shooting away the infected parts to save his life. That what James W wa McKenzie, a rancher, was forced to do on Saturday. McKEenzie lives in the wild Tukanon country, forty-five miles northeast of here. As he lay on his face drinking from a spring a rattlesnake jumped from its biding place and bit him deeply on the hand. McKenzle had no whisky, no caus- tic and no knife. Drawing his revolver and placing the muzzle against his palm he deliberately shot away the bitten por- tion. Greenish-black blood rushed out un- ti1 ail the polson was drawn off. It was, thirty-six hours before he got to town ‘to have the wound dressed, but the heroic surgery had saved his life. TS RICE GRAVEL STRIKES EXCITE SIERRA COUNTY Nuggets of Virgin Gold Are Taken From Two Claims Nea Alleghany. NEVADA, June 16—Evin Jones and Lawrence Evans, owners of the Steam- boat property near Alleghany, have struck the famous red channel and are taking out rich gravel. Nuggets of from | one to seven ounces are not rare, and coarse gold is thick. Morrell was in Nevada. City this afternoon and exhibited the gold. The American quartz property nearby has struck a five-foot vein, the face of which looks as though gold was literally | peppered into it. All Slerra County fis excited, and prospecting parties are starting. The owners of the two rich properties are comparatively poor men. The nug- gets Morrell showed to-day were of al- most virgin gold and had but little quartz in them. o gl Ex-Congressman Vance Dies. NEW BRITAIN, Conn., June 16.—Robert ! | | [ i1 would lock him-out. Bl | | | his bed- | | Mrs. Borgerson was | | i i | | | | 2 | all, BARK FANNIE KERR, ABLAZE ON OCEAN, IS ABANDONED BY CREW | e Seamen | | HE ] pans Oceanic Steamship Com- s Alameda, that arrived in-port last night from Hon- olulu, brought news of the | abandonment and destruction by fire of the British four- masted bark Fannie Kerr, commanded by | Captain Charles Gibbons. The flames | were first discovered in a cargo of coal | on May 28, when the vessel was about | 800 miles northeast of the island of Kaual. | On the following day the captain and | crew, realizing their inability to stem the | progress of the flames and when the | sheathed deck was smoking beneath their feet, put off to sea. To them the fate of the Fanple Kerr has yet to be told. Whether she is a dangerovus derelict, her hull being of iron, or whether she has gone to the bottom will only be learned when some of the vessels that have gone in search of her return to Honolulu. ‘When night closed over the small boats that contained the crew they saw her in the distance, belching forth smoke and flame and most of her rigging intact. e was steadily salling out of view, a fire phantom on the bosom of the deep. Just after the three small boats bearing the crew had put off a terrific explosion oceurred, which rent the decks and spread flame from end to end of the vessel. ¥rom this flame poured a dense smoke that-enveloped the ill-fated ship and blew away on the wind to the feeward. All the members of the crew were saved. They were brought to Honolulu on .the steamer Mikahala from XKauai on the morning of June 10. Tales of hardship and privation were told at every hand. The first boat, containing the captain, second and third bfficers and eleven of the crew, put in at Makawell, Kaual, on Friday morning, June 6. The men, while sore from a cramped position in the lifchoat and drenched to the skin, had not suffered from lack of food. The first officer’s boat, that arrived at Waimea, Kaual, Saturday, June 7, contained the first officer and ten seamen. The bodtswain and three men in the gig are the men who really suffered the most. After the third night the mate’s boat did not tow the gig. The boats became sepa- rated and the gig went ahead of the mate’s boat. . The gig sighted Bird Island on the morning of the fourth day from the burn- ing wreck. She lay off the island for a couple of hours, waiting to see if the | J. Vance, former Congressman and editor | mate’'s boat would catch up, but there of the New Britain Herald, is dead at Montserrat, N. C. He had been In poor health for many months. was no sign of the boat. The gig then steered about east-south- east, finally sighting Nilhau, although the { men in the gig did not know what land | it was they sighted. They knew it was {-land and were satisfied with-that. -All the beatswain had to go by was a compass ang the corder. of the mate when (he boats left the ship—that he steer about ecast- southeast. It was on Friday morning, the 6th inst., | ana the eighth day from the ship, that | | Nithau was sighted. It was not until | Sunday morning, however, that the men in the gig were able to effect a landing. On Friday they were very near Niihau and saw some: men running along the beach, waving at them. It was impossibla to meke a landing, for the winds were not favorable, and when the tired and wet sailors took to the oars and pulled for the shore they found there was no way of getting by the rocks. They saw’| there was no landing place there. On Saturday morning the gig was fif- teen miles to leeward of where she had ‘been the day before. She sighted a fish- ing boat on ¥riday and Saturday, but 8id not get near enough to speak it. On Sunday morning the gig was off the southwest point of Nithali and a good place for landing was discovered. The boat ‘was beached with great effort, for the- men were about played out. The men in the gig had had nothing to eat sinca Fridiy afternoon and when they landed there were only two or three pan- 1kins of water left In the cask. They start- ed out in different directions in search of a house, but failed to see signs of a hab- itatton of any kind. It was while they were looking for | food and water that they heard the joy- ful whistle of the Mikahala, which took them aboard. COMPLAIN OF FIRST OFFICER. First Officer. David Longwill has been‘} charged with deliberately abandoning the | gig In an open sea, leaving the four sail- ors without sufficient provisions and re- fusing to help them at the expense of de- lay to bis boat. The British Consul at HonoluJu was to have held an invéstiga- tion on the day the Alameda sailed. The glg was not provisioned, and the man in charge, Boatswain’James Robertson, was not able to navigate. Robertson says it was understood that Longwill, having a larger boat, was to take him in tow during the night time. The mate, on the third day, however, left him. Longwill states that before leaving the gig he extended an invitation to the men to come into his boat. ' This is denied by the men. - ‘When the burning ship was deserted Suffer Hardship After Deserting Vessel. | the second mate and four of the men put ! - £ S | BRITISH SHIP wHICH was | DESTROYED BY FIRE AT { ‘ SEA. 3 Sailors Leave. Craft Near Kauai. off in a dingey, but were swamped soon after touching the water. All were res- cued by Captain Gibbons’ boat and were landed with him at Makawell. In the opinion of Captain Gibbons, spon- taneous combustion caused the fire in the cargo of coal. Once the air got to the coal, after the hatch had been blown off and a draught began to get in its work, there was no hope of saving the vessel. In fact, Captaln Gibbons realized that his vessel was doomed at 2 o'clock on the morning of May 28, when he felt the hull quiver with the explosion of gas that sent the ventilators and after-hatch flying into the air, clear above the very top of the jigger topmast. Every cffort was made, however, to smother the fire and save the vessel, but twenty-four hours soon showed that the fire was beyond all possible hope of con- | trol and no human power could be found to cope with it. Time and again Captain Gibbons and his men attempted to batten down the afterhatch, but every attempt was followed by the tarpaulins blown off. HATCH IS BLOWN HIGH. The center of the fire was in the after part of the vessel. It first broke out in hatch No. 4 The first intimation came at 2:30 a. m. of May 28. It was reported to Captain Gibbons that smoke was coming out of the after ventilator. Captain Gib- bons immediately went below and tried ‘n every way to learn the causc and see f his vessel was in any danger. Although the gas and smoke could be smelt, there was absolutely no signs of fire. The coal was so loaded that it was impossible to dig down and get at the center of the combustion, so after making a careful in- spection without finding any evidences af fire, it was decided by Captain Gibbons to batten down the hatches and try to ADMITS - DEFEAT ON CUBA President Abandons the Struggle for Reciprocity. { Finishing Blow Dealt| being | by an Invincible Combination., N :Root Accepts Blame| for the Bribery of Gomez. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 4% G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, June 16.—Following | an announcement from the White House { to-day that President Roosevelt had made | his last effort for Cuban reciprocity when ! he sent his special message to Congress : the so-called “administration Senators | late to-night gave up the fight and con- fessed defeat on this, the greatest meas- ure of the session. Only the obsequies remain. be prepared for burial by the Republican members of the Committee on Relations’ with Cuba to-morrow. The wake will be held at the Republican conference in the | marble room of the Senate on Wednesday. | The only remaining effort to be made will | be to shift the blame on Senators who have openly opposed the bill, and to hald ‘»lhem up to the public as the real offend- It is no secret, however, that the real | | cause of this unhappy plight in which the | Republican party, finds itsélf lies deeper ers. than the open epposition of the “Boxers.” BEATEN BY COMBINE. Tn a long conversation to-night ome of the President’s close friends in Congress | dealt to this bill by three members of the Cabinet; by the Republican National Committee, through almost all its mem- bers; by a secret opposition of pretended friends of the President in the Senate; by the disclosures by F. B. Thurber; by the early hostility of Speaker Henderson and Representatives Payne, Dalzell and Gros- | venor. This was a combination that no Presi- dent, however great and persistent, could beat, and it was only after a thorough realization by the President and his real | friends that defeat and disaster were ad- mitted. The admission came from the White Heuse in 3 seml-official annisunce- ment this af{ernoon in these words: “It Is now pretty clearly understood that the President has done all he is going to do as to reciprocity legislation. He through with conferences and does not in- tend to follow his recent special message with further action of any kind. He does | not feel that the defeat of reciprocity { would be a defeat of his own proposition, or ambition MAY NEGOTIATE TREATY. | the rebate proposition relative to CuBan | sugar would be not only very objection- ! able-in itself, but would be extremely ex- | pensive and almost impossible to carry ! eut in the distribution. It is not stated how this proposition was communicated to President Roose- | velt, but it is assumed that. Secre | Hay was the medium, having been quaintel by Senor Quesada, the Minister, with President Palma’s position on this subject. When it becomes apparent that there is no possibility of an agreement between ar: ac- reciprocity proposition, the President proBably will endeavor to simplify the | problem by dropping the House out of the calculations and negotiating directly with President Palma. It is true such a treaty would require the approval of two- thirds of the Senate, but it is believea | that under the changed conditions :this would not be impessible of attainment. PAYMENTS TO GOMEZ. Secretary Root has assumed full re- sponsibility for the payment of money to General Gomez by General Wood during the American occupation of Cuba, and if Congress asks for an explanation of the matter he stands prepared to furnish what he regards as the most convincing proofs that the payments were dictated by the wisest statesmanship. At the War Department a high official stated the position of the department in the matter as follows: The conditions In Cuba two years ago wers precarious. Not a Cuban believed that the United States Government ever ‘would with- draw frem Cuba, and the half-famished vet- erana of the Cuban army were In a dangerous mood and clamoring for thelr pay. General Gomez was the head and front of their army and had served the revolutionary cause as its principal leader without having received a cent of pay. General Wood thought, and Sec- retary Root thought afterward, that General Gomez was entitled to compensation; to a home which was supplied him and fn which he entertdined his comrades, and to an income, which last might be set down offset to the money due Gomez from the Cuban républic. That the Cubans themselves re- garded the matter in the same light was shown by the passage by the present Cuban Congress, among the very first of its acts, of a bill providing a liberal pension for General Gomez. Tt is believed that but for this as- sumption of the costs of Gomez's living ex- penses. the conditions in Cuba must have par- alleled those in the Philippines, and the United States Government, after fighting Scaln to secure freedom for the Cubans, might have been obliged to turn on them the force of her army. The neccssity being present, in Secretary Root's view, the only other point was the legality and propriety of the payments. He soon satisfled himeelf that there was not the slightest doubt on that score. The Military Governor was obliged to assume the responsi- bility for his dlsbursements and to exercise . Continued on Pnge_'l‘hr»e‘e. ? _ Continued on l;;ge Three. A bill will | stated that the finishing blow, had been | is | and therefore he has no particular pride | President Palma of Cuba has Indicated | | to PresiZent Roosevelt his conviction that | Cuban | Senate and the House upon the pend- | a small | PRICE FIVE CE RUNAWAY ENDS IN A TRAGEDY Herman A. Tubbs Meets Instant Death at Sausalito. Hurled With Women Friends From a Road Cart. His Companions Are Seriously In- jured. Herman A. Tubbs, vice president of the Tubbs Cordage Company and millionaire property owner, was instantly killed last night by being hurled from his road cart directly in front of his handsome new home in Sausalite. The aceident was caused by his horse becoming frightened by the firing of the sunset gun at Fort Baker and running away. Miss Annie Dahl, who was with Mr. Tubbs at the time, was thrown fully thirty-five feet and sustained a fracture of the right hip besides severe injurifes to the head. Miss Eila Coughlin, who was also of the party, was hurled violently to the ground and received severe injuries to the head that rendered her unconscious for fully half an hour. The horse which caused the sad accident was instantly killed. The accident was the tragic termina- | tien of an evening dinner party to which Miss Dahl and Miss Coughlin had been invited by Mr. Tubbs. It occurred on Central avenue, in full sight of a score of residents of New Sausalito. Central avenue passes in front of the Tubbs resi- dence and Jeads down a steep hill from the rear of New Sausalito to Old Sau- | salito on the bay shore. At the conclu- | sfon of the dinner party Mr. Tubbs in- | vited the ladies to accompany him in his road cart for a drive through Old Sau- salito. HURLED TO DEATH. The invitation was accepted and the three people had scarcely seated them- | selves in the cart when the horse, which was a very spirited animal, was fright- sned by the firing of the sunset gun at Fort Baker and started on a wild plunge down the hill. The road half way down the inclination comes to a sharp turn. | When the horse reached this turn he was unable to keep: his feet and tumbled over with such great force that he was kilied outright. Many of the people on the hill who | witnessed the accident immediately rushed to the scene. When they reached | the turn an appalling sight met their 1 eves. Mr. Tubbs was Iying in & small | gutter by the road side with his neck broken. It was secen at a glance that he was dead. The ladies were both lying farther down the road, unconscious. For a time it was feared that both were either | dead or aying. | The people who rushed to the scens of | the accident did all in thelr power to | alleviate the suffering of the injured and | to care for the dead. Dr. Arthur H. Mays and H. J. Crumpton were sum- moned and after a hasty examination an- nounced that although Miss Coughlin and | Miss Dahl were both severety injured they were net beyond the assistance of medical skill. Improvised ambulances were se- cured and the injured women conveyed to theinghomes. SEVERELY INJURED. Dr. Crumpton attended Miss Coughlin, who is the daughter of John Coughlin, a prominent butcher of this city, at her res- idence. After an examination he an- | nounced that she had no bones broken, | but that she received several severe eon- tusions on the head. | Herman A. Tubbs was the only surviv- ing son of Hiram Tubbs, founder of the Tubbs Cordage Company. His sisters are Mrs. F. W. Henshaw, wife of the Su- preme Court Justice; Mrs. W. G. Hen- | shaw, wife of the president of the ‘Union Savings Bank: Mrs. E. M. Hall Jr. and Mrs. Greenwood. He was about 30 years of age, unmarried and lived with his mother at 266 East Twelfth street, East Oakland. . Mr. Tubbs was a director of the Reliance Athletic Club and the Reli- ance Gun Club, in which he always toox an active Interest. Upon his father's death he succeeded to the management of the Tubbs Cordage Company and a large portion of his father's estate. His moth~ er, who {s aged, has not yet been notified of his death. CAPITALIST PEARSALL IS HELD FOR PERJURY Man of Many Lawsuits Must Answer to a Charge of Giving False | Tesimony. ~ EUREKA, June 16.—C. E. Pearsall, one | of the best known timber land promoters on this coast, was to-day held by Justice of the Peace R. W. Rideout to answer ta the Superior Court on a charge of per- jury. The preliminary examination had lasted the greater part of a week. | The charge grew out of the civil action i of B. F. Durphy vs. C. E. Pearsall, tried recently before Judge It was sought to set aside an agreement made by Durphy on the ground of duress. It is alleged that in this action., which went against Pearsall, he swore falsely in that he said on the stand that he did not give J. N. Gfllett, his attorney, the marriage certificate of B. F. Durphy and Margaret Ryan, which was used to convict Durphy in the Oregon courts of polygamy. Pearsall is believed to be wealthy. He has made about $200,000 during the last year, which he has given to his wife. His judgment creditors have endeavored to reach this fund on supplementary pro- ceedings, but without success. Pearsall has been sued oftener than any other man in Humboldt County. He has three civil suits pending and has just concluded three others, alk having been decided agalpst him. | i |